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tj" The Henpfit of Large Crops. The larger t lie crop per acre ttio lower the cost and the greater the profit. It has been shown that, including labor, interest on capital, wear of implements, etc.. a crop of fifteen bushels of wheat per acre costs about forty-eight cents per bushel. With the same labor a crop of thirty bushels will cost twenty-seven cents per bushel. There may be no profit at all on fifteen bushels, while thirty bushels per acre may give a fair profit, much, however, depending 011 m market prices, the farm, and distance from market. -r , The Long by L,earhJLqff- . } , When there Is an abundance of plant food in the soil in an available condiiton the greater is the loss by leaching. There is also some loss of ammonia, which escapes Into the atmosphere. but the rains bring back to the soil nitric acid from the atmosphere, in variable quantities, it beins estimated that five pounds of nitrogen per acre comes to the soil in that man ner. The loss of ammonia rrom one farm may be a pain to another, and any loss of plant food from the mftuure or soil is so much gg&e that cannot be secured again without oost. , ? Forclnp H?nneij| * Beans may beljfcsw foNflfr in houses ?. whore cucumbers are growing, usiug rich," roohrt soil??od' strong bottom heat. They are usually grown in pots, three or four plants in a six-inch pot. They make a very rapid growth and the green pods are tit to use in from eight to ten weeks from the time the seed is sown. While growing, the plants should be sprayed with water fronuontlv. as tliev are very subject to the tittneks of red spider. Tbe bean Is self-fertile and needs not he pollinated l)v hand. ft, Making a Rock Gnrdpn. For those who have a proper location. there are few more interesting features of outdoor gardening than the rock garden when the moss pinks, columbines and various spring flowering bulbs are in bloom. Mostly hardy irt. plants are easily raised from seed, and j ' a healthy seedling plant, though it has | not bloomed, is preferable in the long j run to any other. There is uo serious cheek in transplanting, neither has it . been weakened by flowering. The best time to sow seed would !m> as soon as gathered, but we usually have too 'much hot weather at that time, and it la best to wait until a cooler time in the..fall. Where there is a greenhouse, tbey can be sown in winter, but it is much better to get them large enough ? , to winter in cold frames, where they do not start much earlier than outdoors, and they can then be placed in their permanent position as soon as the ground permits. If grown in the greenhouse, they need as careful hardening off as ir not hardy, for they are made tender as any plants by their treatment indoors. Some s.^'ds. :uicli as Aquilegia. Stuarti. Aghmdulosa. anthericums, hellebores, Itosa rugosa, and many others, germinate much hotter if subjected to frost while in the earth, and herein is one of Hie main advantages of sowing o:ulj in fall.? 12. O. Orpet, in Orange J add Farmer. Top-Working Apple Tiwo. In top-working apple trees the method pursued is either to bud or graft them. The illustration shows a tree, two years set. which has been i., grafted in the centre. Two small TWO-YEAR-OLD TREE IX CENTRE shoots may be seen com in; up which arc ilie result of..one sen sin's growth. This will Jortu tW hwid ?l the future tree. If started low cnoieh the rest of the branches Svill be Mit off ana I these shoots allowed to bnnch out at the proper U&TBk but if tie tree has been grafteflKp or five f*et high one ? "or two oQMNUferger braiches which show at th^Rt\v^ll lie g\ifted. Two 1 years are required to work it' over tree's of To Pr?*5rve Ksg>. Cold storage plants iu the country are not plentiful. BarrH salt anil cracker or soap boxes art'both plenty and comparatively hiexpeisive. Place a deep layer of salt iu tie bottom of the box after hav.ing ti*t placed a i . .sheet of dark brdwn pi*?er there to exciuue air, inen rue liver or eggs and then another layer ;leep of salt, and eggs and ,salt alirnaioly until the box is filled. (Vtvcrpver rhe last., layer of salt, another irown pape;., . tuck on the cover, or, heifer will, fast* cn Hie cover boards on wiiu screws to save jarring and pusJhlf cracking of eggs. Every threo orfour days in* .vert the box or pnrrhill* invert it. a shift the position of rh- yolks that they may not settle Hiidjidhere 10 the shells. It. is nor neee^ry :<> turn a box ovor. or even half (Ver. Lift 01.15. cud or side ami place a brick or i:t" , or piece of wood undeneath the end, just to change the positon of its contents a trifle. And do'this inverting or moving carefully. Ovulation of the egg by jarring and muci moving tends to break down the iuteior fibrous network of the inner lining of the shell, and this iu turn dispose the egg to a tendency to decay. After some years of experimenting ntul experiences, I leaned that eggs that I larded over sightly kept in much fresher conc'.itionthan eggs that were not thus attended to. "When I have gathered the eggs for the day and am ready to put them down. I make the palms of my hands greasy with fresh, sweet lard?just such as I use for rookery. Each egg in tui*i is well i oiled over in this way. and placed small end dowu in the salt. I)o not leave superfluous lard on (lie eggs. AH j that is needed is to oil them over, and j thii* close the pores of the shell. This I excludes the air and makes them j practically as sealed. Kggs not larded i show a tendency to watery whites in a few weeks' time, while eggs larded over do not. Even dry salt enters the pores of the shells a trifle when the shells are not oiled.?Nellie Hawks, in Practical Poultrymau. ^ Planting Fruit Troes In Kali. In the first place I would not plant in the fall but would secure my trees ' lit the fall from some home nursery j *fter the leaves have fallen, then go , over them and prune all bruised roots, j and then set them in a trench of good j light warm soil, shading them promptly from the rays of the winter sun to prevent the thawing and freezing process. and by planting time in the t spring the roots that you have trimmed will be calloused and often fiber ! roots started. Remembering that the filter roots are the first to feed the1 tree and that the larger roots are of little benefit except to brace the tree, | you are in a position so that you need ! not rush your trees into the ground. Take them up a's ;<m are ready to plant them an'd carefully thin the tops, j You should so trim the tops that you | nooil nnrw Iinvp tn flit n hirce limb , thereafter. Do not leave too much ' top for the roots. If you do you v^ill ' lose many trees. My observation is i that apple and peach drehards succeed | the best ou a clay subsoil in central , Indiana. You should have been preparing your ground for two or three j years by well manuring: and clover | with thorough breaking and cultivat-.j ing, but if you have not, commence 1m- j mediately by breaking deep this fall j and cover with good stable manure, i Theu rebreak in the spring ar\d give thorough cultivation to mix the _ manure. Be sure that you break deep enough so that you will not have to dig into the hard soil to get your tree . in the proper depth. Your trees that have bee t dug and heeled in the fall will not start their buds so soon as those in the nursery, and you need uot plant so soon. This gives you ample time .to prepare your soil. You can dwarf your fruit trees for the -want of focd as easily as you can your corn and potatoes, or your pigs and calves. Open the hole far the tree' large enough so that you can spread Kr* i?aa+o m?o11 Tf tlift uranthor ia Hrv I should puddle the roots as I set them. freezing the dirt firm about the roots. I set 150 apple trees under this treatment and only lost three. * i My after treatment would be to culti vate In root or vine crop for three or four years, then sow in clover and leave it on the ground for manure,. and when the trees have commenced to hear keep your hogs in the orchard. Do not forget that your trees may get hungry, so keep feeding th^m. If your orchard is so situated that you can fatten your hogs in it, tfiey will manure it and destroy many insects. If you plaut in the fall the same ^reatment should be given.?I. N. C., in The Indiana Farmer. \ ' ij How Long to Keep Hen*. The question as to how long hens should be kept is an interesting one, because on its answer very often depends the question of profit or loss on j a poultry farm. If you keep a hen ' too long it not only fails to support itself, but very quickly begins to eat into the profits that it has made in the 1 past. On the other hand some hens do not reach the prime of their life and tiie height of their egg-producing 1 capacity until quite late in life. How j is one to tell when to dispose of the heus that have performed good service? Most people. I think, err in keeping them too long. When you get a hen that has laid well you hate to kill it. j It has become a sort of household pet, : and you feel that it should have some j reward for its past work, and not be j sent off to market just as soon as it j begins to show the effect of old age. j All of this shows the weakness of our human nature, and sometimes exposes | us to considerable loss. If the hen j weTe a reasoning creature we might I well consider the effect of this on her ] temper, and sometimes find it to our advantage to hold out the promise of a long life to all hens that laid well in youth. In my experience I have found that ' the period of profitable egg laying is very brief in all hens. There are some, individuals that are endowed with remarkable vitality, ant: they can keep on laying eggs after most of their breed fail. The heavy Dreeds of chickens reach this unprofitable period much earlier than the lighter and more active varieties. The Mediterranean and English breeds, as a rule, will be found to hold their qualiites much longer than the heavier breeds. I should put the latter dowu at two years to reach and pass the height of their profitable laying, while the lighter ones will, as a rule, be found to produce eggs profitably tip to ami including the third year. This refers to breeds as a whole and not to individuals. I have had exceptions to the rules in both classes. Now and then one will find such a hen. and it will pay to keep her if necessary a .year longer than the- limit. One must use some judgment in the matter, and not live r.n to the letter in nnv rule. Hons do not show a profit in laying when young sliovld ho disposed of at. once. They never wiil pick np, and it is better to make room for otherS. It is o'qjy by selecting the profit-making li^Trs, and disposing of tlu'in ^Fh'&inV* v?'hen they begin to fail in heart c'^at we can hope to make any money in eggs to-day. Then with the. right kind -of birds always on hand, and no deadheads to cut down the profits, we stand a fair chance to make a living, and mayhap a little more.?Annie C. Webster, in American Cultivator. Cost of Finger*. Fingers are valued at a high price in Australia. A Melbourne boy of eight, who had his fingers crushed in a gate at a level crossing, was awarded ?.r,000 damages the otliey: day to compensate for the loss of their use. > DR. TALMAGPS SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE SYTHE NOTED DIVINE. Subject : A Procions Unrilen-Sfion of tiie Hons? of David in Jelionhclm'* Arm<uA Lesson From t.Iie Slaughter of tl?o Princes?Lead Children to ChrUt. [Copynclit lmiii. I Washington. D. C.?In this discourse on a neglected incident of the Bil !e Dr. Talmage draws some comforting lessons, and s? ws that ail around us are royal natures (hat we may holtf deliver. The text is II. Kings xi, 2. 3: "Jehosheha, the daughter of King .Toram, sister of a)??ziah, took Joash. the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among th* king's sons which were slain, and they hid him, even him i-*t hU nurse, m ihe bedchamber from Afclif'iah. f'',at ho was not slain. And he was with her hid in the house of the Lord six rears." Grandmothers are more lenient with their children's children than thev were with their own. At forty years o: age if discipline be necessaiy chastisement is used, but at seventy the grandmother, looking upon the misbehavior of the grandchild is apologetic and deposed to substitute confectionery for whip. There is nothing more beautiful than childhood. Grandmother takes out her pockethandkerchief and wipes her spectacles an 1 puts them on and looks down into the face of her mischievous and. rebellious descendant and says: "I don't think he meant to do it. Lei him eff this time. I'll be responsible for his behavior in the future." My mother, with the second generation around her, - boisterous crew, said one dav: "I stippose they ought to be disciplined, but I can't do it. Grandmotflers are not fit to Dring up granacniiaren. uui nere m my text we have a grandmother of a different type. I have been at Jerusalem, where the occurrence rf the text took place, and'the whole scene came vividlv before me while I wa3 going over the site of the ancient temple and climbing the towers of the king's palace. Here in the text it is> .->ld Athaliah, th-i royal murderess. She ought ta have been honorable. Her father was a king. Her husband was a kinz. Her son was a king. And yet we find her plotting for the extermination of the entire royal family, including her own grandchildren. The executioners' knives are sharpened. The palace u red with the blood of princes and princesses. On all sides are shjieks and hands thrown up and struggle and death groan. No mercy! Kill! kill! But while the ivory floors of the palace run with carnage and the whole land is under the shadow of a great horror a fleet footed woman, a clergyman's wife, Jcho sheba by name, stealthily approaches the imperial nursery, seizes upon the grandchild that had somehow as yet escaped massacre, wraps it up tender^ but in haste, snuggles it against her, flies down the palace stairs, her heart in her throat le?t she be discovered in this compassionate abduction. Get her cut of the way as quick as you can, for she carries a precious burden, even a young king. With this youthful prize she presses into the room of the ancient temple, the church of olden time, unwraps the voung king and puts him down, sound asleep as he is and unconscious of the peril thab has been threatened, and there for six years he is secreted ini that churoh apartment. Meanwhile old Athaliah smacks her lips with satisfaction and thinks that all the royal family are dead. But the six years expire, ana it is time for young Joash to come forth and take the throne and to push back into disgrace and death old Athalian/ The arrangements are all made for political revolution. Thfe military come and take possession of the temple, swear loyalty to the boy Joash and stand around" for liia defense. See the nharpened swords and the burnished shields! Everything is ready. Now Joash, half affrighted at the armed, tramp of his defenders, scaled at the vociferation of his admirers, is brought forth in full regalia. The scroll of authority is put in his hands, the coronet ot government is put on his brow, and the people clapped and waved and huzzaed and trumpeted. "What is that?", said Atha-'. liab. "What u that souod/over in the temple?" And\sh& flies to "see, and on her way they rreet her' and say: "Why, haren't you heard? You, thought you had slain r.ll the royal family, but Joash has. come to light." Then the royal murv deregs, frantic with rage, grabbed net man tie and tore it to tatters and cried until dhe foamed at the mouth: "You have 110 right to crown my grandson. You have no right to take the government from my ' shduluers. Treason, treason^" While she stood there crying the military started for her arrest, and she took a short cut through a back door of the temple and ran thfough the royal stables, but the battleaxes of the military fell on her in the barnyard, and for many a day when the horses were being unloosened from the chariot after drawing out-young Joash the fiery steeds -would snort ana rear nassing the place aa they smell the place of the carnage. The first thought I hand you from this subject is that tne extermination of rig>teousnoes is an impossibility. A'hen a woman is good she is a*)t to dc very good, and when she is bad she is apt to be vfcry bad, and this Athaliah was one of the latter sort. She would exterminate the last scion of the house of David, through whom <J?s?s was to come. There was plenty onwork for embalmers and undertakers. She would clear the land of all God fearing and God loving people. She would put an eni to everything that could in anywise interfere with her imperial criminality. She folds her hands and says:' "The work is done. It is completely done." Is it? In the swaddling clothes of that church ; partment are wrapped the cause of God and the cause of good government. That is the scion of the house of David. It is Joash, the God-worshiping reformer. It is Joash, the friend ot God. It is Joash, the demoralizer of Baalitish idolatry. Kock him tenderly, nurse him gently. Athaliah, you may kill all Uie other children, but you cannot kill lum. Eternal defenses are thrown all around him, and this clergyman's wife, .Jehosheba, will snatch him up from the palace nursery and will run down with him iritb the house of the Lord, and there- she will hide him for six years, and at (he end of that time he will come forth for your dethronement and obliteration. Well, my friends, just as poor a botch does the world always make of extinguishing righteousness. Superstition rises up and says, "I will just put an end to pure religion." Domitian slew 40,000 Christians, Diocletian slew 844,000* Christians. And the scythe of persecution has been swung through all the ages, and the flames hissed and the guillotine choppcd, and the Bastile groaned, but did the foes of Christianity exterminate it? Did they exterminate Alban, the first Britsh sacrifice, oc.Zwingli, the Swiss reformer, or Johrt Oidcastle, the Christian nobleman, or Abdallah; the Arabian martyr, or Anne Askew or Sanders or Cranmer? Great work of extermination they made ot it. Just at the time when they thought they Dad slain all the royal tamuy ot .jesus some Joasli would spring up and o*.it and take the throne of power and wield a very scepter of Christian dominion. Intidolity sap, "I witt 'fcxterminate -fhe Bible," and the ScriptuTcg/'were ^thrown into the slrec for the mob' tp t-r'Cmple on. and they were piled up in .the public sijuare^ and set on fire, and mountains ol indignant contempt were hurled on them, and learned universities decreed the Bible out of existence. Thomas I'uine said: "in my 'Age of Reason' I have annihilated the* Scriptures. Your Washington is n pusillanimous Christian, but J am flu; iuc of Bibles and of churches." Oil. how many assault* upon that void! All the hostilities that have ever been create ! 0:1 earth are not to be compared with the hostilities against that one book. Said ont? 1n.u1 in his infidel desperation to his wile, "You must not be reading thai Bible." and he snatched it awav from her. And though in that Bible was a lock of hair of the dead child?the only child that Uud had ever given them?he pitched the book with its eontem.s into the lire and stirred it with the tong-i and spat 011 it and cursed it and said, "Susan, never have any more of that damnable stuff here." How many individual and organized attempts have been made to exterminate that Bible? Have its enemies done it? Have they exterminated Hie American the British ana Foreign Bible Society? Have they extermin; f.ea the thousands ot v.-.. , v. t!. ' . :i J". Christian institutions whose only object it is to multiply copies of the Scriptures .and spread them broadcast around the world? They have exterminated until instead of one or two copies of the Bible in our bouses we have eight or ten, and we pile them up in ine corners of our Sabbath school rooms and send great boxes of tliein everywhere. If they (ret on as well as thev arj now going on in the work of extermination, I do not know but that our child) n may live to sec the millennium. lea, if there should come a time of persecution in which all the knowti Tlih!es of the earth should be destroyed, all these lamps of life that blaze in our pulpits and in our families extinguished, in the verv day that infidelitv ar.d sin should be holding jubilee over the universal extinction there would be in some clo et of a backwoods church a secreted copy of the Bible, and this Joaah of eternal literature would co:r out and come up and take the throne, and the Athaliah of infidelity and persecut-'on would fly out the back door of the palace and drop her miserable carcass under the hoofs of the horses of the kind's stables. You cannot exterminate Christianity! You cannot kill .Toasb! The second thought I hand you from my subject is that there are opportunities in which you may save roya! life. You know that prof-.ne history is replete with stories of strangled monarchs and of young princes v..o have been put out of the way. Here is the story of a young Icing saved. How Jehosheba. the clergyman's wife, must have trembled as she rushed into the imperial nursery and snatched up Joash! How she hushed him lest by his cry he hinder thfe escape! Fly with nirit, Jehosneba! You hold in your arms the cans-; of God -.nd good governnu it. Fall and lie is slain. Snccecd, an?l you turn the tide of the world's history in the right direction. It seems as if between that young kins; and his assassins there is nothing bu. the frail a-i i of a woman. But why should we spend our time in praising this bravery of expedition when God gsks the same thing of you and me? All around us the imperiled children of ti great king. They are born of Almighty parentage, and will come to a throne or a ^rown if permitted. But sin, the old Athaliah, goes forth to the massacre. Murderous temptations are out for the assassination. Valens, the Emperor, was told that there was somebody in his realm who would rsurp bis throne, and that the name of the man who should be the usurper would begin with the letters T, H, E, 0, D, and the edict went forth frtfm the Em? | peror's throne, "Kill everybody . whose name begins with T, H, E, 0, D."- And hundreds of thousands were slain^hoping by that massacre to put an end to" that one usurper. But ein is more terrific in its denunciation. It matters nqt how you J spell your name, you come undqr' its knife, under its sword, under its doom, unless there be some omnipotent relief brought to the rescue. But, blessed be God/there is such a thing as delivering s-;iM|^oul. : Who will snatch away Joash?' j Can you imagine any sublliner^Bk than this soul saving?/ That: was wbat flushed Paul's cheek witfr enthusiasm, that was what led Munson to risL his life amid < Bornesian cannibals, that was what sent Dr. Abeel to preach tinder the consuming skies of China, that was what gave oour-.; age to Phocas in the third century. When.' the militaiy. officers came to put him t<f death for Christ's sake, he put them 'to/ bed that they might rest, while"'lie him' i self went out and in his o^n garden 'due his grave, and then came' back and said. ''I am ready," But they weresnocKea at j the idea of taking the life of their host. 1 He said. "It is the will df God that I should die," and bp stood on the margin of j ;p owngraye','.And they bfeheaded him. I You'say it is a. mania, a foolhardiness, a fanaticism. Rather would-1 call it a glo- | rious self abnegation, the thrill of eternal satisfaction, the 'plucking of Joash from j deitf.h and. raising him^to coronation. The third thought Ihand to you is that , the church of. Uod is a good hiding place j When J^hosheba rushes into the nursery j of the .king and picks up Joash, what shall j she do with'hlm? Shall she take him to some room in. the palace? No, for the ofli- j 'bial desperadoes will hunt through every j nook and corner of that building. Shall she take him. to the residence of some i wealthy citizen? No. That citizen would | not dare ti harbor the fugitive. But she 1 has to take him somewhere. She hears the cry of tho mob in the streets, she hears the shriek of the dying nobility, sff she rushes with Joash unto the room of the temple, into the house of God, and there she puts him down. She knows that | Ath'aliah and her wicked assaasins will not bother the temple a great deal. They are i not apt to tro very much'to church, and so she sets down Joash in the temple. There he will be hearing the sonfra of the wor-1 oliJrmna nf trpfl.!*. Thf>rG he Will breathe the odor,of the golden^ censers.! In that sncred spot he will tarn', se- 1 creted until the six years have passed and he/come to enthronement. How few of us appreciate the fact that ( the cuhrch of God is a hiding place. There are many people who put the church at so . low a mark that they begrudge it every- i thing, even the few dollars they give to- ; warn it. They make no sacrifices. ..They l dole a little out of their surplusage. They pay their butcher's bill, and they pay their , doctor's bill, and they pay their landlord,1 and they nay Everybody but the Lord, and | they come in at the host to pay the Lord | in His church and frown as they say;.! "There, Lord, it is. Send me a receipt in . full, and don't bother me soon again! ' | Oh, that God would remodel our souls, on this subject and that we might appre-1 ciatc the house of God as the great refuge! If your children are to come up to lives of virtue and htfppirrss, they will J come up under the shadow of the church, i If the church does not get them; the I world will. Ah, when you . ass away?aud it will not j be long before you do?when you pass away, it will be a satisfaction to see your children in Christian society. You want to have them sitting at the noly sacraments. You war.4; them mingling in Christian associations. You would like to have them die in the sacred precincts. When you are on your dying bed and your little ones cor ; up to take your last word, and you look into their bewildered you will want to leave then> under the church's benediction. 1 do not care how hard you are, that is so. , And go, ^r.:>ugh you may have beeii wanderers from God, and though you may have some times caricatured the churcll of Jesus, it is your great desire that your sons and daughters should be standing all their lives witlrin this sacred inclosure. More than that. You yourself will want the church for a hiding plaio when the mortgage is foreclosed, wnen your daughter, ;,ust'blooming into womanhood, suddenly clasps her hands in a slumber that knows no waking; when the gaunt t.cuble walks through the parlor and I he sitting room and the dining hall and the nursery, you will want some shelter from the tempest. Ah, some of you have been run upon by misfortune and trial. Why do you not come into the shelter? I said to a widowed mother after ahc had buried her only son?months after? i sa:d to her. "How do ipu get along nowadays':'' "Oh," she replied. "I get alonp: tolerably wHl except when thet>unshines." I said, "What do you mean by that?" when she said: "1 can't bear to see the sun shine. My heart is so dark that all the brightness of the natural world seems a meckery to rnt-." 0 darkened soil! 0 broken hearted man, broken hearted woman! Why do you not come into the shelter? 1 swing it from ?vall to wall. Come in! Come in! You w r* place where your troubles shall b? in-?rprcted, where your burdens shall be unstrapped, where your tears shall ?e wijiim mviij. Church ft' (?od. be .1 hiding p'.uce to all these people! Hive therr a scat where they t m rest the.r veary souls. Flash some light from your chandeliers u|)on their darkness. A'ith some soothing hymn luuh these griefs. Oh. church of (.Jod, gate of heaven, let me go through it; All otlu-r institutions are ?>injr tj fall but the church of Uod? its foundation is the Uock of Ages, its charter is for everlasting years, its keys are held by the universal Proprietor, its dividend is heaven, its nresident is (Jod! ' Sure rs Thy truth shall last, To Zion shall be given Tlio highest glories earth n yield And brightest bliss of heaven." tied grant that ail this audience, the youngest, the eldest, the worst, the best, may lin . their s\fe and glorious hiding place wfcere Joash found it?in the temple. .. , V . v i iTHE SABBATH SCHOOL.' i i INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS ! FOR NOVEMBER I I. i I I Subject: The Klcli Mnn find Latarn, Luke xvl., 10-yi?Golden Text: Mutt, vt., 20? Memory Verne*, 19-22?Corn- j meiitary on tlio Day'* Reason. 19. "A certain rich man." Jesus does not give his name. He has often been called Dives, the Latin for "rich." ; ' Clothed in purple and tine linen." His ' outer dress was costly purple from Tyre, | his under garments were ftnc linen from Egypt. The Egyptian linen, or byasus, is ; said to have sola for twice its weight in gold. ''Fared sumptuously." He lived in I a luxurious and costly manner and feasted j every day. What then are the sins J ' charged against this' man, that were so 1 soon to send him to a place of torment? He was not immoral, -dishonest- or drunken, but he was proud, extravagant and , worldly. He lived to please himself. i 20. "A cerain beggar." Literally, a . poor man. "qkmed Lazarus." "A form I of Eleazar, which means", 'God is my help.'" His name is mentioned because-; hia character was ^ood and his end glorious, and it iit the purpose of; God that j j the righteous shall be held in everlasting : remembrance. If this be a parable, it is . the only instance in which Jesus, in giving a parable, has given a proper name. ! i "Laid at his gate." There was then no public provision for the poor, and when i disabled they were often laid at the gates j sf the rich, that they might receive aid. j J 'Full of sores." Covered with sores, as ; ! persons of his class are likely to be, from ! j aeglect and bad living. I 21. "Desiring to be fed." It is probable i 1 that his desires were complied with. | | "With the crumbs." With the broken I ' pieces which were left and were thrown j , under the table for the doga. "The dogs ! came." The wild eyed, ownerless dogs j that roam in the streets of an Eastern j 1 :ity and act as scavengers. In contrast I with th6 inhumanity of men toward the ! beggar is set the pity of the dogs; they j licked his sores as they lick their own. We have before us the characters and ! lives of two men occupying very differ- i ant positions in this world. One was a I leader in society, very wealthy and highly respected, the other was a /despised and j I loathsome begg&'r. But God does not look | upon men as we do. He s^es the heart, j and is/ never deceived by a pompous ex- | terior.' In the next world these men 1 ihange placea^-t'he beggar is the rich man, 'j ind the rich .roan/is the beggar. j 22. "The beggar died." His burial wa3 i so inferior that no mention is made of it. j He filled a pauper's: box and was carted to ! i pauper's grave. There were no flowers ! anrl inn ' mnnntpro ' "DftrrifH hv antrels." i There was a rustling of snowy wings as ingels came to kif? the redeemed spirit liome to God. "Abraham's bosom." That is, the happy side of Hades, where the, saints were regardfed as gating in bliss. Abraham's bosom was a phrase used imong the Jews to signify the paradise of God. It is an allusion to the custom of persons reclining on their left elbows at feasts; the person whose head came near the breast of the other was said to lie in ! his bosom. "The rich man also died.'' Death comes to the rich as well as the poor. "And was buried." There was the long procession of the funeral solemnities throudi the streets of Jerusalem, the :rowd of hired mourners, the spices and jintment wrapping his body and the costly sepulchre' on which the virtues of the departed were recorded This, however, profits him nothing, for death has been tor him art awakening from his flattering dream of eas^.and self-enjoyment to" the tfern and terrible realities 01 eternity, tv 23. "And in hell." "In Hades." (ft V.) The Scriptures contain four words ;hat are rendered "hell" in the Authorized ' m? _ _ ? tt-J? version, xney are nusi,^, aucui, uvucuua ind Tartaros. Sheol is a Hebrew word, md is equivalent to the Greek word Hades. Gehenna, as used by Christ, desfpates a state or place of retribulion. artaros is a dark pinson where the-fallen ingels await their doom. . Hades' is Tised n the New Testapent as. the abode, of all :he departed. The good areyn^thgpbraldise of Hades, or'^AbrahanW'Txjspm; the oad are in the Tar$aroai'<& 'Hades, or a place of darkness vja torment'.' In this lense Josephus understands the meaning i 'if Hades. "Seeth Abraham, etc." This was the first circumstance in his -punish- i Jient. , - ' .1 24. "Father Abraham." This is' the I >i?ly instance recorded where prayer is J jffered to a saint, and this was from Jiell. md was not granted. His calling Abra- i aam father and Abraham's recognition of aim as son show that he was a Jew. "The ;ip of his finger." That he mav bring me jven the smallest possible relief. 1 25. "Son, remember." Oh, memory! ' Thou will never die! This is a solemn and :alm reply; ho mockery of his state, and . ab grief concerning htm either. "Thy jOod things." Here was the charge , igainst him. \ He had enjoyed the pleas- 1 ires?the wealth and the honors of the ' u tUimrrs 99 r.o7aHtfl has hnH IVOI'IU. XJVII wuugo. uu ??v M.. poverty, contempt and distress. 1 26. "A great gulf fixed." It will be J jtterly impossible for a soul who leaves .his world without having repented; to J ;ver gain admittance into the paradise of 1 , 3od. God h"as "fixed'' an imoassable gulf. ,</ ! 27. "I pray thee, etc." How earnestly J1 iocs th^s lost soul desire to have thid re- I }uest granted; His influence had no doubt :! ted his brethren to live in the same i:arie- / less way that he had lived. 28. "Lest they also come." He shows 1 more interest in thern. now than he did. 1 when he was with them op earth. He might justly fe.lr lest their reproaches 1 should add to his own misery. ? 1 29. "Moses-and the i prophets." The 1 books written by Moses ancf the prophets. ' "Let them hear them."'.'Let them heark- ' en to the warnings and instructions given them imthe Scriptures. . J 30. "From the dead." Moses and the 1 prophets had failed to lead him to salva- ! tion, and he feared his brethren would be J lo3>t. "They will repent." He thus a^l knowledces that he had failed to repent, and that his torment was just. He alsofl sees that the only way to be saved is b^| repenting. 31. "Neither will they be persnaded^H The Scriptrrres contain all 'that is nec*^M sary to lead men to God. If.tho.se wjflf have the Bible, and gospel preaching, not repent, there is no influence could b? brought to bear upon them would be availing. .Even a from the dead could add nothing written Word, and such a message be much more uncertain; those ject the Bible would certainly rej^^B^^B a testimony. Teachings?Men should bewar^HMVC^Ej ing themselves in their richc^^^^^^^f Uve, or His displeasure, cannot by outward circumstances; may "flourish like the. green while His own people may. 'or^BMW sons, be "destitute, afflicted, CITY TIME, DETROIT, There 1> Now Only One Time Standard. Detroit city time, which h;^BB^NHH been an annoyance to nearly bus:nn33 mtereats in the city, continued. A few days a^o t^^HHR^BB Detroit shoe employes started^H^B^^H standard time. Many factori^HH^B^B start on that time, r.nd encc in the working hours, change is a refreshing f'ira'tBHm time entanglement which an old-fiishioned of any consequence than one standard of time. COAL IN ARCTIC l9RH^^H Measure* Taken to Open Reports published cate the there parcntly impen^HHD^^B^^^H|BH| been forni^^BM^H|^ER^D^^BB sflflUHnl to be above sea^^^H^^HO^IB^BH^H <.eman^^^HHj^^9H^^HHMH be supplied 30urce.^^^^H^9^H^SHBHH : - ' . , ' * " V "* .; " ME GREAT DESTROYER, j SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. j i Tttw Gun and the Man?When Mrs. Jlayes Wan Mlitren? of the White House Wine Wan Banished?Force of Iter Example?A Hint to Girls. They talk of'the man behind the gun, And the deadly work that he has done; . But much more deadly work, by far, Is done by the fellow behind the bar. They talk of the man behind the gunYet only in battle his work is done; But never ceases, in peace or war. The work of the man behind the bar. Temperance Work For Girls. J. G. Holland wrote in Mrs. Hayes's album these words, "Women only can make wine-drinking unfashionable, and heal the nation of this curse." What did Dr. Honand mean by "women only?" Is it true that only women can make wine-drinking unfashionable and heal the nation of this curse? You and I need to know this first; because if only we ! women can do this thing, why it is an aw- i ful responsibility upon us, each one of us. And it somte one else can do it, we like all others would like to give that somebody else the job. Mrs. Hayes became mistress of the White House, and it was for her to say what the social atmosphere should be which surrounded her guests, and how. they should be entertained at her i - Air.ii ? J:a L i i House. wen. ant: ?iiu an vuuuearu ui thing. She banished wine from all her entertainments, with just one exception. Secretary Evarts made a fuss. He was mortified, tie could not endure to have Lord and Lady English, Count and Coun tess French, Baron and Baroness German come to the White House dinners and have nothing fit for them to drink?not a drop of poison. It was too utterly (Jueer! I So. Mra. Haves made one exception in fa- j vor of those great foreign highnesses, and only for once. Her conscience?highaouled woman that she was?smote her for that one little cowardly compromise with wrong. She could better endure to have Secretary Evarta and the Smiths ashamed of her than to be ashamed of herself. So she quietly and forever after prohibited wine from her table, and cheerfully endured the lifted eyebrows and shrugged shoulders of the diplomats, British, French, Russian, all, and the little short-lived hiss of "fashionable" society until that hiso turned to a cheer, and fashionable society turned round, like the spanfel it is, and trotted on behind its mistress. It became unfashionable to serve wine and to < offer wine in fashionable society while Mrs. Hayes was in the White House. What Mrs. Hayes did in the White House every woman can do in her own home if she will. If the girls who read these words will each of them, altogether, use their influence on the side of temperance they can make temperance fashionoMn ilrViora fliav oro Will VAtl /Jn if ^ UUi', )T UV4b bUVJ U1 bi >1 ill /VU uw *V General Grant did a manly thing in refusing to drink wine everywhere and in all ! society. It is" only a strong man who can keep nis wine glass upside down?in this case right side up, too?while all the grand people around him are sipping champagne and toasting each other insparklingdrinks. ' No one can tell how ''far this little candle j sfyeds its light:" But no man can do for a fashion in society what a woman' can.. It j is women only, as Dr. Holland said. I wish some strong, bright angel stood before you just t now while you read, girls, j to flash before you, as no, words of mine , can, the power you possess to help or to i hinder the cause of temperance; t? make you feel your responsibility, because you ! arc girls, in this matter; to shudder at its weignt, and to never cease trying to fulfil it! Doubtless you have heard a great deal about the value of your smiles, but do you know the value of your frowns? I wish I could make you feel the value of your frowns-and the importance of knowing just what to frown Upon. What a man must do by a blow, a woman ?jn do by a frown. When the time comes .that the young man who now shares his traje.^ in your soc.ety arid the saloon, who jokes'*!'' about temperance in your presence and j takes a glass socially now and then, is j made to feel that these things cannot be i if you are to be his companion at party, j ride or church; that good society cannot , tolerate' these things in ibp members; in j short, that this kind of a man is unfash- | ionable and unpopular, then alcohol will i tremble on its throne, and the liquor ) traffic will hide its cancerous fa?e.?Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, in Presbyterian Banner. Drink Makes Lunatics. Thi?re are now 21,393 lunatics and imbe- (l rfe^in London, or chargeable to the Lon- j' ion Unions. j The se*es are in the proportion of four | women to three men, tn? actual numbers f, Deing 12,082 females, 9311 males. JA Drink, as usual, was the prime cause aflB usanity. The medical experts are untfg^M )n this point. "There has been a high percenta^^mHB lanity frpm alcohol," says Dr. more than double the"numb^^^^HRSfl ? . Illll III! II IIIII I III I II Tom uania a potu. iscertained to be higher.^^M9^^^HgHB^^HH >licated with possib?flH|HK?g^^^HPKm the pojAfiHRHM|^H^HM ng excc^HHH^BBSH^^^^n t h d rMl^raHMMQflmB 1 ' W ;o ; e jH 'pflRHDHMffiin luHgnnmnHflUHH J^k GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. FRECNANT THOUCHT3 FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. The 11 .(tie Fluz ? Do A? You Would B? : Do ie Bv ? Smoothing tlie Wuy ? A . 1'riiyer.for Comfort in Affliction?TU* J'ield Is Not l-ull?A Kewnril. Battered and torn with a hundred shots, Tin- Flag came home. Brilliant and spotless it went tt> tli8 fray, Borne at the <front of the ranks that When, in-oiid and eager, they marched away; Some rest in their graves in alien plots? But the Flag eame home! -v Bear it aloft for the world to see, Tin* honored Flag! It is dearer today than when, fair and It waved in the suu?red, white and ume; . t*ri It is riddled with bullets through and . ;t through, But, oh, it was in at the victory, Though u tattered rag! }: Place it away where its /ellows stand, 'Neath lofty do nit. It has served its mission and won its fame. And heljied to honor its country's name, And with cheers and music and glad racclaim The people hailed it on every hand, When the I^lak came home! Lillian Grey,;Toughkeepsie, N. Y. Do As You Would Bo Done Bj, The pastor of a large eiVy church was detained one morning by a lady in his congregation. "I want to tell you," she said, "that I cannot come here any longer.-' ''But why not?" he asked in surprise. She tried to speak quietly, but she could not keep the bitterness out of eyes and voice. "I have been coming here three years," she answered slowly, "and in all the years not once has any one said a pleasant word to me, before or after service; and I .cannot stand it any longer; I am going." "I am sorry," the minister answered, gravely, "It ^ should not have been so; I do not wonder that you feel hurt, especially as you yourself must have spoken kind worda to many in these three years." The, - Jh lady looked at him in bewilderment. "I!" she exclaimed; "I never spoke to* anybody?it wasn't my place to. I never thought of such a thing!" It was the .' ; 9s old story of the mote and the beam. A--v Through the three years of' deepening bitterness against her fellow-worship- v x ers she had not once brought her own .; ^ soul to judgment; instead, she had lavished upon it a weak self-pity, and '<A gone her unhappy way through the world of loneliness which she had oreated for herself. It might all have beea.^^MB very different if only, seeking the lesso^^^HM| close-folded in Iter pain* sfee nad set hei^HH^BH self to keep others frcttn Stfch sorrowf^HBB^H experiences. For one who beafb gifts of cheer and sympathy never wa^n^HflB| alone, the world has too much him.?Weftspring.' Smoothing tb? Way. The trivial round makes up T # Taoho pnn UL hit?* H to help us the' stretches, what is His hely^HHB^^^H^^H^p| less the trivial is His restricted indeed. We deadening influence of the day The oniyj|^^H^HH?^^H^K^^ni from the the for rHnBHI fe?t gra cef 11 have' u n c d. o ooHHHnn| Thy i,<(o?HnngBgg^H i i _^MU|^nfl^^^BSHHB^nH|H^Hj