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,W / - . ? ,w. . wr HfC REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: "Oblivion and It3 Defeats. Texts "He shall be no more remembered," Job xxiv.,'20 ; " The righteous shalt 4>e in everlastinj rem embrance," P3alm3 exit, 6. ''Oblivion and Its Defeats" is my subjeel to-day. There is an old monster that swal lows down overythiag. It crunches individuals. families, communities, States, Na tions. continents, hemispheres, worlds. Its diot is made up of years, of cehturies, o' ages, of cycles, of millenniums, of eons. That monster is called by Noah Webster and all the other dictionarians oblivion. It is a steep down which everything rolls. It is a conflagration in which everything is con snmed. It is 3 dirge in whicn all orchestra? play and a period at which everything stops. It is the cemetery of the human race. It is the domain of forgetfulness. Oblivion! At times it throws a shadow over all of us. and I would not pronounce it to-day if I did not come armed in the strength of the eternal God on your behalf to attack it, to ro*t it, to demolish it. Why. just look at tbo way the families of the earth disappear. For awhile they are together. inseparable and to each other indispensable, and then they part, some by marriage going to establish other homes, and some leave this life, and a century is long enough to plant a family, develop it*, prosper it and obliterate it, So* the generations vanish. Walk ap Broadway, New York ; State street, Boston ; Chestnut street, Philadelphia; the Strand. London ; Princess street, Edinburgh ; Champs Elysees. Paris : Unter den Linden. Berlin, and you will meet in this year 1393 not one person who walked it in 1793. What engulf men t! All the ordinary effort at perpetuation are dead failures. Walter Scott's "Old Mortality" may go round with his chisel to reciit the faded epitaphs on tombstones, but Old Oblivion has a quicker chisel with which he can cut cut a thousand epitaphs while "Old Mortality" is cutting in one epitaph. Whole libraries of biographies de voured of bookworms or unreaa 01 me rwmg generations All the signs of the stores and warehouses of great firms have changed, unless the grandsons think that it is an advantage to keep the old sign up, because tee name of the ancestor was moro commendatory than the name of the descendant. The city of Romn stands to-iay, but dig down deep enough and yon come to another Rome, buried, and go down still farther and you will find a third Rome. Jerusalem stands today but dig down deep enough and you will find a Jerusalem underneath," and go on and deeper down a third Jerusalem. Alexandria on the top of an Alexandria, and the second on the top of the third. Many of the ancient cities arc buried thirty ^ 3 ?- r\! 10A fflftf What xeet nwsp, ur imj tojj, vi was the matter? Any special calamity? No. The winds and waves and sands and flying dust are all undertakers and grave diggers, and if the world stands long onough the present Brooklyn and New York and London will have on top of them other Brooklyns and New Yorks and Londons, and only alter digging and boring and blasting wiU the archreologist of far distant centuries come down as far as the highest spires and domes and turrets of our present American and European cities. Call the roll of the armies of Baldwin I., or of Charles Mattel, or of Marlborough, or of Mithridates, or of Prince Frederick, or of Cortes, and not one answer will you hear. Stand thorn in line and call the roll of 1,000,000 men in the army of Thebes. Not one answer. Stand them in line, the 1,700.003 Infantry and the 200,000 cavalry of the As Syrian army under Minus, ana can ine row. Not one answer. Stand In line the 1,000,000 men of Sesostris. the 1,200.000 men of Artaxerxea at Cunaxa, the 2,641.000 men under Xerxes at Thermopylae, and call the long roll. Not one answer. At the opening of our civil war the men of tho Northern and Southorn armies were told that if they fell in battlo their names would never be forgotten by their country. Out of tho million men wbo fell in battle or died in military hospitals, you cannot call the names, of 1030, nor the names of 500, nor the names1 of 100. nor tho names of fifty. Oblivion J Are the feet of tho dancers who were at the ball of the Duchess of Richmond at Brussels the night, before Waterloo all stilt? All still. Are all tho aars that heard the guns of Bunker Hill all deaf? All deaf. Are the eyes that saw the coronation of George IIL all closed? All closed. Oblivion! A hundred years from now there will not bo a being on this earth that knew wa over lived. In somo old family record a descendant studying up tho ancestral line may spell ouO our name, and from the nearly faded ink. with great effort, llnd that some person of our name was born somewhere between 1810 and 1890, but they will know no mora about us than wo know*about tho color of a child's eyes boru lest nigh4- in a village in Patagonia. Tell me something about your greatgrandfather. What were bis features? What did he do? What year was he born? What year did he die? And your great-grandmother. Will you describe the style of the nac 3ne wore, hhi how uiu suti nuu greai-gnndfuther get on in each other's companionship? Was it March weather or June? Oblivion! That mountain surge rolls over everything. Evan the pyramids aro dying. Not a day pxsses bat there is chiseled o(J a chip of that granite. The sea is triumphing over the land, and what is going on at Coney Island Is going on all around the world, anl the continents are crumbling into the wavas, and while this is transpiring on the outside of the world the hot chisel of the eternal fire is digitus; under the foundation of the earth and cutting its way out toward the surface. It surprise!? mo to hear people say they da notthiakthe world will finally be burned up, when all scientists will tell yoa that it has for ages been on Are. Why, there is only a crust between us and the .furnaces inside raging to get out. Oblivion! The world itself will roll into ft as easily as a schoolboy's india rubber ball rolls down a hill, and when our world goes it is so interlocked by the law ol gravitation with other worlds that they will go, too, and so far from having our memory perpetuated by a monument of Aberdeen granite in this world there is no world in sight of our strongest telescope that will be a sure pediment for any slab of commemoration of the fact that wo ever lived or died at all. Our oarth is struck with death. The axletree of (he constellations will break and let down the population of other worlds. Stellar, lunar, solar mortality. Oblivion 1 It can swallow and will swallow whole galaxies of worlds as easily as a crocodile takes down A frog. Yet oblivion does not remove or swallow anything that had better not be removed or 11 ../I TKa aM mnncfup l'c n'ftlpftmfi ff? nwuuvncu, *uv vivi ujv?*W?V? .. ? his meal. This world would long ago have been overcrowded if it had not been for the merciful removal of Nations and generations. What if all the book3 had lived that were over wrttten and printed and *pubv lishod? The libraries would by their immunsitv have obstructed intelligence and made all ressarch lmpD3stble. TH9 ratal epidemic of books was a merciful epidemic. Many cf th^ State and National libraries to-day nre only morgue in which dead books are waiting for some ona to come an i recognize them. What if all the p:sopl< that had been born were still alive? We would have been elbowed by our ancestor* of ten canturies ago, and D30ple wao ought to have said their last word 300) years age would snaii ?4t u?, saying, ,-Wnat are you doing heror" There would hav.> been nc room to turn around. Some of the pasgenerations of mankind were not worth re membering. The ilrst useful thin!* tha many people did was to die, th?ir cradle j misfortune andthsir gr.iva a boon. This world was hardly a comfortable pia3i i:- - )lu rtf l.jjf /.on m UCIVLO IUV IUIUUIO VI bUU iajl \.vu tury. So many things have corn? info the world that were not fit to stay in. we ought to be glad they were put out. The watere of Lethe, the fountain of forgetfulness, are a healthful draft. The history we have of the world in ages past is always one sided and cannot be dopanded on. History is fiction illustrated by a few strangling fact". In all the Pantheon the weakest goddess is Clic, the goic'.es3 of history, and instead of fccini; reprasanted by sculptors as holding a scroll mij?ht hotter ba represented as limping on nratcio3. r.TTrnjm~m5n>ry i??Tre sftvan* ~oT"& -f&w things out of more things lo3t. Tho immortality that comes from pomp of obsequies, or granito sbaft, or building named after its founder, or page of recognition in some enoyclopedta is an immortality unworthy of ooa's ambition, for it will eeais and is no ipa\ ** v? A ". ' . . . . ... ; S mortality 'at ~ alT". OWrvion! A hundred years. But while I recognize this universal submergence of things earthly who wants to be forgotten? Not one of us. Absent for a few weeks or months from home, it cheers us to know that we are remembered there. It is n phrase we have all pronounced, "I hope you missed me." Meet lag some ineuus iruui wuuui ?u u??o uuuu parted many years, we inquire, "Did you ivar see me before?" and they say, *'Yes," tnd call us by nam9. and we feel a delightful sensation thrilling through their hand Into our hand, and running up from elbow :o shoulder, and then parting, the one current of delight ascending to the brow and :he other descending to the foot, moving round and round in concentric circles until jvery nerve and mu3cle and capacity ofbody and mind and soul is parmeated with delight. A row aays asjo, raiuui; ma pututj ui uiy boyhood, I met one whom I had not seen since we played together at ten years of age, audi had peculiar pleasure in puzzling him a little as to who I was, and I can hardly describe the sensation as after awhile he mumbled out "Let me see. Yes, you are De Witt." Wo all like to be remembered. Now, I have to tell you that this oblivion j of which I have spoken has its defeats, and that there is no more reason why we should not be distinctly and vividly and gloriously remembered five hundred million billion trillion quadrillion quintillion years from now than that we should be remembered six weeks. I am going to tell you how the thing can be done and will be done. We may build this '"everlasting remembrance," as ray text styles it, into the supernal existence of those to whom we do kindae3s?s in mis world. You must remambar .that this infirm ani treacherous faculty which we now call memory is in the Tature state to be complete and perfect. "Everlasting remembrance!" Nothing will slip :he stoat grip of that celestial faculty. Did you heip a widow pay her rent? Did you And for that man raleasad from prison u place to get honest work? Did you pick up i child fallen on the curbstone, and by a jtick of candy put in his hand stop the hurt an his scratohed knee? Did you assure a business man, swamped by the stringency of she money market, thaiL time3 would after awhile be betterv Did you lead a Maglalen of the streat into a midnight mission, where the Lord said to her: "Neither do I condemn thee ; go and sin qo more?" Did you tell a man, clear discouraged in his waywardness and hopeless and plotting suicide, that for him wa3 near by a layer in which he might wash, and a coronet of eternal blessedness he might wear? What are epitaphs in graveyards, what are eulogiums in presence oZthose wh033 breath is in tneir nostrils, waat ara uacouu uiu^taphies in the alcoves of city library, compared with the imperishable records yoa bave made in the illumined memories of tho3e to whom you did saoh kindnesses? Forget them? They cannot forget them. Notwithstanding all their might and splendor, there are some things the glorified of heaven cannot do, and this is one of them. They cannot forget an earthly kindness done. They have no cutlass to part that cable. They have no strength to hurl into oblivion that benefaction. Has Paal forgotten the inhabitants of Malta, who extended the island hospitality when he and others with him had felt, added to a shipwreck. the drenching rain and the sharp cold? Has the victim or the highwayman on the road to Jerioho forgotten the Good Samaritan with a medicament of oil and wine and a free ride to the hostelry? Have the English soldiers who wept up to Ka^flaflaMa fnro?nrtAn ITUU 1IU1U IUU vumoau vowitvuv*^ Florence Nightingale? Through all eternity will the Northern and Southern soldlere forget the Northern and. Southern women who administered to the dying boy3 in blu9 and gray after the awful Qghts in Tennessee and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Georgia, which turned every house and barn and sbed into a hospital,and incarnadined the Susquehanna, and the James, and the Chattahoochee, and the Savannah with brave blood? The kindnesses you do to others will stand as long in the appreciation of others as the gates of heaven will stand, as the ''House of Many Mansions" will stand, as long as the throne of Goi will stand Another defeat of oblivion will be found In the character of those whom we rescue, uplift or save. Character is eternal. Suppose by a right influence we aid in tramforming a bad man into a good man, a dolorous man into a happy man, a disheartened man into a courageous man?every stroke of that work done will be immortalized. There may never be so much as one line in a newspaper regarding it, or no mortal tongue may aver whisper It into human ear. but whereever that soul shall go your work apou it J aVknll r?A wr'noravQ- fh af aaill ria^Q Vrt'JP warlf I upon it shall rise, and so long as that soul will last your worn oa it will last. Do yousupposa thara will evar com9 such in Idiotic iapsa in the history of that soul in heaven that it shall forget that you invited him to Christ; that you, by prayar or gospal word, turned him rounl from tha wrong w.ir io the right w.iyV No sush insanity will ovar jmite a heavenly citizen. It is not half a3 well on earth known that C'aristopher Wran planned and built St. Paul's as it will be known in all heavan thht you ware tha instrumentality of building a temple for tha sky. We teach a Sabbath cla33, or put a Christian tract in tha haai of a pasiuroy, or testify for Christ in a prayar meating, or praach a sermon, and go home discouraged, as though nothing had baan accomplished, wneu we had been ehar.nter building with a material that no fro3t or earthquake or rolling of the canturies can damaga or bring down. I HPhai-o in QtiWImir ??? ? In fha trArl/1 thun ? architecture. With pencil anl rule and compass the architect sits d:<wa alone aal la silence. and evolves from his own brain a cathedral. or a National capltol, or a missive home before he leaves that table, and then he goes out and unrolls his plans, and calls carpenters and masons and artisms of all sorta to execute his design, and wienit is finished he walks around the va3t struitura and sees the completion of the worx with hijfh satisfaction, and on aston? at some corner of the building the architect's mine may be chiseled. But the storms do their work, ani time, that takes down everything, will yat take down that structure until there shall not be ono qtone left upon anothar. But there is a soul la heaven. Through your instrumentality it was put there. Under God's grace you are the architect of its eternal happiness. Your nam} is written, not on one corner of its nature, but inwrought into its every fiber and energy. Will the storms or winter wash out tlio story ot wnat you have wrought upon that spiritual structure? No. There ara ao storms in that land, and th?re is no winter. Will time waar out the inscription which shows your fidelity/ No. Time is past, and it is an everlasting now. Built into the foun lation ot that imperishable structure, built into its pillars, built into its capstone, is your name?either the name you have on earth or the natns by which celestials shall call you. I know the Bible says in one place that Gol is a jealous God, but that refers to the work ot th03e who worship som-3 other god. A true father is not jealous ot his child. With what glea you show tha picture your child panelled, or a toy ship your ohtli) hewed out. or recite the noble deed youi child accomplished! And Gol nev?..wai jealous of a Joshua, never was jealous of a Paul, never was jealous of a Frances Havergal, never was jealous of a man or womao who tried to heal wounds and wipe away tears and lift burdens and save souls and while all is of grace, and your self, abneguting utterance will be, "Not trnta us, not unto us, but unto Thy name, 0 Lord, give glory!" you shall always feel a heavenly satisfaction in every Rood thing you did on earta, .and it iconoclast, borne trom beneath, should brtjulj through the ijrvtt'3 of heaven and efface on? record of your earthly fidelity, methinks Christ would take one of the nails of His own cross and write somewhere? on the crystal, or the amethyst, or the jacinth, orthi chrysoprasus, your name an'1 :ust under :i the inscription of my te^t, righteous shall be held in everlasting remembrance.' Oh, this character binldingt You and 1 are every moment busy in that tremendous occupation. You are making me better 01 wpiS". anJL Ijuiub a kin - vou better or worw anCrwe sSaTTtnrou^n aff eternity bear thi mark of this benediction or blasting. Let others have the thrones of heaven? those who havo more mightily wrought foi God and the truth?but it will be heaver enough for you and me if ever and anon we meet some radinnt soul on the boulevards oi the great city who shall say : "You helped me once. You encouraged me when I wai in earthly struggle. I did not know that 1 would have reached thiashininp place had il not been for you." And wo will laugh with heavenly glee and say: "HaF ha! Do you really remember that talk? Do you remetn bar that warning? Do you romwnber that r't ' - r. I# -r *' ' -v. .. " ; X' I *. . . tmnsnan invitation? What a memory you have! Why, that must have been down there in Brooklyn or New Orleans at least ten thousand million years ago." And the answer will be, "Yes, it was as long as that, but I remember it as well as though it were ^ Oh. this character bulldlnj?! The structur3 j lasting independent of passing centuries, independent of crumbling mausoleums, indo- \ pendent of the whole planetary system. Aye, if the material universe, which seems all ' bound together like one piece of machinery, should some day meet with an accident that \ should send worlds crashing into each other like telescoped railway trains, and all the wheels of constellations and galaxies should 1 stop, and down into one chasm of immensity ; all the sans and moons and stars should tumble like the midnight express at Ashta- ! bula, that would not touch us And would not ] fcurt God, for God is a spirit, and character and memory are Immortal, and over that J grave of a wrecked material universe might truthfully be written, "The righteous shall ' be held in everlasting remembrance." 0, Time, we defy thee! 0, Death, we 1 stamp thee in the dust of thine own sepul- * chere! 0, Eternity, roll on till the last star has stopped rotating, and the last sun is ex- ' tinguisned on the sapphire pathway, and ' the last moon has Hlumined the last night, < and as maDy years have passed as all the ' scribes that ever took pen could describe by ' as many figures as they could write in all the / ant-iir-lna nf nil Hm? hilt thon nhalt hftVft no J power to efface from any soul in glory the memory of anything we have done to bring it to God and heaven ! There is another and a mora complete defeat for oblivion, and that is in the heart of God himself. You have seen a sailor roll up nis sleeve and show you his arm tattooed with the figure of a favorite ship?perhaps the first one in which he ever sailed. You have seen a soldier roll up his sleeve and show you his arm tattooed with the figure of a fortress which he was garrisoned, or the face of a great general under whom he fought. You have seen many a hand tattooed with the face of a loved one before or after marriage. This tattooing is almost as old as the world. It is some colored liquid punctured into the flesh so indelibly that nothing can wash it out. It may have been there fifty years, but when the man goes into his coffin that picture will go with him on hand or arm. Now, God says that he has tattooed us upon his hands. There can be no other meaning in the forty-ninth chapter of Isaiah, where God says. "Behold, I have graven thee on the palms of my hands !" It was as much as to say. "I cannot open My hand to help, but I think of you. I cannot spread abroad My hands to bless, but I think of you. Wherever I go up and down the heavens I take these two pictures of von with Me. They are so inwrought into My being that. I cannot lose them. As long as My nand3 last the memory of you will last. Not on the back of My hands, as though to announce you to others, but on the palms of My hands for Myself to look at and study and love. Not on the palm o( one hand alone, but on the palms of both hands, for while I am looking upon one hand and thinking of you, I must have the other hand free to protect you, free to strike back your enemy, free to lift if you fall., Palms of Mv hands indelibly tattooed! And though I hold the winds in My first no cyclone shall uproot the inscription of vour name and your race, ana though I hold the ocean in the hollow of My hand its billowing shall not wash out the record of My remembrance. 'Behold, I hare graven thee on the palms of My hands."' What joy, what honor can there be comparable to that of beinjt remembered by the mightiest and kindest and loveliest ana tanderest and most affectionate being in the universe? Think of it, to hold an everlasting place in the heart of God. The heart of God! 1 The most beautiful palace in the universe. ] Let the archangel Dulld some palace as t grand as that if he can. Let him crumble up ' all the stars of yesternight and to-morrow < niftht and put them together as mosaics for ; such a palace floor. Let him take all the 3un- I rises and sunsets of all the days and the j auroras of all the nights and hang them as i upholstery at its windows. Let him take all the rivers, an.l all the i lakes, and all the gceans, and toss theta into I the fountains of this palace court. Let him i take all the gold otalltno hills and hang It in i Its chandeliers, ani all the pearls of all the ] seas, ani all the diamonds Of all the fields, i and with them areh the doorways of that j palace, and then invite into it all the glories < kknl'VaiiltAM Atrnn onro nf a PaihjI n n hnnnnif r\ r 1 lUrtl JD9VUOI VTWk ij?n w * w , Daniel evar walked among in Babylonian nasties, or Joseph ever witnessed in Pharaoh's throneroom. and then yourself enter this castle of orohangelic construction, and see how poor a palace It is compared with the greater palace that some of you have already found in the heart of a loving and pardoning Goi, and into which all the music, and all the prayere, an i all the sermoaic considerations of this day are trying to introduce you through th9 blool of the slain lamb. Oh, where is o'jlivion now? From the dark and overshadowing word that It 3eemed when I began, it has become something which no nnn or woman or child who lovas the Lord need ever fear. Oblivion defeated. ODUvlon dead. Oblivion seputcnered. But I must not be so hard on that devouring monster, for into its grave go all our sins when the Lord for Christ's sake has forgiven i them. Just blow a resurrection trumpet 5 over them when once oblivion has snapped ] them dowa. Not one of tHorn rises, jjiow again. Not a stir amid all the pardonad iniquities of a lifetime. Blow again. Not one o" them moves jn the deep grave trenches. But to this powerless resurrection trumpet a voice responds, half human, half divine, and it must be part man and part God. saying, "Theirsim and their iniquities wili I remember no more.*' ( Thank God for this blessed oblivion! So you see I <Wd not invite yo'u down into a cellar, but upon a throne ; not into the graveyard to which all materialism is destined, but into a garden all abloom with everlasting remembrance. The frown of my first text has become the kiss of the second text. Annihilation has become coronation. The wringing hands of a great agony have become the clapping hands of a great joy. The requiem with which we began has become the grind march with which we close. The tear of sadness that rolled down our cheek has struck th?i lip on which sits the laughter of WVOlUltt lliuviipu. ? ^ Mclllla a Convict Settlement. s Melilla, besieged by the Moorish tribes- t men of the is a penal settlement foi Spanish convicts, and its general aspect is in accord with neither of the two meanings given" to its name. Melilla is a doleful place, rather picturesque when looked at from the I sea, but utterly lacking in attractiveness a when one is inside. It is built upon a prom- I ontory, at the foot of whioh is a gloomy t harbor, where the waters of the Mediterran- v pan look green. A Phoenician, Roman or li Greek temple, which waft standing on that o cliff, has been replaced by a Spanish fortress, I painted white, in which lives the military s governor, near the barracks and the class- h mates. At every angle of that fortress a Li sentinel sharply interrogates one, for every- fi linrlv in n "AiisniW in AfplIMn I: | The great majority of the inhabitants an1 I ( convicts, who are mainly omployed in the n construction of fortification works. It ie t> they who have built that fort of Guarich, I which has been the cause of the present con- e flict. They wear gray coats and gray hon- n nets with yellow numbers affixed. These a prisoners may often ho aean going si along in single'flle through the narrow and II steep streets of Melilln, eaoh carrying on his tl shoulder a basket filled with earth for the h construction of the forts. Thy porto! Melilla o is the most flourishing along the coast, a ospecially because it was declared a free port by the law of May 18, 1863. The Spanish Government intended to attract thither ? largo portion of the commerce pa.ssini; 11 through Gibraltar; and it has succeeded, Sl Melilla being now patronized by the mer- & chants of the reeion extending from Nemours to Tangier and Larachc. The real chief of the Riff mountaineers, who are constantly warring against the 11 Soiniards at Melilla, is the famous Muimon ci Mohalar or Mojatar. Ho has all the traits of *' tho Berber race, being as cruel in victory hs Li he is cowardly iii defeat. He is tho ina;?iror of all that is thought, said and done against Spain in the Riff region. Haughty and defiant when he succeeded in his expeditions, ho was also seen often making humble sub- , mission and kneeling in the dust at the feet or the uoveruors ot Melilla, who loonsniy ~ granted him a pardon after he had failed in ^ some of his many raids upon Spanish-African ?' territory. ? Returning Relics. Vl Arrangements are being made at the State Department for the return of the Vatican relics nnd other valuable exhibits loaned by various foreign Governments to the United States for exhibition at the World's Fair. They were brought to thiscountry in a Gov- el ernment warship, and will be returned in the 3 same manner as soon as an available vessel J" ! can be obtained. There is no special occa* | U( 1 #ion for haste in the- matter. : i RELIGIOUS HEADING. THE HEAVENLY OCE8T. Ia many German homes it is the custom for the youngest child at table to ask the blessing on the food. And the words which the little child is taught to say are such as the youngest child can understand, and yet such is the most experienced Christian may gladly nake his own: "Come, Lord .Tesus, and be Dur guest, and bless the food thou hast provided for us." If this is a beautiful prayer of blessing for svery day, it is especially appropriate for rhanksgiviuK Day. It is by no means a low (dew of the Festival of Thanks that makes the \ iinner-table its central feature and crowning > interest. The bountifully spread table is a , :ype of God's bountiful provision for all his creatures; the gathering of all members of ihe family, from near and far, around the ward is a beautiful prophecy of the reunion 3f loved ones in the heavenly mansions; the 'atlier of the family at the head of the table iispensing the food to his children is a reminder that all wo have of pleasure and comfort comes from the Heavenly Father's hands; md the stranger at the board?surely it is for ;his that lonely ones are permitted to be imong us, that every household festival may enlarge the circle of love to embrace one such ?is a representative of Him who identified Himself with strangers; Him who had no lome of His own on earth; Him whom we ivould gladly welcome as our Oue3t were He in the iieph on earth to-day. Altai xs uiusscu IUUCLU it which the presence of the Heavenly Guest is earnestly desired and realized. It causes no diminution of innocent mirth to realize ;he benign presence of Him who blessed little children, -md hallowed a marriage feast by a iielpfulness of his own, and found congenial rest in the home of two sisters and their brother. The thought of Him as close at band knits closer the bond that binds longjeparated sisters and brothers to one another ind to the home and parents from whom they bave gone out only to return at times like this. Family fellowship becomes the more dear and close as it is realized that all are ane in him. And if the presence of the Lord Jesus as Guest., no less realized though unseen, is a blessing in happy united households at Ihanksgiving, tide, what is it to those for whom no such gathering is ever to bo until the final gathering in the Father's house? What is it for bereaved parents, and lonely women, and missionaries far away on the frontier, and those whom poverty or the demands of duty have cut off from family ties! ih, they who in their loneliness can say, 'Come, Lord Jesus, and be our guest." have 1 solace in tho midst of tears, a blessed companionship in most rigid isolation, a joy that jo uereavement can take away from tnem. There are times when in the midst of friends, with the signs of joy and gladness ill about one, the heart is unutterably lonely; ;here ate sad memories that will intrude, ;here are longings for those who are gone, ;here are heartaches for those not gone but wayward and estranged. Ah, for such there a no Thanksgiving joy except as the Savior ;omes into the empty room and sheds his aeace upon the aching heart. Then his areciousness becomes a hundred-fold more real, the joy of his presence atones for the jitter sadness felt even in the midst of joy. 80 let nil, the hnppy, the light-hearted, the ;hankful, the anxious, the mourning, the listressed. make this their Thanksgiving grayer, "Come Lord Jesus and be our juest!"?American Message. . 1 ' li7? puayens. Aftor a prayer meeting, at which a female lad been among those who spoke aloud in srayo'r. a person slightingly observed, '-As for ;hat woman, she could pray all night" Yes," replied n devout friend, "and I do not loubc that she has often done so." This was 1 flret-rate reply. Of how few could it have jeen spoken! Yet those who are much in arayer alone are these who pray to purpose .n the assembly. You can tell the other sort, 30W0Y?r ready their utternnce. It is pan-oty; ibo glib to be oarncst. too professional to 30 deep. This kind of praying |s a y.Ist which docs not wet you, a fl:o wnicn does lot warm you. You coiLld sleep from "Our Father" to "Amen" under such a perfornance. Yet it is very good and proper. There js nothing the matter with it, except that it is lead ?dead as the woman's child, which neither of the two mothers cared to own, in 3oloman's court. Oh, for more living children!?we mean true, crying, struggling :?rayers. The?e can only come from those who in private wrestle and weep and prevail. An occasional break down is very refreshins:. To observe a heart too full to ex Dress ;tt*eif with the tongue is moat arousing to the soul. Oh, that some of our brethren would sr could break down! They are too far gone in routine to be ablo to rise into the natural, nuch less into the spiritual. While such machines press like a nightmare on our prayer neetings. things cannot much improve. Ohi for deliverance!? Rev. C. H. Spurgeon. T\SES OF MONEY. IT a man had eyes, hands and feet, that he jould give to those who wanted them : if ho ibould either lock them up in a chest, or ilease himself with some needless and ridiculous use of them, instead of giving ;hem to his brethren who were blind and aina, should we not justly recognize him as in inhuman wretch? If he should rather ;hoose to amuse himself with furnishing his ./N..r>n trnfli thAJA t-Win.x- 1.1 1 iUUJ'J VTAUl klilUI IU <J Li Li U tj U1LU ;o an eternal reward by giving them to those bat wanted eyes and hands, might we lot justly reckon him madV Now money las very much the nature of eyes and eet; if wo lock it up in chests or t s-aste it in needless expense upon ourselves 1 vhllo the distressed want it for their noces- i iary uses; if we consume it in the ridiculous >rnaments of apparel, wbilo others are starv- 1 ng in nakedness, we are not far from the < ruelty of him that chooses rather to adorn 1 lis house with hands and eyes than to give t hem to those that want them. If we choose 1 o indulge ourselves in such enjoyments as * lave no real use in them, and satisfy no real < rant, rather than to obtain an eternal re- < vard by disposing of our money well, we are 1 ruilty of his madness that chooses to lock \ tp eyes and hands rather than to m.nk? him- ^ elf forever blessed by giving thorn Zu ir/iosc hat want thorn.?[Latv's Call to Christians- j 1 AS A LITTLE CHILD. 1 Cod knows mo better than I know myself. ? le knows my weaknesses?what I can do, i inci cunnot ao. bo j. desire to ue lea: to tot- ' ow Him, and I am quite sure that Ho will t hu9 enable me to do a groat deal more in s rays which seem to mo almost a waste in t ife, atlvnucing His cause, than I could in any * ther way. I atn sure of that. Intellectually, ( am week: in scholarship, nothing; in athoii- * and things a baby. He knows this.and so He ? las led me, and greatly blessed me, who am no- I ody, to be of some use to my Church and sllow-meo. How kind, how good, ,ow compassionate art Thou, 0 *oJ! 0 my Father, keep me humble! Help fi le to have respect towards my fellow-men, p d recognize these several giffs as from Thee. A >oliver me from tho diabolical sins of malicc, c nvy, or jealousy, and give me hearty joy in ly brother's good, in his work, in his gifts C nd talents, and may I bo truly glad in his t! uporiority to myself, if God be glorilled. c toot out weak vanity, all devilish pride, all b aat is abhorrent to the mind of Christ. God h ear my prayer. Grant me (he wondrous joy si f humiliation, which is seeing Thee as ail in H 1L?[Norman Mcleod's Diary. w I) st Harlan Page once went through his Saoath-Kcbool to get the spiritual census of the tt >bool. Coming to one of tho teachers he tl tid. "Shall I put you dowu as having hope tl 1 Christ?" The teacher replied, ''No." it Then," said he very tenderly, "I will put j| cm dowu as having no hope." He closed H is little book and left him. That was tl nough. God gave that youug man'3 soul no |? st till lie found hope through tho Cross.? Poster's Cyclopaedia. m. J L rti Revival of Gold Mining. xne revival ot gold mining in many afoanonod claims bids fair to increase greatly tho utput of gold next year. Quartz mines P hich have been shut down because of the I icpense ot pumping out the lowel levels 0 ave started up recently, showing that it id P isler than formerly to secure loans to de- h slop such properties. ** v An Old Man's IU Luck. A cashier seventy-four years old, was andomnod last year in Dresden on the tl tmrgo that his books showed a shortage of ii 1000. A recent second revision of tho tt aoks has proved that the poor old man has o ;on falsely imprisoned a whole year. si ???*? - A' .. ' ' SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR DECEMBER 3. Lesson Text: "Grateful Obedience," James I., 16-27?Golden Text: I John iv., 19?Commentary. 16. ''Do not err. my be'.oved brethren." This epistle has been designated as lilove manifested in obedience, or the perfect man continuing in the srospel law of liberty." There is nothing in the whole letter which conflicts with the doctrine that we are saved by Christ alone without" any works of ours ("Rom. iv..5: Eoh. ii.. 8). but the comDle mentary truth is made clear that being justified by faith we must by our works make our faith manifest. Compare Eph. ii., 10 ; Titua iii., 8. Part of these works which pive evidence of the reality of our faith consist of patient endurapce of trial, which patience will bring to the person enduring the reward of the crown of life (verse 12). But while God tries us for His glory and our good we must never think that He tempts us to do wrong. On this point wo must not err. 17. "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and cometh down from tha Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." All gifts of God must be good and perfect, and He who gave His own Son will with Him give us all thinsrs (Rom. viii., 32). Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift which includes all other gifts (II Cor. ix.. 15). God is light (I John i., 5) and therefore the source of all light, temporal and spiritual. Dwelling in God we dwell in light and must of necessity show it. As to His unvariabl^ness He says, "I am the Lord; I change not" (Mai. iii.. 6). 18. "01 His own will begat He us with the the word of truth that we should be a kind ol first fruits of His creatures." God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness bath shined in our hearts, and as it is the entrance of His word that giveth light it is thus the light comes. When we receive His word, we receive Himself, for He is the Word oi God, and thus we are born again, or lrom above (see II Cor. iv.,6; Ps. cxix.. 130 ; John L. 1,12,13). Peter also testifies that we are born again by the Word of God (I Pet. i., 2, 3). and this agrees with born of water and the Spirit (John Iii., 5 ; vi., 63; Eph. v.. 26). 19. "Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, 1 rtnr 4 n nrmrt fVi '' "Dn/in una nil r?Art/1 4c aiuw n L aiu, JJCWIUOC au ^uvu 10 IXULU God and all evil from us, therefore eagerly devour all He says, bat be careful of what proceeds from our lips. We are to take heed what we hear, and how we hear (Mark iv., 24; Luke viii., 18), and we are to let th? word of Christ dwell in us richly, so that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth may speak (Col. iii., 16 ; Math. xiL, 34). And by this very word of God abiding in us we shall be kept from sin (Ps. cxix., 11). 20. ''For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God." Angry argument and disputing never accomplished the glory of God. and yet some preachers cannot talk on holy things and keep their tempers. Paul's advice to Timothy is good, "The Bervant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teaob, patient" (II Tim. 11., 24). 21. '-Wherefore lay apart all fllthiness and superfluity of naughtiness and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls." Here is* testimony as clear as Paul ever gave that It is the word that saves. By the word 6omes the new birth as we have seen, and by the word comes the assurance of salvation (X John v., 11-13). Our part is to meekly raeaive the wor:l. To this end we must simply have done with all iniquity, cleanse ourselves from all fllthiness of the flesh and spirit and find perfect holiness in the fear of the Lord (II Cor. vli., 1 ;Heb. xii., 1, 2). 22. "But be yn doers ol the word a?d not hearers only, deceiving your own selves." Jesus Himself said. '"Not every one that salth unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter Into the kingdom of heaven, but he that dueth the will of Mv Father which is in heaven*' (Hath, vii., 21). "My mother and my brethren are these which bear the word of God and do it" (Luke vlii.,21). Thewhole ofthe second chapter of this epistle from verse 14 to the end is a comtaentary upon the verse. 23. "For if any be a beafe ofthe word and not a doer he is like undo a man beholding his natural face in aglasfc." The word of God is a mirror in which each one can see himself and his failures, and in which he can also bee what he ought to be, for there are many illustrations of men and women in whom God dwell! and wrought for the good of others- -people who were not hearers only, but doers, lor God wrought in them both to will and to do. See II Cbron. xxxi., 21, and miv.. 1, 2 : also I Cor. xv., 10 ; Vhil, ii., 20-22. 24. ''for he fceholdeth himself and goetli his way and straightway forgeteth what manner of man he was.-' It i3 a good thing for a man to see himself if he will only profit by it and become a better tV? knowledge of one's failures aniye^ continuing in the same old way is a terribly hardening process. '"How shall we escape if wa \a.nfoAt f uct)lctl 5V SUi YtlLlUU. *iwn l.v/iwiuct this ye that forget God teat I tear you in pieces and there be nous to deliver1* (Hob. ii.f 3 Pi?. I.. 22). 25. "But who so looketh into the perfect law of liberty and continueth therein, he beins; not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of tiis work, this man shall be blessed in his deed." The laver in the tabernacle at whicii the priests washed thair hands and feet is suggestive of the word of God by which we ard daily cleansed (Epa. v., 2(1; Ps cx;x., 9), and it was made out of tne looking glasses of no women (is.v. xxxvnu. instead or ooking at ourselves, we are to look at Him vho is revealed to us in the word of God. 26. "If any man among you seom to be re* igious and bridleth not nis tongue, but de eiveth his own heart, this man's religion is ,-ain." The third chapter is a discourse upon his little unruly member which ofttimes vorks so much mischief. The tongue is larder to manage than horses or wild beasts >r serpents, but although no man can tame it iod can, lor tne mings which are iiapuaaiuio vith men are possible with God. and there is lothing too hard tor Him (Matb. xiv., 26;. Ter. xxxii., 17;. 27. "Pure religrion and undeflled before 5od and the Father is this, to visit the fatheress and widows in their affliction and to keep limself unspotted from the world." The relgion that is manifest in talk, however good, ind is not accompanied by a consistent life s vain. The church member whose tongue s given to slander and back-biting Is worse han vain and is heaping up torment for himelf. But that Christian who, constrained >y the love of Christ, goes about doing good, linking the widow's heart to sing lor joy Job xxix., 13). is glorifying God and helpul to men whether they say much or little, lee Math, v., 16; I Cor. xv.. 58 ; Titus iif., 8; torn, xii., 1, 2.?Lesson Helper. . Chasing the Whale by Steam. Private dispatches received ir. New Bed3rd, Mass., confirming the reports of the ud-. recedented catch of tho whaling fleet in the irctic nre cheering to the local wnallngmerhants. who had best >n to fear that the seaon would prove a failure. The report up to >ctob?r 9 was to che effect that out of fortytiree vessels in the Arcttc, eighteen were lean. Despite the fact that the season has eon a phenomenal one, the soiling vessels ave done nothing at all comparatively, the reamers having bad all the lack. When the ttle steamer Mary D. Hume took thirty 'hales two years auo, the news eoald scarcer be believed. Now the report that the :eamer Narwhal has taken sixty-two whales i simply wonderful. Add to this the fact lat the Bunlena has taken llfty-two whales. ih Grampus, forty-seven; the Newport, lirty-seven ; the Orca, tw?*nty-flve theKartck, eighteen ; the Belvidere, seventeen : thii [ary D. Hume, fourteen, and the Navareh, even, and the year proves to oe the best in le history of whaling. The steamers Baennr Cir.imp'is, Kirhick, Mary I). Hum^aal nrwha! are still shut in in the Arctic ice, ) these vessels will winter there this year, ocal merchants think the price of bona Will inge at about a pound. An Extraordinary Suicide. An extraordinary case of suicide was reorted from a Somerset village near Bristol, ingland. A young man named James Robrts lived unhappily with his wife, and in her resencs he placed a dynamite cartridge in is mouth, calmly lighted a thirty-second ise, and walked into the bajk-yard. A. terible explosion followed, and the man's head as blown to piece*. The Mayor ot Oshk03h, Wis., ha? ordered iut nil pasteboard milk tickets uiwinuso l that city bo destroys:!, on the gr.>an 1 that ley aro a-Jtive vahleles for tin propagation f di9easi. An effort will bo made to su'jlitut-: metal chocks. ^ . . v ." y~; r. * ' -W AGRICULTURAL. TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. SOWING RYE. As soon as the other crops have been harvested the ground should be plowed up and rye sown as a winter covering. Sow broadcast ?.nd harrow in. This * will give green food for the chickens and serve as a winter covering for the soil.?New York World. WINTERING VEGETABLES IN PIT3. If you raiee many vegetables, do not put all of them in the cellar in fall, but provide a pit for part of them. In a cool but frost-proof pit?which can be built cheaply and with but little L V 1 _ 1 -- irouuie?one can noop vc^muioB ia the freshest possible condition till late in the spring, and crisp, fresh, vegetables will be highly appreciated at that season. Cabbages will come out i as brittle as when gathered in fall, and parsnips, beets and onions will have | the taste and flavor of those fresh from the garden.?American Agriculturist. IT PATS TO HAVE A TOOL SHED. Every farmer ought to have a shed in which to store machinery over winter, but not every farmer has one, and often we see the plow and harrow, the wagon and the mower, exposed to the weather all through the winter. If | farmers could only be made to under. stand that the neglect of machinery is 1 more destructive so it than all the use ; they give it, it really seems as if they | would build a shelter for it as soon as . possible. A cheap shed can be built ' in a 4ay, and any farmer who knows how to use a saw and hammer can build one. The knowledge that tools can be found when wanted to use, is LI. *_ - XT 11.. worm more ill a year uihu tuo cua? ul the shed, leaving out all other considerations. A good share of the profits of the ordinary farm is wasted in making good the loss which comes to machinery from gross neglect in taking care of it, and this can be cat down in a surprising degree with little expense and labor. If you have no storehouse, provide a shed for your farm machinery before winter sets in, and when you have built the shed, see that all the machines are put under it at once, and make an inventory of all the tools in it.?American Agricultu rist. BREEDING YOUNG 8dW3. It is undoubtedly true that fullygrown sows are the best breeders. These will produce large litters of thrifty, long-bodied and growing pigs. Young sows have fewer pigs in a litter and cannot give them so good a frame to put fat and growth upon. Yet unless sows are brod young the tendency to make fat rather than milk will become so established that it cannot be reversed. The difficulty may be got over by breeding sows young, taking their pigs from them when six weeks old, and fattening the first litter early without breeding from them. If a diet of milk and wheat middlings is fed to young breeding sows they will grow I very rapidly and will not fatten. This diet also is excellent for produoing , thrifty pigs, no matter what may be the age of the dam. While bearing | their young, sows become very voracious eaters, and their digestive organs are strengthened by unusual demands upon them. It is this that makes sows i-u M? 1M .J.I. IHUeil HU vuauj JU iiujj, luuuo af^ given them. When not bearing young, milk and wheat middlings are too nutritions food. A diet of clover in summer and of beetroots, with very little milk and wheat middlings, fs much better.?Boston Cultivator. CARBOKAJKD AISALiBS. Among the important purposes which the fixed alkalies (soda and potash) serve in reference to vegetation, they dissolve vegetable matter and carry it into the roots?that it may form solublo silicates, and thus supply the necessary siliceous matter to the stems ) of the grasses and other plants?and ' that rising, as it naturally does, to the surface of the soil, it there, in the presence of vegetable matter, provokes the formation of nitrates, so wholesome to vegetable life. Soda and potasb, in the form ol carbonates, act beneficially upon vegetation by preparing the organio matter of the soil for entering into the roots of plants, and thus administering to their growth. This preparation may be effected either by their combination directly J with the organic matter, as they are I known to do with the humic and other ] acids which exist in the soil, or by their disposal of this organic matter, i at the expense of air and moisture, to 1 form new chemical compounds, which i shall be oapable of entering into the IO(JC??VlC Thi< disposing influence of the alkalies, and even of lime, is familiar to chemises under- many other circumstances. This mode of action of the carbonates of soda and polish can be exercised in its fullest extent only when vegetable matter abounds in the soil. ?New York Tribune. THE VALUE OF LEAVES. Leaves are of value as a mulching material, as stock bedding and as a stable absorbent ? As a mulch leaves possess the highest value. In the garden a light cov- ] ering of leaves over the pansy or straw- g berry bed will do much to bring the a r?lan*.? thronorh in an improved condi-; g tion. Ia fact, all forms of vegetation j p corae out in the spring greatly bene-! a fited if a light mulching material is ! j spread about them in the fall. Leaves I ip placed about plants in the fall shield j j; th*m from the sun's burning rays dur- j e ing winter. I c In the e^rly spring, as the days be- \ corae warmer, tho constant freozing | u and thawing is prevented by the shade j v afforded. While serving the purpose | ? of shade to th? plants they become j g more <>r less packod about them be- j cause of rains and wind. In this con- I 1 . I 1 I (illto 11 IWCHV SV\? 1U, UUU \H11U nuiu spring arrives a ^cud top dressing is .jn xbo soils surface. If allowed to re- (J malu among strawberry plants the ? loaves aid greatly in keeping the fruit k ciean and of bright appearance. In t! tfc?t summer season, especially Buch a t: H#R<-on as has been the past, the mulch ti prevents uu excessive evaporation f< fivm the foiL b As bedding material the value of t< leaves is well known, and as a stable absorbent their worth should not b# overlooked* Placed in the stable*^ they will readily absorb three time# their own weight, which fertilizing material they will hold tenaoionslyu Thrown in the dung or compost heap they do not add a serious obstacle to rapid removal of the pile izrthe spring,t but tend to form a heap easily worked and at the same time adding &eir owtt decay to the compost pile. While the extensive gathering of leaves for the stable can Hardly De recommended, yet as a mulch to the fruit. vegetable and flower garden their value should not be underestimated.?New England Homestead. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. jf The best food for pallets iameatancl bone. A slow milker will soon ruin the best dairy cow. >. A queen bee is rarely profitable after three years. Make your fowls scratch for a pert of their living. \ Sell all qnarrelsome, over-fat and non-laying birds. Good scratching is usually synonymous with good laying. ! All butter-makers should not only, have but use a dairy thermometer. ( Hens will not lay during the winter! unless they are comfortably housed. , - ^ The English and French regard the Houdan as one of the best tabid iayrlaJ: Dry road dust is invaluable for fowls to scratch and dust themselves in. . - | .. ,ri:"i Be careful not to feed the Brahmas too well or they will take on too much) > fat. ' ' ' 1 ' **''3 The proper kind of salt improvesth* flavor of the butter and adds to its < value. Nezt to cold injudicious feeding is ' responsible for most of the ailments of >7 poultry. The egg is one of the most nutri- . j tious iorms of food because it is easily ! digested. Bone meal is valuable for poultry because of the phosphate of lime ift contains. It is said that to make hens lay thercf . t:A is nothing like an exclusive use of meat ana uone. . - jwj-t The Golden polish is one of ihs (v;(> most beautiful fowls known to tha j :.y-. poultry yard. ' f Beets are said to be an. excellent food for poultry in either a raw or / ^ cooked state. , White Indian game fowls are that ). latest breed in England to take-the} popular fancy. . Growing chioks suffer more dunngj very wet weather than they do duringL a very hot spelL . ^ It is said that gapes in young chickens. can be cured by administering a pinch of Persian powder. . '. ' Sweet potatoes which are to be kept! ( Q through the winter must be handled - '''j with the greatest care, Bats and poultry will never thrive . <h|| together. It is the earthen and thai iron pot all over again. A colony with a young queen is lea* } inclined to swarm, and, therefore^ makes a better honey record. : . If you would avoid disease among! your poultry see to it that they have* - clean, well-ventilated quarters. > The vulnerable point of a bee is be-' tween the rings of the body, and it -;fj stung there it will generally die. t Good water, good shade and a sufficient amount of salt are the chief re^ . |j qillSlTCB lur IUB HUCCjJ Hi RU1U1U7I. Jk**' *-, > Chickens confined on otie mu all thai time soon show signs of the many ail-v- > mente to which they are subject ^ , V * A young h*en of an egg-laying breed if fed so as to produce the greatest! ' bodily vigor-can't help laying eggs. \ With a good dust bath and a clean | house and perches your fowls should! v not be bothered with lice this winter, i Plough your stubble land for fall - ^ wL eat as early as possible. The ground' , should then be rolled to prevent drying out. ? i ? _i ? A piOJV OX puur HUlipc, VI ojuumuo infixing the line of draught, makespoor work and hard work for both man. ; and team. ? '.>3 There are some lands upon which fall plowing means a decided earing oi time and labor in the spring. Have you that kind? , Market your stock as soon as it is ready. Do not wait until later, wheal the market will be glutted and low^ prices will rule. . jj Keep a supply of buckles, rfvets, 'Mxjk ?tc,, on hand to repair harness. By making repairs in time much time and money may be saved. v At the present prices for good farm- V; ing land one can hardly afford to pay rent. Better invest the money in little place of your own. From the reports of the experiments in detasselling corn, it looks as though ihe farmer might employ his time ia. jther ways to better advantage. ' - - ? ? ? To clean an old comD, scrape tne Tame, brush the dead bees from the . ;omb, and then place it in or on ft- J iwarm, Tho bees will do the rest. r \ ?? . m Pitting Bug Against Bug. Some time since the State Board of' lorticulture, of California, imported^ tome Australian lady bugs with the deign of pitting them agaiust the-black! cale bug, which has been creating! \, s -1 freat havoc in the orchards in the) outhern part of the State for some* ears. The board announced hwfc* ireelc that the lady bug has proved a lerfcct success in its work of exter-uinating the black scale bug, and! olonies will be sent out to orchardists, rho will turn them loose on the comnon enemy. The board is.also cultivating a colony of the red scalo parar?ii ? - ? J lte uti buc ojkiuxs purpuric, nun - - ood results.?Chicago Herald. A Pretty Big- Eagle. John Hazelton and Edward McQueen, two fourteen-year-old boys, hile out hunting near Oakland, 111., J illed and took into town an eaglo bat measured seven feet from tip to ip of its wings. The eagle had aticked their doa: and when they inter ?red attacked them, aud one of the oys' shoes was torn off in the encoun,jr. ? 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