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1 \ iEALF 1GITY B AM. FARGO, NOI.JH DAKOTA, LAID WASTE BY FLAMES [Carelessness Starts a Fire That Burns for a Night and a Day and I)e* ? ? J .AfiO AAA Ij^ stroys Property > aiucu ?i <iio,vuv,< '*. OOO?Thousands Made Homeless, and Several Lives Lost. Tho loss by the Are which raged at Farco, | 3Sorth Dakota, all night, is placed at 53.000,000 at least. The insurance is not one-quarter ot that amount. Over threethousand people were left homeless. James Flynn, the eight-year-old son of a former alderman, was burned, also thre<i children. Thotographer Gilbert and an unknown man were cut off from the stairs in the third story of the Chapin Block, tryingto savesome Masonic property. Practically only one hotel was left, thw Headquarters. The fire burned all around it. Only one restaurant was left in town. Large numbers of pA>ple had to sleep in the courthouse and school houses on the South Side. Only two groceries are left in town, one being Yerxes's, upon which the principal eiforts of two companies wore directed all evening in order to save the Headquarters N Hotel. The three-story Citizens' Bank, just opened opposite, made a very hot I The Are was started by hot ashes thrown oat from the Gem Restaurant igniting some loose paper back of Houseman's dry goods store. Somebody left the front door open. Inside of three minutes the wind had driven the flames through the building and they burst out of the roof. During the next fifteen minutes the flames ran two blocks west, taking the brick buildings and all. then jumped across the street to Magill's big machinery warehouse. North and cast of this for two blocks each way were the big machinery depots, mostly two-story wooden buildings, aud at this time filled to the rool with a year's supply of farm machinery for North Dakpta, all of which were destroyed. For perhaps a quarter of an hour the firemen kept the flame3 from jumping the railroad track, then first on one roof, then on another, tongues of flame broke out as the fire flakes lodged on the shingles. Inside half an hour the whole space for four blocks was a whirlwind of flames, the property consumed being valued at $1,250,000. The fl somen tried to confine the flames outh of Northern Pacific avenue, but the r ^ wind was carrying cinders over a distance of two blocks. It had been expected that the DC three-story brick Red River National Bank building would arrest the flames, but the K roof foil within a quarter of an hour after the flames attacked it. W The firemen fought stubbornly, bnt the flames rapidly crept up the east side of Broadway, though they were prevented vfrom crossing the street. The fire took 0 a sudden start to the northeast in the 1 residence district north of the Great I Northern track, where it left a clean track I four to five blocks wide an* ten blocks long, while isolated fires could be seen I more than a mile north, caused by flying cinv ders. Then the wind changed a little again and the flames caught the Minneapolis and Northern elevator, containing 100.000 bushels of wheat, burned out the North Side School, and set the Great Northern Station on tire I several times, but the flames there were extinguished. The east side of Broadway was burning at both ends, six blocks apart. Three-quarters of an hour from the time /the Columbia Hotel caught nothing was standing but walls. The brick Citizens' Bank building for a Jong time resisted the flames, but at last they crept west of it and burned Elliott's Hotel, stopping two buildings west at City Hall, which was burned out, The secret societies suffered severely, Masons, Templars, Knights of Pythias, Knights of Honor. Cantons, R.^skahs, Grand Army, United Workmen, and Woodmen all losing halls with nearly all the T>-. ?.?c, flllorl n-Jth prupvn/* vcij u^cu oyawv c*o uuvu niuu k , a confused collection of household goods, buggies, merchandisa, legal libraries, etc.. which had been hurriedly carried there. Numbers of people were sleeping on bare ground by the side of all that was left of their personal effects. The militia were on <iuty and will guard property as much a? possible. i Practically half of Fargo was wiped out, ' only one-half of the business houses be ins left The trestle was burned on the Great 'Northern, so that no trains could pass. The ? firemen at midnight were trying to extinguish the flames along the Line of the Northern Pacific, to allow the section crew to relay the rails and let trains through. Only one telegraph wire was available duping the progress of the fire. The Fargo office was burned and messages have to be sent from Moorehead. Every insurance office wa? f burned. It was impossible to get accurate statements of the risks carried, as the books were all in the safes among the ruins. Onlj one bank was saved, the First National. Several firemen were injured by failing bricks. ' YEEAGUA m C0LTJMBU3. Beceived With Enthusiasm and Presented With the City's Freedom. 1 The Duke of Vera^ua visited Columbus. Ohio, as the guest of the city, the largest In I the world named in honor of Christopher CoIambus. I The Duke and Duchess and their daughter r were entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Chittenden. Commander Dickins and wife were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Waite, and the remainder of tho party were with Mr. and Mrs. John Joyce. m The escort from the train consisted of i Mayor Karb and a Citizens' Committee, the ^ , Junia Hussars. Captain John C. L. Pnghand , Colonel A. B. Colt and staff, of the Fourteenth Ohio National Guard. En route from the train thousands of people lined the sidewalks and gave the Duke a handsome receptlon. ' Tne ducal party rested until 2 p. m., when W they were escorted to a grand stand on Broad street, at the north front of the Capitol, where a para;le of about thirteen thousand eohool children passed, each papil carrying a . email unueu jnaies na?. f Durius the exercises on the reviewing stand the Duke wr.s welcomed by Mayor Karb and presented with the freedom of the city and a solid gold key, nicely ornamented and inscribed . "Christopher Columbus, 1492; Columbus. Ohio, 18l>3." Tho Duke briefly thanked the Mayor l'or the courtesies of the ? occasion. value or"expoIts. i Statistics In Regard to Mineral Oils, Lr Cotton and Food Products. > The Bureau 01" Statistics, in a comparative Btateraent. reports to tha Traasury Department that the values of exports oL mineral ' oils were as follows ? For the mouth ended May 31st last $3,759,140, an iner over the month of May, 1992, of more than 3500.000. Thetotal values of the exports of cotton are reported as follows: For the mouth ended May 31st last $ 11.251,125. an ia -reas? o! . M nearly tjDOO.OOO over May of last year. ^ * The bureau reports the total values of k beaf, hog and dairy products exported as follows For the month ended May last 310, 400,410. a fall in? off of nearly STOU.OOO :is compared with the exports lor a similar period ol 1892. MURDERED HER CHILDREN. A Woman Kills Four of.Eight and Kruls Her Owa Life. Mr?. Kate Kerch, living ten miles from | Parker3bur?, W. Va.. having lost her reason, poisoru'd two of her young children, throw two others into a well and then killed herself. She tried to kill her eight children, but four were saved by the desperate struggle of tne lourteen-year-oia aaugnter, jnouie. inn * family is in good circumstances. No cause is assigned for the woman's derangement. The husband was away from home at the time. She killed the two smallest ohiklren by poisoalng their milk with strychnine. ~~ Snow storms and severe frost throughout i Japan have damaged the mulbarry trees. , The leaves of the trees have turned black and L^-> are totally unfit for food for the silk wr worms. Sericulturists will sustain a loss e.4r tlmated at $5,000,000. t . L. / TEE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Ai.r, the members of thn Rapid Transit Commission of New York City except John H. Starin resigned. The funeral services over the body of Edwin Booth, the tragedian, at "tho Church of the Transfiguration, New York City, was attended by many distinguished players and others connected with the dramatic profession. The body was laid away in the family plot in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Mass., amid impressive surroundings. Jonx Meyers, awaiting sentence in tho Tombs, New York City, after pleading guilty to two indictments for burglary in the third degree, escaped by digging out of his cell. | lowering himself to the prison yard fifty feet beiow by a rope of bedclothing, climbing to a roof and lowering himself by a second rope from the outer walls next to Warden John Fnllrtn'a dnnr Dcke de Veeagua and his party arrived at New York City from Niagara Falls and went to the Hotel Brunswick. He enjoyed Chicago and was impressed with Niagara Falls, but had no definite plans for the remainder of his stay. Kchv. Doerflinqeb & Co., diamond dealers of New York City, have made an assignment. The firm's liabilities are estimated at over $250,000. 11 Class Day exercises were held at Princeton, N. J. Major-General Schofleld.delivf.red the diplomas to the members of the graduating class at West Point; ex-Secretary Fairchild made the address to the cadets. John Lewis Osmoxd, who, in New York City, shot to death his wife and her supposed paramour, was shocked to death in .the execution chamber in the Sing Sing (N. Y.) Prison. According to tha experts present death was instantaneous. Those who.had witnessed former executions said it was the most successful one that has yet been held. South and West. The Princess Eulalia paid her first visit to tho World s Fair, going to the grounds in the aiiernoon anu agam m ine evening. Several men were killed and many were wounded in a battle between strikers ami workmen on the Chicago (111.) -Drainage Canal. ; Six masked men held up the Now Orleans express at Forest Lawn, HI., and robbed the j express car of 810,000 in cash and valuaDlei ' worth a large amount. Thirty pieces of the priceless laces form- | ing tho World's Fair exhibit of Queen Mar- | gherita. of Italy, were missing when the cases were unpacked. I Chief-Jcstice Fuller granted the super- I scdeas in the World's Fair Sunday-opening < ea^e asked by Edwin Walker and Coramis- I sioner St. Clair. This suspended the opera- < lions of the injunction pending the appeal, i and tho Fair was kept open for another Sun- 1 day. There was a large attendance, princi- < paily of working people. I Evans and Sontag, the California outlaw?, had an encounter with officers in which 1 Sontag was seriously wounded and captured. 1 Ex-Presidhst Harrison' was a visitor to , the Exposition at Chicago. , The assignment of C. P. Kellogg Clothing i Company is the first serious commercial fail- I lire Chicago, 111., has had on the present ( money stringency. The liabilities ara $350.- < AftM _ I . vuv. It turns out that the thirty pieces missel from Queen Margherita's laces when they r?ached the Italian section o* the Woman's Building at the World's Fair, were not stolen, as reported. The laces correspond with the entries on the invoices. It i3 said that thoso supposed to have been stolen wore iield in Italy to be photographed. Wnshington. The new Hawaiian Minister. Lorin A. Thurston, was presented to the President. Thk President ba3 received a lettei from 31. W. Cooper in which he resigns the office of United States Local Appraiser at the Port of Now York. v Fcxeeal services ware held over the bodies of many of the victims of the Washington disaster; of the injured nearly ali were reported at that time as doing well. j The President made the following appointments : James F. North, Collector of Internal lie venua for the District of Nebraska; Hirrv Alvan Hall. United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania. ! Supervising Architect O'Rocbke made an . inspection of the Bush building, which is oc- I cupa-1 by the Sixth Auditor's office, Treasury j Department, and declared it unsafe. i During the Coroner's inquest of the col- ; lspss of the old Ford's theatre building in | Washington excited relatives of some of the I victims called Colonel Ainsworth, who was j in charge of th9 bureau, a murderer, rial [ others called out, "Lynch him!" '-Hang ; him!" The confusion caused an adjournment of the hearing. Foreign. A plot to blow up the Government bar ; racks in Honolulu, Hawaii, with dynamite , was frustrated on the night of May 31. A fatal case of cholera is reported at Ham- l burg. Germany, and five deaths from a dis- j ease of a choleraic character have occulrred ' at Cette, France. At Mecca the death rate is J now sixty daily. j James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New | York Herald, was injured in Paris, France, by being thrown from his coach. Thomas F. Bayard, the first Ambassador from the United States to Great Britain, found Southampton in gala dress and the launicipal .authorities in waiting when he ar- I M rived on the American liner Paris. As soon ! as the vessel came to its dock an illuminated 1 address was presented to Mr. Bayard. j* fha annfh nl VytlULLttA U3 Dpicuuui^ ?M VMW WV? , France. One death has occurred at Bessages and two at Montpellier. Yellow fever has become epidemic at Port Limon, Costa Rica. Over one hundred thousand persons flocked to Hyda Park. Londou, to participate in the temperance people's liquor veto demcnstra- ' 1 tion. Speeches weao made from twenty platforxs. i 1 Thkee Italian warships will soon sail for Now York to make a friendly demonstration. ' The new battleship, Ro Umberto, will start for New York in July. J'ike Maximilian Amanad, brother of the Empress of Austria, has died suddenly of the < rupture of a cardiac artery. j ? ** !1 A FIRE PANIC, 11 i A N'evr York Factory Burned and ' Five Fjives Lost. There wa3 a serious fire on the East Side i of New York City, a few mornings since, in ' wbfoh five lives were lost and $10,000 worth of property was destroyed. Fir* , .Marshal Mitchell thinks that the tire was started by a lighted cigarstto thrown into ;; I rubbish heap under the wooden stairway, i but the frightened people who escaped from 1 tho burning building :i3sert that if anything ' was thrown into the rubbish it was done so i intentionally. j I More than one hundred Tiussian Hebrews < were at work in the tailors' shops which o> ' cupied the buildings. The casualty list as ' mada out by th-a police and the Gouverncur 1 hospital authorities is as follows: 1 Kiva Boox, twenty-aig'ut, jnrnpsd from the < fifth floor, and was impaled ou the iron rail- I ing in front of the hallding; Celia Davis, 1 twenty-tbree, jumps! from the top floor; Annie Katzsn, sixteen, badly burned "overthe J body; died at noon in the Gouvcrneur Hospital ; Joseph Mendelssohn, twenty-six. jumped frcm the lira escape on the third I floor; Alice N'athaason, thirteen, broken arm ' and severe burns ; died at Gouverneur Hos- ' . Dit'll. j I M'KINLET RENOMINATED. ,' No Otlicr Name Presented in tho Ohio Republican Convention. In the Republican State Convention at Columbus Governor McKiniey's name w:i3 presented by Colonel Bob Kevins, of Dayton, and seconded by Senator J. W. Nichols, of ^ Belmont. Them was wore no other nominations, and | the Governor was declared renominated amid I a scene of enthusiasm. A committee brought the Governor into the j ' hall, where he was cheered for several momenta. He then addressed the Convention, i accepting the nomination. 1 Ail the present State officers wera then un- I aaimousiy renominated. DISASTER IN WASMfiTO TOTAL COLLAPSE OF FORE OLD THEATRE BUILDING. "While Crowded With Nearly C< Government Clerks Three Floo "Were Suddenly Precipitated to tl Cellar?Over a Score Killed ax More Than Fifty Injured. Ford's old theatre, in Washington, t building in which Abraham Lincoln was a sassinated, and used by the Government f many years as part of the office of the 8u geon-General of the Army, collapsed a ft mornings ago just after 9 :30 o'clock with terrible result in loss of life and injury, is a coincidence which will not escape a tention, that this second tragedy occurred < the very day when the remains of Edw Booth, the great tragedian, whoso life w; so darkened by his brother's crime that 1 never visneu vcaaum^suu uirawtu.u, wo. being borne to their last resting place : Mou*t Auburn Cemetery. Massachusetts. In the building at the time were 534 Go ernment employes from the War Departmei ?496 clerks, eighteen messengers ai twenty laborers. Up to nightfall, when the excavators in tl ruins had just taken out what was suppose to be the last body, the number of the deo was twenty-five. Of the twenty-five ident flcations had then been made in regard I the following: George I. Allen, Pennsylvania, fifty yean George W. Arnold, Virginia, colored, olerl Samuel P. Bancs, Pennsylvania; L. \ Boody, New York; John Bussius, thirty-foi years, Washington; Jeremiah Dale; Pennsylvania, died on the operatin table of the Emergency Hospita Arthur L. Dietrioh, Kentucky; James I Fagan. Kansas, thirty-four yaars. marriei Washington Joseph B. Gage, Michigan M. M. Jarvis, Michigan ; J. Boyd Jones, Wii consin ; David C. Jordan. Missouri: F. 1 Loft us. New York; F. W. Maeder, married Washington: B. F. MiJler. New Yori Howard S. Miller. Ohio, M. T. Mulled; Louisiana^ J. H. M'Fall, Wisconsin, D: Nelson, William Schriever, Missouri: E. C Shuil. Kansas ; H. S. Wood, F. M. William Wisconsin ; unknown man, evidently a clerl The number reported as injured was fift] rwo. some of them fatally and many serious! iurt. The evidence, as found in official record; uppeared conclusive that as long ago as 18S this building, which the Government puj jhased after the assassination and used as a irmv museum, was officially proclaimed b Congress as unsafe. The excavations whic ivera the immediate cause of the co apse were being made at the ir stance of the War Department for tb purpose of putting in an electric light plan) This explanation of the cause of tb iccident is the only one advanced. Men wh tpere in the buildine say the craah cam Hrithout warning. Those on the top floo were suddenly thrown to the floor belov ind the weight of falling timber and fui aiture broke down the second and fin loore. Fortunately only the forward ha )f the floors gave way. The outer end )f the floors and the rear part of tb itructure remained intact. The wall lid not fall. Wh'en the first rumbling wan Lng of toe approaching collapse came, th ;lerks on the third floor, to the number c sighty or 100, rushed to the windows an jumped for the roof of a small building ad joining on the northwest side. Many of thei ?caped in this way. The news that the building had falle rpread with lightning-like rapidity, and soo renth street and adjacent thoroughfare ;vere crowded with people. A general fir ilarrn was turned in a few minutes after th ;rash, and then all the ambulances in th :ity were summonacL As quickly as pos3i nnlifin nnrt fii-.imon fftrmQ JiO IUU i r?ssrve brigade and ready hands a< iisted them to take out the killed an wounded. In less* han an hour about twei ;y-flv? persons had bean taken out, an svery few minutes thereafter some still Ion would be bo ne on a stretcher from th )uilding. Pr?iice and army ambulance; jabs, carriages and vehicles of every de scription were j ressed into service for carrj ng the dead an il injured to the hospitals. Both the miiifary and naval authoritie ;ook prompt action. General Schoflel jrdered two troops of cavalry from Foi Meyer, just across the river, and two con miiiesof Infantry from the arsenal to tb icene of the disaster. The Secretary of tb S'avy ordered out all the naval medic? jfflcers, and also opened the Naval Hcspitf .0 receive the injured. Those who were eariy on the scene toun :ha body of a colored man in the alley in to rear of the building where John Wilkes Boot iad his horse tethered the night he kille President Lincoln. This was George 3d Arnold, a colored clerk. He had been seen at third-story window. He had been warne not to jump. but. despite the protestations c aumbers of people, ha climbed out, anc lowering himseli Ironi the sill, let gt?. 13 fell upon a covering at a lower door and sii iff into the cobble-stoned alley, striking o bis head. He was instantly killed. One of tho bravest and most daring ad was performed by iiasil Lockwood, a colore aoy, nineteen or twenty years of age. A }oon Us the floors collapsed and the dm cleared away, realizing tho danger of thos it the rear windows, who were wildly cliint [ngout and calling for aid. ho climbed up largo telegraph polo as high as tt third story and lashed a ladder 1 the Dole, yuf.tinn the other end in the window tiiis means ten or tifteen we.** Masinti down the ladder in safety. None of tho who escaped injury could tell which of tJ floors first gave way. There were many very narrow escap from death. A number of clerks whose dee! rested directly upon the line where tho floo broke away, saved themselves, while tl desks at which they sat were precipitated do^ the awfulohasm. Others who were walkii across the room heard an ominous Hour and stopped just at the very thresho of death. When the crash came those wfc survived heard a trreat scream of anmiis from their comrades as they sank out ( sight, and then groping in the darknes they found their way to safety, trembling i every limb, and with the pallor of the dea in their faces. One of the most thrilling scenes of ti whole affair was the sight of a dozen me who were left in a corner of the third stoi clambering down a hose pipe to the grouni Captain Dowd, of Indiana, was found nej the southwest corner of the building, covere to a depth of two or three feet with brie und mortar. He had lain their for thrs hours, but a falling beam had lodged ne.i trim in such a position as to break the fa uf the brick and timbers, and when lifted u tie raised his hand, showing that he was coi jcious. When he was lifted into the Garflel Hospital ambulance the crowd saw that h was alive, and cheered again and again. Every few minutes during the first t.w hours after the accident, dead and wounde men were taken out of the debris. All th :arts and workmen that could be secure were pressed into service to clear away tb ilebris. The laborers did not ceas their efforts until about. 7 o'clock- B cnis time they cad reached th bottom of the excavation in the basemenl md further search seemed usaless, as th iebris in all parts of the building had bee sntirely cleared away. The work was there stopped, the streets roped close to tb building, and a police guard placed there fc ihe night. The President was informed of the ace ilont just as he reached the entrance to th White House, and he at once interested hin self in relief measures. At a meetincr calle by order of Commissioner Ross, $5300 w.i subscribed, of which President Clevelan contributed $100. Brief addresses w^re mad tiy Bishop J. P. Hurst, llev. William A!oi Barf!?tt. and Smith Thompson, a seventy two-year-old clerk, who escaped Lroai th ruins. iBl\ PICNIC DROWNED. They Were Upset From Their Cai rlage Into a Deep Spring. A despatch from Springvalley, Minn., sa; that at a picnic party at Kummere Spring about six miles northeast of that place, Li ther Turner, Otho Stevens and daughter an Mrs. Morrow got into Mr. Tumor's earring went to the Spring for water and in goin had to drive along the side ot the Sprini which is very large, descending sudden! right from the water's edge. In socio wr the toam became frightened, jumping off tt bank and upsetting all into the water, dxowi lug them and the team. V M REV. DR. TALMAGE. )CI THE BROOKLYV DIVINE'S SUBT1 S DAY SERMON. Subject: "The Thrashing Machine." )0 r8 Text: "For Ihe filches are not thrashed . with a thrashing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin, hut the id fitches are beaten out with a staff and the cummin with a rod. Bread corn is bruised because. he icill not ever be thrashing t/."? he Isaiah xxviil., 27, 28. There are three kinds of seed mentioned? or fitches, cummin and* corn. Of the last we ir- all know. But it may bo well to state that 1W the fitches and the cummin were small seeds a likothe carrawav or the chickpea. When jt tfiese grains or herbs were to bo thrashed, Lt- they were thrown on the floor, and the work)n men would come around with staff or rod or in flail and beat tnem until th? seed would be 33 separated, but when the com was to bo ie thrashed that was thrown on the floor, and re the men would fasten horses or oxen to a In cart with iron dented wheels. That cart would be drawn around tho thrashing floor, nnd so the work would be accomplished. Different kinds of thrashing for different t(j products. "The fitches are not thrashed with a thrashing instrument,neither is a cart 10 wheel turned about upon the cummin.but. the !(j fitches are beaten out with a staff and the d cummin with a rod. Bread com is bruised because he will not ever be thrashing it." -J The great thpught that the text presses upon our souls Is that we all go through some 3 kind of thrashing process. The fact that you c may be devoting your life to honorable and p' noble purposes will not win you any escape. ' Wilberforce, the Christian emancipator, was In his day derisively called "Dr. Cantwell." ? Thomas Babinton Macaulay. the advocate of b _11 V\r\t r\ aaj-i Krt K 4-V> n | , uii t#LU?b nua i^'uuu iuu^ l'ojuxo uo ucmmo mo l most conspicuous historian of his day, was j' caricatured in one of the quarterly reviews ' as "Babbletongue Macau lay." Norman 3j McLeod. the great friend of the Scotch poor, was industriously maligned in all quarters, although on the day when he was carried out to his burial a workman stood and looked at the funeral procession end said, "I* he l>ad done nothing for anybody more than he has done for me, he should shine as the stars for'* ever and ever." All the small wits of London had their fling at John Wesley, the father ^ of Methodism. If such men could not escape the maligny Ing of the world, neither can you expect to get rid of the sharp, keen stroke of the tribalum. All who will live godly in Christ Jesus . must suffer persecution. Besides that there are the sicknesses, and the bankruptcies, and ? the irritations, and the disappointments 7 which are ever putting a cup of aloes to your lip. Those wrinkles on your face are hieroglyphics which, If deciphered, would make out a thrilling story of trouble. The footstep . of the rabbit ifi seen the next morning on the snow, and on the white hairs of the aged are e fAAin*lnffl n R*ham Qml ff tvAilhln allfhf. guv u muq n**v?vun*** a 8d> ? Even amid the joys and hilarities of lif^ ' trouble will sometimes break In. As when ' the pecple were assembled in the Charles" town theatre during the Revolutionary war and while they were witnessing a farce and Ihe audience was in great gratulation the 18 guns of an advancing army were heard and :e the audience broke up in wild panic and ran 18 for their lives, so ofttimes while you are l* seated amid the joys and festivities of this ? world you hear the cannonade of some great 'r disaster. All the fitches, and the cummin, a and the corn must come down on the thrashl" Lng floor and be pounded. 11 My subject, in the first place, teaches us that it is no compliment to us If wo escape n great trial. The fitches and the cummin oa 11 the thrashing floor might look over to the a corn on another thrashing floor and say: 6 "Look at that poor, miserable, bruised corn. e "We have only been a little pounded, butthat 0 has been almost destroyed." Well, the com, if it had lip3, would answer and say: "Do " you know the reason you have not been as much pounded as I have?- It is because you " are not so much worth as I am. If you were, Jr you would be as severely run over." Yet there men who suppose they arc the u Load's favorites simply because their barns are full, and their bank account Is flush, and * there aro no funerals in the hou3e. It may be y because they are fitches and cummin, while down at the end of the lane the poor widow may be the Lord's, corn. - You are but little 3 pounded because you are but little worth, d and she bruised and ground because she is "t | the best part of the harvest. l" | The heft of the thrashing machine is ac0 I cording to the vali/o of the grain. If you 10 bkto not been much thrashed in life, perhaps fcara is not much to thrash. If you have no; been much shaken of trouble, perhaps there is going to be a very small yield. When d there are plenty of blackberries the gatherers ? Innrto Koalrafa Knf T?h?n tha K UUL YVlbU lUi^u uaoaowi i/uk ?TMVM umw a drought has almost consumed the fruit theu <* a quart measure will do as welL It took the ' venomous snake on Paul's band and the ? pounding of him with stones until he was " taken up .'or dead, and the jamming against him of prison gates, and the Ephesian vocif'? eration, and the skinned ankles of the painful stocks, and the foundering of the Alexandrian corn ship, and the beheading stroke a of the Roman sheriff to bring Paul to his proper development. it was "not because Robert Moffat and Lady d Rachel Russell and Frederick Oberlin were 18 worse than other people that they had to 3t suffer; it was because they were better and ia God wanted to make them best. By the >* carefulness of the thrashing you may ala ways conclude the value of the grain. 10 Next my text teaches us that God propor? tions our trials to what we oan bear, the r. staff for the fitches, the roa for the cummin, the iron wheel for the corn. Sometimes se people in. great trouble say, "Oh, I oan't ie bear it?" But you did bear it, God would not have sent it upou you if He did not know eg that you could bear it. Yoa tremblod, and is you swooned, but you got through. God rs wiil not take from your eyes one tear too m many, nor .from your lungs one sigh too m deep, nor from your temples one throb too m sharp. The perplexities of your earthly td business have not in them one tangle too. in!d tricate. 10 You sometimes reel as if our world were ih full of bludgeons flying haphazard. Oh, no; 41 in^wimnrta thof ill at* 31 mtjy uro (.urosmug uuhuuieuw _ i ? s, suits to your owe. There is not a dollar of In bad debts on your ledger, or a disappointed ment about goods that you expected to go up, but that have gone down, or a swindle ie of your busiiiens partner, or a trick on tha in part of those who are in the same kind of y business that you are, but God intended to i. overrule for your immortal help. '-Oh," ir you say, "there is no need talking that way id to me. I don't like to bo cheated and out:k raged." Neithor doas tin corn like the corn ie thrasher, but after it h?.s been thrashed ;ind ir winnowed it has a great deal better opinion 11 of winnowing mills and corn thrashers, p "Woll,' you say, ''if I could choose my i- troubles I would be willing to bo troublad." d Ah, my brother, then it would not bo trouble, ie You would choose something that would not hurt, and unless it hurts it does not getsanco tilled. Your trial perhaps maybe cnildles3d ncss. You are fond of children. You say e "Why does God sand children to that other d household, where they are unwelcome and e are beaten and banged about, when I would is have taken them in the arms of my affocy tions?" You say, "Any other trial but this." e Your trial perhaps may be a disllgt, ured count 3uan 30 or a face that is o easily caricatured, and you say, "Oh, n I could endure anything if only I J was good looking." And your trial peraapf 10 is a violent temper, and you have to drive it ,r like six unbroken liorsss amid the gunpowder explosions of a great holiday, and ever '* and anon it runs away with you. Your trial 0 is the asthma. You say, "Oh, if it w^re T rheumatism or neuralgia or erysipelas, but ^ it is this asthma, and it is su'ia au exhaust13 ing tiling to breathe." Your trouble is a husband, short, sharp, snappy an1 cross about t: the house anl raising a small riot beeausj a a button is ofE I How could you know tiia but"" tou is oHV Your trial is a wife ever in contest with the Fervants and she is a sloveD. Though she was very caroful about her appear:ince in your presence once, now she is careless, because she said her fortune is made! Your trial is a hard school leason you cannot learn, and you have bitten your ttnsrer nails unr.u uiuy arc it iu ubuuiu. r. VJiynwuy ^ h;is some vexation or annoyanco or trial, g and ho or she thinks it is the one least ' adapted. "Anything but this," all say. "Anything but this." id Oh, my hearer, are you not ashamed to bo 0. complaining all this time against God? Who ig manages the affairs of this world anyhow? ?. Is it an infinite Modoc, or a Sitting Bull savlr ago, or an omnipotent Nana Sahib! No, it ty is the most merciful and jrlorious and wise Beins? in all the universe. You cannot teach i- Omnipotence anything. You have fretted and worried almost enough. Do vou not V think so? Some of you are making yourselves ridiculous In the sight of the angels. Hera is a naval architect, and he draws out the plan of a ship of many thousand tons. Many workmen are engaged on it for a long while. The ship is done, arid some day. with the flags up and the air gorgeous with bunting. that vessel is launched for Southampton. At that time a lad six years of age comes running down the dock with atov boat which he has made with his own jackknife, >and he says: "Here, my boat is better than yours. Just look at this jibboom and these weather cross jack braces," and he drops his little boat beside the great ship, and there is a roar of laughter on the docks. Ah, my friends, that great ship is your life as God planned it?vast, million tonnod, ocean destined, eternity bound. That little boat is your life as you are trying to hew it out end fashion 'it and launch it. Ah, do not try to be a rival of the great Jehovah. God i3 always right, and in nine cases out of ten you are wrong. He sends just the hardships, just the bankruptcies, ju3t the cross that it is best for you to have. He knows what kind of grain you are, and He sends the right kind , of thrashing machine. It will be a rod or staff or iron wheel iust according as you are fitche9 or cummin or corn. Again, my subject teaches us that God keeps trial on us until we let go. The farmer shouts "whoa!" to his horses as soon as the grain has dropped from the stalk. The farmer comes with his fork and tosses up the straw, and he sees that the straw has let go the grain and the grain -is thoroughly thrashed. So Gh?d. Smiting rod and turning wheel both cease as soon as wo let go. We hold on to this world with it? pleasures and riches and emoluments, and our knuokies are so firmly set that it seems as if we could hold . on forever. God comes along with some thrashing trouble and beats us loose. We started under the dalusion that this was a great world. We learned out of our geography that it was so manv thousand miles in diameter and so many thousand miles in circumferenoe, and we said.-"Ob, my, what a world!" Troubles came in after life, and this trouble sliced off one part of the world, and that trouble sliced off another part of the world, and it has got to be a smaller world, and in some of your estimations a very insignificant world, and it is depreciating all the time as a spiritual property. Ten per cent, off, fifty per cent, off, and there are those here who would not give ten cents for this world?for the entire world?as a soul possession. We thought that friendship was a grand thing. In school we used to write compositions about friendship, and perhaps we made our graduating speech on commencement day on friendship. Oh, it was a charmed thing. But does it mean as much to you as it used to? You have gone on in life, and one friend has betrayed you, and another friend has misinterpreted you, and another friend has neglected you, and friendship comes now sometimes to mean to you merely another ax to grind! So with money. We thought if n man had a competency he was safe for all the future, but we have learned that a mortgage may he defeated by an unknown previous incumbrance ; that signing your namo on the back of a note may be your business death warrant ; that a new tariff may change the current of trade ; that a man may be rich to-day and poor to-morrow. And God, by all these misfortunes, is trying to loosen our grip, but still we hold on. God smites us with a staff, but we hold on. And He strikes us with a rod, but we hold on. And He sends over us the iron wheel of misfortune, but we hold on, There are men who keep their grip on this world until the last moment who suggest to me the condition and conduct of the poor Indian in the boat in the Niagara rapids coming on toward the fall. Seeing that he could not escape, a moment or two before he got to the verge of the plunge he lifted a wine bottle and drank it off and than tossed the bottle into the air. 80 there are men who clutch the world, and they go down through the rapids of temptation and sin, and they hold on to the very last moment of llfe.drinkIng to their eternal damnation as they go over and go down. Oh, let go ! Let go! The best fortunes ara in heaven. There are no absconding cashiers from that bank, no failing in promises to pay. Set your affections on things above, not on thing on the earth. Let go ! Depend upon it that God will keep upon you tho staff, or the rod, or the iron wheel until you do let go. Another thing my text teaches us is that Christian sorrow 13 going to have a sure terminus. My text says : "Bread corn is bruised because-ho will not bo ever thrashing It." Blessed bo God for that. Pound avray, 0 flail. Turn on, 0 wheel? Your work will soon be done. "Ka will not bo ever thrashing it." Now th? Cnristian has almost as much use in the organ for the stop tremulant as he has for the trumpet. But after awhite ho will put the last dirge into the portfolio forever. So much of us as is wheat will be separated from so much as is chaff, and there will be no need of pounding. They never cry in heaven because they have nothing to cry about. There are no tears of bereavement, for you shall have your friends all round about you. There are no tears of poverty because each one sits at the King's table and has his own chariot of salvation and tree access to the wardrobe where princes get their array. No tears of sickness, lor there are no pneumonias on the air, and no malarial exhalations fr?m the rolling river of life, and no crutch for the lame limb, and no splint for the broken arm, but the pulses throbbing with the heaithof the eternal God in a climate like our June before the blossoms fall, or our gorgeous October before the leaves scatter. # In that land the souls will talk ovor the different modes of thrashing. Oh, the story of the staff that struck the fitches, and the rod that beat the cummin, and the iron wheel that went over the corn! Daniel will describe the lions, and Jonah leviathans, J Pmii fh? flimmood whiDs with jrhica I he was scourged, end Eve will tell how aromatic Eden was the day she left it, and John Rogars will tell of the smart of flame, and Elijah of the Aery team that wheeled him up the sky steeps, and Christ of the numbness and paroxysm and hemorrhages of the awful crucifixion. There they are before the throne of God. On one elevation all those who were struck of the staff. On a higher elevation all those who ware struck of the rod. On a highest elevation, and amid the highest altitudes of heaven, all those who were under the wheeL He will not ever be thrashing it. Oh, my hearers, is there not enough salve in this text to make a plaster large enough to heal all your wounds? When a child is hurt, the mother is very apt to say to it, 'Now, it will soon feel better." And this is what God says when He unbosoms all the trouble in the hu3h of this great promise. "Weoping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." You may leave your pocket handkerchief sopping wet with tears on your death pillow, out you will go up absolutely sorrowless. Thoy will wear black ; you will wear white. Cypresses for them, palms for you. You wiil say: "Is it possible that I am hero? Is this heaven? Am I so pure now I will never do anything wrong? Am I so well that I will never again be sick? Are these companionships so llrm that they will never again be broken? Is that Mary? Is that John? Is that my loved one I put away into darkness? Can it be that these are the faces of those who lay so wan and Emaciated in the back rooin on that awxui night dying? Oh; howTa<liant they are! Look at tiiom ! IIow radiant they are! ' ' "Why, how unlike this place is from what Ithousht when I left the world below. Ministers drew pictures of this land, hut how tamo compared with the reality! Thev told me on earth that death was sunset. No, no! It is sunrise? Glorious sunrise! I see the light now purpling the hills, and the clopd? flamo with the coming day." ml*A" 4,U~ rtn4,oa V?ekn?r<an rr?J 11 Ka J. I It'll tUO )^aiCO VI Uni?TOU <(!>! iyv> vrwrw | and the entranced son), with the aeutenss? and power of the celestial vision, will look ton thousands of miles down upon the bannered procession?a river of shimmering splendor?and will cry out. "Who aro they?" And the an eel of God standing close bv will say, "Don't yon know who thny are?" "No." says the entranced soul. "I cannot epieos who theyars." The ancel will sav: "I will tell you. then, who they are. These are they who came out of irreat tribulation, or tbrashinsr. p.nd had their rones washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb." Oh. that I could administer some of thes" rtrons of celestial anodvno to those nervous and excited souls. If you would take enouirh of it. it would euro all j-our pan.irs. The thou.erht that you are go ins to tret throuch with this after awhile?all this sorrow and all this troublo. Wo shall have a trroat many grand days in heaven, but I will tell yr?i whioh will be the grandest day of all the million egesof heaven. You say, "Are you sum you can tell me?" Yes, I can. It will be the day we get there. Sotpe say heaven Is growing more glorious. I suppose it is. but I do not care much about that. Heaven now is good enough for me. History has no more eratulatory scene than the breaking in of the English army upon Luoknow, India. A few weeks before a massacre had occurred at Cawnpore. and 210 women and children bad been pat in a room. Then five professional butchers went in and slew them. Then the bodies of the slain were taken out and thrown into a wall. As the English army, came into Cawnpore they went into the room, and, oh. what a horrid scene! Sword strokes on the wall near the door, showing that the poor things bad crouched when they died, and they saw also that the floor was ankle deeo in blood. The soldiers walked on their heels across it lest their shoes be submerged of the carnage. And on that floor of blood there were flowing locks of hair and fragments of dresses. Out in Lncknow- they had heard of the massacre, and the women were waiting for the same awful death, waiting amid anguish untold, waiting in pain and starvation, but waitingheroically, when one day Havelock anrt Outram and Norman and Sir David Dn/kl 4-VtA A# 4-V.si T?nn.lUU XX1J1U. OUU J, OCI, 14X13 UClVOD v*l IUO HjlXfC 1X9LX army?huzza for them!?broko in on that horrid scene, and while yet the puns were Bounding, and while cheers were issuing from thd starving, dying people on the one side and from the travel worn and powder blackened soldiers on the other, right there in front of the king's palace there was such a scene of handshaking and embracing aAd boisterous joy as would utterly confound the pen of the poet and the pencil of the painter. And no wonder, when these emaciated women, who had suffered so heroically for Christ's sake, marched out from their incarcerations one wounded English soldier got up in his fatigue and wounds and leaned against the wall and threw his cap up and shouted, "Three cheers, my boys, for the brave women!" Oh, that was an exciting scene! But a gladder and more triumphant scene will it be when you come up into heaven from the conflicts and incarcerations of this world, streaming with the wounds of battle and won with hunger. And while the hosts of God are cheering their great hosanna -you will strike hands of congratulation and eternal deliverance in the presence of the throne. On that night there will be bonfires on every hill of heaven, and there will be illumination in every palace, and there will be a candle in everv window. Ah. no : I forget. I forget. They will have no need of the candle or of the sun, for the Lord God glveth them light, and they shall reign forever and ever. Hail, hail, sons and daughters of the Lord God Aimighty! TEMPERANCE. 8HOPLD EXEUCISE CASE. The Now Yofk Herald, speaking cf the Government control of the whisky busine.%?, says: ''The plan has been tried at Gothenburg, in Sweden, and to a certain extent in Switzerland, without any very positive resalts being attained. The definite advantage ffiat seems to have been securod was the prevention of the adulteration of liquors. It is just as well not to be too hasty in adopting this plan. The Massachusetts Legislature has passed a joint resolution to look into the matter and other States are llkeiyto follow, but any experiments in this line should be made with the greatest oare." WHAT SBIXK DOES. Drink id (lames and hardens the liver. Drink causes fatty defeneration of the kidneys. Drink creates an appalltc which is only increased by being gratified. Drink destroys the nerve force and pnralyzcs the energy. Drink gives diseases, to the third and fourth generation, by the laws of heredity. lt^inL- nnt m?lv rtiina tllf? mental and DI1VS ieal faculties, bilt wrecks the moral powers. Drink degrades father and son. Drink blights wife-love and mother-pride. Drink furnishes ''no market^ for all sorts of product-. Drink delays sales of bread, clothcs, shoes, lumbe#, furniture, grocorics and fuel. Drink corrupts politics and politicians. Drink creeps into the ballot-box and destroys free smirage. Drink places men in office who dare not oppose the traffic. Drink hinders honc-st legislation and brews laws which are a stench in the nostrils of every patriot. And, first, last and above all, it unmns men eternally, giving them no hope in life or death.?Sacred Heart lie view. TO ABOLISH THEATINO. Oliver Sumner ToaU is about to turn a portion of his energies to the cause of temperance, his watchward to bo not total abstinence. but moderation. He intends to secure the names of 5000 men, principally club men, to a pledge that, when tbo full 5000 are obtained, they will neither treat others nor be treated to any spirituous liquors. In furtherance of the cause he has prepared an appeal fe the public, which begins with this averment i Drinkinp nvnr a bar is the curse of our couutry. anil the American custom of treating has made thousands and thousands of drunkards." The pledgo is as follows: "We, the undersigned, hereby fledge ourselves not to treat others or to be treated ourselves to any spirituous liquors ; provided, however, that this pledge is not to apply to liquors furnished with meals or in our own homes, 01* on special occasions when all of a party are our invited guests ; aud provided also that this pledge docs not go into effect until it has been signed by 5000 residents of the city of New York, and is to remain thereafter in forco for only one year. "?New York Witness. > ' alcohol's destbpctiveness. Atlbe World's Fair Temperance Congress B. It. Jewell read a paper written by Charles It. Drysdale, senior physician to the Metropolitan Hospital of London, on "The Mortality of Total Abstainers in British Insurance Societies." After giving a number of figures to show tho healthfulness of cold water drinkers, Dr. Drysdale said Total abstinence from the use of alcoholic drinks is not only perfectly safe to ,tho average citizen, but even very important, as. contributing to warding off sickni*ss and early death,, and. consequently, to thd correct performance of his duties as a member of a civilized community, each of whom is expected to pay for his m.iintenanco by being of some service to his neigh borsi I have, indeed, of- | tea been greatly puzzled to account for tiie Tttct that so many able medical practitionors Loth partake of alcoholic drinks and recommend them to their friends. For my own part, my professional experience has shown ino that oue of the most common causes of chronic sickness and death is the daily use of beer, wino or spirits. . ? "Diseases of the stomach, liver, lungs, heart, brain and nervous system, gout and affections of the kidney and other organs, are surely sufficient to explain the statistics of the "Itechabites" and other total abstinence societies. In conclusion, I would beg to indorse the words of a late much-honored London physician, Sir W. Gull, and say with him: 'From my experience, alcohol is the most destructive agent that we are awar^ of in this country. I would like to say that a very large number of peoplo in sooiety are dying day by day poisoned by alcohol, but not supposod to be poisoned by it.' " TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. The devil loves a moderate drinker. Sixteen villages in Ilussia have recently Closed their rum shops. It <*ost Ireland last y?ar ten million dollar1 more for intoxicating liquors than for rent. Local option is reported as making good progress :n Canada, and is arousing much enthusiiism in Great Britain. The food of 3.000.000 people is annually destroyed in Great Britain in the production of drink, and yet there are multitudes starving. The farms of the United State* in 1890 wore i.i .,f aid i<i7 o??: 77?: Th.? lintior monev of tlx* Nation would buy thorn all in less than twelve years. Mrs. Mary C. Woody, President of State Woman's Christian Temperance Union of North Carolina, is now President of the Southern Assemby ard School of Methods at Waynesvi lie, N. C. Arizona has (!C6 re.ail liquor dealers ; nine wholesale liquor do??.!pr?; three brewers thirteen retail dealers i'i malt liquors : twenty-four wholesale dealers in inait liquors; seven retail dealers in oleomargarine and on < distiller. Cardinal Manning on liquor drinking: '*It is not only waste, it has r. harvest. It is a grent sowing broadcast, and what springs from the furrow? Deaths, mortality iuevery form, disease of ever}- kind, erimo of every die, madness of every iatensity, misery Iwyoud the comprehension of man, sin which it surpasses the imagination to conceive." I v. II ? RELIGIOUS HEADINGS " 'TWAS BUT." 'Twas but a word in sorrow's hour, 1 murmured low; 'Twas nothing but a wayside flower To one in woe; How little did it seem to me? That flower wild; Yet on that word and on that flower The great God smiled, 'Twas but a band-press and a tear Where life was sad; Only a smile of joy nnd cheer Where nil was glad; Such tiny deeds they seemed to me* As from a child; Yet on the hand-Dress, on the tear. The greac God smiled. 'Twas but the lifting of the cross, ' Laid at niy feet: Only letting go my will My Lord's to meet; But weakly thing they seem?and all By sin defiled? Yet on the gift of will and heart * The great God smiled. "SATAN 13 CONQUERED." "Dunne a revival several years ago wt Heald Town, South Africa," writes a ml?sfonary, "I witnessed something which minded me ot what io rccordcd of the Dsy of Pentecost, in the second of tha Acts. At 9.30 a. m., I started with Bishop Taylor toe Heald Town. The people had already collected in the chape1, and were encaged in an earnest prayer meeting. Bishop Taylor addressed them through un interpreter, from the words, 4,But ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you," The effect was manifest. The truth told Witt wondrous power on the congregation. At the close, those who were desirons of peeking, the Lord were exhorted to stand up, saa then kneel round the communion-tailft. About three hundred fell" sifnilltanfl&osly upou their knees, among whom was ft considerable number of Europeans, many at whom had comc from Beaufort. There was now a great weeping. At fiat all seemed chaos and confusion. Even tbe native local preachers tbe class leaders were cor founded; and it was some time before! could get them into working order. The first paroxysm of excitement having subsided, tbe native agents distributed themselves all over tbe cbapel, speaking to aad praying with the penitents. Tbe distress a? some souls was extremely great, but after mwhile one after another entered into tbe liberty of tbe children of God, passing from tbe excess of gfief to the excess of joy. Toe scene was indescribable, as first one tbeit another rose to pralse God, with eves sparkling and countenance beaming with joy, and tears flowing in copious stream!*, from their eye*. One exclaimed, "Satan la conquered! Satan is conquered! Satan is conquered!**, Another, a very old woman, lifted hereyee and bands to Heaven, and exclaimed, for ' five or ten minutes, at the top of her voice, "Hcis holyl He is holy! Heiaholyl" A very old man, who had been in an agony at distress, when set at'iibertv, exclaimed, "Mj Father has set me free! My Father has act me free! My Father basset me free!" Tbete are merely specimens. We were five boon bnrcl at work; and, at the close 140 persona professed to have obtained a sense cf the pardouiug love of God.?[African News. C AMBLING. Rie practiec of gambling?so fatal to character and often destructive to the soul? commonly begin* just as drunkt nnesi begin*. At the bottom of tbc firat glass of wine or otbor intoxicant lies the adder; and underneath the first dollar staked on a game at ' chance or a horse-race or a ball-match is concealed a serpent. When a young man puis up his first wafer at a card-table or any game or race ha puts a coal of fire into hi* bosom; and sueh coals often kindle into conflagrations Which 'will burn into the lowest hell!" Gambling for a dime is as essentially a sin as gambling for a thousand dollars. There is always? first inch at the top of every precipice. We do not dcclare that every onewha plays a game of wbist is a gambler, any mora than that every one who drinks a glass ol wine is a tippler. Yet cards are dangeroaa articles, juntas wine glasses are; md it la. the patn of absolute safety to let both of tbeaa severely alone. All games of chance have ? strange fascination. Arcudeacon Farrar trnly remarks that "there is a gambling element in human nature," and it must be kept under wateh in the sume way as inborn sensual appetites are watcbtd. With tbe excitement of a game of hazard comes a strong temptation to risk a stake on the game; as soon as the stake is laid, coosclcncc is apt to go with it, and the devil takes a naud in tbe game. A winner increases bis stakes; a loser jftavs on to matte up losses; and tbe only safe way, therefore is to stop before you begin. A QOOD JIKPOKT FROM NORWAY. ' I like the Norwegians," says a writer i? the Chicago "Mail." "Ail travellers here declare them perfectly honest. I certainly Lave not seen the slightest disposition on tbe part of any of them to deceive or cheat, and if trutbJulncss is an evidence of honesty, these people are wondcrful'y so. They have bis keys to their store-houses and granaries ?keys big enough to brain a man with. They are nearly always in the key-hole, o* ? hanging somewhere within reach of one feloniously inclined. At the wayside stations, curiosities?sometimes of small silver ware?are exposed to the public room where anyone can "easily carry them oft*. Farmhouses are left open when the whole family I goes oil' to cut hay. In some unfrequented I localities the wayfarer goes to the store-room, j helps h'mself to uiilk and 'flatbroed,' ami i leave* c.i the table money enough to pay far what he lias used. Frequently a postboy? lie is sometimes a man, and not infrequently a girl or a woman?has taken what I ha?e paid for his dues, putting it into his pocket without counting. He always, however, sees what you give him as a gratuity and shakes yon bv the band when ho says, 'tak' ?thanks. I gave a servant girl too much for our dinner. She whs much amused when she followed me,.that 1 should have made such a blunder. At wayside stations; tbey charge ridicn'ously low prices, and, an far as I can learn. ni3ke no distinction in making charges to foreigners and home people.'' MOTIIF.lt AT PRAYER. Once T snddcnl.v opened the door of my mother 9 room and !'aw 'lcr 011 her knees beside her'. hair, ami heanl her speak my name fn prayer. I quickly und quietly withdrew, with a feeling of awe and reverence in my heart. Soon I went away from home to school, then to college, then into life's stern duties. But I never forgot that one glimpse of mv mother at prayer, uar the one word?mv own name?which I ? heard her utter. Weil did 1 know that what I had seen that day was hut a glimpse of what was going on every day in that sacred closet of prayer, and the consciousness straightened nie a thousand times, in duty, in danger, and in struggle. When death came, at length, and seaied those lips, the sorest sense of loss that I felt was the knowledge that no more wou'd my mother be praying for me. In John xvii. we hear Christ praying for us?just once, a few scrtenct-s: but we know I hat this is only a sample of the inlerees>ion for us that goes on forever. Nothing shall interrupt tbia pleading, for he ever liveth to intercede.? [Dr. J. It. Miller. There is no sreater fool than he who says Thereis no God." unless it be the one woo savs he does not know whether there i.1 one or not.? ["Bisiuarek. Ioxatius Donnelly having, in his own opinion, wiped up the earth with the reputation of Willie Shakspeare is now engaged in a valiant attempt to tear the laurels from tie brow of C. Columbus. It's a pity Donnelly's energy can't be directed against myths and superstitions that should in tho interest of common sense be dethroned. Even such a bad Imitation of Don Quixote as he mighV thereby bo made useful. i