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FOR SUNDAY READING. SONKTillMi TO ATT K*. Till* O* A II4V (IK ItKMT. ntdihi Spirit—laiertinilnnal Muod«»-#Hio«l |.«>imm.hh - Why Thrj do *»•( <*§ (• I'HurOt T« I wisin' on Holler Mkatlnc, Kir., Kir. TALMAGK ON ROLLER SKATING. The Rev. Dr. Talmage said Sunday that roller skating eclipsed coasting, croquet, football, lawn tennis, and slid¬ ing by moonlight on a pond. It had an advantage over the gymnasium in that it was more exhilarating. It was good for all men to take one hoar a day for roller skating. It would bring back light to the eye and strength to the body. It drove away neuralgia and nervousness. “But let us have,” he continued, “no more of the vulgarity and immodesty of young girls alone on the streets. They should be chaperoned by mother, lather, brother, or one who has a right to do it If a young man tips his hat to a young lady in a rink and is not acquainted with her the proprietor must lead him to the front door. If those well-dressed devils we see on the streets and sometimes at church doors get justice done them there would be more honest amusements and purer merriment. Let not brilliant lights and exciting music tempt to prolonged exer¬ cise. At the door of every place of amusement stands a group of pneumo¬ nias, waiting to esoort you to tho sepul¬ chre. Flirtation is damnation. When in Broadway, New York, or in Fulton street, Brooklyn, I see at the evening hour daughters of respectable families, whose conspicuous behavior is intended to attract masculine observation, a hor¬ ror goes through my soul. If I had a voice loud enougli to roach from the Penobscot to the Rio Grande I would say flirtation is damnation. “Meati while let the old people remem¬ ber that they were ouoe young. Rheu¬ matism is incompetent to give law to solid ankles. People who have the taste of the old before they reach thirty years bore the llte out of prayer meet¬ ings, and disgust the world with the cant of religion. God made boys and girls, and gave them tastes to be grati¬ fied. Their bodies need strengthen¬ ing.” WHY THEY DON T GO TO OHUROH. Rev. Charles H. Eaton took for the subject of his Sunday’s sermon “Why Do Not Young Men Go to Churoh?” He said that, in answer to this question, many explanations had been given by yonng men who did hot attend services. Some of the explanations were frivolons or given in chaff, as, for instance, one yonng man said that he did not go be¬ cause his sweetheart did not, and an¬ other that the ehuroh was too cold in winter. The speaker then reviewed some of the more seriouB objections. Among them were that there was too much caste in the ohnrohes, that Chris¬ tians were insincere and hypocritical and that services were too lengthy and ser¬ mons too dull. Other yonng men replied that they remained away from church because they were skeptics or out-and-out disbelievers in Christianity, while others still olaimed Sunday as a day for reoreation after a week’s hard work, and believed ohnrohes to be plaoes for women only. The preaoher said there was not more caste in the churoh than elsewhere; that Christians, while not claiming perfee* tion. were, as a rule, sincere; that the services were not too lengthy; that the majority cjrch of sermoas were not dull; that attendance did not prevent yonng men having rest and recreation on Sundaya, and that if women did go to church hi greater numbers than men it did not prove that this performance one’s duty to God was unmanly. In speaking about those who assail re ligion, he referred to Robert Ingersoll as a wonderful word painter and elo onent orator and as a shrewd politician •nd Food Inwxer. bat daaied that had received sufficient training id re* ligiotui matters to set himself up as an expert on the merits or demerits of 1 Christianity. ood tbk spirit. Oh, blntspd Bpirit ! let me feel nssusms: thou thyself impart. And wait till To Tlwe my earth-dimmed spirit cries; Change thou my bliuduess into sight. °i2d“ HMve’ n 'i l por. light. Thon cannt, to my weak thought unfold The wonders of Christ’s matchless grace; Canst bid faith’s ravished eyes behold The glories of his unveiled face ! If hut thy quickening breath inspire, This heart with fervent love shall glow; And kindling as with Heaven’s own fire, Heaven’s bliss, on earth begun, shall know. Come, With Holy thy Spirit, fill this breast sweet, soul-transforming power; Bo thou my ever present guest, My life, my joy, from hour to hour ! RELATING A STORY. # The Christian Advocate thinks some futile inquiries addressed to it concerning mysteries may best be answered by quot¬ ing the following sentence from a negro preacher: “My beloved brethren, sup¬ pose Eve had sinned and Adam had not. Would Eve have gone out of the garden and Adam stayed in ? And if so, would Adam have had grace to bear the separa¬ tion? Brethren, I have often thought of this. I am getting to be an old man, and I don’t know any more about it now than I did at the beginning. I have oome to the conclusion, in my old age, that the best thing a man can do is to believe what is neoespary to his salva¬ tion and what will help him work the works of righteousness, and leave Adam and Eve to take care of themselves.” INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY-tsOttoOL LESSONS. May 10—Christ Our Example, Phil, 2 ; 5.16 May 17— Christian Contentment, Phil, May 24—The Faithful Saying, 1 Tim. 1: 1-6. . May 81—Paul’s Charge to Timothy, 2 Tim. It- 1-a. June 7.—God s Message by His Son. Heb. 1: 1-4. June 14—The Priesthood . of,/I _ Hi'KWr i IQ k Pet: Jane 21—Christian Progress, 2 1 - 11 . Jane 28—Review: Service of Song, Missionary, Temperance, or other Les¬ sons selected by the sob col THE GRUMBLER. In his fast day sermon the Rev. Mr. Collyer tallied one—and a good one— against the ohronio grumblers. Speak¬ ing on the question of taxes, he said that last year there were a num¬ ber of taxpayers who, when the listers called on them, were- ready to swear that they hadn’t anything at all, and these same individuals will this year claim that their property has depre eiated fearfully, and they are worse off than they were last year.— St. Albans ( Vt.) Messenger. The Christian Observer says: “The Rev Phillip Brooks, in a reoent sermon, severely reprimanded the press for the lack of discrimination in commenting upon the moral character of men who have figured largely in the community for their wealth or in publio stations. If a Boston millionaire should die, he in¬ timated that the papers would extol him for his wealth, aud make him out tube a publio benefactor whether he gained his wealth by fair means or foul, Undoubtedly the press is in fault in this matter. But is the pulpit so free from fault as to be justified in casting stones at the press. We trow not.” _ Poslain, .. e young wi __- _ 1 "•“of* oj her hnabtmd Pre “ toaeowte h a paper wheu “ t6red th ? “*• “*• “ *° "^at it was, he leveled a ( whioh °“ a *° ■’“"J' p " i8 > at her ; “* lha being still obdurate, he at length 1 I™ 3 , wounding her in the hip. Then horrified, he threw himself from the bird atorv, breaking one arm and twe •ff 8 * Madame is ... likely ■ * to recover. It M. only * rather long milliner. bill. , Insanity Among Women. ••A oommlttee ot mediot! expert* on nervous diseases and insanity would make revelations which would scare mothers, of growing girls especially, into forming a ‘mothers’ protective union. f » i a» *bov e &.u.«*■. by Rev. Edward E. Hale in the opening number of the Spectator. The reading 0 f the article has touched a chord of rec | ollection of a certain vioit paid to an in sane asylum some years ago. 1 was amazed to see so many familiar faces of persons whom I had missed from the streets and other public places, and had supposed were dead; and in one sense they were. Many, and indeed I should say the majority, of these were teachers and overwrought scholars preparing to be teachers. One who accompanied me, and who had been at one time a patient here and knew most of the histories of these patients, told me much that was ilfclly interesting. So many bright women! So many fine scholars! Is this the promised end for which they toiled and studied? One especially 1 can never forget. “Which was the most dreadful of all whom you saw ?” asked my friend, and I described her. She was a babbling idiot, full of grimaces, of ceaseless talk and painful laughter. “And did you not recognize her ?” Recognize her 1 How was it possible ? Then I was told that she was once the brilliant and accomplished teacher who taught in--’s school, formerly one of the most fashionable in Boston. I bad known her well. I had admired her beautiful, serious face and her serene and stately manner. I desired to look again. I begged permission to walk ;once more through the gloomy gallery. And now, “as through a glass darkly,” I could trace Bomewhat the changed features. The large, dark, serene eyes were there, but the soul had fled; the features were as if cast of plaster, the face was the same, but ’fcwas like a face inverted, reversed, ^i s t or fc e< j- ’twas the face of an idiot. Now, when I hear of “vacations over” tturfog trie KOt days of September, and reflect how little in the whole year is the out-of-door life in New England and how long a time we must be kept to the houses and the schoolrooms, a picture rises before me, a scene peopled with human beings who were once scholars and teachers in this same Boston, over¬ worked, over-studied, over-pushed, one brain doing the work of three, till the goal is reached and the Bastile over the river is gained. When 1 hear parents aud guardians of youth speaking of their children’s work in the school, the examinations and the emulations and the “prostrations” that follow, I sometimes feel inclined to ask, To what insane asylum do you intend to send your daughter when she is fin¬ ished ?—Boston Transcript. An Unfortunate People. A Honolulu letter to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat says the charge so fre¬ quently made that the missionaries are responsible for the rapid extinction of the native race at the Sandwich Islands is without any foundation. The seeds of deadly disease were sown before their arrival. The Hawaiian race is doomed, and nothing but a miracle could save them from certain extinction. disease has made awful ravages among them is due to their contact with for¬ eigners. Of late years leprosy has been introduced by the Chinese, and it has spread with alarmmg rapid.*. It >s estimated by good observers that fully one-fifth of all the native population is infected with it, or with similar com¬ plaints in such an aggravated form as ! 8carcol - T J? d,stln8Qlslled . from the I gennrne Aaiatio lgprw?^ , Knows Them. —A cow attached to the gubernatorial mansion at Jefferson City, Mo., having been milked for five years by convicts, now refuses to allow anybody in oitiaen’s dress to approach hot. A BATCH OF STRAY JOKES „„ ,* TI1K , ol.lWN- of OCR j t iicmokoi h KXt'RANOIts. The ,Vfnid* > n nnd lb** Unda-Tlie Kamlnn (Intern I—A Truardv •» <>»» Aet-Mafclag Ills Word (lood. Ki#>* Kl®* THE LOU 1 SV 1 LLR MAIDEN. A Louisville girl who was visiting here a short time ago scored a signal triumph over a fresh young society man of this city. They were sitting upon a sofa together, and as the conversation progressed he allowed his arm to grad¬ ually fall down until he had it around ■ her waist. She arose very indignant, and he made the following explanation and apology: “I hope you will not think anything of this. It is just a way I have. All the Memphis boys act the same way, and you will have to get used to it. I hope you will not take any offence at it, as it’s just my way.” She left the room, but came back'in a few minutes with a married friend and sat down on the sofa again. Soon she began to yawn and gave every ostensi¬ ble proof of being thoroughly bored. Finally she said: “I’m dreadfully sleepy, and I hope you’ll go home. You mustn’t take any offence at this. Ail the Louis¬ ville girls act the same way. You are exceedingly tiresome, and you had bet¬ ter go home at once. Don’t be offended at this. It is simply a way I have 1” He stood not upon the order of his going .—Memphis Times. HE MADE HIS WORD GOOD. A passenger got off to walk around a little. As the train began to move again the passenger jumped aboard, but just then he discovered that be had but one overshoe. Thinking that he dropped the other, he pulled off the remaining shoe and threw it out on the platform, exclaiming: “There, that makes a good pair of overshoes for somebody.” Entering the car, there, to his great as¬ tonishment, was his other overshoe. A look of intense disgust came upon his face, but he did not hesitate. Quickly pick ing up the lone arctic he hurried to the platform, threw the shoe as far as he could back toward the other one and shouted: “By jimminy, there is a pair of over¬ shoes for somebody !”—Chicago Herald. AVOIDING A BEAT. The editor of the Deadwood Roarer atttended church for the first time last Sunday. In about an hour he rushed into the office and shouted: “What the blazes are you fellows doing? How about the news from the seat of war ?” “What news?” • Why, all this about the Egyptian army being drowned in the Red Sea. Why, the Gospel sharp up at the church was telling us about it just now, and not a word of it in this morning’s paper. Hustle round, you fe!!ow3, and get the facts, or the Snap Shot will get a beat on us. Look spry, there, and run an extra edition, while I put on the bulle¬ tin board ‘Great English Victory in the I Soudan, > »» A TRAGEDY IN ONE ACT. I The diagram, with the foot notes, explarn - j themselves: I ?? ? HI , ^ „ Thc d0 „ The Jolt ® man geveral moments previous to the catastrophe, (!!!) The catastrophe .--Pittsburgh Telegraph. FOREIGN TRAVEL. A Kentuckian gives the following ; glowing account of his trip abroad: “I landed in Liverpool at night, went to bed, had a good rest, got up in the morning, found the bar, called for an American cocktail, got it, took one taste and—returned home in the next steamer j This country is good enough for me. ’’