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CHAPTER XIV?Coiitlnned. Alter this long and apparently satisfactory conversation beiween Captain Fox and his lieutenant, they went on deck, where tjhey fouDd the rudder in good working order, and the men lounging about the hot decks, while the officers smoked, and wondered among * * * - J x ik. themselves wnai mis conuuc-b uu uie part of "the skipper" meant. The men and officers of the Wanderer had so much confidence in the foresight and daring of their leader, that they but seldom talked among themselves as to the nature of any move that Fox did not explain in advance. 60 far-, he had done by them exactly as he \iad promised, and they had every reason to believe that their good luck, and the captain's good management, would continue for many a day to eome. There was not a man on the ship, from Don, the cabin boy, to the captain, with the one exception of Ralph Denham, now incapable of reasoning, that ever thought that the "Wanderer was ? bound for New York when she left Sag Harbor. The men did not know whero they were going, nor did they particularly care, so tnat tney were oa mo iuu>c with some object to gain, or, in lieu ol that, of danger in view. With the bxception of Frenauld, the officers were nearly as coarse and brutal-looking as the men, but they fully appreciated thG value of good conduct on shore, and of silence, or reticence, when those qualities were found necessary, to hide the defects oi their early training. Three times, during the afternoon, Fox and Frenauld visited the little gem of a cabin in which Ralph Denhara lay, still unconscious. Once they administered to him a small glass of wine, with a few drops ol the green, sweet, soporific drug in it, and one drop of a colorless fluid which Frenauld declared was sufficient to destroy the will-power of a giant foi four-and-twenty hours. A few hours after dark the captain's gig was lowered, and into it got rrenauld and three men, ail carrying their arms and considerable bundles. The rowers', ?md the officer in command followed, the hooks were slipped out, and, at a low command from the officer in the stern sheets, the oars l. dropped into place, caught the water like one blade, and the gig sped away ' lor the cliffs, beneath which a lire had been burning for some time. Frenauld and his men landed near the fire, where they found an old In/ ^ dian, sent there by Uncas, awaiting them. The eig returned at once to the ship, anchor was weighed, and the Wanderer stood out to sea, but she did not sail in the direction of the port of New York. Frenauld did not at all relish the mission on which he was sent, but he caxe in obedience to an order that he could not disobey^If",he would. When delivered, this order,met his warm approk val, for he had great faith in his captain, whose unapproachably brilliant talents as a villain won his esteem, and at times !A.J l>f O.,* eiClltiU lilb tiUVjr. JJUL n ucu j.' icuauiu, eitting by the shore, 6aw through the ' darkness, like a vanishing star, the ehip's lights dropping down the horizon's rim, his spirits also fell. Bidding the sailors spread their blankets and go to sleep, Frenauld lit a L cigar, and handing the old Indian another, he invited him to draw up to the fire. * The Indian could not^gpeak very good English; but as he succeecTNttnuiaking himself clearly understood, we shall not attempt to reproduce his dialect, or rather his broken speech. Lighting his cigar, the Indian, who Baid his name was "Old Sonionk," equattei on his haunches, and across the little fire, whose flickering flames threw unequal lights on their faces, they stared at each other. ^Uncas sent you here,"said Frenauld, more for the sake of talking than with any hope of getting desirable information. "Ugh, Uneas," replied Old Somonk. and he sesmed to blow the words with a jet of smoke from hi6 puckered lips in the direction of the young officer. "Uncas is a great chief. " "Ugh; Uncas big sachem," grunted Old Somonk. "Got a wife?" "No; no wife." "Why doesn't a fine-looking man like Uncas get a wife?" I "Don't know; mebbe don't want one. * f "Ah, like enough. Strange that that hadn't struck me as a possible reasor before," said Frenauld, taking an unusually long pull at his cigar, and coming to the conclusion that Old Somone l was not as much of a fool after all. ' "When i6 Uncas to come here?" asked i Frenauld, looking up at the black sk\ L as he askeft the question, as if it 'were W quite possible for the answer to come f from that quarter. "One sun more, to-morrow." "What arc we to do in the me an time?' Old Somonk slightly elevated his shoulders, but his face gave not th? slightest sign of interest as he grunted: "Don't know." v "Thatf is very consoling. Of course o.?-^yflfrknow the country hereabouts verj well?"^ ?^LBorn here," wa6 the reply, with i j?i^^Hinary griint. - . "Cooks as ff he might have "been borii L before there wa9 any such place as this," sail Frenauld, eotto voce; then aloud, "you are going to remain with ue gsm^^kuritil Uncas comes." no, no," said Old Somonk, with old Harry! thex how long will Bjj8WS|Sa8BMH Somosk, my son, be home to mummy, with a skin haa got a wife and m^n^nQHBB^ff^M^^^kiniitate their white mut"and your Uncas a bio? mm1 "Oh, no?no. "Why?" "Wyr1 'cause he love wite 5qu daughter medicine man Hedges. "Tersely and clearly 6tated. course?a!l the Indians like their chi< "Oh, yes." "Do whatever he says?" "Oh, yes, mebbe." "Some doubt about that, eh? W Mr. Old Somonk, one more questi can we sleep here without watch; ii safe?" "Safe?" "I so asked." "It is safe all time in land of Monti for friend of Montauk." "From which I am to infer tha would be anything bytinfeJor_the f of the Montauks to Intrude here. V? * *-! a - a xl. .1,^ x am a warm irienu ui luc iuuuuuu "Oh, yes," from Old Somonk, v something like sarcasm in the tor though his sphinx-like face looked impassive as ever. Satisfied that it ^ i safe to lie down, and confident thai could not continue the conversat with Old Somonk, with any chance getting information or learning thai i which he was interested, Frena spread a blanket on the ground, i went to sleep. He did not wake up till daylight, < the first object that met his eyes \ Old Somonk seated in the same pi and in the same position, the o > change noticeable about him being t , he was now smoking a corn-cob p instead of a cigar. With that aptitude which disl gulshes alike the trained soldier i seaman, the three sailors from Wanderer set about getting break! i for themselves and the Lieutenant. Old Somonk, with a degree of curi ity that is not generally thought to ( tinguish his race, watched these ope tions till the meal was ready, wh , without being invited, he came over i ; began helping himself, in tne cool possible way. , j At first this caused the Lieuten [ and his men much merriment, out wn< indifferentto their laughter Old Som< paid the strictest possible attentio; , the business on band. And as , threatened to devour all the coo ; food, if the others did not hurry up, pitched in in self-defense, and ate vi a speed that emulated but could | equal that of the Indian. During the day Fernauld and > men made an examination of the ccs In which work they were facilitated ? the use of a canoe, which Old Som< drew out from a cavern, made in rocks by the long-continued action wind and waves. Fernauld carefully took note of bearings of this cave, which had a sn entrance that could easily be closed I while the inside space was ample 1--'J -H *1 1*1- . iiuiu ail uic ncaiw VI ail mi., gwu, precious stones that had ever been lie ed on the sea. Back from the beach there were sc tering groves set, as if by the hand o landscape gardener who studied ways of nature, and undulating lav or meadows in which pastured the he of the Montauks. In the afternoon they followed the ample of Old Somonk, and lay down the shade, where, the sea breeze fi ning their faces, they soon sank sleep. They would have slept on into nitfht "had they not been aroused by 1 talking of two men. One was < Somonk and the other his son. Before Fernauld could bay a wo Old Sdtaonk said, pointing to the dan youth,'with whom he had b? talking: "This i6 my son, young Somonk. comes from Uncas; you talk." A: having uttered these words with ast< ishing rapidity, he turned to the w and.ian with a 6peed that was wond ful for him, and would have been markable even in his son. ' "Your venerable sire," said Frenau looking after the flying Montauk, "is most eccentric gentleman, white or r that it has ever been my privilege encounter." With much dignity the young Ind cut him short by saying: "I have come from my chiel, Un of the Montaub6." "Ah, so I supposed, and " "Have you a message, a paper me?" broke in Somonk. "I have; but are you not manifest undue haste?" For reply Somonk extended his ha and kept it so until Frenauld had posited therein the expected paper. TheD, to the unutterable amazem of the sailors, Somonk closed his hi on the paper and darted off with a sp< that promised soon to place him far advance of his fugitive father. "Well, may Satan fly away with i If they are not the most extraordin. sire and scion that ever crossed course! I wonder if the old Woman 1 the same restlessness on foot and p A*/li+w?Hnwn?" I V,X\lkVJ Oivuug uv n m i The sailors answered this with a 1< laugh, andat once began preparati* for supper. . Though affecting great lightnese 1 manner, Frenauld was not at all sa , fied with the situation. "What if the Montauk chief did keep his part of the contract? What 1 the Wanderer were lost, or 6ank, or any other chance did not return, was become of Frenauld and his three c< : panions? . He thought these questions over i ; over, even while he was eating his s | per, and he had not reached a satisf ! tory answer, when he heard the sn ' ping of a dry twig near by, and look up, he 6aw before him the tower , form of the Montauk chief. The appearance of Uncas, though ' unexpected, was so sudden as to stai ' Frenauld aLd set his heart to beat faster. , After the usual salutations had pass , the chief accepted FrenauM's invitat to join him at supper, and whil^ t were eating, he said: "i wiaic. finw seen yon perore, that I met the old white chief, ( Graham." "What, hasn't he gone back to 1 York?" asked the astonished Frenai "No; he has been sick." "And where is he now?" "He is in my lodge?" "Your lodger" "Yes, in my house with his bl servant" ! "In the name of all that is not eaci how did he come to get there?" "He wanted change, expressed a v ' to know more about the Montauks, i 1 I, as their chief, became his guide," s Uncas, with much dignity. "But his presence will ruin our plai "I cannot see how that will be." "Simply this, that Col. Graham s poses that Ralph Denham is now at bottom of the sea, as he deserves to were it not that Capt Fox, who is y ^ great, true friend, and knows how mi dislike your rival, wanted to lei in your hands for a certain ti according to the agreement, ; SBgj^H^e free to do as you pleased ^ kHBhBlI Frenauld. gnMa&Mj^^all that," replied the ch iflS^nQB^^^iave but little faith in I told Col. Oral Bn|^9)R?^^^nk^ns, nor have I t young Som< eubliir.it: % ! prudence," said Frenauld, smiling and rubbinz his hands, then asking in a ?ota MITn?tA TT/M1 f Ka!1 Cfht. C\f uico?cu naj. iiavc jvu the place where you are to keep Denham?" S "I have." "Do you object to telling?" "No; it is in a cavern down there by the shore, a place of which nearly all our people have a great dread." As this spot had been appropriated in Frenauld's mina for another purpose, j Of he asked, hurriedly: if?" "Couldn't you get another place away c from the water?It is dangerous to have R a sailor near the water, if you are at all c anxious to keep him." e ell, I could; there is even a better hiding v on; place in the hills, but even I do not care " s it to go there In the dark, * 5 "What is it like?" a&ked Frenauld. t "It is the burial place of our chiefs, ^ replied Uncas. t iUk |TO BE CONTINUED.] t - = == tl oes CURIOUS FACTS. e eU, D America has 1,500,000 freight cars * A machine makes 3000 pins hourly, )' J. as Coroner Aydelott, of Parke County, 2 fras Indiana, wears an 8* hat. n ;ion With a single blow of his insignifi- jj Qf cant tail an elephant can knock oat n t in the strongest man. 11 uld It takes 72,000 tons of paper to ' 111(1 make the postal cards need in the t ind United States each year. j vas Next year is the centennial of the ? ace stope-pipe hat, which first came into ? nly common nse in Paris in 1797. * Forks for eating vere Arst intro- n ' p dnoed into Venice in the year 995, into * jn. France in 1379, and into England in * ind 1608. i the a piece of iron has been found in an J ast air passage of "the great pyramid, and t it is supposed to have been there since t 3700 B. O. - c ;ra- A commercial traveler tells the s ien, Washington Post that be recently saw i &nd in Mississippi a colored woman with ) 68 hair eleven feet long. ant It is regarded as entirely appro- ' )llv priate that the most successful horse Dnk dealer in Nodaway County, Missouri, c i to is a man named Goodpasture. Ije^ Sella, Wahkiakum County, Wash., J all was shaken one night by a ten-ton c -ith boulder that rolled down from a cliff I not and plunged into a warehouse. Persian women pencil the outer t l8t corners of their eyes to make them a by look almond-shaped, which is con- ? :>nk eidered an especial mark of beauty. \ the a Wurtembnrg parish priest, having <j oI collected 9000 pounds of postage * tbe stamps in eighteen years, has sold the ? mn lot for $5000 and given the money to 1 up, charity. J to Many of the sugar estates in Bar* t in J badoes are still dependent on wind- * ,at" mills for crushing power, but steam ? at_ power is now being introduced into s t a the larger factories. the Perhaps the tallest square chimney v'"8 in England is that at the Camperdown rds Linen Works, near Dundee. This ex_ chimney, or, rather, tower, rises 282 iQ feet from the ground. The contents of the stomach of an 't? ostrich that recently died in a French menagerie moluded the iron tip of an umbrella, a comb, two pieces of coal ^ and a silk handkerchief. A torpid liver is valuable, if it haprd. pens to be the liver of a whale. From In~ this organ comes ambergris, and it is :en estimated that the ambergris from a Hq single whale is worth $60,000. ad, 77 :>n- Gold by the Yard. The beating of the innumerable lit re_ tie square pieces ot goia which are t need to cover domes and signs, and bo i ild, on, forma a distinct industry in the ' the gold trade, which employs a large i( ed, number of hands and requires no t 10 small amount of skill. " ian The long low building in which the i work is carried on is filled throughout j eas the day with the sound of hammers. 11 On every side little boxes containing s tiny rolls of gold are to be seen,, for which, although only measuring an c inch and a half in length, are each t mg worth about $50. The gold is re- ? n(j oeived in bars one-eighth of an inch $ de- in thickness, an inch in width and v weighing 240 penny-weights. This is ent rolled out into a ribbon thirty yards ? md in length. q pfld Tt in mron In th? irnrlrmfln in c in Btripa measuring seven yards, each of R which ie cut up into 180 pieoes. These a ar^ are now ready to be beaten out by n my hand. They are placed (protected by A las fine skins) in a tool known as the >ia- "clutch," and are thoroughly pounded j out on a great granite block set in the b ground in suoh a way that there is ab- ? ons Bolutely no vibratory movement. The 0f process is repeated several times, the j, tis. gold as it spreads being continuously o subdivided until it is of the exact di- ? not mensions reqojred. J > i.l xne HK.1UB 1U WlltUU mo Ku'u ? by beaten are eo delicate that they will t< 1 to tear as easily as paper, nevertheless 'J )m* they are of so fine a quality that they fl( ind will withstand the continnal hammer- .si up- ing for several years. The gold, whioh J ac- iB finally beaten down to 200,000th of ap- an inch, is robbed with "brine" be- y jn? fore being placed in the skins, in order f that it shall not adhere to them. not Easy as this work of beating out the ? rtje gold may seem, it is in reality an art u ing of a very delicate description. The r ? workman must know to a nicety preie(j) cisely how hard or gentle the blows of t] ion his hammer must be and also the it hey exact Bpot on which they should fall. Accordingly, a very superior class of j ?u.1 men are employed in the business.? E ' Pearson's Weekly. 8 Jew p A Fish Story From Alaska. Tho depths of the Takou have again given forth a strange and peculiar animal, fi6h or whatever it may be called. acK It was caught with halibut hook, and !> .e(j the fisherman who took it eays it is a j* ' sea rattlesnake, though it is th 3 first M rish one he ever saw. In length it was m and about four feet, with a round body iaid tbre* inohes in diameter at its largest ? part and tapering to a line point. The :r 1S- body resembles a gelatinous substance, * and fell to pieces in a few hours after ft being taken from the water, only the be> skeleton remaining.?Alaska News. w our w jch How We Gto to Sleep. ?' ive ol me A scientist says that our senses do d( j.olJ not fall asleep simultaneously, but be- P' ith come insensible one after another, ^ says the London Mail. Many dreams ct ief, are explainable upon this hypothesis. <-*e my The eyelids take the lead and obscure m iam eight; next follows the sense of taste; U1 then smelling, hearing and touch, the last named being the lightest sleeper PS 7 of and most easily aroueed. ^ \ \ 4 \ 1 REV. DRTAIZAGE. UN DAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. !5nDject: "A Practical Religion." Text: "Faith without works is dead."? ames li., 20. The Roman Catholic Church 'aas been barged with putting too much stress upon cod works and not enough upon faith. I barge Protestantism witft putting not nough stress upon good works ns connected rith salvation. Good works will never save nan, but if a man have not good works he 1*3 no roal faith and no genuine religion, .'here are those who depend upon the fact bat they are all right inside while tbeir conluct is wrong outside. Their religion for he most part is made up of talk?vigorous silk, flneut talk, boastful talk, perpetual alk. Tbey will entertain you by the hour d telling you how good they are. They cme up to such a higher life that they have 10 patience with ordinary Christians in the ilnin discharge of their duty, As near as I <;n teii, this ocean craft is mostly sail and ( ry little tonnaga. Foretopmast staysail, oretopmast studding sail, main topsail, miztn topsail?everything from flying jib to oizzen spanker, but making no useful voyige. Now. the world has got tired of this, .ml it wants a religion that will work into 11 ? t???a! Ufa Wa A r. nftf ttto ? W I lLi? CirUU IllSlrtUUtrn U1 inc. wo uv uv? nnui l new religion, but the old religion applied c all possible directions. Yonder is a river with steep and rook> iimks, and it roars like a young Niagara as t rolls on over its rough bed. It does nothi g but talk about itself all the way from Its ource in the mountain to the place where it imptifis into tho sea. The banks are so steep hat the cattle cannot come down to drink. 1 does not run one fertilizing rill into the idjoining fleM. It has not one gristmill or tiCtory on either side. It sulks in wet feather with chil.ing fogs. No one cares ?bon that (river is born among the rocks, and 13 one cares when it dies into the sea. But onder is another river, and it mosses its >mks with the warm tides, and it rocks with' loral lullaby the water lilies asleep on its nsoai. It invites herds of cattle and flocks >T sheep and coveys of birds to coma there iad drink. It has three gristmills on one tde and six cotton factoriss on the other. It i' the wealth of 20) miles of luxuriant farms, [ho birds of heaven chanted when it was >orn in the mountains, and the ocean ship>ing will press in from the sea to hail it as it : jmes down from the Atlantic Coast. The me river is a man who lives for himself. [he other river is a man who lives for f.hers. Do you know how the site of the ancient lity of Jerusalem was chosen? There were vo brothers who had adjoining farms. The tae hi other had ti ltjrge family, the other i ad no family. The brother with a large umilysaid: "There is my brother with no amily. He must be lonely, and I will try <) cheer him up, and I will take some of the leaves trom my field in the night time and it them over on his farm and ss.y nothing ibout it." The other brother said: "My irother has a large family ana It is very liffleult for him to support them, and I will lelp him along, and I will tako some oi ie sbeaves from my farm in the night time ind set them over on his farm and saynoth;jg about it" So the work of transference rent on night after night and night after light, but every morning thingB seemed to lejust as they were, for, though sheaves iad been substracted from each farm, heaves had also been added, and the brotn re were perpiexaa ana couia not uaaer:and. But one night the brothers hapened to meet while ranting thill generous ransference, and the spot where they met ras so sacred that wais chosen as the site f the city of Jerusalem, It that tradition bould prove unfounded, it will neverthe53s stand ns a beautiful allegory, setting Drth the idea that wherever a kindly anil enerous and loving act is performed that is tie spot fit for some temple of commemratlon. 1 have often Broken to you about faith, ut this morning I speak to you about works, Dr "faith wltlout works is dead." I think ou will agree with me in the statement that he greal want in this world is more practial religion. We want practical religion to o into all merchandise. It will supervise he labeling of t;oods. It will n'ot allow a aan to say that a thing was made in one actorv when It was made In another. It Till not allow the merchant to say that watch ras manufactured in Geneva when ,it was aanufactured In Massachusetts. It will not How the merchant to say that wine came rom Madeira when it came from California, 'radical religion will walk along by the tore shelves and tear off all the tags that oake misrepresentation. It will not allow he merchant to say that is pure coffee when iandelion root and chicory and other lngredants go into it. It will not allow him to say hat is pure sugar when there are in It sand ,nd ground glass. When practical religion gets its full swing a the world, it will go down the street and t will come to that shoe store and rip off the ictitious soles of m any a fine looking pair of hose aud show that it is pasteboard sandwiched between the sound leather. And this krnmlml rflHoHnn nrfll ar\ Hcht intn n <rrn ery store and it will pall out the plugs of all be adulterated sirups, and it will dump into Le ash barrel in front of the store the cassia ark that is sold foroinnamon and the brlckust that is sold for cayenne pepper, and it rill shake out the prueslan blue from the tea saves, and it will sift from the flour plaster f paris and bone dust and soapstone, and it rill by chemical analysis separate the one uart of water from the few honest drops of ow's milk, and it will throw out tne live nimaloules from the brown sugar. There tas been so much adulteration of rticlee of food that It is an amazement to ie that there is a healthy man or woman in merica. Heaven only knows what they ut into the spices and into the sugars and Qto the butter and into the apothocary drug, tut chemical analysis and the microscope avemade wonderful revelations. Theboard f health in Massachusetts analyzed a great mount of what was called pure coffee and sund it not oue particle of ooffee. In Eng*nd there is a law that forbids the putting I alum in hread. The public authorities xamined fifty-one packages of bread and sund them all guilty. The honest physiian. writing a prescription, does not know ut tbat it may bring death instead of health 3 his patient, because there may be one of lie drugs weakened by a cheaper article, nd another drug may be in full force, and o the prescription may have just the oppoIte effect intended. Oil of wormwood waranted pure from Boston was found to have Drty-one per cent, of rosin and alcohol and hloroform. 8cammonyis one of the most aluable medisal drugs. It is very rare, ery precious. It is the sap of the gum of a ree or a bush in Syria. The root of the tree ; exposed, an incision is made into the root, nd then shells are placed at this incision to titch the sap or tne gum as it exudes. It is ery precious, this soMmmony. But the easant mixes it with a cheaper material; Hen it is tsiken to Aleppo, and the merchant lere mixes it with a chcaper material; then coon to the wholesale druggist in Lonov. or New York, and he mixes it with a iieaper material: then it comes to the retail ruggist, and he mixes it with a cheaper uiterial, aud by the time the poor sick man ets it into hi9 bottle it is ashes and chalk dsand, and some of what has been called ure scammony after aualysis has been )und to be no scammony at all. i Now, practical religion will yet rectify all lis. It will go to those hypocritical proissors of religion who got a "corner in arn and wheat in Chicago and New York, jnding pricos up and up until they were eyond ' ,e reaoh of the poor, keeping these readstufls in their own hands, or oontrolng them until the prices going up and up nd up. they were, after awhile, readv to ill, and they sold out. making themselves lillionaires in one or two years, trying to x the matter up with the Lord by building church or a university or a hospital, deludig themselves with the idea that the Lord ould be so pleased with the gift He would >rget the swindle. Now, as such a man ay not have any liturgy in which to say is prayers, I will compose for him one hich he practically is making: "Oh, Lord, e, by getting a 'corner' in breaustuffs. pindled the people of tte United States out f $10,000,000 and made suffering all up and jwn the land, and we would like to comromise this mutter with Thee! Thou knowit it was a scaly job, but then it was smart, ow, here we compromise it. Take one per snt. of the profits, and with that one per >nt. you can build an asylum for these poor iserable ragamuffins of the street, and I ill take a yacht and go to Europe, forever id ever. Amen." Ab, my friends, if a mnn hath gotten his itate wrongfully and he build a line of aspitals and universities Irom here to laska, he cannot atoae far it. A/ter awhile this nan who has been getting a "corner1' In, wbeat dies, and then satan gets a ' 'corner" In bim. He goe6 into a great, long Black Tkftsn 4 n n If" 4 n f Kia JCUUtjj. J. uci d in a ut. ouDk iU IUO Uidiavu According lo Wall street parlance, he wiped others out, and now he is himself wiped out. No collaterals on which to make a spiritual loan. Eternul defalcation. But this practical religion will not only rectify all merchandise, it will also reotify all mechanism and all toil. A time will come when a man will work as faithfully by the job as he does by the day. You say when a thing is slightingly done, "Oh, that was done by the job!" ' You can tell by the swiftness or slowness with whioh a hackman drives whether he is hired by the hour or by the excursion. It he Is hired by the hoar, he drives very slowly, so as to make as many hours as possible. If he is hired by the excursion, he whips up the horses so as to get around and get another customer. All styles of work have to be inspected?ships inspected, horses inspected, machinery inspected, boss to watnh the journeyman; capitalist coming down unexpectedly to watch the boss, conductor of a city car sounding the punch bell to prove his honesty as a pas' senger hands to him a clipped nickel. All things mast be watohed ana inspected. Imperfections in the wood covered with patty, garments warranted to last until you pot them on the third time, shoddy in all kinds of clothing, chromes, pinchbeck, diamonds for $1.60, bookbindery that holds onantfl you read the third chapter; spavined horses, by skillful doBe of jockeys, tor several dnys made to look spry; wagon tires poorly pat on. horsee poorly shod, plastering that crack3 without any provocation and falls off, nlumbingthat needs to be plumbed, imperfect car wheel that halts the whole train with a hnt hnr?qn llttln nrantieal religion In the mechanism of the world.* I tell you, my friends, the law of man will never rectify these things. It will be the all pervading influence of the practical religion of Jesus Christ that will make the change for the better. ' Yes, this practical religion will also go into agriculture, which is proverbially hon&t, but needs to be rectified, and it will keep the farmer from sending to the city market veal that is too young to kill, and when the farmer farms on shares it will keep the man who does the work from making his half three-fourths, and it will keep the farmer from building his post and rail fence on his neighbor's premises, and it wili make him shelter his cattle in the winter storm, and It wjll keep the old elder from working on Sunday afternoon in the new ground where nobody sees him. And this practical religion will hover over the hou^e, and over the barn, and over the field, and over the ori chard. Yes, this practical religion of which I speak will come into the learned professions. The lawyer will feel his responsibility in defending lnn'ocenoe and arraigning evil and expounding the Jaw, and it,will keep him from charging for briefs he never wrote, and for pleas he never made, and for percentages he never earned,, and from robbing widow and orphan because they are defenseless. Yes, this practical religion will come into the physician's life, ana he will feel his responsibility as the conservator of the public health, a profession honored by 4?himanlf moo n nKtral/ilon And It will mAke him honest, and when he does not understand a case he will say so, not trying to cover up lack of diagnosis with ponderous technicalities, or send the patient to a reckless drag store because the apothecary happens to pay a percentage on the prescriptions sent. And this practical religion will come to the schoolteacher, making her feel her responsibility in preparing our youth for usefulness and for happiness and for honor, and will keep her from giving a sly box to a dull head, chastising him for what he cannot help and sending discouragement all through the atter years of a lifetime. This practical religion will also come to the newspaper men, and it will help them in ihe gathering of the news, and it will help them in setting forth the best Interests of society, and it will keep them from putting the sins of the world In larger tvpe than its virtues, and Its mistakes than its achievements, and it will keep them from misrepresenting interviews with public men, and from starting suspicions that never can be allayed,- and will make them stanch friends of the oppressed instead of the oppressor. Yee, this religion, this practical religion. will iiAma on/1 rvnf 4ta hand rvn what la mIIa/1 good society, elevated society, successful society, so that people will have their expenditures within their income, and they will exchange the nypooritlcal "not at home" for for the honest explanation "too tired" or "too busy to see you" and will keep innocent reception from becoming intoxicated conviviality. ' Yea, there is great opportunity for missionary work in what are called the successful classes of society. In some of the cities is is no rare tning now to see a fashionable woman intoxicated in the stjeet, or the rail oar, or the restaurant The 'number of fine ladies who drink too much is increasing. Perhaps yon may find herat the recep tion in most exalted company, but she has made too many visits to the wineroom, and now her eye is glassy, and after awhile her cheek 1b unnaturally flushed, and then she falls into fits of excruciating laughter ahout nothing, and. then she offers sickening flatteries, telling some homely man how well he looks, and then she is helped into the carriage, and by the time tbe carriage gets to her borne it takes the husband and the coachman to get her up the stairs. The report is she wns taken suddenly ill at a german. Ab, no! She took too much champagne and mixed liquors and got drunk. 'That was all. Yes, this practical religion will have to come in ana fix up the marriage relation in America. There are. members of churches who have too many wives and too many husbands. Society needs to be expurgated and washed and fumigated and Christianized. We want this practical religion not only to take hold of what are called the lower classes, but to take hold of what are called tne higher classes. The trouble is that people have an idea they can do all their religion on Sunday with hymn-book and prayer book and liturgy, and some of them sit in churoh rolling ud their eyes as though they were ready for translation, when their Sabbath is bounded on all sides by an inconsistent lifp, and while you are expecting to come out from under their arms the wings of an angel there come out from their forehead the horns of a beast. There has got to be a new departure in religion. I do not say a new religion. Oh, no, but the old religion brought to new appliances. In our time we have had the daguerreotype ana toe amDnotype ana me photograph, but it is the same old sun, and these art9 are only new appliances of the old sunlight- So this glorious gospel is just what we want to photograph the image of God on one soul and daguerreotype it on another scul. Not a new gospel, but tne old gospel put to new work. In our time we have hud the telegraphic Invention, and the telephonic invention, and the electric light invention, but they are all children of old electricity, an element that the philosophers have a long while known much about. So this electric gospel needs to flush its light on the eyes and ears and souls of meu and to become a telephonic medium to make the deaf hear, a telegraphic medium to dart invitation and warning to all Nations, an electric light to Illumine the eastern ana western I hemispheres. Not a new gospel, but the old gospel doing a new work. Now you say. ''That is a very beautiful theory, but is it possible to take one's religion into all the avocations and businesses of life?" Yes, and I will give you some specimens. Medical doctors who took their religion into everyday life: Dr. John Abercrombie, of Aberdeen, the greatest Soottish pbysloian of his day, his book on "Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Cord" no more wonderful than his book on "The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings," and often kneeling at the bedside of his patients to commend them to God in prayer: Dr. John Brown, of Edinburgh, immortal as in author, dying under the benediotion of the sick of Edinburgh, myself remembering him as he sat in bis study in Edinburgh, talking to me about Christ and his hope of heaveD, and a score of Christian family physicians in Washington just as good as they were. Lawyers who carried their religion into their profession: Lord Cairns, the Queen's adviser for many years, the highest legal authority in Great Britain?Lord Cairns, every summer in his vacation preaching as an evangelist among the poor of his country; John McLean, Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States and President of the American Sunday School Union, feeling more satisfaction in the latter office than in the former, and scores of Christian lawyers as eminent in the church of God as they are eminent at the bar. Merchants who took their religion into everyday life: Arthur Tappan, derided in his day because he established that system by which we come to find out tho commercial standing of business men, starting that entire system, derided for it then himself, as I , ?v ? -oe" knew him well, in moral character A1. Monday mornings inviting to a room In the top of his store house the clerks of his establishment, asking them abont their worldly interests and their SDiritual interests, then ? giving ont a hymn, leading in prayor, glvins: them ? few words of good advice, asking UD them what chnroh they attended on the Sabbath, what the text was, whether they had any especial troubles of (heir own. .Arthur Tappan. I never beard his eulogy pronounced. I pronounoe it now. And other merchants just as good, William & Dodge in the iron business, Moses H. Orinnell in the shipping business, Peter Cooper In the glue business. Scores of men just as good . as they were. 1 ^n' Farmers who take their religion into their occupation*. Why, this minute their horses and wagons stand around all the meeting houses in America. The? began this day by a prayer to God, and when thev get home at nooo, after they have put.their horses up, ' will offer a prayer to Qod at the table, seeking a blessing, and next summer there will hi, be in their fields not one dishonest ear of corn, not one dishonest apple. Worshiping Qod to-day away up among the Berkshire bills, or away down amid the lagoons of 1 Florida, or away out amid the mines of Colorado, or along the banks of the Potomao and the Raritan, where I knew them better because I went to school with them. Mechanics who took their religion into ~ their occupation: Jamee Brindley, the famous millwright; Nathaniel Bo wait ch, the famous ship chandler: Elihu Bunitt, the famous blacksmith, ana hundreds and thousands of strong arms whioh have made the hammer, and the saw, and the adz, and the drill, and the az sound in the grand march of our national Industries. Qlve your heart to Qod and then fill your life with good works. Consecrate to Him your store, your shop, your banking house, J nAim fn/ifAFTT on/1 WAIIV )tAfnA TVlflV COXJ nA mn JVUi. IOWIU1J OUV JVU1 MV4MV. *?WJ BWJ ?v TTCI one will bear it. Qod will bear it, that is bo enough. Yon hardly know of 4nv one else th< than Wellington as connected with the yio- mi tory at Waterloo, bnt he did not do the hard sai fighting. The hard fighting was done by be< the Somerset cavalry, and the Byland regt- mt ments, and Kemp's infantry, and the Scotch cit grays, and the Life guards. Who earee, if de only the day was won? he In the latter part of the last century a girl de> in England became a kitchen maid in a He farmhouse. She had many styles of work ] and muoh hard work. Time rolled on, and an she married the son of a weaver of Halifax. th< They were industrious; they saved money thi enough after awhile to build them a home. ' On the morning of the day when they were ha to enter that home the young wife arose at sel 4 o'clock, entered the front dooryard, knelt ] down, consecrated the plsoe to God, so and there made this solemn vow: "0 hn Lord, if Thou wilt bless me in hii this place, the poor shall have a shore in it." H< Time rolled on and a fortune rolled in. stc Children grew up around them, and they all bIf became affluent. One, a Member of Parlla- ne ment, in a public place deoUured that his sue- thi cess came from that prayer of his mother in thi the dooryard. AH of them were affluent, ?ju Four thousand hands in the factories. They an built dwelling houses fot laborers at cheap 1 rents, and where they were invalid and oould to! not pay they had the houses for nothing, hii One of thesesons came to this country, ad- die mired our parks, went back, bouj^ht land, gii opened a great public nark, and made it a Ki Sresent to the city of Halifax, England. Ei hey en-lowed an orphanage; they endowed two almshouses. All England has heard of the generosity and the good works of the , Crossleys. Mora): Consecrate to God your , t small means and your humble surroundines, and you will have larger means and grander jr_ surroundings. "Godliness is profitable unto th all things, having promise of the life that trs now is and ol tnat which is to come." ''Have bo faith in God by all means, but remember hv that faith without works is dead." tb< DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. __________ me sol Attorney-General Harmon's Report to Content*. t[g In his annual report, submitted to Congress, Attorney-General Harmon urged that ?'i the Anti-Trust law be amended and that a .. 1 ?. 1 A-J TT~ 41.A thi new crimes act uo ur?iou. mab ivucno iu? ? progress of the telephone, foreign oable, jn Union Pacific Boilroad, and other oases in 'u which the Government is interested. *? Concerning the Anti-Trust law, he says ?? that the restricted scope of its provisions, as }os construed by the courts, makes amendments necessary, if any effective action is expected 1,11 from the Department of Jastioe. Besides, re* he adds, the fund at,the disposal of the At- ** torney-General which can be applied to the w. Investigation, preparation ana prosecution . of cases under this Jaw is wholly inadequate. :ar Attorney-General Harmon expresses his 'UI satisfaction at the result, so far as obtained. of the new salary system wnicii displaced 061 tho ola fee system, an July 1 of the present ,01 year. A very large reduction is shown in every one of tho items whioh would naturally be affected by the fee system. The fees I for United States marshals, for Instance, yoi show a reduction for the year of about f400,- bal 000 from those of the previous year. th g0{ MIGRATING TO THE FRUIT BELT. an< Wisconsin Families Going to Georgia In ,{ ] Large Numbers. gal The sxodris of families from Wisconsin to l.ln the fruit belt of Georgia is beginning to at- , trnnh attention. It is estimated that already . 150 families have disposed of their belong* ter logs in Superior and Dulath and taken tracts of land iu the South, most of them In the . vioinily of Stbley, Go., where there is a , colony of Northern people. ' ' **' Many ol these persons go dqwn without a dollar in the world after paying the freight i on their household effects, but there are [ R, others who have a comfortable surplus left to begin work on. Immigration companies, C01 backed by the Southern railroads,, have been doing missionary work in that region for a ~~ year and say they now have their colonizo* tion matter fairly slartert. One of these rv companies has 13,000 acres of land near 7*' Sibley and is selling It at the rate of (5 per acre. It is guaranteed to raise whatever a ! iS* farm in the United States will produce and [~r independent incomes after a few years are guaranteod ns welL Agenoles established In *2?* Northeastern Minnesota and Northwestern l ff Wisconsin are meeting with unexpected sac- i cesses. RAILWAY MODEL FARMS. I 1 per Burlington Road Expects Freightage on Q?l - Larger Cropa to Kep?y It. ,wo leg The success of soli culture in the West has ' a Id determined the Burlington Ballroad Com* I pre pany to establish a number of experimental ati stations, or "model farms," in Kansas and i bat Nebraska, to lead farmers to new efforts in flat this direction. am Incidentally the company expects returns Th< from its Investments in Increased and regu- yot lar crops, necessitating heavy freight and one pnssenger traffic. Model farms have been . mei established at Oberlin, Kan., and at McCook, Hoi dredge. Alma and Broken Bow, Neb. Something was done in this line by the com- p pany last year and with immediately satis- j factory results. 184 The soil of the Western prairies is dry and { t' hard to an unknown dopth. However. where the surface has been disturbed and capillary attraction interfered with It be- | B comes moist and m?llow. The surface will be regularly cultivated to a depth of one or two inches, and capillary attraction will bring the moisture to the surface. (3 tioi SPARROW SHOOTERS KILL A MAN, "d he 1 Boys Who Were After Boantiea Slay an Illinois Citizen. ^ pec James 8helley. a prominent citizen and On< member of the Village Board of Trustees at I Bet St. Marie, III., was accidentally killed while j tice conversing with a friend on the street n^ar i the his home bv a shot from a target gun fired ray by either Will Baker or George Joseph, boys toti who were out hunting sparrows for the two- woi cent bounty. A twenty-two-caliber cartridge pie, struck Shelley in tho stomach, and death ?V followed in a few minutes afterward. Ho leaves a wife and several children. An Eavesdropping Reporter Punished. T Frank Bobbins, a reporter of the Oinein- tur nati Times-Star, was arrested at Frankfort, Ky., by order of tho Court of Appeals, just ehe after the Willing decision was handed down, J for eavesdropping. Bobbins was listening gpe through a hole in the Senate floor, which is <j just above the Judges' chamber. Bobbins not confessed his guilt, and was fined $5 and yea sentenced to thirty days' imprisonment. ^ Died of a Scratch on the Nose. soc Martin Dixson. aged lorty-slx, was slight- a ly scratched on the nose while at work at F Packer Colliery No. 2, Shenandoah, Penn., abs by a falling piece of cool. Blood poisoning pie set in, and he died. 'L_sfi' caB 1 ' V > ! m - ' ' C '-'iK" ,'* ? v *. TEMPERANCE. LIKE FATHER LIXX 805. .jfl j man looked into the cup one day? N ly one glance; then turned away, Bet the demon hid in the apsxkling j _ wine j Thought, "One mora (nance, uo jam. man is mine!" , . And he laughed and "danced in hi* ' ;^4 ruby lair .-ii Till the wine grew foamy and speck- i ling fair. other glance did the man bestow, i his eyes shone bright with a strange j wild glow. ] "Only one drop! one taste!" thought !?< I "What harm can it do to one like Ae?" Only one drop he tried at last: And the demon seized and held htm < *. s father does," thinks the little eon,' -v A ) may LM Ani the deed ia done. v.:. V- ; The demon laughs aa the daya go by. . -J;f And ehuoklee, "Another soul haveir And the boy cries out, "It ia w?U, I know, Where father leads. I may surely .. go!" years roll on and the man grows old, ih in crime, but poor in gold; The son has reeled to man's estate, . His heart on Are with sin and bate; I And the demon tightens his eruel . ohafn, While he lure6 fresh victims to abaifv^gj their pain. MICM uHta, a YAUKAJIT aun. .-;afc!flas i. man In tattered garments, who fluid h? s John D. King, fifty-six years old. and melees, asked Magistrate Wentwortn, in > Yorkville Court this morning, to t him to the workhousa as a vagrant, King d that he was a decorator, andhad onae ' :: m employed by the United States Governint. while the Postoffloe Building y was being erected, he was :orate some of the rooms. In eight d*yi>. n said, he had earned 91900. He had awe sorated the Casino Theatre and the Plqga tel among many other buildings. . Drink, he explained, had been Ms ??e,.\ d had forced his wife to separatefrom hi a ^ rteen years ago. He had not sir three ohildren for more than a * 'I don't bother them," he added. "They ve enough to do to look out lot themling said that he was friendless* anl.-waa wretched last night from expoeute apa / , nger, that he made up his xnlnato entf afr V;^| ) troubles by jumping in'.o the i walked to one of the docks, in tha wS^SjaSyM irm, and stood on the sttlngpleeeu:ht of the dark, angry water, however, 0b< ?5 rvei him, and he shrank in terror j scene. All night long he roamed sjroui . s streets in tne storm, the drivtngjjMif%St?a (ting his face and benumbing, his hands : > klagiBtrate Wentworth, in kindly nself to blame for his miafortun?g,\ &ig&, rt*es of humanity demanded that mmw ren food and shelter. He then oammflMffiS ig to the workhouse.? NewYork Mall PEOTKCT THX POBlifl. 'Now, if the manufacture and oxieating liquors injure no one nufacturer and seller, Government ve no right to prevent them from nothings; but if, on the otheK. iflo Is harmful to others; if It <ttxnti||ii|? :h the freedom and the goods of others, creating a criminal class to T^.<jjW)^g|' th, and a pauper class to be supporte&^^^H i public expenserth?a, according :J mt nnlv ho? thfl rightTyffita ] emu obligation to prohibit this trafieAv-"I ider such circumstances, 'the prfcwtf 1 ;ht of sole,' If there ever waa aooh. a IB become subordinate to the pnbHcnfelft,: j protection.' . J The cry is frequently heard, 'Where jrill 7 I 3 money come from to run the Govern- ;J1 at if we abolish the liquor trafflo?'. At- :'\U ita and other great cities have been kaov^^H quake over this question. 'What will we ' I e the license tax on baKOOn^^^AjKOb^^M a similar to this was once propounded to eland's greatest Prime Minuter. Hi* )ly was 'Give me a sober people, not jfl sting their earnings, and I will know .^1 ere the revenue is to come from,' I At the close of the year 1S87, when At- . ,1 ita had prohibition, the titr tiewirer 1 ned over to the new oouncll for 1S88 a s"a rplus of 9100,000 In cash. It was netar so ore. I am not aware thatlt has ever been since."?Eev. J. W. Boberts, Atlanta, Ga. HOW DIITOKAROS AM HAD*. . n various ways. Here Is one. "Stow, i watch those children. They'll drink f that beer before they get home, and , ilr mother will Bcold me for not giving a. >d pint, and I've given nearly a quart,,y ; d a bartender of a down towzLSaloottthfl ler day, referring to two little girls of air 1 eight, tnizuy ciaa. woo aamo ior tyiav beer. They had scarcely got ontslde the oon door when the one that carried- the pale lifted it to her lips and took a night. Then her companion dnioT8? Vv. r swallows. A little farther on they en^ ed a tenement house hallway, and fcdth tin took a sip. 'I have lots of such customers," said the tender, when the reporter returned totbe : % oon to light his cigar. "Girls and 4>ote I women form half our trade. WeCafllt lily trade. It pays our expenses, Onr-ffijfcg iflts come from the drinkers at theba^^;' II tell you what?hair the children who : ne here drink. That's how drunkards are de. Their parents send them for beer. ey see tho olc folks tipple, and begin to> te the beer themselves. Few of the chilin who come in here for beer or ale cany, ill pint home. Sometimes two or ne in together, and if you'll watch them J I'll hear one begging the one who carries pall for a sip. We must ?elt It, however en their parents send for it. We aifi^H| indtodoso. Business is basin ess. WhB n't keep a temperance shop."?Hew YoriS^I ' ^ WORDS OP TEUTH AND SOBEBKKSS. Vf 'he liquor traffic is a feeder of our jails, litentiariee, Insane asylums, and poor- a ises. It is a devoarer of manhoodand manhood, and, stripped of all its licensed M 'Mmim ia a nnhlto memv. a h>TjnMr ~ ? [oioch.devourerof body and soaL Andthe - vl sent large movement against it points to ] me when Jt shall be pat under publioropro- nfl ion, and drinking resorts will cease to k< znt their glaring lights at night and tri- \i\ phantly hang out their banners by day. ' * ise figures show unmistakably that the .'i ith of our country can and must be tat- id from the pursuing hand of this tre- V ndous evil.?Minneapolis Journal <' tLVnd AND INSANITY. ' J ormlng our conclusion upon SSI oases Jk vhieh the facts were ascertained, we find Jfl , or about 52 in every 100, in which the jmperance at grandparents was oonsldi to have led to the insanity of the parChief Wadlin, of the Massachusetts :eau Statistics of Labor. - '< A 8T0KY oy K TEJfPEBANCE DOCTOB. '[' 'jl ine of the best known stories in conneo ; 1 with the late Sir Benjamin Ward Bich- ^ son's advocacy of temperanoe tells how bad been on a visit to one of the three or r small towns in England which have no ilic house. Although there were 4000 j iple there, the doctor was nearly starving. , i day a young medieal man came to Sir ijamin for advice as to taking the prac- m~> >, and Sir Benjamin, placing his bands on /young doctor's shoulders, said: Take ? advice, and don't. Those wretched tee^ilers not only shirk accidents, but, whe^ unded,healso fast that there is neither asure nor profit after the first dressing," Westminster Gazette. TEMPERANCE NEW8 AND NOTES. he licensed liquor seller is a legalizeddisber of the public peace. Mother drunk, children begging," is the erful heading in a city paper. ;jH t is not decent to starve your family by nding your money in liquor. 1 he corporation of the city of Glasgow hasi 1 granted a new liquor license for eight rs. ' ? _ he young man should shun a drinking ial party with as much terror as h^ would ?w liquor den. _ , ^ : . * , or every three shillings invested Jn the ? ? olute necessaries of life, the Englwl.peo- N spend more than two shillirgs in Intoxl ts. .- -" j