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Dil. T ALM AGE'S SERMON. Cheer for tho DisliLMU'tenctt. 14 No mun cnvod for my sou)."-1'SAI.M 1??1: 4. DAVID, tho rubicund lad, had be come tho battlc-woru warrior. Thrco thousand armed mea in pursuit of him, he lind hidden in the cave of Engedi, near tho coast of tho Dead Sea. Ut terly fagged out with the pursuit, as you havo often been worn out with tho trials of life, lie sat down and cried out, "No man cai od for my soul." If you should fall through a hatch way, or slip from a scallolding, or drop through a skylight, thcro would bo hun dreds of pcoplo.who would como around and pick up your body and carry it to the homo or to tho hospital I saw a great crowd of people in tho street, and I asked, "What is tito matter?" and 1 found out that a poor laboring man had fallen under sunstroke and all our oyes were tilled with tears at tho thought of his distracted wifo and his desolated homo. "Wo aro all sympathetic with physical disaster, but how LITT LI? SYMPATHY KOK SIMlUTUAh WOHS 1 Thero aro mon in this house who have como to mid-Hfo who have novel yet been once personally accosted about their eternal welfare. A great sor mon dropped into an audience of hundred! of thousands will do its work; but il this world is ever lo be brought to (?od it will bo through lil lie sermons preach ed to private Christians to an uiulicna of one. The sister's letter postmarked ;it tho village; the word uttered in you: hearing, half of smiles and half ol' tears the religious postscript to a busbies lotter; tho card left lit tho dom- whoi you had some kind of trouble; the an xious look of some one across a churcl aisle while an earnest sermon was boin; preached, swung you into the kingdoi of ( ?od. Hut there are hundreds ol' people i this house who will take, the word Um David used in tho past tenso and en ploy it in tho present tense, and er oui. ,lNo man cares for my soul. You feel as you go out day by day i the tug and jostle of life that if is KV lill Y MAN 1*011 1HMSKI,K. You eau enduro the pressure ol' eon mercial affairs and would consider almost impertinent for any ono to af you whether you are making or losir money. Hot thero have been timi when you would havo drawn yoi ohequo for thousands of dollars if son one would only help your soul out i its perplexities. There aro questioi about your higher destiny that ach and distract, and agonize you at tina' Let no ono suppose that because yt aro busy all day with hanlware, dry-goods, or groceries, or grain, th your thoughts are no longer than yo yard-stick, and slop at the brass-head nails of tho store counter. When y< speak once about religious things y? think a thousand limes*. They call y? woi'ldliug: v?'t 'ire NO i v woiii.iH.i . Ol' ourse. \ o'rt nie li.dusi;riou.s i i pi lu jiy, lint yob lane had your p.i v ..../;i.M lo rho i calli i-H oj! the in Acrid, Von ?ir? Ubi u Coo!. Vow kin tn Mer 'hali any ope eau U? \ i il il a lew yeal? .il ino.-ii. rt ill \\M jd y earthly engagements, and that y will take residence iii a distant split whero all your business ad roi tn would bo a superfluity. You sor times think till your head aches abi great religious subjects. You go do tho street with your eyes fixed on t pavement, oblivious of Ibo passing m ti tades, your thoughts gone on [iii ?ter expedition. Yon wonder if tho Hi is true*, how much of it is literal ? how much isligurativo; law if Christ (?od; if thero is anything like ietri lion, if yon aro immortal; if a rcsilri lion will over take place; what the CU pallon of your departed kindred what you will bo len thousand ye from now. Willi a cultured pinch of countenance you are. on lire \v agitations of soul. Oh, ibis SOLITA KV AXX1KTY of your wholo lifetime! You haye s goods to or bought them from Christ people for len years, and they hi never whispered one word of spirit counsel. You have passed up ; down tho aisles of churches with n who knew that you had no hope heaven, and talked about the weatli and about your physical health, ? about everything but that concern which you most wanted to hear th speak-namely, your everlasting spi Timoi without number you havo fol your heart, if you havo not uttcrc< with your lips. "No man cares for soul." There havo been times when were especially pliable on tho great !? ject of religion, lt was so, for insta aller you had lost your property. ! hud a great many totters blowing lip for being unfortunate. You sh ed that thero had been a concatena; of eircumsla ces, and that your ins ency was no fault of yours. Your cr tors talked to you as though they wt have a hundred cents on a dolla your life. Protest after protest ( bled in on your desk. Moll who i to lako your hand with both of fl and shake it violently, now pass yoi the street with an almost impercept nod. After six or eight hours of sc ing business anxiety you go home, you shut tho door and throw youi on tho sofa, and you feel in a stat despair. You wish that some would come in. and break up tho git Kverythh seems to bo against The bank against you. Your oreti against you. Your friends, sudd become critical, again a you. All past against>on. All the future, agi you. You m uko reproachful out "No man cares for my soul." There was another occasion whe tho doors of your heart ssvung OI'KN KOH SACK Kl) I NF LU KN CK A bright light went out in your ht hold. Within thrco or four days t were compressed sickness, death sequ?os, You wore so lonely th hundred people coming into the h did not break up the solitariness, were almost killed with tho dom calamity. A few formal, perfuix words of consolation were ut lort tho stairs before you went to the gi mu, von wanted soino ono to collin talk over tho wholo matlor, unit recite tho alleviations, and decipher tho les sons of tho dark bereavement. No ono came. Many ix limo you could not sleep until two or tinco o'clock in tho morning, and then your sleep was a troubled dream, in which was re-en acted all tho scene of sickness, and part ing, and dissolution. Oh, what days and nights thoy were! No man seemed to care for your soul. There was another occasion when your heart was very susceptible. Tliero was A Cl lt 14 AT A WA Iv KN INO, There were hundreds ol' people who pressed into tho kingdom of (Jod--some of them acquaintances, some business as sociates, yes, perhaps some members of your own family were baptized by sprinkling or immersion. Christian people thought of you and they called at your store, but you were out on busi ness. They stopped at your house ; you had gone around to spend tho even I ing. ,'They sent a kindly message to you -, soniohow, bv accident, you did not get lt. Tho life-boat of tho Cospel swept through tho surf, and everybody seemed to got m but you. Everything seomed to oscapo you. Ono touch of personal sympathy would have pushed you into tho kingdom ot lied. When on communion-day your friends went JU and your sons and daughters went into tho church, you buried your faco in your handkerchief and sobbed. "Why am I left out? Everybody seems to get saved but me. No man cares for my soul." Hearken lo a revelation 1 have to make, lt is A STA uti. i xii STAT KM K NT. lt will so surprise you that I must prove it as 1 go on. Instead of this total lh d i florence all about you in regard lo your soul, I have to loll you that heaven, earth, and hell are after vom Immortal spirit. Faith to cheat il. Hell ID destroy it. I leaven lo redeem il. Although you may bea slrangei li the Christians in this house, their lace.1 would glow and I heir hearts wonk bound d' they saw you make one stei heavenward. So Intricate and far reaching is Ibis web ul" sympathy, that could by one word rouse a great man; prayers in your behalf. No one car for your soul ! Why, one signal of dis tress on your part would thrill this tl ltd 1 euee with holy excitement, If a boat in any harbor should get ii distress, from the men ol'war, anil fron UK; sloops, and from the steamers, th Hying paddles would pull to tho resent And if now you would lift ono sign; ol'distress, all Ihcse voyagers of eternil would Vicar down toward you and brin you relief, lint no. You are I,IKK A Mill' ON i nti: at sea. They keep the hatches dowi and the captain is frenzied, and he gi vi orders that no one hail thc passing ship! Ile says, "I shall either land this vessi in Hamburg or on tho bottom of Hi ocean, and I don't can; which." Yoi ; der e. a ship . "IM White S'tl'.r Lb' Pacing; YdAdei o;. ' of iii" ivilioiii j, lile, Y inip'l 6uo . 'I ?lie ? Uhttrd .' <!U< ? Yonder "'' ol . he ' o nan I iee. I Vt 1 they k'ib'jiyv hot Li iv*1 b! i ii? 'fiilj iui; happening on that ono ve.pe) t'Mj' I I he captain iv?ii|f| m?) pul his tijiu'i to Ins lip und v..., . L.., Loner J boats! Hear down this way ! Weal burning up! Fire! Firo!" No, m No signal is given. If that vessel pe ?Shes, having hailed no one, whoso fan will il Ire ? Will il be the fault of ll ship thal hill its eabnity, or will it 1 tho fault of the vessels thal, passing <: the high seas, would have been glad I furnish relief it it had been only asked In other words, my brother, if yon mi; heaven il will be you own fault. .No one cares for your soul! Wh\ in all the ages lhere have been me whose cut Ire business was soul-saviii} In this work Munson went down undi the knives of tho cannibals whom 1 had come to save, and Hobert McCheyi preached himself ,to death by thirl years of age, and .John Ihinyan wt thrown into a dungeon in 1 led ford shir and J eh Ud 1 Ashman endured all tl malarias of the African jungle; ar there aro hundreds and thousands i Christian men and women now whoa praying, toiling, preaching, living, dyii lo save souls. No ono care for your soul! Ila' you heard MOW CM!lt 1ST KKKI.S, AllOt T IT ? I know it was only live or six mil from Bethlehem to Calvary-the birt placo and the deatbplace of Christ but w ho can tell bow many miles it w from the throne to tho manger V Ho many miles down, how many mil back again V The place of His depai uro was tho tocus of all splendor ai pomp. All tho thrones facing ll throne. His name tho chorus in eve song and the inscription on every ba uer. His landing-place a cattlo-po malodorous with unwashed brutes, ai dogs growling in and out of tho stab! I Horn of it weary mother who had jot ney eighty miles in severounhealth th I she might find tho right place for tl Lord's nativity-born, not as otb princes, under Hie Hash of a chaiidclii but under a lantern swung by ti rope I the roof of tho barn. In that pla I Christ started to save you. Your nan I vour face, your time, your eternity, I Christ's mind. Sometimes I va veil i I on mule's back lo escape King Heroi I massacre, sometimes attempting m j vous sleet> on tho chilly hill-side, son I times earning His breakfast by the c? pen try of a plough. In Quarantai the stones of tho Held, by their sha and color, looking like the loaves bread, tantalizing His hunger. Y all tho lime keeping on after ye With drenched coat treading the si of (iennosaret. Howled lifter by bloodthirsty mob. Denounced as drunkard. Mourning over a doon; city, whilo others shouted at the sif: of tho shimmering towors. All i (imo coming on and COMING ON TO SAVK VOf. Indicted as being a traitor agai government, perjured witnesses swe ing their souls away to insure I butchery. Flogged, spit on, slapped tho face, and then hoisted on roi lumber, in the sight of earth, and he en, and hell, to purchase your ?ter ?mancipation. From the first inf step to the last step ol'manhood on sharp spike o? Calvary a journey for yoii? I Ch, how UK CA H K I> FOll VOlMt SOU I. ? By dolorous arithmetic add np ibo stable, tho wiidry tempest, tho midnight dampness, (ho abstinence ol' Corly days from 1 pod) tho" bridal .Sanhedrim, Uf? heights ot Golgotha, across which all tho hatreds oC earth and all tho inri' ? bf hell (dunged with their bayonets, and then dari' to say again (bal np one ( ?ires for your soul. A young ulan might as well gt ol? from home and give his father lind mother no intimation as to where hi1 lias gone, and, crossing the seas, silting down in some foreign country, cold, sick, hud hungry and lonely, saying, "My lather j and motlier don't caro anything til iou I me. Do not caro anything about 1M ' 1 Why, thal father's hair has turned g raj since bis sun wont off. Ho has written to all the consuls in tho foreign port: asking about that son. Does hoi Un mother caro anything about hm.'? !'<? iras broken her heart. Sho has novel smiled since ho went away. AU .! >; long, ami alrnostall night, she keep: ask ing, "Where is he ! Where can he bc ' He is tho first thought in ber prayei and the last thought in ber prayer fbi first thought in the morning and th- Iii ' lit night. She says, "OG od j bring bat li my boy. I must see him again bei? .' I die." * Oh do not his falber and m "i .; caro for him V Von go away from heavenly Father, and you think ll? not care for you because you wi. even read tho letters by which I viles you to como back, while all lu iven is waiting, and wailing and wallia I you to rel urn. A yoting niau said lo Ids fallir. I am going off; I will write to you AT IHK H Xl) ?KSKVKX Y HAU and toll you where ? am." Muns . have passed along since that son i away, and for years the l'allier liai going to thc depot in the village On arrival ol'every (rabi, and when lu lieu the whistle in (hi! distance he. is ll willi excilenieni. and ho wails ul I he passengers have come oui. ali' bewails until the l rain has goili mil of sight again, and Iben li home hastening back lo the next and he will be at every train nilli son comes back, unless fhn SOU until the lather be dead. Hut < grenier patience ol' (?od! Ile. lu ? waiting for you not seven years, liol years, Iud for some of you twbhlj ( . thirty years, forty years, lilly j waiting, calling-wailing, callinj nothing imf omnipotent pat ici icc haye endured il. Oh. my brother, noi lake tho sentiment of my text yoi i sentiment ! We do care for your One Sabbath night years ago io\ church in Brooklyn a yoting n ai pealed at the end ol' the pialba lie said lo me, "\ have just cona ?! sea.*' I said, when did you a .. Said he, "1 cunio into port lld noon. 1 was in a great "blow" ??? . 1 latieras this last week, and I I that J M (CU IT AS UKI.I. 00 TO ll KA \ I as lo hell. I thought tho ship v ? sink . dil sir, T never ve?.. . ? i (jijiisiv i hon jd it about ni\ 'foul nb I'd tor iligh?.; l '-nd io hin-. Do von mel ? . hal i i.nia i-. ??bin ;;ii I willing U> v..'. ? \in. .'' 'l?li. .i .. '' lie ri ?.lied, ..! ii v ', W . ?'siddi u'?>v ure you w!llinj? . 'im ? j : I i i s.lM'd by ?lim ./*' <| j lu ?a.... \V? il, \\ill you now, .prayer wo are about to offer, giv sell lo (?od for linio and olcriiily . will," be said. Then we knell in | iay and alter we had gol through pnl; iv (ohI me that the great IrunSforinaiio had taken place. I could not don Ile is on the sea now. Ido no? what oilier port he may gain, bu . bo will gain thc harbor ol' heave . "Slur ol' penc?, honni o'er (bo li ill lillis Hie soul Ililli sltflis tor Til I ll 033 (lio Bailor's lonely pillow, Pur, far al sea;" ! ll was sudden conversion \ thal night. Oh, thal it might 1 . conversion willi you to-day! i I Sil Vc you in ono inomont as w can in ii century. There ar deal hs. suddencalamities . wh St'DDKX OKI.IV Kll AX?I God's Spirit is induite in s| comes here willi omnipotent p.wivi i Ile is ready hero and now. ii misty and ?prever, to save you. I believe that a multitude 1 will to-day come lo (?od. l yon are coming, and you will ?IIj* I ulong your families and youi friend with you. They have heard i . already, of the step you aro aboil i iota! The news has been cried along thc gi Id en streets, and has rung out li nu towers. "A soul saved ! A sou1 saved !" Hut there is some one here lo- '.i?- who will reject this Gospel. He iii any mil ol' flic kingdom of God binn ?I l?o will keep his family and his (Vii nihi out. It is a dreadful thing for a ma i jusl to plant himself in tho way of I1" ll n keep back his children, keep bai l< ? is companion in life, keep back h. bnsi ness purluers-rel use to go into, ll u.y?'ii himself, and refuse to let others go ,,. TIlAOIC OKA Tl I Ol' A It I'M Hf! i1 >K I A young man. at thc. (dose of ;i roll' gious service, was asked to deem ll unit UT of his soul's salvation. .'.!. :ni'!. "I will not do it lo-nigh(." Well, lin Christian man kept talking with him, and lie said, "I insist (hat to-nigh I yon either take. God or reject Ubi "Well,'' said tho yoting man, il put it lhal way, 1 will rcjeci Him, There now Hie nialter's settled." <>ii his way home on horseback, he kin \ nul (hat a (ree had fallen aslant (lu i ind and lie was going at full speed, iud he struck th? obstacle and dropped tile! Thal nighl his Christian luobhci hoard the riderless horse plunging lihou! Ibo barn, and suspecting (hat soinelh'mg terrible was the malter, she wini ?Ul Illili came to Hie place where her ,-on lay, and she cried ont, "Oh, Henry' dead and bot ii Christian. Oh, my sim ! my son! dead and not a Christi m. O Henry! Henry! dead and not a (.'liri? Han." (?od keep us from such .i ci (rophe. .? -*>-?- - Telegraph Ml al 1st (es, Tho Culled States has as nian\ milos of telegraph tn all tho countries of Kuropo combined, and tho poop!Oj Of this country send more than double the number ol' messages by telegraph us (Jreat Britain, whoso people send (ho largest number ?d' any in fin rope? ?iovc'B Contnxion. J wa? the daughter of a Momphls physician, and Ida only child. In my Hovout.lt year I lost my motlior, but tho poignancy of my childish grlof was in some measure allovlatod when six months later ray father brought mea little playmate of my own age. ribo wai iuij ward, and wo grow from child hood to girlhood beneath tho samo roof, and for my part I can say I loved Nata lip Chester as a sister. How beautiful (?li? mik ia tho first Hush of her peorlcss womanhood! "l won dor will bebo her latest con (jue&tj" 1 asked mysolf, when for tho first time Lindon Staffordand shestood face to Caco. Ho was my father's young usslstant? and perhaps the only man sho MM im t who, panoplied in tho armor ol n cold indlfforonce, seomod insonaiblo to h r ?liarms. And I know this indif ference piqued a Yauity that tho flattery Of tongiioB had fanned into a passion. " Doon lt not occur to you. Myrtle," slit ?tdd i,o nio ons af ternoon, ''that our nmg doctor is a man of singularly nhl ; UK .tic temperament?" "ile has never made love to you, . Natalie," 1 answered dryly. "Yet it might to bo a novel sensation to meet a man win) does not fall in lovo and wor f hip yon." lier cheeks flushed slightly, but she retorted with a laugh: "Would it not bi 1 inor? novel sensation still to con? strain Mm into idolatry? They say iii nal ores tho least demonstrative aro . ! able of tho strongest feelings and ho quirk once applied to tho latent you aro treated to a conflagration," spoke lightly, but tho glance that lied rom tho dusky beauty of her i nyes :oi vinced mo that if all tho dc 1 a fascinating woman did not f ail i she would bring Lindon Stafford ! to hoi 'Vet. I, wbo watchod Mr. Stnf . uly, saw that ho was struggling ?i i assion that ho reit would only I ur unhappiness., no hour had como when strong ouls would bo tried in thooro . i a groat allllctlon, and Lindon atiord, standing faco to face with un umpromislng necessity, tiaro no longer fri! away existence in a dream of Tho terrible scourge of yellow [t i>i natl swept over Memphis and .1 inn a week presented all the appear ol ii city 6f the dead, in their abject terror the people fled they cared not tv hu lier, and fear for the time being ? 11 shod all nobler instincts of humanity fri iii hearts where craven selfishness pi.' laminated. My father's first thought was for i Natl .o's safety and mino, and to this o? i i' telegraphed to Miss Chester's ?! luir guardian, who Was then a resi dent of a Northern State. In due time gentleman arrived to carry hlB I uitifnl ward and mo far from tho reach of tho Impending danger, but no remonstrance, no entreaty, could in duce mo to desort what I conceived to ! . toy post of duty. Shall 1 over forget that night when Natalie loft us. lie-, r ne bidding her good-by I had hurried . "Irs for a pnroe' She bad forgotten, .i 'o d?ttU'iithg in a minute or so io] find. Dr. suit,ovi ii the toohi, I paused outside tilt) il >or. i ''inf.'ohdod loatty-.farewell," nlw tn\h?\ ! as, with d?ivnij-asl ??vi?, shh held ddt - '""ul. \i iiius'. think uni very cowardly ri ilqb from danger while Myrtle insists Plaining." ss Craig's placo ls by hor father's .< bo answered-, "but it would be "? i . than madness in your friends to til lo v you to Incur risks that could hg no possible good to any ono. 1 iii I theft you aro too young and bea li ll to die," \ nd if this parting bo forover what would you say to mo, Mr. Stafford?" "I would say farowoll- only fare? . I,", ho implied, evasively, as ho re vi hor hand. 1 ! or eyes looked into his, and a cry <. . .oed him as ho caught her in his . i ia, and if a man's lovo ever wem out i ii woman it was in that lingering kits it pressed upon her Hp?, i turned away and, with trembling ? i s and sinking heart, stolo quietly upstairs. For I bad learned to love Ibis man even with a hopelessness that 'insilied a passion which had changed (lie current of my lifo into a channel wi oie source was bitternessand sorrow. I a1 u not going to linger over the days . tat followed when, as a hospital lin se, I triod to forgot my folly. \ it bin two weeks tho summons carno Ui Hie only ono that loved mo and 1 was lei! an orphan. Dr. Stafford was also - i ckon down, and I nursed him through his illness to recovery, and j wi,en ibo sec urge at length had passed ' away I found myself alono and almost friendless in the world. < bie day Lindon Stafford, while still i?, o and emaciated, carno to mo and usked mo to ba his wlfo. I knew too j well ho did not lovo mo. I know his j every thought was with the beautiful N dallo in her Northern homo; but, oh, my God I I could not lot him loavo me, ..ed in tho blind fatalism of a woman's l< ii I cheated myself into tho belief tb ht ?ii time I would win his heart. I Al i :\o wo wero married, and the bri 1 dal kiss ho gave me lu Us coldness, ; el. i i (1 my lips and heart. Hut I did not murry him to Indulge in vain regrets and (Judon Stafford wes too loyal a geii'.man, too sensitivo to truth and hOti' to bo othor than tho kindest husband. Tho first your of my wedded lifo wis drawing toa closo wheii ono morning I received a letter from Nata ni;. She was coming South with hor guardian for tho Winter and would ? ?pond a day or two with us, sho wrote. ! She remained a week with us-for mo a week of montai torturo, for, as I. said, iii y husband lingered so often by her . de I feared tho smoldering Uro of an i Unforgotten love had burned into flames i again within his breast. j iv Wits Christin is Fvo, and Natalie kitted mo in bidding mo good-by. Ohl tho treas JU of a woman's kiss to a Woolan, I thought, as l watched hor d<u )'. byes turned to my husband's face ! when ho took lils ?out besldo her in tho j eimiaj'e to leave hor at tho depot. Motionless and muto as lt grief had ' tinned mo to stone, I stood beside tho window and looked out on tho dismal : net. And as tho minutes passod this ' ihaddo.ting thought occurred to me :. WOuld my husband, tlie husband that j i love*.i, dosert mo now for this beaut I ful Natalio; would lils loyalty and hon or bo forgotten In an unholy passion? My hands and check and brow worn deathly-cold, and yet my brains was oa dre. Tho objecta on tho street had, to my vision, mown blurred and indistinct and I turned to totter to a chair aa Lindon noiselessly entered the room. There was a tender sadness in bis oyos as bo looked upon my pale face, and, witb tho sobbing cry of uOh, husband, husband I" I sank into his outstretched arms. "Myrtle, my wife," said bo, "when a year ago I stood beroro tho altar aud swore to love you until death there was a perjury upon my tongue. Even then an imago that was not yours was en shrined within my beart, and tho haunting oyes of Natalie Chostor, Beemod to mock my firm resolve to bo 1 at least a faithful husband. You may bavo known my secret, poor patient wife, and yet roproacli nor taunt bas novor passed your lips. Well, I've met Natalio Chester again to learn my pas sion was buta frenzy that bad burnt itself to ashes. And now tins Christ mas Evo, sweet wife, whoa every heart throb that boats against your own ls yours and only yours, I ask you to for give me and forget the past, for I know ouch love as yours could pardon even a greater wrong." 1 brushed tho bair back from bis splendid brow, and almost as shyly as a girl kissed his lips. In my husband I had found a lover at last. Altor Knil'o-IIaviHlleH. Botween tho most northern portion of Queensland, Australia, and New Guinea flow tho waters of Torres straits. Tho straits aro eighty miles Wido, lilied with Islands, shoals, and roofs, and amid these tho pearl shel! tlshories of Queensland aro situated. Tho product is shipped to tho United States and Kuropo and used for knife handles, buttons, combs, and orna mental work. Most of tho vessels uncaged in tho business belong to Sydney. Ono or two American vessels bavo also been omployod. Tho vessels pay a liconso feo to Queensland and are taxed for tho land used in connection with tho llshories. A failuro to take out a license is liable to a lino of three times tuo amount of tho fee. In 1883 there wero 200 vosaola engaged in the work, employing 1,500 mon. Tho dress of tho divers is heavier than is seon hero and is made of solid sheet India rubber, covered on both sides with canvas*, tho helmet ls tinned I copper with three glassos, ono in front and ono on each side, to glvo the woarer a good chance to see his surroundings. Small iron bars protect the glasses from injury. There ls a double collar on the belmot, tho inner ono coming up around tho neck and tho other fastened to tho dress. Tho breast-plato is made of tinned copper, witli a valve by which tho diver can regulate the pressure of the atmosphoro. A small hose supplies tho necossary air, and u signal lino is tied to tho waist of tho dross. The whole outfit costs ?7"n. Tho. vessels go but m ll?.ets with pro vision:. Vor two we?kt', When thc j ground is r???hed fb i <i?vco gi is down auld ltiiils ;i spot where iii? '-helh arel plenty, ile slgi?ds lo tlioi ' ibovo, to j ! casi anchor and proceeds lo lill tho biig I i {'...?.t. li? carrie;,, Whon full it is drayvii up and again sent down, lu this way tho work ls carried on for hours, dur ine which time the divor remains under water. Caro has to be used in taking tho shells, as when they aro touched on tho wrong side they close up, sometimes taking the diver's dimers lu a viso-like grip. When this occurs ho must riso to tho surface of tho water and have it removed, Somo of tho boats are not provided with divers' outfits and depend on ex pert swiinmors, who dive down, sel/.o a sholl and throw it into the boat, and, af lor getting back their breath, dive again. Tho divers earn from $00 to $150 a month. Generally they sign shipping articles for tinco yeats for regular wages and a certain per cent, in tho amount of shell taken. Somo mako as much as $:j )0 a month. Tho crows aro mostly South Sea Islanders, Malays and Chinese. Tenders who assist tho divers aro paid $12 a month, and a small Interest in tho catch. Tue boat* having no diving apparatus aro idle in stormy weathor, and from Decembor to March, but tho men aro paid for full timo. The swimmersget (rom $'1 to $8 per month. At Torres Straits no organized effort hasbeon made to gather the pearls that aro found, and most of them are taken by men wdio secrete them until a chance offer? to dispose of thom. Sometimes this ls dono by swallowing them. A number of handsome specimens have corrie Iront those fisheries Tho Euro pean and American demand regulates tba price of sholls at the Ashing ground and varies from $0.25 to $7.50 per ton. Tbe shipments to America are increas ing, but much of it arrives via London. Young sholls are tho best and command a much higher prion than the old. .- -.. m m. - Tbd Pox. Thc fo> wa . regarded by tho an cients as tho m is! cunning of all ani mals, and ins standing is still reported by Bradstreet to bo A.Al. Tne.o aro various species of l oxoi, none of which will refuse H spring chicken, If tbe prlco isn't to i steep. They might as well have been '.nind? so that thoy could climb 'trees, bit?| iv* they weren't they take it out lu .inning loose over a largo torrltory 6f totihtry. ile oats most everything \vjiloh comes tri fdi way in tho shape of j/neat, and can go off on a visit ahead ht a dog fastor than any other anbn/.i carrying a feather-duster boiilnd bim While ho makes his bur row In the ?'round, and puts bis elbow in lt to kn p out ) maier's pitch-forks, ho knows i; 'cry hollow log, stono-hoap and brush-jdii- lor ten miles around. Ho would live to bo fifty years old if ho could, but ''Otween dogs, traps, guns, huntorn and ihotimatism bis careel is generally cul fibert and bis hldo sold, to a tln-peddlcr for a dish-pan and two pie-tl ns. --Carlista S.oott, of Colfax, Illinois, has a gray pi ah io fquirrcl which was found fro/en solid under a stiawstack. Mr. Scott thawed it out gradually, and now it is as dlvel.y as ever. Tim VBNl?ltAB?Jia KAlSHlt. A low of I ho I Holdouts In a ?ionit I ?Ho of Adventure, Adversity ami Prosperity. Dorn tho 22tl day ol' march, 17'.J7, . Frcderl?k William Louis von Hohen zollern was from his cradle destined to become a soldier, and when old enough ho diligently applied himself to loara tho military profession. It was on t ho 1st of January, 1807, when, crushed al ?Jena, Prussia had almost ceased tu ex ist as an indopenont nation, that Fred erick William JU, who with his 'family was living in tho poorly furnished, half ruined Castle ot Koenigsburg, gave his third son, Wilhelm, thon 10 years of ago, tho commission..of it subaltern in tho Royal Grenadiers, with tho remark "I give you this to-day iu order that you may have a now suit of clothes to wear on your next birthday." On tho 1st ot January, 1814, .seven years after his ontry into the service, and at tho ago of 17, ho rodo alongside of Marshal Blucher when tho Prussian army crossed the libbie to invade fair Franco. At the battle of Bar-sur-Aube. where ho carno under Uro for tho tirst time, ho was untrusted with the reeon noissance of tho battlefield, and he dui this with so much coolness that his father gave him tho Iron Cross. .Soon after this ho was transferred from the Grenadiers to tho Guards, and entered with tho allies into Paris, an enterprise that he han since twice repeated. Thu second timo was in 1815, after tho Bel gian campaign, in which ho took activo part, winning a major's commission at Waterloo. Deep.y in love with tho Princes.' Kli/.a Rad/.iwill, he consented, iti Hjili. after but brief resistance, to niarri Augusta, eldest daughter of the Du kt ol* Weimar, and in other pol?tica, Mat tern he has often sacrificed his personal sympathies or repugnances lo ll.? ex igencies ol' statecraft, tn tho ?utan timo his promotion was rapid; in quick succession ho became li.eutenant-colonol j colonel, genera), commander OL' tho First Division ot the Guards, comman der of the Third Army Corps, and lieu tenant-general. Thoo, on tho death ot his father, when his childless bretni'i ascended to tho throne bo was un liouUccd as Crown Prince. In 1857, just thirty years ago, tho fiftieth anniversary of his entrance into tho army was duly celebrated, but long as has been his connection with the ser vice lio did not become tho Commun - der-in-Chiet until five months later. Then tho mental condition ot Frederich William IV forced Wilhelm to accept? tho Regency, and three years after wards ho was King of Prussia. Those three years were, tho turning point in tho military history of Germany. But there soon arose a serious con flict between tho new king ami the Prussian Parliament. Wilhelm looked on tho army as his personal property and would not admit that Pari ia tue nt had tiny right to oven debate tho ap propriations asked for to keep it uv. The difference of opinion between tho lviiitr, and his mini: '?.': ..- oh (lils JubjiM?'t |?d him, ;i: soj'tcmbi'r, U:G-2, tc- dt.oni ?. (bein ami L> intrust hiivGoverh:i\?in jo Count you Bismaick, Thu uew;?K'.o>i il-nt Of tito . 'dinioM' Lau a!.:<? i\n M '! !;.' :bcli.)itgcd it l tit: l-Y'dev.il or <.\m'.;or > ai i >> e pal'ty; while af 1'Vhnkfdrd bc had Mai q* ed lo dislike Austria and ivillll) it .'.'ai lie had seen through the aims and am bitions ol' Louis Napoleon. liq resolved to turn those ambitions to the advant age of bis sovereign andconinii,'ie?'d his plans by gelling tho attention ol' Iii. own people drawn away from dom - tic politics by centering them on IVwyig u affairs. 'J'ho conflict; hoWover, lust et 1 four years and was exceedingly vii'!?".tt. Tho end of this struggle was the groa s victories over Denmark, Austria amt France. 'J'ho result of thc war ol' 1870 71 is too well known for it lo be neces sary to dwell on il now. Sui lice 51 :?. say thal for the third time Wilhelm cu terell Paris as ti conqueror*, and win-, he re-entered Berlin at tho hoad ?ii tin army on tho 1 ?Vtli of .lune, 1871, it wa nt) longer as King of Prussia, hut its Kmpcror of United Germany. Lie holt! that kings either received their author ity from Cod or won it for themselves by victory, ami it was as tho eon?inmov of Franco that ho himself consentei lt;, receive the crown of united Germ.my in 1S71, his coronation in the P.diioo ot Versailles being ?quivalent to stiel', .t ceremony on the battlefield. There is never any chango in tito np? pearanco Of tho venerable monateh'rt palace home. His sleeping-rooms ami otliee at tho corner of the building i hat Stands iii tho Unter don Lindon ure lit up every ever liing at tho usual hour? avai even when the sovereign ls absent tlieiiV windows are bright with lamps ai>w candles until midnight, Just as lliougb ho were in tho capital. Tho tnperial household is a ftiig? one, and few aro tho grand duniitc-s given. Both Wilhelm lind hist Kiapvit^ love tho company of their kind, bwi n? turally they have very few iutluiaUf friemls. She is not fond of a:.. .'.bu? but plain (?crinan cooking, but he tll?.o French plats well ipa.de ami Koaio.ivd, Antis ) this wonderful inh.fi eeli'?>:.'?;.? his OOtli anniversary usn soldier in the society ol' his two gteat and inti Unite friends. Bismarck and Von Mollku-: this groat triumvirate of monarch, di plomat, sold.er, whoso words aro listen ed to with breathless anxiety, and upo? whose actions tho whole future ol tin KurOpciii) continent d.-ponds, To-da> the German sold 1er,s are the. (lnest in existence, and when the venerable mon arch dies he can say, tis'did Frederick tho Great: "'.rho world does not icsf. moro securely on the shotiluers ol' Atlatri than does Prussia on Its army. 0 Full l'a I I io tl I It I'M. If you have tinco naines, m?lait}, wrlto or print thom in full ASH-U yourself, if yoijr maiden name was U.eu riefa Jane Brown, and yon um wie il .lohn Watkins Stout, as (Teh riot Itt Bro'wU stout-that is in your co res* pondeneo, Your card should road Mis. John Watkins Stout (not Mrs. John W. Stout, 'nor Mrs. J. W. ?Stout). But whon it conics to logal doe ninon >.s your signature must bollenriett.i Jane ?8 tonk It is bolter to lot a mare p vi? one season without bringing a coli, than Ho breed her when she ?auot fu oouditloui.