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KEY. DR. TALMA.GE | SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: "Woman and Her Sacri nces#" Text: "To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal to show the people and the princes her beauty, for she was fair to look on. But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandments by his chamberlains; therefore was the king very wroth, and bis anger burned him."?Esther i., 11, 12. We stand amid the palaces of Shusham. The pinnacles are aflame with the mornins light. Tbe columns rise festooned and wre.-ithpri. thp wealth of pmnlres flashinc from the erooves, the ceilings 'adorned with g image* of bird and beast and scenes of powers and conquest. The walls are hung s with shields and emblazoned until it seems t that the whole round of splendors is ex- t hausted. Each arch is a mijrhty leap of t architectural achievement. GoU'en stars a shining down on glowing arabesque. Hang- j; inss of embroidered work in which mincle \ the blueness of the sky, the greenness of the c grass and the whiteness of the sea foam. 3 Tapestries hune on silver rinjrs, weddinc to- e gether the pillars of marble. Pavilions r reaching out in every direction. These for t repose, filled with luxuriant couches, into which weary limbs sink until all fatigue is A submerged. These for carousal, where c kings drink down a kingdom at one swallow. A Amazing spectacle! Light of silver dripping h down over stairs of ivory on shields of srold. d y. Floors of stained marolo, sunset red ana gi nicht black and inlaid with gleaming pearl. Why, it seems as if a heavenly vision of ame- tl thyst and jacinth anJ'topaz and chrysoprosus c had descended and alighted upon Shnshan. h It seems as if a billow of celestial glory had b dashed clear over heaven's battlements upon B this metropolis of Persia. ri In connection with this palace there is a o garden where the mighty men of foreign ti lands are seated nt a bauqaet. Under the p spread of oak and linden and acacia the T tableware arranged. The breath of honey- si suckle and frankincense fills the air. Foun- y tains leap up into the light, the spray struck ii through with rainbows falling in crystalline h baptism upon flowery shrubs, then rolling e' down through channels of marble and p widening out here and there into pools d swirling with the finny tribes of foreign d aquariums,' bordered with scarlet annem- ft omes. hypericums and many colored p ranunculus. Meats of rarest Dird and beast a; smoking up amid wreathes of aromatics. b The vases filled with apricots and almonds, tl The baskets piled up with apricots and ci dates and figs and oranges and pomegran- ai ate3. Melons tastefully twined with leaves of acacia. The bright waters of Eulseus filling 1( the urns and sweating outside the rim in a flashing beads amid the traceries. Wine si from the royal vats of Ispahan and Shiraz. a in bottles of tinsed shell, and lily shaped tf cups of silver and flagons and tankards "of w solid gold. The music rises higher, and the g revelry breaks out into wilder transport, ii ^ .-- and the wine has flushed the cheek ana tl touched the brain, and louder than all t< other voices are the hiccough of tue tne- fl briates. tbe gabble of fools and the song of ic the drunkards. a In another part of tbe palace Queen ti Vashti is entertaining th6 princesses of Persia n at a banquet. Drunken Ahasuerus says to ai his servants, "You go out and fetch Vashti from that banquet with the women, and E bring her to this banquet with tbe men, and lc let me display her beauty." The servants T immediately start to obey the king's com- s< mand, but there was a rule in oriental so- tl ciety that no woman might appear in public bi without having her face veiled. Yet here w was a mandate, and no one dare dispute, de- c< manding that Vashti come in unveiled be- ti fore the multitude. However, there was in st Vashti's soul a principle more regal than e Ahasuerus. more brilliant than the gold of Shushaa, of more wealth than the realm of Persia, which commanded her to disobey this order of the king, and so all the righteousness and holiness and modesty of her T oature rises up into one sublime refusal. t( She says, "I will not go into the banquet unveiled." Of course Ahasuerus was infuriate, *{ and Va3bti, robbed of her position and her " estate, is driven forth in poverty and ruin to S suffer the scorn of a nation and yet to re- y ! ceive the applause of after generations who S j shall rise up to admire this martyr to kingly r' insolence. ?eu, me iasi vestige 01 tuat feast is prone; the last garland has faded: Jj the last arch has fallen; the last tankard has * I been destroyed, and Shushan Is a ruin. But c as long as the world stands there will be n 3 multitudes of men and women, familiar a with the Bible, who will come into this pic- c A ture gallery of God and admire the divine >' H portrait of Vashti the queen, Vashti the si veiled, Vashti the sacrifice, Vashti the G silent. si H In the first place, I want you to look upon J B Vashti the queen. A blue ribbon, rayed with _ H white, drawn around her forehead, indi- #( H eated her queenly position. It was no small . honor to bo que n in such a realm as that. * Hark to the rustle of her robes! Seethe* n blaze of her jewels! And ye , my friends, it _ H is not necessary to have palace and regal h in r?rrl<?r tr? nnp^nlv Whftn T cpm n. 1 woman with strong faith in God putting her j? foot upon all meanness and selfishness and godless display, going right forward to serve ? Christ and the race by a grand and glorious ? service, I say, "That woman is a queen," * and the ranks of heaven look over the bat- ? tlements upon the coronation, and whether she come up from the shanty on the commons or the mansion of the fashionable square, I greet her with the shout: "AH hail! Queen Vashti." What glory was there on the brow of Mary of Scotland, or Elizabeth . of England, or Margaret of France or Catherine of Kussia, compared with the worth of some of our Christian mothers, many of g them gone into glory?or of that woman 7 mentioned in the Scriptures, who put all t her money into the Lord's treasury?or ot Jephthah's daughter, who made a dem- t onstration of unselfish patriotism?or of Abigail, who rescued the herds and flocks of her husband?or of Ruth, who toiled under a tropical sun for poor old, helpless Naomi?or of Florence Nightingale, who went at midnight to stanch the battle wounds of the Crimea? or of Mrs. Adoniram Judson, who kindled the lights of ta'vation amid the t darkness of Burmah?or of Mrs. Hemans, t who poured out herholysoul in words which s will forever be associated with hunter's horn t and captive's chain and bridal hour and t lute's throb and curfew's knell at the dying t day?and scores and hundreds of women, c unknown on earth who have given water to 3 the thirsty and bread to the hungry and t medicine to the sick and smiles to the dis- t Icoirajied?their footsteps heard along dark f lane and in government hospital and in 5 almshouse corridor and by prison gate? t There may be no royal robe?there may be ? no palatial surroundings. She does not naed f them, (or all charitable men will unite with f the crackliDg lips of fever struck hospital i I and plague blotched lazaretto in greeting : her as <jhe passes: "Hail! Hail! .Queen YasliiL" Again, I want you to consider Vashti the veiled. Had she appeared before Ahasuerus 1 and his court on that day with her face uncovered she would have shocked all the delicacies of oriental society, and the very mea . who in their intoxication demanded that she ' jcome in their sober moments would have de- j ppised her. As some flowers seem to thrive j pest in the dark lane and in the shadow and ' [where the sun does not seem to reach them, ; bo God appoints to most womanly natures a retiring and unobtrusive spirit God once * an n while does call an Isabella to a throne. ' pr a Miriam to strike the timbrel at the front ' pf a host, or a Marie Antoinette to queil a ] [French mob, or a Deborah to stand at the front of an armed battalion, crying out: 1 I'Up, up! This is the day in which the Lord ' will deliver Sisera into thine hand." And ; ^rhen women are called to such outdoor irnrir and to such heroic Dosition.-> God I prepares them for it, and they have iron in their souis and lightning in their eye, and whirlwinds in their breath, and the borrowed strength of the Lord Omnipotent in their right arm. They walk through furnaces as though they were hedges ol wild flowers and cross seas as thouirh they were shimmering bapphire, and all the harpies of hell down to uieir dungeon at the stamp of her womanly indignation. But these are the exceptions. Generally Dorcas would rather make a garpent for the poor boy. Rebecca would lather till the trough for the camels. Hanlah would rather make a coat for Samuel, fiie Hebrew maid would rather erive a pre[cripiion for Xaiiman's leprosy. The women If Sarepta would rather gather a few sticks I) cook a meal for famished Elijah. Phoebe 1-ould rather carry a letter for the inspired postle. Mother Lois would rather educate Emnthv In the Serlnturea. I When 1 see a woman going about her dally | i I * i iuty, with cheerful dignity presiding at the able, with kind and gentle but Arm discipline pre&idinp in the nursery, going out into j ?..nr. Kloaf nf trn mnets, fol uo wunu vvuuuui auj --r- , , owing in the footsteps of Him who went ibout doing good, I say,"This is Vashti with a reil on.1' But when I see a woman of unblushing boldness, loud-voiced, with a ongue of infinite clitter clatter, with arro?ant look, passing through the streets with he step of a walking beam, gayly arrayed in i very hurricane of millinerv, I cry out, 'Vashti ha? lost her veil!" When 1 see a voman of comely features, and of adroitness )f intellect, and endowed will all that the icbools can do for one, and of high social >osition. yet moving in society with super:iliousness and hauteur, as though shejwould lave people know their place, and an undeIned combination of triggle and strut and hodomontade, endowed with allopathic tuantities of talk, but only homeopathic ininitesimals of sense, the terror of dry goods j ilerks and railroad conductors, discoverers ' >f significant meanings in plain conversa- ' ion, prodigips of balinasre and innuendo. I av: "Look, look! Vashti has lost her veil!" Aca'n. I want vou to consider Vashti the j acriflce. Who is this I see coming out of hat palace gate of Shushan? It seems to me 1 hat I have seen her before. She comes ' tomeless, houseless, friendless, trudging 1 ilong with a broken heart. Who is she? It 1 s Vashti the sacrifice. Oh, what a change it ' ras from regal position to a wayfarer's ' riiit' a utile while aeo approved and 1 oucbt for: now none so poor ns to acknowl- ] di?e her acquaintanceship. Vashti the 3aeiflce! Ah, you and I have seen it many a imp! Here is a home empalaced with beauty. lIi that refinement and books and wealth an do for that home has been done, but ibasuerus, the husband and father, is taking old on paths of sin. He is crartually ffoinf? own. After awhile he will flounder and trugsrle like a wild beast in the hunter's net -farther away from God, farther away from 30 right. Soon the bright apparel of the bildren will turn to rags; soon the houseold song wiil become the sobbing of a roken heart The old story over again, rutal centaurs breaking up the mariage feast of Lapithae. The house full f outrage and cruelty and abominaon, while trudging forth from the alace gate are Yashti and ber children, here are homes that are in danger of ich a breaking up. Oh, Ahasuerus, that ou should staud in a home, by a dissipated fe destroy the peace and comfort of that ome. God forbid that your children should rer hnve to wrintr their hands and have Deo le point their finger at them as they pass own the street and say, "There goes a runkard's child." God forbid that the little set should ever have to trudge the path of overtv and wretchedness. God forbid that ay evil spirit born at the wine cup or the randy glass should come forth and uproot lat garden, and with a lasting blistering, all 5nsuming curse shut forever the palace gate traiJist Vashti and the ohildren. During the war I went to Hatrerstown to >ok at the army, and I stood in the night on hilltop and looked down upon them. I iw the campflres all through the valleys ad all over the hills. It was a weird specicle, those campflres, and I stood and atched them, and the soldiers who were atherine around them were, no doubt, talkig of their homes and of the long march ley had taken and of the battles they were > fight. But after awhile I saw these campres begin to lower, and they continued to >wer until they were all gone out and the rmy slept. It was imposing when I saw le campflres; it was imposing in the darkess when I thought of that great host sleep. Well, God looks down from heaven, and !e sees the firesides of Christendom and the >ved ones gathered around these firesides. ] hese are the eampflr^s where we warm our- i jives at the close of the day and talk over i le battles of life we have fought and the ] attlesthat are yet to come. God grant that i hon at last these fires begin to go out and i jntinue to lower, until finally they are exngj ished and the ashes of consumed hopes :rew the hearth of the old homestead, it lay be because we have Gone to sleep that last loan sleep From which none ever wako to weep. j Now we are an army on the march of life. , hen we will be an army bivouacked In the i int of the grave. i Once more I want ycu to look at Vashtl le silent. You do not* hear any outcry from lis woman as she eoes forth from the palace ate. From the very dignity of her nature, ou know there will be no vociferation, ometlmes in life it is necessary to make a stort; sometimes in life it is necessary to esist, but there are cries when the most 1 riumphant thing to do is to keep silence. i 'he philosopher, confident in his newly dis- i overed principle, waiting for the coming of lore intelligent generations, willing that i len should laugh at the lightning rod and otton gin and staimboat?waiting for long < ears through the scoffing of philosophical :hools, in grand and magnificent silence, kililei, condemned by mathematicians and i jientists, caricatured everywhere, yet waitig and watching with his telescope to see be coming up of stellar re-enforcements, i rhen the stars in their courses would fight 3r the Copernican system, then sitting down 1 complete blindness and deafness to wait jr the coming on of the generations who rould build his monument and bow at his rave The reformer, execrated by his coniem oraries, fastened in a pillory, the slow fir f nublic contemr.t burning under him round under the cylinders of the printin; ress, yet calmly waiting for the day whei urity of soul and heroism of character wil :et the sanction of earth and the plaudits cf leaven. Affliction, enduring without an] omplaint the sharpness of the pane and th? iolence of the storm, and the heft of thi hain and of the darkness3 of ninht. Wait ng until a divine hanu shall be put forth ti oothe the pani; and hush the storm and ro sase tte captive. A wife, abused, persecutet iid a perpetual exile from every earthly omfort?waitinc, waiting, until the Lore hall gather all His dear children in a heaven v home, and no poor Vashti will ever bt hrust out from the palace gate. Je^us. ii ilence and answering not a word, drinkint he gall, bearing the cross, in prospect of th? aptuous consummation whon Angels thronged His chariot wheel And bore Him to His throne, TbeL swept their golden harps and sung The glorious work is done. Ob, woman! Does not this story of Yasht: ue queeu, ? asuci mo vuneu, vuscu me sun1flce, Vasnti the silent, move your soul? M5 iarmon converges Into the one absorbing lope that none of you may be shut out 01 he palace gate of heaven. You can endure he hardships, and the privations, and the jruelties, and the misfortunes of this life il rou can only train admission there. Through he blood of the everlasting covenant you go hrough these gates or never go at all. God orbid that you should at last be banisheJ rom the society of ai:gels and banished from he companionship of your glorified kindred md banished forever. Through the rlcb jrace of our Lord. Jesus Chri?t, may you bf enabled to imitate the example of RacheL ind Hannah, and Abigail, and Deborah, and Mary, and Esther, and Vashti. Amen. DEVASTATION BY ARMY WORMS. Elavoc Wrought in Iowa by Swarms ol Greetly Insects. Array worms have eaten up a pasture for L L. Burchett, northeast of Bloomfleld, [owa. They are not regular army worms, >ut there are armies of them just the same. They are by no means confined to Mr. Burchett's place, but are found in various places in almost all parts of the :ounty. The.r have much the appearance of :ut worms, except that they are hardly so lark and are very active. They appear so far to be confined to blue gras3 pastmes whero the grass was not eateu off last fall, und they contino their work almost exclusively to blue grass, passing by the clover aud timothy spots in the pasture and eating the blue grass. A reporter made a visit to James McGowen's pasture, where they were at work, and found them covering the ground almost as closely as chinch bugs usually are found, and the grass after they had left it looked very much lilio it does when burned up by drought. They are short-iived, and in many places already they are dying off. While they are uuiu? great uiuuagu i<j jniscurc'^, uuviug euicu over hundreds of acres for K. T. Hotchkiss, S. S. Standiey, Harvey Wray, John Wallace and others, it is not thought that they will do much damage in any other way or to other crops, yU it is too soon to be able to judge, as they have only been at work about ten days. It seems difficult to stop tnom, although some success has been accomplished by ditching the ground, the same as is sometimes done for chinch bugs. A marble statue to Lord Byron has been erected in Athens, Greece, The statue is the gift of ilr. Demetrius Stefonovic Sehcylizzi. RELIGIOUS READING. THE HAND OF I'HOVIDENCE. The hand of Providence in our successes, ^ our accomplishments. our deliverances is easily recognized by'ourquiekenedor grate- I ful perceptions, but less easily and readily as a rule, do we acknowledge the same lynd and wise hand in our mistakes. Yet in most , lives the latter equal, if not exceed, the ' former in the experiences of the passing , years. Our motives are so curiously mixed, our foresight is so short, and our limitations are necessarily so many that we are constantly blundering, now turning in this , or that direction when another would be the : better one to take, now remaining in a place when we ought to leave it and changing a place when we ought to remain in it, until, as we draw near the sunset, we are fain to i bewail our lack of judgment and wish in vain that we had our lives to live over again. After the event it is often quite plain to us , that we should have acted in another way, ' md we see clearly where we were wrong and j svhat would have*been the wiser course of notion. But at the time our eyes were hold- ' ?n. and we did not perceive tie indications plainly. Especially when our mistakes atTeot J the lives of others as when parents by a certain iecision modify or entirely change the cir- ! :umstances and future position of children, 3r as when, at a turn in the road, our stepping to this side?or that arrests our fortunes ftnci gives us the downward push instead of . the upward, we are apt to cast the blame trholly on our fatuity and to leave Provi- j ience quite outside* the reckoning. And, :aking this view, it is not strange if we grow 1 ?ynical and morbid and eat our bread in 1 bitterness and look with envious wonder on the comrade who has outstripped us in the ' narch. ' If. however, we accept the sweet and com- J forting doctrine that our whole lives, from 1 the beginning to the ending, are under God's j sovereign control, that while we are free to J :hoose still, for reasons infinitely kind and [ar-reaehing as eternity, the love that out- J lasts time and sense [>ermits our errors, we j shall escape the danger of compliant or sveaK cnagrin. irue. wo uiu uu sumc v??r iions act on impulse and with childish pre- ] :ipitancv, and again, on another, we suf- ! fered meretricious reasoning to mislead us, but ail the while we were God's dear chil- ' iren and he had not let us go, and there ( tvas some need in our nature which ! ?ven he could not have supplied unless the iiscipline of life had made us aware of it There are characters which cannot be deval- . sped except by contact with pain and disappointment. There are strong and noble , souls which arrive at their full estate only by j wrestling against wind and tide. There : ire exceptional temperaments which would j never find God unless driven to his arms ; by stress of sorrow and desolation of defeat. . A.gain it often happens that the last re- j suit of an apparent mistake is happiness for :he'very persons who seemed most disas- e trously influenced by it at first. Wealth ' Hies and luxuries are abridged, but the sons , and daughters, bravely facing poverty, are " uetter equipped for the struggles before ' :hom than they would have been had the ' path been altogether smooth. By a certain J iecision, regretted and lamented in solitude , and silence, we have closed, at en,' or another period, a door of our lives which we j :an never open again. When we locked that loor we lost tne combination, una iit\ci iu ill our immortality can we discover the forfeited secret. And yet, where for us there would have been, perhaps, joy and ease, there has been Instead blessing and the ability to bless, a wider fleld of influence, a surer sense of power and the going on to a firmer and Qigher vantage ground. In our mistakes, and, being finite and sinful, we are always making them, let us not be utterly disheartened, since back of them and back of us is the guiding band of One whose love and wisdom never err. Bevone the smiling and the weeping. Beyond the sowing and the reaping, is Bonar's lovely hymn puts it, we shall bo soon. But even more consolatory is the rellection that beyond these varied experiences, whiie we stay hero, are God's tender rare over us. God's* purpose for our bene- ; fit. God's clear sight for our blurred vision nu'd God's never-slumbering providential : love. f ( THE MAIN WORK OF LIFE. The main work of our life may be variously ; phrased,*but one way of expressing it would be as follows: To take the natural elements j of our character, and by bringing them into ( close, permanent contact with Jesus, get f them so purified and mellowed, so ennobled , nnd sublimated, that the grossness and dross | ;hill depart, while the excellence remains, i'ne great thing is to put ourselves where wo J can have brought to bear upon us the tremendous educative influence which comes from the warm, close, personal friendship of a tculv great ana good man. There j Is nothing more precious or powerful. When we stand continually where wo see the workings of " his mind, watch the nobility of his impulses, feel the great swftep of his wide-reaching affections. everything small or base within us , is rebuked, and we jput on, without fully knowing it, similar fcraffi of soul. It wa3 precisely in this 9% fthat'^lie Apostle John became" so wonderfully transformed, so : radically changed. He was in th? begj|i- ] ning a son of thunder, vehement ana violent. ready to call down Are from heaven to consume his en'-mles, bent on securing the j lirst place as the right hand of power. But after his prolonged intercourse with Jesus, his zeai became chastened, his ambition turned into worthier channels. He grew in- ' to likeness with Him whom ho loved so ' truly, and became the disciple whom [ Jesus especially loved. Its*ems clear that he was the most receptive of all the Twelve the one in whom the love of Christ had freest course, and hence there was less diffl- . cultv in'auecting the transformation. Ho remained to some extent John, not James or Peter or Paul. The lines of his being were ] not obliterated or blotted out, but they were wonderfully touched up and toned* down and added to. until a veiy different picture < was formed upon them?a picture of rarest J beauty and marvelous completeness. What J occurred in the case of the son of Zebedee may occur in the case of any other son un- ' derthe wide heavens. We may get into, and stay in. the very presence of the Son of Man. and so become altogether like Him? each one like Him, yet each one somewhat UIUUD'IU. it l> u Kiunvus nuin.tuak.Luut well absorb ami thrill us. , I HUIFTIN'O YOCB CARE. "Cast all your care upon Ilim, for Hft careth for you." Sometimes like a wild did- | u^e, sweeping all before it, and sometimes like the continual dropping of water?so does care mar our peace. That we shall someday fall by the hand of S^aul: that we shall be "left to starve or pine away our days in a respectable workhouse; that we shall never be able to get through the difficulties of the coming days or weeks; household cares, family cares, business cares, cares about servants, children, money ; crushing cares, and cares tnat buzz around the soul like a swarm of gnats on a summer's day?what rest can there be for a s.)ul thus besetV But when we once learn to live by faith, bolievelng that our Father loves us," and will not forget or forsake us. but is pledged to supply all our needs; when we a^iuire the holy habit of talking to Him about all. and handing over all to Him, at the moment that the tiniest shadow is cast upon the soul; when we accept insult ami annoyance and interruption, coming to us from whatever quarter, as heing His permission. ami. therefore, as part of His dear will for us -th -a we have learned the secret of the Gospel of Itest.?Rev. F. 13. Meyer. O fiod of truth, make mo on? with thc? in eternal love. Oft am 1 weary, reading, listening, but all I wi9h and lung for is in thee:. Th?e silent be all teachers, speak thou to me aloue.?Thomas a Kvuipis. LI IN BRONZE NEAR ESSEN. Statue of the Famous Chinese Viceroy Unveiled in His Presence. The honors heaped on Li Hung Chang in Germany culminated in the unveiling of a ? * Phlnoio VinurnTT i)i hid StatUO CI lUtf miuiju? ... presence in the park of Herr Krupp's villa, near Essen. LI continues to bo dined find feted, with tho object of making him disgorge orders, but he is disappointing his scheming entertainers, for instead of giving them tho orders they so earnestly, yet diplomatically, seok, he is rewarding them with decorations. All the heads of departments have been included in his wholesale distribution of decorations. TEMPERANCE. SALOOS ADVEKTISEJIEST. [ will sell you, kind neighbors, if you will but call, \. drink that will poison and ruin you all; Hie goods I shall deal in will take away life, Deprive some of reason; fill the country with strife; \Iake widows and orphans, of fathers make fiends; Hie loud wail of thousands my business attends. [ will see that the youths in ignorance are kept; rheir morals corrupt, nor shall I forget 3f natural afhction the parent to rob. I'll inspire insurrection and stir up the mob. [ will uproot religion, the soul I'll destroy; For none of my votaries shall heaven enjoy, rhoufrh spirits are priceless I'll send them to hell: Compel them forever in torment to dwell. \ should any one ask me my reason to give, My answer is, Money, and mbney I'll have. By trading in spirits I can it obtain, A.nd if I keep* trading no one should complain; Legislators sustain me. my business support, A.nd then I have license directly from Court. Judges assure me my business is iust, rhougli it ruins my neighbor ana grinds him to dust. A WAn>*ISO TO YOUTH. Charles Lamb, than whom England nevor produced a more lovable, witty, brilliant luuiunsi, uuviuk ueeu seciuuea ana orougnt :o tbe verge of an untimely grave by strong irink, raised this note of warning: ' The waters have gone over me; yet out of :heir depths, could 1 be heard, I would cry iloud to those who have set foot in the perildus flood. Could the youth to whom the [Irst flavor of sin is delicious look into my iegradation and see what a fearful thing it is to feel oue'sself going over a precipice, jret with open eyes and passive will to look jalinly on nis own destruction, yet feel it all jmanatmg from himself; could he but look nto my eye, feverish with last night's drinkng. and feverish looking forward to toilpht's repetition of that folly: could he but feel ail godliness depart out of him, yet not 'orget the time when it was otherwise; could le but feel this body of death, out of which I :ry hourly for deliverance, yet with feebler ind feebler outcry: it were enough to make aim dash the sparkling cup to earth in all he mantling pride of its temptation," The Religious Telescope, after quoting this n an address to youth, says: "Why did not Mr. Lamb qdit and reform? Because he could not. Ere he was aware he lad bound himself with the steel wires of labit and sold himself a slave to an all-consuining. flery appetite for strong drink. He lid not quit and reform, for the very reason hat you will not quit and reform ten years inn/iu if rnii tvia nf hhnhni* onh M'uv,w 4i jyjy* 'ViUi Uttk/u V* Uiiua.uj ? ^ irouse the flery appetite by tampering with itrong drink now. 'And, young men and boys, why not heed he admonition of the inspired Word? You lo not want to be ruined by strong drink. Fou do not wish to become that most loath!ome of all things, a drunkard. But to avoid his terrible fate you must turn your face ike a flint against the saloon and the wine:up. It is the only safe way. We speak iom experience, and we know what we say." SlTCBAi DRIXI. The Welsh miners who, some years ago ivtire loc'ced un for many days without access :o solid food, were sustained because, for;unately, near to them and within their reach ivas a little stream which supplied them with ivater. And, in the absurd feats of men livng without food, we And they all take water; yhen sometimes, for even forty days, they inrvive. many call this starvation, but it is eally not so. The water acts as food?not, ifter all, a surprising fact when wo consider hat the human body, including even the eeth and the skeleton, is made up pretty lftarlv of abrtv-flve narts ner cent, of water done. The greatest fact,'however, derived rom natural history Is the magnificent one hat all animals except man, and all plants, iemand as a drink nothing but water. Life, itrength, activity, intelligence, are sustained >n this fluid alone. Nay, it we take man, we hscover that it is not all men. women and ihildren who use this thing alcohol. Millions ind millions never touch it, and yet, as our nodern experience shows us, they live just is well, just as industriously, just as aclivoly is do they who indulge in alcohol. Most :onvincing is it, too. that men who take ilcohol take it with water. Brandy contains ialf water, and it has to be diluted with nore before it can be tolerated: our beers ind ales contain over ninety per cent, of rater, our wines over eighty; so ftiat even he alcoholic populations are largely waterirlnking communities. The only drink, in a latnral sense, is water, without which we :ould not live, but which many poison with his foreign substance, giving no credit to :he water that is their mainstay and deluded n supposing that it is the alcohol, or spirit, ;hey have put into the water that renders he vital service.?Sir B. W. Richardson. f^OEXEBAl"15COTT wT IXTEMPERAKCE. General Scott was in command at Rock [stand when the cholera broke out there, ind, after various injunctions In his order as :o sobriety and cleanliness, he added this surious paragraph, which was recently, printed in the Magazine oj American His:orf; m i*'in addition to the foregoing, the senior sur/repn present recommends the use of flannel underclothing and woolen stockings; sut the Commanding General, who has seen much of disease, knows thnt it is intemper!tnce which, in the present state of the itmosDhere. eenerates and SDreads the calamity, and that, when once spread, good and temperate men are likely to take infection. He therefore peremptorily commands that every soldier or ranger who shall bo found drunk or seosibly intoxicated after he publication of this ower be compelled, as soon as his strength will permit, to dig a (jrave at a suitable burying place, large enough for his own reception, as such grave cannot fall soon to be wanted for the drunken, man himself or some drunken companion, rhis order is given as well to serve for the punishment of drunkenness as to spare good and temperate men the labor of digging graves for their worthless companions/' "* THET ABE KILLINO MZJT. The liquor selling establishments of the land are killing men for gain, as certainly and steadily as if they were absolute retailers of the plague, or of pestilential disease. They know that they are killing men. Every glance at the resul's of their traffic demonstrates. terribly, the destruction they are making of their neighbors. For what is mur d.er? According to Blackstone, eminent authority, it is "the sacrifice of human life from mere sordid love of gain, supreme selfishness, recklessness, or any wicked state of the heart." Think vou, does not the drunkard maker's occupation come within the compass of the deflnitionV Let the graves of the victims and the sad faces of living survivors answer.?National Temperance Advocate. BICTCLES AND THE SALOON. The liquor dealers also complain that the bicycle hurts their business. Young men who formerly loafed about tho saloon now are out on the road. Money formerly spent for drink Is now spent for ' he bicycle. The good rider has found out that strength and speed on a wheel ure impossible for the drinker of Intoxicants. Many young fellows n rn nmhlHmic tn hft fnsf riders. find henPft they quit the strong drink.?Rev. Charles B. Mitchell. TESTFERANCE SEWS AXD NOTES. Bridget starts her Dre with coal oil. Tho devil uses alcohol. There is no sin that n man inflamed with drink may not commit. The sparkle In the wine is made by ono of the devil's sharpest teeth. If you would teach children to hato drlok, give them the first le-son before they leave the cradle. Rather than sign tbo license of a liquordealer. Dr. J. W. Watts, Mayor of Lafayette, Wis., has resigned. According to Temperance Cause, ninety per cent, of the criminal cases in our courts is duo directly or indirectly to the drink habit. Holland proposes introducing into its schools a line of instruction Intended to fortifv the minds of the pupils against the evils of drink. The Catholic Telegraph remarks that If the capita] invested in the destructive liquor traffic were put into some useful business, the same wages could be paid, fewer drunkards, criminals, paupers, and insane would be made, and the State could afford to get lea* taxes and still be benefited in many wav3. DROWNED BY CLOUDBURSTS. Life and Property Dentrovert In Wegt Vlrclnla and Ohio. Near Parkersburg, W. Ya., a rainstorm was attended by one of the most devastating olondbursts that ever occurred in tho vicinity. At Littleton, W. Va., there stands scarcely a house to mark the scene of a once pretty village. Houses were swept away by the water, and their occupants, seeking shelter from tho destroying elements, were cauKht In the flood and carried alone. The bodies of James Berry and his wife and child, Uvint? on Weeee Creek, near Tjittlet-rm Hnxm hnan fnnnd. A number of houses, borne away from their foundations, lodged some distance down the stream, and tho occupants were rescued. The loss of property cannot be estimated. The courses of the streams are marked with masses of debris. All the other small towns in the vicinity of Littleton suffered considerably from the loss of property and destruction of farming lands. i The two Baltimore nnd Ohio railway bridges across Wheeling Creek at Wheeling. W. Va., were badly damaged. The creek throughout its length is out of its banks, and buildings and crops have been washed away. An estimate of thi damage excwls ?200,000. A portion of the Baltimore and Ohio nassenffer Btation was swept away by the flood in Wheeling Creek. , A cloudburst occurred In the vicinity of Bellalre, Ohio, doing srreAt damage to property. 8heep. horses and cattle were drowned; trestle-work And bridees, seven houses, with tnelr contents, and the large canning and preserving works of McMlllen Brothers were swept away by the heavy water in Wegee Creek. GOVERNMENT FINANCES. Condition of the Treasury at the Clow of the Fiscal Year. The United State3 Treasury statement Issued July 1. shows tho public debt, less cash In the Treasury, at tho close of the fiscal year to have been 3955,279,234, an Increase for the month of SI.820,854. The debt is classified as follows: Interestbearing debt, $847,368,890; debt on which Interest has ceased since maturity. $1,636.890: debt bearine no Interest, $373,728,570; total, 81,222,729,850, which does not include $547,110,973 in certificates and Treasury notes offset by an equal amount of cash In the Treasury. The Treasury cash Is classified as follows: Gold, $144,020,363; silver, $513,393,713; paper, $178,371,621; bonds, disbursing officers' balances, etc.. $18,114,936. Total. $853,905, 635; demand liabilities. 8586.473,539, leaving a cash balanie of 8267,432,096. The records of the Treasury Department show that the excess of expenditures over receipts since January 1. 1893, aggregate $140,635,123. which is divided as follows: Last half of fiscal venr 1893, 81,984.390: fiscal year 1894, 869,803,261: fiscal year 1895, 842,805.221: fiscal year 1896, 826.042,241. The coinage of standard silver dollars during the last six months was 87,500,412, and the total silver coinage during the year, 811.440,641. . The expenditures on account of pensions for the year just ended amounted to 8130,434,046. being a decrease of 81,961,182 over the year ended Jane 30, 1895. TWO SEA SERPENTS CAPTURED. Paget Sound Fishermen Have the Good! to Prove Tbelr Story. Tacoma, Wash., Is greatly interested in the capture at Hood's Canal, Puget Sound, of two sea serpents, ten and eight feet long, which have been taken there for exhibition. When caught on hooks they fought ferociously, fishermen having to pound them with oars. One closed his jaws down on a steel gaff hook and bit It off. The mala died from injuries, but has been kept on ice. The female is doing well in a large tank of salt water. Probably she will be takea East. Scientists on the Government Fish Commission steamer Albatross and at the State University have been unable to classify the monsters. They undoubtedly belong to the order of sea 83rpents occasionally reported by marine men. The neck of the dead serpent is the size of a man's thigh, the body feeing ten feet long and tapering to a point at the tall. It has the body of a snake, a head like n bulldog and fangs like a tiger. The body is striped and spotted like a rattlesnake. It has a dorsal fin the entire length of the vertebrae, and a similar one underneath, extending from the stomach to the tail. Behind the gills are small side Ads. It possesses many heavy molar teeth, besides long, sharp incisors, partly curved like a tiger's. In the stomach of the dead one was found a small quantity of kelp, indicating that the monsters are partly herbiverous. The live one is fed on shellfish, halibut and herring. tragedy" in a cemetery. %7rs. Johns Lay In Ambush for McCallum, andJHc Shot ; Mrs. Lem Johns was killed nt Kuttawa, Ky., by Marshal McCallum. The tragedy grow out of a feud. Eight months ago McCalium arrested Mrs. Berryman, mother of Mrs^ Joiins, for resisting him in the discharge of his duties, and she fell dead in jail from heart disease as a result of excitement. McCallum was acquitted on trial for contributing to her death. Mrs. Johns hid' herself in the cemetery, and sont word by her child to McCallum that a man wanted to see him. When he came miu ruau iruoi ucujuu u ?rn>c3i.uiitf with a pistol levelled at him. McCallum quickly drew his pistol and fired, killing the woman instantly. THROWN BY CATERPILLARS. New Source of Danger to Cyclists Discovered in Brooklyn. Caterpillars are the latest known soaroe of danger to cyclists. On Bedford avenue, Brooklyn, between DeKalb and Vfiiloughby, numbers of these pests were washed off the trees by the rain upon the smooth asphalt road. They wero crushed beneath the wheels of bicycles and other vehicles, and soon the road was rendered so slippery that not a cyclist could pass it without being thrown. Many minor accidents occurrcd. and the matter was investigated. The cause was then discovered, sand was thrown down and policemen stationed at the ends of the block warned cyclists of the danger. General P. M. B. Young Dead. General Pierce Morgan Butler Young, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary for the United States to Guatemala and Honduras, died at the Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, of a complication of diseases. His death was due mainly to heart disease, with which he had been h filleted fcr several von rq nnrl was vprv sudden. as it was thought at the hospital tnat he was improving. General Young was born In Spartanburg, S. C., In 1837. llecord-Breaklnc Speedy Justice. At West Liberty, Ky., Fato Brooks was found guilty of the murder of Gus McKinzle and sentenced to be hanged. The murder occurred the day before. It was the result of a quarrel between drunken men. McKinzle was the son of the County Judge. Brooks would have been lynched but for the promise of a speedy trial. Objervlnff the Fourth. Parades, picnics and cycling jaunts wore features of the Fourth, which was more pen. orally observed throughout tho United States than in recent years. . The Labor World. Chicago has 309 labor organizations. Plasterers are deserting Buffalo, N. Y. '. Boston is credited with 85,0C0 unionists. Buffalo has a Polish freight handlers' union. Erie (Penn,) painters want nine h<-urs and S2. At Berlin 12,500 cabinetmakers won advances. ot. faui (Minn.; oricKiayers goi iuriy | cents qq hour. Female barbers have been admitted to the St. Louis union. A second conference on the tin piate wage scale was held at Pittsburg without result. THE FOURTH IN EUROPE c Celebrations of the Glorlona Day In I<ondon and Elsevhere. In London the American Society gave a Fourth of July banquet in the Great Hail of the Criterion Theatre, Ambassador Bavard presiding. A statue of Liberty behind the unatrman was draped with the American colors. Two hundred and twenty-one persons attended. After a toast to the Queen had been proposed by Ambassador Bayard, Sir Richard Webster proposed a toa?t to the , President of the United States. The toast was drunk standing, with three cheers for the President. Ambassador Bavard then proposed a toast to "The Dav Wo Olebrate." Ambassador Bayard referred'to 1776. thank in? God for July 4, of that year. Enthusl- , astic cheers followed, flag3 were waved, , and the band played "Hall Co- . lumbia" and other American songs. Mr. Greer, of New York, proposed a toast to "The Community of English 8peak- ' lnj? People." James Bryce. M. P., replying, rererrea to me neroes common ro ooia p?o- , pie. The Rev. M. D. Hoge then proposed a toast to "The American 8oclety." which was greeted with loud cheers. Eight hundred persons attended the reception United States Ambassador Bayard gave at his residence, in Eaton , Square, in honor of the Fourth of July. Mr. ' and Mrs. Bayard received the quests at the i top of the staircase, and the Ambassador and all the members of his staff wore the National colors at their buttonholes. ] The Fourth of July celebrations were more general in Germany this year than heretofore. In addition to the official cele- | brattons by Ambassador Uhl and ConsulGeneral DeKay, ther? was a praod fostival at the Zoological Garden. Fifty Americans had dinner, with an accompani- ; ment of fireworks, flags and music. The Uncle Sam Club gave a commers and Mrs. Wlllard held a reception. Mrs. Uhl's i luncheon to the Consular ladies was elaborate. The reception which followed was in the nature of a house-warmins?. It was attended by the whole American colony. Many houses in Berlin displayed American flags in honor of the dav. In Paris the United States Consulate and the houses of the Americans hoisted the United States flag. Ambassador Eustisbe' ing away, a reception was held by Consul Morss. The leading Americans, many English people and Italians and the American Consuls were at the American Chamber of Commerce banquet. M. Lebon, Minister for the Colonies, proposed an alliance between France and America in the cause of liberty. FORTY-FIVE STARS NOW. Our New Flag; Thus Recognizes tbe Ad mission 01 uian. The forty-fifth star, representing the entrance into the Union of the State of Utah, was added to the flag on the Fourth of July, but very few of the Nation's standards whioh floated in the breeze displayed the new brilliant. I FLAO SHOWING UTAH'S STAB. It is understood, however, that a few army posts and naval vessels flew the new flag and that both the army and navy have a stock of them on hand ready for distribution as sooo as requisitions are made by army posts and commanders of vessels. Under the regulations flags must be used until worn out. so that the flags now in use will have to be flown until condemned,when Q6W flags containing the additional star will be supplied. RIOT AT A PICNIC. Desperate Fight Between Armed Russians and a Posse. The Independent Order of Late Russian Soldiers of New York City gave a picnic on the Fourth of July at William Suhr's Flushing Avenue Park, Maspeth, Long Island. The picnic had been under way for a short time when a flght took place over the ejectment of an intoxicated member of tte Russian Hussar Association, which was represented at tbe anair ay a uuaiuvc vi mfflbere In uniform. ?? . The ngM developed into a riot that necessitate J flwlummowni: of Sheriff Henry Debt and a nosse of deputies. They were assisted by nearly every male resident of Maspeth. There was a bloody battle between 350 armed ana uniformed plaknickers and a band of deputy sheriffs and constabh s. Eight men were badly injured, two probably fatally. Thirty more had broken heads, cut faces or blackened eyes. Sabres and rifles were used by the picnickers, pistols and clubs by the officers. The picnickers were subdued after a pitched battle, and fifty-eight of them were placed under arrest and held by a justice of the pace on a oharge of rioting and of assault In the first degree. WARREN'S STATUE UNVEILED. It Occupies a Site in Prospect Plaza, Brooklyn. The unveiling and dedication of the statue of Major-General liouverneur Kemble Warran, erected on the Prospect Park Plaza, in Brooklyn, was the most noteworthy feature of the celebration of the Fourth in the city. Mrs. B. L. Parker, who first started the fund to erect the statue, was present on the platform with twenty-five of her associates, but she did not make any statement. The G. K. Warren Post conducted the services. A. Sidney Warren, son of General Warren, uncovered the statue. Light Battery K, U. S. A., in command of Captain John W. Dillenbeck, fired a salute. The statue was presented to the city of Brooklyn * " 71 x e TTTa PrtOf A. Dy nenry rusior, ui mo nmim ... R. It was accepted by Henry 1L Palmer, Deputy Commissioner of Parks. Sickness In Spanish Army In Caba. There are 6810 men in the military hospitals of the island of Cuba. Of this number 695 are down with yellow fever at Colon. 115 at Matanzas, 84 at Santa Clara and 90 in Havana. Surgeon-General Losada thinks that not over 13,000 soldiers will b? sick during the summer. The mortality is 1.89 per cent., and there has oeen a decrease of 30 per cent, in the cases of yellow fever. Colorado Populists. The Colorado State Convention of the People's party at Denver selected a delegation to the St. Louis Convention that will favor a union of ail stiver forces while maintaining the party organization and platform. They will work to secure an endorsement of the Democratic party nominee in Chicago. Aliaro Wins a Battle. General Alfaro, Provisional President of I Ecuador, defeated tho rebel forces under General Vega. The rout of the insurgents is reported to have been complete. The battle took place in tho mountains between Quimaz and Chimba. I>.n.M?nnnt Pontile. j The Russian Czarina is the seventh woman to iio appointed to a colonelcy in tuo l'rusian army. Empress Frederick, Dowager of Germany, draws .540,000 a year from tho British Treasury as an lingliali Princess. William Black, the novel writer, is also a portrait painter, an enthusiastic botanist and an all-round srortsinan. Gladstone tuu written sucu a vasi uu;uy?r of letters during his life that his autographs brim; only twelve cents in the En^Usn markcts* Colonel Charles King, the military novelist, is a handsome, soldierly mau of about fifty, with gray hair and mustaohe, and the bronzed complexion of the frontiersman. SSl Which One? 'I love you. mother," said little Joe, Lnd hp gave her a husr and a kiss or so. But the wood-box was empty And baby cried. While Joe ran off to have a good ride. ___ "" 'I love you, mother," said little 8ue, ?. 'I love you so much?you know I do." > Lnd the empty wood-box she filled wittt ' wood, ind played with the baby till he was good, ind the mother thought?ah, surely you'v? jruessed? i Which of the children loved her the hest. . ' ?Florence A. Hayes, __________ 0 ^ One Country! After all, ' ,%i One coantry, brethren! We mast rise or faUl With the supreme republic; we must be The makers of her immortality? Her freedom?fame; Her g'.ory. or her shame: Liegemen to Oodand fathers of the free! After all? \ Hark! from the heights the clear, strong clarion-call !jid the command imperious: Stand forth, Sons of the South and brothers of the NdrtMj Stand forth, and be j As one on soil and sea? ?our country's honor more than wona:" >, "" After all, , ' Tis Freedom wears the loveliest coronal: Her brow la to the Morning: in the sod 3he breathes the breath of patriots; every clod Answers her call And rises like a wall israinst the foes of Liberty and God! \ ?Frank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution! ' Behind the Hill. I think I know a path We two might go together; It turns not up the stratb, Nor crosses by the heatherIt bends not to the nortb. Where burns the beacon star; It leads not sunward forth Where tho rone and swallow are. No winds of March discover The early violet there; The pewit and the plover Bttr not rue aartamg air. For It lies behind the hill Where noonday is as night, Where tbe loudest bird is still And the reddest rose is white. Not here for as, I know. Again the golden weather; But there, I think we'll go In the dreamless rtusk together. ', ?Margaret Armour, in Black and Whltei The Sleeping: of tbe Wind. The great red moon was swinging Alow in the purple east; t The robins had ceased trom singing, The nois9 of the day bad ceased; The golden sunset islands Had faded into the sky, And warm from the sea of silence A wind of sleep came by. It came so balmly and resting Ttmt the treetop Dreatnea a kiss, And a drowsy wood-bird, nesting Chirped a wee note of bliss: It stole over fragrant thickets As 60ft as an owl could fly. And whispered to tiny crickets The words of a lullaby. Then slowly the purple darkened, The whispering trees were still, And the hush of the woodland harkened. To a crying whip-poor will; And the moon grew whiter, and by it The shadows lay dark and deep; But the fields were empty and quiet, For the wind had fallen asleep. ?Charles ?. Going, in Ladies' H ome Jo urnaL A Sods of Summer. Skies of deepest blue o'er'nead, Green grass springing from its bed; Bursting buds and opening flowers v Fill with perfume woodland bowers. Drowsy murmurs fill the air. Butterflies flit here and there; List! the locust's high keyed droning Mingles with tho dove's soft moaning Whip-poor will, with plaintive cry, Calls to black bat fluttering by: Crickets chirp, we pause and listen; All arouna bright Are-flies glisten. ** At- - TT>n **rrt thfl hM>P7P JBIlgUt iuc auiuumv, ttukuu ,Mv Birds are twittering in the trees; Bamble-bee is gaily humming. "Don't you know that summers conn'*""'"* Fain we'd linger by the way, ~ -i"'* But dim night fast follows day; Twilight's mystic shades enfold us, Far-off; glittering stars behold us. , ' <t . V Sights we see and sounds we hear * Charm alike the eye and ear. Birds and insects, flowers up-springing, 'Tis fair summer ye are bringing. ?Eva L. Barnes, in Sunbeams. A Wild Goose's Straugo Nest. The Bevelstroke (Oregon) Mail state that one day, as Anton Bargosen was going to his work at Allen's brewery, he saw a flock of wild geese flying overhead. The better to look at them, he took off his hat, holding it oat* stretched, and then, to his astonish* ment, saw one gooee drop in the air toward him. His vision being keenhe had not reached the brewery yet; indeed, had he, this woald not be related as a fact, for Allen's beer is good ?he saw something drop from the goose like a shot, straight for his hat, and fall safely therein. The someTraa an PCTCT ! A Ttal 68? ! ?Ui"l5,""- DO - W.. The goose evidently saw the opportunity to deposit its egg in a safe place, and ganged it to a hair. Burgoaen could not believe his ey6s; yet there was the egg, sure enough, and, save for a slight bruise at the upper end, perfectly uninjured. The egg and Anton are now at Allen's brewery, and will verify this story, It is A most astonishing thing, not heard of more than once in a life-time. 4 Af RkaaIT TV mi t" H. llttl 1 CI Ul U& W(k A 4 VH V? One of the wickedest sights we have seen in a long while, says the Lewiston (Sfe.) Journal, was witnessed this week when a man went through the streets of this city offering for sale a barrel of brook trout. The man claimed to have bought them in Canada, and to have brought them here for sale. All of the trout were frozen solidly into the barrel, and among them were some not over four inches long. These little fellows should have beeu at home with their mammas for the next two years, ^auaaa suumu look to ber fish laws. A Flowing Well. The largest artesian well in New Mexico wa3 completed the other day on the ranch of Captain F. H. Lea. The stream shoots up a column twelve inches high, through a pipe three feet high and five inohes in diameter. Accurate measurements have shown a flow of 220 gallons per ^aiuute. y .