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PR. TALMAG R'S SIMMON JlOfOXMIUVtiO?i Of ??Vli JlulHtS. "Whon Ktmli ,' awake, I will sock lt yet ftjral?."-Prov. 5S1 : It?. WITH tin insight Into human tinturo suc)) as no oilier man ever roached, Solomon, in my text, sketches the men-: tal operation? of one who, having stop pod AHlDJ'l KJtOM Till': PAT ti bi rectitude, desires to return. Willi a wish for something botter, ho says: .' When shall I awakoV when shall I como out ol' lids horrid nightmare of iniquity?1' But seized upon by un eradieatcd habib, and forced down-lull by Ina passions, he cries out: "I will seek it yet again. 1 will try il oneo moro." Om libraries aro adorned willi an elegant lilcraturo addressed lo young men, pointing out lo them all the dan go! s aud perils of llfo-coinploto minis of tho voyage, showing all tho rocks, th(i quicksands, tho shoals. But sup pose a man has already niado ship wreck; suppos? he. is already oil' the track; supposo bo bas already gone as now m inc TO OUT HACK? T!>;ii, is a liehl comparatively untouch ed! I propose to address myself this evening to Such. There aro those in this audience who, with every passion of their agonized soul, are tend y lo hear (his discussion. They comparo them selves with what they were len years ago, twid cry out from thc bondago in which they are incarcerated. Now, if thcro bo any in this house, come with an earnest purpose, yet feeling they are beyond tho palo of Christian sympathy, and that the scrmo.' can hardly bo ex pected to address mom, thou, at this moment, J give them my right hand and call them brother. Look up. There is glorious and triumphant hopo for you ye;, f sound the trumpet of Gospel de li vc rance. Tho Church is ready to spread a banquet ut your return, and thc ) i m archs of heaven lo Tall into lino of ban tiered procession at the nows of your emancipation. So far as God may help me, I propose to show what aro the obstacles lo your return, and how lo surmount those obstacles. Tin: KlItST DI Kl*"!Ult I.TY ?ti tito way or your return is thc loree of inonu gravltntiott. Just as thcro is :i natural law which brings down to thc earth anything which you throw into the air, so lhere is a corresponding moral gravitation. In other words, it is easier tu go down than it is to go up; it is (.usier lo do wrong than it is to do right Cull to mind tho comrades of your boyhood days-some of them good some of them bad. Which most affect ed ?you? ("all to mind the anecdotes that you have heard in tho hist live or ten yearn- -.some of them are puro and some of them impure. Which tho moro easily sticks to your memory? During the years ol' your life you hilve formed certain courses of conduct-some ol' them good, some ol' thom bad. To which stylo ot habit did you tho moro easily 3 ?old? Ahl lay friends, we have to fake but a moment ol' self-inspection to lind out that there is in all our souls a foreo of moral gravitation. Mut that gravitation may bo resisted. Just as you may pick up from the earth some thing and hold it in your hand toward heaven, just so, by the power of (hui's grace, a soul fallon may bo lifted, to ward peace, toward pardon, toward heaven, Force of moral gravitation in every ono of us, but power in God's grace lo overcome Huit force of moral gravitation. Tho next thing in the way of your return is ike power of evil habit, I know thcro tire those who say it is very easy for thom to give up evil habits. I ?lo bel le Vu thom. Hero is a man given to intoxication. He knows it is disgrac ing his family, destroying his properly, ruin lng him body, mind, and soul. If that man, being au intelligent man, and loving bis family, could easily give up that habit, would he not do so? The fad. Huit he does not give it up proves il. is haid to give it up. lt is a very easy thing to sail down-stream, Ibo fide carrying you with great loree; but sup pose you turn THIS ?0 AT UP STU KA M. is it HO easy then to row it? As long as wo yield to Ibo evil inclinations in our hearts and our bad habits, wo aro sail ing down-stream; but tho moment ive try to turn, wo put our boat in the rapids j list above Niagara, and try to row lip stream. Tako a man given to the habit ut using tobacco, as most of you do, and let him resolve lo stop, and he (iuds it very difficult. Twenty-one year? ago I quit that habit, and 1 would as soon dare to put my right hand in the Uro as once lo indulge in lt. Why? Bccauso it was such a terrible struggle to gb!? over it. Now, lot a man bo advised by his physician to give up the use of tobacco. He goes around not kno wing what to do with himself. Ho cannot add up a lille of ligures. Ile cannot sleep nights, It seems as f the world had turned up side down. Ile feels his business is go ing to ruin. Where he was kind and obliging ho is scolding and fretful. Tho composure that characterized him lias given way lo fretful restlessness, and lip has become a complet? fidget. What power ls it that has rolled a wavo of woo over tho earth and shaken a por tent in tho heavens ? Ho has triedlo stop smoking 1 After a while ho says, .'I ain going lo doas 1 please. Tho doc tor doesn't understand my case. I'm going back to tho old habit." And ho returns. Everything assumes its usual composure. His business scorns to brighten. Tho world becomes an attractive place to livo in. His children, seeing tho differonco, hail tho return of their father's genial disposi tion. AVhat Wavo of color has dashed blue into tho sky, und greenness into tho mountain foliago, and tho glow of sapphire into the sunset? What en chantment bas lifted a world of beauty and Joy on bis soul? Hp has gone back to smoking. Oh, tho fact is, as we all know in our own cxperioneo, that IIAMT IS A TASJV-MASTBU; as long, as wo oboy lt, ijf does not chas Uso us: but lot us resift, and wo lind wo aro to bo lashed witljr scorpion whips, and bound with ship ?able, and thrown wto the track of lfattiMw-Wiioiil-lnfr inn goiinuits. During tl:o war of 1812 thero was a ship sot on Uro just above Niagara Falls, and thou, cut loose from its moorings, lt carno on down through tho night, and tossod ovor tho Falls. It was said to luwo boon a scono brilliant boyond all description. Well, thero aro thousands of men on Uro of ovil habit, coming down through the rapids, and through llio awful night of tempta tion, toward tho eternal plunge. Oh, how hard it is to arrest thom! Hod only can arrest thom. .Suppose a man, after tlvo or ten or twenty years of evil-doing resolves to do right. Why, all the forces o? dark ness aro allied against him. Ho cannot sleep nights. Ho gets down on his knees in thc midnight and cries: "G?ll help mol" Ile bites his lip. Ho grinds his teeth. Ho clenches his fist in a de termination to keel) his purpose. Ho dare not look at tho bottles in tho win I dows of a wino store, lt is ono long, bitter, exhaustive, hand-to-hand fight with an inllamed, tantalizing, and mer ciless habit. When ho thinks ho is en tirely free, the old inclinations pounce upon him like a pack of hounds with their muzzles tearing away at the Hanks of one poor reindeer Iii P*iris lhere ^ a sculptured representation of Bacchus, the god of revelry. Ho is riding ona panther at full leap. Oh, how sugges tive! Lot every ono who is speeding on bad ways understand ho is not rid ing a docile and well-broken steed, but ho is riding a monster, wild and blood thirsty, going ata death leap. How many Ibero aro who resolve on a better life, and say: "When shall I awake?" but seized on by their old habits, cry: "I will try it once more; I will seek it yet again!" Years ago, there wcro some Princeton students who wero skating, and the ice was very thin, and some one warned Ibo com pany back from tlx; air-hole, and final ly warned them entirely to leave tho place. But one young man with brav ado, after all tho rest had stopped, cried out: "Ono round more'l" Ho swept around, and went down, and was brought out a eorpso. My friends, thero aro thousands and tens of thou sands of mon losing their souls in that way. It is the ono round moro. 1 have also to say that if a man wants to r. !nrn from evil practices, : . > M HT Y UKPUI.S1?S HIM. Desiring io reform, he says: "Now, I will shake oil my old associates, and I will find Christian companionship." And ho appears at tho church door somo Sabbath day, and tho ushcrgrccls him with a look as much as to say: "Why, you herc? You are the last man I over expected to seo at chiuchi Come, take this seal right down by tho door." Instead ol' saying: "Good morning; I am glad you aro hore. (Jonie; 1 will give you a first-rate scat, right up by tho pulpit." Well, tho pro digal, not yet discouragi d, outers a prayer-meeting, and some Christian man, with moro zeal than common sense, says: "Glad to seo you; the dy ing thief was saved, and I suppose then is mercy for you." TMK YOUNO MAX, IM.SdUSTKI), chilled, throws himsolf on his dignity, resolved he will never enter into flu house of (Jod again. Perhaps not quite fully discouraged about reformation, lu sujos up by some highly respectable ni?n ho used to know, going down thc street, and immediately tho respect abb man has an orran I down some otl'iei sired. Well, tho prodigal, wishing tc return, takes some member of a Chris tian association by the hand, or tries to. Thc Christian young man looks at bini, looks al t he faded apparel and the markt of dissipation; instead of giving him ?i warm grip of tho hand, ho oilers bin: tho tip ends of the long lingers of Hu left hand, which is conni lo slrixiny a man in UK /ace! Oh, how few Chris lian people understand how much fora and gospel there is in a good honc.sl hand-shaking] >_:oinethnes, when yoi have felt the need of encouragement and sumo Christian man has taken yoi heartily by the hand, have you not. tel thrilling through every fibre of you: body, mind, and soul an encourage nient thal was just, what you needed' You do not know anything nt all abo ti this unless you know when a man trie to return from evil courses ol' eonduo ho runs against UKl'l'i.SlON'S INS I'M KU A Ul.I-:. Wo say of sonic man, he lives a bloc! or two from the church, or half a mil from thc church. There aro people i: our crowded cities who live a lliousain miles from church. Vast deserts of in difference between them and thc hons of God. Tho fact is, wi; must keep on respectability, though thousands am tens of thousands perish. Christ sa willi publicans and sinners. Bul i there como to the houso of God a mai with marks ol' dissipation upon him people almost throw up their hands ii horror, as much as to say: "Isn't i shocking?" How thoso (Ininti/, fustUh ona Christiana in all our churches ar going to got Into beaven, I don't know unless they have an especial train o cars, cushioned and upholstered, enc ono a car to himself. They cannot g with tho great bordo of publicans an sinners. Ohl yo who curl your lip of scorn :i tho fallon, 1 tell you plainly, if you ba been surrounded by tho sain? influence: instead ol' sitting to-day amid thc eu tined, and tho refined, and tho Clirii lian, you would have been a crouchin wretch in stablo or ditch, covered wit iilth and abomination. It is not bi cause you aro naturally any belier, bi because tho mercy o? God has proteo ed you. Who aro you that brought i in Christian circles ami watched I Christian parentage, you should bo ? bard on tho fallon? 1 think mon also aro often binden from loturu by tho fact that church are too anxious about their nienibersh and too anxious about their donoinin tlon, and they rush out when they sec man ubout lo give up his sin and i turn to God, and ask him how he going to bo baptized, whether sprinkling or immorsion, and wi kind of a church ho is going to jul Ob, my friends, it is A I'OOlt TIMK TO TALK ubout Presbyterian catechisms, a Episcopal liturgies, and Methodist lo' feasts, and baptisteries to n man that coming ou t of tho darkness of sin int o I glorious light of the Gospel. Why; reminds me of a tuan drowning In I . I -.-;-~r son, mid si llfc-bont puits out for \ ni, and i)io man in tho boat says to]tho man out of tho boat: "Now, if igot you ashore', aro you going to ilvo o:|my afreet?" First got him ash oro, and Iben talk about tho non-ossontials of roliqon. Who cares what church ho joins, 1! ho only joins Christ and starts for heaton? Oh ! you ought to havo, my brothel, an illumined fuco and hearty grill for cfory ono that trios to turn from his ovil yay. Tako hold of tho samo book with lim, though his dissipation shako tho bfok, remembering that "ho that convcrtoth a sinner from tho error of ids ways mall save a soul from death and ludo a liuil titudo of sins." Now, I hayo shown you those obrta eles because I want you to understand I know all tho difficulties in tho way ; but I am now to toll you how Hannibal may seato tho Alps, and how T1U0 S1IACKLKS MAY ll IC UN'll IVKTKD, and how tho paths of virtuo forsaken may bo regained. First ol' all, my brother, throw yourself on God. Go to him frankly and earnestly, and loll bini these habits you have, and ask Him if thorn is any help in all tho resources ol' omnipotent love, to give it lo you. Do not go with a iong rigmarolepeople bull prayer, made up of "Ohs, 'ami "Alis," and "forever and ever, amen 1" GD to Cou* and cry for help ! heh) I holn I and If you cannot cry for belt), just look and live. 1 remember, in tho lalo war, L was at'Autiolam, ami l went into tho hospitals after the battlo, and said lo a man: "Whero aro you hurt?" Ho inailo no answer, but hold tip his ann, swollen and splintered. I saw wliere he was hurt. Tho simple fact is, when a man has a wounded soul, all he has to do is to hold it up before a sympa thetic Lord, and get it healed, lt does not luke any long prayer. Just hold up tho wound. Oh, it is no small thing, when a man is nervous and weak and exhausted, coining from his ovil ways, to feel that Cod puts two omnipotent arms around him, and says : "Young man, I will stand by you. Tho ?n?.uu lalns may depart, and thc hills bo re moved, but I will never fail you." And then as tho soul thinks tho nows is too good lo be true, and cannot believe il, and looks up in God's face, God lifts His right hand and takes an oath, an ulhdhv.it, saying : "As I live, saith the fiord God, t have no pleasure in thc death of bini that dieth." Messed be God for such a disciple as this I "Cul tho slices thin," said tho wifo to thc luisband, "or thero will not be enough lo go all around for tho children ; eut thu slices thin." Blessed bo God, there is . A VU Ul? J.OAF l'Oll KV KUY (INK that wants it ! Dread enough and tc sparc. No thin slices at tho Lord'* table. 1 remember when tho Master Street Hospital, in Philadelphia, wm oponed during tito war, a telegram came, saying : "Thero will bo three I li und rod wounded men to-night ; bc ready to tako caro of them;" and from my church t hero wont in Some twenty or thirty mon and women to look aftei these poor wounded follows. As they came, s;omo from one part of thc land, some from another, no ono asked wholher this man was from Oregop.kn from Massachusetts, ior from Mi^iff* sota, or from Now York. There fwfti a wounded soldier, and the only quos' tien was how lo tako oft tho rags tilt most gently, and put oh tho bandage, and administer tho cordial. And when a soul comes to Cod, Ile does not ask where you cunio from or what y btu ancestry was. Healing for all yum wounds. Tard?n for all your guilt Comfort for all your trouble?. Then, also, I counsel yon, if yoi want to get back, lo quit all your b:u associations. OS K UNHOLY INTIMAI Y will lill your soul with moral distemper In all tin; ages of tho Church there lia not been an ihsmuco where a man kop one evil associate and was reformed Gb homo to-day, open your desk, talc out loiter paper, stamp and 6nve.hn.ia and then write a letter something! ldc lilis : ".My old companions: I shirl ?I?U tltiy fe heaven, l'util I mn persuaded yon will join in ni iliis, Piircwoii.'' Then sign your name, and send th letter by the lirst post, (?ive up you bad companions or give up beaven. I is nol ten bad companions that dostro a man, nor llvo bad companions, uti three bad companions, but one. WUfl chalice is there for that young ulivtV saw .dong the street, four or live yo uh men with him, halting in front, of grogshop, urging him to go in, ho rc sisting, violently resisting, until altor While they forced Illili to go in? lt wu a summer night and the door was lol open, and 1 saw tho process. Tho held him fast, and they put tho cup t hus lips, and they forced down tho st ron drink. What chance is there for sue a young man? [ counsel you also, seek Christin, advice. Every Christian mau is bonn lo help you. IC you lind no. otlu human ear willing to listen to yoi story of struggle, como to mo and will by every .sympathy of my hear and every prayer, and every toil of m hand, uland bosido you in tho strugg for reformation ? ?ihd as 1 hopo io hat my own sins forgiven, and hope lo I acquitted at tho Judgment seat i Christ, I will not betray you. First i all seek (?od, then ?KKK CHUISTl.VN COU N SK!., (?allier np all tho ?nergies of hod mind and soul, and appealing to C;t for success, declaro this day, overl:i# lng war against all drinking habits, s gaming practices, all houses of fil Half-and-half work will amount* nothing: it must bo a Waterloo. Shi ii back now, und you tito lost. Push o and you aro saveo. A Spartan gonoi fell at tho very momont of victory, b ho dipped bis linger in his own bio anil wrote on ti rook near which ho w dying ; "Sparta has conquered Though your struggle to get rid of f may seem to bo almost a death sin gio, you can dip your linger in your m blood and write on tho Hook ol' Agc "Victory through our Loni' Jos Christi" Oh I what glorious nows it would for somo of thoso young mon to se homo to their parents In tho count They go to tho poat-ofllco cvory day two to seo if thoro aro any lottors in you. How anxious thoy aro td hoi Nothing would please them half much ns tho nows you might soiul homo to-morrow that you had glvou your heart to God. I know how lt ls in tho country. Tho night comes on. Tho cattlo aland under tho rack through which burst8 tho trusses of hay. Tho horses just having frlskod up through tho meadow at tho night fall, Stand knoo-dcep in tho bright straw that invites them to lio down and rest. Tho porch of tho hovel is full of fowl, their foot warm under tho feathers. In Tl IK Ohl) l\Ut.M llOUSK AT NIGHT no canillo is lighted, for tho Hames clap hands ?b?ut tho great backlog, and shako the .shadow of tho group up and down tho wall. Father and mothor sit tlicro for half an hour, saying noth ing. I wonder .what thoy aro thinking of. After nwbilo tito father breaks tho sileaco and says : "Well, I wonder whore our boy is in town to-night?" Ami tho mother answers: "In no bad place, I warrant you ; wo always could trust bim when bc was nomo, and since bo has been away there bavo so many prayers offered for him Wo can trust bini still." Then ut eight o'clock for thoy retiro early in tim country-it eight o'clock they kneel down and com mend you to that God who watches in country and in town, on tho land and on thc sea. Soin o ono said to a Grecian soldier : "What was thc proudest moment of your life?" Ile thought a moment, and KU id : Tl IK I'KOriMCST Id OM KN T of uiy life was when I sont word homo to my parents that I bad gained tho victory." . And the proudest and most brilliant moment in your lifo will bo tho moment when you cnn send word to your paronts in the country that you bavo conquered your evil habits, by tho grace of God, and become eternal victor. Uh I dospiso not parental anxiety. Tho (dino will como when you bayo neither father nor mothor, and you will go around tho placo where they used to watch you, and find them gono from thohouso, and gono from thc held, and gono from tho neighborhood, Cry as loud for forgiveness as you may over tho mound in tho churchyard, they will not answer. I.H5AW ! DKAl) I And then you will tako out tho white lock of bair that was cut from your mother's brow just beforo they burled her, and you will tako tho cano with which your father used to walk, and yon will think and think, and wish that you had dono justas they wanted you to, and would glvo tho world if you had never thrust a pang through their dear old hearts. God pity tho young man who bas brought disgrace on his father's name. God pity ike yoting man who has broken his mother's heart. Bet ter If lid bad never been born-bc; ter if, in tho first hour of his lifo, instead of being laid against Hie warm bosom of maternal tenderness, be bad been cof fined and sepulchred. There is no balm powerful enough to heal the heart of one who has brought parents to a sorrowful grave, and who wanders about, through tho dismal cemetery, rond lng tho hair and wringing thc Hands, and crying : "Mothori niolberl" Oh, that to-day, by all tho memories or tho past, and by all tho hopes of the future, you would yield your heart to God. May your father's God and your mother's (Jod be your ( Jod forever. liKATINtt UOTllSCUIId). A Porcelain Seryloo That Was Cheap' nt. Any Price.. Among tho various admirable pro ductions of taste which Ibo guests of liaron Rothschild never fail (o admir?, is a magnificent service of porcelain, of singular beauty, elegance ot" shape and finish, and remarkable for thc artis tic richness of its paintings,. But the way in which tho baron became pos sessed of it is worth relating. Ono day an old niau, careworn, wrinkled, feeblo, and apparently tot tering on tho verge of tho gravo, pre sented himself before M. dc Rothschild, soliciting tho honor of an interview with tito famous banker. Tho aged visitor took from his bag a rich and beautiful platy, so splendidly wrought thal, ibo baron admired it exceed bigly, and became greatly de! I cd? led with it. "Sir," said tho patriar. :' "will you buy this of inc? L haw: .. whole set,. and it has struck mo that a service so beautiful cannot lind a moro titting placo than in the mansion of tho prince of lin a ne ie rs." "It. is indeed very tine," said the baron. "How much do you want tor tho Sr-rviooV" "Look you, sir," said tho old man "I am bowed down with many yeats, and liavo not long to Jive. 1 tim poor? and wish to end my days in compara tive comfort. Will, you in exchange for this valuable set. of porcelain, give mo an l?cumo for lifo of 10.? francs a nioiitliV'^ Tho Ixiron looked afc tho poor man. examined tho plato again, ana said: "Well, bu it so; hero ts thu first pay ment. Send mo tho service, and givo mo your name. " Tho splendid Sot of porcelain was de livered tho saino day to tho baron, and a month afterward while he was scated in Iiis counting house, a man entered and asked for tho second payment o tho promised income. But tho man was young, scarcely '?0 years of agc, of a vigorous constitution and great mus cular development, and looked us if bc would live for a In. mired years. "lint you aro not tho maul" exclaim ed tho astonished banker. "Excuso ino, baron," said ho, "1 am indood tho man." ''BUt you appeared at least 80 yoars oldi" said tho baron. "I have wonderfully recovered," ob soived tho man, "thanks to your gen erosity. " Tho baron laughed heartily, and gavo orders for tho payment of tho money, exclaiming: "Ab, you aro an excellent comedian, and bavo taken ino in thoroughly." "I ara probably tho first who has done so," replied tho dow, politely bowing to tito millionaire. Tniouic are some fond, foolish, twist ing mon who will read over a recife foi mince pie and thou think they really know what it ls made of? . GRAND MOUNT SHASTA, A flkotoh of Tho Imposing Pilo. Between tho grout pinos going up you sec the religions domo of Mount Shasta, Its snows and frowns so mixed that ono views it nearly with superstition. Shasta is ono of tho finest mountains in Amor loa, a naked domo of rock, gravel and perpetual snow, mudo by :\ volcano,, and having two sido pieces or transepts, tho whole imus ctn liding up in white and dun in crazy-quilt patches of trianglos of snow and ovals of rocks and slides of loam and gravel above n skirt of Oregon pines, which aro of som ber green, and seem theklrtloof a hugo, muscular, naked man, wearing a clout of green, as ho knools upon tho plateau and surveys his brood of moundy peaks oxlonding around him in an amphi theater ot 100 miles. There is but one Shasta, ;tnd ho is a Sierra-one of tho bold rango beyond tho Hookies, overlooking tho Orient West. "Thoro is tho West; there is Europe," says the statue of Thomas Bonton at St. Louis, pointing at tho samo time west. Thoro is a county of California called Shasta, and a rango ot' mountains be tween tho Sacramento river and tho sea ls called tho ?hasta range. It is only a night's vide or a sleep of 319 miles be tween San Francisco and Mount Shasts, and in this ride you rise nearly MOO feet to Sisson, in Strawberry valley, from which Mount Shasta's peak is still 10,885 foot higher, or above the sea 14, 410 feet. lt is 10,000 feet higher than tho Eick Observatory on Mount Hamilton. Tills is tho power of Mount Shasta that it rises so grandly above overything else-not Uko Pike's or (hay's, ono of a largo family of mountains sitting around tho whit? tablecloth of thc skies. It seems tho highest when you aro at it, and looks to ho inaccessible. Tho rail road keeps winding around its base as a wheelbarrow is guided around tho stcoplos of a cathedral, lt Is moro than twico tho height of Moiint Washington, and is .seven-cightli3 of the height of Mount Illano. For 2000 feet thc snow slides ?trop dpwn its sides, frequently turning rod. Then for 4000 feet lower tho inorganic mass stands like a vulcan amid his cin ders. Next for 2000 feet oncamp tho firs where once tho lava licked tho world. Yet it is only twelvo miles from Sis son, oil t ho railroad, to Shasta's lop, and women have ascended it, and pant and grumble in tho deed less than mon. lu four days Ibero was carried up by while men and Indians a copper monti ment weighing tfOOO pounds, which can be seen 100 miles away. Hut no signal olllcer can Jive on Shasta's top. Its pimplos, 1500 feet high, aro Uko tho warts on Cromwell's bead when Wnra Uko ?lotld? Hint riso tlg;diiqt tho $uii, Uni nm ko liitu (jroaiersooiiir-hol grislier groin*. As I passed Shasta a great white Cloud was trailing from lt like a pen non, called the "snow-banner of Shasta." lt was a palpitating, cloud like wild bird, failing for breath as it Hew, and holding tiptoe to tho peak, with its feet in snowdrifts, while its plumage blew outward and away, y There J? a bulto, or mountain hump, near Shasta ?5U0 feet high, but tho snows, like virgin belles at court, dis dain to coquet with It and keep all their llakia for Shasta. It, too, is a line and stuck-up thing, quito solitary, but tin minors call it only Shasta bullo, as tl actors called Mr. Greene, when ho cor pared himself lo Shakespeare, Shak peale's call-boy. Coming up to Shas from the south by tin; tortuous can of tho Sacramento, you seo tho mountain vaguely, yet tromeinj but going from lt northward, as tj coinollvo turns oflon to seo it, if stands out naked as before bold the domesticity of the heavons, turage plains of tho Kiamal! lng below bini like a coverh away 'riic Alps too of ten hide in ing dows of Lombardy; bul set in a sky as limpid as tho bl eye ol' a babe. How still it is, with that, g mistakable scar of orator, a m half wide, telling whore boll el iii amt vomited its blood and Hamel cr drunkenly for some spasms o ands of years I Wo lia ve resol \' Indi is not, but Ibero is ShUSt] somewhere must bo tire. Glorious relic of a time wh was not and Pan was playing \! tools of V tilean. tho molten Shasta ran away, spilling wost; to a range of mountains, eacj ing up to bo Uko Shasta's making only lame miniatures] WlDATJIBl. Simple Forecasts a? Scrvico itu Thoro is an im mo , woathor wisdom in tho C-J sure you that yoti canncV farmer anywhere who do\ eyo at tho clouds, or tho \jt where and prophesy wha" shall have fbi-tho uox bouts. I only lack patiei who seek to prognosticator for weeks and months nlkU\ silly signs, or no signs at all,*, tablish their reputations asr'. Weathor wisdom should bo 8orJf*j carefully encouraged ; for tOJ twelve hours ahead whether storm or cloar weather, ls a thousands of dollars in thc singlo town. It is.by ni science of cunning guessj aro signs abundant that, careful observer, Hoi; forecast which I havej and have verified: der clouds, expect a aro banked to tho peet rain; to tho sc rain it it bo summcj "Watching anima] good way of pi electric souse, poad makes thom apprl before its appoarail siblo electric and af that causo physic/ will hollow, an? Hons will oil theil uneasiness. Cat.c grass freely. SI frisky, and chastl will strolch then! fenco corners or ble. Peacocks fowl sqawk won general state of servablo in tho pd barns. Farmer/ and learn to ingly. Birds aro cvj tho weather, boforo a storij proportionate pressuro neal up a tembl? 1 landward, nhl Swallows ski! Cro ivs aro nof pr|nk thomsei era. Cranes/ under their, toms ate tl] restlessness^ low Hying il Insects ail but they al pointers, found, howj fashioned .study of Swarms ol When spl wind in if If spiderj big a til morning^ oral, .spidj Weather, Indicate bj break upj from liol If they storm rail Uo Stinted. A rag-i>ediller, who wi Gratiot avenue recently, Hastings street wlion his ht] Tho usual number of smart. soon on hand with their ono suggestion after nhothoj in vain. Tho horse cou! pulled nor pushed, and asl ading tra thc. the crowd bj very rapidly. .'What is lt?" Jnqj twelve, who pushed lj circlo. "Hillky horse," uni "Where's tho ovi I man, can't you start/ "No, he doun' Kt/ ''Wait a minute The. Ind ran up and pulled a ha balo ut a iced turned ho eleni the hor.se, stood extended his hs up his ems, h if once advance/ around tho et, "lt's accoil ed tho bo j "When a ll re-crack ci who is fe roof balk nil over Accoi nu inst! polsorj rid ol groj wu sti