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& TERRIBLE DEATH LIST"" & CYCLONE RAVAGES THI SOUTHERN COAST. Iscnpps r>f IjIvk Lost at Beaufort and E ? Port Royal, South Carolina, Sa1 vannah, Ga., and Other Places? L Crops Ruined and Buildings Dcp tnollshed?Many Vessels Wrecked. ' [ Scores of lives were lost ia and around 'Beaufort and Port Royal, S. C., in the cyclone that blew through those places at the Jrate of 100 miles an hour. The information i fwas furnished by Mr. E. M. Averill, general \ freight and passenger ascent of the Charles- < ton, Sumter and Northern Railroad, who brought the first news from Port Royal. He ' feaid Port Royal was completely cut off from 1 jthe outside world, as all telegraph wires 1 rere down and railroads washed away. ( Mr. Averill was unable to state the exact < number of lives lost, but said that, without ' overestimating, more than LOO people were 1 filled and drowned. He himself saw thirty ' (dead bodies, and others were being recov- > Bred and many still missing. < i Mn?r of the drowned are nesrroes. Only < to whites lost their lives. The negroes were ' bo frightened and horror-stricken that in tnany cases they were killed by failing to deBert their shanties and seek places of safety, t Twenty persons were drowned on Paris Pteland. a short distance from Beaufort.where ItJpoited States naval stores are kept. They fwere building a large dry dock. Only two (of these were white men, one a mechanic leonraged on the dry dock and the other a iresident physician of the island. I Other white people on the island had most (miraculous escapes. The water swept over Ithe entire island and carried almost everyEhing away. For hours it was between flfeea and twenty feet deep, with wind bio * uk a pule. | Several prominent citizens were nmou. [There were twenty-five lives lost between * GPort Royal and Seabrook, a small station ( ?nly four miles from tho harbor. All were negroes who were plantation hands. One jnegro family of seven were lost, and several (other families were wiped out. Three (strangers were drowned, ono in Beaufort, two ttn Poft Royal. Their bodies were rec?vered put not identified. Houses were blown down and carried in pvery direction. A large steam pil<> driver [was carried up the Coosaw River 5'tO yards and landed in a marsh. All the d> edges of , the Coosaw Mining Company wer j washed ashore and most of them were inju>-edL The pteamer Pilot Boy, of Charleston, which was (Med to the Waterhouse docks, was swept jaway. carrying along a large part of the a /dock. The steamer was followed by three Jugs? Juno, Waymouth and Allianoe?and all four boats were swept up ou the bluff rid left there high and dry. Three pilot boats were swept into the 1 marsh 500 yards from the channel. Two ^ (were totally wrecked. The Alma Cumming, t a large boat loading at the Sea Island Chem- c Jcal Works, was swept from its moorings ana a badly injured. The pilot boat Palmetto. 1 tied up at the Port Royal Docks, was blown to pieces and sunk a few yards from her moor> lngs. Every house in Port Royal and Beaufort was damaged. i Port Royal is a village situated on an island four miles south of Beaufort, find Dear Port Royal entrance. It is thirty miles north , of Savannah. Havoc at Savannah. i Almost on the anniversary of the great hurricane of 1881, Savannah, Ga., had been swept by one of the severest storms it has ever known. The storm be^an early in the afternoon and increased from theu on until it reached the climax between eleven and twelve o'clock at night, having blown for eight hours in a terrific hurricane. It began raining early in the morning, but only in gusts. After the first fall it ceased entirely for several hours, and did not begin again till afternoon. > Then the work of destruction began and lasted until the storm had spent its force at midnight All the wharves along the river front and the Ocean Steamship Company jand Savannah, Florida and Western Railway /wharves were under water and the tide was atill rising rapidly. A view of the city at daylight next morn- s ing revealed a scene of wreck and ruin that ] surpassed that after the great hurricane * Of 1881. The streets were impassable ' from debris of fallen trees. Twisted > roofs, masses of bricks and broken timber* and branches of trees were piled across the sidewalks and in the square, and broken wires were swinging in every direction. The damage was general, and it is s*fe to say it will go to half a millions dollars. Nearly every one. if not quite all, of the property owners in the city hUve been damaged to some extent, and some to the amount of thousands. | Twelve bark3 and barkentines which were anchored at Quarantine station were blown iigh and dry upon the marshland. Some of jthem were carried by the storm acrosss the Imarsh and on to an island two miles distant ' 1 firom the station. One of the vessels at Tybee ' Island was completely capsized and three of the club houses on the island were blown i down. Others were flooded, and the people I sought shelter wherever they coutd. The wires were down and Savannah was almost entirely shut off from telegraphic oommunijoatlon. | The ruin at Quarantine is immeasurable. iNothing is standing where one of the finest 'stations on the South Atlantic stood except the doctor's house, and how this weathered the fearful gale cannot be explained. The wharfs are jrone and the new fumigatiuir plant, whichhas cost the city so mucti money, is in the bottom of the sea. A large uumber % of lives, estimated at all the way from fifteen to ttftv. were lost. I. I At Other 1'laces. 1 |~? Great destruction was wrought by the f storm at other places along the Southern Atlantic coast. Six lives wore lost at Charleston. .*. C., and on Sullivan's Islani, uear < theirs. Nearly every buiidinsr iu Charleston WAS unroofed, and the money low is very great. The crops suffered heavily from the fury of the storm. i At Blackville, S. C., several large buildings were crushed, milldams were washed away, country roads rendered impassable, the cotton crop terribly damaged and tobacco .vet to be harvested totally devastated. At Cape Fear. X. C., the schooner Three Sisters was wrecked and the aprain aud mate drowned, A hundred houses were wrecked at Kertiersville. X. C.. and a woman was killed. , Muny persons were injured. THE PRESIDENT'S THANKS. > He Congratulates Wilson on His Success in the House. The following telegram from President Cleveland respecting the voto in the House Monday on the silver question, wm received by Chairman Wilson, who introduced the ? .* Silver Hepeal bill: "Buzzakd's Bat, Mans., august 28. :"To the Hon. William L. Wilson, Washington. D. C.: ' -'Please accept for yourself and associates I in to-day's achievement my hearty congratu7. ? l?t Ions and sincere thanks. t t "Geovbk Clevelaho." RIOT AT A PICNIC. Three Men Fatally Injured in West Virginia. , A riot occurred at a picnic and platform dan en at Grand District, W. V*. in \vfai<*h 4he Cow Creak and Gooso Crook gaugs took part. Fifty men were injured. James Vanosel and John McNally, oil men, were cut aud stabbed, it was thought, tatally. Harry Thomas, a spectator, bad his skull crushed. i' The meeting between thogansrs appears to have bwu determined upon for a .settlement bf difficulties between them. "Novr that the Sioux chief, YoungjMati-Afraid-of-His-Horses, is dead it is time that the real name of this ifamous Indian should be known. TThe proper English translation of his Jionp Sioux name is Young-Man-oftWhose-Horses-Ther-Artt-AJtraid. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. The Senate. 13th Dat.?The Vice-President announced tho appointment of th<? Committee on th?< Commemoration of the Hundredth Anniversary of the Laying ot the Cornerstone of the Capitol as follows: Messrs. Voorhees. Sherman. Ransom. Chandler. White. Squire and Martin. Messrs. PefTer and Allen spoke on the financial question. 14th Day.?The debate on the Voorhoes Repeal bill w;is resumed, Mr. Hill, of New York, being the principal speaker. Other speeches were made by Messrs. Vest, Vance and McPherson. The consideration of tho Cherokee Outlet bill was resumed. The amendment requiring the Trustees to be bona fide residents of Oklahoma Territory was rejected. sixteen to twenty-nine, anri the joint resolution was pjissed just as it came from the House. 15th Dai*.?'The flnal vote was taken in tho r>ase of the Senators appointed by tho Governors of Montana and Washington to All vacancies caused by the expiration of regular torms: and the Senate decided adversely to the right of the Governor of a State to make such appointments. The bill allowing National tanks to increase their circulation up to the par value of the bonds deposited t>y them to secure circulation, was taken up ; wad Mr. Cockrell's amendment for the redemption of 323,000,000 two per cent, bonds :o be paid for by a new issue of legal tender notes, was rejected. A. bill was reported from the Judioiary Committee by Mr. Hill for the repeal of the Federal Election aw, and ft went on the calender. The Souse bill to repeal the Sherman act was reported and referred to the Finance Committee. 16th Day.?The Finance Committoe reported the House Repeal bill,with anamend?ent substituting the Voorheea bill. Mr. BU11 spoke in favor of Mr. Stewart's resolu:ion of inquiry into the alleged deficiency in he Treasury, and Messrs. Sherman, Mills. Poorhees. McPberson ana Harris spose in >pposition. By a vote of 40 to 16 Mr. Voorlees's motion to refer the resolution was referred to the Finance Committee. Mr. [iordon spoke iu favor of the repeal of the Sherman law and Mr. Teller In favor of free :oinage. 17th D*r.?Several petitions calling for he immediate passage of the bill repealing he purchase clause of the 8herman act wore )resented. Mr. Stewart (Nev.) offered a esolutlon which was, on his own motion, eferred to the Finance Committee, directing he Secretary of the Treasury to inform the Senate how the revenues since the beginning >f the present fiscal year compared with the istimates. Mr. Sherman made a long ipeechi In favor of the repeal of his silver jurchase act of 1890, asserting that that act vas by no means the sole cause of financial iepres3ion. Mr. Teller finished his speech n favor of free coinage. Executive seslion. The House. 15th Day.?The flve^minute debate on the Yllson bill began with a speech by Mr. Vaugh, who spoke tor repeal as in he interest * of bimetallism. The lebate was contined with five-minute peeches by Messrs. Dingley, Van Voorhis, Pence, Wilson, Russell, Johnson. Cranford, Jardner, Bynum. At the evening session he speakers were Messrs. Swanson, Maddox, irady, Kem and Muiray against the Wilson >ill and in favor of free coinage, and Milliken n favor of the unconditional repeal of the Sherman act. 16th Day.?Day and ntgnt sessions ware ievoted to the silver debate, Messrs. Bur ows, Springer, Sickles, Payne, speaking luring the day. At night Messrs. Bynum ind Pierce spoke. Mr. Simpson asked manlmous consent for the consideration of t resolution authorizing the Speaker to appoint a committee of Ave members to investigate the allegation that certain banks were lot paying their checks, and to inquire into he conduct of Secretary Carlisle and Comproller Eckels in the premises. The Speaker ruled that the resolution was not in order. 17th Day. ? This was the last day for >peechmaking cn the silver repeal bill, and :he galleries were crowded with spectators. Several Cabinet members and a number of senators wera interested listeners Messrs. Reed, of Maine; Coolcran. of New York : Fellows, of New York, and Wilson, of West Virginia, were the leading speakers in favor jf the bill to repaal the silver law, the lastlamed gentleman closing the debate on that side of the question. Mr. McMillan, of Tenaessee ; Mr. Williams, of Illinois, and others jpoke for free coinage, and Mr. Bland, of Missouri, made the closing speech on that jide of the debate. 18th Day.?The various amendments to he Wilson bill repealing the purchasing :lause of the 8herman silfar law were de'eated. The Wilson bill was then passed by 540 yeas to 110 nays. The bill then went to he Senate for action. 19th Day.?The House took up the ques:ion of rules. The new rules reported by the Committee on Rules were explained by Mr. Jatchlngs, ot Mississippi. Mr. Reed, oil Vlaine, wanted his old rules. Speaker Drisp left the Chair aud replied to Mr. Reed. \fter further debate the matter was dropped. .Mr. Springer, of Illinois, introduced n bill >o provide for the coinage of the seigniorage silver in the Treasury. Referred. 20th Da v.?Mr. Talbot (Mo.) asked unanimous consent to introduce a bill repealing the statutes authorizing the appointment of marshals and supervisors of election, but Mr. Dingley (Me.) objected. Mr. Breckinridge (Ky.). from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the Urgent Deficiency Appropriation bill, which appropriates $300,000, and it was passed. The items are : *25,000 for bank-note paper, $200,000 for coinage Oi subsidiary coins, and $75,000 for clerks to Representatives. The House resumed the consideration of the new code of rules. A STEAMER WRECKED. The Cily of Savannah Run Ashore Off the South Carolina Coast. The steamship Birmingham, of the Ocean Steamship Company, arrived in Savannah, Ga., bringing a portion of the twenty passengers and crew of the steamship City ot Savannah, wrecked on the voyage from Boston to Savannah, on Hunting Island, fifteen from Beaufort. S. C.. at 5 a. m. Aftor leaving Savannah the City of Savannah encountered one storm after another. When Anally her commander. Captain Savage saw that he would be wrecked he was sore perplexed. The steamer had beat about all day. when her steam whistle was knocked off and the water began pouring into her hold and threatened to stop her engines. Seeing that the ship could last only a few hours longer, Captain Savage headed her foi bhoal water. The stokers were plied with stimulants and food, and every effort made to reach shoal water before the steamer sank. All night long the vessel ran in the storm, the passengers expecting death every minute. Early next morning the steamer was heard bumping and scraping against the hot torn, and the passengers knew they had reached shoal water. The vessel was run as far aground as possible. She had not been gotten into an easj place, however. The huge waves broke ovei her with increasing force, and beat the boal to pieces. The cabins were smashed and carried away, first on one side and then another. Captain 8avage and the officer and crew used every effort to prevent loss ol life among the passengers. In the afternoon a small boat with three sailors who volunteered from the crew was sent out to fln J a plaMJ on the shore where the boats could land. The following morning the two lifeboats the only two loft, were manned, the firs! officer being in command of one and tht second officer of the other. Foar of th< strongest sailors of the crew were picket out for each boat. The boats were filled with women and children, about llftoeu it all, including the stewardess and female em ployes of the Savannah. Dr. G. W. Lamm and another passenger, being young ant able-bodied men, were called upon to go it the boats, which they did. Dr. Lamar'* wife and two little children were in his boat. The boats set out for the shore, and sailei out of sight of those on board. They arrives safely at Coffin Point. St. Helena island. Isaac Baiii's snake story ought t go. Isaac is sexton of Mount Zio Church, Canton, Ohio, and a3 he wa going home from church a blac snake seven feet long attacked hinc and he made tracks eight feet apart with the toes pointing homeward an the heels t-oward the snake. " DISASTERS ON THE Bill TWO FATAL COLLISIONS IN NEW YORK. A Train From Rockaway Roach Crashes Into Another From Conc.v Island - Fifteen Persons Almost Instantly Killed and Many Others Hurt?Five Killed on the Harlem. fiftoen (lend and several scoro injured is therocord of a ^reok that occurred at mid. uight on the main line of tho Long Island Railroad, in the outskirts of Long Island flitv. V. V. It was the woreo railroad disaster that ovel occurred on Long Island. Eleven person) were killed outright, two died on the way tc the hospital in Long Island City, and two more died next day in the hospital. One ol the kiilod was Colonel E. A. Buok, of th? Spirit of the Times. There were sixteen in jured in the hospital, and of these it was believed that three would die, while the condition of several others was very serious. More than sovanty other persons were hurt, and after receiving medical atttcndance at the wreok went to their homes. One account of the terrible accidont saya that at 11.03 o'clook a crowded train of six cars, drawn by Engine No. 10, left Rockaway Beach for Long Island City. Twelve minutes afterward a train even more densely crowdod left Manhattan.Beach (Coney Island). When just post Laurel Hill station the coupling of the Manhattan Beach train broke between the third and fourth cars. The engine and first three cars stopped, backed up and the coupling wa3 reattached. This was at Haberman'a crossing. The night was black as ink. Trainman Thomas Finn was sent baok, but before he had gone far the train started slowly and Finn ran after it, and had just swung himself upon the rear platform when the Kockaway train, going at fully fifty miles an hour, oame rushing round the bend. In less than two seconds it crashed into tho rear of the Manhattan train. It was exactly 11.45 when the crash came, as several watches on the persons of the dead stopped at the minute. The impact was awful. The two rear cars nfAnn orvlit frnm art r\ fn anrl n nrl fVta th^ rrl nraa lifted from the track and thrown clear toono side. Fortunately the coupling on the Manhattan train broke at the same spot as before, between tho third and fourth cars, and the force ot tho blown simply drove the rest of the train forward at almost full headway. Engineer Doniftdson did not stop to see what damage had been done, but, pulling tho throttle wido open, rushed his engine and two oars to Long Island City, a few miles away, as rapidly as possible. This poculiar conduct meets with the approval of the officials of the road, who say that If ho had stopped it would only have made tho confusion worse and dolayed relief. Be that as it may,the alarm had been given bolore ho reported it. Tho appeal camo from the Long Island Chemical Works, half a mile from the scene of tho accident. It was by telephone, and the unknown sender prayed the officials to send all tho doctors and ambulances to the wreck, as scores had been killed and hundreds injured. At tho momeDt of the death crash everything but self preservation was forgotten. Men.struggled and fought in the darkness, but it was only for a moment. They became still again aiy.1 waited for something more, they did not know what. When it did not come thoy ?voke from their apathy and began to wort They found that the left side of tho two last cars of the Manhattan Beach train had been smashed to kindling wood, while the right halves lay on their sides filled with groaning and wounded humanity. Tho hissing steam, the cri? of the women and children and tho shrieks and groans ot tho injured were appalling. For nearly two . ? ?Wa MAinx1/tr) itn/1 rl ?*??? Intf aKftalftnr? uuu? iuu HUUUUOU ctuu ujiu g *mj iJiuiuaiun rmd moaning: beside the track. Dead bodies were impaled in broken pieces of the Manhattan Beach train, and one man hang across the seething boilers. The engine had been stripped of everything save its cover of steel. . The roof of the last car of the Manhattan Beach train had shot forward over the plowing engine of tho Rockaway train, carried away smokestack and cab, and then, such wns tho fearful force of the shock, shot clear over and through tho roof of the first car of | the Rockaway train. J Almost beforo the first horror of the shock ; was over ex-AIdorman Patrick White of Newtown began to organize the uninjured. By voice aud example he urged them to clear away tho wreckage As fast as the injured were taken out thoy were carried to the slope in front of the tin shop, where, by the light of the train Lamps, their woundis were hastily tied up by Drs. ICnapp and Godfrey, who were on tho train. They took their coats off and worked liko army surgeons on the field. In a short time a relief train from Long Island City, with several doctors on board, arrived at the scene of the accident, and the injured received proper attention, while the dead were conveyed to the morgue at Newtown. The responsibility for the accident was said to rest between Robert J. Knott, the signal man in the tower wero it occurred, and Enginoer Conkrite. who was in the cab of tho Roakaway Beach train. Knott declared tho danger siprnal was set tbat should have blocked the Rockaway train. Conkrite vowod that it was not. Fatal Collision on the Harlem Koad. On tho afternoon of tho same day that tho alotm terrible acciden: occurred, a fatal cofliSloa tool; piuco on th^ New York and Harlem Railroad. Train No. 15 left the Ponft-il Stntinn in VowVai-I o'clock a.m. and proceeded northward. While goinfc around a sharp curve near Dykeraan a Station at 12.35 p. ra. the train crashed into train No. 20, which was running southward, also at full speed. Each train had four ccaches. The two front coaches and the engine of each train were smashed into splinters. The engineers and llromen of both trains were killed. One passenger, a young woman. was crushed to death in her seat, and seven other persons were mora or less eeriouaJr injured. DEATH IN A SQUALL, 1 A Yaun<j Man and Five Boj's Drowned In Lake Chumplain. George P. Witherbee, of Tort Henry, N. Y., and six young companions, who were sailing in Witherbee's yacht, the Alpha, were capsized in Lake Champlaia. Witherbee and five of the boys were drowned. Their names were: William Gildea, thirteen years old ; William Breadner, fourteen years; Eddie Jubert. thirteen, and John Whitman, twelve years, all of Port I Henry, and Albert Brush, twelve years, of Brooklyn. N. Y.. who was a guest of Jubert. Joseph La Barge, eleven years old. saved | himself by swimming to the Vermont shore. The yacht was a twenty-four foot t boat and was considered a strong and sub stantial one. Witherbee was twenty-two years old , and an all-round athlete. He was gradr uated from Cornell College in June, and was eleoted captain of the University football team shortly before graduat J liitf. Ho had been a member of the Uni, vereity orew for throe years. He was a competent yachtsman, but the boat was ballasted ueavlly with iron ore, and when a stiff squall [ struck her she went over without warning. J Witherbee died in a heroic effort to?avo } young Brush's life. I I CADETS CAPTURE CHICAGO, 1 Forty Thousand Witness flic Drill ol i the West Pointers. | Forty thousand people witnessed tho review of the West Point C.idets by General * JUIli*. 1U irom t?l luo ivimiuui uuuivu in iuv.World's Fair. The plaza between the station and Administration Building was roped olTdtirinir the atternoon. and by the time the cadets arrived, headed by their band, the 0 piazzas, windows and ledges of adjoining D buildings and every' bit space outside the 8 ropes were occupied. | General Mills, commander of the boys, put * them through their paces after a lively fashion to the evident pleasure ot General Miles. . The evolutions by the cadets,which bordered upon, perfection, aroused the crowd to a high d pitch of enthusiasm. The drill 1,-istod about thirty minutes. REV. DR. TALMA(tK. s di b? THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- dc DAY SERMON. ^ d< re Subjcct: "A Bottle of Tears." u? cli Text : "Put thou my (ears into thy hot- co (ie."?Psalms lvi., 8. fci Hardly a mail has come to mo for twenty jj? years ttiat naa not contained letters saying ~~ that my sermons have comforted the writers ofthose letters. I have not this summer nor for twenty years spoken on the platform of any outdoor meeting but coming down I have been told by hundreds of people the same thing. So I think I will keep on trying to be a "son of consolation." J? The prayer of my text was pressed out ol David's soul by innumerable calamities, but *"? It is just as appropriate for the distressed ol cl< all ages. Within the past century travelers jt? and antiquarians have explored the ruins of 2s many of the ancient cities, and from the very Pe heart of those burled splendors of other day* have been brought up evidences of customs J1 that long ago vanished from the world. ?y From among tombs of those ages have been brought up laohrymatoriee, or lachrymals, which are vials made of earthenware. It W1 was the custom for the ancients to catch the Pr tears that they wept over their dead in a bot tie, and to place that bottle In the graves of the departed, and we have many specimens of the anoient lachrymatories, or tear bottles, ?r in our musuems. ,r When on the way from the Holy Land our 8t< ship touched at Cyprus, we went baok Into J*c the hills of that island and bought tear bot- *?' ties whioh the natives had dug out of the ruins of the old city. There is nothing more suggestive to me than the tear bottles which I brought home and put among my curlosities. That was the kind of bottle that my text alludes to when David cries, "Put thou my tears into thy bottle." The text intimates that God has an. intl- ~u. mnfrt ncmiAintiuiftfl and narnetnal remem brance of all our griefs, and a vial, or lachrymatory, or bottle, in which He catches and cle saves our tears, and I bring to you the con- ou dolence of this Christian sentiment. Why talk about grief? Alas, the world has its ert pangs, and now, while I speak, there are ?j" thick darknesses of soul that need to be [h( lifted. There are many who are about to ^ break under the assault of temptation,-and 111 perchance, if no words appropriate to their P.u case be uttered, they perish. I come on no 11 fool's errand. Put upon your wounds no reo salve compounded by human quaokery; but, wil pressing straight to the mark, I hail you as a ha] vessel midsea cries to a passing craft, a c "Ship ahoy!" and invite you on board a ain vessel which has faith for a rudder, and the prayer for sails, and Christ for captain, and 1 heaven for an eternal harbor. fee Catherine Rheinfeldt, a Prussian, keeps a foi boat with which she rescues the drowning, goi When a storm comes on the coast, and other the people go to their beds to rest, she puts out all in her boat for the relief of the distressed, tar and hundreds of the drowning has she da; brought safely to the beach. In this lifeboat nif of the Gospel I put out to-day, hoping, by nol God's help, to bring ashore at least one soul in that may now be sinking in the billows of ^ temptation and trouble. The tears that were "E once caught in the lachrymatories brought gr< up from Herculaneum and Pompeii are all or gone, and the bottle is as dry as the scoria of Ho the volcano that submerged them, but not so mc with the bottle in which God gathers all our >"0' tears. thi First, I remark that God keeps perpetually 'oc the tears of repentance. Many a man has d? awakened in the morning so wretched from a night's dobauoh that he has sobbed and tai wept Pains in the head, aching in the eyes, * sick at heart and unfit to step into the light. th< He grieves, not about his misdoing, but only yo about its consequences. God makes no rec- an ord of such weeping. Of all the million tears lo? that have gushed as the result of such mis- an detneanor, not one ever got into God's bot- yo tie. They dried on the fevered cheek or yo were dashed down by the bloated hand or an fell into the red wine cup as it came again to wc the lips, foaming with still worse intoxica- eai tion. lip But when a man is sorry for his past and by trios to dp better?when he mourns his wasted so' advantages and bemoans his rejection of 3 God's mercy, and cries amid the lacerations P? of an aroused oonBcience for help out of his '* terrible predicament, then God listens ; then Gc ' heaven bows down ; then scepters of pardon 011 are extended from the throne ; then his cry- up ing rends the heart of heavenly compassion ; br then his tears are caught in God's bottle. J ' Oh, when I see the heavenly Shepherd Mj bringing a lamb from the wilderness ; when I hoar the quick tread of the prodigal has- "a tening home to And his father; when I see a sailor boy coming on f he wharf and hurrying te? away to oeg his mother's pardon for long ca neglect and unkindness; when I see the >'? houseless coming to God for shelter, and the wretched, and the vile, and the sin burned, te! and the passion blasted appealing ror mercy *a: to a compassionate God, I exclaim in ecstasy and triumph: "More tears for God's bottle!" Again, God keeps a tender remembrance of 'r< all your sicknesses. How many of you are thoroughly sound in body? Not one out of ten ! i ao not exaggerate, xue vjmji nmjumj ? of the race are constant subjects of ailments. 30 There is some one form of disease that you Pe are particularly subject to. You have a weak r0. side or back or are subject to headaches or faintnesses or lungs easily distressed. It on would not take a very strong blow to shiver c? the golden bowl of life or break the pitcher at the fountain. Many of you have kept on in life through sheer force of will. You G( think no one can understand your distresses. 3tl Perhaps you look strong, and it is supposed on that you are a hypochondriao. They say 0j you are nervous?as If that were nothing! rj( God have mercy upon any man or woman th that is nervous! , aE At times you sit alone in your room. an Friends do nrt come. You feel an indescribable lonllness in your sufferings, but ra God knows; God feels ; God compassion- mi ates. He counts the sleepless nights. He regards the acuteness of the pain. He 0j estimates the hardness of the breathing, fh While you pour out the medicine from the pr bottle and count out the drops, God counts Sjf all your falling tears. Ka you look at the ]0i vials filled with nauseous drafts and at the mj bottles of distasteful tonic that stand on the shelf, remember that there is a larger bottle than these, which is filled with no mixture by br earthly apothecaries, but it is God's bottle, in ro which he hath gathered all our tears. foi Again, God remembers all the sorrows of be poverty. There is much want that never comes to inspection. The deacons of the church he never see it. The comptrollers of the alms- Le houses never report it. It comes not to it. church, for it has no appropriate apparel, it It makes no appeal for Help, but cnooses ue rather to suffer than expose its bitterness. Pc Fathers who fail to gain a livelihood, so that th they and their children submit to constant th privation ; sewing women, who cannot ply th the needle quick enough to earn them shelterand bread. is But whether reported or uncomplaining, w( whe&er in seemingly comfortable parlor, or tie In damp cellar, or in hot garret, God's angels th of mercy are on the watch. This moment of those griefs are being collected. Down on oh the back streets, in all the alleys, amid shan- frc ties and log oabins, the work goes on. Tears oil want?seethinc in summer's heat or freezing in winter's cold?they fall not unheeded. They are jewels for heaven's casket. They are pledges of divine sympathy. They are fcu tears for God's bottle. - _ Again, the Lord preserves the remembranoe of all paternal anxieties. You see a SO man from the most infamous surroundings step out into the kingdom of God. He has -p. heard no sermon. He has received no startling providential warning. What fo brought him to this new mind? This is the ? secret?(rod looked over the bottle in which He gathers the tears of His people, and He hz saw a parental tear in that bottle .which has been for 40 years unanswered. He said. *'Go loo, now, and let Me answer that tear!" and co iorthwith the wanderer is brought homo to m God. > ? Ob. this work ot training children for God! It is a tremendous work. Some people think it easy. They huve never tried it. A child 'n is placed in the arms of the young parent. It fch is a beautiful plaything. You look into the . , laughing eyes. You examine the dimples in 01 the feet. You wonder at its exquisite organ- pe ism. Beautiful plaything! But on some j. nightfall as you sit rocking thnt little one a J voice seems to fall straight from the throne In of God, saying: "That child is immortal! ar The stars shall die, but that is an immortal! Suns shall grow old with age and perish, but ro that is an immortal!" 01 Now, I know with many of you this is the chief anxiety. You earnestly wish your children to grow up rightly, but you find it hard work to make them do as you wish. You oheck their temper. You correot their b2 waywardness; in the midnight your pillow to Yi .'ti-Jsrfj ? et with weeping. You hare wrestled with od in agony for the salvation of your chll on. You ask me if all that anxiety has >en ineffectual. I answer, No. God un>rstands your heart. He understands how ird you have tried to make that daughter ) right, though she is so very petulant and ckless, and what pains you have beetowed teaching that son to walk in the path of jrlghtness, though he has such strong proIvities for dissipation. l speak a cheering word. God heard every unsel you ever offered Him. God has town all the sleepless mights 'you have issed. God has seen every sinking of your ipressed spirit. God remembers y?t<r ayers. He keeps eternal record of your ixiet'.es, and in His laohrymatory??not such stood in an ancient to*pb, but in one that ows and glitters "besides the throne of God holds all those exhausting tears. The grass may be rank upon your graves td the letters upon your tombstones deced with the elements before the divine sponse will come, but He who hath dewed, "I will be a God to thee and to thy ed after thee," will not forget, and some .y m ueaven wnue you are ranging tne ilds of light the gates of pearl will awing ck, and garlanded with glory that long lyward one will rush Into your outretched arms of welcome and triumph. The lis may depart, and the earth may burn, id the stars fall, and time p?rlsh, but God 11 break His oath and trample upon His omisoa?never! never! Again, God keeps ? perpetual-remembrance all bereavements. These are the trials at cleave the soul and throw the red hearts men to be crushed in the wine press, oubles at the store you may Leave at the >re. Misrepresentation and abuse of the >rid you may leave on the street where you and them. The lawsuit that would swallow ur honest accumulations may be left in the urtroom. But bereavements are home >ubles, and there is no escape from tnem. >u will see that vacant chair. Your eye 11 catch at the suggestive picture. Sfou cannot fly In the presence of such ills, u go to Switzerland to get clear of them; t, more sure footed than the mule that tee you up the Alps, your troubles climb the tiptop and sit shivering on the glairs. You may cfoss the seas, but they can tsall the swiftest steamer. You may take ravan and put out across the Arabian dea;, but they follow you like a simoom, ned with suffocation. You plunge into 3 Mammoth cave, but they hang like staitttes from the roof of the great cavern, ey stand behind with skeleton Angers to sh you ahead. They stand before you to ow you back. They run upon you lik* ikless horsemen. They oharge upon you :h gleaming spear. They seem to come phazard, scattering shots from the gun o[ areless sportsman, But not so.* It is good a that sends them just right, for God is > archer. ["his summer many of you will especially 1 your grief as you go to plaoes where onoe i were accompanied by those who are ae now. Your troubles will follow you to i seashore and will keep up with the Ughtig express in whioh you speed away. Or, rying at home, they will sit beside you by iv nn/) nrKlanai* nnQF irAM ? nillnrr r>4 nftftf jr auu vruu7^/Oii vrvi/vui |/?uvrr uugut u*?w* -ht. I want to assure vou that you are t left alone and that your weeping is heard heaven. lou will wander anions the hills and say, fp this hill last year our boy climbed with ?at glee and waved his cap from the top," "This is the place where our little* girl put wers in her hair, nnd looked up in her it her's face," until every drop of blood in ur heart tingled with gladness, and you inked Ood with a thrill of rapture and you >k around as much as to say - "Who shed out that light? Who filled this cup i th gall? What blast froze up these founns of the heart?" Jome of you have lost your parents within 5 last twelve months. Their prayers for i are ended. You take up their picture d try to call back thu kindness that once >ked out from those old. wrinkled faces d spoke in such a tremulous voice, and u say it is a good picture, but all the while u feel that, after all, It does not do justice, d you would give almost anything?you ] >uld cross the sea; you would walk the rth over?to hear just one word from those 3 that a few months 3go used to call you your flrst name, though so long you yourf have been a parent. Now, you have done your best to hide your lef. You smile when you do not feel like But though youtnay deceive the world, >d knows. Ho looks down upon the ipty cradle, upon the desolated nurseiy, | ion the stricken hpmo and upon tne oken heart, and says : '"This is the way thrash the wheat; this Is the way I scour / jewels! Cast thy burden on My arm. d I will sustain you. All those tears I ,ve gathered into My bottle!" But what is the us? of having so many irs in God's laohrymatoryV In that great sket or vase, why does God preserve all ur troubles? Through all the ages of srnity, what use of a great collection of irs! I do not know but that in some dlsit age of heaven an angel of God may look to the bottle and find it as enjpty of tears the lachrymals of eartherfware dug up >m the ancient city. Whare have tho tears ne? What sprite of hell hath been invadg God's palace and hath robbed the lachryitories? None. These were sanctified rrows, and those tears were changed into arls tljat are now set in the crowns and bes of the ransomed. rwalk up to examine this heavenly coret, gleaming brighter than tho sun, and jr, "From what river depths of heaven were 030 gems gathered?" and a thousand voices Dly. ''These are transmuted tears from id's bottle." I 8ee scepters of light retched down from the throne of those who l earth were trod on of men, ^nd in every apter point and inlaid in every ivory stair golden throne I behold an indescribable :hnes3 and luster and cry, "From whence Is streaming light?these flashing pearls?" id the voicvs of the elders before the throne, id of the martyrs under the altar, and ot e hundred and forty and four thousand diant on the glassy sea exclaim, "Transixted tears from God's bottle." Let the,ages of heaven roli on?the story earth's pomp and pride long" ago ended e kohinoor diafnonds that make kings oud, the precious stones that adorned Perin tiara and flamed in the robes of Babyaian processions forgotten j the Golconda ines charred in the last conflagration, but m as the everlasting hills and pure as the fht that streams from the throne, and ight as the river that flows from the eternal ck, shall gleam, shall sparkle, shall flame rever these transmuted tears of God's >ttle. Meanwhile let the empty lachrymatory of aven stand for ever. Let no hand touch it. it no wing strike it. Let no collision crack Purer than beryl or chrysoprasus. Let stand on the step of Jehovah s throne and ider the arch of the unfading rainbow, issing down the corridors of the palace, e redeemed ot earth shall glance at it and ink of all the earthly troubles from which ey were delivered and say, each to each : Chat is what we heard of on earth." "That what the psalmist spoke of." "There once >re put our tears." "That is God's boti." And while standing there inspecting is richest inlaid vase of heavan the towers the palace dome strike up this silvery ime: "God hath wiped away all tears >m all faces. Wherefore comfort one anfi?r with these words." Wen prate of the resources of Naire being exhausted, and groan over future when we shall entirely lack me necessary of life, as if it would ippen next week. Why, good n'd ame Nature has her storehouse full r many hubdreds of years to come ! nd further than that, with the < xlustion of some special resource, ie ingenuity of man oonstant'y mes to the fore and supplies huanity with a substitute of greater ilue. When we read that chemists irn scrap iron into ink, o'd hones to lucifer matches, the shavings of ie blacksmith's shop into Prussian ue, fusel oil Into oil of apples and :ars, and tar waste into aniline 'es and saccharine, we can but be jpres.^ed with the fact that there e many sources yet to be explore 1 r hitherto unsuspected ingredients elements. Some men are so indolent that they Duldn't even take their ease if they id to go out of the way to get it.? 1 onkers Stateman. i ?a?p??i??i SABBATH SCHOOL. VTERNATION'AL LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 17 Lesson Text: "personal Responsibility," Romans xlv., 12-23?Goldep Text: Romans xiv., 21 ? Commentary. r12.'\ "So then every one of us shall give account of himself to Gftd." This epistle may be divided into three sections and labeled doctrinal (chapters i. to viii.). dispensations! (chapters ix. toxi.) and practical (xii.to xvi). The practical, with which we now have to do, may be subdivided as follows: xli., nhni?a/>+of vlH i?olofiAn f/\ nlwtl wilot" - ?'? relation to brethren ; xv.. labors ; xvi.. Christian salutations. 80 that we And ourselves to-day dealing with the practical question of right relations to the brethren, and especially in the matter of eating and drinking. We are reminded of the judgment seat of Christ (verse 10 ; see also II Cor. v., 10) and of individual responsibility. 13. "Let us not therefore judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block or an oocasion to fall in his brother's way." In I Cor. iv., 6, we are exhorted to judge nothing before the time until the Lord come. In Jas. 1L, 13, it is written that "he shaft ' have judgment without mercy that hath showed no mercy, Tesus Himself said, "If ye iad^ known wh3t this meaneth, I will have mercy and not saoriflce, ye would not have condemned the guiltless" (Math, xli., 7). We are herp not to live unto ourselves, but unto the Lord (verses 7, 8) and by a Christlike life lead people unto Him. 14. "I know and am persuaded, by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. ' Jesus taught that "not that which goeth into the mouth deflleth a man, but that which cometh out of the mouth" (Hath, xv., 11). And Paul in another place teaches us that if one should see fit to accept an invitation to eat with an unbeliever the proper thing would be to eat what i9 provided, asking no question for conscience sake (I Cor. x.. 27) unless the host should say. "This is offered in sacrifice to idols." Then a believer could not eat of it. The glory of God must be the one aim In all eating and drinking as well as in all else (I Cor. x., 31). 15. "But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat for whom Christ died." This matter is more fully dwelt upon in I Cor. viii., 1-13, and is summed up in verse 13,''"Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth." The great question with a believer should not be, "May I do this or that and not sin?" but "How can I best hasten His kingdom and win men to Him?" 16. "Let not, then, your good be evil spoken of." A perfectly lawful act, something that I mlgnt do or enjoy with a clear conscience betore God, might be misunderstood by a weak brother and become to him a stumbling block, in which case it would be for the glory of God and the good of the weak brother for me to reirain trom even that which In God's sight might be innocent. 17. "For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness ahd peace and joy in the Holy Ghost." The chief business of those for wnom Christ died is not eating and drinking, but a right relation to God, our neighbors and ourselves. ?he foundation is righteousness (Rom. x., 3, 4; II Cor. v., 21), the state is peace (Rom. v., If Eph. ii., 14), and the manifestation is joy (John xv., 11: xvL, 24: Rom. xv., 13). All will be disorder and confusion until we seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness (Math, vi., 33), not for ourselves merely, but for all whom we may reach. 18. "For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God and approved of men." Havlnsr received Christ as our Saviour we are always accepted in Him (Eph. i., 6), but for this reason we seek to be accepted of Him as to our service. "We labor that whether present or absent we may be accepted of Him" (II Cor. v.. 9). Salvation full and free is God's gift to whosoever will. We are saved by gracse not of works lest any one should boast (Eph. 11., 3; Rom. iv.. 5). but we work because we are saved. This Is profitable to men. and we shall be rewarded according to our works (Eph. ii., 10; Titus ill.. 8; I Cor. iii.. 8 , Rev. xxiL, 12). 19. "Let us therefore nlloT alter the things which make for peace and things wherewith one may edify another." Our Lord and Saviour is the Prince of Peace, and a mind staid on Him will have a perfect Tk..? oknll trw mthlkh pOtttX. 1UU9 YTO OUiltl UC llkjiu iv peace (Isa. ix., 6 ; xxvi., 3: lill.. 7 ; Rom. x., 15). 20. '*For meat destroyed not the work of God. All things Indeed are pure, but. it is evil for that man who eateth with offense.'' "Unto the pure all things are pure, but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure" (Titus i.. 15). In this lesson, however, it is rhe brethren?the beflevers? whom we are to be careful not to offend. 21. ''It is good neither to eat flesh nor to driuk wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth or is offended or is made weak.' It is only telling a part of the truth to select from this the drinking of wine and made it a so-called temperance lessoa, while the many other things that offend are left untouched. A good worker on the aide of total abstinence may possibly be a stumbling block in other directions, and so iu other departments of Christian work. The only sure way is to adopt II Cor. iv., 11, as a daily motto and be willing to die to self in all directions that the life of Christ may be manifest in our mortal flesh. When we can truly say, "Not I, but Christ, who liveth in me" i^Gal. ii.. 20). all will be well. 22. '"Hast thou faith? Have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth cot himself in that thing which Healloweth," for if our hearts condemn us not then have we confidence toward God (I John iii., 21). To live always as in the sight of tha Lord with a constant aim to please Him will surely give a life free from offenses. "Walk before Me and be thou perfect, upright, sincere," was God's word to Abram (Gen. xvii.. f_\ Crtifit aora thrnnch i. murK'iius mc MJ/I... Paul. "Whatsoever ye do. do it heartily, as to the Lord and not unto men" (Col. ill., '23). 23. ''And he that doubteth is damned (.or condemned) if he eat. because he eateth not of faith, for whatsoever is not of faith is sin." It is sin to do what you doubt to be right; it is also sin not to do what you know to be right (Jas. iv.. 17). If everything is tested by "Will it please Jesus?" all will be well. All life is either for. self or God and others. Christ was wholly for God and man, never for self, and could truly say to His Father. "I have glorified Thee on the isarth." All n'ght relations to man must spring from right relations to God. Without faith it is impossible to please Him. for he that cometh to God must believe that He is. and that He is the rewarder of thorn that diligently seek Him (Hob. xi.).?Lesson Helper. THE 10NG CANAL'S VICTI1IH. Have you never heard of that Qanal that runs through this country fltty miles long, forty feet wide and ten feet deep? No? How strange! Why, it is not only one of the wonders of earth but' wonder to the inhabitants of heaven as well. It is filled with liquor?a new supply every year?and down each bank is a line of corpses and another line down the middle?nearly 150 miles of corpses. They are the yearly victims of the Greatest Robber on Earth. He is through robbing them: he has taken everything, including their life, and now he has no further use for them. He is at work on others. Look at :i map and you will gee imaginary lines running from one side of the United States to the other, lines of latitude ; but there is one line which the geographers have forgotten to putin. und it runs from the Atlantic to the Pacific, clear across the continent. What is it? A line of reeling, staggering, maudlin humanity. 2,500,000 drunkards by a close estimate, robbed ot everything almost except life by this same Greatest liobber on Earta. ?Voice. T:iiiAiti ic of temi'eu.vsie. Ten years ago the cans? of temperance vn.1 not as respectable as it is to-day. because there were uot so many respectable men and women advocating it. !t has gained grot:lid, and is gaining ground, and all because rneu and women who believe in it could noi be browbeaten or frightened. Neither the hissing of geese nor the throwing of rotten eggs has stopped or even delayed the tnareh of temperance among the workers. ?Tarsnco Y. l'owder lv. ^ A mas' never discovers how hard his lot really is until he tries to nut a spade into it and make a garden.? Washington Star. I . l RELIGIOUS READING**; i SHALL WB FIND THEM AT THE POBTAM? By Rev. J. E. Rankin, D. D. Will they meet us, cheer and greet as, Those we've loved, who've gone before? , Shall wo find them at the portals, Find our beautiful immortals, When we reach that radiant shore? Hearts are broken for some token That they live, and love us yet! And we ask, "Can those who've left uMf* Of love's look and tone bereft us. Though In heaven, can they forget?" ; J And we often, as days soften. And comes out the evening star, Looking westward, sit and wonder* Whether, when so far asunder, ' They still think how dear they are/ 'Sj Past yon portals our immortals, Those who walk with Him in white, Do they, 'mid their bliss, recall us? Know they what events befall us? Will our coming wake delight? They will meet ua, cheer and greet us. Those we've loved, who've gone be for?; Wo shall And them at the portals, Find our beautified immortals, When wo reach tliat radiant shore. HI8TOBY OF A SOULFUL HYJfW. How "Just As I Am, Withbut One Plea,tri?wiy" & \ written. "A pastor one day spoke to a gifted yonnf lady, a member of his congregation, mgarding her spiritual condition. She an* swered him ratner hastily, and expressed h?r? self in a manner wnich grieved hiak for he yet believed she was anxious fa* salvation. After leaving him she begaa to reflect upon what she had said, ana was determined, from a more careful study of the Divine Word, to know whether the foundation of her belief was secure or not. Prayerfully and carefully she studied the New , Testament, and the outcome of it all was tfate beautiful hymn, 'Just As I Am, Without On* . -'She brought this original hymn to he* <$} pastor, and expressed herself as delighte# that she was enabled to be nearer the Lor# through his guidance. This hymn may juatij he called the greatest one for religious bit quiry in the language. It perhaps sets forth. '-7 more clearly and forcibly than any other the fulness of the truth rw specting the sinner's relation to Christ The authoress of this beautiful (f --vi hymn was Charlotte Elliott She was bocs In England more than a hundred year* ago. The hymn has bee n sung for more thaa seventy years. At first it appeared withootha* signature, so modest was Miss Elliott After' ward an Englishwoman, struck with itr beauty, hadlt printed In leaflet form. Miss Elliott, for a period was an Invalid in Torquay, Eng. An eminent physician who at* tended her saw the hymn, and not knowing who the writer was, took it to Hiss Elliot!^ expressing his great delight with It He aad' <%" , the world learned who the authoress was." COMPLETE SALVATION. Christ saves to the uttermost makes the salvation complete. So the Bibfo assures us; and so we see it in fact as far as we can trace the souL When a Chrfstiao. friend dies, we stand at his bedside and aocompany him as far as we can into the v&Doftof the shadow of death. We ask him whether he feels that Christ Is able to save ? He replies, 'yes.' When he has lost the power at apeaklng above a whisper, we ask him 4h? *< same question, and receive the same reply. When he gives us the parting hand, and we; still anxious to know whether all is well, npk the same questiona sign, a smile, a lighting of the dying eye, declares that all is welL ha far as we can trace the departing soul when it goes Into the dark valley, we reoeive tha same assurance; but why should we doubt that the same grace is bestowed further onward, aud that he saves to the uttermost?" Jw But what else thus saves? Friends give th? parting hand at the gloomy entranoe to that valley, and the gay and the worldly oeolly turn away. The delusions of infidelity them forsake the soul, and minister no comfort then. Flatterers turn away from the dying scene; for who flatters the dying with tb? praise of beauty or accomplishments?? Taste, skill, learning, talent, do not 13 help then, for how can they save a dying soul? None but Jesus saves to the 'uttermost' ; no other friend but he goes with ua entirely through the valley of death. Is it not better to have such a friend, than to go alone through that dark, gloomy path? Any other gloomy and dangerous way may bi more safely trod without a friend, than ths vale of death.?Albert Barnes. acoustine's rBAyza. Augustine's prayer was, "Lord,give me thy self!" And in this spirit, the believer is ready to exult. ''Whom have I in the heavens font Thee, and there is none upon earth that I dosire but Thee. The Lord Himself is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup; Thou maintaineth my lot The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places, yea, I have a goodly heritage; I will bless the Lord who hath. given ma counsel." Surely the whole work! cannot weigh against the comfort of beingable to let all go, and look up?"Thou art my portion, 0 Lord." For unless His perfection? should mould away.and leave Him a destitute and indigent God, it is impossible that people can bo impoverished. This portion, however, can never be enjoyed, even by m child of God, unless He, who is the esseae* of i:;, be supreme in the soul?not only abovo all, but iu place of all. Other objects may bo subordinate^ loved; but of none hut Himself must we say, ' 'He is altogether lovely."-^ttev. C. Bridges. Amongst other holy counsels which thou. must observe, remomber well this; Look not upon other men's faults, but thine own. Perfect resignation is attained by remembering that God permit* grievances to fall upon us, :;o bumble and annihilate us and to makir us live wholly resigned. Hold it for a trua ma>.1m, that nobody can do a griovaace or injury to a soul despised by itself, and one that is nothii^g in its own account. Never be diaauieted by any accident, for inquietude is th? doo.: by which the enemy gets into the soul to rob it of its peace. ?Michael de Molinos. Bestow thy youth so thou mayst have comfort to remember it, when it hath forsaken thee, aa<l not sigh and grieve at the account thereof. Whilst thou art young, thou wilt ihink it will never have an end: but, behold, ihe longest day will have its evening, and :hat thou shalt enjoy it but once that it nevar turns again; use it. therefore, as the springlime which soon departeth, and wherein tbon .mghtest to plant and sow all provisions for* long aud happy life.?Sir Walter ltaleigh. It is often true of human characters that they are reduced in our estimate upon an intimate acquainbuii e with them. It is not afifh nhriot. The more we know of Him tbo more sacred. wonderful, peculiar, lovely, at tractive, and dMae He apjxjars. He come* . . more precious to the heart as acquaintance , t ind experience more and more disclose Hiia ; J to the eye of faith. Such is Christian expectance ou earth, and doubt less such it wiU bm < , '* in heaveu. ?The Independent. , . ^ We should hold in our mind the fact that the Sabbath was God's original appointment, , ( ind that He designated this septenary ar- ' rangoinent for man at the very moment that >'? His creative work was pronounced "good e*>. , 0 i-eedingly." There is no basis for the view, apparently held by some, that the SabtMib was a Jewish institution. We learn that it was founded in a beneficent law, immutable ind unchangeable in obligation.?l'earl ot Day3. The Doarmng-nouse Kccpnr oitei* complains of the effort it costs to get up a meal, and her boarders maintain that It. is more of an effort to get It down.?Yonkers Statesman. "I am taking cooking lessons of Mrs. Picrust." "Do you flod them beneficial?" "Very. I have already 6 learned how to tell when something's burned."?Chicago Record. The scotch are a very canny peopie, but they are not as can-can-ny as tlia French.?Boston Courier.