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w I, vmutm Wmcru. R. C. DUNN, Publisher. Terms 2 00 per year in advance. THE Amalgamated Society of En gagers, with an income of $620,000, has expended in disputes, including assistance given other trade, the sum of $4,447 less than one per cent. FATHER MCGLYNN told a New Haven reporter recently that he would not be surprised to see Card inal Gibbons elected Pope when Leo XIII died. CHICAGO calls attention to the fact that John D. Rockfeller gave her uni versity $1,000,000 as a thank-offer ing for a return of health, and incident ally mentions that Ja Gould is not feeling very well him self. PROF. H. F. GROSS of Philadelphia announces that "oysters suffer from consumption." Undoubtedly. And the gilded youth'3 pocket-book also suffers from the consumption of the ovster. HE Adams Express Company is discharging such messengers in its em ploy as belong to the Express Messen gers' Brotherhood,an organization said to be purely beneficial. The company, however, looks upon it as a labor union. HE effort of Mr. Deacon to popu larize in France the American system of avenging on her male companion the lightness of a wife has fallen flat. There is also some danger that Dea con's head will fall flat while his body remains on the other side of the guil lotine. THE Governor of North Dakota states that he wishes to secure from ten thousand to fifteen thousand men for spring and summer work in his State. Owing to a shortage of help, all of the wheat crop of North Dakota could not be threshed last fall and threshing has continued all winter. LEOPO LD BASCHKA, of Dresden Eng the celebrated artist in glass, is the guest of Professor Goodall, at Cambridge, Mass. He is on his way to Cuba and California to make a study of the flora of those regions, and will come North again for a similar purpose in the early sum mer. GEORGE MAURIER has been lec turing on "Social Pictorial Satire." He declares that his favorite creation is the "pretty woman," and that a plaster cast of the Venus de Milo has been the silent companion of his work for thirty years. The more he looked upon her the more he saw to worship and admire. THE French Tribunal of Commerce has recognised the legal status of the Omnibus Employees' Union. The men had been prosecuting the com pany for non-fulfilment of their pledges to the drivers and conductors. The Tribunal has ordered the com pany to pay one hundred francs for every day's delay in the execution of their pledges. HE illness of Dictator Fonseca of Brazil is reported hopeless. He will die with the poor consolation of knowing that his place in the history of his country will be one that will furnish a warning rather than an in centive to coming generations. An inglorious career in an inglorious country was his to enjoy. SOME of the religious people of New York are asking how Jay Gould earn ed the $10,000 he has donated to aid Presbyterian church work. This may be an important subject with de nominations which do not benefit by the gift, but the all-absorbing ques tion with the vulgar mob is the dis position the recipients will make of it. The searching of the Scriptures by the Louisiana lottery people for the purpose of showing how often ques tions were settled by lot, recalls the good old days when the same book was used to justify slavery. Slavery, however, went down, and so must the lottery. There is a general opinion that for the Pul"PD|g? of fortifying un- tenable positions trie devil himself is no slouch at quoting opposite texts. THE last Congress passed an act for the protection of miners in the terri tories, but failed to make an appro priation to carry out the provisions of the act. The president, in trans mitting memorials from several hun dred miners of the Indian territory, seeking for the appointment of an in spector under the act, recommends prompt action and a special applica tion for the salaries and other neces sary expenses of the inspectors pro vided for in the law. THENEWSSUMMARY The Latest News of the World Con densed and Arranged in Conven ient Form. Washington, Personal, Foreign, Crim inal, Casualty and Other Important News. THE CAPITAL. THE United State3 supreme court de cides that Schwab and Fielden, the Chicago Anarchists, must remain in pnsion. EX-SPEAKER HERD'S ruling about count ing a quorum is sustained by the United States supreme court. THE house committee on rules will matte the Bland free coinage bill a special order for March 21 or 22. GE*. SCHOFIELD IS busily engaged in considering the question of the annual movement of troops. THE state department received the claims offivemoreof the Baltimore's crew who were injured in the riot at Valparaiso, ag gregating $225,000. THE United States has instructed Minis ter Egan, in Chili, to havo the bodies of the Baltimore's murdered sailors. Charles Riggm and William Turnbull brought home. A PROPOSED amendment to the postofflce appropriation bill appropriating $200,000 to enable the postmaster-general to test the free delivery ot mails in country districts, was reported favorably from the commit tee by Senator Mitchell. PERSONAL. MR. GLADSTONE and his wife have re turned to London from France. SENATOR SHERMAN is about to build a mansion at Washington to cost $100,000. TOM REED'S definition of a statesman is. "A successful politicianwho is dead." THE king of Greece speaks 12 languages and lie needs them all when he is explain ing little matters to his wife. THE emperor of Austria keeps up a week ly correspondence with the .pope, but he doesn't give copies to the newspapers^ EX-CONGRESSMAN MORRILL has an nounced himselt a candidate for the Re publican nomination for governer of Kan sas. THE New York Herald says that Mine, de Barrios, widow of the late dictator of Guatemala, is shortly to be married to Jose de Roda, a Spanish grandee, who has arrived here to visi his iuture bride. Mme. Barrios is noted for her wealth, beauty and accomplishments. Her iortune is estimat ed at $10,000,000. CASUALTIES. THREE hundred lives or more are lost in a storm off the Portugese coast. THE west-bound Baltimore & Ohio lim ited was wrecked at Goodwin's cut, near Clarksburg, W Va Fifteen people were in jured, two probably iatally. IN Savannah, Ga., an explosion of a sta tionary boiler occurred at the Savannah, Florida & Western railroad round house, killing iour men and wounding many others. THREE children, Orpha Strader, Zoe Strader and Roy Simpson, perished in the flames which destroyed the residence of John Simpson of Seattle, Wash. Simpson and Wife, with their two-year-old baby, barely escaped with their lives. The American Straw Board Company's mill at Chesterton. Md has been destroyed bv fire, together with all the machinery. The original cost ot the plant is said to have been $170,000. Supposed to be in sured. A FIRE broke out amone some barrels ot oil in the storehouse of Mather Bjotherj' wholesale grocers of Albany, N. Y., and destroyed about $250,000 worth of proper ty. Thefirewas confined to the building where it started. HENRY SEYMOUR, a brakeman on the Winona & Southwestern road, received iatal injuries at Bear creek, near Winona, Minn. The locomotive passed over his body mangling it in a terrible manner. He was broufchtto Winona-for surgical treat ment. He came a lew weeks ago Ironi Des Moines, Iowa. It was his hrst trip and he bad been out two hours. THE WICKED WORLD. AT Springfield, 111., Joseph Jackson ac cused John Couch of ruining Ins daughter and ordered Couch to marry the girl. Couch twice refused and Jackson shot him dead. Jackson gave himself up. IN the case of Carl Woods the New York court of appeals affirmed the sentence of death. Woods murdered Leander Pasco. He will be sentenced to die by electricity, at Clinton prison. EX-CITY COUNCILMAN MORIARITY, Tutlle and Madsen, the ex-Street Commissioner Flannerty were arrested in Omaha as the result of indictments lound bv the grand lury recently. Thev are charged with Doodling while in office. J. A. TORIAN, once a wealthy planter, came to Memphis recently to get supplies for the co nnng year The low price of cot ton caused all merchants and bankers to refuse him credit, and, smarting under the humiliation, he killed himself. Two men, who pretended to be officers, abducted Stephen Van Clew", aged seventy, from his house near Bear Hill, Ark. They were captured by Van Clew's wife and son, after they had robbed and murdeiedthe old man and flung his body in a gully. One of the murderers was shot while attempt ing to escape and the other was turned over to the authorities. FOREIGN. A DISPATCH from St. Vincent, Cape Verds Btates that an earthquake has been lelt there. CHILE has bought new warships in Eu rope. One is of a similar typo to the Capt. Pratt. FEARING an aggravation of the financial crisis, the king of Greece dismisses the cab~ met. The latter refuses to vacate. A SCAFFOLD upon which a number of men were working .in a Liverpool dock col lapsed and thirteen ol them were injured. Eight of them are in a critical condition. The Queensland government has decided, in consequence of the large number of un employed workmen in the colony, to pro hibit immigration for the present. The list of subscribers to the Burgomas ter's fund for the relief of the unemployed in Vienna is headed by the emperor with a contribution ot $2,500. THERE is great anxiety at Valparaiso to learn if the United States intends to ask Chile for all the indemnity claimed by the Baltimore's sailors. It3 size causes much comment. IT is said by high authority to be the in tention of the pope to appoint at the next conclave more foreign cardinals than Ital ian in order to establish a certain equilib rium in the college of cardinals. FAMINE prevails in Northern Hungary, and 20,006 inhabitants of the county ol THE RAILROADS. SPORTING MATTERS. THEKimmick-Peckham fight proved the biggest fiasco of the year. PUBLIC sparring exhibitions have been stopped by the police in Chicago. EXPERIMENTS are being ma^e with spar rows for trap-shooting purposes. MIKE BODEN wants to fight Jim Hall to a finish. It ought to be a snap for Jim. YALE and Harvard are having great trouble in arranging dates for base ball matches. ST Louis is jealous of Cincinnati. "Von der" would like Comiskey, but doesn't like to say so. CATCHER JOHN GRIM, over whom Pitts burg and Louisville have had such a con troversy, has signed with the latter club. SOME Cincinnati cranks want Parisian Bob Caruthers lasoe for the Reds' collec tion of twirlers. Washington also wants him. IF contrast with former years the Wash ington team this year presents the best balanced aggregation of young and old talent in the league. I' THE TOILERS. FOUR hundred and forty thousand miners in Great Britain threaten to strike against a reduction ot wages. This would affect 1,000,000 men. EVERY Knight of Labor assembly in the country has been instructed to secure sig natures of those favoring the passage of the bill which gives the people the power of electing their representatives in the senate. WORK has been resumed at Jackson Park. Chicago. The workmen get an increase of 24 cents an hour, or half what they de manded. The strikers sign contracts not to demand another increase until the world's fair work is completed. THE strike among the switchmen of the Illinois Central railroad atCairo terminated, the road allowing the yardmaster to issue orders to switchmen instead of the local agent, as heretofore. All trains that were delayed here have gone out and everything is quiet. MISCELLANEOUS. Vrva are in a state of distress equaling that 1 /\TmT^AT ATI Tr-nn prevalent in Russia. The government wiU QUEEN O SHEB A not relieve the suffer^s^because they are ol the Slay race. IT is probable that in the coining spring the quaiantine ol ninety days imposed up on cattle coming into the Northwest from Montana territory will be applied tp cattle entering British Columbia lrom Washing ton and Oregon territories. PREMIER ABBOTT'S government has been more than sustained in the bye-elections, nine constituencies having been gained by the government candidates, while one has been lost. The government's majority in ihe house now la fifty-one. The Liberal party is utterly disheartened. WHITELAW REID, the American minister, and Jules Roche, minister of commerce, arrived at a definite agreement for the establishment of a commercial treaty be tween France and the United States. M. Roche will introduce a bill in the chamber of deputies to ratify the agreement. A dispatch from Rome says that tho pope recently sent instructions to the pa pal nuncio in this city urging him to further the formation of a Repubhcau Con servative party in the chamber ot depu ties, -this new party to act in the interests of the Vatican, and to oppose the spread of radicalism. A sugar and coffee firm of Antwerp has failed, with liabilities ot 2,000,000 francs. The will of the late Lord Lytton has just been published. The 75,270 is entailed. Two-thirds of the income goes to the widow during her life, and there are legacies to the daughters and others. All copywrights of published and unpublished writings go to the widow. A VAIVARAISO dispatch to tho Herald says Ministers, Periera and Blanco have re signed from the cabinet, and Carlos Walk er Martinez has retired from the council oi state. All three of the members of the Conservative party have likewise left the council. It is generally believed that the other members of the cabinet will like wibe surrender their portfolios. THE New York Central is said to have ac quired control of the Delaware, Lackawan na & Hudson railway, J. V. M\HONEY, the retiring traffic man ager of the Sioux City & Northern, has be come connected with a large packing com pany, as general manager. THE officials of the Pennsylvania railroad deny that the Pennsylvania was in any way interested in the rumored acquisition of the Delaware and Hudson by the New York Central road. A RUMOR is in circulation that C. P. Huntington, president of the Southern Pa cific Railroad company, intends to visit Mexico shortly to complete the arrange ments for the transfer of the Mexico Gulf raiload to the Southern Pacific system. SILVER ore is said to have been found near Tiffin, Ohio. TELEGRApn rates in the West and Northwest are to be reduced March 1. LUMBERMEN objected to placing lumber on thefirstlist. A TABLE compiled by a Washington correspondent shows that the Democrats favor a Western man for president. J. M. SAMUELS, chief of the department of horticulture, world's fair, has issued a circular urging that a horticultural exhibit be made at the fair. SECRETARY BLAINE gives to the press an exhaustive statement of the circumstances connected with the unhappy marriage and divorce of his &on, James G, Jr. JOHN DASHIEL, once a prominent mer chant, fell dead Memphis, jus after closing a contract with Kirk Allen and saying, "I'll do it if 1 die." The house adopts an amendment tf the Indian appropriation bill providing for the appointment of army officers as Indian agents when vacancies occur, such officers when acting as agents to be under the di rection of the secretary of the inteiior. JUDGE ALLEN, of the United States dis trict court at Springfield, III., renders a decision which goes far toward knocking out the interested commerce law. He de cides that congress cannot regulate rates between points in this country and Cana da. THE Mollie Gibson, the treasure trove of Aspen, Colo., will distribute a dividend of $328,000 among stockholders of record for March. It it estimated that the April dividends will amount t& $400,000. This is the greatest dividend ever paid in one month by any silver mine in the world. Beside these immense dividends the com pany has a reserve fund of $850,000. ARRANGEMENTS have been made by the friends and relatives of Riggin and Turn bull, tho two sailors who were killed in Valparaiso last October, .to bring their re mams to the United States for interment. It is understood that the various transpor tation companies between Valparaiso and the points selected for final interment have tendered free transportation for the re mains and escort. A Wa KJd-LXJIJIX. Surprised When She the Glory of Solo- mon. Behold Great"Surprises Are in Store in Heaven tfor those Who Serve God While on Earth. BROOKLYN, N. Y.,Sperial.The congregation at the Tabernacle listen ed to a glowing description of the magnificence of Solomon which Dr. Talmage likened to the glories of the Christian religion, which would, he said, be a surprise to all who tried it for themselves. His text Was: 1 Kings 10:7. "Behold, the half was not told me." Solomon had resolved that Jerusa lem should be the center of all sacred, regal and commercial magnificence. He set himself to work and monopo lized the surrounding desert as a high way for his caravans. He built the city of Palmyra around one of the principal wlls of the East, so that all the long trains of merchandise from the East were obliged to step there, pay toll, and leave part ot their wealth in the hands of Solomon's merchants. He manned the fortress Thapsacus at the chief ford oi the Euphrates, and put under guard everything that pass ed them. The three great products of Palestinewine pressed from the rich est clusters and celebrated all the world over oil which in that hot country is the entire substitute tor butter and lard, and was pressed from the olive branches until every tree in the country became an oil well and honey was the entire substitute for sugarthese three great products of the country Solomon exported, and received in return fruits and precious woods and the animals of every clime. He went down to Ezion-geber and ordered a fleet of ships to be construc ted, oversaw the workmen, and watch ed THE LAUNCHING OF THE FLOTILLA which was to go out on more than a year's voy ace to bring home the wealth of the then known world. heard that the Egyptian horses were large and swift, and long-maned and round limbed, and he resolved to purchase them, giving $85 apiece for them, put ting the best of these horses in his own stall and selling the surplus^ to foreign potentates at great profit.' He heard that there was the best of timber on Mount Lebanon, and he sent out 180,000 men to hew down the forest and drag the timber through the mountain gorges, to construct it into rafts to be floated to Joppa, and from thence to be drawn by ox teams 25 miles across the land to Jerusalem. He heard that there were beautiful flowery in other lands. He sent for them, planted them in his own gar dens, and to this very day there are flowers found in the ruins of that city such as are to be found in no other part of Palestine, the lineal descend ants of the very flowers that Solomon planted. He heard that in foreign groves there were birds of richest voice and most luxuriant wing. sent out people to catch them and bring them there and he put them into his cages. Stand back now and see this long train of camels coming up to the king's gate, and the ox-trams from Egypt, gold and silver and precious stones, and beasts of every hoof, and birds of every wing, and nsh of every scale! See the peacocks strut under the cedars, and the horsemen run, and the chariots wheel! Hark to the orchestra! Gaze upon the dance! No stopping to look into the wonders of the temple, step right on to the causeway, and pass up to Solomon's palace! Here we find ourselves amid a col lection of buildings on which the king had lavished THE WEALTH OF MANY EMPIRES. The genius of Hiram, the architect, and of the other artists is here seen in the long line of corridors and the sus pended gallery and the approach to the throne. Traceried window oppo site traceried window. Bronzedorna. ments bursting into lotus and lily and pomegranite. Chapiters surrounded by net-work of leaves in which imi tation fruit seemed suspended as in hanging baskets. Three branchesso Joseph tells usthree branches sculp tured on the marble, so thin and subtle that even theleaves seemed to quiver. A laver capable of holding 500 barrels of water on 600 brazen ox-heads, which gushed with water and filled the whole place with cool ness and crystalline brightness and musical plash. Ten tables chased with chariot wheel and lion the cheru bim. Solomon sat on a throne of ivory. At the seating-place of the throne, on each end of the steps, a brazen lion. Well, my friends, in that place they trimmed their candles with snuffers of gold, and they cut their fruits with knives of gold, and they washed their faces in basins of gold, and they scooped out the ashes with shovels of gold, and they stirred their altar fires with tongs of gold. Gold reflected in the water! Gold flashing from the apparel! Gold blazing in the crown! Gold! gold! gold! Of course the news of the affluence of that place went out everywhere by every caravan and by wing of every ship, until soon the streets of Jerusa lem are crowded with curiosity seekers. What is that long procession ap proaching Jerusalem? I think from the pomp of it there must be royally in the train. I smell THE BREATH OF THE SPICES which are brought as presents, and I hear the shout of the drivers, and I see the dust-covered caravan showing that they come from far away. Cry the news up to the palace. The Queen of Sheba advances. Let all the peo ple come out to see. Let the mighty men cf the land come out on the pal ace corridors. Let Solomon come down the stairs of the palace before the queeu has alighted. Shake out the cinnamon, and the saffron, and the calamus, and the frankincense, and pass it into the treasure house. Take up the diamonds until they glitter in the sun. The queen of Sheba alights. She enters the palace. She washes at the bath. She sits down at the banquet. The cupbearers bow. The meat smokes. You hear the dash of water from the molten sea. Then she arises from the banquet, and walks through the conservatories, and gazes on the architecture, and she asks Solomon many strange questions, and she learns about the religion of the He brews, and she then and there becomes a servant of the Lord God. She is overwhelmed. She begins to think that all the spices she brought, and all the precious woods which are intended to be turned into harps and psalteries and into railings for the causeway between the temple and the palace, and the $180,000 in money she begins to think that all these presents amount to nothing in such a place, and she is almost ashamed that she has brought them, and she say? within herself: "I heard a great deal about this wonderful religion of the Hebrews, but I find it far bevond my highest anticipations. I must add more than 50 per cent to what has been related. It exceeds everything that I could have expected. The halt the half was not told me." Learn from this subject what a beautiful thing it is when social position and wealth SURRENDER THEMSELVES TOGOP. When religion comes to a neighbor hood the first to receive it are the women. Some men say it is because they are weak-minded. I say it is be cause they have quicker perception of what is right, more ardent affection and capacity for subhmer emotion. After the women have recieved the gospel then all the distressed and the poor of both sexes, those who have no friends, accept Jesus. Last of all come the people of affluence and high social position. Alas, that it is so' If there are tho&e here today who have been favored of fortune, or, as I might better put it, favored of God, surrender all you have and all you except to be to the Lord who blessed this Queen of Sheba. I bless God that the day is coming when royalty will bring all its thrones, and music all its harmonies, and paintings all its pictures, and sculp ture all its statuary, and architecture all its pillars, and conquest all its sceptres and the queens of the earth, in long line of advance, frankincense filling the air and the camels laden with gold, shall approach Jesusalem, and the gates shall be hoisted, and the great burden of splendor shill be lifted into the palace of this greater than Solomon. Again, my subject teaches me what is earnestness in the search of truth. Do you know where Sheba was? It was in Abyssinia, or some say in the southern part of Arabia Felix. In either case it was a great way off from Jerusalem. get from there to Jerusalem she had to cross a coun try infested with bandits, and go across blistering deserts. Wh did not the Queen of Sheba stay at home and send a committee to inquire about THE NEW RELIOTON, and have the delegates report in re gard to that religion and wealth of King Solomon? She wanted to see for herself, and hear for herself. She could not do this by work of commit tee. She felt she had a soul worth 10,000 kingdoms like Sheba, and she wanted a robe richer than any woven by oriental shuttles, and she wanted a crown set with the jewels of eternity. Bring out the camels. Pu on the spices. Gather up the jewels of the throne and put them on the caravan. Start now no time to be lost. Goad on the camels. When I see that cara van, dust-covered, weary and exhaus ted, trudging on across the desert and among the bandits until it reaches Jerusalem, I say. "There is an earn est seeker after the truth." The religion of the Lord Jesus Christ will not come to you you must go and get religion. Bring cut the camels put on all the sweet spices, all the treasures of the heart's affection. Start for the throne. Go in and hear the waters of salvation dashing in fountains all around about the throne. Sit down at the banquet the wine pressed from the grapes of the heavenly Eschol, the angels of God the cup-bearers. God help me to break up the infatuation of those peo ple who are sitting down in idleness expecting to be saved. "Strive to en ter in at the strait gate. Ask, and it shall be given you seek, and shall find knock, and it shall be opened to you." Take the kingdom ot heaven by violence. Urge on the camels! Again, my subject impresses rae with the fact that RELIGION IS A SURPRISE to any one that gets it. This story of the new religion in Jerusalem, and of the glory of King Solomon, who was a type of Christthat story rolls on and on, and is told by every travel er coming back from Jerusalem. The news goes on the wing of every ship and with every caravan, and you know a story enlarges as it is retold, and by the tim9 that story gets down into the southern part of Arabia Felix, and the Queen of Sheoa hears it, it must be a tremendous story. And yet this queen declares in regard to it, although she had heard so much and had her anticipations raised so high, the halfthe half was not told me. So religion is always a surprise to any one that gets it. The story of gracean old story. Apostles preach ed it with rattle of chain martyrs declared it with arm of fire death-beds have affirmed it with visions of glory, and ministers of religion have sounded it through the lanes, and the high ways, and the chapels, and the cathe drals. It has been cut into stone with chisel, and spread on the canvas with Soxology encil and! it has been recited in the of the great congregations. And yet when a man first comes to look on the palace of God's mercy, and to see the rovalty of Christ, and the wealth of this banquet, and the luxuriance ot his attendants, and the loveliness of his face andhthetriumphs:shifoyjoWlfc service, he exclaims with prayeis, with mu8'u lfcll, 8 ghs "The halfthe half was not told me'" IT IS THE OLD STORY. Everybody tells it. Isaiah told it, John told it, Paul told it, E/ekiel told it, Luther told it, Calym told it John Milton told iteverybody tells it and yetand yet when the mid night shall fly the hills, and Christ shall marshal his great army, and China, dashing her idols into the dust, shall hear the voice of God and wheel into line and India, destroying her Juggernaut and snatching up her little children from the Ganges, shall hear the voice of God and wheel into line and vine-covered Italy, and all the nations of the earth 'shall hear the voice of God and fall into line then the church which has been toiling and struggling through the centuries, robed and garlanded like a bride adorned for her husband, shall put aside her veil and look up into the face of her Lord and King and say "The half the half was not told me!" Well, there is coming a greater sur prise to every Christiana greater surprise than anything 1 have de picted. Heaven is an old story. Ev erybody talks about it. There is hardly a hymn in the hymn book that does not refer to it. Children read about it in Sabbath school book. Aged men put on their spectacles to study it. We say it is a harbor from the storm. We call it our home. We say it is a house of many mansions. We weave together all sweet, beauti ful, delicate, EXHILARANT WORDS we weave them into letters, and then we spell it out rose and lily and amaranth. And yet that place is go ing to be a surprise to the most intel ligent Christian. Like the Queen of Sheba, the report has come to us from a far country, and many of us have started. It is a desert march but we urge on the camel. What though our feet be blistered on the way 9 We are hastening to the palace. We take all our loves and hopes and Christian ambition, as frankincense and myrrh and cassia to the great King. W must not halt. The night is coming on and it is not safe out here in the desert. Urge on the camels. I see the domes against the sky, and the houses of Lebanon, and the" temples and the gardens. See the fountains dance in the sun and the gates flash as they open to let the poor pilgrims. Send the word up to the palace that we are coming, and that we are wearv of the march of the desert. The King will come and say "Welcome to the palace bathe in these waters, incline on these banks. Take this cinnamon and frankincense and myrrh and put it upon a censer and swing it before the altar." And yet, my friends, when heaven bursts upon us it will be a greater surprise than thatJesus on the throne and we made like him' All our Christian friends surrounding us in glory! Ail our sorrows and tears and sins gone by forever! The thous ands and thousands, the one hundred and forty and four thousand, the great multitudes that no man can number, will cry, world without end- "Thehalf the half was not told us'" BENEVOLENCE PAYS. At Least It Does If Yo Stand In With tho Recipient. A crowd was gathered in the hotel smoking-room, and a stranger, some what seedy, but of gentlemanly man ners, entered without causing any par ticular remark. Presently there came from without the mechanical notes of a piano organ. The stranger arose, went to the window, and looked out for a moment, and then said in sympathetic tones, "Hard lines .for poor fellow to go about the streets playing lively tunes that must be ex quisite sarcasm to one in his forlorn condition. Come, gentlemen, let us take up a collection. I'm not wealthv, but I'll start it with a half dollar/' So said, he took off his hat and, after dropping a half dollar into it, passed it around. All responded more or less liberally, and with a brisk step the stranger went out to make the organist happy. It is probable that he succeeded, says the Boston Tran script, for a few moments later the stranger and the musician were divid ing the benefaction equally between themselves MI a familiar way, which would seem to indicate that they were partners in a common enter prise, especially in vi-iw of the fact that the stranger pocketed a half dol* lar before the allotment began. FATHER STICK. Brutality in England in the Time of George II. The flogging in the army and navy is appalling to think of. That carried on ashore is a subject of some Obscur ity. The punishment of whipping has never been taken out of our laws. Garroters and robbers who are vio lent are still flogged, and boys birch ed. I know not when they ceased to flog men through the streets at the cart tail, nor \vhen they left off flogg ing women. The practice certainly continued well into the century. In the prisons it was a common thing to flog the men. As for the severity i the laws protecting property, one il lustration will suffice. What can be thought of laws which allowed the hanging of two children for stealing a purse with two shillings and a brass counter in it? Something, however, may be said for Father Stick. or dered everthing. Without him noth ing could be done. Men were flogged into drill and discipline, they were flogged into courage, they were flogged into obedience boys were flogged into learning prentices were flogged into diligence women were flogged into virture. Father Stick has" still his disciples, but in the last century he was king.Harper's Magazine. 1 *&: