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flEV. DR. TALMAGE. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: "Business Troubles." T*:xt: "These were thy merchants in all sorts of things."?Ezekiel xsvii., 24. We are at the openins door of returning National prosperity. The coming crops, the re-establishmeut of public conlldence and, f above all, the blessing of God will turn in upon all sections of America the widest, greatest prosperity this country has ever seen. But that iloor or success is not yet fully open, and thousands of business men ' are yet suffering from the distressing times through which we have been passim;. Some of the best men in the land have faltered, men whose hearts are enlisted in every good work and whose hands have blessed every great charity. The church of God can afford to extend to them her sympathies and plead before heaven with all availing prayer. The schools such men have cstablish?d, the ehuroh??s they have built, the asylums and beneficent institutions they have fostered will be their eulogy lorn: after their banking institutions are forgotten. Such men can never fail. They have their treasures in banks that never break and will be millionaires forever. But I thought it would be appropriate to-day and useful for me to lalk about the trials and temptations of our business men and try to offer some curative prescriptions. In the first place, I have to remark that a great many of our business men feel ruinous trials and temptations coming to them from small and limited capital in business. It is everywhere understood that it now takes three or four times as much to do business well than it once did. Once a few hundred dollars were turned int*. goods. The merchant would be his own storekeeper, his own salesman, his own bookkeei<er. He would manage ail the affairs himself, and every thini; would be net profit. Wonderrul changes have com<\ costly apparatus, extensive advertising, exorbitant store rents, heavy taxation, expensive agencies are only parts of the demand made upon our commercial men. and when they have found m themselves in such circumstances w.th small f capital they have sometimes been tempted to f run against the rocks of moral and financial f destruction. This temptation of limited capital has ruined men in two ways. Sometimes they have shrunk down under the temptation. They have yielded the battle before the first shot was flred. At the first hard dun they surrendered. Their knees knocked together at the fall of the auctioneer's hammer. They blanched at the financial peril. They did not understand that j there is such a thing as heroism in merchaa- | . dise and that there are Waterloos of the | counter aud that a man can fight no braver battle with the sword than he can with the yardstick. Their soals melted in them because sugars were up when they wanted to buy aud down when they wanted to sell, and unsalable goods were on the shelf and -1 ^ Ka!? UrlrvAii Tlni rrlnnm nT U8U Ul*yi3 1U U1CU IVvi^Ul, A.LIV * ? tbeir countenances overshadowed even tneir dry goods and groceries. Despondency, coming from limited capital, blasted them. Others have felt it in a different way. They have said: '-Here I have been trudging along. I have been trying to be honest all these years. I find it is of no use. Now it Is make or break." The small craft that could have stood the stream is put out bei yond the lighthouse on the great sea of speculation. He borrows a few thousand dollars from friends who dare not refuse him, and ha goes bartering on a large scale. He reason* in this way "Perhaps I may succeed, and If I don't I will be no worse off than I am now, for $100,000 taken from nothing, nothing remains.'' Stocks are the dice with which he gambles. He bought for a few dollars vast tracts of Western land. Some man at the East, living on a fat homestead, meets this gambler "T" * of fortune and is persuaded to trade off his estate for lots in a Western city, with large I avenues, and costly palaces, and lake steamers smoking at the wharves, and rail trains coming down with lightning speed from every direction. There it is all on paper! The city has never been built nor the railroads constructed, but everything points that way. and the thing will be done as sure as you live. Well, tue man goes on, stopping at no fraud or outrage. In his splendid equipage he dashes past, while the honest laborer looks up and wipes the sweat from his brow and says, "I wonder where that man cot all his money?" After a while the bubble bursts. Creditors rush in. The law clutches, but finds nothing in its grasp. The men who were swindled say, ''I don't know how I could have ever been deceived by that man," and the pictorials, in handsome woodcuts, set forth the hero who in ten years had genius enough to fail for $150,000!" And that is the process by which manv have been tempted through limitation of capital to rush into labyrinths from which they could not be extricated. I would not want to chain honest enterprise. I would not want to block up any of the avenues for honest accumulation that open before young men. On the contrary, I would like to cheer them on and rejoice when they reach the goal, but wheu there are such multitudes of men going to ruin for this life and the life that iw to come through wrong notions of what are lawful spheres of enterprise it is the duty of the Church of God, and the ministers of religion, anu the friends of all joung men, to utter a plain, emphatic, unmistakable protest. These are the influences that drown men in destruction and perdition. r Again, a great many of our business men I are tempted to overanxiety and care. You know that nearly all commercial businesses are overdone in this day. Smitten with the love of quick gain, our cities are crowded with men resolved to be rich at all hazards. They do not care how money comes if it only comes. Our best merchants are thrown into competition with men of more means and less conscience, and if an ooportunity of accumulation b? neglected one hour Borne one else picks it up. From January to December the struggle goes on. Night gives no quiet to limbs tossing in restlessness nor to a brain that will not stop thinking. The dreams are harrowed by imaginary loss and flushed with imaginary gains. Lven the Subbath cannot dam back the tide of anxiety, for this wave of worldliness dashes clear over the churches and leaves its foam on Bibles and prayer books. Men who are living on salaries or by the cultivation of the Boil cannot understand the wear and tear of the body and mind to which our merchants are subjected when they do not know but that their livelihood and th?ir business honor are dependent upon the uncertainties of the next hour. This excitement of the brain, this corroding care of the heart, this strain of effort that exhausts the spirit, sends a great many of our best men in middle life into the grave, their life dashed out against money safes. They go with their --s. store on their backs. Thev trudee like cam els, sweating, from Aleppo to Damascus. They make their life a crucifixion. Standing behind desks and counters, banished from the fresh air, weighed down by carking caro3. they are so many suicides. Oil. I wish I could to-day rub out some of these lines of care; that I could lift some of the burdens from the heart; that I could give relaxation to some of these worn muscles. It is time for you to begin to take it a little easier. Do your best and then trust God for the rest. Do not fret. God manages all the ufTairs of your life, and He manages them for the best. Consider the lilies. They always have robes. Behold the fowls of the air! They always have nests. Take a long breath. "Bethink betimes that God did not make you for a pack horse. Dig yourselves out from among the hogsheads and the shelves, and in th<; light of the holy Sabbath day resolve that you will give to the winds your fears, an I your fretfulness, an I your distresses. You brought nothing into the world, and it is very certain you can carry nothing out. I Having food and raiment, be therewith content. The merchant came home from the store. There had been a great disaster there. He opene I the front door and said in the midst of hLs family circle: "i am ruined. Everything is gone, f am all ruined." His wife said, "I am left," and th? littlo child threw up its hauJs and said. "Papa, I am here." The a'jed grandmother, seated in the room, said, l,Thea you have all the promises of God beside, John." And he burst in**a. to tears and said: "God forgive me that I have been so ungrateful! I find I have a P great many things left. God forgive me!" Again, I remark that many of our business men are tempted to neglect their home duties. How often it is that the store an l home clash, but there ought not to be any collision. It is often the case that the father lathe mere treasurer of the family, a sort of tgent to see that thay have dry goods and rrooeriee. The work of family government lie does not touch. Onco or twice in a year be calls the children uj. on a Sabbath alternoon, when he has a half hour he does not exactly know what to do with, and in that half hour be disciplines the children and chides them and corrects their faults and Kives them a great deal of good advice, and then wonders all the rest of the year that hLchildreu do not do better when they have the wouderful advantage of that semi-annual castigation. Th?> family table, which ought to be the place for pleasant discussion and cheerfulness, often becomes the place of perilous expedition. If there be any blessing asked at all, it is cut off at both ends and with the hand on the carving knife. He counts on his fingers, making estimates in the interstices of the repast. The work done, the hat goes to the head, and he starts down the street, and before the family have arisen from the table he has bound up another bundle of goods and says to the customer, "Anything more I can do for you to-day, sir?" A man has more responsibilities than those which are discharged by putting competent instructors over his children and ?ivim? them a drawins: master and a music teacher. The physical culture of the child will not be attended to unless the father looks to it. He must sometimes lose his dignity. He must unlimber his joints. He must sometimes lead them out to their sports and games. The parent who cannot forget the severe duties of life sometimes, to fly the kite and trundle the hoop and chase the ball and jump the rope with his children, ought never to have been tempted out of a crusty and unredeemable solitariness. If you want to keep your children away from places of sin you can only do it by making your home attractive. You may preach sermons and advocate reforms and denounce wickedness, and yet your children will be captivated by the glittering saloon of sin unless you can make your home a brighter place than any other place on earth to them. Oh. gather all charms iuto your house. If you can afford it, Dring books and pictures and cheerful entertainments to the household. But above all teach those children, not by half an hour twice a year on the Sabbath day, but day after day and every day teach them that religion is a great gladness: that it throws chains of gold about the neck, that it takes no spring from the foot, no blithencss from the heart, no sparkle from the eye, no ring from the laughter, but that -her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace." I sympathize with the work being done in many of our cities by which beautiful rooms are set apart by our Young Men's Christian Associations, and I pray God to prosper them in all things. But I tell you there is something back of that and before that. We need more liunnv. consecrated, cheerful Christian homes everywhere. Again I remark that a great many of our business meu are tempted to put the attainment of money above the value of the soul. It is a grand thing to have plenty of money. The more you get of it the better, if it come honesty and go usefully. For the lack of it sickness dies without medicine, and hunger finds it coffin in the empty bread tray, and nakedness shivers for lack of clothes and Are. When I hear a man in canting tirade against money?a Christian man?a3 though it had no possible use on earth and he had no interest in it at all, I come almost to think that the heaven that would be appropriate for him would be an everlastlnc poorhouse. While, my friends, we do admit there is such a thing as the lawful use of money ?a profitable use of money?let us recognize also the fact that money cannot satisfy a man's soul; that it cannot glitter in the dark valley; that It cannot pay our fare across the Jordan of death; that it cannot unlock the gate of heaven. There are men In all occupations who seem to act as though they thought that a pack of bonds and mortgages could be traded off for a title to heaven and as though gold would be a lawful tender in that place where it is so common that they make pavemehts out of it. Salvation by Christ is the only salvation. Treasures in heaven are the only Incorruptible treasures. Have you ever ciphered out in the rule ol loss and gain the sum, '^Vhat shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" However fine your apparel, the winds of death will flutter it like rags. Home spun and a threadbare coat have sometime? been the shadow of coming robe3 made white in the blood of the Lamb.* The pearl of greal price is worth more than any gem you can bring from the ocean, than Australian or Brazilian mines strung in one carcanet. Seek after God, find His righteousness, and all shall be well here?all shall be well here after. Some of you remember the shipwreck of the Central America. That noble ship had, I think, about 500 passengers aboard. Suddenly the storm came, and the surges tramped the decks and swung into the hatches, and there went up a hundred voiced death shriek. The foam on the jaw of the wave. The pitching of the steamer as though it were leaping a mountain. The dismal flare of the signal rockets. The long cough of the steam pipes. The hiss of extinguished furnaces. The walking of God on the wave! The steamer went not down without a struggle. As the passengers stationed themselves in rows to bail out the vessel, hark to the thump of the buckets, as men unused to toil, with blistered hands and strainel muscle, tug for their lives. There is a sail seen against the sky. The flash of the distress gun is noticed; its voice heard not, for it is choked in the louder booming of the sea. * AnAAMn/1 Kuf f Ka ofao mat< A lew ym wuw oivuu.vi pave one great lurch and was gone! So there are some men who sail on prosperously in life. All's well, all's well. But at last some financial disaster comes?a euro3lydon. Down they go! The bottom of the commercial sea is strewn with shattered hulks. But because your property goes do not let your soul go." Though all else perish, save that, for I have to tell you of a more stupendous shipwreck than that which I just mentioned. God launched this world 6000 years ago. It has been going on under freight of mountains and immortals, but one day it will stagger at the cry of flre. The timbers ol rock will burn, the mountains flame like masts, and the clouds like sails in the judgment hurricane. Then God shall take the passengers off the deck, and from the berths thoso who have long been asleep in Jesus, and He will set them far beyond the reach of storm and peril. But how many shall go down will never be known until it shall be announced one day in heaven. The shipwreck of a world! So many millions saved! So many millions drowned! Oh, my dear hearers,* whatever you lose, though your houses go, though your lands go, though all your earthly possessions perish, may God Almighty, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, save all your souls! CERMAN FARMERS WANT SILVER. The Government Will Not Urge aii International Conference. Tne new German Ambassador to the United Slates, Baron von Thielman, when asked what he thought of the prospects thai Germany would participate in an International Monetary Conference, he said: "Let me ask what the United States wil do? It is doubtless problematical in bott cases. To be sure, the American Congress had provided for delegates from thiscountrj if there is to be a conference, but it is yet t( be determined thiit one will be called. I wai present at the last conference and was noi deeply impressed with the character of it! deliberations or with its results." Baron von Thielman is known in German] as a gold man. though the Conservative par ty. to which he belongs, Is favorable to silver. The agitation for silver," the Baron con tinued. "came mainly from the agrariar population of the North of Germany and was largely due to the low prices of farn products. He did not believo the Imperia Government would take any step toward th< mlliuK of an International Monetary Con f -reace until after the Reichstag harl ussem >led in November, and a great deal wouk tkot Kn.tv When asked if Germany intended to ro move the restrictions put in force hist sum mer against American cuttle the Ainbas3a dor replied that this would not be delayei after Germany \v;is assured that our cattli were free from Texas fever. He denied ver positively that Germany's policy respectinj American cattle was in retaliation for th< j differential duty levied by the America! tariff law on German sugars. The GraMhoppor Crop. | Professor Otto Lugger, State Entomologis | of Minnesota, called at the Governor's offla and made a report on the grasshopper kill ing in Chicago County with the hoppe dozers. They have over 400 of these ma chines at work and are gathering in 800< bushels of grasshoppers daily. Thus far th< hoppers have not invaded the grain fields The frequent rains have kept the grass greet and tender, and they have contented them 3elvea feeding on this. .. > RELIGIOUS READING. " CHAHACTEK FOBMATIOK. The process of character-formation goes on through the action and interaction of many forces. The totality of a life,at any moment, ' u the product mainly of little things. Trilling choices, insignificant exercises of will, unim( portant acts often repeated, things seemingly 1 of small account?these are the thousand tiny ' .sculptors that are carving away constantly at the rude block of iife, giving it shape and ( feature. Indeed, the formation of character 1 is much like the work of an artist in stone. The sculptor takes a rough, unshapen mass of marble, and with strong, rapid strokes of ; mallet and chisel quickly brings into view the rude outline of his design, but after the outline appears, then comes hours, days perhaps eveu years, of patient, minute labor, A novice might see no change in the statue from one day to the other; for though the chisel touches the stone a thousand times, it touches as lightly as the fall of a raindrop, but each touch leaves a mark. A friend of Michael Angelo called on the great artist while he was finishing a statue; some days afterward he oalled again, and the eculptor was still at the same task. The friend, looking at the statue, exclaimed :? "Have you been idle since I saw you last?" "By no means," replied Angelo. "I have 1 retouched this part, and polished that; I have 6ofteued this feature, and brought out this muscle; I have given more expression to this lip, and more energy to thi9 limb." "We'i, well! 'said his friend, all these are trifles." "It may be so," replied Angelo; "but re- 1 collect that trifles make perfection, and that j perfection is no trifle." So it is with the shaping of character; each day brings us under the play of innumerable little influences. Every one of these influences does its work for good or ill; and all do their work through our consent. By-and- ( by appears the full and final result.?Bev. Philip 8. Moxom, in "The Aim of Life." SUNNY PEOrLE. There's" a certain old lady, who lives in a , little old house, with very little in it to make her comfortable. She is rather deaf and she J connot see very well, either. Her hands and feet are all out of shape and full of pain because of her rheumatism. But in spite of all this, you would llnd her full of sushine, and as cncery as a robin in June, and it would do you good to see her. I found out one day , what keeps her so cheerful. , "When I wu* a child," she said, "my mother taught me every morning before I got out of bed,to thank God for every good thing that I could think of that he had given me? I fnr n enmfnrtnhla hert for each article of | clothing; for my breakfast; for a pleasant home; for my friends; and for all my blessings, callincr each by name; and so begin every day with a heart full of praise to God ( for all He ha* done and is doing for me." Here Is the secret, then, of a happy life? ( this having oue's heart full of praise; and when we do as this dear little old lady does? that is, count our blessings every day, in a , spirit of thanksgiving for them?we shall | find many a reason why we should praise God.?Buffalo Christian Advocate. ?? J 1 POWER OF STANDING. You cannot turn in any direction, but a 1 moment's thought brings your testimony to the value of this power of standing. It robs ] calamities of half their terrors simply to I stand and face them. Half the terrors of | 1 life are mere uncertain shapes, which a good j 1 steady look perceives to be not the threaten- | J ing ghosts they seemed, but mere, dim, fan- | tastic shapes of rock ot tree. Even when I ' the danger is real, stand ana face it, and you 1 will often disarm it. What a good story that is of Cbarles Wesley at Sheffield. 1 Preaching among the rude cutlers there, ! suddenly an army officer ran at htm ' through the crowd with his sword druwn, 1 and crying, ''Let kill him!" Cbarles Wesley s.ood. with no defence but that old ' armor of God which has so often stood His saints in good stead, and thiowing open his coat, said: "Weil, sir, I fear God and honor 1 the king! What will you do?" What could he 1 do? Before that steadfastness the man's rage 1 fell back disarmed, and, Jrom an enemy, he ' became one of the Wesleys' stanchest sup- 1 porters.?Brooke Herford, D. D., in ''Sermons of Courage and Cheer." "i am nis." 1 It does one crood to read and think over < these words of Solomon: "My beloved is mine and I am His." We can never exhaust j the immortal meaning of these great words, " I am His." Try' to get Into the deep mean- j ing of this terse phrase. Does it mean, I am His child? It does if the heart be j linked to His Dy the bands of a love begotten by the Holy Spirit. You are. then, the eternal child of the eternal Father. What a i relationship! If you were the child of Queen Victoria, you would not, of course, be at all ashamed of it. You would be pleased to have everybody know it. You would like to have all men know that you belonged to the < greatest royal family on earth. But you are the child of one infinitely greater than England's noble Queen. Then, too, you are His beloved child. You are getting the benefit of matchless love. God loves you with all His wonderful heart. You almost shrink from such a thought. It seems too great to believe, but it is indeed true. THE INNER HEABT. "In the past you have been striving, perhaps. to grow into grace. Now, you must put 'growing into the hands of the Lord as well as all things else. Never worry or fret over the 'growing,' but just grow and trust as the baby does in its mother's loving arms; as the lily grows, without thought or anxiety. The past leave in the hands of the Lord. Let Him do with your efforts, your failures, your mistakes what he will. Give them to him as ! you do pour present cares, or worries, or trials; just ns you do yourself. Do this today, tomorrow, every today and every tomorrow. "Whenever a worry or care comes, wherever rou are, just there lay it at Jpsus' leet. Rest in him. Get into the inner heart of God's love and stay there; be enveloped by it, rejoice in it; grow day by day in the knowledge of it."?Mrs. F. C. Wilder. truth is tough. Said the late Oliver Wendell Holmes: , "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch, nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." This is why gospel truth endures the assault of the ases. Infidels have been kicking at it ever since it was proclaimed, but it is so tough that it hurt'? their heeis without being itself hurt. 1 Faint hearts have feared lest the truth should i suffer from infidel attacks, but their fears are groundless. Not till men can kill God, can they kill his truth. Firmer than the stars, stronger than the mountains, the truth of God will abide forever. | There is a little light in us, and that which we have we often lose by our negligence. I : do not know what it i?, or of what spirit we are led, or what we pretend, we that seem to be called spiritual, that we take so much pains and are so full of anxiety about transl' tnrr- an/1 moan rhinttq while wb scarcolv at i all."or but seidom, think of our own inward concernments with full recollection of mind. ?Thomas a Kempis. ' Most people dread far more tho social ! frown which follows the doing of something | conventionally wrong than they do tho i qualms of conscience which follow tho doing 1 of something iutrinsically wrong.?Herbert j Spencer. As we hold a cnndlw to tho flame until it is fully lighted, so we must hold ourselves to Christ und his word l?v meditation.?lioncol. ^ I.itr^ciit iU i*Mi?si|>|>i Halt. . It is said that the largest raft ever floated : dowu the Mississippi Itivor is now on its way j to St. Louis. It consists, with its load, of ( t over 7,000,000 feet of lumber, mostly white pine. If carried by rail this lumber would make nearly six hundred carloads. Allowing forty feet to the car, the train would bo over ( four and u half miles long. A Flagrant l'enslod Fraud. A most flagrant peason fraud has just been discovered at Macon, Mo., by a special agent " from Washington. The alleged veteran had secured a pension of $10,000 on account of 3 total blindness, but the special agent found ' [j that the man could see with both his eyes, j and was not even debarred from following , his business by his alleged disability^ He ia V> be prosecuted for the fraud. . ' SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON FO JULY '2S. Lesson Text: "Journeying to Ci nauii," Xuia. x., 129-36?Golden Text: Num. x., -9? Comnientury. 2!). "And Moses said unto Hobnb. tho sr of Rasuol the'Midinnite. JIosus's father-ii law, Wo are journeyinc unto the place which the Lord said. I will Rive it to yo eomo thou with us. and we will do th< pood.for the Lord hath spoken good coi eerninjr Israel." They had been encamps at Horeb many months. On tho first dnv < the first month of the second year tho tabe r?oo1o rt*o a flrootnH a rwl JlPPMntlvl hv Ood .'IE filled with His trlory (Ex. xl., 17. 34). Ju; fifty days later the cloud lifted, and the journeyed from Sinai (Num. x.. 11.12) in tb order described in this chaper. Raguel, ( Ruel, or Jethro (Ex. ii., IS; ill.. 1) was tb father of Zipporah, Moses's wife. Hobab here said to be his s?n and was probably a intimate friend of Moses in the days of h shepherd life. Truly the Lord had spoke good concerning Israel, as in Ex. vi., 6-i that wondrous sevenfold, "I will." beginnin and ending with "I, Jehovah." Moses bi lieved the word of the Lord. He had respe< unto the recompense of the reward (Heb. xi 26). and because of it had forsaken all h prospects in Egypt. Being fully persuade of the good things awaiting Israel, he woul fain have Hobab to enjoy them too. Ha^ we this spirit? 30. "And he said unto him. I will not g< but I will depart to my own land and t my kindred." Hobab saw no such prQgpei as opened up to the mind of Moses, and n far as appearances went he felt that b would be better off with his own people. ] is difficult for many to esteem the reproac of Christ greater riches than the visibl treasures of this world. The young ma whom Jesus told to sell all that he ha< and take up the cross and follow Him. wer itway grieved because he had great po! sessions. Jesus and His sufferings nov with glory hereafter, is the programme fc the Christian. If we prefer the world au Its pleasures now, we must not complain we lose the kingdom hereafter. 31. "And he said. Leave us not. I pra thee, forasmuch as thou knowest how w are to encamp in the wilderness, and tho mayest be to us instead of eyes." Moses: now seeking good from Hobab instead o as a moment ago, offering him good froi God. In this Moses is surelv wrong. ] looks as if for the moment be was forge ting God. and His cloud, and His unerrin guidance. So unstable i? man even at h best. We think of Simon Peter one momer confessing that Jesus was the Christ, the So of the Living God. and the next acting ? satan'3 mouthpieee to tempt the Lord t pity Himself and turn from the cro? (Matl xvi., 16, 23). How we do reed to pray, "St a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; kee the door of my lips." 32. "And it shall be if thou cro witl^ ui yea, it shall De, that what goodness the Lor shall do unto us the s?me will we do unt thee." Moses now talks more correctly, fc we are fully authorize 1 to offer all the rich< of God's grace and glory to all who will a< cept Him through Jesus Christ, but we at not expected to seek any help or guldanc trom those who are not His. As to offerin to others the same goodness Hp bestows upo us, we remember that Jesus said in H prayer (John xvil., 22). "l'he glory whic Thou gavest me, I have given taem." Agai ho said, "All things that the Father hath ai mine." (John xvi.. 15). And again it : written "All are yours, and yo are Christ's und Christ is God's." (I Cor. iii., 23). No 3inee God is willing to give His grace au crlory to every one who will come to Hii through Josus Christ, what must He thin of us who know this, and yet do little c nothing to make it known to the millior whr> are still in heathen darknassV. 33. "And they departed from the Mout of the Lord three days' journey, and the nr of the covenant of the Lord went befoi them in the three days' journey, to searc out a resting place for them." This wi surely better than the eyes or the wisdom ( Hobab. How could Moses seem to forg( that God had led them and would still lea them? Yet we are apt to do this very thin ?we do forget so soon. Three davs is ver suggestive of resurrection, as in the story < Abraham nnd Isaac. Jonah, our Lord Jesuj stc. God would have us rest in Jesus croc fled and risen. If He be not risen, there no salvation for any one (I Cor. xv? 14-13 But since He died and rose again and ev< llveth, He becomes a resting place for a who receive Him. This rest becomes glorious reality when we. having accepte Him, see ourselves as crucified and rise with Him, and seated with Him in the hea^ enlips (Eph. ii., 4-6). Ceasing from our ow works, wo rest in His finished work (Hal iv., 3,10), and wherever Ha pitches ourtei He is our rest. 34. "And the cloud of the Lord was upo them by day when they went out of tt camp." The cloud was the visible symbol 1 the Lord's presence with them, and He 1 it was their guide, their light, their shieli their avenger, their oracle, their coveric (Ex. xiii., 21; xiv., 19, 20. 24-28; Num. ix 15-23; x.. 34; xiv., 14), in fact, all that the needed for all the journey. In the Ne Testament story we think of the cloud on tt Mount of Transfiguration, the cloud that r ceived Him as He ascended from Olivet at the clouds with which He will come agai If we are truly His, we have the assurani that He is with us all the days: that. He wi never leavous nor forsake us; that He will ii struct us in the way in which we should g that Ho will hold our hand and help us, ar that He will perfect that which coneernet us (Math, xxviii.. 20; Heb. xiii., 5; Ps. xxxi: 8; 18a. XIV.; 13; l'S. cxxxvin., o). iuouol fort of all tills comes by simply believing I 35. ''And it came to pass, when the ark s forward, that Moses said, Rise up, Lord.ai let Thine enemies be scattered, and let the that hate Thee flee before Thee." David,I the spirit, afterward embodied this in least two of the psalms (Ps. lxviii.. 1, 2; r cxxxii.. 8). In Joshua iii.. 13, the ark called "the ark of the Lord, the Lord of t the earth." When the people relied upc God who dwelt between the cherubim, the enemies fled before them, but when they r lied upon the ark (which was only the syr bol of His presence) then their enemies o tained the victory (I Sam. iv., 3, 11). If v rely upon anything but upon the Lord Hit self, we will not have peace or victory. 36. "And wheu it rested, he said. Retur 0 Lord, unto the many thousands of Israel Thus, whether on the march or at rest, tl great reality of Israel's life was Jehovah their midst. In proportion as they realize this and ai:ted accordingly, they prospere but when they forgot Him they failed. It so with us. He says, "Lo, I am with you s ways," and when we believe, and thus ret ize Hi3 presence, and count on Him, wo ha joy and peace and victory, but when we Ic get His presence we fail.?Lesson Helper. DIVED FROM A HICH BUILDING. Harmon Tarnetl a Back Somersault an Struck the Water Evenly. Harry A. Harmon leaped from the top < th? Fort Dearborn Spice Company's buildin into the Chicago River at Chicago, a di tauce of 110 feet. The dive was the result < a wacrer of $50 between George A. Ginn, wh bet that Harmon could, and John E. Kam who bet he could not. The diver was t dive into the Chicago River from any plac that noulri ho Qpmirurl nnrl turn a Q^manaoii backwards ns bo foil. At tho hour named persons on the Rus Btreot bridge were sturtlod by seeing a ta figure, clad in pink shirt and sash and pui plo tights, step upon a jutting plank on th roof of tha adjoining building. Turning hi hack to tho water with his hands on bis hip; HarmoTi balanced himself on his toes on th end of the plank, glanced over his should^ at the water below. and, falliug backward; turned a somersault mid-distant, and laud od feet first in the water. The backwar revolution in mid air was mado full length without drawing up of tho limbs or bod) and without apparent effort. He soon rc appeared, and seizing a line thrown to hire was safely drawn ashore. Harmon is twenty-six years old and weigh 158 pounds. Ho has been diving for seven years, principally at San Francisco. Ms nil tive town. A New Woman's Fourtb. Ia WlnDfttnucca, Cal., the entire Fourth c July celebration wad turned over to th ladies. A lady was grand marshal and a! her 9tafT were pretty jirls. A lady deliver? the oration and read the Declaration, etc ill the men had to do wan to foot the bills. TEMPERANCE. DRINK AND RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. ' The Quarterly Journal of Inebriety; ' Kecently. a great railroad eorpc gathered all the facts concerning th and the conditions of every accident * - had occurred on its lines for five When tabulated, it appeared that foi cent, of all accidents were due altogotl in part, to the failures of men wh< drinking; that in eighteen por cent, was strong suspicion of similar caus no clear proof. In one year over a r *n dollars' worth of property was destro; c- the failures of beer-drinking enginee of switchmen. The company's rules req u; temperato men for all positions are mo f more rigorously enforced. Enginee a- that practically they are unable to d< id work while using spirits even in small if The coolness and presence of mind so r- tial in their work is broken up by alco id any form. st ''Trainmen, men exposed to the wt >y reach the same conclusion, if they an 10 ttcal men. The startling mortality of >r men is referable in many cases to the ie alcohol to drive out the cold, or keep is in long houra of service. Each yet n duties and responsibilities of railroa if- increase, and men more temperate, ac< n prompt and careful in their work a 8. quired. Only absolutely temperate m g (lo tms wortcior any lengrn 01 ume; au e- fall and are dangerous in their wenkn ?t "A Western road permitted an ine .. who was really an able man, to conti is a claim agent adjusting accounts agaii id company. His drinking was supposec d an aid in the settlement of claims with ro drinking men. After his death a tern man who filled his place sa^ed severa ), sand dollars a year by doing the same ;o repeating the common experience tk it ebdates are always more or less in< ls tent." le [t VO BEER jy THAT BUCKET. h The following is a "true story" tl 'e tually happened: A man from the new u near by came in at the alley gate and kitchen where a mother was working lt comfort of her family. He asked 3- bucket. The men working on the brie r. were thirsty, and he would take t drink. The bucket was brought. Th< d remarking on the discomfort of work if the hot sun that midsummer day, offe fill the bucket at her well. The water V cool men from offices and stores n 'e often came or sent for water fron u well. is Reaching out for the bucket the m f, clined the water, saying in a friendl ii that the mec would like beer bette [t water?he only wanted a bucket to ci t- in. Steadily the bucket was held bi g the lady said: "I am sorry, I cannot is bucket of mine for beer. Why, I dar it I have three boys, and what would thej n if I let beer be carried in anything frc is kitchen. I am sorry you wanted it fo o 6hould my boys drink liquor when th i. grown they must not say they ever sa Jt in anything belonging to their mc p not with her consent. Good day." 1 day." d A TEMPERANCE DECALOGUE. ? The temperance society of Odessa, ] ,r has published in its Listok the foil 53 Ten Commandments: 1. Thou shalt try to lead a sober lift ^ 2. Thou shalt not treat the fellow.1 (3 arkim'ftiAiiO rl^nlra K 3. Thou Shalt not rent any part ,u bouse, thy store or thy shop as a pli 13 the sale of spirituous drinks. 11 4. Thou shalt not trade in spii n drinks. 5. Thou shalt not engage in the ma ' ture of intoxicating liquors and wi ' any kind. ^ 6. Thou shalt preach against dri ^ ness. 11 7. Thou shall persuade all thy frieu k acquaintances to join the temperan ir ciety. 18 8. Thou shalt never repeat or circu opinion in favor of the drinking of eating beverages. 9. Thou shalt do all that is in thy 'e to prevent others drinking intox h beverages. ls 10. Thou shalt watch the doings of who trade in spirituous drinks and pr report to the authorities anv of the j d by which they criminate themselves R the law.?The Templar. y who 18 responsible? Is the liquor dealer alone respousi the criminality involved in the busir ^ conducts? Is not society criminally with him? Is not the community wh lj only stands by and tacitly consents " continuance of the liquor traffic as nc v1 tied on, but by forms of law legalizes ? shares its bloody revenue, criminally i ' slble for the evils it inflicts? In the " one of the Homestead rioters, Judj; j1 Gee. of Pittsburg, said: "I wish to si the law makes every man who stands without any effort to suppress the rl disorder, guilly of rioting. Such a '* responsible for all the consequences * 1 ^ order and rioting, whether such rioti 3 suits in the loss of property or the j y life. No matter what the results, i ' man is equally guilty for such de$ I? crime as the facts and results wa i I rf thn limirtp njj nnw carried fo Is a crime, then, according to the rea * of Judge McGee, all who stand ''i< jf without any effort to suppress" this are guilty of the crime of liquor sellit are responsible for all the evil conseq ^ that flow from the selling. INCAPABLE OF CONCEALMENT. tl" o; When a man allows himself to drink td in company so much as he ma^think th bear without awakening in inhere t lM piclon of inebriation, he will deceiv 3elf, and no one else. For abused nati It. 3elf will publish the excess in the 1 et countenance and flushed visage, the i id Greath and inflamed eye: and were all m banners of intemperance struck, tb< )y with his own tongue will reveal his i at A.t first there will bo something stra his appearance or conduct, to awaken ig vation and induce scrutiny, until, at I til with all his carelessness, in some ungi >n moment he will take more than he cai iir And now the secret is out. and these e- countable things are explained; the a. posures will become more frequent, t b. happy man still dreaming that thoi; re erred a little, he took such good care Q- ceal it that no one know it but himsel will even talk when his tongue is palt n ward ofT suspicion, and thrust hlmst company, to show that he is not drun le * (a ALL FOH THE BEST. 3d General Wolseley is doing all in his d. to promote temperance in the British is His experience in Egypt, India and il- Africa have proved to his satisfactic il- total abstainers from intoxicants can < ?e far more hardship than those who nre >r- haoit of drinking even in moderate < ties. He will not attempt to cut off tl of the soldiers peremptorily, but si that those who choose to abandon its compensated by extra rations of othei or by a money payment. His efforts direction have thu^^y; met with ene d ing success. AX EVIL DEVICE. ig 3. A clever bit of advertising, though jf same time very costly, involving o "treats" and the expenditure of 8 9 postage stamps in one day, is the lat o vice of a St. Paul brewer for drawii :e com. He mailed in one day 3.1,000 ,ci It letters to as many homes in that city, attention to a certain brand of beer, ? h closed in each circular two coupons, U entitled the holder t:> "one glass of r_ presented at any bar.' The evil one I o tiiust have inspired this cunuingly-d is plan tor attacking the homes and \v j. recruits for the army of drunkardo tional Temperance Advo'Mt-?. T s ri:2h'iir.ance new* ikd notes. Every place which offers for sale as j erage any :iind of intoxicating liquo ' to got youug people to urinking it. i- If for ten years England could gel i, drink .-the would at that time become paradise as men would hardly recog s John Bright. ^ The best way to destroy the saloon Li l* prive it of support. This can be done torming the drinker and training the I total abstinence.?Mid-Continent. Over a saloon in Cleveland, Ohio, i seen the sign: "A Hamburger stea * with every drink." This is the bait i ,? the silly workman, who, like the rat t ' with oheese. finds himself La a tr?| d which thaw is no escape. _ HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. TO REMOVE STAINS. i iay* The many stains which come upon 801 irRtfon the table Jinen and the summer dresses ] which ?* children are a constant sonrce fir? years. ftunoyance to the honsekeeper, and thi ty per as these become permanent disfigure- j ier, ot ments if left npon the goods when ma 'there tkey are washed, it is necessary to wo e*. yet know the immediate remedy in order ( nilliou to deal with them at once. A list of re'rind most common stains, with the an( uiring treatment which will remove each, is a fQU re iind convenient clipping to paste into a r rsflnd dy-ieaf of the cook book, or other J doseL P^ace ?* ready reference. j*a esseii- Fruit stains, when fresh, may be re- "e< hoi in moved by ponring boiling water 001 >(iiher trough ^e stained portion until the J 3 prac- 8Pot disappears. an brake- Old fruit stains may be removed om use of with oxalic acid. Wash the stained of iVtoe Porti?n *D the a?id till clear; rinse at pis d mon onc? in water, as the acid will at- ' urate, tack the fabric if left upon it. Now wo ire re- wet the spot in ammonia and give a in< en can < i { others fanal "nsing. op ess. Grass stains should be rubbed with Th brinte, molasses thoroughly and then washed oel out as usual. Another treatment is to i 1 to1 be j nib with alcohol and then wash in Wq othei water. ifwrate RUst and iron stains should b? ^ej work rubbed with juice of lemon, and th? <ju iat in' spot then covered with salt and the ^h< :ompe- cloth placed in the sun. If this treat- 1 ment does not serve to remove the . ' stain, or it the fabrio is colored and f161 iat ac- 00 cannot be treated with the lemon .w house juice, oxalic acid may be used as for e< to the old fruit stains. Still another treat* ^ for I men*1*9 *? aPP]y a nurture of two tk waij parts tartar and one part powdered hem a alum; this latter is good for a variety th: e lady, 0f 8tain8 which fail under other meth- *ai ?5l?? ods.. was so Ink that is freshly spilt upon a carear by pet should be covered with ^common or ?li 1 f at coarse salt or Indian meal. If all the an ,ie- stain is not absorbed, rub with lemon on y tone juice. 00 rrthflg Mildew is often a very stubborn in' !ick as l-hing to Ket 'id of. Cut ordinary soap be loan a into shavings and cook it to a paste Btt 6 DOt- with rain water. Spread the paste >m my ut,on ths sPoti scatter upon it finely pL r that, powdered potash and spread the fabrio St ey are upon the grass for twenty-four hours. fr< rtber" ra*n water an<* in ^ ordin- oi ' Good ar7 cases the spot will have disap- mi peared. If it is not entirely gone, rspeat the process. The same treatment is effectual in the case of wine or fruit lowing stains. "Wagon grease, pitch or tar may be m< ?. removed by spreading lard upon the ' with spot, rubbing it well in and then of thy washing out as usual. # ?t? ice for The same kind of stain upon silk " may be removed by rubbing with a at ituous mixture of equal parts of oil of tur* we .nufac- pentine and ether until all impurities m< nes of seem removed, then cover the spot ^ with fuller's earth or Frenoh ohalk, jaken- oover a blotting paper and press . ( ds and with a hot iron. Repeat this until *n ce so- the spot entirely disappears. Tea, coffee and undoubtedly oocoa intoxN stains, even those which have been bT3 previously washed, may be rubbed in Btl power lavalle water, if the fabric stained be icating white, otherwise the color will be ?r those blenched. Take a half-pint of the la- " Dinpfly valle water to a quart of clear water, ?8 lhIf0nS an<* ^et ^e s'a^ne(^ portion of the " ore cloth soak in it for severed hours, then rinse thoroughly in three waters. * j? ble for Colors which have been changed by "afiied aPP^cation of acids may be re- nc . . atrtrori htr annnoinff u-it.h chloroform OI m' icq nor ???o to the ammonia. While colors changed by ' > car^ a^Cfl^es ma7 be given an acid treat- vri espon- ?ent. ?St. Louis Star-Sayings, case of ;e mc- bbcepes. ^ idlyhy Rhubarb Custard Pie ? One-half fl(j lot and pint of finely chopped rhubarb, spread se man Is evenly oyer a rich pie paste. Make a ^ ?af, rg" custard as for custard pies and pour or loss of over it. Bake slowly until the thusuch a barb is tender and the custard nr reef0,! browned. ? rrant. w: rward, Orange Jelly?The juico of four or- ar zoning anges, the grated rind of one lemon, th traffic one anc^ one-half cupfuls of sugar, hs lg, and Put one-half box of gelatine into cold w< uences water, let it stand two hours, add a pint of boiling water and the other ( ingredients, pour in molds and set on always 'ce *? 00?^ ^ he can Mock Oyster Soup?Place a teacup jj eThlm" bedded codfish in a quart of ire her- water. Simmer one-half hour. Add UI] )loated one pint of stewed tomatoes and a w? tainted pinoh " of soda. Boil five minuteB, 9 man 3*raiD? a(*d one qnart of milk, salt, jj( shame, pepper and butter. Serve with craok- co age, in ers or croutons. length^ Corn Pone?Scald the meal over th uarded night, as if making thin mush. Add Pr a bear. cold water until lukewarm, and Hi ise^x- ^"^en w^h meal until stiff. Add one an he un- teaspoonful of sugar and one-half tea- bo, igh he spoonful of salt. Place it in a covered 18 f? 0<He w^ere ^ warm over in tied to t^le morning bake in a hot oven. ou >lf into Rice Biscuits ? Sift together two P? ^ and one-half cups of flour, one-half let teaspoonful of salt, two teaspoonfuls a power of baking powder, yolks of two eggs wa i army, beaten lightly, three-fourths of a cup At South 0( one-half cup of steamed or ba andure foiled rioe. Cut in last the whites of of i in the two eggs beaten stiff. Bake in gem- tic luanti- pans in a hot oven. 9^ r _ thi igKests Fresh Pineapple?Cut it round two use be inches from the top. Cut the lower instills Plece ^eD?t^w^se> jast through tbe **. louraij skin. t^ien Pe?l round without break- I?, ing the skin. Lift the outside off and slice the inside around. Sprinkle *a pulverized sugar between each layer *?. <lt t]l(; and cover with the rind again. Pai a 70,000 ^maJl piece on top, then it will look 7()0 foi like the uncut pineapple. Serve, ijfiMis U3inS ? fork to lift out the layers. I rcular- Meat Jelly?Take pieces of cold eo ud''11'' Inea*?ham, beef, etc., that has been cai 1 whleli 'e^ over?three-quarters of a cupful. PCf beer if When hashed fine add four small Ea liinself spiced gherkins, cut in fine pioce.i, hiniu-' auc* ^alf ft k?s of gelatine, soaked in Sti ..?So? ball a cup of cold water, till soft. Add ^ boiling wnter, one pint, half a cup of e'c spiced vinogur from the pickles? more if tbe viuegur is not strong. Stir *el a bev. in tho meat and pickle. Pour in the Pa r. tries mnlils.. Serve when hard. rid'of Strawberry Mosse ? Mash one quart r such a ot berries and one cup of sugar in a nize.? bowl. Let stand two houre. Meanwhile soak one-quarter of a box of ~ t"i]c- geiatiue in water to cover it. Press . wy/to fruit through the sieve. Add onethird of a cup of boiling water to the uaj Ih? gelatine, and when dissolved add the ^ J k free fruit. Set on ice Hud cool, stirring bought the, contents thicken. Add Jl 1 p from whipped cream, stirring it gentlj. 'm When smooth place in molds and i I froaflA. * 7/M ^ ===== % POPULAR SCIENCE. Ill kinds of insects arc afflicted with ne form of parasite. , Maxim's new cavalry gUD, which 33 700 shots a minute, weighs but rty pounds. S. nicely articulated skeleton of a . ,n can be bouscht for 8?0, whereas a man's costs $10 more. )ue of the moons of Mars goea ough all of its phases, "new, full J old moon," once each twenty^ ir hours. Che disappearing gnus at Fort milton, Naw York Harbor, have 3n made available by an electrical ltrivance for aiming them. i London restaurant is said to use electrically-heated plate to keep e's food warm. There ia no danger receiving a shock from touching tha ite. Fhe largest telegraph office in tho rid is in the general postoffice buildf, London. There arc over 3000 erators, 1000 of whom are women, e batteries are snppiied by 80,000 Is. ft is claimed that, owing to the good rk done by the Improved Industrial celling Company of London, tho * ith rate of that city has been re- . ced from forty to only eleven in a jusand. It is estimated that 293 hairs on the ad, thirty-nine on the ohin, and enty-three on the forearm and ninem on the back of the hand are raBctively contained in an area of a arter of an inch. mAann/11 r^aay + Vi n oaa Viova L IQUVD giUVTiU^ UCOI buv ?JW MWTV icker leaves than those growing inld. Apparently the sea salt is the aee of this phenomonon, as plants ltivated in artifically-salted soil sld thicker leaves. 7j| A spectroscope deteotor, by which e part of blood in a eolation of 850, 0 parts can be discovered, has been rented by M. de' Thierry. It will of value in murder cases where the 1 ins are very minute. Only a few hundred ouncos of atinum are found in the United atea annually, and this all come* )m Northern California and Southern egon, but very few of the minor* ike any effort to save it. Teaching- Pheasants to Peck. Walking down a road (iir Ceylon) one srning with a neighbor, we suddenly ticed a little ball of fluff between y feet, and I could hardly avoid jppiug on it, as it stuck close to me; nost imnfediately another appeared ' my friend's feet, and we saw they >re newly hatched pheasants, the ither probably carried off by some id cat. As it was difficult to walk th these little things running so )sa and in the way, we lifted them i A to the short grass aiongBiuu, ami Lrried on some fifty yards. Oq returning we bad forgotten them, it one ran ont, and so pertinaciously 10k to my boots that, to save it, 1 it it into my pocket, and on onz rival at the bungalow tried to feed with small fragments of hard-boiled g, rice and white ant3. Of all these took no notice. Next morning the her chick was found at the foot oj e bungalow steps, having probably llowed us unnoticed the day before, then called my "babu," as I could it get them to eat, and he said "they nst be taught." He put the gauze wire cover they ire under and the crushed rice, egg? o., on a hardwood table, and taking penoil from his pocket, and colleotg the eatables together, close to the [ge of the gauze cover, he lifted ita Ige, and, with the penoil point inrted, began sharply tapping among e rice debris. The two ohioks at ico ran over to that place and bent rer, watching the tapping, and, to ir astonishment, they began tapping ith their little beaks the same way, id before long had begun to feed on sir own account, just as me unuu id predicted; and after that lesson 5 had no trouble.?Nature. 1 ?' ,'ause ot the Frauco-Prusslan War. The Franco-Prussian war was due tc e fear of Prussia felt by Napoleon I, after the Austrian war of 1866 iere Prussia showed her power so imistakahly. The immediate cause is the refusal of the King of Prussia forbid his kinsman, Leopold ol jhenzollern-Sigmarinicn, from be* ming a candidate for the Spanish rone. Prince Leopold declined the rone, bat France demanded that ussia promise that none of tha )henzollern family should take it, d the King of Prussia refused to do France declared war July 70; the Crown Prince of Prussia traded France August 4; battles oorred on August 6, but the first ina-+onf Kafflou ware those of Courool 1 vauw - ? i, August 14, Marsla-Tour August 10 u Qravelotte, August 18. Straaburg is besieged August 10, aud Metz ou igast 18. There were many smalle* ttles, aud ou September 1 the battle Sedan began, ending bj the oapitula>n of the Emperor to the King. The ige of Paris began September 15;are were bloody fights all around a city, whioh surrendered January , 1871; Metz had surrendered Oo .ier 27, Strasburg, September 27. ie treaty of peace was signed Febary 26, 1871. i3y it France paid Prussia 81,000,1)00,000 and oedod saco and Lorraine. S; rup ot Violets. Syrup of violets is greatly asod by nfeotioners for making confections, adies, etc., also by perfumers for ?n*ir>.T nils, noiuades ttnd making , r . . ? ,u-des-Violettes. Large quantitiea violets used to be cultivated at ratford-upou-Avon for this purpose, is root, or, rather, tha undrgroand )m, haa a strom? soiell, particularly ten dried, und its taste is acrid, bit: and nauseous. ?New York Diatch. A (^iicer Advertisement. The following advertisement ia taken >m a Mauritius newspaper: "Birth. It was on Thursday, at 0.30 a. m.. 2 4th of April, 1895, that in the pas e retirement of C. M. de Tainowp's family, at Bonae Terre, rhceoix, lovsly babe named Eliacm Milton, iboniir has drawn his first breath of o on this earthly world. All gener4, Christian friends, kindly praj r this puny, living spirit throaglrae and eternity I"