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** HSIITLTERA.TED COSFECTiOHBRf. .» j •. '!fi IN raising adulteration to the dignity of a science, the manufacturers of con­ fectionery have dofte Aeir 'part. Prop- •erly, there are only three "coro«onent yirta in pure confectionery--thesugar; or body of the matter; the extract, or flavoring quality of the same; and the coloring property. To such a degree Of ingenuity hate candy-makers ar­ rived, that some kinds of their wares *x<9 put up for die market with only a vtty slight proportion of the first, and with the coloring and flavoring of so cheap a quality that their manufactured articles can be bought at the same price per pound as the plain sugar it- It is hot to be supposed that there is ao pure eonfeetioheiy. Those who pur- "diase at our best and old-established places are morally sure of getting a genuine article. But children do not •jUNrays go to these places. They strike for the nearest shop or store and where they can get the most for their pennies. The cheaper candies, of which hun­ dreds of tons are sold every year, con- -tain some of the most deadly poisons Known, among them red lead, gamboge vermilion, chromate of lead, Prussian blue, verditer or carbonate of copper, arsenite of copper, Brunswick green, the various oxides of iron, white lead, •etc. Terra alba, a kind of clay or w hite earth is very largely used, in some qual­ ities it forming from 50 to 60 per cent, of the manufactured article. The argument that the substances named are used in quantities so small that poisoning cannot result from their use i« founded upon ignorance. Some of the poisons named are known as oofBul&tive, from the fact that they ao in the system, and that, no maBei how small the quantity taken in at each time, each addition* remains, the constantly-growing mass working atawrty and silently, producing even more' deadly effects than large doses ac- taken, whose results may be neutralized or affected by antidotes. A -di«tinpil>hod physician lately made a -del iherate statement at an annual meet­ ing oi 'it society of which he was a meuaber. that there was no question bat hundreds of children were slain •every year by cheap confectionery, ^without the read cause erf their death known. A* we have Just stated, the article wfcieh is most used by dishonest eon- l®ctk»ners is what is known to the trade &£ terra alba. It is principally brought -from Ireland, and was brought into use fifteen or twenty years ago. Its first extensive use was during the war, when -cream of tartar, bicarbonate oi soda, pepper. ground rice and other articles of domestic use rose to double their ordinary prices. Terra aiba was then worth about ten or fifteen dollars per ton. The demand has brought it up to ^bout double those figures. This com­ pound is nothing more nor less than actwu dirt. In color it resembles dark flour or ground chalk, and is just as in jurious as ao much clay or dirt. It enfisns mostly into the composition of *•* mixed"* candies, though this does not imply that ail. candies of this sort are awiaiier&xed with it, for some of the «feoscegt candies in reliable confection­ ers' stores are called '•mixed,"" and are the most expensive. Massy readers who have bought the «MUD(m fruit or nut-candy will remem­ ber that ia letting the round pieces con­ taining the fruit melt in their mouth ibe result was a thick, tasteless paste without sweetness or flavor. This was the, " white earth," which was only fronted on the outside. The cheaper -•chocolate creams, of which children are «o fond, are made of terra alba aud fiyeerise mixed together, the glycerine eepiag the earth soft and pasty, mak­ ing it adhere so it will not Mi apart, and then the balls are rolled in tallow, with sufficient grease to allow one pound of chocolate to go as far as five • or six pounds would if properly made. The worst effects of the use of terra aiba are, that the terrible diseases of stone and gravel are caused by the iflr traduction of earth into the system, and the large increase of patients suffering from these diseases is attributed by high medical authorities to the intro­ duction of this terrible ingredient iato the confectionery sad similar articles i lOfTOsumed in this country. ;GW.».':o, or "grape t-gSLTj* fe. the name of another dangerous srtlcfe ex­ tensively used in the adulteration of -candies. It is not, as its name would Imply, made from grapes, hut from po­ tatoes, and its effect is to produce par­ alysis of various portions of the system, especially the kidneys, where the effect is not onjy to paralyze them, but to turn them into a sugary substance; in other words, to produce Bright's disease, a malady for which physicians have found .as yet no remedy. The reason for the use of glucose is -the same that is given for the use 6f every other adulteration--cheapness. Oum arable, for which it is used as a substitute, is worth fifty cents a pound, while glucose sells for Ave or six. Most of the cheap gum-drops are made from this compound. More disgusting than any of the arti­ cles named, though perhaps not .so hurtful, are what confectioners term the scrapings. When a sugar ship comes into port and is emptied of her cargo, a good deal of sirup has adhered to the sides of the vessel and run down into the bilge water. The first is scraped off and the second pumped out, HflExed together, and boiled, and of this compound candy is made. _The coloring of cheap candies, al­ though it would hardly come under the head of adulteration, is yet a fraud, and oftentimes a dangerous one. Instead of the cochineal fly which the best con­ fectioners use for the red in their wares, The unprincipled manufacturers use an- ~*ne' a powerful and poisonous color. Tor yellows chromium is used, one of the elements ot which is arsenic. We kave already mentioned some of the other preparations of lead and copper used for this purpose. The yellow in ; the best candies is produced by the use •of saffron. A few years ago the Massachusetts Board of Health entered into an inves­ tigation in relation to the confectionery •old in the State. Of the sixty-seven colored samples examined, there were twenty-one specimens of yellow, twelve 0t orange, twenty-nine of red, five of Jtaown. seven of green, and four of f the twenty-one yellows, seventeen consisted entirely of chrome yellow, or chromate of lead, two con­ tained chromate of lead, although a vegetable yellow also was present, and two were colored with organic yellows alone. Of the twelve specimens of orange, nine were colored with orange chrome or orange chromate of lead, two contained an organic red mixed with chrome yellow, and in one the coloring matter was entirely organic. Of the twenty-nine reds, twenty-five were organic, three samples of a brick- red color contained iron, and one was colored with vermilion or sulphide of mercury. Of the four specimens of blue, two contained only organic color­ ing matter, and two were found to be colored with ultramarine, or silicate of soda and alumina with sulphide of so­ dium. Of the seven greens, one--a pale green--was found to be organic, six were colored with a mixture of Prussian-blue or ferrocyanide of iron with chrome yellow, and one con­ tained, in addition, arsenic green, or arsenite of copper. Most candies flavored with pear, ap­ ple, banana and other fruits are un­ wholesome, these extracts in many in stances being made from fusil-oil, taken from the refuse of liquor-stills.--Bos­ ton Commercial Bulletin. Woolen and Silk Costumes* THE woolen and silk costumes im­ ported for spring do not differ greatly from those of last year; hence it will be an easy matter to alter dresses left over that are not worn, but need sim­ ply a change of drapery and trimming. To modernize polonaises of camel1 s- hair or other woolen goods all looped draping in the back should be taken out, and the back breadths left to hang plainly in rich folds almost to the end of the skirt beneath. There should be tapes in the side seams to draw all the fullness to the back, and this fullness should be disposed in box-plaits in the middle seam, folded underneath and out of sight; the plain part over the toumure is deeper than formerly. A long-looped bow of double-faced ribbon should be sewed low on the hips on the side seams, or else several horizontal, or perhaps diagonal, rows of watered ribbon may be arranged across each side of the skirt, forming, panels. In many polonaises the fronts fall open from" the knees down as if cut away; in altering narrow polonaises the material need only be drawn back to give this appearance. To make a polonaise of this kind take black camel's-hair and trim with beaded fringe pr with wat­ ered ribbon. Another way of putting ribbon or passementerie on these very plain and very stylish over-dresses is to put a jrow across the fronts below the waist outlining a basque, and when this row reaches the side seam carry it down this seam to the foot, where it is met by the bonier of ribbon and fringe. Still smother way of making soft back drapery is to make the two middle pieces of the back long, like scarfs, trim them all around with galloon, and lap them to and fro upon each other. Small fichu capes, mantelets,, and the Carrick fichus accompany such polo­ naises. The Carrick fichu represents three capes in the back, where it reach­ es to the waist, and is knotted at the belt in front. To alter a basque of last season is still easier. The front can be cut off quite short to prevent the ungraceful wrinkling that long smooth cuirass basques take on when the wearer is sitting. Then put a silk folded belt, or a belt of four folds of silk, in the seam under the arms, or else in the further seams of the side form, and fasten the belt in front, leaving the back or only a part of the back without any belt; the back is then cut quite square, and from a quarter to half a yard in length be­ low the waist line. Another trimming, not especially new, but very much used, this spring by the French dressmakers, is a vest of plaited silk laid on the front of the basque its entire length; some­ times the middle forms of the back of the basque are also covered with this lengthwise plaiting. Again, there are handsome woolen suits--notably of blaek camcl's*hair- made "vith plaited basques and a single silk skirt, trimmed with camel's hair to represent an apron. The basque has three plaits in front arvl each back; the edg^s are anfi!irim©4,-llie belt and slcsves are of silk, and the collar is in sailor shape. The apron is one full width of earner s- hair drawn back to revers of silk that meet on the tournure, and fall open be­ low to allow a fan train of black silk to escape; this fan train is part of the lower skirt, and is untrimmed; a knife- plaiting of silk is across the foot of the three front breadths. For such a dress it is useless to extend the silk all the way up the three front breadths: a cam­ bric foundation, shaped like these breadths, is faced ten or twelve inches with silk at the foot, and above this the camel's-hair apron covers the cambric, and is sewed in with it to the belt. To trim the foot of silk skirts a new fancy is to make a flounce on a cluster of ten or twelve knife plaits, then put three box plaits each an inch wide, and again a knife-plaited cluster. Such flounces are from six to eight inches deep when finished, are cut straight across the silk, and it is quite the cus­ tom to hem the edges on the sewing machine, though many of the best dressmakers prohibit the tise of ma­ chine sewing on any part of a silk dress where this sewing is visible. We have already spoken of the kilt-plaiting sewed on above the knee to give the effect of an entire kilt skirt. Lately imported dresses have this plaiting made much smaller than kilt plaits, yet not so fine as knife plaits, and when two shades of silk are used for piping the dress, two similar shades are used in alternate clusters of plaits around the bottom.--Harper's Bazar. --A machine quite as useful in its way as the telephone or phonograph has just been invented. It is for tn< comfort and protection of lone females You just pour a gallon of whisky on the sitting room carpet, and it smells as though there was a man around, all the time. --Hawk-Eye. t • --Many Americans are settling in the Mexican States of Chihuahua and Sonora. They are mostly wealthy, and are engaged in mining operations. One of the novelties for summer dresses is crape batiste--a thin linen fabric, crinkled like crape. This comes in delicate shades of blue, beige, pink, lilac and ecru, and is made up as elaborately as grenadines over silk of the same shade. These batistes are meant for dressy afternoon toilets, and some of them are trimmed with em­ broidery on white tulle, such as was used during the winter for evening dresses. One very pretty model of sky- blue linen crape is maae up in prin- cesse design, with long apron and soft­ ly plaited back drapery, -ornamented with large square bows of doubled silk; the plastron, sleeves and bands near the edges are of white tulle, wrought with silk in shaded foilage, rose-mid s and pale blue forget-me-nots. Beige-col­ ored batistes are trimmed with Smyrna lace of very fine quality, and Insertion to match. For costumes to be worn in the morn­ ing very thick linen that is at the same time light and fine is used, and trim­ med with frills embroidered in high colors, especially in red or blue with black. Cream-color and greenish-gray tints are chosen in these linens. They are made with yokes and plaited basques; the over-skirts are embroid­ ered scarfs, and a charming little fichu, also embroidered, accompanies each suit. Some of these linens have light damask figures which appear only in the over-dress, while the skirt is plain, and has a deep plaiting to suggest a kilt. Striped sheer lawn dresses are made up just as these thick linens are, but are ornamented with knife-plaited frills. They also have pretty fichus or Clarissa Harlowe scarfs, with a plaited frill for trimming. The Scotch and Madras gingham dresses are charmingly cool and fresh- looking. The bars and stripes are of two or three colors on a white ground, and the new combinations of colors are adopted. One favorite pattern is the pale blue and olive green on white; an­ other is scarlet with beige-color; a third, Pompadour pink with blue; and among the best designs is bottle green and white plaid. The trimmings are in Russia laces, lighter than Smyrna, and in colors to match the dress, or else white embroidery is used. Some of these dresses have white cambric ruffles scalloped and thickly dotted with Ham­ burg embroidery, and others have the entire over-dress wrought with stars in white or gray or on blue ground. School-girls and blonde young ladies choose the navy blue and white ginghams, and make them up with white vests, Smyrna lace and ruffles of embroidery. For small girls who have left off Avhite dresses these ginghams are made up in princesse designs, with simulated sacques and plaited backs, and are trimmed with white or colored lace. The shaded blue Madras ging­ hams are very peculiar, but great care is required in washing them. When the dress is of the plain shaded blue gingham it can be effectively trimmed with bias bands of striped gingham; still plainer dresses for children are merely scalloped around the bottom, aijid bound M|itn white.^-Harper1s Bazar. j Patent Ages. IK the telephone and the phonograph we have touened the extreme limits of human invention. This is what a good many persons are saying. It is easily to be demonstrated that scarcely any­ thing further remains to be discovered or invented, precisely as it always has been easy to show that there was noth­ ing further to invent or discover. Every age has regarded itself as the age of invention, and the men of every age have thought that their discoveries and devices prfetty nearly exhausted possibility. Solomon was very positive as to the perfection of things in his day when he declared that "there is nothing new under the sun," meaning, of course, that nothing remained to be found out or made. The Northmen thought that they were great sailors and that navi­ gation in their hands had reached some­ thing like perfection; and yet they knew only how to sail before tne wind. When a later race of navigators learned to tack and to sail very nearly in the direction from which the wind comes, they no doubt would have been ready to laugh - down a suggestion that any­ thing more than improvement in de­ tails was possible ip navigation. Byron wrote, in Don Juan, " This is the patent age of new inventions," and he went on to show the perfection of his time in this respect, and yet steam­ ships, railroads ana electric telegraphs were not in operation then; our " pat­ ent age of new inventions" had hot be- gun. A few years ago able essayists en­ tered into a critical study of details for the purpose of showing that the sum­ mit had been reached finally; they said that, having made a telegraph which would send intelligence without appre­ ciable lapse of time between the send­ ing and the receipt of the words writ­ ten, Ave could not hope to improve in that direction, because we had already reduced the time of transmission to nothingness. In like manner they showed that in the matter of locomo­ tion, and in a good many other things, we had reached the ex­ treme limit of possibility, and be­ cause they could think of nothing more to invent they concluded that fur­ ther invention of a noteworthy kind was not to be expected. Yet men have gone on making marvelous devioes and dis­ covering marvelous things* as rapidly as ever. With the passenger elevator we have practically doublet! the area of all our cities. With electric bells we have simplified the business of signal­ ing. The telegraph has been put to constantly new uses, particularly in domestic life. Improvements nave been wrought in it which work a revo­ lution in its use. We have learned how to use electricity for purposes which, five years ago, we should have thought impossible, by reason of physically in­ superable obstacles; purposes for which electricity was supposed to be in its very nature unfit. We have the tele­ phone and the phonograph--and here, as some of the newspapers are dis­ posed to 8how, we must rest upon our labors. • The fact appears to be that there is no discoverable limit to Every,naw inveatM*» tend* dkectly ta. suggest others. The telephone grew out of the telegraph, and in "its turn the telephone bred the phono* graph. Whenever men have thought' that the limit was reached they have been in error, and they are in error who imagine any such thing now. There is every reason* to suppose that new in­ ventions, new discoveries and new ap olications of old discoveries will con­ tinue to be made in the future as in the past, and that the world of 1978 will be as far in advance of the world we know as ours is in advance of that of 1778. The steam engine was in use a long time before a locomotive drew an ex­ press train, or a newspaper was printed on a revolving cylinder press. Who shall say what uses will be made here­ after of the things which we think that we know about, but which we are really only beginning to begin to un­ derstand. It is impossible to say in what direc­ tions we shall advance, bat that we shall advance as rapidly hereafter as heretofore is well nigh certain. We may never learn to navigate the air, but we may so improve our methods of terrestrial locomotion that we shall not care to fly. We may never learn to create food by chemical processes, but we may so improve our agricultural re-< sources that no such necessity will- press us. Whatever else we shall do it is certain that we shall bring elec­ tricity into much greater practical use as a domestic servant. We shall em­ ploy the telegraph or the telephone or some other electrical apparatus greatly more than we have yet done, in our daily lives and our daily busi­ ness. We shall draw nearer to each other in effect,perhaps with the accompanying result of separating in fact. The business necessity which has hitherto compelled men to come together in great cities may disappear, as many persons think that it will. The extension of means of communication may make it unnecessary for a mer­ chant who does business in New York to live nearer to the Produce Exchange than Honolulu is. The time may come when going on 'Change will involve nothing more than opening a telephone stop in One's parlor wall and doing business, not in one of the world's mar­ kets, but in the one market, the world. It may be that the editors of a news­ paper will not need to assemble daily in one place, but may sit in their li­ braries, scattered all over the world, and consult freely on the themes to be discussed, transmitting their " copy" from all parts of the earth and reading m XKftUUsi Aiia •w- SSL 4 .u%iBJLSTMR hlLIXS. Daklinor of .Tune and hi-i/ips of snmnser Ban Chill pip** the Bwrmy wind, the ukien are drear - Dull ana deapoiled the gardens every one: * What do you here? We looked to see your graeiaoa blooms _ Hid soft and wooing aim In gardens Wbere venturesome br»wn beea " Should hail you queen. Here ia no bee nor glancing butterfly; r. , ; - They fled on ramd wings before the snow: YoQr sister lilies laid them down to dfie,'» ?1>'i4 Long, long ago* , t And here amid tfae abvwW dro/ninf ram •;»;,; . We keep oar Easter feast, with hearts whose Mara the high cadence of each lofty gtralh? Bach thankful prayer. -T?... < But not a shadow d!m« your inynnne sweet, No baffled hone or memoiy darkly clad; You lay yoar whiteness at tne Lord s dear feet, And are all glad. | « •. | Oh coward soul, arouse thee and draw nMft " Lea by these flagrant acolytes today! ' i ; Let their sweet confidence rebuke thy fear, Thy cold delay. Gome with thy darkness to the healing light! ' ~ h shall m made BWiOAf. 1 And At Come with thy bitter, which sweet! thy soil beside the lilies white, i dear feet! •Swan Coolidge, in Sunday Afternoon, i-: Bwnday-Schooi Lessons.-, , SPOOND QttABTEB, 189& Aprilli--The Wcriptures Hound and Searched... 2Chron.34:14-22. April 21--Jeremiah in Prison..Jeremiah 33: 1~ 9. April *28---The Renhabites Jeremiah 35:12 19. May 5--The Oaptivity of Jo- • dah-- -- . . -- . . . . J e r e m i a h 6 2 : 1 - 1 1 . Mav 12--The Captives in Bab­ ylon Daniel 1: 8-17. May 19 -Dream of Nebuchad­ nezzar Daniel 2S6-4B. May 26 --The Fiery Furnace.... Daniel 3:21-27. June 2--The Handwriting on the Wall Daniel 622-31. June 9--Daniel in the Litm's Den ... Daniel 6:14-28. June 1&--Messiah's Kingdom..' Daniel 7:9-14. Jane 23--The Decree of Cyrus..2 Chron. 36:22 23. Jane 30--Review of the Lessons for the Quarter. "So Bid Not 1>\ As WE walk through history with Diogenes' lantern in our hand, it is al­ ways pleasant to oome upon an honest ana a noble man. Such an one was Nehemiah, the rebuilder and reformer of Jerusalem. He stands in the Script­ ure gallery of characters as John Hampden's statue stands in the line of illustrious -worthies which flanks the entrance to the British Parliament. Nehemiah was a man who under­ stood the power of that prodigious word " no. When he left the Persian ^ capital at Shushan, he went down to proof thousands of miles away from tfc^-^pMJipalem, determined to do something composing room. " ~ ~ ~~™" In a word, it is by no means cert£ that the world Is ripe yet, and there still reason to indulge in Franklii wish that he might be embalmed al and restored to life a few thousa years hence, to see how things will done then.--N. T. Evening Post. Clothes Moths. This name includes several disti but similar species of the minute mol belonging to the family Tineidee, whi in their larval state, are very destr tive to woolen goods, fur, hair and sii lar substances. Among them may mentioned the clothes moth (Tinea\ tianella), the carpet moth Tinea ta\ » zella), the fur moth (T. pellionella), the hair moth (Tinea cri?iella). Th tineans have slender bodies and lanceo­ late, freely fringed wines that expand six-tenths or eight-tenths of an inch. The antenna; and palpi are short and thread-like, and there is a thick or­ ange or brown tuft on the forehead. The colors range from buff to drab and dark gray. The eggs are laid in May and June (the moth dying immediate­ ly afterward), and hatch out in fifteen days. The young worms at once pro­ ceed to work, gnawing the substances withfti £heir reach ana covering them­ selves with the fragments, which they shape into hollow rolls and line with silk. These rolls are by some carried on their backs as they move along, and by others fastened to the substance they are feeding upon; and they are en­ larged from time to time by additions to the open extremities and by por­ tions let into the cic! as, which avas split open for this purpose. In such alp- bush the worms carry on their work of destruction through the summer; rest, in seeming torpor, during the winter; and change to chrysalids early in the spring. They transform again in twenty days, and issue from tneir shel­ ter as winged moths, to iiy about in the evening till they have paired and are ready to lay eggs. Then follows ap in­ vasion of dark closets, chests and draw­ ers, edges of carpets, folds of cur­ tains, and hanging garments, and the foundation of a new colony is swiftly laid. The early days of June should herald vigorous and exterminating warfare against these subtle pests. Closets, ward-robes, all receptacles for clothing, should be emptied and laid open, their contents thoroughly exposed to light and air, and well brushed and shaken before being replaced. In old houses much infested with moths, all cracks in floors, wainscots, shelves or furni­ ture should be brushed over with spir­ its of turpentine. Camphor or tobacco should be placed among all garments, furs, plumes, etc., when laid aside for the summer. To secure cloth-linings of carriages from the attacks of moths, sponge them on both sides with a solu­ tion of corrosive sublimate of mercury in alcohol, made just strong enough not to leave a white mark on a black feath­ er. Moths may be killed by fumigat­ ing the article containing them with tobacco or sulphur, or by putting it, if practicable, into an oven heated to about 160 degrees Fahrenheit.--Prof. C. V. Riley. --Who wants to kiss a girl if he knows she's got to let him and he knows he's got to do it, and everybody's looking on to see fair play? No, sir, that truces all the life out of it The way to do it is to catch her off hand and tear the gathers out of her and pull her ribbons to pieces and knock her back hair down, and hear her say "Oh!" all to yourself, and then go away to a quiet place and think it over. --HT Y. Graphic. • / d ! --Men of many words and lew ideas appear to get along as well as more invention. I quiet and more thoughtful people. JUSTE ie m d. in of t id ie id ie id il- le >d il- er |n- ic treasuries in our day. litre nts^smrpW, manly statement is, " So did riot /, be­ cause of the fear of God." Nobly said! We wish every young man would write those sharp, ringing words in his note­ book, and determine to make the same answer whenever he is tempted to do a selfish or a wicked act. The most tremendous word in the English language is the short yet mighty word NO. It has been the pivot on which innumerable destinies have turned, for this world and the next. Spoken at the right moment, it has saved multitudes from disgrace, from ruin * » • The downward pull of sin is tre- mendoup To be able firmly to say "Yet will I not" requires the grace from above in the heart. There is a subtle pull, also, in the drift of sinful fashion and usage which carries away every one who is not well established on a Bible conscience. Three-fourths of all the persons who are drowned on the seashore are swept outbyther under­ tow. This the secret influence which takes hold of so many of the church- members and carries them off into ex­ travagant living, into sinful arnuso- ments and all manner of wordly con­ formities. Every true Christian is bound to be a nonconformist. If he is not well anchored for Christ, he is swept away by the undertow. The bottom off the great deep is strewed with such backsliders. I would press this truth home upon every young man who reads this arti­ cle: Your salvation depends on your ability to say "No." When your principle is put to the test, ask God's help and stand firm. * * * In every school the difference is clearly marked between the boy who has moral pluck and the boy who is mere pulp. The one knows how to say " No." The other is so afraid of being thought "verdant" that he soon kills eveiything pure, and fresh, and manly in his character, and dries up into a {>remature hardness of heart. Five ads were once gathered in a room at boarding-school, and four of them en­ gaged in a game of cards, which was expressly forbidden by the rules. One of the players was called out. The three said to the quiet lad, who was busy at something else: "Come, take a hand with us. It is too bad to have the game broken up." "I do not know one card from another." "That makes no difference," exclaimed the players. " We will show you how. Come along." Now, that was a turning-point in that lad's life. He nobly said: "My father does not wish me to play cards, and I will not disobey him. ' That sentence settled the matter and settled his posi­ tion among his associates. He was the boy who could say " No;" and thence­ forward his victories were made easy and sure. I well remember the pres­ sure brought to bear in college upon every young man to join in a wine- drink or to take a hand in some contra­ band amusement. Some timber got well seasoned. Some of the other sort got well rotted through with sensuality aiadvice. The Nctaypfihs at college have been Nehemiahs ever since. iRe boy was father of the man. .The only motive that could hold hack tne brave nonconformist at Jerusalem was a godly conscience: "So did not I, because of the fear of God." This ever-present principle held him, firm when temptation struck him, as Ibe undercurrents strike against thfe; keel. What the fear of God did for Nehemiah, faith in the Lord Jesus will do for yota. Christ must be to you a pattern, smd Hp mast be to you a power. It is not enough to believe on Jesus. You must tf>yo«r faith (for that-is the real meaning of the word translated "virtue" in our English Bibles). Then, With Christ as your model add Christ as your inward might, you will always be able to face down temotation with the iron answer, " So will not I." -- . L . pendent: i ? ,4/ •il • r •• fmu.l Mil'i Arffltable Read!**. cxix: 97-104. IF we would read God's Word with profit, we must meditate upon it. Tor meditation is the food of the soul, and without it all our reading will be super­ ficial, useless and unprintable. Medi­ tation is a soul-nourishing and grace- strengthening duty; but to enable us to practice it we need ever to look up and entreat the Divine blessing; |or without the precious breathings of (he Spirit, what we read will neither noar- isn nor comfort us. - ; /, And let us read and practice what we read--otherwise our reading will be useless. Profession without practice will but make a man a twiee- told child of darkness. There is no fear of our knowing too much, but there is much fear of our'practicing too little. He who practices what he reads and understands, God will helt» to fur ther depths of knowledge and cause to comprehend what he does not yet com­ prehend. " If any man will do His will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God." Finally, let us read and pray. If we fail to pray over what we read, we shall find little sweetness or profit in it. Let us pray before we read, and pray after we read, that all may be blessed and sanctified to us. Then Shall we be able to say with David in our inmost hearts, "Oh, how I love thy law! He that does not love the Word of Christ, and does not meditate upon it has much cause to fear that it has no place in his heart. Alas ! that blessed Word is too often to us no more than "a loving song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument, for they hear and do it not," as it was to Ezekiel's hearers. May the Lord give us a spiritual rel­ ish for His Word, and through the knowledge of His precepts give us un­ derstanding, that we may hate every false way.--Morning Bible Beading, by W. Edwards. Of Humble Submission*. - Beoasd not much who is lor thee, or who against thee: but glVe all thy thought and care to this, that God be with thee in everything.thou doest. Have a good conscience,, and G}od will well defend thee. For whom God will help, n6 malice of man shall be able to hurt. If thou canst be silent and suffer, without doubt thou shalt see that, the Lord will help thee. He kmoweth the time and the manner to deliver thee, and therefore thou oughtestto resign tnyself unto Him. It belongeth to God to help, and to deliver from all confusion. It is often very profitable, to keep us more humble, that others know and rebuke our faults. When a man humbleth himself for his failings, then he easily pacifieth others, and quickly satisfieth those that are offended with him. God protecteth the humble and de­ li vereth him; the humble He loveth and comforteth; unto the humble man He inclineth himself; unto the humble He giveth great grace; and after his humiliation He raiseth him to glory. Unto the humble He revealeth His secrets, and sweetly draw ctli and in- viteth him unto Himself. f The humble man, though be suffer confusion, yet aiiuch peace; foe* that he resteth on God/and not on the world. ? Do not think that thou hast made any progress, unless thou esteem thy­ self inferior to all.--Thomas a' Kemjpu* Vitality of a Shark's Heart. The Providence Press tells this story, apropos of a shark story in the April nuAber of the Wide-Awake, written by Dr. J. T. Payne: "He describes the capture of a shark and its dissection at sea, and says that after the heart had been removed frotn the body and placed upon the deck 4 it kept up its contrac­ tions for*a period of twenty minutes or half an hour, just the same as when in place and performing its office of pumping the blood to the various parts of the body.' We, in company with the late Surgeon MacGregor, used to enjoy, annually, a shark-fishing excur­ sion. One season We rendezvoused at Edgartown, and fished for the monster off' • Capoge.' We caught among oth­ ers a fellow of splendid pluck ana pro­ portions, and decided to dissect him. We landed him upon an old wharf in Edgartown, about four o'clock in the afternoon, and proceeded in true sur­ geon's style. We opened him; took out his immense jaws, which, when opened, passed over to the extreme of our shoulders, and afterward found his heart expanding and contracting as if in life, though the body was devoid of blood. We cut the heart out, placed it upon an inverted iron try-kettle used by whalers, and proceeded with our work. After we had finished--it was nearly dark--we took the jaw and the heart, the latter still pumping, to our hotel, and placed the latter upon a stone post, while we went in and had our supper. We took a lantern with us and examined that marvelous heart again. It was still contracting, though feebly, and its last quiver, about 8:50 o'clock, was merely a spasm. Drf' Payne's story is not as marvelous as ours, and we vouch for its truthful­ ness."