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r> * - ... . .. ? THE BFST OF LIFE. Not till life's heat is cooled. The headlong rush slowed to a quiet pace, f\. And e vrv purblind passion that ha3 ruled Our noiser years at last Spurs us in vain. and. weary of the race. jWe care no more who loses or who wins? Ah! not till all the best of life seems past The best of life begins. To toil for only fame. Handclappings and the fickle gusts of l praise. ' For place or power or gold to gild a name Above the grave whereto All paths will bring us. were to lose our days? We. on whose ears youth's passing bell has tolled? In blowing bubbles, even as children do, Forgetting we grow old. But the world widens when Such hopes of trivial gain that ruled us lies , . . * Broken among our chjldhooii'a tovsr for tl,en Oi - X*. -t ' K We win to self-control! Anu mail ourselves to manhood, and there BjHtpon us from the vast and windless height ^M^^ree clearer thoughts that arc unto the In9 What stars are to the night. H ?The Spectator. SWWocxsaoooooocoooooooooooo MmHE QUARREL CURE. ? HIV CJ Bv Ida lCced Smith. O bBSSss o HHbcocoocooosoooooccooocooo "T" INE day?w??t of tea? there W^m -wire no friends in \ the bloc^jftan- Molly and MabA i^cri side by aide, went to the, same school, read the W same best H hats trimmedlttsTexactly alike, even & to the muptei><o? iriots on the ^tgray quills, wnich matte ftie blue felt Hfetifeks so very charmjftg in the eyes Hg^Bth. But, on A Ho tenfcr'May?oh. HrBH^B how everything was changed! went to school on one syde of the with nefer p glance across at H|^B, trudging diidaimlly along on HBBB^nier; and'from bnwfast to bedHHB^ke day was dut of Joint Tor both. B^^w^Bsure, the quarrels never lasted BRHVbut they were'ssricus matters EHn^Vthey did last. Bfl^^Bvain the mothers took counsel toBS^Ker. In vain they reasoned, each I. ner own particular mue giri. pth Molly and Mabe! protested that ley lcved each other, and never [eant to quarrel; tut still the quarrels could come, and make Loth miserable, md they arose over such triFing hings! After the "making up," the jtvo friends never could see "how they kme to quarrel over a little thing like hat!" So things went on until Molly's Aunt rrances came to spend the winter with, ler sister. Now, Aunt Frances 'Was lolly's ideal of everything.fey should be. So it v/as -nb-wcta'der k her niece $ang her .praises 'mornnoon and night. Neither was it am wonder that Mabel,' who had a g lady aunt of her own, grew tired often hearing the samr strain, [^B>n the fatal tenth day*chance<l to |Hrk that, while Molly's Aunt BLces was very nice in her opinion, ^Bown Aunt Angie was nicer. This the thin end of the wedge of disHe; but half an hour later Molly \ v\ 4 r\ fVi rt K f V> O f Huuoc u^Ma; uiai, ipeak to .Mabel Bye e lived?"so there!" en driven deep, aud it wide open. tened to the tale of to think anyone h a perfectly grave lue eye3 were daiic1 the story was endingly: I it so much. Molly, care if Mabel likes est. But I'm sorry ive quarreled about ; all the way from a to cause a coldds, and I shall feel and Mabel never Ir again." Uy, hesitating beion to "stay mad" lease Aunt Frances. >eak to her, just to i quite sure I shal! yell any more." , 's kitten ran {iway all the children in jking for it. Molly it look, too. And, in the coal-bin?it the cellar windowto carry it home, ited that she hugged ittsn. and the quarmd there. ter dinner, Aunt [oily to her, and II pink box, with a the outside, e, "just look here! ose I've got in this questioned Molly, r recovered Tron a d with suspicion on particular sort, enough," responded erfuilv. "You shall Mnl'v mv iloar r ' \yill cure you; and my"fame will spread l through the length and .breadth cf th^ land." (I forgot to tell that Aunt ?j- Frances was studying to be a doctor.) s,' "But I'm not sick any more." pro?. tested Molly, drawing away from th? hox before she should be asked to take a dose of whatever was in it. "Oh, certainly not," agreed Aunt Frances. "But I want you to try the quarrel cure. dear. See? These ar-1 temper tablets of the very best-make." She opened the box, and Molly saw j1 the contents?tablets about the size 01 r a peppermint lozenge, clear, and of n Ev lovely deep red. They did not look as though they would taste bad. ?r "Take one," said Aunt Frances. "M> prescription would include 'one at bedtime.' So you might as well begin the treatment right away." Molly obeyed. The temper tablet was sweet, and tasted of wintergreen. "Don't try to bite it," cautioned th< prescribing physician. "Let it dissolvi in your mouth. And now, Nieceums.' she continued, with a very professiona air, "when you feel a quarrel cominj on I want you to take one of thesi tablets. Don't crush It with youi teeth?just let it melt in your mouth And be careful not to speak until it i ell gone. Do you fully understand th< directions?" Molly nodded solemnly. The respon fcibility of being a first "case" rath? awed her. "Will you treat Mabel, too?" sh ' nsked. \> "It won't be necessary," said Aunt ' Frances, gravely, "if you take the tab- I lets as I prescribe. And, if I were you, ' I wouldn't tell anybody I was being created." The next morning Molly started for school with a temper tablet neatly wrapped in tin-foil in her small poclcet. That day passed peacefully. So did several others; and Molly had all hut 'forgotten that she was being treated, when, .suddenly, one Saturday afternoon. she felc a quarrel coming on. Mabel had made a dress for her doll. Molly didn't think it fitted very well, j and said so. Mabel answered tartly j that ?he guessed Molly couldn't do as ! well: and Molly had just opened her j mouth to say something peppery when : she remembered the temper tablets. Hastily laying her beloved Flori- j monda Isabelle face down on the floor, : she ran out of the room. The temper f tablet was at the very bottom of her j pocket; but she picked it out, un- j wrapped the tin-foil and popped it into I her mouth. The rosy bit of sweetness f tasted very nice, and she went back ! to her doll feeling better already. "Thought you'd gone home mad," re- j ? 1-?rJfl-? hAr email nrvcx* ir* | rnuifttru maucj, muu uvi omuu ?. the air. . . r Never a word from Molly. "I didh't care if you had," added Mabel, with a sniff. Molly rolled the temper tablet under her tongue, but answered nothing at all. "Well, you needn't talk if you don't j want to," snapped Mabel; and she gave I her entire attention to putting the new j dress upon its owner, Evelyn Kathryn j j Olivia. Little by little the temper tablet dissolved in Molly's mouth; and, strange I to say, her anger melted with it. It was worn to wafer thinness; and Molly was wondering just what she should say when the "treatment" was' over, when she heard a faint sound of music far down the street. "Oh. Mabel!" she cried, excitedly, "there's a grind-organ; and maybe there's a monkey! ^.et's go and see!" "Oh, let's!" answered Mabel, jumping up eagerly; and a moment later Klorimonda Isabelle and Evelyn Kathr.vn Olivia were left to be company for each other, while their respective mothers raced hand, in hand tlown the street in searfch?of the probable "grindorgan" and^the possible monkey. That night Molly told Aunt Frances the v.-hole story, and that young lady listened with genuirife professional pleasure. Her first case was doing remarkably well, she said; and the patient was advised to continue the use of the invaluable temper tablets in all similar emergencies. Molly followed L- ia)*hfufiv on ri, before i me presciipuvu nuuuu.v, . spring both she and Mabel were com- j pletely cured. After a while Molly discovered the reason why the temper tablets had such a soothing effect in the first stages of a quarrel. I wonder if you have guessed it| too??New York Weekly. ' \ 1 '!? - ' The Unexpected Find. This story was toid by a Philadelphia man who dislikes nothing so much as to be asked questions: "My little girl is very fond of seasbells." he said, "and, having been called to Atlantic City ou business the oibe^flday. I took advantage of the opportunity to run down to the beach, to see .if I- ?juld pick up a few. I was tsti^iliij^ \lie sand, gathering a fifid pebbles, which I placed in my handkerchief, when along came one of those old idiots who ask questions with their mouths which their eyes could answer. He smiled upon ! nil? and said: Tine day, isn't it? Are you gathering shells?' 'No,' I snapped back, saying tho first thing that popped into uiy mind. 'I'm looking for a set of ! false teeth I lost while in bathing.' j He expressed his sympathy and then I liis fueo lit ui) as his eye caught sight J of a pink ami white object on the I sand. "Well, I declare! Here they are j now!' he exclaimed, and, sure enough, j he picked up a set of false teeth lying ' right at his feet. "I was too surprised to do anything hut grab them and put them into my pocket. The funny part of it is that I never had a tooth pulled in my life. I j wonder whom that false set belongs | to."?Philadelphia Record. Suicide Catcher of Kxjuchs Train. ' It has become a fad recently in Italy among persons who desire to commit suicidt- Jo jump in front of express trains. Three weeks ago the engineer and the passengers of the (Jenoa-Rome express were really vexed because in a .short* run of eight hours four persons iiio rmin in this way to end their lives, regardless of the delay which j i hey were causing by their selfish j ilioughlessness. Moral suasion appearing inadequate j to the task of turning these self-mar- j derers from the fatal error of their j ways the railroad authorities lm vo j adopted a special suicide catcher. 1c is placed in front of the locomotive like the American cowcatcher, and it scoops up the person who tries to use ! ,h;? engine for his own unpleasant pur- j poses. Having scooped him lip. it dt- j posits him on a little platform, where he gets a free trip to the nearest sta- j tioc, while the engineer and the fireman enliven the journey by making deeply felt remarks to him.?New York i Press. But One Emperor. Apropos of the paragraph I gave in iast issue of the German showman's I experiences < r uie law ol ie?e luajmu:, . I remember hearing tae following story, for the truth ot' which, however. J 1 I would not l!kc to vouch. An officer j 1 in the German army, passing along a street in Berlin with a friend, made a remark about "the fool of an emper or." He was immediately arrested by ! a vigilant policeman. He attempted to set out of the difficulty by explaining 5 that he referred to the Emperor of Russia. "That won't do." said the i policeman. "I know very well you J meant the German Emperor; there is no other emperor you possibly could ' mean!"?M. A. P. j Editors Less Quarrelsome r Newspaperdom finds that there is less of the acrimonious spirit shown s between editors and newspapers than e formerly. Bitter invectives against rivals are now seen in print only in . rare instances. The public cares nothr! ing for newspaper family quarrels, I and the editors know it and confine c' their efforts to gathering and dissemi iuatiug news and good reading inajter. f j DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON | SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: The Golden Calf of Modern Idolatry ? The Spirit of Greed Destroys Those Who Are in It* Gra?i> ? Money Got Wrongfully is ? Curse. [Copyright lwm.1 Washington, D. In this discourse Dr. Talmage shows how the spirit of greed destroys when it takes possession of a man and that money , got in wrong ways is a curse; text. Exodus xxxii, 20. "And he took the calf which they had made and burnt it in the fire and ground it to powder and strewed it upon the water and made the children of Israel drink of it." People will have a god of some kind, and they prefer one of their own making. Here co > the Israelites, breaking off their golden earrings, the men as well as the women, for in those times there was masculine ;\s well as feminine decoration. Where u. 1 they get these beautiful gold earrings, coming up. as they did, from the desert? Oh, they borrowed them of the Egyptians when they left Egypt. These onm?in/va ??? "? 11 f\A urv infn f% nWMml/1 nf tWllJU^O ttic J/IICU V4IJ l&ll/vr I* vglittering beauty. Any more earrings to bring?" says Aaron. None. Fire is kindled, the earrings are melted and poured into a mold not of nn ea^le or a war charger, but of a silly calf; the gold cools down, the mold is taken away, and the idol is set up on its four legs. An altar is built in f.Tmt of the shining calf. Then the peonle throw up their arms and gyrate and shriek and dance vigorously and worship Moseg hn* been six weeks on Mount Sinai, a-d he comes back and hears the howling and sees the dancing of these golden calf fanatics, and he loses his patience, and he takes the two plates of stone on which were written the Ten Commandments and flings them so hard against a rock that they split all to pieces, When a man gets angry, ho is ant to break all the Ten Commandments. Moses rushes in, and he takes this calf god and throws it into a hot fire until it is melted all out of shape and then pulverizes it? not by the modern appliance of nitro muriatic ac:d, but by the ancient appliance of niter or by the oid fashioned file. He stirs for the people a most nauseating draft. He takes this pulverized golden calf and throws it in the only brook which is accessible, and the neople are compelled to drink of that brook or not drink at nil. But they did not drink all the glittering stuff thrown on the surface. Some of it flows on down the surface of the brook to the river and then flows on down the river to the sea, and the se& takes it up and bears it to the jnouth of all the rivers, and when the tides set back the remains of this golden calf are carried up intrt the Potomac and, the Hudson and the Thames and the Clyde and the Tiber. And men go out and they skim the glittering >urface, and t^iey bring it ashore and they makJe another golden calf, and California and Australia break off their golden earrings to augment the pile, and in the (ires of financial excitement and struggle all these things are melted together, ( and while we stand looking and wondering what will come o?>it, lo, we find thrit the golden calf of Israelitifeh worship has become the golden calf of European and American worship. Pull aside this curtain, and you see th'e golden calf of modern idolatry.' It i<? not, like other Idols, madp' out of stocks or stone, but it has an ear so sertsilive that it can hear the whispers on Wall street and rr" ' ' J? J Oi-i. - .1?.1 J J. nira screei ana owe auxrcv aau mvfootfalls in the Bank of England' and the flutter of. a Frenchman'# heart on the bourse. It has an eye so keep tbkt it can see the rust on the failm of Michigan wheat and the insect in the Maryland peach orchard'and the trampled*grain under the hoof of the Russian war charger. It is so mighty that it swing4 any way it mil the World's shipping. It has its foot on all the merchantmen and the steamers.' It started the American Civil War and under God stopped it, and it decided tho Turko-Rutaian contests Ode, JjroKer in September, 1869, kTNew?prk/*obu?ed. "One hundred and sixty ior aw?uli(m!'' and the whole continent shivjffed.-.^he' golden calf of the text has, as farfo America is concerned, its right front foot In New York; iti left front foot in Chicago,^ its right back foot in Charleston, its left back foot in New Orleans, and when it shakes itself it shakes the world. Oh, this is a mighty god?the golden calf of the world's worship! x But every god must have its temple, and this golden calf of the text is no exception. Its tenu>le is vaster than St. Paul's Cathedral in England, and St. Peter's in Italy, and the Alhambra of the Spaniards, and the Parthenon of toe Greeks, and the Taj Mahal of the Hindoos, and all the cathedrals put together. Its pillars arc grooved and fluted with gold, and its ribbed arches fire hovering gold, trad its chandeliers are descending gold, and its floors are tessellated gold, ana its vaults are crowded heaps of goH and its spires and domes are ^oaring gold, and its organ pi:>33 are resounding gold," and its pedals are tramping gold, ana its stops pulled out are flashing gold, while, standing at the head of the temple, as the presiding diety. are t^ie hoofs and shoulders and eyes and ears and nostt-ils of the calf of gold. Further, every god must have not only its temple, but its altar of sacrifice, and this golden calf of the text is no exception. Its altar is not made out of stone as other altars, but out of counting room desks md fireproof safes, and it is a broad, a long, a high altar. The Victim* sacrificed on it are the Swartouts and the Ketchams and the Fisks and ten thousand other people who are slain before this golden ca,lf. What does this god care about the groans and struggles of the-victims before it? With cold, metallic eye. it looks on and yet lets them "suffer. What an altar! What a sacrifice of mind, body and soul! The physical health of a great multitude is flung on to this sacrificial altar. They cannot sleep, and they take chloral and morphine and intoxicants. some 01 tnem struggle in a nigunnare ui 'stocks, and at 1 o'clock in the morning suddenly rise up shouting: "A thousand shares of New York Central?one hundred and eight and a half, take it!"?until the whole family is affrighted, and the speculators fall back on their pillows and sleep until thev are .awakened again by a "corner" in Pacific Mail, or a sudden "rise" of Rock Island. Their nerves gone, their digestion gone, their brain gone, they die. The gowned ecclesiastic comes in and reads the funeral service, "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord!" Mistake. They did not "die in the Lord;" the golden calf kicked them. The trouble is, when the men sacrifice themselves on this altar suggested in the text they not only sacrifice themselves, but they sacrifice their families. If a man by a wrong course is determined to go to perdition, 1 suppose you will have.to let him go. But he puts his wife and children m an equipage that is the amazement of the avenues, and the driver lashes the horses into two whirlwinds, and the spokes flash in the sun and the golden headgear ot t..c harness gleams until black calamity takes the bits of the I horses and stops tnem and shouts to the I luxuriant occupants.of the equipage, "Get ! out!" They get cut. They get down. , That husband and father Hung his family | ho hard they never got up. There was | the mark on them for life?the mark of a I split hoof?the death dealing hoot of the ! golden calf. i Solomon offered in one sacrifice on one j occasion 22,000 oxen and 120,>'K)0 ahccp. | But that was a tame sacrifice compared I with th3 multitude of men wiio are sac! rificing themselves on this altar of the j golden calf and sacrificing their families with them. The soldiers of General Havelock in India walked literally ankle deep in the blood of "the house of massacre, where 200 white women and children had been slain by the sepoys. But the blood about this altar of the golden calf flows up to the knee, flows up to the girdle, flows to the shoulder, flows to the lip. Great God of heaven and earth, have ip^rcy on those who immolate 'themselves on this altar! The golden calf has none. Still the degrading worship goes on, and the devotees kneel and kiss the dust and count their golden beads and cross themselves with the blood of their own sacrifira Th* mumio rolls od rjidar tbo orcbpjL ^ . .v - * . . It is m* Je of clinking silver and clinking ' gold and the rattling; specie of th? banks ; and broKers' shnns and the voices of all the exchanges. The soprano ot the worship is carried by the timid voices of men who have just begun to speculate, while the deep bass rolls out from those who for ten years have bpen steencd in the entiling cauldron. Chorus of voiccs rejoicing over what they have made; chorus of voiccs wailing over what they have lost, j This temple of which I speak stands open day and night, and there is the glittering god with his four feet on broken hearts, and there is the smoking altar of sacrifice, new victims every moment on it. and ! there are the kneeling devotees, and the j doxology of the worship rolls on, while j death stands with moldy and skeleton arm beatine time for the chorus?'"More, more, | more!" Some people are very much surprised at I the actions of people in the Stock lis- i change, New York. Indeed it is a scene ( sometimes that paralyzes description and j is beyond the imagination of any one who i has never looked in. What snapping of i finjrer and thumb and wild gesticulation and raving lil:e hyenas, and stamping like | buffaloes, and swaying to and fro, and jostling and running one upon another, and deafening uproar, until the president' ~ ofri \raa Tin Hi hlQ m,1 llpfc ! UI tnc CAUliaiigc nvm%vo . four or five times, crying, "Orc'.er, order!" and the astonished spectator goes out into the fresh air feeling that he has escaped from pandemonium. What does it all mean? I will tell y.ou what it mec.n&. The devotees of every heathen teirpie cut themselves to pie s and yell and gvrxte. This vociferation ^nd gyration of the Stock Exchange is aii apnropriatc. This is tho worship of the golden calf. But my text suggests that this worship has to be broken up, as the behavior of Moses on this occasion indicated. Thers are those who say that this golden calf spoken of in the text was hollow and I merely plated with gold. Otherwise Moses could not have carried .it. 1 do | not know t. But somehow, perhaps by the assistance of hi3 friends, he takes up" this golden calf, which is an infernal insult to God and man, and throws it into the fire, and it is melted. And then it comes out and is cooled off, and by some chemical appliance or by an old-fashioned file it is pulverized, and it is thrown into the brook, ar.d as a punishment the people are compelled to drink the nauseating stuff. So you may depend upon it that God will burn and He will grind to pieces. the golden calf of modern idolatry, and He will compel the people in their agony to drink it. If not before, it will be on the last day. I know not where the fire will begin, whether at the Battery or Lombard street, whether at S^oreditch or West End, but it will bfe a very hot blaze. All the Government securities of the United States and Great Britain wll curl up ia the first blast. All the monejT safes and Hpnosit vaults will melt -under the first toupb. The sea will burn.like tihder. and the shipping will be abandoned forever. The melting gold in the brijketfs Window will burst tnrouga the liielted window^ glass into the street. $ut the flying populace will not stop to;, scoop ,it Up. The cry of "Fire!" from "the mountain will be answered by the cry of "Fir?!''-in the plain. The conflagration will- burn out from the continent toward the sea and then burn in" from the' dfea toward theland. .wew Y6rk< and, London, with one' t of the red scathe of destruction, will go down. .Twenty-five thousand miles of conflagration! The earth will wrap itself round and-round< in sh?oud of flame and J life dawn to perish. What then'"will become j of yottr igolaen calf? Who then so poor j as, to worship it? Melted or between the ! upper and nether - millstones of falling i mountains ground to powder. Dagon I down^ Moloch down, Juggernaut down, | golden calf down! But every dav is a day of judgTi?ent, and God is all the time grinding to pieces the golden calf. Some years ago, in a time of panic, we learned as never before that forgeries will not pay; that the watering of stock will not pay; that the spending of $50,000 on country seats and a palatial city residence when there is only $30,000 income will not pay; that the appropriation of trust funds to our own private speculation will not pay.' >ve naa ] a great national tumor in the shape of ! fictitious prosperity. We .ialled it national enlargement. Instead of calling it enlargement we might'better have called it a,swelling; It was a tumor, and God cut Y? out, and the nation was s?.nt, b?ck to tlie principles of our fathers and grandfathers, when twice three made sir instead of sixty/ and when the apples at the bottom of the barrel wer? jost as good as the apples on the top of the barrel, and a silk handkerchief was-not half cottofl, and a man who wore a $5 coat paid for was more honored tban a man who wore a $50 coat not paid for. The judgments of God, like Moses in the text, will rush in and break up'this worship, and I say1 let the work go on until every man shall learn to speak truth with his neighbor, and those who make engagements shall fell themselves bound to keep them, and when a man who will not repent of his business iniquity, but goes on wishing to satiate his cannibal appetite by devouring widows' houses, shall, bv the law of the land, be compelled to j exchange the brownstone front for the : penitentiary. Lut the golden calf perish! r ' But if we have made this world our god, when we come to die we shall sell our idol demolished. How much of this world ** !+V* ttAii in b-i fha (ire JfUU Kymg iU uiag iTivu jvu M*?v ?MV . next? Will you have two pockets-^one in each side of your shroud? Will you cushion your casket with bonds and mortgages and certificates of stock? Ah, no! The ferryboat that crosses this Jordan takes no baggage?nothing heavier than an immaterial spirit. You may, perhaps, take ?500 with you two or three miles in the shape of fun- ! e^al trappings to the cemetery, but you j will have to leave them there. It would j not be safe for you to lie down tfiere , with a gold watch or a diamond ring; it j would be a temptation to the pillagers. If we have made this world our god, j we shall see our idol, when we die, ground to pieces by our pillow, and we shall have | to drink it in bitter regrets for the wasted-i opportunities of a lifetime. Soon we will be gone. ' / Where are the men who tried ^War ren Hastings iu Westminster toaiir wnere are the pilgrim fathers who put oat for AmericaWhere are the veterans who on the Fourth of July, 1794, marched from New York park to the iiattery and fired a salute and then marched back again? And the Society of the Cincinnati, who dined that afternoon at Tontine Coffee House, on Wall street, and Grant Thorburn, who that afternoon waited fifteen minutes at the foot of Maiden lane for the Brooklyn ferryboat, then got in and was rowed across by two men with oars, fhe | tide so strong that it was an hour and ten minutes before they landed? Where are the ve'terans that fired the salute, and the men of the Cincinnati Society wl^o that afternoon drank to the patriotic ' toast, and the oarsmen that rowed the boat, and the people who were transported? Gone! On, this is a fleeting world. It is aj dying world. A man who had worshiped it all his days in his dying moment described himself when he said, "Fool, fool, fool!" When your parents have breathed their last and the old, wrinkled and trembling hands can no more- be put upon your head for a blessing. Cod will be to you a father and mother both, giving you the defense of the one and the comfort of the other. f or nave we not JL'aui s mcsseu iiupn: m.n, i as Jesus died and rose a^ain, "Kven so them also which sleep in Jesus shall (jod ! bring with Him?" And when your children go away from you, the rfweet darlings, you will not kiss them and say goodby farever. He only wants to hold them for you a little while. He will give them back to you again, and He will have them all waiting for you at the gates of eternal welcome. Oh, what a God He is! He will allow you to come so close that you can put your . .ms around His neck, while He in response will put His arras arc and your neck, and all the windows of tieaven will be hoisted to let the redeemed look out and see the spect "'-? of a rejoicing Father and a returned prodigal locked in that glorious embrace. Quit worshiping the golden calf, and bow this day before Him in whose presence we must all appear when the world has turned to ashes. When shriveling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll, When .ouder yet and yet more dread Swells the high trump that wakeg tbe I dead. j ' i i ^ / " I GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. PfiECNANT TH0UCHT5 FROVI THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. All Unbeliever ? I'iclie* Worth Striving For ? Make Your Heart a Garden? When Yon l'reueh, 1'reach Boldly? Thinking 'loo Much of tlie World. Thoy say t-Jio world is growing worse, I don't believe it,-though; They say men worship but the purse, I don't believe it, though They say that greatness is no more, That all the wise have gone before, And only trouble is in store? I don't believe it, thougff. I They say there are no saints today, I don't believe it, though; They say we tread a downward way, I don't .believe it, though; They say there's only gloom ahead, They say that all the knights are dead, They say men's sweetest joys arc tied? I don's believe it, though. , Men had their troubles long ago, And that's what I believe; The Lord ntill loves its here below, And that's what I believe; Old Homer of the sightless eyes, And Caesar, lie 'neath other skies. But greater men thuu they will rise, / And that's what I believe. The world grown fairer day oy day, And that's, what Ivbelieve; The Rood have not all passed away, And that's what I believe; Though many a one we lo,ved is jjone, Fond hearts and true are beating on! The happiest (fays arc* still to dawn, And that's what I believe! ?S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Times-Herald. Rlohen TVdrth Striving For. Spiritual riches are -within the reach of all. They may be inherited, and those of tie who hav.e been blessed with a godly ancestry should thank God for the pleasure o'f spiritual capital with which our earthly years* begin. But it is equally true that earthly riches may be wasted. An honorable family name, the integrity that dwelt in 'One's father, the faith'that belonged fx> one's mother, the tendency toward religion which is the best bequest which any one can leave, his children?all, these, <may Ite thrown . to the winds- as., spendthrifts^ in a month run through their 'patrimony." But let us -thank God that these riches depend upon an inheritance of piety, and jno one need despair because ,he has wasted his spiritual substance, that any> one who strives as the Bible directs to become good and true and useful and Chritstlike is certain, provided he relief on God's help, to attain the end in view. These spiritual riches aVe the reward of him who strives and sacrifices, but when a man once kiuws what it is to : be rich toward God ne h,olds material .good at its proper worth , and finds ^ his richest and best life in the things of the spirit. No torn in the srock market, no fire or I flood, no rfaoth or dust can touch these treasures' of the soul. Mstke Your Heart a Garden. Many flowers canhot gi-ow where are the feet of the runner .and the strife of the combatants. The first thing done to make an arena for wrestlers is to take away the turf and the daisies, then to beat the soil down hard and flat. And so our lives pet flattened, stripped Of. their beauty and their fragrance, because they are not meant to be. gardens, they are meant- to- be , wrestling-groundsy There comes to every life that is worth living hom'3 of sacrifice when duty can only be done at the cost of a bleeding, heart. Every man that is not the devil's servant has to carry a cross, and t(f be fastened to it, if hq will do his Master's work. Besides which crucifixion in ser vice, there are all tne otner common sorrows storming in uj>on iw, ao'tj^ft-aome-. times it ns much ai a man caii: dp not to be s<C-ept uway l%;$h<> current,.: but to keep his footing in niid-cha'unel;?Aler.; ander Maclaren, D. D. When You I'rencli, French Boldly. There are men who claim to ' be preaching the word of God, when they are only preaching their own uncertainties and doubts. No man can be a true and helpful preacher of GodJs word unless his oWn faith in that word be full and unshaken. The first apostles had full nnd unshaken certainty that the Holy Scriptures are in very truth the word o? God, and therefore one great characteristic: of their preaching was its boldness. They never shrank before attack. They uever put themselves on the defensive. "They never apologized fot the Gospel.?Church Standard. / i ' Thinking Too Much of the World. yMarks of discontent are plainly visible in the countenances of nSost men The eager haste of. the busy throngs, pushing their way through the crowded streets of our gretjt dties, clearly indh cates the gnawing hunger which preys Within. Did the Creator,make man tc struggle and snffer, and remain forevei unsatisfied? Men ^eek good, bitt find'it;J not. Xhey kuock arpoorj wnicn. nevei open. i They 's|?end their strength for naught and, their labor for- that which satisfie'th not.''?Christian Advocate. ... . * ^ We' sAy that the sun sets, but it nevei i really does set. We speak of jt as setting only because its evening* conditioi? looks like a going down. In reality, it hai only the1 seeming of setting, and meets us as bright as ever next morning Sleep looks like death* but it is not death. Neither is. death itself reallj death; it is only the shadow or the ap poara.nce of death. Yea, though I walls through the valley of the shadow o' death, 1 will fear 110 evil.?Gerard B. F .Hal i?ck, D. D. Tlie little sharp vexations And the briars that catch and fret. Why not take all to the Helper Who has never failed us yet V , Tell him about the-heartache.' And tell him the longings, too; Tell him the baffled purpose When we scarce know what to do. Then. Ion Vine all our weakness With the One divinely strong. Forgot that wo bore the bunion ' And carry away the song. Unless it is spiritualized, the nationa life is doomed to destruction. . We cat only remain, a sound nation if we ar? sound at heart. But we can only bf sound at heart as a nation if we arf pen to and affected by spiritual and re l^-lous influences.?The London Speeta tor. A church supplies to any civtfized com niunity what every civilized community requires to complete the moral and s/> eial harmony. Where there is no ( buret soik"tl)in? essential, to a full, freo. hope fill life is missing.?Rev. Dr. I. M. At wood. Thank <?o<i vor rno sense or ntcnnipletenws; for out of if have sprung n? piratien. endenvor. growth. nnd all the comph'ti'tii'ss possible to humanity. The germ of true grentui'.-s is tin utility. TOUCHS TERRORIZE LONDON. r?aii;s Rob Ppdmtrlann and T.augli at I'olice Fnrw. Organized bands of roughs, chiefly bovs, for some time have infested several districts in London. They tight pitched battles, injure and rob unprotected persons, and execute condijrn vengeance on any of their members suspected of giving information to the police. Their favorite weapon is a loaded belt, but in many cases they use revolvers. In some narts of the metropolis they have apparently terrorized the police, many of whom have been maimed for life. A demand is now made to arm the police with revolvers as well as club9 in certain proscribed areas. -r * ? '1 / ? THE SABBATH SCHOOL. * jrr*. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENT^' FOR NOVEMBER 18. Subject : The Ten Lepers Cleansed, Luke XYlt., 11-19 ? Golden Text: Col. 111., 15 ? memory Vertes, 17-19 ? Commentary on the Day'* Lemon. 11. "As He went to Jerusalem." From Ephraim, where Jesus and His disciples had been in seclusion. "Through the midst." This mention of Samaria before Galilee is confusing, being the opposite direction to a journey to Jerusalem. Probably "through the midst" is to be understood as meaning "along the frontiers of." ; 12. "Ten men were lepers." The leprosy was a disease which the Jews supposed to be inflicted for the punishment of some particular sin, and to be, more than other diseases, a mark of God's displeasure; therefore Christ took particular pains to cleanse the lepers. There were ten in this company, for though they were sHut out from the society of others, they were at liberty to mingle together. The law pronounced the leper unclean, and he was obliged to warn passers-by with the cry of "unclean, unclean." Leprosy is a type of sin. The leper was (1) defiled, and he defiled everything he touched, (2) extremely loathsome, ana (3) shut out of society. This all applies with equal force to the. sinner. The surroundings, of the leper were also unclean. Lev. 13 f 47-59; 14: 3347. We must see to it that our sur roundings are not infected. The clothea we wear, the books we read, the company we keep, 'the places we frequent, the scenes we visit, if leprous, will cause our death. "Which stood afar off." They were not permitted to come near to persons in health. Lev. 13: 46; Num. 5: 2. 13. "Lifted up their voices." Their request was unanimous. The ten cried as with one voice. They had evidently heard of the fame of Jesus and how He cured the leprosy. "Jesus, Master." Their faith in Him is sincere. Although they do not yet know the Saviour's dignity as the Messiah, yet they account Him a, prophet, mighty in deed and word. "Have mercy on us." They knew they were lepers, and that no human power could save them; they accordingly, very properly, plead for mercy. Jesus ill ways helps those who thus call upon Him. It is mercy that the sinner must have. Justice would destroy him in a moment. These lepers, 1. See their helplessness. 2. Havrf faith in Jesus. 3. Appeal to His (compassion. 14. "When He saw them. It was a sight that might have touched any heart, for they were smitten with a living death. The pity of Jesus was excited, and He called to them immediately. "Show yourselves unto the priests." To obtain the testimony of the priests that they were wnn llir mi nn/4 nn/j minUf Via ralfl'i aarl f rnrn ICrtllJf VU1CU ftilU lUlj^Ub Ut lUbnotU 1IV1U | their enforced seclusion, and be again adL mitted into society,- According to the I law (Lev. 14: 2-32) the priest alone had i authority to declare a person clean or un- I clean, and whenever Jesus healed a leper He sent him immediately to the priest. See Matt. 8: 4. "As they went, they were j cleansed." Jesus did not touch them as in Matt. 8: 3, but caused thqir faith in Him to be tested. They were commanded ; to go to the priest, and they actually j started on the johrney before they were Is healed. It was a strong test, but tfieir ! perfect confidence in Christ was equal to j i it. They had heard no words of cleans- j ing, they felt, no change in their diseased , bodies; but they went. They acted their ; faith. Every step they took away from J the presence of Christ proved that they trusied Him. They took Jesus,at His f, word. This is faith.. 'Many will not be- ' lieve until they see wh&t'tney call a reason for it, but. such are never likely to be saved. ,The best .reason for believing and obeying is that we are in_ harmony with God's express command. The person who acts on God's word is safe. ! 15. "One of them. " The Samaritan. The other nine who were Jews would naturally separate from him as they started to their priests at Jerusalem. The Sam- \ aritanno, doubt started to his own priests.,, "When he saw?turned back." They had not gone far until they saw they were i healed, and they should have returned, if j but for a moment, to thank-their benefatf.acfcor for deliverance from -a disease that J was worse than de?tth. But the nine Jews were too .much" taken up with themselves ! in their, desire to obtain official certifi- | cates fronnjfe&e priests to think of this, j "With aMond voices glorified God." J3e- { :ause of fchewonderiul cure that had been : wrought in, hiio.. He had been loud in prayer ana now he1 is loud in praise. ' Saved 80U& have- a' special license granted ? ? it- V 1_. a__ T..U 10. . tnem to praise xne uwru. occ j-iurvt i?. 37-40:- Datfid said. "Seven tirpes a day .do I/praise Thee," Pea.' 119: 164. Th<* j wonder ja'that we do not praise Hihi j more. : ' ' j t 10. VfGn his face at His feet." Before i j he was* healed he remained at a distance, j. but now lie draws near, and in a humble i posture he shQws all who are present what ! the Lord has done for him. "Giving ! f Him thanks."; The least any one should I do is to express-thankfulness for God's j rich blessings. Ingratitude is a great sin. Et- is qaid of the .heathen that "when they f. knew flod, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful." Rom. 1: 21. "A Samaritan." One who professed a verv ^corrupt religion, and from whom much I less was expected than fror* 'he other j i nine,. 1 j ] 17. "Were there not ten cleansed?" He j j knew that He had cleansed the other \f nine. How rich Christ is in doine good. 1 1 Here was a cure by wholesale. There is an abundance of healing, cleansing virtue in the blood of Christ, sufficient for all His patients. "Where are the nine?" A sadness of tone is perceptible in this) question. The nine received the healing, I 1 hut fnrarot the Healer. However great or'. numerous the temporal favors God be- 'I 8tows upon men, few comparatively give j! Him the glory due to His name. Jesus' noticed the*slight offered Him, and called! ( .attention to it. We should be careful} and not be one of the nine. 18. "To give glory to God.'' They had.' 1 shown their 'ingratitude to God. When,' i we-fail to honor Christ we dishonor GflA i It is the duty of all people to give gK^ to God. Jer. 13: 16. "Save this str^jtf er"?Or "alien." The Samaritans were ' Gentiles. Their religion was a mixture < of Judaism and idolatry; they worshiped they knew not what. In this transaction ] the Lord saw foreshadowed the bringing in of the Gentiles to His church. , 19. "Thy faith." His confidence in Christ was the means, and the power of 1 Christ the cause, of' his cure. The true { nature of faith is here very clearly displayed as consisting principally in moral j qualities of obedience and love. "Hath , made thee whole." "Hath saved thee." , ? 1. T--4i Tk?r? ' (K. v. margin; is mucu ucttci. was more done for him that the mere healing of his body. His faith had led him as a humble penitent to the Christ, and his soul is saved. He is now no logger "a, stranger," but a disciple, ABANDONED TUNNEL FOUND. Dnj; on Catallna Island by Miner* Thlr ty-aeveu Years Ago. An old tunnel has been found in the raou itains on C-atalina Island, on the Pacific const. It is about 1000 feet in lengtR. Ft* pxislence was known to one or two old* time miners, and not to the owners of the property. In the tunnel were found ledges of copper, gold and zinc. The tunnel was driven in i860 by miners, who were not aware that the island was private propertyv .and when the$ found that out they abandoned it. The island was then owned by James Lick. It does not appear that he ever knaw the tunnel existed. ? LAND FOR LOUISIANA. t i . Cnlted States Transfer* 1,004,000 Acrei T l:ii<l?-r the Art of 1833. ' The United States General Land Office Has triwerred 1.004.000 acres of swamns 1 and ov<rflo\vcd land to the State of Louis- i iana urtW the <?>' of IS'.'t. This land is t scattcrr I over t*he State, being in twentyfive pnrthes. . The laP'li are subject to homestead onlv ' in outrifht purchases at from 12% to 75 ! rent* net acre from the Louisiana State Land OlSce. The monev derived from the ] sale is sft apart for the construction of j 'eve* ani the protection of this land from iverJow. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED] WASHINGTON ITEMS. v ' ' I J. P. Morgan & Co. paid the Government $370,300 for silver taken by Unlt-^jj ed States marines at Tien Tsin, China. Orders were sent to Pekin detaching ' General James H. Wilson from duty as chief of staff under General Chaf- , fee. And directing him to return to the United States. ^ The Navy Department has ordered J'ia an extension of the usual gun practice for the bluejackets. Any attempt of Germany to obtain 8 naval base in the Western Hemisphere will be stopped by the United States as a violation of the Monroe doctrines W. H. &tale, a photographer, of Washington, was accidentally suffocated by a gas stove. ( The Secretary of the Treasury ha? held that the wife of a Chinese native hnm nitl7on tlin TTr?lfr?/l Qfofna (a nn > uwiu viiinv.u vk iuv vunw uuaito 10 cu titled to admission Into the United States. -v OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Jose Guzman Benltez. Mayor of ' Ponee. and Jose Gomez Brlozo, K physician, were appointed members of the Executive Council of Porto Rico. Hawaii has closed its last school for teaching the native language. Hereafter young Hawaiian* will be tangbt to talk English. A heavy rainfall in the Hawaiian * Islands did much damage, and one native was drowned. ./ '/ DOMESTIC. It was announced that a new effort was to be made to obtain the liberation of Oberlln M. Carter, late of the Engineer Corps, U. S. A. Leading Chicago physicians declare drinking and cigarette smoking arc increasing among American women. The United States transport Meade arrived at San Francisco from Man-, ila. The vessel had over 300 sick and' discharged soldiers. "" ' Hugh K. Norman, whose romantic marriage and estrapgement from his wife had awakened much interest. died In 'Providence, R. I. Wm. S. Jewett, of Lawrence, Mass., who is charged with misappropriating > funds of the Lake National Bank, oft > Wolfboro, JST. H., was sentenced to1 seven years in jail. Rosslyn Ferrell, the train roller charged with the murder of an ex- : . / press messenger named Lane, was con- ;?ui1 vlcted of murder in the first degree, at , C-i Marysvllle, Ohio. The .verdict carrier with it the death sentence. Vf. N. Cowden, a farmer at Quaker City, Ohio, filed.a petition In bankruptcy in the United States Court, alleging that' his liabilities are 5359,000 and his ,v assets $1000. in.a cable car smasii-upMat Chicago R. \W. Hill, William Metifeer,; Elmer, < / Mosp and A. V. Wycboff were fatally Injured, and five others were hurt. 7 * ''J TJjSe gun from which the first shot to j the? Spanish-American war was fired: ,' reached Nashville. Tenn., which is to ; befits permanent home. It comes from1 tl|e gunboat Nashville. ' I , The building used by the Dallas^ doming News at Dallas, Texas., fori I' fifteen years as a publication office! collapsed, and Is a .complete wreck,; 'iipe 1QS8 is esumuieu ui ^u,uw, uuuc aiice, $10,000. ("Lucky" Baldwin, of San Francis^ arrived at Seattle from Nome wlthj ' \ *?0,000 In gold" dust. J One thousand deer have so fa;* been brought down from the Maine wood* by hunters, 231 less thah fo>" the same period of 1SD9, while fifty-six mooat; ,' ? six less than last year, have fallen.; *3 Because airs. H. P. Colegrove waited to ride ride her entries at the Chicago ? ; Uor.se Fair astride, the entries were 1 jarred. She is the originator of the ^ivided skirt for equestrienne's. {-The funeral of John Sherman took place with simple ceremonies at . fansfield, Ohio. President McKinley Mng one of the mourners. Passengers from Alaska say that the Dawson telegraph line will not be completed mis wiuier, , Professor Shepardson, of Chicago University, declared present-day lynching Is a survival of the mob violence of the Boston tea party. Leale Willielm, a woman, was found dead, having been strangled and robbed on a street at Indianapolis, ?nd- . : The river steamed Josie Weaver was 6urned at Brady's Landing, near Madisonville, St. Tammany Parish. La. The fire was caused by an ex- . plosion j A FOREIGN. The huuting season is now at It* height in every part of the Dominion of Canada. M6ose may be killed for the first time in four years. ' , A meeting of the diplomats was held) in Pekin to consider, the form of negotiations for a settlement of the China difficulty. The Itussia Plague Commission announces tlint Port Said, Bender Abbas ' ora I\nt infWtod with the LUIU lUiOUll u?v MWb ? T disease. - \ The Daily Telegraph, of London, announces that Lord Salisbury will v&- ji pate the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs in favor of lyni Lansdowne, (\ retaining the post of Premier. Recently the Socialists ia Germany. have scored a number of successes, a Pact that is beginning to cause the '< Government great dismay. Government inspectors report that the steamer Bon Lomond, which arrived at London from the Philippines, had 'a verified case of plague on board. The Sportsman, of London, announces-that the Prince of Wales hae :onceled his retainer of Tod Sloan, the American jockey, for 1901. James Eagnell, who was the oldest Eludson Bay factor in*northern Britsli Columbia, was shot and killed by in Indian. The Belgian ciiamcer 01 uepuues* ias passed a la(v compelling manufacturers to insure workmen against acci- I lent, hut the Senate is expected to reject the bill. J Emperor William has ordered Fro- ). < 'essor Begas to make His Majesty's >wn marble statue for the new FTall of 3Iories in Barmen, where statues of he Einproi s ancestors are already placed. Canned goods and sausages may now je imported into Alsace-Lorraine free )f duty in small quantities. A sensation was created in Berlin by lie allegation that the Secretary of State for the Interior had been bribed. It is announced that the Arqluluke f Francis Ferdinand will shortly renounce his succession to the imperial hrone in favor of his brother. President Campos Salles, of Brazil. anded at Buenos Ayres, Argentina, iml received a hearty welcome. Twenty-four lives were lost in a colision between the French steamers ''aidherbo and MItidja off the Spanish :oas* ' ; ' V*