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I p ^ 0 ? NO. 50. ii W* nm %'-? .?>? JNIE AND WILLIE'S PLAYER. j'the. ovo boToro Christmas; "Good nigh^" had boon Bald, LAunle and Willie had orept Into bod; ft were tenrs on thoir pillows and tears |7 in their oyoa, i ieaoli little bosom was hoavy with sigh*, to-nlsht their storn fathers command lad boon given ^?y must rotiro preelsoly at seven of eight; for they troubled him loro iiWilona uuhoard of than evox bo them ht> thought this delusion a >uch a thing as "Hanta ClaUs" ever had ? i^en, ? he hoped, after this, he should never more hear he sorainbled down chimneys with presents daoh yoar. thi^ la the reason why two little hoads 56tlessly tossed on thoir Boft, downy bods. c, nine, and the clock on the stooplo tolled ten ? ?t a word had boon spoken byolther tfll then; Then >VilUo*B sad faco from tho blanket did poop, - id whisporod, "Dear Annlo, is you fast osloop?" ?? KWhy, no; orothor Willi?," a sweet voico * replies. H'vo tried In vain, but I can't shut my eycB; ' for somehow It makes mo so sorry because >?ar papa had said there Is no Hanta Ciaus; tow we know there is, and it can't bo de tpr- niod. Pot hoToame ovcry yct\$ beforo mamma died; it then I'yq boon thinking that she used id God would heat everything mamma to prrty, God wou would ?ay, perhaps elm nskod him to send Hahia Claims hero nth the saoks full of presents ho brought overy your." why tan't wo p'ay dest as mamma lid then, id asked Him to send htm with presents .... aden?." . f'vo boon thinking so, too;"ahd without a word more ...V- ?? baro littlo feet boiindod out on tho floor, id four littlo knees tho soft carpet pressed, - idtwdtlny hands were clasped eloso to ? ? Oach bronst. iw, Willie, you know we must flrmly be lieve lat the presents wo aste for we're sure to receive. " F must wait just ng~ still till I ?ay amen, ,t?dby that^ou will knofr that your turn p. . .* has 'foTno then? ' ? Pear Joeus," look down on my brother and W nie, . , ? ;Ahd grant us tho favor we're asking of I Thee: I want a nice book full of ploturcs, a ring, A- writing desk,. too, that shuts with a . airing. fJUfiM.papA* dear Jcsu.s, and cause him to see That Sw4|& Ciaus lores us as muoh oven OS he; ? ^ on't let him get fretful and angry again '?Please, Desus, 'ot tianta Taus tome down to-ntght, [ And bring us somo presents before It Is V ho -should dive, mo a hrlght ..little t bo*, , ? Pulk6f ao'obats, some other nice block*, ^ And a bag full of tandy, a book and a toy : Amen, and then, bosun, Htbeadood boy." f> Their prayers being ended, they raised up their heads. t r And with hearts light and oheerful again songht their beds; They were soon lost in slumber ? both i . o peaceful and deep, - And with fairlos in dreamland, war* roam log in Bleep. ' I I? Eight, nine and tho littlo Prejioh clook had ? ' - 1 struck ten /" Ere the fnthor had thought _of hie children i seems now to hear AnnleV balf-siaoth ered sighs, d to see the big tears standing in Willie's blue eyes. asiuusli with my_darling8J" he men tally said, d shoo ld~--not .have ??nt them so early mhotjT t was troubled -"my feelings founll vont, bankbook to-day has gone down ten 'eent. ?lOOurse they'd forgot their troubles : ere this, t thon I donied thorn the thrice asked . for kiss; > tjnrt to make sure I'll steal up to the door, *r I never. spoke harsh to my darlings be-. fore. > saying he softly ascended the stairs. 14 arriving at .their dpor heard bot rars. ?s" "bless papa" draws forp the Mjf r~ . -v-. , Willie's grave promise falls swUst on range, t'vo forgotten," said he wh*n a ehlld to have Christ " he Inwardly, their prs|?r?.we.I sleep In w w mw w muy !??hret lOppers and silk fcn- boot*, and And on It a jflUr *or whloh Annie had prayed Four acrobat ^fainted l? yellow and rod Stood with a block, house on a beuutlf"! sled; Thete wero balls, dogs and hoi es, books idolising to hoc ?ad birds of all colors were perched la tho tree; While Hanta Olaus, laughing, stood up In tho top, As If getting ready for moro presents to drop; Aud as the torn! father the ploturo surveyed Ho thought for his trouble bo Ur<1 ntnp been paid: And he said to himself as ho brushed ofr a tear, "I'm bapplor to-nlg'it than I have been for ft year, I'veeujoyod more true pleasure thau ever before. What caro I If bank stook falls ten per cent. more? v Hereaftev I'll make It a rule, X heliovo, To have Santa Olaus visit us each Ohrlst UVftS Evo." So thinking he gently extinguished the light,. And tripped downstairs to. retire for the night. / As soon as the beams of tho bright morning sun Put the darknoss to flight and the stars one by one. Four little blue eyes out of sleep oponed wide, And at the samo moment the presents espied. Then Qut of their beds they sprang with a bound. The very gifts prayod for were all of them found; They laughed and thoy orled In thejr Inno ? gUn, ? ? - And shouted for papa to come quick and see What presents old Santa Claus had brought in tho night (Just the things they had wanted) and left before light. "And now," aald Annie, In a yoIco soft and low, "You'll believe there's a Santa Claus, pnpa, s I know;" While dear little Willie ollmbed up on his knee, Determined no seorot between them nhould be: And told, in soft whispers, how Annlo had said, That their dear, blessod mamma, so long ago dead, Used to kneel down and pray by tho side of her ohalr, And that God, up In heaven, had answorod her prayer! v - "Then wo dot up and prayod dust as well as we tould, ? And Dod answered our prayers; now wasn't He dood?" "I should say that He was if lie sout you all these, w And knew just what presents my children would please (Well, well, let him think so, tho dear lit tlo elf, "Xwould be cruel to tell hira I did it my self.") Blind fathert who causod your stern heart to rolent? And the hasty word spoken so soon to re pent? * 'Twas tho Beli^g who bado you steal softly, up stairs, And made you His agent to answer their prayers. ? Sophia r. Snow. Legend of the Mistletoe. *r FfeATBi SCOTT MINK?. ICfjHT merrily blWed tho yulo log Wtl?? *qnare open lire place, and the dark onlc panelB of the lit tle room caught I 'and threw back I again in softer c'olor tho rod light of tho names. The room was tilled witu the roBy glow, and blaek shadows danced the floor a^d walls. At times tlio fierce wind oataide blow down the ohimney a shower of snow/which fell -^rith a sizzle upon the crndkling log, wht the flames only burned the bright er aa though determined to o>tdo the Ohristmas storm,, and the noise of the gale was loebi in the merry spluttor'| and Crack of fyie fire. Before the '"log sat a youth and maiden, and forV little time they sat in silence readings their future in tho red coals; and thougb^npither told the other of their dream each felt that J their fatures were the same. Suddcn ly the young man turned toward the girl. "I bought a bit of mistletoe to day," he said; "do you know the ( origin of its use? Shall I tell you the story?" " 8M looked at him dreamily. "Yes," she answered, her lips scarcely moving. "And will you promise not to in terrupt?" "Y-es," was the low reply. He laid 'the green spray with its crimson berries upon her brown curls, and bending near her began: t "**Baldar, the son of Odin, the old Norae god, was called the Good becauso of his kind and loving nature, and wherever he went among the gods or men he was received with the kiss of peaoe." The young man hesitated a moment, then he caught flight of the green apray thai crowned the fair face of the girl and he wae emboldened. "Ukatkia/'b* gebispered. Ha waited * modient and thin seeing the broj fjea4unf?dlnqairingly toward binfhe wipflpuf^, * 'BntSmfifnrki bi? * wae waned that hia life waa in eo bewed ft* soda together and giv ?nr iVjLMk IKa VIm aI rijiflfl tll^ *vr%Am i Wll WRw ??* we m 11 1 were ??mb%redby the eoore," he ex ? ? ? T- ? 1 Hd t&eai of bis fears to do all in tbfir ? 'MUttSSBd SANTA CLAUS' MOST ENTHUSIASTIC ADMIRER. hud. taken uo oath, bo bo got ft little apray and sharpened it ami then w yut to watch the fun. Thero was an^ old blind Rod called llddur who couldn't lut Baldur becauso he couldn't soo him, and Loki went up to him and whis pered, 'Don't you want to hit Baldur and got a kiss?' (like this) and Hodur said 'Yep.' Ho Liki gave him the mistletoo and guuj*d his throw and BftUlur wft? pierceu through ami ho foil dead and ho couldn't kiss anybody any nioro, (liko this) and o\ cry bouy j was stricken with sorrow. So after : trying to get back his life they ga\o up the job and laid him on his ship, I placcd a spray of mistlctOo over his j head and all tho Valkyrs, a lot of j pretty girls who used to lie messengei j boys for the gods, came and kissed i him, (liko this? and this) and that is j why on Christmas ovo anybody can j kiss anybody else (like this) if they | only have a spray of miptlctoo over their head." . . , "What has Christmas Eve got to do with it?" asked tho maiden, reaohing for the spray in her 8jie naid it she started. "Oh, Tom! K^10 cried, "these berries are red! Iiow could you mako such a mistake. All your time wasted and " Tho young man looked perplexed, now had ho failed, ho wondered? The results of mistletoo could not have been different*- Ho was about, to ask when tho girl started to her feet and like a frightened spirit passed through the portieres. "Was she dis plcast: ?1, aud was this his dismissal As he pondered thus a hand thrust aside Uie curtains and a face, that was rosy as tho glowing coals looked shyly through. . "Tom," sho faltered, you know tliat holly didn't count? holly never does. It. wasn't fair, so^ so -I ve trot a piece of real mistletoe. Now tell me all about Baldur."? Munsey. Tho *??? Jto>ar. ! In some parts of Germany the Yule Ioc^th plat/ed on the hearth on Christ mas and, if possible, kept burn ing fl?r two ofc^hree days. Then a Jieoe of it is laid" aside for the purpose of lighting tho next year's log and of guarding tho household from harm. Pieces of fir-wood charred, but not quite burnt out in the Christmas lirer | ofe also plaoed under tho family be* in some German villages to avert the dreaded lightniug stroke wkuih ap pears in tliia relation to bo thdHype of fire in its evil aspect, in contradistinc tion from/flio solar orb, the ^represen tative VJf beneficent light and warmth. Tho/custom of burning a Yule log for tlirao days and nighta in each home stead is almost certainly a "urvlva' from the adoration onw offered to the sun at tho winter solstice. te. Three centuries' after the Christian ?era sun worship was still maintained in Brittany; and in Normandy, not, more than a hundred years ago, the .household lire was extinguished on December 24, and the Christmas log was ignited by the aid of a flame pro cured from the lamp burning in the neighboring chur<fti. -This fact affords a curious instance of the probable transference of respect, and ^verence from the sacred fire of ft pUj ety heathen creed to the "j ecclesiastical lights of Catholioism. \Vhen the pagan rites for procuring ife^T^lied flre^ were forbidden, or feH i?io- doau fttivt ? ideas to which^they ^eir ortgiu reot Auooiitlon wilb them. -Gcntle Magaaine. Wtotke ymleWc tb* aadhoM, m. ?? ?tlll |Ww I yuielosUea. Growth of American ChrMtmss Cuntntuaj America lins welcomed and adopted the Christmas trco with cordial alToe lion and treated it as if itweroa prod' uctfM her own inventive brain. Trans planted to the. United .States by the early Dutch settlers of New York and by tho Germans who established tliem sulvofi in Pennsylvania, it grew and flourished ns it did in its nativo soil. Tts advance was slow, but in 1830 tho Christmas tree had become a fixed factor in tho holiday celebrations, not only in families of direct German descent, but among that ownponito population .railed American. Small cedav tree* trove first used, and were; called "Christmas bushes." j, They, were deopraled with rosy apples, pajjorj flowers, tv few small candles, gilded nuts and "Christinas cakes." This last confection seems to bo entirely) out of dale. It took tho form of small horses, d< gsj, cows, hearts and dia-. monds, and' was a combination of Hour and water paste and white and colored sugar frosting, liven by those who recall the Christmas cake with fondest reeollcction it is admitted tohavobeen rather a delight to.tho eye than a joy to tho palate or tho digestion. As years went 011, and the young nation grow older and richer and tho life of. tho people more luxurious nud complex, tho "Christmas lmshes,". with their paper flowers, and "Christ mas cokes," developed into a tree, which is often an elaborate and expen sive afl'air. But not in civilized or Chris tian lands alort^ that this wonderful Christmas tree &jows. Missionaries have planted it in China, in Japan, in India,. Africa, in the islands of the; sea, eo that yellow, brown and black faces, as well as wliite, ftaze np at itj with delight.? New York Mail and Ex press. y/rricn, and or mantelJ Cnkc* For diilttmttn. In tho United States Americans of Gorman origin still imitate the waya of their Farther land, and make par ticular cakes for the Christmas holi-j days, and so follow the ideas of their forefathers. Tho Puritan rather frowlf&d down such little matters. 1 Early Now England, however, retained] something like the plum pudding and tho Christmas pastries. There are,1 however, not many special survivals* of special food to be consume 1 on par ticular religious festivals in tho United States. In old JtugUnd, long after tho Reformation, 011 certain days cake was distributed in churches, and, penny, loaves were thrown from churohj towers, to bo scrambled for. Hot! cross buns are barely in rogue in thej United States. Once St. Valentine's' Day was celebrated in England by the' ?ending of cakes. Fancy* cards nnd stationary are modern innovations. Ifnntlnt lli? Holly. The English holly is finer in quality than that grown on American shores.'. The leaves are abetter green and the; berries larger, And before the holi Jay season sets in great hampers of it are] shipped from the English ports to de light and heart*. _^An aUrootlvWKjannor^ of to tie. big . buifches with lona^ satin rtbbon loops and ends, roat^iiR in shade the hue of the place them ot^t pictures^ yiUI. Ml nook OTj corner. fUndeHneaift ma mantel. whefa, there isno tirepW>e, the/apace may be. banked with masses of -the epiny leaves and bright berriee; jars or! vases may be MM with th?m, while? holly wreaths and ropes art another^ form of deooratio I>11. TAJ.MA(iK ON Till'! It HTIIYQ-i l<Ot; V OK TJIIC lllliMv FINDS COO JN_ THE FISHES. I, Iter. llr. Talmis* IHteonrm on the Ichthyology of the Millie. lot: "Anj^Oodaald.Let tho waters bring forth abundantly the moving ore&turefl tb?t bit not strange that the Bible Imagery is 00 Inwrought from the fisheries, when the HolyXand Br; roerfwitvoa* pwt, on inland . The world'# geography baa changad. Lake 0?1U?? was larger and daepar and bet tar atookad thao now, and, no dottbf, tba rivars were deeper and the flabarfes stare, of Out mora iapotUMi than than I ?0W. Botddajbat, tbara wmbaMadllar. I "Self- tlovnlsin" in Hie THIo of the Fifth of 1 lliu New York llcvnUt'i ComiHitltlvo Kri'lhoiiHxlly it New Mint?lcl'-> Viiliitiit;o on "(Kttl Auhmik lltt< I'lilion." '?1U< strong. 11 ml > |\i it yoiirsolvoS llko men." ?1. bsiuucl, iv., '>'< Reputation Is \\ l?ut a person soonm to <>0; , (llHMtvtcr is wlllit ho I- . A man's i ? -a I kqII ; is within, not without; anil any )?< rmiuumt ; 1 progress must proceed from tho contro low a id tl>?' vh-cUmfoibiutu of his life. What ? is 011 him- or around ititn ennnot (liHfrmiun ? Ills value. Tho i? r is t ? 1 ??** y of character includes t ho members of tho rca1 nobility of earth. Suoli ?ro 1 1" i'.v who tight tho bravest .buttles and win tlio most \nliunt ; OctWle*. * Meal glory Springs lroiu the silent conquest ol our- , , fl'l\i;.i, And without that tho conqueror i?< naught Jin t t ho llrst slave. M.v teiiiion is dedicated to those victors, [ and my subject Is their nume.-akc, "Sol'- : Heroism"-! I10 heroism of solf-exumlnu tiou, tho heroism of sell preparation, tin* horoi.sm of self-cohccuti'ntU n, tin heroism of self-i>erpotualton. I. -The Heroism of Solf-K xnminatloit. Nothing Is imdgnllleuut . There,, is n diviuo mi nnlng in tho exljjfeiieo of every thing. No llfo oan infringo piion another's < right ?'f way in living; fur the legit imulc ! property of no two lives liotf along exactly ? tho same truck. Kach life is a monopoly In It Kolf ; for to each has boon given th? ; solo permission to exercise certain exclu sive [lowers. Tho author of my Imlng has , made a mistake or mv lift* is of tremendous J significance, lutrospoetion partakes of , tiio heroic. Ignorance of self-knowledge! l,s the roof upon which many of I ho con- [ quorors of thew'orbl havo boon wrecked. ! They knew others, I. nt did not know th-mi- j selves. They guided others, but failoil to! guido thuiusclvos. They mustered others, ; but could not master themselves. The j Ileitis upon wliiob thoy \\*?ri? vh<t??i-H lav I hoyonit thonifmlvos; thy ltobls upon whh'li they woro victims lay within tlnun.selvvs. ; Jf svlf-oxaniiniitlon wero an applin.l Hoi.oioo, ; 1 vi'iitiiro thi". ooinlon that sotu? who nro , now in tho pulpit would bo buhlnd I ho : plough; somo who aro at tlio bar wouhi bo in tho blacksmith shop; soitio \v'io mm In t'ongrP!'!! would be- in tho eornllcM; mmiio who sit in frtoultlos wonbl 'loin fossil bod?, ' and others would awake to tliolr nalivo rJtfht hu<! riches and put honor upon lives divinely .gifted. Whoovei' you aro, wiior- j over you are, bo bravo ojiougli, bo hono^t ' erioiiKh to K4't Intimately and accurately ooquainted wiili yourself, and with .loan I'aul Jliehter be onnhled to say: "i havo niado as m uvlt'Ollt of snysotf as coiibl bo , made of the stu!V, and no oa? can runuiio ? woro." II. ? Tho Heroism of Helf-rri'paralloi!. tiibbou tolls us t hat ovory 0110 has two i eilucations ono which ho receives from ! others and ono which ho ^rcn to himself.! The popular Idea of eilucnrion scorns to bo ? tliu art of allowing others tv> do n? much j for us as wo linvo tho capu- Ity Of I'CCflv- | ing. "lie ls/f?>t onpnblo of receiving an | education ' /is a MigRestlve exprossioii. ; True cdiicaf Ion Is self-prcjiaratlon. it miiht find something within you, or it brtngs j nothing ? >it of you. it. convrrls your ? possibilities into practical powers. Thn J richer 11 nature tin: harder and slower Its fself-preparnt ion and development, To day tho noblest llguro in Kuropo stands erect under the snows of more lhau four Bcoro winters, ami beeauso of his rigid, righteous soif-proparation through all thoso years the "(Srand Olil Miyt" is tho froshest in thought and malTiV^st in wis dom of all who meet in the councils oFBfoii. l'aticnt preparation is permanent power. In an axe that lacks composure men nro j apt to inattiro too quickly and ilecay tool soon. Ileservo power snould he groator { than ftpent power. By MlNpnpariuOB de posit each day for future draffs, and tlu?n you are not apt to overchcck yo^wr' ac count. \ III. ? The Heroism of Helf-t'oiicont ratlop. A life often falls to make .1 lasting im prceslou because of its difTi^ion. \Vbat wo full genius Is frequently only tlio cliihl of appllentlon. To attempt any thing and to accomplish nothing is a fatal lolly. Whllo W? are striving to know poinothlng about overythlng we muet zealously try to know ! everything about something. Tho higher j and mere unselfish tho end toward which i we direct our lives tho greater is tho do- I ?n*ind for intense and ceaseless concen tration of our' noblest powers, 1'ocus your best powers Upon the details of yotir lire work. Thoso may seem to bn trifles; but rqmoml>or tho wise words of tho pains taking" artist: "Trill oh mako perfection, nnd wrfoctlon is no trlllc." Like the fabled bird la the Oriental legend which slept on tho wln#( learn to rest tn your labor, but novel' rest from your labor. Contemplate! Concentrator (,'onsoerntc! IV.? Tho Heroism of BeJf-rerpCtuntlon. Great and ?ood men are not half living when they are allvel Their host and truest j life on earth Comes after they walk 110 , longer on earth. In their day Moses and Taul were not near so Influential as t hoy aro to-day. Truth, llko a seed, does not bchr its fruit in a day, and the richer tho truth and more pnvc|nu? tint seed tlm long er I he full fruition Is delayed. Orcnt prin ciples and great lives, like great bodldjf, jnovo slowly. A man's sol f becomes a pail of the truth to which Ills llfo Is wedded, and ? ns this troth passos beyond the limit of his , visible existence and takes it? endless ? course through the ngyS til* host part of j tho uian is pcrpetuatell. Kiel) llfo is a j contribution to bMovV: but f*\| lives have ; their historians. Heroic live-/ aro often- ; I linen written anonymously i^ion llm tab- j lets of time, and eoming ages never recall by nanio their greatest benefactors. Some j men are dead whilu they are living; others ] are living whllo they aro dead. Think ! much ??f your post-mortem life among men. 1 Maintain an nneompromi-dng enmity to- ! ward thn false, an Invincible friendship to ward tlio truo. Cultivate u practical faith In the living God. Accept Clirist as your Ideal and Redeemer. This Is the hidden spring of self-hcrolsin. It crowns man's, ? life with the truest success; and when ?h<i ] veil Is lifted ho shall stand orcct In the light of a glorified 'manhood. ?. If. Ali?ex Turi'Ku. Jh., D. !>., astrtr First Baptist Church, Moqtelnir, ami K.vvi'1- rh?>^ilA,u.u full of fish, and that explains tho "H <rr^r? of t li<? plague Hint slaughtered t >n? Unity (Him all up and down that rtwr, whloli has boon and lj now i Ito in. ?iit .(it. rv of Kg> |i| 'k lifo. The |b*ti has priority of residence oyer ovtM'y U viii#j thing. ft preceded (lu, th.iS t pi ml r u pod , tho human raee. Tho next thing done after (tod hi}d kindled for our' NVorUI tho fcoLUm oliumlolior of tlio huii, and the silver chandelier of the moon,' wan to inaKf. N.i tlsh, Tho llrst motion of tho principle 6. >ifo, a principle that all ilif t luiu-'uuds of years since have not boon uMo ( . . . >iino or analyse, the very tlr^c .-tlr of 1 1 to was. jn t lio II All to confound tlio Scientist ?;. tnko tlin universe to I't'ovo a (S od, A llsh does it. No wonder I hat I .i in* :t ??v?s ami Cuvler and Agassis an.l t !n> greatest minds df all tlio conltirles s it enraptured before lis anatomy, oh, in beauty, and the ndaptedmvss. Tti.VT.oiM, hyphvdiigthe TIMi tn the roe* 011J couixt ol tli?> moult in | ? a 1 adlso, mak ing ?' prtvede l> ml iiikI bird, indlcntcd to the world tho importance of tlio llsli in aii art I. Mo of human food, Wo mix up a taiitatilo food that kills (ho mosi oT mm ho, fore thirty years of ado. Custards ami w hipped sillabubs and Hrmmti pu itches am) chicken salads at mldirfght are a gauntlet that fe\y have strength to inn. Wo put ou II winy a fhmh?tono epitaphs saving that t lio one hcnoatli died of patriotic H.-rxIro, of Horn exhaustion in rolighom work, wiion nothing kijlo l I ho poor follow hut lobster en1 ing at 11 p'trly four hours after lie ought to have been sound aslce;. In hO;l. ( No nian or \v > nan ever amounted t o any 1 oini' who whs brought up on Hunting Island or angel cake. I'lie world mhi>i tnra j back t o para llrnlo diet it ir is tn get para- ' di>ai<* moral* and paradisaic health. The b;uuun j.i.otu.dav ueeJa mure phosphorus, and tho tl-.li Is charged and surcharged wllh phosphorus, Phosphorus that which shines In t Ito dark without burning! What ttliido | ho twolvo A post los such st al wart in. 'ii thai they could f ndt'.vo an v I liing and ii'diiev.' everything? Next to dlvino luHplr atioii.it was hecuu:-i0 they were nearly ail IlKheruien and lived on llsh' and a fow plain condiment ?. i'aul, though not brought up io f.wliiR t he net and throw the lash, must of 11 I v have iilloplod the (lti>t Of 1 1)0 popn lat li?u anion); whom he lived, and you i-ee the phosphorus in his daring ploa law lore Felix, and the phospltorun in his hold, ??si 1, 1 jtii otf'o ranees hefortt t Ito wiKoa?rt>H on Mrtis llill, and the phosphorus aa ho wont without fright to Ids hi*heinlliif?, and Ihtt ph-.-phoni- y.oi sm,. la t ho 11 v??m of ull t he a post I e 1 who 11 1 o ved ri>;!i t on undaunted lo 00 r tain martyrdom, whether to lm de. oapltated or lluii(^ * ? IT preeloleon or liiiuw in ?'tuelil.N ion. i'ho^phorus, Hiilninj/ tn 'tho dark withuit hui'iiiii)?! No man or worn mi that; ever lived wan Independent of tpies tiotis of diet Napoleon lost one ,of his i;reat haltl 's through an aitaek oflndlge.s th'ii. I lie cook in kit?'l)i>n, or eueump* nit't i, has decided many of the lrrcnt hat* I le.s. I he 'ools who heroine Infidels boeausn they ?'?li not understand t!in eiiffulfniont of the riN'reiWit Jonah In a sea monstor might have caved heir souls |>y ?l tidying n littlo natural hislcvy. "Oil," say.i homo one, ?"that story of Jonah was only 11 fnhle." Hay other*. "It v> um iiilerp?>lH(ed hy ftomo writer of later tiaies.*' othen Ray, "'It was a re pr> >| u e ( Ion of tlx story of Iltueules t|t>' voured ami then restored iroin tllb , *11011 ster." Jmt iny reply I . that history tells tl:? ttiat thefts wci'rt moiihtu.'ii lttiiiu..uU0Ui{U j to whelm ships. Tlio extinct Ichthyosaurus of other HgPH was thirty feet 'otijj. and as lafo as t!;*' sixth enntu'ry of th .? OhrlHtiHU era. ? 1 1 ? and down t lie Modll eraiiOiin, there floated monitors compared with xrhleh a moilerii whale was a xardlno or u herring. Tlio tdiark has aicniu and again been r<, tn<l to have .swallowed a man entiro. A fisher man on the coast of Tin key found a mu: oooisler which contained a woman and a purse of gold. 1 have seen In miiHoiiinHxtn monsters large enough to take down a prophet. Hut I have a bettor reason for believing the did Testament, account, and that is that Christ. kiiIiI It waff truo and a type of His own resurrection, and I sup pose j|e ought to know. In 31atthow?xll., 40, Jcsiij* Christ nays: "For as Jonas was three days ami I lin-e nights in the whale's belly, so k 1 1 a 1 1 the Son of Man be throe days and 'three nights in t lie heart of tho tmrlh." And that settles it for mo and for any man who lions not believe Christ a duj?e and an impostor. (Jod help us amid tlio Oospel FJsheries, wlie! her WO Oinploy hook or net, for tho day comel h when we shall hw how mnch depended on our Iblellty, Christ himself declared: "The kingdom of heaven is ilko unto a net that was enst into the sea and gathered of every kind, which, when it was Full, they drew to filiore, and sat down and gathered tho good in tiio ve'fseis, but cast the bad away; so Khali it ho at tlio end of tlio world, tho angels shall .coino forth ami separato tho wicked from tho just," Yes, the nsliormcii think ft bnst t?T'lren]i tho tiRn. ful and worthless of tho haul inthosaino net until It, is drawn upon tho I10ae.il, and then the division takiss place, and If It is on Kong Island coa^t, the mossdoinkers are thrown out and tho bhiellsh and shad pre* served; or. If it is on the fthore of Galileo, the fish classified a ?t sllurolds aro hurled Imek Into the water or thrown up tho hank as unclean, while the perch and tiio carp nnd the barbel aro put In pulls to bo car ried home for use. Ho in the ehu rcli on earth, and tho U-ifitr and the hypocrtla, tho generous and the mean, tho chaste and tlio unclean, are kept in the same membership, but at death the division will bo made, ami 1 tho good will bo gathered Into boa von and I t lie bad, however many holy communions they may havo celebrated. H|J<' bow many j rhetorical prayers they may havo offered, ! and however many years their names may have bo?n on the church rolls, will be cast away, tiod forbid that any of us should bo among tho "oast away." But may wo do our work, whether small or great, nt thor oughly as did that renowned fisherman, Jiov. Dr. (ieorge W. Jlcthune, who spent his summer rest angling in tlio waters around tho Thousand laland.4, iind iirntJrjg at their own craft thoso who plied it all tlio year, and who. the rest of his time, gloriously preached Christ to the people of Philadel phia or Brooklyn, andordoring for Ills own obseipiitY; ?'?I,ny mo out in my pulpit gowns aud bands, with my own pocket Jtilde In my right hand. Bury me with my mother, my father and in y grandmother. Isabella Graham, Hing aiso tho hymn I composed years ago: .Tesuft, Thou Prince of IJfo, Thy ch??e"n canhot die. Like Thee thov conquurlu the strKe, To reign wltn Tlieo on high." e CHEAP TYPEWRlTtRS IN SIGHT. Tiu> ruloni* on X-UmuIImI Xiu|jrovemonfs ffavn Kiplrcd. f j Tho 'fy|MJwrfter Trust is In dan&df-, .tho patents on ftll&f the irnptov>r ments in the typewriter ran out Jong ago, ft to 'how poaalblo lo duplicate almost liny t Thff matter liatluytfaqr bwan icdueeA tod a question of faetory coat, which la alleged 1 ta bonhout tia, the tlme ia regarded by many aa havtag arti^ra' for n bold at roka to gala tha Mprema^y In tho nark?t, It to believad waahln# will go now, aa tb? hlgk price maintained by toe Trust permlta ri**jl eoaoerns to lira, aad the oppoattlon c<^apaates an* making a 1anr*r allowanee for a second hand aaaehtaa ^ mnfil.lrrj tk? combination itself. .. . N ? i Tho "Girls in frkie" Have Gone to s! X^Thoir Respective Homos UNTfk JANUARY 3D, 1098. What il^wviMtr Kllrrlxt Says of tlio Colic*/ l? lii'ojH i) )o lis Health Itec tml III CeilCllll. 1 ho Wiuihiop C'ullogo ?iila liavo nil gone homo until Jan. ild,""0\ving to the adoption I \v (ho l>oii nl of trustees of a recommendation of the phyaioiuua' com mission that tlio oollegO l>o eloaod down for tlio present until nil danger of the spreading of sn^yllpox in llock Hill has passed. I ho eomm ission, as appointed by tho governor, tnatlon thorough inves tigation of tho collego nod its surround iuga, including water supply, dairy, Inumlt y, kitchen, plumbing, etc. The health uf the students, says tlio com mission, has been very good gin co the oollego opened .'opt. !?0, as few ab sonce* fvoai tho class attendance mil 1 cuius. There ia uuu case of continued fever, that of Mi. Mil lor, tlto resident physician. and also at leant live pupils have been soul home on aeeouut t?f i 1 1 - neas. \>? to tho origin of the'fover, tlu? commission could give no positive opin ion as tho plumbing and tho surround ing seem ti; bo iii u perfect! v healthy condition, but at tho name time they . recommend several changes around the premies in the .'unitary Tine. etc. 'J'ho commission also said; "ihoi'c seems to bo 110 doubt of tho oxisdoiuc- in Kock 1 1 til of one case of smallpox, which haa boon thoroughly isolated by. tho local health authorities, t^unruntme was established at tho college t-ii tho uftomoon of tho 1.1th im-taut, mid oven tho day pupils are now excluded. I ho servants have been required looct'Hpy looms in tho base ments of the dornii tortus. Tho entire population of iho imditution except t hMom-luivc boon \ n-'Cjuntod ami these exceptions \\ 1 i J bo inoculated in tho hex t few day*. 1 11 tho town compulsory vaccinal ion hist boon enforced by tho local board of health. '|ln view of the undoubted existence of amnllpox in Hock Hill and tho possi bility that the dixeaso may spread and from the fact tha.t fovorishnesa more or Iosm severe likely b> boeui in the vaccinated students, an well as io allay thjj apprehensions of some friend* of tho institution regarding tlio oxiHtomm of lover ul . Wiutlirop. wo rocommuid that a vacation V" given till Jan. 1/, 18!)S. j>y that time it can certainly bo known whether smallpox is spreading or bus been entirely suppressed. .1 a mi:s I'iV a nm, M. l). , Chairman I). B. PoPB, 31. I>. ,1. W. Hajkwk, ?.!, 1). Governor I'.'llorbo express himsolf as being very much ploasod with tho con dition of tlio college. ll<> doubted if there was an institution in tho Htato that could show n hotter health record than Wintlirop, _ V Tho (lovornor rtlRo callB* attention to ono of tn^teachors' class record. Tho rop^Vt shown what the clasw has done during ten weeks. Horo aro the figures: Total munher of sludontH UJtf Number not absent 10? Number absent 0110 day ' 28 Numb r absent two day.a 1 Number absent three days. ...... v 4_ -*??*- - '4' lie Pension litnv. There is tfumo talk of a meeting of the State board of penaionn iu tho uextfow daya lo arrange for tho pritiiing and distribution without delay of all the blauka reqired by the township board?, decision Under a recent decision of tho attorne general altihytdTi-hmnafaip boarde w>[_ hold over- ^<ast vear tlio department liail tire greafeat ' difficulty i *" members of tovvnahip boards gettiug aervf Thia year n good many say thej?f^ffll not aorva. Comptroller "Kpton la in somewhat of a nrodleatueut, and doe? not ltuow exactly what to do in order to got over this flaw in the machinery. The failuroofany township boanlto act at the proper tiino delays a whole county's report, life has been thinking aeriously of getting tho vetorana in the several counties to m?ot aud undertake to see that the township boards are kept together. ? ? New Venr'a Iteglstratiott. Tho Attoriioy Ouneral has receired Heverhl iipplicntiom to know whether or ncit the eouuiy amwviaora of tegia tratf^u shouidMieep their offices open on H'io first day ill January or' the first Mo ml av in January, for the registra tion of voters. Mr. )3arbsr has de .-j.b-l tliat according to the fernia of tlie act the books must bo kept open on the first day of tho New Year for all who wish to regiator. After the. next, registration, iu January, thore will only ho ono registration" ,ofllcer,*" appointed by the (Governor, for each of the countioa. The understanding clauaO will bo a thing of the past, when the single commissioner of registration takes hold of affairs. To Mineral*. - ? - ----- The Heorotary of State has iasuetl a rommisKion to tho Southern Faint and | Color company of North August*. The i company proposes to niiuo minaraTa aud uuimifacturo thorn into painta, colora aud ctayoua ? Tho capital., t$OCa# ia to J>e 85,000, df^ided into sharwi ??_ 910'eaoh. _ "? : - V " 1 L_, . . i; .. . qpj r~~ CTot:1?ohui tAldi fch t to deliver the com mem at (^einnon Co B, Atdrioh is tb*?3tat4 well. IU> weir the State, and will Vith benefit to alL Prokt Mtjo a laia^k c v wi *??}? V.'.