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! 01101 THIS. t, Politics anii t(ic Corrrnt Hems of t(>r f at). | ^? -, MARCH 29, 1889. WTIUU1"" 10 ' Where his imi{ wife Jay xlying ; end tho twi . light shadows brown * r Slowly from the wall aiul window cbasod tho ! ? sunset's golden splendor Going down. Is It night?" sbo whispered, waking (for her spirit seomod to hover Lost between the next world's sunrise and the bedtime cures of this'. And tho old man, weak mid tearful, trembling as he bent above l.or, Answered, "Yes." Aro tbo children in?" sho asked him. Conld ho toll her? All tho troaseros Of thoir household lay iu oilenco many years benonth tho snow ; Hut Lor heart whs with thout living, back among her toils and pleasures Long ago: And again sho called at dew-fall, in tho swoot old summer weather, "Whoro is little C'hailoy, fathor? Frank ?.?<* 11' " rri._. IUOV co.noV - Atl?y " 'bo oM wan fultjro I?"all the clnk - ?? " t. /'V -aie " j U 1 hen ho rt!fc?-~?rd gentle soothtngs, but Lie sr? n i* ! . , w "tro,"f ""I stronger, It choked ami aliite 1 liini as lio hold and ? i- vf *rlnklo.l hand, "fro flistorv Uifdsntaud. ( Btill tho pule lips stammered questions, lullabies and broken verses. Nursery nruttlo-all tlio luugttago o{ a mother's 1 lovNig heeds, While the inid.iglit round tho mourner, lolt to , D sorrow's bitter nicrjios, Wrapped its weeds. Thero was stillness on tho pillow?and the old man listoneil lonely? Till they lod/hkn fr >m the chamber, with tho 1 burdot'/ou hit broust. 1 For tho wife of svonty years, bis manhood's t early lo\o and only, J Lay lit rest. "Faro-you-woll," ho sohbo 1, "my Karah; you t will meet the baloi before ino ; 1 r "Tis a little while, for neither can tho parting Ion.* abido, , And you'll conic and call mo soon, 1 know?aud kouvoii will rest >ro mo ? To your sido." c ???? 1 t It wan ovon no. Tho serin j-timo, in the stops fl of ,t inf. r tr I'm u Scut oiy s_oa ...? oio'.... . 'o. J :.? ) rts ore tho Old B inu!: clnci'd hU oyo*. Ana thoy buried liim by Surah?and thoy had 1 their 'diamond wedding" C In the Bkltti, 4 . POOR LITTLE EMILY, i f The History of a Prudent f Marriage. i1 BY MISS Mlil.OCKa r c t il AIM Kit V. ( Pcoplo do break their hj.irts sometimes. ? Not very often, for a largo proportion have . ro.illy no hearts to break; a nl a few who j nave in-m liavo also thai atom power of I * endurance, which, if they ouly huve strength to livo through the first shock, will enable them still to live on? ii.o nobly, heroically, until tlioy come to experience the mysterious internal lorce of repu- ; rat km?which heaven has merciful I v inir parted to overy sound body an>l healthily I constituted mind; which turns evil into | good, and transmutes dull misery into that j active battling with sorrow which in time j produces a deeper peaeo than oven hap- t pint ss. I Hat hero nnd there are others, liko poor | Emily llowerbaiik, gifted with strong persistency of loving, and almost no other strength?no other persistency in anything; sweet, gentle, sensitive souls; climbing plants, who, if they find a prop to chug to, bloom bouut onsly all their days; but, finding 110 p:op, or being rudely torn from it, sbt> silently to the < artb, where they soon witi-cr away, nnd have no use nor beauty in their lives over after. This may not be noticeable outside; tho result may be attributed to many accidental external causes - worldly misfortune, cou titutional feebleness, and so on, but tho real cause is their hearts arc broken. Why it should 1 o -why, above all, Providence should allow it? stionld permit tho g-ntlo weak ones to succumb to the bad strong ones, and tho virtuous to bo sacrificed to tho vicious ? tho unselfish niul mu."hendnriug to tho^e who have neither tenderness nor generosity?is a mystery that nover will be unrnvolod. Wo can only if leave it with Him who. dying, prayed to His Father, as Emily llowerbauk tried to pray to tho Father in heaven, whenever fho thought of her own father, Forgive j tliem, tlicy Know not wiiuitncy uq." Nevertheless, her liourt was brokou, nod elio know it. Sho recovered front hor fever, and by dogroes resumed nlmost her former place in lier husband's household, though not in general society; she was i quite iucnpnhlo t?l" that, and, besides, dor- 1 ing liyr tedious convalescence, Sir .John had got into n habit of going to his dinnerparties alone. She was, to all appearance, quite well; slill she never again took nlirin j hold on life, uovi-r was heard to talk of the i future, or to mako any plans beyond tho month, or tho week, and then gradually ? I so gradually that no ouo perceived it?not j even b yond the day. She was not in a consumption, for the doctor found no disease in the lungs; it ' was moro what tho country pooplc call "a ; waste"- that is, a gradual sinking of all the powers of tbo body, and sometimes even of the mind; until mental griefs cease to wound, and of bo iily buttering, except weariness and feebleness, there is absolutely none. Not a painful death to die, especially when surrounded by all the j luxuries that wealth or kindly care could bestow everything, in short, except tho one thing tho one amulet of life, which j had been taken awav from hsr. JYoplo do not recognize half clearly j . enough tho truth that Clod would not lmvo I created such a thing as mutual love, end* ing in marriage, had he not meant it to bo the on i thing needful?not absolutely to tho salvation of a human soul, though it is that, or tho contrary, oflcnor thou wo hikpcct. but to its perfect development, and, abovo all, to it* happiness. Thoso who Interfere with what ia called "a love affair" are doing what thov never can uudo; destroying wnm is iiiipesKimu iu icuiuki, taking away from iiuinun beings that which no substitute, ho it family affection, wealth, worldly honor, or success, can avail to restore. All are valueless when love is not there. The sod lay green over Mr. Kendal's bones; his life was over; but ho had ungated two other lives ? livos which might huvo blossomed into beauty and carried their porfoctneas down into coining generations, when his poor, selfish existence was forgotten iu the diiHt. lie had done it, and it never could be undone. What had bccomo of John Stonliou-o was a question that .Mrs. k no win often asked liersolf. Only to herself, however. Constantly, as sho visited Lady lJowerbank, and more especially since the sad illness which followed the sudden death of Mr. Kendal, his liaino had, sinco that first night, never once been breathed between them. 11 was impossible it c?uUl be, between any two honorable women. Nevertheless, tLe older matron thought of lnm a deal more than she would have the fart that EM vu living and working somewhere in India. Mr. knowle had contrived to pre* rent all offers being made to him of retaining to England. Still, occasionally he was heard of, to Mrs. Knowle's grout satisfaction, though Boeing that Emily mado no inquiries, her j information was carefully kept to herself. But she took a romantic interest most unWortny of such a very practical and sensible old matron, in iho young man and his . fortunes; for she never ceased to believe, ( I and asserted repeatedly to ber husband, that so truo a lover and so honest a man as , John Stenliouse could uovcr have forsaken a woman in this mean way; anil, though r the real truth of the matter migliFnover ^ bo discovered, sho was as certain as she n was of her existence that there had been KnmotKlnA. ?wrung somewhere. 'f xmaJ conao right yet, who , Knows? I hope I'm not wicked?and it's } barefoot for dead men's shoos, , ut bir John is over siity, and ho will havo ? hud a very fair enjoyment of life if he ? Jives to eighty; and poor Emily will not bo much over forty-throo even then. Folks m do sometimes take tha wrong person?be- cc come widows ^and widowers ?and then m mam mgir ?m-i6vo*-gmr ff3t\narrle<t, fftnT"" and their days happily together, after all." Mr. Knowles shook his gray head. "It won't bo tho case here, wife, so yon ch iced not think it." lie gave 110 more explanation, for ho was it aot a talkative man. but his wifo noticed oa hat ho often rode round two miles out of ]^, lis way to business iu order to inquire wj iow Lady Buwerbank was thnt morning. ?y \nd" Mrs. Kuowlo, from paying a formal m( nsit once in three months, got slowly into ju I10 habit of driving to Summer Lodge at east twiee a week and spending tho morn- c0 ug with Emily. And by degrees she rourned to tho old tondor fashion, and called ou ler not "Lady llowerbank," but "Emily." One morning the two ladies wore sitting ogether, one working-for Mrs. Knowle's Bt, ingers were never empty of work?and the ro itlnr rending, or attempting to read, tho lewspaper. Newspapers were terribly in- . cresting now in all houses, for it was just ibout tho time of the Indian rovolt, and, is this generation will long remouiber, fai , md near, there was scarcely a family who iad not to mourn their dead. Lady Bowrbnnk, without giving any reasons fot Jia t?and indeed none were required, for tho * *111 ympathy was too universal?had taken n at leep interest in tho tidings brought mail 801 ifter mail, and, horrible as they ofton vero, they were not forbidden her. for ,llJ lio.v seemed to rouse her out of herself to eel for atllictions compared to which her iivn wore nothing. She also began to ox- yU rt herself and her small strength in a way fe<: ..1 1? i ?i? " > . "ui|/n.i..,u isuiu uui u.inuuuu in11.1 iuo -?" loetoiH, gathering and making eontiibn- Ho ions in aid of tho sufferers, and trying in tin i fccbio way to organize schemes for their gei e.ief, and Innl out eases of exceeding wl teed, which, by means of tho largo Indian l>u onuections of the honso of Doworbauk it nn 'o., was not dillicult to accomplish. ' I should like to do a little good beforo ?tn go, she said ono day, when Mrs. oT" xnowlo was urging lier not to overt ber- ?( L'''* I have (tone so littlo good iu inv an ifo, you know." ' ' And s > they let lior do it; and she spout go nonoy, and time, and thought, upon these ' iioluui holy charities, liar husband grudg- lui ig nothing; ho never did. Ho was a very < *od m iu. -Many a lettor ho wrote, in- j0 e drove out to luuehTh tfio'muKflo Sl*'flt8 ay- ho that used never to tako even a so alf-holid iy from business-in order to j{, Ml bis wife some piece of news, orask bow ]ttl bo was, or bring her sorno littlo delicacy rout market or hot-house, if slio chanced a b especi illy fanciful or feeble that dnv; B0 or she was very fanciful, as sickly poop\o p.] iien are; but sue strove against it in a > dliotic way; and Mrs. Kuowle noticed p, iow invariably she tried to look grateful i,n ud pleased at Sir John's littlo attentions, ml to smile steadily as long as bo remained fr u the room. W( "1 have really got a pieco of nows for on to-dnv, my dear," said he, sitting Jf lown beside her. "though it is not for you yc o much as for Mrs. Kuowle- at least half or ono and half lor tho other. You shall oj jear the pleasure betwoen you. Guess." pi The two ladies tried iu all politeness, ai nit failed signally, both of them. Ill "Well, then, tirst, Lady Howerbauk, it st ;oncerns you. That widow with threo pi shiklron?>Irs. Hamilton, you know, whose lusband was shot nt llareilly, and who st ivroto you such a pretty letter of thanks? si iho is coming homo by next mail." "With all her children, I hope! Toor q thing!" 1' " Yon need not say 'poor thing,' for it is ^ not only with her children ? alio brings a cj husband too." H "Then ho was not shot, nfter nil?" "Yes, lio was," said Sir Johu. "Hut you t< women are curious creatures. This is her si second husband. She lias married tbo gentleman who saved ber life and that of ber threo children, and brought her hundreds of miles across country and through ( indescribable perils. As she his not a ( halfpenny, and bo is pietty well off, nor- , baps, p air woman, sho in ght have uono < worse. Yon will think so, Mrs. Knowle, i for you know tlio person?our old clerk, : Johu Stenhouso." ' "John StcuhouBu! Married!" exclaimed ' Mrs. Kuowle; as, with an agitation she 1 could lmrilly conceal, she glanced toward the sofa where Lady Jlowerbunk lay. Hut this tidings, which ii:ul powerfully affected tho good lady herself, seemed to lmvo passed quite harmlessly over Kmily. Sho scarcely turned or showed any situ of emotion beyond a feeble fluttering of tho lingers, which were soon stilled aud folded upon one another over her heart? nn involuntary attitude of hers, something like Chantrey's tigiire of Resignation. "Why on earth should not the young man be niarr oJ?" said Sir John, smiling. "My dear lady, you look as vexed as if you want?id to have him for your second! i must certainly tell Knowle of this. What do vo i sav. Lnuv Howotbank?" Lady Bowcrbnnk Haiti quietly: "I think people should always m irry whoever they choose, and that nobody shonld blame or criticise them for i'.. Nobody but tlioinsolves can know the wliolo circumstances." "(.mite right. Von nre a sousiblo woman, Emily, ' said the old mm, looking tenderly at his young wife, who yet seemed so much nearer the other world than ho. "Well, I i must t'O back now, for I am full of business. You'll wait hero to dinner, Mis. Knowle?" Mis. Knowle muttmed some excuso concerning "Edward." Elm looked excoodiuglv nervous ami uncomfortablo still. "Well, do ns you like. Onlystny as long as you can stay aftd grumble at your friend Stenhouse and bis marringo. By-tlie-by, 1 tlunk 1 shall writoto meet them at Southampton; it would only lie civil, and 1 liked Stenhouse. What shall 1 givo him -your good wishes?" "If you please." "And mine," said Emily, half raising lierj self from the sofa. "I knew him uneo wo | met at Mrs. Kimwle's. lie will remember | me Emily Kendal." "Very well, my dear." After Kir lohu was gone, Mrs. Knowlo took her friends hand m hers uiul held it, but hIio did not attempt to apeak; alio literally did not know what to say. L.iilv Bow' erbank's munner, so gentle, so t omposed, I had coiuph ti ly puzz'ed, nay, I l ightened I her. Sho could no; believe it natural, but I it was natural; there was i.o alloc tat ion of paler thau usual, her eyes open, and tl*? with a soft, steady gaze on the white Bprin clouds that sailed' in monntainons masse across the dark blae sky; great heights nn depths of heaven, into which the sou when it is loosely held to earth, seems t pierce with an intense and yet calm desirt that so'othes all pain and makes everythini level and at rest. "I am glad of this?very glad," she said ifter a long pause, and without any eiplana ion. "lie ought to be married, and he wil >0 sure to make a good, kind husband h vhomever he chooses for his wife, aud n< loubt ho has chosen wiselv and well." "1 hope ho has," said Mrs. Knowlo, vther tartly. She was but human, and she lid not like tho destruction of her little ro< |i an co. "I am sure of it. The man who oould >ve one woman so faithfully as he once lved ?n? " Xlrs. ICuowlo turned round eagerly. Emily colored, even under the paleness F mortal diBeaee. "Yes, it was so. He as never untrue to me. I can't tell you ly particulars, and I never found it out ysolf till a little while ago. Hut he did >1110 book. tO the VPrw -'-1?" e. Onlr-Iw And whose doing was thatT" "My father's." Mrs. Knowle almost started from her air. "What an atrocious ?" "Hush! it is too lato now. And besides, might havo come to the same thing in tlio id." Feel hero!" and she took Mrs. aowlo's hand and put it to her hoivyt, ticlt was beating violently and irregularly. le does not know it ?my good husband, I nan. Was lie not good to ino this utorng? Nobody knows it, 1 think. But I iow it," and she smiled. "I am quite rtain?safely certain that I am dying." "Don't say that. You must not?you ght not." And Mrs. Knowle tried a liti to reason her out of that conviction, lieh seemed to be the source of all her engtb, and the soothiug of all her sorws. "No?no. This world has been a littlo a hard for rno," Emily said; "but in the tier I may begin again, and bo birong. ) you think he has forgiven me?" "Who, my poor child?" "John SJeuhouso. You see, I might vo obeyed my father,"and not married m, but then I ought not to have married all. Nobody ought, loving another peril all the time. But I was so weak?and ? Never mind. It docs not matter tch now." 'John has married, you see," said Mrs. towle, partly with a lurking sense of initiation at him and partly from a vague siing that oven now it was her duty to press that fact salutarily upon Sir John iworhank's wifo. Both tho wrath and > caution passed harmlessly over the ntle spirit, that was already loosing its ties from earthy shores, and feeling soft, ro airs blowing toward it from tho laud seen. 'Yes. he has utarriod; I can quite undort<d how it came, about; just the. Bprt nmriiage he would ho suro to make 3f pity, nml tenderness, and duly, d it may turn out a very happy one. lio II love her very mueh?when I am quite no away. I hope she is a Rood woman." 'I hope 6o," said Mrs. Knowlo rather skily. 'Would you mind trying to find out? I n't mean that I am every likely to havo '6 to VtrdV eri>onv,hi.M?-u?^lj"*_L-<--i>QivU uietliiug about her three children, too. i will have to work hard to maintain so 'go u family." "Very hard." It was strango how the two women omed to havo changed places. Emily !ked, Mrs. Knowlo was fill hut silent. "You nre sure you don't mind making ese inquiries? Or I would ask my liusmd. Yes, perhaps, niter nil, it will be tter to ask my husband, llo might boiend them very much, oud I am sure ho :iulil liko to do it." "Ju the way ho once wanted?by getting >lm Stenliouse into the lirm again? I'o ?u mean tliut? and do you wish it, Emily?" "No, not wish it exactly, ltut"?anil she icnod her eyes wide, clear and pure? ire alike with the innocence of sorrow id the peace of coming death, and tixed tern steadily on Mrs. Kuowlo's face?"I loulil not be afraid of his coming to Livorjol?not now." Mrs. Knowle faiily laid her head on tlio >fa pillow and sobbed. Then she rose up, lying iu a c heerful voice: "Well, my dear, I havo staid tnlking uito long enough for oue day, so pood-by. 11 keep a lookout after the Stenhotiscs, loantime lie down and get a sleep if yon in, and take care to ho quito bright by the :no Sir John comes in to ilinuer." "Oh. vo?. 1 always trv to do that. I like ) please him. IIo is very good to mo,' lid Emily llowerbauk. fTO hp CONTINUED, i Idquor Dinking n Kin. Total abstinence in u young man is no )iily a never faiiinc source of self-gratuln :ion, but it saves him from mnch sin. Win an doubt it who knows tlmt of tho hundred of tl'.ousaniis of drunkar.ic of this country lot one can look back to any time wnen iii yielding to the habit was moro decisive tha the time ho took his first glass.' Who cai iloubt it who knows that no sinful habit en control a man unless ho has yielded hiinse to it. that such "yielding is sin," and Mm the first and every successive glass means til welding of a link in the chain thnt in thee:: will bind himf By direct and logical coi elusion we s?e that even if tho first glas : < liquor did a man no harm, it is tho begir.nui of a dangerous course, calculated to icad : many cases to a sinful evil. Is it not th n i itself sinfulf All tho moro ;io when it known that modern science shows that < v< tho smallest quantity cf alcohol at on e a tacks and weakens the mora! power?tho very forces which are most needed to rcsi tho encroachments of the giants of anp:l and habit: To our way of thinking, /rut drinking is a sin per se.?Pionv r. Tlcrr Drinking in Chicago. There are eighteen breweries in Chica? which makes 011 an average 1,.MM,000 barre of beer annually. About 000,000 barre tome here from INlilwr.ukee and other citie Kearly all tiio beer made here is consume here, so that wo drink 1,800,000 barrels eat year. As each pint bottle makes two gliisse if 1 remember correctly, there would be si: teen glasses in a gallon, or l'.'O glasses in barrel of thirty gallons?a grand total 1 81)^,000,000 glasses. That seems to be a woi fieri ul lot of beer. Suiwose there are 1 ..MX tw.'O people in Chicago aiul its suburbs?ai that is whore all these 1,S0U,0!X) barrels a consumed annually?each man, woman a: child would get, on u fair api>ortionnioiit. little more than f>wr> glasses or nearly two day. 1 know lots of people who don't drii that much beqr in nil their lives, so the must be some who drink pretty industrious! 1 am told that good, fat boor drinkers of i dustry and skill in the business habitual get away with fifty and sixty glasses a da A few hundred people of this kind would, course, do a great deal to lower the gerjei average.? Chicago News. A bidse's Charge. The li<\uor trafiic seizes the machinery, 1 enginery of legislation, and by it create; moral phenomenon of perpetual mot which nature denies to physics; foritltceri and empowers itself to beret in endl rounds the wrongs, vices and crimes wfc society is organized to prevent. And wc of all for our country, it oncoils parties 1 the serpents of Laoeoon, and crushes in folds the spirit of patriotism and virtut Judge Noah Davis. id ft ? INTERNATIONAL tiBSSON FOB f AKARCH 31. *? 0 >? Leuon Text: Tho Quarterly Ro8 view. Golden Text: Acta 1 11., 22?Commentary. '? 1 Tbo lessens that we bare studied hare ex> hibited both the authority of Christ and hare ) set forth the principles of His kingdom. They bare shown both what He it ana what His t disciples must be- Let tho review be eon , ducted along these two lines. Till ACTOOHITY OK 1. His royal authority. Jo*us cauio as a Kh*' j' #uc,h Ho w"8 preceded by a herald i whose duty it was to urapare the way for i7V i Jo,bn the baptist declared himself to be tho voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ye ready the way of the Lord, . * ?.k ? herald, and proclaimed to the Jews that their axpected King 7"" nigb. They thought that John the Baptist hiinself was like the Messiah prophesied, to wonderful iy endowed was he, boThe Iln , Lhj ^me Conception of He told them that whereas he baptized with water, the coining One would baptizo with the Holy Spirit and with ttro. Comparatively ho was but as the bumblo messongor who runs before *ho groat King. What was moant by this superiority of Christ was shown at His baptism. Then tbe heavens opened, the Spirit descended likoa dove upon the Saviour, aud a voico from out the heavons was heard saying: "This is my beloved Son. in whom I am well pleased." Then was made manifest tho fact that Jesus was the Son of the King of Kings. His authority as a teacher. That was ono of the first things which struck the multitude with amazement. Ho did not instruct after the usual manner. Ho did not teach like the scribes,who cited decisiousand precedents, and piled high their authorities, to bolster tholr own statements. Jesus did nothing of tho kind. He spoke as if Ho Himself were the source aud tho fountain of truth. Ho did not soek confirmation oven by Moses, but laid down principles beyond those which the ancient lawgiver had ever uttered, llis "Verily, verily,1 say unto you" bad tho forco o#a "Thussaith the Lord." IIo so taught that oven His own townsmen wore compelled to ask, "Whence then hath this man all theco things?" They could not reconcile the wisdom that appeared in ail His speech with tho limited opportoiitMee #hn.n Nazareth. They discredited it becauso they , could not account for it. The very reason which caused them to reject Him is tho ono which now leads many to acknowledge Him as Lord. His extraordinary power as a teacher is manifest iu the parables which Ho put forth. S. His authority over demons. And that, 1 again, was tho causo of great wonder. No 1 ono beforo bad boen able to exorciso the evil spirits which had taken possession of men. bometimee, as in tho case of tho domoniac at Uadara, it was dangerous to have anything to do with such unfortunates. But never ono camo into the presence of Jesus whom Ho did not rescue. Ho camo that He might destroy the works of the devil. A wont of ; command, and the evil spirits departed, leaving their victims again in their right minds. In wituesslVg Ills power over them paoplo wero led to ask: "What is this!" and immediately answered thoir own question hy saying: "A new teaching! with authority Ho comuiaudcth even tho unclean spirits, and they oley llim." And His ability to helpthoso whoso spirits aro unclean is shown oven now. 4. nis authority as a healer. In what mad* manifest! IU I her, and she nroso and infiilsCerod'H | and His disciplos. Ho laid His hand upon ' a leper, who was "full of leprosy," and I instantly ho was cleansed. A timid woman ! touched tho hem of liio garment, and forthi with she felt within horsolf that she was | made whole of her plague He told a helpless paralytic to arise, and without delay ho aroso and took up his lied, and went out glorifying G'od. A blind man called to Him from tho wayside, and in turn be was callod before Him, and when told to go his way went seeing. Mark, it would seein, selected those cases which would especially exhibit the authority of Christ, for the instances mentioned are not thoso of common ailments Thoy indeed are so extreme that they allow of 110 suggestion of worso cases which might have batllod ilim. And then He had authority over his own authority. Ho could depute it to othors. It was not somothiug which Ho alone could use. He gave power to the twelve to go forth aud cast out demons, heal the sick, and even raiso tho dead. 5. His authority to forgive. When Jesus saw tho poor paralytic, and noted the need of the soul, so much deeper than that of tho body, he impulsively said: "Son, thy sins are forgiven." manpower to forgive sins ' was immediately inwardly questioned, but He demonstrated that He had tho right by commanding tho helpless man to 1 rise up and walk. In this He indicated what .. . I . 1 it,,. , IS ine truu Vlliue ui mimtiw. 4..VJ ..V.V..V. merely to remove afflictions, but to show that He has the power to forgivo sins. J Miracles nro not now wrought because that power is established. His authority to forgive is now beiug nbundantly proven by the higher miracles of changed livos. the rniNCIPLES ok Christ's kingdom. t It was not until a long list of miracles had been performed, 6uch as hnvo been enu3 mora tod, that Jesus turned to 11 is disciples s asking them, first, for tho opinions of men concerning Himself, and then for their own, is When they lmd declared their faith in Him ,, as tho Christ, tho Son of the living Cod , then He began to rovoal to them that Hi n should die and rise again. An increasiiif if tenderness marks His teaching from thi it time. Ho tells them not only what lie is t a* fuller, but what they must do and be. d 1. Cross-bearing. In making known to th i Twelve that Ho should bo offered up at Jeru >' salem,the Saviour taught them that ilisow i-C sacrifice was not tho exception in His king n dom,bnt that in laying down Ilis life Ho wn hi but acting according to a priniiplo which a] is plied to all who would follow Illm. i 3, Child-likeness. The spirit of ambitio has no place in tho kingdom of Christ. ] defeats itself. Those who woul<| bo great ii "t it, in order that they may rocoive homag from their fellows, fall to the lower place > " Not tho grasping, masterful limn is the id< i which Jesus holds up for attainment, but th receptive, trustful, humble minde l chili These w ho are childlike will tin 1 tlioir hoar ;o turning toward the children, and in the Is lovo for the children thoy still discover a no Is love for Christ. s. Consecration. Tho incident of the con 'd ing of the young rnlcr to Jesus shows ho di thorough should bo tho cousoaratiou of tho s, who desire to enter into tho kingdom of Ho r- TIia snlrlt of tliaL which was demanded a him is the saint us that wliicli is re |Hired < of all. No ouo can consecrate himself to th it* atul keep lack his property. To that as wi as to tiuio, strength, mind, ami other [ioss? id sions must l>o applied the principle that 01 ro is not solfishly to think of himself hut id others. f<iko the .Saviour Hims 'lf,one sliou a l>e hero not to bo ministered unto, but a minister. ? Pilgrim '/'cueiter. nk ? ire y. How Hospitals ni'o Filled, y Numerous and well equipped hospitals; J'j, nnmoK the liifclilv creditatilo exponents ". modern Christian benevolence. 1 liey are present all rifled, una more, lint why t so many rendered necessaryA memtier the medical statf in n London hospital he recently asked by u reporter of the Pall .1/ the (Jazette how many of the casus treated in h a institution are attributable to intemperan iou replied: "It would l>e ditlicult to estim sen the number, but it is unquestionably gr< lew Wo sometimes find even children m ich drunkards1 livers, due to the habit of jjiv irst infanta gat to soothe them while teethi ike Drink is wall us a source of much trouble it? the public houses were shut wo should h >. ? to close half our wards, or rather we sho be able to take twice as many patients!" A Busy Tradft. I I deal in liquid fire 'tis true, Put what would many others do ]f rum and alo were swept away, Where would the lawyer get hie pay? The judge would then be seldom seen, The docket would appear so lean. And you might hear the sheriff wail For pay to keep an empty jail. So now, when every side you view, You see my trade is useful, too. Altho' 1 own the traffic's wrong, It helps the busy world along. ?New Yorh I 'oice. Temperance Among tlic Ancients. The history of Europe, for a long series of centuries has, indeed, been a history of mental regeneration by science, and physical degeneration by alcohol. The frequent bold denials of the latter fact justify a brief review of the development of the alcohol vice among the nations of the Caucasian race. The often repeated assertion that our }>agau | forefathers contrived to combine a robust physique with habitual excess in the use of intoxioating^mee^iai V'r" of the latter centuries of pagan civilization I avenged themselves by a rapid decline in all the essential endowments of that physical vigor that had made Rome and Greece almost invincible bulwarks against the inroads of Eastern barbarism. In the century of Eeonidas, when temperance lessons wont band in hand with the athletic training of the Bpartan gymnasia, one Spattan warrior was considered a match for two wine-drinking Athenians, and for at least a do/on wine and beer guzzling Asiatics. In Magna Graecia (Sicily and southern Apulia) where Grecian civilization attained its zenith of material prosperity, absolute abstinence from intoxicating drinks was enforced by the precepts of Pythagoras, whose philosophy had acquired almost the authority of ail established religion. The athlete Milo who could break a bull's head with a blow of his list and use his arms as props for the pillars of a falling temple, was a disciple of that school, and his native city, Crotona, recognized temperance as a chief condition of election to numerous offices of public trust. Similar Jaws prevailed in Agrigentutn, and in Syracuse, tlio champion city of tho southern Caucasians and the last refuge of freedom when the hordes of Africa attempted tho conquest of the Grecian colonies. A thousand years lat^r, when all southern Europe was sunk in alcohainmed had' 'steeled' tho" manhood of the Semitic races, the descendants of those Sicilian heroes were vanquished again and again by small detachments of Saracen warriors, ? I oice. That featoou. Keep away from that saloon, boys. It is a bad place for you. Some things you can see, others you can not. lJeer, whisky, cigars, candy and sometimes fruits nnd nuts are seen. These are seen where the windows are clear, and somebody cleans tho handle of that big front door. There is another room where papers are provided for reading, and games played for checks, redeemable at the counter in the outer room. This may be all you will see if you go in there a low times; Out by-ana-ny you will seo a grinning, uuiieyed creature storing at you from tho mirror on the wall. Perhaps he will make his ap. Garance while you are waiting for more er, and you will never think it is a reflection of yourself. Put there is worse in that salcon. There is poverty, disgrace and death sold over that counter, paid for often in money which should buy bio?d for starving para*.... o.,.-,? . _ with music. The evil spirit seems to have spent nis greatest cunning in disguising tho horrors of intemperance. Boys will go into such u saloon who would not think of going into a common drinking eel lar. But thousands who have taken their first glass in such a saloon have ended in the lowest groggeries. Boys, do not do as they have done. Don't e:icliango your good thoughts, your bright hopes for intoxicating drink. Don't shorten half your life and make the other half contemptible. Live as God intended you should live. If you begiu to drink, no matter how small tho quantity or how weak the quality, you cannot tell where you will stop. I lead in the paper tho other day of a man serving a life-sentence in prison for the murder of a friend, lie began to drink as u boy, so little at first lie never thought of danger. When a young man, 011 one occasion ho drank too much, and his brain was on fire; a word angered him, ho struck a blow which made him a murderer. In paying for liquor he paid for li s murderous disposition. It was one of the things not seen. My dear boys, as you valuo your life nul happiness, keep out of that saloon.?Farm, Field and Stockman. London's Barmaids. One of the worst phases of liquor-selling in London, and other English cities, is the employment in connection therewith of young girls as barmaids. Commenting upon the Whttechapel gin-palaces, and oj>en archways wherein liquors nra sold, Lady Henry Somerset says: "All these places arc served by young girls. Your hearts would have siekened if vou could have looked on those young faces. 1 say shame on us as a nation. In America the amount of drinking is onor1 inous. But there is all honor to tho nation in one resjiect; their feeling about children and youug giris does not exist in England. I You never find a native-born American girl ' serving as a barmaid in the States. On ah ' the land over which wave the Stars and ? Stripes you will not find young girls placed s in positions of such temptation and danger o 1 cannot doscribe the horrors of that scent in Whitechapol. the streots illuminated b; e the lights of gin palaces." Several unsiu cc3iful attempts have been made, f rom tim u to timo, to introduce the barmaid system ii New York city, but happily they have thu 13 far been frowned down by an indignan y- public opinion. ? Temperance Advocate. n It Temperance News and Notes. II Tho ladies of the W. C. T. U. in Cret . Neb., serve a ten cent lunch every S'nturda; ki Dr. H. (irattan Guinness of London, in t id address dolivored before the Congregation ?r.e nhicncrn rercntlV. s.'i d that tl |# i! 1111 htjl o v* - , , ts friends of Africa oven dread the building ir the projiosed Congo railroad became of tl w greater facilities it v. ill provide for tror porting the awful curse of rum into th i- country. ,v "The I>ongue of the Cro.-s" is a society ji: so organized in New York. Its nionihers pled *' themselves not to treat or oca opt a treat of anything to drink. It is believed that t league will be a powerful temperance fact* "1 besides saving its members a good deal money. The treating custom is responsil for much of the intemperance in this counti Tlie i'opular Xcienrr. Mont it h/ gives t PI following: "M. Maramlol reports that 30!Ml convicts in France examined with i s,>ect to their habits of drunkenness or to peranco, seventy-nine pel cent, of vngahom from fifty to fifty-seven per cent, of assass and incendiaries, fifty-three nor cent. olTenders against ino-als, seventy-one | cont.of thieves and shaiafrirsand seventy sei 4 , per cent, of olTenders a%ainst projierty w ? drunkards. Drunkards are nearly as mi erous among youths under twenty as anu o? adults.' ing The AVm> Republic, says: "It takes ab 'aV fifteen cents worth of corn to make flft the dollars worth of whisky, and the form ice, share of the outcome of the whisky busii ate is too small to warrant any very extern >at. stretchings of his conscience. The distill nth only ua? a little over one per cent of the c< ing grown and what they do u-e takes the p! ng. of other corn for fattening hogs and cat If If the world can get away with ninetv-r ava bushels of good corn and one bushel of s tlld wo think they will bo ablo to manage whole hundred in sound corn without break in the market." A Suggestion. Let tho wild roso bloom. Though not to tho So delicately perfect as tho wnito And unwed lily drooping in the light: Though sh? has known the kisses of the doo And tells her amorous tale to passers by, In perfume;! whispers and with untaught race, {Still let tho red rose bloom in her own place; Sue could not bo tho lily should sho try! Why to tho wondrous nightingalo cry, "Hush," Or bid her cease her mid, heart breaking lay And tune her voi o to imitato tho way; Tho whippoorwill makes music, or tho thrush? All heirs of unrrnnr " * ' - ? ?.iv v.nu memo coiong, And passion is n <t copyrighted. Yet Each heart writes its own music. Why not let The nightingale uncliidod sing her song? A7M Wheeler 1 Kite oar. \ Woiycn Workers In the Church. pcrfJstcnt workers are Trr hi WMtll kiuou* I * *-- . .4 i Jjlg among these may Vk> encouraged by 1< arniug more fully of Deborah, the Judge; and Anna, the prophetess; of Mnrv, in her devoted sorvieo to Christ ; and of Dorcas, in her ministrations to i he needs of the poor. It was the women who were last at the cross, and Hist at the sepulchre, l'riscilla could hospitably entertain Paul, and success idly teach A polios. Hotli the t )ld and the New Testaments abound in instances where woman was honored with devino coinini sions which she discharge! with marked acceptance and success. Nor were they without their plaeo in the early church, laboring as -deaconesses, (Rom. 1(5: 1), and as indis|K'iisablo helpers in catrying forward the great work of Christ in the world.?"Methods of Church Work.' Wlicn tlio Day la Over. It is wise at night to read?but for a few minutes?some books which will compose and soothe the mind; which w'll bring us face to face with the true fa ts ot life, death and eternity; which will make us remember that man cloth not live by bread alone; which will givo us I eforo we sleep a few thoughts wort >y of a Chri-ti in man with an immortal soul in liini. And thank God, no one need go ill tlio-o days; I mean o iv b oks which lio!p to make us better and wiser anil soberer and more charitable persons; any books which will teach us to despise what is vulgar and mean, fouj and cruel, and to love what is noble and highminde I, pure and just. In our own English language wo may ro id by hundreds books wlii; M will tell of all virtue and of nil praise; i lie stories of giol and bravo men ami women; of gillmit and heroic net ions; of divds which wo ourselves should bo proud of doing; of tiers >ns when wo feel to lie lietter, wiser, nohlor than wo are ourselves.?Canon Kinysley. Training Children. The Sunday Sch< ol Times enjoins upon pnrenis to make clear ih distinction tliafc marks, in the child's mind, the Suhb th as the day of tluys in the week's history. The child may bo differ-ntly dressed, or dilf rontly washed, or differently handled, on that dnv, from any oilier. Si mo mom disagreenhlo detail of its mornin j toilet, or of its day's management, might < n thut day bo oinitted, as a means of marking tho day. There may bo u sweeter song Ming in its some sort granxeti 10 if, v. o.... , joy with that day in comparison witn the days 011 cither siuo of it. S i soon as tho child is old enough to grasp a rattle or to piny with a toy, t h- ro ought to bo a diiTeioiico between bis S ibbadi rattle or (ither toy and his weekday delights in tho >aino line. Hy ono means or another ho should linvo tho Sabbaths to look back upon as his brightest memory, and to look forward to as his fondest anticipation. And in this way ho can bo trained to enjoy tho Sabbath, evi 11 before ho can know why it is mode a joy to him. _A I child is well started in the lino of wiso training when ho is carried nk ng as far as this.? licliyioxts Jlcrahl. Indebted to Christ. Thorn are men and women here who would have been dead twenty years ago but for Tesus. They liavo gone through trial enough to exhaust ten times their physical strength. Their property went, tneir ir nn,:i went, their families woro scattered. God only knows what tlioj' suffered. They nro an amazement to themselves that they have been ablo to stand it. They look at their onco happy home surrounded by all comfort. Uono! ii.cy think of tlio time when they used to rise strong in the morning ami walk vigorously <1 ?wn tli * street on 1 had experienced a health they thong't inexhaustible. Gone! Everything gone but Jesus. lie ha.' pitied them. llis eye has watchod them. His omnipotence has defended them. Yes, He has bisat with them. They have gone through disaster and lie was a pillar of (in by tii lit. They have gone across stormy Galileo, but Chris! had His foot on tho ncel o the storm. They felt the waves of troll lilo coming up around tlicin gradually, un< thty began to climb into the strong rock o God's defense, and then they sang as tlioj [ look d over the waters: "God is ? ur refngi I and strength, an ever present help in tint i of tr uble; therefore we will not fear thong i the earth bo r< moved, though tho mountaii he carried into the midst of the sea, thong a the waters thereof loir and be troubloi / though tlie mountains shako with the swellii thereof.''?Tuhmujp. a n 9 Well Orilereil Prayer. ' A'as for tli > sad errors eharacterizin multitudes of our prayers to God! AVo aand receive not, la-causi wo ask amis There is too much of making speeches liefoi Him?especially in our public and soeii 9) prayers. An wo not often moro solicitoi y' in these prayers to please those who hoar i in l'i'ay, than to receive from tho I).vino Ilai aj the things name I in our prayers? Km !; I ray is are but mere ceremonies, and nro of regarded by the imiltitinle; and tliov may lie | proiioime* il u-eless and wors than usoie is- i inasmuch as they cannot lie otherwise th at j displeasing in the sight of Go I, while of h I who thus professes to pray, tho sulci language of St. .lames is sadly nppropria ?6 j "l/d ii >t that man think that he shall i ; eeive anything of tlio Lord." I,e ' What, then, shall wo do? and how sh * I lu.v HI'1 V )r | w.i omer our | 111 > < i -- .-w n{ accepted? Co <? Hitn in infinite lowlin and 11 list fulness. L"| tli<" ami soul r y, into 11 is blessed presence, ami sjm- k to lli j As lie is cvi r aii'l alvvavs whispering to yi 0j ami saving ''Ask of Me;" 'Make kno re_ your requests;" "fall upon Me;" "Conn in- nla:" so ma o your ro jmnsos to those | .1, eious wor Is, ami say, "l/>rd, I <lo ask j?, Thee? I do call?I <lo come? I do tell T 0f a!'. He merciful to me, and nhvays help ppr as I need.-' Thus "eonverso" with Iliin. ,on ; His words to lis. p or sinners, may lie c era sidered periietual words. They ar m t ii mi ly onco spoken, but always spoken In 11 >ng hlisslul promises wliieli were tirst utterc the ancient saints, Ho i; ever and alw nut ?| caking?sp akin< tothe -. Ix>t your roap 3P? t s Is- equally cons ant. Be always conver ei-'a with Him. Tell Ilim everything. "1 less o?t your heart before Ilim." Toil hiin live your soeiets yo .r keenest, deejiest trii lers matters whie!. you withhold from your <1 orn est earthly friend. Talk with Ilim of ov ace thing that interests y u. and f< rget rot tie. He is more d Cply intere tod than vol line thosomatters Docs lie enro for the t lop, row? Does lie nuinLur the ha rs of ; the head? D es He love you with an inconi any able love? Then fear not to walk and with Ilim evermore!?/lion's Herald. Walter and William Whit*, of Marlboro, Man., aged eight and sixteen yea** 3 applied a match to a box of powder which they had saturated with kerosene. The explosion that followed killed both boys. Thomas R. Evans and John Walsh, mint crs, while engaged in throwing down coal aft Hyde Fork, Ponn., detached a large slab 1 which slipped and fell upon them. Evans was crushed to death. Walsh suffered fatal injuries. Akteu deliberating three hours the jury brought in a verdict acquitting Thomas B. Kerr, of Now York city, of complicity in the bribing of the Boodlo Aldermen of 1884 in order to procure a franchise for the Broadway Surface Railway. While walking on the traoks near Mauch Chunk, Fenn., Miss Mable Tattle, a school teacher, wa3 struck by a passenger train and killed. ? . J. P. Underwood, a prominent planter of a, as a club, but Underwood Anally succeeded in cutting his throat fatally. Underwood's left shoulder was shot off. Willis Green, Anderson Mitchell and Daniel Jones (all colored), were hanged at ArlrnrljUnl.:.. A-l. ? mn., lur mo muruer or a colored minister named Horton. Tiif. house of William Flowers, at Hollow ltock, Tonn., was burned, and Flowers, his wifoand two children perished in the flames. James 8. Cdaukson roceivod his commismission and inumdiatoly took the prescribed oath and ontered upon his duties as First Assistant Postmaster-General. Orders have been given to tho commandants of navy yards by Secretary Tracy to discharge all susponded employes. It was formerly the custom to keep tho names of such suspended employes on the rolls, to bo taken up when work was resumed. By an explosion of fire damp in a colliory near Niines, France, fifteen persons wsro killed and six injured. " TTfrnrany nws tiwtf siOppou uy-?uuw storms. Extensive floods wore reported in Galicia. Mnnv Inwna vvAro iniinrlnfnH The Gladstonian candidate, Mr. Roaufoy, won a decisive victory nt tho Kenning ton election to tho English Parliament; his vote was '10151), against olliJ for Mr. Hope, tho Conservative. The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick celolira tod the birth of thoir patron at Delmoni:o's, Now York city, and ex-President Cleveland spoko to tho toast of "Tho United States." A stoiim nccompaniod by oxlraordiuarily bigh tides, did groat daniago nlong tho New Jersey anl Long Island coasts. Tho Life Saving Service station house nt Far Hockiway was destroyed and trains on tho Now forsoy Bouthofn Hallway abandonod. All tlio .watering places suiToroi more of loss loin ago. Is a coniossoa aoiauiwr iu wnmiium 100. lie had boon 0110 of tho most trusted sflicinls ol tho bank for over twenty years. GovEHNOtt Taft, of Ithodo Island, has received a lottor of resignation of his olllco of United States Senator from Hon. Jonathan Chaco. IIo rosigns on account of ill hoatth. Gknkhai. Tiiacv, tho now Sccrotary of tho Navy, was tondorod a banquet by his fallow-townsmen, at tho Hamilton Club, in Brooklyn, N. Y. The Oklahoma boomers wore drivon out jf tho Territory by United States troops. Tmcbark Pottenclll. of Portland. Mo., was wrecked at tlio Virginia Capes aud fourlocn lives wero lost Deputy United States Maukiial W. A. Moody, of Fort Smith, Ark., has been murdered in Indian Territory by two men named Bonner and Hill, whom ho was attempting to arrost. He is the sixteenth Government olllcer killed there in tho last ton months. Professor Adonija 8. Welch, ox-United States Senator for Florida, died a few days ago at Pasadena, Calf, aged sixty-eight years. Heavy rains and terrific storms liavo indicted great dnmago in Southern California, c Three lives wero lost at Ventura. I Ciian.nino Frank Mkkk, gonoral manager f of tho Denver, Texas and Fort Worth Itailf wuy Company, has boon tondered tho posits tiou of Geuoral Superintendent of tho Kaill" way Mail Service. 1S A rattle between tho followers of Sonh oussi and tho Mnhdists has taken place at I, Sinan, Africa, and tho former wero victorious. Both sides sufTored heavy i0s303. Among the killed were two Mahdist chiefs. Admiiiai. Kroutz has been appointed French Minister of Marine to fill tho vacancy ? caused by tho cloath of Admiral Junros. s- Tiik dead body of Miss Holen Buttrock, an ^ American student of music at the Berlin is Academy was taken from the IIIvor^fjproa^ us Tho dead g:rl, who undoubtedly committod ? * suicido, came from Milford, N. H. L-h F QUADRUPLE MURDER. " ) [111 im A Nevada Man Kills His Father-In"J: law's Family and Himself*. re- At Italian Canyon, Nor., Kamnol itundle killed liis fatkci-in-law, Ueorgo Honking, 1M< an I his brother-in-law, aged fifteen, by (1SS shooting tbcm with a shotgun, tho charge of is? shot entering the neck and severing the juguin. Inr voin of the former and tearing away the mi i fuco of tho latter. u ii A lioy named John King, hearing tikL shot, to came toward the house. He was by ,p,._ Rundle, holding the gun. The latter asked ,,f the boy to shoot him The boy refused. I?.l( Bundle then took tho boy's horse and rode mo three miles to the lower ranch, eafagral the kitclion of tho house, and with n shot Mrs. liosking in the head and then snot hiraself. The shooting was tho result of a family ciiiarrol over a division of property. The iosc . ('our bodies were brought to Austin and an '' inquest held. ays ??? SIX LIVES ^OST. "our , ?!! Wreck of an American Rrlg Off the Virginia Coast, rrv- The American brig Agaes barton, from I ^ Nassau to l'altimore, with*a cago of phos. par- phate rock, lias l>een wrecked on the Virv nil' ginia coast, one-half mile north of the Dam ?v . jv- A'ock Life Having Station, and about f?5r taik miles south of Virginia Beach. Her Captam and five of the crew were lost. I |