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l?n. Jg BEY. M TALMAGE THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: "The Rescue." Text; "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, tad thoa Shalt be saved."?Acts xvl., 81. i Jails are dark, dall, damp, loathsome places even now. but they were worse in the apostolie times. I imacrfne to-day we are standing In the Phllipplan dungeon. Do yon not feel the chill? Do you not hear the groans of those incarcerated ones Who for ten years have not seen the sunlight and the deep sigh of women who remember their father's house and mourn over their wasted estates? Listen again. It Is the cough of a consumptive or the struggle of one in the nightmare of a great horror. You listen again and hear a culprit, his chains rattling as he rolls over in his dreams, ahd you say, "God, pity the prisoL. erT' But there Is another sound in that prison. It is the song of joy and gladness, what a place to sing In! The music comes winding through the corridors of the prison, and in all the dark wards the whisper is heard: "What's that? What's that?" It is the song of Paul and Silas. They cannot sleep. They have been whipped? verv badly whipped. The Ion? gashes on their basks are bleeding yet. They lie flat on the cold ground, their feet fast in wooden > sockets, and of course they cannot sleep. But they can sing. Jailer, what are you doing witn these people? Why have they been pat in here? Oh. they have been trylnsr to make the world better. Is that all? That ** A TAaorvK A linn's nrtrrtk for Daniel. A blazing furnace for Shadrach. Clubs for John Wesley. An anathema for Phillpp Melanchthon. A dungeon for Paul and Silas. But while we are standing in the gloom of the PhlUpplan dungeon, and we hear the mfogHng voices of sob and groan and blasphemy and hallelujah, suddenly an earthquake ! The iron bars of the prison twist, the pillars crack off. the solid masonry begins to heave, and all the doors swing open. The jailer, ieeling himself responsible for these prisoneis and believing, in his pagan Ignorance, suicide to be honorable?since Brutus killed himself, and Cato killed him.self, and Cassius killed himself?put his word to his own heart, proposing with one strong, keen thrust to put an end to his excitement and asritation. But Paul cried out: "Stop, stop 1 Do thyself no harm! We are all here!" Then I see the jailer running through the dust and amid the ruin of that prison, and I ee him throwing himself down at the feet of these prisoners, crving out "What shall 1 I do? What shall I do?" Did Paul answer: "Get out of this place before there is another i earthquake. Put handcuffs and hobbles on these other prisoners lest they get away?" No word of that kind. His compaot, thrill- < lag, tremendous answer memorable all through earth and heaven, was, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thouBhalt be laved." Well, we have all read of the earthquake * ? Kihrni In T.I ma In Alanno and In Cam oas, but we live in a latitude where In all our memory there has not been one severe vol.oanio disturbance. And yet we have seen fifty earthquakes. Here la a man who has been building up a large fortune. His bid on the money market was felt in all the ettfaei He thinks he has got beyond all annoying rivalries in trade, and he says to himself, "Now I am free and safe from all possible perturbation." But In 1857 or in 1873 a Batfonnl panto strikes the foundation of the commercial world, and crash goes all that magnificent business establishment. Here is a man who has built up a very beautiful home. His daughters have Just eome home from the seminary with diploEls of graduation. His sons have started life, honest, temperate and pure. When " ? ? "-la. V. *U I. A ?... ue evening ugais lire Biruuk, lucre ia a uojr" Ed ess and unbroken family circle. Bat ere has been an accident down at Long Branch. The young man ventured too far Dot in the surf. The telegraph hurled the terror up to the city. An earthquake struck under the foundation of that beautiful home. I The piano olosed: the curtains dropped; the laughter hushed. Crash go all those dot&estio hopes and prospects and expectations. So, my friends, we have all felt the shaking down ol some great trouble, and there was a time when we were as much exsited as this man of the text, and we cried rat as he did t "What shall I do? What shall I do?" The same reply that the apostle Sdeto him is appropriate to us, "Believe the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be teretJ." j There ore some documents of so little importance that you do not care to put any tporethan your last name under tnem, or Bven your initials, but there are some docataents of so great Importance that you write rat your full name. So the Saviour in some parts of the Bible is called "Lord," and In Other parts of the Bible He is called "Jesus," had In other parts of the Bible He is called ^Christ," but that there might be no mistake about this passage all three names come together?"the Lord Jesus Christ." ' How, who is this being that you want me to trust In and believe in? Men sometimes some to me with credentials and certificates of good character, bat I cannot trust them. There Is some dishonesty In their looks that makes me know that I shall be cheated If I oonflde In them. Ton cannot pat your heart's onfldence in a man until you know What stuff he Is made of. and am I unreasonable when I stop to ask you who this Is that ton want me to trust In? No man would think of venturing his llle on a vessel going out to sea that had never been Inspected. No; you must have the certificate hang midships, telling bow many tons it carries, and how long ago it was built, and who built it, and all about It. And you cannot aspect me to risk the cargo of my Immortal Interests on board any craft till you tell me What it!? made of, and where it was made, and what it is. * When, then, I ask you who this is you wont to trust In, you tell me He is a very attractive person. Contemporary writers d& corlbe His whole appearance as being re plendont. There was no need for Christ to *Va /ikfMMn tn />nmo fn TTim "fliifffiF little children to coma uato Me" was not Soken to the children. It was spoken to a disciples. The children oame readily enough without any invitation. No sooner did Jesus appear than the little ones jumped from their mothers' arms, an avalanche of beauty and love, into His lap. Christ did not ask John to pat his bead down on His bosom. John could not help but put his bead there, I suppose a look at Christ was tost to love Him. How attactlve His manner! Why, When they saw Christ coming long the srreet, they ran into their houses, and they wrapped up their invalids as quick M they oould and brought them out that He might look at them. Oh, there was something so pleasant, so Inviting, so cheering in everything He did, in His very look! When these slok ones were brought out, did He My: "Do not bring before Me these sores. Do not trouble Me with these leprosies?" No, no; there was a kind look; there was a gentie word; there was a healing touch. They gould not keep away trom Him. *'I tblnk thpre nre many under the lnflo cap? OI toe spirit OI VXO<i WIIU nr? stiviiik;, "Twill trust Him If you will only tell me how." And the great question asked by many is. "How, howV" And while I answer your question I look up and utter the prayer which Rowland Hill so often uttered in the midst of his sermons, "Master, help!" How ape you to trust in Christ? Just as you trust any one. You trust your partner in business with Important things. If a oommereial house Rives you a note payable three months hence, you expect the payment of that note at the end of three months. You have perfect confidence in their word and in their ability. Or, attain, you go home to-day. You expect ^here will befoodonthe table. You have confidence In that Now. T ask you to have the same confidence in the Lord Jesus Christ. He ays, "You believe; I take away your sins." and they are all taken away. "What!" you say, "before I pray any more? Before I read my Bible any more? Before X cry over my sins any more?" Yes, this moment. Believe with all your heart, and you are saved. Why, Christ 1b only waiting to ?et from you what you give to scores of peo81e every day. What is that? Confidence. If xese people whom you trust day by day are more worthy than Christ, If they are more faitbtal than Christ, if they have done more han Christ ever did, then give them the Bttferenoe, but If you really think that Christ as trustworthy as they are then deal with Da as fairly. "Oh," says some one in a light way, "I Miieve that Christ was born in Bethlehem, ?&d Z believe that He died on the cross." Do you believe It with your head or your heart? I will Illustrate the difference. Yoa are in your own house. In the morning you open a newspaper, and you read how Captain Braveheart on the sea risked his life for the salvation of his passengers. Tou say: "What a grand fellow he must have been! His family deserves very weil of the country." You fold the newspaper and sit down at the table and perhaps do not think of that Incident again. That Is historical faith. But now you are on the sea, and it is night and you ard asleep, and you are awakened by the shriek of "Fire!" You rush out on the deck. You hear, amid the wringing of fh/* Viortsia an/1 fha Jalnffn9 thft r?l"T7 ''Vrt hope, no hope! We are lost, we are lost!" The sail puts out Its wing of fire, the robes make a burning ladder in the night heavens, the spirit of wreoks hisses in the waves, and on the hurricane decks shakes out Its banner of smoke and darkness. "Down with the lifeboats!" cried the captain. "Down with the lifeboats!" People rush Into them. The boats are about full. Boom for only one more man. You are standing on the deck beside the captain. Who shall it be? You or the captain? The captain says, "You." You jump and are saved. He stands there and dies. Now, you believe that Captain Braveheart sacrlIced himself for his passengers, but you lelleve It with love, with tears, with hot and long continued exclamations, with grief at his loss and joy at your deliverance. That is saving faith?In other words, what you believe with all the heart and believe In regard to yourself. On this hinge turns my sermon?aye, the salvation of your immortal soul. You often go across a bridge you know nothing about. You do not know who built the bridge, you do not know what material it is made of, but jrou come to it and walk over it and ask no queetloos. And here is an arched bridge blasted from the "Bock of A.ges" and built by the Architect of the whole universe, spanning the dark pulf between sin and righteousness, and'all God asks jrou is to walk across it, and you start, and { on come to It, and you stop, and you go a little way on, and you stop, and you fall back, and you experiment. You say, "How do I know that bridge will hold me!" Inataari r>f mnPflhJnc on with Arm sten. askins? ao questions, bat feeling that the strength of the eternal God Is under you. Oh, was there ever a prize proffered so cheap as pardon and heaven are offered to rou? For how much? A million dollars? it Is certainly worth more than that. But cheaper than that you can have It. Ten thousand dollars? Less than that. Five thousand dollars? Less than that. One flollar? Less than that. One farthing? Less than that. ''Without money and without price." No money to pay. No journey to take. No pennnoe to suffer. Only just one decisive action of the soul, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." Shall I try to tell you what it is to be i Baved? I cannot tell you. No man, no i angel, can tell you. But I can hint at it. for my text brings me up to this point. "Thou Bhalt be saved." It means a happy life here, and a peaceful death, and a blissful eternity. It is a grand thing to go to sleep at night, and to get up in the morning, and to do business all day feeling that all is right between t my heart and God. No accident, no sickness, no persecution, no peril, no sword, i can do me any permanent damage, i I am a forgiven child of God. and He is bound to see me through. He has sworn He will see me through. The mount- j alns may depart, the earth may burn, the i light of thenars may be blown out by the * blast of the judgment hurricane, but life and i death, things present and things to come, i are mine. Yea, further than that, it means i .ni?/uinl Hnnth Mrs. Remans. Mrs. Si courney, Dr. Young and almost all the poets have said handsome things about death. There Is nothing beautiful about it. When we stand by the white and rigid features of those whom we love, and they give no answering pressure of the hand and no returning kiss ot the lip, we do not want anybody poetizing round about us. Death is loathsomeness and midnight and the wringing of the heart until the tendrils snap and curl in the torture unless Christ shall be with us. I oonfess to you an infinite fear, a consuming horror of death unless Christ shall be with me. I would rather go down into a cave of wild beasts or a jungle of reptiles than into the grave unless Christ goes with me. Will you tell me that I am to be carried out from my bright home and put away in the darkness? I cannot bear darkness. At the first coming of the evening I must have the gas lighted, and the farther on in life I get the more I like to have my friends round about me. And am I to be put off for thousands ot yearn in a dark place, with no one to speak to? When the holidays come and the gifts are distributed, shall I add no joy to the "Merry Christmas" or the "Happy New Year?" Ah, do not point down to the hole In the ground, the grave, and call it a beautiful place. Unless there be some supernatural illumination I shudder back from it. My whole nature revolts at it. But now this glorious lamp is lifted above th9 grave, and , all the darkness is gone, and the way is | clear. I look into it now without a single shudder. Now my anxiety is not about death, my anxiety is that I may live aright, j What power is there in anything to chili ! me in the last hour if Christ wraps around me the skirt of His own garment? What darkness oan fall upon my eyelids then, amid the heavenly daybreak? 0 death, [ will not fear thee then. Baok to thy cavern of darkness, thou robber of all the earth. Fly, thou despoller of families. With this battleax I bew thee in twain from helmet to sandal, the voice of Christ sounding all over the earth and through the heavens: "0 death, I will be thy plague. 0 grave, I will be thy destruction." To be saved Is to wake up In the presence ot unrist. You know when Jesus was upon the earth how happy He made every house He went into, and when He brings us up to j Sis house in heaven how great shall be our glee! His voice has more music in it than is to be heard in all the oratorios of eternity. Talk not about banks dashed with efflorescense. Jesus is'the chief bloom ot heaven. We shall see the very face that beamed sympathy in Bethany and take the very hand that dropped its blood from the short beam or the cross. Oh, I want to stand in eternity (with Him. Toward that harbor I steer. JToward that goal I run. I shall be satisfied |when I awake in His likeness. Oh, broken hearted men and women, how sweet It will oe in that good land to pour all ' of your hardships and bereavements and 'losses into the loving ear of Christ and then have Him explain why it was best for you to be sick, and why it was best for you to be widowed, and why it was best for you to be persecuted, and why it was best for you to be tried and have Him point to an elevation proportionate to your disquietude here, saying, "You suffered with Me on earth ; come up now and be glorified with Me in heaven." Some one went into a house where there had been a good deal of trouble and said to the woman there, "You seem to be lonely." "Yes," she said; '*1 am lonely." "How manv in the family?" "Only myself. " "Have you had any onildren?" "I had seven children." "Whore are they?" "Gon*." "All gone?" "All." "All dead?" "All." Then she breathed a long sigh into the loneliness and said, "Oh, sir, I have been a good mother to the srrave." And so there are nearts nere that are utterly broken down by the bereavement ot life. I point you to-iay to the eternal balm 1 of heaven. Oh, aged men and women who ] have knelt at the throne of grace for rhree- I score years and ten will not your decrepitude ohunge for the leap of a heart when you come to look face to face upon Him whom having not seen you love? Ob, that will be the Good Shepherd, not out in the night and watching to keep i off the wolves, but with the lamb re cllnlng on the sunlit hill. That will be the Captain of our salvation, not amid the roar 1 and crash and boom of battle, but amid HW disbanded troops keeping victorious festiv- 1 ity. That will be the Bridegroom of the 1 church coming from afar, the bride leaning upon His arm while He looks down into her face and says: '-Behold, thou arc fair, my love I Behold, thou art fair!" ->ew fostage itamps. Uncle Sam will save about $50,000 a yeai ' by printing his own postage stamps. Con 3 jrress has given to the Bureau of Engraving ] $163,000 for this purpose for the fiscal yeat 1 beginning July 1. Out of this appropriation 1 some machinery must be bought. The ex- ' pense used to be $208,000 per annum. Of i course the Government had nearly all of the required plant ready at hand. About fifty 1 new people have had to be engaged to do ' the extra work. Oldest of Bank Presidents. Daniel Spraker, President of the Mohawk Blver National Bank, Amsterdam, N. Y., has just celebrated his ninety-sixth birthday. Ha is the oldest bank president in the United States, and Is a dailv visitor at the bank. " SABBATH SCHOOL, " INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 23. Lesson Text: "Daniel's Abstinence," Daniel 1., 8-20?Golden Text Daniel i.t 8?Commentary. Once more we have the choice of & temper* &nce or a missionary lesson, and, as usual, I oboose without hesitation the missionary lesson, firmly believing that to give the gospel to every creature as speedily as possible la the great desire of our Lord, and when a majority of believers get as full of the Spirit as the drunkard gets full of strong drink everything will to them seem very trifling when compared with the importance of the Saviour's last command. Daniel and hla friends at Babylon were men of one aim aud purpose. JL "And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots." How very interesting it is that whether it be a temperance or a missionary lesson we come to the everlasting people for it?Israel, God's glory flsa. xlvi., 13). and the one to be exalted is tne Prince of Peace, who shall sit on David's throne and establish the kingdom forever (Isa. ix.. 6, 7). The Righteous Branch is to be raised up unto David and will be a prosperous King, executing judgment and justice in the earth in the days when Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely (Jer. xxiii., 5, 6). 2. "And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord." The Spirit without measure, In all His fullness, the sevenfold Spirit, or, as in Bev. i., 4; ill., 1, the seven Spirits of God, Including wisdom to devise and power to carry out successiuuy overj pmu ior iuo welfare of the kingdom and the Rood of the whole earth. The g03pel story tells how Jesus was born by the Spirit; at His baptism the Spirit came as a dove and abode upon Him; He was led. wrought miracles, was cruclflfld, rose again in the Spirit's power. He has sent the same Spirit to All every believer, that in His power we may manifest the life of Christ and be His witnesses unto the ends of the earth ("Acts i., 8). 8. "And shall make Him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord, and He shall not judgetatter the sight of His eyes, neither reprove' after the hearing of His ears." The expression, "The fear of the , Lord," is one of the most notable in the Bible, and yet comparatively but little considered. In this and the last verse we see it to be one of the characteristics of the Spirit, , and that He will make U3 quick to understand It. May it not include such a con- | Bciousness of the presence of the Lord as will enable one to live as in His sight, sub- , mittin? everything, even the smallest details , of daily life, to His judgment, with desire , above all things for His guidance and ap- 1 proval?" 4. ''But with righteousness shall He judge J the poor and reprove with equity for the mnatr nt tha nnrth nnrt TTa ?hnli nmifA earth with the rod of.His mouth, and with | the breath of His lips shall He slay the wicked." The whole story of "the sufferings of Christ and the glory that shall fol- | low" (I Pet. i., 11) is often summarized in a single passage. This verse speaks of His | coming in glory to judge the nations and de- j stroy the wicked. Compare the sharp sword ; of Rev. xix., 15, with which He shall smite the nations, and 9ee also vers9 21. As to the < poor and the meek, see Ps. lxxlL. 11-14, and Ps. xxxvli., 11. ] 5. "And righteousness shall be the girdle i of His loins aid faithfulness the girdle of His i reins." His name is "the Lord Our Righte- i ousness" (Jer. xxiii., 6), and whether He 1 judges the poor or makes war it is all in | righteousness (Rev. xlx., 11). Righteous and i faithful, just and true is He in all His thoughts and ways. i 6. "The wolf also shall dwell with the iamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them." The same truth is stated in chapter lxv.. 25, and leads us to look for the time when "the creation Itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption Into the glorious liberty of the children of God (Rom. viiL, 21). There is no need to spiritualize this verse and make it mean that people who act like wild beasts shall become gentle as a playful kid and harmless as a calr, although that application of it may lawfully ba made. But as to its Interpreta- ! lion let no one separate it from its context, which is clearly the restoration of Israel ! (verses 11, 12), and the time of the kingdom so lonp ago foretold, and though so long delayed yet sure to come when the Nobleman | Bhall return from the far country (Luke six-, 12; Acta ill.. 21). 7. "And the cow and the bear shall feed. Their young ones shall lie down together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox." As in the garden of Eden, so shall it be in Borne measure during the thousand years and [ perfectly in the new earth. The Bible is a Btory of earth with God delighting in it and in its inhabitants. Thus it begins and thus it ends, while the thousands of intervening years between the fall and the restoration | are filled up with the record of such as walk with God during the waiting time and make Him known to others, or of those who rebel against Him and must share doom of His enemies. The Bible is given to us that we may know God and make Him known to others. He works by His Spirit through His word. 8. "And the sucking child shallplay on the ' hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall ' 4. klA V. 1 it TU a ^ui uu unuu uu iuo o ucu, xuo , author of all poison being bound in the pit, his evil influence shall not be felt those thousand years. The venomous things shall be the playthings of children, and "the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof' (Zech. vlii.,5). 9. "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all \ my holy mountain, for the earth shall be 1 full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the ' waters cover the sea." As thoroughly as water covers whatever it can reach, so j thoroughly shall the knowledge of the glory of the Lord cover the whole earth. Compare Num. xiv., 21, and Hab. 1L, 14, and seethe j prayer of David in Ps. IxxlL, 18,19. First , shall all Israel be saved at the coming of the Lord in His glory, when they look on Him j whom they have pierced (Jer. xxxl., 33,34. | Isa. 1$., 21; Zech. ill., 10; xlii., 1), andthen i shall nations be blessed through them (Isa. xxvii., 6; lx., 3). The Sooner the gospel is preached to every creature will the church be completed and caught to meet the Lord In the air, which must take place before He 1 can come to the earth to reign. Before He \ can come in His glory mttny things must occur, but before He comes to the air for His church we know of nothing that must necesBarilv occur except the evangelization of the world sufficiently to complete His church. Therefore let us with all possible speed give 1 the gospel to every creature.?Lesson Helper. ' Popularity of the Telephone. * 1 There are now in operation in the United States alone more than naif a million miles of i telephone line, bringing into speaking relations over 250,000 telephonic subscribers,and employing in daily service ovpr 60.000 telephones, by means of which 600,000,000 messages are transmitted annually. The earliest application of the telephone necessitated a wire extending from each station to every other one _with which communication was desired. How impracticable a met nod tnis Is, however, for covering a territory of any magnitude can be seen without much dlffl- ; culty. In this city and Chicago, for example, about 10,000 subscribers have telephonic communication. The most compact system of underground circuits needs about four square inches for every one hundred lines, bo that, to unite each of the 10,000 subscribers with the remaining 9,999 would require a Bpace of more than a yard square simply t o contain the necessary conductors. ; British Fruit Crop. The tabular report on the British fruit crop shows that apples are greatly deficient this fear. Only two reporters In the whole kingdom mention a crop above the average, and those two are In Scotland. With regard to pears, an almost equally remarkable result is recorded, but of an opposite character, pears being almost everywhere abundant. Plums are gen9rally deflolent. Cherries, on the other hand, are remarkably abundant, there being forty-flve "average" reports from Scotland, and no fewer than 126 from England, eto. Nuts are not much grown In the northern counties, but in the south they are rather above average; walnuts, however, suffered from the frost; strawberries have been universally scarce, and bad in quality; currants, raspberriee and gooseberries fairly good. RELIGIOUS READING. A NOTE OF KINDNESS. An English woman, living in the town of Bergen, In Norway, durlngmany years, was In the habit of preparing every Christmas an English dinner of roast beef and plum pudding, to which she invited all of the English sailors who happened to be in the port at that time. The sailors ate, drank and were merry,and we hope went on their way better men, as everybody should be better for the touch of kindness given to cheer the hours of life. But that was not the only result of her gentle deed. xvn auiuuL'ttu wuuitui uappcueu IU ue iu Bergen on Christmas, heard of the dinner, and comming home to America, gave an account of it to some of her friends. * They all listened with pleasure; but one said, -'Why cannot we do likewise?" They were all ready to follow. They lived in a large seaport town. When the next winter came, they formed themselves into a Scandinavian dinner club, and gave much time to the concoction of hitherto unknown dishes. They sought out all the Norwegian, Swedish and Danish sailors in port, and invited them to a home dinner on Christmas Day. The room was gaily decorated with evergreen and their national flags: the band played their own music, and on the table were their own home dishes, chief among which were Risgreynsgrot (rice porridge), and Leit flsk (codfish). It was not costly hospitality, but it was given and received with hearty good will. The men who probably would have spent the day drinking in taverns were reminded of their homes, their wives and children, and of the holy purpose of the day. It is not the song of one bird that cheers thesummer morning,but it is the song caught up and echoed from every iield and forest until the air is turned into music. This little note of kindness has been echoed once. Can it go no further??Youth's Companion. IS GOD HERE. The following true incident is yet another instauae of the power of children when used by God to bring about his purposes. *A young man of otherwise good moral character had been for a long time addicted to the use of profanity. At first it even snockea nimse;r, out alter a rime ne Decame so used to it that he ceased to notice it. He at length married a good wife, and her influence over him brought about the wish that he could rid himself of the sin which had obtained such mastery over him. Ho tried hard, but not till his little girl had reached the age of three years old did he Anally throw off the habit. One Sunday morning as he stood before the mirror shaving, tne razor slipped and inflicted a wound upon his face. True to his old sin, he in his impatience spoke the name of God in anger. To his surprise, his little girl who was near playing with her dolly and bad heard him, rose hastily, and running to her father with an excited look on her face, said: "Is God here?" Ashamed, and not knowing what to reply, be asked : "Why?" ' Cause I thought he wa? here when I tieard you speak of him." Seeing the sad look on his fnce and the tears in his eyes as ho Iookeii down into her innocent face, the child lovingly patted her father on the hand and said: "Call him again, papa, and I dess he'll surely come." At last the work was done, the hari heart broken ; the voice of the Beloved was heard In the simple querie* of the babe. Catching the surprised little one up in his arms, the man knelt down and for the first time in his life he prayed. In answer to that prayer forgiveness came, strength came, peace came, md the lost sheep returned to the fold. "A little child shall lead them."?Union iT-nenpl V?wa. \ ??? ''PERFECT THBOCOH SUFFERING.' "If 1 could relieve your cough by an act ot mine you would soon be well. The Lord could do this in a moment, but he does not; theiefore, as you happily believe, the continuance of it must be be?t When it shall be no longer necessary or salutary, be will remove it; for he delighteth in our prosperity; and they who lov9 and trust in him are never in heaviness of any kind an hour sooner or longer than there is need for it. "Faith can satisfy the spirit that the Lord does all things, and all things well; but I know by painful experience of what stufT the Qesh is made. But the best thought is that ho who loves us knows our pains, and considers that we are but dust. He is all sufficient and faithful to strengthen us to any assignable degree that our situation requires; whether our path may be through flo.d or through the names makes no difference, provided he be w ith us. The cases of the young men in the furnace and of Daniel in the den were different: both were apparently dangerous in the extreme, but the certain salety was exactly equal in both. 'If old age gives me a prospect of death, sickness, luce a telescope, often presents a clearer view, while it is, as I hope, with you as yet at a distance. Perhaps, when you were ill, you could perceive the objects within the vpil, beyond this visible diurnal sphere more distinctly than at other times. I have known but little of sickness of late years. I attempt to look through the telescope of faith, which gives reality and substance to things not seen; but the glasses are cloudy, and my hands shake, so that I can obtain but very imperfect and transient glances, but a glance into the heavenly state is worth all that can be seen here below in the course of a long life. If the Lord be with us (and he has promised that he will) in the approaching transition, we may go forword without fear."?Letters of John Eiewton to Hannah More. Whatever you are. don't be a stingy Christian. There are too many such already?absorbing space and soil, and yet yielding little or no fruit. Diffusion brings increase. The man who buries his money In a bag never gets rich. The more useful work you do, the more money you give for good purposes, the fuller-handed you will be. There is that 3cattereth and yet increasetn; there is that withholdeth and It tends to penury. A poor, hard-toiliDg young lady of my acquaintance gave a fifty-dollar gold-piece to help a certain struggling young cnurch, and her generous gift brought in thousands of dollars; her one loat was multiplied into a basketful of blessings. Sow plentifully if yon want to reap big harvest*. Begin to give money systematically?so much a week, or so much a month and see to it that the Master is not cheated out of his own. The more sacrifices of selfishness you make for Christ, the more you will love him. I suppose that the richest ioys of heaven will be the enlargement of what we are in this world. The original loaves will be indefinitely multiplied. Whatever we do for Jesus here will De our "treasure in neuven when we get there. Death is not the end of serving our blessed master; it is only a transfer up into a wider realm where they serve him day and night in his temple, and "be that sitteth on the throne shall spread his tabernacle over them." If we long for holiness in this life, we shall wear the spotless robe up yonder. All that exceeding and eternal weight of glory will be the outcome of wliat begun here when we begun for Christ, und he begun to be in us. The more complete you make your consecration to Christ at the start, the nobler, stronger and happier Christian you will be. and the more glorious beaven you will have. A great Christian character is not built in a day; it is the steady solid growth of a lifetime.?Christian Irito.ligencer. No one 9hould trust himself too much, even though he has attained to great union with God, and he be far removed from all creatures, for there is no place so remote, no solitude so retired that tho devil may not enter.?St. Teresa. Carpets Going Abroad. From reports received at the State Department it appears that tho United States has at last turned the tabhs on England and is now shipping to that country carpets of the value of nearly half a m!!!ion dollars annually. To make the cass still stronger it is stated that these carpets are the famous Axminsters, supposed heretofore to be produced in per/octlon only in England, and the trade is steadily Increasing. Trade Continues to Improve. Notwithstanding industrial disturbance? and the continuance of drought In certain sections, trade continue* to show steady Improvement. AGEICULTUKAL TOPICS OP INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. THE CELUB OF A FABM"H0U9E. It is not desirable to keep vegetables and milk in the same cellar, as the odor of the vegetables will surely spoil the flavor of the butter, or even of the milk. The cellar should be separated into parts by a brick, or a double-lath and plaster, Trail, and there should be separate entrances to each part. The cellar Bhould be half above the ground level, and well lichted bv donble-clazed windows. ?Q ?J o where the winter is cold There is no need for a fire in it, as it may be warmed sufficiently on an extra cold night by a pailful of hot, clear coals, or a block of red-hot iron. The floors should be cemented for the sake of cleanliness and to keep out vermin, which, once they get a foothold in a wooden floored cellar, defy every effort to dislodge them. It is easier to keep rats and mice oat of a house than to eject them after they have got settled in it.?New York Times. HOGS REVERTING TO WILD TYPE. The hog is the domesticated animal which has least of human society, and what it has, as in the parable of the prodigal son, is not of the most elevating character If left to look out for himself the hog more quickly becomes wild and loses the few good qualities, as to easy laying- on of fat that domestication, feeding and breeding have produced. It don't take rnuuj lor a ueru. 01 nogs xo retrograde to the original wild type and become really vicious and dangerous animals. Old sows after four or five litters become coarse, and their tusks gr jw longer than is safe for any one exposed to them. The male hog is still worse in this respect. Yet a coarsely-built old sow bred to a purebred boar of the smaller-boned breeds 1 will give pigs. that will fatten faster and make larger growth than will the pigs from a finer-formed but less mature dcim.?Boston Cultivator. FOOD FOR HOGS. Corn is a standard food for hogs, though wheat is also excellent when soaked o? ground and mashed. Boiled potatoes and barley meal are considered to make the finest flavored bacon. 1 Cracked corn and wheat bran in 1 equal parts, stirred in slops or pure water, is a most nutritions, healthful and fat-producing feed, but this should be alternated with dry corn every : three or four days for best results. When milk is given, it should be fed with buckwheat bran or meal in order to avoid hardness and dryness < of the lean meat which milk-food produces. Pea-fed pork is also hard and ] dry. Sugar beets form an excellent \ ration if given occasionally in limited amounts, but too steady feeding is ^ cloying. The flesh of pigs fed on a clover pasture during the summer, ! afterwards finished with oats and peas, is excellent. Wood ashes or charcoal should be 1 supplied to correct the acidity of the ] stomach, brought about by too ex- 1 elusive grain feeding. It does this by the potash which it contains, and which a little further burning would : develop into ash. It in this way aids digestion, and there is more in what : the hog digests than in what he eats. ?New York World. OJtlUl lO O ? ZtJLX VsUXUI* When the smut gets ripe and dry in the fall the black dustlike spores are widely distributed, not only over the surface of the ground, but upon the fences, brush heaps, among the weeds, and if carried to the barn when the corn and cornstalks are gathered they get into the manure, and are again carted out into the field and deposited just where they are most likely to attack the ensuing crop of corn. By such means the smut spores are soattered over fields where no corn had been previously cultivated, and your system of rotation is useless as a preventive of smut. The proper system to pursue is to go over the field as soon as smut appears on the ears or stalks, and gather up every affected plant and burn or otherwise destroy it before the smut spores are mature and in a condition ] to be distributed by the winds or other j agents. If farmers and market gar- i deners would adopt some such system ] and pursue it for a few years, smut ' would become far lesa troublesome i than it is the preeent time. Soaking seed corn, for a few hours before . planting, in a solution of blue vitriol is also an excellent preventive of smut, ' inasmuch as it destroys any smut . Bpores which may be on the seed at the time of planting. ?New York Sun. j THE CAEE OP P0T7LTBY. In the first place, any attempt to 1 keep very many fowls together will ] not prove as remunerative as a ( smaller number, says George Shepard, ( ol .Lyons, JN. x. uvercrowciea nener- . ies often breed diseases, and only fif- , teen to eighteen hens will average a ' much larger profit in respect to numbers than a larger number. In the winter time hens of the pop- ! nlar breeds will net a handsome profit ] from eggs if well cared for. In the morning a warm feed is desirable, and ' Bhould consist of oats, barley meal 1 with a little bran and boiled potatoes J and scraps well mixed, the more varied the betterwhile in the middle of the 1 day wheat and buckwheat scattered ' among dry straw should be given. Scattering it among the chaff and straw causes the hens to work to se- 1 cure the kernels, which affords them \ exercise and tends to work off that J fatty substance that, if allowed to ac- ! cumulate, would be apt to soon cause 1 some disease to appear, or else would 1 make them too fat to lay. At night ' whole corn should be given. By feeding whole corn at night the hen will be able to endure the cold nights bet ter, as tne crop win oe wen ixueci ine entire night, as it is very slow to ] digest. At all times of the year fresh water should be at their disposal. Wntor allowed to remain m a dish all night is very dangerous for ncns to dr-n/c. Cabbage and ?pples are much t "tight i after by pc iltry, when fed upon jorn, i as is also cold ashes or gravel, irouiid j bone and oyster shells are orce'k 'i. J for laying-hens, as they cout.'-ji r.v.- | ; I i merits required in making egg sheila. ?Courier-Journal. THE COW AND THE CALF. A writer in the Rural New Yorker says upon this subject, it is his practice to leave calves with their mothers in a box stall about three days?or until the milk is suitable for the dairy; then the cow is returned to her accustomed place in the dairy stable, and the calf is tied by her side where it can receive its mother's caresses and learn to eat from her manger, but cannot reach her udder. When it is five clays old, it nas learned to drinK readily from the pail set in the manger, and at ten days its diet is warm skim milk and the ensilage, clover hay and meal, shared with its mother. In the winter, while the cows are confined in the barn, this is an excellent plan; mnch better than to separate them and pnt the oalves in a pen by themselves. The cows are more contented and happy, and the calves are more comfortable from the warmth of their mothers' bodies?they do look so cozy lying snugly between the cews. They sooner learn to eat and seem to grow up with better manners when thus under the eye and influence of their mothers, than when confined in a pen with others, where they acquire annoying habits, which are often long in overcoming or outgrowing. I would never think of leaving a calf four weeks with its mother, to 1L*. A 11 ~ t ? 1- Ml- _i. _1 lane its nil ui ixeau uiiin at pleasure. The butter, -which the milk should make, would be worth double tht? amount the veal would bring, if sold. If to be raised for the dairy, the skim* milk calf is equal to any, while it is much better for the cow to be milked by hand than by calf. My cows are thoroughbred Jerseys, and the heifers invariably drop their calves at seventeen to nineteen months of age, and are again bred when their calves are about five months old; they are thus twelve months in milk and dry two months before dropping the second calf. I prefer to milk them a full year,, which seems to better develop "the milking habit," than to dry them off at eight or nine months, as many do. A year is long enough, however, with the first calf, and after that they are allowed to breed as fast as they will. I have one cow, eight years old next ISovamber, which has dropped eight calves in succession, and is now bred for the ninth; the calves were equally divided as to sex, all healthv and heartv. and the heifers made excellent milkers. This cow has never been dry, is in good flesh and has gained in milk with each succeed* ing calf. FARM AND GABDEN NOTES. No one should question the value of 9ggs as a paying business. The few fowls that every farmer seeps, and on which he spends but little, pay best of all his farm live stock. Beef blood is said to be an excellent food for poultry, as it is rich in nitrogen, approaching the white of the egg in composition. A good crop of hay may be made more profitable than an equally good crap of grain nine times out of ten if it is judiciously fed to stock upon the farm. The expense and labor attending the management of a hay farm are so much less than those of a grain farm that it is a constant wonder that men who are burdened with more land than they can properly cultivate do not change their methods. The true feed for laying fowls is one-third or one-quarter Indian corn, ground or otherwise, and oats or wheat, together with milk and whatever scraps from the house are obtainable, and as much green vegetable food as they will eat. The manure from different kinds of stock, fed in different ways, will be widely different in quality. It is a jood plan to -have a manure pit so arranged that all can be thrown in together and thoroughly mixed before being put out to the field. When attention is paid to fowls, and they are properly fed and housed, after deducting the cost of keeping, care, interest, etc., from the amoant for which their eggs sen, tnere is, in nine jases out ten, a large balance to be found on the credit side of the ledger. An acre of good ensilage corn should produce fifteen tons. This would feed tive cows, forty pounds each, for 159 iays. From this you can calculate bow many acres you should plant, rry the acre and the fire cows at least, and another year you will pat in more. The royal institute for fruit and vine culture at Geisenheim, Germany, Las experimented successfully in the noo nf nnnnflrM as a stimulant for plants that lack green color in their leaves. The copperas should be dissolved in water and applied near the roots in early spring. Carrots and'cabbages are two items that should have a larger place in our list of feeding stuffs. The first are excellent for colts, horses, milch cows, and all young stock. The second are valuable for pretty nearly all kind.3 of ^tock, and there has not yet any been found that will not eat them greedily. Here is a farmer's way to get rid of i-ofa fto havs hfl has tried it when they were bad and got rid of them all. Take one-half pint of sifted meal and put into it a thimbleful of calomel, 3uch as is used in families. Mix well and place in small tins or some shallow vessel in or near the place where the rats infest; all to be used dry, and in \ short time rats will be very scarce on the premises. The handiest and most effective way to apply paris green to potatoes is in the form of a dry mixture with flour. It sticks better than any other substance ; a very small quantity is sufficient, and with a small sifter it may be applied rapidly and with little waste. It does not involve such hard work and is really cheaper for that reason. Carrying water costs more than the flour. . The best heating material for the Lot bed is fresh horse droppings and leave?, half and half. Draw to the *ite of the Hot bed ana mix tnorougmy, leaving in a close pile to heat. Wlien tl e vapors begin to escape turn the heap over, mixing thoroughly, and again leaee in a pile to heat. The next step is to fill the bed with the compost, packing it evenly and firmly. Over this put about ten inches of rioh soil. TYOBDS OF WISDOM. A doll man often mokes a catting remark. Every difficulty overcome is made f stepping stone. A face that cannot smile is like a lantern without a light. . Thoughts are threads into which tha web of character is woven. Character is always writing its nam? on the face in indelible ink. It is harder to guard against a liar than it is against the smallpox. Great victories are now always won on the fields where great armies fight. The mail who looks for difficultiei will find two where he only expected one. Hope is always saying that there if a light close by when we get in tha dark. * Whenever a hypocrite gets mad he will claim to have be righteously indignant. When the sower goes out to sow he carries more than one wheat field on his back. Shadows sometimes come to tha good, but they never have to be alone in the dark. Every man makes the world either rioher or poorer by what he gives toit of himself. It is hard to find a man who does not put the blame of his misfortune upon his wife. Many have led sober lives because they were shocked by the vicious example of a drunkard. It is hard to make a stingy man believe that he is robbing himself by keeping his money in his pocket Th6 richest man is not the one who has the most, bnt the one who can be the most thankful for the least.? Barn's Horn. A Chameleon Spider. "It has always been a hobby of mine," said T. L. Grimshaw, of Raleigh, N. C., yesterday, "to collect strange bugs and insects during my travels, and I think I have succeeded in getting together a pretty choice collection. Of the whole assortment I think the chameleon spider which I got last summer on the coast of Africa is the most valuable. The capture of this insect was highly interesting to me. One afternoon, while tramping along a dusty road, I noticed in the bushes which grew along the side what appeared to be a singular-looking white flower with a blue center. Stopping to examine it I found to my astonishment that it was not a flower at all, but a spider's web, and that the supposed light blue heart of the flower was the spider itself lying in wait for its prey. "The mottled brown legs of the spider were exposed in such a way as to resemble the divisions between the petals of a flower. The web itself, very delicately woven into a rosette pattern, was white, and the threads that suspended it from the boshes were so line as to be almost invisible. The whole thing had the appearance of being suspended in the air upon a stem concealed beneath. Upon knocking the spider from his perch into the white gauze net which I carried, my surprise was greatly increased upon seeing my captive instantly turn in color from blue to white. I shook the net, and again the spider changed color, this time its body becoming a dull greenish brown. As often as I would shake the net just so often would the spider change its color, and I kept it up until it had as- ? ? - ? 1 P ii. _ sumed aoout every nue ox me mmbow."?St. Louis Globe-Democrat. "Once Upon a TIme.,; The Dark Continent is now nothing like its name. We know it almost from end to end, and side to side, along each of its lines of longitude and parallels of latitude. True, Rider Haggard has civilly tried to cheer ua back into the old paths of eerie belief; but though he does well in the matter and gives us momentary thrills, he fails to convince us. His thousand* year-old queens and cavernous treasure chambers are exceedingly welcome, yet when we get to the word "Finis I" it is all up with fancy. We shut the book, exclaim "Pretty good for a lie?" and resume our unromantic work at so much an hour or so much a year* fundamentally unconsoled though the romancer has romanced ever so closely to nature's lines. As for commonplace, "Once upon a time," we laugh it out of court. The tale th4t presumes to come before us marked across the brow with the words, "I'm a pleasing but wholly improbable etory," may be good - tfi i_ i?: ~i enougn tor our cnnureu u? bockers and short frocks; but it won't do for us. We demand subtle stories of living and moving individuals; and every action and gesture of the persons on the pages must ring and feel true and thoroughly rational ere the book as a whole can be praised.?All the Year Round. The Hand Organ Business. According to information from Boston, the hand organ business ia very thriving and well paying there. It is said that the number of hand organs in that city has been doubled within the last year. The business ia largely controlled, by an Italian, wuo supplies organs to his compatriots, who pretty well monopolize the business, on the installment plan. The cost of each instrument is about $200, and to this must be added ?40 for each cylinder of new tunes or "popu- t lar airs." The organ grinders make r their headquarters in the city, but each has a recognized route or territory covering certain streets or including suburbs. The average earning? are between $4 and $5 a day, according to the times. Just now the hurdy gurdy business is blighted by hard times, as graver and more weighty businesses are. Sometimes the proprietor of an organ leaves the city to make a tour of some part of the coun' - ? T> . I, Jo rry. a .dosioll muu uuu uw oiouoa west as far west as Kansas City last summer, ami their receipts for five months, clear of expenses, were $1400. There is said to be only oue man in Boston who knows how to repair street organs. He came from Turin and learned his trade in that city and in Paris. He also supplies players witfl new cylinders.?Picayune.