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_F8he is dead. Where are aTT"^H ■iting and salutary in fluences They do not touch him. some one long ago in the case undeKtand that there was an op portunity for the exploit which would be famous in heaven a quadrillion of years after the earth has become scattered ashes in the last whirlwind? Why did not the district attorney take that young man into his private office and say! “My son, I sea that you ars the victim of circumstances. This is your first crime. You are sorry. I will bring the person you wronged into your presence, and you will apologize and make all the reparation you can, and I will give you another chance.” Or that young man is presented in the courtroom, and he has no friends present, and the judge says, “Who is your counsel?” And he answers, “I have none.” And the judge says, “Who will take this young man’s case?” And there is a dead halt,and no one offers, and after awhile the judge turns to some at torney, who never had a good case in all his life and never will, and whose advocacy would be enough to secure the condemna tion of innocence itself. And the profes sional incompetent crawls up beside the prisoner, helplessness to rescue despair, where there ought to be a struggle among all the best men of the profession as to who should have the honor of trying to help that unfortunate. How much would such an at torney have received as his fee for such an advocacy® Nothing in dollars, but much every way in a happy consciousness that would make his own life brighter, and his own dying pillow sweeter, and his own heaven happier—the consciousness that he had saved a man! So there are commercial exigencies. A yery late spring obliterates the demand for spring overcoats and spring hats and Spring apparel of all sorts. Hundreds of thousands ol people say, “It seems we are going to bare no spring, and we shall go straight out of winter into warm weather and we can get along without the usual spring at tire.’’ Or there is no autumn weather, the heat plunging into the cold, and the usual clothing which is a compromise between summer and winter is not required. It makes a difference in the sale of millions and millions of dollars of goods, and some oversanguine young merchant is caught with a vast amount of unsa'able goods that will never be salable again, except at prices ruinously reduced. The young merchant with a somewhat limited capital is in a predicament. What shall the old merchants do as they see the young man in this awful crisis? Rub their > hands and laugh and sayy “Good for him. He might have known better. When he has been in business as long as we have he will not load his shelves in that way. Ha! Ha! He will burst up before long. He had no business to open his store so near to ours anyhow.” Sheriff’s salol Red flag in the window: “How much is bid for these out- of-fashion spring overcoats and spring hats or fall clothing out of date? What dc I hear in the way of a bid?” . "Four dol lars.” “Absurd; I cannot take that bid oi four dollars apiece. Why, these coat* when first put upon the market were offered at fifteen dollars each, and now I am offered only four dollars. Is that all? Five dollars do I hear? Going at that! Gone at five dollars,” and he takes the whole lot. The young merchant goes home that night and says to his wifej We 11, Mary, we will have'lb move ouFof this'House" arTo sell our piano. That old merchant that has had an evil eye on me ever since I started has bought out all that clothing, and he will have it rejuvenated, and next year put it on the market as new, while we will do well if we keep out of the poor- house.” The young man, broken spirited, goes to hard drinking. The young wife with her baby goes to her father’s bouse, and not only is his store wiped out, but his home, his morals and his prospects for two worlds— this and the next. And devils make a ban quet of fire and fill their cups of gall, and drink deep to the health of the old merchant who swallowed up the young merchant who sot stuck on spring goods and went down. That is one way, and some of you have tried it. But there is another way. That young merchant who found that he had miscalcu lated in laying in too many goods of one kind, and been flung of the unusual season, is standing behind the counter, feeling very blue and biting bis fiuger nails, or looking over his account books, which read darker and worse every time he looks at them, and thinking how his young wife will have to be put in a plainer house than she ever ex- ie, and tell them 1 sent you. The embarrassed aud humiliated woman seemed to give way to Christian confidence. She started out with a hopeful look that I think must have won for her a place in which to earn her bread. I rather think that considerate and Christian gen tleman saved a woman. New York and Brooklyn ground up last year about thirty thousand young women and would Jike to grind up about as many this year. Out of all that long procession of women who march on with no hope for this world or the next, battered and bruised and scoffed at, and flung off the precipice, not one but might have been savel for home and God and heaven. But good men ani good wom en are not in that kind of business. Alas for that poor thing! Nothing but the thread of that sewing girl’s needle held her, and the thread broke. I have heard men tell in public discourse wbot a man is, but wh&t is a woman? Until so* ^ne shall give a better definition, I will tell you what woman is. Direct from God, a sacred tnd delicate gift, with affections so great that no measuring line short of that of the infinite God can tell their bound. Fashioned to refine and soothe aud lift and irradiate home and society and the world. Of such value that no one can appreciate it, unless his mother lived long enough to let him understani it, or who in some great crisis of life, when all else failed him, had a wife to re-enforce him with a faith in God that nothinT could disturb. Speak out, ye cradles, and tell of the fee,* that rocked you and the anxious faces tha hovered over you! Speak out, ye nuroerie of all Christendom, and ye homes, whethei desolate or still in full bloom with the facei of wife, mother and daughter, and help mi to define what woman is. But as geograph ers tell us that the depths of the sea corre spond with the heights of the mountains 1 have to tell you that a good womanhood ii not higher up than bad womanhood is deep down. The grander the palace the more awful the conflagration that destroys it. The grander the steamer Oregon the more terrible her going down justoff thecoast. Now I should not wonder if you trem bled a little with a sense of responsibility when I say that there is hardly a parson in this house but may have an opportunity to save a woman. It may in your case tie done by good advice, or iiy financial help, or by trying to bring to bear some one of a thousand Christian influences. If, for in stance, you find a woman in financial dis tress and breaking down in health and spirits trying to support her children, now that her husband is dead or an invalid,doing that very important and honorable work— out which is little - appreciated—keeping a boarding,house, where all the guests,accord- ing as they pay small board, or propose, without paying any board at all, to decamp, are critical of everything and hard to please, busy yourself in trying to get her more patrons, and tell her of divine sympathy. Yea, if you see a woman favored of for tune and with all kindly surrounding finding in the hollow flatteries of the world her chief regalement, living for herself and for time as if there were no eternity, strive to bring her into the kingdom of Gocl, as did the other day a Sabbath-school teacher, who was the means of the conversion of the daughter of a man of immense wealth, and the daughter re solved to join the church, and she went home and said, “Father, I am going to join the church, and I want you to come.” “Oh, no,” he said, “I never go to church.” “Well,” said the daughter, “if I were going to be married would you not go to see me married?” Andhesaid, “Oh, yes.” “Well,” said she, “this is of more importance than that.” >''o he went and has gone ever since, and loves to go. I do not know but that faith ful Sabbath-school teacher not only saved a woman, but saved a man. There may be in this audience, gathered from all purts of the world, there may be a man whose be havior toward womanhood has been per fidious. Repent! Stand up, thou master piece of sin and death, that I may charge ▼ou! As far as possible make reparation. Do not boast that you have her in your fower and that she cannot help herself. When that fine collar aud cravat, and that elegant suit of clothes comes off and your uncovered soul stands before God, you will be better off if you save that woman. There is another exploit you can do, and that is to save a child. A child does not seem to amount to much. It is nearly a year old before it can walk at all. For the first year and a half it cannot speak a word. For the first ten years it would starve if it had to earn its own food. For tbe first fif teen years its opinion on any subject is ab solutely valueless. A^d then there are so yes, my friends, let usstart out to save some one for time and for eternity, some man, some woman, some child. And who knows but it may, directly or indirectly, be th< salvation of one of our own kindred, anc that will be an exploit worthy of celebration when the world itself is shipwrecked, and the sun has gone out like a spark iromt smitten anvil, and all tbe stars are deadl Whatever else may be said of the marriage of Mr. Parnell and Mrs. O’Shea, nee Wood, it was an honor able and courageous act, though the relations of the two were such that no other coarse remained open to a high- minded man. She had sacrificed her self for him, and he has sacrificed much for her. As they were partners in distress, it is well for them to face the world together, and if there be any marital comfort left for them to share it together. Mrs. O’Shea stands in finitely higher than her late husband, and comes of a better family, as social standing is measured in that country. At the time of their divorce it was said that he had not lived with her on the average a month in the year. The rest of his time he spent among the dissipations of the clubs and pursuing pleasure on the continent. Under such circumstances it was but natural that they should cease to have any respect t>r each other. They pulled apart, and >hen the divorce was obtained both Jrere satisfied. The legal time has ^lapsed since the divorce, and both Mr. Parnell and herself being free, they married. Their previous rela tions have weakened Mr. Parnell’s position as leader to such an extent that it is doubtful if he can recover it, J for offenses such as were charged against him are not easily condoned. But bo far as his domes-ic relations are concerned gossip must now be closed and the whole matter dropped. Accorping to the St. Louis Globe- Democrat a fiend in human guise has invented an electrical alarm that will run for two hours after getting started unless its victim gets out of bed and turns it off. The old-fashioned alarm clock would run for five minutes or so and then a man could turn over and go to sleep again. It allowed its ownei to set it at night and then to change his mind in the morning. But the new device is inexorable. The man who sets it must get up at the hour specified, unless he has previously died in his sleep. A well-known prin ciple of ancient justice should be ap plied to its inventor. He should be compelled to have one of his own clocks setting at his bedside every night, set for 4 o’clock in the morning. Now that the esteemed Judges oi the Federal Court of Appeals have 1 been tricked out in Mother Hubbard gowns, let all good citizens who can keep from snickering endeavor to emu late the laudable example of the law yer who said: fc No, your honor, I am not trying to show contempt for your court; I am trying to conceal it.” A fui.i<-grown crocodile from Flor ida escaped from its cage somewhere in New York a few days ago and near ly killed a man before it could be per suaded to go back. It takes some Bontherners a long time to learn thatfc tbe war is over. TWO CAUSES The drink curse ij which come in the ordinary operat and which, if guarded against, greatly abated. These are prospj -adversity. "I have known,” says an ea clergyman, in this city, “more drink on account of discourazec from any other cause, unless it oe cess and prosperity. Both are scf temptation to drink.” j When a man's spirits are very on account of adversity in bi siilB life it is too often that he tries to up by the use of ardent spirits; bi does not remove the cause it must t to over and over again, and wnen in too freely it adds to the difficult ducing a physical depression in rea< in temporarily relieving the depi eventually multiplies it. A young man m the city lost tv at the same time. In niscouraf drank. Whiie intoxicated he lose i he sobered up and tound that he h $60 he became intoxicated again, kept up for four months. At the • time he found that in trying to get his spirits up by pouring spirits dow used up everything that he had acc when sober, pawned most of his! lost all his front teeth, spent a mo island and lost his wife. The youn] not inherit this tendency from hisj nor contract it from b ;d companio.j was simply an effort to get overi couragements.—New Yor ; Heraldm 4 TEMPERANCS NEWS AND NOj It is thirty-two years since the fl ing fountain was opened in Londoj The aggregate quantity of w.nej by the vineyards of Franc?, in 416,327 hectolitres, or 723,791,033 fan The Indiana Grand Lodgs of has decided that “members now el the liquor traffic must quit either or the Order of Oddfelio.vs.” In France, from 1S27 to 1833,aboi persons committed suicide. U: tl 15,000 men and 1100 women were ii and intoxicated at the time of deatl A liquor dealer in Iowa had as a his business “The Road to Hell.” J be credited with an honest expvl opinion and teiling the truth if noi I An exchange states that brandy N is the latest device of the devil fo*i the youth. It is made of to'oacc^J been soaked in brandy, an l the enabiei to be intoxicated without a drop of liquor. AU Victorians in Austrilia pride to Mildura, the beauty spot,'] development of the irrigation sch^ Chaffey Brothers from San Fi] making the wilderness blossom a‘G| No public houses (saloons) havtVJ censed. Atter prosperity came, ®f cense was sought and granted, buii| such disaster that it was soon revc district policeman testifies that he.j had to arrest a drunken man. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is a liquid ad internally, and acts directly on the mucous surfaces of the system, testimonials, free. Manufactured 1 T F. J. Cheney & Co The raising of ostriches has been<i New Zealand with considerable sue?I A physician recently said, “probjJ E. Pinkham has done more for than all the doctors combined; a ' derstands those matters better that" Can You E< Heartily, with relish, and without dii ward? If not, we recommend to you ' sapartlla, watch creates a good appetlt tame time so Invigorates the stomach that the food Is properly digested and all 3 assimilated. '.I, “I have bs-en taking two botttles of ^ sapartlla for weakness and no appetite.. pleasure I will say that I think It has don3 good been use 1 am now able to eat like a| C. B. Cue*chill, Richardson Hotels K. R. When you ask for Hood’s Sarsai Don't be induced to buy any otberL Hood’s Sarsaparilla—}00 Doses One Pol]