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REV. DR. TALMAGE. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. J 4 Subject: "The Power of Example." Text: "An Abimelech took an ax in his hand and cut down a bouph from the trees and took it and laid it on his shoulder and said unto the people that were with him: 'What ye have seen me do make haste and do as I have done.' And all the peoole likewise cut down every man his bough."? (Judges ix. 48. Abimelech is a name malodorous in Bible Mctnw on/1 fIt 1 I r\f rt?An?nKlA J \J\. (Uti VI piUUlrtUlO MJ^KUDUUU. Buoys are black and uncomely, but they tell where the rocks are. The snake's rattle is hideous, but it gives timely warning. From the piazza of my summer homo night by : jnlght I saw a lighthouse fifteen miles away, 1 not placed there for adornment, but to tell 1 mariners to stand off from that dangerous 1 point. So all the Iron-bound coast or moral danger is marked with Saul and Herod and 1 Rehoboam and Jezebel and Abimelech. 1 These bad people are mentioned in the Bible 1 * not only as warnings, but because there were . sometimes flashes of good conduct in their ; ' lives worthy of imitation. God sometimes 1 drives a very straight nail with a very poor I hammer. The city of Schechem had to be taken, and Abimelech and his men were to do it. I see 1 the dust rolling up from their excited march. 1 hear the shouting of the captains and the j yell of the besiegers. The swords clack sharply on the parrying shields, and the vo- 1 i ciferation of two armies In death grapple is j horrible to hoar. The battle goes on all day, 1 and as the sun Is settine Ahimelech and his 1 army cry "Surrender!" to the beaten foe, and, unable longer to resist, the city of Shechem falls, and there are pools of blood and dissevered limbs and glazed eyes looking up beggingly for mercy that war never shows, and dying soldiers with their head on the lap of mother or wife or sister, who have come out for the last offices of kindness and affection, and a groan rolls across the city, stopping not, because there is no spot for it to rest,"so full is the place of other groans. A city wounded! A city dying! Acitydead! Wail for Shechem, all ye who know the hor. rors of a sacked town.' r As I look over the city I find only one J building standing, and that is the temple of [ the god Berith. Some soldiers outside of f the city in a tower, finding that they can nci longer defend Shechem, now begin to look a out for their own personal safety, and they 11 fly to this temple of Berith. They go within s the door, shut it. and they say: "Now we c are safe. Abimelech has taken the whole J city, but he cannot take this temple of S Berith. Here we shall be under the protec- J tion of the gods." 0 Berith, the god, ao your best now for these refugees. If you J iave eyes, pity them. If you have hands, J help them. If you have thunderbolts, strike J lor them. But how shall Abimelech and his * army take this temple of Berith and the men c who are there fortified? Will they do it with ' the sword? Nay. Will they do It with the ; spear? Nay. With the battering ram rolled s tip by hundred armed strength crashing i against the walls? Nay. Abimelech marches r his men to a wood in Zalmon. With his ax c he hows off a limb of a tree and DUts that s limb upon bis shoulder, and then bo s&ys to his men, 'Ton do the same." J They are, obedient to their commander. There ie a straggle as to who shall have axes. ,The whole wood is full of bending boughs, and the crackling and the hacking, and the cutting, until every one of the host has a limb of a tree cut down, and not only that, put has put it on his shoulder just as AbiWleoh showed him how. Are these men all armed with the tree branch? The reply comes. "All armed." And they march on. jOh, what a strange army, with that strange equipment! They come up to the foot of the temple at Berith, and Abimeleoh takes his limb of a tree and throws it down, and Itha first platoon of soldiers come up, and they throw down their branches, and the second platoon; and the third, until all around about the temple of Berith there Is a pile of tree branches. * The Shechemites look fout from the window of the temple upon Ehat seems to them ohildish play on the irts of their enemies. But soon the flints are ruck, and the spark begins to kindle the a fbrush. and the flame comes up all through \ [the pile, and the red elements" leap to the i jcasement, and the woodwork begins to blaze, t and one arm of flame is tnrown up on the j right side ol the temple, and another arm of t jflame is thrown up on the left side of the I jtemple, until they clasp their lurid palms c junder the wild night sky, and the cry of t j4'Fire!" within and "Fire" without anuounces I .the terror, and the strangulation, and the c doom of the Shecliemites, and the complete d [overthrow of the temple of the god Berith. <j Then there went up a shout, long and loud, d 'irom the stout lungs and swarthy chests of \ 'Abimelech and bis men as they stood amid s the ashes and the dust crying, "Victory, t ictory!" * c Now I learn flr?t from this subject the folly t of depending upon any one form of tactics a ;in anything we have to do for this world or a lor God. Look over the weaponry of olden ii !times?javelins, baltleaxes, habergeons, and b show me a single weapon with which Abirue- a lech and his men could have gained suoh a complete triumph. It is no easy thing to take ti a temple thus armed, I have seen a house o where, during Revolutionary times, a man d uis wiie Kept uaus. a waoi? roguueui Ihour after hour, beoause they were inside A the bouse and the assaulting soldiers were outside the house. Yet here Abimelech and c ihis army come up, they surround this tern- j Spie, and they capture it without the Io3s of a s single man on the part of Abimelech, although j, jl suppose some of the old Israelitish heroes j, [told Abimelech. "You are only goiug up [there to oe cut to pieces." Yet you are will- j; |ing to testify to-day that by no other mode? ^ certainly not by ordinary modes-could that ? tfemple so easily, so thoroughly, have been ? {taken. Fathers ana mothers, brethren and e isisters in Jesus Christ, what the church most tj ! wants to learn this day is that any plan is v Iright, is lawful, is best, whioh helps ^ [to overthrow the temple of sin and v capture this world for God. We n are very apt to stick to the old modes of at- t tack. We put on the old style coat of mail. v We come up with the sharp, keen, glittering ^ steel spear of argument, expecting in that way to take the castle, but they have a ^ rthousand spears where we have ten. And so g -the castle of sin stands. Oh, my friends, t we will never capture this world for God by v Any keen saber of sarcasm, by any glittering j .lances of rhetoric, by any sapping and min- j ,lng of profound disquisition, by any gun- j .powdery expositions of indignation, by j sharpahootings of wit, by howitzers of a imental strength made to swing shell five , miles, by cavalry horses gorgeously capari- ? isoned pawing the air. In vain all the at- 9 tempts on the part of these ecclesiastical . foot soldiers, light horsemen and grenadiers. D My friends, I propose a different style of 0 .tactics. Let each one go to the forest of v 'God's promise and invitation and hew down j. a branch aad put it on his shoulder, and let ? 'tis all come around these obstinate iniquities, 7 land then with this pile kindled by the fires I of a holy zeal and the flames of a consecrated <] life we will burn them out. What steel can- t - not do, fire may. And I announce myself in a favor of any plan of religious attack that t succeeds?any plan of religious attack, how- t ever radical, however odd, however unpopular, however hostile to all conventionalities 0 of church and state. If one style of praver j, does not do the work, let us try another t style. If the ohurch musio of to-day does v not get the victory, then let us make the as- j sault with a backwoods ohorus. If a prayer s meeting at half past 7 in the evening does 8 not succeed, let us have one as early in the s morning as when the augel found wrestling .. Jacob too much for him. If a sermon with t three authorized head3 does not do the work, fl then let us have a sermon with twenty heads y or no heads at all. We want more heart in t, cur song, more heart in our almsgiving, e more heart in our prayers, more heart in our a preaching. a Oh, for less of Abimelech's sword and c more of Abimelech's conflagration! I had ? often heard h There is a fountain filled with blood sung artistically by four birds perched on ii their Sunday roost in the gallery until I t thought of Jenny Lind and Nilsson and Son- y tag and all tho other warblers, but there L Jame not one tear to'my eye nor one master a - emotion to my heart. But one night I went ji ftown to tho African Methodist meeting 1 bouse in Philadelphia, and at the close of i; the service a black woman in the middle of e ihe audience began to sing that hymn, and il all the audience joined in, and "we were t! floated some three or four miles nearer 1 heaven than I have ever been since. I saw a with my own eyes that ''fountain filled with b blood"?red, agonizing, saorifloial, redemp- l dve?aad I heard the crimson splash of the C wave ao we all went down under It. L For ?*Jnn?r$ plunged beneath ttiRt flood L030 ail their guilty stains. Ob. my friends, the gospel Is not a syllogism; it is not casuistry; it is not polemics, or the scienceof squabbles. It is blood redfact; it is warm hearted invitation; it is leaping, bounding, flying good news; it is efflorescent with all light; it is rubescent with all summery glow; it is arborescent with all sweet shade. I have seen the sun rise on Mount Washincrton, and from the Tiptop House, but there was no beauty in that compared with the cTavspring from on high when Christ gives lignt to a soul. I have heard Parepa sing, but there was no music in that compared with the voice of Christ when He said, 'Thv sins are forpiven thee; go in peace." Good news! Let every one cat down a branch of this tree of life and wave it. Let him throw it down and kindle it. Let all the way from Mount Zalmon to Shechera be filled with thetossins joy. Good news! Thisbon flee of the gospel shall consume tne last iem- i pie of sin, and will illumine the sky with apocalyptic joy, that Jesus Christ came into I the world to save sinners. Any new plan I thnt makes a man quit hissin, and that prostrates a wrong, I am as mu'-h in favor of as though all,the doctors, and the bishops, and I the archbishops, and the synods, and the I academical gownsmen of Christianity sanctioned it. The temple of Berith must coma I down, and I do not care how it comes. Still further I learn from this subject the power of example. If Abimelech had sat down on the grass and told his men to go and get the boughs and go out to the battle, the? would never had gone at all, or if they had it would have been without any spirit or effective result, but when Abimelech coes with his own ax and hews down a branch , rucI with Abimelech's arm puts it on Abimelech's shoulder and marches on, then, my text says, all the people did tho same, flow j natural that was! What made Garibaldi and I stonewall Jackson the most magnetic com- | I nanh1TO5 ThOV aJwHVS TOd? i i ruiuuero m uu >. , ? , a ihead. Oh, the overwhelming power of ex- _ imple! Here is the father on the wron? road. Ul his boys go on the wrong road. Here is ! v father who enlists forChrist. His children ' jnhst. I saw in sorre of the picture wallet:- ! es of Europe that before many of the great vorks of the great masters, the old masters, J here would be sometimes four and five ar- | ista takirg copies of pictures. These copies | hey were going to carry with them, perj laps to distant lands, and I have thought : hat your life and character are a mas* erpiece. and it is being copieJ, and long afer you are gone will bloom or blast in th9 lotnes of those who knew you and be a Gordon or a Madonna, Look out what you say. jook out what you do. Eternity will hear he echo. The best sermon ever preached is i holy life. The best music es*or chanted is k consistent walk. If you want others to i erve God, serve Him yourself. If you want | there to shoulder their duty, shoulder j 'ours. Where Abimelech goes his troops 1 [O. Oh, start out for heaven to-day, and | 1 ' our family will come after you, and your i lusiness associates will come after you, and j ?1 11 JaIw vaii wifh nnfl I ;uur suuai inouus mu jviu ivuu , >ranch of the tree of life for a baton, marshal ust as many as you can gather. Oil, the in- I Inite, the semiomnipotent power of a good j tr bad example! j I saw last summer, near the beach, a j wrecker's machine. It was a cylinder with ! ome holes at the side, mado for aud thrust- I . ng in of some long poles with strong leverige, and when there is any vessel in trouble t >r going to pieces in the offing, the wreckers j j ihoot a rope out to the suffering men. They | . frasp it. and the wreckers turn the cylinder, j . md the rope winds around the cylinder, and i . hose who are shipwrecked are saved. So at j , rour feet, to-day, there is an influence with ; ' i tremendous leverage. The rope attached , o it swings for out Into the billow}* future. . four children, your children's children and : ill the generations that are to follow will j frip that influence and feel the long reach- ^ ng pull long after the figures on your tombitone are so near worn out that the visitor (annot tell whether it was 1896 or 1796 or .696 that you died. ' Suppose in military circles on the morning j hatti? thn roll was called, and out of 1000 : nen only 100 meD in the regiment answered. ] Vhat excitement there would be in the :amp! What would the colonel say? What j ligh talking there would be among the ' :aptains and majors and the adjutants. J iupposo word came to headquarters that 1 hese delinquents excused themselves on the 1 ground that they had overslept themselves, ! r the morning was damp and tSty were ifraid of getting their feet wet. or that they 1 rere busy cooking rations. My friends, this s the morning of the day of God Almighty's J >attle. Do you not see the troops? Heat j e not all the trumpets of heaven and all * he drums of hell? Which side are you on? J !f you are on the right side, to what J rivalry troop, to what artillery service, f o what garrison duty do you belong? 1 in other words, in what Sabbath school 1 lo you teach? In what prayer meeting { lo you extort? To what penitentiary do you leclare eternal liberty? To what almshouse lo you announce the riches of heaven? 1 Vhat broken bone of sorrow have you ever et? Are you doing nothing? Is it possible hat a man or woman sworn to be a follower f Jesns Christ is doing nothing? Thenhide I he horrible secret from the angels. Keep it t way from the book of judgment. If you { re doing nothing, do not let the world find . t out, lest they ^charge your religion with eine a false face. Do not let your cowardice ' nd treason be heard among the martyrs J beat the throne, lest they forget the sancIty of the place and denounce ycur betrayal I f that cause for which they agonized and ietL * May the eternal God rouse us all to action! j lS for myself, I feel I would be ashamed to j ie now and enter heaven until I have ac- ( ompllshed something more deoislve for the j .ord that bought me. Oh. brethren, how > wiftly the time goes by! It seems to me as j [ the years had gained some new power of { jcomotion?a kind of speed electric. ( The temple of Berith is very broad, and It j > very high. It has been going up by the i ands of men and devils, ana no human enineering can demolish it, but if the 70.000 , ilnisters of Christ in this country should , auh take a branch of the tree of life, and all . { heir congregations should do the same, and * re should march on and throw these j ranches around thegreat temples of 3ln and ^ rorldliness and folly, it would need no natch or coal or torch of ours to touch off , ho pile, for, as in the days of Elijah, fire . rould fall from heaveu and kindle the bonIre of Christian victory over demolished sin. Still further, I learn from this subject the , langer of false refuges. As soon as these iehechemites go: into the temple they ( bought they were safe. They said: "Berith , rill fake care of us. Abimefcch"miiy batter , lown everything else. cannot batter lown this temple where we are now hid." Jut verv soon the.v heard the timbers crack lng, and they were soothered with smoke, aid they miserably diad. I suppose every lerson in tnis andience this moment is stepiing into some kind of refuse. Here you tep in the tower of good works. You say, 'I shull be safe in this refuse." The battlaaents are adorned; the steps are varnished; >n the wall are pictures of all the suffering ou have alleviated, and all the schools you tavc established, and all the fine things you lave ever done. Up in that tower you feel 'ou are safe. But hear you not tho'tramp of rour unpardoned sins all around the towor? Fhey each have a match. You are kindling he combustible material. You fee! the heat ind the suffocation. Oh, may you leap in ime, the gospel declaring. "By the deeds of he law snail no flesh living be justified." "Well," you say. "'I have been driven out if that tower. Where shall I go?" Step ato this tower of indifference. You say, "If his tower is attacked, it will be a great rhile before it is taken." You feel at ease. Jut there is an Abimelech with ruthless nsault coming en. Death and his forces ara :athering around, and they demand that you wender everything, and they clamor for our overthrow, and they throw their ske!eon arms in the window, and with their iron Ists they bent against the door, and while ou are trying to keep them out ,you see tho orohes of judgment kindling, and every forst is a torch and every mountain a torch nd 'very sea a torch, and while the Alps na Pyrenees ana minaiayas iuru into ? jivb oal, blown redder and redder by the whir rind breath of a God omnipotont, what will <?come oi your refuse of lias? "But." says some oae. '-you are engaged a u very mean business, driving us from owor to tower." Oil, no. I want to tell ou of a Gibraltar that never has been and ever will be taken, of a wall that no satanio .ssault can scale, of a bulwark that tha ndgment earthquakes cannot budge, 'he Bible refers to it when it says, "In God s thy refuge, and underneath thee are tha verlasting arms.'' Oh. fling yourself into t. Tread down unce-emoniouslyeverything hat intercepts you. Wedge your way there, 'here are enough hounds of death and peril fter you to make you hurry. Many a man 1 las perished just outside ihe tower with his ] oot on the step, with his hand on the latch. 1 )h, get inside. Not one surplus sooond j iave you to spare. Quick! Quiok! Quick! < V I WELLINGTON ELECTED SENATOft* The Slaryland Legislature Formal! Choose* Gibson's Successor. 1 The Maryland Legislature met in joint se? ?ion at Annapolis and formally electe George L. Wellington as successor to C. I Gibson in the United States Senate. GEORGE L. WELLINGTON. George L. Wellington Is of German par intage and was born in Cumberland, Md., 01 Tanuary 28, 1852. He attended a Germai cbool for a brief time, but Is otherwise self idacatftd. When he was twelve years old hi tagan work in a canal store in Cumberland n 1870 he was employed as a clerk, an< ater became teller of the Seconc National Bank, of Cumberland, in 188: 19 was appointed Treasurer of t\lle :any County and served until 1888. bein> Lgoin appointed in 1890. He was a delegati ? T>?n?KHrton VuHfthfll PnnvAnHnnq n *J IL1U UOpUUllV;uu iiubivu?> ? 884 and 1888. In 1889 he was nominated b; he Republicans for Controller of Maryland >ut was defeated after an active campaign n which he polled one of the largest vote.1 iver given to a candidate of hii >arty on the Stato ticket. In July .890. President Harrison appointed hlu Assistant United 8tates Treasurer a Saltimore. Mr. Wellington was nominate! or Congress by the Republicans of the Sixtl district In 1892, but was defeated by W. M HcKaig. In 1894 he was nominated an< tlectedto the Fifty-fourth Congress. Mr i7ellin?ton will succeed Senator Charles H libson, and his term will begin on March 4 .897. AN APPEAL TO THE POWERS. The Senate Itemlndfi Them of Their Dutj to Armenia. Having stood idly by for months while thf Turks have been slaughtering the Armeni ins. it is believed by some United States Sen itors that the great Powers that are parties :o the Berlin Treaty of 1878 may be induce( ;o reverse their position out of regari for American sentimeut, as expressec n a resolution of Congress?sucl i resolution, for example, as was reportec jy the Senate Committee on Foreign Rela :ions, and has now been passed by the Sen ite. The resolution cans upon uuropeai Powers to protect Christiana in Turkey an< pledges support to the President in a ahov )I force, in the Dardanelles. Tho resolutions whloh were adopted ar< preceded by a preamblo which 3et3 forth thi provisions of tne Treaty of Berlin, and thei in effect criticise the Powers that be camparties to that treaty for their failure t< :&rry out its provisions. The President i requested to communicate tbe resolutions t< :he respective Powers. Then the concluding resolution assures the President of the sup port of Congress In the most vigorous actioi ie may take tor the protection and securit; >f American citizenB in Turkey, and to ob :ain redress for injuries committed upoj heir persona or property. Perhaps the most sensational remark madi va9 that uttered by Mr. Frye that if ha coul< lave had his way Russia would have beei old to take possession of Armenia, with thi tssurance that the United State3 would atani >y her. Mr. Frye did not refer to the possi 11 - ' tua haoain >16 TOSUIIS oi suca an aiiinuco. j. uo iwuiu ion now goes to the House for its concur :ence. iTORMS EAST SOUTH AND WEST [tain, Snow, Sleet and Heavy Wind Can* Great Damage. One of the heaviest storms of the seasoi >revailed in the South for three days am hen traveled siowly North. At the same ime there was heavy weather in the fa (forth and Northwest. Both storms move< oward the Eastern coast, and New Yorl cot the benefit of the combination The storms were characterized by terrific vinds, heavy rainfall, and snow and sleet Telegraph wires were blown down in man; states, in some cases the poles being blown on >f the ground. Great trouble was experiences n the South, especially at Baltimore, Md. i lurricane blew there, and the rain cam iown in torrents. In Buffalo, N. Y., am Detroit, Mich., they had rain and snow Fhe main storm started in the Gulf o tfexico, and moved North. The storm contr >scinateu Deiween me uuio ?tuiejr, idiuhx >?e and Georgia, bat spread to Iowa, Ne sraska ana through the Mississippi Yalley The lake region had heavy snow. In New York City and vloinity the bigl wind stripped the trees of all loose branohes !?hich. at daylight, were strewn about th streets, on lawns, and in dooryarcb. Th ffind also had the effect of starting the !arg lelds ot ice in the Hudson River away wltl :he high tide. Along the New Jersey coast an unusuall; riolent Northeast storm raged for twenty [our hours. The wind blow with the forci >f a hurricane and did considerable damag< it Ocean Grove, Highlands of the Navesink Ijong Branch, Montclair and the Or inges. Reports state that a blizzard raged ii 3outnern Iowa; Eastern Kansas, throughou Missouri and extended as far South as Littli Etook, Ark. MISS BARTON IS ADMITTED. riie Saltan of Turkey Yields to Ministe Terrell's Urging. Owing to the energetic representations? [Jnited States Minister Terrell, Miss Clan Barton and her party will be permitted b; he Turkish Government to distribute relle o the distressed Armenians, although the Sled Cross itself will not figure in the work This news oame to the State Departmen ?* TV o a V? J r, rri r\r\ In a ^fthlpCPMTn from thi IliniHter to Secretary Olney, ia which h< &j3 that while the Porte refuses such per ais9lon to the Red Cross, or to the member; >f the Red Cross as suoh, and thereby declim o offlolally rooognize that society. It wil >errait any person whom the Minister name) md approves to distribute relief In the In erior of Turkey, provided the Turklsl mthorlties aro kept informed of what thej ire doing. There can be no question that Miss Barton ind her party will be 30 desiguated by Minster Terrell, but it is apprehended that the) will encounter almost insurmountable obitacles in reaching the field of action as th< nountain parses bet wean the seaboard anc ;ho interior are now practically IrapassubU >wing to the doop 3nows. Decay of "Chinatown." The decay of "Chinatown" is ono o[ th nost remarkablo features of San Francisc< if?. Five years ago Chinatown had 25,00* Inhabitant* and trade was lively, many of th aree merchants doing an extensive business Rents wero higher in Chinatown than ii )ther parts of the city. Now rents b.iv ,'allen more than one-half in this quarter, ren )state is unsalable and the population ha ifcruuk to 15,000. The last China stearne larried 700 Chinamen back to fieir homes he greater part oi whom will not return \.t the present rate, Chinatown iu six month will not have 10,000 inhabitants. Killed by Natural Gas. The immense pumping station of the Ohl* ind Indiana Natural Gas Company, in Re< Key, IncL, was blown up. Six persons wer dlled and several otners dangerously in jured. Eight surrounding buildings wen lestroyed by fire and the pumping atatiOi tvas also consumed. I TEMPERANCE, T TOTAL ABSTINENCE. A correspondent requests us to state in brief reasons why total abstinence should ? be practiced as a remedy for intemperance. [, With this request we gladly comply. Total abstinence is the practice of that principle _ which restrains an individual from either taking or giving intoxicating liqaors, and induces him to discountenance all tjie causes and practices of intemperance. Its design is to suppress and prevent intemperance; by the former to effect the reformation of the drunkard, by the latter to secureJthe permanent sobriety of the sober. That it is sufficient to accomplish {his twofold object will be manifest when we consider (1) It Is safe in its operation; irom the very nature of total abstinonceit cannot possibly injure one in any respect, and.it may be practiced with perfect safety, either as recards man's physical, intellectual oi moral a* kla A r\vy\ aofin nr ervni a 1 WaI firfi. (2) It fs simple and definite. Simplicity in anything is a great recommendation, and so it Is here. The prinoiple is so simple that a child can understand and practice it It is also definite; in this it Is in strking contrast If) moderation claimed by some to be t remedy. No one can mistake the prescription of total abstinence. It is abstain from everything that can lead to intemperance. (3) It is efficaoious. If it was deficient in this respect, however excellent otherwise. Ht would still be deficient in that which could alone recommend it to practical use. But in this respeot, as well as in others, its character is fully vindicated, for both reason, and experience concur In demonstrating its efficacy. Reason teaches, for it is the plainest of all truisms, that it a man never drinks - that which will intoxicate he can neve be come a drunkard; or, if ho is one and ceases a to drink, he will cease to be a drunkard. i Experience all testifies to its efficacy. In enterprises of a worldly nature, men ? are induced to ensage In them by a prospect . of future gain; here it Is different. True, we i may point to the good that will yet be ac1 complished?for much remains to be done? 2 but, at the same time, we can triumphantly - point to the good which it has already f achieved as an evidence of wliat it can and a will yet do. Wo can point to thousands and t hundreds of persons who have been rescued' j from a state of utter degradation and ref 3tored to the church and the community by f means of total abstinence. Turn to the anj nals of the triumphs of this reform and see 9 not merely persons so benefitted, nut famf Hies whose homes were once scenes of i wretchedness now scenes of happiness; hust bands and wives whom intemperance had i separated now united, and children who i we re growing up to be the pests of society . now trained up in the way they should go; 1 In short, in every part of the world where . :he principles of abstinence have prevailed, . there are multitudes of llvi ng witnesses tesIfying to its practical efficiency.?National Temperance Advocate. PAWNED HIS FA.L8E TEETH. Tho proprietor of a pawnshop sat back of r the counter with a good-natured, self-contented smile on his face, as though at peace with himself and the world. He was waiting > an a woman who had put a sealskin cloak . "in hock" at some forgotten time In the past, _ and wno wa3 at last all but prepared to redeem it. She had the money, but had lost J her check. The proprietor* would not de I liver tbe cloak unless sne couia proauco a 1 :heck or get some reputable citizen to ideni tify her. She left in high dudgeon, declari ing that she had been insulted, and that it I wis a pity people couldn't get what right fully belonged to them. "Where did I get theae false teeth?" he 1 said, in reply to a question. "Well, say. 1 there's a funny story in connection with j those nibbler*. A wild-eyed man rushed up ?tairs the other night. He informed me in 3 m excited manner that he was dead broke a and was dvin' for a drink. He had to have x the'booze.' It was a necessity. s " 'Got anything to put up?' I asked. He 5 thought a moment and then said: 'Why, 3 uo; notbin' worth pawin' thet's detachable > 'cept my teeth.' Then a happy thought j struck him, and he said: 'Say, what'll you . let me have on 'emV' Ho took them out for i examination, and as they were sound and a Y good picce of work I let "him have $1.25. He . hast't been up since, and I gness he's quit x chewln'. Funny, wasn't it?"?Minneapolis Tribune. 1 SUGGESTED EXHIBITS. * Aftor the demonstration of the New York > liquor trade before the oleotlon a sensible _ sitizen wrote to the New York JHerald suggesting certain exhibits as appropriate In a liquor parade. We commend the suggested exnibits to the managers of the Berlin Industrial Exposition to be held in October of this year at which a prominent place will be * given to malt liquors, brewing and kindred business. The suggested exhibits are as fol0 lows: 'A dray bearing a woman and children, u from some drunkard's home. No label. . "A dozen or more men walking behind this 1 dray, who have been ruined by rum; now ? known as tramps. No label. r "A wagon such as i3 used for conveying , wild beasts with a circus, containing a man r In convict's clothes. Label-'State Prison. Eighty per cent, of ail crime caused by Bum.' " "Another van of the same description con, taining a maniac migbt follow, appropriately ' labelled 'More Fruits of Rum.' i "Is it right to parade the glitter and splenJ dor of a traffic without presenting also the J awful results of that traffic?" LONGEVITY OF ABSTAINERS. Dr. Agle, of the Registrar-General's dapartf ment, has compiled a table of the expectancy 9 of life based on the death rate for the years _ 1871-80 of the general population of the , I country. This when compared with the ac. 1 tuarily_compiled experienced of the Recha bites Friendly society, gives rne louowmg a results; I Dr. Agte's Recbablte e Age. TabU ol Table ot P.;ctiabtto ~ Experience. Eiperleuce. Advantage. 0 Years. Years. Years. Years. ? 20 39.4') 48. S3 9.43 1 25 35.68 44.30 8.62 ? 30 32.10 89.72 7.62 r 35 28.C4 35.08 6.44 * 40 25.30 30.58 5.28 a Thus at twenty years of age a Recliabite has nearly nine and a half years of life more ' than the average of the general population ! of tho country at tha: age. t a LIVER EKLAnOED BT ALCOHOL. Patrick Carney, a fifteen-year-old boy, who lives at 639 First avenue, was brought to Eellevqe Hospital last ovening to be treated for an enlargement of tbelivereaused r by the action of alcohol. This case is a remarkable one because of tha youth of the . patient. The disease is not uncommon 1 among middle-aged men who are hard i drinkers. f. Young Carnoy has been in the habit of drinking beer or whisky at his meals ever since he can remember. ' It was also his habit to joiu in drinking the Deer which his L father brought up in the evening In a can for J supper. He drank beer or liquor at any ? time, in fact, as a matter of course. The boy is no largor than a child of seven " or eight years old. Ho was carried in the physician's arms to and from the examination j room.?Now York Sua. o>niMC'i> nv ?t.r srrjnTS. i "To ir.c," said Rev. J. M. Cleary on * ref cent occasion, "there is no na>Jder sight than to seethe hard working man. employed from t Monday's dawn until Saturday's twilight, ilraw his week's wages and hand over a large r portion of hi> money to the saloon keeper and his t'amiiy in laziness, while his own j family live ou iho boruer.and \ji beggary all I their lives.'1 The man who goes ton Iun"h couut"r and consumes too much bread and butter and beef may ?lo himself a more serious injury, possibly, than if he drank too much whisky 0 -Jit n bar, but gluttony, unlike drunkenness, o is not a menace to the peace of society. 0 e temperance news and notes. ' Tc talk about a respectable .saloon is sheor a noiismse. You might as v.'il taik almut aa 0 honest thief or aa innocent criminal. l' An old man and his wife, both over eighty 3 and paupers, wore brought before a London r Police Justice recently for habitual intoxica' lion. 3 It is the duty of government to make it easy for the people to do right and difficult for tho people to do wrong.?W. E. Glad fitone. 3 Weakness of tho heart's action; softening , of the lung sub3tanoe, thus leading to consumption; diseased stomach, kidneys and 0 liver; and various forms of alcoholism, the - last stage of which is known as delirium a tremens?are the inevitable consequences ol * excessive drinking. ? _ RELIGIOUS READING, UNCONSCIOUS GOODNESS. Kow refreshing it is to live in the same atmosphere with a thoroughly good persou, who is all unconsoious of his own jjoodness! Virtue seems nover quite virtue ucles3 it has this exquisite aroma of seif-forgetfulne38,this perfectly natural and spontaneous quality of being unaware of its own existence and happily indifferent to the recognition of itself. 1* K/>am xnl'l ant it-mi An fonila fn motra ??0 UOUU OU1U IUUI lOllglWU iwwo "V ????? good people too conscious of themselves and their goodness, because it cultivates in them a subjective, contemplative piety that by its very nature must be self-conscl6us. That there i3 a slight grain of truth in the assertion we shall not deny: but we do deny that the assumption justifies the conclusion. Granted that religion makes a good man contemplative, that it makes him aware of the nature of goodness, and of his own approximation to the standard of righteousness set by his Maker; it does not foilow that the Christian's piety is self-conscious, or that in any sense, to himself or to others, he poses as an example of virtue and holiness. A Christian may be as unconscious of his own goodness, as modestly self-forgetful in bis benevolence and kindnesses, as the most unconventional humanitarian who ever lived?yw, more so, for the Christian has always that reverent sub-consciousness of the Divine will and power working in and through him, making him but the humble human instrument of God's omnipotence and righteousness. Indeed, it is very doubtful if any of us evei saw an example of perfectly unconscious goodness, save in the person ol some tnor ough-golng, pure, and earnest Christian There is always something about suoh saint.1 that makes one feel as if they had beet caught up out of their own personalities, am merged into that greater Personality, tba divine embodiment of love and righteous nesfi, whose names they bear. The sponta neity of their goodness is not the abandon o one who is virtuous and helpful from shee soundness and health of moral constltutloi and generosity of disposition: it is the calm even, unvarying rigfaeousness which has it source in the Divine Love, works by perpet u&l law like the sunshine, and never preferi nor discriminates, but yields to all alike thi loving kindness and tender meroy of Hin whose perfect goodness it declares. Blessed is the coamunity or church whicl has even one such Christian in its bounds?i man or a womau whose every act and lool and word proclaim their absorption in thi life of Christ, their forgetfulnesa of self, thei: utter unconsciousness of the reflected halo o sainthood! It is the complete extinction o the Pharisee in the humblo, self-forgetful benevolent, radiantly happy disciple. Ma] the time hasten when all Christian virtue shall be so sincerc and free from self-con sciousness that the term "pietiflc" shall dte appear from the vocabulary of the scoffer. OUB SKYLIGHT. Theologians have disputed not a little over dichotomy and trichotomy; that is whether there are two elements in man's be in? (body and soul),or three elements (body soul, and spirit). Where the three element are discriminated, the soul is taken to de note man's immaterial part in its inferioi powers and activities, those which he ha in common with the brutes, while the enivir InnlnHna thA hichAr pnnnHHfiS And ? ?/*? ? IUV.U-W D-? ( faculties, such aa reason conscience an< free-will, which constitute him responaibl? and immortal. There is much to be said 01 both sides of the contention. A very sensibli conclusion seems to be that man's immateria part, while possessing quality of powers, ha; unity of substance. Dr. A. H. Strong pithllj and prettily expresses it by saying: "Man'i nature is not a three-storied house, but a tw< storied house, with windows in the uppe story looking in two directions?toward eartl and toward heaven. The lower story is the physical part of us?the body. But man'i upper story has two aspects: there is an out look towards things below, and a skyligh through which to see the stars." It may be added that in the unspiritua person this unspirituai person this skylight i so thickly cc vered with dirt and cobwebstha the stars are all hidden. The "wsshing o regeneration" very largely removes the ob scurity; and by proper subsequent diligenc our heavenward window may be not onl; further clarified, but greatly enlarged. .t . DO NOT IRRITATE YOUR CHILDREN. 4 17n y ilonlD raa tVinf nflTAnf aruuwcacvu xmit** uw^.ui^ cannot be reminded too often or too earnestl not to fret, not to worry their children, iun finds x scriptural warning,to this effect in th word:) rendered in our authorized version o the Biblo: '-And ye fathers/provoke not you children to wrnth," a clause which he says li the original means exactly: "Do not irritati your children,*' "Do not rub them the wronj way." Perhaps there was nevermore need fo this injunction than at the present day, whe: periodicals devoted to child culture an< home training abound, when theories re garding the discipline of children arenum berless and advice to parents Is met with 01 all sides. The young father or inothei anxious to bring up a child in accordant with all the latest scientific methods, is ii danger of. overdoing the training of the lit tie one. A father, who has learned by ex perience the wisdom of letting his childrei alone to a certain extent, declares that h harmed his first child for life by his exactlns requirements She was checked unduly un( shut up within herself until she grew up ii a rigid and unnatural constraint. The sam warning might be .applied to children of at older growth, Who are not permitted to de Telop their own individualities. Dr. Farra sums the whole matter up in one sentence 'Barents must respect meir cnuaren as wei as children their parents." HOW. WHT. WHAT. In the measurement of moral values th "how" and the "why" count for a good dea more than the "what." In other words th spirit and the motive are of more importanc than the mere amount of accomplishment Quality rather than quantity is the thing to b closely looked after. A small sacrifice mad in humble,, hearty, self-forgetfulness am genuine devotion is more pleasing in the eye of God than the greatest eaoriflce made "fo show and the aggrandizement of self. Ther is a world of comfort in this for the Jowl; and the weak; in that it puts them on a leve before the Master, with the strong and gifted There is a world of waruing in it, also, fo the latter class not to presume upon thei powers, and fancy that because they havi accomplished what seems great good .u tb eyes of meu. therefote the Lord will praisi them. Their service will be spoiled if sel creeps in. To keep him out requires cease less vigilance. TIME FOB RESOLUTION'S.^ The opening year is the season for matins resolutions. Every wise man should make i trial balauce, not of his business aloue, but of his health, bis domestic state, his friend ships, bis unfinished plans, ami, above all, o his moral and religious character?what hi: prospects iye in that uukuown realm fo which he must on$ day set out. perhaps 01 summons ;wbat treasure,if any.be has lain u| in heaven. If any sinlul path has beei trodden in the past year, recall its pitfalls and determine that, with the help of God, II shall be avoided. The help of God! This L the key, tbe only key, which can unlock tht door to peace and security in all the future. As subject" iu the kingdom of God, we shall be prepared to receive whatever tho montii; may bring, anu we can aoar au? "... knowing Ibis: God rules the years, aud we are His." ?Christian Advocate. Whatever changes the years bring to 11s wo must ever keep ofir eyes on the iivim Christ. He will always b? all wo need There will never be hn experience throuifl which h<! cannot safely tak? us. We an leaviug the old year behind, but we are no j leaving Christ in the dead year. W..* neec I not be afraid therefore to go *orwai\l, ii wt I trr> with him.-?J. ft Miller. Hound tor Ueorjrln. Emigrants from the Northwest continue t( Rrrivn at the old soldiers' ''olony. in Wilcoj County, Georjria, In considerable numbers, Last week a fleet of six prairie schoonerarrived there, each wagon containing on* family, and the fleet comprising twentyeight persons in all. One wagon came fron Kansas, another from Nebraska and anothe from Minnesota. The whole journey wa made in the wagons, but from St. Louis tc Memphis the wagons were floated down tin Mississippi on rafts. The Kansas party liai mAnlha rtn thfl rft.lil. uccu uiuin muu ium luuuwu aad the Nebraska part}' almost as long. The Pacific Lumber Centra. Tacoma. Wash., claims the Pacific coas record for the output of tts lumber mills dur lngl8$$jthe totaJ being about 115,(.00,'00 (pet - V . " : ;/; ' '1 ;/ *>, * ' .<V SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL \ESSON FOR FEBRCARVM6. v \ * Lesson Text: "The Great Helper/' Luke Til., !I-16?Golden Text^ Luke vil., 10?Commentary. 2. There being so many verses in this lesson. we will omit quotations from the text of the lesson. We now llnd Him in Capernaum, which in Math, ix., 1, is callod "His own city," probably because when reject ;d at Nazareth He made Capernaum His Galilean center and there wrought so many of His mighty works. The first fact of this lesson, next to the presence of Christ, is that a Roman centurion had a servant who was very dear to him. and this servant was at this time very sick, and it seemed as if he*would die. Math. viii.'. 6, says that his sickness was the palsy, and that he was grievously tormented. He was a helpless man. 3. This centurion seems to have known somewhat of Jesus, either having heard or , QAPn anma nf tha thln<TK whfflh TTft had dfill?. and hearing that He was in the city he sent , some of the elders of the Jews to ask Him to come and heal his servant. We may imagine that the centurion lost no time. His dear sen-ant seemed to be dying; there was no hope for him, no human helper; the only one who could help was in the city; the one thing to do was to have Him come quickly. Jesus is the very same to-day. If helpless, call Him. 4,5. When the elders came to Jesus, their plea was that the centurion was worthy because he hau shown his love for the Nation by building a synagogue. The same thought is in many minds to-day, for there are many who think that if they build a church, or give so much to the church, or to the poor, or to missions, or to some good cause, they will thus merit the favor of God, whereas the fact is that grace means favor for the undeserving, the poor and the helpless and even those who are rebelling against God. Consider well Rom. v., 7, 8, and kindred passages until you seo the meaning of grace. 6. Jesus at once went with them, not because the centurion was worthy, but becaus< of the n^ed of thtJ poor, sick and helplesi servant, but other servants met Him, fron the centurion, with this message: "I am no worthy that Thou shouldest enter under m; roof." The grace of God was doing some thing for this man, for it is only by grac< that we get true humility. Job thought < great deal of himself till he saw God; thei he abhored himself and magnified Got? Compare Job xxix. with xlli., 6, and see als< Isa. vi., 5. and Dan. x., 8. 7. Not only did the centurion feel un^orth; to have Jesus come into his house, but hi also felt unworthy even to come to Jesus ant nnn annrta hv thftftA this mefWflfiTe "Say in a word, and my servant shall bi s healed," or, as in Math, viii., 8, "'Speak th< word only." Is it possible that he had be I come familiar with these words of Scripture "By the word of the Lord were the heaven ' made," ' He spake, and it was done," "Hi sent his word and healed them?" (Ps. xxxiii. " 6.9; ovii., 20.) And was he thus led to havi such unbounded confidence in this Oni whom he evidently believed to be God o: ^ sent of God? j 8. He knew what it was to obey and to bi . obeyed, and somehow he had faith in tht , Man that He could command diseases an< g demons at pleasure. It is written In thi Psalms, from which book we have already wandenngly quoted, that "Areand hail, snov and vapors and stormy wind fulfill Hii word," and that the angels who excci ii strength do His commandments, hearkenini unto the voice of His word (Ps. cxlviii., 8 ciii.. 20), and that, though the Lord b< high, yet hath He respect unto the lowly (Ps exxxviii., 0). Did this centurion learn hi faith and humility from this book? 7 9. Such faith was so pleasing to the Lore that He spoKe of it to the people as excellini , any.faith that He had seen in Israel. With ' out faith it is impossible to please God (Heb ? xi., 6), but by believing Him and having con J fldence in Him we can please Him. Tha the disciples receivedthe words of the Lor< ' made Him so glad that He spoke of it to Hi ? Father in His prayer on the night before Hi " crucifixion (John xvii.,'8). Consider als< the faith of the Syro-Ehoenlcian in Math xv., 29.* ( i 10. When the messengers returned the ser q vant was well. It would appear from th yr account in Matthew that, having sent th 1 elders'and then the servants, he afterwari ? went himself tc meet the.Lord, and that th' [ Lord said unto him, "Cfo tny way, ana a r thou hast believed so be It done unto thee.1 We are reminded of the nobleman of Caper 3 naum whose son was sick, and to whon ' Jesus said. "Go thy way; thy son liveth. c The man believed the word and went am a found as Jesus had said (John iv., 50). As j surance and joy and peace all come by be h lieving (Bom. rv., 13). 11. We now And Him entering the citv o a Nain, accompanied by many of His disciple and much people. Being sent of Ood am q filled with the Spirit, He went about doini a good and everywhere taught and healed. H . was truly the Comforter in the power of th _ Spirit. He has given us the "same Hoi j Spirit, whom He calls "the Comforter," tha q He in us may still go about doing good ii , His name, for we are here in Christ's stea 1 to magnify God. Q 12. As He entered the city the body of e dead man was being carried out for burial 1 and he had been-the only stay of his poo mother, and she a widow. In a very shot r time the body would be laid away out of til sight of that broken hearted widow, j 13. The Comforter, the Almighty Helper the Resurrection and fhe Life, meets her. H is sorry for her, and He says, "Weep not. The time is coming when He will wipe awa all tears and there shall be crying no mor aimn nn Mrfh /"RpV. vtl.. 17: XXi.. 4' t] but until that time the tears cpme, and com e agtin even though we wipe them away. Yf e there might be fewer tears if there was mor faith in Him. e 14,15-. At His word the precision stop; e He speaks to the dead man, tire man live* j sits up and begins to speak, and Jesus, it e stead of saying to him, "Follow Me," tfve r bim back to his mother. Wbat a wordiathi; e It is even the same that created the work , that spake and it was done; the same wor 1 that at the appointed time will bring all dea I, bodies from their graves (Jobn v., 28), th r righteous at the beginning and the rest a r the end of the hour, or thousand years (Re\ 3 xx., 5,6). e 16. Tbey acknowledged Him as a gr??a 9 prophet and glorified God, saying that H f had visited His people. By and by He wi - come in power and glory, and Israel sha say: "This is our God. We have waite for Him, and He will save us." Then wi He swallow up death in victory and wip away all tears (Isa. xxv., 8, 9). Let Hi > word enter us now and give a foretaste c * these things.?Lesson Helper. - A NEW MACHINE GUN. f * 4 One of American Design and Minnfa ture Adopted for the Navy. 3 The Ordnanne Department of the Unit' 1 States Navy has adopted a machine (run. d signed by Americans and manufactured I t Americans for the use of the American Nav s and has entered into a contract for the ic s mediate purchase ol fifty of them for pra tical test on board ship, with the intentic 1 ofpurchasingfurthersupplies as they may I ) needed. The new arm was adopted by tl department after a series of competitr teats, in which six similar guns were trie most ot them 1-eing ol foreign design < manufacture. A further test will be mac of the Maxim gun. and it is possible that number of that typo will be purchased f< ; the navy. * The accepted gun Is the invention of Joii H. and Matthew F. Browning, of Ou'dei J j Utah, and Is described us a gas-operntinj f! breech-loadiug gun. It belongs to the cla: t . -' i.. ,?i,i..i> thn i?!i? nroduoed by e: . Ul tfUU- IMJ nuivu %..W r>? , pIOdiOD, after it has given 11 sumciei ' velocity to the projectile, is further utili/.e as a means for operating the bnvc mechanism. This process enables rapid an ) successive firing by automatic means, leai : ing the operator the simple work of flrin the first shot and furnishing a supply < i cartridges to the gun, which continues lirin } so long as the supply of atnmunitiou lasts. The guns are light, an l will be of grw 1 service to lauding parties and for attacl; r maiio in small boats. On ihe warships the * will he placed in th?* military tops and i ) other parts of the superstructure, where tue a can bo used with great destructive effec I The Colt Arms Company is interested iu tb , manufacture of the guu, and the contra< for a supply has bueu ma(*e with that cou pany. t l'ay of a Spanish General. A Spanish General in Cuba gets 19000 * ' month. .1. 'v^' * rOFCLAE SCIENCE. It has been discovered that disease germs ore killed by the blue and violet rays of sunlight in & few hoars. The use of paper for large fly-wheel* is regarded with favor, the tensile strength of paper being enormous. The death rate among the colored people in Chicago last year was 26.67 * f i>er 1000 against 15.05 for the white?. The chemist of a Wisconsin wood- ' ^ pulj> company has. it is eaid, discovered a process by which sulphite fibre / ^ wood-palp may be made fireproof. A sexUplet cycle has been seen on the streets of Paris. It was built for ' track use. It weighs 150 pounds and is six and one-half yards in length. There are 1500 different species of snakes in the world. Out of all that vast number England only has four species, and only one of those is poi- - o sonous. The Siberian lemming-vole has been fouad by Merriam to live in the Da- ,' / kotas and Idaho, as determined by a skia and skull reodved from the north shore oi the Ctopian Sea. j A bore-hole near Port Jackson, New mg South Wales, has reached a depth of ^ nearly3000 feet. Itshowaaninoreiifeig ' ? the earth's temperature of one decree . ||: F. in eighty feet, while t&e areHge , . raj in the Northern Hemisphere ia o$e degree in sixty feet. A French biologist, M.# Nocard, h??j|raj proven that, while bat few microbes exist in the blood after an ordinary meal, they^are abundant after a meal 9 containing much fat. He supposes Jjfl i the microbe carriers to be the small 9 fat globules taken up by tip lacteale. 8 The skin turns blue when exposed 9 to cold because, by a low temperature, * the circulation is impeded at the sur face, the arterial blood is partially ' ( prevented from flowing beneath the ' ,f skin, and the venous blood, which ia 'j almost purple, gives color to the skin. Prince Imitpold of Bavaria has the entomological fad. His specialty . . .. is beetles, and he is said to have about , ;%< ? the best collection in the world. Ho . in vaII nAafod nn thft nnhinnt. anil spends h great deal of time making or- '' 9 iginal observations of the habits of I various insects. The upper part of a bird's bona ? (tarsometatarsal,) found in a clay bed ' ?f unknown age in Vancouver's Island, ; s has been found by Professor Cope tt> ' belong to a bird appearing to be allied r to the Steganopodes (gannets, cormor9 ants and pelicans, etc.) This pre- ;\Xl 3 sumed relationship indicates that it 1 1 could swim as well as fly. If it could < f ^ ? fly, "it will have been much the larg? * r est bird of flight thus far known.". J Elephants ss Roustabouts. V-M ; The man in Florida who has oon- " 'v 3 ceived the idea of hsing elephants in j connection with thesaw milling opprations is perhaps more deserving of 1 praise than humorous criticism., 41I though the idea of elephant labor in, '4; . this coantey is at first a startling one, M and likely to bring down the condemj nation of trades unions and organized : $ 3 labor, it is nevertheless practicable, a inasmuch as this kind of labor has in : ' / 9 India been demonstrated to be one oC the most economical and valuable . methods which can be employed in " e lumbering operations there. " .. <}. ;(.? j? In India elephants perform work 3 nknnf fVia aotrmil) with ftlmftst hODlftll 0 auvuv kuu umiiMtM a intelligence. The labor is cheap, as the elephant will work for his board - s n" and never strike, and at the same time " perform the work of many men. They 1 not only work about the]mill and " yard, but propel logs in the streams and carry them on shore. The trunk ,'r.vf i of the elephant, which the observer '} d would conceive to be the soft and ten- \ \ der portion of the huge brate'a an- j / e atomy, can, in reality, be as hard aa e steel at the will of its owner,, and be- i. v /? y ing possessed of great strength, obeys Vg the will of the driver. The elephant ! - ^ i will easily carry a piece of timber a weighing a ton and a half, but if the, , ;/}#j j1 weight be over that he will absolutely 'T refuse to pull; in which event another t elephant is pxessed into serviee and e the load is evenly divided. ' If the piece be light the elephant will bale ance it upon his tusks, and throwing > ; " his trunk about the piece, will carry y it rapidly to whatever portion ot tne (e yard is desired, place it upon the pile e and adjust it with perfect nicety. Is 't time he goes to work of his own ace oord at the sonnding of the whistle. ,/ and when the whistle blows at night ?, will positively refuse to perform any '* more labor. Thus it is within the f, possibilities that oxen and mules may 11 be retired, vid that the loud-voiced (1 Florida hand who urges the patient ^ mule with blows of a black snake whip will cease this labor, and perched upon r. the back of an elephant, armed* witn a . 'Hi pointed iron prod, will do the heavy g work required in the sawmill yard.? n The Timberman. A Mountain ol Pure Sulphur. e The recently discovered sulphur de3 posits in the southern Cocopah range ,f of mountains, on the eastern side of T om an ill tn nnniisfc uower vuiuuiuia, i?v ouiv. .> of mountains of almost pure sulphur. A. Goodbe, a banker of Ensenada.who * jS c* returned to San Diego from a visit to the deposits,, eaya the sulphur ia 0 per cent, pore, and ia its natural state * is fit for, ordinary commercial ate, y, especially for the manufacture of t?l- ~<Jj Q* phnric acid. At oae^laoe-there is a ;^*|H c* bluffof practically pure sulphur fifteen 3t feet high and 150 feet wide, aud at ie the foot of this bluff a shaft has been sunk sixty feet deep into pure sulphur. The sulphur can be shovelled into l<! sacks and put on the market in its u natural state.?New York Sun. n ^ lP A Larpe Mock or Virgin (Jold. ; The branch of the Bank of Montrfiftl in New York City has received k- from the Caribou mine, at Kootani, u British Columbia, the second largest block of gold that has ever passed ,j through the New York Assay Office. It is m the form of a sugar loaf. lC weighs 2435 ounces, and is valued at ?11,857. The bank also received.from the Horsefly mine, in tfye same section, it a gold brick weighing 1511 ounces, valued at 826,150. The metal is virgm ? gold, of a greenish tint?similai' to y Australian gold. r. i? ?? l* Inscrutable Jiystery. i "Mamma," asked the little girl, peering in between two uncut leaven of the magazine, "how did they ever a get the printing ia there?"?Indianapolis Journal.