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A Trapper's Life. The •winter, though not without its ex citements, is a long and lonely one, and the work very hard. For six months you tee no living soul and have only your dog for company. Very likely, too,you may be poorly paid for your time. I trapped one whole winter and only caught four marten by my land trapping. After I had been at it for a time I saw that there were no marten in the country, and as I happened to have two No. 4 traps with me, I started trapping otter and caught thirty-seven during the winter. When the trapping is at an end, you begin to think of getting your fur to market. The skms must first be got out to your canoe, if you are trapping on the coast or a large river, or else out to some settlement. The furs are made up into bales of a size convenient for packing and carried out, a cache being made of your first load if you have to make two or more trips. Then your canoe is stowed and you set sail for your market, which on this northern coast is generally Victoria, where the skins are sold at auc tion. Nothing definite can be said about the returns in this business. Much depends on the skill and industry of the trapper, and quite as much on the abundance or scarcity of the fur. About the best winter I ever made in land trapping was twenty fishers and from 180 to 190 mar ten. Besides this regular fur a man may pick up odds and ends by steel traps and poison; a bear or two, a few wolves, perhaps a wolverine. These would bring in a lew dollars in addition to the regular catch. Then, too, a man may have an opportunity on his way down the coast to catch a few otter or bear or to trade for a few furs with the Indians, but on the whole, even in the best of years, a man got but small return for a season which lasted perhaps from August 1 to June 1.—Forest and Stream. Does the Moon Cause Earthquakes? With regard to the phases of the moon's motions, M. Brisco found that in four years, 1886 to 1890, the number of earthquakes near new and full moons, exceeded the number at the quarters very nearly in the proportion of six to four. In a number of exceedingly elaborate calculations M. Brisco has en deavored to show that, however the fig ures were handled, they always present the same general conclusions; but there are not as yet sufficient facts to justify more than a passing allusion to this curious speculation. It does, however, appear to be an inevitable deduction from the evidence, not only that earth quakes occur more frequently at the periods of new and full moon, but that their frequency increase at the time when the moon is nearest the earth and dimin ish when it is most distant; and, more over, that earthquake shocks are more frequent w r hen the moon is near the meridian that when she is ninety de grees from it. M. Perrey, the French scientist, tried to figure out some connec tion between moon phases and earth quakes as long ago as 1844.—St. Loui Republic. Islands are Healthy. Professor Roster, of Florence, Italy, itly py.imiiipd t.ho air oL KEY. Dll TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN DAY SERMON. Subject :“The Brilliancy of Religion Text: "The crystal cannot equal it”— Job xxviii., 7. Many of the precious stones of the Bible have come to prompt recognition. But for the present I take up the less valuable crys tal. Job, in my text, compares saving wis dom with a specimen of topaz. An infidel chemist or mineralogist would pronounce the latter worth more than the former, but Job makes an intelligent comparison, looks at religion and then looks at the crystal and pronounces the former as of superior value to the latter, exclaiming, in the words of my text, “The crystal cannot equal it.” Now, it is not a part of my sermonic de sign to depreciate the crystal, whether it be found in Cornish mine or Hartz mountain or Mammoth Cave or tinkling among the pen dants of the chandeliers of a palace. The crystal is the star of the mountain: it is the queen of the cave; it is the eardrop of the hills; it finds its heaven in the diamond. Among all the pages of natural history there is no page more interesting to me than the page crystallographic. But I want to show you that Job was right when, taking religion in one hand and the crystal in the other, he declared that the former is of far more value and beauty than the latter, recommending it to all the people and to all the ages, declar ing, “The crystal cannot equal it.” In the first place, I remark that religion is superior to the crystal in exactness. That shapeless mass of crystal against which you accidentally dashed your foot is laid out with more exactness than any earthly city. There are six styles of crystallization, and all of them divinely ordained. Every crystal has mathematical precision. God’s geometry reaches through It. and it is a square, or it is is a rectangle, or itdaa rhomboid, or in some way it hath a mathematical figure. Now, religion beats that in the simple fact that spiritual accuracy is more beautiful than material accuracy. God’s attributes are exact God’s law exact. God’s decrees exact God’s management of the world exact—never counting wrong, though He counts the grass blades, and the stars, and the sands, and the cycles. His providences never dealing with us Everything in our life arranged without any possibility of mistake. Each life a six sided prism. Born at the right time, dying at the right time. There are no “hap pen so’s” in our theology. If I thought this was a slipshod universe I would go crazy. God is not an anarchist. Law, order, sym metry, precision, a perfect square, a perfect rectangle, a perfect rhomboid, a perfect cir cle. The edge of God’s robe of government recta ni rfe, a perfect rhomboic ' !. The edge of God’s robe or gove never frays out. There are no loose screws in the world’s machinery. It did not just happen that Napoleon was attacked with in digestion at Borodino so that he became in competent for the day. It did not just hap pen that John Thomas, the missionarv, on a heathen island, waiting for an outfit and orders for another missionary tour, received that outfit and those orders in a box that Boated ashore, while the ship and the crew that carried the box were never heard of. The barking of F. W. Robertson’s dog, he tells us, led to a line of events which brought him from the army into the Christian min istry, where he served God with world re nowned usefulness. It did not merely hap- r ?n so. 1 believe in a particular providence. believe God’s geometry may be seen in all our life more beautifully than in crystallog raphy. Job was right. “The crystal caundt equal it.” Again I remark that religion is superior to the crystal in transparency. We kno^ not when or by whom glass was first dis covered. Beads of it have been found in the tomb of Alexander Severus. Vases of it are brought up from the ruins of Herculaneum. There were female adornments made out of it three thousand years ago—those adorn ments found now attached to the mum mies of Egypt. A great many commen tators believes that my text means glass, it would we do without the crystal? ^crystal in the window to keep out the ment it implants? Beautiful religion in the hope it kindles! Beautiful religion iu the fact that it proposes to garland and enthrone and imparadise an immortal spirit. Solomon says it is a lily, Paul says it is a crown, i The Apocalypse says it is a fountain kissed ' of the sun. Ezekiel says it is a foliaged cedar. Christ says it is a bridegroom come to fetch home a bride. While Job in the text takes up a whole vase of precious stones —the topaz, and the sapphire, and the chrysoprasus—and he takes out of this beau tiful vase just one crystal, and holds it up until it gleams in the warm light of the east ern sky, and he exclaims, “The crystal can not equal it.” Oh, it is not a stale religion. It is not a stupid religion, it is not a toothless hag, as some seem to have represented it; it is not a Meg Merriles with shriveled arm come to scare the world. It is the fairest daughter of God, heiress of all His wealth. Her cheek the morning sky; her voice the music of the south wind; her step the dance of the sea. Come and woo her. The Spirit and the bride say come, and whosoever will, let him come. Do you agree with Solomon and say it is a lily? Then pluck it and wear it over your heart. Do you agree with Paul and say it is a crown? Then let this hour be your coro nation. Do you agree with the Apocalypse and say it is a springing fountain? Then come and slack the thirst of your soul. Do you believe with Ezekiel and say it is a foliaged cedar? Then come under its shadow. Do you believe with Christ and say it is a bridegroom come to fetch home a bride? Then strike hands with your Lord the King while I pronounce you everlastingly one. Or if you think with Job that it is ». jewel, then put it on your hand like a ring, on your nect like a bead, on your forehead like a star, while looking into the mirror of God’s Word you acknowledge “the crystal cannot equal Again, religion is superior to the crystal In its transformations. The diamond is only & crystallization of c ml. Carbonate of lime rises till it becomes calcite or aragonite. Red oxide of copper crystallizes into cubes and octahedrons. Those crystals which adorn our persons and our homes and our museums have only been resurrected from forms that were far from lustrous. Scientists for ages have been examining these wonderful trans formations. But I tell you in the gosoel of the Son of God there is a more wonderful transformation. Over souls by reason of sin black as coal and hard as iron God by His comforting grace stoops and says, “They shall be Mine in the day when I make up My jewels.” “iVhat,” say you, “will God wear jewel ry?” If He wanted He could make the stars of heaven His belt and have the even ing cloud for the sandals of His feet, but He does not want that adornment. He will not have that jewelry. When God wants jewel ry He comes down and digs it out of the depths and darkness of sin. These souls are all crystallizations of mercy. He puts them on, and He wears them in' the presence of the holy universe. He wears them on the hand that was nailed, over the heart that was pierced, on the temples that were stung. “They shall be Mine,” saith the Lord, “in the day when I make up'My jewels.” Won derful transformation! “The crystal cannot equal it.” There she is, a waif of the street, but she shall be a sister of charity. There he is, a sot in the ditch, but he shall preach the gospel. There, behind the bars of a prison, but he shall reign with Christ forever When sin abounded grace shall much more abound. The carbon becomes the solitaire. “The crystal cannot equal it.” Now, I have no liking for those people who are always enlarging in Christian meet ings about their early dissipation. Do not go into the particulars, my brothers. Simply say you were sick, but make no display of your ulcers. The chief stock in trade of some ministers and Chris tian workers seems to be their early crimes and dissipations. The number of pockets you picked and the number of chickens you stole make very poor prayer meeting rhetoric. Besides that, it discourages other Christian people who never got drunk or stole anything. But it is pleasant to know that those who were farthest down have been brought high est up. Out of infernal serfdom into eternal liberty. Out of darkness into light. From coal to the solitaire. “The crystal cannot equal it.” But, my friends, the chief transforming power^f_the gospel will not be seen in this until heaven breaks upon the light falls upon the soul le crystals. Oh, what a [or these jewels of etern- jeople representing ‘ un attractive F RELIGIOUS READING. if. If your lips Would keep from sill's, Five things observe with car#; Of whom you speak'. To whom you spesk. And how, and when and where. If you your ears Would save from jeers. These things keep meekly hid; Myself and I, And mine and my, And how I do or did. GODS PLOWING. I was walking, once in the early spring, along the country road. Just over the stone fence yonder there was a broad field, smooth a» a floor, and most exquisitely arrayed in the iresh spring greenness of its grass. It seemed to me mv eyes had rarely fallen on a sight so lovely. But ripping right through that smooth and pleasant greenness there was being dragged a plow, and the fresh beauty of the fair sward was being turned under from the sun and air, and only the ugly brown soil was being turned outward, and all the fair and radiant scene was being changed and scarred. “Why?” I asked myself. " I do not have to wait long for an answer. The “chastise ment” of the fair field was in order that the autumn might find it golden with the more precious harvest of the wheat. Well, God’s plowshare cuts, but never for the simple sake of cutting; always for the sake of re sults of character—fairer, sweeter, nobler. There is benign design behind our chastise ment. “Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees.”—[Way- land Hoyt. KEEP BfSV. If you expect God to choose you for a great'work, be busy; he seldom selects idlers. When he wished a deliverer for Israel, he went into the wilderness for Moses, who was watching sheep; when he wanted a man to save his people from the Midianites, he sent for Gideon, who was threshing wheat; when he wanted a man after his own heart to be king of Israel, he sent for David who was keeping sheep. Idlers do not suit; the Lord wishes those who are not only willing to work, but who are hard at it. Idlers are too often lazy, and that may be the cause of their idlene>s. Such seldom have enough ambition to take care of them selves. let a'one earing for the Lord’s work. But idlers suit Satan exactly. He likes such as have no ambition, for they make the best slaves. The devil wants slaves for his work, but God wants something better. He wishes men and women who have ambition, who take an interest in their work; he wishes servants who are anxious to rise, for he mears to promote them someday. From servants he adopts them into his family and makes them his children.— [Forward. THE BIGHT KIND OF BELIGIOX. I do not want to be misunderstood. I am working for a revival of religion—a religion that converts people, renews them in the spirit of their mind, creates them anew in Christ Jesus, delivers from the bondage of sin, injects new ideas, purer, better than the old, brings them out of the world, and sepa rates them unto Christ; a religion that re deems a man from all sin and sets him on holy living—on self-denial, painstak ing, circumspection and prayer—that imbues his spirit with love, seasons his conversation with grace, and makes him a witness for the truth as it is in Jesus; an example, a model, an Israelite with out guile or hypocrisy or wavering. In a worn, let us in the name of the Lord have a revival of pure, undefiled religion—a sin killing, sin-hating, sin-forsaking, debt-pay ing. God-serving, man-loving religion: a re ligion that makes the church liberal, that lifts up the fallen drunkard, sets him up right on his feet, makes and keeps him sober—that crucifies the pride of life, the lust of the flesh—roots out the love of the world, and fills the soul with-the love of the Father; a consistent, steadfast, »ncompromising re ligion, always aboundii* in the work of the Lord.— [Bishop Pierce. \ _ Queer Superstitions. The Zulus of Africa believe that per sons who die sudden or violent deaths have been killed by the rainbow. All individuals among them who lose their lives by falls, drowning or wild beasts perish because the rainbow has devoured their ka-la, or spirit. In the New He brides there is, or was, a colony of pro fessional disease makers, who live by col lecting such rubbish as the skin of a banana which a man has eaten. The banana skin is rolled up and slowly burned, the result being that as it burns the consumer of the fruit becomes more and more sick until he makes up his mind to propitiate the wizards by pres ents. But even the wizards are not se cure against such influences, and at times they themselves discover that sombody is burning their rubbish and so are driven to appeal for mercy. The custom of ringing the “passing bell” took its rise from the notion that its sound would drive away the evil spirits that stood waiting at the bed of a sick man for hia soul. Abyssinian sorcerers attach to the image of a person whom they wish to tor ture by inflicting injuries upon his like ness the name of the victim, and to pre vent this the people conceal their baptis mal names.— Washington, Star. Can the sale of an Inferior article constantlj increase for 34 years? Dobbins’s Electric Soar has been on the market ever since 18*55. and it to-day as ever, the best and purest family soar made. Try it. 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