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tr n* »*>•- •?*:<" T" -C-?. ,* ; m *%S»THER BONANZA PALACfc. ASunuifr Retret t Htvaltng the Jiplen dor or Roman Villas--A California fflUlliottHlre'ft Magnificent Residence and Cirounda. IT is well known that Mr. Flood, the millionaire, is at present occupied in carrying out an improvement at Menlo Park which will eventuate in the most princely summer home in America. Tho location of this costly and luxuri­ ous retread is three-quarters of a mile northeast 6l |3l% railroad station at Menlo Park, lira:'grounds comprise from 1,000 to 1,5£K) acres, and stretch from the mansion to San Francisco Bay. A mor6 delightful location for rural splendor could not be imagined. The lands constitute a natural park, being thickly wooded with live-oak and numerous other of the choicest na­ tive trees of California. The land­ scapes in every direction are varied ana attractive. In fact, Nature has done so much in beautifying the scene that little remains for art to accom­ plish. The country seats of many of the English nobility will fail to com­ pare with this one when the present plans are fully carried out. At least 51,000,000 will be expended. The task of erecting the mansion was inaugu­ rated three months ago, and rapid prog­ ress has been made, but at least a year and a half will elapse, before it will be ready for occupancy. A quarter of a mile from the main road, and extend­ ing from that point to the mansion, wfll be a noble avenue of trees. The site of the mansion is gix feet above the general level of t^e surrounding country, and the general slope thus created terminates in a handsome ter­ race walk that partly incloses the green sward at the front. The structure, which , . . , . „ , , n e a t h h i m , a n d s h a t t e r e d i t i n t o a t h o u -IS now being roofed, will somewhat re- semble a fVench chateau of the t old regime transplanted to Cali­ fornia. Its ground dimensions are 100 feet front by 200 feet deep. It comprises a basement and two stories. Its exterior is very imposing, and much must be left to the imagination of the reader. Probably no private residence in the State will excel it in size, admi­ rable proportions and beauty. The main front has a southwestern expos­ ure. The superstructure is supported by a brick wall fifteen feet high, and across the entire front and along one side extend upper and lower verandas sixteen feet in width. The composition of the sky-line is well adapted for har­ monizing with rural scenery, its monot­ ony being broken by pinnacles, gables of different styles, ornamental projec­ tions and two towers and an observa­ tory. All the front rooms, and all the chief rooms elsewhere, have large bay- windows. Iron crestings, balconies, corbeled chimneys and other architect­ ural devices of the kind, impart ele­ gance and variety. The style of the gables and projections is much freer than would be permissible with a city - residence, but is well adapted for the country. The roofing is covered with imported felt, over which fine shingling is laid, while in the gutters, flashes, junctures of walls and of roofs, and in ,all such places where tin is ordinarily used copper is employed. The de­ scending pipes are composed of the same material. All the windows, large and small, front and rear, are fitted with French plate glass. _ whole, the exterior is ornate and thfe embodiment of grandeur. When the grounds are laid out and improved, and (the structure is surrounded by green foliage, its appearance will be noble and picturesque. The observatory is 140 feet high, and commands a mag­ nificent view of the estate and the ad­ jacent lands. The staircase tower is 120 feet in height and is circular in form. The other tower is 100 feet high, and will be utilized to force water to every floor and into every apart- cuent. The basement is subdivided into a multitude of large rooms or vaults, which will be used for stor­ age and a variety of other similar pur­ poses. Prominent among them is a commodious wine-room, which will be equipped with all requisite Conven­ iences, and in which will be deposited the rarest wines of every<land. In ad­ dition to the front entrance there is a coach-porch and entrance on the left side, and a garden entrance on the right. Not far remote from the gar­ den entrance will stand an elegant glass conservatory,; which will be tilled with choice exotics/ Extensive forcing- houses will be erected some distance to thf! rear of the mansion, where shrubs and flowers -frill be produced on a scale of luxuriance commensurate with the other details of this magnificent retreat. At present the plans for these adjuncts are held in abeyance. The innumer­ able apartments on the first floor are laid off as follows: On the right of the vealiuuie is a hat-room and on the left a cloak-room. Thence, running rear- ^ward, is a spacious hall, connecting .with an inner hall and with two other halls that cross at right angles. One of the latter forms an entrance from tie carriage porch at the left side of the mansion, and also gives space for a grand staircase leading to the upper Boors. The other leads out to the gar­ ments, but by means of au^ ingeniously- contrived arrangement it can be made to include a section of the hall and also the commodious billiard-mom oppo­ site, thus constituting an unbroken banquet hall 100 feet in length. Here can be spread a feast from which many hundreds could partake, and no better or extensive ball-room could be desired in a private mansion. Throughout the interior of the structure polished woods of the most costly character will be used. All the floors will be inlaid, and the cornices will be of an elaborate de­ scription. A hundred and fifty feet to the rearof the mansion the stables are being erected, which will conform in style to the principal building. Fountains and ornamental waters wul be advantageously established around the front of the mansion and in near proximity to it. Also fish-pools, such as the ola English monks were wont to create on their abbey lands. The drives will be laid out, graded and graveled in unexceptionable .style, and will be bordered by choice ferns and firs, and, in the vicinity of the mansion, some fine statuary will be placed.---<Sa» Francisco Call. f's.i/- ' ~~ • An Obscure Hero. HERE is a story which comes to us from New York: An engineer named Edward Osmond was recently running a passenger express train through from Philadelphia to Jersey City. It was one of the swiftest ana heaviest trains, which are only entrusted to the most experienced engineers. The train was making sixty miles an, hour, when a heavy connecting rod of the driving- wheel on the right of the engine broke, and one, gnd of it, swinging upward with terrible force, struck tne cab be- Osmond fell senseless on the engine. He was both burned and scalded, and the pain quickly restored conscious­ ness. The engine, with its open throt­ tle, was rushing forward with frightful velocity to certain destruction. Inside the long train of cars men were talking, smoking, laughing; women playing with their babes. The fireman let himself down from the ten­ der and escaped. Osmond might have done the same. Instead, he crept along the side of the engine, carefully let him- self into his place, and with his burned hands reversed the engine and applied the air-brake. The train stopped. People inside the* cars went on with their reading and their gossip, and the children played with their mother^, who wondered, indifferently, perhaps, why the train was stopping again. They never will know how, in one brief minute, they passed over the very mouth of the grave, and were snatched back by the quiet, high courage of one poor workman. To our minds there is something finer in the calm integrity to duty in the face of danger and death which is so often seen in the lives of obscure Ameri­ can mechanics who fill posts of re­ sponsibility, than in the dash and sud­ den courage of many a daring soldier on the battle-field.--Youths? Companion. Chinese Leprosy In San Francisco. den grounds at the right of the man sion. On first passing the vestibule the visitor finds a splendid apartment on the right of the nail, whicn is intended for a library. To the rear of it, open­ ing on the hall, is a stately music-room, Wnich communicates with the main gar­ den entrance. To the rear of the mu­ sic-room is the smoking-room; one of the halls referred to separates it from the billiard-room, tne rear of which is the breakfast-room. On the left side of the main hall, com­ mencing again at the vestibule, is •« ? larSe reception-room, with slid- log doors that communicate with the drawing-room, immediately to its rear niuf-'ic-room and librarv are con Htciod iu the t»ame manner.) To the -jear of the drawing-room is the hall ^•atkat connects with the carriage-porch, snd beyond that is the dining-room; still to the rear is the butlery, then the kitchen, sculleries, pastry-rooms, china- Foom; lavatories, linen-closets and nooks and corners without end. The ejftioa-room, drawing-room, music- Tftorti ted librarv are all very much of the same size, their width being forty feet or more. One remarkable ieature of the dining-room deserves intention, it is a large apartment, sufficienkm ex M>nt for almost any ordinary •: reqbire- IN that slum-hole of the Chinese quar- judged as ^f^ -i* any special designation of filthi- ' - 1 ness be applicable to the gigantic nui­ sance in the aggregate--known as Bull Run alley, is located the leper hospital, an institution the existence of which is little known to the outside world. The alley in question has a depth of about one hundred yards. It is lined on either side with dirt-begrimed rookeries of antique architecture, representing early San Francisco in that advanced stage of putrid decay which might cor­ respond with the rottenness of the Egyptian catacombs. In all the utter filthiness of Chinatown, this stygian re­ treat excels in its multiplicity of sick­ ening odors, each in itself too rank and ponderous to combine, except through some powerful amalgamating process. In a row of low wooden buildings at the northern extremity of the alley is situated the supreme horror of the place, the leper hospital. That such a dangerous abomination should be per­ mitted to exist in the very heart of a populous city in America is one of the mysteries of this stupendous exhala­ tion, San Francisco. In exploring this retreat a Chronicle reporter discov­ ered in different apartments on the lower floor no less than eighteen wretch­ ed victims of leprosy in the various stages of horrible distortion peculiar to the loathsome disease prescribed in Holy Writ as the prime curse of hu­ manity. The subjects were stretched on rude forms, covered with mats, and writhing and groaning with pain. A portion of the cases examined presented the peculiar symptoms of the scaly leprosy, the flesh of the body and limbs being covered with White scales, while at tne extremities the flesh was in a state of rottenness, the fingers seeming liable to drop off. Other cases were of the type known as elephantiasis, the effects of which are even more horribly repulsive than those previously de­ scribed. In this form of the disease the limbs swell to an enormous size, and the flesh of the face is distorted in great protuberances out of- all resem-lance to the human countenance. The rooms of this horrible retreat were dark and black with the smoke from a number of fornixes, at which cooking was going on after the filthy style in vogue with the Chinese. This place is only resorted to by the lepers after the disease is so far advanced as to prevent them from longer obtaining a liveli­ hood at cigar-making and other indus­ tries; and the collection of utterly help­ less lepers here described represents only a fraction of the number that might be discovered by a thorough search of the Chinese quarter. The remainder of Bull liun alley, contig­ uous to the leper hospital, is inhabited by Chinese vegetable peddlers and oth­ ers engaged in the lower pursuits. -- San Francisco Chronicle. " -.I' , , FACTS 1VI) FieuRtg, WITHIN a year 6,000,000 persons have died from starvation in Asia. COLORADO will have a surplus of over 40,000 bushels of wheat to export this year. SEVENTY MILLION bushels of grain is annually converted into spirituous liq­ uors in the United States. THERE are 40,000 acres of agricul­ tural land on Long Island that are un­ cultivated and unoccupied. THE population of Berlin is at least 1,000,000, and it is said there are only 35,000 persons who regularly attend church. THE Federal Government has 60,000,- 000 acres of lands open to pre-emption in California, including 20,000,000 acres of tillable soil. THE population of England and Wales, on the 30th of June, was 24,854,- 897; of Scotland, 3,598,929, and of Ire­ land, 5,433,640. THE Annates des Fonts et Chaussees has just published some statistics which show that a person had in France, in time of the diligences, a chance of be­ ing killed in making 300,000 journeys, and a chance of Deing hurt once .in making 30,000. On the railways, from 1872 to 1875, the chances were reduced to one death in 45,000,000 of journeys, and injury in 1,000,000. FROM the 1st of January, 1878, to the 31st of August last 5.438 passports were issued by the State Department. For the same period in 1877,8,750 pass­ ports were issued. The revenue ac­ cruing to the Government from the sale of passports for the eight months first specified was $27,190. Five dollars apiece is charged by the Government., The difference between the number of passports issued to summer travelers this year and last is not at all commen­ surate with the very great increase of foreign travel in 1878, caused by the French Exhibition. The supposition is that many travelers who simply journeyed to the principal cities of Eu­ rope and were not absent from home longer than two or three months neg­ lected to provide themselves with pass­ ports. THE following contains a curious summary of the English version of the Bible. The Old Testament contains 39 books, 929 chapters, 23,214 verses, 592,493 words and 2,728,100 letters. The New Testament contains 27 books, 260 chapters, 7,959r verses, 181,253 words and 838,380 letters. Total, 66 books, 1,189 chapters^ 31,173 verses, 773,746 words and 3,566,480 letters. The middle chapter and the shortest in the Bible, is the hundred and seven­ teenth Psalm; the middle verse is the eighth of the hundred and eighteenth Psalm. The twenty-first verse of the seventh chapter of fezra, in the English version, has all the letters of the alpha­ bet in it. The nineteenth chapter of the Second Book of Kings and the thir­ ty-seventh chapter of Isaiah are alike. ACCORDING to the latest statistics that have been gathered, there are, in round numbers, 8,000,000 of Jews in the world, who are thus divided: United States, 78,265; Great Britain and Ireland, 42,000; Italy, 25,000; France, 49,439; German Empire, 512,- 168; Netherlands (Holland), 68,003; Austria, 1,600,000; Russia in Europe, 2,612,179; Turkey, 150,000; Roumania, 247,424; Morocco, 340,000; Denmark, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland and Canada have comparatively few Jews --they number there from 1,500 to 7,000--while Asia has 2,138,000. Most persons will be surprised at the state­ ment that there ,are less than 73,300 Jews in this country, which is generallf supposed to contain a great mafiy more. Some reports make the number as high as 150,000; but this is probably, an exaggeration. The statistics given here are said to be as trustworthy as can be had at present, though no pub­ lished figures can be wholly depended on, as the Jews are scattered all over the globe, and in many places where such a thing as a census has never been taken. The Jewish population of the world" is loosely reckoned afr from 3,500,000 to 15,000,000--a very broad margin, surely--but there is reason to believe that 8,000,000 is pretty near the truth. The two countries where Jews are scarcest are Spain and Scotland. , 4 '4, \ A' ' ^ < ,« . it., . --A writer in a recent numberof the Journal of the English Statistical Soci­ ety on " Failures in England and Wales" has pointed out that there seems to be some relation between the number of failures and sun-spot periods, just as there is between fam­ ines and the periodicity of the same so­ lar phenomenon. The Toilers of the English Channel. IT if no child's play, the life of these men who fly backward and forward be­ tween the ports on the mail boats. "Many's the time, sir," said a grizzled old Dover man to ine, " that I've felt convinced as we wouldn' t get across, the sea was runnin1 so awful that it looked like it was all up with us. But v,'C allsrs weathers it." If the sailors on the stout little steamers have rough times, what may be said- of the fisher­ men? Their lives are indeed adventur­ ous, and often brave men are destined to perish in sight of their homes. The French fishermen of Boulogne, Dieppe, Havre, TrottviHe, Honfleur and numer­ ous other ports which muster large fleets ofter implore the protection of " Our Lady of the Waves" before they set out on their excursions. They are not so superstitious as th< Spanish fishers, who have leaden images of their patron saint, which they beat, dip in the water and otherwise maltreat, if he does not procure them weather to their, liking. But they nevertheless take a certain comfort in feeling that they started with an invocation. One of the most beautiful sights on the French coast is the departure of a fleet of fishing craft, as they go out with the tide from the shelter of their basins to the rough and impatient channel. In. each deep boat are a dozen stalwart, red-faced fellows, their chins covered with stubby beards and their brown arms with curious figures in India iiak; they row gently in unison to keep their craft going forward in a proper direc­ tion, and they drown the noise of the loosely flapping sails beneath the cheery accents of their song* Some­ times the contrast between the tran­ quillity within the port and the mad rush of the waters without Is so strik­ ing that it must startle eveft the fisher­ men. These men are merry, some­ times careless, but generally good sailors, and amply able to oare for themselves in any ordinary storm. They are fond of song, of grog which I would make the more delicate Frer.ch- .WiJWaS* men of inland towns and cities tremble even to think of, and when tlieir tem­ pers are aroused they are exceedingly violent. On one occasion a large num­ ber from the port of Boulogne, fancy­ ing that they had received some mate­ rial injury at the hands of fishermen belonging to Scarborough, in England, landed there and made a regular as­ sault. It is scarcely necessary to say that they met with an exceedingly warm reception. In general, neither the English nor French channel sailors are quarrelsome. It is only on rare occasions that they fall out. Their toil is almost incessant, and their life is made up of goings out from the basin and coming in. When they are return­ ing with the tide, and with their boats heavily laden with the spoils of the channel, the Frenchmen chatter merri­ ly. Their wives and daughters, run­ ning along the sides of the basin, cry out to them to know what luck, and, if the answer be favorable, there is gen­ eral rejoieing. After Victor Hugo, had published his magnificent work, " The Toilers of the Sea," in which he his immortalized the wonders, the splendors and the dangers of the channel, he received au eloquent address from the "channel sailors," thanking him for this fine ef­ fort of his genius. The signers were both English and French, and among them were the names W many obscure heroes, men who had saved dozens of lives at the imminent risk of their own, yet who had never before sought even to make themselves known. The old Eoet received the address from the ands of a certain Capt. Harvey, him­ self a channel sailor. Hugo wrote a magnificent response in his grandilo­ quent style. Perhaps the least obscure thing which he said of the brave fellows was that they were the "great obsti­ nate ones of perpetual recommence­ ment." This phrase, studied out, seems to imply a compliment to the courage which permits the fishermen to go out time after time into the midst of perils for which there appears to be no adequate recompense. The Capt. Harvey who is mentioned above was one of the best examples of a heroic channel sailor ever known. In 1870, while making his customary trip from Southampton to Guernsey, in the midst of a dense fog, his vessel, the Normandy, a mail boat of 600 tons, was struck by the Mary, an immense screw steamer, coming from Odessa. On the Normandy there were sixty peo­ ple beside the Captain, and, in less tifne than it ta£es to relate it, these were all on deck, praying, howling, weeping and expecting momentarily to be drowned. The Normandy was certain to go down in twenty minutes. Capt. Harvey ordered the boats lowered, and personally superintended the embark­ ing of the women first, the children next, then the male passengers, then the crew. Toward the moment that the last boat was being filled, the ship turned and began rapidly to sink. Some of the sailors urged him to jump into the boat, but he gently pushed them before him, and it. was found when every soul but himself had left the deck, that there was not another particle of room in any of the boats. "Nevermind me," said Capt. Har­ vey, and he went down with his ship, standing firmly on the deck and looking out into the fog with a sad, stern ex­ pression upon his bronzed features. There are thousands of men like him toiling daily on the channel.--Cor. Bos­ ton Journal. Chinese Oysters. LIKE so many peculiar things^nkfche Celestial Empire, the system 3 breed­ ing the above-named bivalve diijers widely from that pursued in Europe or America. In the southern parts of China " collectors" of bamboo are placed in the oyster-beds, much after the same fashion as the elaborate tiles and " hives" employed in France. Those ioyster-catchers are, however, prepared in a curious manner. The canes are exposed for* about two IPl&ntiis to the rays of the sun, and then placed for a similar period in salt wa­ ter, ̂afterv'which they are again dried for several days, the object beiag to preserve them from decay and prevent the twisting or warping of the bamboo. Notched are then cut in the canes, into which eaaapty oyster-shells are fixed, like so many cups, and thus prepared they are driven into the seashore be­ tween high and low-water mark, and left standing to catch the young spat. Those localities,rare considered the best where the rise and fall of the tide is the greatest, so that the • bivalves may be alternately covered by the flood and exposed to the air on the ebbk There the young oysters thrive well and de- vel oi> quits rsady for the market when •. they are two years old. A large trade is carried on by the persons who pursue the calling, and who have many thousands of these col­ lectors planted in favorable situations, and some successful breeders have been known to realize large fortunes. In China, large quantities- of the oyster are dried instead of being eaten in a fresh state. For that purpose they are taken from the shells, simply plunged into boiling water, and then removed at once, after which process they are exposed to the rays of the sun until every particle of moist ore has evap­ orated. In that state they will keep» for any length of time-, and are said to. preserve all the delicacy of their flavor; The finest and fattest bivalves, brad; and fed on the leaves and cuttings, of the bamboo, are selected for prepara­ tion by that method, those taken fcata the natural beds being inferior in ity, and not sufficiently plump to shaad Mtssmgtw. Religious. WAN I NOT TRUST. the operation.--Ualigmmi's. --A man is now at work itv Santa Barbara Comity, offering to clestf feurms of squirrels* for nine to t«a cents per acre, according to size, and guar­ antees a thorough work. One rancher declined to pay by the acr$, Wt would pay four cents per head for the dead squirrels. Mr. Benton went to work and in a short time drove up to the man's house with so many wagon-loads of srpirrels that it required a check of $504)' to satisfy the demands th® contract.--California Htper. I *r --Every married man thiiHts lie has secured the woman with an iron jaw. Now, why is this?--Bi^alo Ev&r&b I cannot Itce, with my small human rfghfcfj-j,; Why God should lead this way or that foCU«: I only know He saith. " Child, follow Me. Bat I can tru»t. f? f I know not \»by my path should be at ticotati * :U So stoutly and so strangely barred before; ; , I only know God couldTceep wide the dodr. But I can trust. I find no answer often, when beset > With questions fierce and subtle on my nftjr; And often have but strength to But 1 oan trust. I cannot know why suddenly the atorm '* ' Hhould race tw» fiercely round me in it* willtii; ? • But this I know, God watches all my t And I can trust. f may notdraw aside the mystic veil 1 T' That hidj» tfae tinknown future from tmr tdftht; Nor know if for me waits the dark or light; But I can trust. I have no power to look across the tide. •': To know, while here, the land beyond the rimr. But this I know, I shall be God's forever; can trust,: , , --Canada Presbyterian. ^ . ... n, - *>+ ••• • - -!•>{) . Jit I , 4-4 1/i'v -fluy^Sdiool LfcsloB*. !N-A -WRAPQUABCTH*-N .. Sept. 22--CovetouHaesH Luke! Bent. 29-~B<mew of the Lessons for tne Quarter. FOURTH gniBTKB. Oct. 6--Formalism Luke 13:22 30 Oct. 13--The Gomel Feast. . Luke 14:16-24 Oct. 20- The ProdiKai Bon. .Luke 16:11 at Oct. 27--The Bieh Man and Imtt* Luke 16:19-81 Nov. 8--The Ten Leper*. ..Luke 17:11-19 Nov. 10--Whom the Lord Receives,Luke 18: 9-17 Nov. 17~Zacchen«, the Publican. .Lake 19: 1-10 Nov. 24--Judaiam Overthrown -- Luke 21: 8-21 Dec. 1--The Lord s Supper Luke 22:10-20 Dec. 8--TheCkort Lake 29:8^46 Dec. 15--The Walk to Emmaus....Luke 24:18-82 Dec. 23-JThe Savior's Last Wordt. Luke 81:44-68 Deo. 29--Beview, Temperance or Missionary Con­ cert. fFattifc tieo. MuUecT-"?#! ^ -GO-" . IN an editorial article on "The Sin and Folly of Making Promises We Can­ not Fulfill," the New York Observer says: One man confesses that he got credit, and went heavily into debt, on the promise of God that He would help him to pay his bills. But God never made any promise to him of that sort. If his failure to get the money proves anything, it proves that the Lord was not pleased with the man or his work; and let it perish when He might have; saved it without raising His hand. To rush headlong into extravagant debts, with the pretense that God will raise up friends to discharge them, argues one of two things, dishonesty or fanati­ cism. How far the want of common sense will go toward excusing one man for conduct that wonld be dishonest in another man we will not undertake to say. But we regard it as dishonesty for a man having Christian character, and therefore credit, to employ poor men and women to work for him, promising them wages on which they rely for their daily bread, and then to tell them: "I am doing business on the George Muller principle, and have failed--tne Lord has not provided the means, and I can't pay you your wages." What we affirm isr that this is fanatical or dishonest, and the fanat­ icism does not mitigate the sin, urJess the accused is acquitted on the ground of insanity. Lot us be distinctly understood: we do not charge this as a crime, nor do we say that it is on Ms part a dishonest mode of doing business. It would be dishonest in us* We would regard our­ selves as rascals if we should thus make merchandise of religion, and get credit on faith in the promises of God. Bu t another man may believe himself justified in promising to pay when he has nothing coming witn which to meet his notes at maturity. .We leave that matter entirely to his own con­ science and to God, whose promise he professes to rely upon. What would be sin for lis, with our views of right and wrong, may not be sin for one wlto has an understanding with God that we know nothing about. And now we go a step, further. The "faith," so called,, of George Muller, is not of the %ort that makes it posssble for his work-people and orphans to suffer. He lives from hand to mouth. He pays as he goes. His principle is, that if the work he is doing is one that ought to. be done, and that God wishes him to do, friends will be raised to pro­ vide the funds. If the stream should fail he would, with the property he has on hf&nd, make the best provision pos- sible for all dependent on him, ana re­ turn them to their normal state." Mr. Muller1 s work is a> cash business;, pay in advance; the only safe and honest way of testing tile principle of faith. If Mr: Muller, or any other man, were to make contracts with no other re­ liance than his faith that the means would come as fast as he wanted them, he would be trading rashiv ana specu­ lating on his supposed Knowledge of the will of God in the matter. But if he l*ad the cashan his hand for a day or a month he might safety go ahead, with the distinct understanding that all work would stop when, tbe treasury was empty. * ' * * It Is not honest to promise t» pay, wheiu our only security is hojw that "something will; turn up?' to enable us to pay. F&&h gives heart and force to >work. It is the substance ©f things Itoped for. And no- man trusts in Gcd who deceives his neigh­ bor by fair promises or fictitious evi­ dences of anility to pay. We hav»now no Stations! Bankrupt law. Let, us all start fair. Creditor and debtor, employer and employed, capitalist; and laborer, let us begin on sound commercials principles. The cash basis is the bast. Pay as yon go is a gocd rule fosr Nations and individ­ uals. And Christians, who would maintain a good report with them who are wiihout, wii£ please recollect that the Mailer principle is ©ash. The man who lives within his means, and pays cash* will have a better reputation with God and man than he who, lor a pre­ tense, makes long prayers and shaves his own notes. ^he ttespel and the BH)le. , THE gospel, by the influence it ex­ erts, will shame sin out of countenance, and gradually raise men to its own lof­ ty standard until it will be true of the very Nation in which it circulates--let me fairly apply the glowing language of inspiration--" That her walls are salvation, her gates praise, her officers testimonv. iia peace, her executors righteousness. Righteousness shall run down her streets like a stream, and equity like A mighty river.1' "It is read in even? temple of Christendom, its voice is lift­ ed week by week; the sun never sets on its gleaming page--it goes alike t£ the cottage of the plain man and the Ealace of the King; it is woven into the terature of the scholar, and it colon the talk of the streets. The barque c| the merchant cannot go to sea withooV it; no ship of war enters the conflilSt? but the Bible is there; it goes with the peddler in his crowded path, cheers hitft as he sits down at eventide fatigueiJL brightens and freshens his morning devotions; Ui» sailor-eeeaped from sh» wreck elvttphep.thig r>f lijs treas- u r e s . ' 1 k W h m a a n d I thank him for the testimonv. might havesaid more. " told lis that it is the'Sm hnd in the hut of the settler far away on the outskirts of elvilitglion. He might have told us that in the long wiifc t&r evenings he has dwelt, guage of its pages; that it is read by the camp fires of the soldier on the eve of conflict, and that amid the din mid smoke of battle iis hearl Is not W brave, nor his arm less strong, becauso of the courage it inspires; and whan they go forth to minister to the Wour® ed and bury the slain, they find Mm iyr ing there, still and cold, with the open Bible by ,his side, with marks on tbH page, where, when his eyes were grow­ ing dim, blood-stained fingers clasped the promise that soothed his dying agonies and lighted his soul into a bdW ter world, i ^ And when you go into that sickroojn at home, what book is that by the bed­ side of the patient; and on the vteflT those large letters which the eye of the patient can easily catch, whence coine those stirring words? D6you n6t hear infancy lisp it by its mother's knee?1 Do not you see age with its hoary locks and its streaming eyes bending rever­ ently over the sacred story? Aye, an& they whisper it'in the dull cold air, and it drops from the faltering lips of the! dying, and they mutter it with thew, latest breath the ground of their hopes and their passport to> a glorioAs immortality! Jesus Christ conquered the hearts and subdued the wills, and, is now enshrined in the affections of' men. The simple story of His love fM' spreading the World over, permeating' the hearts and transforming the lives' of men wherever it comes,, asd lighting up the darkness of the earthly state with the hdpe of a glorioua immortal-* ity,-^Dr» Landels. A londoQ and a Philadelphia Congre-, =? gatlon, A CORRESPONDENT of the Philadc phia Ledger thus compares a. Londc and a Philadelphia congregation "There is, however, a sharp conlras between a London and a Philadelphia congregation in the irreverence showni. With us it is the height of indecorums to move abqut in church during tho service. But here, in St. Paul's, the congregation was restless and uneasvi The people were constantly eotning m] or going out, moving from one part of the congregation to another,, changing seats and walking around the portion" of the cathedral unoccupied, by chairft*' At every lull there could be heard the;! pattering of scores of feet, and yet th9 clergyman went on as if accustomed to what would with us have brought dowa! a stern rebuke from the pulpit. & looked as if a large portion, of the co»rt gregation had only dropped in while, sight-seeing, and sat down a Sew mo-, ments to rest, getting up again and moving off when it suited them, witi)^ • out regard to what Was going on. , J. could well understand why placards were hung up about the cathedral, im­ ploring visitors to keep quiet during- divine service. Whilst the service was thus grandly solemn, the uneasy, rest-, less spirit shown by the congregation. detracted greatly from its sacuedness, especially as, whether the service waiu prayer or praise, hymn, creed or abso­ lution, the restlessness was- the same. But there must be something, pardoned to the weakness of mortality. Here i» a church filled with grand tombs and memorials--one of tuc great sights of England. How can one keep fDom gaan • ing at the tomb of the Duke of W elling- ton, or up into the great dome, at through the vast vista over, the chan­ cel, and in the awe-struck spirit thus inspired forget for the what is going on! The irreverent mstlessness ought, however, to be stopped if St. Paul's is to be maintained as a pattern house of worship." The Man Who Orowte. No country in the world has ever pro- ' duced such a race of chronic growler*1 as the Comstock. Nothing ever seems tis suit seme people here, and; the more prosperous they tire the more they growl. They view the world through an inverted telescope, and: everything looks small and distant. " What do you think of the rise?" «4 Wait tilV you see the break and ev­ erybody busted. The town '11 go plum to the dogs after the next break." " HavenTl you mad* anything in the rise?" " Well, a little. I sold some Sierra Nevada at $20." " Whai did itoostyou?" " I had! to pay fino- dollars for it. I might have raked it in for three and sold , it for forty. But k?s just my luck. I only ixaade $10,000»on the whole thing. I tell you there's no chance for a majfcr of 8n&*ll capital iit this country. He*ll be ro&bed and plundered all the year rousi by these stock sharps. If I ever* make a stake I'm. going East, wheare & maa's got some-show. \ In a few weeks that man will spend or gamble away every cent he no#' possesses, and then write East for funds, at the same time informing hit' relatives that this is the toughest eomi*. try he ever struck. Virginia (Kev.\ Chronicle. . .i --'There is no better time than the present for draining wet ground. Swamps are now dry; work is not press­ ing; every foot of land a farmer own# should be made profitable, and if the season is permitted to pass and this work is neglected, a year must elapse before the opportunity returns* --iVasrie Farmer* J