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j? HE-ASSEMBLES SCENES AT THE CONVENED ! OF THE FEFTY-THEED TEBIl. I Crowds of Spectators in the Galleries of Both Houses?The Day's Sessions Devoted to the Reading of j the President's Message?No Busi i ness Transacted. f The Fifty-third Congress met in regular session at noon on its Constitutional day of assemblage, and in a brief time had resumed business in both Houses. The extraordinary session, called by President Cleveland for the purpose of repeal* ing the purchasing clause of the Sherman Silver law, adjourned on November 3d. one day more than a month before, and so the ^ meeting was more in the nature of a re ? - ?? ?? A#- fhA Ancnut assemoiuiK ?uci <* - t meeting both Houses had been organized. committeos appointed, and patronage distributed. so that the f session was robbed of the interesting excitement that generally accompanies theuneetlng of a new Congress. There was no election ot Speaker to create enthusiasm or arouse political animosities, no new Senators to be strorn In, no new Members to besiege the Speaker }for committee assignments, and altogether the meeting was quite a featureless one. Yet * (the interest in this session, as indicated by the gallery attendance, was great, for the first scenes in both branches were witmessed by throngs as large as the seating capacity of the gallery would permit. (Two hundred and sixty-two Representatives Answered the first roll call in the House, and there was more than'a quorum present in /the Senate Chamber. - - - * ? TT!?? D.aaMnnP f la tbe senate, mo tap ui ? 4VO?* ioaivivMi * jStevenson's gavel was heard precisely as the I hands of the gilt-rimmed dock over the main I entrance pointed to the hour of 12. Then I the blind chaplain, Mr. Milburn. of Illinois, offered tbe opening prayer. It was brief, earnest ' and eloquent, but not in any way sensational or dramatic, as was frequently the case when Mr. Milburn was chaplain of the House of Representatives. At the outset of the proceedings the new leaders of the Senate in the changed relation of parties came immediately to the front The echo of the chaplain's amen had scarcely died away before Mr. Cockrell, Democrat. Chairman of the Committee o! Appropriations.. (Was on his foet to move the customary (resolution to notify the House. Mr. Sherjman. Republican, took the lead on the other x jside of the chamber by suggesting that a call of the rull was the first thing in order. This jpoint being admitted to be well taken, the iclerk called the roll and fifty-six answered 'to their names. Three other senators saw- i sequent] y entered the chamber, making flftynine present out of a present total of eighty-five (threo vacancies). Mr. iMcPhereon moved the appointment of a committee to wait upon the , President in conjunction with a similar com.mittee to be apointed by the House of Representatives, to inform him that Congress was organized and ready for business. Mr. McPhersen and Mr. Sherman were named by the Vice-President as such committee, '.Then Mr. Harris, at 12.10 o'clock, moved that the Senate take a recess for one hour, and this motion being oarried the interest In the proceedings lapsed for that period. (When the Senate again resumed its session. Mr. McPherson and his associate on the Senate Committee. Mr. Sherman took their stand in the doorway and Mr. McPhersen announced the intention of the President te ~ ? ? liftnona Immediately communicate iu uutu uviuu of Comrrees a message in writing. Assistant Private Secretary Pruden immeIdiately emerged from the cloakroom, and Doorkeeper Bassett announced ua message Ifrom the President of the United States." Secretary Cos immediately entered upon its reading in a distinct voice, and at the conclusion tho deaths of Representatives O'Neill and Lilly, of Pennsylvania, were announced, and after tho adoption of the usual resolutions of respect the Senate adjournert. i In the House at 12.01 o'clock the Speakct called for order and prayer was offered by the chaplain, who touchingly referred to the death, and.long public sen-ice of the late Representative O'Neill, o* Pennsylvania. The iroll was then called to ascertain the presence of a quorum. The roll call disclosed the presence of 242 members, and the (Speaker declared the House ready tor the {transaction of business. The following committee was appomieu ny iue opcu^c* iu wait upon the President and inform him that the House was ready to receive any communication he might wish tc make. Messrs. Wilson. Democrat, Oathwaite. Democrat, and Burrows, Republican. Mr. Haines offered a resolution providing that a committe be appointed to investigate the strike on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, ita causes and effect, and, if possible suggest u remedy. The House thon, at 12.55 o'clock, took * recess for fifteen minutes. At 1.35 o'clock Executive Clerk Pruden appeared in the House and delivered the President's mes* rage, which the Cierk was directed by the Speaker to read. When he Lad con i eluded the deaths of Representatives O'Neill [and Lilly of Pennsylvania wore announced /and after tho adoption of the usual resolu'tions of respect the House adjourned. collision"in a fog. Blany Persons Killed and Injured by a Railway Wreck in Italy. An express train bound from Milan, Ita'.y, , ;'to Venico collided with a freight train at 'midnight at Limitro station in a fog. Two passenger coaches were completely shattered. The wreck took Are from the overturned engines. Thirteen persons were killed and twentytwo were seriously injured. The wounded were taken to Milan and placed in hospitals. All the employes of Limitro station and ^numerous citizens hastened to the scene of the disaster to lend assistance in rescuing the injured. Teleirrama were sent to Milan and other places asking for assistance, and a train arrived in a short time from Milan with doctors to care for the injured and a company of soldiers to aid in rescuing. In tho meantime the rescuing party had cut away the burning woodwork with axes, and streams of water were poured upon the wreckage, under which a number of passengers were inextricably jammed. Some of the victims met with horrible death*, being cremated before the eyes of , the spectators, who were powerless to help them'owing to the impossibility of removing the heavy masses of woodwork with which they were surrounded. Other unfortunates were only extricated to die in. the arms of their rescuers. All the injurod men were suffering from burns, mid most had broken limbs. In some cases immediate amputation was necessary. ! R A IT/ROAD STATISTICS. Some interesting Information Con-. { corning Our Common Carriers. I la its normal report, just made public, tho Interstate Commerce Commission says that, although the expectations have not been fully realized, the operation and administration of the statutes havo brought about reforms in transportation vrhich, compared with the evils that existed prior to the law, amount to commercial emancipation. The commission gives the total railway mlleago on Juna 30 as 171,563.52. an increase VI ijioi/. (O : luc luiiti uuuuci ui laiaiuj wiporations was 1832, an increase of thirtyseven during tbe year. Eight hundred and ninety-nine maintained independent operating accounts and 712 were independent companies. The total capitalisation reported was $10.226,748,134. There were CC0.03S.211 passengers and 709,555,471 tons or freight carried during the year. Tho gross earnings were $1,171,407,343 and the net earnings $300,400,847. There were 821,415 persons oniployod in railway service during the year, of whom 2554 were killed in accidents and 23,267 were injured, while 375 passengers were killed and 3237 ware Injured. The dead body of a colored tramp was Of T.ftnio \Tr% />mahAri hatvAAn th? lvuuu ai uu mvui^ v* ?. top of a pile of lumber and the roof of the car loaded with it. The man had crawled on top of the lumber and gone to sleep, and the lumber, which waa damp, swelled and crushed him. 1 LATEB NEWS. >. Mrs. C. kerleb, and her daughter, Mrs. Flora Martin, were murdered at their home near St. Joe, Penn. Harper Whitmire is suspected of the deed. The New York Locomotiva Works In Rome, N. Y., one of the largest establishments of the kind in the country, was nearly entirely destroyed by Are. The establishment was worth between 8400,000 and $500, 000. The lossis about $350,000. Discovert of dishonesty on the part of J. H. Louis, managing clerk, who afterward attempted suicide, is said to have caused the failure of the big New York clothing firm of N. J. Schloss A Co. j The managers of the Ferris Wheel at the World's Fair grounds decided to remove it to New York as soon as a permanent site has been secured. It is reported from Hawaii, by way of San Francisco, CaL, that Minister Win is n&f made a statement that he is awaiting instructions and that he will maintain the peace in Honolulu. The revenue cuttet Corwln sailed from San Francisco with, it is believed, instructions for Minister Willis at Honolulu. A Stat* Banking law has been passed by the Georgia Legislature. Thk President sentto the Senate the following nominations: (Failed of confirmation at last session.)?William B. Hornblower of New York, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. John B. Riley of New York, to be Consul-General of the United States at Ottawa, Canada. To be Consuls of the United States: H. Clay Armstrong, Jr., of Alabama, at Grenoble, Franco; Newton B. Ashby, of Iowa, at DubJin, Ireland; Marcellus L. Davis, of Arkansas, at Merida, Spain ; Benjamin Lenthier, of Massachusetts, at Sherbrooke, Canada; Frank W. Roberts, of Maine, at Barcelona, Spain. r ( M. Duptjt was elected President of the French Chamber of Deputies, to succeed M. Casmir-Perier, who has become Prime Minister. M. Dupuy was the French Prime Minister prior to the recent crisis. SiIgnob Zanardelli has at last succeeded 'a forming a Ministry in Italy. Grand Master Sabgettt, of the Brother* hood of Locomotive Firemen, announced that the Lehigh strike had been declared off on a fair compromise, mon to go back as rapidly as places can be found for them. The end was brought about by the Boards of Arbitration. Mast of the World's Fair buildings are going to pieces under the weight of the snow. ~ * * * 1 4via U.nly eiguieeu uoiokqiot uicuum .-? Miners' Convention at Salida, Col., in response to Governor Waite's call. A statue of General James Shields was unveiled in Statuary Hall, at the Capitol. The President sent to the Senate the "following nomination : Joseph B. Doe, of Wisconsin, t? be Assistant Secretary of War. A demand for fractional silver for the Christmas trade was made on the Treasury, and the coinage of $100,000 in new fifty and twenty-five cent pieces was ordered. The loss from the great coal strike in England is estimated at more than $165,000,000, and the number of people made destitute at o caa nnn yvoi tf,vwfvw. Influenza is spreading in Europe; t'aere were seventy-four deaths from the disease in a week in London. Sioxob Zanabdklli resigned the Italian Premiership, being unable to form a harmonious Ministry ; the Independanco Beige prints a rumor that King Humbert Is thinking of abdication. A traitor in the crew of the Brazilian cruiser America, whioh sailed from New York for Rio Janeiro on November 26, so seriously injured the ship's maohinery that she will be unable to proceed on her voyage for several weeks. The vessel is at Bridgetown, Barbados. ONLY ONE SAVED. Wreck of the Steamship Jason at Kastham, Mais. The British shin Jason, which went ashore off Eastham, Mass., in the-storm broke in two amid ships. 'Her main and mizzea masts are gone, and every man of her crew on board, numbering twenty-six. were washed into the sea and lost. Samuel J. Evans, her only survivor, who was washed Kshore, tells this story of the voyage of the Jason: We sailed from. Calcutta last February with a full cargo of juto butts for Boston. Two days after leaving port we were nearly dismasted in a storm and had to put into Mauritius for repairs. During the gale our mate was washed overboard and lost. Wo came in through South Channel and shaped our course for Boston. We had no observation for two days, but Captain McMillan thought we were wide off Cape Cod, and wo kept on our course. At 3.30 in tho afternoon we made breakers under. oar lee, and a few moments later saw the land. We shook out our upper topsails and tried to drive by tho Cape: but we had no sea room, and at 7:15, llnding that we must soon strike, the ship was headed for the beach. The Captain had been below examining his charts. On reaching the dock he cried, ''We are lost!" The ship struck with fearful force, and we all sprang lor the lifeboats. Before we could cut the lashings the spars began to fall, and the vessel to go to piecee. This was too much for the boys, and they all rushed for the lee mizzen rigijing. Only half of them succeeded in-gaining a footing. Some of them were swept overboard and ware seen no more. I clung, desperately to the rigging for a few moment*, when a great wave broke my grip and I went into tho howling sea. I thouirht it was my end. but the water threw me hero an 1 there for a while when suddenly I found myself ou the sand. Soon men came apd took me to the life saving station. I am thankful that I am saved, but my poor shipmates aro all gone. Ail of them had Jlfe preservers on and I don't see why s6me of ihem could not reach the shore as well as I. ME. OLNETS REPORT. A Year's Work in the Attorney-General's Office. The annual report oI Attorney-General 01neyshows that the volume of the business of the Federal courts is rapidly increasing. The number of criminal prosecutions pending in theCircuit and District Courts of tho United States on July l, 1893, was 9385 against 3808 pending in the same courts July 1, 1885, while the expenses of the United States Courts, exclusive of judge's salaries, inourred and paid in the tlscal year 1893 were 84.528.67C. auainst $2,874,703 incurred and paid for the like expenses in the fiscal year 1885. Gratification is expressed at the Supremo Court's progress in overcoming the arrears of business which, until the establishment of the Circuit Courts of Appeal, steadily increased. The Attorney-General recommends that the system of supporting United States prisoners should be*changed. There aro 1181 United States convicts confined in the various penal institutions of the country, from Maine to California, and he believes that immediate steps should be taken for the erection of at least two penitentiaries iind one reformatory, capablo of accommodating all prisoners sentenced to long terms by the United States courts. Data collected during the trial trip of the United 3tates cruiser Columbia show that ahA in the fnateftt stnftmshln In the w?rM I ?_ mTEMAL" AFFAIRS. Report of Secretary Smith, of th Interior Department. Secretary of the Interior Smith la h annual report says that during the year nil additional forest reservations have be< created, making a total of fifteen, and en bracing an estimated area of 18,053,4 acres. Legislation providing for a Wise ar comprehensive forestry system is recor mended. The Secretary says that hardship incurrt by applicants at the opening of the Cherok< Strip was an unavoidable result when i large a crowd, far in excess of the land to t obtained, was preparing to rush madly upc it. No care of the department oould hai lessened the intense heat or prevents the stifling dust. The scarcity of wat was due to drought, which had dried i many of the usual sources of water suppl and when over twenty thousand persons gat nf n. ainHft hftOth was impossible to place all the booths at li cations suited for entry, and also to And sufficient water supply. It is believed tha aside from these hardships, tho plan adopt* was carried out to a successful conclusioi and that it prevented to a large extent tl wrongful occupancy of land by people wt were Dot entitled to settle thereon, whic marked the first opening of Oklahoma. Referring to the Cherokee Indian alio ments the Secretary says that he sought ui successfully to dissuade those represents the Indians from seeking to select ton sites for speculative purposes. In order i defeat the pltths of the Indian speculators 1 approved the allotments made, but ftx< town sites in such a way as to thwart the schemes. The payment of Indian depredation olain ?.ill ~U? ? -U ?? mUliAno r\f ^Allam on Will ttU?UIU uimu.y uiiftivua vt uvtuuo) iw the policy of subjecting tne Treasury to thi strain i9 questioned. The recent troubles in the Choctaw Nati( are referred to at length, and the Secretai urges the prompt passage of the bill no pending before Congress extending tl jurisdiction of the United States Courts I the Indian Territory so as to include tl right of removal of all cases where local pr judico is shown, without regard to citizej ship. The Secretary calls attention to the sto page of payment of illegal pensions in Nc folk, Va.; New Mexico and Iowa, and es mates the amount saved to be nearly equ to the salaries of the entire force of sped examiners, although the work has been progress but six months. The Secretary e plains and defends the policy of suspends certain persons. The Secretary says: "I now feel all con dene a that every effort is being console HmulrmaH* tn hrinc th* nnnSlIS to a clO! and to roader it as useful as possible wh finished." It is estimated that an additioi appropriation of $500,000 will be neoessa to continue the work after February 1st. PE0MINENT_PE0PLE. IbaD. Sajikzt, the evangelist, is flfty-thr< Rosa Boxastrn, the animal painter, w born at Bordeaux, France, and isnowseve ty-one. Cornelius Vasdehbilt Js said to ha given $1,000,000 to religious work in the U two years. Even in premtersbips tho record has gtv way under M. Tricoupis, who has becoi Prime Minister of Greece for the. fifth tin Thomas P. Egax, of Cincinnati, who is goto Antwerp in Mayas a United Stiti commissioner, began his career on a snia of $2 a week.' Oijb ex-Minister to England Edward Phelps takes his recreation when at leisu from his exacting professional and colic duties by driving a favorite span of cheetn horses. Ex-President Harbison's favorite tune "The Soldier's March," from Gounoi " Ua /inn n Af m Inafo a a ft r*n L'auni, uy UOUUVl UH7VliUUUUVWf U0 ? A w between tunes, but iu this case he recogniz the time instantly. The second medalist of the Royal Ge graphical Society ihis year (M. Selous, tl African explorer, being the first) was Woo land Rockhill, an American diplomatist, wl had made himself famous by his explor Hons in western China and northeaste, Thibet. A wohaniy trait of Queen Victoria of En land is her intanse love for-little cbildrenlove which she shares with ever}* other mei ber of her family. She delights in bavir the small creatures about her, and nothii so quickly brings tears to her eyes as pathetic story about a ohild. Mabvin Hdohitt, who controls the ra Chicago and Northwestern Railway systet with its 10,000 miles of tracks, begnn b onpAAp hv wafo? tn a/v structioii hands on an Iowa Una. Ho wi then a boy of fourteen and at sixteen ho wj a station agent with a salary of $35 a mont The new Assistant Secretary of State. M Uhl, is a country'boy. His parents are p!al farmer folks who live near Ypsiianti, Mic Ho saw some very tough times when goii to college at Ana Arbor. Mich. He used I walk from Yp6ilantito Ann Arbor, a distant of ten miles, every Monday morning, retur ing home on foot every Friday night. Tl object of this was to save a board b ill ov Sunday. nni-kt at mrrr w/ydtti UUUl V/X X 11.11 if Viujyi Director Preston's Report on tt Work of Our Mints. B. E. Preston, Director of the Mint, hj submitted to the Secretary of the Treasui a report 'of the operations of the mints at assay offices for the fiscal year ended Jui SO, 1893. It shows that the value of the go deposited, including redepoeita, during tl fiscal year 1893, at the mints and assi woo ?rj? ftso onk nf fhin ??s tfm h was classified as of domestic prod action. TJ amount ot silver deposited aggregated 71 135,706 standard ounpes, ot the coining vali in silTor dollars of'$851106,367, The value of the coinage executed at tl United States Mints during the fiscal yei was; Gold. $30,038,140; silver dollars. ? 343,715; su&sidiiry silver coin, $7,217.22 minor oolc, $1,066,102; total, $43,686,17 The number of pieces coined was 97,280,87 The coinage of the world for the calendi year 1892 is stated to have been ; Gold, $161 917.337; silver, $143,096,239. The stock of metallic money in the Ucit< States, July 1. 1893,is estimated to have bee; Gold, $597,697,686; silver, $615,861,484 ;tot? ft-to CCO 1CQ A# 4n a Ly&lOyUUV) IUJ> AUG aiUVUUl VI JLUUUOJ IU O tive circulation, exclusive of the amount he by the Treasury, is stated as $1,596,701,245. The report contains a table exhibiting tl approximate stock of gold, silver, and u; covered paper money in the principal con tries of the world, aggregating: Gold, ${ 901,900,000 ; silver, $3,931,100,000 ; uncover* paper money, $2,700,000,000. The production of the precious metals the world during th? calendar year 1892, estimated to have been: Gold, $138,861.00 silver. $196,158,800. Soldiers Exempt From Prosccutto A civil court at Bilt Lake City has e?ta Ilshed a pi$eodent by deciding that a soldi tried by court martial for killing a man ai acquitted,' is exempt from prosecution f the same Dffenco by a civil court. The ca was that of Lieutenant B. B. Buck, of tl Slxtaenth Infantry, stationed at Fo Douglas, Utah, who i!i Juno last ordered civilian, who was crossing the reservation 1 halt, and on no attention being paid to tl order, and there beingsuspicion against hir the Lieutenant ordered two unlisted men shoot, and the civilian was fatally wounde Bu-:k was tried by n court martial und General McCcok'a orders and acquiitn when the civil authorities tookthe matter u An Untamed Gas Well. The gas woll drillod on the farm of Charl Gibbs. five miles northeast of GreenQold, Inc got beyond control and tore up everythii in sight, one day recently. The workm< had just packed the well and pot it socure auchored down when, all of a sudden, 61 feet of the casing were sent flying in the ai A. loud report was heard, and the tubin weighing 10,200 pounds, ascended heavoj ward. The derrick was torn almost 1 pieces. The tubing was scattered far ar wide, pieces falling as far as 400 feet from t: well. The flow of gas Is estimated at 30,000,0 oubio feet per day, and the gas rushed o and roareu' like a Uttlo Niagara. i REV. DR. TALMAGE. 'ft ? ?? ? *r*r ?-*.r*rr*TT7iiCl OfT*T_ I'-UHi BltUUivu x ;? ui v im ci s ou jDAY SERMON. is 18 ;n Subject: "The Mission of the Frost." a 10 Text ; "By the breath of God frost is td given." Job xxxvii., 10. Q* Nothing is more embarrassing toanorgan, 1st or pianist than to put his finger on a key >a of the instrument and have it make no re'e sponse. Though all the other keys are in J0 full play, that one silence destroys the music. >0 So in the great cathedral of Nature, if ono m part fails to praise the Lord the harmony is halted and lost. While fire and ball, snow and vapor, respond to the touch of inspiraer tion, if the frost made no utterance the lP orchestral rendering would be hopelessly y* damaged and the harmony forever incomplete. I am more glad than I can tell that lt the white key of the frost sounds forth as I mightily as any of the other keys, and when 14 David touches it in the Psalms it sounds : forth the words, "He scattereth the'hoar ' frost like ashes." and when Job touches it in tt' my text it resounds with the words, "By the 10 breath of God frost is given." '? As no one seems disposed to discuss the mission of frost, depending on divine help I . undertake it. This is the llrst Sabbath o( winter. The leaves are down. The warmth has gone out of the air. The birds have made their winged march southward. .The ' landscape has been scarred by the autumnal ^ equinox. The huskers have rifled the corn ; SHOCKS, xne ui^ui ?ny iiiwi siiuwu mc usuai meteorio restlessness of November. Three seasonsof the year are past, and'the fourth and last has entered. Another element now '? comes in to bless and adorn and instruct the world. It is the frost. , The palaces of this king are far np in the arctic. ' Their walls are glittering congelation. Windsor castles and Tuileries and winter palaces and Kdnilworths and Alhambras of ice, temples with pendant chandeliers ol i? ice, thrones of iceberg on which eternal silence reigns, theaters on whose stage eternal cold dramatizes eternal ^ winter, pillars of ice, arches of ice, crowns of ice, chariots of ice, sepulchers of ice, I 4_j? .1 ^$ i? mountains UL ice, uumiuiuua ui ico?oioiuiu P" frigidity! From those hard, white, burnished !*" portals King Frost descends and waves his , silvery scepter over our temperate zone. ! , You will soon hear his heel on the skating l.a pond. You already feel his breath In the ln night wind. By most considered an enemy x" coming here to benumb and hinder and Blay, I shall show you that the frost is a friend, with benediction divinely proH" nounced, and oharged and surcharged with ,n' lessons potent, beneficent and tremendous. 30 The Bible seven times alludes to the frost, erj and wo must not ignore it. "By the breath lR of God frost is given." First I think of frost as a painter. He begins his work on the leaves and continues it on the window panes. With palette covered with all manner of colors in his left hand nn<4 rtf rt*ro+ol In V?ia V?or>r1 Via ouu i ui v.ij jiut w uio x uauu, uy sits down before the humblest bosh in the latter part of September and begins the sketchingof the leaves. Now he puts upon 'M the foliage a faint pallor, and'then a touch of in" brown, and then ti hue of orange, and last a flame of Are. The beech and ash and oak are ve turned first into sunrises and then into sunist 83ts of vividness and splendor. All the leaves are penciled one by one, but sometimes a f?D whole forest in the course of a few days shows great velocity of work. ie, "WeenLr, the Dutoh painter, could make in a summer day three portraits of life size, but cc the frost in ten days can paint ten moun68 tains in. life size. It makes the last days of fin nntnmnal tr/'iAil thtt (Intra n f It a /ihlafocf glory- Luxembourgs In the Adirondack, J. Louvres In the Sierra Nevadas, Vaticana in u* tne White Mountains. The work of other painters you must see in the right light to nt fully appreciate, but the paintings of tho frost in nil lights are enchanting from the >fa time when the curtain of the morning lifts to l'g the time when the curtain of the night drops, le, Michael Angelo put upon one ceiling his ;ee representation of the last judgment, but the frost represents universal conflagration itr\r\r> milon aF nnf /wnnifmim Q_ upvu uuuu UI Olivivuuu wui ^iauur.ui. k* Leonardo da Vinci put upon a few feet of j canvas our Lord's last supper for all ages to admire, but the frost puts the gleaming chalft_ ices of the imperial glories of the last suprj^ per of the,dying year in the heights and lengths and breadths of the Alleghanies. When Titian first gazed upon a sketch of 8" Correggio, he was wrought up into such ~a ecstacy that he cried out, "If I were not n" Titian, I would be Correggio," and so great " uuu uvcrpvworiu,' uiu IUO uuiuuiuui sueuctt *8 of our American forests that one force of a nature might well exclaim to another, "If I were not the sunlight, I would be the frost." st Bugenda3, the German painter, suffering n, from weakness in his right hand, laboriously is learned to paint with his left hand, but the Q- frosts paints with both hands, and has in is them more skill than all the Bembrandts and as Bubens and Wests and Pousslns and Albert h. Durors and Paul Veronoses and Claudes r. gathered in one long art gallery. But the [q door of that great musetiavgfcfeutumnal colh, oring is now closed for ijfiEresriohrh, and ig another spactacle just oaMRBerTul is now to open. I put you on tho^W& and ask you to 30 put your children on the aTW. n- Tirad of working on the leaves, the frost f)(j win ouuu iuiu iv luo iiauvfrr puuro. iuu et will sooa waken om a cold morning and find that the windows of your home have during the night been adorned with carrea, with coronets, with exquisiteness, with pomp, with almost supernatural spectacle. Then you will appreciate what my text says as it declares, "By the breath of God frost Is ie given." You will see on the window pane, traced there by the frost, whole gardens of beauty?forns, orchids, daffodils, heliotropes, bb china Asters, fountains, statues, hounds on _ the chase, roebucks plunginginto the stream, ' battle scenes with dying and dead, catald falquee of kings, triumphal processions?and ae as the morning sun breaks through you will see cities on fire, and bombardment with 10 bursting shell, and illuminations as for some great victory, coronations and angels on the 68 Wing. !i0 All night long while you were sleeping the l_. frost was working, and you ought not let i0 the warmth obliterate the scene until you have admired it, studied it, absorbed it, set ie it up in your memory for perpetual refreshar ment and realized the force and magnitude ;. and intensity of my text. 4,By the brepth of I God frost i3 given." Oh, what a God we g' have! What resources aro implied by the fact 5* that ho is able to do that by the linger of the ^ frost fifty times in one winter and on a hunj. dred thousand window panes for thousands ' of winters! J(j The great art galleries of Venice and NadIqh and Dresden are carefullv eruarded. V and governments protect them, for once l09t, ^ they can never be reproduced, but God seta up in the royal galleries of the frost piclures such as no human art could ever produce, 10 hundreds of thousands of them, only for __ four or Ave hours, and then rubs them out, " making the place clear for a display just as ?* magnificent the next morning. No one but /J a God could afford to do that. It would bankrupt everything but infinity and omnll_ potency. * . ja Standing here between the closet^doore of q . the pictured woods and the opening doora of 4 the transfigured window glass, I. want to cure my folly and your folly oc longing for glorious things in the distance, while we neglect appreciation of glorious things near by. "Oh, if I could only go and seethe o. factories of lace at Brussels !"says someone, b- Why, within thirty feet of where you awaken oamr? nnnmKa?" TnAcninrr vam rtMI OOA HohftP V3? Dvrno l/uuuuti/vi muiuiu^ j wn not s\.v *?wMVk id lace interwoven for your window panes by oi divine flnger?. "Ob, if I could see the facse tories of silk at Lyons 1" shj-s some one. io Why, without leaving youc home on the rt north side of your own house on Christmas it morning you may see where the Lord has to spun silken threads about your windows this le way and that?embroideries such as no one d, but God can work. to Alas, for this glorification of the distant d. and this belittling of the closo by! This or crossing of oceans and paying a high admissi ju in exponses co loo!: at that which is act P' half as well done as so moth tug we can see by crossing our own room, and free cf cnargo 1 This praising of Raphaels hundreds of yt?ar3 gone, when the greatsi* Raphael, the frost. will soon be busy at tae entrances to 33 your own home! I Next I speak oE the frost as ?. physician. ,ij.' Standing at the gates of New York harbor in autumn beforo Inst, the frost drovo back ly tho cholera, saying. "Thus far ahalt thou 30 rorao and no farther." From Memphis and r. New Orleans and Jaoksonvillo he smoto the %'t fever plague till it reeled back and departed. The frost is a physician that dce'crs cities, Nations nnd continents. He nieatcinee tho ' world. Quinine for malaria, ai.ti-iebiile fot 116 typhoids, sulplional for sleeplessness, nntinn spasmodic for disturbed nerves, but in nil ? , therapeutics there is no remedy like the ut Bmall pellet3 prepared by tha cold, and no 9 ' ' I 1 ' \ . ' s ?Jmmm ????? physician so skilful or bo mighty as the frost. n Scotland haa had great physicians, but hei tl greatest doctors have been the Abernethies f, and Abprnrnmhirv? that- havn comn down ? aver the highlands horsed on the north wind. a England has had her grea.t physicians, but g her err eat est doctors have been the Andrew p 1 Clarkes and tho Maokenzies who appeared " the first night tho fields of England were ft rimmed with white. America has had its great physicians, but her greatest doctors a rmvo oeen rne vviuara rurtcers ana valentine a Motts who landed from bleak skies while d our fingers were benumbed and our ears U tingled with the cold. Ob.it is high time ii that you add another line to your liturgy! t It is high time that you make an addendum t to your prayers. It is high time that you n enlHrge the catalogue of your blessing. 1 Thank God for frost. . It is the best of all 1 germicides. It is the only hope in bacteriol- n ogy. It is the medicament of continents. It J is the salvation of our temperate zone. It is ' thb best tonic that God ever gave the human P race. It is the only strong stimulant whloh ' has no reaction. The best commentary on * it I had while walking near here one cool morning with my brotner John, who spent 8 the most of his life as a missionary in China, t and in that part of it where there are no a frosts. He said there was a tingling glad- n nessinhisnervesindescribable.and anaimost * Intoxication of delight from the fact that it a was the first time for years he had felt the I sensation of frost. We complain of it, we * scold it. we frown upon it, when we ought 1 to be stirred by it to gratitude and hoist it on > a doxology. . o But I mu9t go farther and speak of the ? frost as a jeweler. Ajs the snow is frozen P rain, so the frost is frozen dew. rGod trans- a forms It from a liquid into a crystal It is b the dew glorified. In the thirty-eighth chapter of that inspired drama, the book of Job, o God says to the inspired dramatist with a ecstati? interrogation. "The hoary frost of ^ heaven, who hath gendered it?" God there 5 asks Job If he knows the parentage of c the frost. He inquires about its pedigree, a He suggests that Job Btudy up the frost's t genealogical line. A minute before God had <3 asked about the parentage of a raindrop in, c words that years ago gave me a suggestive text for a sermon, "Hath the rain a father?' ( c But now the Lord Almighty is cateohising I Job about the frost. He practioally says: t "Do you know its father? Do you know its < mother? In what cradle'of the leaves did I the wind rock it? 'The hoary frost of heaven, ^ who hath gendered It?*" ne is a stupid unrisuan who 111111 *? bo ? much of the printed and bound Bible that : he neglects the Old Testament of the fields, : nor reads the wisdom and kindness and beauty of God written in blossoms on the orchard, In sparkles on the ialce, in stars on the sky, in frost on.the meadows. The greatest jeweler of all the.earth is the frost. There is nothing more wonderful in all crystallography. Some morning in December a whole continent is found besprent with diamonds, the result of one night s work by this jeweler. Do ypu make the depreciatory remark that the frost is impermanent and will last only two or three hours? What of that? We go into London tower and look at the crown jewals of England, bnt weareina procession that the guards keep moving on, and five minnfnc r\f 1 oaa aro trnnp nnlr nnnnrfnnlfv of looking at those crown jewola, but at tbe I crown jewels bestarrcd of the frost in parks and fields yo\) may stand to look deliberately i and for hours, and no one to tell you to move I on. I . Ob, these regalias and diadems of beauty flung out of heaven! Kings and queens on 1 celebratlve days havo come tiding through ' the streets throwing handfuls of silver and gold among the people, but the queen of the winter morning is the only queen rich enough 1 to throw pearls, and tbe king of frost the j only king rich enough to throw opals and sapphires and diamonds. Homer describes a necklace of amber given to Penelope, but the frost necklaces a continent. The careanet of precious stones given to Harmonia bad pinions of orange jasper and white moon- 1 stone and Indian agate, but it was a misfortune to any oue who owned or inherited it, 1 and its history, generation after generation, 1 was a history of disaster, but the regalia of lrost is the good fortune of every morning 1 that owns it. 1 The imperial household of Louis. XVI could not afford tbe diamondnecklace which had been ordered for Queen Marie Antoinette, 1 and it was stolen and taken apart and lost, but the necklace that the frost puts on the wintry morning, though made of as many i brilliants as the withered glass blades, is I ooailv nffnrHoi) Kif rlirina nnnlflnM nnH in never lost, but after its use in the coronation of the fields is taken }>ack to heaven. 0 men and women, accustomed to go into ecstasy when In foreign travel you come upon the historical gems of Nations, whether the jewel < be called the Mountain of Glory, or the 8ea 1 of Light, or the Crown of the Moon, or the I Eye of Allah, or the Star of Sarawak, or the ' Koh-l-noor, I implead you study the jewels I strawn all round your wintry home and rea- I lizathat "by the breath of God frost Is given." i Bat I go a step farther and speak of the 1 frost as an evangelist, and a text of Scripture 1 Is not of much use to me unless I can find < the gospel in it. The Israelites in the wil- I derness" breakfasted on something that 1 looked like frozen dew, and the dew evapor- 1 ated and left a pulverized material, white and ' looking like frost, but it was manna, and of that they ate. So now this morning, mixed with the frozen dew of my text, there is manna on which we can breakfast our souk. You say the frost kilta. Yes, it kills some things, but we have a] ready seen that it gives health and life to others. This gospel is the savor of life unto life or of death unto death. ] As the frost is mighty, the gospel is mighty. , As the frost descends bom heaven, the gospel descends from heaven. By the breath of 1 God frost is given. By the breath of God the ] gospel is given. A? the frost purifies, so the ] grace of God purifies. As the frost bestara ( the earth, so grace bejewels the soul. As the , Jro3t prepares for food many things that , otherwise would be inedible, so the frost of J trials ripens and proparea food for the soul. In 1 the tight grip of the frost the hard shells of , walnut and chestnut and hickory open, and the luxuries of the woods come into our laps ' or upon our tables; so the frost of trial takes < I many a hard and prickly shell and crushes it until tnac wnicn stung tae som now feeds it. Therj are passages of Scripture that once were enigmis, puzzles, riddles and impossi- ( bilities for you to understand, but th-j frosts , oftroublo after awhile exposed the full meanIn^ to your soul. You said, "I do not see J why David keeps rolling over in his psalm i the story of how he was pursued and perse- i euted." Ha describes hiaisslf as surrounded < by bees. Ha say3, "They compassed ma about like bees; yea, they compassed ma ] about like bees." You think what aa ex- < augerating thing for him to exclaim, "Out i if th?j depths of hell have I criel unto Thae, j O Lord! 1 And there is so mush o? that style of lam- ' fntation in his writings you think he over- 1 does It, but after awhile the frost comes upon , ran in rhi? ahniv* nf nflrnfinution and vou are 7 "? ? ? ' t X 1 ? stuck with this censure and stuck with that 1 defamation, and stuck with some falsehood, nn.l lies iu swarms nro buzzing, buzzing about your eiirs, and at List you uuderstau 1 what David meant when he said, "Tflpy compassed me about liko bees ; yea, they compassed me about like bees,*' and you so aown under nervous prostration and feel teat you r,re as far down as David when he cried, "Out of the depths of hell!" What opened all those chapters that hitherto Lad no appropriatenessV Frosts! For a long while the Bible seemed lopsided and a disproportionate amount of it given up to the consolatory. Why page after page and chapter after chapter and book after book in the Bible taken up with alleviations, with pacifications, with condolence? 1 The book seems like an apothecary store 1 with one-half of the shelves occupied with \ balsams. Why such a superfluity of balsams? But after awhile the membraneous nrouD carries off vour ohlld, or your health gives way under the grip, or your property ] is swept ofT by a bad investmeut, or perhaps , all three troubles come at ouo?bankruptcy, sickness and bereavement. Now 1 the consohtory parts of the Bibls dc not i seam to bo disproportionate. You want. { something o!T almost all the shelves of that sacred dispensary. What has uncovered and exposed to you tho xisefulness of so ? much of the Bible that was before hidden? * The frosts have been fulfilling their mission. ; Put down all tho promises or the Bible on a table lor study, and put on ono side the 1 table a man who has never had any trouble, 1 or very little of it, but pile upon the table { beside him all encyclopedias and all dictionaries, and all arohajologies and all com- 1 mentaries, and on the other side of the tablo ^ pat a man who has had trial upon trial, dis- c lister upon aisiwtor, ami mi m;u uu^iu mo study of the promises without lexicon, without commentary, without any book to ex- 1 plain ?r holp, and this latter man will under- g stand far more of the height and depth, and j leni^th and breadth of those promises than . ?ho learned exeget opposite, almost sub lerged in sacred literature. The one has lie advantage over the other becanae he has alt the mission of the frosts. Oh, take the oosolation ol this tnnme, yo to wnom nre is i struggle and a disappointment, and a antlet and a pang. That is a beautiful roverb among the Hebrews which says, 'When the tale of bricks is doubled, then loses comes." Mild doses of medicine will do for mild Icknese, but violent pains need strong doses, nd so I stand over you and count out some xops that will alleviate your worst troubles t you will only take the medicine, and here i is: "In the world ye shall have tribulaIon, but be of good cheer; I have overcome he world." "Weeping may endure for a dght. but joy cometh in the morning." ?hank God for frosts! What helped make Illt'on the greatest of poetsV The frost of rmaneas. What QeTpoo matdTVasTUngfon He greatest or generals!" xne iroscs 01 vaisy Forge. What made it appropriate for one asiing John Banyan's grave to exolaim, 'Sleep on, thou prince of dreamers?" The roets of imprisonment. The greatest college from which we can .Tadnate is the college of frosts. Especial rial fits for especial work. Just now watch ud you will see that trouble Is preparative nd educational. That is the grindstone on rhich battle axes ore sharpened. I have lways noticed in my own case that whentne jord hod some special work for me to do it ra? preceded by especial attack upon me. ihis is so proverbial in my owu house that 11 or something I say or do I get poured upop ae a volley of censure and anathema, my rife always asks: "1 wonder what new oplortunlty of usefulness is about to open? Something good and. grand is-surely com: ag!" What is true in my. case la true on a large: >r smaller scale in the history of every man nd woman who wants to serve the Lord. Vtthout complaint take the hard knocks, fou will see after awhile, though you ma} lot appreciate it now, that by the breath ol h good and loving God frost is given. Let he corners of your mouth, so long drawn [own in complaint, be drawn up In smiles ol ontent. For many years posts and essayists have lelnhrated the irrace and swiftness of the Lrabian horses. The m03t wonderful exhitition of horsemanship that I ever witnessed rasjust outside the city of Jerusalem?ar Arabian steed mounted by an Arab. Do you enow where these Arabian horses got theii leetness and poetry of motion? Long cen uriesago Mohammed, with 30,000 oavalrj >n the march, could find for them not a droj )f water for three days. Coming to the toj >f a hill, a river was in sight. With a wild lash the 30,000 horses started for thestream V minute after an armed host was seen ad rancing, ,and at Mohammed's command 10< suglee blew for the horses to fall in line, but ill the 30,000 continued the wild gallop tc :he river except five, and they, almost dea< frith thirst, wheeled into line of battle. Nothing in human bravery and self sacri Ice excels that bravery and self sacrifice o hose five Arabian war horses. Those flv splendid steeds Mohammed chose for his owi i?e, and from those five came that race o Arabian horses for ages the glory of th< equestrian world. And let me say that ii this great war of truth against error, of holi aess against sin and heaven against hell, th< best war horses are descended from tho? ivho, under pang and self denial and trouble fVio ffnanpl trnmnet And wheole< Into line. Oat of great tribulation, out o cfreat flree, oat of great frosts, they came. And let me say it will not take long fo: God to make up to you In the next world to all you have suffered in this. As you ente heaven He may'spy,'"Give this man one o those towered and colonnaded palaces 01 that ridge of gold Overlooking the sea o glass. Give this woman a home amon those amaranthine blooms and between thos fountains tossing in the everlastingsunlighi Give her a couoh canopied with rainbows t< pay her for all the fatigues of wifehood am motherhood and housekeeping, from whlc; she had no rest for forty years. "Cupbearers of heaven, give these newl; arrived souls from earth the costliest bevei ogee, and roll to their door the gra&dei chariots, and hang on their walls the sweet nM* ham that aimr thrnmmnri fa fln>ar seraphic! Give to them rapture on rapture celebration on celebration, jubilee on jubl lee, heaven on heaven. They had a hari time on earth earning a- livelihood, or nan Ing six children, or waiting on qu?ruloa old age, or battling falsehoods that were toll utout them, or were compelled to wort afte they got shortbreathed and rheumotio an dimsighted. < 'Chamberlains of heaven! Keepers of th king's robes! Banqueters of eternal royalty Make up to them a hundredfold, a thousand fold, a miilionfold for all they suffered froc swaddling olotbes to shroud, and let a] those who, whether on the hills, or in th temples, or on the thrones, or on jasper wal] were helped and sanctified and prepared fo this heavenly realm by thd mission of thi frosts stand up and w4ve their scepters?1 A.nd I looked and, behold! nine-tenths ot th ransomed rose to their feet, and nine-tenth }f the scepters swayed to and fro in the ligh ot the suti that never sets, and then I tinder stood far better than I ever did before tha trouble comes for brneflcent purposes, ani :hat on the coldest nights the aurora i arjghtest in the northern heavens, ani tha :iby the breath of Qoi frost is gi ran." HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. HOW TO USB STALE BREAD. Housekeepers who have top nmol principle to throw away stale breac ind who cannot bring their families t< relish bread padding will find they oar rat 'their loaves to practical use b) naking what an experienced mothei lalla "bread omelet." Cut the bread in very thin slices?and there is noth ing that one can slice so thin as stale bread?and dip the slice in beater jggs. Fry in butter. A most sub 3tantial, economical and satisfactory iish for breakfast.?New York Herald WATERING HOUSE F&AJ5T8. Plants may be injured by too frequently watering the surfaoe of the K>il. To water thoroughly, when the plants require it, is essential, and thu is the proper method. Many plants, when a solid ball of roots is formed, 3o not get water enough when it is ap plied in the ordinary way, as it run: jft* the surface or down through th< pots, next the outside, without wetting the roots at all. It is a good plan,' anc i saving of time, once a week, to plac< the pots in a deep vessel so that the water will come over the tops of th< pot, and leave them for an hour or two. ar until the 3ir bubbles cease, Syrmg ing over and under the surface of th< leaves will not only keep them ; cleai ind free from insects, but will afiforc much of the moisture, required. :> It ii better not to water some plants unti they indicate the need by the droop ing leaves, then water thoroughly. ? Imerican Agriculturist. , ' ; HOW TO COOS CRANBERRIES. "1 The risk of not having cranberrie! uold adds to the anxiety of the house [?ife. Good Housekeeping gives in? following directions as safe to insure mccess: "To a quart of cranberries add 8 aint of sugar and half a pint of cold rvater. Cook the cranberries in th( ivater, without the sugar, for twentj .ninutes, then add the sugar and cook ;hem ten minutes longer. Do not adc me drop more of liquid or less ol wrill ncifc mnlrt ThfiV , OX VLX^J ? should boil all the time they are cook< ng. The time during which an article s coming to the boiling point cannol .>0 counted in auy rule,. The moment he cranberries are cooked, turn them nto an earthen mold. A metal mold Till give them a bad tasto and a baa iolor. So will cooking them in metal. They should be cooked in porcelain 01 n a porcelain-lined kettle or in one oJ pranite ware. Do not serve cranberies till they have stood in the mold wclve hours." *r? - '. 'V ; ' i, -..A ?g RELIGIOUS READING- , ? ' . in? DADDaiu* There is no land where?all religions ohll? Kations aside?the Sabbath is so necessary a* in this country. We should become oarbarfins without it Already the lust of money and distinction, acting- upon natures lashed by our peculiar institutions into the moot vehement emulations, wrinkles almost every brow, and makes anxiety a constant presence '.'.J and uower at which ntrannrers craze and WOIV der. Our very pleasures have this dash of Impatience about them; and our days,and bourn hurried on In th j whirl of constant excitement, lose their distinctness, and mingle in a misty mass in which the better reasoning faculty can distinguish little that accords wit* the natural purposes of life. Were this harried way of life, this eager hunt of gold o* ,-X rank uninterrupted, it would soon sweep />'$$ away before it all that elevates and puiiflM hum<in nature, or gives the grace and. go&d- a uess of life. Tbe Sabbath stays the severer pulse of gocietr. ODens the low and dark clouds that- . gather round the heart, and. lets in the light of bfftter thoughts and loftier feelings. T<r ? lose this recurring dispensation from the .xii ours-? of the impetuous life-struggle, would be to render our destiny that of the dungeon 9iav>). While, therefore, we regard the dese- ' s oration of the Sabbath, as primarily offensive, as a violation of the divine la^y, we condemn it as a wrong done to the heavy laden-^-as a rj# | step taken onwards to barbarism. W 8 see, with great regret, a constant tan Jenny to the loss of the Sabbath. This is the greatest in those communities where the poise , x of society, is the most rapid and unintermtt- . . j. 1 tent, ana wheie the worship of mammon, <* of pleasure, is as perpetual as it Is absorbing. Thin hostility to the Sabbath is manifested in ' , the raoceas of the Sunday papers devoted fee ^ business and pleasure, ana the devotion of the day to idle entertainments. Tiiey who invade the day of rest, do ? .-da wrong to the race at large, and aid in weakens *. ing a divine institution given in mercv, and Inseparable from the interests of civilization. . ?[North American. [ " ;%>aa l CHRISTIAN OBAOXS ELCiUBTBATID. [ Many among you m&y think it to, inaxped?? ent to speak frequently, or, indeed, ev?jr, ex- - :<& ' cept on occasions of great solemnity, of religion ; and to this I shall not attempt to ' reply. But the world cannot forbid yod to manifest the spirit of religion trf a holy life. 1 You may, therefore, show forth its essence In every act and deed; -even the most ordinary ' and trivial affairs and relations of life nee? ' >] ' not be devoid of the, expression of a, plot* heart Let the deep and sacred feeling which > l Inspires and governs all your actions, ?how cuat even m laose irmee over waiou a pcvr- . - ?t^a fane mind passes with levity, the ipusio m of a lofty sentiment echoes ih jcna heart; let the majestic serenity with whlefc ./ you estimate the great and the small, prove ; j that yon refer everything to the Inimitable, that you perceive the Godhead alike In every- v. . j thing; let the bright cheerfulness with which you encounter every proof of our transitory :'j nature, reveal to aJl nature that you live above time and above the world, let your easy and graceful self-denial prove how many of tha KnnHi nf aoinfiann vnn hum alnwdv tank- ;, 'JB 1 en; and let the ever quick and open spirit, 1 from which what Is rarest nor most ordinary ' escapes, show with what unwearied ardor I you Seek for every trace of the Godhead, with ? what eagerness you watoh for its slight-* .'.v . manifestation. If your whole life, and every t .- ^nsE * movement of your outward and lnwacd bo- - ... . Loof is thus sruided by religion. perhaps tb# ->ai * hearts of many will be touohod by this mots ? language, and will be open to the reception ,. of that spirit which dwells within you.? ' [Schlelrmacher. ^ BZAflONS FOB PBAISHTO OOD. ' y Is it not worth living for, if only to peases# >. that wonderful body of yours; so beautiful, J t so delicately formed! No architect but Go?E ' ';] oould plan anything half 00 glorious! UMB . .rn look at the pleasures of the body. We might . v ^ , haye been so made that every movement y&J [. should be attended with pain; but instead ot . this, all is enjoyment Watch the child a? _ play. What pleasure in every turn, in the . " exercise of every limb, in every movement . j and position of the body! Pleasant to run, pleasant to stand still, pleasant to sit. down, - pleasant to rise up, pleasant to lie down sleep, pleasant to wake and rise. If this ( world was all, and we died, "like the brutw ji j that perish," to live no more?yet it is word* . <i , living for to see all the beautiful' thing* i " around us, and feel the pleasure of life withia' & 7 us. For this, dear children, <<I>raise ye the Y;*r??S Lord." < But, then, you hare thinking souls... Mot -r-. ' only are your erect bodies superior to those ' '* of animals, and more lovelv. but you h&Ycr a i? power within which they'do not posaeti God has given to them what is called insttaet to preserve them from danger and make thear I t useful to man. But to you he has gives a- $8 souL The body will die and docay, but the / /jjB 1 soul never! It is this which thinks. And a* j with the exercise of the body so with the w 'ja mind?it .is pleasant It might have bees '/ Oh t painful to think, but instead of this how we enjoy it and how constantly we are doing it ';sj Children! for body and soul, ''Praise ye th? Lord!" LITTLE THINGS. ; US To put the best of ourselves into the emaft ' ways and words of every day is the nsoeoBaiy t and only way to bring out the perfection at 1 our whole lives. It is good to fee) keenly the ' % > .dignity and importance of each word and ., deed because jach contributes to the perfee 1 tion of the grand whole, of the working oat . v. ; r of the ideal we are striving for. It ii v ?8 f good for us all to feel it in the smallest [ trifles of every day. It is particularly gOOd lor younjj peupiw iw iwi iu nu? a you do today, the way you do it, the mottr? q i with which you do it, are of immense ooa- . V sequence t"> you. They involve the meaning of your whole life. If you were blocking \ out a statue, you could not afford to break off r one bit. of marble tho wrong way, or evea H break it off haphazard, without someaena* ^ of what you were doing. You would sot sew your new gown together at random or \V without a careful study of the proper join* ing of the parts to produce a desired . . effect. So you cannot afford to cos- .< 4 aider what you do or say today as "a trifW" 4 * ^ or as "no difference," becaa?e it will xnait* I a difference in the whole. It all makes a difference. It is the words and deeds of today ' that are making or marring the great resa* 1 you are expected to produce by and by. Yon cannot afford to throw away the smallest j chance to make the result perfect The sooner , you realize that everythingraakesadifferennw the better for that result?[Eleanor Kirk's. * Idea. . 3 ' none or his. v . . . j "If any man have not the spirit of Christ'* ' ?O, what an if! How it tries the hopeeo# ' 5 the Christian! Am I meek as He was? wtah reviled, do I revile not again? when srnittM* , , ? on one cheek, do I turn the other al'to? do t . ^ -j } pray for mine enemies, -Father, forgive thism? do I go about doing good? is it my meat sod. ? 1 drink to do the will of God? Such was th? 1 I spirit of Christ, and we havo it not, we aw ' ) I _?( what terrible words, brief, simple, but * i on that account most terrible?'none of hist* ?noplace in his household?no place in hto ; , heart. An alien from Christ, a stranger to ? i pardon, "having no hope and without God la I the world." Better gink into annihilation, than live un? ' ; { ' reconciled, unrenewed, out <A the covenant * -if ?> of grace, while death i9 so busy, and the> grave yawns under every footstep. ; ? i , TH* COUEAOEOOH PEEACHEB. 1 j The people will always rush to hear tno man who does not stick, stutter and stammer in telltngthe truth. Of couse people will b? I offended if we tell them the truth. The old I . maid broke the looking glass because it , showed the wrinkles in her face, Those who i get vexed because sin is aimed at, do so be' cause they are shot, and woe to the minister who fcoaps his mouth shut when the people | sin. i I . *- ?? _ 1 THE WOULD 8 UEKR DEINKEK3. Last year no less tliau throe thousand million gallon* of beer were imbibed in Europe , alone. Germany, of course, headed the list o! consumants with 1,051,000,000 gallons; Great Britain being a good second with 855,1 000,000 ; third eanio Austria with 300.000,00? i gallons; while France and Belgium wer? "bracketed fourth" with 220,090,000 apiec#; Denmark "tails" tho list with 145,000 gallons. Of extra European countries, the Unitad States comes first with an annual consumption of 800.000.000, Australia taking second | place at g2.000.000. Railroad Ties. From 16,000,000.03,1 to 17,030,000,0*7 feet ot .timber, board measure, ar-) at present used. In railroad ties in this countrr. A j