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REV. DR. TALMAGE H? Ss??fct?R Sitfinrs strs S?t gESJt??". ? TfcXT: "And Ged said. Let the waten Dring forth abundantly the moving crea tem that hath life."-Genesis i." 20" ..What a new?boo1? the. Bible, is? After rarty-shr,years* preaching from itanddis haasing oVer 30 O different subjects founded on the word of God; the. booie is as fresh to peaVwbed I learned, with a stretch of tar f??til? memory, the shortest ver? in the Bible, ,*Jesusi wept," and I opened a few ._ weeks ago a new realm of Biblical interest that neither my pulpit nor any one else's bad eVer explored, and ha vip? spoken. to ypa m this course ol sermons da God eyery-k where concerning, the "Astronomy <jf the linnie; br, Gol' Amoac .the Stars;" j the *'. brpnok>gv ?*, the Bible; or, God Among the Centuries ;n the Ornithology of the "Bible; or. God Among: the Birds;*' ( the *^M?neral?^y of,the Bible; or, Gol Aniong we Amethysts," .tais morning as ? may be divinely helped, 1 will speak to* you about the.""Ichthyology.of the Bible; or. God Among toe Fishes." ( Oinr?K?rses Were Utherei ani tire! out; and their fetlocks, were red wita the blood cat out by the roc.es, and ? could hardly get my feet out of the, stirrups as on . Saturday night we dismounted od "the beach of Lake Galilee. The rather liberal soppy of food with which we ha 1 started fr? n Jerusalem was wp li sigh exhausted, and the articles of diet remaining had by oft repet? fciori three tiroes a day for three weeks ceased to app*^ tizn 1 never want td see ? fig again; and dates with me are ali out of date. ?'?T several days the Arab caterer, who cctiki, speak but half a doz HS English words; wbu*dmisw?r our requests for soma of the ?tyies of food with which We had beeud.elec1 tated joe first few days by crying out "Fiu lSB?dY*; Th? most piquant a poetizar i? ab stina?ce; and the demand ot all the party wa?; ?iLet us breakfast on Sunday morning on tresa fish from Lake Gennesareth," fdr you must know that that lake bas four s?mes; and it is wort': a profusion of nomen? clature; and it is in the Bible called Chin neretb. Tiberias; Gennesareth and Galilee. To .our extemporized table on Sabbath morning came broiled perch, only a few hours before lifted out of the sacred waters; Ifc was natural that our minds should revert ti the only breakfast that Christ ever pre? pared-, and it was on those very shores where We breakfasted Carist hai in those olden times struck two flints together and set on tiresome shavings or light brush woo i and then put od larger wood, and a pile of glow? ing bright coals was the consequence. . Meanwhile the disciples fishing on the lake had awiul?y **poor luck," and every time they drew up the net it hung dripping with? out a fiutteriog fia of squirming scale. But Christ from the shore shouted to them and t?fd them where to drop the net, and 153 big . fi?i rewarded them. Simon and Nathaniel having cleaned some of those large fish, brofighi: them to the coals which Christ bad kiah !edv and the group who hal been out all night, and were chill ani wet and hungry, sat down and be jan mastication. AU that scone,came back to us when ou Sabbath nvrnia,?; 7 .?mber, 1SS9, just outside the -reins ol a iv mt Tiberias and within sound of the r.ipphng Galilee, we breakfasted. Now, it is not strange that the Bible im? agery is so inwrought iron the fisheries vtoen the Holy Laud is, for the most part, sa inland region? Only three lakes-two be? sides the one already mentioned-aameiy, the Dead Sei, where'fish cannot live at ali, and as soon as they touch it they die, and tte birds swoop on their tiny carcasses, and toe Aird, the Fools of Heshbon, which axe alternately full and dry. Only three rivers of the Holy Land-Ja book, Kishon and Jor? dan. .About all the fish now ia the waters of the fle?y Lan i are the perch, the carp, the bream, the minnow, the blenny, tho barbel iso called because of the barb at its mouth), die c?ub, the dogfish, none of them worth a jDelaware shad or an Adirondack trout. "Weil, the world's geography has changed, aa i the world's bid "of fare has changed. ' "Laie Galilee was larger and d*>eper and Pet? ter stocked than now, and no doubt the rivers were deeper and tbe fisheries were of far more importance then than now. Besides that, there was the Mediterranean . Tea only thirty -five miles away, and fish were salted or dried and brought inland, ?nd so much of that ar tide of food was sold in Jerusalem that a fish market gave the maneto one of the gates of Jerusalem near by, cad it was called the fish gate. The cities had great reservoirs ia which fish were kept ahve and bred. The pool of Gibeon was a fisa pool. Isaiah and Solomon refer to fish pools. Large fish were kept aove and tied fast by ropes to a stake ia. these reservoir?, a ring having been run through their gills, and that is the meaning of the. Scripture passage which says, "Canst thoa peta hooi into his nose or bore his jaw ttrrocgh with a thorn." Sohnportant was the fish that the god Dag OP, worshtpei by the Philistines, was made batt fish and half man, and that is the meaning of the Lord's ioiigoatioa when in I Samuel we read that this Da^on, the fish cod, stood beside the ark of the Lord, and Dagon wss by invisible hands dashed to pieces because the Poi listines had dared to make the fish a god. That explains the Scripture passage, ?'Tnebeadof Dagonand both th* palais of his hands were cat off up? on the threshold; only the stump of Lagon was left to him." Now, the stump of Dagoa was the fish part. The cop parc, which was the figure of a man, was das he i to pieces, and the Lord, by demolishing every thing bot the stump or fish part of the idol, prac firefly "You may keep your fish, but know from the way I' have demolished the rest of the idol that it is nothing divine." La ya rd and Wilkinson found the fish an object; of idolatry all through Assyria and JSgypt. The Nile was tull of fisb, and that explains the horror? of the plague that slaughtered the fi any tribe all up and down that river, woicn has been and is now the main artery of Egypt's life. In Joh you bear the plunge ot tue spear into the hip? popotamus as the great dramatic poet cries out, 4iCanst thoa fill his skin with barbed irons or his head with fish spears?' Yea, the fish began to swim in the very first book of Genes'S, where my text records, "And God said. Let the waters bring forth abund? antly the moving creature that hath life." i*> you realize that the first living thing that God created was the fish? It preceded the bird, the quadrupel, the human race. The fish has priority of resi? dence over every Irvin-; thing. The next thing done after God had kindled for our world the golden chandelier of the sun and toe silver chandelier of the mooa was to make the fish. The first motion of the principle of life, a principle that all the thousands of years since have not been able to define or analyze-the very first stir of Hie-was in a fish. What en hour that was when in the Eu? phrates, the Gihon, the Pison and the Hid? den, the four rivers of Paradise,the waters i-wtri?d with fins and brightened with scale?. All the attributes of the infinite God were cad ?d into action for the making ot that first fish. Lanceolate and translu? cent miracle. There is enoujh wonder in the p ate o? a sturgeon or in the cartilage of a sher-: to contouni the scientist. lt does ro*. take the umverse to prove a God. A fish does it. No wonder that Linnaeus and Cuvier and Agassiz and the greatest minds o. all the centuri is sat enraptured before its anatomy. Oh. its beauty an 1 the adapte Ines* of its structure to th ? elem .Mt in waic i it must Lvc: the picture gallery on tue sides of the moantaia trout uaveile 1 as they spring up ?.> snatca the flies; the grayling, called the fl >wer of fishes; tue salmon, ascending the oregon an 1 the Severn, easily leaping the falls that would stop them; tue bold perch, tbefcuigeon. silver*ani black spotted; the herrinsr. moving ia squadrons five miles loo?; '"Vicirp, for cunamg calie? the fos or fiches: the wondrous sturgeon*, formerly reserved for the tables of royal families,and the isinglass made out of their membr ii the tench, callel the physician of fishes, be? cause when applied to haman ailments it is said to be curative; the lampreys, so tempt? ing to the epicurean that too man v of them dew Henry II-aye, the whole "orld of fishesI Enough of them floating up and dov; a the rivers to feed the hemispheres if every ear of corn an i every bead of wheat and everv herd of quadruped an i if everv other article of food in all the earth were destroyed. Universal drought, leaving not so much a-; a spear of grass on the round planet, would leave in the rivers aa i la ces and seas for the human race a staole om-no iity o: fo-> I which, if brought te shore, won! 1 be enough not only to feed but fatten the entre human race. Ia times to come the world may b> so populated that the harvest and viuevar ls and land animals may be insu?cient to feed toe human family, and tbs nations miy b* oblige! toc?me to tue rivers aad o.:eaa beaches to seer the livia; ht"vesb< th*.-, sw?m the deep, ani that w >u! 1 ms xi m >re heilb ani vig>r ail briitUicy ail brita thin the hum in race no v >w >. The LerJ, by p?aciog thsdsh iu th i first eoj:rseof the menu ia paradise, taaziag preeade bird and b?\s% indicated to the world the imo">rtauee of the fisn a* an article o' hu nan foo J. Tbe reason that mea ?o-i women Uralthrao ant r'ouraui fivt* ani nine har>a ire I years wa> be-du;e they were keot o i parc re I co a aa I ash. We mix up a fantastic fo)t tait kill the mis!; ol us before thirty ye irs ol age. Cus? tards aol whipped s?iabu Js and Bornan punches an! chicken salads at midnight ai a gantlet that few hara strath to ruo. We put on many a tombstone gio wir epithets saying that the petina beneath die bf patriotic servie is or froni exaa dstioti i rehgipus.work whe?.nothinr. killed tb)a pei f ello w.but lobster eaten at a~pari;y four hoii after he ought to (have b?en sound asleep i qed. There aire meq to-day in our streets s many walking hospitals who might ha*i been athletes if they had taken the hint < Genesis \n my text and . of oar Lard's r> mark and adhered to simplicity of diet. .The reason that thacountry districts ha\ furnished most of the men. and woman c pur tima w?o are doing; tba, mightiest wor in. merchandise, in. machan ic? in' law, i medicine*. in theology, in legislative an congressional halls; and all the pr?sident from Washington down-at least those wa have amounted to anything-is bsaattsetue were in those country districts of neees3ttj keot on ptain diet! No man or wo nan ever am?rrate i to any thing who was brought up oa floitiug isl?n or angel cake: Tue world must turn bad to paradisiac diet if it is td get jaaraiisia morals ?ni parad siiac health. The humai race tooday neals more phosphorus, and th fish is charged an i surcharge! with phos phorus-phosphorus,.. that wt?ich sainas ii the dar* without burning. Wnatmale thi twelve apostles su iii stat wart man that they could endure anyfehia? and athieye everything? Next; to divida in spiratioo, it was because thav wara neirljj all fisherman and lived on fisS and a few plain condiments: Paul, thou rh not broach! up to swin; the net and throw the lin?; mus? ol necessity have adoptai the diet of ctn popuatton amour whom ha live!, and yo; .-ea tne ph ?phoras ia his daring plei bator Felix, an t toe ph>spnrus in nis baldest o? ail u:t?raucas before tua wisicres on Mar Hill, an i the phosphorus as he went withou frignt to his .beheading, and the phosphors yo? see in the lives ot all the apostles wb< moved right on undaunted to ce?rteti.n martyr dom. whether to be decapitated or fldng ofi precipices or hung in crucifixion: Phosphorus, shining in the dark without burning: No man or woman that ever liv? was independent of questions of diet ?el those who by circumstances are com pellet to simplicity of diet thank God for their res cue from the temptation of kiUuv delica? cies. The men and women who are to de cide the drift of the Twentieth Century, which is only seven or eight steps off, ar? now five, miles back from the rail station and hal for breakfast this morning a similar bill of fare to that which Christ provided for the fishermen disciples on the banks of Lake Galilee. Indeed the only articles of fool that Christ by mirada multiplied wara bread and ash which tba boy who acted as sutler to the "OOO persons of the wilderness handel over -five barley loaves ant two fishes. The joy must have felt ba Hy when called on tD rive up the two fishes which h* had brought mt after having caught them himself, sit? ing with his bare feat over the bank of the ake and expecting t isell his supply at go 3d profit, but he felt better when by the mira? ge the fish 'were multiplied ?? i ha h id more returned to him than he had surren 1?re i. Know also in order to understand the chthyology of the Bible that in the deeper ?Taters, as those of the Mediterranean, there vera monsters that are now extinct; Th a 'cols who become infidels because they can lot understand the ingulf ment of the recre? mt Jonah in a sea monster might ha va aved their souls by studying a little natural lis tory. **0h," says some one, "that story if Jonah was only a fable." Say others! 'It was interpolated by some writer of later ?mes." Others say: "It was a reproduc? ion of the story of Hercules devoured and ;hen restored from tha monster.'' But my reply is that history tells us that there wera nonsters large enough to whelm ships. The extinct ichthyosaurus of other ages iras thirty feet long, and as late as the Sixth Uentury of the Christian era up and down ?ie Mediterranean there floated monsters ?mpared with which a modern whale was i sardine or a herring. The shark has again md again been found to swallow a man en ire. A fisherman on the coast of Turkey ?band a ssa monster which contained a wo? llan and a purse of gold. I have seen in nuseums sea monsters large enough to take town a prophet. But! nave a better reason for believing lie Old Testament account, and that is that Christ said it was true an i a type of His >wu resurrection, and L suppose He ought o know. In Matthew xii, 40, Jesus Christ ays, "Foras Jonas was three days and bree nights in the whale's belly, so shall he Son of Man be three days and three tights in the heart of the earth." And that ettles it for me an i for any man who does lot believe Christ a dupe and an imposter. Notice also how the Old Testament writers brew similitude from the fisheries. Jeremiah tses such imagery to prophesy destruction, .Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith he Lord, and they shall fish them." Ezekiel ?ses fish imagery to prophesy prosperity; Mt shall come to pass that the fishers shall tand upon it from Engedi eran to E ieg aim; there shall be a place t-> spread forth lets; their fish shall ba ac3or ling to their dads, as the tish of the great sea, exceeding nany." the explanation of which is that inge ii anl Eaeglaim stool on the banks if the Dead s aa, in the waters of which io fish caa liv-, but tba prophet says that he time wdi c J.ne when thesa witers will >e regenerated, and they will be great placas br fish. Amas reproves idolatries by say nr. "The day shall came upon you when ie will take you away with hooks an i your >osterity with fishhooks." Solomon, in Ecclesiastes, declares that those captured of lemntation ara as fishes taten in an evil let." Indeed Solomon knew all abaut the inny tribe and wrote a. treatise on icathy >loey which has been lost. Furthermore, in order that you may un? terstand the ichthyology of the Bible, you nust know that thera were five ways of ishing. Ons was by a fence of reeds and ame, within which the fish were caught. But the Kerodic government forbade that on Lake Galilee, less pleasure boats be wreckel by the stakes driven. Another mode was by spearing, the waters of Galilee so clear gool aim could be taken for the transfixing. An? other was by hook and line, as where Isaiah says, "The fishers also shall mourn, and they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament." And Job says, 44Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook?" And Habak? kuk says, "They take up all of them with the angle." Another mode was by a casting net 01 that which was flung from the shore; an? other, by a dragnet or that which wa tnrflwn Trom a boat an ! drawn through the 5?a as the fishing smack sailed on. How wonderful all this is inwrought into the Bib'e imagerv and it leads me to ask in which mole are you and I fishing, for the church ts the boat, and the gospel is the net, and tbe sea is the world, an i th?? fish are the souls, and God addresses us as He did Simon and Andrew, savin?, "Follow Me, anl I will make you fishers of men." But when is the best time to fish for sou's? In the nierht. Peter, why did you sav to" Christ, '.We have toiled alt the night and have taken nothing?" Why din vou not fish in the day? time? He replies, 44You ought to know that the night is the be-?t time for fishing" At Tobyhanna Mills, among the moun? tains of Pennsylvania, I siw a friend with high Soots an 1 fis ling tac'cle startin x out it 9 o'clock at nish*, and I sai f, "Wher?ara ron goins?*' He an-swered, "Gain?, to fish." 11'.Vhat, in thentghtr Heanswarel. **Ye?, n th^ ni?ht." So tha vast majority of souls .auturel for God ora taken in times of re r,val in tue nigh: meetings. They might dst as well come at 13 o'clock at noon, but nost of them will n at. Ask the evin?elists if olden tim?.?, ask Finney, ask Nettleton, isk Oso>rt?. ri<? Dmiel Biker.anl thea ask ii the mo./ r?-n evangelists which is the best ima to gather souls, an 1 they will answer, ?The night; by all olds, the night."' Not inly the natural night, but the night of ;rouble. Suppose I zo aroun 1 in this audience and isk these Curistians when they wore convert? ed to God. Ope would answer. "I was at tha time 1 lost my cbi'.d by membranous croup, md it was the night of beraavament," or t ie answer'.rould b?, "It was just attar I was swindled outo! my properly.and it was the ni^ht of bankruptcy," or it woul 1 be, "lt was during that tim; when I was down wj?h that awful sickness,and it was the night r>f ffiftsicai suff ^rins:," or it would be, "It was that time when slander took after me. and ? was maligned and abused, au i it was the uight of parsecution." Ah. m7 hearers, that is the tim 3 for you to go after souls, when a night of trouble is on them. Miss not that opportunity to save a sou), for it is the best of all opportunities. Go up along the Mohawk, or the Juniata, ar the Delaware, or the Tombigbee, or the St. Lawrence right after a raio, and you wiil find the fisherman all up and down the lake?? Wiiy* Bacause a good time to angle is right after t..? rain, and that is a good time to catch souls, right after a shower of misfortune, right after floods of disaster. And as a pool overshadowal with trees is a grand place for making a fina haul of fish, so when the soul is under the long dark shadows of anxiety and distress it is a good time to make a spiritual haul. People in I the bright sunshine of prosperity are not BO j easily taken. But be sure I 'ore you start out to th9 , gcsoel fisheries to get the ri?ht kind of bait. ,lBut how/' you say, "am I to get it?" My j wswer is. "Dig tor it." "Where shall 1 j ..ig for it?' "in rae rici Bible grounds." We boys brough! up in the country had to iig for bit*, before we started fer tha bauks ; af the Raritan We put the sharp edge of j tn* spa le against the ground and then put ? aur foot on the saade, and with ooe tremen- j iou s plunge c>; om* strength of b^dy and wiu we drov3 it. JU up to the han Ile an 1 then turne I over tha so t. We ha I never read Waltoa's "Complete Angler," or Charles Cotton's *'Instructions How to Angle for G.-ayling in a Clear Stream.n Vve knew nothing about the mod? ern, red hackle or the fly of orauge colored mohair; but v*e got the right kin I of bait. No ilse try big td angle fdr tish err augie for souls unless jori have the right kind df baity and there i$ plenty bf it id the promises,- the parables, the. miracles; the crucifixion, the heaven of the grand old gospel. Yes, not only must you. dig for bait; bu't use oniy fresh bait-' , You cannot do any? thing down at the pond with old angle? worms.' New viewspf truth. New views of God. New views of the sou'. There are all the good books to help you dig. But make up your mind as to. whether you will take the hint of Habukkuk aol Isaiah and Job and use hook and line, or take tae hint of Matthew and Luke and Christ and fish with a net.' I think many lose their tim's by Wanting to fi sn with ? net, arid they never get a! place to swiog the net. In other words; they want to do gospel wori on a big scale or they witt not do it at ali; I see feeble minded Chris? tian men going around with a Bagster'? Bible under their arm; hoping tb db the work of an evangelist and use the uer, while they might be better centerit wita hoek and line and take one soul at a time. They are bad failures as evangelists. They would be mighty successes as private Ciristiaus. If you catch only one soul for God, that will be enough to fifi your eternity with celebration. All hail, the fisherman with hook and line! w . I have, seen a mari in roughest corduroy outfit come back from the" woods loaded dbwa with a string dc finny treasures hung over his shoulder and his gamebar filled; anda dd; with his teeth carrying the basket Sile I with th 3 surplus of au af ternoon's angling, an 1 it was all the res lit of a honk and line, and ia the eteraal wori t there will be many a maa aa 1 m my a woman taat was never heard of oucside of a village Sun? day-school or a prayer me?tinr bur ie I in a church base neat who will come before the throne oe Gad with a mnltitule of souls ransomed throdgh his or her instru? mentality, and yet tba work all r done through personal interview, ou9 by one; .me by oae. Yon do not know who that Pae soul may be. Staupitz helpei one soul i ato the light,* but it was Marcia Lutaer. Thomas Bilney brought salvation to one soul, but it was Hugh Latimer. An edge tool maker was the means of saving oas soul, but it was John Summerfield. Oar blessed Lord healed one blind eye at a time, one paralyzed arni at a time, brie dropsical patient at ? time; and raised from' the dead one girl at a time; one young maa ?t a tira?; Admire the net that takes in a great niany at once, but dd hot despise the hook and line: God help Us am1 td the gospel fisheries; whether we employ hook or net, for the day cometh wuen we shall see how much de perided On our fidelity; Christ Himself de? clared: "The kingdom of heaven is like unt? a net that was cast into the sea and gathered of every kin f; which, when it was full, they drew to shore and sat do wa and gathered the good in the vessels; but cast the bad away: So shall it be at the end of the world-the angels shall come forth arid separate the wicke I fro" ii the just." Yes; the fishermen thirik it bast td keep the useful and worthless of the haul in the same net until it is drawa upoa the beach* and thea the division takes place, au 1 if it is oa Loag Island coasc tne mossbarikers are thrown out au i the blueish an I shad pre; served, or if it is oa the snore of Galilee che fish classified as si/uroiis are hurle I back into the water or thrown do on tfie bans as unclean, while th2 p?rea aa I tae carp and the barbel are pac iuto pails to be carried home for use. Soin the church on earth the saiatsand th9 hypocrites, th? generous aa 1 the mean, tbe caaste aad the unclean, are kept ia the same membership, bu: at death the division will be made, and the good will be gathered, to heaven, aad the bad, however many holy communions they may aave celebrated, aad however many raeterical prayers they may have offered, aad however maay years their names may nave been on the church rolls, will be cast away. Gol forbid that any of us should be among the "cast away." But may we do our work, whether small or great, as thoroughly as dia taat reno wael fisherman, George W. Bethune, who spent his summer res: angling in the waters around the Tcousand Isl6s and beating at their own craft those who plied it all the year, aa i who the rest of his rims gloriously preached Christ in a pulpit only fifteen minutes from where I no.v stand,and ordering for his own obsequies: 'Tut on me my pulpit gown and baaas, with my own pocket Bible ia my right haad. Bury me with my mother, my father aad my grand? mother. Sing also my own hymn: ..Jesus, Thoa prince of life! Thy chosen cannot die; Like Thee, they conquer in the strife, To reign with Thee on higa." The Mexican's Courage. "The Mexican is not usually a trained fighter, but he doesn't lack courage," said George S. Smith. "He will take more punishment than any white man living before admitting that he is whipped. He is a mixture of Spaniard and Indian, and inherits thc reckless dar? ing of the one and the stoicism of the other. The bravest deed I ever witnessed was one performed by a Mexican some years ago at Durango. A menagerie was exhibiting in the town, and a large, fierce leopard escaped from its cage and went bounding down the principal street. A child about two years old was playing on the curbstone and clapped its hands with glee as the beautiful beast came bounding toward it. Everybody was skurrying for a place of safety, when a rather handsome young Mexican came around the corner. The child was mid? way between him and thc leopard, and both advanced toward it, eying each other. When a dozea feet distant the leopard crouched for a spriug, but the Mexican was too quick for it. He sprang forward, caught up the child, threw it behind him. drew his long knife, and advanced on the leopard. The latter beat the pavement with its tail, and made aa ugly hissing sound like that of a monster house cat. I expected to see it spring upon the Mexican, but it did not. When his antagonist was within a dozen feet of him the leopard sprang across the street, and with a low growl trotted off."-[St. Louis Globe-Demo? crat. PBOMINENT PEOPLE. CLEVELAND wears a 7% hat. MGR. SATOLLTS title is ''His Excellency.* THE Czar of Russia personally spend* about $10,000,000 a year. QUEEN VICTORIA'S annual visit to the continent costs about $?5/000. SWINBURNE has written an ode concern? ing the Chicago World's Fair. THE full nam* of the Populist Governor ot Kansas is Loraine Demosthenes Le wel? ling. IT was Sir William Harcourt who first be? stowed upon Gladstone the title of "Grand O.d Man." HARRISON received during his term of cilice as President, for salary and allow? ances, the sum of S376,SQ0. THE late ex-President Hayes was wounded four times during the war, once almost fatally, and had three horses killed under bim. LORD WOLSELEY is credited with a de? sire to be Governor-General of Canada. Just now he commands Her Majesty's trcops in Ireland. A DECREE is officially published announc? ing tbe removal ot' the name of !>r. Cornelius Herz, the Panaaiiteur, from the roil of the Legion of Honor. EDWARD H. PAYSON, of Salem, Mass., ha? filled the positson of (.'ashier in one bank for sixty-seven years. He is ninety years old, end has just resigned his position. THE Crown Prince of Roumania's allow, ance has been fixed at $120,003 a year, half of which is to come from his country and the other half frere nis uncle, King diaries. IT is proposed that ex-President Hayes's .portrait be placed on the Government Treasury notes before many months. The faces of Grant and Garfield have beeu so used. THE late Bishop Phillips Brooks bad a private business arrangement with a Boston photographer by which a royalty was paid on each photograph of his that was sold, the proceeds to be devoted to mission purposes. CLEVELAND is the only honorary member of the Sigma Ch: College Society. The initia? tion took place at his office ia New York City. Rev. Dr. Gessler and Alfred Taylor gave him the grip of recognition and the traternity pin. EX-GGVERNOR J. M. THAYER, of Ne? braska, who created susi a sensation two years ago by refusing to allow Governor iioyd to take possession of the office, J - being sheltered by a poor soldier in tbe suburbs of Lincoln. He is penniless. SENATOR DAVIS, of Minnesota, is almost blind in one eye, and the trouble had a curi? ous origin, ile was exposed to the steady g?ari- or an eleciric iight for two boors while making a campaign speech. The opt ic- nerve was injured, a oold ensued, and paralysis ol the uer ve resulted. Hope. What wilt thoa do when faith is fie I And hope is dead And love's wing broken ? Wilt thou lie in the grave of the past and sleep While the mourners weep At? sad rites are spoken ? 3?aj; nay-fare forth,- though the night be black And ih? stof m's red f sci intn'e?ty?s burning; Fof the sun shines somewhere, from gloom" released. , And the heart of the East For the day is yearning. -[Harriet Monro* FOILED. There is a kind off half way condi? tion,- in which we may be said to be neither a?vake iior asleep* conscious nor fin6011 s?io?-J-asleep eno?gh to dream, and awake e?ong?? to kilo*? we dream". At such tittles we hear Sounds,-as it were, with a double sense -a sense Of reality and a sense Of fancy; Sucli was my condition On the efe of an oient tli?t will ever be mcmor abl? in my history. I had gone to spend ? few d?ys witH au rinclej Hy? ing iii the Wes?er?i ??art of r^eiit?syl vania? ? had reached his dwelling late iii the dar< after ? kug{ fatiguing rid?, and had retired to- rest?t an earty hottr. 1 had fallen asleep quick* ly, and for a lime had slept soundly * brit had at length reached that inter? mediate state, between the trodd of dreams and the world of reality* which I have attempted to describe; It Was then that iriy waking sense he?rd the noise of some One slowly and gently pushing Open the door of mt apartment and gliding with a soft and stealthy treads and my sleeping fancy showed nie a h?ge panther creeping cautiously over the dry leaves and through the slightly rnstling bushes, to pounce tipofi a deer drinking at a clear and beautiful spring. Suddenly the panther made his spring and struck the deer, and at the same instant I was startled info clear consciousness by hearing a sound as of some person in the room striking his foot against a chair. I sprung np in bed and looked around in bewilder? ment. "Where was I? I could not remember. The window being the only object X could clearly perceive, I stared at that, and tried to recollect where I was and what had happened to bring me there. It was a painful effort, for my whole system seemed enervated by a strange dread, and the perspiration caine out of nae in beads. I believe there are few things more trying to the nerves than just such a situation of body and couditioti of mind, and 1 do not think I ever suf? fered more from a fearful uncertainty than during the few moments I re? mained in that torturing perplexity. At length, like a ray of sunlight struggling through the obscuriug mists, I caught the remembrance of leaving home; and then, in an instant, all the incidents of the day flashed upon my miud, and I knew myself to be under the roof of my uncle's dwell* ing and in au appartment where I had never slept before. So far all was well; but what were those sounds that had so strangely mingled with my waking and sleeping perceptions, aud had at last aroused me with such a peculiar sensation of impending evil? Were they mere fancies? or had some midnight robber or assassin stole into my room and concealed him? self near my bcd, or under it, ready to execute his wicked design at the first safe opportunity? The very thought of this latter made me shudder, and I was tempted to call aloud for help; and only the fear of being ridiculed for my temerity, in case nothing sinister should be dis? covered, deterred me. What should Ido? Should I get out of bed and search the apartment in thc dart (for unfortunately I liad no means of strik? ing a light) and thus risk putting my? self in the power of the unkuown? or should I lie down and pretend to sleep, but keep all my scuses on the alert? I decided upon the latter course; and affecting to yawn, iu a drowsy, stupid maimer, I threw my? self back upon the pillow, and in a short time pretended to snore. There it was, as I lay with my eye? wide open and my hearing on the stretch, I saw the figure of a man, Blowly and cautiously rise up from the foot of my bed, between me and the window, and there stand for some seconds, as if listening and consider? ing. I waa frightened, I confess. Cold chills went over me, and my hair seemed to stand on end. What did it mean, unless robbery or murder, and perhaps both? And what should I do? Keep quiet and watch him, till certain of his evil intentions? or spring up and give thc alarm at once? and per? haps get shot, slabbed, or throttled for doing so. ile was rather over medium fdze, and I somewhat under, and I had reason to believe I was no match for him in physical strength. While I >v;is thus considering I saw him make a slight movement and caught the glimmer of a light just in tims to CIO?C my ryes before it stream? ed upon my face from a dark l?utern. 1 Was evidently not the person he sought, for in a moment or two the light was shut off, and I saw him turn and leave thc room with a stealthy step. Where was he going now, and for what wicked purpose, and what was the proper course for me to pur? sue uuder the clrcum6tauces? Surely not to remaiu there, trembling like a coward, while a midnight robbery, if not murder, was being perpetrated! I hastily arose, half dressed my? self ami glided oui of the room after him. Ai the end of a passage or cor- 1 ridor. 1 fancied I heard a door pushed j ^I. >w 1 y OJM'II, ont} of the hinges | making a very slight grui ing sound, only audible to a keen listener, as 1 was at thal moment, 1 advanced with a cat-like step, and now fhi felt I was about to surprise instead being surprised, my blood quicke with a boldness I was far from ? ing a few moments before. On reaching the door, which villain had left open to favor his c retreat, I paused and listened, ht ing my breath. I could barely 1 the soft, stealthy step of the fellov he moved slowly forward in room, and also the long regt breathing of the sleeper, which ? u supposed to be my uncle, who, bein widower, was probably sleep a?one; thatlgh he bad two sons in house. What could the burglar tend-robbery or murder? Jf the ? mer* wlty had lie not attempted search my clothes while in my cha ber? And if the latter, perhaps it wat Watchful providence that had brou; me iuto a position to prevent it surprising bim at the critical mom and giving the alarm. Besides : uncle, my two cousins and my se there Were two servants iu the m; sion, one of the latter a young,athle fellow, 30 that I bad hojees of secttri the intruder by timely aid in case should not prove strong enough overpower him alone. My une however, Was turned of 60, and sdcli delicate health that for tin months be had not attended the cou of which he had been the presid? judge for several years, and of com I expected little or uo assistance frc him^-nny main dependence being up myself and others, whom I hoped get upon the scene in time. As I remained listening, and co sidering all the chances for and agait me in the sudden attack I had resolv to make, I heard a slight click, a: saw a gleam of light thrown upon t bed from the dark lantern of the v lain, who stood near the foot of and between me and the sleeper, ti light beyond giving his dark figure bold relief. To get a distinct view < the face of the sleeper he now a? vanccd along the side of the bed wi great caution, shading thc light wi his hand; and to be ready te take hi: at a sudden advantage, in case 1 should turn, I stoic iu after him, an came close np behind him withoi being discovered. I now perceived it was indeed m uncle who lay there asleep, his fa< turned toward the side where tl villain stood, who, as well as I con] judge from a partial view of hi features, was regarding him with a expression of fiendish hale. He ha evidently found th? person he sough aud was prepared to perpetrate one c the darkest crimes known to the lau If robbery had entered into Iiis calci iations, it bad taken a secondary plac -murder was the first, and that of particular individual, for the specif purpose of revenge. As I now stood close behind him excited to a degree that made me fee as if a giant's strength had entere into my slender frame, I saw hiu thrust his hand into his bosom am produce a loug, formidable butcher knife, which he elevated over tb sleeper, with the unmistakable inteu tion of plunging it into his neck o breast. Now was my time to act-for an other moment might be fatal to nvj kinsman-and with loud yells o "Murder! murder! help! help!" '. clutched him by the throat and jerkec him backward with all my might This staggered him aiound and ncarlj overthrew him, and before he conk recover from his surprise and regait his equilibrium, I struck him thret times in the face with my fist anc kicked him once in the stomach, doubling him over forward and send? ing him down with a heavy crash, his knife in one hand and his lantern in the other. Still shouting murder and help, alternately, I now, by a most happy impulse, turned, dragged the clothes from my uncle's bcd, threw them over the assassin's head, as lie was attempting to rise, and then beat him backward with a chair, and en? deavored to twist them about his neck and arms, and so entangle him that he could not use his knife and might be easily secured. I hart just succeeded in doing this when my cousins appeared upon the scene, in a terrifically excited condi? tion, and the whole house rang with alarm. As it was now dark in the room, the lantern beiug buried with the villain nuder the clothes, I shout? ed to one of my kinsmen to produce a light, and told the other to take a chair and beat thc struggling object on the floor as long as he should find any resistance or movement. In a short time wc had* tho villain secured aud so tightly bound hand and foot that he might as well have been a dead man, for any power lie possessed to help himself,or to do any one au injury, and thcu I related to a group of excited listeners all that I knew of thc mysterious aud terrible artair. "Edward,*' cried my uncle, grasp? ing my hand and speaking in a voice half choked with einoli' "I do be? lieve the good God sent, you here to? night to save mo from an awful death, and my gratitude for my deliverance is more than I can express; but why anyone should have sought to murder me I cannot conceive, as 1 have always aimed to clo justice to all, and till now was not aware that I had a malicious enemy on carty.w ?'Well, PH tell you, then, you old gray-headed scoundrel," growled the ruffian, as lie lay writhing on the fioor and gnashing his teeth. "You once had it in your power when sit? ting on the bench to send me to the ? penitentiary for any term from three years up to ten, and you made it all ilio law would !cf yon. I swore then if ever 1 got ont and yoi a. chance I'd cul your heart out. and 1\1 a done it tonight if it hadn't, been for this young, meddling fool!" .?Well, your confessed wickednc only proves ? was right in giving y< the full extent of the law," rejoin my uncle5 "and if I am noe great mistaken, you will be perfectly han less when the law shall hare do: with you for the present offense, ? though in this case I shall not sit judgment on you, I have reason to b lieve your sentence will be for life." Itwas; and nine years after, tl villain I had so providentially capturi on that eventful night, breathed li last within the walls of his prison. - [New York News. Jay Gould and the Farmer. "I remember ouce a stop in Bu tl County, Kansas," says a railroad en ployee of the late Jay Gould. "Tl afternoon was awfully hot, but as th; al ways-present breeze was bio win over the prairie, Mr. Gould steppe out for some air. He stood in Hi shade at one end of the depot talkiu with an old farmer. The farm? looked longingly at the private a and finally said to Mr. Gould: " ?Be you lidia' in that car?1 " 'Yes,' replied Mr. Gould. "Course you see Jay Could, then " 'Yes, sometimes,' " 'I s'pose be keeps pur i y select an don't mix much. What kind of lookin' feiler is be?' '.Mr. Gould evasively inquired i his questioner had not seen Jay Gould as he had been througn there seven times. *' 'No, 1 never seen him,"eontinue the farmer. ?But I'd just like tc D'ye s'pose he'd give a feller a chane to speak to him? Ain't he stucK upi "The anxious mau was assured tua Mr. Gould often talked with citizen along his road. " ?Can't yer fix lt for me?' earnest!; inquired the man. "Mr. Gould smiled a little at this but he did not have the disposition l carry out the joke and reveal himself Our train was ready to leave, and lu excused himself and stepped on th platform. He shook hands with hi new acquaintance. "The station agent knew Mr. Gould and as soon as the train moved he to ii the man to whom he had been talking Mr. Gould disappeared in the car will just a faint smile ou his face, watched the station. I never saw 2 more dumbfounded man than tba farmer. He stepped into the centre 0: the track, and with both bands in bil pockets, legs spread apart, moutl open and hat on the back of his head bc gazed in amazement at the depart ing train. "The station agent afterwards tole rae that for miles around that man'* talk with Jay Gould was a household story. The Motto on the Clock. The following accouut of the origin of a well-known motto for a time? piece, whether true or false, is worth recordiug: Some years ago a new clock was made to be placed in Temple Hall, says the Manchester Times. When finished the clockmaker was desired to wait on the benchers of the Temple, who would think of a suitable motto to put under the cloch. He applied several times, but with? out getting the desired information, as they had not determined on the in? scription. Continuing to importune them, he at last came when the old benchers were met in the Temple Hall and bad just sat down to dinner. The workman again requested to be informed ot the motto. One of the benchers, who thought the application illtimed, and who was fonder of eal? ing and drinking thau inventing orig? inal mottoes, testily replied: "Go about your business." The mechanic, taking this for an answer to his question, went home and inserted at thc bottom of the clock, "Go about your business," and placed it on the Temple Hall to the great sur? prise of the benchers, who, upon con? sidering the circumstances, agreed that accident had produced a better motto than they could think of, and ever since the Temple clock has continued to remind the lawyers and the public to go about their business. Singular Ice Beds of tho Columbia. lu Washington a coulee is a ravine that a river has worn for itself and then abandoned for another course. The coulees of the Columbia River arc immense ravines worn out of the basaltic rock with perpendicular walls on either side from 1000 to 1500 feet high. Through this region the Great Northern Railroad runs. Not long ago an Indian approached a gang of railroad laborers working in Salmon Coulee with a great piece of ice wrapped in a blanket, which he of? fered for sale. Tue workmen insti? tuted a search in the direction from which he had come and K>on found a cold stream trickling through thc shell rock, and further up thc ice beds were found. They were formed among the masses of shell rock by the melt ino" of snow in winier, the water run? ning down among the rooks and freez? ing at night. Iee remains there per? petually and in large quantities. The most singular feature that the spot is only 500 feet above the sea, and the gun beats with intense heat upon the rocks upon the ice, which is also ex? posed to warm draughts of air through the crevices, yet thc ice never melts. Witnessing French Executions. Public executions In Paris prove very profitable to the owners of houses commanding the scene. Win? dows are let out for the occasion, the landlords watching for the first ?ign of the execution and then at once sending word to the persons who have hired thc room ff ;.n ordinary crim? inal is executed the charge is usually about ?4 per place, but should thc of fcudoc have committed any remarka? ble crime ( he price runs up lo $30. ["( 'hicago Time?. i A BUFFALO FARM. The Unique Enterprise of a Ne? braska Man. Largest Herd of Pure Blooded Bisons in Existence? Five miles from this city, says an Omaha letter to the New York Eec order, may be seen on the C. J. Jones farm, a herd of clumsy-looking beasts, with dark brown hides, shading away to yellow, with long hair, short horns and fierce1" gleaming eyes. They are American bisons, curiosities even on these hills, which only a few years airo, shook with their tread. There are sixty in the herd, and Jum? bo is the monarch. Plainsmen, who have slaughtered his kinsmen by the hundreds, say they never saw a finer animal. He weighs 3000 pounds; his brown beard nearly sweeps the ground; his strong black horns are almost lost in a magnificent crest of silky brown nair, and his shoulders are level with the head of a tall man. "Devilish Dick," as he is called is al. most as fine a specimen, but there is a vicious gleam in his eye which pre? vents avery close inspection of his points. Four years ago one of the cowboys came a little too near this tremendous brute, and one sudden toss of the massive head sent the cow* boy to the country where there are not supposed to be buffaloes. Up to a few years ago the slaughter of the buffalo went on with reckless speed. Then came a reaction, and some few men began to think about the preservation of the species. Be? sides the Omaha herd there are a few others in captivity. Mr. Chas. Allard, in the Flathead Indian reservation, Montana, has thirty-seven head. Buf? falo Bill's Wild West show numbers among its attractions a herd of thir? teen bufialoes subject to so many dan? gers from disease and accident that very little eau be hoped from it in the way of perpelualiug the species. Mr, Chas. Goodnight of Clarendon, Tex., has nine head. lu the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens there are eight? lu Lincoln Park, Chicago, there are six head, aud in half a dozen other places there are held groups of two and three and several single animais. Mr. Jones r ide his first effort to preserve the species in 1873. On the Solomon River in Western Kansas he captured seven calves, which he sub? sequently sold. He went on expedi? tions to the fast-receding haunts of the animals each year afterward until 1888, and the herd now at Omaha is a testimonial to his courage, skill and pluck in the chase. Every one of the adult animals was run down, lassoed and tied with his own hands. From this herd "Buffalo" Jones now secures three or four full-blooded buffalo calves each year, and a number of half-breeds-"c?talo," he calls them. The hybrid product of the buffalo and Galloway cattle is a magnificent animal. Its robe is nearly bluet:, fine and silky in texture, and with a brilliant lustre character? istic of the Galloway cattle. For enough of one of these robes to make a coat Lady Foster, wife of Treasurer Foster of Canada, once offered Mr. Jones $300, saying she preferred it to seal. The profits of buffalo-raising are very considerable. The animal feeds cheaply, and looks after himself in all sorts of weather. His robe alone is worth the price of two good bullocks. In domestication, his meat is equ&i to any range beef. One good animal will yield each year fur sufficient to make a blanket. A taxidermist will give from $100 to $500 for bis head, and if Mr. Jones1 big bull, Jumbo, were put on the market, hs would bring $1000. The two big bulls of the Omaha herd are driven to a cart by the owner, and this novel chariot team will form one of the attractions at the World's Fair in Chicago. It Was Unexpected, Colonel Fred Graut told us this story in Vienna as one of his father's favor? ites. The circumstance occurred when General Grant was living iu Missouri on his farm. lt has never appeared in print. One day a country lad, a neighbor, who was not only clever, but made up for his slowness by bis respectable qualities, came to pay a not infrequent visit. "How's your father, Johuny?" said thc General ..Pretty well,*1 replied Johnny, with his drawl-"for him." "And your motlier?" "Pretty well-for her." .?And your brothers and sisters?" * Pretty wc'l-for 1110111.'' ??Well, Johnny, and how's youl grand mother?" Silence for thc space of a mcmeat, then -"She's dead." "Oh,"said the General, "very sorry, ve rv sorrv-rather unexpected wasn't it?,: "Well,'* admitted Johnny, "well, rather--for lier.*-[Hartford Couraut. Old Age of Andrew Jackson. Like Wallington, Jefferson and Madison, Jack-on left the White House to become a planter for the rest of his days. The Heimitage, his estate a few miles from Nashville, Tenn., was a productive plantation, cultivated by 150 slaves, who seem to have idolized their master. The broken man of seventy was very different from the self-wil ed military officer who had entered the White House eight years before. But in spite of his fating strength, Jackson was des? tined to enjoy several happy years. In Ivis old age he became intensely re? ligious, and declared that he had for? given all his enemies. Ile died quiet ly 011 June 8. Iis45, and was buried at the Hermitage, 011 the Cumberland Uiver.-[Detroit Free Pres?. i ? A Little Lore Song? The love that beams in my dearest dreams Math none of the world' 8 mad blisses; Its wayward wiles, or its splendid smilef For it comes from a wife's sweet kisses! The songs tbst flow from my lips are not The songs that I dream or render; They are roses sweet from a garden ?pot-' Kissed !>y a wife's lips tender! And not to me shall their glory be. Though the world should bow and beartti Of a song I sing, 'tis a holy thing For she taught my lips to sing it ! - ? O, storm and strife of the world's ?ad life, "When I fade from your gloom and Misses. Let my heaven above be the lips I love Sweet with a wife's sweet kisses ! -[Frank L. Stantondn Atlanta Constitution.. HUMOROUS. I Good life-preserver-Food. Man wants but little here below hit expectations. A file of police is apt to rasp the feelings of the mov The comet is practically forgotten. This is because it wasn't a hit. No meau mau bas a right to wisb he had never been born. Let other people do that for him. She-If you had never met me, would you have loved me just the same? He (convincinglg)-More. -?Is he such an unlucky man?" asked Mrs. Muggs. ?'Unlucky? "Why, that man gets toothache in his false teeth." "What's that noise upstairs?" Nel? lie is singing to kill time till her beau cornes.'' "Well, time seems to die hard, doesn't ic?" She-What did papa say when you told him you wished to marry me, dear? He-I don't remember what he did say, darling, but I know I felt hurt "Wbat are you thinking about?" he asked. "I was wondering," re? plied the precise girl, "whether the plural of foot-ball should not be feet balls." She-You are very polite to yawn so in my presence. He-My dear, husband and wife are one and the same, and when I am alone I am bored. ??Do you really care for Harry?" asked the postmaster of his daughter. "Yes, papa," replied the maiden softly. "Harry belongs to the firsts class males." When the sky is all dar* and forbidding And the ram drops incessantly pour, The joke of the stolen umbrella Doesn't cause us to smile any more. Patron-My gas bill is too much foi last month. Clerk-I don't see how that can be. Patron-Possibly not from your side of the desk, but look at it from this side awhile. "What do you mean by thrashing ' your boy without provocation?" "Well, you see, a busy mau ?ke me must discipline his children when he happens to have the time." "Could you make it convenient to lend me $100, Jack?" "I dou't know. If I should lend it to you I should be a man of some distinction." "How is that?" "One out of a hundred." Tommy-Paw, the teacher says that if a man gels dyspepsia it may make bim bald headed. Is that so? Mr. Figg-I guess so. Tommy-Then if a man et too much pie would he be pie-bald. "I say, Reginald, what are yon wearing that crush hat for? Crush hats are entirely out of style." "I know it, but I have a room in one of these modern flats and I have to economize space." Lawyer-Then I understand you to say that your bookkeeper has sys? tematically falsified his accounts, and diverted something like $10,000 to hit own use?" Client-Stolen $10,000. Nothing diverting about that, it there?" "Oh, my friends, there are some spectacles that a person never for? gets 1" said a lecturer, after giving a graphic description of a terrible acci? dent he had witnessed. "Pd like to know where they gets'em," remarked au old lady in the audience who is always losing her glasses. Flections in Mexico. "The Mexican elections are by no means as exciting as our own," said Jeff McLemore. "I was down there during their last Presidential election, and was sm prised to find that it ex? cited little popular interest In the city of Durango, which has a popula? tion of about 30,000, there was but one polling booth, and less than SOO votes were cast The Mexicaus are supposed to enjoy universal suffrage, but they don't I spent more than two years in the cactus Republic, but, notwithstanding I made several at? tempts to learn how they managed to keep objectionable votes out of the ballot-box, 1 ignominiously failed. Diaz is not a President, as we under? stand the term ; he is a dictator. The fact of the matter is, that is the only kind of government that could last a year in that country; the people are not yet capable of intelligent self-gov? ernment Diaz is progressive and has done a very great deal for Mexico. If he is a tyrant, he is the most liber? al oue known to history, for he makes education compulsory. His chief ainj seems to be to elevate his people and make them capable of self-govern? ment. It is supposed that he names all the candidates for important ofiices throughout Mexico. When it it known that the Government has ?sug? gested' a candidate, no one else thinks of entering the field. Such an act would be considered treasonable, and as there would be no possibility of the votes cast for an independent candi? date showing up in the returns, politi? cal ambition is confined to channels approved by the administration."_ (3?. Louis Globe-Democrat.