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REV. DR. TALMAGE. : F SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE J NOTED DIVINE. d t f Subject: " Open Windows.'* c v I Text: "His windows being open in his k chamber towaid Jerusalem."?Daniel vi., li?. a | The scoundrelly princes of Persia, urged 11 jg> ion by political jealousy against Daniel, have 0 r succeeded in getting a"law passed that who" soever prays to God shall bo put under the * hr\ n *T? n n n /4 iivftilt a# 4 V* .1 li AHQ A O fA 1 flfiKl H f?UU ICrtll Ul IUC liutw c?w iuouiu^ themselves in rage and hunger up and down 0 the stone cage or putting their lower jaws ? on the ground, bellowing till the earth " trembles. But the leonine threat did v not hinder the devotions of Daniel, the ? Coeur de Lion of the ages. His enemies ? might as well have a law that the sun should c not draw water, or that the south wind I1 should not sweep across a garden of mag- 11 nolios, or that God should be abolished, They could not siare him with the red hot ** furnaces, and they cannot now scare him 7. with the liens. As soon as Daniel hears of J* this enactment he leaves his office of secre- J:1 tary of state, with its upholstery of crimson ? and gold, and comes down the white marble fBteps and goes to his own house. He opens his window and puts the shutters back and " pulls the curtain aside so that he can look D toward the sacred city of Jerusalem and a then prays. I suppose the people in the street gathered J under and before his window and said. *j ' Just see that man defying the law. He { ought to be arrested." And the constabulary " of the city rush to the police headquarters :j and report that Daniel is on his knees at the " wide open window. "You are my prisoner," ?' RAva th? officer of the law. drODPintr a I, heavy hand on the shoulder of the kneelinp D' Daniel. As the constables opeu the door of ?. the cavern to thrust in their prisoner they e~ see the glaring eyes of the monsters. But P Daniel becomes the first lion tamer, aud SI they lick his hnnd and fawn at his feet, and P1 that nicht he sleeps with the shagey mane of a wild beast for his pillow, while the kins: that night, sleepless in the palace, has on him the paw and teeth of a lion he cannot Ic > tame?the lion of a remorseful conscience. ^ What a picture it would be for some artist! ^ Darius in the early dusk of morninsr not w waiting for footmen or chariot, hastening to rt the den, all flushed and nervous and in dis- v< habille, and looking through the crevices of j11 the cage to see what had become of his prime J? minister. "What, no sound!" he says. 1 "Daniel is surely devoured, and the lions are A fileepinc after their horrid-meal, the bones ~ of the poor man scattered across the floor of 13 the cavern." With trembling voice Darius calls out: "Daniel?" No answer, for the w prophet is yet in profound slumber. But a f? lion more easily awakened, advances, and " with hot breath blown through the crevice seems angrily to demand the cause of this 111 interruption, and then another wild beast ^ lifts his mane from under Daniel's head, and ^ the prophet, waking up, comes forth to re- i port himself all unhurt andjtvell. But our text slands us at Daniel's window, opened toward Jerusalem. Why In that di- J" rection open? Jerusalem was his native {*( land, and all the pomp of his Babylonish sue- h1 cesses could not make him forget it. He ai came there from Jerusalem at eighteen years _ of age. and he never visited it, though he lived to be eighty-five years. Yet when he wanted to arouse the deepest emotions and grandest aspirations of his heart he had his " window open toward his native Jerusalem. " There are many of you to-day who under atandthat without any exposition. This is ? getting to be a Nation of foreigners. They K have come into all occupations and profes- F* eions. They sit in all churches. It may ,s be twenty years ago since you got your naturalization papers, and jjj you may be thoroughly Americanized, but " you can't forget the land of your birth, and P' ?our warmest sympathies go out toward it. 3' our windows are open toward Jerusalem. f Your father and mother are buried there. ?' It may have been a very humble home in }D which you were born, but your memory often plays around it, and you hope some day 11 -t- J ?1-- V.SI1 ~ . U., oi IU KU ?uu strts II?me UI1I, iuc line, me inw>, the house, the place so sacred, the door from ln which you started off with parental blessini: ?1 to make your own way in the world?anil God only knows how "sometimes you have a' longed to see the familiar places of your Jj! childhood, and how in awful crises of lif^you would like to have caught a glim pse of the old ?l wrinkled face that bent over you as you lay S1 on the gentle lap twenty or" forty or fifty ?' years aj?o. You may have on this side of the 11 sea risen in fortune, and like Daniel have P; become great and may have come into pros- 11 perities which you never could have reached if you had staid there, and you mav have a many windows to your house?bay windows P1 and skylight windows and windows of con- P servatory and windows on all sides?out you Rl have at least one window open toward Jeru- S salem. ai When the foreign steamer comes to the K wharf, you see the long line of sailors, with 1 j shouldered mailbags, coming down the tl planks, carrvins as many letters as you |i might suppose to be enough for a year's " correspondence, and this repeated again and h again during the week. Multitudes of them h are letters from home, and at all the post- a offices of the land people will go to the win- J* dow and anxiously ask for them, hundreds b of thousands of persons finding that win- J8 dow of foreign mails the open window ? toward Jerusalem. Messages that say: 01 'When are you coming home to see us? K Brother has cone into the army. Sister is k dead. Father and mother are getting very jjif- feeble. We are having a great struggle to s' get on here. Would you advise us to come a to you, or will you come to us? All join in n love and hope to meet you, if not in this *1 world, then in a better. Goodbv." ? Yes, .yes. In all Ihese cities and amid the ? flowering Western prairies aud on the slopes of the Pacific and amid the Sierras and on 11 the banks of the lagoon and on the ranches H of Texas there Is an uncounted multitude ft who this hour stand and sit and kneel with 11 their windows open toward Jerusalem. n Some of these people played on the heather ri of the Scottish hills; some of them were <? driven out by Irish famine; some of H them in early life drilled in the German ^ army; some of them were accustomed at o Lyons or Marseilles or Paris to see on h the street Victor Hugo ana Gambetta; some chased the chamois among the Alpine ^ precipices; some plucked the rioe clusters ft from Italian vineyard; some lifted their I faces under the midnight sun of Norway. It a Is no dishonor to our land that they remem- I ber the place of their nativity. Miscreants d would they be if, while they have some of e their windows open to tak* in the free air t: anH thft sunlight of an atmosDhere which no kingly despot has ever breathed, they forgot d sometimes to open the window * toward o Jerusalem. 'j No wonder that the son of the Swiss, when t! far away from home, hearing the National h air of his country sung, the mala ly of home- ' r sickness comes on hiir so powerfully us to t cause his death. You have the example of A heroic Daniel of my text for keeping early v memories fresh. Forget not the old folks at ' home. Wriie often, and if you have a sur- v plus of means and they are "poor make prac- C tical contribution, and rejoice that America h Is bound to all the world by ties of sanguin- h ity as in no other Nation. Who can doubt ^ but it is appointed for the evangelization of f other lands? What a stirring, melting, gos- 1' pelizing theory that all the doors of other Nations are open toward us, while our win- f dows are open toward them! But Daniel in the text kept this port hole r of his domestic fortress unclose l because s Jerusalem wa3 the capital of sacred inftu- 0 ences. There bad smoked the sacrifice. ^ There was the holy of holies. There was the n ark of the covenant. There stood the tern- c pie. W?? are all tempted to keep our wiu- o dows open on the opposite side toward the C world, that we may see and hoar and v appropriate its advantages. What does th" s world say? What does the world think? j t What do-s the world do? Worshipers of t the world instead of worshipers of Go 1. t Windows open toward Babylon. Windows > open toward Corinth. Windows open toward Athens. Windows open toward Sodom. Win- " dows open toward the Hats instead of win- v dows op !i toward the hiils. Sad mistake, for f this world as a god is like something I saw ' in the museum of Strasburg, Germany?tlie t figure of a virgin iu wood ami iron. The s victim ia olden tirao was brought there, ami r this figure wouid open its arms to receive r him, and once enfolded the figure closed t * with a hundred knives and lan upon li'ni, 1 and then let him drop 189 feet sheer dow.i. ^ So the world first embraces the idolater.. ' then closes upon them with many tortures. ] and then lels them drop forwver down. The ? highest honor the world could confer was to s make a man Roman emperor, but out of sixty-three emperors it allowed only six to c die peacefully in their beds. J The dominion of this world over mu'.ti- " tudes 1b illustrated by the names of coins of 1> many countriee. They have their pieces of ^ aoney which they call sovereigns, crowns T] nd half crowns, Napoleons and half Na- Jj oleons, Fredericks and double Fredericks nd ducats and lsabellinos, all of which lames mean not so much usefulness as * iominion. The most of our windows open ^ oward the exchange, toward the salon oI ^ ashion. toward th? god of this world. In * ? ilden times the length of the English yard . ras fixed by the length of the arm of King . lenry I., and we are apt to measure things iy a variable standard and by tiie human . .rm that in the great crises of life can give . ( is no help. We need, like Daniel, to open . mr windows toward God and religion. . , But. mark you, that good lion tamer isnof F tauding at the window, but kneeling while . ie looks out. Most photographs are taken . f those in standing or sitting posture. I P ? iow remember but one picture of a man neeling. and that was David Livinsrstone, l~P rho in the cause of God and civilization acriflced himself, and in the heart of Africa ? is servant, Majwarn, found him in the tent . y the light of a candle stuck on the top of "box, his head In his hands upon the pil- j 5w and dead on his kne&?. But here is a , reat lion tamer living und?r the ash of the lierht, and his hair , isheveled by the breeze, praying. The fact ; that a man can see farther on his knees ?i? lan standing on tiptoe. Jerusalem was about L cf-at-ntn mileq from Babvlon. and the vast n0; .rabian desert shifted its sands between ?0E iem. Yet through that open window Dan- a> >1 saw Jerusalem, saw all between it, saw . eyond, saw time, saw eternity, saw earth pir nd saw heaven. wn' Would you like to see the way through ?av our sins to pardon, through your troubles tiai > comfort, through temptation to rescue, iroughdire sickness to immortal health, 1 irough night to day, through things terres ial to things celestial?you will not see aui iem till you take Daniel's posture. No cap val t bone to the joints of the Angers, no cap of vls' one to the joints of the elbow, but cap of Pa9 ?ne to the knees, made so because the God tea f the body w;is the God of the soui, and a special provision for those who want to "u ray and physiological structure joins with s? j )iritual necessity in bidding us pray and V19i ray and pray. w?' In olden,time the Earl of Westmoreland J1,1*1 lid he had no need to pray because he had lough pious tenants on his estate to pray >r him, but all the prayers of the church w." Qiversal amount to nothing unless, like n'^ aniel. we pray for ourselves. O men and out omen, bounded on one side by Shadrach's 'dhot furnace and the other side by de:>uring lions, learn the secret of courage id deliverance by looking at that Bat>y- *> nish window open toward the southwest. Oh," you say, '-that is the direction of the the rabian desert." Yes, but on the other side *ea 'the desert is God, is Christ, is Jerusalem, ma heaven. Sfty But it is another Jerusalem toward which the enowneed to open our windows. The exiled yoi' rangelist of Ephesus saw it one day as the Chi le surf of the Icarian Sea foamed and Liv >lashed over the boulders at his feet, and is vision reminded me of a wedding day ay hen the bride by sister and maid was hav- ""i ig garlands twisted for her hair and jewels C0l] rung for her neck just before she puts her g0t ;trothed haad into the hand of her Qu* Ifianced. "I, John, saw the holy city, New to 1 ?rusalem, coming down from God out of " y saven prepared as a bride adorned for her J'0} usband." Toward that bridal Jerusalem eaj :e our windows opened? din We would do well to think more of heaven. is not a mere annex of earth. It is not a sou isolate outpost. As Jerusalem was the cap- hes ill of Judea, and Babylon the capital of the of * abyloEian monarchy, and London is the the ipital of Great Britain, and Washington is ola le capital of our own Republic, the New yoi jrusalem is the capital of the universe. The coli ing lives there, and the royal family of the joy (deemed have their palaces there, and there livf a congress of many Nations and parliament ?I [ all the world. Yea, as Daniel had kindred l Jerusalem of whom he often thought, lough he left home when a very young man, ?rhaps father and mother and brothers and G sters still living, and was homesick to see ph( lem. and they belonged to the high circles rea ! royalty, Daniel himself having royal blood leg i his vein?, so we have in the New Jerusa- He m a great many kindred, and we are some- opi mes homesick to see them, and they are all acc rinces and princesses, in them the blood der nperial, and we do well to keep our windows the pen toward their eternal residence. bea It is a joy for us to believe that while we sitt re interested in them they are interested in bet i. Much thought of heaven makes one anc eavenly. The airs that blow through that strf pen window are charged with life, and sha veep up t6 us aromas from gardens that sit ever wither, under skies that never cloud, Un i a spring-tide that never terminates. Com- cas ared with it all other heavens are dead fail- of res. the The American aborigines look forward to tru heaven of illimitable hunting ground, tha artridge and deer and wild duck more thau on lentiful, and the hounds never oft the scent, Wb hd the guns never missing fire. But the an< eographer has followed the earth round "Si ad found no Homer's elysium. Voya- to i ers have traversed the deep in all direc- voi ous and found no Hesiod's islands of sec le blessed. The Mohammedan's celes- the al debauchery and the Indian's eternal rea unting ground for vast multitudes ave no charm. But here rolls in the Bible eaven. No more sea?that is. no wide sepration. No more night?that is, no insom- I la. No more tears?that is, no more heart- tha reak. No more pain?that is, dismissal of ros meet and bitter draft and miasma and ban- fas ihment of neuralgias and catalepsies and glo onsumotions. All colors in the wall except Wjj loomybla'-k. All the music in the major the ev because eelebrative and jubilant. the River crystalline, gate crystalline and dri vies crystalline because everything is clear hai ad without doubt. White robes, and that of wans sinlssness. Vials full of odors, and the Hit means pure regalement of the senses, its' iainbow, and that means the storm is over. j [arriage supper, and that means gladdest of jstivity. Twelve mannerof fruits, and that wa leans luscious and unending variety, or [arp, trumpet, graud march, anthem, all men and halleluiah in the same orches- lig ra. Choral meeting solo, and overture onl leeting antiphon. and strophe joining dlthy- ey< limb, as they roll into the ocean of doxolo- me ies. And you and I have all that, and have Ev ; forever through Christ if we will let Him coi rith the blood of one wounded hand rub Til ut our sin, and with the other wounded \vn and swing open the shining portals. he Day and night keep your window open to- hit rard that Jerusalem. Sing about it. Pray hoi bout it. Think about it. Talk about it. iov >ream about it. Do not be inconsolable bout your friends who have gone into it. >o not worry if something in your heart inicates that you are not far off from its j estates. Do not think that when a Chris- pjr ian dies he stops, for he goes on. cai Homer's heaven was an elysium which he a'H( escribes as a plain at the end of the earth r beneath, with no snow nor rainfall, and ne, he sun never goes ^down. and Rhadoman- oni hus. the justest of men, rules. Hesiod's j mc eaveu is what he calls the islands of the lessed, in the midst of the ocean, three wy Hues a year blooming with most exquisite *y, lowers, and the air js tinted with purple, JuJ rhile games and music and horse races oc- jej ur>y the time. Th? Scandinavian's heaven q0 ras the hall of Walhalla, where ths god gj,, )din gave uuending wine suppers to earthly 0jj ieros and heroines. The Mohammedan's W(3 leaven passes its disciples in over the bridge no il-Sirat, which is liner than a hair and cje harper than a sword, and then they are let ug oose into a riot of everlasting sensuality. An ingenious man has taken the heavenly ,' uriongs as mentioned in Revelation and has cpi alculated that there will be in heaven 100 ooms sixteen feet square for each ascending _ onl, though this world should lose 100,000.- ' 00 yearly. But all the rooms of heaven will e ours, "for they are family rooms, and as ( o room in your house is too good for your hildren. so all the rooms of all the palaces ?' f the heavenly Jerusalem will be free to r; foil's children, and even the throneroom j rill not be denied, and you may run up the tops of the throne, and put your hand ou 'l? he side of the throne, and sit down beside hi- King according to the promise, ''To him hat overcom^th will I grant to sit with Me j\ n My throne." But you cannot go in (vicept as conquerors, y liiny years ago the Turks uud Christians vere in battle, nn ! th-j Christians wors deer.ted. ami with th'iir commander Stephen le I toward a fortress wiioro th<; mother of his commander was staying. When she . 1 aw her son and his army in disgraceful p1 etreat. she had the pates of the fortress * r oiled shut, and then from the top of the 01 lattlement cried out to her son, "You can- cn lot enter here except as conqueror." *1' Then Stephen rallied his forces and re? *?r umed the battle and gained the clay, "K 10 000 driving back 20D.000. For those who s!r( ire defeated in battle with sin ani death c" md hell nothing but shame and conteaipt, -ut for those who gain the victory through lur Lord Je3U3 Christ the gates of the New ferusalem will hoist, and there shall be an j hundant entrance in:o the everlasting ha cingdom of our Lord, toward which you do ^ Fill to keep tour windows open. eV( RELIGIOUS READING. ilany thousands of Christians have spent ? weeks of midsummer away from their lies in rural districts. Every one of them >y profession a missionary. What this ?ht mean if all had done tho work of a jsionary from the love of it is more than 1 be computed. What it does mean is, no lbt, a large factor in the religious growth our land. Country life, and especially m life, is to a large extent isolated, it is II. There is little to stimulate ambition, rmers are independent thinkers, capable ippreciating the ablest efforts of pulpit and tform, but without much in ordinary times rouse their minds or sympathies. Their ailies often hunger for just the new interest ich the coming of summer guests into the vn brings to them. Vhen that visit means the coming of the grance of Christian life and devotion, it n effect a religious revival. The church he center of social interest. But for it the eliness would often be beyond endurance, eir minds are freshened, hearts kindled in apathy, healthful associations cultivated. ? faces appearing there lit up with love to rist, new voices in song and testimony, v acquaintances made mean new life to the cmunity. From these country places re come many of the men and women 0 are among the brightest ornaments of )llc and business and social life. Noere doe3 the salt of the earth make its or more manifest than through tho Chris1 life and worship of guests in the small irche3 in these summer months. 'heir good influence should not end with ation. A message sent back now and then ing the coming winter will be almost as uable in the prayer meeting as a personal it. A book or other healthful gitt to the tor, a letter to one of the Sunday school chers, a share in the holiday festivities v hn ? in hop of love which will long bear it. If the great npostle Paul had not been leeply interested in the churches he had ited a large part of the New Testament uld not have been written. The ODportu,es of vacation have not yet ended. The ristian life of our country needs greatly interchange of thought and sympathy for Ich these annnal migrations give opportuf and needs to have it maintained throughthe year. BE NOT AFRAID TO DIE. (9 not anxious when you shall die: God 1 care for that. Do your work, and leave future to Christ. not sorrowful or rful at the thought of death. There are ny Christians troubling themselves and iug, "Am I ready to die?" That is not question. Are you ready to live? Have i Christ in you, the hope of glory? If rist be in yju, He will take oare of you. e for him and all will be well in the dying ir. Whether you die at home or abroad is ery little matter; whether you die in the 1st of friends or of enemies is of small acint. Live for Jesus, and He will never foryou. If you live for the world it may t you; if you live for wealth it may take tself wings, and you may die in poverty; ou live for fame, men may turn against i; if you live for pleasure, your ability to oy it may pass away and your senses grow 1; if you live for the mazy dance,your feet y be unable to move; you may love the ;nd of the viol, but the ear can no longer Kflonfifnl vniir fipnQO If ; 11 )UU IIVO 1VL IUD UOIIUHIUI, JWU4 ? sight may fail you; if you live for children y may be smitten down and leave you deste, or" what is far worse, they may desert I, and leave you worse than childless in a d and unfeeling world; if you live for any of earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh ! j for Jesus, and lie will never forsake you. Ushop Simpson. ETEBXA.L REALITY. rod is not a hypothesis to account for the snomena of nature. God is the eternal lity. As President Hyde, of Bowdoin Col0, has well put it, God is not a hypothesis; is the hyspostasis. He is not a thesis, an nion, a theory, a supposition, created to ount for phenomena; He is the great untying reality of which all phenomena are manifestation. Do you remember that .utiful image in Plato's ltepublic of man ing in a cavern, various figures pa-sing lind his back, and he unable to turn tibout i look upon them, but the bright light jaming upon them and casting their idows on the screen before him? So we in chains in life. We look at the shadows, seen is the divine and eternal reality that t them. All the beauty of llower. of sound literature, and all the beauty of men, all beauty of home life, all that makes life e and great and noble, are but shadows t He, the invisible and eternal God, casts the screen, that we look upon them, ten Samuel lay upon the couch trembling., 1 the voice called out in the darkness, imuel, Samuel," God was not a hypothesis iccount for the voice; God was, and the ce was the witness of his presence. So the ret voice that speaks in the soul of man is i witness of a God that is. The ideals are lilies.?Lyman Abbott, D. D. THE BLESSEDNESS OF WOBK. f you would have sunlight inyourhomesee it you have work in ir. Nothing makes moeness and heavy-heartedness in a house so t as idleness. The very children om anil sulk if they are left :h nothing to do. If all have their work, iy hiivo not only their own joy in creating mcht. in makincr thoucrht into form, in vini; on something to completion, but they re the joy of ministering to the movement the whole house when they feel that what iy do is part of a living whole. That in ?lf is sunshine. .'he morulug i? bright with the knowledge how much has to be done. The midday !k is looked forward to; the hour of rest play is a true joy; the evening hour, when that has been done is talked over, is ?lelitful; and sleep, "sore lnbor'9 bath," is ly another piece of pleasant work. All s in that household look forward, all its mbers are bright, all honor one another, ery day there is the light of something aquered in the eyes of those who work, ne, the great shadow, takes substance, ,ll;s as a friend with those who work, and is a charming companion when we make t out of a ghost into a reality. In such a use, if there be also tba good temper of e, sunshine never ceases. LIFE WHAT WE MAKE IT. t is pos-ible to mourn, ana yet not reie; to be sad, and yet not unhappy; to rv solemn memories, ami still be joyous cl useful. Life is largely what we make it. : may call back images of bliss and glad33, and thank God that such felicity was e ours, thereby sweetening the present >ment with the pleasures of bygone days, t wo must not always be looking back. I! do, we are almost sure to go it3 we look. i must turn our vision sometimes to the ure, and try to carve out from what i? t to us a fortuno for the coming days.... id has promised that the reiga of sorrovr ill end. '"God shall wipe away tears from all faces." We.may not stop our owe (eping. but God can soothe us. Shall wo t ask Him to put an end to our woe, to : inse ;uvay our sin aud selllshness, to All with His own joy, and to make us spirituy giaa.' Goa can accompiisn tuts tran. ? mation. We have only to resign ourves actively and trustfully to Him to gain ; sweet solace of the indwelling Comforter. J. 11. Potts, D. D. Dnce having tasted of His grace the soul is ver willing to be parted from its Lord, id as the years roll on and the shadows lgthen. the cry. "Abide with mo" becomes )re pathetically intense. Blessed the man, the mists gather around his feet and the n is goiuir down, who still yearns for this mpany. Blessed is ho who from past ex rienee knows that if Christ be with him, i;n the chills of death shall never extinish the hf-nrt of flame.?G. C. Lorimer, D. A Bicycle for :i Princess. V bicycle manufacturing Arm in New F.ncld i? constructing a machine for tho iucess Maud, of Wales. that is to !> > ->110 the handsomest products of tho wheeling ize. It will be silver mounted and the pointments will be of the richest eharac . A special messenger will accompany the ycle to England whoso duty it will be to 5 to it that the Princess receives tho ma? ine uninjured. Cats Driven to Harries*. I F: an?h boy ha* b-oken two black cat* to rness. He drives his pets iu single as well double ha: aess up aud down tho .street ery day. TEMPERANCE. CARDINAL StANyiNO'S TEOTEBANCE TOEH- ' I promise thee, sweet Lord, that I Will never cloud the light Which shines for me within my soul And makes my reason bright; B For never will I lose the power To 9erve Thee by my will, Which Thou hast set within my heart Thy precepts to fulfill. Oh, let me drink as Adam drnnk, Before from Thee he fell; j Oh. let me drink as Thou, dear Lord, . When faiut bv 3ychar's well. That from my childhood, pure from sin " Of drink and drunken strife, By the clear fountain I may rest, Of Everlasting Life. PHYSICAL EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL. ^ All evidence relative to the effects of alco- jg holic beverages and the non-value of alcohol q in the practice of medicine is both interesting and important. The most valuable, perhaps, is that furnished by the hospital re- ?. jports. Take, for example, that of the physiclans who had charge of the cholera q patients at Hamburg. They made special gj efforts to learn the previous habits of the ^ victims of the epidemio in the matter of food ai and drink. The physicians found the mor- w tallty especially heavy among inebriates. ^ One of the daily reports said: ''The deaths q of eighty-nine heavy drinkers, twelve of ?l them women, have been reported, and t| among the fresh cases a corresponing in- ^ crease in the number of intemperate persons ha9 been noticed." When cholera broke out a] in Hamburg the newspapers. printed innumerable warnings against the excessive ^ use of beer during the plague, but the warn- w ings passed unheeded in the lower districts w where the epidemic was worst. While the g. consumption of all liquors, except wine, 8] practically ceased in the middle-class popu- % lation, beer was taken in exceptional quanti- q ties by the poor. Ci In the harbor districts the drunkenness g among the unemployed exceeded anything {] before seen there. Families spent their last ^ coppers for liquor to still the pangs of hun- j ger and their apprehension, scores paying for their ignorance, folly or addiction to x their beer-drinking habits with their lives. t| An investigation at one of the great public ?.] T> 1- 11.. (hnf nf nospuam ill jrnria toucuuj jmmun mm. r, eighty-three patients who suffered from ept- t( lepsy, sixty were children of drunken par- ri ents. A more pleasing hospital report Is that just issued dv the National Temperance j, Hospital of the United States, located in y Chicago. It shows that the non-alcoholic ^ treatment of disease is meeting with in- ti creased success. While, during the previous year, the mortality had been four per x cent., a lower percentage than that of many 9 other hospitals, it has, during the past 1 twelve months, been reduced to two and a a quarter per cent. There were, doubtless, j( many contributing causes for this extremely low death rate, but it is none the less a most q satisfactory one. 8i SI BUSINESS OF FOUR SALESMEN. ^ The following true story is related by ono si of the participants in the remarkable inciient: x Not long since in a certain New England $ :ity four commercial travelers met for the n Qrst time at the table. With that genial bon- u homie peculiar to the craft they were soon li Bngaged in conversation. In a few moments P one of them said: a "Gentlemen, suppose we begin, being all a strangers, with the gentleman opposite me, V to introduce ourselves and our arms' busi- 0 aess." ( This was unanimously agreed to. r 8aid No. 1: "lam , andl represent the b house of X. Y. Z., selling glass bottles." s Said No. 2: "Well, gentlemen, perhaps it y is no chance that I come next, for I represent P. D. Q., I am , and I sell the stuff that ( goes into bottles. I sell wines and liquors." 1 There was a moment's silence as No. 3 t, said: "That, gentlemen, does seem a little 3 strange, but perhaps there is a fatality about n this. I am of the firm of W. U. 8., dealers in t undertakers' goods." ? No. 4 now remained silent, and suggested i that it would be well not to pursue the sub- t joct further, and that it had been well never 0 to have started it. n After much urging to complete the chain j he said: "Gentlemen, it is indeed a fatality, ij I am , of D. B. E., and I am taking or- * dcrs for gravestones." Was there ever a v temperance lecture compressed into so few A lines? J 1 T.T.T.ll BID IT. a A short time ago the country was horrified " by the report of a railroad accident on the * Grand Trunk in Canada in which nine persons were killed and twenty-five seriously t injured. It will be remembered that a number of pilgrims were proceeding to pay their devotions at the shrine ofSte. Anne de Beau- j pre. They filled two trains, and while the fl first was waiting at the Craig's Road station, ^ 4Ua ?A f.tll anuoH Intn if nrlth IUC aouuuu Cxaouo-A 1UU c?|s?,wv? imw ^ the result that nine pilgrims, including two j, priests, lo9t their lives, and a very large j number were seriously, though not fatally, g wounded. At the inquest evidence was ad- _ duced showing that McLeod. the engineer, ? when the train stopped at Arthabaska sta- ^ tion had pone into a hotel and bought a can 0 of beer; of this he had freely imbibed, and as a result there was the railroad horor. It was c beer that did it; what matters It? the Gov- ^ ernment licensed men to sell the beer.? o National Temperance Advocate. ^ c DRINK WAS THE CAU8E. j Noticing a rather forceful looking man do- t ing menial service on a steamboat and in- n quiring of the mate about him, I was told s that the man a little while ago was drawing i a salary of $15 a week for skilled work, a Now he was getting only that much a month for work that the most common tramp could s perform. On asking the cause the answer h was: ;'Drink reduced him. and I know many h more just such cases, men of ability who ? once held good positions but are now doing f the cheapest kind of labor." It is indeed a true that many of the men whom you may c maul- in oftniotv'o mnof Hacrnfifld level were a once men of place and influence. Their deg- ( radation has come through drink. 8urely c all sentiment that looks to the destruction of a the liquor traffic should be earnestly fostered. I ?Methodist Times. . e EIGHT YEARS WITHOUT A SALOON. J It is stated that Cambridge. Mass., has T been eight years without a saloon. Its popu- {! lation is over 80,000. The secret bars have Jbeen rooted out, and it has long been difficult to procure intoxicating liquor in the 11 city. Meanwhile, the valuation of the city ? increased from ?59,703,000 to $76,282,000, * and the same rate of taxation produces 0 8130,000 more than formerly. The 122 saloons have been turned into stores or dwellings.?Our Church Helper. WOMEN TIPPLERS IX EDINBURGH. Drinking, both moderate and immoderate, is much more common in the British Isles 0 than in the United States. On holidays it is g not uncommon to see the saloons half full of ^ women of the lower classes. About two- c thirds of the grocers in Edinburgh sell liquor c with their groceries; this has greatly in- T creased the habit of liquor drinking among f women.?Union Signal. lj i SOBRIETY IS TROTHFULNES8. A recent decision of a court was that a man i with three drinks in him was not to be be- ? lieved as against a man with two, a man C with two as against a man with one, a man li with one as against a man with none. S Courts of justice generally observe the rule t that sobriety is truthfulness.?Scrauton (Penn.) Index. t :< TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. V Every drunkard was first a moderato rlrinlrfir. * The path ol misery lea,is from the door of ( the saloon. Plenty of bee in tho summer means little t Are in winter. 1 The prosparity of the liquor trail!i means degradation to homes. a Saloon keepers are recruiting olllcers fur L the army of drunkards. The saloon is tho foullest blot on tho fair pages of America's history. The saloons virtually say: "You furnish '' the boys. We do tho rest." Four-fifths of the deaths of men in Belgium c are attributed to ulcoholism. When drinking leads a man to commit t( crimo it is a serious question Vhethor drink- b ing itself be not a crime.?Judge Carpenter, 31 Hartford, Conn. 0] "Never, under any circumstances, take opium or any other toxio drug unless proscribed by an intelligent physician," says William Rosaer Cobbe. 1 ' > -/ .. SABBATH SCHOOL NTEKNATIONAL LESSON FOtf 1 SEPTEMBER 29. 'evlew for the Third Quarter?Commeutary. < Lessox I.?The Ten Commandments (Ex. 1 x., 1-17). Golden Text, Luke x., 27. '"Thou ] mlt love the Lord thy God with all thy | eart, and with all thy soul, and with nil thy , xencrth, and with all thy mind, and thy ' eicrhbor as thy self." No commandment* J 11 redeemed from Etrypt. The oue thins the j nner needs is righteousness, and this is , mndonlyin Christ, who is the end of the ' lw for righteousness to every one that be- ' o Hi /''R.im r 4V This riffhteons^ess is immed up in the one word "love," for love the fulfilling of the law. and God i9 love, hrist Is God manifest In the flesh, and th * ue Christian life is, "Christ liveth in mt\" Lesson* II.?The Golden Calf (Ex. xxxi'., 8, 30-35. Golden Text, I John v.. 21. "Lite children, keep yourselves from idols." od manifest in the thunderlngs of Mount nai, or spenking by His servant. Mos?s, I ley Dromlsed to obey, but God Invisible, id Moses also absent for a little season, uotithstanding the token of His loving care In le dally manna from heaven, they turn '.'rom od to idols. What wonder that He was rieved with thorn! They tempted Him ten mes and would not hearknn to His voice fum. xiv., 22). L?t us cleave unto Him. id not grieve His Holy Spirit whereby wo re sealed CEph. iv., 30). Lesson III.?Nadab and A'oihu (Lev. x.. 1l). Golden Text, Lev. x., 9, "Do not drink ine nor strong drink, thou nor thy sons ith thee." The service of God is wholly [riritual. He seeketh those who will woriip Him in spirit and in truth (John iv.. 23. 1). The flesh is carnal and is enmity against tod (Rom. viii., 7), Therefore whateyerexItes or stimulates the flesh Is agalust the pirit. No work of God is accomplished in le energy of the flesh. "Not by raijrht nor i v power." but by My Spirit, saith the Lord of [osts" (Zach. iv., 6). See also Eph. v.. 18. Lesson IV.?Journeying to Canaan (Num. oq_qc\ /inmon tat^ tntnm v .w. "fiomtt sou with U9. and we will do thee pood, for ae Lord hath spoken good concerning Isael." It was all right thus to urge Hobab > partake of the blessing of the God of Isa.el, but it seems ail wrong to speak of Hoab's being eyes to Is real, it looks like lean- | lg upon him instead of upon God. The rord for every child of God is. "SIv soul, rait thou only upon God. for my expectalon is from Him" CPs. Ixii., 5). Lesson V.?The Report of theSplesfNum. ill., 17-20. 23-33). Golden Text, Num. xiv.. . "The Lord is with us. fear them not." * 'hey had the word of the Lord that it was i good land, and that He would sure'y give : to them. Yet he indulged them in permit- , Ing them to send spies to see, and the spies onfessed that it was a good land, but they I aw difficulties instead of seeing God. They j fiw the giants, and they saw themselves, but rlth the exception of Caleb and Joshua they , aw not God and counted not on Him. Lesson VL?The Brazen Serpent (Num. I xi., 4-9). Golden Text, John ill., 14, "As [oses lifted up the serpent in the wilderess, even so must the Son of Man be lifted 1 p." About thirty-eight years between th3 | ist lesson and this; a whole generation I assed away. Aaron and Miriam also gone, | nd the new generation murmuring as usual, Ithough again on the borders of the land. 7e will do all things without murmuring I r disputing if wo have confidence in God Phil, ii.,14; Isa. xxx., 15). All manner of ebelllon against our lot in life Is simply reeliion against God. The cure is to "conider Him" who was lifted up for us and ield fully to Him. Lesson VII.?The Now Home In Canaan Dtfut. vl., 3-15). Golden Text, Deut. viii., 0. "Thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for he good land which He hath given thee." 'he land and all its contents were wholly a latter of grace, a free gift of God to them, hat they might therefore hear and do H's rill and suffer Him to bless them mightily u me eyes 01 an nauuiu, mn av hem He might be known. If we would keep urselves wholly for Him, He would magJfy Himself to us. Lesson VIII.?Crossing the Jordan ("Joshua il., 5-17). Golden Text, Isaxliii., 2, "When hou passeth through the waters, I will be riththee." Moses has at this time joined laron and Miriam in the better land, and oshua is now the visible leader of the ho3t. ?he Lord is with him as He was with Moses, ,nd this is the secret of his strength. The ,rk is carried ahead of the host, and ti3 the raters divide the priests bearing it advance o the midst of the river, and there abide till ,11 have safely passed over. Jesus has been hrough Jordan for us. and we need not fear. Lesson IX.?The Fall of Jericho fJoshua i., 8-20). Golden Text, Heb. xi.. 30. "By aith the walls of Jericho fell down, .fter they were compassed about seven lays." The same Lord who appeared to loses at the burning bush apd commanded tim to put oflt his shoes now appears to oshua by Jericho with a like command, intruding'him in the way of victory and leace. It is God's way to plan and to carry iut His plans. It is ours to yield and obey. Ve must keep our shoes oil, and never think if it as our work. Lesson X.?Caleb's Reward (Joshua xiv., -11). Golden Text, Joshua xiv., 14, "He vholly followed the Lorl God of Israel." lee a man of 85, as strong as a mau of l\ lecause God was his strength, and he hanges not. His strength is made perfect n our weakness, and when we yield to Him' hat He may work, our weakness will be but , better occasion for Him to manifest His trength. Walled cities and giants are nothng to God, and victory depends upon His .bility, not upon our. Lesson XI.?The Cities of Refuge (Joshua jc., 1-9). Golden Text Heb. vi., 18, "Who lave fled for refuge to lay hold upon the lope set before us." This lesson Is very suggestive of Christ, who is our only refu^o rom the law of sin and death, and in whom lAnuiKafu lo oofutv A a t3ca nnintnd nut: in iur notes ou the lessen every name is sug;estive of Him. Notice also that the city of Caleb's inheritance (Hebron) became a city if refuge, and when we follow Jesus fully ,nd live in fellowship with Him we will in lis name become a refuge for others. Lesson XII.?Joshua Renewing the Covnr.nt (Joshua xxiv., 14-25). Golden Text oshua xxiv., 24, "The Lord our God will re serve, and His voice will we obey." The ;reat thought here is that we cannot serve k>d unless we serve Him with the whole leart in sincerity and in truth. He hits iought us that we might be a people for His wn possession, and He wants us wholly for liujself, both for His glory and for our highst good.?Lessor. Helper. COLD AND COAL IN ALASKA. lesult of the Examination of the Field* by Government Geologists. Dr. George F. Becker, geologist in charge f a division of the United States Geological iurvey, has returned from Alaska, where he ias been making a survey of the gold and oal fields along the shore line. He was acompanied by Dr. William H. Dahi, who rent to make a special report on the coal lelds. This is the first work that has ever ieen done by th3 Geological Survey ia ilaska. Dr. Becker says there is no doubt that ilitska is goiu>; to be an active mining re;ion, but he does not believe it will rival the California mining belt. The veins are not so urge an>l well developed as they are in that Itate. There has been quite au excitement his summer among the placers a; the head f Cook's Inlet, but the amount of success litis far achieved hardly warrants tho .mount of interest exhi'oife.1. The profitable mailings thus far are '-onfined to a few nile.? on Bear Crook which empties into ?itmav;u:i Arm. A.s ;li>- coal deposits, tii" only coal found hat ?e?'ins likely t?> be of eomnimvial value nis at Cjok's Inlet. It takes about twenty <>ii.s to do toe work of on*? ton of Vancouver ji-in.i i.<vii. <Vi:ii cAnlii be >n*?!?iii*:iliy iii?;:d if tiin \r >r< v.-.l; dene on ;i large .ml with as much .-y.-;le:n us tin* coal :i:;uo.s ;? Western l'ouusvivauia are worked. A ISicycle for a Princess. A bicycle: manufacturing firm in New Engind is constructing a machine for tho 'rincess Maud, of Wales. that is to be one f tho handsomest products of tho wheeling raze. It will be silver mounted and the ppointments will be of llie richest eharac>r. A special messenger will accompany tho icycle to Emrland whose duty it will be to to it that the Princess received tho maLine uninjured. Tlie N'eeils of Nebraska. The throe great nee js of Nebraska are lr? igatioc, immigration and colonisation. AGRICULTURAL ? U] rOPICSs OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. 13 RE A K IN" Q MULES* When a mule gets to be three years sld he is then at the proper age to be oroken; bat he should not be worked aard until fonr years old. When you take hi 31 in hand to break him do not be rough with him; be sure to fasten liim so that he does not get away, for if he once breaks loose he does not _ forget it, and it renders him more dif- " Bcult to manage. Mules should always be broken to a wagon with a horse or mule that has a swift walk ; ^ they may be broken to walk swift or slow at pleasure by accustoming them ^ to either gait at first. The female C( mule is considered preferable to the CJ male, being more tractable and some aay of greater endurance.?Maryland Farmer. flj WINTER DAIRYING. In European countries dairying in g me -winter mcntna is made proncaDie and the milk kept pnre and of excel- Q] lent flavor by the use of roots for feed, especially mangels and sngar a] beets, but in this country dairymen aj are trying ensilage as a substitute for ^ root crops. Where corn can be stored C{ in silos for this purpose it will prove m to be much cheaper than roots, but ^ whether the ensilage will make as e? sweet butter is still an open question. w Some dairymen allege tilat the ensil- ^ age is the better feed, but others have m not found it so in practice. It is r( quite probable that the difference in results is duo to the quality of the ensilage, and when properly stored it g does not flavor the milk, or if only r( used as a part of the ration along with a] grain and good sound hay or other g( form of dry fodder. ? ? P BUTTER PAYS ALL THE TIME, n If-we want to make our .farms self- tl sustaining we must keep more cows and less steers and other stock, as the h jows pay for their keep and leave a a fair profit, while it coats as much to a: raise two steers as we can get for three b if we sell to the bntohers, writes B. F. p V^illey. Therefore, I should advise it farmers to keep cows, make batter w and feed the milk to pigs. Batter al- tt ways bringB a fair price, with the least h; change in price, daring all of the y: panio times we have had. Batter is ol the only farm prodnct that has not c< been down to ruinous prices. There- w fore, let us keep all of the good cows ir that we can get fodder for. This can m be grown right at home on the farm si in the form of grain crops, ensilage, o with all of the grain, such as wheat, n barley and oats, tnat it is possible to li raise. Then our farms will be self- t< sustaining.?Rural World. BUSHKL BOX 8' While a basket is undoubtedly the ? most convenient method of handling j' a bushel of potatoes, apples, etc., 3' there are never enough of these meas- t: ures on a form. A convenient substi- b tute can be readily made which will 8 save time and annoyance in searching 0 for a basket and emptying out the contents. This substitute, which is t represented in our illustration, is a BUSHEL BOX. ' jj box made twenty-four inches long, c eleven and a fifth inches wide and r eight inches high, the bottom and sides should be of half-inch stuff, and the ends of inch stuff. This will give the 1250.4 cubic inches inside meas- t urement required to make the stand- t ard bushel. By reducing the length to twelve inches a half bushel measure ^ may be made, and smaller measures a in proportion. The large measures a should be strengthened by cleats at ?j the ends. These boxes possess great u advantages over the bushel baskets for market gardeners, as with them the . load can be very firmly and solidly packed, and the space ordinarily , wasted utilized.?New York World. ^ KEEP FARM RECORDS. E Every farmer is to a great extent a manufacturer, and ought to keep a ^ record of his operations. This is the key to success in any business. But ? the soil tiller should attend to some ^ other matters in connection with his . accounts. A map of his farm, with each field numbered, and its size, 8 quality of soil, etc., specified, will be ^ a great aid in keeping track of the year's transactions. How many farm- 8 era Viovo nnoh a cnidfl and ennveni- 8 ence? And how many kept such mem- *' oranda the past year as will enable 1! them to tell the expense of each crop 8 grown? And how about the domestic n animals? If you keep cows, what * have they paid you per head in the v aggregate? And what of sheep, swine ? and even the chickens? How much 11 did each contribute to your income, and which was the most profiable? s Those who can answer those perti- t nent questions must be well advised in <1 regard to their financial position, and 1< need no admonition, bat we fear many t are utterly unable to give any detailed a account of their farming operations, 1( or whether the balance is on the right * or wrong side of the ledger. It is a needless to say that such management d would soon wreck any commercial enterprise, and hence the frequent com- p plaint that "farming don't pay" is not t Kiimrisincr. What we write is intended t to be suggestive rather than adznoni-! e tory. Keep an accurate account of f your doings, and you will not only be | a wiper, but ere long richer in conse- t quence. In fact, resolve that you will f know how you stand at the close of c another year.?Southern Farm. c CIRCULAR COW BARN*. ITern is one man's idea of a model 1 barn. It has room for cows and horses c both, with lolts overhead for graiu. j i The objections to basement stables f are as ueurly obviated here as they i could be anywhere. t In this barn, or any bam, the ani- r mals should all head outward, so as to 1 get the air and light. The neat ven- j i fcilator at the top shows that the s animals get fresh air in winter. The a greatest objection to a basement stable 1 i? that the moisture from the animals i i ^?? ???? see through the floor abore and metrates the hay and grain stored ?on that floor and often molds them. On the whole, however, this barn is 1 . txilt on an excellent pattern. One ore convenient for the storing and iatiibution of food for lire stock mid not well be devised.?Connecfciit Farmer. MANURING PASTURES. ?| Good barnyard mannre applied right fter the meadows and pastures are town in the summer gives very benecial results. It can be hauled out om the yards and t tables in August r September, and spread over the nibble. THe earner alter tne meadows re mown the better, and where they re cat in early July, the work oan bo DDe profitably then. Thin pastures in be greatly improved by a midsumer manuring, and where the grass is been very thin at catting it is an isy matter then to apply the manure here most needed. By following lis method up systematically patohjr leadow land can be made even and sgular. Even the strawy manure that has ot been entirely composted will give ood results. The straw proteots the Dots of the grass from the hot sun, ad helps to retain the moistare iathe >il after each shower. About tea ood loads of manure to the aore aplied several years in succession will take sach a difference in the yield iat one will be surprised. Manure applie 1 in the fall, and then arrowed over lightly, will tend to Lake a new grass seeds sprout at once, cid on the whole the pastures seem to a li/uiofiturl Yw + nia hftrrntpina A>. ecially if a rain follows right after . By applying the manure In this ay late in the summer it does not insrfere with the next season's crop of ay, but rather tends to increase its ield. Of course it keeps the cattle Of the pasture for a time, and this jrtainly should be done for a few ' eeks in midsummer any way. Fasturlg stock on the meadow right after towing, when the soil is dry and the in very hot, is the surest way to run at a good piece of grass land. After lowing the land needs a rest and a ttle stimulating then will help matjrs a great deaL By handling our hay field in thi? ray we can orop them more years in accession than if we neglect them, ix successive crops of good timothy i something unusual, and yet that is ast what this system will do every ime. The question is whether the ibor of spreading the manure in late ammer will not pay if such results are btainable. This year hay is apparently going o be high. Already prices are tendDg upward, and holders are keeping heir old stock for further advances. ?he coming crop will not be a large ne unless more rain falls. "We have lad for that matter a number of years ately when good hay paid as well as ny crop on the farm. It we but hanlle the grass land properly we will ind it the most remunerative on the arm. Good timothy hay, however, an be raised only on land that is eniched.?Wisconsin Agriculturist. ? KlU FARM AND GARDES NOfES. Though timothy is usually sown in he spring, there are those who sow in he fall and with good results. To rid a laws of ants punch holes own into their nests, pour mtn them spoonful of bisulphido of carbon, nd quickly stamp the soil tight above. ^ 'he fumes of the bisulphide will sually smother all the colony. The cheapest and best way of build Qg up a flock ot sneep on me iartn is o select the best of the ewes and ireed best suited to your purposes, [early select the ewes in this way, nd yearly infuse the blood from a tew ram. The too common opinion in regard o sheep is that they are but soaveners, and fitted only to consume the reeds and other waste on the farm; ut out of nothing comes nothing. If here are no proper food, care and heltor provided may be expected -to ine away and perish. In evaporating apples, says Michian Farmer, the skine, cores and waste o together; they are dried and sold o jelly manufactures, and from them 3 made some of the jelly that is for ale in pails in the grocery stores, larked currant jeiiy. j.i ib auppuaeu be boiling process removes all the rorms and dirt from the cores and kins of the apple. And we hope this s true. Here is a new wrinkle in feeding heep. The whole corn crop is run hrough a threshing maonine or shred.er, tearing the stalks, husks and eaves into fine feed with the grain inermingled or sifted out, as wished, s with other grain. A flock thus fed eft timothy hay untouched for it, rhich shows them to be wise sheep, nd mix(;<! with clover hay the sheep .id remarkably well. Early maturity means the largest iroportion of muscle or lean meat for he least food eaten, as well as the atainment of this condition at the earlist possible age. All growth is made rom what ;s eaten in excess of th< .mount necessary to support life, and he quicker it reaches the stofje best itted for food not only will u have ost less per pound, but it will nava leveloped the tenderest and the larg? ist amount of leaa meit. It is a good time to dig and dry t >ig lot of muck to keep the stable* Iry and sweet'all winter, and vastlj ncrearfe the manure pile and farm'* ertility. It is not best to draw thu nuck long distances before it %ha< Iried, but when sun and wind havt educed it to a powder one team oan iaul a large quantity. ltd own fertilzing value is not great in most in tances, but as a veuicle for carrying itield the riches of stable liquids it ias no equal for cheapness and effect yeuc ga.