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THE MOCKING BIRD. ? _____ Every trnvelcr who is lc?I by business or pleasuro to tho vicinity of Ssmlot'ou, Tonu., inuy see, ns his 4..: imiiii, approaches tho town, a Inrgo ochre-colored mansion, whoso stutoly portico nml high blue-curtained windows look ilown benignly from ft wooded hill. A well-kept country roftd. / winding nlong, under green boughs between fertile fields, comes to an end at ?i largo stono gutewny, through which, upon a closer approach may bo seen an oak-shaded drive ftud gravel footpaths. Pines, hemlocks, poplars, oaks nml numeroi^s flowering bushes surround tho house, which, i freshly painted and in thorough repair, bespeaks tho ntTcctionute care of i a prosperous owner. t l'or more than half a contury pre- t coiling the outbreak of the Civil War f this mansion and tho 5)00 fertile acres v around it were tho property of tho I( {Sylvesters?a family no less noted for ,, the culture and physical accomplish- u incuts of its members than for tho d gvoierous spirit of hospitality that had f| m ways distinguished it. ti At tho close of tho war, however, n ti dark cloud hud settled upon the for- m times of tlio house. Its fields were la devastated by the raids of contending hi armies. Horses and cattle uo longer he tenanted the roomy barns, the former Having been le<l away for service in wr the Co n hale rate cavalry, while the in; latter hud been appropriated fui food tin by Yankee raiders. The silver plate oh and (Lie family jewels had been Kent to hat Richmond as patriotic contributions gei to the depleted treasury of in the Confederacy. Many of the slaves vac had gone to seek tb"ir ft"V " Wf the cooic'r climnto of tho North, and hin the few who now remained bohind had ros learned that they, too, would have to pm lind homes elsewhere, for with tho win death of the youug mastor on tho had bloody field of Autietam the male is- the sue of the Sylvesters had become ex- jCgi tinet and the fortuuos of tho family left had been lost beyond repair. At first ? their faith in their young mistress, j,qu Anno Sylvester, impelled them to that doubt tho rumor. Autre, a beautiful HUlv young woman of 22, was the only sur- treu vivitig sister of the former master. Jlur fore, alb-etion for the old placo ' and her siuci servitors was unmistakable; but it him. soon became apparent to all that the since unhappy girl was indeed face to face that with ruin and was powerless to obey nwoe the dictates of her heart. from For almost a year after tho sur- heart render of Reo at Appomattox Anno place Sylvester bravely tried to fight against hash fate-. Tlieii reluctantly confessing her am n impoteney, sho relinquished the cjeil struggle and prepared to bid farewell ?!) to tho scenes nnd friends of her girl- Mary hood. A distant relation in Nashville hand, had offered hur a home, nnd in tho spring of 18(50 sho began to mnko Hash preparations for her departure. what On tho evening of tho tiny preced- his in ing hor loavo-tuking of the old house losing A'..i;o went into the gardon to sit for ? him. while among tho shrubs and flowers fossed which Jiad only lately opened their '1,K co perfumed petals to tho warm spring true, air. She ? ?? ' ...... ?v.u<Mii]>!iniu<l by her scionci cousin, Mary K Igerton, who was inde- to ,no fatigublo in her efforts to alleviate tlio Ami narrow of the unfortunate girl. Anne, utca In however, though striving to assumo an "''u attitii'lo of patient resignation, suf- said nc fered most of her friend's encouraging wnK co utterances to pass unheeded. that hr Upon arriving at a rustic bonch be- tho "1" side the trunk of a lofty oak they "for u nested theinselves, and for several melody minutes both wero silent. garden At length a half-smothered sob in- Mute sued from the breast, of the unhappy the i Anne, and her cousin, rousing herself had r'Hl from a reverie into which she, too, motion had fallen, placed an arm around her had vac and drew her elosor. toward ' (iomo, dear, be bravo. Perhaps their gn all theso things you lovo so fondly advanci may 0110 day be yours again. Thero drew m inust surely come a timo whon all cxtende those ravages of war will be obliterat- ha (it. when nrinnK.i'il" ....il * , ..in cuiuu nacK to tuo Rtra the South oneo more. 1'erhaps " long wa "I'm not thinking of that, dear," tl>? Sou returned Anno, midly. blcBsiug A /' A A shadow crossed Mary's faco for a moment; then who opouod her lips to 1 speak, but her cousin iuterrupted her. "Ah! tilings have changed ho intho last four yours that I sometimes feel that it will do mo good to go elsewhere for a littlo while. The old place is full of pleasant memories,but sometimes I get to thinking out hero, Mary " She hid her faco in her hands, but iu a few moments alio raised it again. "ll>eo Mary, boo!" she continued as slio pointed to a neighboring mugnolia. "Do vou sen ,x v ?mmv bluui 1jo you remember how, on theso warm spring nights, tho mocking bird used to siug among tho blossoms, aud how often you and I havo sat out hero and listened to its music? Year nftor year it enmo while tho mnguolia was in bloom, then ono yonr it loft us suddenly and has never visited us again. Do you know what hnpponod on tho ' night 1 hoard it last? No, 110; how can you know? Y'ou woro not with mo then, Mary." ' "Come, darling, calm yourself," re monstrated her cousin, gently. I 'I'll tell you, dear," continued ? \nne, inoro quietly. "It has boon ? ho only ono of nil my secrets ? hat I never told you of. It is just 1 our years ago tonight since T sat horo >ith Andrew Ccltou, listening to tho I locking bird, as you and I so often m sod to do, and never before had its n otcs seemed half so beautiful. An- tl row and f had been talking of our it 11 ture, and of the homo ho was going ei t take mo to. It seemed to 1110 at w uies that ho was even more tender ti id allWti.?? > - ' 1 inuii una over lieeii fr fore. But nil tho evening I fancied oil s had (something on his mind that he cr isitatcd to teli ine of. }>u 'At last ? while the mocking bird pc is singing?while, with my head rest- ?i? BE oil his shoulder, I was looking over eo u moonlit lawn and through the dark ?I isler of poplars?at the castles wo il been building in tho air - he ntly told ine of his purpose to enlist ' the ranks of the men who li'd in- Lc led our country and laid it waste, all IV Mj 1 >koi y tycart rebelled against ,'u* i, nun ondo me cast htm out. I lati a and ordered him to leave me. IIo hov tested, but I refused to listen to woi it he had to say. 1 told him he as t been false to me and a traitor to sho State to which wo both owod alauce. Then turned away and wen him standing there alone. on i Tho night after our quarrel I wont cuit. i tlio garden, hoping in my hcHrt The 1 would liml hiin there, but re- saih ed that if tie spoke to me I would thcr t him as i had doiio the night be- went , He did not come again, aud cuni ii be Ii?ft I have not heard from We i Hut. M..n- .1 ... ,tuii ftuow mat be m 5 the moment when i told hint iiud nil was at an end between us that a lm t voice that used to come to us time the mognolia tree has not beou watel I again bv anyone about the lore i. That is why this old garden sand. I'Coine distasteful to ine, ami 1 dried ot as sorry to leave it as you fan- was v I might hi-." tion I ?o you love him still?" asked the s softly as she took her cousin's sailor night us," answered Anne, as a dark o,m \ mantled her brow. "If, after 81ttiii) he told mo ho had altered his WJ tention becaiiso of his fear of oVory| mo, I should have despised ,t.Y I hated the convictions ho pro- W||g (j( , but I respected them because tuiilo ' nseience told him they were ovitleu If he had been l'also to his con- jt HQlt| a then he might have been false maroo in later years." rpj1Q m o paused, and for several miu- poso tl jth were silent. hut foi rhnps?"said Mary, but sho inU9t h > more, for at that moment sho ,irjcd r nscioiis of a once fnmiliar sound w0 j0, .L-' uut urn nun clear upon ! Jmirun liii Hiof the perfumed nir. Note j oto of joyous, soul-thrilling j M ' seemed to awnkeu the silent J Then to the consciousness of life. i ponsnnt i nml hrentliless Mary clutched pronchi irin of her cousin. Uut Anne the sto* i?n ami whs stnnding, pale ami Bible, less, beside the seat which alio in this j uited. Her eves were turned torn is n the left, Hinl as Mary followed of eoml izo she saw the figure of a man vory elYii ng across tho lawn. As ho the ntnn ore near he laired his head and quotes f d his hnud. of ovory ve coine buck to you, Anne," chnrchoi nger began unstcndily. "The lightnin) r is over, and tho North nnd noys of Ih are one. Lot us enjoy tho every tl s of peace."?Now York Sun. Press. The Ancient City of Peking. The city is one of the oldest in tU< world; but it waa not made a capita until Kublni Khan, eomowhere abou 1282, fixed his court there. Under tin Mongols the namo of Peking was Khan palik, or City of tho Khun ; and thii name was cosily converted into Cambulue, by which name it was known in tho accounts of thoso times. Peking is now divided into two parts; tho northern })ortion is tho Tartar city, and coutuitis about twelvo square miles; in this aro tho palaces, government buildings, troops aud military barracks- The southern part is tho Chineso city, and is more populous than the Tartar, less of itsspnee bciug taken up by gardens nud public build| ings- The population is nsti'""1'"1 VW..MUIUU lli different figures; but two millioua *9poars to bo u fair estimate. A wall separates tho Tartar from tho Chinese city, ami a wall of varying I height surrounds tho whole, that of tho Tartar section being about lifty feet liigh,und that around the Chiueso | section some thirty foot high. Theso walls are of brick and stoue tilled in with earth and paved on tho top with slabs of stone, affording a promenade twolvo feet wide. There are sixteen gates in all, and each gateway is fortified with towers of stone; and other towers are fixed at intervals of about ?ixty yards all around tho walls. These towers project fifty feet from . I10 outer side of tho walls, and those . it the gateways have in front of them 1 i fortification of a semicircular shape, J o that tho gate must be entered from lie side ami not from tho front. Tho Tartar city is divided into ^ hrec inclosures.eacli being surrounded ritli its own wall, and each insula of * uotlier. Tho innermost of these is I 10 Prohibited City, and contains tho ? uperiul palaces and offices. Its cir- ^ unfcrcnco is nearly two mile* ?i"? | ?UU II nil is eoverod with impurinl-yollow ^ les which look brilliant when Been w om a distance. Tho inolosuro next ^ itsido of this is occupied by tho gov- J| ntnent oflices, and by tho army ap- fa intoil to keep guard over tho eraror and his family. Tho next out- as lo of this is tho outermost of all,anil nsists of dwelling Iiouscb and shops. *? St. Nicholas. Pt ill mi Dried Up oil n Desert Island. Ai Undo Hubert William Quimby of wiston, Hays that ho has traveled in be? tho warm countries of tho globe I iLint ho hail been in tho coldest tlJ" tudes. Ho docs not think thut wo j,nl 0 Hiich very hot weather. If pcoplo ^at ild mnko provision for tho hot days cot hoy do in India, ho thinks we 111 d not notieo it bo innch. an(1 ^ro, 'Hut," says lie, "tho warmest ion ther that J over experienced was s01' 1 usei 1 small island calloil John's bis- ovoi , oft' Capo (rraoias, on Honduras, Elizabeth Jennings, on which I bu*? :d in 1870 from Portland, stopped ^ov o for water, and a boat's crew >'?"( 11am L ashore for it. It was a little vol- senp o island and awful dry and hot. li'Vn ' didn't know whether there would the . , , , instr uy wilier thcro or not, hut wo did joxu u spring with ti stream us largo us >0111 liuutilo pouring out all tlio \ llimi Ami, do you believo 1110! tho , r was dried u)> ami soakcil up bo- J by." it bad run four foot in tlio 1 ,jopnr Tbo place was covered with I A wo' i eat a.s( I trees and a little distance away darku vlint looked like a hut?a babita- "'"h*, ovorp For man. Wo went in and found rightc hriinkvii remains of four men, lienve s probably, who had died in one <mten , to judge from appearances, that o vns leaning against tbo wall in a , tlio o * position. There was dry foud | 3 table, dry meat in a box and us," c thing was burning dry. cauiuM letter in the pocket of one liinu a wor ited Liverpool, 1 H I It, and on tlio must ivas a bottle with a note in it, throne . . . . ? raphtc, itly lutended to t>e e ist udritt. again. they were four Ihiglish seamen ned by tlio captain, left to die. pcntoi >te was dated 1810, and I sup- Ho'tinn* ley had been there dead in that that gi , I . . Well' 1 r over thirty years, and they our L?>r avo died of heat one day and >'*' J Was t ight up. We left them where as that uid them."?Lewistou (Me.) on'rtVily' 1, woro on M especial iinokc Against Lightning, thisw-or u exists an <?l<i "? ? -V.UK among ! ;)7,;^llsv h that when a storm in ap? I resound, ng, a firo should l>e built in ' ^rv'prli 'p, witli as much smoko as pos- n?t a in 111 Ul 1 I ,h,< 11 lu a recent article by Sinister | Our wor ournul he shows that this can- ; than a N rational ouo, na the products ; p,r)',|0n mstiou and the smoke act as a j that cost ii. i i l'riuce ol ictive conductor to dischnrgo ! Htrnw. 'J isphero slowly but surelv. Ho i Loudon a 1 berofote rom statistics showing that out i Lend. Ti ouo thousand accidents, 0.3 | i atid 8,5 mills wero struck by j ward cam ?, while the number of clum- iTtntoinr factories was only ono in ! what vlna ireo thousand.?Philadelphia i ?<>0? of i Of what 1 , IT WW. DR. TALMAGK * ! pe Eminent Washington Divine' B j. j Sunday Sermon. ? jJTkxt: "To know Iho graco ot our Lord . JpjUH Christ, Iknt. though Ho was rich, yet fv your sake llo bectimo poor."?II Cor1 lnthlans viii., V. I That all the worlds which on n cohl wintor's night make the heavens one groat glit' , tor are withont inhabitants is no ftburdity. Scientists tell us that many of these worlds j are too hot or too cohl br too rnrellcd of atI mosphoro lot residence. But, if not lit for ; human hbotle, they may he lit for beings I different frcrn and superior to ourselves. Wo are told that tho world of Jupiter is | changing and becoming tit for creature? like ; tho human race, and that Mars would do for tho human family with a little change in tho I structure of our respiratory organs. Hut | that there is a great world swuug soinoj where, vast beyond imagination, and that it is the headquarters of tho universe and the metropolis of Immensity and has a populaj tion iu numbers vast beyond all statistics I and appointments of splendor beyond tho I capacity of canvas or poem or ungoi to de] scribe is ns *? ...... no mo itlPIo is authentic. j Perhaps some of tho astronomers with tlioir I Mr telescopes linvo already caught a glimpse of it, hot knowing whal it is. Wc spoil It with six letters and pronounced it henveh. That is where Prince Jomis lived nineteen centuries ago. He was the King's Son. It was tho old homestead of eternity, and all its castles wero as old as Clod. Not a frost had ever chlllod the air. Not a tear had over rolled ilpw.. l..u ?. Tint ut Hi. inimw- t tan'.*. 'Thero had never been a headacho or j n aete ache or a t cart ache. Thora had not [ boon a funeral in the memory of tho oldest ' inhabitant. Thoro had never in all the land " been woven a black veil, for there had never J boon anything to mourn ovor. Tho passage J of millions of years had not wrinkled or crip- 1 plod or beditnmed any of its citizens. All " tho peoplo there were in a stnto of eternal { adolescence. What floral and ponionie richness! Gardens of perpetual bloom and or- s chords tn unending fruitage. l!u<i some a spirit from another world entered and asked, What is sin? What is horoavemeut? What * Is sorrow? What is death? the brightest of f, tho intelligences would have failed to give J lefintUou, though to study tho question ' h re was silence in heaven for half an hour. Tho Prince of whom I speak had honors, 111 emoluments, acclamations such as no other prince, celestial or terrestrial, ever enjoyed, ^s He passed the street tho inhabitants took iff from their brows garlands of white lilies nid throw them in the way. Ho never < nored any of tho temples without till the worhtpers rising up and bowing in obeisance, n ail tho processions of the high days lie ras (lie one who evoked the loudest welcome, ometimes on Jfoot, walking in loving talk ritli the humblest of tho land, hut at ether el Iino-s lie took chariot, and among tho 20,h f) p, lattbe psalmist spoke of His was the swift- sti t wud most flaming, or, as when St. John ,>o escribed Him. Ho took white palfrev win. thnt - - V to ,..?uvc oi loot, and aivh of neek, anil jr>: ill oitunue, and gleam of eye is only dimly ^ i iggestod tu tho Apocalypse. IIo was not sw Uoother princes, waiting for tho Father to jn( io and thou tnko tho throne. When years jo nn artist in Oermany tnndo a picture for 10 royal gallery representing ttto Kinperor J1. 'i.'liiun on tho throno and tho Crown Prineo ' having one foot on the step of tho throne, " ' e Emperor William ordered the picture * ' augod and said, "Let tho prince keep his . Ot otT tho throno till 1 leave it." V* Already enthroned was tho heavenly t iuco side by side with tho Father. What a rolo of dominion! What multitudes of ad- '' Ircrs! What unending round of glories! 1 tho towers chimed the Prince's praises. IV u all the inhabitant9, from tho center of the ;,ai y on over the hills and clear down to the j'0" ich against which tho ocean of immensity yJ? Is its hitlows, tho Prince was tho neknowf- . 1, T'VJ ? fdVieltr. No woreb'r tit Irsl Si\vj* :'Ul. .t "Ho was rich." Set all the diamonds .j11 tho earth in one scepter, huild nil tho w." acos of tho earth in ono Alhambra, a her all tho pearls ol the sett in ono din- 1 ' a, put all tho valuos of tho earth in ono aa . n, tho aggregate could not express His *') uence. Yes, St. Paul was rigid. Solon had In gold t>80,0i 0,000 pounds, 's[ , I iu silver 1,0*20,000,077 pounds. But a tl" . ater than Solomon Is here. Not the mil!- nn aire, but tho owner of all things, 'lode- as ' ibo His celcfctinl surroundings the llilde IT0-1 sail colors, gathering them in raiuhow , u . r tho throne, and setting thorn as agate in '' templo window, and hoistiag twelve ol start n into a wall, from striped jasper at the ,,nr*i i to transparent amethyst in the capstone, ' lo between nro green of emerald, and river v of pearl, and blue ot sapphire, and Hiroi iw of topaz, gray of ehrysoprnse, ami Cu.", o of jacinth. All tho loveliness of laud- , 1 o in foliage ami river and rill and all I her nntmcnt ai|uaninrine, the sea of glass V tied with flro as when the sua sinks in ' hri: Mediterranean. Ail tlio thrill of music, ^?'ir union till and vocal, harps, trumpets, iogiae. Thorn stood the Prince, sur- ?Udii ded by Ihoso who had under their wings wr eloclty of millions of miles in a second, (l!1,v1M self rich in love, rich in adoration, rich kiudi iwer, rich in worship, rich in holiness, word n "all tho fulluess of the Godhead bod- does t swan ; ono day thoro was a big disaster in a r'',! tmcnt of God's universe, A race fallen! rid in ruins! Our planet tho scone ol ?u roptie! A globo swinging out into J'1 less, with mountains an 1 seas mid isl- ' an awful 1 -* .iiKiu 01 mii snominp to when offer ttao beautiful centripetal ol ousnoss, anil from it n i^jrosm reached n. Sueii a sound Mad never boon heard rionty of sweet sounds, l>ut uever an r of distress or an echo of agony. At "no no proan the Prince rose from all tho titled il circuinjacence and started from praoo 1 ntor Rftto and descended into the lips of of this world. Out of what a bright l'?y *1' r into what a rough soa! "Stay with 'u0*' rlod angel after angel and p dentate XV;\S lotontate, "No," said the Prineo, lion/ ^ stay. I must bo o(T for that wroek of P'1" Id. I mast stop that groan. 1 must hat int distress. I must fathom that at>yss. 1 answer redeem those Nations. Farewell, '"* s and temples, hosts clu-rublc, se- depth c urchnngelic! I will comn haek jl> carrying on my shoulder a ransomed 'fK Wl Till this Is douo I choose earthly I'10 > heavenly acclamation, and a cattle pensate t king's palace, frigid zone of earth "There isphoro of celestial radiance. 1 have 's nv>r< i to lose, for hark ye to the groan hearers otv.i mightier while i wait! Fare. Orueo t "arewell!" "Ye know the grace of JjJ'dia; d Jesus Christ, that, though II was save I ti t lor yoursakes He became poor." riches o here ever a contrast sjoverpowering stood n botweon tho noonday <?f Christ's syul. . departure and the midnight of llis asoldiei arrival? Sure enough, the angels sick am it that night in the sky, and an hospital: meteor acted as escort. Hut all ami his s from other worlds, ar.d not from the hea Id. Tho earth mado no demonstra- thobagp welcome. It ono of tho great princes night ti world u*oivj "A - ? " in n nopot, cheers a* younj and tho bands plav, and the (lac* kiiid-boa Jut for the arrival o! this mission- to 4?>mo ice of tho skio* not n torcli (hired, windriw, impot blow, not n plitttto (lattery !. was a bui iusio and ib.. >. oiM, ^'ore overhead. sicians b Id opened for ilim nothing better ;l!m *"!' irn door. " Uv. it ijnh of Cashmero sent to Queen Vie- Thai's i jdstead of carved Kohl and a canopy Thank t S7e0,b00, but the world had for the 'TJonnio Heaven and Earth only a litter of were the I lie crown jowols in tho Tower of ub t" i'11 mount to 15,000,000, hut thisineni- ilu'' 1 Her" rnal royalty had nowhere to lav His *'" s0"10 ? know how poor He was ask the reavemeni vers, ask the shepherds, ask Mary, temptatloi roe wise men of tho East,who after- many ail io to Hethlehem. To know how for tho fat fas examine ail tho records of real '^at >'?11 v ill thnt oriental country and see freo^race, yard or what Held Unowned. Not hear win fhftt mortgage was He the inortca- forever be ,vhat tenement was He the landlord'/ fine of the case was Ho the lesseeV Who ever who, thoiij vatuo pot r Klld Him rent? Hot owning the boat <1 hlcb Ho sailed. nor tho beast on which H todo, nor tho pillow on which He slopf. H had so little estate that In order to pay H g tax He had to perform a miracle, putting th amount nfn.? ? ? ? ...u iiwi'Ntinem in n flsh'w raout and haViHg it hauled ashore. Anil after Hi (loath the world rushed in to tnfco an Inven tory of His goods, nnd tho entire aggrognt was tho garments Ho had worn. Bleeping ii them by night and traveling in thorn oy day hearing on them tho dust of tho highway and tho saturation of tho sea. St. Paul ii my text hit tho mark when ho said of th< missionary Priuco, "For your Bakes Ho bo fcamo poor." Tho world could have trontod Illm iwttei If it hnd ehosen. It had all tho means foi making His earthly condition c mifortuhlo, Only a few years before, when Pompoy, tlie general. arrive I in lirindisi, lie was greeted with arelios and a eostly column which eOlebratod llio 1*2,000,(MO people whom ho hail killed or conquered, and ho was allowed to wear his triumphal roho in tho senate. Tho world had applauso for imperial butchers, hut buffeting for the Prince of Peace; plenty of golden clmiioos for the favored to drink out of. but our ' Prineo must put His lips to tho bucket of tho well by tho roadside after Ho hail beggoil for a drink. Poor? " lloru in another man's barn, and eating at another man's tnblo, and cruising tho lako in another man's Halting smack, anil buried in another man's tomb. Four inspired authors wroto His biography, nnd innumerable lives of Christ havo heon published, but Ho composocl His autobiography in n most com pressed way. Flo said, "I havo trodden tho wino press alone," Poor in tho estimation of nearly all tho prosperous classes. They called Ilirn Knl>ba'h breaker, wino bibber, t rat tor. bluauUuui? ?? -* ??.-titrxea me uicnotriry oT opprobriuni from cover to cover to express their detostatioii. I can think now of only two well to do men who espoused His cause ?Nicodomus and Joseph of AriftVhthAn. His 'riends for tho most part were pooplo-who, in hat climate where oplUhilmia or inllimmaion of the eyeball sweeps Aver and anon is a scourge, had hecoiuo blind, sick tcopio who were anxious to got well, nnd rouhlod peoplo in whose family there wa? omo one doa I or dviug. if He im.i n i (ill, it was omptyj or wo would have heard flint the soldiers did with tlm contents. \ 'oorV 'J'lio pigeon in the dovecot, the rule j it In its burrow, the silkworm in its cocoon, , 10 hoc in ii> hive Is bettor provided for, t ctter off. i>oiter sheltered. Aye, the hruto t reation has a h<>nio on earth, which Christ t ad not. A noet savs: If on win ly days the raven Gambol iike a dnnclii}* ^kilT. Not the less he loves his hnveu * On the bosom of the cliff. If almost with oa?le pinion O'er the Alps the chamois roam, Yet ho has some small dominion ' Which no doubt he calls his homo. f, But the Crown Prince of all heavenly do- ^ inion has less than the raven, less then the j lamols, for lie was homeless. Aye, in the I V story of the universe there Is no other in- j, inee of such commit down. Who can I utit the miles from the top of the throne t 1-1 the bottom of the cross? Clnopntrn, r!v- ! I' lj a banipict to Antony, took a pearl worth j ti 00,000 nn I di-.solved it in viuogar anil j n allowed it. But when our Prince, accord- | ( ; to the evangelist, in His lust hours took j iviuesrar, in it ha l been dissolved all the in arls of His heavenly royalty. I>own until i<| re was no other harassment tosulTer, pool ' til there was no other pauperism to torv. Billions of dollars spent in wars to do- 1,1 oy mos, who will furnish the statistics ol 1>< ? value of that precious blood that was l'j >d to save us? "Ye know tlte craco of oiu 0f rd Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, j for our sakes lie became poor." -l Inly those who study this text in twe I cus chb lully realito its power?the Holy i 2i} i-l of Asia Minor and the. Iioly land oi i V ivou. I wish that some day you mi^ht co tii the Holy Land and take n drink out of ui' ob's well, and take a sail on Galilee, 1 read th.. sermon on the uiuuut whtu ; M ^ idin.:; on Olivet, and see the wiidern".*? re Christ was tempted, and be some j. moon on Onlvary .at uborit J o'clock? . 1 hour at whieli closed the crucillxion? Hi} sit i udor the sy.-amore.s and by the sid( I irooks, and think and dream and pray no: ut the poverty of Him who came out v> j| s to save. But you may be denie' jV1 , and so here, in another continent ' in another hemisphere, and in scenes , lifferent as possible, wo recount as wo!. .v nay how poor was our heavenly l'riuco. nl>< in the other holy land above wo may al. are y th-- riohe.- that lie loft behind when 1ft ?v>| e l for earthly expedition. Come, let m j>,(( uin to meet each other at the door ol fj> 'ather's mansion, or on the bank of tlu ,. just where it rolls from under tin J* , ie, or at the outside Kate. Jesus Rot tin * rast by ex<!hnuf?inijtliat world for this; w? A ejot it by exchan^im; this world for that <loli i an l tlieii you will understand more o jn ] onder.sof the j?raco of our LordJesui f,,n it. who l> . n . ii" was noil, yet fo. J" jj'j sakus boon ma poor." , , !, grace, free grace. sovereign graeo , . potent grace! Anion*; tho thousand.' tdiul >rds in tho language there is no mon two ilyword. it means free and tinmeritec a p vss. My tost has no monopoly of tin Ifmi , One hundred and twonty-aino tiroes Jam tlio lijldn eulogir.o grace. It is a dooi s; i . g wide open to lot into tho pardon < ?i'-< ill tho millions who choose to entor'lt , ! n Newton snnit'of it when ho wroto: s"ltj lazing grace, how sweet tho sound, Pros at snvoil a wrotch liko mo. any lip Doddridge put it intoall liyuiuology that ho wrote: /-tied Grace, 'tis a charming Sound that Harmonious to tho onr. reus* llonven with echo shall resound, ,: And all Mto earth shall liear. v'i'll of John lhtnyan's groat-books is on- f '(Jraeo Abounding." "It is all ot .-J! that I am savod" as ha.< beon oft tho ft lift hundreds of dyinfr Christians. .Tin untny was right when, being cwnnt>r admission into church inemhership f$(?i askod, "\Vlto4o wotk was your salva ?firt And ho answer" |, "Part mino anc od's." Tliei; the examiner uskod. VI .to part did joit do, Sammy?" And tin ?2," ;1! was, "I opposed (tod all I could,and . . tho rest!" Oil, tho hnight of it. tin. d it, t ho length of it, tho breadth ot oil bin grace of (tod! Mr. Fletcher hav* soils, ritten a pamphlet that pleased ^peitr lug, tho king - offered to . coin- ' him, and Fletcher answered t'li.UM* is only rtno tiling I want, and that roturi 5 grace." Yen, My blood bought <;< <' grace to live by and grace to die by. hat saved tho publican; that saved Mat's, that saved tho dying thief; that days io jailer; that saved me. I'.ut tho poriy, f that grace will not lie fully under- mbao; nfil heaven lTVaks"in tipoii tin * \n old i'.eotolunan who had beer. u -in one ot the European wars \va? for M I dying in olio of our American Tbeju *. ilis ono desire was to seo Scot hind . ^ old home and oneo again walk ' ther of t he 'highluiid.4 and-near !el t A* ipe.s of the Scotch regijnents. The along mt the oil Scotch s ddier died jheftle ; man. somewhat reckless, hut 11 ' rted. got a company ot,.musician- bl Nei and play under the old soldier's .Jtocoie and among- the InstVhmoiit.s there "Yes gpige. Instant that Mto mil- - . egftii the dying old man in delir- istieil '! 1: ''What')* Hint? AVUAt's that? very f 's tho regiments enming home. hi* i !??? ? - * *- * * ...... Vi:.-., writs tllO tUIH'. Ki'l, 1 htivo n<.t. Iionio nr.t'f) m n>" tnrniiy Scotland hiiJ Ui>nt)io Uv'ini' < was so ad w-rds ho uttorod as h? passe I .th,. wo > liiK'hlan Is of tho bettor country, '' ' . arc bun lrods hovncsi-k for iKjay- . 1 I>(>0:01-0 voit have <* > irfuny* bo- f?t>rt\ ts, somo Ic-cans i you have so many us, somo hc-auso you havo so "How moat.?homesick, vory homesick bicycle"; herlaDd of heaven, uad tbo music r rant to hoar now Is tho soui; of , mill tho music that you want to intrttm. n you tlio is frco grace, am! f(t rJiloV for>? tlio thronoof (toil you will . , f i ";*rnw of our I.ord Jo?us Christ. '" M *h Ho was rich, for your sakes l> i- tw much \Vut>hiu> .? ^ m Y*a, yes, for your sakea! It nw*6t ? r? pleasure excursion ttr.it Ho came, for (Mffk.* [a all pain. It was not on au astronomical exit, ploratlon, for Ho knew this world op orall before Ho alighted as afterward. It w;W not I, because Ho was compelled to como, foi^JIo l? volunteored. It was not becauso It was easy, for He knew that it would bp thorn anil spikw a and hunger and thirst and voeltnrajlqii.'pf n nngry mobs. -'For yon'r saktjs!" ltwPr> wlf>d away your tears, to forgiveyottr WfAngflo} ion, to. companionship your loneliness, tc? 1 aootho your sorrows, to nlj/.vitli you by tlio 3 new made grave, to bind up your wounds . In tho ugly battlo Wfth 'tho world and bring you home at last, ^indilng up tho mists that fall on , 'vpur j dying vision with the sunlight of a glorious morn. "For your Bakes!" No; 1 will change , that. PnulTWlll not en&.eVd Christ will not I cure if I change it, for I Juiust got luto.^he blessedness of the text myself, and so Jf .say, "For our sakos!" , Ffir we all have? our temptations and bereavements and conflicts. For our sakes. We who deserve for burr sins to bo expatriated into a world ;is much poorer than this, than this earth i? poorer than heaven. For our sakes! Hut what t* frP't.tf.O - . - wiiiiuK uon-u 10 tauo us gloricwsly up' When Artnxcrxes, wits hunting, Tircbazus, who was nttoncing him. showed" the king it rent in hisgarments. Tho king said, "How shall I moml itV1' "i$y giving it td me," said Tirobazus. Then the king guvo him tlio robe, but commando.! hi in never to wear it," as it would bo inappropriate, i JJutscothe start link' and comforting faot ?while our Prince throws off the to bo .Ho not only allows us to wear it, but commands us to wear it, and it will become us well, and for thopoverties of our spiritual state wo may put on tlio splendors fir heavenly regalement. For our snkos! Oh, tho porsonality tilMfllilWMU'ftt SSifwTOSTSKbS rntu masonry, not nnfen cackle like that wliieh tho Empress Elizabeth of* HfMwln,ovcr 100 yoars ago, ordered to bo constructed, winter with itstrowol of crystals-cementing tho lingo blocks that had boon guanoed from the frozen rivers of the North, but 'our Fat iter's hnhso with tho wide heartli crackling a hearty welcome. A religion of warintit and inspiration aud light and cheer, something wo can t?ko into our hearts and homes au<l business, recreations and joys and sorrows. Not an unmanageable gilt, like (lie galley presented to Ptolemy, which remitted iOOO men to row. ind its draft of water was so grcajt that It ouhl not conic near the shoro, but somohiug you can run up any stream of auuoymee, however shallow. Enrichment uow, inriehmeut forever. ' THIS PACIFIC ItAydtOADS.: Steps Will Shortly He Taken to F.oro* elose <iovcritiiicnt Mortgages. , The President has had several c?>ncreneos of Into with the Attorney ttenrnl, tho Seerotury of the lltlternwiand ho Keeretury of the Treasury, twit It a iow to speedy action for the. udjustlent of tho ohligations of tho l'ayifitt lilroads.to the government. It'fa said ) he settled that steps will shortly ho iken for the foreclosure of the governlent's mortgage on these rnuita unless digress shall make other provision ... 4 1... " -i imr settlement of tlir question at its resent session, silvs the \V#shHrf?ton tar. Wit 11 the amount already matured, ore than S? I-h 000, OOP of the subsidy ?nds issued an behalf of tho Union icitie line, and im?re than similar bonds issued in, mid ojfjthe mtral Pnoiiic road will have fallen le and been paid or must bo pant on before the 1st. of January lmxt. itliout any reference to the applieain of the sinking fund now in treasy, this state of atl'airs will,.in the inion of the President, "create siicli trfnnlt on the part, of these compass to the government as will give it right to at o'nee institute pfbcCed;s in foreclosing its mortgage bop.'" In addition to the above indehted<s. maturing .lanuary 'tst next* thVro I mature thereafter by .lauuiyy J?st, !>, the remaining principal "of such >sidy bonds, w hich must also be met. the Government. These nggreisato int #4l,noo,oon, of which syn.tifto.ooo on account of the I'uioii, PucidciAnd ,000,000 on account of the Cen^rul itie company. lie President's position on thibtsubis stated i:i his lust annual report 'engross. * * plan for the fundjug. of il|isv-intcduess isMiow under I'onsiileration hotli houses of ('ohyress.' It- XVas nutated by the Pacific railroads epmIcc and providesgenerally tliat tho t of the Pyyitie railroads uoW'duo 1 be paid in im taH-nieufs, bearing percent, inhnVt. V^b'ndOig Mer eriod of about fitly, years.? .'i'lio ise of ltepreseu'iutivo* has s(>t aside lary ?th,' sth and '.it'll for tfie'ebnration of this liicasjM'iv j.iVit^ng joiisidcratiort'of lc..''tlalibn on this net, if is not a! a in likely that-tho lideiit w ill feel it t.ecessary to piko iuintedia'.e action, hut it isvfnbwl lie. lll'silOS to il'lM l lll' <|IICsti|l)l?SCtbeforo the end <>1' his term, ftnil if In? cmicl tides tlint there iff 110 n??lprospect of remedial lf>gi>jlilHt (his session of this Congress liu certainly dine! the institution of Insure proceedings uguinst tho ud conipuuic.s. Von iff; America Aiirnnrf. urge Mow nor, thirteen yeai*f''fild, di away from Ii'ayciieville ofr Jan. see tin' Wjl'ld. Ho !of i .llOUli.' AV.It li fft! A-hViphd ^o Syracuse, t'lifui Ua r > Now York. Ilo v,??t- :j .joH' an b07 0.1 flic sP'jjinsliiy fMa j<sp<j)liUiilid was fiitv I for a val^l. tlporgo si month in*t.hn.h it. lie and his yor w j n> (.ihoiit. and Miiut.t'hey It'll In t .olldoll. rge got :C Job on a ship going to illos. sin 1 after spending"* two tluro paid liis way 10 Ihina, Aland wont bat ik to Marseilles. Hij , liw I4given'oiii, and. after two ill the Sailors' lloino. lie shlTcd altn in the steamship Aialisthn. e ho wont to I oil Said, thotioo 7. and. finally, to Mbm. Afteflio lpn Aiiierioa1:1 consuls Uclp^dhtm from I.yons.'I'aris and Havre to ams'hip'California, which arrived v York Scumkiy. d'hiladHphitl 1 ".said Micky Stable, with a .a^t<wile? ^tl?fir*yoffift U'Tl'rtian "la ou<l of., ine?".. .How, d?>v >411 "I was calling on lier.ytiftefeniW.and "t|o"* you know slio fhoughH'iN-o'l' nty-tMurtf.n K fJiat rried. for two Injurs for fo:u**I niss the.last car,"-^tNYjtaJiiugjUWi ' v '/ - '1 ^ > ii aloiitf with tlm " asked Miss Cayenne. "Kette" x|i?*eied." replied Willie Wish* "So you ha vent last attempted " "No; 1 haven't (touu quite Hut I don't believe .I'm qu'do afraid of it as I used to be."? ;ton Star.