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A thoughtful writer in one of our magi: lines raises the question why so many wow- en prefer the dangers of employmentbehim: a counter 'or in a factory to domestix‘ “serutnde,” and suggests that it ia‘tht duty of housekeepers to make the latte! more attractive than it is in a great num-~ her of cases. Of course women find' food and shelter in domestic service, better food probably than they ever had before and. plenty of it, and comforthble beds, and rooms often as good as tnoee oi the children of the family. But a cook has it in her power to make the other servants uncom- fortable by refusing to take the trouble to prepare an attractive meal for them, and the head of the household ought to be on the watch for this pouslble discomfort. Then women who have risen at 6 o’clock or earlier should not have to wait till 9 before they eat their breakfast, and whenever possible each girl should be provided with a separate sleeping-room. or, if that be not attainable. the one room ought to be fur- nished with separate beds, washstands and bureaus. “ Enforced close companionship during sleep and at meals is often one of the greatest trials of a house servant’s life.” Enforced drudgery through all the wak- ing hours is unfair, as it is unnecessary. It should be a principle so to arrange the work 1 that every afternoon or evening a girl would have some leisure. The loneliness of house. Work is to many Women one of the greatest drawbacks to domestic service. They fear to be isolated from the family and to be held to s wearisome routine of duty not shared by others. for this, if for no other reason, it is well for the lady of the house to take it share in the work sometimes and to let her daughters help. If a. girl never sees her employers work in the parlor or kitchen and hears them slwsys speak of such work as hateful sud wearisome it hardly can be expected she will not voluntarily come to take the ssme view of it. The labor is digni- fled in the home where the daughters have charge of the parlor or of their own rooms, md where slight changes in the day’s labor are recognized and honored. It is only nec- esssry to show interest in the work nnd re- spect for it. There is room for difference of opinion as to whether the employer fares better when she herself is able to do all kinda of house- work we“ or whether her ignorance and helplessneag do not call forth more earnest. and Ikilliut work Iron: her servants. But. it certainly is we]! tqncknowledge to the fullest possible extent the ability of the “ help." “Bridget. is gratifieu by your xcknowledgiug her superiority in her own pince.” In It is due to the servant girl that she be protected from bad companions, evil sug- gestione,nnd'possible insult and contamina- tion, but in'order to do this the employer must enter into sympathy with her youth and natural longing for society and remember that the mien of etiquette are not necessarily the same in both easel. It is poor consistency to contribute to the support of coffee houses to counteract the influence of saloons and then refuse to allow my iollowara to the poor little maid in the kitchen. She should be encouraged to seek fresh air and friendly faces at proper times outside to relieve the tedium and confine- ment of the day's Work, and contracts as msy seem hard to have a. servant leave for higher wages in another place after aha has been taught. in the former oue,but maching with that. result is as goo‘l missiunury work as is help :1: city sewing gt shining achoolu or givmg liberally to Lhu k7nderguten. to holidays ought. to be religiously kenn, though it. would be well to my at the out- set, “I may not be always able to give you Thursday siternoou. but if not. will give another in its place.” perhaps misery presses them still lower into moral degrsdstion and min. The conscientious housewife owes to her sex .116 to society in general not less than to herself to do what she can to change the tendency by brighmning and sweetening her own home and seeing chm. no girl ever passes through it. without. learning some. As matters now awmd our own young women dislike domestic work regarding it. to socially degrading and limiting their personal freedom. Consequently these young women crowd into the shops and foctories, keep down wages, and swell the ranks of the overworked And wretched till perhaps misery presses them still lower into moral degradotion and min. The consciencioue housewife owes to her sex A serious trouble, causing many railroad occideuts, is than, our rail is not co: tinuous, being broken in a number of places by nwitchel and frogs. Perhaps only a higher wisdom than ours can tell us how to avoid uocidenta comes} by open switches, a.- long on them dungerous device. ore not elemin- and from the track. This should be done. even if the cost, of otherwise setting of? the corn be more expensive. Let us make our nil. absolutely continuous and transfer can bodily to odjacent. tracks by the use of hoisting machinery. Such devices are used in Englandâ€"0f coum under the control of a. block systemâ€"uni ore found very ufo udntisfucmry. Pmiculorly should trucks on which very fut talus no run be made continuous, 35' toei‘denb to such tniug no much more action that thou that how thing useful, without seeing housework respected, or without the glow of a kindly interest and the influence of a right view of life and its duties. Without Switches. 'to slow min. VOL 11- NO 33. CURRENT .VO TES THE NEWS IN A NUTSHELL The C.P.R. has reduced races on butter, cheese and eggs from “'inuipeg to Mon- tread. THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. mien-uni: lulu-o About Our Own Country. Gnu Britain. the United into-L. um! All Par“ of they (Hobo. Col-denied Ill Aunt-led for Buy Reading. “RAUL The contractor of a.T., H. 8: B. Railway hriove in Hamilton has left that city and his workmen with a month’s pay in arrears. The Queen’ a bounty has been applied for by Mr. P. A. Choq uetto, M. R, for a. French woman who gavo birth to five children w‘nhin twelve month. Out of forty thousand dollars reqmred for the Episcopal endowment {or the new Diocese of Ottawa shout thirty-two thousand dollars have now been secured. Joseph Bercier ha been arrested in Mammal for fraudulently drawing the life pension of his father from the Dominion Government. after his father’s death. Prof. Anderson, who has just returned from an inspection of cattle in Nova‘ Scotia, emphatically denies the statement that there is an outbreak of cattle disease there. The McCormick Harvesting Machinery Company, of Chicago, has begun litigation over the alleged infringement of a patent, in which companies at Ottawa and Wood- stock are involved as defendants. Dr. Dawson, director of the Geological Survey has left Ottawa for Athabaska Landing, N.W.'[‘.. to inspect the progress recently made in boring for oil. As yet oil has not been struck in paying quantities. but the indications are hopeful. President J .S. Bousquer, of the Canadian Trading Shipping Company of Montreal, and formerly cashier of the Banque do Peuple,has been charged with an infraction of the criminal code by misrepresenting the capital stock of that company. Tr President Beckiey. of the Toronto,flam- ilton and Buffalo Railway Company. has addressed a letter to the ratepayers in Hamilton. asking that the city vote them another $350,000 before they undertake to build the road from Toronto to Hamilton. Isadore Lant'uier has entered an action for tWenty thousand dollars against the city of Ottawa, because the attributes the death of her daughter Georgina to the fact that a health inspector entered the house and fumigated it while she was dangerous- ly ill. . l. ,i __‘._.tu- _.....:..m.t:n Part of the most valuable numiamatic collection in America. owned by the late W. E. Bastiannvu stolen from an unoccupi- ed house in Montreal on Wednesday night. Some of the coins were old Roman ones, sole remaining samples of their kind. They are valued at at $5,000. The Merryweather fire engine,which has been built in Greenwich, Eng., has arrived in Toronto as did also the J. B. Boustead engine,which has been practically remodel- led, and this, with the Ronald, giVeu that city three of the most powerful fire engines ou the continent. Mr. William Kenny has been appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland. The jute workers’ strike in Dundee is spreading. Twenty thousand are one. The election of John Dalh who is serving a term in prison, was cancelled in the British House of Commons. A national conference of the Liberal party in England hue been summoned to meet. on October '29 and 30, in order to dis- cuss the political situation. The passenger steamer Sanford was sunk by the steamer Lion in the English Chanâ€" nel. Her passengers, among whom were a number of Canadians, were, with the crew. all saved. ‘ Perhaps the new woman is responsible for the falling off in marriages in England. For the first quarter of this year only 10.6 persons in 1,000 msrned, which is the lowast rate on record. Lord Esher, the Master of the Rolls, has just. attained his soul year ; he is now the “Meat judge on the English bench, has been sweaty-seven years a. judge, nineteen years aJuutica of Appeal, and Master of the Rolls twelve years. In the House of Commons, Mr.Chamber- lain, Secretary for the Colonies. said that fitbeen thousand pounds had been expended to relieve the distress in Newfoundland, and that guarantees had been given to the amount of seven thousand pounds. Sir Maurice Duff Gordon, Bum, whose mother translated Rauke into English, and whose grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Austin, was one of the first. translators of standard German works, wuss fined for being drunk and disorderly in a London restaurant lately. In the Imperial House of Commons the President of the Board of Agriculture, in reply ma. question, said he could not see the necessity of sending an expert, to Can- adn to enquire into the existence of pleura- pneumoninpa the disease had actunily been detected in some Canadian cumin landed at. Deptford. ' Three thousand garmenbmukera in Bos- ton are out on strike. The carpet. weavers’ strike at Philadel- phia has been successful. V A fire in Milwaukee on Th unday destroy . ed property to the value of ngarly hslf a million dollars. Two thousand five hundred union vest makers, including seven hundred women and girls, are on strike in New York. By a recent treasury ruling repairs made in Canada- $o locomotives and cars of internstional nilways are not duti- able. 7 09 Wednesday _mqrnix'1‘g‘ Mr. Lewja , IIA__‘__Â¥ On Wednesday morning Mr. Lewis Swift, astronomer of the Echo Mountain Observatory, Culif, discovered:- new comes in the constellation Piacel. livayero font; Fierce fox-oat fires are nging in the vicinity of Spokane, Washington. An immense quantity of valuable umber has been dutrqyed, and it in reported flint four GREAT P- RITA IN. UNITED STATES. of the anonto,Ha_m- appointed There have been 16,000 deaths from the cholera plague in Japan. Chiueée soldier: an Tien Tuin are rioting and dompndiug back pay. The Form has declined to allow the proposed reforms in Armenia to be under foreign control. The British and American Consuls are not. allowad to be present, at. the examina- tion of the prisoners arrested for the Kucheug misuon unaware. Serious difficul- ties are expected The British expedition sent to punish the revumug Lubes around Mombasa, in Africa, has had some fighting. The largest stock company of the century will push an invention for the substizution of electricity and compressed air for wnterpowu, now in use in Australia gold fields. Paris has given up the idea of instruct.- ing its school children in military drill. The Municipal Council has disbnndud the battalions, and ordered the guns and equip- ments to be sold at. auction. It costs $100,000 a. year to k-ep up the Rain de Boulogne, but. from $40,000 to $50- 000 is derived from the park itself. and from the rents of the race courses, restitut- ants, and private houses in in. Advices received from Majunga, Island of Madngaacnr. dated the 5th inst“, say that the Home are entrenched at Kinnjz and are prepared to offer a determined resistance to the advance of the French. Fresh outrages upon missionaries are reported. from China. The American mis- sion near Foo-Chow has been attacked by a mob, the chapel and school-house wrecked, and four of the native scholars wounded. Mail advices from Hakodate estimate the combined catch of all pelagic sealers in Asiatic waters this season at forty-two thousand seal skins. Last season the (Jana.- diaus alone Look forty-nine thousand. Rome will hold a great. gymnastic meeting during the national fates in September. Sixty societies and 1,500 Italian gymnasts will take part in it. and many competitors are expected from Berlin, Switzerland and Belgium. The Marquise do Galiiffet has been sued for maintenance by he: mother, Madame Lafitte,widow of the French horse breeder, who is 81, and has an income of 40.000 francs a year which she has tied up by persistenb libigation. “0H, WAD SOAME POWER THE GIFTIE A Commissioner Appointed Who Is Ac- cused By the Missionaries or Inciting the [Mung and Murder. A despatch from Shanghai to 'Ihe Pal) Mall Gazette says the Chinese Government has made a most extraordinary appointment ‘ in connection with the outrages upon the‘ English missionaries. The formerly deâ€" graded Liu, who is generally regarded as the actual originator of the Chengtu riots, has been definitely appointed lmperial High Commissioner to investigate the circum- stances which led to the outbreak and the (acts connected with the outragea them- selves. The appointment has caused the utmost dissatisfaction and indignation among the foreign residents. BRITAIN AND AMERICA MUST ACT. The London Globe, in an article on the recent attacks upon foreign missionaries in China, says : “ If outrages such as have occurred near Foo-Chow, can take place with impunity near a treaty port where foreign consuls are stationed, what may happen in the outlying stations throughout the country ? The refusal of the Chinese to permit European consuls to assist in the enquiriee‘into these outrages must have convinced Lord Sulishury that it is useless to expect satisfactory proposals from the Ysungâ€"Li-Yamen. The court which tries the perpetrators of the outrages must be composed of the English and American consuls, with European comljuiors, and at- tended by an ellective escort of British and American sailors, not only to protect the tribunal from violence, but, if necessary, to carry its decision into efl‘ect.” Canada llnjuslly Treated In Regard to llcr ' Cattle. ,A despatch from Ottawa says :â€"The an- l nouncement in the British House of Com- l mons, by Walter Long, the new Presideu‘ of the Board of Agriculture, that the examination of the lungs of Canadian cattle showed unmistakable traces of pleuro pneumonia, thus precluding all hope of raising the embargo. against Canadian cattle in England, is a source of serious dissatisfaction to the Agricultural Depart- ment here. "It is a conclusion,” said a prominent officer, "which Prof. Mchchren believes has been xeached upon an altogeth- er insut‘ficient diagnosis. The appearance described by the Board of Agriculture in the case oi the lungs of these two animals, does not at all establish the presence of pleuro-pueumonia. There is even less ground to believe these cases to be pleuro- pneumonia than there was in those so successfully contested by the report of Hon. Mr. Angers last your, a report which, by the way, has not been answered to this day or even laid before the British House of Commons. It. is believed that the case referred to in the Commons (that Deptford case) will utterly break down under a touch of professional criticism. Total Productlon in lmporllnx and Ex- porting Countriesâ€"A Shortage In the Crops as Compared With Last Year. A despstch from Buds Pesbh, says : I‘he Minister of Agriculture announces ss 9. re, salt of data. obtoined from Consuls and specislists thst the world's wheat crop fo.‘ 1895 is as follows :â€"-The total production in countries which import wheat, is estimat- ed as 749,022,000 bushels. In countries which export, the total production is 1,651,701,000 bushels. The Minister also amends the estimste of the crop of 1894 so as to mobs the total in that you 2,632,736,- 000 bushels, showing that the crop of 1895 is 232,000,000 less tbsn hint of 1894. CHINESE ENQUIRY A FARCE. NOT BRITISH FAIR PLAY. THE WORLD‘S WHEAT. GEN KRAL. OMEIVIEE. ONT. THURSDAY, AUG- 29. 1895- A Sermon .lfrmu me. Very Avava'lI-It" Text. "And God Shall Wipe away all learn From their Eye-M‘Vw'l‘lle comforts 0! Religion. New YORK Aug. lSâ€"Rev Dr. Talmnge could not have selected a more apprepriate subject. than the one of to-day considering the bereavement that. has come upon him and his household. he had already pre- pared his sermon for tu-day,selecbing an a. topic “Comfort,” and taking us his text, “And God aha.“ wipe away all been from their eyes," Revelunton v1i,l7. DR. TALMAGE FINDS CONSOLATION IN GOD'S WORD. ' Riding across a. western prairie, wild ’ flowers up to the hub of the carriage wheel, and while a long distance from any shelter, there came a sudden uhowar, and while the min was falling in torrents the sun was shining us brightly as I ever new it shine, and I thought what a beautiful spectacle i this is ! So the tens of the Bible are not midnight storm, but min on bensied: prairies in God's sweet and golden sunlight. You remember that bottle which David labeled as containing tears, and, Mary's tears, and Paul’s tears, and Christ’s tears, land the harvest of joy that is to spring from the aowxng of tears. God mixes them. God rounds them. God shows them where to (all. God exlmlea them. A census is taken of them, and there is a record as to the moment when they are burn and as to the place of their grave. Tears of bad men are not kept. Alex- under in his sorrow had the heir clipped from his horses and mules and made a. great ado about his grief. but in all the vases of heaven there is not one of Alex- ander’s tears. I speak of the tears of God’s chxldren. Alas, me. they are falling all the time S In summer you sometimes hear the growling thunder and you see there is a storm miles away, but you know from the drift of the clouds that it will not come anywhere near you. So though it may be all bright around about you, there is u shower of trouble somewhere at the time. Tears! Tears X What is the use of them, anyhow? Why not substitute laughter? Why not make this a world where all the people are well and eternal strangers to pain and aches? What is the use of an eastern storm when we might have a perpetual nor’wester? Why, when a family is put together. not have them all stay, or if they must be transplanted to make other homes, then have them all live, the family record tell- ing a story of man one and births, but of no deaths? Why not have the harvests chase each 0‘ her without fatiguing toil? \Vhy the hard pillow, the hard crust, the hard struggle '3 It is easy enough to ex- plain a smile, or a. success, or a congratu- lation ; but, come now, and bring all your dictionaries and all your philosophies and all your religions, and help me explain a tear. Achemist will tell you that it is made up of salt and lime and ather coni- ponent parts ; but he misses the chief ingredientsâ€"tho acid of a soured life, the viperine sting of a bitter memory, the fragments of a broken heart. I will tell you what a tear is ; it is agony in solution. Hear then, while I discourse of the uses of trouble. Fin-st, it is the design of trouble to keep this wurld from being Loo attractive. Some thing mush be done to make us willing m quiz mhia existence. If in Were not, for trouble. this world would be a good enough heaven for me. You and I would he will- ing to tuke a lenseof chin life for n hundred nullion years if there were no trouble. The earth cushioned and upholstered and pil- lared and chandeliered with such expense, no story of other Worlds could enchant us. We would say, “ Len Well enough alone. If you want, to die and have your body disintegrated in the dust and your soul go out on a. celestial adventure, then you can go, but; this world is good enough for me !" You might as well go to a man who has just entered the Louvre at. Paris, and tell him to hasten off no nhe picture galleries of Venice or Florence. “Why,” he would say, “ whom is the use of my going there? There are Rembraudte and Rubenaes and Raph- uele here that I haven't, looked at. yet." No man wants to go out of this world or out of any house until he has a better house. To cure this wish to stay here God must somehow create a. disgust for our sur- roundings. How shall he do it? He cannot afl'crd to deface his horizon or to tear off a fiery panel from the sunset, or to subtract an anther from the water lily, or to banish the pungent aroma from the mignnnette, or to drag the robes of the morning in mire. You cannot expect a Christopher Wren to mar his own St. Paul’s Cathedral, or a Michael Angelo to dash out hieewn “ Last .3 udgment,” or a Handel to discord his “ Israel in Egypt," and you cannot expect God to spoil the architecture and music of his own world. How. then, are we to be made willing to leave? Here is where trouble comes in. After a man' has had a. good deal of trouble he says: “ Well, I am ready to go. If there is a. house somewhere whose rooi doesn’t, leak. I would like to live where. If there is an atmosphere somewhere that. does not distress the lungs, I would like no breabhe it. If there is a society somewhere where there is no bittle tattle. I Would like to live there. If there in a home circle some- where where I can find my lost frieudi. I would like to 20 Lhere." He used to read the first part of the Bible chiefly, now he reads the last part of the Bible chiefly. Why has he chang- ed Genesis for Re velstione ? Ah ! he used to be anxious chiefly to know how this world was made and all about its geologi- cal construction. Now he is chiefly anxious to know how the next world “as made, and how it looka,and who lives there, and how they dress. HP reads Revelation ten times now where he reads Genesis once. The old story. “ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth," does not thrill him half as much u the other story. “ I saw a new haven. USES OF AFFLIGTIUN. 01E US,TAE SEE DORSELS AS ITIIERS SEE US.” and a new earth." The old man’s hand tremblea as he turns 0Ver this apocalyptic leaf, and he has to take out his hemder- chief to wipe his spectacles. That, book of Revelation is a prospectus now of the country into which he is HOOD to immigrate, the country in which he has lots already bud out and avenues Opened and mansions built. But there are people here to whom this world in brighter than heaven. Well, dear souls, I do not blame you. It is natural. But after awhile you will be roady to go. It wns not until Job had been worn out that he wanted to see God. It was not until the prodigal got tired of living among the hogs that he wanted to go to his father’s house. It is the ministry of trouble to make this World worth less and heaven worth more. Again, it is the use of trouble to make us feel our dependence upon God. Men think that they can do anything until God shows that, they can do nothing at all. We lay our great plans, and we like to execute; them. It looks big. God comes and taken us down. As Promethean was assaulted by his enemy, when-the lance struck him it opened a great swelling that had threaten- ed his death, and he go! well. So it is the l arrow of trouble that lets out great ewell- ings of pride. We neVer feel our debendeuce upon God until we get trouble. I was riding with my little child along the road and she asked if she might drive. 1 said “Certainly.” I handed over the reins to her, and 1 had to admire the glee with which she drove. But after awhile we met a team, and we had to turn out. The road ‘ was narrow, and it was sheer down on both laides. She handed the reins over to me and said, “I think you had better take charge of the horse.” So we are allchildren, and on this road of life we like to drive. It gives one such an appearance of superiority and power. It looks big. But after awhile we meet some obstacle, and we have to turn out,and the road is narrow, and it is sheer down on both sides, and then we are willing that God shOuld take the reins and drive. Ah, my friends, we get upset so often because we do not hand over the reins soon enough. 4 -.w After a. mun has trouble prayer is with him a taking hold of the arm of God and crying out for help. I have heard earnest prayers on two or three occasions that. I remember. Once, on the Cincinnati express train, going at 40 miles the hour, the train jumped the track and we were near a chasm 80 feet deep, and the men who, a few minutes before, had been BWenring and blaspheming God, began to pull and jerk at the bell rope, and got up on the heck of the seats, and cried out. “0, Garl‘ save us 2” There was another time. about 800 miles out at sea, on a foundering steamer, after the last lifeboat had been split finer than kindling wood. They prayed then. Why is it you so often hear people, in reciting the lest experience of some friend, say, “He made the most beautiful prayer I ever heard 1'” \tht makes it beautiful ‘! It is the earnestness of it. Oh. I tell you, a men is in earnest when he’s stripped and naked and wades out in the soundlese, shoreleua, bottomless ocean of eternity. It is troublexmy friends, that makes us i feel our dependence upon God. We do not i know our own weakness or God’u strength l until the last plank breaks. It is contempt- ? ible in us when there is nothing else to take 1 hold of that we catch hold of God only. } \Vhy, do you not know who the Lord is I ; fie is not an autocrot seated for up in a. ; palace from which he emerges once a year, ; preceded by heralds swinging swords to‘ clear the way. No. But. 1:. Father willing I at our call to stand by us in every crisis‘ and predicament of life. 1 tell you what l some of you business men make me think of. A young man goes 05 from home to earn his fortune. He goes with his mother’s consent and benediction. She has large Wealth, but he wants to make his own fortune. He goes for away,flle sick. gets out of money. He sends for the hotel- keeper where he is staying, asking for lenience. and the answer he gets is,“If you don’t pay up Saturday night, you’ll be ‘ removed to the hospital." ‘ The young man sends toacomrade in the same building. No help. He writes to a banker who was a friend of his deceased father. No relief. He writes to an old schoolmate, but. gets no help. Saturday night. comes. and he is moved to the hospital. :- - : ”EAL A__:-: Getting there, he is frenzied with grief, and he borrow: a. sheet; of paper and a post- ago stamp, and he sits down and he wntes home, saying, “ Dear mother, I am sick unto death. Come.” it is ten minutes of 10 o’clock when she gets the letter. At 10 o’clock the train starts. She is five minutes [tom the depot. She gets there in time to have five minutes to spare. She wonders why a. truiu that. can go 30 miles an hour cannot go 60 miles an hour. She rushes into the hospital. She says : “ My son, what does all this mean 2 \Vhy didn’t you send for me? You sent to everybody but me. You knew I could and would help you. Is this the reward 1 get for my kind- neee to you always 1’” She bundles him up, takes him home and get him well very soon. Now, some of you treat God just as that young man treated his mother. When you get into a financial perplexity, you call on the bunker, you call on the broker, you call on your lawyer for legal counsel, you call upon everybody and when you cannot get any help, then you go to God. You say : “ O. Lord, I come to thee ! Help me now out of my perplexity.” And the Lord Comes, though it is the eleventh hour. He says : “ Why did you not send for me before '! As one whom his mother com- foreth, so will I comfort you.” It is to throw us back upon God that we have this ministry of tours. Again, it is the use of trouble to capaci- tote us for the office of sympathy. The priests, under the old dispensation, were set apart by having water sprinkled upon their hands, feet. and head, and by the sprinkling of tears people are now set ‘apart to the oflice of sympathy. When we are in prosperity, we like to have a greetmany young people around us, and we laugh when they laugh, and we romp when they romp, and we sing when they sing, but when we have trouble we like plhnty of old folks around. Why? They know how to talk. n... ,g,__ ul-v av â€".. Why? She ha been through am. At 7 o’clock in the morning she goes over to comfort a young mother who has judt lost her babe. Grandmother knows all about. thou trouble. Fifty years ago she felt it. At. ‘12 o’clock on that, day she goes over ho comfodct owidowed Ioul. She known .11 nuv 'v "v ......... Take an aged mother 70 years of age, and she is almost_ omniPoLent in comfort. A; about that. She has been walking in that dark valley ‘20 years. At. 4 o’clock in \he miner-noon some one kuoeks as the door, wanting bread. She known all about. that. Two or three times in her life she cnme to her last. loaf. At 10 o'clm-k that night. she goes over to nib up wicll some one severely sick. She knows all about it. She knows all uboub fevers and pleuriaeu and broken bones. She has been (lecturing all her hie, spreading plasters and pouring out. bitter drops and shaking up hot pillows and contriving things to tempt a poor eppetite. Dre. Aberuethy and Bush and . 1v ,AA __A_.‘. Junta-a Ifoauack and Harvey Were great doctors, but, the greatest, doctor the world ever saw is an old Christian woman. Dent me ! Do we not. remember her about the room when we were sick in our boyhood? Was there any one who could ever so much a. sore without hurting it! Where did PM get the ink with which to writ-e his comforting epiatle? Where did David get Eye ink to wriw his comfort,- ~~\ 1 I L‘L_ ;â€"-lv nu. uuuu w“. v..- ..__ 7 ing Psalms? Where did John get the ink to write his comforting Revelation? They got it out of their own tears. When a man has gone through the curriculum and has taken a course of dungeons and im- prisonments and shipwrecks, he is quali- fied for the work of sympathy. When I began to preach my sermons on the subject of trouble were all poetic and in scmiblnnk verse, but God knocked the blank verse out of me long ago, and I have found out that I cannot comfort people except as I myself have been troubled. God make me the son of consolation to the people! 1 would rather be the means of } soothing one perturbed spirit to-dey than to i play a tune that would set all the sons of i mirth reeling in thedance. v ,s :AsA LL” Jean; had enough trial to make him1 ‘sympathetic with all trial. The shortest iverse in the Bible tells the story, “Jesus wept.” The scar on the back of his either hand, the scar on the arch of either foot, 1 the row of scar: along the line of the hair {will keep ell heaven thinking. Oh, that Egreat weeper is just the one to silence all earthly trouble, wipe out all the amine of earthly grief. Gerthe 1 Why, his step is isofter than the step of the dew. It will lnot be a tyrant bidding you to hush n 3 your crying. It will be a Father who wi I take you on his left arm, his face beaming ‘ into yours. while with the soft tips of the 1 fingers of the right hand he shall wipe away all tears from your eyes. : ‘:Ad u... u" ...y. -_ V_V 7 7 I am an Dherb doctor.- I put into the f caldron the Root out otdry ground, without ‘ form or comcliness. Then I put in the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. Then I put into the caldron some of the leaves from the tree of life, and the Branch that was thrown into the wilderness Marsh. Then I pour in the tears of Bethany and Golgothu. Then I kindle under the caldron a tire, made out of the wood of the cross and one drop of that portion will cure the worst sickness that over afflicted a human soul. Mary and Martha shall receive their Lazarus from the tomb. The damsel shall rise. And on the darkness shall break the morning, and God will wipe all tears from their eyes. ' ‘ .4 __-l_- k;â€" Friends, if we could get any appreciation of what God has in reserve for us, it. would make us no home sick we would he unfit. for our everyday work. Professor Leonard formerly of Iowa university, put. in my hands a. meteoric stone 3 stone thrown otf from some other world to this. How sug- gestive it was to me ! And I have to hell you the beat. representations we have of heaven are only uerolitaea flung 06' from thee world which rolls on,beering ohe multitud- es of the redeemed. We analyze these oerolitee and find them crystallization of stars. No wonder,flung oil from heaven l “God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” A: ‘L_ .....-.l V’H-. Have you any appreciation of the good and glorious times your friends are having in heaven ‘3 How ilifi'erent it is when they get new: there of a. Chriatien’e death from what it is here ! It is the diflerence between em burkntion and cominginto port. Everything depends upon which side of the river you stand when you hear of o Chris- tian's death. If you stand on this side of the river you mourn that they go. If you stand on the other side of the river, you rejoice that they come. Oh, the difference between a. funeral on earth and n jubilee in heavenâ€"Between requiem here and triumph thereâ€"parting here and reunion there ! Together ! Have you thought of it? They are together. Not one of your departed friends in one land. and another in another land, but together in difierent rooms of the same houseâ€"who house of many mansions. Together 1 ,; LL‘L nL-â€"-LL "-qu lll-uâ€"nvâ€"-' _ Vt, V I never more appreciated that thought} than when we laid away in her last slumber 1 my sister Sarah. Standing there in thei village Cemetery, I looked around and said: “There is father, there is mother, there is grandfather, there is grandmother, there are whole circles of kindred," and I thought to myself, “Together in the grave ~together in glory." I am so impressed with the thought that I do not think it is any fanaticism when some one is going from this world to the next if you make them the bearer of dispatches to your friends who are gone, saying, “Give my love to my pereuts, give my love to my children, give my 10 so to my old comrades who are in glory, and tell them 1 am trying to fight the good fight of faith, and I will join them after awhile.” I believe the message will be delivered, and I believe it ‘ will Increase the gladuess of those who ; are before the throne. Together Ire they, i all their tears gone. 1‘,,7‘ My friends,°bnke thin good cheer-meat than course your cheek, and ot peiaecu- Lion, and of trial, are not always to be there. The motherly hand of God, will wipe them all away. What is the uaemn the way no such a. consummationâ€"what. is the use of fretting about anything! Oh, what ah exhilaration it onghb to be in Chriusian Work ! gee you the pinnacle: against. the sky? It is the city of our God, and we are approaching it. Oh, let us be busy in the dnya that. remain for us ! 1 n- I pu‘L this balsam on the wounds of your heart. Rejoice at the thought of what your departed friends have got rid of and that you have a prospect of so soon making your own escape. Bear cheerfully the ministry of tears and exulb at the thought that soon it is to be ended. There we shall march up the heavenly street: And ground our arms at J esua' feet. ‘ We need no' rmg to piight our moth. he suggested, as he l‘iiued‘her impetuogaly_ “671, 3,95, we do, rammed ihe maiaen. None of your sleightpof-hsnd wicks with Sleight of Hand. CHAS. W. RICHARIDS I’uhllsher d Proprietor. DISCORD ENTERS WITH A RELIU OF A MASTODON. Brother Gardner Arr-Iver. In Time To vent a. Cnsuallyâ€"lguernnee axn Power In Promoting a thl~Tho “lab Called Upon to Receive sad Newa. During the past week the club hue re- ceived at the hands of a prominent South Carolina ecientint a part of the vertebrae of u mastodonâ€"one of the playful animals which lived, roamed and died about five- hundred yenrs’ago. It so happened that Judge Congo and Walk-Around Green were the first two members to arrive at the hall ‘ at the usual Saturday night meeting,and the wrelic at once engaged their attention. Judge Congo squinted up his left eye, puckered his mouth and declared that the maetodon who lost this piece of backbone must have been twenty-four feet long, sixteen feet high, and heavy enough to jar the city hall by rubbing agninet e corner. Walk-Around Green is heavy on poultry statistics and light on mutations, and it therefore came about that when Windy White, Samuel Shin and Sir William Tompkins arrived it was to find a terrible struggle going on betwaen the two men and the backbone kicking around under the benches. The combatants were separated. but had not gotten the blood wiped ofi before Brother Gardner arrived and opened the meeting. When the triangle had sounded and Waydown Bebee had finished his lonesome coughing fit, the president arose and said : “ Gem’len, human netur’ am It might come thing. De aiverage man will git quicker an’ fight harder ober what he doan' know an’ has no chance to fin‘ out den for something he an posted about. What Judge Congo doan’ know about maetodons would make a book as big as e one-hose wegin. What Walk-Around Green dosn’ know about de same anamile would weigh two tone an’ a hell. Dar‘iore dey were de werry two men to git up a fight wid ignorance for de buis. 7,:_: -_J :1. THE LIME-KEN BLUE. a“It has bin so from de bezinnin’, and it will be so to do end. Men who know do least 'bout de Bible have do moas’ disputes ober it. De biggest ignommusses on astronomy an’ philosophy hold to deir opinyons de strongest. nnd de longest. Prejudice wiii bent fucks nine times outer Len, en’ bigotry um do club which knocks down sense on’ ugyment. Judge Can 0 wouldn‘t. take on inch nor on ounce 06” e weight. on size of dot; mostodon. though he neber new one nor come wishin 3.000 y'ars of it. Walk-Around Green wonldn’tbelieve one side of no sich story,bekuea mucodon wasn’t chained up at de dooh wher’ he could measure him wid o two-foot- role. :Neither would accept noted history on’ isolentific research. While dsr' em some micigebin’ sercumetences nu' excuses in: dis quarrel, de sentence of dis cho’r on: to do efl'ect dot both eflenders shall poy 3. fine of $3.50 an’ costs. -,._ .‘ “I would further stave dat it egin be- comes my painful doony toannounee de fack dat death has invaded our ranka," said the president as the applause would by his very just. decision died away. “Word has bin received dab Elder John Spanner, of Winchester, Va., am no mo’. He jined dis club about two y'ars ago, an‘ hisinteres’ in it was unabated up to his dyin’ hour. In his death we lost a good man. but we has at de same time gained some waluable experience, in ease we fee‘l like acceptin’ it. Elder Spooner believed in de motto: ‘Honeety am de bes’ policy,’ au’ he died poo'. He loved his naybur as himself, an’ his naybur had alto other do bes’ of it. He had charity fur a , an’ den kept his chill’en widout shoes an' his wife tied down to a kaliker dress fur Sunday. His motto was ‘Excelsior,’ an' his Sunday dinner was as thin as sheet iron. “Durin’ de summer season, when fuel dosn' cost nuf‘fin, folks kin go barfut an’ any sort. of a man kin sirn a dollar a day. it am well 'nnfl' to hang 'God Bless Our Home’ ober de dosh an’ spank de chill’en wid shoot-jack labeled ‘Dsr am room es de toy,’ but arbor winter has shot. down de man who won't. trade proverbs fur ’Caters and motto’a fur bacon, may make up his mind to feel hungry half do time. Elder Spooner was honest, an’ darcfore poo’. He was conscienshns. an’ dareforo ragged. He was full of mercy an’ pity an’ sympathy, an’ dareiore had dc repubashun cf bein’ weak in do second story. I dean advise any man to he wicked, but I desire to carelessly remark (lat; de real good man who am obleeged to turn his paper collars am shunned by society an’ lulled at by do world. Let. us now proceed to bizness.” The "avenge nun," is, for the most part, a very astonishing person, when no one has ever seen. He is like the avenge weather,which is mathematically computed or aimed et, at. the end of a month, and which innot like any ectuel weether that prevailed on any time during the month. :i AL.A_IJ L- _A..ij :, r The Average man, it. should be noted, is Inzier than one would suppose. A autisti- cian has reckoned up his laboura, and finds that at fifty years of age he has toiled six thousand five hundred days of twenoy-four hours each. During the same time the avenge man has slept. six thousand days of twenty-four hours each. He has played four thousand dnya and been in five hundred. ‘ :x-- -â€"Jâ€" â€"._._ He has travelled twelve tbomnd miles, taken thirty-six thousand meals, eaten fifteen thousand pounds oi meat and four thousand pounds of fish, eggs and vege- tnbles. and drunk eleVen thousand gallons of lgqqida. Ufader this account the average man appenrs to be a greedy person : find ’3’“ there have undoubtedly been 006081011! when he has gone hungry. Samuel Edison, fat/3.: of the invantox, celebrated his 92nd birchday on FridaYv It is only the finite that has mfougigt and Inflated ; the infinite lien stretched m miling repose. â€"Emeraon. 8606 not at the natural defect! 0‘ N1)- 0, it is (“wt :93“: n yipplcxh his own} crutche .‘d more S§89 .‘ Iadn. I mak cm 3‘ u. ‘ "303 others hm - .md to hem. The Average Man.