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% ' REV. DR. TALMAGK. f i SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BV TJ1E NOTED DIVINE. J I Subject: "The Cominj; Redemption." Text: "And the streets of tbo city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof."?Znchariah vlii., 5. Glimpses of our cities redeemed! Now, [ boys and girls who play in the streets run such risks that multitudes of thorn end in f ruin. But. in the coming time spoken of. ? our cities will be so moral that lads ana * lasses shall be as safe in the public thorough- 3 fares as in the nursery. * Pulpit and printing presses for the most J f part In our day are busy in discussing tne 3 condition of the cities at this time; but would ? It not be healthfully encouraging to all c Christian workers, and to all who are toll- n ing to make the world better, if we should for a little while look forward to the time I when our cities shall be revolutionized by I1 the Gospel of the Son of God, and all the o darkness of sin and trouble and crime and n Buffering shall be gone from the world? d Every man has a pride in the city of his n Qativity or residence, if it be a city distin- 3 guished for any dignity or prowess. Caesar <? boasted of his native Rome, Virgil of Mantua, Lycurgus of Sparta, Demosthenes of Athens, t Archimedes of Svraeuse, and Paul of Tarsus, t [ should have suspicion of base-heart ednt?ss * in a man who had no especial interest in the o city of his birth or resi lence?no <*xhilara- I tion of the evidence of its prosperity or its r artistic embellishment, or its intellectual ad- tl vancement. 0 I have noticed that a man nev?r likes a C . city where he lias uot behaved well! People S ?V- ~ V...UJ .. nricnn fin 11 B never like the city that furnishes the vehicle, h I| When I llnd Atjos aad Rhodes and Smyrna v V trying to prove themselves the birthplace of ?" V Homer I conclude at once that Homer be- a I haved well. Ho liked them and they liked a | him. We must not war on laudable city ? I pri le. or, with the idea of building ourselves Ii I up a; nnv time, try to pull others down. IBoston must continue to point to its Faneuil Hall and to Its Common, and to its superior a educational advantages Philadelphia must f< continue to point to its Independence Hall c and its mint, and its Girard College. Wash- " ington must continue to point to its won- a drous Capitoline buildings. If I should (lnd si ( a man coming from any city, having no n pride in that city, that city having been the P place of his nativity, or now being the place S nf his rwiirtnncf". I would feel like asking: d 'What mean thin? have you done there? j n What outrageous thin? have you been guilty h of that you do not like the place?" I think we ouRht?and I take it for t! granted you are interested in this great work P of evangelizinc the cities and saviDg the r worll?we oui;ht to toil with the sunlight in b our face?. We are not fighting in a miser- n able Bull Rim of defeat. We are on our way ? to final victory. We are not following the f< rider on the black horse, leading us down to o , death and darkness and doom, but the Rider o on the white horse, with the moon under I His feet and the stars of Heaven for His tiara, a Hail, Conqueror, hail! o I know there are sorrows, and there * are sins, and there are sufferings all around t about us; but as in some bitter, cold winter a day, when we are threshing our arms around us to keen our thumbs from freezing, we o think of the warm spring day that will after t awhile come; or In the tiark winter night we " look up and see the northern lights, the win- t dows of heavon illuminated by some great ? victorv?just so we look up from the night t of suffering and sorrow and wretchedness c in our cities, and we see alight streaming k through from the other side, and we know t we are on the way to morning?more than c . that, on the way to "a morning without c clouds," <3 I want you to understand, ali you who are d toiling for Christ, that the castles of sin are c all going to be captured. The victory for t Christ in these great towns is going to be so t complete that not a man on earth or an t angel in heaven, or a devil in hell will dis^ T UnAm!) T IrnrtTP incf qq ?7UIC7 II* uvn UV JL auy?? , JL *xuvrvr jtw* ?M certainly as God lives and this is holy truth. The old Bible is lull of it. If the Nation is to be saved, of course all the cities nre to be S saved.* It makes a great difference with you and with me whether we are toiling on toward a defeat, or toiling on toward a vie- j tory. { / Now. In this municipal elevation of which j I 6peak. I have to remark there will be J greater linancial prosperity ihan our cities * have ever seen. Some people seem to have j a morbid idea of the millennium, and they ^ think when the better time comes to our ? cities and the world people will give their a time up to psalm-singing and the relating of ? their religious experience, and, as all social t life will be purified, there will be no hilarity, and. as all business will De purified, there j will be no enterprise. There is no ground c for such an absurd anticipation. In the r time of which I speak, where now one for \ tone is made, there will bo a hundred fortunes made. We all know business prosperity depends upon confidence between man and man. Now when that time comes of which I speak, and when all double deali ing, all dishonesty, and all fraud are gone out of commercial circles, thorough confidence will be established and there will be better business done, and larger fortunes gathered, and mightier successes achieved. The great business disasters of this country have come from the work of godless speculators and infamous stock gamblers. The great foe to business is crime. When the *-loh* chtill hnr-tt hiirlorl hn<*b tho irmno? anrl shall have purified the commercial code, and ( ahull have thundered down fraudulent estab- t lishments, and shall have put into the hands t of honest men the keys of business, blessed t time for the bargain makers. I am not talk- ( ing an abstraction. I am not making a guess. s lam telling you God's eternal truth. In that day of which I speak, taxes will be ~ mere nothing. Now, our business men are taxed for everything. City taxes, county taxes, State taxes, United States taxes,stamp taxes, license taxes, manufacturing taxestaxes. taxes, taxes! Our business men have 1 to make a small fortune every year to pav their taxes. What fastens on our great industries this awful load? Crime, individual , and official. We hiive to pay the board of 1 the villains who are incarcerated in our pris- 1 <jus. "o unvc 10 mac tare wi iuo uipuaus ui those who plunged into their craves through 1 sensual indigencies. We have to support ' the munic.pal governments, which are vast ' and expensive just in proportion as the erim- ' inal proclivities are vast and tremendous, j Who support the almshouses and police sta- j tions, and all the machiuery of municipal ] government? The tax payers. But in the Klorious time of which I speak, 1 grievous taxation will all have ceased. There : will be no need of supporting criminals there; vill be no criminals. Virtue will have tnken the place of v ce. There will no orphan asylums. for parents will be able to leave a competency to their children. There will be no j voting of large sums of money for some rnnnir?in>;l Imnrnvpment. which moiievs I I /ore they pet to the improvements drop into the {ockets of those wno voted them. No Oyer and Terminer kept up at v.ist expense Co the people. No impaneling of juries to try theft and arson and murder and slander and blackmail. Better factories. Grand architecture. Finer equipage. Larger lortunes. ltiehor opulence. Better churches. In that better time, also, coming to those diiiis. Christ's churches will be more numerous and they will be larger, and they be | more devoted to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and th??y will accomplish greater Influences I for good. Now, it is often the case that churches ard envious of each other, and deI nominations collide with each other, and oven ministers of Clirist sometimes forget the I bond of brotherhood. But in the time of I which I speak, while there will ba just as | many differences of opinion as there are now, there will be ao asceroity, no hypercriticism. no exc.usiveness. In that day of which I speak, do you believe there will be any midnight [ carousal? Will there be any kicking oft from the marble steps of shivering mendicants? Will there be any unwashed, unfed, uncombed children? Will there be any blasphemies in the streets? Will there be any inebriates staggering past? No. No wine store?. No lager beer saloons. No distilleries, where they make the thre j Xs. No bloodshot eye. JLo is#!ateJ cheek. No instruments of ruin K..I .loaimioH/Mi v<-> fiat.unn mind forehead. I The grandchildren of that woman who goes <iowu the street with a curse, stoned by the boys that fellow her. will be the reformers and philanthropists and the Christian men and the houest merchants of our cities. Then, what municipal governments, too. we will have in all the cities. Some cities are won>e than otners, but In many of our cities y?u just walk down by the city hall and look in at some of the rooms occupied by politicians, and see to what a sensual, loathsome, ignorant, besotted crew ?-ity politics is often abandoned. Or they stand j EL V - ~ - i^iiiilMi I ? l: * /- " "infittiiar Tif " n iroun.'l ihe City Hall picking their teeth, | raiting for some emoluments of crumbs to ( 'nil their feet, waiting all day long, and > yaitinj; all nicht long. Who are those wretched women taken up' | or drunkenness, and carried up to the i sourts, and put iu prison of course? What I vill you do with the grogshops that make ! hem drink? Nothing. Who are those irisioners in jail? One of them stole a pair >f shoos. That boy stole a dollar. This girl ! " n-lmO- A '1 TY"t _ I ;natene<i a purse. ah ui iuuun-i.Luvov.cm- , iging society less than twenty or thirty dol- i ars. But what will you do with the gam? J >ler who last night robbed the young man of j i thousand dollars'? Nothing. What shall | >.* done with that one who breaks through | md destroys the parity of a Christian home, j tnd with an adroitness and perfidy that ' >eats the strategy of hell, flings a shrinking, ' hrieking soul into ruin? Nothing. What j rill you do with those who fleeced that j oung man. getting him to purloin large j urns of money from his employer?the j ouncr man who came to an officer of my hurch and told the story, and frantically sked what he should do? Nothing. Ah! wo do well to punish small crimes; but have sometimes thought it would bo batter a some of our cities If the officials would nly turn out from the jails the petty crimi- j kils, the little offenders, ten-dollar desperaloes, and put in their placs some of the j aonstars of iniquity who drive their roau , pan through the streets so swiftly that honst men have to leap to get out of the way of ?ing run over. Oh. the damnable schemes hat professed Christian men will someimec ei tage in until God puts the finger of lis retribution into the collar or their robo f hypocrisy and rips it e'ear to the bottom! Jut all these wrongs will be righted. I erect to live to see the day. I think I benr in he distance the rumbling of the King's hariot. Not alwars in the minority is the Ihurch of God croint: to ba, or are pood men j oincr to be. The streets are going to be ilod with re?^n?rated populations. Three ucdred aud sixty balls rang in Moscow rhen one prince was married; but. when ighteousness and peace kiss eaeh oth?*r in 11 the earth, ten thousand times ten thoumd bells shall strike the jubilee. Poverty nriched. Hunger fed. Crime banished, ernorance enlishtened. All the cities saved. 3 not this a cause worth working in? Oh, you think sometimes it does not mount to much! You toil on in your dif?rent spheres, sometimes with creat disouragement. People have no faith and say: It does not amount to anvthins; you might s well quit that." Why, when Moses tretched his hand over the lied Sea, it did ot seem to mean anything especially. Pe>le came out. I suppose, and said: "Aha!" ome of them found out what he wanted to o. He wanted the sea parted. It did not mount to anything, tbis stretcmng out 01 i is handover the s-.'n. But, after a while, | tie wind blew all nigit from the east, and be waters were gathered into a glittering alisade on either side, and the billows eared as God pulled back on their crystal its! Wheel into line, 0, Israel! march! aarch! Pearls crashed under feat. Flying pray gathers into rainbcw arch of victory or the conquerors to march under. Shouts f hosts on the beach answering the shouts f ho3ts amid sea. And when the Inst line of sraelites reach the beach the cymbals clap, nd the shieliisclaug, and the "waters rush iver the pursuers, and the swift-fingered rings on the white keys of the foam play ho grand march of Israel delivered and the ,wful dirge of Egyptian overthrew. So you and I go forth, and all the people >f God go forth, and they stretch forth their land over the sea, the boiling sea of crime md sin and wretchedness. "It don't amount o anythioe," people say. Don't it? God's rinds of help will, after a while, begin to low. A path will be cleared for the army /f Christian philanthropists. Tne path will >e line! with the treasures of Christian 41 ? J oU r, 11 K<-? rr?*?kofor1 f A thp I leuuiictruur, uuu c auau ww ?? . ither beach by the clapping of all of heaven's I ymbals, whilo those who pursued us and lerlded us and tried to destroy us will go lown under the sea and all that wiil be left if them will be cast high and dry upon the ieach, the splintered wheel of a chariot, or hrust out from the foam the breathless ncsril of a riderless charger. LIKE ONE BIG FUNERAL inch Was the Departure of the Spanish | Troops for Cuba. The Seventh Regiment, a battery of artlU ! ory and two companies of infantry sailed j ro*m San Sebastian, Spain, for Cuba, and ! udginn from the local newspapers, the de- ! >arture of the troops was made the occasion | >f a vast popular demonstration of patriot- | sm and of a determination to wipe there- I >els off the face of the earth. According to iomewhat belated private advices from the cene, the newspaper accounts do not fit the acts, which is not surprising, seeing that hey had to be submitted to the censor before mblicntion. Previous to the review the Jtshop of Victoria celebrated a religious ervice in the open air. on the magnificent Jurrtola Promenade, but the effect was coniderably spoiled by howls, sobs and other lemonstrations of grief by women and chil lren, who at Sun seDast:an, as in oiner pans >f Spain, made no pretense to the possession >f Spartan spirit. Then followed a march >ost the Queen Resent and little King. The atter was in a cadet's uniform nnd saluted he troops as they passed with precocious gravity anil dignity. His appearance cerainly aroused a good deal of popular enhusiasm, but it evaporated as soon as he | lisappeared from the scene. As for the roops themselves, they made no pretense vhatover of enthusiasm. They had been orced to the colors and looked as if they vere unwilling conscripts sent to flg'at and lie without compensation or glory. After he march past they were huddled off to he forts on the heights dominating the own. Triple guards were on duty through>ut the night to prevent apprehended deiertions, and in toe morning the dejected oldiers went aboard the transport with the lir of men going to a funeral. THE ONION CROP SHORT. [ Decidedly Smaller Than It Was a Year A;jo. That the onion crop of 1S96. now generally harvested, is decidedly smaller than a year ago is shown by an exhaustive canvass just made bv the American Agriculturist, covering every section of the country where onions lire commercially grown. There is a shortage both in acreage harvested and yield, and the report places the commercial crop of 1896 nt 2,200.000 bushels, or nearly twenty-live ruir wmullur than fi vnar iiriil 1 - 500,000 bushels, or a thiru smaller, than the bumper crop ot' 1801. As in former years, the commercial production is conllned almost exclusively to Now England, New York, Ohio and the head of Lake Michigan. Low prices last year discouraged many from putting in the usual acreage, and it is aboat fifteen per ceut. less than that of last year. The shortage is pronounced in New England, but ilual returns show that in spite of low prices many farmers in New York State have harvested about the usual acreage. NEW FIELD FOR BICYCLERS. Here's u Chance for Them to Get Star Knuten. Advertisements inviting proposals for carrying the mr.ils on the star routes for the next fiscal year were issued from the otflce of the Second Assistant Postmaster-General at Washington. Proposals will be received until December 1, and bids will be announced by February 1. Full inlormutiou rfgatdinv ttie routes in New York State, the bonds required with the bivls and tbe present pric.- o' the service will be furnished on application to th> Department. Ther.} are thousauds of these routes throughout the country, th?re being 1098 in New York state wone. At present nearly all aro covered by horse and wagon. A large proportion of these routes can be covered by blevele riders far more exua-iitiously thau by the present p'au, and a splendid opportunity is presented for youn;; men with bicycles to secure contracts. The Department is favorable to auy change which will expedite the star route mails and at the samo time reduce their cost to th" Government. Graceful Kit of Keciprocity, The little children of a native school in Eurmah have just sent $25 for the rebuilain? of one of the churches in St. Louis, wrecked bv the cyclone. The church had formerly helped the school. Hage Corn Crop. September crop reports estimate this year's yield of corn at 2,450,000,000 bushels. Chicago is to have an oiKht-story Government building. The design is unlike any pubiio building in the United States. RELIGIOUS READING. THE REVIVAL OF REFORM. Reform !s often talked about as if it worn the beginning of a new order of things, the invention of new modes and ends of life. j The very word itself should correct that fallacy. Reform is to form again on the basis of an order already established or an ideal already raised up for the inspiration of humanity. The eye grows weary with reading and the ear becomes heavy with hearing about new social movements and moral reforms in our day. What we ( want is not new panaceas for social and , morfil evils, but a revival of the old j life and the old motive powers to be , and to do. One of the ?ofs of the divine ^ origin of man is the fac " ? in his highest | moods and moments he looks back to his 1 *1 1?? ?* l%i? f?tf ti i?a T?t*orv past as me prupuvry wi ma lumio. f real movement of progress is a reformation, because it is a coing back to or a seeking after the realization of the revealed purpose of God. The noblest developments of the future can never exceed the types of moral, social and political order to be found within the pages of the Bible. The message and the weapon of reform is that Word of God which has been delivered to us by David, Isaiah. Paul and the Master Himself. Christian men are not playing with reform unless they reverently and patiently study the hand-book of life to discover what new light will break from its teaching for the problems ami perils of their age. The coming of the kingdom of God and the doing of the will of God must be along the lines of obedience to activity fashioned after the pattern shown on the" mount of Revelation. Reform is realization of the purpose of God. Ail Christian legislation opens its book of laws with a recital of the Divine statutes.The best sanitary measures are a revival of the reforms indicated inth'i Mosaic system. One of the ablest men of science our generation saw, said that he wanted nothing but the Pentateuch to establish the most perfect sanitary or<i*? in the land. The lesson of ? Leviticus if i public health is inseparably connected with public morals, and that sins against health are sins against God. After many centuries that lesson is being taken to heart by humanity. The questions that deal with the relations between masters anil servants, capitalists and workmen. rulers and subjects, are more and more seeking solution in the teaching of Jesus Christ. Frofessor Drummond, in his ' Programme of Christianity." reminds me very forcibly that Christ came not merely and not mainly to save a few select souls and transplant them to Paradise, but to reconstruct human society on a Christian basis, and to destroy sin and misery, tho fruit of sin, on this plarrot. ''What Christ came here for was to make a better world." All reform must have for its objects tho creation of an atmosphere of righteousness in the country in which everything base and vicious shall be sterilized, and everything t good and true shall flourish. The creation ? tKof ufmrtanhuru la n lltol V upon the thoroughness and fidelity with l which the principles of the Bible ar.? ap- t piied to even' condition of human thought , and every department of human activity. t THE NEARNESS OF PASTOR TO KEOPLE. f One of the most healthful and heartening . features of the new adjustment of theology t to life is the closer approach, in many ways ^ of the modern pastor to his people. * That ? there is a new and refreshing freedom ami ( cordiality of relation between pastor and : parish, none, we think, can deny. That, old superhuman sacredness, and consequent , aloofness, of the minister, typified and j increased by his very dress and bearing, has become * pretty much ; a thin? of the past in Protestant churches, j xouay ine mni'^r is more a man uuiuug ; men. He has -^ppedthe priestly garb and manner, and mdves ami mingles with the , world at the level of its own best anil truest i life. Without resighiug any moral fibre or ( essential dignity he comes eloser to hr.man- j ity than ever before, because he no longer , stands upon his little ecclesiastical platform, , but walks side by side with men. touches them at elbow and shoulder, and faces them | with level eyes. It is not so easy as it used to 'be to pick , out a minister, in a crowd, by his garb and ; mariner. Even when you "draw nim into conversation he is not likely to disclose his , profession unless pressed to the point. And , all this is not because he has grown more ( worldly, but because his mind and his heart | have broadened since the days of Dominie j Dryasdust and the Rev. Mr. Saintly. He t has had his higher education in the human- I ities as well as in the divinities. He can \ sympathize with you, he can instruct you, < he can influence you at more jioints than i his purely ecclesiastical predecessor. And i so it comes about that he cets closer to you j as a pastor; you feel less restraint in his presence; your heart goes out to him as a i man, after all. of common feelings, tastes, i desires, temptations, with yourself. Only,if \ he be a true man and a "true pastor, you | must alwavs feel that his consecretion stands | l:._ l_ tk.. IJII1I 1U aucijunic nicm* ui urn [/hojjhj j dignity and moral and spiritual sequestra- i tiou. We believe that the church is bound to | benefit greatly by the radical change in its i type of ministers. The days of the virtue of j the long, black coat and the Ion*?, sancti 10nious face are,happily, past. Nowadays the minister who looks like a business man?or 1 a bicycler, for that matter, in his kuicker- i bockers and soft cap?and who talks and i acts as if he loved nature and humanity, as I well as God,is not at a discount. Nay.he is at i a premium in the exchange of soul with < soul. He can win sympathy, trust, allegiance. where the old-style minister would get no nearer to the people than the pulpit is to the street. Round us on every side are cramped, hindered still-born lives?merchants who , should have been painters.clerks who should j have been poets, laborers who should have , been philosophers. Their talent is known to a {* '- frioads ; they die. and the talent is burief .. their coffin. Jesus says no. It has at last been sown for the harvest; it will j come into the open and biosstu in another land. There are also being trained?trained by waiting. They are the reserve of the race, kept behind th'e hill till God requires it. They will get their chance ; they will come 1 into'their kingdom. "Where the days bury their golden suns In the dear hopeful west." The continuity of life lifts the shadow also from another mystery?the lives that have been cut off in their prime. When one is richly endowed and carefully trainee], and come" to the zenith of his power, his sudden removal seems a reflection cn the economy of God's kingdom. Why call this man to the choir celestial when he is so much needed in active service V According, to Jesus, he has sunk into inaction, so much subtracted from the forces of righteousness. He has gone where the fetters of this body of humiliation and embarrassment of adverse circumstances shall be no longer felt. We must not think of him as withdrawn from the Held ; we must imagine him as in the van >>l battle. We must I follow him, our friend, with hope and a high i heart. i I* THAT NAME. If we would ask anything in the name of i Jesus, we must be sure we an* ourselves , in that name, our life being hid in his life, our name in his name. Then let us lie sure that what we ask we want for his ; sake, ami that it is something he would ask i for us if he were actually standing in <>ur stead and putting up our petitions for lis ( iiniiTi"'thus tn tlu> Fjilhi-r \vi> form' in the name, in the .spirit anil in the !ikof ; his Son: and th>? Fattier will hear us ! ami answer ?s l^-ause \v<- are r'pn'seiita- . tives of 11is Son, enwrai-pi-'l by anil dwHl- ! iiiK within His very self as the sui>n*:ii<* representative of tho Father.?II. clay Trumbull. ! Li'* Credentials Exhibited. ! Tho magnificent credentials from tho Chi- i nesu Emperor which Li Hung Chans? delivered to President Cleveland Uiivn been placed on exhibition in the State Department Library. Washington. Tho wrapper la 1 six feet square, of yellow satin, elaooratoiy [ embroidered in gold, sliver and colors of exquisite workmanship, with five large live- , clawed double dragons conveutlonally arranged. The letter Is written on n scroll of lemon colored parchment, five feet long by two feet wide. The great red seal of the Emperor la In the centre. < Feeding Cattle on Hyacinth*. Water hyacinths, which cause so much trouble by ohoidng navigable streams In ( Florida, afford good sustonanco for cattle. It ( has been found. i SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL TifiSSOX FOB OCTOBER 11. Lesson Text: ' Solomon's Wis* Choice," f Kings ii!.,5-15?Golden Text; Psalm cxl? 10?Com uieuittry* 5. "In Gibeon the Lord apDeared to Solo non in a dream by night. and God said. a.i!f vhat I shall give thee." David was'nqw dead, mvinsr reigned forty year?, seven at Hebron vnd thirty-three at Jerusalem (I Kings ii., If), 11). Solomon was strengthened in hig dngdom, and the Lord his God was with ilm and magnified him exceedingly. The irk of God was in the tent which David had bitched for it at Jerusalem, but the taberlaele and altar of bu t offline, etc., were itill at Gibeon (II Chron. i., 1-4V Thithet Jolomon and many of the people went to jfTer burnt offerings, token of whole hearted surrender to God to serve Him only. It wag n that night that the Lord appeared to him is here recorded. Hear the Lord saying dmilar words to us in John xiv., 13. 14. 6. ''David, my father, walked before thee n truth and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with thee." Solomon bngins lis request by speaking of God's great mercy >r bounty to hU father. The mercies of the jord are a good topic for every morning, for hey are new every mornins. His compasilons fail not. Great is His faithfulness Lam. iii.. 22. 23\ Ho is the Father of Mer:ies (II Cor. I., 3). Solomon speaks of hi3 ather'a walk before the Lord and with the juru. juiiv1? x\.ur<iU'iiii, no nai^uu uwi Gon. xvli., 1). ami, like Enoch, Noah and jovi. he walked with God (Gen. v., 24; vi., I; Mai. Ii.. fi). 7. "I am but a little child. I know not low to co out or come fn." Acknowledging tis indebtedness to the Lord G>d ot his athor for his position, lie confesses his helpessness and isrnonnco. He is but a child ind knows not anything. When Jeremiah ong after this was called of God to be His >rophet. he also saiil. "\h. Lord God. I canlot speak, for I am a child." but the Lord aid to him most comforting w.irds, which ilso He is sayin? to you and ma if only we lave <? irs to haar them (Jer. I., 6-9). His ather's words, by the Soirit, concerning coins out and comini; in (Ps. exl., 81, should iave erreatly helped him. for they have lelped many. 8. "Thy servant i? in ttie midst of thy peo>le, which thou hast chosen." So also was he Lord in th*? midst of His people, for He lad chos-n them that He mieht dwell in heir midst, and thus make them a people lifferent from all other people on the earth md seoarated from all other people. For hat reason the tabernacle was built! See Ex. ;xv.. 8; xxxlli.. 16. The future elory ot Isael shall be Jehovih in their midst for?ver nore (Ezek. xxxvii., 2S; Zenh. ill., 17). The jreatest fact in every Catherine: of God's >eople now is the presence of the Lord in holr midst (Math, xvii., 20) and not the jresence of this or that important person. 9. "Give, therefore, thy servant an undertandinj? heart to judsje thy osopie, that t nay discern between stood and bad." The equcst is worded a little differently in II Jhron. i., 10. "Give mo now wisdom and cnowledsre, that I may so out and come in >efore this people," but the substance of It is he same, that he mav have wisdom to do i?ht before God in th? matter of the klnelom and'in the midst of this people like the lust of the earth in multitude (i Kings iv., !0; II Chron. I., 9). Great comfort for each )f us in the matter of wisdom i3 found In toA i..5, fi. 10. "A.nd the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thinij." It is possi>le to plense God nnd have the joyous coniciousness of it. Our Lord Jesus said, "I do ilways those things that plea"} Him" (John riii., 29). and Paul says in I T'ness. ii.. 4. 'Not as plmsinc man, but Go 1, who trieth >ur hearts." The secret of it Is in yielding 'ully to God, that He may work in us that vhich Is well pleasing in His sight (Hab. ciii.,21). 11. ''And God said uuto him, Because thou last asked this thing and hast not asked 'or thyselt lon^ life, neither hast asked iches for thyself." Our Lord Jesus never sought anything merely for Himself. It ioes ma roo I to quote His words, -'I seek lot Mine own will: I seek not Mine )Wn glory" (John v., 30; viii., 50), xnd to remember that "Even Christ pleased, not Hiraseii" (Rom. xv., 3). I have also been lelpod by J eremiah's wor.ls to Baruch, his scribe: "Meekest thou ereat things for thyself/ Seek thein not" (Jor. xlv., 5). I beieve the best and most joyous life is to let 3od Himself be our portion (Lam. HI., 24) ind live to be a channel ot blessings to tfhavo *'R? if finrl fhnn hnqf? ing Him, thy need 13 past." 12. "Behold. I have done according to thy words. Lo, I have given tbeo a wise and an understanding heart." Inasmuch as Israel was as the sand which is by the sea in mul:itude God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding as the sand that is on the seashore 'I Kings lv., 20, 29,) or wisdom for evtry case hat mieht possibly como before him. Id rerses 16 to 28 of this chapter there is an illustration of this wisdom, and the people saw :h.it the wisdom of Go J was in him to do udement. 13. "And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and honor." Here is our Lord's "exceeding abundantly." If we are willing to live "unco Him" and "for Hi-, pleasure," there will be no need to ask anything for ourselves. "If my man serve Me, jim will My Father honor," is always true. If as believers In Christ we would only accept as true our standing In Him and live to honor Him and glorifj Him, we would never need to ask anything for ourselves, but would daily And the promise true. "My God shall supply all youi need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Phil. iv.. 19). 14. "And if thou wilt walk in My ways, then I will lengthen thy days." Length 01 days upon the land Riven them by God was a special promise to Israel In connection with obedience (Ex. xx., 12). Again in Ps. xci., 16, we read concerning him who trusts in God. "With longllfe will I satisfy him and show him My salvat'on." The believer in Christ who has thus become a part of His body rejoices ttiat Christ in his life, and that because Christ lives ho shall live also; whether in the mortal body or absent from the body, or in an immortal body, he is willins: to leave wholly to tho will of God. 15. "And Solomon awoke, and, bohold, if was a dream." But it was none the less a reality, for God spoka to His servants in dreams and visions of tho night (Job xxxiil., 14, 15). Some think that if God would comf to them in a vision or dream they would believe more readily, and some think that iJ one rose from the dead they would believe, but it is written that if wo believe not Mose< and the prophets we would not believe even one risen from the daud (Luke xvi., 31).? Lesson Helper. INTEREST"IN FLYING MACHINtS. 'rofes?or S. P. Ltincley Says Scientists Are at Work on the Problem. ProfessorS. P. Langloy, Secretary of the Imithsonlan Institution, Washington, whose xperiments iu the Held of aerial navigation lave attracted world-wide attention, has reurned from an extended European trip, ieoretary Langley fouud that tho problem if navigating the air was attracting attention broad, and in all the countries which he Malted men of scionce were much interested n the successful results obtained by him in lis latest experiments. Tho Secretary said hat his trip was uneventful. In England he rislted Mr. Maxim, who is at work on a new i lying machine differing in sonin particulars rom the one ho formerly construuted. The i?*w Maxim machine will oe quite large, anl rill be capable of carrying a man to control if. ts practical trial will be watched with great nterest. Mr. Maxim's experiments have been londucied partly along the same general lnes as those which Secretary Langloy conlucted. Thus far, however, lie has confined lis experiment? to machines held down to i track. Secretary Langley said that he had 10 further experiments in view at the pres;nt timo. He has demonstrated that a Hying nachlne can fly by actually having flown >ne. He may conclude to leave to others lie work of practically applying to cojnmer!ial u-ses the principles which ho has estabished. His experiments developed all tho jssential features of a flying machine, and tome that would not bo essential in a com nercial ma-hine. xno construction 01 u lying machine on a commercial scale Is now mly a question of money, Secretary Langey says. Though he may conclude to make orther experiments, the matter Is at a stand* it-Ill for thu nri<n?nt. a ditfujnuaiit if tic t. i It Is worthy of aote that from the lat of he present month parcels have been reoelved jy tne British postal authorities lor tnuu>* nlBsioa to Venezuela. < V v " t I*?*:: REMEDY FOR "BLEEDING" VINES. The following is s good remedy for vines or shrubsbleeding: Take twenty ouucos of blaok pitch, three ounces of bees' wax, three ounces of resin, three ounces of taiiow; crumb all together well before plaoing over a hot fire, thoroughly well mix and apply warm in a liquid state.?New York ljedger. SELF-SOWN TOMATOES. Where large quantitiee of tomatoes are grown and the fruit is allowed to rot on the ground, there will be many young tomato plants spring up the following season. They will not be eo forward as plants from seed sown in a hothouse, but they will be thrifty and hardy for outdoor setting and come into bearing very nearly as quickly as the later plants from tne notnouee. Fall sowing of tomato seed is little likely to start the seed into fall growth, as the lains prevent the seed from drying sufficiently to germinate.? Boston Cultivator. PROPER SEED TEMPERATURE. Late experiments at one of the Canadian agricultural experiment stations prove that the different seeds germinate at various temperatures, varying with the species and the amount of moisture present. Some seeds, it was found, would sprout when the temperature of the soil was constantly kept at the freezing point. This was true of the seeds of white mustard, which germinated at a temperature of thirty degrees Fahr. In dian corn germinated at a temperature of forty-eight degrees, watermelon seed at sixty-three degrees and trifolium ripens at forty-two degrees. It was also found that the different seeds germinated between certain limits of temperature, tbo greater part of those experimented upon not germinating at all if the temperature was kept above eighty-three degrees. FATTENING FOWL8 BY CRAMMING. An excellent method of fattening fowls by the process of cramming, as it is termed, is as follows: One of the convenient meat choppers used in the kitchen in tbe preparation of food is procured of the right size, the animal matter cbosen, is mixed with linseed oil meal,corn and barley meal, and all run through the machine and reduced to a homogeneous pulp. A little dry flour is taken in the hands and convenient sized morsels of this food are rolled into shape like small sausages. These are dipped in oil of any kind and laid aside for use for the next two days, which is a convenient interval for the preparation of the fooa. The fowls are confined in coops set on benches of a convenient height, and are taken one by one and as much of this food as may be is forced down the throat. This is a French method, which is applied to large business by the aid of a special machine, and these people can give as large odds and win every time in the practice of rearing and preparing poultry for tbe markets and making profit of it.?New York Times. i A BARN SCRAPER. The cat shows a most convenient article for use about a barn or stable. Its construction is apparent, though it may be said that the whole is made eo light, yet strong, that the board that is used as the head, or scraper, can be made some three feet in length, if for use in scraping up chad and SCRAPER FOB THE BARN. other material on the barn floor. If for use in the cattle quarters, scraping manure into the .cutters, and through trapdoors, the board should be shorter to give greater strength. Many farmers in cleaning up their barn floors use a rake turned upon the back of its head?a substitute very inferior to the excellent home-made implement figured here. There are many such home made contrivances that take little time to construct that are wonderfully eflective in saving labor, and it is just as profitable to save labor upon the farm as elsewhere. ?New York Tribune. THE CABBAGE WORM. The most common cabbage caterpillar is the larval form of the white but n'flir on rtffon aaan fthnilt fllft nlftnts depositing its egge. Aside from this larva there are several others which attack the cabbage plant, being the larvto of several species of butterflies and moths. But while there are several species of caterpillars on the plants, yet the habits of all are very similar, so tbat the same remedies are applicable to all. Just as soon as the worms are noticed on the plants, pnris green, either dry or mixed with water, should bo applied. In this case it is perhaps best to mnke the application in a dry form by means of any of the many ways for making the application. A common flour sack will do for this purpose, if nothing better is at hand, nlJ-VtsMiryVi rtrvfVitnrr nrmnla fVio nhnmninn ?"UUU!SU -'J ? 1 powder gun for the application of any dry powders. When applied to the cabbage, the paris green should be diluted with about twenty parts of flour, the effectiveness of the application depending not bo much upon the amount used as the evenness of the distribution. The paris green, however, should not be applied to the plants after they have formed heads, but pyrethrum or insect powder should then be used instead. But the question is often asked; i "Will not the naris axe en Doison the j plante and render them unfit for use?" But the cabbage grows from within out, and there is no danger from the use of paris green, provided it is not applied after the heads are formed., T5~ tima 4.V./1 1--. i-1 JJJ IUD iilxio wuo uuioi iobvcb urtj IblitJLl oS and the cabbage is ready for the table, there iu left no trace of arsenio. ?H. E. Weed, in Journal of Agriculture. TAKING HONEY FROM BEES. Msdv huve trouble in taking honey from their bees. S. T. Pettit gives his plan in the Canadian Bee Journal, as follows: "This is the way I do it now: First, give a couple of smart whiffd of smoke in the entrance, then blow the Bmoke smartly under the quilt, and the bees will rush downwards, then remove the quilt or oloth, and, for a moment rush the bees down with the smoke. Now is your opportunity; lift the combs; out quickly, and shake off what bees you oan quickly, and lean the combs against the back part of the hive or any other convenient thing, or place them in a light box for that purpose. Now, keep on a hustle, and, as soon as the last frame is out, drop in and adjust your empty combs and close up tne nive. ?ow, Bee, an ims must oe done before the reaction or return of the bees sets inland your bees are still' in good humor, and their zeal for gathering honey is not decreased by the presence of those empty combs, and everything in all right. "The process of brushing the remaining bees from the comb will be found pleasant and easy, for by this time they feel quite lost and lonely, and they are in no mood for self defense. I had rather remove the filled combs, and replace them with empty ones, thaD adjust and remove a bee escape. And than I fancy that the bees being crowded in the brood chamber, and the consequent excitement caused by the bee-escape, would work up swarming-fever. "I go right on with the work in the robbing season. I place the rubber -?1 - LUlnnAV iVw A AAtwU rtW/1 Jwo4? TTT k att commencing operations I fill the box with smoke; this keeps the robbers at bay. At Bach seasons I ha?e an assistant to keep the air over and above the hive pretty fall of smoke." FARM AND GARDEN N0TE3. Do not hang the harness in the stable if you can avoid it. During the moulting season keep the males and females of the flock separated. The farmer who trades his butter at the conntry store seldom becomes a conspicuous success. Stop churning the minute the but<-? tu;- w ter uuiuecj. xuio iau uo uouoi vaiucu by the 6oand; if in ?loabt, look. Ventilate the churn freely and frequently during.churning, until no air rushes out when the vent is opened. v Clean the watering trough once in a while. After scraping with a sharp onion-hoe, sprinkle wilh lime and leave a few hours. Then rinse and refill. ' The orchard is one of the best places on the farm for poultry. The insects that abound there provide egg-forming food, and the eating of them is good for the hens and for the orchard. Don't make one horse do all the odd jobs and hard work on the farm, where several animals are kept, because he is willing and tractable. Break in the others and let them do their turn. If properly kept and judioiously applied to land, poultry manure is worth one-half the cost of the food the fowle get, and yet little account is taken ol 4.U?. ^?/nnm?n/va tttV? or* flafimflfa lis IUU tTUV.U MM made of the profits. On most farms where the hens have a free range they will do very well in the summer without j^-ain food, the growing grasses and ripening seeds and the insects they piok up supplying a well balanced ration. Nothing will spoil a cow, or cows, quicker than a man with a bad temper?one that has the smell of brimstone on his breath. There is as much room for improvement in some dairymen or farmers, when they keep cows, as in the breed of cows they keep. Sheep appear to have but little power of resistance to disease, and can stand but little grief. This is the rule, although it is a faot that an individual is now and then found which seems to withstand enough disease to kill a whole flock of ordinary sheep. The associate editor of the New England Farmer makes it cost him 82 a ton to harvest his hay. On many r 1 in Moinn fho 01 I lit) iurgeob UUJ laiug huw cost of harvesting the hay orop has been reduced to SI a ton. Broad, smootfy fields and the best of machinery do it. A dqckling at a week old should weigh {our ounces; two weeks, nine ounces; three weeks, one pound; four weeks, one pound nine ounces; five week9, two pounds two ounces; six weeks, two pounds eleven ounces;' seven weeks, three pounds five ounces; eight weeks, lour pounds; nine weeks, lour pounds eight ounces. England's 01(1 Trees. The oldest tree in England is the yew tree at Brabnrn, in Kent, which is said to be 3000 years old, while at Fortignal, in Perthshire, is one nearlv as old. At Aukerwyke House, near Staines, is a yew tree which was famous at the date of the signing ol Magna Charta, 1215, and later was tbe trjsting place of Henry VIII and Anna Boleyn. The three yews at Fountains Abbey are at least 1200 years old, and beneath them the founders of the abbey sat in 1132. There are no famous oaks that rival any yew in age, 2000 years being the greatest age attained, i/amoier u oak, in Devonshire, which wa9 blown down in 1703, had this distinction. Cowthorpe oak, near Wetherby, York? ehire, is said to be 1000 years old.? Philadelphia Press. w * . . '*1,1 ^ . - ^ - . >, HOUSEHOLD HATTERS. IDEAL CHEESE BISCUIT. Cheese biscuit fit for the palate of Earl Li, and warranted to make von dream of yellow dragons and seashore f ,vt v creatures of the deep, ia made as fol* lows: One-quarter of a pound of grated Parmesan cheese, salt, pepper, one-eighth of a pound of good butter and quarter of a pound of Hour are theingredients. Work these together , ''v; into a cream with the hand and roll very thin. Cut into round or square biscuit and bake in a quick oven a very light brown.?Washington Star. AN' ATTBACIIVE SWEET DISH. An attractive sweet dish that is choice enough to serve at a luncheon | _>* consists of tart baked apples covered with a syrup containing nuts and candied fruit* and served w*th whipped M cream. Peel and core nice applep, ^ ? lay tnem in a DaKing-uiuu, ?uu pum over them half capful of cold water. Put in the oven, which should be hot, ' and when they begin to cook, sift over them granulated sugar. Cook until soft, but not until tlie sections lose their shape. Make a syrup of a cupful of water, half a cupful of sugar, J and a tablespoonful of strained lemon juice. Measure two tablespooufuls of almonds, blanch them, and cat ia bits. Add these to the syrup together with two tablespoonfuls of desert raisins seeded and chopped, and two level tablespoonfuls of candied Cher- ' nes chopped with the nuts or raisins. ?? When the nyrup reaches the boiling point, let it simmer thirty minutes. Put the apples with a spoon in a low, ^ Hat dish, skim out the fruit from the syrup, and sprinkle over them, then 0 pour the syrup over and around them. ^5 Servo very cold.?New York Post. BOAST DUCK. Select a two or two aua a nair pouna bird; clean and trass the dack and staff with a dressing made as follows: lake one pint of stale bread (there mast be no hard pieces) and break into very line crumbs; add a teaspoonful of salt, a scant half-teaspoonful of chopped parsley, half a teaspoonfal of powdered age, one-half teaspoonfal of summer savory, a teaspoonful of chopped onion (if liked) and one-third cupful of butter, mix well. This gives a rich dressing, that ?riJ1 oonuMtn likft rififl when served and in good with any fowl. Bub the bird with a teaspoonful of salt before staffing it. Take soft butter in the hand and rub thickly over tho fowl, then dredge rather thickly with dour so it will be just covered. Patting the butter and flour on makes a pasie, *? which keeps the juice confined and $ also gives a rich ba3ting. Place on the meat rack in a hot oven for a few moments to brown the flour, then add in water enough to cover the pan. The water must be renewed a little at / ? a time when needed. Baste every fifteen minutes with the gravy in the pan, and dredge with a little salt, pepper and flour. When one side is browned, turn and brown the other. This will bake in an hoar in a quick oven. Before sending to the table squeeze over it the juice of a lemon - or orange, ana serve up very not wma its own gravy about it. Eat with currant jelly. Chop the ciblets fine and stew slowly in as little water as possible, with a tablespoonful of butter rolled in flour. Season with a halfteaspoonful.of salt and three dashes of pepper. Serve in a gravy boat. Select long, slender sweet potatoes, peel and lay in the roasting pan around the duck a half an hour before it is done. The gravy will flavor them nicely. ?Chicago Record. household hint 3. To olean straw matting, wipe it off with a cloth dampened in warm salt water. A little saltpetre added to the water in which cut flowers are put will keep the flowers fresh a long time. a nlARtflr comDosed of the yoke of an egg and salt will often relieve pleurisy, and neuralgic pains. Meat and fowls may be maie more tender if, when they are boiling, a r. teaspoonful of vinegar be added to the water. Pounded glass mixed with dry corn meal and placed within the reach of rats, it is said will banish them from the premises. The addition of a little salt to sweet foods helps to bring oat the flavor, and acid things are improved by the addition of a little sagar. It is positively asserted that to dr\nk a half pint of hot milk or hot water will have the effect of prodaoing sleep in eight cases out of ten. r!?o/?lrora Barred with SOULS and broths are much more appetizing if ' they are lightly battered and then placed in the oven and browned. Vinegar should not be kept in a stone jag. Glass is much better for [the purpose. The acid of vinegar affects the glazing of stone ware. Do not allow fresh meat to remain rolled in paper, for the paper will absorb the juice. Bemove the paper and lay the meat on an earthen plate. Cream or milk that has turned, bat is not soured, may be made sweet by stirring into it one teaspoonful of carbonate of magnesia to each qaart of milk. After the jaicc has been squeezed from lemons the peel may be utilized for cleaning brass. Dip it in common salt and scour with powdered brick dust. If every pot and pan, or any utensil used in the cooking of food, be , washed as soon as emptied, and while * still hot, half the labor and a great timo will hp RAverl. A heavy flatiron, weighing seven or eight pounds, will.do better work if it is passed over the clothes once with a firm, 6teady pressure than a lighter iron hurriedly passed over the clothes two or three times. To restore defaced varnish, use linseed oil aud turpentine iu equal parts, well mixed, and applied in small quantities with a soft piece of cotton. Repeat several times if necessary, then wipo the mixture entirely oil. If you have batter that is not entirely 6weet, put it in a porcelain dish with a little salt and a tiny piece ot soda, place over a lire, and bring to a boil. Turn it into a stone jar and set it in a cool place. The butter will tx found perfectly sweet anu not ioa salt for cooking. The imparities will settle to the bottom of the jar.