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DR. TALMAG'_S SERMO The age orSwind e. '*whoe truet shallbo a lpkoidor's Wob." Job 8: 4. 'rin Et most skilful tihilrtts li all the world are the bee and. tl}o spido r, The one puts up a sugar "4lufa,toy1 and the other builds a' slaug4ter-hous for files. On a bright suaie "* torni ing, when the sun comes out aqd sh.1id6 upon the spider's web, bedecked with dew, the gossamer structure seems bright enough. for a suspension bridge for eupernaturhl belngs'o gross on. But alas for the poor fWy,which, in the latter part of the day, ventures on it, and is caught aid dungeoued'and de stroyed. The Ay was' iuforniod that was a free bridge, and would cost notll ig, but at the other end of the bridge the toil paid was, its own life.! The next day thero comes down a strong wind, and away goes the web, and TIE NARAUDING SPIDER, and the 'vi 3nized fly. So delicato are the 'silken _threads of.tho spider's web that many thousands of them are put together before they become visible to the huninx 'eye, and it takes four mil lion of.them to make a-thread as large - as the human hair., Most cruel as well as most ingenious is the spider. A pri soner in the Bastille, France had one so trained that at the soundo a Violin it every day caine. for its nieal of files. Job, the author my text, and the lead lug scientist' of his, day, had no doubt watched" the voracious process of this no'insect with another, and saw spider and fly sWept dowh with the satne broom, or seattered by the same wind. Alas, that the world-lths so 'nany de signing spiders and vietimized fliesi There has not been a time when the utter and black irresponsibility of many men, having the financial interests of ot hers in charge, has been more evident thai, in these last few years. . The un rooiing of banks and disappearance of admi iuis'rators -with the funds of large estateti, and the disorder .amidst post onice accounts and deficits amid United States offcials, have made A rEsT41,ENCE OlF CRIME that soemnizes every thoughtful man and woman, and leads every philan thropist and Christian to ask. What shall"be doie to stay the plague? There is a monsoon abroad, a typhoon, a sirocco. I sometimes ask myself if it would not be better for men making wills to bequeath the property directly to the executors and officers of the court, and appoint the widows and or phans a committee to see that the form er got all that did not belong to them. - The simple fact is that there are a large number of men sailing yachts, and driving fast horses, and members of expensive club houses,, and controll ing country-seats, who are not worth a dollar if they return to others their just rights. Under some shdden reverse they fail, and withafflicted air seem to retire from the world and seem almost ready for monastic life, when in two or three years they blossom out again, having compromised with their creditors; that Is, paid them nothing but regrets,' and the only difference between the second chapter of prospei'ity and the first, is that their pictures are Murillos instead .of Kensetts, and their horses go a mile n twenty seconds less than their pre decessors, and instead of one country seat they have three. I have watched and have noticed that nine out of ten of those who fail 'in what is called high' life, have more means after than be fore the failure, and in many of the cases failure is only a stratagem to es cape the payment of honest debts and put the .world off the 'track while they \practice a large' swindle. There Is something woefully wrong in' the fact ~"hat these things are possible. First.af all, I chairge the blame on cat eless, "~, IN r)nFEFIT nANK DIIRECTOR'S and boards having\ in charge great fin ancial Institutions.' It ought not to be possible for a presiiint or caishier 'or prominent officer of ,banliing 'In'stitu tion to swindle It year ilter' 3ear with out detection, I will uh dertake to say that if these frauds are 4arried on for two or' three' 'years witlhout detection, either the directors are partners in the infamy and pocketed part of the theft, or they are guilty of a culpable. neglect of duty, for which God will-hold them as responsible as HIe.holds the acknow ledged defrauders. Whpmt right have p)rominent business men to allow their ndmnes to be published as dirctors in a finitucial Institution, so that 1mnso phisticated people are thereby induced to .deposit their money in or buy the scrip thereof, when they, the published ai rectors, are doing nothing for the safe ty of the Institution? It Is a case of *decepti6n most rep)rehensible. M1any people wilth a surplus of money not needed for immediate use, although it may be a little further on indespensa ble, are without friends competent to advise them, and they are guided solely by the character of the men whose names are associated with the institu tioni. -When the crash came, and with the overthrow oh. the bank~s went the sma&lh earnings and limited fortunes of widows and orphans, and the helplessly aged, the directors stood with Idiotic stare, and to the inquiry of the frenZied depositors and stockholders who had lost their all, and to the arraignment of an indignant p)ublic, hugl nothing .to say eept': "We thought It was all right. We did not kuiew there was anmy thing wrong going on." It was TfliEIR DUTY TO KNOw. - They stood' in' a position 'which deluded tl ., people with'the idea 'that they were caYefiilly observant. Callinig themselves *direcofis; they did not direct. They huld opportunity'of auditing accouIits and inspecting the books. No time to 'do so? Then th~ey had no business to accept the,pbsitioca It seems.to be the pride of some muonled men to be direc tors in a great many institutions, ind all they know is.Whether or not: he get their dividendereuary and 'er names are:use;4 as decoy ducks to;bring others niear enough-to hea iiade game of, What first of all' is needed is that 5,000 banK directors and' insuratice company di,rectiors resign .or attend to their bus! ness as directok's. The business world will be full of fraud just as lomig as -prepideiit iil eeorotar ' f a ~a ,for an ,adbezzlemeht +catledo o many y ha I,hve p1 ty of al Qr Us, At the same day to arrest all the directors. They are guilty either of. negiet. or complicity, aotheosel and et bt i at. .; Zlo "%))9y:! I your gospel does ?t i apre Co non hon,igy;n the doalipgs of, men, the .;.sone .o 'n close up your g el and pitch it .nto the depths of the Atlantic Ocean the bet ter. AN ORTHODOX SWINDLER 18 wdrse than i heter6dtxcewindlerb The. recitation of all the oatheohismi and creeds ever written, and drinking from all the communion chalices thpt, ever glittered -in the churches of Ohrit~ dotn, will', never save ur soul unless your business chara'c r corresponds with your religious profession, oome of the worst, scoundrels in Aneric have been members of churches,. and they got fat on sermons about heaven, when they nodst needed to'litVe6 thet pul t . preach tbt, which ifould either ring 'them to eentanoe or thunder then out of the holy:commimion, where their presence was a sacrilege and an infamy. We must especially deplore the mis fortune of banks in various parts of this country, in that they damage the banging institutio), which is the great. convenience of the century, and' Indis pensable to commerce and the advance of nations. With one hand it blesses the lender, and with the other it blesses the borrower. TILE BANK WAS nORN of the world's necessities and is.venor able with the marks or thousands of years. Two hundred years before Christ the Bank of Ilium existed, and paid its depositors ten per cent. The Bank of Venice was established in 1171, and was of such high credit that its bills were at a premium above coins, which were frequently clipped; Bank of Genoa, founded in 1345, Bank of Barcelona 1401; Bank of Amsterdam, 1699; Bai of Hamburg, founded 1619, its circulation based on great silver bars kept in the vaults; Bank of England, started by William Patterson in 1642, u p to this day managing the stupen dous . b of England: Bank of Scot land, founded in 1695; Bank of Ireland, 1783. Bank of North America, plan ned by Robert Morris, 1771, without whose financial help all the bravery of our grandfathers would not have achieved independence. But now we have banks In all our cities and towns, thousands and thous ands. On their shoulders are the in terests of private individuals and great corporations. In them are the great arteries through which run the currents of the nation's life. They have-been the resources of thousands -of financies in days of business exigency. They stand for accommodation, for facility, for individual, State and national re lief. At their head and in their man agement there is as much interest and moral worth as in any class of men perhaps more. How nefarious, then, the behavior of those who bring disre pute upon this venerable, -benignant and God-honored institution! We also deplore the abuse of trust funds, because they fly iI4 the face of that divine goodness whici aseems de termined to bless this land. We are having the eighth year of unexampled national harvest. The WH[EAT GAMBLERs get hold of the wheat, and the corn gamblers get hold of the corn. The full tide of God's mercy towards this land is put back by those great dykes of dishonest resistance. .When God provides enough food and clothing to feed and apparel this whole nation like. princes, the scrabble of' dishonesF men to get more tihan their share, and get it at all hazards, keeps everything shak. ing with uncertsaity and everybody asking,- "What'next?'' Evei-y week makes new revelations, Hlow many more bank presidents and bank cashiers have been speculating with other peo ple's money, and how many mo're bank directors are in imbecile silence, letting the perfidy go on, the great and patient God only knows! My opinion is that we have got near 'the bottom. Th6 wind has been pick ed from the great bubble of Amc'rican spe':ulZationa. The men wvho thiought that the Judgment Day wvas at least 5,000 years off, have found it in 1888, 1887, 1886; and this nation has been tauight that men must keep their hands out* of other people's pock-ets. Great businesses built on borrowed 'capital havO been obliterated, and men wvho had nothing, lost all they had. .1 believe we are started on a higher career of prosperity than this land has evei' seen, If, and if, and if'. If the first men, and espedially Chis tian meni, will learn never to speculate BlOR~ROWED CAPITAL. If you have a mind to 'take your own money, and turn it all Into kites, to fly them over' every commons of the United States, you do society no wrong, except when you tumble your helpless children into the poorhouse for the p)ublic to take care of. '' But you have no right to take the money of others and turn it in to kites. There is one Word that has deluded more people into bankruptcy and State prison and perdition than any other word in commercial life, and that is the aiord .borrow;i that one word is re sponsible for' all the defalcations, and embezzlem'ents, and financial consternma tions of the la3t twenty 'yetfs/ When execgtors conolude ,to speculate with the funds of an estate committed to thelir charge, they do not purloin, they say 'IHEY ONLY BOnROW; when a banker makes an overdraughmt uipon his institution. lie does not corn ;mit a theft, 116 only borrows. When tha oflcer of a company, by flaming ad vertisement in some religious lpapers, and git certineoate of stock, gets a mul titie of country iie@eP to put their smal earningu irdo an enterprise, for carrying on some uidevelopeid notlbing', he does not fratidulnntly take' their -money, he only borrows.. , When a young man with easy acess to his etr. ployer's money-drawer, "r the conalden-' tial clerk by close propinqunity to the -acconni-book~s, takes a fewv dollars fortt Walliftreet excursion, he expects to put It1 a 1 ca hat i n el~ is sq u.bla gigantio limb to ke hit- iaoe at t< ou tbstone in front of Trinity Ohurol and when that word borrow comee bunWiqg .long, ok t ,1tcar- txroug) to WAlli itreet fex y-b to anI if k ing on that, it bounds clear over ill I1 strikes Brooklyn Heights or Bi klyii ill,. it will be well for, the ity o VOurones." Why, when you are, going to do wrong, prououne so long a word .: borrow, a word of six letters, when yor cau get .a shorter word more desorip Atve of the. realit y,O -~o? of hoaly ilv( e tters,' wor sea6 l There are times when we all borrow, and" -orrow legg'I ately, and bortow vyith the divine essing for Christ, h: Is ermon on the kount, enjolini "from him that w9tgld borrow of thee, tin nt thou aEyay." .4 young mar rightly borrows money to get his educu tion. Purchasiug a house and not abk to pay all down in 0sh, the purchase3 rightly.borrows it on mortgage. Crises come in business when it would bE wrong for a man not to borrow. But I roll this warning through all thesf aisles, over the backs of all these pews, NEVER BORROW TO SPECITLATE; not a dollar, not a cent, not a farthingi Young mot, yogng men, I warn you by your orldly prospects mid the value of your'ttumortal souls, do not do it] There are breakers distinguished for t ieir shipwrecks-the Hanways, the Needles, the- Caskets, the Douvers, the Anderlos, the Skerrles-and many a craft has gone to pieces on those rocks; but I have to tell you that all the Han ways and the Needles, and the Caskets and the Skerries, are as nothing com pared with the long line of breakers which bound the oceai of commercial life 'north, south east and west, with the white foam o? their despair and the dirge of their damnation, The breakers of borrow! If I had only a worldly weapon to use on this subject I would give you the fact fresh from the highest author ity, that ninety per cent. of those who go Into speculation in Wall Street lose all; but I have a better warning than a worldly warning. From the place where men have perished--body, mind and soul-stand off, stand offt Ab stract pulpit discussion must step aside on this question. Faith and repentance are absolutely Iecessary, but faith and repentance are no more doctrines of the Bible than COMMJIIItCIAL INTEGItITY. Render to all their dues. Owe no man anything. And while I mean to preach faith and repentance, more and more to preach them, I do not mean to spend any time in chasing the Hittites and Jebusites and Girgashites of Bible times, when there are so many evils right ,akoiind us destroying men and women for time and eternity. The greatest evangelistic preacher the world ever saw, a man who died for his evan gelism--the peerless Paul-wrote to the Romans, "Provide things honest In the sight of all ien;" wrote, to the Corin thians, "Do that which is honest;" wrote to the.Pliipiians, "Whatsoever things are honest;"' wrote to the He brews, "Willing in all things to live honestly." The Bible says that faith without works is dead; which being literally translated, means that if your business life does not correspond wvith your profession,' your religion is a hum Here is something that needs to be Sounded'into the ears of all the young men of America, and i.rated and re iterated, if this fs.onintry is ever to be delivered froiv its calamities and com mercial prosp)erity is to be-established angl1petuated. LIVE wITH[IN YOUR MIDANs. I have'the highest commercial au thority for saying, that when the menm orable trouble broke out in Wall Street four years ago, there were $22,000,000 In suspense, wvhich had already been spent. Spend no mere than you make. And let us adjust all our business and our homes by the principles of the Christian religion. Our religion ought to mean just as much on Saturday and Monday as on the day between, and not be a mere periphrasis of sanctity, Our religion ought to first clean our hearts,'and thmen it'ought to clean our lives. Rleligion is not, as soeie seemi to think, a sort of church delectation, a kind of confectionery, a sort of Apirit ual caramel or holy gumdrop, or sancti fied peppermint, or theological ames thetic. It is an omnipotent principle, all-controlling, all-conquering. You mnay get along with something less than that, and you may deceive yourself with it; but you cannot deceive God, and you cannot deceive the world. The keen business man will p)ut on his spectacles, and lhe ill look clear through to the back of your head, and see whether your religion Is a fiction or a fact. And you cannot hide your samples of sugar or rice or tea or coffee If they are false; you cannot hide them under the cloth of a ciummunion-table. All your prayers go for nothing so long as you misrepresent your banking In stitution, and in the amount of re sources you put down more specie and mnore fractional currency and more clearing-house certificates land more legal-tender notes and more loans and more discounts than there really are, and when you give an account of your liabilities you do not mention all the unpaid dividends,. and the United States bank nptes outstanding, and the Individual deposits,'and> the obligatins to other banks andl bankers. An au thority more - scrutinizing than that of any bank examiner will go through and through your buAiness4 I stand this. morning before many who have trust* funds. It is a compli. raent to you 'that you 1h' e been so Ina trusted; but I charge you, in the pros enco of God and theo world, be careful, be as .OABERFUL OF' THlE PROPERTY O1 as you are careful of your own. (Above all, keep your own private account ai the bank separate -frov .y ur ac count sus trutee 'of au estae o' trustei of an istitution." T at Is the pint a' which (h safds of ped~e m' o ship wrecli'Th g$e the property f others inixd .upWit thoi'owu pro ity, the) put 4.t hito investmeait, anId 'a ey it al goes, and they cannot return t t which they borrowed. Then come .the cx y fip;and'_d 1 moey iarket ie. Sand the press denounces, and tle phurch thunders explosion.. You SI have no right' to use the property of others, except for their advantage, anor, without consent, unless they are s minors. If with"tl}ir consent you in 'vest thbi by as Well as you can, b and itis all lost you are not tp blame; y6 did tli4 you.: could, but do nob del,on hchl s ruined bf -thinking because a thing is,in their possession, therefore it is thefrs. You have a soleman trust that God has given you. In this vast assemblage there may be seine ho have misappropriated trust fu ds.' Pdt theii back, or, if you have so hopOlessly infolved them that you cannot put tbem back. confess the whole thing to those whom you have Wronged, and . you will sleep better nights, and you will have the better chance for your soul. What a sad thing it would be, if after you are dead your administrator should find out from the account-books, or from the lack oC vouchers, that you not only were bankrupt In estate, but that you lost your soul, If all the-trust funds that have been misappropriated should suddenly fly to their owners, and all the property that has been pur loined should suddenly go back to its owners, it would crush into ruin every city in America. A MISSIONARY's SERMON. A missionary on one jr tiih islan'ds-of the Pacific preached on dishonesty, and the next morning he looked out of his window. and he saw his yard full of goods of all kinds. He wondered, and asked the cause of all this. "Well,' said the natives, "otr gods that we have been worshipping permit us to steal, but according to what, you said yesterday, the God of heaven and earth will not allow this, so we bring back all these goods, and we ask you to help us n taking them to the places where they belong." If next Sabbath all the ministers in America should preach sermons on the abuse of trust funds, And on the evils of purloining, and the sermons were all blessed of God, and regulations were made that all these things should be taken to the city halls, it would not be long before every city hall in America would be crowded from cellar to cupola. Let me say in the most emphatic manner to. all young men, DIEIHONESTY WILL NIWE[ PAY. An abbot wanted to buy a piece of ground, and the owner would not sell it, but the owner finally consented to let it to him until he could raise one crop, and the abbot sowed acorns-a crop of two hundred years! And I toll j you, young man, that the dishonesties which you plant in your heart and life will seem to be very insignificant, but they will grow up until they will over shadow you with horrible darkness, overshadow all time and all eternity. It will not be a ciop for two hundred years, but.a crop for everlasting ages. I have also a word of comfort for all who suffer from the malfeasance or others, and every honest man, woman t and child does suffer from what goes on in financial scampdom. Society is so bound together, that all the misfor tunes which good people suffer in busi ness matters ,come from the misdeeds of others. Boar up under distress, strong in God, lie will see you through, though your misfortunes should be centupled. Philosophers tell us that a cohimn of air forty-five miles In height rests on every man's head anid shoulders. 'But that is nothing comn pared with the pressure that busmiess life has puit upon many of you. God made up his mind long ago how many or how few dollars it would be best for you to have. Trust to his appomntment. The doocr will soon open to let you out and let you ulk What shock of de light for men who for thirty years have been in busmness anxiety, wvhen they shall suddenly awake in everlasting holiday! On the maps of the Arctic regionsa there are two places whose names are remnarkable, given, I suppose, by some Polar expedition: "Cape Farewell" and "Thank- God Harbor."' At this last the .Polarfs wintered in 1871, and the Tigress -In 1873. Some .ships have passed the Cape, yet never reached the Harbor. Blut from what I know of many of you, I have concluded that though your voyage of lifre may be very rough, run into by iceberga on this side and icebergs on that, you will in due time roach Cape Farewell, and there bid gebd-bye to all annoyance, and soon after drop anchor in the calm and im perturbable waters of Thank God Hiar bor--"Where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest." BInI Nye's Autograph FlIend. "Yes,'" saId Bill Nye, "the autograph peop)le pursue me with dome avidity, but I've just got the best of one of them in rather a remarkable way. While at 1 Omaha I received a registered letter, 1 enclosed with a letter from my wife. When I opened the registered letter I I found it read something like this: "My dear sir-I have very much desired your autograph, but 'feel that you have so many applicationb of the kind that you would not comply with my request if put in the ordinary way. I have, .i therefore, registered this letter, know- .I lng that you will receive it, and that you will be forced before receiving it to 4 sign the receipt, wvhich will be forward ed to me. Thanking you, in advance for your kindness $n furnishing me the1 desired autograph, I am etc. etc.' .I wonder what that man said when, in stead of my signature, hie found that of Mrs. Nye!" There has been much discussion as' to 'the nest of.the fiamingo, Aud.ubon and the older unaturalists stating that it was a pile of earth heaped up iin a cone tw o or three feet high, upon which the bird' sat, its feetijnst touching the g-ound. Tis is denied by later ornithologs as Professor BairdI and others. Pro. fessor Woodman however,.ltoly came upon a iolobay In Soeuthera 1 where the nests were all hI h tasgim by Audubon. lie approache thebird an 6ee them before they , would leave the nlest..* PrQfesaQE Woodidaan ao discovetod a small flore bird that instead of making a hest deposited its eggs ini bitalve thells along the shore, in which receptacles they were ti'ob' ably hatched hv thensn. UNdNIIACTiDIt IN hAND WRITING. A Dardt 1yacioe, .Girl. Sees Much In her Welt-to-do, Unole's Fist. "Oh, incle," said, the dea'r, vivacious girl. - "Ive got. something I want to tell youl" "All right, Isabel, all right; go ahead and he beamed on his niece '~Itib4aoilt our character; I know It just as well as if -I had known. you a long time, and here this is the first day [ ever saw you. "Oh, I suppose your father-" "No; no one ever told me a word. I read it - ih your handwriting. You know I have learned to read character in writing, and so I read yours and know it perfectly." "Indeed.:' "O yes. isn't it nice? Yes, you see t got a couple- of your business letters to papa down at the office, and your 3haraoter was just as clear to me as 3ould be. 'Your down strokes indicate great force and decision and your cap tale are large, which show lofty imag Ination. Then all the way t irough your writing'I could detect great ben volence and love of doing good." "Er-um," said the old man as he rubbed his head. "Well" "Then your 'R's' and T'' and 'B's' ihow groat fancy and love of the beau iful; and the decided full stop indi 3ates that you have no fickleness about you, and the line of writing 1nclins up 3lightly, which means loftiness of aim md a high purpose of life." ""Hah. Anything more?" "Oh, yes, your 'M's' -and 'W's' read ly tell that you have a fine poetical and trtistic feeling, and your 'D's' and 'S's' tre exactly like those of the most cele rated musicians; then I should judge hat you were endowed with reverence md the love of truth, and had also ex ellent judgment and a well-balanced nind." "Mebbel That all?" "No. I read lots more. You have t strong love of home and family, which hows in your small letters, and the say you round your characters indi Iates much ability for organization as well as great business aptitude; the way rou dot your 'l's' abows liberality and lesire to give every man his due; a cer ain unevenness to some letters Indicate iuthor and originalaty, combined with earty good fellowship; and you cross your 't's' so near like all orators and tateemen that I really wonder you iavo never entered public life and got uto Cwigres." "Hey? Hey? Go ea" "Well, I don't think of much more ust now, except that your signature eemed to me to vary rather more from he body of your writing than min t eople's, but that, I suppose, is because 'ou have to write it so often. I thought detected a little stubbornness in it, as vell as a shade of bigotry, and some ndications of a quick and 'high tem wr, and perhaps a little- that would in Licate a lack or appreciation of other oople's accomplishments, with a fair ouch of eembativeness- and inability to ,rasp new ideas. But,. then, that's othing. 0, I do want to show you he lovely Christmas ,present papa gave namma,, and she tripped, away with Mn engaging smile. "Isn't it wonderfui."' sai lIsabel's oung man, who sat across the ro . m on ho edge of tihe sofa, "how Miss Isabel an read character from handwriting? leally surprising?" "Ya-e-a-y.-a-e-s,"Esaid, the- old man; 'y-a-e-s, yery wonderful.. remarkably urprisingi1 Tihe dodgastedost,. wonder ullest thing I ever saw I" A.nd the old nan got up and glared over his. spec aches after lisa lat. "Ya-e-s, duanmed urprising, I must say I I ire a slimpsy egged, shallow-minded,, young. m,n hat looks like you, and pay him eight lollars a week to wr.ito all my~ basiness etters, and all I ever do. is to signi my name to. 'em? Oh, yes, awvful .woender ul." And he went out the front door Lnd nearly sprained his foot in board nig a street-car, and: ripped and swore ndo(lr his breath till he scared off two ady passengers. idde~' Know Ho Was President. When Charles cocker was at k.orta and on h's spike tour oyer the Califor Ia anid Oregon. an incident occurred rhich is illustrative of the bewildering nagnmtudle of this railway interests of hat gentleman. fle received a call at he Esmond house from the general nanager of the Orogonian railway, a Itte narrow gauge formerly uinder the ontrol of a 8eotch company. Mr. lrpoker regarded the visit as purely omplimientary, but whenm the narrow ~ange manager began to talk about the prospects of hits line, the need of repairs at certain points, and gave the magnate lie assurance. thati it was a fairly. prog,. erous concern, Mr. Urocker's mind oecame clouay. He' clearly did not :now what the man was driving at. itill the -olflial went on until he was nterrupted by a friend who happened o be present, and who said: "Mr. U3rooker. doesn't understand rhat all lihis is about." "Oh, I guess he does," said the gen ral manager, with a confident iir. "I. nuess he knows that he Is president of his railroad." "But i'm---if he did," waid Mr. Jrocker, "until you said so this mo nent." The Incident created a ripple of nerriment among the railroad men vho happened .to be present, and some f the P'ortland magnates who heard ~he story-thought a great deal less of heir railroad interests when they re looted on the'fact that here'was a nman rho was president of a railroad .and iidni't know it. An .lmprgvemlent i1 conduits for ilectric Wires has-boen patenited by a Ngew Yorker. The condiut is designed ;o-be place6d ih the street with itaverti Sal side against the curbstonle, the iover fprming the gutter; or it oarn be placed under the ou er part of the side salk, it. '~ial Bide forming the lurbaoeand the cover the outer, part )f the sidewalk, the whole being do. iigned to fully protect the wires and Elve easy access thereto, --The four girders of the tffel tower are in .place, and the work' is rirdner fast. harry and Ih'" see W. IUarry sat on the %with his paint-ing book, for which h4 ' thougIt ho should get a prize, as he Nas paint ing it'with much care. 1 Ills mother had said to hin- . "Do not be. in a hurry over the pic tures, but take pains." The win-dow was o-pen, for t was a hot day, and Har-ry could hjar the voices of some child-ron in a fled near. One said : "ee-saw, Mat-ger-y Daw." "I won-der what they are doing?" said Har-ry. Then he got up and put his boic on the ta-ble, and look-ed out of the wil dow. In a field not far a-way some d,ild ren were at play; they had put a long plansk a-cross a tres-tle. On one em sat a boy, and at the other a wo-nan atd a girl was pull-ing down the plank so that he went high up, quite as high as the pal-lngs.. Then an-oth-or child had a turn on he plank, and then 6an-oth-er. Aid Harry said to himself: "It must be ver-y nice ; I shoukl ll;e to have a.ride." Just then his moth-er came into tl3 room, and %Harry said to her, "01, may I go and ask the child-ren to lo me have a ride?" His moth-er look-ed out of thg win dow. She know who the woman was. "Yes," she said, "I know Mrs. Smith, and her.child-ren are good child ren, so you may go and ask them if you may have a see-saw on the plank." So Har-ry put on his hat, and ran a-cross the field, aid said: "I have seen you play-ing from the win-dow and I have come to ask you if you will be so kind as to let me have a ride on the plank. It must be ver-y nice." The boy who was on the plank a-gain lump-ed off as soon as ho touch-ed the ground, and said : "Oh! yes; bt you must held fast, for the plank is not ver-y stead-y." So Mar-ry. took his place, and: he went up.and down man-y times. "I like it ver-y much," he said when he got off; "and I thank you for let ting me have a ride." Then he went back to the house,, and took his paint-ing book, and fin-ish-ed paint-iug the page. He took great pains, so that when it was done it looked ver-y well. 'Per-haps I shall get a prize,"'said Har-ry to his moth-er. "I hope you will," said his moth.er;: "but if not, you will have done the best you can, and if the book is quite neat and clean. .i shall give you. a prize my self." Suflering.t L:e Sake QM' Knowledgo.. One evening a few years ago, a. schooner dropped anchor in an un known bay on the east coast of New Guinea. A beat put off from the ves sel, landed;'a man and his portmanteau. on the beach,- and put back again, '.Dhe schooner at once sailed away, leaving the solitary figure on the beach in the darknese. No white man had ever yis Ited that savage coast before, and+ no man ineaired by a less lofty purpose would thus have veunt10d among the utterly unknown savages of Astolabe bay. The man was Dr. Miklucho. Maclay, the- Russian ethnologist, and his burning zeal to add to human knowledge, led id, like many otiher heroes of seience, to- forego all om fort and hazardl his lhfe. When. the natives next moring' found the white man sitting on the beach, they thought the strange- object had; dropped from the sky. They nearly kilIjed him in their experiments to determine whethen .he was a god. Th.eN im prisoned. him In a hut and watched him day and night. They nearly starved him, because a god should not require-food.. They tied him to-a tree and shob arrows el.eqe to his heoad and neck, because, if he were a. god, hie should not be frightened. T wo.of the arrows, inflicted severe flesh wounds upon the helpless captive. Then they pressed their speaus against his teeth to make him open his mouth~, and In many ether savage ways soreL tested his,temper, o#age and strenigth. .ti last they decided that he had dropped -from the moon and that he was not -a god, because hiis wounds. bled anid he neoded food,. buti they voted, IIm a good fellow- and grew daily more andi more fond of him, be cause he was always ohettul, how ever, mueh they annoyed him, and . many of their sicke doon' recovered un, der his Skillful care. For two yeara. Dr. Maclay lived among these savages feeling amply repaid for. illthle termi ble sacrifices. by the WepMrh of soien tiae facts he was ab'e to' collect. Money eould' not have temhpted h&rm thus to jeopardize his life and give. ip every civilized comfort, but the facts he gathered were needed to complete his long studies among the races or the western Paciaic, with the ardor oli the born devotee of soiemce lie was eager to make any sacrifice thatswould yield him the knowledge he scught. The Gormnan Crown~ Prinoeas. "The German Crown Princess, saysI Dr. Moreli Mackenzie, "Is a moaoel nurse, having all her feelings unde4J strict control and suffering withoul; making any sign. I do not think I ca be accused of . fluniceyism, but Itit the sitaple truth, that she is the mog remarkable woman I -have ever me Her knowledge of science is somethLi. quite extraordinary, and she isn thoroaighly posted in the pathology a ~ surgery of-the larynx., I consider ti very few medical mnei--not speclali . -..would be able to acquit themeel ,% satisfactorily if examined on theea Jects,.by thle Crown Princess. 8!she ~ cussed the oplhions of a)the physicl and the various Su# aions for tr ment, critteising eac with the perfeot knowledge and Judgment, there is no. spee f~ 'blue' a ui Her manner, when she cares has an indesorlbale fasoinatlod it, which makes one understa t~ devoted feeling of personal ioya)t has sometimes been felt for pri l.oan only say that if all royal pei~?~.\4 ages were like this exalted Ia her gallant husband, republica 1~ would soon be extinct tradition,