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I REV. DR. TALMAGE. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: "The Unpardonable Sin." Texts: "All manner of sir. and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men. but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost sbail not bp forgiven unto m-n. And whcsoe-T sneaketh a wor i against th<>Son of Man it shall be forgiven him. but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven him. neith<*?- in this world. neither in the world to come. "?Matthew xii.. St. 32. "He found no place of repnnt.inee. though he sought it carefully with tears."?Hebrews xii.. 17. A.s sometimes v.v<: " ithor the whole family I around the eve.iinc stand to hear some book read, so now we cither. a .srreat Christian famllv arroa". to studv this text, and now may one aM the same lamp cast its glow on all the circl?\ Ton see :r>m the fir?t passage thaf I rea l that ther:* i< a 5 in against the Holy Ghost for which n man is never pardoned. Onc? havincr e.-v'nmitt? I lr. he is bound hand and foot for the ilunjeon^ of despair. Sermons may be preached to hirr. sonsjs mnv be sum* to him. orayers may be offered in hif behalf, but h'I to no purpose. He is a captive fortius world and a captive 'or th?? world that is to come. Do you suppose that there is any one here who has committed that sin? All sins are asrainst the Holy Ghost, but mv text I speaks of on<? 'specially. It is very clear to I my mind that- the sin against the Holy Ghost J the ascribing of the works of the spirit to the agency of the devil in the time of the apostles. . Indeed the Bible distinctly tells us that. In other words, if a man had sight siven to him, orif another was raised from the dead, and som? one standing there should say, "This man cot his sight by satanic power: the Holv Spirit did not do this; Beelzebub accomplished it." or '"This man raised from the dead was raised by satanic influence," the man who said that dropped down under the curse of the text and had committed the fatal sin atrainst the Holy Ghost. Now. I ilo not think it is possible in this day to commit that sin. I think it was possible only in apostolic time?. But it is a very terrible thins ever to say anything against the Holy Ghost, and it is a marked fact that our nice has been marvelouslv kept back from that profanity. You hoar a mau swear by the name of the eternal God. and by the i Qamo of J'sus Christ, but you never hear a i man swear by the name of the Holy Ghost. > fhere are those here to-day who fear they i ire guilty of the unpardonable sin. Have you such anxiety? Then I have to tell you i positively that yon have not committed that i Sin. because the very anxiety is a result of j the movement of the gracious Spirit, and four anxiety is proof positive, as certainly as i mythinz that can be demonstrated in math- i imatics. that you have not committed the i ?in that I have been spelling of. I can look i upon this audience and feel that there is i salvation for all. It is not like when thev 1 put out with those lifeboats from the Loch 1 barn ior (ii? vine an rmvrr. iucj nuo? i there wa* not room for all the passengers, i but they were coin? to do as well as they jould. But to-day we man the lifeboat of the gospel, and we cry out over the ssa. < uRoom for ail!" Oh. that the Lord Jesus j Christ would this hour bring you all out of ' the flood of sin and plant you on the deck of ; the glorious old gosnel craft! There is an impression in almost every < man's mind that somewhere in the future j there will be a chance where he can correct j all his mistakes. Live as we may, if we 1 Dnly repent in time God will forgive us, and I then all will be as well as though we ha I | never committed sin. My discourse shall come in collision with that theory. I shall show you. my friends, as God will help me. ( that there is such a thing as unsuccessful ] repentance; that there are things done wrong < F that always stay wrong, and for them you i may seek some place of repentance and seek j It citrefully, but never find it. ] Belonging to this class of irrevocable mis- \ takes is the follv of a misspent youth. We j may look back to our college days and think 1 how we neglected chemistry or geology or j botany or mathematics. We may be sorry j about'it all our days. Can wo ever get the < discipline or the advantage that we would < have h:id ha 1 we attended to those duties in i &arly life.' A man wakes up at foriy years i of ago aud Qnds that his youth has bean | wasted, and he strives to get back his early < advantages. Does he get them back?the ; days of boyhood, the days in college, th } ; days under his father's root/ "Oh," he says, j "if I could only get those times b:?ck again, how I would improve them!" My brother, i yo\i will never get them back. They are gone, gone. You may be very sorry about ] It, ami God may forgive, so that you may at i last reach heaven, but you will never get < over some of the mishap* that havo come to i your soul as a result of your neglect of early ; duty. You may try to undo It: you cannot undo it. When you had a boy's arms, and a I boy's eyes, and a boy's heart, you ought to i have attended to tho3?things. A man says i at llftv years of age, '*1 do wish I could get < oVer these habits of indolence." When did < you get tham? At twenty or twenty-five i years of age. You cannot shake them off. 1 They will hang to you to the very day o: i your death. If a young man through a long course of evil conduct undermines his physi? cal health and then repents of it in afterlife, the Lord may pardon him, but that does not bring back good phvsleal condition. I said to a minister of the gospel one Sabbath at the : close of the service, "Where are you preasb^ ing now?" "Oh." he says. "I am not preaching. I am suffering from the physical effects of early sin. I can't preach now; I am sick." A consecrated man he now is, and he mourns bitterly over early sins, but that does not arrest their bodily effects. The simple fact is that men and women often take twenty years 01 their life to build up influences that require all the rest of their life to break down. Talk about a man i beginning life when he is twenty-ono years ana. folb- ohniif n tr.iman hA<>innino? lift* when sh9 Is eighteen years of age! Ah, no! In many respects that is the time they close Ufa In nine cases out of ten all the questions of eternity are decided before that. Talk about a majority of men getting their fortunes between thirty and forty years! They get or lose fortunes between ten and twenty. When you tell me that a man is just beginning life. I tell you he is just closing it. The nexc fifty years will not be of as much importance to him as the first twenty. Now. why do I say this? Is it for the annoyance of those who have only a baleful retrospection? You know that 'is not ray way. I say it tor the benefit of young men and women. I want them to understand that eternity is wrapped up in this hour; that the sins of youth we never get over; that you are now fashioning the mold in which your great future is to run;that a minute, instead of being sixty seconds long, is made k up of everlasting ages. You can see what dignity and importance this gives to the life of all our young folks. Why, in the light of this subject life is not something to be frittered away, not something to b* smirked about, not something to be danc9l out, but something to be weighed in the balances of eternity. Oh, young man, the sin of yesterday, the sin of to-morrow will reaca over 10,000 years?aye, over the great and unending eternity. You may after awhile say: 4'I am very sorry. Now I have ant tr> thlrtv or fortv vearj of ase. and I 2o wish I had never committed those sins." What does that amount to? God may pardon you, but undo those things you never Will, you never can. , In this same category of irrevocable mistakes I put all parental negleut. We begin the education of our children too late. By the time they get to be ten or fifteen we wake tip to our mistakes and try to eradicate this bad habit and change that, but it is too late. That parent who omits in the first ten years - of the child's life to make an etornal impression for Christ never makes it. The child will probably go on with all the disadvantages, which miglit have baeu avoided byparental faithfulness. Now yoit see what a mistake that father or mother makes who guts off to late life adherence to Christ, [ere is a man who at fifty years of age says to you, "t must be a Unristian," an! He yields His heart to God and sits in the place of prayer to-day a Christian. None of us can doubt it. He goes home, and he says: "Here at fifty years of age I have given my heart to the Saviour. Now I must establish * a family altar." What? Where are your children now'/1 One in Boston, another in Cincinnati, another in New Orleans.and you, my brother, at your fiftieth year going to establish your familv altar? Very well, better late than never, but alas, alas, that you did not do it twenty-five years ago! When I was In Chamouni, Switzerland, X saw in the window of one of the shops a picture that impressed my mind very much. : It was a picture of an aoeident that occurred i >c the sid<? of one of the Swtss monntains A company of travelers, with guidee, wen up some very steep places?places which bu few travelers attempted to go up. The; were, as all travelers are there, fastened to crether with cords at the waist, so that if on< slipped the rope would hold him, the rop" fastened to the others. Taking along th' most dangerous point, one of the guide slipped and they all started down the precipice. But after awhile one more muscula than the rest struck his heels into the ic? and stopped, hut the rope broke, and down hundreds an l thousands of feet, the res went. And so I see who'.o families hound to sether by ties of affection and in many cases walking on slippery places of worldliness and sin. Th*> father knows it, and thi mother knows it. and they are bound all together. After awhile they begin to slidi down steeper and steeper, and the fathei becomes alarmed, and he stops, planting hii fact on the "rock of ages." He stops, buthe rope breaks, and those who were onct tied fast to him by moral and spiritual influences co over th* precipice. Oh, there is such a thine as coming to Christ soon enough to save ourselves, but not soon enough to save others. How many parents wake up in the lattei part of life to find out the mistake! The par ent says, "I have been too lenient," or "J have been too severe in the discipline of mj children. If I had the iittle ones around me acrain hATP HifTVkrunf T urwilrl Ynn uril never have th?m around again. The work if done: the bent to tho character is given; th? eteraitvis decided. I say this to young parents. those who are twenty-five and thirty or thirty-five years of age?have the famih altar to-night. Hnw do you suppose thai father felt as he leaned over the couch of hii dying child, and the expiring son said tc him: "Father, you have been very Rood tc me. You have given me a fine education and you have placed me in a fine social position: you have done everything for me in a worldly sense: but. father, you never told me how to die. Now I am dying, and I am afraid." Iu this category of irrevocable mistakes I place also the unkindnesses done the departed. 'When I was a uoy. my mother useil to say to me sometimes. l'De Witt, you will be sorry for that when I am gone." And I remember just how she looked, sitting there with cap and spectacles and the old Bible id her lap. and she neversaid atruerthingthao that, for I have often been sorry since. While wo have our friends with us wo say unguarded things that wound the feelings of those to whom we ought to give nothing but l-in<lnnj3 Porlinna tho nnront without in quiring into the matter, boxes the child's Bars. The little one. who ha? fallen in the street, comes in covered with dust, and as though the first disaster were not enough she whips it. After a while the child is taken, or the parent is taken, or the companion u taken, and those who are left say: "Oh. If we could only pet back thoso unkind words, those unkind deeds! If we could only recall them!" But you cannot get them back. You might bow down over tho grave of that loved one and cry and cry and cry. The white lips would make no tnswer. The stars shall be plucked out of thair sockets, but these influence? shall not b? torn away. The world shall die, but there are some wrongs immortal. The moral of which is. take cars of your friends tvhile you have them. Spare the scolding. Be economical of the satire. Shut up in a lark cave from which they shall ueverswarm forth all the words that have a sting in them, k'ou will wish you had some day?very soon you will, perhaps to-morrow. Oh, yes. IVhile with a Arm hand you administer parental discipline also administer it very gently, lest some day there be a little slab in the cemetery and on it chiseled, "Our Willie." or "Our Charlie." and though you bow down prone in the grave and seek a place of repentence and seek it carefully svith tears, you cannot find it. There is another sin that I place in the jlass of irrevocable mistakes, and that is lo3t opportunities of getting good. I never jometo ft Saturday night but I can see during that week that I have missed opportunities of getting good. I never come to!.uy birthday but I fan see that I have wasted many chances of getting better. I never go k/>Tr?n An ffihhaf-h thf> Hia.-v.iQsirm <">f n. religious theme without feolinc that I might have done it in a morosuccessful way. How is it with you? If you take a certain number bushels of wheat ami scatter them overa certain number of acres of land, you expect % harvest in proportion to the amount ol seed scattered. And I ask you now, Have Ihe sheaves of moral and spiritual harvest corresponded with the advantages given? How has it been with you? You may make resolutions for the future, but past opportun [ties are gone. In the long pro cession of future years all those past moments will march, but the archangel's trumpet that wakes the dead will not wake up for you one of those privi leges. Esau has sold his birthright, andther* is not wealth enough iu the treasure hcfuset of heaven to buy it back again. What does that mean? It means that if you are going t< jet any advantage out of this Sabbath daj you will have to get it before the hand wheels around on the clock to 12 to-aight. It mean.' that every momeut of our life has two wings, und that it does not fly like a hawk in circle?. but in a straight line from eternity tc eiernuy. ic means taar, inoujfu otaei chariots may break down or dracr heavily this one never drops the brake and nevei ceases to run. It means that while at othei [easts the cup may be passed to us and we may reject it, and yet after awhile take it, the cupbearers to this feast never give us but one chaace at the chalice, and rejecting that we shall "Had no place for repentance, though we seek it carefully with tears." There is one more class of sins that I put in this category of irrevocable sins and that is lost opportunities of usefulness. Tout business partner Ls a proud man. In ordinary circumstances say to him, "Believe in Christ," and hi will say. (iYou mind your business and I'll mind mine." But there has been affliction iu the household. His hearj Ls tender. He is looking around for sympathv and 90lace. Now is your tima. Speak speak, or forever hold your peace. There is a time in farm life whoa you plant the com and when you sow the S9ed. L?t that go by, and the farm3r will wring his hands whin other husbanimon are gatharing in the sheaves. You are in a religious meeting, and there is an opportuuity for you to speak a word for Christ. You say, "I must do it." Your cheek flushes with embarrassment. You rise half way, but you cower before men whose breath is in their nostrils, and you sag back, and the opportunity is gone, and all eternity will feel the effect of your silence. Try to get back that opportunity! You cannot And it. You might as well try to find the fleace that Gideon watched, or take ia your hand the dew that came down on the locks of the Bethlehem shepherds, or to And the plume of the first robin that went across paradise. It is gone?it is gone forever. When an opportunity for personal repentant or of doing stood passes away, you may hunt for it; you cannot find it. You may llsh for it; it will not take the hook. You may dig for it; you caunot bring it up. Remember that there are wrongs aa 1 sins tha: can nevsr be corrected ; that our privileges lly not in circles, but in a straight line; that the lightnings haveaot as swii't feet as our privileges when they are gone, anl let an opportunity of sal vation go by us au incli?the one-'jundretti part of aa inch, the thousandth part of aa iach, the millionth part of aa inch?:ind ao taaa can overtake it. Fire winged seraphim caaaot come up with it. Tho eternal God Himself caaaot catch it. I stand before taose who have a glorious birthright. Esau's was aot so rich as yours. Sell it once, and you sell It for iver. I remember the story of the lad oa th > Arctic some years ago?the lad Stewart Hollan.l. A vessel crashed into the Arctic in the time of a fog, and it was found that the ship must co down. Some of tho passengers got of! in the lifeboats, some got off oa rafts, but 300 went to tho bottom. During all those hours of calamity Stewart Holland stood at the signal gun aud it souuded across the sea?boom, boom! The helrnsmau forsook his place; the engineer was cone, and some fainted, an l some prayed. aud some blasphemed, und the powder wn gone, aad they could no more set off the signal gun. The lad broke in the magazine and brought out more powder, and again the gun boomed over the sea. Oh, my friends, tossed on the rough seas of life, some have taken the warning, have gone off in the lifeboat, and they are safe, but others are not making any attempt to escape. So I stand at this signal gun of the gospel, sounding the alarm, beware, beware! "Now is the accepted time. "Now is the day of salvation." Hear it that your soul may live. Americans Abroad. Americans have flocked to Europe this summer In larger numbers than ever before, and it was difficult to secure return accommodations for any time between August 1 mm feu pirn pit. Twenty-four Freight Cars Break Through a Colorado Bridge. WRECKAGE PILED THIRTY FEET. Three Persons Killed, Three Fatally Injured, and Fifteen Badly Hurt, Crushed Under the Debris?Passenger Train Had Safely Crossed the Bridge Twenty ] or*( ^Iinutes Earlier. oth A Santa Fe freight train bound from Donver to Colorado Springs fell through n by bridge just south of Monument, Col., at 11 all o'ciock a. m.. killing three persona, fatally injuring three, and seriously injuring tlfteen , others. th< There were twenty-four cars in the train art loaded with stone, lumber and timber. The .al3 lnl bridge gang, consisting of twenty men, were wa working under the north eud of the bridge. If The train passed over them and wus nearing f|3 the other side, when th ? timbers gave way and thf train went through into the gulch, alt fifty feet below. \ Nearly all the men working on the north tn< end were thrown off and fell below. Mrs. On Cooper, wife of Albert Cooper, the engineer ne of the bridge work, was sitting on a ledge of gu rock watching the men work, when the tim- ba bers began to crack, and J. C. Childers, who nu was on the structure, sprang to save her. no The leap was to death, as he had scarcely th< reached her side when the great mass of Bu wreckage fell upon them. Both were ch mangled and buried. Childers was foreman to: of the bridge gang. There was a moment pe of silence, and then came the hissing of we steam and cries of the scalded mon pierced ] the air. Fireman Frye was caught in his thi ?ab. but was pulled out. Two brakemen on no the engine were scalded. ri? As soon as possible a wrecking train was mt brought from Denver, bringing physicians th( and surgeons. All that was possible was Re done for the sufferers. They were taken to be the hospital at La Junta for treatment. tai Th? hrifiir* of wood fifty feet high and gri 300 ff?et long. Twenty minutes before the accident occurred the Midland passenger train crossed the structure. The cause of , the accident is unknown. . The wreckage was piled up thirty feet, ' and it was thought that there wore bodies J, 1 still under it. It took two days to clear it away. About half of the bridge was taken fl away by the train in its decent. . The killed and injured are: Killed?Jim Childers, foreman bridge gang; Mrs. Cooper, wife of stationary engineer: unknown tramp. ^ Fatally injured?Mark Winohers, enarineei freight train; D. N. Irby, brakenian; James Neal. Seriously* injured?Charles Halley. Frank CU] Rhaw, Wallace Cooper. Charles Van Merter . Tom Smith and Joe Williams, two tramp? gu stealing a ride; J. W. Cole, C. C. Carpenter, jja Thomas S. Stenhouse. Charles Sargeant. 3t0 As the engine neared the south end the wj, workmen underneath saw the bridge rook j and shouted an alarm to their comrades. 0f Before the danger could be realized th< engine and twenty-four cars came crashing ?0 through. Mr. Cooper shouted to his wife" but the noise of the cars drowned his voice. i thi DEATHS IN THE NEW CONCRESS. T?.?.?a?ntaHvp? Havp Dletl Since the err; Election in November Lnsr. en Only seven months have elapsed since the ^ election of members of the Fifty-fonrth Con- pa gress, and yet thero has been a loss o( foi seven from the ranks of the House of Representati ves chosen last November, five by deal b and two by resignation. The latter include Representatives J. C. Burrows (Rep.) of the Third Michigan District, who waschoseD to succeed the late Senator Francis B. Stock- j bridge, and whose successor has been elected lw in the person of Alfred Milne, and Represen- Th tative J. C. C. Black (Dem.), of the Tenth ski Georgia District, who resigned in couse- sol quence of reports that his election had been ski secured by unfair or improper means. He his will go before the people again, so that they 30I may make it clear whether they desire that to ho or Populist "Tom" Watson shall repre- mi sent them. on Those who have died include, besides Re- thj nresentative Frederick R*roan, whose funeral wc hivs just occurred in the Eighteeetn minou 01 District, the" following: Myron B. Wright cu (Rep.), of the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Dis- lin trict, November 13. 1894. James H. Codding thi having been elected to flllthe vacancy; Philip of S. Post (Rep.), of the Tenth Illinois Dis- da trict. January 6, 1895. whose place will no be filled by George W. Prince; Andrew J. ev Campbell (Rep.). of the Tenth Now York dn District. December 5, 1394. and Willian: un Cogswell (Rep.), of the Sixth Massachusetts oft May 22. Mr. Campbell was elected in Gen- hi.' eral Dan Sickles's old district in New York po and his successor is likely to be a Democrat, an Iu the other two cases there is no chang* lat expected in the political bias of the ne^ coi Representatives. or thi in< THE OUTLOOK FOR FRUIT. Unfavorable Condition* Reported for thf r Apple, Peach and Grape Crops. La The fruit crop report of the Agricultural thi Depurtment showsa moderate decline in con- j?1 dition. The report is summarizod as fol- ma lows: thi The condition of apples has been material ly lowered since the report of Juno. Losses ^|j have been especially marked in important foi States having already low conditions, viz., wo the New England States, New York, Penn- an svlvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minne- wi sota. In the Piedmont region the outlook is art decidedly more favorable. In Missouri and Ph contiguous States the decline has been ou slight, not above 3 per cent, in any case, but me the conditions are not quite as high as in in the Piedmont orchards. On the Pacific dil Coast conditions fell 8 to 11 percent., but the prospects there are still good. Frost at time of bloom, subsequent droughts, and heavy droppings are the main causes of the impaired prospects. The peach crop returns are also unfavora- c'c ble. Georgia and Connecticut alone of the SP' leading commercial States have now a high "*i percentage, the former having moved up to au 106, a gain of one point, the latter declining Jhi to 90 from 94. New Jersey ha.* lost 12 points and now stands at .73; Delaware. 13. stand- J?5 ing at 70; Maryland has advanced from 63 to W| 56. The condition of Virginia, 59, is lower than in June by 13 points. Michigan has a bli prospect of less than half a crop, while the percentage of Ohio, 22, Is lowest of all. In iQ California the condition figure declined from cri 3S on June 1 to 77 on July 1. tr( . Forthe grape crop frosts have done much itdamage, especially iu the more Northern belt ar and iu the Central West. wv Re Carapoa in Battle. While Captain-General Martinez Campos was en route in Cuba from Manzanillo to Bayamo, escorted by a detachment o of troops, a large force of insurgents was mel be with. The rel>els comprised the bands o.' ' Antonio and Jose Maceo and other leaders. be A severe battle took place, and the loss oti ^ both sides was heavy. General Sautocildes ui the Government loree, was killed. re .. I , _ an "liver >ervice lor int-ir my s A silver service valued at *5000 was present od to the United States cruiser Cincin- Va uati, now at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, by a th delegation ol citizens of Cincinnati. W Tlio American Cotton Crop. sa Oa June 1, the visible .supply of cotton in ihis country for 1895 was 9,520,085 bales. This is 2,212,820 bales more than were indi- ini cated by the crop at this time last year. 8ti These figures indicate that the entire crop au this season will be no less than 9,800,000 bales, an amount that has never, heretofore, ^ been approached. 0[ C? A Drunkard's Series of Crlmoa. Joseph Nickman, of Pleasanton, Mo., shot or his divorced wife through the heart, shot a P? neighbor In the arm, and then ran to a brush trheap near by and cut his throat from ear to ear. He was temporarily insaue from Pc l.-iuU. - w ci TEMPERANCE. R A LITTLE SOSO. Sing a song of sixpence, ? You fellow full of rye; 0* t With not a cent to bury vou . To-morrow, should you dio. * Saloonist in the barroom Counting out his money; jj His wife is in the parlor With well dressed sis and sonny. . Your wife has gone out working . And washing people's clothes, To pay for old rye whisky .. To color your red nose. ? run MISTAKES ABOUT DBIXK. tO ] ' want to speak to vou about this drink he il to point out to you the mistakes you and Nil lers are apt to make. ren ITZm* vni? am* .4a/vi waii rrr\r\A '* THic f"fl_n a decided mistake. Calculate honestly, tha the month of the year, all the good and Chi the evil it has done you, and you will find is v it. Instead of really doing you good, it has pec ne you a great deal of harm. sufl Second. But you say, That arises from tha ) abuse and not the proper use of the con :iole." Here again you are mistaken. The the use arises out of the use. from its peculiar rev luence upon the human body. Its use al* t>tr< iys has led and always will lead to abuse, poi thoughtless boys play with gunpowder, rivi nger is always near, and if men drink anc uids containing spirits they get more isn: irsty, become highly stimulated and are as i nost sure to get more or less intoxicated. " I'hird. But you reply, "Why did God send I si jse liquors if they were not to be drunk?" the i this point you are again mistaken. God hea ver did send them, any more that He sent " npowder, swords, cannons or cannon- he lis. Neither barley nor barley-water, - coe lit nor malt-water, the juice of the grape occ r the juice of the sugar-cane will produce thii 3 least intoxication in its natural state, tim it men take these substances and by a tail emicai process manufacture them into in- lov scicating liquor, and in this state ignorant stii ODle have eennrallv conceived that they fro: ire God's gifts. cat] Fourth. You say. ''If doctors recommend un; 5se drinks, they must be good." I reply, an t necessarily. Doctors are not always be? ;ht. But if they recommend them for the >dicine this is a pretty clear proof that the 5V ought not to t>e taken as a beverage, anc ader. in abstaining you are quite safe, and assured that the favorable opinion enterned by many of intoxicating liquor is o eat error.?liev. E. A. Hall. q ten theih owx graves. per: rhe punishment which follows wrong do; is sometimes so evidently just and apopriate that it is natural to speak of it its oetic justice." The penalty is not only * served, but it is so neatly adapted tn the Pet ense as to seem almost ideal, or poetical Jru its fitness. Under this head comes an "J1' ler of General Scott's, lately printed in of 1 e Magazine of American History. General Scott was in command at Rock and when the cholera broke out there, tbe d aftar various injunctions in this order are to sobriety and cleanliness, he adds this aPI rious paragraph: w*' 'In addition to the foregoing, the senior sa? rsreon present recommends the use of , ^ nnel shirts, flannel drawers, and woolen '?u >cking<?, but the Commanding General . tjje 10 has seen much of disease, knows that tae 5 intemperance which, in the present state the atmosphere, generates and spreads the s calamity, and that when once spread. arr od and temperate men are likely to take ?tn ) infection. ? "er He, therefore, peremptorily commands ??'' it every soldier or ranger who shall bo 'ea ind drunk or sensibly intoxicated after of_( i publication of this order, be compelled. 1 soon as his strength will permit, to dig a a?( ave at a suitable burying place large w" ough for his own reception, as such grave s"c nuot fail soon to be wanted for the of unken man himself or some drunken com- mu nion. The order is given as well to serve the punishment of drunkenness as to r*] ire good and temperate men the labor of Jud jging graves for their worthless compan- j133 i ! ? hat the THE FOE OF BOTH. Ucohol comes in to spoil the relations be- sha een the employer and the workingman. for e drinking workingman, no matter how He illed and clever in his workmanship when via ier, cannot claim the full wages of bis ill. because he cannot be relied on. and s employer is always on the lookout for a ? r>er and steady skilled artisan with whom . oust and replace the drinker. The latter a?* ly work well for many day.-, but suddenly *j V e morning he comes Into the shop, and in sldl ree minutes has blundered away material ?.?P ?rth a week's wages, or by his derangement the machinery some luckless comrade is P?1 t into pieces, or,if furious instead of maud* ? i, he has in a few minutes smashed more in he can make cood in weeks or months labor. And yet, again, is missing for V*' ys when work is pressing and hands can- 2.?1 t be spared. The employer who drinks, tv" en though he be what is called a moderate ?'j Inker, is thereby a tacit patron of all this . reliability, and* in himself illustrates it. :en failing to carry out- special promises to ?"j" i men, thinking he will, but lacking will t wertodomore than think and promise, d?his unreliability further vitiates tne re- ) J~ * ions between employer and man. In every- ? ndition in life alcoholism, whether slowly ? swiftly, surely destroys all certainty but 5 eertaiuty of disaster and downfall for the 2,/ iividual, for governments for the race. tbe the THE CAUSE OF CHIME AND PAUPERISM. call rhe careful investigation of the Bureau of ad bor, in Boston, results in the declaration a ?"< it eighty-four per cent, of all crime brought A el fore its tribunals was the direct or indirect the tits of alcohol. Recently a grand jury evil tde this ominous declaration: "'We find rinj it in every case of murder or man- sidi ughter, except one, the cause, leading to mo 3 crime, came direct from the saloon." Th< 1 studies of American political economy ext ce upon us the conclusion that poverty It i ?uld scarcely exist, were it not for drink, d yet our relief societies are over-burdene 1 th demands, our charitable institutions y 3 crowded.and our tramps number legions. t ysicians speak with alarm of the numers alcoholic cases brought up for treat- tj int, ana 01 xne yei more aurusruus kito, DjH which disease, whatever the form, is made jQ Bcult because of the alcoholic poison per- ? j sating the patient's frame. jor( thr THE EFFECTS OF DRUNKENNESS. bio Drunkenness deprives a muu of God's pre>us gift of reason, lleason in mau is a at ark of God's intelligence. It establishes *,ou a bond of union between man as creature 8ee d God as his Creator. Drunkenness de- 'usl rones the reason, and leaves mau a prey to e's< } vilest passions. God made man a little 0301 is than the augels; the drunkard makes !in mself a little less than the brutes. Moreover, this horrid vice extends its tJia trhting curse over man in his other rela- vie, ins. It is ruin In prosperity, and despair an'adversity. Cowardice, hypocrisy, theft, ? nelty. murder, contempt of God. and liaid of man go along with it and follow after Disease of body and imbecility of mind j( e notorious results of drunkenness. Who- aj, < erloves humanity hates drunkenness.? iv. Waiter Elliott. KO , c!a; TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. *^0 In one year over a million dollars' worth |jV , property was destroyed by the failures of er-drinking engineers and switchmen. s,-m rwenty-one temperance associations hav? lion en formed in Inuia during the past winter, fast th an enrollment of "JOOU new members. goo I cannot consent, as your Queen, to take ,J0tl venue from that which destroys the souls 'i,,a d bodies of mv subjects.?Queen of Mada scar. For every dollar paid the school to ouli j- '"j1. te the Intellect of this country, $0 arc p-vM --i 0 saloon to blight this intellect.?George i.f? Bain. The W. C. T. U. of Fremont, Neb., are Id to have paid in full for their Temperce Temple, which was built at a cost of q 0.000. a,g Drinking is like a dreadful plague, bring- Joi g misery and ruiu to whole Nations and <le- ma roving countless men and womon in body ho<: d soul. ' My indignation at the havoc made by the me ink trade and my sorrow over the miseries "tw* our people are deeper as 1 grow older.? 1 irdlnal Manning. bot 1 believe the liquor traffic to bo tte direct Indirect cause of a very large part of the f*'1' luperism, crime and insanity of the coun- *01 f.?Hon. Elijah A. Morse. _ An Ohio man says that a peeled raw Irish itato, dipped iato ice water and sucked 1 hen una feels inclined to take a driuk, vrili t0 1 ut> the most confirmed dipsomaniac. . .. -u: ELIGIOUS HEADING. "there shall de xo moht there." ^ It 13 heaven because it is beyond the reach ;hought. When I say, 'There shall be no i ht there," can your utmost effort grusp h a condition of things? When I add. iere shall be no tears there.' have you the v lmest apprehension of what the words an? Human language has no terms in Ich to convey tho truth about it; and p nan thought has no appliance by which it i be comprehended. We have certain ts, but nothing more. P There is an old rabbinical legend, and it is thud : When Joseph was prime minister , Pharaoh, during the period of the famine, Cl empted the chaff of his granaries into the e. It floated far away on the moving cur- f( t, and the people on the bank at a dis- . ce saw it. It was only chaff, but it meant " t there was corn in plenty somewhere, iff nlways means corn; and yet the chaff rorthless. You could not persuade these >ple that they were mistaken. They were * fering the pangs of hunger, and supposed t the famine extended throughout the intry, and that everybody was as hungry as 0 mselves. But that floating chaff was a t elation. They were sure that if their ;ngth would enable tfcem to reach the . lit <11 wmcn it nau ueen turuwu uiu iuc 5r, they would llnd plenty for themselves t 1 their famishing families. The paralieli is faulty in many respects; but imperfect it is. it serves my purpose." 0 You mean." I said, somewhat hastily, for a iw the drilt of his argument, "that the _ ught of heaven implies the existence of ^ iven." Somewhat more even than that, my son." t replied; "the existence of heaven is a fact iceded. What it is, and what will be our 3 upation there?we get a glimpse of these 3 tigs in strange ways. Adown the stream of ie come floating to our hearts' doors ceri dreams of bliss?reunion with those we P ed and lost; the longing for rest; the in- I ictive assurance that when we are freed t m the handicap of flesh and disease we t develop dormant faculties and satisfy :ratlfled desires forholiness. The race, as ice, ha<> enjoyed these hopes since it first f to struggle. They are the chaff; but . corn, which is higher up the stream, in ' granaries of God, will be ours in the by t I by.?Rev. George b. Nepworth. fc A TBCMPET CALL. J >n a bright September day a traveler en- t ?d a Scottish city. It was thronged with ^ ?ple who surged along the sidewalks, and re only kept from trampling on each other e the effects of a detachment of soldiers m a Highland regiment. j n front of a large hotel stocd two trumets, waiting for the signal to sound their * mpets. Men in long black robes moved t her and thither; others watched the hands [ :he clock as they crept toward the hour of ven. The traveler asked a spectator the aning of all this. He replied: "This is a autumn circuit court day. The judges 8 in that hotel. The hour of judgment is , jroachinsr, when it comes, the trumpets 1 1 sound and the judges will move to their v ts." 'he looked-for hour arrived?the long, d trumpet blast rang through the city; ' busy throng started at the solemn souDd; c hour of judgment had come. No doubt j ,t trumpet peal startled the prisoners in ir cells, for it told them that the time had ived when they must face the judge, and t nd their trial, and receive acquittal or connnation. The circuit court day was a . amn day to them; a day of hopes and 1 rs, of dread forebodings to the guilty and I :heerful expectations to the innocent. J 'ham ia nnnth?r iiiHirment scene which VOU 1 11 shaM behold, another dread tribunal ' ich shall be established, another solemn s nmons which shall be Issued to the sons i men, another trumpet call which we st hear. For "God now commandeth all n everywhere to repent because he i :h appointed a day in which he will j, ge the world in righteousness, by that t n whom He hath ordained: whereof He h given assurance unto all men that He 6 :h raised him from the dead." And when 1 day comes, and Jesus of Nazareth, the j be of Bethlehem and the Man of Calvary, ill be seated on the judgment throne, bee Him shall be gathered all nations, and shall separate them as a shepherd dieth the sheep from the goats." COCBTESr AS A CHRISTIAN. 'he apostle's command, "Be courteous," * >s not always receive the sort of heed t ich it merits. Too often courtesy is con- i ered a minor matter, provided one is . ind in religious faith, and in some sense , j view is correct. Yet courtesy is an im- * tant feature of true piety. The ordinary c ircourse of daily life reveals the quality j piety better thHD professions or what may i called parade occasions, and unless it be ' ed by courtesy there is grave reason to t lbt whether the piety claimed be genuine, c courtesy, especially when babitnal.reveals fl Ishness.and this is tho deadly foe of true igion, Christian courtesy and the politeness 1 ich scciety demands in conduct resemble I h other in appearance but differ radily. The former springs from the heart, , iased upon love and the golden rule and urposeful imitation of Jenus. The latter 1 omparatively supertlcial and formal, is t tivated lest one become unpopular or, at ? t. because of one's sense of propriety, I has in it no element of consecration. 3 one has its sources in a heavenly spirit, other in an earthly. The one endures, other cannot be depended upon. Courtesy Is for great self-control and often involves ifflcult restraint of one's turbulent spirit, ?al victory after a hard battle within. Its d of contest is the very Held where lies ceDtre of the light between good and I, the heart. A heartless courtesy always 53 hollow and seldom deceives by its outb fairness. It shows itself in little, comn matters as truly as in the more striking. i home pre-eminently is the sphere for its libition. Let no one regard it as a trifle. 3 a feature of religious duty. YOUTH. outh is not merely a lovely phase of the asient years: it is a pervading quality of iracter": a light in itself, and an Insplra1 to all surrounding lives. It is a peren1 freshness at the roots of being; and its w of contagious life shines out often most iantly bereath gray hairs and a wrinkled ehead. The tree that has ripened its fruit ough many spasons bursts iuto a springssoming just as fresh and fragrant as that ich unfoids from the half-grown sapling its side. There are infinite beginnings irgeoniog out continually from what ms to us the end. While we live in the piration of these, wherever and whatever [ > we may be, we are young. How can rtais aee or youin aisturo tun uuu^uis m inhabitant of the kingdom of heaven, in a presence of Him who is at once the Child d t is born to un and the Ancient of Days; Root and the Offspring; the Beginning , I the End; the Morning-Star of every soul? ,ucv Labcosi, in As It Is in Heaven." GLORIES OF LIFE. t is a glorious thing just to bo alive. But how much more glorious it is when we >w that the life in which we rejoice will t on and not die; that when this house of o r, beautifully and wonderfully made, c II have been taken down; when it shall . e become too fragile and weather-beaten . tho storms of earth to hold us any more. 1 shall not be cast out to parish, but >hall J ply move on into some better and roomier ^ ise" which the Eternal Love that hold* us : has provided for us. It is ?we?*t and ^ d to live, but how much sweeter and u :er when we know that what we call 0 th will be merely a letting go of that ieh we can no longer hold, a casting olT of ; which can 110 loug^r serve us, a going * from that which .s but a prison door, -a when everything that is mortal about us ? I be swallowed up in the mors abundant .?David H. Greer, D. D., in "From 8 ngs to God.' 81 a Queen Victoria's Ilotidoir. : -11.. u-i'rn recent Ir >wed to penetrate Queen Victoria's bou- , r at Windsor Castle. Its state has re- ^ Ined unaltered since her Majesty's widow- n xi. On the door is inscribed: y Every article in (his room my deeply la- ^ titod husband selected for me in tho mty-fourth year of my reign." ?] "he Queen's bridal wreath, with the lirst ti iquet Prince Albert presented to her. lies h hered within a glass case, and on every n are evidences ot the thouchtful devoi of the Prince Consort to ner Majesty a' ^ Is Furniture TrudeV Bright Outlook. n 'he ouHook for the furniture trade Is iU 1 it je brighter now than at any other timd q :n3* t he p.ust three years. CURIOUS FACTS. The width of the Suez Canal is 825 eet. i The world's railroads reach 406,466 ailes. v The modern system of fortification ^ ras adopted about 1500. Women are not permitted to be hotographed in China. a Immersion in sand, mud or water reserves wood for many centuries. Every trne Mohammedan endeavors n o make at least one journey to Mecca. A Minnesota man has sued a barber 8, ar $500 damages for ruining his rj eard. a The length of the adult American rildcat is about three feet, of the tail Q even inches. There's an eighty-seven-year-old 1 lan in Eastport, Me., who is learning p o ride a bicycle. Tobacco seems to grow everywhere C q this country. It is produced in for- ti y-two States and Territories. s< At Fort Yuma, Arizona, the ther- C lometer frequently stands at 115, nd when it drops to 100 the people o >ut on their winter flannels. b A man in Unionville, Mo., claims c hat saltpetre is an infallible cnre for t! nake bite, and cites personal experi- e nee in support of his claim. About 1G41 the apron was an indis ensable part of every lady's dress. J' t was made of all sorts of costly ma- ^ erials and was generally bordered P rith fine lace. 8 A <?irl baby born the other day in [okomo, Iud., is the fourteenth daugh- ? er of a fourteenth daughter of a four- * eenth daughter, a record which ia hought to be unprecedented. * In South China the chopsticks are axed, and a man who can prove that ia has no chopsticks?that is, no re- y iable means of subsistence?may plead v ixempt from the capitation tax. 1 A piece of the Charter Oak Tree of ? Hartford, Conn., is to be made into a able, on which it is proposed to have he Governor of Utah sign the first >ill passed by the Utah Legislature. Japanese stookings are made with a ^ eparate compartment for the big toe, j .3 the fastening of the sandal comes 0 >etween that and the next Few c Forking people wear stockings at all. e Count Paul Chandon de Briailles, i rho died recently at Epernay, France, I uganized at his own expense an am- * ralance service of 600 beds during the 1; rar of 1870, thus saving Epernay from c be severities of the Uerman invasion, fc A rattlesnake five feet long and hav- v ng fourteen rattles was killed on r Jount Washington, in the Berkshire lillsthe other week. The man who ii tilled it claims he has killed twenty- o ix other rattlesnakes in that vicinity p ecently. o Ex-President Harrison has a double * n one of his personal friends, General " L H Beech, of Wheeling, W. Ya. c lis figure and features, even to his ? yes and the color of his hair, make J, iim almost the counterpart of Mr. ? larrison. * ?? c Fishin? by Electric Light. e Eastern anglers are taking a leaf out T >f the book of the fishermen of the J 'acific coast. It will be remembered hat an enterprising Californian was ^ he first in the country to utilize the dea of attacking nsh by means of the ilectric light. He had the nets for ? i-a i-j l- I us coast nsnmg siuuueu wim muaulescent lamps, which were connected 1 o thfe batteries in an accompanying ? joat. As Boon as the nets were sank he enrrent was turned on and the in* c landescent filament drew fish from far r md near, greatly surpassing in its ef- v ects on the hauling of the net the nost irresistible of baits. Now an Albany man has devised an fl 'electrical net," which works very 2 nuch after the same fashion, except . ;hat the electric light used is fixed , kbove the water instead of below its , inrface. When the light is placed in *"" ''"'>'1 noto fir a oAta either to sea yard of it or around it, flat upon the jottoin. When the fish are drawn to 8 he lamp a rubber which runs along 8 ;he top of the net is inflated by a 8 jump in the boat, the upper edge of ? ;he net will rise to the surface?the ower edge being held down by sink- ? >rs?and the fish are caught. , A New Yorker has made a moiifica- . ;ion of the California plan of using 11 mbmerged lights. He simply puts a ,hree-candle power lamp in a quart jreserving jar, lowers it into the water, lud runs it with a sewing machine batery.. He recommends those who wish o follow his example not to spend $20 I ^ >n a battery, but buy an electric hand- | ^ jook and, with three goblets securely ^ astened in a plain wooden box, make or themselves for about S2.50 a bat- ^ ery which works just as well. He ays that night fishing becomes a very ively sport if the light is placed anyrhere in the neighborhood of fish. ^ ?hey swim around and spend considrable time investigating, but as soon s their curiosity is satisfied they get lown to business and discuss the aited hook which is dangling near iy.?Rochester (N. Y.) Herald. A Midget Launch. e H. B. Weaver, the artist, has built steam launch which he claims to be " -? ? a' u Tw fie smauesi in iuu miu. xuo n I the launch is nine feet, and it will arry three persons. The beam is hirtv-two inches, and there is a nine- le ach propeller. The engine, which, o Ir. Weaver Hays, has been declared w he smairesfc marine engine in the ;orld, is an exact pattern of those gi sed on large steamers, and weighs ci nly sixty-five pounds, lhe water and t< ir pumps are concealed from view, no 'he complete weight of the launch, h ith nil equipments, is 175 pounds, n >ak and cedar were used in the con- ri truction. It has secret drawers for toring brashes and materials used by d n artist. The launch and all equipments, in- m hiding the engine, are the workmaoliip of Mr. Weaver, who is an expert if lechanic as well as an artist. Mr. leaver has been twenty years in tl uilding the launch, devoting his cl pare time to the work. He has named h tie boat Lizzie Weaver, in honor of is wife. Mr. Weaver is nearly ?venty years of age, but is still g: ctive. He says he considers bis ti lunch perfectly seaworthy, and would ot be afraid to sail on the cgean on tl ;. He contemplates a trip us far as hi ape Henry, ?Baltimore American. qi A > { ' Vr * *' Jjjjl ===== ll POl'CLAB SCIENCE. Obsidian exists in large quantitiei a New Mexico and Arizona. A fortune awaits the successful in* enter of an improved boat lowering evice. If cork be sunk to the depth of 200 iet iu ocean water, it will not rise on ccount of the pressure. , The Directors of the Austrian Railaad had a locomotive constructed hich makes a run of seventy-four xile3 an hour. There were two total eclipses of the an in the year 1712, and two in 1889. 'his rare phenomenon will not happei gain until the year 2057. Experiments in making water pipes f paper have demonstrated that the lea will eventaally prove sucoessfuL 'hey are made on muoh the same rinciple as the fibre paiL A bill was recently presented to the lonntcticut Legislature prohibiting be marriage of deaf and dumb parous. It had been approved by the iommittee on Humane Institutions. Gold leaf of any thickness down to; ne-four-millionth of an inch is now eing made by electrolysis, and, acording to Invention, at such rates a& tireaten to extinguish the gold beatr's art. M. F. Walter has found that an uljy consisting of ninety-five parts of in auu UYC |/aibg \jk uuppoi auuutoa ov enaciously to glass that it may be emloyed as a solder to join the ends of Ias3 tubes. If a needle be inserted into the skin f a supposed corpse and withdrawn, he hole will remain open if the paient be really dead. But if the paient lives the skin will close up and lole disappear. The plant protector is a reoent inention. It is made of translucent raterproof material, is readily portble and adapted for use either in; arden or field as protection against rinds, frost or rains. Kin? Cobra in America. Philadelphia is exoited over the resence of a royal visitor. It is not Persian Prinoe or a Russian Grand take, but a veritable king?the king f the serpent tribe?the redoubtable obra. Two fine specimens, the first ver brought to America, have been stalled at the Philadelphia "Zoo." Jnlike the cobras of the London 'Zoo," the visitors to our shores are ively, aggressive iellows, unused to aptivity and fond of spreading their loous and displaying all the native rickedness which makes them the teror of the Indian jungle. The reason why cobras are so scarce i found in the faot that this snake ie , ne of the hardest to handle in trans- , iortation. It is one of the most pois>noua known, and is remarkably quick u its movements, says the Record. ?here are very few sea captains who an be indaced to carry such a reptile ? a passenger. The two that have ast arrived at the "Zoo" were brought lirect from India to New York on a ramp steamer. Each snake was inlosed in a woodeu packing box the ize of an ordinary soap box, over rhich was securely nailed a piece of rire netting. The two boxes were hen inclosed in a larger one, having i heavy woodeu lid with a few holes or ventilation. In transferring a snake from one ase to another use is made of a long orked stick, to which is attached a loose. This noose is drawn tightly .bout the serpent's neck and he can hen be moved with impunity. The lobra has a very narrow head that ?inV> clin tlirnnoTl fchfl TinnflA UAgUW 4WUMMJ inless great caution was observed, rhereas the rattlesnake and others of he snake kind have a broad, flat head ,nd narrow neck, which permits a sure nd tight hold. When Superintendent 3rown moved his new charge ha hought it proper to close the reptilo louse to all visitors until the operaion was over in order to avoid accilent. When the house was thrown open gain the new resident attraoted great ttention. He was seen to be about ix feet long, with a beautifully aarked body, growing darker toward he tail. He flattened his neck until t resembled a hood, and, holding his iead well in the air, darted forth his lack forked tongue in wicked fashon. The Inquisitive Clerk. The mqrusitire clerk is everywhere nd everybody has had an experinnoo rith him, says the St. Louis Post-Exress. One of the genus was "called own" in a remarkably funny manner a a West End drug store this week. . tall, solemn-looking man came in nd asked for a half dozen six-ounce ottles. "Bottles?" asked the clerk. "Yes, bottles," responded the man. "With or without corks?" asked e. "With corks," was the response. "Want '?m empty?" "Certainly." "And new?" "Do you suppose I want bottles ou've been keeping strychnine in?" The clerk said suoh an idea never ntered his mind, and tben asked: "What do you want them for?" "To break," responded the impa;ent customer, promptly. "What?" The customer beckoned to him to :an over the counter and caught hold f the lapel of the clerk's coat and hispered: "I wouldn't want the neighbors to et onto it, but I like to hear 'em rack. Just a whim of mine. It's betsr than breaking windows and gives te as much pleasure, but my supply as given out and I want a few to hold ie over until the next carload ar ires." The clerk looked at the customer oubtfully. "Oh, well, of course, it's nothing to te," he said. "Then what made you ask about i?" The clerk made no reply, but got le bottles. As ho was making the aange, however, the spirit moved im to ask: "What do you do with the corks?" "Chew 'em," was the reply. "It'? 5od for the digestion. Try it some me." Then the customer walked out and te clerk shook his head and tapped is forehead, bat he asked no mora iiestiou*. . . , . k,\4t_c