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Y*v; o W. M TALMAGE. A TEMPERANCE DISCOURSE BY THE NOTKD DIVIXE. Subject: 4iThe Worst Foe of Labor." [Owing tn great errief at tha sudden death o! his lamented wife, Rev. Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage canceled his engagement to preach, but In nrrier that the vast congregation to which he speaks through tht press may not be disappointed, a famous ani always-timely sermon delivered by him on a previous occasion is supplied for this week.] Text- '*He that earneth wages. earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes."? Haggai i.. 6. In Persia, under th*1 reign of Darius HvBtaspes, the people di 1 not prosper. They made money, but did not keep it. They were like people .who have a sa-.-k in which they put money, not knowing that the sack Is torn, or eaten of moths, or in some way made incapable of holding valuables. As last as the coin was put in one end of the sack it dropped <">ut of the other. It male no difference how much wages they got, for they lost them. '*He that e:?rneth wag?s, earneth wages to put it into a bag with . holes." What ha? become of the billions and billions of dollars in this country paid to the working classes? Some of "these moneys have cone for house rent, or the purchase ot homesteads, or wardrobe, or family expenses, or the necessities of life, or to provide comforts in old age. What has become of other billions? Wasted in foolish outlay. Wasted at the gaming-table. Wasted n iatoxicants. Put into a bag with a hundred holes. Gather up the money that the working classes have spent for rum during the last thirty years, and 1 will huiui tor every worKingmar. a house, and lay out for him a garden. and clothe his son? in broadcloth and his daughters in silks, and stand at his front door a prancing span of sorrels or bays, aud secure him a policy of life insurance, so that the present home mivbe well maintained after he is dead. The most persistent, most overpowering enemy of the working classes is intoxicating liquor. It is the anarchist of the centuries, and has boycotted and is now boycotting the body and mind and soul of American labor. It is to it a worse foe than monopolv, and worse than associated capital. It annually swindles industry out of a large percentage of its earnings. It holds out its blasting solicitations to the mechanic or operative on his way to work, and at the noon-speli. aud on his way home at eventide: on Saturday, when the wages are paid, it snatches a larire part of the money that might come to the family, and sacrifices it among the salon keepers. Within eight \-5.rA& nf s-m.ls Street Methodist Chnrch. Brooklyn, it has fifty-four saloons, and if plotting now for another. Stand the saloons of this country side by side, and it Is carefully estimated they wouid reach from New York to Chicago. " Forward, march, says the rum power, and take possession of the American Nation! The rum business is pouring it.* vitriolic and damnable liquids down the throats of hundreds of thousands of laborers, and while the ordinary strikes are ruinous both to employers and employes, I proclaim a strike universal against strong drink, which, if kept up. will be the relief of the working classes and the salvation of the Nation. I will undertake to say that there is not a healthy laborer in the United States who. within the next ten years, if be will refuse all intoxicating beverage and be savins, may not become a capitalist on a small scale. Our country in- a year spemts ono billion five hundred million and fifty thousand'dollars for rum. Of course the working classes do a great deal of this expenditure. Careful statistics show that the wage-earning classes of Great Britain expend in liquors one hundred million pounds, or five hundred millia^iinw, ? Si*. /IrvTT-n nnH thinV O 1UUUMIIIU3 (? TOOi. ?->??. "-v. , ~ workingman! how much you have expended in these direction?. Add it ail up. Add up what your neighbors have expended, and realize that instead of answering the beck of other people you might have been your own capitalist. When you deplete a workingman's physical energy you deplete Lis capital. \ The stimulated workman gives out before the unstimulated workman. My father said: "I became a temperance man in early life, because I noticed in the harvest field that, though I was physically weaker than other workmen. I could hold out longer than they. They took stimulants. I took none." X brickmakerin Euglmd gives his experience in regard to this matter among men in his employ. He says, after investigation: "The beer-drinkers who made the fewest bricks made six hundred and fifty-nine thousand; the abstainer who made the fewest bricks, seven hundred aud forty-six thousand." The difference in behalf "of the abstainer over the indulger. eighty-s3ven thousand. There came a very exhausting time in the British Parliament. The session was prolonged until nearly all the members got sick or worn out. Out of six hundred and fiftytwo members only two went through undamaged: they were teetotalers. When an army goes out to the battle the soldier who has water or coffea in his canteen marches easier and fights better than the soldier who has whisky in his canteen. Bam helps a man to fight wii?*n lie nas oniv one contestant, and that at tho street corner. But when he goes forth to maintain Bomc great battle for Goi and his country, he wants no rum. about him. When the Russians go to war a corporal passes alon? the lino and smells the breath of every soldier. If there be in his breath a taint of intoxicating liquor, the mitn is sent back to the barracks. Why? He cannot endure fatigue. All our young men know this. When they are preparing for a regatta, or for a ball club, or for an athletic wrestling, they abstain. Our working people will be wiser after a while, and the money they fling away on hurtful indulgences thev will put into cooperative associations, and so become capitalists. If tha workingman put down his wages and then take his expenses and spread them out, so they will just equal, he is not wise. I know workingmen who aro in a perfect fidget until they get rid of their last dollar. The following circumstances oame under our observation: A young man worked hard to earn his six or seven hundred dollars vearlv. Marriacre dav came. The bride had inherited flvo hundred dollars from her grandfather. She spent every dollar of it on the wedding dress. Then they rented two rooms in a third story. Then the young man took extra evening employment; almost exhausted with the day's work, yet took evening employment. It almost extinguished his eyesight. Why did he add evening employment to the day employment? To get money Why did he want to get money? To lay up something for a rainy day? No. To get hu life insured, so that in case of his death his wife v?uld not be a beggar? No. He put the extra evening work to the day work thai he might get a hundred and fifty dollars tc get his wife a sealskin coat. The sister ot the bride beard of this achievement, and wa; not to be eclipsed. She was very poor, anc she sat up working nearly all the nights foi a great while until she bought a sealskir coat. I have not heard of the result on thai street. The street was full of those who aw on small incomes, but I suppose the con tagion spread, and that everybody had ? sealskin coat, and that the people came oui and cried, practically, not literally: ''Tfeougt the heavens fall, we must have a sealsiciu coat!" I was out West, and a minister of the Gos pel told me, iu Iowa, that his church and th< neighborhood had been impoverished by th< fact that they put mortgages on their farm: in order to send their families to the Phila delphia Centennial. It was not respectabl not to go to the Centennial. Between sue! evils and pauperism there is a very short step The vast majority of children in your aim ' houses are there because their parents an drunken, or lazy, or recklessly improvideut I have no sympathy for skinflint saving but I plead for Christian prudence. You sa; it is impossible now to lay up anything for i rainy day. I know it. but we are at the day break of National prosperity. Some peopt think it is mean to turn the gas low whei they go out of the p irlor. They feel embar rassedif the door-bell rings before they hav the hall lighted. They apologize for th plain meal, if yoij surprise them at the tabic Well, it is mean if it is only to pile up a mis erlv hoard. But if it be to educate you children, if it be to give more help to you wire wnen sno woes not reel strong, xi n u to keep your funeral day from being horri ble beyond all endurance, because it is to b the disruption and annihilation of the do mestio circle?if it be for that, then it is mag niflcent. Thero are those who are kept in povert because of their own fault. They might hav been well off, but they smoked or chewed u their earnings, or they lived beyond thel means, *hile others on the same waj;es an ob the same salaries went on to competency * I know a man who was all the time com- | plaining of his poverty and crying out J ajjainst rich men, while he himself "keeps two dogs, and chews and smokes, and is fall to the chin with whisky and beer. Wilkins Micawber said to David Copperfleld, "Copper- <? Held, my boy. one pound income, expenses I twenty shillings and six pence; result, misery. But. Copperfleld, my boy, one pound income, expenses nineteen shillings and sir pence; result, happiness." But, 0 workingman of America, take your morning dram, and your noon dram, and your evening dram, | f and spend everything you*have over for tobacco and excursions, and you insure poverty for yourself and your children forever! If by some generous flat of the capitalists H of this country, or b\* a new law of the Government of the United States, twenty-five per cent., or fifty per cent., or ono hundred per cent, were added to the wages of the workinifclassesofAmerica.it would be no advantage to hundreds of thousands of them unless they stopped stront: drink. Aye, until they quit that evil habit, the more money, the more ruin, the more wages, the more ^ holes in the has;. d< Mv nle.i this morninsr is to those working t< people who are in a discipleship to whisky ? I bottle, the beer-mug, and the wine-flask. And what I say to them will not be more ap- P? propriate to the working classes than to the fo business classes, and the literary classes, and the professional classes, and all classes, and . not with the people of one ago more than Ir of all ages. Take one good square look at er the suffering of the man whom strong drink jn has enthralled, and remember that toward st that goal multitudes are running The dis- si ciple of alcoholism suffers the loss of self- _ respect. Just as soon as a man wakes up and finds that he is the captive of strong drink, he feels demeaned. I do not care how reckless he acts. He may say, "I don't care;" he does care. Hi cannot look a pure man in the eye unless it is with positive force of resolution. Three-fourths of his nature is destroyed; his self-respect is cone; he says things he would not otherwise say; he does things he would not otherwise do. When a man is nine-tenths cone with strong i drink, the first thing he wants to do isto persuade you that he can stop any time he wants to. He eanuot. The Philistines have bound him hand and foot, and shorn his lccks, and put out his eyes, and are making him grind in the mill of a great horror. Ho cannot stop. I will prove it. Heknowsthal his course is bringing ruin upon himself. He loves himself. If he could stop ho wouldj He knows his course is bringing ruin upon his family. He loves them. He would stoji if he could. He cannot. Ferhaps he could three months or a year ago. not now. Jusl ask him to stop for a month. He cannot; he knows he cannot, so he does not try. I had a friend who was for fifteen years going down under this evil habit. He had large means. He had given thousands of dollars to Bible societies and reformatory institutions of all sorts. He was verv _ genial, very generous, and very lovable, and whenever He taiKeu aoouc rnis evu amui ue jj, would say, ''I can stop any time." But hfi 0| kept going on, going on, down, down, K down. His family would say, "I wish you would stop." "Why." he would reply, "I can stop any time "if I want to." After a while he had delirium tremens: he had it ^ twic j; and yet, after that, he said. "I could , stop at anv'time if I wanted to." He is dead norc. What killed him? Rum! Rum! And yet among his last utterances was, "I can stop nt any time." He did not stop it, be- ^ cause he could not stop it. Oh. there is a ^ point in inebriation beyond which if a man .. goes he cannot stop! h. One of these victims said to a Christian man, "Sir. if I were told that I couldn't get m a drink until to-morrow night unless I hadi all my fingers cut off. I would say, 'Bring ^ the hatchet and cut them off now.'" I have ej a dear friend in Philadelphia whose nephew b, came to him one day, and, when he was ex-; ^ horted about his evil habit, said, "Uncle, i can't give it up. IE there stood a cannon j and it was loa-ied, and a glass of wine were ^ set on the mouth of that cannon, and I knew' ^ t hat you would Are it off as I came up and tv took* the glass, I would start, fori must j have it." q( Oh. it is a sad thing for a man to wake up w in this life and feel that he is a captive! He {e says, "I could have got rid of this at once, ^ but I can't now. I might have lived an hon- jl orable life and died a Christian death: but ^ there is no hope for me now; there is no ^ ascape for me. Dead, but not buried. I am a walking corpse. I am an apparition of what I once was. I am a caged immortal beating . against the wires of my cage in this direc- u j tion; beating against the cage until there is w blood on the wires and blood upon my soul, t yet not able to get out. Destroyed without remedy!" ai I go on, and say that the disciple of rum suffers from the loss of health. ai The older men in the congregation may re- jj member that some years ago Dr. Sewell went y through this country and electrified the people by his lectures, in which he showed the dl effects of alcoholism on the human stomach, ^ He had seven or wight diagrams by which he ju showed the devastation of strong drink upon the physical system. There were thousands of people that turnei DacK rrom mat ulcerous sketch, swearing eternal abstinence from r everything that could intoxicate. God only knows what the drunkar I suffers. Pain flies on ever? nerve, and travels every muscle, and gnaws every bone, and r burns with every flame, and stings with . every poison, and pulls at him with every torture. What reptiles crawl over his creeping limbs! What fiends stand by his mid- fr night pillow! What groans tear his ear! it What horrors shiver through his soul! Talk in of the rack, talk of the Inquisition, talk of 3c the funeral pyre, talk of the crushins Jug- el gernaut?he feels them all at once. Have you Ji ever been in the ward of the hospital where t^ these inebriates are dying, the stench of their ra wounds driving back the attendants, their w voices sounding through the night? The keeper comes up and savs, "Hush, now, be te still! Stop making all this noise!' But it tt is effectual only for a moment, for as soon ej as tho keeper is gone they begin again, u "Oh, Ood! Oh, God! Help! Help! Rum! a Give me rum! Help! Take them off me! w Take them off me! Oh, God!" And then they di shriek, and they rave, and they pluck out tt their hair by handfuls. and bite their nails i into the quk-k, and then they groan, and they shriek, and they blaspheme, and they ask the keeper to kill tbem?"Stab me! Smother me' Strangle me! Take the devils D off me!" Oh, it is no fancy sketch! That thing is going on now all up and down the ^ land, and I tell you further that this is going to be the death that some of you will , l die. I know it. I see it coming. Again, the inebriate suffers through the Di loss of home. I do not care how much he loves his wife tl and children, if his passion for strong drink i has mastered him, ho will do the most out rngeous things; und if he could not get S drink in any other way. he would sell his el > family into eternal bondage. How many ? homes have been broken up in that way no 3) i one but God knows. Oh, is there anything that will so destroy a man for this life and ? I damn him for the life that is to come? I hate v ) that strong drink. With all the concentrated ' energies of my soul I hate it. Do not I. ' tell me that a man can be happy when he -1 I knows that he is breaking his wife s heart and a r clothing his children with rags. Why, there i are on the roads and streets of this land to- ll day little children, barefooted, unwashed, p > and unkempt?want on every patch of their iJ faded dress and on every wrinkle of their i prematurely old countenance, who would a t Lave been in churches to-day, and as well i clad as you are. but for the fact that rum de- ^ i stroved their parents and drove them into ? the grave. 0 rum, thou toe of God, thou - despoiler of homes, thou recruiting officer s of the pit, I hate thee! li e But my subject takes a deeper tone, and d s that is, that the unfortunate of whom I n - speak suffers from the loss of the soul. * e It is about time that we have auother wol man's crusade like that which swept through . Ohio ten or twelve years ago. With prayer < - and song the women went into the grog8 geries, and whole neighborhoods, towns and . citias were redeemed by thi'ir Christian . heroics. Thirty women cleared out the rum r y traffic from a village of one thousand inhabi itants. If thirty women, surcharged of the - Holy Ghost, could renovate a town of a t * thousand, three thousand consecrated wo- J a ! men, resolved to give themselves no peace I - j until this crime was extirpated from this city. * e could in six months clear out three-fourths of c e the grog-shops of Brooklyn. If there be three ' >. thousand women now in this city who will put >- their hands and their hearts to the work, I ' r will take the contract for driving out all E r these moral nuisances from the city?at any < e rate, three-fourths of them?in three months, j - If, when that host of three thousund con- 1 e secrated women is marshaled, there be no i- one to lead them, then, as a minister of the ;- Most High God, I will offer to take mv i position at the front of the host, and I will 1 y cry to them, "Oome on, ye women of Christ, j e with your songs and your prayem! Some ' p of you take the enemy's right wing imdsome ( ir ; the* left wing. Forward! The Lord of Hosts d | is with us; th? God of Jacob is oujr refugel r. J Down with the dram shone!" -v. >. ^ DM JACKSCN DEAD. he Member of the Supreme Court From Tennessee Expires Suddenly, JCOME TAX HIS LAST CASE. e Had Served About Two Tears on the Supreme Bencli as Successor to Lamar ?His Fatal Illness?Snccessful Career of the Well-Known Federal 51acl?trate and Jurist. Howell E. Jackson, Justice of the Supreme jurt of the United 8tates, died at his resi?nce in Sleade, six miles from Nashville, ain., after a long period of indisposition, is death, though sudden, was not unex;cted, as his intimate friends had known r some days that his end was near. He id been falling steadily since his return om Washington in May, whith he went to participate with his associates . the rehearing of the income tax case. The rength which he exhibited on that occaon was shown, after his return, to have JUSTICE HOWELL E. JACKSOX. jen artificial?born of the necessity of the jur and his feeling that he would fail in one : his highest duties did he not attend the ission of the Court. Justice Jackson was born in Paris, Tenn., pril 8, 1832, and his entire life was spent in iat State. In his youth he lived in Jackin, and was graduated from the East Ten;ssee College at the age of sixteen. He >ent two years at the University of Virnia, and when twenty-four years old was -aduated from the Lebanon Law School, hen he began active practice, first in Jackin and later in Memphis. In 1876 he reirned to Jackson. During the war he held a civil appointed under the Confederate Government, e was twice appointed to the 8upreme >nch of Tennessee. In 18S0 he was ected to the Legislature, but had irdly taken his seat before his isociates chose him United States jnator. He entered the Senate March 1881, and there met Benjamin Harson. then a Senator from Indiana, close friendship at once becran between the ro men, which has only been broken by iath. During six years of service in . the mate Mr. Jackson was a quiet but active orker. He was on ttie Pensions Commite and wa3 noted for his efforts on behalf of serving applications wnicn came Deiore at body. He was also stronulv in favor of lilding up tbo navy and providing for coast ifenses, which caused him to be frequently itagonized by other members of his party. At the close of Mr. Jackson's term as Senar, in 1887, President Cleveland appointed m United States Circuit Judge tor the iddle District, including Tennessee, Ken:cky,Ohio and Michigan. It was while rving in this capacity that the unexpected >pointment to the Supreme bench came om President Harrison, followed by quick id unanimous confirmation in 'the Senate, e entered upon the duties of this office arch 4, 1893. Justice Jackson s first wife died in 1873, id later he married Man* Elizabeth, second lughter of General Vi. G. Harding, of the ,mous Belle Meade stock form. A PANEL OF FOURTEEN JURORS. wo Emergency Men Will Sit in the Darrant Case In San Francisco. Fourteen jurors were impanelled to try heodore Durrant, at San Francisco, Oal., r the Emmanuel Church murders. Authory for impanelling fourteen jurymen comes om an act passed by the Legislature at 3 last session providing for alternate jurors i cases that are likely to be protracted. As ton as the regular twelve jurors wereimpanled District Attorney Barnes requested idge Murphy to allow the impanelling of ro alternates. The matter was armged. anil during the trial fourteen men ill sit in thejurv bos. The alternate jurors are what may be irmed emergency men. They will have all le privilege of regular jurymen, with the cception of casting a vote or deliberating pon the verdict. Tbsir presence is simply provision agninst possible delay in the case hlch might be caused bv the sickness or Bath of a juror. This wiil be the first time le new law has been taken advantage Of. A RIPE OLD ACE. Andrew G. Johnson, 102, died recently !o elta, Ohio. Mrs. Thomas Laudy, of Mahanoy, Penn., ied recently at 101. \nton Lipp. of Miskoltz, Hungary, who ied recently, was the last survivor of the attle of Leipzig. Dr. Bruggaene. Professor of Medicine in le University of Ghent, is only ninety, but :els pretty well. Mrs. Eva Stone was 1(H) years old in July he lives in Warrensburg, Mo., and ha? ighty-three living descendants. William Peplow, 102, recently sane several jngs in a concert in Wellington, England, esides conducting a chorus and playing a iano. Mr. and Mrs. Kistner, of Highland i'rairie. rash., passed the century mark together, he husband died recently at 118; tne wife u live at 102. Mrs. Lucretia Estey, of Rockland. Mo<( DO, and Miss Mary Supplee, of Philadolhia. same age, are a couple of spinsters livag a life of single blessedness. William Carroll, of Brooklyn, is 107, and s lively as a grasshopper. Mrs. Nancy Kilburn is a lady who as just made the century run in Worcester lass. Most of the very old women are m-irried ike Mrs. Diana Travers, 105, lateij ead in Baltimore of eating too much water leion, and Mrs. Frisoilla Spoouer. 1C1, o Lent, Ohio. WIFE SENTENCES_HUSBAND. Thirty l>ay? in Jail" she Said When tin Jti<l(;e Turned the Cii*e Over to Her. The novelty of a wife being called to pro lounc-; sentence upon her husband added est, a few days ago, to the proceedings ii he Police Court at Richmond, Va. Johr [Yexler had time and time again been fine; or drunkenness, and his wife invariably pair he lines. This day he was up again on tht :ustomary charge, with the added offouse o vifebeiitiug. Justice Crutchfleld, whose unique method.1 >f dispensing justice are well known, turnec in unwilling ear to the chronic culprit anc :ailedjipon the wife to decide the penalty ars. xrexier calmly scanned ner uoreua lusband,and sternly said: "Thirty days in jail." Trexler pathetically pleaded for forgiveless, alleging a penitent spirit and a yearn ng to reform, but the oft-abused and now riumphant wife was inexorable, and the Dourt ordered that the sentence should tak< ;fleet at oaoe. RELIGIOUS READING. ABOVE THE SHADOW. The secret of the perpetual happiness ot somo people is the fact that they dwell upon spiritual mountain-tops, "above the shadow" of storm or cioud or any earthly ill. Too many lives are like the surface of an April meadow, the playground of alternate light and gloom, now radiant with a burst of sunshine, now darkened by flying cloud-shadows. Little vexations?so trifling that they can hardly be traced in memory, except by their lingering annoyance; little disappointments, perplexities, slights.mistakes, affronts?these are the things which make up the greater part of the misery of the average human life. And yet how trivial they are, when we come to think upon them. How unnecessary it is that life should be clouded by such things?life, which is capable of being spent upon a plan perpetually above them. We can dwell above the shadow, if we will. We can attain such a height of spiritual blessedness that all the little vexations of life will float beneath us as clouds beneath the feet of a mountain climber. >, "now can you always do so cueenui tum happy, wken you have so many cares?" asked a- lady of an overworked wife and mother. ' Cares?" was the smiling re^oiner. "I don't know what they are. These things, which you call cares, are only privileges to me." Here spoke a soul that lived above the shadow! Not only did the clouds of life float beneath her feet, but the perpetual sunshine tn which she dwelt bathed them all with glory! There is only one way to ge4- above the shadow. It is to rake the love and hope of Christ into the soul. A mere sunny disposition will not keep one always happy. But a tupreme faith in Qod is like wings; it will lift one into the sun-bright sky, whether the shadow be that of a flitting April cloud, or the lingering darkness of equinoctial storm. Happiness that rises into blessedness, that is supreme always and all-wise, can be nothing less than Christian happiness. It must have its source in Christ. With such resources, life with ali its ups and downs can no more sadden and oppress a human soul than rain can drench the glistening ferehead of the Tungfrau, or storm wind ruffle the plumage of the eagle that soars in the sun. BEABIKO BURDENS. When burdens are given us to bear, it is well that we search diligently to find the best way of bearing them. A log of wood carried at arm's length soon proves too much for us mnof afnL- linHor ifc traicht tt'ft cannot go on with it. But grasped ilrmly and carried upon the shoulder we walk easily, and may bear it a Ions way without even staggering. There aro those who carry their burdens in such a way that all the harsh surfaces, rough edges and corners seem to protrude themselves quite beyond the province of the bearer, and to be always hurting his neighbors. Beware lest the burden which we might have kept to ourselves mar the happiness of another's life! Our neighbor has his own load?let us not add to it the weight of our own. Of hard things in this life there arc many, and each one of us must have his share of them. We should walk under them bravely, manfully, but never alone. One arm is ever stretched out to help, which we need not fear to weary?one ear is ever listening to hear our tale of woe. Where the telling of it will do no harm, but good, one blessed voice is ever saying to us, if we will but near it, "Fear thou not, for I am with thee." THE ELECTRICAL AOF, This has been called "the electrical age," and surely no brancti or science nas maue more rapid strides than that of electricity. Our attentioa has been called to a new invention in one branch in which the subtle fluid is used. An electrician of New Jersey, a telegram inform* us. expects "one of these days," to sell "sticks of light the size of a stick of candy, that will outshine the rays of sunlight and remain Humined for 43 hours without replenishing their burning qualities. The are to bo carried in the waistcoat pocket, and connected with a button which it will only be necessary to press to secure a light." We certainly believe in having moro light, and surely if this invention is a success it will be at hand. It is wished that men would be as anxious to have the light of truth shine brightly. We look upon these wonderful inventions as indications of the speedy coming of that day of bright glory when "the righteous shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their father."?Matt. 13: 43. A NEOLECTED GIFT. II is by no means an unqualified blessing for a meeting to have sixty testimonies in thirty minutes. Thi3 spriRhtliuess is most desirable at times, but not at all times. A young convert may say, ''I love Jesus'' in less than half a minute. The genuineness of his word touches everybody. That will do very well at first, but if continued will indicate stagnation. This Epworth movement is the revival of all that is best in early Methodism. Ah! what exhortations and what prayere in the days long gone! Their memory is redolent of sanctified zeal and close communion with the Most High. We need thorn now. Our young people must be "drawn out" to extort and to pray. Watch, brethren, those who have the gift to "'persuade men" and to "lead in prayer." Halfminute testimonies and sentence prayers may occasionally stand aside when these brothers and sisters are exercising their gifts in ex hortation and prayer. A COLLEQE CONVERSION. The above paragraph on1 'Glorious Fervor" recalls two thoughts suggested by a father's mark concerning his son's recent conversion while away at school. Said be: "It was a college conversation." Knowing both son and father well, we had no doubt of the boy's {;enuine conversation, or of the father's deep oy thereat. It was, however, irresistibly Implied that tbe intellectual character of the convert had noticably modifled his religious vigor. Doubtless it had, and probably it always will. The thought must not be held that "in true zeal or in unflagguring loyalty ourcultured youth are lacking. The marveious awakening of missionary interest among our collecre students, the formation of Christian associations for men and women in our universities, and the wide-spread revivals in many college cities and towns, spt'ak unmistakably of increa>ing virility in our Christian experience and profession. THE ABT OF LOVE. Wlio tbftll create within me the beginning of the art of love? One tiling aione, my Father. Let me gaze on a perfect model. Bring me into thy piesence but for an hour, and point mo to the portrait of J< sus. Let , me look at the matchless beauty, at the stainless purity, at the spotless splendor of the bumauly devine. Let me see the strength in gentleness, the courage in tendernoss, the charity in righteousness, that has left its impress iiere... .Then shall ray complacency be .consumed like filthy rags. I shall call on the I rocks to hide me. and to the mountaius to cover mo from the sight of my own picture. , And in the cry I shall find peace. I shall know by contempt of self that my eyes have 1 rested on the perfect beauty.?Malheson. r It is a grand thing to ring true on tho nounter of tbis world; and we shall, no matf tor who twirls our coin, if its super-scrip;ion be '-In His Name" and the stamp bears the f-wM of (Jurist. In short. w<? are to aim to be like Him.?Itev. Louis S. Baker. ? Shun all that is distracting ami disquieting both within and without. X 'thini; in the whole wop d is w rtli the loss of thy pe^cp. I Evi'U ih?? f?nsit-s which tliou host committed 1 should only humble but not disiju.et thee.? k Tersteegen. J Labor-Savins; Cycle From Paris. YT. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., hii3 brought to Newf port. 11. I., from Paris one of the labor-saving cycles, which have recently been intro, duced in that city. It is made on the principle of the horseless j carriages, which are now so popular Id France, and is propelled by a Damier motor. f liable* Convicted or Stealing Homes. William Mella. aged seven years, and Jesse . Mella, aged three years, were found guilty . of horse stealing in Judge Stewart's court, f at Rockport, Ind., and will be sent to the i Reform School at Plainfleld. 1 No man's religion ever appears a success to those to whom lie owes aaoney. ' ri-' ' V \ SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOB SEPTEMBER 1. J , ! So Lesson Text: <4 The Fall of Jericho," j.j] Joshua vl., 8-20?Golden Text; Hebrews xi., 30?Com- 1 mentary. P. "The seven priests bearing the sov^n , trumpets of rams' horns passed on before the Lord." At Gilgal tho reproach of Egypt was rolled away in connection with the rite of T)i cireumcisioD. the feast of Passover was kept, and the manna that had come from , heaven so faithfully all those forty years R ceasod after they had eaten the old corn of tne lana (cuapter v., s-12). josnua also naa taken second place in command, the Lord Himself being the Captain of the host (v. 14, _ 15). Now under their Captain's orders they are beginning their march around Jericho, which city was straitly shut up because of Israel (verse 1). 9. '-And the armed men went before the ' priests that blew witn the trumpets." The armed men, the priests, the ark, all the peo- _ c pie. 8uch was tho order of the procession 1 ? as they marched around the city. The ark is the symbol of the presence of the Lord and all was being done "that all the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord, that is mighty, and that they might f?ar before Him" (iv., 24). Whether the trumpets Pi were rams'horns or silver, fheir sound was suggestive of atonement, by virtue of which Hi God can deal with man. 10. "Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out your mouth, until the day I bid you shout." This was very trying to their humanity. Their God had divided the Red Sea and the Jordan for them, had fed them with food .from heaven and brought th water from the rock for them. He was the co mighty God of Jacob, and He was going to re make the walls of Jericho fall down flat, for dc He said Ho would (verse 5), and the hearts at of many must have longed to cry out to m those scoffers on the walls: "Oar God will ye brine down those walls. He will conquer or you." But there was to be not a word from a Israel till the appointed time. With the ex- pt ceptlon of the blasts from the rums' horns of the crreat host passed rounr1 in silence. See I Zsch. ii.. 13. " h* 11. "So the ark of the Lor.l compassed the to city. going about it once." Not a word F1 about the people doing it. "It is God who ai worketb." and "the Lord alone must be ex- It. alted" (Phil. ii.. 13; Isa. ii.. 11). as 12-14. "And thesecond day they compassed in the city once and returned into the camp, so tb they did six days." Day after day the same di procession and the same order. No sound ai but the horns of the priests. Not a word st from the people?just the silent marching of the mighty host and the quiet and order- k< ly return to the camp. The walls of Jericho rc stand Arm, and probably the scoffers' hearts cc grow harder as they And their peace undis- g< turbed, and it is even possible that they find ot some amusement in watching the daily pro- ai cession, the priests and their horns will have ai their share of ridicule, and there may have h< been many a surmise and even joke" about I what was under the blue cloth on those e( men's shoulders (Num. iv., 5,6). Infidelity ai is about the same in all ages, and the hard ai ?oeeches of ungodly 3inners (Jude, 15) are ni tilways plentiful. It is ours to bear the ark ti ^ - ?..4i .?maa MAAlrn/M<-i <in/l fn?4- V* rnt'lrio f V" II [lillinuue nuu uiccivucss uuu inuu, ^111 u.)~, ?~ t dear and consistent testimony as to the ai only way of redemption through the blood of the Lamb, and at the appointed time the se twills of infidelity will crumble nndthe king- t>? |om will be the Lord's (Obadiab. 21). It I 15. "Only on that day they compassed the hi ) ty seven times." This is the record of the tfc jventh day. There must have been unusu- n< al interest in Jericho i>n this day as they w J-eard the sound of the rams' horns earlier je than usual and saw tho hosts, Instead of re- di turning to camp, start to compass the city a tc second time. Then a third time, and a c< fourth time, and a fifth, and a sixth. Tho ol Interest must have been intense, and wo may ci imagine the walls fairly crowded to watch tc these unusual proceedings. m 16. "Shout, for tho Lord hath given you the city." This was the command of Joshua ft to the people as they went round the seventh w time. How their pent up feelings would ol break forth; what a shout it must have been & from hundreds of thousands of voices; shout after shout, a prolonged shout that almost, if not altogether, made the earth to tremble! The city was given to Israel before ever they 8j compassed the city once (verse 2). It wa-) ^ theirs by the word of the Lord, now it is to 0) become theirs visibly and actually. Many things are ours in Christ which we will not q visibly and actually enjoy till His appointed time. u1 *17. "Only Rahab, the harlot, shall live." lc By faith she perished not with the unbe- ei lievers (Heb. xi., 30. 31). The scarlet cord oi in nor window was the outward evidence of m her faith, and she rested.on the words of the tl spies whom she had befriended, saying, ac- y< cording unto your words, so be it (ii., 21). s? Through her faith deliverance came to her c< father and mother and brethren and kindred S< . (verse 23). She afterward married Salmon tt (who may have been one of the spies) and w became the mother of Boaz (See Ruth iv., 21 w and Math, i., 5). it 18. 4,Keep yourselves from the accursed m thing.'- The whole city and all in it were c< devoted to be utterly destroyed (verse 17, cl margin, and verse 21), and this was a warn- tt ing for Israel's good. If we get mixed up tt with cursed things we will bring a curse up- sa on ourselves. The only redemption from the K curse is through Him who was made a curse c( for us (Gal. ill., 13). This was typiQed in tt the scarlet cord in Rahab's window. 0 19. '*But all the silver and gold and ves- n< eels of brass and iron are consecrated unto tx the Lord." In Num. xxxi., we read that the qi people were permitted to take of the spoil ir and give unto the Lord a portion, cleansing tt everything by flre or water (Num. xxxi., 23), tt but in the case of the city of Jericho all was to be the Lord's, either for destruction or for in His treasury. Jericho being the first city tt taken may account for this?a first fruits di unto the Lord- The story of Achan in the ki following chapter shows the nature and pun- It ishment of the sin of covetousness, with tt which see also Acts v., 1-10. la 20. "The wall fell down flat, so that the people weut up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the oity." They slew every living thing and burned the city with flre (verses 21, 24), and Joshua 01 pronounced a curse upon the man who would rebuild it. It becomes us to say, "Just and 01 true are Thy ways, Thou King of Nations" .. (Rev. xv., 3). "His way is perfect," and some day we shall see a perfect agreement . between all His doings and the fact that "God is Love." He ia good nnddoethgood, w and the Judge of all the earth cannot but do . right.?Lesson Helper. NOW FOR THE ANTARCTICA b< tr Scientific Societies Ur^ed to Push Explorn- . 'I? 4k. f* UOH |U II1C OUUllli I J.( The Norwegian explorer, Borchgrevimk. I believes there is in the extreme South a con- ** tinent with an area of about 8,000,000 miles ?nearly three times that of Europe?and st containing many animals unknown to the w inhabitants of the Southern Hemisphere. He told the International Geographical Congress at Londpn that the time is ripe for an expedition to the Antarctic regions. The hi Congress adopted a resolution declaring the 32 exploration of the Antarctic regions is the ci greatest work to be undertaken. In view of c< the additional knowledgo every branch of science would gain, the Congress urges the m scientific societies of the world to see to it uj that the work is undertaken before the close e, of the century. 9t The Congress will meet next year in Berlin* hi re CENTRAL AMERICAN FEDERATION. er An Experienced Opinion of the Sentiment of the Five KepubJllcfl. General Piorco M. B. Young, United States er Minister to Guatemala ami Honduras, now I at home on l<*ave, says* "i Dcneve a large ir majority of the intelligent patriotic citizcus cr of Central America would like to see a union to of all those republics, as greatly to the advantage of nil. I believe that at this time a:i the Presidents are patriotic, conservative men. The Government of the United States jj, has but one sentiment for these republics, jj, and that is afTection. hi ' In Ge five republics there are, perhaps. w, 4,000,000 of people. The population oi jl Guatemala is, in round numbers, 1,000.000. The people are intensely American in sentt? be ment, and are great believers in the United th States. TheiV idea is that federation should 80 | be ba?ed ou the Constitution of the United States." v. 'v- " ;? wv v ; - . . v/? ;., ?>'.%/ TEMPERANCE 1Z? TEABDHOF IN THE GIAFf, iufferincr mortal, a victim of rum, IVas brought by his vice to his bed: sunray of happiness entered hts home, 3is little ones pleaded for bread eir mother, prostrated with burdens of care, inelt down at his side on the floo.*, d lifted her voice up to heaven ia prayer For relief from the cross which she bore. r wate*the feverish sufferer cried, To cool the mad flres in his breast; ie mother endeavored her teardrops to hide, yid rose to"obey his request. ie clear, sparkling water, fresh drawn from the well, I"o his drink-palsied hand she did pass, .? ?knnnl< oho vnnlil hfir amotions to quell, A. teardrop fell Into the glass. ?started as if by a scorpion stung, Aud gazed on her sorrowful face, >w ageing with anguish, but yesterday young. On the form ouce a picture of grace. 5 cried in his agony, "Darling, for years Now lost in the terrible past, >ee it all now?I've been drinking your tears: God helping me, this is the last" le little ones play on a carpeted floor, The mother is youthful again, osperity reigns in the home as of yore, United is love's broken chain. b kisses the eyes of his glad-hearted wife, And tells her he ever will bless id cherish in memory all through his life That teardrop that fell in the glass. ?Captain Jack Crawford. THE BICTCLE AMD THE DBIKKIXQ HABIT. "If the wheel never does any other good ing in its history, and if no other benefit mes from its use, it wonld for one special ason deserve the commendation and ta>rsement of every thinking person 5n creion," said an eminent physician who hns ade the bicycle and its use the study of tars. "My attention was first oalled to le phase of the wheel by the experience of vounz man who had been for some time a itient of mine. He had been in the habit taking a glass of liquor occasionally, and had warned him against allowing the ibit to grow, but whatever I said seemed make very little impression on his mind, inally I advised him to buya wheel. I had i object in view, but gave him no hint of , He learned to ride one, and one day I iked him to 20 out with me for a little run the country. When we got near one of ie hotels in the suburbs he proposed a -ink, and I assented. I took mineral water, id he indulged in what he called a good, iff drink to brace his nerves. "I said nothing, but made up my mind to sep my eye on him rather sharply. We ?de for a mile or two, and although he implained of feeling somewhat reeky, he )t on tolerably well until we came to anJier tavern. He said he was all out of gear id waited to stop a?ain. I went with him, id the same order was repeated. Half an Dur later, while riding along a level road, observed that his wheel had taken on some icentric motions, and was goins? almost lyway but the one he desired. He became igry and fractious, and ended up by runing into a stump by the roadside, and getng a bad fall. His injuries were so serious iat he had to be taken home in a carriage, id was kept indoors for some time. "When he got out again he came over to ie me, and the conversation turned on the jst way to become an expert wheelman, was not a little gratifying to me to have im, of his own accord, make the remark iat as long as he rode a wheel he should sver take liquor at wayside hotels. People ho have given some attention to *he subct say that there is far less intoxicating rink taken by young men after they begin ? ride the wheel. They find that it is not >nducive to clearness of head or steadiness [ hand. They cannot go out in hilarious owds and overindulge with any comfort 1 themselves while wheeling. There is too uch risk of life and limb about it. The cycle and the grog shop are not good iends, and as 1 have said before, if the heel never does anything else, it is yvorthy t all praise because it is a check on the rinking habit." BEWARE OF TOXIC DBUQ8. Here is a rule that every man and woman lould inflexibly adopt for guidanoe: Never ader any circumstances take opium or any :her toxic drug unless prescribed by an indigent physician, says William Bosser oboe. There are mothers present, and I wish to tter to them a special note of warning. The ive they bear their children leads them to taggeration of the ailments of the little aes, and they are too prone to resort to edicine for their benefit. It is this practice iat is responsible for the receptivity of :>untr men for drugs and alcohol. As I have kid, these remedial agents reek with nar)ties. and all of them contain alcohol. Dothing cordials. drops. etc., are te infinite curse of childhood. The mother ould be much kinder to her child if she ere to smother it with a pillow than to give these noxious drugs. The cells of the huan body readily adjust themBelves to any mdition, and when filled with opiates in lildhood they are ready enough to take lem or whisky, any sort of a toxic, because ley all affect the cells measureably the ime, when they reach young manhood, nowledge of a fact remains. The bodily slls have a persistent memory. They have le faculty of acquiring a taste for anything, nee they have learned to like opium they aver forget the fact- The child who has sen given opium is far more likely to aclire this habit, and certainly can acquire it ittnitely more readily when he is grown up lan will one who has no acquaintance with le drusr. Mothers, learn this fact, and bear it always i mind. Do not go to the sin of the father for te inebriety of your sons. If a man is a runkard of opium habitue, inquire what ind of medicines were given him as a child, is in the nursery too frequently and not in te saloon that drunkards are made.?Vine,nd Outlook. WHEN BT7X IS NO MOBS. The increased consumption of bread will liaetiie price of wheat. The increased demand for shoes will incase the demand for hides. The increased call for clothing will make le wool and cotton markets boom. The wages of farm laborers will advance, scause the productive value of their labor ill advance. The wages of coal miners will be raised, icause the consumption of coal will be iistly increased. The wages of railroad men will advance, "cause new trains will have to be put on to leet the demands of trade. The wives and sisters of drunkards will no inger be forced to compete in the labor mar3t to keep body and soul together. The penitentiaries will be depleted, and le contract labor problem will solve itself. Twenty-five millions a week will be reorei'. to legitimate traile, and hard times ill vanish like the morning mist. TEMPEnAHCK NEWS AND NOTES. Belgium's revenue from the drink habit is jrrown in forty years from 4,000,000 to 1.000,000 francs, crime increasing 200 per int. at the same time, and insanity 128 per >nt. "Dey is a mighty good temperance seron in a freight train," says Uncle Mose. No matter how much Ue cars dey gets loadI, de ingine wbat does de work gits a long rictly on water." Seven Pines, near Richmond. Va., is a probition town, each purchaser of a lot^boing quired to sign an article iwibiuuh iu? ?? if liquor is over sold on the premises. 5ecial rates are also given to total abstains. A beautiful drinkiug fountain, costing J00. has been presented to the city of Athis, Ohio, by the Y. W. C. T. U. The amount of New England rum sent om the port of Boston to Africa has deeased in two years from 1,025,226 gallous 561,265. One of the first results of the effort at Sunty closing of saloons in New York, under e regime of Mayor Strong and President sosovelt, is thus ehronieled by the Daily jws of that city: "For the first time in the story of the Jefferson Market court there are no women prisoners in the pen to-day. 10 number of male prisoners for violating e excise law was unusually small, there ling but eighteen in the pen. As a rule ere are about 120 prisoners in the Jeffern Market court on a Monday morning." ' ' HOUSEHOLD MATTERS, j Jj|| TTTRKISH CONFECTIONS. \ The famoas Turkish confection oil rose leaves is made simply: Take a! jar of which the month and bottom! are the same size, like a Dundee marmalade jar, and on the bottom sprinkle a layer of crystallized sugar. Over' that place a layer of fresh rose petals, | and alternate the sngar and petals no-' til the jar is filled, taking care to haroj the sngar as the top layer. Paste two* or three thioknesses of paper over the top, and set away from children and mice xn a dam place. in aatamn 11 is ripo and fit to serve.?Atlanta Constitution. yjLTIED CHIOKE^Ti Take one or two chickens, eat off the legs, ramps and wings. Egg and bread cramb them, and broil them over a clear fire a light brown. Poll the flesh from the remaining part into little flakes. Have one-half oapfal of boiling cream thiokened with a little batter and floor, the gravy that came from the chioken when roasted, a sea- -. Boning of salt and a little natmejp Pat in the pulled cbioken and toss ifc over the fire. Then pat it into the _y centre of a dish with the baok on xt; .,5 '3 and the legs and wings around it. A.1 ft squeeze of a lemon added the last thing, and the peel of one-fourth of a lemon minced fine and added to the pulled chicken is an improvement.? Boston Cultivator. BEBBY PIES. 'J|jl Make any sort of a berry pie as directed for apples only, dredge a little flour over before putting on upper crust, and add no flavoring, as the fruit has sufficient. nf nio vh?rA Ml *' V* ?UJ OVA V V* ** IMW |/?V) ?? MV* V . ? entire upper crust is not desired, oat the paste into narrow strips, like a lattice work, or, if no upper crust is, liked, make a merangue by beating; the whites of three eggs to a stiff froth,! < and mix with them a heaping table-' spoonful of powdered sugar, flavor, with any flavoring preferred. When' the pie is done, pull it forward in oven, cover with merangue, and let it stand in the oven till a light amber color; then remove and stand in cold, dry place till ready to serve. Never put a pie of any sort in a refrigerator ; it destroys the quantity of the crust and makes the whole pie flavorless and heavy.?New York Mercury, OTTKKKTNH. Choose young cucumbers and let them be freshly gathered. Pour overj them a strong brine of salt and water boiling hot, cover them close and allow to stand until hext day. Stir them . M gently to remove any sand; drain on a sieve. To every quart of vinegar uae J* half ounce each of whole blaok pepper, i ginger andallspioe, one ounce mustard seed and two cloves of garlio. Allow the vinegar to beoome boiling hot,: place the piokles in a jar and pour the boiling water over tuem. uover too - ^ top of pickles with vine leaves, allow to stand for a day; if the pickles are ' :>$ not of a good green in color, heat the vinegar to almost boiling and poar it over them again, covering with fresh vine leaves. (A.s an additional reason ja for preparing them at home, it is well known that the fine green color of "store" pickles is due to the nse of copper). When the' pickles are cold put in a sprig of dill and be sure to cover closely. They will be exceedingly crisp and of a fine green.? :, American Agriculturist. FACT3 FOB PBTOSNT HOUSEWIVES. That one cup of yeast is equal to one compressed yeast cake. . That very hot water is now preferred to cold to stop bleeding. That sixteen tablespoonfuls of liquid are equal to one capful. That a ohoice orange, both peel and fc' pulp, sliced and covered with fragrant hot tea, makes a beverage fit for the gods. That a too rapid boiling ruins the flavor of any sauce; it mast boil onoa but should never do more than aim luor nitunuvu. That a loaf of stale bread oan be made quite fresh by being dipped quickly into hot milk, and then baked until dry in a quick oren. That to preserve the fresh greea color of vegetables like peas and beans the lid should never be put on the pot while they are boiling. That sawdust and a chamois as polishers, after the out glass has been thoronghly washed in soapsuds, will make it glisten and sparkle. That rubbing silver or plated egg spoons with a little liquid ammonia and salt will remove the discoloration caused by the sulphar in the egg. That mould can be kept from the top of preserves by putting a few drops of glycerine around the edged of the jar before screwing on th? cover. Z That a paste made of powdered ipecacuanha and water will quickly remove the pain caused by the sting of a wasp or bee; it should be applied at once. Thai cabbage snoma never oe oouea with corned beef. It renders both unwholesome. They should be boiled apart and then served together if desired. That a common cause of failure to making fansy bread and rolls is mix*j ing the dough too stiff; it should ba| soft enough to be easily worked, with-: out being in the least sticky. * That natural wool, silk or merino underclothing is more easily and thor-j oughly cleaned if a teaspoonful of am-fmonia is added to the tepid soapy; water in which it is washed. That to make children's cotton frock* and pinafores fireproof, a good lump of alum should be dissolved in th? soap lather in which they are washed, and also in each of the rinsing waters. That a tough or freshly killed fowl may be made tender by bein# wrapped in a oloth and buried in a deep hole in the gardeu for some hours; it ii best to leave it there all night if possible. . That to drive away flies brush over the windows every morning with a little oil of sassafras, aud provide a way of escape for the flies, who dislike sassafras and will not settle on or even near it. That if a fruit jar cover will not readily come off, should be inverted 'and the top put in hot water for ? minute or two. Yon will be surprised to find how easily the cover yields to a very slight effort. 'Kit