TALMAGE'S SERMON. but heaven entrances their spirit. They ciate what the engineer did why can you A FREAK OF AGES. A REMARKABLE ROMANCE. you must have a husband's~righ^or IwiH often divide their scant crust with tome forlorn not appreciate the grander work dor.e by *%.- ^t let her go with you." wretch who knocks at their door at every Sabbatl -school teacher this afternoon? When I was eight and sha was ten, After some talk the judge'agreed the night, and on the Wast of the night wind, Oh,my friends,I want to impressupon myself How proud those two years made herjs 1i The Brooklyn Divine Discourses" on girl was already in love with nun, so the The IWarriafitsof a Youns Woman as the door opens to let them in, is heard the and upon yourselves that it is not the number }3he told the difference loud andoft, voice of Him who said: "I was hungry and of talents we possess, but the use we nearest minister was sent for and they to the "Double" of Her Betrothed. Topics Incident to EveryDay if audience delayed her. ye led me." No cohort of heaven will be make ot them. were married. Life. too bright to transport them. By God's land still she gloried in her years— God ha3 a royal family in the world. Kow, "Now, Judge Ralston," said her mother, help they have vanquished the Assyrian host. And called me Little Boy," Westminster (Md.) Chicago Herald. if I should ask, Who are tne royal families "she is your wife, and you have a right to fr They have divided among them the spoils. iWnen she was sixteen, fourteen I— of history?" you would sav, "Ht'u-,e of Haps. clothe and educate her." The deathbed confession of E Lame, lame, yet they took the prey. To me life's one alloy. W re One Christian I Hard at "W oris burg, house of Stuarts, house ot Bourbon*." So he took her to Philadelphia to a friend Davies, who died recently in Carroll I was riding along the country road one in the Vineyard, Pitty Stand Idly They lived in palaees and had great equipage. 75Vhen 1 away to college hied, of his, and asked her to order a suitable day and I saw a man on crutches. I overtook County, has just been made public But who are the Lord's royal family? by Bossing the Job. ^Her airs were still maternal school outfit, and then he took her to a celebrated him. He was very old. He was going and is a sequel to a strange story Seme of them may serve you in the household, JHer letters teemed vrtth good adyico WM 1 The subject of the elo iuent doctor's discourse very slowly. At tnat rate it would'have boarding-school, and she was instructed some of them are in un lighted garrets, His life was a remarkable one in To her "yonng friend, fraternal." I taken him two hours to go a mile. I said: as a young lady, and he was supposeijtobe was: "Disabled Hunters Bringing some of them will walk this afternoon down many instances. Twenty-two years "Wouldn't jou like to ride?" He said: her guardian. For four years the street, on their arm a basket of broke J. at twenty-one I sought the maid, Down the Most Game." His text was from ago Edmun Davies was a young an "Thank you I would. God bles% you." food some of them are in the almshouse, she studied hard, and her improvement (My heart was fast consuming), Isaiah, xxxiii, 23. When he sat beside me he said: You see, I despised and rejected of men, yet in the last in his twentieth year. was was wonderful. At the close of that period And told my love she scorned my suit-* rerjr am lame and very old, but the Lord has The lame take the prey. great day, while it will be found that some So young, and *o.presuming." the judge took her home to her mother, handsome and, neither was he illlooking. been a good Loid to me. I have buried all my The folowin? is the sermon: ot us wno fared sumptuously every day are and their marriage was made public. I^a He had a younger brother childien. The Lord gave them and tne Lord The uttfr demolition of the Assyrian host hurled bat into di-comfiture, there are the 'To heal my wounds I roamed abroad Ilw went to housekeeping in his native city, had aright to take them away. Blessed be His just eighteen. His name was Frank was here predicted. Not only ro'iust men And tune my woes did leaven. lame that will take the piey. and was surprised at the ease and grace name. I was cry sick and I had no money should go forth and gather the spoils of conquest, and he was an exact double of Edmund. One st**p further: There are a great many and my neighbors came in and took care of with which his wife presided over his elegant but even men enppleu of arm and fTm married now, and forty-lour people discouraged about getting to heaven. The two brothers lived alone, ine and I wanted nothing. I sutler a great iff establishment. He soon found that crippled of foot should go out and captuie You are brought up in good families, you Miss Nancy's—twenty-seven. except an old negress, their housekeeper. deal with pain, but then I have so many her executive ability greatly exceeded Jus much that was valuable. Their phv-ical had Christian parentage, but you frankly ABISHNB AKBEBS6lT. mercies left. The Lord has been a good disadvantages should not hi der their The parents of the boys had died own and so resigned all financial matters to tell me that vou are a thousand miles away Lord to me." And Defore we got far J. was ^TOEY OF A POBTEAIT great enrichment, bo it has been in tne her. She found his affairs needed attention, many years before". It was early in from the right track. W%"" in doubt whether I was giving him a lide tjast, so it is row, PO it will be in the future. for the judge was very careless about 1864 at Edmun Davies began paying uNow, or he was giving me a ride! He said: My brother, you Ire ^the one I want to So it is in all depaitaunts Men labor unier "money matters, and she soon found that it attention to Fannie Forbes, the if you please, I'll get out here. Just help preach to this morning. I have been look, seemingly great disadvantages, and Or* Ho'w Ciroumstanc9s Make the me down on my crutches, if you please. ing ior you. I want to tell you how you got young daughter of aneighboring farmer. amid the mist unfavorable circumstances, God bless you. Thank vou, sir. Good morning. astraj\ It was not maliciousness on youi* Man or Woman. yet making grand achievements, getting The brothers were very much attached Good morning. You have been feet to part. It was perhaps thiojgb the geniality great blessing lor themselves, great blessing to each other, and a also the lame, sir, you have. Good morning." and sociability of your nature that vou fell for the wcrld, meat blessing for the church, HE holidays found us, into sin. You wandered awaj- from your was a frequent visitor to the Forbes bw artby men had gone the road that day. I and BO "the lame take the prey." a gay company of do not know wheie they came out, but every dutv, you unconsciously left the house o£ farm dwelling. The girl often took the Do ycu know that the thiee great poets of young ladies, guests hobble ot that old man was toward the snining God you admit the gospel to be true, and the woiid were totally blind? Homer, one for the other, and some time afterwards at the hospitible gate. With his old crutch he had struck yet you have so grievously and si pio'ongedly Ossian, John Milton. Do you know that Mr. agreed upon a siiinal with Ed- ., home of a friend of down many a Sennacheiib of temptation wandered you say rescue is impossible. Prescott, who wrote that enchanting book, ours, who had recently which has mastered you and me. Lame, so mund, so at she could readily know "The Co lquest of Mexico," ne% er iw Mexico—could fearfully lame, so awfully lame but he took married a to whom she was talking, Th not evm see the paper en which It would take a week to count up the the prey. -,-fdistinguished 'lawgiver. he was writing? A fiamewoik across the names of those in heaven who were on irth neighbors could not identify the Our days were •sheet, between which, up nd down, went worse than you tell me you are. They went A step further: There are in all communities f_ brothers, and they were known the p^n immortal. Do you know that Gairfbassio, spent in talking over the whole round of iniquitj, they disgraced manv orphans. During our last war only and referred to as the the siulptor, could not see the raarblp themselves, they disgraced their household, and in vears lmmediitely following Low J'old tunes together, before him, or die chi el with which he ut they despaiiecl of return because their reputation Davies boys. It was the girl at suggested many children we heard say: "Oh! my in reading, and in it into shapes bewitcning" Do you krow was gone, their property was gone, father was kuled in the war." Have vou to Edmun at when he came gaining new ideas that Alexander Pops whose poems will everything was gone but in some hour like ever noticed—I fear jou have not- hew well and experience in to her he was to use the "Lati word last as long asisthe English language, was so this they heard the voice of God and tlnew these childi en have turned out? Starting /,the important field "idem" (the same). Time passed, much of an invalid that he had to be sewed themselves on the divine compassion, and under the greatest disadvantages, no orphan of fancy work. Our •up eveiy nwi ing in rousn canvass in order they lose up more than conquerors. And I and after a courtship of six or seven as\ lum could do for them what their father renings were usually enlivened by tk} •to stond on his fee* at all? tell you theie is the same chance for you. would have done nad he lived. The skirmisher months Edmun proposed marriage. •^•esence of numerous young gentlemen That is ono reason why 1 like to pi each this sat one night, by the light of fagots, Do \ou know that Stuart, the celebrated Fannie accepted because she had from the city, and tableaux, charades and gospel, so free a gospel, so tremendous a tLe swamp wiiting a* letter home, when a painter, did much of his wonderful work learned to love him fervently. Then gospel. It takes a man all vviong aud makes music had by turns engaged our attention. sharpshooter's bullet ended the letter which under the shadow ot the dungeon, where he js him all right. it was at she asked him whether he was never folded, never posted, and never But on this particular evening of which I find been unjustly imprisoned for debt? Do read. tvrito I was the victim of that foe to beauty you know that Demosthenes by almost did not have some mark on his a ,, Jn a former settlement where I preached TOtT AnjST HAVE A S A 'S HIGHTS.1'' superhuman exertion first had to conquer the and good temper, influenza, so I had persuaded Those children came up under gieat disadvantage. or hand by which she could readily a member of my congregation quit the hou-e bored him to ask his advice about littlS •lisp of his own speech before he conquered No father to fight their way ior my young friends to go to a party, to ot God, quit respectable circles, went into things, so she took counsel of ner own wit distinguish him in case of sudden assemblages with his clojuence? Do jou them. Perhaps there was in the old family Which we had been invited, without mo. all styles of sin, and was slain of his inictuity. and common sense and evolved order out of death or serious accident. He told 'know thai Bacon struggled all through inimrmorahle Bible an old ellow kt'er pasted fast, which Every thing had been done for my comfort, The day tor his burial came, and his what threatened to be chaos. the girl at on his next visit he sicknesses anu that Lord Bjron told the story of that lather's long march, body was brought into the hou*e of God. and I was cozily ensconsed in a large easy and Sir Walter Scott went limping on clubfoot and how he suffered in the hospital but At the same time she continueaf her studdbs, Some of his comrades who had destroyed would disclose a mark by which she chair, front of the library fire. My host through all their In e?, and that many they looVed still further on in the Bible, and him were overheard along the street, on the and her husband wa3 proud to bring his would recognize him in any case. Edmund had been reading to his wife and me, and I of the great poets and painters and orators they ame to the story of how God is the way to the burial, saying: "Come, let us go learned friends to his house, sure that his think I must have been dozing, for when he went home, his mind fraught and historians and heroes of tne woiid had Father of the iatheiless, and the widow's and hear Taimage damn this old sinner!'" beautiful young wife would do the honors stopped I suddenly jumped up and exclaimed nw-ffffry. something to keen them back and pull ttiem portion, and they soon took their fathers with pleasure because he was to marry Oh! I had nothing but tears for the dead, royally. in the prim style of my childhood: •dowu and impede their way and cnpple place in the household. They battled the the girl of his heart. He loved his and I had nothing but invitations for the They spent a winter in Washington, «their physical or their intellectual irovement, "Yes, ma'am." Mrs. Ralston run to way for their mother. They came on up, living. You see could not do otherwise. younger brother very much, and entrusted .and yet that they pushed on and u-hed up where she drew around her the choicest and many ot them hive in the years since me, and said: "What are you talking about, "Christ Jesus came to seok and to save that his secret to him. until they reached the spoils of wordly success, spirits of the time, an'd some how it came the war taken positions in church and state. Jean." which was lost." Christ in his dying prayer and amid the huzza of nations and centuries While many who suffered nothing during to pass that her husband was appointed said: "Father, forgive tiem," and that was "the lame took the prey?" those times have had sons go out into lives ot a prayei for ou and for me. Oh! start on I thought that lady spoke to me," I said, Minister to Prance. Of course she went indolence and vagabondage, these whostirted the" road to heaven to-day. You are not rubbing my eyes and joining in the laugh at You know that a vast multitude of these with him, and her residence abroad gave Her under so many disadvantlges because happy. The thir»t of your soul will never men sta ted under tl disadvantage of obscure amy expense, as I pointed to the portrait of a manners that perfect finish which distinguished a in his innermost heart, they weie so early beieft, these are the lame too, be slaked by the fountains of s.n You turn parentage. Columbus the son of the handsome lady, hanging over the mantle. I her. That portrait was painted that took the piey. eveiywhere but to God for help. Eight where loved Fannie Forbes, and the conjeal- weaver. Feiguson, the astionomer, the son had often noticed it. Tho face was handsome, there by a distinguished artist of that day. you are, call on Him. He knows you. He of the shepherd. America the prey ot tne fession of his brother stirred his A step further: There ai those who would not beautiful, the eyes were black and They had quite a large famdy, and she Knows all about vou, He knows all the odds one worlds on worlds the prey ot the other, like to do good. TLey say: "Oh, it I only ousy. He was bright of thought a piercing, the mouth and chin showed decision, lived to a ripe old age. One of her sons won against which vou have been contending ifiut what is true in secular directions is had wealth, or, it I had eloquence, or, if I possessed an active mind. He wanted while tho splendidly-shaped head" a fine literary reputation, being the author life. Do not co to Him with a long ngmalole rmore true in spnitiul and leligious direc'tions, had high social position, how much 1 would ot a prayer, but just lookup and sav: to marry Miss Forbes. The day and high forehead denoted intellect of no of several legal works, which are to-day and I proceed to prove it. accomplish for God and the church!" I stand "Help! Help!" mean order. Her abundant hair was dressed quoted as authority on the subjects of which following the brothers came to this There are in all communities many invalids. here io-day to tell you tnat you have great opportunities ior usefulness. high, and profusely powdered. She wore a They re\er know a well day. They they treat. place and Edmund procured a marriage ,c But you say: My hand trembles so from adhere to their ociup itions. but they go Who built the pyramids? The king who ordered ^parlet satin robe with an immense train, With, the exception of the years she spent license. Frank'smin was evolve, my dissipations I can't even take hold a .panting along the stieets with exhaustion, them built? No the plain workmen who over a white satin petticoat. The waist abroad, she made annual visits to her old hymnbook to sing." Do uct worry about ing a scheme by which he could thwart .and at evening they lie down on the lounge added stoi aft°r stone and stoi,e after stone. vvaj filled -in with lace, the sleeves were home, and very materially improved the that, my brother I will give out a hymn at with achings beyond all medicament. They his brother's marriage. He proposed Who built the dikes of Holland? the government vrou short cith. large puff3, while long, white the close sc familiar can sin^ it without condition of affairs there, though she would .have tried all prescriptions, they have gone that ordered the enterprise? No the a trip to Baltimore, persuading Edmund a book. But you say: "TLe wrong I did cilk mits covered her hands and arms. not allow her husband to do as much for the through all the ernes which were proclaimed plain workmen who carried the earth and 1 to despatch a messenger to was to one dead and "in heaven now, and I The figure was tall and well developed, family as he his careless generosity Infallible, and they have come now to surrender iung their trowel on the w»ll. Who are can't coir ct that vvronx." You can correct the position was dignified and graceful, his sweetheart at they had gone to would have done. Her brothers were assisted to perpetual ailments. They conaider those who have built these vast cities? The Bjr it the grace of God, go into thepieence you felt that here was a woman born to the Monumental City for the especial they aie among many disadvantages capitalists? No the caipenters, the masons, so far as to help them to become independent of that one, and the apologies you and when they see tto^e who aie buovant in the plumber, the plasterers, the tinners, tli3 command, and with ability to do it wisely, in their own sphere, not lifted purpose of having a a to a ought to have made on eaitu make in dajT'* health yass by, they almost envy than robust roofers, dependent on a vva/es lor a too. above it, for as the mother grimly remarked placed between the first and second heaven. frames and easy respiration. livhhood. And so in the great work of assuaging Judge Ralston married Margaret, "Oh," said Mr. Palston, "my stately ancestress finger of his right hand. While in human suffering and enlightening "Oh!" says some mai., "if I should try and But 1 have noticed among that invalid not the wholo family." summoned you, did she? She is a human ignorance and halting human iniquity. Baltimore they met an old friend of do right, if 1 should turn awaj' fio'ii mj evil -class those who have th" crca'e^t knowlerige regular aristocrat, isn't she?" She was a faithful wife and nurse to her 11 that gieat work the chief part is to be doing unto the Lord I would be jostled, I their dead father, Captain Aker, of of the Bib e, who are in nearest intimacy Yes,"I replied, enthusiastically "she husband, who died some years before sho done by ordinary men, with oidinary speech, would be driven back, nobody woufd have ,\vith Jesus Christ, who have the most glow•ing the ocean steamer Franklin. The ui an ordinary manner, and by ordinary looks like a born Queen. Please tell me did. He often said she was the builder ol any sjmpathy for me." You aie mistaken. experience of the truth, who Lave had captain said he would sail the next means. Ihe trouble is that in the army of -the most remarkable answers to pra\ er, and Here, in the piesence ot the church on earth about her." his fortune as well as the joy of his life. At Christ we all want to be captains and colonels day for Australia, and was very solicitous who have most exhilarant anticipations of and heaven, I give you to-day the light his death he left her the sole executor of his "Well," he said, "I will tell you the stc^y and brigadier generals. We are not heaven. The temptations which weary us hand of Christian fellowship. God sent me at the namesake of his deceased large estate, and when she died it was r.s I have heard my grandfather tell it. Ei* willing to arch with the rank and file and who are in lobust health they ba\e"ion"juered. here to-day to preach this and lie sent you found that her affairs were in perfect order, friend should accompany him. father was a circuit judge in Western do duty with the private soldier. We want They have divided among them heie to hear thi-: "Let the wicked forsake and her will bequeated the property so It was Edmund. He hesitated. Th Pennsylvania, and at the time of which to belong to the reseive corps, and read the spoils of the conquest. Many who are his wav, and the uprighteoiis man his thought, justly that none of the heirs could complain. cpeak was about thirty-five years old, and about the battle while warming ourselves at captain told him of the pleasures alert and athletic and swarthy loiter the and let mm return unto the Lord, who will the camp fires or on furlough at home, our This is only another illustration of how circumstances mercjr, very handsome, of course. His duties led way. 'these are the lame that take tlip the trip and the fine country to whic 4^ have and lto our God who will ieet upon an ottoman, we sagging back liato make the man or woman. prey. Pobeit Hall, an invalid Edvvatd him to travel through his district, and at abundantly pardon." Though you may he would sail and being urged b, an arm-chair. Pajson. an invalid Kichard Baxter, an in- have been the woist smrer j'ou may become that day he journeyed on horseback. On I fear," added Mr. Ralston, "that I a he yielded to influences and 'vahd Samuel Rutliei ford, an in\ alia. This the best saint and the great day of mdgment ono of these jaunts he found himself in a have wearied you with my long story." I As you go down the street you see an excavation consented. at evening he wrotr morning, when v. ou waut to call to mind it will be found that "wheie sin lonely spot in tho mountains, and as both eagerly disclaimed ail fatigue, and after and four or five men arj woiking, -those who are most Christlike, you think of a farewell letter to his intended wifi abounded gr ice dees much more abound," and perhap-. twenty or thutv leaning oil the he and his horse were tired and hungry, ho thanking Mr. Ralston for the pleasure ho come darkened room in jour fdthei's house and vvhilethe spoils of an everlasting kingdom rail looking over at them. That is the way bidding her to await his coming, ant, was glad to seo in the distance a small had given me, I returned to my room to ftom which there went forth an influence are being awarded ior your pursuit, it it is in the church of God to-day wheie you at he was hopeful of gaining fortune farm-house. Putting spurs to his horse, ho think and dream over the tale I had heard, potent for eternity. will be found that the lame took the prey. finel one Christian hard at work there are soon reached the fence opposite the door. and to wonder if Mr. Ralston's younger in the distant country. The marriar Blessed be God that we are this Sabbath one A step farther Through raised letteis fifty men watching the job. The sound of his approach drew the family brother had inherited any of the traits ol license was enclosed in the lettei week nearer the obliteration of all the in. the art of printing has been brought to the mjT Oh! fnend«, why do you not go to to the door so he politely accosted the character which distinguished his ancestors, eq ihlies of this life and all Us disquietudes. "Remember Idem" were the las', attention of the blind. work and pieacii this grspel?" You say: "I mother and asked if he could get some refreshment for 1 privately confess some interest Yeais ago on a boat on the North Kiv er the You take up the liible for the blind, and I have nopulj it." ^on have. It may be words. The next morning, Friday for himself and horse. She in said brother. MKS. L. B. LAVELY. pilot gave a very shaip ling to the bell tor •you close your eyes, and you run your fingers the carpenter'•« bench, it mav be tae mason's August 24, the Franklin started o\er tho raised letters and YOU say: the boat to ^low up. The engineer at'e.ided agreed, and a tall, lithe girl of about fifteen wall. The lobe in which you are to proclaim the tiip. Now Fran had an ope "Why 1 never could get any inioimation in to the machinerj, and then he came up with darted out and, resting her hands lightly on migiuy Xlougli on llatj. tnis gospel may be a si oemaker's apron. field, and he improved the time wor this vvaj. What a slow, lumbious way of But woe unto you if jou do not preach this some alarm on tteik to see what was the the fence, vaulted over it, and, as he had Some inventive genius about two months -reading! God help the Lima!" gospel «omewhere, somehow! If this woil 1 matter. He saw it was a moonlight night and derfully well. He did not hesicat'. dismounted, she, with an alertness which ago set afloat a yarn to the effect that tha And yet I hud among that class of persons, is ever brought to Christ it will be through there vv ei no obstacles the way. He went White House was infested with rata. His first work was to read the lette^ amazed him, leaped into the saddle, and the blind, the deaf and the dumb, the the unmillions and long continued efiorts ot to the pilot and said: '-Why did vou ring saying: "I will take your horse to the There are to-day letters coming to tha The word "Idem" seemed to pnzxL «most thorough acquaintance with God's men who, waiting for no special endowment, the bell in that way? Why do vou "want to stable and feed him, sir," rode off. President founded on that basis. All of him. but he remembered hearing b^p word. Shuo out fiom all other sources of information, consecrate to God what they have. Among stop? There's nothing the matter." And them came from Frenchmen, curiously I He conversed with the woman, and found the most useless people in the world aie no sooner does their hand touch the pilot said to him: "There is a mist brother use it when approaching thV enough, and all of them propose soma men with ten talents, while many a one with her a shrewd, sensible person, though uncultured •the raisea letteis than th-v gather a pra\er. gathering on the river don't vou see that? girl, and he hit upon the correc Without ej e» they, jook oil upon "tho lly two talei t, or no talent at all, is doing That they were poor, he could see means of getting rid of the pest Ona and there isni.-ht gatheii .g darker and darker, meaning at once. Next he had hi Wit1 kingdoms ot God's Jove. out hearing, a great work, and so '•the lame take the and I can't see the way Tnen the engineer, for himself was, oddly, from a cbeese-manufacturer right hand tattooed. He would ma' they catch the imnstrelsv of*th° skies. prey." looking around and seeing it was in the Province of Eure, and, unlike all I The father, he learned, was not strong, Dumb, yet with pencil, or with irradiant brignt moonlight, looked into the face of ry the girl tie loved, he thought, ac the rest of the rat doctors, ha did not ask There are thousands of ministers of whom but did his best to support his family, and, countenance, they deciaie the glory of God. the pilot and saw that he was dying, and assumed the name of Edmund. you have never he ird—in log cabins in the for any reward for his recipe. He advised as the woman proudly said, "they had A large audience assembled New Yoric then that he was dead. west, in mission chapels at the east—who are catching one of the rodents alive, cutting His return home alone caust neither starved or begged, and she reckoned at the anniversary of the Do if and Dumb Goa grant .that when our la«t moment vv arring airainst the legions of darkness, suecessfully a slit in the skin of Ids back, putting a some talk, but when the mail brough they never would." She enjoyed the co-.ies we way be found at ouc-post doing -asylum, :nd one of the visitors with chalk waning. Tract-distributors, month good dose of salt and pepper underneath, opportunity of talking to the handsome the weekly newspapers announcinj on the blacUboard wrote this question to the our hole' duty and when the mists of the by month undermining the cit.-dals of sin. and letting the animal go again. The stranger, and so ho learned most of her his*v {pupils: "Do ou not find .t vei hard to be river of death gather on our eyelids may You do not know tneir going or their coming* the departure of one of the Davies Frenchman voraciously predicts that the deat and dumb?" And one ot" the pupils the good Pilot take the wheel from our hands but the footfalls ot their ministry are boys of Carroll County for Australia, rat will run through the house uttering took the chalk and wiote on tho blackboaid anel-guide'us into the calm harbor of eternal heard in ifc palaces of heaven. Wno are in the Franklin all was well. Thenceforth this sublime scnter-ee in an-vvrr: "When rekt!. piercing cries, and that these cries oi the workers in our SaDb ith schools throughout Fran was known as Edmund the song oi the angels shall burst upon our ^Drop the anchor, furl the sail,,. L^, this land to-day? Men celebrated, men warning will warn his companion lats to i^\J} enraptuied car we will scaue regiet that brilliant n^en ot vi'st estate? Ior the most -«t am sale within the vale. Even though he gave the correct word escape. oureaiswert ncvei marred with earthlv parr, not (h it at ii il. I have noticed that tl tf":c signal, Fannie Forbes seemed to Hr sounds." Oh! ihe bngate-t eves in heaven chiet characteristic of the most of those who £.,* Mow to Meep Healthy. doubt his identity, but after the Had a Turkey Dinner. will be those that never saw on eaith. The are successful in the work is that they know ^Tever go to bed with cold or damp^* marriage had been postponed for a their bible*, aie earnest in prayer, are anxious A clergyman's wife at Mitchell, Canada, ears most alert heaven v,ill be those that feet. lor the salvation ot the voung, and Sabbath selected four turkeys at a provision month, which was very acceptable^*, in this world heard neither voice ot fiiend, [Never lean with, the back upon anything nor thrum ot harp, nor caiol of bud, nor after Sabbath are willing to sit down store, and shortly after the proprietor Frank, she felt assured he wasn&$k unobserved and tell of Christ and the resurrection. doxology of congi egations. that is cold, '"ffpf, said to his boys: "Now, boys, get thoio mund, and they were married. TL These are the humble workers who A lad who had been blind from infancy ,*-Kever begin a journey' until "the turkeys away to the minister's." The union was a happy one, indeed, bu are recruiting the great army of Christ! vsa» cured. The oculist operated upon the boys each shouldered a turkey, and going breakfast has been eaten. youth—not by might, not by rower, not by no children were born to bless the* lad and then put a very heavy b.mdaze over to one clergyman's and another to another, profound argument, not by" brilliant antithes's, the eyec and after a tew weeks had gone by Never take warm drinks andjj^en^ happiness. Years went by and thf till all the birds were distributed. but by the blessing of Goi on plain talk, rthe bandage was lcmoved, and tne mother immediately go out into the cold.^|^ prospered, and by strict econom a ul humble ory, and silent tear, ind anxious Not long after the mistake was discovered, said to her child: "Willie, can jou see?" Never omit regular bathing, tor unless saved a good amount of money. Te look. "The lame take the prey." and the boys were again dispatched He said: "Oh! mamma, is this heaven?" the skin is in active condition the years after they had been married The contrast between ihe darkness before to gather in the fowls, bat they found Oh, this work of saving the youth of our and the brightness aiierward was overwhelming. country—how few appreciate what it is! cold will close the pores and favor congestion that a bird in the hand was worth two husband was in Baltimore, and the, And 1 tell you the glories of This geneiation tramping on to the grave— and other diseases. in somebody else's oven. The clergymen's ascertained that his brother had di if-J heaven will he a thousand told brighter tor we will soon all be gone. Wnat next.' wives, so unexpectedly treated to in Australia and had willed all After exercise of any kind never those who never saw am thing on earth. An engineer ou a toeomotive going across a complimentary turkey, had lost no While many with good virion closed their earnings to Frank This knowledt ride in an open carriage or near the the we«torn prairies dav after day saw a time getting the present prepared, and eyes in maht, and many who had a poo), the husband imparted to his wis^ little child come out in front of a cabin and window of a car for a moment it is aitistic, and cultured "ear went downmt) some of the turkeys were in the oven d**5*" wave to him, so he got fn the habit of waving The woman never knew until the dangerous to health, or even life. discord, these afflicted ones evied unto the when called fqr. The clergyman whose back to the little child, and it was the •'I WILL TAKE TOTTB HORSE." before he died at her husband v\ ,Lord in tneir tiouble, and He made their dajr's Merely warm the back by the fire, wife purchased the turkeys was not jov to him to see this little one come jiory, how Margaret, her oldest girl, loved to *oirows tkeir advantage, and so "the lame a Davies. Bu she had out f.ont of the cabin door and wave to among those favored in the distribution. and never continue keeping the back *4 c(he the prey." Btudy, and how there was no chance for her, him, while he answered back. him just as dearly as if he had be exposed to heat after it has become I S *h« Decimal Systenuf^gfl 'and how Tommy was "the'picture of his In the seventh centurv there was a legend Ed aiund and forgave him freely One dav the train was belated, and it came comfortably warm. To do so is debilitating. While all the world nearly has adopted father, and as good a boy as ever lived," and of St Modobert. It was u'd that his mother on to the dusk of the evening. As the^engineer died apparently happy. the decimal system in currency, England, ©bout the twins, etc., etc. was blind, and one daj vvhilf lookiigas his stood at his post he saw by the headughc Div Anna Kingsford's says the Montreal Gazette, retains her mother he felt so sympathetic for her biindtiess that little girl on the track, wondering ^•The judge skillfully included tho blackeyed TVhen hoarse speak as little as possible that he lushed forward and Kissed I er why the train did not come, looking for the pounds, shillings and pence. What is even Margaret in the conversation, and was until the hoarseness is recovered S t^^4?tt blind eye«, and, the legend savs, ker vision tram, knowing nothing of i*s peril. A great more remakable, as showing the influence delighted with her wit and intelligence. He from, else the voice may be permanently tame irami diately. That was only a legend, horror seized upon the engineer. He reversed of descent, the Americans and, if you jleft her a book which he had in a pocket, From the New York World. lost or difficulties of the throat but it is a tiiith, glorious tiiuh, that a the engine. He gave it in charge of please, the Canadians, are just as backward and after awhile resumed his journey. Dr. Ann a Kingsford, who recep ^f kiss ot Go I eternal love has brought to the other man on board, and then he climbed be produced. in this respect. They have adopted But the memory of that bright girl lingered illumination.0 over the engine, and he came down on the miany a I id eye eternal died in London, believed, as did a the decimal currency, indeed, bnt still When going from a warm atmosphere with him. Sho ought to be educated, cow-catcher. He said, though he had reversed A step luither: Th'ie are tlae in all com-tnunities of her friends, at she was the re-e*rt maintain the clumsy system of weights {he thought. the engine it seemed as though it into a cooler one keep the mouth who toil mightily for a livelihood. and measures, and, what is sti anger still, bodied spirit of a a Grejj were going at lightning speed, faster and S"My, what a woman she would make, They have scant wages*. P^rhars thev are closed, so that the air may be warmed becanse not surrounded by the same objections, faster, though it was really slowing up and diseased or have physical iulirmitips, sothev such a figure, too, how she leaped that Queen of England for nine days, thre in its passage through the^nose ere it with almost supernaturafclutch he caught they use the antiquated Fahrenheit are hindd -erl from duing a contii uius day's ifence what a pifor she shouldn't have a centuries or more ago. She'visitel reaches the lungs. £*$ that child by the hair and lifted it up, and worn. A ci issiouiry fiuds them up the thermometer in place of the simplo jchance to developthat intellect. Pve a no- when the tram stopped and the pas^enarers the Tower of.London one day, in '.dark a'iej, with no fire, witn thm clotlnuc, Never stand still in cold weather, centigrade. gathered around to see what was the matter. with very io ire bread. They never ride in body of Dr. Kmgsford, and becai«_ especially after having taken a slight wow, tne judge, an eccentric man, had nu Ihere the old ensrineer laj\ iaintel dead 'the stiret-car they can not afford the 5 acquainted with herself, as it wetf" one to consider but himself, and cared not Ilxe Half family. avvav', flu little child alive and in his swarthy degree of exercise, and always avoid cents. They never see any pictures save «sr,x a rush for public opinion. So it came to John Half, of Westbrook, Ga., is evidently Dr. Kmgsford was a very brilli arms, tho-e in the shew-w inflow on the 'street, standing on ice or snow, or where the pass that he stopped at the little farmhonse a humorist, although he has not yet become from which they are often jostled and looked woman, and learned languages "Ob!" you say, "that was we'l done." person is exposed to the cold wind^^ several times, each time bringing known to the world as such. His first baby at bv mecne who seems to say in the But I want jou to exereise some kindness histoiy with wonderful eas*e Keep the back, especially between some literary food to the eager girl, who -was christened First Half the next, Second look, "Move on! what are you doing here and Mtme appreciation toward those in the shoulder-blades, well covered also looking at pictures?" BO enjoyed it. On one of these visits he Half the third, Other Half, and the fourth, community who are snatching the little ones Yet many of them live on mountains of the chest well protected. In sleeping said to the mother: ^Ybnr daughter ought Best Half. He has a big sign over his cabin from under the wheels ol temptation and sin At Broken Bow, Neb., during a tin transfiguration. At their rouah tible He fe be educated: fidve her to nuo. and I will —sratching them fiom under thundering jiaeff which reads: *«Tho whole family el storm the New York hotel was str™ in a cold room establish a habit of who fed the five thousand bre ks the "bread. ra 1-irains of eternal disaster, bringing them send, her to school and give her every advantage John. Half lives within. A half family is lightmng. W.S Walker, a travelin breathing through the nose, and.never They talk often of the good times that are a up into respectability in this world and into of culture, and then," he added, better than, none, but if you want to sea residing near Webster City, low* with the mouth open.' -coming. This world has no charm for tiieni, glory for the woiid to come. You appre- a kihed. Several other eueats of th«' Trillmarry her." The mother said: you txs. helve* In one hole comet inside and 3MM !lake^ my child from my protection to yours. at the time were severely shocked.