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I could see the thin; closing in upon me, as it were. yet hardly knew how to evade it, and, on the whole, began to care less to do so. “Well. captain," 1 finally answered, “I cannot see why I should decline such a. kindly and timely ofler. I agree, providing that I am able to fulfill all your requirements. which I somewhat doubt. seeing: that my ex- perience has been but brie f." There was a dazzle on the water in that direction. and I could not get so perfect a. flaw of her as I desired, but Wlmauehifirhcr Ho celled for the score, which he in- sisted upon paying, and we left the inn. There was a good deal of confusion alongthe docks, for several of the kin g's ships were fitting for sea, and the run- ning about and pulling and hauling. all without much method or precision. were suprising and perplexing, but at inst we reached the jetty where the cap- tain’s boat was lying. 0n the way it suddenly occurred to me that I had neg- lected to ask a. pretty important ques- tion, which was the port that the In- dustryâ€"the captain‘s shipâ€"was bound liar. I asked it now, and learned that it was Roma, in the West Indies. This suited me very well, as I had never been in those parts, and had a young fellow's fondness for novelty. We boarded the gig- which a middle-aged sailor was keeping, and were soon clear of the tangle of shipping about the docks, and standing into the roadstead. I sus~ ,pected that one of the three large ves- 'sels that were at anchor some little distance out might be the Industry, and accordingly asked the captain. “Look you." he said. rounding upon me then and speaking in a brisker tone than he had before, “I have a. mind to make you a proposition. I an: in want of a. second mate. So we can agree upon toms, what say you to the place? It in a little better beginning than a bare berth before the mast. with the chance of betterment.” “I have indeed salt waterin my veins, which is to say I like the sea, yet 1 have a scruple concerning a sailor's life. and thus far have not learned suf- ficient to overcome 9t.” “It isas I guessed," he then went on to answer. “Well, and I am willing to cozy cede you three parts right. Yet how if there oflered some opportunity for ad- vunremontâ€"I mean without waiting half a lifetime?” “Why, in that case." I answered. not quite .mre what he would be at. “the matter wouid stand in another light." “Aye, quite right,”he an§wered. point- ing to the easternmost of the nhips, "There the is.” He regarded me with uttention while I was speaking, and when I had made an end smiled and was silent for a mo- ment. “Then how say you," he began. “to taking up with the sea? I will not deny that it is a hard life. and Imistrust you do not incline to it, yet I think there be worse calling; Moreover, your father followed it, 3nd I conceive you must have been born with some natural fit- ness for it. These things do not out of the blood in one genmtion. Have you, then, so much salt water in your veins as will overhear the objections?“ I hung in the wind 8 littIe, for this was the very thing I would not have, yet I was slow to refuse. At last I an- swered: I was born in the days of the Lord Protector, so that I was a little past my majority when the things that I have in mind to relate took place. My father was a sea captain, out of Portsmouth for the Mediterranean, and was killed 'by the Barbary pirates and his ship taken a little time before Icame of age. M 3: mother grieved sorely for him. and only survived his loss a few months. and my two young brothers being then put out with a reputable haberdasher, and the little that remained of our for- tune turned over to him for their ben- efit, I found myself of a sudden alone in the world, and brought, for the first. time, to depend upon myself for a liv- ing. I had made a. few voyages with my father. and had come to be some thing of a seaman. though I knew scarce anything of navigation. and this knowledge. with what I gained from an ordinary round of schooling. stood for all I was now to reckon on to make my way in the world. While I was re- flecting on my condition. and casting about to see what I should doâ€"for I did not relish the idea of using the sea. though that was now often in my mindâ€"I chanced to fall in with a cer- tain shipmaster. Daniel Houthwick.by name. to whom. after a short acquaint ance, I_ disclosed my case. and asked his advice. We were seated in the taproom 0! one of the little dock inns at the tinie, with a pot of old October before us and no one just by. The captain took a pull at his mug, which made his hairy throat give a great throb, and after a little deliberation answered: “I should be blithe to help you, Mas- ter Ardick. could I but get my hearing: to see how. You know I am an old salt-’ water. with little run of things ashore. I might come at something by broad reckoning. but. no better." “Give me that." said I. eagerly. “Any- thing is better than beating abou: all my: in the wind." CHAPTm I. on“ BECOMING A surname MAN. 11. N0. 39. $1 per annum. [Copyrighn :8“. by D. Appleton Co. All tight rourvMJ THE OMEMEE MIRROR. i As I glanced about, taking in the : fashion of the deck and such arrané‘e- ; ments as had not been visible from the i Water, a short. broad man, in a kind I of Dutch blouse and heavy sea boots, ' caéne from some place forward and ac~ I edsted the captain. I inferrml that he v must be the mate. and so indeed. it. I yroved, and upon being presented I I found his name was Giles Sellinger, Ennd that he hailed from Southampton. 3 .He had a resolute. honest-looking coun- : tenance, albeit the smallpox had pitted 3 him rather severely, and I thought had the air of a good seaman and compe- tent officer. The captain explal’ne'd the meaning of my being aboard. and said' that he doubted not I should suit them well. though it might be I should halt .' ix: some things at the beginning. Mas- j ter Sellingcr recelved this explanation i in a way favorable to my pride. As soon as Capt. Houthwick had put 5 :23 on our course he presented me to; tnc super-cargo, giving his name as Mr. Tym and informing him with some little pride that he wauid find me oth- er than the common sort of sailor, be- ing a man of considerable parts, and of a family above the ordinary, my father gl‘ai' mg been an ow ning shipmaster anal 2h: son of a justice of the peace. and my mother the daughter of a knight. Ah“? " somewhat “dim“; P1111. the admiringly. “But what then? Did wind being in 1’3” ‘30“er and’QUitc you come to close straits before you '2: sea beginning to run, we drew near, made the other side?” and I got up and made ready to seize To be Continued. the ladder. It was of rope, with wooden __ - rungs, the top and bottom made inst, TASTE OF SHERRY. .and presently I succeeded in catching! Sherry OWes its peculiar taste to it, and drew the bow ofthe boatus near g 3113mm“ of 135%, two and a half as was safe. The ship rose and sank } pounds of which is added to each 1.800 'and churned about in a troublesome ”3011de Of grapes. fashion, but I managed to hold on, and : ---‘-â€"-r . first the captain and then Mr. Tym E 01h 336k- dear. . hO'W‘ y'om fn-ghtom passedme and swung over to the ladder. ”dune! tigwfiaéogge 80m}? to The old some was as may and 1:! me t W“ Vsme‘mfi a good fresh skin, and dressed very handsomely in sad-colored velvet, low- crowned hat with feathers, yellow hose, and high-heeled French shoes. with blue rosettes. His head was covered with a fashionable flowing Wig, and his broad sworcl-belt supported a. good sub- stantial sword with a silver hilt. 60. with some gray in his beard. bun “Aye, Master Ardick is here," I heard him say back to some one behind him, and almost with the words the person 'he had addressed joined him. The supercargo, for such, of course, the sec~ and man was, I found to be a nimble, erect little gentleman. in age perhaps I waited a. few moments, talking with 'the sailors (but not too freely, lest they conceive me an easy sort, which would not do), and presently I heard the voice of the captain. The sailors pushed the heat more fairly to the foot of the stairs. and directly the captain apa peered at the top. We made no further delay. but re- turned to the town. and at the hour ap- pointed to be fetched off I was ready, clothes-bag in hand. The tide'had fallen since morning. and I had to walk to the edge of the jetty before I could .espy the boat, which I then perceived at the foot of the long flight. of wet steps. The two sailors, who were the crew, were alone in her. and so I saw that! was beforehand with my companions. X aw I was beforehand with my companion: chief features. She steed pretty well out of the water (considering that she Twas loaded), and, while she had a good beam, was not overround in the bows, and was well and loftily span-ed. She was painted black, with a gilded streak, and showed no break for ports, which, indeed. was not surprising, as few mer- chantmen at that time carried their guns otherwise than on deck. All her tops seemed to be provided with shields, or barricadoes. and on the poop end along the bulwarks I could resolve the outlines of several sakcrs and swivels. Besides these she might carry some heavy piece. and, in fact. I caught a glimpse, through an open gang-port, of a. shape in a tarpaulin which could hardly be other than a long-range gun. The whole appeared to show that she was fitted. to fight as well as to fly. which was passing needful in those troublesome times. Her burthen (as I afterward learned) was 350 tons. and as we approached her. and she flashed up her great black side. she looked even larger. As we drew near, some heads showed above the bulwark. and I made out a ladder hanging over at that place. We pulled up to it. and when we rose on the next wave the sailor reached out a. boat-hook and steadied us to it. and we were speedily up the side. Il//4 on Jack. dear. h-onvyuu frighten- Eed me! I thought you ware going: to i tell me that you had kissed someuon- n‘Iâ€"li l I turned and saw the little super- Icargo. who had just come out of the 'cabin. He was balancing himself fear- 1125313; on his straddled legs. a. long sea- icoat whipping about him. and his hand' :clapped upon his hat to keep both that and his great curly wig from blowing i away. “But the master of her," I queried, a little-puzzled by that point in tho story, “how did you prevail on him to take such a risk ?” “Nay. not a whit. I did but point an- other pistol at themâ€"I had two hands in those daysâ€"and they became most tractable.” “Y on deserved to escape!" I cried, admiringly. “But what then? Did you come to close straits before you “I saw worse once ! ” he shouted, with a. kind of chuckle, and then immediate- ly sucking in his lips, which I found was a way he had. “And the crew? Had you no trouble with them?” “It was to sa've my neck,” he an- swered. Epcaking this time close. to my ear, that he might. talk with less strain. “You see, it was in the days of old No”, and I had ventured into my na- tive Sussexâ€"I had fo';:'otten to say that the old tyrant had set a price on my headâ€"end was forced to get speed- ily out. Luckily, a fellow-roya'xist was at hand and lent me a. horse, and on that I reached the seaside and ‘hence boarded this fisherman, upon which I put out as I said. ” “How? Why. to be sure, with a. pis- to} at the head. He would listen no otherwise." “Aye, sir," I said, “this in rough weather for the channel.” “And how was that?” I asked, will- ing to forget the weather for a. mo- ment if I could. “Why, it was a. matter of above 20 years ago,” he replied. “Things so fell out with me on that occasion that I put to sea on a. day even worse than this in only a small fishing sloop.” “It was beyond account rush,” I commented. “It must have been a strait, indeed, t9 bring you to it.” In a short time the watches were ap- pointed, nndthe business of putting the ‘ship in order and otherlike things of the Ebeginning of a voyage attended to, and after that I had a little breathing space {and slipped down to my cabin. I had a ?small berth in the aftermost part of the ’tween decks, and here 1 found my clothes~bag and other eflects, and pro- ‘cecded to sling a hammock (preferring it to either of the bunks the berth con- tained). and sat down to have a brief smoke. Mysmoke over, Istrollcd for a. bit into the forecastle. and then went again on deck, where I found the wind rather gathering strength and quite a. stiff sea running. We reefed the topsuils, and by that time supper was called. The' rest of the evening passed without in- 'cident. I turned in early, as my watch was to be called at eight bells. and, when the time came, tawled out mighty sleepy, but full of zeal, and so kept my four hours. At. daylight all hands had to be called, as there was a heavy wind, which was verging- on half a gale, and we whipped down the main- sail and the great latcen, and before we were done had to be satisfied'with a reefed main topsail, a. hit of foresail, and a reefed sprit~topsail. “Marry, but this is something bois- terous for the narrow sens,“ said a high-pitched voice behind me, as I stood holding on by the lashings of tho big gun and watching the turmoil. “Let go!” and the ship flashed out white, and stood clothed in the waves of loose canvas. Then the chief topsails were set. the yards trimmed. and the anchor finally brought to a head. She steadied quickly to her work, and as she climbed away the light canvas wa- rapidly put out. "All ready aloft?" hailed the mate. “All ready!" answered the fellows on the yards. .m-Maata as a rope-dancer, and it im- mediately occurred to me that he might be a veteran seagoer, a conclusion which was confirmed as I saw how cool? ly he waited on the ladder till the cap- tain was out of the way, though the ship was rolling and pitching and send- ing frothing flings of water up to the very soles of his dainty shoes. In .mo-; ment the captain had passed over the bulwark, and Mr. Tym began to fol- low, and it was then that I made a sur- prising discovery. I had noticed that the old fellow had kept his cloak part- ly about him, and I had marveled at it. as the day was so warm, but now, as he began to climb, the wind caught the garment and blew it out, and behold, 'he had lost his left hand! The sleeve hung loose and long about the wrist, and out of the draperyâ€"showing queer among the laceâ€"peeped the black turn of an iron hook. He caught this over the rungs of the ladder. alternating with his right hand‘ and without any difficulty mounted the unsteady side and swung himself lightly over the bulwark. This lively breeze was a fair one for our sails, and we mustall needs look alive, and walk up the anchor and get the Industry under canvas. “Loosen sail!" followed, and the men sprang into the rigging. Everything was cleared to let go, and all hands, except a man on each yard to stay the bunt, scampered back to the deck. The captain mounted the poop, a. man was sent to the tiller, and the mate stationed himself just abaft the fore‘ castle to pass the word along. “Heave her short!" shouted the cap- tain. “Henve her short!" repeated the mate, and the pawls of the Windlass be- gan to rattle. “OH, WAD SOME Pm OMEMEE ONT., THURSDAY, OCT 11, 190). mmmusfimsmomuwmmr I shall try to carry out the Saviour’s idea in this text. and in the first place F say to you that grace is like salt in its 9 beauty. Youl need not go far to find i the beauty of salt. We live in a land E 11 hich produces fourteen millions of : bushels of it in a year, and you can 3 take the morning rail- -train, and in a i few hours get to the salt-mines and g salt-springs and you have this article, imorning, noon and night, on your l i l l . table. Salt has all the beauty of the snow-flake and water-foam, with dur- ability added. It is beautiful to the , naked eye, but under the glass you :see the stars, and the diamonds, and the white tree- -branches, and the isplinters, and the bridges of fire, as gthe sun glints them. There ismo1e garchitectuial skill in one of these crystals of salt than human ingenuity *has ever demonstrated in an Alham- bra or St. Peters. it would take alll time, with an infringement nponl eternity for an. angel of God to tell i one-half the glories in salt-crystal. So i with. the grace of God; it is perfectly ; beautiful. I. have seen it smooth out E wrinkles of care from the brow; I have seen it make an aged man feel almost young again; I have seen it hit the steeping shoulders, and put sparkle into the dull eye. Solomon dis- covered its anatomical qualities when he said, it 151111111011. to the bones.” It helps to digest the food, and to pu11fy the blood, and to calm the pulses, and quietl the spleen; and instead of put- ing a man in a philosophical hospit- al to be experimented upon by prayer, it. keeps him so well that he doesmot need to be prayed for as an invalid. 1 am speaking now of a healthy religion -11ut 01‘ that morbid religion that sits for three hours on a gravestone â€"a religion that prospers best in a bad state 01‘ the liv e1 l I speak of the religion that Christ preached. I sup- pose when that religion has con- quered the 11 orld that disease will be banished; and that a men ahundred years of age will come in from busi- ness, and say, ”I feel tued. I think it must be time for me to go,"and without one physical pang, heaven will have him. I V V ~Vv~uuuun UL beautifying as the grace of God. Go all through the deep mine-passages of Wiclitzka, and amid the under- ground kingdoms of salt in Hallstadt, and show me anything so exquisite, so i'iranscenadentally beautiful. as this graci- of God fashioned and hung in eternal crystals. Again, grace is' like~salt, in the fact that it is a necessity of life. Man and beast perish without salt. Chemists and physicians, all the world over, tell us that salt is a ne- cessity of life. And so with the grace of God; you must have it or die. I know a great many people ppm]: of it as a mere adornment, a sort of shoulder-strap adorning a soldier. or a light, frothing dessert brought in after the greatest part of the banquet of life is over; or a medicine to be taken after calomel and mustard-plasters have failed to do their work; but ordinarily a. mere superfluityâ€"a string of bells around â€"a horse's neck while he draws the load, and in no wise helping him to draw it. So far from. that. I declare the grace of God to be the first and the last necessity. It is food we must take, or starve into an eternity of famine. It is clothing without [which we freeze to the mast of in- finite terror. It is the plank, and the only plank, on which we can float shoreward. It is the ladder. end the only ladder, on which we can climb away from eternal burnings. It is a positive necessitr for the ml. But the chief beauty of grace is in the soul; It takes that which was hard, and cold, and repulsive, and makes it all over again. It pours upon one's nature what David calls "the beauty of holiness.” It extirpates everything that is hateful and un- clean. If jealousy, and pride, and worldliness, lurk about, they are chained, and have a very small sweep. Jesus throws upon the soul the fra- grance of a summer garden, as He comes in, saying: "I am the rose of Sharon;" and He aubmerges it with the glory of aspring morning as He says: "I am the light." x . ‘ Ah! you may search all the earth over for anything so beautiful or L In my text, which is the peroration of one of His sermons, He picks up a crystal, and holds it before His congre- gation as an illustration of Divine grace in the heart, when He says, what good.” The Bible is a dictionary of the fin- est similes. It employs, among living creaturw, storks and eagles, and doves and unicorns, and sheep, and cattle; among trees, sycamores and tera- binths, and pomegranates, and al- mond, and apples; among jewels, pearls, amethysts, and jacinths, and chrysoprasea. Christ uses no stale illustrations. ‘ A despatch from Washington, says: â€"Dr; Talmage chose as his text Luke xiv. 34. ”Salt is good." Rev. Dr. Talmage Shows the mace of God ti) be the Salt of Life. GRACE RECLAIMS MAN. all know by experiment: “Salt is positive necessitr for the soul. mg: ”I am the rose of He submerges it with aspring morning as He But. I remark again ,that the grace of God is like the salt in its preserva- tive Quality. You know that salt ab- sorbs the moisture 0! articles of food, and infuses them with brine which preserves them for along while. Salt is the great anti-putrefactive of the world. But for the grace of God the earth would have become aetale car- cass long before this. That grace isi the only preservative at laws. and'. constitutions. and literatures. Just: as soon as agovernrnent loses thisl salt 01 Divine grace. it perishu. m' Then the work of evaporation be- g'cis; and as when the saline waters are exposed to the sun the vapours float away, leaving nothing but the? pure white salt at the bottom of the tank, so. when the Christian's soul is' exposed to the Sun of Righteousness, the vapours of pride and selfishness and worldliness float off, and there is chiefly left beneath, pure, white holi- ness of heart. Then, as in the case of the salt. the furnace is added. Blaz- ing troubles. stirred by smutted strokers of darkness, quicken the evaporation of worldliness and the crystallization of grace. I on the surface is almost always im- pureâ€"that which incrusts the Rocky Mountains and the South American pampas and in India; but the miners go down through the shafts and through the dark labyrinths, and along by galleries of rock. and with torches and pickaxes find their way under the very foundations of the earth, to where the salt lies that makes up the nation’s wealth. So with the grace of God. It is to be. a wound, and so I take this salt of profoundly sought after. With all‘ the concentred energies 01 body; mind, and soul, we must dig for it.‘ No man stumbles accidentally on it. We need to go down to the very low- est strata of earnestness and faith to find it. Superficial exploration will not turn it up. We must strive, and implore. and. dig until we strike; the spring foaming with living wa-; ters. ‘ Again, the grace of God is like salt in the way we come at it. The salt Though your sin,may be deep and raging. let me tell you that God‘s grace is a bridge not built on earthly piers, but suspended and spanning the awful ch-asm of thy guilt. one end resting upon the rock of eternal promises, and the other on the foundations of heaven. Demetrius wore arobe so incrusted with jewels that no one after him ever dared to wear it; but our King, Jesus, takes off the robe of His righteousness, a. robe blood-dyed and heaven-impearl-i ed, and reaches it out to the worst wre‘tch in all the earth, and says; “Put that on! wear it now! wear it for ever!” _You can tell very easily what the effect would be it a person refused i to take salt into the body. The ener- gies would fail, the lungs would struggle with the air. fevers wolud crawl through the brain, the heart would flutter, and the‘ life would be ‘Igone. That process of death is go- .ing on in many a one because they itake not the salt of Divine grace. . The soul becomes weaker and weaker, and after a while the pulses of life iwill stop entirely. “He that be- lievetth and is baptized shall be sav- ed, and he that believeth not shall i be damned." Salt, a necessity for the life of the bodyâ€"the grace of God a necessity for the life of the soul. 5 Again, I remark, that grace is like {salt in abundance. God has strewn tsalt in vast profusion all over the continents. Russia seems built on a :snlt-cellar. There is one region of 'that country that turns out ninety thousand tons in a year. England and Russia and Italy have inexhausti- ble resources in this respect. Nor- way and Sweden, white with snow above, white with salt beneath. Aus- tria yielding nine hundred thousand tons annually. Nearly all the na- tions are rich in itâ€"rock-salt, spring- . salt, sea-salt. Christ, the Creator of the world. when he uttered our text, knew it would become more and more significant as the shafts were sunk. and the springs were bored, and the pumps were worked, and the crystals Were gathered. So the grace of God is abundant. It is for all lands, for all ages. It seems to underng everything. Pardon for the worst} sin, comfort for the sharpest suffer- ing, brightest light for the thickest darkness. Around about the salt, lakes of Saratoy there are ten thous» and men toiling day and night, and yet they never exhaust the saline treasures. And it the twelve thous- and millions of our race should now_ cry out to God for His mercy, there would be enough for all; for those farthest gone in sin, for the murder-- er standing on the drop of the gal- lows. It is an ocean of mercy; and it Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, and all the islands of the sea, went down in it toâ€"day, they would have room enough to wash and to come up clean. ‘39; "My appetite is good, I rest and sleep well, and this treatment has strengthened me wonderfully. Dr. Chlase's Nerve Food Pills are certainly the best lever used, 3nd [say so be- cause I want to give full credit when it is due.” Quebec’s ‘new Cabinet has been‘ sworn in; Mr. Joseph Geroux. 2‘2 Metcalf street, Ottawa, Ont., writes :â€""I was ner- ous, bad headache and brain tag. I “as restless at night, and couldg not sleep. My appetite was poor, and. I suffered from nervous dyspepsia. Lit- the business cares worried and irritat- ed me. After having used Dr. Chase’- Nerve Food for about two months I can frankly say that I feel like a new man. , Whmther weakened and exhausted by overwork, worry or disease, the effect :is ialways to produce derangement: 01 'tm most serious order, and the result is. usually paralysis, locomotor ataxia, prostration, epilepsy: or insanity. .‘ When nervous. irritable, sleepless and despondent, revitalize the wasted nerve cells by using Dr. Chase‘s Nerve Food (-pills.) Don't wait for neuralgic pains and nervous headache and dya- pepsia to drive you to this use- 0! the great nervq generative. Yet, as one of the Lord’s surgeons, I must bind up two or three wounds. Just lift them now, whatever they be. I have been told there is noth~ in: like salt to stop the bleeding of a wound, and so Itake this salt of Christ’s Gospel, and put it on the lac- erated soul. It smarts a little at first, but see! the bleeding stops, and lo! the flesh comes again as the flesh of a. little child. “Salt is good I” -Av.vâ€" -.v.._ -v. .v... “J.- “A”- lle business cares worried and irritat- ed me. After having used Dr. Chase’s Nerve Food for about two monthls. I can frankly say that I feel like a new man. ‘ - ‘ ' "My appetite is good, I rest and sleep well, and this treatment has strengthened me wonderfully. Dr. Chase's Nerve Food Pills are certainly the best lever used, but! Isay so be- :au.se I want to give full credit when t is due.” fans. The longer you delay treatment. the more distant will be your recovery. Nervous diseases never wear away, but gradually get worse. Dr. Chane‘l Nerve Food. pills, in the only preparaa tion' which is certain became it con-1 tains in condensed form the very elei ments of nature which go to form new nerve tissue. It cures by buildJ img up the system, 50 cents a ban at all dealers. or Edmanoon, Bates 00.. Toronto. Dr. Chase’s Nerve Food Tha movements. the functions and the very life of each and every organ or this body are under the direct on- trol of that great organismâ€"the er- vouaf system. I thought everything of him. You know how a father will feel towards his son, who is coming up manly, and brave, and good. Well, the battle opened and concentred. and it was awful! Horses and riders bent and twisted and piled up together; it was awful, sir! We quit firing ;'.:d took to the point of the bayonet. Well. sir, I didn’t feel like myself that day. I had prayed to God for strength for that particular battle, and I went into it feeling that I had in my right arm the strength of ten giants." arm the strength of ten giants. Well," he said. " the battle was desperate, but after a while we gained a. little, and we marched on a little. I turn- ed around to see the troops and shout- ed. “ Come on, boys 1’ and I stepped across a dead soldier, and lol it was my son! I saw at the first glance he was dead. and yet I didn’t dare to stop a minute. for the crisis had come in the battle; so I just got down on my knees, and I threw my arms around him, and I gave him one good kiss, and said, " Good bye. dear,‘ and sprang up and shouted, ‘Come on, boys 1’ ” So it is in the Christian con- flict. It is a fierce fight. Eternal ages seem depending on the strife. Heaven is waiting for the bulletins to announce the tremendous issue. Hall of shot, gash of sabre, fall of battlepaxe, groaning on every side. We cannot stop for loss or bereave- ment. or anything else. With one ar- dent embrace, and one loving kiss we utter our farewells, and then cry, “Come on, boys! There are other; heights to be captured. there are oth-i er crowns to be wen.” Feeble Wasted Nerves Aroused to New Life. * Governor Geary, recited to me the scenes through which he had passed in the Civil war. He said that there came one battle upon which every- thing seemed to pivot. Telegrams from Washington said that the life 0f the nation depended upon that struggle- He said to me: " I went into that bat- tle, air, with my son. His mother and I think that God Omnipotent will see you through. I think He will. But why do I talk like an atheist when I ought to say I know He will! " Kept by the power of God through faith unto complete salvation." My subject is one of great congrat- ulation to those who have within their souls this Gospel antiseptic. This salt will preserve them through the temp- tations and sorrows of life. and through the ages of eternity. I do not mean to say that you will haw a smooth time because you are a Christian. On the contrary, it you do your whole duty. I will promise you a very rough time. But philosophy of this day, so far as it: ll antagonistic to this religion, putre- ties and stinks. The great want 01 our schools of learning and our in- stitutions of science, toâ€"d'ay, is not more Leyden jars, and galvanic bat- teries, and spectroscopes, and philo sophical apparatus, but more of tha' grace that will teach our men or science that the God of the univers1 is the God of the Bible. We want more 0‘: the salt of God‘s grace in our homes, in our schools, in our col- leges, in our social life, in our Chris~ tianity. And that which has it will liveâ€"that which has it not will die. I proclaim the tendency of everything earthly to putrefaction and deathâ€" the religion of Christ is the onLv pre. servative. I, Pnhk'nhar and Proprietor Mrs. E. McLaughlin. 95 Parliament street. Toronto, stateszâ€"“My daugh- ter was pale. weak, languid and very nervous. Her appetite was poor and changeable. She could scarcely dra. herself about the house. and her nerves were. completely unstrung. She could not sleep for more than half an hour at a time without starting up and crying out in excitement. “ As she was growing weaker and weaker, I became alarmed. and obtain. ed a box of Dr. Chase’s Nerve Food. She used this treatment for several weeks, and from the first we noticed 3' decided improvement. Her appetite be- came better, she gained in weight the color came back to her face. and ski gradually became strong and well. I cannot say too much in favor of thin wonderful treatment. since it he proved such a. blessing to my daugha‘ ter.” . Regarding these Guerrero ruins, there is sufficient evidence, to prove that the country has been inhabited by some millions of people. What such avast population could have swbsisted on in this wild, broken up country on the hill summits and sides 0! deep barrancas, is impossible to conceive, unless agrea't seismic dis- turbance has changed the topography at the land. That corn was one of their chief articles of food is proven by the mortars and pestles which are tound in nearly every ruin, but where this cereal was grown is amystery as there does not appear to be more than sufiicient soil to raise corn for the present Indian inhabitants. Then there is the question of water. Al- though Guerrero is a very well water- ed State, it is often miles from these prehistoric dwellings and in almost inaccessible canons. one end. Each oi them must weigh betWew 400 and 500 pounds. About three hundred metres up the hill were ruins of a. building over a hundred tee' Long. It is difficult to imagine what these ooluinns have been used for. un- Aztecs (‘uuzan-d Their l’opnlallon I." iiiliiom. Prehistoric ruins were found on all the ridges of. Guerrero and at apoint called Cacahuatla two columns at trachyte, 41-2 feet bong by 18 inches in diameter. lay side by side. The) were completely covered with hiero- glyphics. with afiv-e-pointed star on less an altar: of a temple. Several blocks of diorite. fourteen inches square, were scattered about. so it is evident that the edifice was of more than ordinary importance . The ground flor hundreds of yards was completely strewn with fragment: of broken pottery, but the brush and undergrowth was so dense that only asmall part of. the locality was ex- plored. A Sad letter from a lady wuss Husband Was Blssipated. fifiE PAHENTLY BORE DESGRACE flow She Cured Him With a Secret Remedy. in; 61 your marvelous reiedy for tho cure of drunkenness. which 1 could give 1:: husbanq secreply, I dec_ided_ to_ t_:-y_ in._ _ gracenuflerifi ,miéer and. rivatiomi due _to my_ husban ’s (grin 'ing _ b_ita._ Hear- rocuredapacknge and mixed it in his cod and coffee, and. as the remedy was odorless and tasteless, he did not know what it was that so quickly relieved his crevln fr 1' liquor. He soon began to pic]; 3 flc , his appetite for solid food return- , he stuck to his work reguhrly,a.nd we now have a. hap y home. After he was completely out Itold him what I had done, when he acknowledged that it had been his saving. as he had not the resolution to break of! of his own accord. I heartily advise all women nfiiictedas I was to give your remedy a trialj’ SENT FREE: To ALL â€"'A sample package of Tasteless Samaria. Prescription 5):)" FREE with full rticulars 1n plain sealed envelope pe. All otters considercd sacred- goconfidential. Address The Samaria me_dy Co ., 33 Jordan screen, Toronto, anadi 55m “ I had 301: yearspatientl] bpmq the @is. LZUU RUINS IN MEXICO.