REV. DR. TALMAGE TBE BROOK LYX 1) IVIS E'S SUN? RAY SER Moy, . j T*xTK uJ3e ?00& of the stones bf thai pjhice and put them for. his pillows and lay aovn in that place ic sleep; and he dream* e*w--GenesisxxynL; lt . Asleep ob ?, pillowcase, filled with hens' feathers it is not strange one-should have pleasant dreams, bat here is a pillow Ci ^ockj and Jacob with his bead on ifc an 1 lol -?4ieam of. angels, two processions thos3 coming down the stairs met by those 20105 up the.stair?. It is the first dream of Bible record.? You may say of a dream that it is nocturnal fantasia, or that it is the absurd combination of waking thoughts, and with a shir of. intonation you may say, **It is on ?y si dream,9 bot God has honored the dream by mating it the avenue through which again and again He has marched upon the human soul, decided the fate of Cations and changed tba coarse ol the world's his torc. God appeared in a dream to Abimetec "1, warning him against an u.a lawful marriage; ?a dream to Joseph foretelling His com? ing power under tao figure of all the sheaves of the harvest bowing down to his sheaf; to Ute chief butler foretelling his diyimprisonment: to the Chief baker, an flouncing his decaoitatioc* to Pharaoh; ?showiiig bini first the seved plenty years and theil the seven" famine streck year?; un1 der the figure of the seven fat cows devour? ing the seven lean cows; to Solomon) giving Bim the choice between wisioai ah i riches and honor; to the warrior; under the figure bf a barley cake smiting down a tear; ea ^0draging Gideon in his battle against the Amelekites; to Nebuchadnezzar under th? figure bf ? broken image and ? hewn down tre$ foretelling bis overthrow of power; to Joseph of th 3- New Testament, announcing ike birth of Christ in his own household; to iiaryi bidding her fly from Herodic perse? cution*; to Pilate's wife, warning him not to become, complicated with the judicial overthrow ot Christ. t We ali admit that God in ancient times and under Bible dispensation addressed the pee ole through dreams. The question now is. Does God appear in our day and reveal Himself through dreams? That is the ques? tion everybody ask?, and that question this morning I shall try to answer. Yon ask me if I believe in dream?. My answer is I do believe m dream?, but all I have to say will be under five beans. I Remark the First-Th 9 Scriptures are so fall of revelation fromGxl that if we get j so communication from Him in dreams wa ctight nevertheless to be satisfied With 20 guidebooks to tell you how to get to Boston or Pittsburg or London or Glas? gow or Manchester, do you want a night vision to tell you bow to make the journey ? We have in this Scripture full direction in regard to the journey of this life an 1 how to get to the celestial city, and with this gran ! guidebook, this magnidcent directory, we cu ...ht to be satisfied. I have more faith in a decision to which I come when I am wide awake than when I am sound asleep. 1 have noticed that those who gave a great deal of their time to studying dreams get their brains 'idled. They are very anxious to remember what they dreamed about the first night they slept in a new bous \ If i i their dream they take the hand of a corpse; they are going to die. If they dream of a garden, it means a sepulcher. If some? thing turns oat according to a night vision, they say, 4'Well, I am not surprised. ? dreamed ir." If it tarns out dim areas from the night vison, they say, '*WeU, dreams go by contraries."7 In their efforts to pat their dreams into rhythm they put their waking thoughts into discord. Now the Bible is so fud of revelation that we ought to be satisfied if we get no further revela? tion. Sourd sleep received great honor when Adam slept so extraordinarily that the sur? gical incision which gave him Eve did not wake him, but there is no such nee 1 for ex traordiuary slumber now, and he who catches an Eve must needs ba wide awake? No need of such a dream as Jacob ha 1 with a ladder against the sky, when 10,000 times lt bad been demonstrated that earth and beaven are in communication. Nc such dream seeded as that which was given to Abimelech, warning him against an unlawful marriage, when we have the records of the county clerk's office. No need of such a dream as was given to Pharaoh about the seven years of famine, for now the seasons march in regular procession, and steamer and rail train carry breedstuffs to every famine struck Nation. No need of a dream tike that which encouraged Gideon, for all through Christendom it is announced and acknowledged and demonstrated that right; eousneas sooner cr later will get the victory If there should come about a crisis in your Ufa npoo which the Bible does not seam to be sufficient y specific, go to God in prayer, and yon will get especial direction. I have more faith 99 times oat of 109 in di? rections given yon with th? Bible in your Hap and your thoughts uplifted in prayer to Clod than in all tile information you will gat unconscious on your pillow. I can very easily understand why the Babylonians and the Egyptians, with no Bible, should put so much stress on dreams, and tba Cfrinese^iE their holy book, Chow King, should think their emperor gets his directions through dreams from God, and that Hocoer should think that all dreams came from Jove, and that rx ancient tunes dreams were classified into a science. Bat why do you and I put so mach stress upon dreams when we have a supernal book of in? finite wisdom on all subjects? Why should we harry ourselves with dreams? Why should Eddystone an 1 Barnegat ugh thous ss quotion a sommer firefly. Bernara the Second-All dreams have an important meaning. They prove that the soul is comparatively independent of the body. The eyes are dosed, the senses are dal), the entire body goes into a lethargy which in all languages is used asa type of death, and then the soul spreads its wing and never sleeps. It leaps the Atlantic Ocean and mingles in scenes 3000 miles away. It travels great reaches of time, flashes hack eighty years, and the octogenarian is a boy again in his father's house- lt the soul before it has entirely broken its chains of flesh can do all this, how far can it leap, what circles can it cat. -when it is fairy liberated. Every dream, whether agreeable or har? assing, whether sunshiny or tempestuous mean? so mach that rising from your cy 1 ;a you ought to kneel down and say : 4 'O G xl, ami immortal? Whence? Whither? Two natures. My soul caged now-what w,r-a th* door of the cagj is opened? It my soul can fly so far in the few hours in whic'i my body is asleep in tue night, how far c m it fly when my body sleeps tue long sleep of ti? grave?0 Oh, this power to drea-n, bow startling, how overwh?Lming! If prepare 1 for theafter death flight, what an enchant? ment! If not prepared for the after dejith flight, what* crushing ago .ry! Immor;v! Immortal! Remark the Thira-The vast majority of dreams are merely the resu?t o? dist urbed physical condition and are not a supernatural message. Job bad carbuncles, and he was scared in the night. He says, "Thou searest me with dreams and terri fi est me with visions." Solo mon had an overwrought brain, over? wrought with public business, and be suf? fered from erratic s.umber, and he writes in Ecclesiastes, "A dream cometh through the multitude of business." Dr. Gregory , in <3 penmen tin g with dreams, found that a bottle of bot water pat to his feet while in slumber made him think that be was going up the bot side of Mount Etna. Another morbid physician, experimenting with dreams, his feet uncovered through sleep, thought he was riding in Alpino dili? gence. But a great many dreams are mere? ly narcarcotic disturbance. Anything thai you see while ander the influence of chloral or brandy or ''hasheesh" or laudanum is not a revelation from God. The learned De Quincy did not ascribe to divine communi? cation what he saw in sleep, opium satu? rated; dreams which he afterward described in the folio win words: **I was worshiped. I was sacrificed. I fl ?d from the wrath of Brahma through ali tb? forests of Asia. Vishnu hated me. Siva laid in wait for me. I come suddenly upon Isl? and Osiris. I had done a deed, they said., thai made the crocodiles tremble. I was buried lor a thousand years in stone coffins, with mammies and sphinxes in narrow chambers at the heart of eternal pyramids. I was kissed with the cancerous kiss of crocodiles and lay confounded with unutterable sam v things among wreathy and Nilotic mad." Do jot mistake narcotic disturbance for di? vine revelation. But I have to tell you that the majority of dreams are merely the penalty of outrage j digestive organs, and you bave no rizht t-> nnatake the nightmare for heavenly revela? tion. Late snorers are a warranty dee I for bad dreams. Highly spice! meals at ll o'clock at nigttO instead of openjnz the door heavenward ooan the door infernal and dia? b?lica]. Toa outrage natural law, and you insult the God who made these laws, lt takes from three to five boors todigest food, and you have no right to tax your digest? v 3 organs ia struggle when the rest of vour body is in somnolence. The general rafe H *?at nothing after 6 o'clock at ni rh r, retire st 10, steepen your right side, keep the win? dow open five inches for ventilation, and other worlds will not disturb you much. By physical maltreat neut you take tb? ladder that Jacob saw in his dream and you lower it to the nether world, allowing the ascent or the Oemonlaca". Dreams are mic sight dyspepsia- An unregulated desire fe something to eac ruined the raes ir. para dise, and an unregulated d?sire for som thing to eat keeps it ruined. Toe worl during 6000 years has tried in rain to dige; that first apple. The world will not t oangelized until^we get rid of a dyspepti Christianity. Healthy people do not war this cadaverous and sleepy thing that som tteopl? call religion: They want a religio that lires regularly bf day and t?eei soundly by night: If thfo?gh trouble or coming o? of old ag br exhaustion of Christian service" you cai not sleep Well; then you .may expect f roi God '"songs! in the night," but there are n bossed .communications' td those wad will higly.surrender to indigestibles: Napoleon' , amy at Leipsic; Diesdeit arid Borodin I sama near being destroyed through the dis 1 raroei gastric m.?es or it comniand.T ybat is tlie way yoii hiv? lost somS of you; hattie?: 'Another remark I make is that ou: dreams ara apt to bi merely the eca > of oui day thoughts. , ? I will givd you a redpa for pleasan dreams: Fill your days with efevate? thought and unselfish action, and you; dreams will be set to music. If all day yoi ire gouging and grasping and avaricious in your dreams you w.ll see gold that yoi cannot clutch and bargains m which vol were outshylocked. If during the day yoi ire irascible an i pugnacious and gunpow dery of Disposition, yon will at night hav< battle with enemies in which they will gel the best of you. If you are all dav long ir x hurry, at night you will urean of rai trains taat you want to oatc'i while yoi &nnot mote one inch toward the de-jot. If yon art always oversuspicious ?ni ex pectant ot a-sau; . ; you will ha~e as night halhicmationS Of assassins with dagger, drawn: Nd ode wonders that Richard "lil., the in:"c|ttitoaSi the night befdrt the battle o Bosworth Field.-dreamed that ali those whoa he had murdered stared ?t him, an i ?hat h*, was torn to* pieces by demons from ?ne pit The scholar's dream is a philosophic echo. The poet's dream is a rhythmic echo*. Co'e ridge composed hjs "gubia Khan'' asleep ii a narcotic dream,' and waking up* wr?t* down 300 lines of it: Tartini, the vioiir player,' composed his most wonderful sonata while asleep in a dream so vivid that wak lng he easily transferred it to papen ( i Waking thoughts have their echo ia sleep? ing thoughts^ If a man spends his, life ii trying to make others happy and is heavenly minded, around his pillow he will see erip plas wno have got over their crutch aai precessions of**celestial"im perials and hear th grand march roll dowa from drams ol heaven over jasper parapets. You are very apt to hear in dreams what you hear when you are wide awake. Now, having shown you that having a Bible we ought to be "satisfied not getting any further communication, from Go:", and having shown you that ail dreams have an important mission, since they SQOW the com parative independence of the soul from the body, and havm^ shown you that the ma? jority of dreams ara a result of disturbed physical condition, and having shown you that our sleeping thoughts are apt to bean echo of our waking thoughts, 1 come now to my firth and most important remark, and that is to say that it is capable of proof that God does sometimes in" our day, and has often since the close of the Bible diapen i cation, appeared to people in dreams. AU dreams that make you betterare from ; God. Ho?" do I know it? Is not God the ! source of all good? It does not take a very I logical mind to argue that out. Ter tull i au I and Martin Luther believed in dreams. The dreams of John Hnss are immortal. St. I Augustine, th3 - Christian father, gives us : the fact that a Carthaginian physician was persuaded of the immortality of the soul by an argument which he heard in a dream. The aight before his assassination the wife ! of Julius Caesar dreamed that har husband ; fell dead across her lap. It is possible to prove that God does appear in dreams to warn, to convert and to save men. ? My friend, a retired sea captain and a ! Christian, tells me that one night while oa ; the sea he had dreamed that a ship's crew I were in great suffering. Waking up from ! his dream, he put about the ship, tacked in different direction.-, surprised everybody on the vessel-they thought he was going crazy -jailed on in another direction hour after hour, and for many hours until he came to the perishing crew and rescued them and brought them to New York. Who conduct? ed that dream? The God of the sea. In 1695 a vessel went out from Spithead for the West ladies and ran azainst the ledge or roots called the Caskets. The vessel j went down, but the crew clambered up on ? tile Caskets to die of starvation, as they j supposed. But there was a ship bound for i Southampton that had th? captain's son on board. Tais lad twica in the night dreamed that taere was a crew of sailors dying on the Caskets, fie told his father of his dream. The vessel came down by the Caskets in time to find and to rescue those poor aymg men. wno eouaucsea taat dream? The God of the rocks, the God o? the sea. The Rev. Dr. Bushnell, ia his marvelous book entitled, "Natura and the Superna? tural," gives tue following fact taat ne got from Captain Yonnt in Ca'?ioraii, a. fact confirmed by many fam lies. Captain Youn*" dreamed twica one night that 150 miles away there was" a company of traders fast in the snow. He also saw in the dream roc ?a of peculiar formation, an 1 telling his dream to an old hunter the hunter sal, 41 Why, I remember those roaks; those rocks are m the Carson Valley pass, 150 miles away." Captain Yonnt, impelled by this dream, although laughed at by b.s neighbors, gathered men together, toole mu.es and blankets and started out on the expedition, traveled 153 miles, saw those very rocks which he had described in his dream, and finding the suffering ones a;: the foot of those reeks brought them bac: to coahr.n the story of Captain Yonnt. Who con? ducted that dream? The God of the snow, the God of the Sierra Nevadas. God has often appeared in dreams to res? cue and comfort. You have known people -perhaps it is something I state in your own exp?rience-you have seen people go to sleep with bereavements inconsolable, and they awakened in perfect resignation be* canse of what they had seen m slumber. Dr. Crannage, one of the most remarkable men I ever met-remarkable for benevol? ence and great philanthropies-at Welling? ton, England, showed me a house where the Lord had appeared ia & wondertul dream to a poor woman. The woman was raeumatie, SICK, poor co tbs lase point 'ol destitution. She was waited on and cared for by another poor woman, her only at tendant Word came to her one day that this paq| woman had died, and the invalid of who TI I am speaking lay helpless upon the ouch wondering what would become o* her. In that mood she fell asleep. Ia her dreams she said the angel of the Lor 1 appeared and took her into the op?n air and pointe I ia one direction, and there were mountains o? bread, and pointed in another direction, an I there wer* mountains o" butter, and ia an? other direction, and there were mountain? of all kinds o' worldly sunney. The angel of the Lord said to her. "Woinan. ali these mountains belong to your Father, and do you think that ?e will let yon, His child, hunger and die?" Dr. Crannage, told me by same divina im? pulse be went into that destituta come, saw the suffering there and administered unto it. caring for her all the way through. Do you tell me that that dream "was woven out of earthly anodynes? Was thai the phan? tasmagoria of a diseased brain? No, it was an all sympathetic God addressing a poor woman through a dream. Furthermore, I have to say that there are people in this house who were converted to God through a dream. The Rav. John Newton, the fame of whose piety fills ail Christendom, while a profligate sailor ou shipboard, in his dream, thought that a be? ing approached him and eave him a very beautiful rim and put it upon his finger and said to him, "As long as you wear that ring you will be prosperei; if you lose that ring, you will be ruined. " In the same dream another personage ap? peared, and bv a strange infatuation per? suaded John ??ewton to throw that ring overboard, and it sank int > the saa. Then the mountains in sight were full of fire, and the air w;s lurid with consu.ninz, wrath. While John Newton was repenting of his folly in having thrown overboard th t treasure, another personage cime throurh the dream and told John Newton he woul'l Slunge into the sea and bring the ring up if e desired it. He plunged into the sea and brought it up and said to John Newton, "Here is that gem, but I think I will keep it for you. lest you Jose it again," and John Newton con? sented, and all the fire went out from the mountains, and ail the sisms of lurid wrath disappeared from the air, and John Newton said that he saw in his dream that that valu able gem was his soul, and that the being who persuaded him to throw it overboard was Satan, and that the one who plunged in and restored that gem, keeping it for him, was Christ. And that dream makes one of the most wonderful chapters in the life of that most wonderful man. A German was crossing the Atlantic ocean, and in his dream he saw a mau with a handful of white flowers, and he was told to follow the man who had that handful of white flowers. The German, arriving in New Yoric, wandered into the Fulton street prayer meeting, and Mr. Lampbier-whom many ot you know-the great apostle of prayer meetings, that day hid given to him a bunch of tuberoses They stool on his desk, and at the c'ose ot the religious services he took the tube? roses and start ad homeward, aud the Ger? man followed him, and through an inter? preter told Mr. Liraohier that on tho sea he bad dreamed of a man with .a handful of white flowers and was told to follow him. Suffice it to say, through that interview and following interviews he became a Christian and is a city missionary preaching the Gospel to his own countrymen. God in a dream ! John Hardock, while on shipboard, dreamed one night that the day of judg? ment had come, and that the roll of the ship's crew was called, except his own name, and that these people, this crew, were all banished, and in his dream he asked the reader Why his own name was omitted, and h? was told it was to give him more oppor? tunity fot repentance* He woke up a dif? ferent, math He became illustrious for Christian attainment. If you do not believe these things, theU you must discard all tes? timony and refus? to accept at?y kidd of au-? iboritative witness: God id a dream! Rev; Herbert Mendes was converted to God through a dream of the last jd Igmenfy and I doubt it there is> a mau or woman ia this house, to-day that. h?s dot had some dream pf that grea*t day of judgment which shall be. the winding up of the World's his? tory, il you haye not dreamed of it. per? haps to-night you may,dream bf that day There are enough materials to make a dream. Enough voices^ for there schall be the roaring o. the elements and the great earthquake. Enough light for the dream, for the world shall blaz?. Enough excite? ment, for the mountains shall fall. Enough water, for the ocean shaU roar. Enough astronomical phenomena, for the stars shall go out. Enough populations, for all the races of all the ag*s will faU into line of one of two processions, and the one ascending and the other descending, the one led oa by the rider on the white horse of eternal victory, the other led on by Apollyon on th's black charger of sternal defeat. * -Th? dream comes on me now, an I I sea the li ?htnings froai above answering the roJcan'O disturbances from beneath, and I hear the long reverberating thunders that shaU w?ie up the dead? ad t on one side I seethe opening of a gate into semes golden and amethystine, and oa the other side I hear the clanging back of a gate into bas-' tiles of eternal bondage, an t all the sea?, lifting hp' their crystal voicas, cry, "Com?? to judgment P and dil the voices of the beaven cry,- "Come to judgment!" and crumbling* mausoleum and Westminster abbeys and pyramids of the de?d with mar? ble voices cry; "Jome to judgment P And the archangel seizes an instrument of music which has never yet been sounded, ari instrument of music that was made only for one sound, and thrusting that mighty trumpet thron jh the clou is an i turning it this way he shall pus it to his lip and biow the long, loud blast that shall make thc solid earta quiver, crying, "Come to judg? ment." Then from this earthly grossness quit, Attired in stars we shah forever si?. BILL ART'S LETTER. His Sympathies Aronse? ly tl? Sorrows and Trillions ol Hnmauity. We are More Keconciled to the Inevi? table Than to the Unseen. Here she comes Tanning and "vants some? body to hold her while she coughs and coughs until the blood darkens her fac? and the tears ron down her cheeks- The poof little orphan. I wonder what th? whooping cough was made for-and the measles andmnmps and scarlet fever, and the colic and all these infantile di? seases that prey upon andfdistress the poor lit? tle innocents-what have they done that they should suffer. I know what I have done and left undone, and it is no wonder that grown people, except a few, have headache and tooth? ache and rhenraati*m and consumption, and a whole doctor's book full of complaints. I feel that I deserve my share of all these bodily troubles, and even if I don't, I know that they better prepare me for heaven. They make me EO tired that I am wil ing to go when my time cometh. But I can't understand why these little children, who are a l unconscious of original sin, or any other sin, should feuffer 80. But, suppose that we can't understand it, what are we going to do about it-nothing nothing of course, ami so the best thing to do is to accept all the conditions of life and be thankful. "Though He slay me yet will I trust in Him." On this beautiful ?pr'ng morning, while the sweet south wind is breathing its ba'my odors npou ns, I was ruminating upon life and i s measure of joy and sorrow, and I wondered why both were not more t verily distributed. Why should bad luck and peril overtake some and leave out others? Why should the ill-fated Naronic go down with all ?n board and the Aurania come safe to port? Why should one man fall in battle and his com? rade efcape unbanned? Is it fate or providence? Is it chance or destiny that one should be taken and the other left? ? know not and will not let it disturb me. I do know that I am here and have a duty to perform. I know that Life is real, life is earnest, And the grave is not its goal. I know that virtue is everywhere respected r.nd that good people save (he world just as ten good men would have saved Sodom. What a shock it is to the civilized world when a ship goes down at sea and va sen sers and crew Sink into the depths w:th bubbling groan, Unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown. Why is it, why does it so harrow up our feel? ings and provoke om tenderest sympathies? Here are 6.000 people dying every day in the United States and they would make a funeral procession 500 miles long. Not less than 50,000 kindred are bereaved aDd mourn for them, and yet all these cof? fins and graves and saddened hearts and homes do not concern the public like the sinking of a ship at sea. The manner of the death is not so horrible. Indeed, drowning is said to be the least repulsive of ail deaths, for it is pain? less and the agony of mind is 8">on over, and yet it is an awful calamity. No help, no kin? dred, no last words, no messages of love, no requiem, no flowers on the grave! In mv early youth the shock of tho loss of the pilot in which Theodorsea Allston perished had not passed away. She was the beautiful daughter of Aaron Burr. That ship went down with all on board, and no one knew when or where and the whole south was grieved. She had married a distinguished son of South Carolina and was hei st If the great granddaughter of Jonathan Edwards, and her beauty and her loveliness had saved her father from being con .vided of treason. It was a tender story that my father used to tell me and I loved" such things, and I love them yet. The next d cas? ter that shocked the country in my youth was the loss of the Home, that went down on the Carolina t oast when almost in sight of laud. I remember how Georgia mourned for Oliver Prince, her moat distinguished lawyer, who sank with that vessel. He was our United States senator and the gifted author of many sketches. Had he sickened and died at home not half the grief and sympathy would have been manifested by the public heart. We are more reconciled to the inevita? ble than to the unseen, unexpected stroke that comes at sea, from the mighty liand of God. Wc all desire to die at home-at home, where loving hands can smooth the aching bead and loving eyes lr.ok down into oar own and weep. I do, and if I don't get better, I am not going far away any more. There is nothing sadder to mo than to see kindred, who are near and dear gather at the depot to meet the corpse, of a son or a daughter who had died in a strange .laud and wl.o e last request was to be taken home. But I do not know why my thoughts have run this way for the day "is bright and the birds are singing and the fruit tiees are in bloom and there is nothing to make ire sad-nothing nave the struggling child that every little while has to rack her little frame W?tli that relentless cough and after it is over, to hear her sav: "Oh, I am so tired." 1 wish that we could divide out ?ain and trouble and that .1 could take part of tere. Yes; and sometimes I wish that some I? HIT could take part of mine.-Bm. ARF in Atlanta Cons itntiou. Pitching Hay in the Dark. E. Biggs, the contractor, went up ?otc Iiis hay loft Wednesday evening to pitch down some feed for hts horses. It was quite dark hi the barn at thc time, and in sticking the pitchfork into what he thought was a pat t of a bale of hay lifted up H man. The man was very drunk and it is supposed he had crawled up into thc loft to sleep off his debauch. 3Ir. Biggs helped thc follow downstairs anti as soon as they reached thc ground the latter walked away, much to the re? lief of Mr. Biggs, who at first feared he ha* I run the fork through the man's ?X)dy. lt is a great wonder that thc fel? low was not seriously hurt The tuau was a stranger, and how he t ame to seek a sleeping place in Mr. Bigg-' barn is ? liystery.-[Napa (Cal.) Journal. BY THE QUANTITY. Mrs. Whimpers ('nudging her hatband in the next parquet seat;-That's a leve of a hat in thc row in front of it*. It must have cost at least $:>0. Mr. Whimpers (trying in vaiu to see over it)-I should think so. There's enough of it.-[Indianapolis Journal. *>nlr a Song to Baby? Soft and dus? tie g'?ntlc twilight Fell upon the peaceful world; Far and faint the southern spice grovel On the breeze their sweets unfurled; As I listened to my mother, In that dim-grown distant time, When she lulled me, softly, softly, With a quaint and timeworn rhyme. Only a song to baby, Wooing to By-low land ; Only a soft caress, Stroked by a loving baud ; Only a tender prayer, Only a srentle sigh. Only i cooing chorus, "By-o-baby by?,? tn the gnarled oak by the window, T?ped a robin's calling note* Trembling softly tbfo' the distance, On {he dew-wet scented moat, T?nfcl?d bells off lorrin? Cattle-, homeward browsing by the way; A's my mother hilled me softly; Softly at ?be close OT day; As my gentle, dove-eyed mother, .With her mist of falling hair, Sang above her sleeping baby, So I sing the self-same air; And my drowsy, dimpled darling. Closes soft h is gold-fringed eyes. While the sun-tint?, crimson, glorious, Melt athwart the evening skie*. Song bad lulled me, softly, softly, On my mother's faithful breast; Song that lulls my blue-eyed baby To a calm and conquered rest; Song that riugs through all the changes, Love, that lights a darksome way, tull my darling, softly, softly, lull him till the perfect day. -[Sarah W. Temple, in Detroit Free Press? A BLANE DAY, ?If SflitfRED H. G. DARBY; There was no use in disguising thc fact; we had drawn our last cover blank! The sun was inclining toward the heavy clouds on the horizon, tell? ing us that it was past 2 o'clock on a wild afternoon; so, surely, all thoughts of ?port must now be given up for the day. "Ariah, yor ladyship, sure an* it's not to home ycTli be going? His lord? ship must put the hounds into that wee bit of gorse beyant thc Knock! There's afoxjuBt after leaving it," aaserled Mickey Dwanc, horse-breaker to the neighborhood, as he jumped from his saddle to ease the * ?young one," who he had been larking over every available obstacle as he went from cover to covc-r. "Ye*, Lady Eora," said Captain Despard, adding his entreaties to Mickey's, "do petitiou your brothe1' to give us another chance! It is no distance to the gorse." "Very well," said I, and trotted Satanclla up lo where, looking highly disconsolate, my brother Richard stood amongst his hounds, taking council with Jamie, our old huntsman, as lo the expediency of taking thc dis spiritcd pack home. "All right, old lady," he answered ; .'so be ii ? We'll try thc gorse, and now, Mickey, if you're wrong, a plague on thc whole race of horse breakers!" "More power to you, me lord!" shouted Mickey, jubilantly, as he mounted the plunging "young one." "Sure, an' there never was an Earl of Ballybritt yet that was not a spoi ta? man en loire: y !" There are only Dick and I left now to take care of each other. Mother died when I was born, and father last year, leaving Dick my sole guar? dian. As he was then only just of age, and I was seventeen, all our rela? tives cried out againet our living alone, but wc managed beautifully, and neither of us wished for any other arrangement-until lately. I could not hide from myself any longer that Dick loved cousin Ida more than me, and I feel sui ehe would have asked her to marry him before now, only he is afraid of what 1 will feel. Keigho ! I didn't think I wanted to marry any one, but some? how 1 have learned to sympathize with my brother. "Now smile, and bring us luck. Lady Nora/' said Captain Despard, as he ranged up alongside me, cantering over the springy turi between us and the gorse. Ho .smiled, himself, as he spoke, and his plain face looked al? most handsome. "I am afraid that the foxes won't be at home to look at any smiles of minc," I retorted, laughing. "Re? member that they are very hard? hearted and headed beasts!" "I only wish I were more of a fox, ?ien," he answered, in a iow voice. "I find my heart and my head fail me often now." "Yoicks, f'rard, my beauties; Rat? tler, Banker, get on to him, lads! Hi, Melody, frard!" Jamie's whip cracked, and a dismal yelp from lazy "Lavender" hastened thc movements of the pack, who rushed into cover, whilst we stood anxiously around. A few moments1 silence; hope sank into despair, when, almost to our sur? prise, and timcli to otu* delight, wc heard one Hound give a whimper; then two or three more spoke to a scent, and then, oh,unspeakable bliss! a ringing "(iono away!" from the far side of thc cover told us that our fox had broken. There wa9 no need lo wait for the hounds to bc put on the line; they were at his heels with a burning scent, hunting so close that "a sheet would have covered thc pack!'' Away we went after them, down by the right of the goi>e, (brough a largo grass field, then over a nice four-foot stone wall in:o another great pasture. The pace was terrille. Some small fences were crossed in our horses' strides, then a ! bank almost anyhow, a gap ncxf, and J then a straggling, ugly bullfinch led j us into an acre of plow, beyond I which, through a handy gate, which a grinning "colleen" held opeu for us, we came on to I lie beet of all our ? country-lurg?' medows fenced with j clean, big doubles and occasional I flail*. i We had run now for }? minutes without a check! Satanella was go! grandly, and had not made a mista' j She took me a trifle too f at the wall? for my tas but seemed io msasnre her distni exactly-, for When she reached thc she jumped like a deer,- and at 1 banks too, it was beautiful io feel I -like a cat in agility-leap on ttf i top, and changing her feet in a 81 ond, spring over thc great dark grij landing with plenty of room to spa To my left rode Dick and Jam leading by about thirty yards, and my right Captain Despard, and 1 hind, trailing at longer and longer i lervals, the rest of the field. Dick h looked back at every fence to ?ee if waa safely over. Now I saw iii m p up his baud, and knew (hat somethi bi? was before us, and big and naa it r*as-a deep-cut drain ou the ne side,- Sud a bud landing on the f side, with a high, rotten/ razjr-cdg" bank between. "Now, Salanclla, my beauty, ? carefully," ? whispered as I watch Dick get ever safely, the trcachero bank caumbling under his graj hoots; b?u with a scramble they g over. My turn theu-the ma bouued like a deer, on and off, and 6hout of approval greeted her pe formance from thc onlooking pea ants, who, forsaking (heir plows at horses, had rushed to watch tl "lepiug." But 1 was scarcely over, my sci when, to my horror, I heard a eras on my right, and saw a confuse mass of mau and horse come rushiu into tho grip, and a pink coat gleame between the cruel steel-bound hoof Great heavens i It was Jat Despard. I turned absolutely sic with fear, as I pulled my mai round, to find, I feared, ta friend kicked out of recognitioi But, instead, to my infinite relief, saw him craw! from under his horse muddy enough, but apparently will out broken bones. 4'Not hurt a bit, Nora, dear!" h cried, seeing my white face, "and will get my horse ont in a secon<3 Go on. I will ca'ch you up." I am sure Satanella knew what weight wa? off ?ny heart, as 6he fiel along, and my cheeks must hav tingled, sucli joy came over me a Jack's unconventional speecli. How ever, I had no lime for such rumina tions, for, owiug to a slight check, th rest of the field nearly cangiit us up Mrs. Ponsonby, with her hands dow; and her teeth clenched, was bucket?ii? her grand bay to pass me, and seeme< inclined to ride "very jealous*' in rn; wake. If I had fallen, she wouli certainly have jumped ou me. I couh imagine her heel going, as she drov thc spur home. The bay spurted, bu Satauella declined to yield ber lead t< any one, aud in two more fields I wai with the hounds again. They had to hunt very carefuUj over some cold plow for a bit, bu picked up the line on the gi aeat yourself on the heap on lue barrow. 1 will see that the whole is speedily carted away."' . [New York Observer. A ? l?ussian apples arc said to do well in Vermont. I Polly and the Bogs? Polly was a gray bird, and a r markably clever talker. The sou < his owner was au enthusiastic sport man, owning a kennel of some dote or more setters aiul pointers, and pal close attention to the teaching of h dogs and the gray-headed parrot. Tl bird could imitate his voice so cloud as io deceive member* of the hons* hold; and from him it had Jeane snatches of many songa, thc cail Doti of game birds, and, all unknown I the sportsman, it had caught the shri of his dog-whistle and certain ordei he gave to his dog?. When the sportsman was at hon? Polly kept all knowledge of the do* whistle and dog-language discreet! dark; and my friend has told me tb: lie never heard cither used, except o certain occasions when he bad mad a show of going to his office and sly! concealed himself shout the premise? When lie was away and thc canine were left at home, there was rare f na Tiie kennel yard was enclosed by moderately high, close fence, whic! thc dogs could leap over if urged, i they chanced lo be lying about tic chained inside, which they frequent!; were, as they were trained to stay 2 home. On such occasions, Polly, from hi stand on the front veranda, woul< suddenly sound his whistle, "Ahem ew-ew-ahcin! Hi! boys, hi! hi! hil1 Over thc fence would come au ava lanche of handsome, excited dogs rushing with glad yelps round th house to the front door, eager for i swim in I he river or a merry ract across country. A dozen or mon would cluster about the steps, whim poring in their excitement and eyeing the door for the first glimpse of thei: belove 1 owner. Suddenly the voici ihcy knew go well would shout ii angry tones, "Dor-r-r-a! Downl Down! Bob, you rascal I" and th? pair would sink prone, while the resi hesitated and faltered, with drooping tails and cars, and saddened eyes. Then would come a short, fierce com? maud: "A-a-h, you rascals! Kennel up, you brutes!!'7 and a swift line oi discomfited dogs would glide rouud thc house, and a flutter of silken tails would wave an instant above the ken? nel fence as the disappointed animals sought their quarters. Theu Polly would laugh and chuckle for an hour, and he knew enough not to repeat the performance that day.- [Detnorest's Magazine. Giff's Perpetual Clock, Darius L. Goff of Pawtucket, R. I., a man who has always humored a natural bent in lue direction of me? chanical curiosities, is the proud owner of a clock that never "runs down." An ingenious contrivance attached to the door of the Goff man? sion keeps the wonderful timepiece constantly wound np, the simple act of opening and closing the door serv? ing in place of a key. But this is not all, by a good deal. Electrical appliances operated by this perpetual, never-tiring clock, light thc gas jet in the ball as soon as dusk and promptly put it out at 10.30 p. m. Another handy attachment rings an "carlyris ing" bell for the servants. Half au hour later the same auto malic lever drop* and a bell is rung for thc family, followed in another half hour by a "breakfast bell." Wires and electrometer attachments run all over thc house and play all sorls of queer pranks. Besides per? forming the wonders above men? tioned (which the reader must con? fess is a linc thing for a family who are so punctual that everything is done by c ock-work), a wire attach, mont of the clock is connected to queer little music b >xes iu each chamber. These boxes play the or? thodox cathedral chimes every time (he clock strikes, filling the entire house with sweet music at least hvelvc times every day. -[St. Louis Republic Snow-storms in the Sierra Nevadas. "I have seen it snow so hard in Nevada," said James Milburn, "that a plough with four monster engines behind it would bc completely stalled before it had gone one mile from a snow-shed. Thc down-tumbling flakes would cover the clear track so fast that once (he plough go': stuck it couldn't back out and would have to bc dug out by snow-shovellers whe* (he storm had ceased. 1 have seen two-story houses completely covered by thc snow and telegraph-poles buried out of sight. Often in the canons houses are reached through long tun? nels in the snow. Ono night a guide lcd mc through one of these tunnels and 1 was amaze I to find myself sud? denly transferred from a waste of wearying witness into a brilliantly lighted bar-room lilied with men, which was the ante-room to a big dining cstnbiishmcut and part of the lower floor of a largo two-and-onc half-story boarding house. Not a sign of it had been visible from the out? side, not even a curl of ?moke. Snow is snow in the Sierra Nevadas. There are canons in the mountains that have it 80 ami 100 feet deep sometimes." i [St. Louis (ilobe-l)emocra'. Keep Grindstones Inder Shelter. A grindstone costs money and ts worth giving as careful keeping as any other property. It should be ^ sheltered both summer and winter, to protect it from the sun in summer, j and the more direct injury froinfreez- j ing in cold weather. If the stone is ^ j left to freeze it will bc impossible to ( : keep it running true, and thc value of (ho stone is lessened by half when one | S side i? chipped away by frost more ! (han is the other.-[B ston Cultivator. 1 . m _ I In (Jrcat Britain the aroa occupied bv wood lands was 2,458.000 acre* in \ 1881, and it increased lo 2,695,000 I acres ?ti 189 L. REMARKABLE RUINS. Remains of Ancient Castles in Arizona. Qne Binding Was More Than 400 Feet Long. Near Flagstaff, Ariz., aad on the tipper Verde, lhere are the rains of castles still in as good a state of preservation and much resembling many of those in the north of Eng* land and Scotland, the ages of which we may approximate with a consider? able degree of certainty. One in particular that is very interesting stauds near thc head of the Verde River ou a peak that constil lites the extremity of a spur of the Bradshaws. Tu peak is granite, and rites abruptly, ont of Ihc valley on three sides, while the fourth is protected by the mountain spur, which is about one hundred Oftest higher and hangs an impassable precipice above the smaller. Oa this "shelf or bench the building was con? structed of stone and cement in ouch a position that one on thc ruins eau get a good view of the entire width of the valley aud fully five miles either up or down it. Through thc taller mountain of volcanic rift has allowed a per? petual stream of water to flow, though it was fully sixty feet beneath the base of the castle and back of it, so that the water came ont underneath the cliff and flowed across the mesa into the river. In order to protect themselves against a water famine in a time of siege the inhabitants cut a fissure through the solid rock fully 60 feet, and changed the course of the stream so that it flowed out ou the epposite side of the rock aud directly through the fortification, making it impossible to cut off the supply. This building was over 4C0 feet in length by 250 .in width. One of the waite yet stands four stories in height, though some earthquake has changed the surface of the mountain until the outer one has fallen aud the one now standing leans considerably towards the north. This structure alone con? tained over 200 rooms, and could have easily accommodated a thousand people. Back of this is a cave, partly natural and partly artificial, that ex? tend? more than 100 feet, and through which they descend to the water. This was also cut up into rooms, each one of which was nicely plastered with some kind of cement that is now in a good state of preservation, v There are niches in thc walls, where they evidently kept their jewels and valuables, and I am informed that two small rush bags were found in one of them, though I did not visit it first ami did net see Hiern. A number of jars filled with parched beans were takeu out, aud one of these jars or ol?as, holding about a bushel, is in the possession of Mr. Drew, who has a ranch near by, aud is used all thc time for holding drinking-water. It is of a very dark-colored material, thor onghly glazed, but outside of the heat necessary to do the glazing, it bas not been affected by fire, lt has beeu cracked almost entirely around, but it has been mended with some kind of gum so deftly that though it had been in his possession for years, Mr. Drew had not discovered it until one day re? cently when we were examining it to? gether. - In this cave about twenty skeletons were found. The skulls of some of them had been crushed, while others appeared to have died natural dea tbs, though the bones were so bad? ly decayed that had fatal wounds been inflicted on any other part of tlie body than the head it could not have been discovered when we made our examination. These remains were scattered about the inner rooms in evidently the same position in which they had fallen from starvation, or had been laid by the hands of their comrades after being stricken down by their foes. Around the bony necks were found thc amulets and on the wists the shell bi acelets (hat pro? tected them from evil or served them as ornaments during life. The structure was built altogether different from the fortresses at Zuni and Acoma, neither does it resemble any of ibo Pueblo buildings iu New Mexico. Judging from the ma9? of cement scattered about on the cliff, these walls must have once been six stories in height and lite building almost as large a? tho Casa Grande in the Gila river valley. Queer Story About a Defalcation. ??That was a queer story Henry Watterson told in his lecture about a defalcation case at Louisville/' said a gentleman who heard the eloquent journalist at Entertainment Hall to the j ?Mau About Town." He said that several years ago a gentleman holding a commanding commercial and social position in the Kentucky metropolis had used the funds of the corporation of which he was the trusted financial head, and when the day of accounting came he found he was short in his ac? counts. The time wss too brief to make the deficit good, and his own funds were in such shape that he was inextricably entangled. He was an honest man, but in a moment of over? confidence had permitted himself to deviate from the narrow path just enough to use the firm's cash as a temporary loan, promising io return il at once aud promptly. As is always the case, be failed to keep his promise, and thc delay was ? dangerous-when thc lime came he j could uot. Instead of waiting the in- I t evitable discovery, he calle 1 a meeting of the directors, mat lc a straight fo:-j ward confession, leagued his posi? tion, threw hiiusfi!f nnoti the mei cy of the Court, so to 6pcak, and pledged himself to pay over every dollar if he were not exposed and prosecuted. An animated discussion followed, and large majority were in favor of giving the delinquent a chance. His hitherto high standing and undoubted busi? ness ability were in his favor, not to mention that he might have skipped if he had desired. Two of the direc? tors held out. They thought it would be compounding a felony, acd it was an awful thing to let such a man loose upon the unsuspecting commuuity. But they were outvoted, and the de? faulter was giveu another chance. He is now a prosperous and wealthy business man of Louisville. Two years after his misfortune one of the two men who had objected to his re? lease was a fugitive in Texas charged with embezzlement, and at the end of another year the other fled to Canada to escape arrest on the same charge. In the whirligig of time this prosper? ous merchant, whose early misfortune these two men had endeavored to turn into disgrace and calamity, said Colonel "Watterson, was the foreman of thc Grand Jury that indicted the two fugitives. Beware the first false step, continued Colonel Watterson, but don't always condemn the victim without giving him the benefit of the doubt.-[St. Louis Republic. m i Speed of Water Waves. People arc apt to indulge apprehen? sions about the movement of waves of the ocean which are erratic, born, per? haps, of illusionary influences. Every? one has noticed the action of the wind ou a fieid of corn, aud seen the undu? lations caused by it crossing the field iu a few seconds; but no one sup? poses that a single stock has left its place. As with thc corn wave, so with the water wave, the substance remains rising aud falling iu the same place, while it is only the form that moves. The speed of this movement depends on the speed of the wind. "When a gentle breeze is blowing the friction between the atmosphere and the water is small, and only a slight ripple is produced ; bat should the velocity of the wind increase the ripples become waves or even billows, mountains of water, moving at a tremendous speed. Waves which have resulted from earthquake shocks have traversed the ocean at a speed which is almost in? credible. For instance, the great earthquake which occurred at Samoda, in Japan, caused a wave which traveled across the Pacific from that cottatry lo San Francisco, a distance of nearly 5000 miles, in not much more than twelve hours-that is to say, it raced across the ocean at the rate of about six and a half miles per minute. The self-acting tide guages at San Frau? cisco, which recorded the arrival of this great wave, rendered . it quite certain that this was the actual rate of progress.-[Brooklyn Eagle. An Independent Painter* The English painter Landseer seems to have been very independent, aud J. K. Fowler in his ?Echoes of Old Country Life," tells this characteristic story in illustration thereof in connec? tion with one of Lmdseer's most noted pictures, that of a boat crossing a loch in Scotland, and containing portraits of thc Queen, of the late Prince Con? sort, and of the gillies in attendance, returning from a shooting excursion. This picture was being painted at Bal? moral, and the Prince was particularly anxious that thc portrait of the Queen should be correct. Landseer, indeed, had painted it iu and out several times. Oue morning, early, Prince Albert entered the studio before Landseer was np, and fouud the Queen's por? trait admirably delineated, aud he im? mediately wrote on a half sheet of pa? per, which he fixed io the easel: "Portrait of the Queen excellent and highly satisfac? tory." Sometime afterward, on en? tering the studio, he fouud Land? seer had smudged and painted out the likeness to show that he was not to bo interfered with or dictated to by any one.-[Xew York Observer. Extinction of Elephants Inevitable* Attention has beeu called to the in? evitable extinction of the African elephant if ivory huutcrs are not checked in their work, Seventy-five thousaud elephants are annually slaughtered in Africa for the sake of their tusks. Reproduction among elephants is a very slow process, the period of gestation being three years; hence it is easy to understaud why ivory has already become very dear. Mr. Poloveri suggests that since an elephant's tusks, which are solid, can be cut off with a sharp saw, without hurting the animal, and an animal once captured by the methods em? ployed in the Government Keddahs in India, can be easily secured for this operation, "the ivory traders would gain time, save labor and avoid the criminal folly of exterminating theil source of revenue, if they could bc in? duced to resort to this more human method of obtaining ivory, instead of to thc unnecessary and brutal butchery of vast herds of valuable, inoffensive and tractable animals, which takes place year by year. "- [New York In? dependent. Got Things Mixed. Mr. Suburb--Well, how are you gelling along with my artesian well? Contractor (despoudeutly)-We are dorm 500 feet and haveu't struck rocK yet. Mr. Suburb-Rock? Good lauds! You vc got things mixed. I told you to bore for water, man-water. I don't want a stone quarry. -[New York Weekly. Louisiana gave thc' largest Demo? cratic majority of all the States at the recent Presidential election.