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anb etatb REV. DR. TALMvA. THE BROOKLYN VI U' SiNDY SERMON. Subject: "An Only Son." TrT: '"Now when i. -ame nTigh to tie rate of the city. behold there wis a rui man carried out. the onI son of his mot-r, and she was a widow, and muon peon'. o' the oity was with her. And whin the T.or I saw her He had compassion on her an i said unto her. Weep not. and He came and tonohed the hier. and thor that bore him stood still. And Ho sai1. Young m-in. I say unto thee arise! AnI he that wais don I s'it Un and began to srmak. and He rilivere,l him to his mot her."-LnkA vii., 12-15. The text ea!ls us to stan d at the gate o1 the city of Naii. The stre-te are s-ruh with business and gavety, and the ear is dea fene with the hammrs of mechanism an.1 thq wheels of traffi-. Work, with its thous-inI arms and thousand Pves and thousand fe-t, fills all the str-et. %i hen suddenly the orow I parts, and a funeral passep. B'tween the a ,eels of work and cleasure there come a long procesa'on of monrning people. Wo is it? A triflar says- "Oh. it's nothing but a funeral. It mar have emane up from the hospital ot the citv. or tbe almshnous. or some low place of the town," but not so, says the serious obzerv-r. There are so m-ny eviden-e5 of dire he reavement that we know at the first glan -e some one has hen taken awa grxitlv he loved, and to onr inquiry. "Who is this that is carried ont with so many offices of kin I. ness and af'e'tion?" tbe reply eomes. "T;, only son of bis mother, and she a widlo-" Stand hack and 1,r the prones-ion paes out I Hush all the voices of mirth and nleacure, Let every head be uncovered! Weap with this passing procei-ion nn let it he toll throuzh all the rirket piees and hnaru's of Nain that in Galilee to-day tha sApulehet bath gathere ! to I:s -lf "rhe only son of his mother. and shn a widow." There are two or tiree thincs that, in myp mind. give especial pathos to this s;-ne. The first is. he was a youn - man th-at wai being earried out. To the aged death be. comes -eantifu!. The old man halts and pants a'onz the road, whore once he hona 1. ed like the roe. From the midst of i-nmo I!. cable aii-u ns an I sorrows he cries out. "How long, Lord. how long" Fooore and har ity becrad on the hot journey. h wants to get home. He sits in the churtl: an-' sngs. with a tremutous voice. some twni he sang forty years ago and longs to join thi better assemtilage of the one hundred and forty an I tour thou'and who have passed the hnol. How sw--tly he sleeps the las! sleep ! Push hack the white locks from tbi wrinkled tenp'-s. They will never ae) again. FoNl th" han Is over the still heart. They will never toil again. Ciose -tently the eyes. They will never weep again. But this mnan that I n- sp'aking of was a young man. He was just putting on the armor of ie. an I he wds exalting to thinl bow his sturdy b!ows would ring out ahocn the clanzor oi the battle. I supoose he hqd a young man's hon's, a young mau's am'i tions and a young man's coura.ge. He sal "If I live many yeats, I will ;e-d the hun ty an 1 clothe the naked. fa this city of Nain, where there are so many La I young m-n, I will ne soiwr and hon-sr an1 pur. an-i m:g na-ninons5, an i my mother shall never be asha're I of np." But all those proep cs are bla't'd in one hoar. Th'iro hn pts lifeless in the pro'ession. Be told ali t;nat it elt on e:trta of the high hearted young man of t-e city of Niain. There is another thing that adds v-.ry mu-h to this seeue, an-1 that is he was at ony son. However large the family flock may be, we never coul I think of spiring one Di the la:nbs. Thoah they may all have their faults. they all hav. their excellenci-'s that commend them to the parental heart, and! if it were perenptorily demanded of you .day that you should yield up one of your -hildren out of a very large family you would be contoun led an-1 you could nol make a selection. But tbis was an oniy son, around whom gathered all the ptr-ntal ex pectations. How mu.ta care in his e iut lion ! How much caution in witching his bahits ! He would carry down the name to )ther times. He would have entire contro! af the family prop-irty long after the parents 3ad gone to their las: reward. He would itand in society a thinker, a worker, a nihil inthropist, a Christi-in. No, no. ft is all lndedl. Bl-hold him there. Breath is inon-e. Life is extinct. The on y son of his mother. There was one thing that addted to the ,athos of this scene, and that was5 his mot'ier was a widow. Tne main hope of that home ad been broken, arnd now h-' was comne up :o be the staff. The chief light of the house aotd has been extinguished, and this was :he only light lest. I suppose she often s'iil, .ookin-r at himo. "There are only two of us." Diu, it is a grand thing to see a young muan itep out in life a&nd say to his mother ; "Don't be down hearted. I will, as far as possible, take lather' Splace, and as long as [ live you shalt never wint anything." It is :2ot alwvars that way. Someiitimes the young people e:'t tired of the old peope. Tney Sthey are qtuerr; that they have so many ailments. and they so-netirnes wish thema out of the way. A young man an-! his wife si at the tabie, their litt~e son on the floor play ing beneath the table. The old father was very 0old, and his hand shook. so they sai6l "You shall no tr.ore sit w th us at the tible.' &nd so they gave him a p-lace in the corner, waere, day by day, he at e out of an earther Cowl-everything tut into that bowl. One :lay his hand tremaled so much he droppec it, ant it broke, an I the son, seated at tht elegrant table inimlfloor. sail to his wife kSow we'll get tather a woo) lea bow'. ani that he can't break." So a woo len bowi was obtaine I an I every day old grin I rather ate out of thit, sittingt int the corn--r. One day, while the eletnt young matnan his wie were seate i at tb-ir table, with :hase I sl:ver an.t ali t he luxuris. an-t tii'ir little sorn sat upon the Iloor, t h.-y s tw the lad wnittling, ant th-'y said :"My son. what are you rong there with that kniiH? "Oh,"' sail nle. 'I -I'' "iug a trousn fr my lather ant motner to e-at cut of when they get old I'' But this yorng man of the text was not of thait character. H.- did not bdong to.) hat *chool. I can tell it froan the way they mourned ov:'r hi:,t. He" was to b~e he~ :oi panion of his mother. H' wa;s to b' his mother's protoetor. Hle wvouldl r.turtin n.. some of the kindln' s he had r-eeive:n at 'te days of chil-thoo an i loycoo1. Aye, wou Id w :h isn strong ihan , upho.i that lorm at eady ' 'ae 'l'I" wtna.:'. O\l he do it.? No. in o i'hour that pr-:.'o help an I comnpa n -hip is gon"- V .crc 'S a world o: t an a tnat en- shocrt phrai-', "Tne only Na of Lis mnother, and the a widow. Now, my frien is. it was upon this scen3 that Cr"st 'brok". HI- c'ame In watiout ainy Introdu.-tion., H-' stoppe? the pro' '.5s:0n. He had oulv two utterances to make-the one to the r'rourniut' motlxer. the other to the deal, Hie c'ried out to the mourning one, 'We-'n n'ot," and then, tou-:itg tiO ier on wien tn" son lay. lHe cr,.' on:, "Youn: man, 1 say unto tihee arise:-' An i I learn two or inrt-' things fromi this su -- ject, andI first that Cnir-t ' .s a man~. Y .u see now t-'nt sorrow to-*'! nOni ab t:: c"ror 4i 0' H5s fl"'rt. I t'Mu'c th d w. 'o-i't th's too o'ten. Chrst wan a man more - tainly than vout are, 'or HI- was a rn'ot man. No sailor over sient in shr.'s B~--' mock more soun 1ly than Christ slet-t in th-it boat on G -arigs-trar. Tn "v--r' n--' mnuu"'- an d 'one an I 0"'r of I*s .-o -" ev'r" omotonf 'n! - i'..tion of aT hoi. * ev-'rv anf'on and dee'sion of His mind H-. oY ano" the wa-mQ, . w..n' 'n NT 'onis" iutt as van -o in-a a eo'tsr. H bre",thed harti w'"en ' w-is tiro1, ine' a vou do when vou are exqlu5ta! t - r& fi1 lnigotancti t Storm lusi Ilk" von do when you Tave noen et e to a temp-sr. It was; just as humiliating for lim to beg br-na1 a; it w.oul I be for you to h'.-ome a anun-r. H 1e&t iust as much in snited i in' sold for thirty pioes of sil Va noi woul I if von wore sold for the prie- of a doz. From the crown of the head to the cole of the foot IT; was a man. When the thorns were twitad for His brow, they hurt Him iust as mu'h as they hurt your brow if they were twisted for it. HA took not on Him the nature of anreIs. He took on Him the ;'el of Abraham. "Ecce Homo !" behold the man ! But I must alko '-anv from this subject that H was a re)1. uinnosi that a man shoul att-'mnt to break iun a funeral obs' quv. HR, wont I he size I by the law, he would he imprison"a, It he were not actu-%lIv slain hvthe mob hWfore the offleors coul-d sonurst him. If Christ had been a mere mor tal, would H have a rl-.rht to come in unon subh a pro.'ssion? Would Hi have su. cos lot !ii If intrrupt ion? He wan more than a man. ror when fe cried out. "I say unto thee. arIse !- he that was dead sat un. What ex.it.'mentth-re must have been there ahout ! The bo ly had lain prostrate. It had been mourne I over with agonizing tears. ant yet now it beg-ns to move in the shrou-1 and to be flu'ihed with life, and at the com mand of Carist he rises up and looks into th' 'aca's o, the astnnishe I spectators. "0'-, th.s was the work of a Golf I har it in His vroe : I see it in the flissh of 11 s ev: I bfho'd it in the snapping of deaths shaetkles . I see it In the face of the rainz slumberer; I hear it in the out cry of all those who w-re spectators of tie scena. If, wh-n I see my Lord Jesus Christ mourning with thehereaved, I put my hands on His should-r; and say, "My brother." now that I hear Ili-n )roclaim suoernatural deIivran'ez, I look up into Hs face and say with T!omns. "My Lord an I my Go ." Do vou not think le was a Got? A great many p-ople do not bebeve that, an I they co:nprormise the mattor, or they think they compromise it. They say He was a very j goo i man. but Fl was not a Go 1. That Is imposible. He was either a God or a wre:cb. enl I will prove it. If a man prI' f-s-es to be that which he is not, what is he? He is a l'ar, an Impostor. a hypocrite. That Is your unanimous verdict. Now, Christ pro essed to be a Gol. He said over anI over again He was a Go', took the attributes of a Ghd and assumed the worgs and offmees '>f a Go3. Dare you now say He was not? H,- was a Ga ', or He was a wretch. Choose Do you think I cannot prove by this Bible tn:t I!e was a Gl? If you tio not believe h Bib, of course tnere is no neas of my alking to you. There is no common data frona whch to st-irt. Suppose you do be ieve it. Then I can demonstrate that He was divine. I can prove He was Creator, John i.. 3, "All thinzs were male by.Him, it I watsout Him was not anything male :hat wa, meal-." H.' was eternal, Revelation KxiI., 11, "I an A'p-ia an I Onega, the be piunin an I the endt, ttne 1rst and the lest." C ean prov-' that He was omnipotent, Rbrews i.. 10, 4Tae heav.ens are the work )f Tune uiu is." I can prove He w.ts )in -e'nt. Joi ii., 25. "He knew wnat in ani." Oh. yes, He is a God. He s.e r the sea. HIe upsieavel the crystalline Cai:S alan,' w':e.1 tiae eraelites mar,.aed. 4Ie pianti- tnie mountains. He raises up ;ov -rn nents an I ca-ts down throues and nare we across n-tions an I a-ross worlds ui aero's tie univ -rse-, urernal, onnapo nt, uu in ler-lan1 una!a, , I,. Thataan I .hAt was n.L -d to tae eross not Is thie Stars i a itsi o love. That hea I that diroppe I >n the boso n m faunting an I death shall nake thr, world que to at its no 1. That voice :hat groane i in tae last pang snall swear Oe 'ore tne trem'lin, worl I that ti-ne snall oe io lon.er. Oh, do not insult the common -se of tie race by trlliing us that this 'per ion was only a 'man in w.io-s presence- the )araiv:Ie ar:n was thrust out well, and tne lev-s erot. it , and the lepers dropp 31 :heir s a!es, an I the tempests foI led taeir in, and the boy's sir--iel of a few 1oaVes aide a banqut or 5003, an it he sad proces ton of my tt broke up in congrattlatioa tn.1 hosanna i11 Again, I learn from this suject that Christ ivas a sv:,natuiz-r. Mart you. this was a !it v tui-ral. In the country, when the belt :o!is, tuey inow all aijout it tor five miles round, and they J-now-waat was the matter wtn tne man, now old he w is and waat wre his list e-xteri'nes. Taity k-now with wiatt'emooral prospects he h-as 1l-ft his fain u. Tfh-re is no haste. there is no inliecency irn the o .sequies. There is-not' ug done as a more matter of business. Evetn the cnil dr-n come out as the pro essian passes and lok sympaithetic, and. tne tree shadows seam to deepen, ant the brooks weep in symatny as tne procession coes by. But, mrt you, this trihat I am sp'aking of was a city iun'rai. In great cities the cart jostles thiE hearse, an t t here is mirth and gladness ant indiffrence as the weepng procession goes oy. In this eity of Nain it was a comn mon thing to have trouble and bereavement ant deatth. Chrust saw it every day there. Perhaps that very hour rnt wre others be ing ea'rried out, but this fr--gieney of trouble did not harden Cnrist's heairt at all. He stepped right out, tant He e.ev this mourner, and He hal compassion on ner, and He said "Weep not !' Now I have to tell you. 0 bruised sotms, and tnere are many everywhere-have you ever looked over any great audience and no ied how ninny sha lows of sorrow there are? I come to all such and say, "Christ nts you, ant He has compassion on you. and He says, 'Weep not.'" 'Perhaps with some it is fluancial tronole. "0;i," you say, "it is such a silly thing for a man t cry oer lost money ' Is it? Suppose you had a large fortune,an-l all luxuries brougut to your table, and your wadroue was tul,* and your home was beau tiful ty mud'e an-I sculpture and painting ad tibronied by the elegant and educate 1, ant1 then som's round misfortune should strike v-ou a in : face an-t trimple y-our treas ures and taunt y-our .'hildr-'n tort heir faded drss aind s-nd y-ou imto co-umercial circles an uin !eriin we-re one you waved a scepter of cold, do you thinkc you would cry then.? I thuk you would. But Cnrist comnes an I mets all such to-day. He sees all the straits in which you have been tarust. He observes the ..,n-er ol that man who once was proudi to walk in your shadoW iand glad to get your h.lp. H-le s-ee the protestedt note, the uin canceled judcment, the tor.-closed mortgage, th- neartrr'aiog .xrisperaton, and He says . *Wee-p not. I on~ nithe cattle on a thous .n I hills. I will n':v.-r let you starv'. From My hand t he :owlIs of he-av-:i p :ek aill t heir :o' I. Au. wiih I let you starv-:? .Never -no, My emil-l. nve-r ' Perhaps it may be a living home trouble that you cani not sp-ak aeout to your best frcall. It may he some diocaestie unhap pinss. It may be an etvil suspicion. It may te ine dlszraea :o::oxng in thte footsteps of a son that is wayaWarl, or a comnpanionl who is erurl, or a father that will not do rirht, and for yoars th'-r m-ty have been a vulture srik'ngits beak into) the vitals of your s-oul, an.d -ou sit ther, to- lav fooling it is worse than'death. It is. It is worse than death. An I y't there is relief.. Though the night ma he a blacket tough t'ho votees 01 heH may toll vru to curse Go t an-l die, look up an I b-an'the voice that accosted ihe wonan of the text as it says. ''Weep not.~ F-a-'-at'1 no ColioW That ha'en cannot cure T learn, again. 'ro-n all this that Ch rist is the ma~st-r of th" gray'. .Tust out-ido the ae r th.' city P.-atb ant Christ measurcd ln'os, ant wuen the yong man rose Thath drop' . Naw w' are sure of our resurrec tion. Oh, what a s'r'n. it was when that vanne man iam' bank The mother neve'r ex -.. -o '.'ar him speak again. She . 'r u-:h that he wool I kiss her again. llow tn" t-a-n strt'1 nat how her he-:rt t I'u ' nea n i'', '' '. nmy eon, my son, re a " Al hit- se -nl. is going to 0no r p. I. tt is gr- ne to be r-rp'ated 10.00? tia.>s. Th'se brot.a famivir rl"5 have got o com' tor-ta'r. These ext inguiche.1 houdoM01 tights h-ive cot to be rekindled. ~erall be a sti-r in t he famnily lot in th9 e me e ifd there *l be a rtish inN5 iff at the command. "Young man, I say unto thee arise !" As the child shakes off the dust of the tomb and comes forth fresh and fair and beautiful. and you throw your arms around it and press it to your heart. ange. to angel will repeat the story of Nain, "He delivered him to his mother." Did you no tice that passage in the text as I read it? "He delivered him to his mother." Oh, ye troubled souls! Oh, ye who have lived to see every prospect blasted, peeled, scattered, consumed, wait a little! The seedtime of tears will become tne wheat harvest. In a clime cut of no wintry blast, under a sky palled by no hurtling tempest and amid re deemed ones that weep not, that part not, that die not, friend will come to friend, and kindred wilijoin kindred, and the long pro cession that marches the avenues of gold will lift up their palms as again and again it is annbunced that the same one who came to the relief of this woman of the text came to the relief of many a maternal heart and re p eated the wonders of resurrection and de livered him to his mother." Oh, that will be the harvest of the world. That will be the coronation of princes. That will be the Sabbath of aternits. Native Recrulits for the Army. A point worth noting in the recent report of the Adjutant General of the army is that out of the 9,847 accepted recruits for the last year 6,652 were natives of this country against 3,195 of foreign birth. A popular misap prehension may be removed by thus observing that such a ratio ol the men who enlist are Americans by birth. The remainder, too, are taking a short cut to citizenship, since the laws give special privileges in natural ization to those who serve honorablj in the army. A second point on which Gen. Williams comments is also worth at tention. le shows that the schoole to which army officers are assigned as Insttuctors of military tactics are c-teadily increasing in number of theli pupils. They now have an aggregate of 18.484, which.is a gain of 2,761 over last year. and of 6,000 over the year previous, Presumably, there tore, the introduction of this branch of instruction makes the schools thenselves more popular. That it is a very economical form of providing for popular military education there is' no doubt. Fully: 15,000. of these pupils are reported to be physically capable of rendering military duty. New York Sun, Buildinga Boase. In some parts of New Guinea whole towns are built ,in the sea." The inhabitants live in constant fear of the bush tribes, and as a protection against them, construct their houses just off the shore. Mr. W. D. Pit cairn, in his -'Two Years Among the Savage of New Guinea," describes a villa which he built after the native pattern at a cost of twenty or twenty live dollars. Two chiefs undertook the work, and received a little more than half the money, so that the lab orers got ten or twelve dollars. I drew on the beach a rough ground plan of the house, showing the length and breadth, the division of rooms and the two verandas. Peter, one of the chiefs, measured the plan with a piece of cane, making the length and breadth, and then rolled up the cane and put it in his pocket, or rather in his dilly-bag, for of course natives,are not provided with pockets. lie went home to his island, and in a few days came back with several conoes with all the necessary logs, tiber and other materials lashed to them. including the sago palm-leaves for the rooflng, and the cane for spliitting into laths; and when the house was finished there was very little material, left. How he calcu lated so nicely I cannot say, but of course he had considerable experience in building native houses. Not a nail was used in the build ing. On the sea side the house stood in about four feet of water at low tide, and on the shore side was con nected withl the beach by a gangway. .The, people have a curious way of driving- piles. We gave them a rope. G ictu Liey fixed round the head of te ile, leaving the two ends dang ling. Several natives got hold ot each end and pulled alternately, until the pile was worked down to .the. re quired depth. The piles are made of white man grove, and in order to prevennt the ravages of the cobra insect, it is best to tar the p'lles wvell, or better still. though very expensive,-tu copper~ them all over. The flooring is of cane, the walls ar made of the bark or skin of the palm, and the roof of the leaves of the sago-palm, which have to h'e pufi on separately, the leaves overlapping a little, and oin thie outside are placed some branches of the coco-nut palm. A house of this kind is quite rain proof, and if well constructed will keep in good condition for at least two years.. . - . Gateway to starving Russia. Why did the Missouri sail for Li bau, Nussia, with her cargo of flour and provisions for the starving sub jects of the Czar? many peopule ask. What was the reason the Indiana, which sailed on the same mission from Philadelphia, also went to Li -bau? The reason is that Libau is better adapted than any other seaport as a distributing point. It is the gate aytstrving Russia. It is in Cour land, on the bleak Baltic Sea, and 105 miles southwest of 31ilan, Its har bor is artificial, and it is a walled city IIts population ten- years ago was 27, 41, and is probably less now. Libau has a council hail, a theater, Ia hospital, an. almshouse, alas! now full to overflowing, and an orphan aslum. A railway connects with the in teior, and over its rails America's food offering will go to the famishing m eants.-_nw York Herald. IN SUPREME COURTS. - fiporta,,tt 'ecision4 involving Iusur.ance at %I ater P'ower Right. The Supremle Court of Peinsvl.I vaia has decidtled that while a pro vision ill a polier of tire i nsLu rice providing that any dispute ias to he a!toUnit 01f losi under the policy sha.1 1e settied by% arbitratioi, is 'alid, yet a further stipulation that n:o action shall be maintained on tlh poliy until after suh arhitrationu, is void, ats tenldiig to ouSt the coiurits from their lawful jurisdictioln. Ili dividuals will not be permitted to ontract away the jurisdictiol of courts. The Supreme Judicial Couit( or Massachuetts says: Where a city is authorized by the Legislature to im prove the ebannel of a stream by re moving obstructions and altering the ourse where necessary, providing that any one injured in his property by anything don- in connection there with should be entitled to comlpensa Lion therefore, the owner of a mill located on the stream is entitled to compensation damages if by reason ot which he is injured inl his buziiiess. The Oregon Supreme Court recently decided that where a paitnership is dissolved and the remaining partner agrees to assume and pay the debts of the firm, the contract is broken by I tlie refusai or failure of the remain ing partner to pay the debts thus as sumed, and the outgoing partner may sue upon breach of contract, even if he has paid nothing himself on such debts. The fact that the contract tipulates that the outgoing partner shall be saved harmless does not phange this, for, if he chooses, he nay aban don this provision and sue ppon the other. The Supreme Court of the United States decided where the broker of a manufacturing corporation has ad anced to his principal more cash than the value of the goods consigned to him, he has such a lien on the goods as Will justify a transfer of the goods to him by the company just prior to their failure. And a statute which prohibits any transfer of prop !rty by a corporation in contempla zion of insolvency will not affect such i transfer for it is merely a recogni ion of an antecedent lien, which was valid as against credit rs; and there fore creditors could be prejudiced by the transfer. The Supreme Court of Illinois says: A merchant who is insured under I an accident insurance policy, which provides that any member who Is in jured while engaged, temporarily or otherwise, in an occupation more hazardous than that in which he is insured, he shall be paid as for the occupation in which he is injured, and not as for that in which he was insured, may recover upon accidental injury while hunting as a matter o1 recreation, the amount specified for a merchant and not the amount speel lied for a hunter. le can not be said to be engaged at all in the "occupation" of hunt ing, while hunting merely for sport. Where a mutual association wrongfully refuses to make an assign ment, if it is shown that had an as signment been made at the proper timne the full aniount of the policy would have been realized, it is proper to enter judgment for the full amount of the policy." The Supreme Judicial Court of Maccachusetts says: The owner of certain mills had also title to a pondl, from which water was carried to them through a flume. Under an agrce ment with other mill owners, he ac quied an interest in a reservoir for the storage of water, which was al owed to flow to the pond as required. This interest was by agreement de clared appurtenant to and forever in separable fromn the mills and the water privileges connected therewith, which were charged, in whosoever hands they should come, with a share of the cow~ of maintaining the reser voir. The owner conveyed the mills, ut not the pond, the deed granting the right to draw \vater from the latter through a six-inch pipe as long a the pond should be continuedl. This deed contained the usual cove-. nants of title, including one against incumbrances. At the same tirne the owner leased to the grantee for twenty years all the water in the pond, to be used for manufacturing purposes through the flume leading to the, mills, at an annual rental of $1, which was-duly -paid during the termi of the lease- The water from the pond, or a like q1uantity from othier sources, was necessary to the opera tion of the mills. The term of the leae having expired, the grant'e claied the right to use the water from the pond and reservoir as there t~fore, as arn easement created by im plied grant. Under the deed no rights in the waters of the pond or reser voir passed by the deed except those expressly mentioned, and that at the end of the term of the lease the grantee's rights in the waters r-eased if the pond should be discontinued, and were limited to the flow through the six inch pipe, should the pond be maintained. Advice IS Ready ttade Sirs. Prirmmins -- Miv dear, if youn w-ill let me give you somte aoivice Miss Giddings-Wll you alter it to tit, withlout, making a fuss?--Puck. Mr. Collarbutton (reading fiom an engineering journal)--Some of the biggest dams in the world are in Cali fornia Irs. C. (meeklv)-I've heard somne very large ones around here, Iira 1 -eroit Free Press. IT 1i sa-d that Coghian will never act again. If he does, and acts as he has for the last few months, some friend of humanity ought to swear out an in unction or a warrant. LE3mON jriCE, squeezed in Call fornia, treated with a preserved proc es-s, and sent East by the barrel, is now sold in earthen jugs containing from half a gallon to ten gallons. It is used for all sorts of domestic pur poses. FLORIDA peop'e delight in citing Northern tourists to their acres of beautiful yellow jasmin s in the early 1 sjrringtime. But the farmer says the plant is poisonous in all its part,, not only to man, but to animals. Even to bees it Is rank poison, and so is it to the honey made from the flowers. The plant should be exterminated. TnE building of the great trans Siberian railway is having a pro. nounced influence already on the country through which it passes, and indee.1 on all R1ussia. Vast quanti ties of supplies are of course con sumed in the constru -tion, and the widening of the market is building up new industries in what must be a most gratifying manner to the Rus s'an people. The demand for rails, for instance, far exceeds the capacity of the rail-rolling mills. and one new mill of this character has been put up which is under contract to furoish i 90.000 tons of rails. In other de partmients of industry the activity Is just as notiecable. The wholeindus trial life of Russia is being stimu lated by the co'ossal undertaking. THE Nicaragua canal sclerme isone of the most i:npr'rtant enterprises be fore the country, and the South h( particularly interested in its comple tion. It is therefore quite rilhtthlat rpresentative coninuercial and finan cial bodies in all the Southern State: should take action to induce Congress to exercise its legislative powers ir the matter in order that trade anc comnmerce may be benetited. Ever3 t Southern city and State should exer1 i itself in behalf of this miagnificent, (nterorlse and bring powerful intlu ences to bear upon Congress through their local representatives. our peo die have the control of a great emrr pire within their grasp, if they will only reach out and take it. --Atlanta Financial Index. So MANY inventors and investors are nowadays interested in -iying t machine-"----so many acute minds are working for the solution of the great problen of navigating the air-that a universal thrill of sympathy will be felt for poor Lilienthal, who fel) c nearly 200 feet at Brussels, while prac ticing with wings. Icarus and Darius t Green had the same fate. So Herr a L,e-uthal, if he survives, need not v fel abasbe'l;.and the other inventors will continue their efforts for trampr ling the slant winds on high, whether or not they drop to failure and death. Man is bound to fly; it is only a mat- c ter of time. And how joyful summer travel wtl be then! No tunnels, no smash-ups, can cast shadows over thev weary man's vacation: His only risks 11 will be a tumble of a few thousand feet. and he will willingly take that s or the fun of dying. t ACCoR~IING to the Philade'phia s Times, the latest invention in bed n :overing is the hay quilt. It is made I af icannelette cretonne or wool and an e armful or two of hay. The goods are sewed strongly across the top and1 bottom and down onie sidie, and quilt ed across from side to side at dis tances of about fourteen inches. The hay is put in lightly and the remain ina side sewed down. When the hay becomes litup hang the quilt before t t he tire and it soou becomes crisp r aain. The warmth of these quilts il can not b~e realiZed except by those s who have tried them. In making ~ these quilts they should be made quite as wide as the beds they are in tended to (over. They are equal in warmth to two or three blani-ets- t Sui hi .uilts are much used by the i peaantry in the Swiss mountains, who appreciate the warmth they 3 afford. C EXPERIENTs with glass building bricks were begun in 1891 by M. Fal.. C conier, an architect of Lyons. says the Ashland (England) Reporter. t These bricks are hollow, being blown ~ like botties, and are given forms- d such as cubes. hexagons, etc.-that t permit of ready layir g. A bituminous r ement, with a base of asphalt, is I used with them. Tne bricks serve r as double windows, giving protection igainst both cold and heat; they are good insulators o f humid ity and noise'. a and they lend themselves readily to the decorati n of buildings either by y their form or color- The bricks arc a neater than marble in meat markers, e and especially adapted for bath halls, both-uses, hospitals, refrigerating s establishments at!d buildings in ~ which the absence of windows would ~ be an advantage. A hothouse of glass bricks is of about ordinary cost, ~ isee fuel anr1 resists hail. AN EDITORIAL CRISIS, rRIUMPHANT EVOLUTION 0 THE SPIKETOWN "BLIZZARD." Hortimer Clugston Achieves Immortalit In the Annals of Weekly Journalism The Editor in Thought-Inception C the Cash Basis Plan. A Bappy Result. Mortimer Clugston, editor an< proprietor of the Spiketown Blizzard 2as reached a crisis in his affairs. He sat in his editorial chair witi iis arms folded, his lips tightly com >ressed, and his feet on the editoria able, as was his wont when wrestlini vith some intricate problem of life In looking over his accounts he ha( nade the discovery that the Spire own Blizzard was not paying ex )enses. It was always in his power to dis over the simple process of thrustin uis hand into his trousers pockel mnd feeling aromnd that he hadn tny money, yet there was always out tanding accounts on subscription ob-work, and advertising that wert nore than sufficient, as he had fan ied, to make him square with thi vorld. But here he was, face to face witi he tremendous fact that r1 the good tccounts taken together would nol ay his debts, and here was anothe f those dreadiul letters stating tha1 t shipment of goods had been mad( o him. C. 0. ). To meet this he had an advertisin lue hill signed by the great paten! tiedicine house of Yellowdock & Co. 0ood for fifteen dollars' wortli of sar aparilla and porous plasters f. o. b t the factory in -Massachusetts. An order on a Cincinnati establish ient for fifty pounds of printers Ilk And 35 cents in cash. Long he pondered upon the situa ion. The gray matter of Edito. lugston's brain was working as il Lad never worked before. But hi: kull stood the pressure. "I'll do it!" he said at last. "I'l dopt the cash system!" He took his feet down from the ta ile, went out of his office, and pro eeded to the village bank, where h( ngaged the President of that insti ution, Mr. Wildcat, in earnest con ersation for half an hour withoul ny visible result. Then he came back to his offce, ook off his coat, went to the case id with his own hands he put i. ype the following: ANOUtNCEEEN'T. For the purpose of placing the Spiketowr lizzard on the solid foundation of perma enee and prosperity and giving It t nancial character commensurate with th omainanding influence it exerts in th, ,orld of journalism. the editor has deter lined after mature deliberation to plact is paper on a cAsH basis. The subscription price of the Blizzarc ereafter will be $1.25, CASH IN ADVANCE. No names will be placed on the books un ass the money accompanies the order. When the time of any subscriber has ex ired his paper will be stopped unless ar rder for renewal is received, accompaniet y the cash. This is the last number that will be sen1 - subscribers who are in arrears. At the end of one monthi from this date al; 'counts against delinquent subscribers till be placed in the hands of an officer for llection. with instructions to push thea 0 THE BITTER END. The free list is entirely suspended. Thi: Sthe last copy that will be sent to dead eads. The Spiketown Blizzard has adopted the ash system. And don't you forget it. The Blizzard has come to stay. Set in large type and "leaded" with~ rooden "reglet" this announcement iled a column. He mailed the entire edition to his absribers, locked the office, and rent home. The next morning there were found acked up in the postoffice, barber hop, and on several prominent cor ers written notices callirar for a pub. *c meeting at the Town HTall tbat vening "to protest ag'tnst the in alting and unprecedented editorial a the Blizzard of this week and tc ake some action befitting the oc~ asion as representatives of a high. pirited and self-respecting comn anity." It was signedl "Many Citizens." When the sun had gone down, and he stars had come out, and the busi~ ess houses on the public square were luminated with all the glory of kero. mc lamps and polished tin reflectors, ditor Clugston put his subscription ook under his arm and sallied forth a participate in the Galiberations at he Town Ihall. The room was full and reeking with he odor of cigars, pipes. and persplir ug humanity. The chair was occupied by the Rev. Ir. Allright, pastor of one of the hurches. The secretary was Mr. lowmuch, the leading merchant, caler in dry goods and groceries, lothing, bats and caps, boots and hoes. "The resolution before the house,' he chairman was saying, "is to the ifect that the citizens of Spiketown emand an explanation from the edi or of the Blizzard for the extraordi ary announcement that appeared in is paper this morning. Are You eady for the question?" Cries of "Question:" "Qiuestion" The resolution passed unanimously. The banker, Mr. Wildcat, then rose. "If Mr. Clugston is In the house,' e said, "perhans this will be as good tIisasiny for 'ib to inske i planaton." Editor Clugston stalked slowly and :lemnly forward to the platform, mid the most profound silence he urned and faced the audience. "The explanation, gentlemen," he aid, "is that it takes money to run he Blizzard. In looking over my abscnn lis (and he took it ut from under his arni and opened it)I ind that I have twenty-seven dead heads to whom I furnish the Blizzard iree. Arong tne:e deadheads is your chairman, for whom I have the high est respect, together with the four other preachers in Spiketown. Your secretary is another deadhead. He advertises to the extent of $50 a year. most of which I take in trade, and I have charged him nothing for his copy of the Blizzard. The two gentle men I see sitting by the stove are also" it is asking too much of 'Mr. Clugston, perhaps," suggested the banker suavely, "to expect him to enumerate all his deadhead subscribers in thls oudience.and.I move- '-. 'No trouoie ac ali,-' eneerfully' in terposed Mr. Clugston, "only I don't want to consume the time of this meeting. There's about fifteen of them here, I think. And when it comes to delinquents, who owe ic from 50 cents to $3, this meeting. gentleman, comes pretty near being unanimous. I've got over $500 outstanding on subscription, and, so heip ine Horace Greeley, there's nearly $300 of it in this audience!" Editor Clugston looked over the romgregation. There were the fel lows who had subscribed two years before "to help him along" and had never paid a cent. There were the merchants who got extra copies to send to friends and thought they were entitled to them for nothing. There were the tough men of the vil lage. whose names had got on his list somehow, whom he didn't dare to dun, and there were the men who borrowed the paper instead of sub ;cribing for it and found more fault with it than anybody else did. "While I am explaining things." conitinued Editor Clugston, "I will expiain that I owe my cub at the office a month's salary. I owe a board bill of $17.30. I owe about $75 in bills coming due in a week. A id I'v e got $1.35 to pay 'em with. Took in $1 on subscription to-day. It isn't likelv," he added, raising his voice, "that I'll ever have as favorable ani opportunity to inaugurate my cash system a I have right now. Your accounts on subscription are in this book, gentlemen. You will oblige me very much by coming forward and settling at once." In the sepulchral stillness that fol lowed his remarks Banker Wildcat came to the front with $6.25, which he said was the payment in advance for five copies of the Blizzard. Then the Chairman, followed by the Secretary and several others of the assembled deadheads, handed over $1.25 each in silence. Subscribers who were in arrears for various amounts squared up their accounts, and when the editor of the Blizzard left the Town Hall he had $174.60 in his pocket, and his paper was established on a solid cash basis. And now mark how Editor Clugs. ton had met this last great crisis in his career. That Indignation meeting. was his own scheme. He originated it in all its details, and its successful outcome was the re sult of a private arrangement mo" with Banker Wildcat the day before. Once again let it go on record that no combinations of circumstances can ever crush the truly great .iournalist. "Get shaved." "Sir,' he said as he stalked inlto the clergyman's study, "you are the man who tied the knot, I believe." "I beg your pardon," said the aler v::nan, looking up from his sermon. "You performed the marriage cere. mony for me, didn't you?" 'Yes, certainly, Mr. Willings. What, ma" I ask-" "Then you know what the rights of *a husband are?" 1'Why, yes, in a general way." "And the rights of a wife?" "Of course." "Well, now, sir," said the caller, *drawing a chair up to the clergyman's desk and taking a seat, "has a wife a license to torture her husband?". Certainly not." "If she makes his life miserable he has redress, of course?" "Yes, but I should advise-" "Never mind your advise now. We'll come to that later. My wife complains that I don't shave often enough." "0, that's a small matter." "It is. sir:! Is it:! Just wait! I told her that that was my affair, and thent she taught the children to cry when I kissed them so that she could say that my rough chini hurt them." "That hardly shows a Christian-" "Wait a minute: Yesterday morn ing I found them playing with the cylinder of a broken music-box: You know how that seems to the touch?" "Well, She taught them to call it -Patpa's chin.' " - 'Really, -sir, I must confess-" "Wait till I'm through. To-day ' one of them got up on my knee, pased his little hand. over my chin, and called it 'Papa's mulsic-box.' N'ow, sir, I ask of you as a Christian man and as the man who tied the knot, what shall I do?" I"Get shaved," replied the clergy man, softly, as he returned to his work.-EiChicago Tribune. TH;ERE are so many people who are pious only in pleasant weather. GoD never needs many sofdiers when they are led by a (ideon, ITao'a. who are close with mooe? are very often liberal with advice. T t E pray ers that reach heaven soonest are those that are full oi 1 r-atitude.