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EEV. DR T?LMAGE THE BROOKLYN 1>2YI&E>S SUB -BAY SSBVOS., Subject: "GodAi?oBg?ieAiiiethyst*? Shall I be frank and tell you what are my designs on you today? They are to. make yen homesick for heaven; to con? sole yeo concerning your departed Chris? tian friends by giving you some idea of the brilliancy ol the scenes in which they now commingle; to give all who love the Lord a more elevated idea as to where they are going to pass the most of the years of their existence ; and to set all the indifferent and neglectful to quick and immediate preparation, that they may have it likewise. Yea, it isto;indacemany of ocr young people to study a volume of God that few ever open, but without some acquaintance with which it is im? possible to understand the Bible-I mean the precious stones; their cry stylization, their powers of refraction, their cleavage, their fracture, their lustre, their phospho? rescence their transparency, their infinity of color and shape, and what they had. to do with the welfare and doom of families and the destiny of nations; aye, the positive revelation they make of God himself. My text stands us in the presence of the most stupendous splendor of the uni? verse, and that is the wall of heaven, and says of its foundations that they are gar? nished with all manner of precious stones. All the ancient cities had walls for safety, and heaven has a wall for everlasting safety. Yon may say that a wall made np of all manner of precious stones is figura? tive/ but yon cannot understand the force and significance of the figure unless r yon know something about the real struc? ture and color and value of the precious stones mentioned. Now, I propose this morning, so far as the Lord may help me, te attempt to climb, not the wall of heaven, but the foundations of the wall, and I ask yon to join, me in the attempt to scale some of the heights. We shall only get part of the way up, but better that than to stay down on the stupid level where the most of us have all our lives been standing. We begin clear down at the bottom and where the wall begins. The first layer of the foundation, reach? ing all around the city, and for 1,500 miles, is a layer of jasper. Indeed, there is more of jasper in the wall of heaven than of any other brilliant, because it not only composes a part of the foundation, but makes up the chief part of the super? structure. The jasper is a congregation of many colors. It is brown ; it is yel? low; it is green; it is verm?lion; it is red; it is purple; it is black; and so is striped with colors that much pf it is called ribbon-jasper. It is found in Si? beria and Egypt, but it is rare in most lands and Gf great value, for it is so hard the ordinary processes cannot break it off from the places where it has been de? posited. The workmen bore holes into the rock of jasper, then drive into these hole? sticks of dry birch wood, and then saturate the sticks and kee p them sa tu rated until they swell enough to split the rocky and the fragments are brought out end polished and transpor ted and cut in? to cameos and put behind the glass doors of museums. The portraits of Kornau emperors were cat into it. The finest intaglio ever seen is in the Vatican mu? seum, the head of Minerva in jasper. By divine arrangement jasper adorned the breastplate of the high priest in the an? cient temple, bnt its most magnificent position is where it glows and burns and darkens and brightens and preaches from the lowest strata of the wall of heaven. Glad am I that the very first row of atones in the wall of heaven is jasper of ?any colors, and if yon like purple it is purple, and if you like brown it is brown, and if you like green it is green, and if yon like ochre-yellow it is ochre - yellow, and if yon like vermilion it is vermillion, and if you like black it is black. It suggests to me that heaven ia a place of all colors-colors of opinion, colors of creed, colors of dun, colors, ol taste. But we must pass up in this inspection .f the foundations of the great wall ol heaven, and after leaving the jasper, th? next precious stone reached is sapphire, and it sweeps around the city 1,500 miles. All lapidaries agree in saying that tlx sapphire of the Bible is what we now call lapis lazuli. Job speaks with emotion ol ..The Place of Sapphires," and God thought so mach of this precious stone .that he put it in the breas pl ate of the high priest commanding, "The second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire ano a. diamond." The sapphire is a blue, bat varies from faintest hue to deepesl Tjltra-marine. It is found a pebble in thu mers pf Ceylon. It is elsewhere ia com; pact masses. Persit and Thibet anc Burmah and New South Wales and Nerti Carolina yield exquisite specimens. Ttl bine eye is seen in the valley of the "Rhine. After a burial of thousands ol years it has been brought to sight in Egyptian monuments and Assyrian cylin? ders. At Moscow and St. Petersburg and Constantinople, I have seen great masses of th;s sapphire commonly called lapis l?zuli The closer you stndy ita veins the more enchanting, and I do noj wonder that the sapphire is called into the foundation of the wall of heaven. It makes a strong stone for the foundation, for it is the hardest of all minerals except the diamond. Sapphire based on jasper; a blue sky over a fiery snnset. St. John points to it in Revelations, and says: *'The second sapphire;" and thii suggests to me that though onr ear'h and ?ll ita furniture of mountains and seas and atmospheres is to collapse and van? ish, wc will throughout all eternity have in some way kept"the most beautiful of earthly appearances, whether you take this sapphire of the second layer 8* lit? eral or figurative. The deep blue of our skies and the deep blue of our seas must not, will not be forgotton. li a thou? sand years after the world has gone to ashes, you or I want to recall how th? earthly skies looked in a summer noon, oi the mid-ocean in a calm, we will have ouly to look at the secoad row of thc foundation of the wsli of heaven. Ob I am so glad that St. John tells us about it! "The sec-nd sapphireV While we are living in sight of that wall, spirits who have come from other worlds, and who never iiw our earth, will visit us. and we will visit them, and sometime we will be in converse about this earth when it was yet afloat and aswmg. and jffesh&ll want to tell them about how it looked at certain times, and then it wilt be a great object lesson for all eternity, and we shall say to our visitors from some other world, as we point toward the "wall of beaveo: '4It looked like that stratum of foundation next to the low? est." John 21st chapter and 19th verse: "The second, sapphire." A step high PT and yon come to chalcedony, another layer rn the foundation of the wall and running 1,500 miles around the heavenly city. Chalcedony! "mnalucent. 1A divine mixture of agate and opals and cornelians. Striped with white and gray. Dashed of pal tor, blushing into red and darkening. into pur? ple. Iceland and the Hebrides hold forth beautiful specimens of chalcedony. But cow we must make a swift ascent to the top of the foundation wall, for we cannot minutely examine ali the hiders, and so put-lng one foot on the chalcedony, of which we have ieen spealdng.we .?pring to She emerald.and we are oae-third of the way on the top of the foun? dation, for the fourth row is emerald. That, I would judge, is God's favorite axaong gems, because it holds what ?eems evident is his fa? vorite color on earth, the gr? en. since that is tins color most widely diffused ai ross all the earth's continents-the gra*s. the foliage, the every-day dress of nature. The Emerald! Kings used it as a seal to stamp promeocia mentoes. The rainbow around the throne of God is by St. John com pareil to lt. Conquerors hare considered it the greatest prize to cap? ture. What ruthlessness when the soldiers of fizarro pounded it with their iMunmers. Em rodda have had mach to do with the destiny Mexico. Five of them were presented by C tez to bis bride,-ose of them cut into the sha of a rose, soother into the shape of a tramp i another into tbe shape of & bell, with tong of pearl, and this presentation aronted 1 j jealousy of the throne aud caused the con Stent downfall of Cortes But the depths e ssa were decorated with these emeralds, J in a shipwreck they went dcwn off the coast Barbary. Napoleon wore an emerald af Ai terlitz. In the Kremlin museum, at Moscc there are crowns and sceptres and ontspre miracles of emeralds.. Ireland is called t Emerald Isle, not h?cau>-e it is a verdure, t because it was presented tc Henry the Seco of England, w.th an emerald ring. Nero h a magnifying glass of emerald through whi he looked at the gladiatorial contests at Bon But here are fifteen hundred miles of emen sweeping around ihe heavenly city in one lay But upward still, and you will put your U on a. stratum of sardonyx,- white and red, seeming comminghng of snow and fire; t snow cooling the fire, the fire melting 1 snow. ' Another c?imb and you reach the Bardi named after the city of Sardius- Anotl climb and you reach the chrysolite. A spe men of this belonged to ?piphanus, in 1 fourth century, and was paid to be so bril lis that whatever was put over it to conceal it v shown through,- and the emperor of China h a specimen that is described as having sn penetrating radiance that it makes the night bright as the day. A higher climb and you reach theberyL T thousand years ago the Greeks used this pre oas stone for engraving purposes, lt waa 3 counted among the royal treasures of Ty: The hilt of Murat's sword, was adorned with It glows in tho imperial crown of Great Br sin. Luther thought the beryl of the heavei wall, was turquoise, Kalisch thought it w chrysolite, Josephus thought it a golden-coloi jewel. The wheels of Ezekiel's vision flam with' beryl; and were a revolving fire. 1 beryl appears in six-sided prisms, and is set reals ana intaglios, in necklaces and corone It was theJoy of ancient jewelry. It ?rname: ed the anraent with eardrops. Charlemag presented it to his favorite-. Beautiful her Exquisitely shaped beryl! Divinely color beryl! It seems like congealed color. It loc like frozen fire. Bet stop not here. Climb higher and y come to topaz, a bewilderment of beat and named after an island of the Bed S< Climb higher and you come to chrysop: sus, of greenish-golden hue and hard flint. Cmnb higher and you reach the jacint named after the flower hyacinth and of reddi blue. Take one more step and you reach the tc not Of the wall, but the top of the foun dat io of the wall, and St. John cries out: "T twelfth, an amethyst." This precious stoi when found in Australia, or India, or Eur DJ. stands in columns and pyramids. For color is a violet blooming in stone. For its play light, for its deep mysteries of color, for i uses in Egyptian, in Etruscan, in Roman art, has been honored. The Greeks tbousht tl stone a preventive of drunkeness The Hebre thought it a source of pleasant dreams. I ' all lovers of gems,, it is a subject of admir?t i and suggestiveness. Tea, the word ameth] means a prevention of drunkenness. Long I f ore the New Testament made reference to 1 amethyst in the wall of heaven, the Pf siana thought that cups made out of amethj would hinder any kind of liquor contained ihe: in from buming intoxicating. But of all t amethystine cups from which the ancients drax not one had any such result of prevention. ? thousands of years the world has been looki in vain for such a preventive amethystine ct Staggering Noah could not find it, Convivi Ahasnerus drivmsr Yashti from the gates con not find i*. Nabal breaking the heart of bea timi Abagail could not find ir. Belah aza the kingly reveler, on the night that the Ch deans took Babylon, could not find it. Noto of the millions'of inebriates whose skid's pa the continents and pave the depths of the s could find ir. There is no such cup. Stro: drink from hallowed amethyst imbrutes tl . same as strong drink from pewter mug. It not the style of cup we drink out of, but th which the cup contains which decides the he) fut or damaging result of the beverage. ? around the world last night and to-day, out' cups costlier r baa amet hyst men and worn? have been drinking their own doom and tl doom of their child) en for this life and t next Ah, it i* the amethystine cups that < the wildest and worst slaughter. The smash the filthy goblets of the ramm eries would loi ago have taken plac? by law, but the ame thy! ine chalices prevent-the chalices out of whi< legislature - and congresses drink before and a ter they make the laws. Amethystine chalk hate been friends of intoxication instead of i foes. Over the fiery lips of the amethysth chalices is thrust tte tongue of that whi< biteth like a serpent and stinketh like an addi Drunkenness is a combination of apoplexy ai dem ena- The four hundred million victims opium come out to meet the 150,000,000 victii of alcohol, and the two acent* take the contra of tumbling the human race into perdition tb they will succeed iu filling the contract depen : on the action|cf the amethystine cups, the am t bys ti ne demijohn, the amethystine ale pitt era, the ameth r stine flagons, the amethyst! i wine cellars- " Oh, Pe-siau*! Oh, Assyria] Oh, Greeks! Ob, Egyptians! You were wro in thinking that a cup of amethyst would pi vent inebriation. But standing on the top this amethystine layer of the foundation of t ! wall of heaven, I bethink myself of the mista that many of the ancient Hebrews made wh they thought that the amethyst was a produt of pleasant dreams. Jnst wear a piece of an thist over your heart, or put it under your p > low,'and you would have your dreams fill? with everything beautiful and entrancing. N na The stvle of pillow will nob decide t character of the dream. The only reci f for pleasant dreams is io do right and thi: ? right when you are wide awake. Co dirions of physical dis ase may give a got [ man a nightmare, bnt a man physical wei', if he behaved himself aright, will not 1 . troubled with bed dreams. Nebuchadnezzi with eagle's dowo nuder his head and Tyrii purple over it, struggled with ?bad dream th i made him shriek out for the soothsayer* and a trologers to come and interpret it Pharao . amid the marble pa lac* of Memphis, was co t founded by a dream iu which lean cows ate t ) the fat cows and the small ears of corn devour the seven large ear?, and awful famine was pi \ figured. Pilate's wife, amid clouds of rieht 1 upholstery, had a startling dream, because 1 which she sent a message in hot haste to i courtroom to keep lrr husband from enactir f a judicial outrage. But Jacob, at Bethel, wi a pillow of a: ona tain ioek,had a blissful tires of the ladder angel b'osaoming. Bunyan, wi bis head on a bard plank of Bedford jail, sa the gates of the Celestial City. St. John, on tl , barrenest island of the Aegean sea, in li dream, heard trumpets and saw cavalrymen < white horses and a new heaven and a nc ? earth. No amount of rough pillow can di I turbthe night vision of a saint, and no arnon: ; of amethystine charm can del?ctate the drea , of a miscreant. But, nome will aiy, why have you trouai us to this amethyst, "the top row of* the found tion of the heavenly wall, if you are not able i ; accept the theory of The ancient Greeks, wi i said that the amethyst was a charm ag? m intoxication, I have brought you to the tc row, the twelfth layer of th? torin da? ion of tl 1 heavenly wall of 1,500 miles of circling am? i thyst, to put you in a position where yon ca get a new idea of beaven; to let yon see that a j wr yon have climbs np twelve strata of glon you are. ou ty at t lie base of the eternal gran? ears, to let yon. with enchantment of i ou look far down and look far np; and to fore upon you the conclusion that if all onr climl iug has only shown m the foundation of tli wall, what must the wall itself be; and if this : the ontside of heaven, what must the inside tx and if all this is figflrativ?. what must the rea ?ty be*/ Ob, this piled up magnificence of tb heavenly wall! Oh, this et-niity o? de oratior Oh, this opalesceut, florescent, prismatic rain cle of ar? bitecture! What < Kthionement of ai 1 colors! A mingling of the blue of skies, an the surf of the seas, and the green of meadows and the upholstery of autumnal forests, an? tbe fire of August sunsets. All tbesplendi of earth and heaven daubed into those twelv rows of foundation wall. Ali that, mark yon only typical of the spiritual glories that roi over heaven like the At ?an - ic and Pacific ocean swung in one billow. Do you not see that it was impossible tha you understand a hundredth part of the sag gestions of that twenty-fit st chapter of Rereia tion without going into some of the particular of the wall of heaven, and dipping up some o irs dripping colors, and running your eye along some of its wondrous cnrstaliz "tiona, and ex amining some of the frc zen light in its tar qaoise, and feeling with your own finger th hardness of its sapphire, "and shielding yon eyes against the shimmering bri liane? in it beryl, and studying the fifteen hundred milei of emerald without a flaw? Yet all this onh . tbe outside of beavt n, and the poorest part o the outside; not the wall itsr lf but only the foo of the wail, for my text says: "The founda tions of the wall * of the city were garnishee with all manner of precious stones." Oh, ge j down your harp if you can play one. Ge: j down a palm, branch, if you can reach one j Why, it makes us all feel like crying out witt I James Montgomery: j When shall these eyes thy heaven-built w*lli And pearly gates behold? Oh, my soul ! If my text shows ns only th? j outside, what must the inside be ? While rid j ing last summer through the emperor's par! , near St. Petersburg, Russia, I was captivated I with the groves, transplanted from all zones, [ and the flower beds, miles this way and miles . that way, incarnadined with beauty, and the j foun cains bounding in such revel with the sun. ! light as nowhere else is seen. I said: 'This ie : beautiful. I never saw anything like this be ! fore." Bat when I entered the palace and saw j the pictured walls and the long line of statuary, j f-.nd aquariums aflo-t with all bright scales, and ? aviaries a-chant with bird voices and the inner ? doors of the palace were swung back by the chamberlain, and I saw the emperor and em? press and princes and pi incest es, and they greeted me with a cordiality of old acquaint? anceship, I forgot til t je groves and floral be? witchment I had seen ontside before entrance. And now I ask, if the outside of heaven at? tract* our souls to-day, how mncli more will be the uplifting when we get ineide and see the King in His beauty and all the princes and princesses of the palaces cf amethyst? Are you not glad that we did not stop in our ascent this morning until we got io the top round of the foundation wall of beaven, the twelfth row, the amethyst? Perhaps the an? cient Hebrews were not, after all, so far ont of the way when they thought that the touch of the amethyst gave pleasant dreams, for the touch of it thia hour gives me a very pleasant dream. Standing on this amethyst, I dream a dream. I close my eyes and I see it all. We are there. Thia is heaven ! Not the outside but the Inside of heaven. With what warmth of welcome our long-ago departed loved ones have kissed us. My ! How they have changed in looks. Ihey were so sick when they went away, and now they are so well. Look ! Yon? der is the palace of our Lord, the King. Not kept a moment outside, we are ushered into the throne-room. Stretching out his scarred hand, he savs: "I have loved thee with an everlast? ing love, " and we respond : "Whom have I in heaven but thee ?" But, look ! Yonder is the play-ground of the children. Children do not want a throne. A throne would not fit a child. There they are on the play-ground of heaven the children. Ont of the sick cradle of earth they came into this romping mirth of the eter? nal play-grounds. I chp my bands to cheer them in the glee. Yonder are"the palaces of the martyrs, and before th?ir doorway the flowers crimson as the bloody martyrdoms through which they waded up'.into glory. Yonder is Apostolic Kow, and the highest turret is over the home of Paul. Ht-re is Evangelist Place Yonder are the concert halls in which the musi? cians of earth and beaven are taking part Handel with organ and David with harp and Gabriel with trumpet and four and twenty others with voice*. And an angel of God says to me : "Where shall I take you ? On what street of heaven would you like to live? What celestial habitation would you like to occupy ?" And I answer : "Now that I have got inside the wall made up of ali manner of precious stones, I do not care where you put me. Just show me where my departed loved oues are. I hare seen the Lord and next I want to see them. But here are those with whom I toiled in ihe king? dom of God on earth. They are from my old parishes at Belleville and Syracuse and Phila? delphia and Brooklyn, and from many places on both sides of the eea where I have been per? mitted to work with them and for them. Give them the best places you can find. I will help steadv them as they mount the thrones. I will help you burnish their coronets. Take these, my old friends, to as good rooms as you can get for them in the House of Many Mansions, and with window? looking out upon the palace of the great King. As for myself, anywhere in heaven is good enough for me. Hallelujah to the Lamb that was slain." But I awake. In the ecstacy of the moment my foot slipped from the layer of amethyst, that so-called pro? ducer of dreams, and in the effort to catch my? self, the vision vanished. And lo ! it was but a dr?im ! _ GENERAL BUTLER died owning $7,000, 000. THE King of Greece speaks twelve lan? guages. EX-SENATOR INO ALLS, of Kansas, says he is making $5000 a month by lecturiug. "DAX" CAFFERY, the new Louisiana Senator, is called the "Bearing Lion of St. Maria." PRESIDENT -ELECT CLEVELAND will re? main in his residence at Lake woo i, N. J., until March. GOVERNOR CLEAVES, of Maine, selected three of the handsomest men in his own town to be members of his staff. IN the House of Representatives the man with the largest name is Archibald Hen? derson Arrington Williams, of North Caro? lina. SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN is said to have struck a million notes on a piano in eight hours. The performance was the result ol a challenge. THE Prince of Wales has no intention of visiting Chicago this year, according to a statement by his Private Secretary, Sir Francis Knollys. CHARLES B. LEWIS, the humorist, who writes under thanama ot M. Quad, has iron gray hair and wears a mustache, and is about the average in height. MRS. GEORGE HEARST, wife of the late Senator Hearst, of California, is the most heavily insured woman in the world. Her policies amount to $500,00J. THE new President of tne Swiss Republic -who has held the office during six previ? ous terms-is a Calvinist clergyman an i was regarded until lateiy as ona o? tae best all-round athletes in Switzerland. THE late Professor Horsford devisad a profit-sharing system for the employes of the manufacturing e^mpany oe" which, he was President, that included dowers to such of the women as might leave to marry DR. F. S. SMITH, author o? "My Country, 'Tis or Thee," was a member of the Harvard CJASS of ISSt*. He is a clergyman, but seldom preaches now. Newton, Mass., is his home; out he is vigorous enough to take the train into Boston occasional ly , although he is dis? inclined to make long journeys. DB. M. O. RICKETTS (colorea;, of Omaha, is a member of the Neorasaa Legislature. The doctor is a bright, intelligenc-looking gentleman, and in conversation the s moo tu? est in the House. He enjoys the distinction of being the oniy colored man tua t ever held a seat in the Neoraska Legislature. HORACE SMITH, one of the founders of the revolver linn o? ?mitn & Wesson, wno died & lew days ago at Springfield, Mass., nas be? queathed his entire lortune, said to amount io at least $2,000,00), to oeuevolent and charitable objects, with the exception ot $15,100, which is given co a brotaer! PRESIDENT DIAZ, of Mexico, is one of the bara est wonted men m tne Republic. He is sixty-two years oin, bus his lue has been so temperate tnat he loo&s moen younger. His daily routine is one of democracia simplicity, ana ne irequentiy rides m tue street car*. W nen he aoesmake use ot a carriage it is one of tne plainest in the capital, and th? ari ver is noe m livery ARCHBISHOP SATOLLL, the apostolic dele? gate to tne Uni tea otates, is a lean-built, profoundly determined-looking man o: as? cetic manner, with a pronounced Roman nose, a bald, hign forenead and deep-set, penetrating eyed, ana m geuerai appearance is a typical lcanan eerie. Aitnough over fifty years ot age, the Pope still loves to call him one of hi? boys. He is a special friend ana protege of L?O XUL It is stated that he will receive $6J0u per annum for bis ser? vices in America. THE LABOE WOfiLD. UNCLE SAM has 300,000 drummers. FITCH BC as. Mass., has never had a strike. THE cattle yards in Chicago give employ? ment to 25, OOO people. NF.W YORK musicians earn salaries rang? ing from $50) to ?50V?. A CENTRAL LAB>?, F?D?RATION is to bi e.-taulisbed in Pniladelpbia T?TERE are 450 industries in New Orleans, La., in which wo me a labor. COAL miners in many parts of Pennsyl. vania are said to ba starving. THE Central Libor Union of Iniianapoli? has oeen made a secret body. CaiCAO > policemen are about to make a concert?e?, stand for higher salaries. THE American Federation of Labor has decided not to join the Central Libor Union. KRUPP'S great gun works at Essen, Ger niauy, consume 1665 tous of coal aa t coke a day/ THE Denver (CDI.) Trades and Labor As? sembly has voted in favor of State owner? ship of coal mines. THE striking German miner*, who have lost their straggle, are resorting to dyna? mite as a means of revenge. THE Federation of Labor is to enter into tn educational campiign, and desires toa use of public school bu'! lin^s for iaoor meetings. IT is estimated that 15.0 W men, 2500 horses and 100 steam eu ??.ties wore occupie I in uarvesting tue ia rom tue surface o tne riuuson. LABORERS iu Russia must work 267 days every year; in Scotian I ".?76, E 14:3:1! 273, Spam Austria 295, Franse, -i) i, S we lea 3>4, Hungary 3 li. BAGGAGE AGENT SENJCIKS an J his assist? ants at tbe Union Station, Pittsburg, Pe m.. handled nearly 6,000,000 pac?a?es au i pieces Of baggage during tne past year. THOUGH American wages are higher than European in ron an i alee! iuduscries, ye? the labor cost of manutacvure par simuar unit is not proportionately more. HAYERHILL, Ma.-s., manufacturers ara considering a plan to ormg rirteej nu 1 ire l colored mea North aol seo t.e.o. to work in a snoe factory W??C?? is soo 1 t > ue built there. CHICAGO has more than 2J,000 children outside of school doors in tne "poor ward-, ' and hundreds o?' these caiidren aie a> wor* as caso boys and giris or in tbe ra-jrories an J sweat shops. Ix Massachusetts milts wo.u?n a?-J caii? dren ar? fror. tWO-tairJS lyj ?Vi-SiXths Qi ail empioyaj, au J raj proportion in a/1 th* manufacturing portions o. N*?" Ei^ai ts near.y the same. 1 wo THOUSA.VD men discharge 1 bv tue stree; railway aal otrie: orpjra&ioas o. Montreal, Canada, nearly moo >? i t ie Al? dermen m tne 1 "ity Hau for .. >n?. leriu* a petition of carters ior cae witidrawai o. streetcars-, on tne plea taat ta*y rum tn? streets, Tis Better to Hope. * Better to hope, though the clouds haag low, And to keep the eyes still lifted; For the sweet blue 6ky will soon peep through, When the ominous clouds are drifted. There was never a night without a day, Nor an evening without a morning, And the darkest hour, the proverb says, Is the hour before the dawning. -[Detroit Free Press. Deacon Brackettfs Proposal "Will, Willi" cried Doily, running iii great haste down the lane one bright spring morning. "Whoa! Good morning," said Will, pulling up the deacon's old horse Steady at the gate. "Much obliged to you, Tm sure, for coming down here to see me," as he waited. "Don't lease, Will ; 1 had a reason for coming, of course, is Deacon Bracken at home today ?" "Yes, and likely to be for awlnle. He cut his foot yesterday, chopping up in the birch pasture*" "is it a bad cul, Will?" "No-that is, only a flesh wound, but it will contine him to the house for a week or two, 1 suppose. . Are you coining over to see him ?" "No, of course uot; but Aunt Se? rena wanted mc to ask." "Oh! then she's coining!" unwit? tingly hilling on the truth. "What eau she be coming to see the deacon for?" "Well," replied Dolly, "I suppose she wouldn't want anything said about it, but we heard the deacon wanted to sell the teu-acre field, and Aunt Se? rena will pay him as mach for it as auy oue else can afford to. It joins her lot you know, and she always said it ought to belong to the farm." "So that's ii," sahl Will; "didn't know, seeing it's leap-year, but she might have some idea'' "Nonsense! I wish she had, though. She said o-ily this morning, jokingly, she'd a good mind to propose to the first single mau she met, for hired help's worse than no help, and it will take all the crops she eau raise to pay for raising them." "That's about the case at home," exclaimed Will. "Mary Jane's mother's taken sick and sent for her this morning; I've just carried her to the depot, and the deacon's lame, and that leaves him with no housekeeper." Dor-o-thyl" called her Aunt Serena frora the door. 44The clo'es are bilin' au' the buller has come." "And I'm coming! Good-by, Will:" .'Good-by, Dolly; 1 guess, Miss Dame can buy the field." Dolly ran into the house, aud while her aunt stamped the golden balls Of butter she deftly rinsed, wrung and hung the snowy clothes ou the line, j "Aunt Serena,"' asked Dolly at dinner, just as her aunt poured out the second cup of tea, haviug noticed this was ber most communicative time. "Deacon Brackett is a nice man, isu't he?" "Law *akes, child, there ain't a better nowhere about. Sapin is a food cal kihi tor; where yon find one man his equal, you'll lind ninety-nine wus ones." "So 1 thought,1' observed her niece. i "I wonder why he uever married?" j "I can't tell ye that, I'm sure. j Prap's thc deacon's a little too particu j lar. 'Taint every woman could suit j him, brought up as he was." ? "No, 1 don't know of but one, and ? that's you, Aunt Serena." "Don't be foolish, Dorothy," said Miss Dame, sharply. And Dolly, sat? isfied that her aunt would say nothing further on the subjecr, maintained a j sagacious silence. lu (he meantime Will had hurried j home, where he found thc deacon ly? ing on the lounge, gtoaning dismally with the pain in his foot aud the geu ! eral conditiou of affairs. "Did ycu get the liniment, Wil? liam?" queried he, anxiously. I "Yes, sir; here it i*. Shall I bathe . your foot now?" i "No. You may loosen the bandage I a bit, though, cf yer a mind tew. How ! on airlh we're goiif tew sit along till j . Mary .lane conics back is more u I j know." "Well," answered Will, after an in i spection of tue larder, "there's plenty I i j of cold ham and loree loaves of bread, j ! and 1 can boil eggs and roast potatoes, so v. c sha'n't starve for awhile 1 j guess." ! "Mcbbe we might git Brother j John's widder awhile." "Can't," said Will, promptly; "she j j i*ift at home." i "Then it's no use going for her,": I groaned the deacon. i =? I j "Not thc least." replied Will. "By ? j the way, when 1 came by the Dame's j j place, Doily came down to the gate | j ami said her Aunt Serena was coming j over herc this afternoon." j "( omitr herc this arterooon?" j echoed the deacon, "li's about that j io it ci ii', I s'pose." 4,X"," said Wil!, "I guess not-1 ! bink-i--ihat i>," then desperately, ? i "il's leap year, you know." '.And what cf ii 'ii-? ' queried the I ! ileacojt, ob: wscly. ' -Nothing only-well, 1 heard Miss D une *aid *he'd a good mind to take 1 advantage of it's being leap year. i You ?ec *he'? plagued about getting help and her farm does need a man to I overlook if." j "WiUiam," said thc deacon, blush ; iug like a -.?diool girl, '?you don't j osver mean" i "I do, too,'* returned Will, not dating '0 meer the deacon's eye. j "Wei!, that bea:? all!" But Will w;?? already out of hear . ?itg, having goue to tue woodshed, i where lin was alternately splitting j wood and chuckling wi: li laughter at j th* "go*ul joke'1 li'' imagined oe bal* i on the Deacon. For lie know wen the i m;ui's na ure. Bashful ly Hie last de gree In the company of the oppoi sex. the ?mere idea that Miss Ser* might be/coming with matrimonial tentions iwas enough to overwhc him with confusion. Meanwhile)Mi88 Serena, having i ished her diutacr, thought she'd "I ter set off ationce, not thinking bes as she i nf or pied Dolly, ."to give Deacon few long a time lo thin! over and setjhis price."' So from his window, the J)cac< who was nervously watching thc rc with a silking heart, soon perceh Mis?! Serena steadily approaching, deed, had'it not been for his Jainene I am not sure but he would hi taken ignominiously to flight. A< was, he felt be must "face thc si ation." 1 ?How do ye dew, Deacon?" v Miss Serenaos salutation, as she c< dially shook his gingerly outstretch hand. .?Good afternoon, Miss Dam won't ye nev a cheer?99 "Thank ye," said she, "I cai stop to set long, though I ain't in great of a hurry, either, but seein' I cum on bizuess, 1 might a* w cum tew the pint I" Thc Deac winced, and Miss Serena, mistaki the expression for a spasm of pai exclaimed: "Your foot's power! bad; ain't it, Deacon?" "Considerabl ~o," the deacon a mitted. "What air you usin' on it?" i quired Miss Serena. "I've been wettin' it in this Iii ment "William got to the village." "\Polhecary stuft," said she, sni fing at it contemptuously; "hev got au/ aruiky flowers in ti house? " The deacon thought likely th might be some somewhar, and, havii procured thew, Miss Serei "reck'ned she'd better lay off her bo nit and shawl aud set 'eui steepiu'." "How long afore you expect Ma Jane back ?" asked she. "I can't tell," said the deacon, "fi her mother's took down with sciat roomatiz and thar's no kuovviu' win she can get away." ""Well, you air nufortinit" e: claimed Miss Serena ;"$cein's I'm he I'll tidy up a bit for ye." So, little thinking the words she hi spoken in jest to her niece that mol? ing had reached the deacon's ears, si set to work and soon restored ti household to its wonted order. "Thar, now," said 6he, shaking u the pillows on the lounge; "seems i me you'd be more comfortable her? deacon." "Mebbe so," said he, hobbiin along to the lounge, lying on whic he mentally decided; it had reste him just to see Miss Serena work. Then the deacon rome inhered tin she was called the best housekeep* for miles around and that her butte and cheese always took the premiui at thc county fair. To be sure, must be hard for her to look aft? everything in doors and out. "There ain't many woman, thought the deacon, "could 'a don as weii as she has." "Now, Deacon," said Miss Dame having, as she expressed it, "straighl eued the house out a bit," "you wan to mix equal parts of alkvhol wit the aruiky when it's steeped enottg and it 'ill be master good for you foot, I'll warrant. Well, I declare,' she went on, "in all the time Pv bceti here, 1 hain't done my arran yit. I've been thinking, deacon, see in' your land jined mine, ef you want ed" ?*I do," interrupted the deacon "what this place needs is a mistress and ef you're a mind tew cum" "What?" exclaimed Miss Serena. "As Mrs. Deacon Brackett," h. continued. As this was thc first oiler Miss Se rena ever had she behaved creditably for she promptly answered: "I'll cum, deacon." So Miss Serena left the house when she had been living so many years t< pass the remaining ones at Deacoi Blackett'? as the deacon's wife. Bu the Danie homestead was not long un tenanted, for the next year Will aiu Dolly were married and moved there. But neither of them ever knew wheth? er Aunt Serena proposed to the dea ?.on or thc deacon proposed to Auni Serena. - [ Waver 1 y Magazine. Foison for Apache's Arrows. Wc are indebted to L. B. Haw KS, recently in the government Indian service in Arizona, for a graphic de? si- ipi ?on of thc manner in which som? of the br.ives in the Apache region preparo their deadly arrows, says the Pomona (Cal.) Progress. Aithougli ?he Apaches have had little or no use for their poisoned weapons for years, still they, because of a tribal instinct, each summer season go through an annual preparation of their arrow tips as carefully and methodically as if an old-time war were near at hand. The work on thc arrows is one piece of labor that thc Indian brave will not leave to the squaws. He gathers a dozvti or more rattlesnake heads and puts them in a spherical earthen ves? sel. With these he puts haifa pint of H *pjcies of large red ant that is found in many parts of Arizona. The bite i of this ant is more poisonous than that of a bee. I'pon these he pours a bit of water, and then seals up with inoi*t I earth the lid of this vessel. He then digs a h ?le two feet deep into the ground, in which he builds a louring fire and puts in some stoues. When the interior of the hole and the stones ! are red hot he makes a place in thc j bott-mi of the earthen vessel and puts ; it lu. About it and upon it he puts I the coals and hot stones, and upon the ! top he builds a tierce fire aud keeps ic j up for twenty-four hours. Then be tlioffi out hi* vessel and, standing tl ; with a long polo, he disengages the : top and leis the furn?? escape. The ! I ml ig u insists thal if ih,e fume* should come in his face they would kill h The mass left at the bottom of vessel is a dark-brown paste. To test the efficacy of his c coction Mr. Hawks has seen au Ind with his hunting knife make a ctn his bare leg, just below thy knee, : let thc blood run down to his anl Then taking a slick, he dipped it i the poison and touched thc descend blood at thc ankle, it imm?diat began to sizzle, as if il were cook thc blood, and the poison fol lo v the blood righi up ihe le^ sizzling way, until the Indian scraped blood off with the knife. Th-- SHV? assured Mr. Hawks that lind flowed the poiseu to reach the mot of the wound ho would have bet'.: dead man in twenty minutes. A Remarkable Colored Lad. The most remarkable specimen humanity we have seen in all our 1 is Benjamin Franklin Coleman,colon who is 5 years old. This little coloi boy can readily rind any chapter iti I Bible, lie can also read any book newspaper bottom side up as eas as right side up. This wonderful b lives at Ruston. La., with his grat father, John Coleman, a man of UK than ordinary intelligence. Jo brought his little sou to Gibsland lt Saturday, and the boy drew as larg? crowd as a circus would have doi Sunday afternoon quite a crowd oft white people of Gib?land asscmbl at the colored church, where the b read a number of chapters in the Ni Testament to the wonder and aslouis ment of the large assemblage preset Monday afternoon, while few we present and while we had an oppc tum ty to sec and hear for ourself, i asked this boy to turu to and read t 90th Psaim. He turned to the Psal and read about as rapidly a* we cou keep up with him. Then we had him read with bo< bottom side up, which was doue wi the same ease and rapidity as befo turning the book. John Colem; staled to us that twelve months ago 1 thought he would teach his litt grandson the alphabet, and gave hi the book, aud on the first day the b< learned every one of his A B C since which time he has boen rcadii any printed matter giveu him. I cannot read manuscript. Wc ask( John what he expected lo make of h little grandson, ami he said he didi: know, for the boy had got ahead < him; whereupon the boy said 1 wanted io be a preacher.-[Gibslar (La.) Gazette. Older Than Their Husbands. Mahomet was only 25 when he ina: ried Kadyph, his first wife, who WJ fully 40. Anne Hathaway was seven yeai older than Shakespeare. Dr. Join son's wife was double his agc. St was just 60 a* he turned the rouudiu poiut of 30. Howard, the philai thropist. had a wife who wai 02 wile her husbaud was but 25. At the time of Jenny Lind's mat riage her age was given as 10 yeal the senior of Herr Goldschmidt. A singularly happy marriage wa that of the late Rose Terry Cooke who died last summer, deeply lameute by a comparatively young husband Another charmingly felicitous mar riage in the literary circle of t?lente* New England women is that of Kiiza beth Smart Phelps, who is idolized b; her young husbaud, the Kev. Herber Ward, African missionary aud writer George Eliot, laie in life, chose Mr Cross, then in the thirties, to accom j pauy her down the shadowy path o: j old age. I The Baroness Burdett-CoutU makes no secret of the fact that Mr, j Burdetl-Coutts is much her junior. ? And so the list might go on multi j plying in numbers until one migh j fancy that half the marriages were it I reversal of the first line of the ok couplet, which runs: Man for height: woman for youth; Woman for beauty : both for truth. And, when the list is closed, ont must add the wonderful and historic record of lite beautiful Mme. Recam ier, who died at seventy-two, leaving j a young husband of twenty-four tc mourn her loss.- [New York World. -, Mountains in the Atlantic. Four years ago thc British g'overn j ment sent out an expedition to map the bottom of thc At laut ic ocean. The work is now about completed and a report has been issued, it shows thal it the water were drained away the ! bed of the ocean would show a vast j plain traversed near the cottier by a ! mountain range running parallel vith i the American coast. Another range j running almost at right angles to this, ? extends from Newfoundland to Ire I and. In a general way these facts j were known before, but it is now ! ascertained that the lops of these eea i mountains are about two miles below \ the surface and that the ba-ins instead of bein?: .?unfathomed depths'' are ; about four and one half miles below j thc surface. Of course this is far j enough but one would a great deal I tallier know that the bottom is five ! miles down ?han to bo told that ils lo j cation has not been ascertained. A j tairions fact regarding the mountains : J* that i heir tops arc as white as ' though they lay In the region of per? petual snow. Thc reason for this, ac? cording toihe Rochester Post-Express, is th:.-i the mountains are thickly covered with a specie* of pure whim ; shells. Thc legends of the lost Atian ! tis arc borne out by the finding of .'an ! elevated plateau, the shape and ev ; teni of which corresponds to the -ize j of the io?i Atlantis almost exactly." A Narrow Encape. "Hu! old rn m, Pm glad to see you nut again. You've been very sick. 1 ! heat . Near to death*? door.'" ! "Near to deal li's door? They may '. weil sa) fhat. I Ii d (bree doctors,* 1 -["New York Press, CAVALRY HORSES. How They Are Obtained For the Mounted Service. Like the Raw Recruit, They Must Be "Broken In." Horses for the cavalry service are purchased mostly in St. Louis, and occasionally in Louisville, Kansas City, Omaha, Sau Francisco, and other points. Thc prices paid fer them under the contract system range from $1 IO to $175. They ate usually shipped in herds of from thirty to sixty direct to the headquarters of the regiment for winch they are designed, without being put through any course of preliminary training for the new life they are to leal, aud af rei* a few days' rest are delivered to the various troops where remounts are needed, doe regard being given to color. The arrival of a herd of new horses at a cavalry post is always a source of much interest to the garrison. Officers and men-particularly the latter take the first opportunity that occurs to visit the corral or stables, and have a look at the recruits, as they are justly regarded, and their qualities, good, bad, and indifferent, are commented upon and criticised by ail hands, from the diguified commanding officer down to the young imp of a trumpeter born and. bred in the service. Like the newly inlisted soldier, when he first enters the army, where everything is so different from the life he has been accustomed to as a ci* i lian, the "recruit" cavalry horse is surroud ed by things new and strange to him, and it takes some time for him to be? come accustomed to the routine of his military duties and the regular and orderly manner of his new code of life. His stable, where he and some scores of his companions are housed, is usually very good nowadays, al? though it is not very long ago when at some posts the buildings and ac? comodation for the horses left much to be desired in their genera? adapta? bility for the purpose required. Before dawn of day the horses are awakened to be fed, and the recruit frequently has his digestion im? paired by the shock and fright caused him by the sudden boom of the morn? ing gun, aud the unaccustomed clang? ing trumpet notes, as the field music? ians sound reveille. But he soon be? comes used to this, aud eventually recognizes many of the calls, particu? larly those referring to anything affecting him individually, as "stable call" or "water call," the halt, the ad? vance, and others, and I have time and j again noticed the impatience of horses ! on herd to return to the picket line j when stable call has been sounded in j camp some distance away. That the j sound conveyed a distinct meaning to j them other than the frequently recur ! ring calls of the camp during the day, I which they never noticed, was evident i by the action of the horse-their rest I lessness, their raised beads, and eager ! neighing. i Horses that have become pauic j stricken---stampeded" the so?die-s j say-are often recalled by the quick I sounding of "stable call" by as many j trumpeters as can be assembled at the j moment. 1 know of au instance of j the kind where six troops on herd were "stampeded" and were galloping madly away, utterly beyond the con? trol of the herders, when the trum? peters lustily sounded "stable call." Like human beings horses have their leaders; how selected, I will not ven? ture to state, but in every troop cer ! tain horses lead the resi; and no soon j er had the notes of the call rung out j over the din and roar of the furious j rush of the horses, when the leaders, ! circling arouud the camp several j times, finally brought them to their several picket line?. - [Harper's j ! Weekly. -_ Magnitude of the Exposition Buildings. Every one who has not seen these buildings thinks he knows exactly what they are like, and doe* not want i to hear anything more concerning ? them. At lea*t one mari thought he j knew what they were like l>cfore ! he saw them, and certainly dreaded i I being told again in bewildering sta I tietics of their area, height and cost, j But when I saw them around the la? j goon, in front ot' thc main entrance, j 1 wanted to be left entirely alone with ! them, as one wants to be left alone in ! front of a beautiful landscape or a great picture. There is no use of my trying t<? say why this was so, why j they are impressive and dignified and j ! beautiful, for 1 remember having read j ' all thi> before ot them, and of not j considering it at ali. i Their magnitude and their beauty, J j not on account of rhese qualities, bu' ' i iu eoite of them, are not things of ! ? * ! which MC best write:* on architecture ! ! -of which I am certainly not one- j : < an any ?dca: neither can colored j prints with nairn trees in the fore- I I ground and blue skiesabov^ nor eveu j j photographs which -'never iie". You ? can hardly hope to give another per- j : son au idea ot' anything ?ules-* there j is something with which he is already familiar, and with which you CHU j ! make comparison. In tins case you i can only compare thc World's Fail : buildings with Rome as we believe it j was in its grandest days, and with i those days we cannot claim to be inti? mate. One of the Spanish legation put it this way. '-The Chicago build itigs," he said, "are the buildings we should have teeu i ti Pari*: those of ! tue runs exhibition nre those we j might have expected to lind at Chi- ? ^ago." That is exactly righi, and one j of the secondary surprises of titi? i wonderful white city; that the city of ? art and leeters of the Madeleine and I of the Beaus-Arts should have fallen j down aud worshipped aud Eiffel Tower i MI Edison electric lightings, and that the city of grain-eievators and pork should have reared a second city as classic in its beauty as the Athens of today, and as true in thc detail of a cornice as it is grand as ft whole.-' [Harper's Weekly. Decline of the Bow. "The bow, once the world's chief * weapon, is now almost completely a thing of the past," said Major D. C. Johnson, now a guest of the Laciede Hotel. "Thc more or ?ess nobie rftd , man of the American forest now car? ries a Winchester ami metallic car?? ridges, the Australian bushman ia armed with a musket, and even the Congo natives blaze away at each other with villainous saltpetre. Ihe bow is no longer a jn?littry weapon of any considerable poop:?. Even Cupid appears to be equipped with a repeating r?fl\? and ta blazing away at (he stomach instead of the heart. We are accustomed to think of thc bow as a harmless kind of weapon, iii only for sinail boys to shoot woodpeckers with, but I tell you that in the hands of a sk??iful archer it is one of thc most terrible engines, of destruction known to man. 1 have seen au Apache Indian drive ?I barbed arrow clear through a two year-old buffalo and bring him down as though struck by the botts of Oiym- - piau Jove. I wouid rather be struck by a minute bullet than with oxvs ot those metal-pointed darts. History tells us that when the Ro? mans invaded Pat thia under Cassiu these Apaches of thc East drove theil arrows clear through "them and pinned ..*. them to thc earth. I would back a regiment of skided archers to whip an equal number of soldiers armed with muzzle-loading rourke's. The fire would be equally accurate and eff'.cive and much more rapid. 1 cannot na- . derstaud how Jhe old flint lock cante to supplant thc bow, unless military men were charmed b? its noise. The old English bowman con>f.ituted a soldiery not to be scorned ; the bow of Ulysses was a weapon that the bravest might well fear."-[St. Louis Globe Democrat. Nicknames of the States. Thc American tendency to apply a familiar designation to individuals and communities has led to 'he adop- . tion of a colloquial name for nearly every State in the Union. Arkansas is the Bear State; California, tiie Gol? den State; Colorado, the Centennial Connecticut has long flourished nuder the appellation of ihe Nutmeg State, together with several other designa? tions more or less respectful, while Delaware is the Blue Hen Slate. It is natural that Florida should be tho Peninsula State, and Georgia the Em? pire State of the South; llliaois, the Sucker Slate, or that of Indiana, the Hoosier State. Iowa rejoices under tho cognomen of the Hawkeye State, while the appropriateness of a popu? lar name is verified by that of Kansas, the Garden State. Kentucky is the Corncracker State; Louisiana, the Pelican, an allusion to the coat-of-arins, while a similar rea? son has inspired the nickname given to Maine, the Pine Tree State. Mas? sachusetts is the Oid Bay State: Mich? igan, the Wolverine State; Minnesota, the Gopher State, the zoology of both furnishing the designations. Missis? sippi is thc Bayou State, au allusion to a geographical feature. Missouri is poetically known as the Pennsyl? vania of the West. Nevada is ihe Sage Hen State; New Hampshire, the Granite Slate; New York, the Empire State; North Car- . oiina, the Tar State; Ohio, the Buck- ' eye. Pennsylvania is the Keystoue; Rhode Island is the Lillie Rhody; South Caroliua, the Palmetto State; Tennessee is the Big Bend State; Texas, the Lone Star; Vermont, the Greeu Mountain; Virginia, the Old . Domimou; West Virginia, the Pan. handle, and Wisconsin, the Badger State.-[St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The Giant Birds of Sew Zealand. The discovery of the Dtnornis by the illustrious zoologist, Richard Owen, * is famous as oub of Ute mos? noiabic feats in the history of science. From a single imperfect bone-a femur broken at both ends-he deduced the fact that an enormous bird of the strnthions order, but far exceeding thc ostrich iu size, formerly inabited New Zealand. This discovery, pub? lished in 1839, aroused much interest and led to further inquiry. Four years later. Mr. Owen was able to show, n om a comparison of many f ragmeuts of skeletons that had reached him, that there had been at least six species of these gigantic birds. With additional materials, he, iu 180?, had increased thc number of species to eleven, classed in three genera, and varying in size trom a kind no larger than the great bustard (or about five feet high) to one, the Diuornis gigauteus.at '.east ten feet in height. Still later re? searches have shown that even this stature was in some instances sur? passed, and that birds must have ex? isted in New Zealand whose height attained fourteen feet, or twice that of the largest ostrich. - [Scientific Ameri? can. Sovel M?de of Curing Corns, Jt strikes one very oddly to hear of curing corns by giving medicine in? ternally, ami yet that is what has hap? pened iu more than one case in this city, says the Philadelphia Times. A lady, a great sufferer frota corns, com? plained to her physician, a man promi? nent in the profession, who said at once he wouid cure her. Sae really thought al firs? he wu* crazy when he prescribed me I iciue, but he insisted, and told her that the would have lo keep taking it several mon tits. She did so, aud her com?? gradually dlsap? peat cd. A friend win.tn *{?e loid about i? followed the same course am) wa? aUo relieve I of her oi':i>,