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There, stretched between two boxes, was a living skeleton, whose livid features, as the light of day shone upon them, told plainer than words the terrible suffering he had undergone during the long voyage. At first the -stevedores thought he must be dead, but soon they heard a feeble moan and saw him slightly move. Then they heard a feeble voice ejaculate, "Thank God'" Some of the stevedores jumped quickly to his side, while others hast­ ened to notify the ship's officers. In a Jew moments the hold swarmed with persons and the emaciated man was tenderly lifted o« deck. The ship's surgeon was not on board at the time, but Dr. Dore, of the steamer City of Richmond, lying near by, answercdthe hasty summons for aid. When the doctor arrived he saw a young man, about twenty yews of age, lying motionless. His eyes were closed, h£$Jips parched and his skin shriveled; his tongue lolled out; his hands and neck were shrunken and the cords of the latter were prominently visible. Large black and blue spots were upon his arms and body;yiii8 breath came with apparent difficulty. The doctor hastened to administer restoratives. Brandy and water were first given in •small quantities. A little muk was next forced down the man's throat. It gave him strength, and he opened his •eyes and feebly moaned. The treat­ ment was continued, and after a while some beef tea was administered. Soon he rallied sufficiently, to speak. His voice was husky arid his words few. In answer to questions by the doctor he gasped his name, James Donnelly, and said he had been in the hold since the ship left Liverpool, during which time he had tasted neither food nor drink. He then relapsed into silence, &ud SGGii au oluuultuiCe Wio at uUt; ship's side and he was oonveyed to St. Vincent's Hospital. From the investigation made by the fihip's officers it appeared that the un­ fortunate young man is a native of Scotland and a mechanic by occupa- >tson. • It is fc.all.w6d that he went on board the vessel on the 22dult., the day -before she left Liverpool, and that at •the time he was under the influence of liquor, and wandered into the hold, where he lay down to sleep off the ef­ fects of his debauch. His horror, on waking up and finding the heavy hatch­ ways securely fastened, confining him in a living tomb, can of course only be imagined. Almost directly over his person were the quarters of the Mapleson Opera Troupe, and it is not improbable that the sounds of the musical festivities in •which they not unfrequently indulged, during the voyage, reached the ears of the unfortunate man. What efforts he made to make himself heard can be 'told only by himself, but certain it is -that no sound from the sealed dungeon ^was hekrd during the voyage by anv ^erso^on board. On; several occasions during the voy­ age /it was noticed that the snip's dog. an /intelligent animal, was acting in a • strange and unaccountable manner. •On the secend night after the vessel lef. Liverpool, the animal was chained to ;he hatchway that imprisoned the unfortunate stowaway. In the twiddle • of the night the dog set up a furious •barking, and the watch hastened to see what was the matter. The animal wagged its tail at the approach of the saiior and jumped upon him joyously, but the man saw nothing to excite the animal and concluded that a rat must have occasioned the alarm. He there­ fore turned away, after having petted the animal and bade him stop barking, and at length it was found necessary to remove him to the upper deck, as the rnoise disturbed the passengers. The .next day the dog was again chained near the hatchway*-"'and again he began .howling. - -When" removed to any other part of the steamer he became quiet. This conduct of the animal was noticed by several, but no person suspected the true cause. Late last night a Herald, reporter •called at St. Vincent's Hospital and found Donnelly in bed, very cheerful and communicative. In responses to inquiries he gave his story in pretty much the following language: " I left •my home in Dumbarton, a village nine and a half miles from Glasgow, on Saturday morning th3 21st ult., with one shilling ana ninepence in my pocket. With this I paid my way on the steamer to Greenock, when I took the Owl for Liverpool. I landed on the dock at four p. m. on Sunday and :stayed there until Monday at four p. m.* In all this time I had not eaten a mouthful. I asked a man to hide me -on the vessel, as i wanted to go to America. I have two uncles and three aunts here. One of my uncles, John Brown, is Captain of the Police in Olneyville, R. I. The other, John •Collins, lives in the same village with two of my aunts, Catharine ana Rosa. My other aunt is married to Mr. Will­ iam Taylor, a cabinet maker, some­ where on Long Island. As I was saying." he added* " I asked a man to hide me on the vessel, but he would not do it unless I gave bim a gill of beer. 1 had a bottle of %eer with me, and passed it over to Jhim. I don't know whether he be­ longed to the vessel or not. When I .got in the hold of the steamer the man •threw an empty beer bottle down to mo afld I caught it. About five minutes afterward the hold was closed tad was left in utter darkhess. "As near as I can calculate it was five or six days before I fainted away. I oould tell the days by the noise on deck and the ringing of the bells. All •this time I suffered dreadfully through ihuttger. All I ate in that time was Home salt and dirt which 1 scraped ;fr<»tti the floor of the hold. It was a horrid mouthful, but I swallowed it. How long 1 remained in that faint I don't know. The first thing I knew was when I found myself on deck,with some man pouring whisky and water over me. "I often cried for help before I fainted away, and the echoes of my voice sounded like the howls of demons. Oh, the sounds haunt me even now. I can never forget them;" Mid the man fairly trembled at the recollection. "It sometimes seemed," he added, after a pause, "as though men were answe^-; mg me through a little hole in the hatchway, laughing at and mocking me, and again it seemed like the roar of the waves. Through this hole I often pushed a piece of hoop, and several times something got hold of. it and pulled it away from me. I thought it must have been a man, and wondered that he did not come to my rescue. I thought afterward that it "must be a dog« , \ It was m reality the dog whose strange actions about the mouth of the hatchway are recounted above. %/ Donnelly seemed on the high road to convalescence as the reporter left him at midnight, and said he was fast re­ covering his strength. '** , *l»e Sun Cwrt» llr commetintr on the inestimable value of sunlight to children, Dr. Winslow says: "It is systematically ignored at the period of life when it is of the highest importance it should be brought to bear upon the purifica­ tion of the blood, and consequent healthy-development of organic struct­ ures. Children, even at an early age, should not be excluded, particularly during the warm periods of the year, from the genial and charming influ­ ences of the sun. Great benefit," be further says, " would accrue from giv­ ing children solar air-baths--that is, permitting them to lie naked upon the bed or floor, free from the encumbrance of clothes, so that their bodies may be thoroughly brought under the influ­ ence of good air and bright sunlight. The children of savages, as well as ne­ groes, who are often allowed to run about in the open air, freely ex- {)osed to the influence of the ight, have finely-developed mus­ cular structures, and generally enjoy robust health." The famous Florence Nightingale ranks light as second only iu importance to the sick to fresn air, and further testimony as to the therapeutic value of sunlight is borne by the !! Dictionary of Materia Meuica" of Murat and DeLens, which says: We cannot doubt that the influence of light is one of the" conditions most indispensable to health, and. it aiay con­ sequently be usefully employed by the therapeutist." Among the attractive features of that excellent edifice, the New York Hos­ pital, is its solarium, situated on the top of a portion of the structure, and inclosed in glass, serving also the pur­ pose of a conservatory. Here, in sun­ ny days, are congregated many pa­ tients, and they certainly have the ap­ pearance of being very comfortable. The great Hospital of St. John, at Brussels, has on the roof an elegant garden, tastefully laid off, and planted with shrubs, small trees, and a grass lawn, interspersed with fragrant flow­ ers. In this quiet, rural retreat pa­ tients, particularly convalescents, are permitted at certain hours of the day to promenade, indulging in the luxury of good air and bright sunlight. There are few of our hospitals that might not profitably imitate these examples, and not only construct rooms inclosed with glass, but, better still, rooms without glass, where direct solarization can be employed with the most gratifying and salutary results.--The Sanitarfog, ** Another Enoch Ardea. THESE is in this county an estimable married couple, who have a family of bright children growing up around them, and who are most highly es­ teemed in our first social circles, but whose happiness is liable at any time to receive a blow which would prove disastrous to the welfare of their whole future life. Seven years ago the wife was living in New England, and while yet in her teens married a young me­ chanic who had been her playmate from childhood. A short time after­ ward, being thrown out of employment, and unable to obtain work of any kind, the husband left his wife in charge of her parents and journeyed to Califor­ nia in search of his fortune, intending, when he should become successful enough to justify it, to have his wife come on and join him. On teaching his destination he was prostrated by a severe illness, which kept him long on the brink ot the grave. Twice during the time of his sickness the physician pronounced him dead, and twice a re­ port to that effect was circulated, but the man recovered on both occasions and is alive and well to-day. The wife, after her husband's departure to the West, waited patiently for a long time in hope of receiving a letter from him. The weeks rolled by, but no tidings came, and months had passed when, frantic with fear that something ter­ rible had happened to her husband, she set out in search of him. notwithstand-^ ing the protestations .of.' her parents. On reaching California she received the sad news of his death and burial, and mourned in poignant grief. When, however, she had recovered from her sorrow, she married a prosperous friend, with whom she had become ac­ quainted after her supposed bereave­ ment, and who had befriended her in the hour of need. In time they moved to this county, where they have resided ever since. The first husband, imme­ diately upon his recovery, devoted all his time ana efforts to finding his wife. For years he has continued the search, una­ vailing, as he feared, but at last he has traced the long-lost wife to her present .home. But face to face she recognises him not. He looks upon her happy face and her innocent little ones, but has not the heart to make his presence known. The chances are that he will not, but will bear his burden to the end, content to suffer, and emulate the role oi a. modern Enoch Ard#n.--Eu­ reka (Nev.) Index. --Whatever the season, a gymnast always wears both spring and fall clothing. FACTS AND FIGURES. THB population of Japan is 84,388,- 504, an increase of 126,391 since 1876. CAFT. KADS estimates at. as high as $^00fchet 4 diminution in the amount of trade caused by the ypllow fever. BOSTON owns more than one-third of all the property in Massachusetts. The valuation for 312 cities and towns in the State is $1,414,844287; for Boa- ton, $630,446,866. ? r% Tfctifr annual dentin! for sleepers of our 90,000 miles of railway is estimated to be 40,000,000square feet, and to inclose the roads would require 180,000 miles of fence. THE packing-boxes made in the United States in 1874 cost $12,000,000, and the lumber manufactured into wag­ ons, agricultural implements, etc., was worth over $lfM);000i000 • .* THE net profits of the Bank of En­ gland for tne half year ended Aug. 31 were £689,594 19s. 7d., making the amount of the surplus £3,714,085. A half-yearly dividend of interest and profits of £4 15s. was declared. IN the ten cotton States, last year, there were 12,000,000 acres of land un­ der cotton cultivation, which produced 4,485,423 bales of cotton, and during the twelve months ending the 30th of June, 1877, unmanufactured cotton, valued at $171,118,508, and cotton man­ ufactures of all kinds, valued at $10,- 901,311, were exported. AT the Ophir mining-shaft HI Ne­ vada, two streams of water of consider­ able size (about such as would flow through an inch pipe) are turned in near the top and allowed to fall to the bottom, a distance of over 1,500 feet. This shower of falling water not only greatly cools the air, but also forces it out into the 1500-level and adjacent portions of the mine. A Good Mother* A GOOD mother never grows old.to a good soft; nor does his love for her. Their relations to each other are not changed by the passing years. She is to the last his mother, and, whatever he is to others, to her he is her boy. Biog­ raphy is rich with illustrations of this truth, although the man whose mother is still spared to him need not go be­ yond his own experience to recognize its force. Here, for example, is gruff old Dr. Johnson, bearish and boorish in many things. _ When he is fifty years oid, and his mother is ninety, he writes to her in tenderness: 44 You have been the best mother, and I be­ lieve the best woman in the world. I thank you for your indulgence to me, and beg forgiveness of all that I have done ill, and of all that I have omit­ ted to do well." How many men there are whom the world little thinks of as child-like, who could make these words their own, and set their hands to them with Johnson's closing assurance, 441 am, dear, dear mother, your dutiful son." And the lion-hearted Luther, who seems better suited to thunder defiance at spiritual oppressors than to speak words Qf trustful affection to a kind- hearted woman, turns from his relig­ ious warfare to write to his aged and dying mother: 441 am deeply sorrow­ ful that 1 cannot be with you in the flesh as I fain would be. All your ehildren pray for you." John Quincy Adams' mother lived to be seventy- four; but he had not outgrown his sense of dependence upon her when she was taken away. 44 My mother was an angel upon earth," he wrote; 44 she was the real personification of female virtue, of piety, of charity, of eVer-active and never-intermitting be­ nevolence. O God! could she have been spared yet a little longer! I have enjoyed but for short seasons, and at long, distant intervals, the happiness of her society, yet she has been to me more than a mother. She has been a spirit from above watching over me me for my good, and contributing, by mere consciousness of her existence, to the comfort of my life. That conscious­ ness has gone, and without her the world .feels to me like a solitude." When President Nott, of Union Col­ lege, was more than ninety years old, and had been for half a century a col­ lege President, as strength and sense failed him in his dying hours, the mem­ ory of his mother's love was fresh and potent, and he could be hushed to needed sleep by patting him gently on the shoulder, ana singing to him the familiar lullabies of long ago, after the fashion of that mother who he fancied was still at hand to care for him. An entry in the diary of the gallant young Gen. Bartlett, while he was orisoner of war, severely wounded, in Virginia, reads: 44 If I could only live to get in our line*, or to Baltimore, I would die contented. Mother would be there." Thus always. Mother, your work is a hard one; but it pays! It costs some­ thing to be a good mother; it costs time and devotedness and self-sacritice; but no love on earth is like that which a faithful mother wins and holds from a faithful son. That love is accumulating for you with your every breath of gen­ erous Christian fidelity-to the interests of your boy. Each birthday finds vou richer than ever in this priceless pos­ session.--S. S. Times. Haw., a Spider Captured i Potato Beetle. 1 WISH to plaoe on record with you an incident which oame under my ob­ servation, and which almost equal* the account of a spider raising a snake in its web, which you published some time ago. I was sitting on my back porch one day this summer, when I ob­ served a potato-bug slowly approach­ ing along the floor* Anxious to anni­ hilate as many a* possible of these pests, I kept my eye on him until he should come in reach, when 1 could put my foot on him. While watching In this way I noticed a pretty good-sized spider approaching the bug. At a lit­ tle distance he stopped to survey his contemplated victim, and then with a mind seemingly determined as to what course to pursue, ran around on the op­ posite side of the bug, and with an ap- fparent •• nip'* at him turned the bug rom his course, and toward a corner where I noticed the spider bad a web some four or more inches from the floor. The bug had no inclination to go in that direction, but he was closely driven by the spider, which ran first to one side and then the other, exactly like a shepherd dog- driving a sheep, hurrying his "victim up with an occa­ sional 44 nip" or bite at his side. AH this was something new to me in the habits and ways of the spider, and I watched with intense interest te setf what the result would be. When the bug had been driven into the corner at a point directly under the web, the spider changed tactics and made a series of circles rapidly around the bug, first in one direction and then in another, occasionally taking a run up into the web. While I was unable to see the delicate thread spun by the spider, I saw that the bug's legs soon became so entangled that he could not make any headway, but could only struggle around in a limited latitude, and which became more and more lim­ ited as the spider untiringly continued his work. Being compelled to leave at this moment, I returned again in about half a» hour./ I then found the bug turned on his' back and his feet appar­ ently quite firmly bound. He was quite motionless, and 1 thought was dead, but he soon showed signs of life by vig­ orous kicking, which nearly released, him. The spider had been running up and down at different points, but quickly left that work, and, sliding down to the bug, seemed to attack his throat, and in such a manner that the bug gave a few spasmodic kicks and seemed to give up the ghost. The spider then re­ turned to his work of attaching lines td the bug ^nd the web. They were soon so numerous that I could see them, beside, the light had become more favorable. The regularity of the lines formed a sort of funnel, diverg­ ing as they did frcm the bug to the outer parts of the web above. After a time the spider seemed to have lines enough attached, and began the new work of shortening each fine as it appeared. He passed from line to line many times over, stopping an instant at each. I was again called away at this juncture, and did not see the curiosity again until the next day. The bug was then elevated over an inch above the floor, and the third day he was safely lodged in the center of the web, rsome five inches from the floor, and all the tackle employed in hoisting completely cleared away. In the web were the carcasses of two other potato bugs, which I have no doubt were caught in like manner, though they may have crawled up the wall into the web. I cannot name tne variety of spider, but it ill a very com­ mon one, rather good siaro, but small as compared with the bug. The spider could not have weighed one-eighth as much as the bug; his body was,long and slender, with long slender legs, a very ordinary species of house spider (of brown color) and called a large spider on account of their long legs. This may be a very common habit of the spider, running out and driving in game to a jalace where it can be se­ cured and novated, but I never heard of the like before.--R. B» Tuller, in Scien­ tific American. i»ii "HV'I Religious. GOD KNOW P. The Latest Bonnia Craae. AN old army officer of rank has just returned here from San Francisco, and says the whole Pacific slope is crazed over the recent nicking up of the stock market. Speculators nave waited for years for a market, and a large num­ ber of them were what is known as dead-broke. Stocks continued to de­ cline, dividends stopped, assessments begaif, and the failures among the heavy operators were countless. A ew of the richest weathered the storm, but everybody felt depressed and ap­ prehensive. At this time vengeance was sworn against the bonanza firm who had all the money on the coast, and Mr. Flood, the head of the firm, was afraid to be seen on the streets. The tremendous rise in the Sierra Nevada, the Utah, the Justice, Union Consolidated and some of the other Nevada stocks has sent everything a- booming in San Francisco again, and such wild scenes have not occurred there for many years. Everybody is rich again. Some marvelous stories are tola. One man who had been very rich met with reverses and became very poor during the past six months. His house, his furniture, his credit, every­ thing was gone and he was, as usual in such cases, avoided by everybody. When the gigantic rise in Sierra Ne­ vada occurred he happened to think he had given his wife a thousand shares of that stock when it was only worth a dollar a share, and he never supposed it would be worth more. He hunted up the despised stock, sold it for $300 a share, and pocketed $300,000. Col. W. F. Shaffer, of New York, who has had hard lines in San Francisco for the past three years, being most of the time dead-broke, was put in by afriend, and is now square on his feet again with $30,000 in the bank, it is said. Chad wick, of the firm of Sykes & Chad- wick, who kept Willard's Hotel here during the war, who was terribly poor in San Francisco, was one of the lucky ones in the rise. Senator Jones, who notwithstanding the reports, was not worth a $100,000 when he left here last July, is now again a millionaire. Sen­ ator Sharon has also been very fortu­ nately lately. These are the stories that oome from San Francisco, and those who have been there and watched the habits of the people and the ex­ traordinary fluctuations of stocks will not doubt the stories, large as they are. -- W(«shington Special to Philadelphia Times. --Edwin French, the aged and re­ spected citizen Of Ohio, whose body was stolen from the grave ten hours after burial by a medical college of Cleveland, 44 was," it is grimly added, " a friend of the college, and had given it $100." That sum just about paid for the cost of digging him up, but it was a melancholy ]oke to play on him. --N. Y. Graphic. --441 hope there are no cannibals around here," said a traveler to a fron­ tier girl, as she was mixing a batch of dough. 44 There are plenty of 'em," returned she, pouring oome corn-meal into the pan. 44 We always eat a little Indian with our bread." tqppn my bowrat A thought that ever, With Mich tide of fee EBBS JWID AOWB; Flowing, my soul it® mighty flood receiveth; Ebbing, it stiil «m iu«i its imbreiw leaveth---- "God knows, God knows." J: f AM ovum wares the oliffa majestic Msiting^ Uport thd rock their records grand axe wrimo AB oo timtt foes, < So on my soul, by waves of sorrow amitten. In never-fading Characters is written, "God knows, God knows." God, Icnows! When the tides o£ joy in And aU my'spirit in their flow surprising j With pleasure glows, - Not on this traaaunt mood ray soul reli«tliil^> ' One blessed thought mv joy inteiisifieth-- , . I '4 God knows, God knows." •J' When in despair, no earthly comfort heeding. My spirit prostrate lies, all crushed aha bl*eau>g From cruel blows. Soothed is each "battered, throbbing nerre of feeling, Touched by this thought, as by a hand o£ h«*i- ing, - ?, "Godknows,God knows." - «• As birds within their nests, no danger knowing, Are rocked by tempests that without are blowing, , To sweet wr-poso-- ' Booked in the cradle of Divine compassion, yon all know that the soul is the moi precious thing you have, you shoiijd r member, when you put the body awa it is like_ laying aside the ropgh SOJ .that holds a jewel until lho Master cat It SM'place ITfC irijwratlfu • A# m #l#ii<lleatl comes is to say: " Now I lay me dow, to sleep, I pray. Thee, Lend# mv soul to keep."--Rev. James G. Merrill, ii% 44 Children"1s Sermons." ^ • t I .J *- I MJ t .. " - *" My i 1 is safe amid tbe storms of passion? *'God knows, God knows." J K When with rebellious thought my h»»art ia burxv- • . -ing, When from tbe narrow way my feet are toraingr To walk with foeu| In vain my soul her guilty stmt hideth; Though men be blind, one awful truth abiti^eth-- "God knows, God knows." When on the promises of love reiving, My soul, in deep contrition bowed, is sighing n sorrow's throes. Like morning dew upon the flowers distilling, The'^comes a thought, my heart with ous^ori talk ' God knows. God knows/' Great Sympathizer in my joy and Borrow, ' ', Great Keeper of the present and the mora*fc' • , Till time shall close. " • Grant that forever in, my heart remaining,i •• • . This truth may hold me by its power restraining. " God knows, God Knows." < --Stv. f. T. Pomeroy, in Zion't Herald.' Sunday-School L^KSOJM. ji •-,<! ;; -'i i • ..-ft- f • • • • • • ; ! a > • • ( • ' * { FOCaXH QCAUTSB. Oct. 27--The Rich Man and Laza­ rus ..Lake SB: 19-31 NOT. fl--The Ten Lepers. Luke 17:11-19 Nov. lft--Whom the Lord Reeeives.Luke 18: 9-17 Nov. 17--Zaccheus,the Publican.-Luke 19: 1-10 Nov. 24--Judaism Overthrown.... Luke 21: 8-21 Dep. 1 -The Loxd's Supper Luke 22:10 20 Dec. 8--The Cross Luke 23:83-46 Doc. 15--The Walk to Emmatrs Luke 24:18-32 Dec, 22--The Savior's Last Words.Luke 24144 -63 l)e«. 29--iieview, Temperance or Missionary Oon- oert. Death a Sleep* " M She is not dead, bat sleepctth."--8:53. THIS was spoken of a little girl twelve years old. Her friends all sup­ posed that she was dead. They were right; she was soon to be buried. Je­ sus came, and, knowing that she Was dead, said, in the words of our text: " She is not dead, but sleepeth." What did He mean? He wanted to have the friends know that He thought that they had a wrong idea of death, and wrong feelings in regard to it: and in the sense in which they spoke and thought of death, the little girl was not dead. Now, there have been a large num­ ber of deaths dnrinc the last few weeks, and I can see tliat many of the people in town are thinking wrongly of death, and therefore I want to say a few words to you about it, for I am quite sure that Jesus had the right idea, and so long as it ET true that half of the graves in Oakdale are children's graves, I am very anxious to have you think and feel as you should concern­ ing death. It is a blessed thing to go to sleep, when we are tired out, and can drop to sleep in an instant. Sometimes we wish we could have more time to play; but when the hour of sleep comes, how sweetly it takes us in its arms, and nothing is more beautiful than a sleep­ ing child. And it was only a few days ago that I saw a little child, who had been suffering day after day, die, and only id a few moments such a sweet smile came upon her lips, and I could not help saying::"How sweetly she sleeps." The next thing for you to remember is, that those who go to sleep wake up. When you have been to school six hours, and have helped mother at home, and have played very hard all the spare moments, you begin to find it very hard to hold UD your head, and noth­ ing seems bright and pleasant; but in the morning, when the sun looks in at the window, and says, 44 My little man, or little woman, it is time to get up," how bright the world looks; how strong and happy you feel; how very different from the way in which you felt the night before. So when any of us are put to sleejj by Jesus, we can know that there is a morning coming, and when that has come, we shall be so strong, and beautiful, and happy, that the night of our sleep will seem to have been very short. But I hear some little child say, 441 do not want to go to sleep in the ground; I do not want to be put ip a coffin;" and you ne$d not. Onee in a while my little girl says, 44Papa,'1-don't want to go to l?ed "up stairs;" she does not want to be alone; so her mother allows her to make her bed upon the lounge in the bright sit- ting-room. At, length she falls asleep; then, when I am through my studies, I carry her to her bed, and she knows nothing of the dark night nor the lonely room. In the same way no child of you will ever Know anything about the grave or coffin, if you have to be buried in them. You fall asleep at home, and when you wake, if you are Christ's, you awake in a better home. But another thing, we all grow when we are asleep. The reason why some children do not grow more is, because they do not have sleep enough. A few months ago a farmer's boy put a kernel of corn in the ground; you could pinch it between your little fingers, or hold a hundred kernels in your hand; but when the corn slept, it grew, and to­ day it has become a tall stalk, with full ears and long rows of kernels. So, if a little child's body is taken to the cem­ etery, and left sleeping, it will not be very long, as God counts time, before it will come forth in Heaven a most beautiful bodv, worthy to live in a beau­ tiful land. * , And once again; Do you not some­ times dream when you are asleep? What does this meanP That your mind is awake, waiting for your refreshed body in the morning. So, when you put the body to sleep in the grave, it is not the soul sleeping; that has gone to be with Jesus whom he loved; and as A, LADY, WKO had forsaken her and the Bible for the ghfctfl *rtd ness of infidelity, was crossing the _ lantic, and asked a sailor one morni how long th«y should be?*ut, s^ : 'v f"In fourteen days, if it is GotfASWl^ we shall be in Liverpool," answered th4? sailor. , 44 4 If it is God's will!'" saidtheladyi^ 44 what a senseles expression! don't yo# » know that all comes by chance?" In a few days a terrible storm arose, and the lady stood clinging on the Bide of the cabin door in an agony of terror, when the sailor passed hen 44 What do you think," said she, w^l the storip sooi| be ovefP*' u It seems likely to last for soirie lime, madam."- < , 44 Oh!" she cri$4, f*pray that we may not be lost." •' His reply was, 44 Shall chance?"--Exchange. . Religion and Restraint. about religion'being a? restraint upon men. In some senses, it is a restraint. But this is not its chief idea. There are in men certain destructive tendencies, passions, appe­ tites and inordinate affections which need the curb; and religion operates as a etxrb upon these and reins them in- But it has other and larger uses than thisk Fetters and cords and gags do not represent it. It plants more than it uproots. When the world's correc­ tion i» ended, it has only just begun its operations in the soul--operations which will continue In force eternally. Negatives do not express religious duty. We love to think that religious life means the growth of all the facul­ ties, and not a strangulation of them. Religion no more cramps a man than wings do a bird, or fins ao a fish. Piety is not a ship at anchor on a level sea; it- is s ship i* Hsotion^ with ever*7 sail - set and swelling with wind and the water around it crested with white. Christianity makes a man active, vi­ brant, tense. Gieat injury has been done religion by teaching people to re­ gard it as a mild form of slavery, in which people consent to be tied up that' they may not hurt themselves or oth­ ers. But there is no suoh religion as this, at least in the New Testament. The gospel Christ taught is a gospel of liberty. It is a stimulant to man s en­ ergies, not a narcotic. It makes hii'n a doer, not a hearer.-- Watchman, i : s Parisian Swindling. ̂ A FAMHLST ©I friends of taitee! fcafce just been through the mill in Paris. The gentleman a prominent official in New York State Government, and in any well-regulated1 country is pretty coinpetent to manage his own business. BuVraris ways beat him, he says. He has been made- to pay thousands of francs damages for injuries to apart­ ments .which he occupied a couple of months--injuries, which any unpreju­ diced observer can see have been the work of years in. the rooms and a long succession of untidy lodgers. He ana his wife and two grown sons--all very neat people--are charged with having made grease oceans with their heads upon the wall-papers and paint of the difterent rooms, one of which they never occupied at all--never sat down for a moment there, there being more then enough rooms without it. And the sums they have had to pay for re­ pairs are so large that for many months to come their income will be terribly crippled, as they are not ribh people. Naturally, they don't take such a rapturous enjoyment out of the Expo­ sition, the salon, the theaters and the other attractions of Paris as they might if they'd had comfort and a peaeefnl state of mind there. The last trick I have heard of to screw a final penny out of a departing stranger is to send a small boy or girl with a sympathetic appearance to the train just ^s it is starting, with a claim of a few francs, as few sometimes as three or four--say sixty or eighty cents --saying that a little bit of washing has not been paid for, or you forgot that the garcon bought a few papers for you (or something), and was never paid for that. With the full knowledge that you have paid an enormous price for everything, and have the landlord's receipted bill for a frightful figure in your pocket, and that you have stood the squeeze of 44 drink; money" to every hound about the establishment beside, you are, of course, indignant, and say you will not pay one centime more to any living soul. Then the sympathetic messenger be­ gins to whine, and say sh^ was sent tQ get this by the landlord^ and if you don't pay it, he will be forced to out of his poor, earnings. All this makes you the more furious, for you see, and have seen from the first, that the thing is a deliberate fraud on the part of the landlord, and that the messenger is honest enough about it, and knows nothing except that he has been informed, on pain of dis­ missal, to bring back that money. The disagreement makes a row, of course, and the first you know some police offi­ cer is on the scene, who gives you the. alternative of leaving the train at once in his custody, with your whole party and your baggage, or paying instantly w h a t e v e r s u m i s d e m a n d e d . I t i s n o » use for you to show him your receipted bill for more money, probably, than he ever saw; the particular item is not on your bill (why should it be?). You have got no receipt for it (Why should you have?), so, of course, you owe it! Furious as this false ana ridiculous reasoning makes you, you still see that the cheapest way is to pay the petty demand, and, as that was the only thing your screw was after, you are al­ lowed to bustle on tbe train again, breathless and angry, just as it is off, and all the good seats are taken.-- LonCju Cor. San Francisco Call. Z&>, a