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®he itloEtgcmwj] Monitor. D. 0. SUTTON, Editor and Prop'r. DR, TALMAGE’S SERMON. , AN ISLAND VISION Hr. Till mage preached before an overflow ing audience at tho Thousand Islands, the I eo; 1; flocking from all tho surrounding country. Fully 7,0 DO persons were present, an 1 • Eternal w ith rapt'attention to the rever end gentleman. Tu p\s; “I, John, was in tho islo that is ca i d Latinos.—.l lev. i., '“And the twelve gat• -.» were twelve pearls.”—Rev. x xi., 21, ” ; ai h.dh linti us among the Thousand Inlau Is ot tho St. Lawrence,” began tho pieacher. ‘'Amid tho enchantment of the K-ciuny some of us are like i’aul when he sad .'Whether in the body or outof the body 1 cannot toll.' Not hat iug read the geologist s account of h>w this legion was formed, I may surmise that after the St. Lawrence be gan its majestic roll these Is lauds were dropped into it out of the heavenly lnud sup -. Jsl uls above us, islands below us, is tmil-, al around its. lain reminded how j run h tho islands of the wo. id have had to do ■ with suciel and pofane history. Elba, from which Napohon started for Ids Jast struggle; and Ist. Helena, where ho ended it: island of Guernsey, wlu-io tl o great souluf ntor Hugo chafed iaesit-until lepublicauism in Franco drove ia k" do;;; otism; Islo of Romeo, where A-lohirmu dud on stood, a flaming evangel; the id and of Oaprora. where Garibaldi le ted aftel'th - emancipation of Italy; island of < yi ro3 . whore B irnabas preached;island ot lie iut. on which Paul was shipwrecked, iiini, last of al), but mightier than all and m ro impressive than all, the' island of Patinos, of which my text speaks, and from which St. Juliu, the exiled Ephesian Gospel i nr, siw the txycive j earliqe gates. If God will help us we can, from these Thousand Isles 0.-i ill's Sabi ath morning, see the same I glittering porta's. “< )wr subject speaks of a great metropolis, the cxis eace of which many have doubted. There has been a vast emigration into that city, but no emigration front it, so far as our n: tu al \ ision can des.ry. 'There is no such city.’ says the uudovout astronomer. ‘I havo stood in high towers with a mighty telescope and have swept the heavens, and I havo seen spols on tho sun and caverns in tho nioou, but no towers havo ever risen on my vision, no palaces, no temples, no shining streets, no massive wall. Them is no such city.’ Eveu very go id people 101 l me that Heaven is not a material organ ism, but a graud spiritual fact, and that tho Li >!o descriptions of it are in all eases to ’ he taken figuratively. I bring in rer.ly to this what Christ said, und He ought to know. ‘I go to prepare,’ not a theory, not a principle, not a sentiment, but ‘1 go to prepare a placo tor yi ud The resurrected body implies this. If my ;oot is to be reformed from tho dust it must l ave something to tread on. If my band is to bo reconstructed it must have something to handle. If my eye, haviug gone cot in death, is to bo rekindled. I must havo something to gaze on. Your adverse theory seems to imply that the resurrected body is to bo hung on nothing, or to work in air, or to float amid the intangibles. You may say: If there bo material organisms, . 1 hen a soul in heaven will be cramped and hindered iu its enjoyments; but 1 answer: Did not Adam aud Eve have plenty of room in the garden of Eden? Although only a few miles would have described tho circum ference of that place, they had ample room. And do you not suppose that Uod iu the :m* men ities can build a pla e largo enough to give the whole race room, even though Chore bo material organisms? ‘‘As a conquering army, marching on to take a city, comes at nightfall to the crest of a mountain from which iu the midst of the landscape they see the castles they are to capture, and rein in- tlieir war chargers and halt and take a goo<l look before they pitch their touts for tho night; so now, coining as Wo do on this mountain top of prospect, I command ihis regiment of* God to rein in their thoughts and halt,and before they pitch tlieir tents for tho night lake one good, long look at tho gab sos the great city. 1 want you to examine the architecture of those gates. Proprietors of large estates are very apt to have a-.i ornamented gateway, fiome tiines they spring an arch of masonry; tho posts of the gate flanked with lions in statuary; the bronze gate a representation of intertwining foliage, bird-haunted, until the hand of architectural genius dropsexhau-t il, all its life frozen into the stone. Babylon bad a hundred gates, so had Thebes. Gates of wood and iron und stone guarded nearly all tlr- old cities. Moslems have inscribed upon their gateways inscriptions from tho Koran. There have been a great many fine gateways, butChristsethishand to the work, and for the upper city swung a gate such as no eyes ever gazed on untouched of inspira tion. With tho nuil of his own crovs ho cut into its wonderful traceries stories of pad, suf fering ai;d of gladness to come. There is no wood or stone or bronze in that gat-*, but from top to base aud from side to side it i is all of )ie:u'l. Mot one piece pieke 1 up ! from Ceylon banks and another piece from | the Persian Gulf and another from the islaud of Margarettc; but one solid pta l picked up from the Leach of everlasting light by heav enly h v d", and hoisted and sn img amid tho shouting of angels. The glories of a'abaster vase and porphyry pillar lade out before this gateway. It puts out the spark of feldspar and Bone idun diamond. You know how one I little precious stone on your Anger will flash. I under the gaslight. But. oh, the brightness when the great gate of heaven swings, struck j th. nugh and dripping wi:h the light of etcc- I t at noonday. “Jul.us GVsar paid 12.5,000 crowns for on-; | "' 1 The goverumc-'t of Portugal boaclo 1 or davl ig apan la -."- • than ao a . . n-o. patra and* ihilip .1. it.uzl-d tho world’s j vision wiili preeiou. st Hies But gather all . the eto e'li -ran I lif; til -in ando Id to them - all the wealth of the peirl lili<ui--s and it the n in the panel of one do r and it d >cs u >t e (ual this magnifi'-enf gateway. An Al j mighty hand hew 1 this, strong this, polish d this. Agains.ths gateway on the one -i la i dash all the splendir; of earthly b-aiity. j A-gninst this gate on tho other sdo b .-.it ! the s ii'ges ot eternal gl irv. (Jli. the ; gate: the gate! It str.kes an infinite < h-tnn ■ through e-.cry one that passes it. On - step ! this side of tint gate and wo arc jaspers. One st p the other side of that gate ael we | are kings. Tho pilgrim of mrt'i, gong thn ugh, sees iu th - one lingo pearl all his earthly tears in crystal. < i gat i of light, gate of pearl, gate of Heaven, for our weary souls at last swing open. When sltall these eyes thy heaven-built walls And penrlv gates behold. Thy bulwarks with salvation strong • An 1 streets of shining goid? “I want you t > count tho number of those j gates.' Imjurial parks an 1 lordly manors are • apttohiva one expensive gateway and tne oti.-e >a: e ordinary; but look arouu iat these entrance; t> heaven and count them. One, two, three, four. live, six, seven, eight, nine, : ten, e'.e.en. twelve. Hear it ail the earth an 1 all the heavend Twelve gate-! I admit this ! is r.itbrr bard on slaarp e--arianisms. If a . P.-esbyt rim is big-n-d he brings hisWest mins e-A sembly ! ath chism and he maxes a gitiewiy out of that, and he say- to th • world: “You go h'ough there or stay on'." If a Meth -list minister is bigoted he plants t-vo posts and says: ‘Mow you must i 5 crowd in Between tnose two posts or s'jv out.’ Or perhspjau Epis ojalian may ay: t 'Here is liturgy out of Which I mean tjma .o a gate; go through it or stty out.’ Ur a II ijw i tistmav say: ‘Hore is a water gale: you go ' through that or you must stay out .’ And s > in ail our churches and denominations thorn nre men who make oue gate for the iisrl \e j and then demand that Hie whole world go through it. I abhor tills flontractediios- in religious views. Oh. suiall-so.iW non. w la- i did God give you the contract for making gates? I tell you plainly I will not go in I hat gate. I will go iu at any one of the twelve gates I choose. Herd is a man wh i says: 'lean more easily and more cl vsely approach God through a prayer-book. Isa : ‘M v bivithcr, then use the prnver bo.-k.’ Here is a man who savs: ‘1 b -lievo tli -re is only oue mode of baptism, ftuit that is im mersion.’ Thenlsav: ‘L-1 nu plungri you.' Anyhow I say: Away with the gate if rougli iiauel and rotten (Hist- and rust -d latch when there are twelve gates and they ure twelve pearls. “A great many of the churrho-ein this day avo being doctrinel to death. They hive been trying to And out all about Gail's de crees, and they want to know who a' e elected to be saved ami who ore reprobated to b * damned, and ill -y are keeping oil di, u *in ; that subject when there are millions of souls who need to have the truth nut straight at them. They sit counting the iiu nbor of teeth in tho jawbone with which Sanson slew the I’hili t nes. They sit on the beach and see a vessel going to pieces iu the ofling, aud instead of getting into a boat and pulling for tho wreck they sit dis mssing the diilereut styles of oarlocks. God in tended us to know some things aud intended us not to know others. 1 have heard scores of sermons explanatory of God’s decrees but came away more perplexed then 1 went. The only result of such dis -ussion is a gr. at f • •• Here are two truth? whi h are to conquer the world: man, a sinner; Christ, a savior. Any man who adopts those two tlieoiieiiu his religious belief shall havo my right Inn l in warm grip of Christian brotherhood. A man comes down to a river in line of freshet. Ho wants to get across. He lias to swim. What does Uj do? The first Hingis ; to put off his heavy apparel and drop every- I thing he has in hands. lie must go empty-handed if lie is going lo the other bank. And I tell you, when xvo have como down to the liv ,-r of death aud find it suit and ra ;ing we will have to put olf all our soctiriauism and lay ioxvu our cumbersome creel, and e-npty atiiKlea put out for tbo other shore. ‘Wlint,,’ say you, ‘would you resolve all the Christian China ii into one kind of church? Would you make all Christendom worslirn in tbo same war. by the same forms?’ Oh, no! You might as well do i lo that all people shall eat the eigne kind of food without reference to appetite, or wear the same kind of apparel without reference to the shape of tlieir body. Your ancestry, your temp rament, your sur roundings, will decide whether you go t»> this or that church aud ado;it this or that policy. "Notice thn points of tho compass toward whi it these gate s look. They are niton mu side or oil two sides or on three sides, but mi lo ir sides. This is no fan yof mine, but a distinct aiiuoua -em -nt. On tho north Hires tyit n, oil the south threo gates, onto - east 011-00 gates, oa itu .Vest t!i e > IVn..* Does that mean? Why, it means that an nationalit'os are includes! and it does not make any dillereu o fro n what quarter of the oii'tli a man comes up; if his heart •is right tha:o is a gate o'oa before him. iin tho n rth three gates. That means nic -cy for i,apian 1 and Siberia and Norway and Sweden. On the south throe gates. That means pardon for H.'n lostnnnn 1 Algiers and Ethiopia. Oi tho < as, three gates. That means salvation for China and Japan an I Borneo. < n tho west threo gates. That minus redemption for America. It docs not make auy dill or,-nee how dsirk-skiunesl or how pale fa ed men may bo, th y will find a gato right before thorn. Thcso plucked ban mas under a tropical sun. Those shot across Ru-san snows behind reindeers. From Mexican plateaus, from Roman cam puna, from Chinese tea-fields, from Holland dike, from Socteh Highlands, they como, they como. Heaven is not a monopoly for a few pre -ion s soul--. It is not a Windsor Cas tle for royal families. It is not a small tewn with small population, but John saw it and ho noticed that an angel was measuring it, an l he measured it in this way and then ho measure 1 that, and whichever "'ay he meas ured it was l,r>u.i miles, so that Babylon and Thebe-, and Tyro and Nineveh, and St. Petersburg an I Canton, and Pekin an I Paris, and London and New York, and all tho dead i itie.? of tin past and all tho living cities of the present ad-led together, would not equal tho census of Hint great metrop olis. “While I speak an ever-increasing throng is passing through the gates. They are going mi from Seuegainbia, from Patagonia, from Madras, from Hong Ixoiig. ‘What!’ you say, ‘do you introduce all the heathen into glory?’ d tell you, the fa t is that the majority of tho people in those eliun-s die in infancy and tho infants all go straight into eternal life, and so the vast majority of those who die iu China and India the vast majority of those who die in Africa, go straight into the skies—they die in infancy. One liun • sired and sixty generations havo I been born since the world was I created, an iso 1 estimate that there must be 15,u00,0j0,00-'D children in glory. If at a con cert 2,000 children sin g, your soul is raptured within you. Oh, the transport when l i.n-Kt,- 0)11,0)0 little ones stan l up in white before tho throne of Go 1, their chanting drawing out all the s'upendoui harmonies of Dussel dorf and ls-ip-i ; aud Boston! Pour in j through th > twelve gates, <) yo roJeeinel, banner-lifted, rank after rank, saved battalion after saved batalion, uniil all the city of God shall hear the tramp, tramp! Crowd all tho twelve gates, i Room yet. lioom on tho thrones, | room in the mansions, room on the river bank. Let the trunqiet of invitation lie sounded until all earth’s mountains hear the : shrill blast and the glens echo it. Lot mis sionaries tell it is pagoda, and colporteurs sound it aero s the Western prairies. Kliout it to the Laplander on his swift sled, halloo it to the Bedouin careering across the de-ert. News! news! a glorious heaven anil twelve gates to get into it! Hear it, O you thhi , blooded nations of eternal winter!—on the north three gates. Hear it, >) you bronzed inhabitants panting under equatorial heats— on the south three gates. “And heaven being made up, of course tho gates will be shut. Austria in and tin first fate shut; Russia in and the so ond gate shut; ta 1 y in and the third gate shut; Egypt in and the fourth gate shut; Hpain in and the fifth gate shut: France in and the sixth gate shut; England in and the seventh gate shut: Nor way in and the eighth gate : hut: H.vit eriaud in anl the ninth gate shut: H.ndostan in an 1 the te.-*h gate shut; Siberia in anl tin eleventh gate shut. All the gates ate clo ed but one. Now let America go in. xvit-h all the islands of the sea and all the other na tions that have called on God. The captives all freed; the harvests all gathered; the na tions a 1 saved—the flash.ng splendor of this last pearl hegini to move on its hinges. Let the mighty angels put their fhouklers to tho gate and heave it to with silvery clang. ’Tia done! It thunders! The twelfth ga'e shut! “I want to shoxv you the gated:re sir. There is one angel at each one of these gates. You say that is right. Os course it is. You know that no earthly palace or < a t e or fortress would be safe w itho.it a sentry J a:- ing up arid down by ni bt an 1 by day, a id if there were no defenses before lien .en an t MT. VERNON. MONTGOMERY CO.. UA„ THURSDAY, Al GUST 5, 1886. ♦! a d.vrs set wide o|x>n with no one t> guard i thorn, al tit-- vici >us of earth would go up 1 after awhile aud all the abandoned ot hell would go t-p after awhile, aid heaven ; Instead of bem j a wort i of light and joy j aud peace and blessedness would is* a | world of darkne-s a d horror. H>l nm glad to te 1 you that while tlmse tw- lvogntes stand open ta let a great multitude iu there are twelve angels to keep some people out. | Rubeipienv cannot go through there, nor | Nero, nor ativ of the debum-lietl of earth wild j nave not rojiented of their wickedness. If one of these nefarious men who despised God should como to the gate, ono of the keepers would put his hand on his shoulder mid push him into outer darkness. There is no place | iu that land for thieves aud liars, and de frauders, and all those who disgraced their race and fought against their God. If a miser should got in there ho would pull up tin golden pavement. If a house burner i ill mid get in there lie would set lire to tho , man i-hi. If rt libertine should get in there, ho would w hisper hie abominations standing on tho white coral of the sea-beach. Only tlios- who are blood-washed and prayer lipp cl will get through. O my brother, if you should ut last come lip to one of the gates and try to get through, and you had not a pass written by the crushed band of the Son of God, the gate-keeper would, xxitli one glance, wither you forever. • There w ill be a password at tlie gate of | heaven. Do you know wlint that password is? Here comes a crowd of souls up to the i gate and they say: ‘Let mo iu; let mo in. 1 | was very useful on earth. I endowed col leges, 1 built < hurehes and was famous for ! mv charities and, having done so many tV< ii U-rlul things for the world, now I como up ta get my reward. -V voice from W.thin says; *1 never know you.’ An- , other great crowd conies up and they try to get through. They say: 'Wo were highly honorable on earth and theearth boavo 1 very lowly before us. We wore hon ored on earth, and now we come to get our honors in li -aveii.’ And a voice from with in says: ‘1 never knew you.’ Another crowd advances aud .-ays; ‘We were very moral |Kiople on earth—very moral indeed, ; and wo come up to get appropriate recogni tion.’ A voice answers: ‘1 never know you.’ “After a while i see another throng ap proach the goto add one seems to be s|K>kes- , man for all tho rest, although their voices , over and nnon cry amen! anion! This ono l stands at the gate aud says: ‘l-et me in. I J was a wanderer from God. 1 deserve to die. i 1 have come up to this place not because I do- | serve it, but boeatiso 1 have heard that there is u saving power in the blood of Jesus.’ Tho j i gat oket-|ier says: ‘That is the password, Jesus! ; I Jesus!’ and they pass iu and thoy surround i the throno and the cry is: ‘Worthy is tho | j I amli that was slain to receive power aud i riche; and wisdom and strength aud honor | and glory and blessing.’ Oh, when heaven | | is all done and tho troops of God shout:‘The ! castle is taken!’ how grand it will bo if you i and 1 are am n; them I Bleised are all they who enter iu through the gates into the city. ” Cat-Nips. A man of Tioga County, Pennsylvania, is raising thirteen foxes on the bottle. Seldom Wilcox, ot East River, conn., saw a fox and her young ones run into a | hole in the ground. lie lay down close j to the hole, and after long waiting the j fox stuck her head out. lie seized her | by the neck and captured her. A family moved from Newark to Cam den N.J.MaylO. Fourteen days later, while a box was unpacking, the family cat was | found lying tint upon its side with a quan j ty of bed clothing piled on toji of it. | The cat had evidently gone to sleep in j the box tind had not wakened until after 1 the lid was nailed on. The animal was thin and tired looking when it came out, ; hut it soon recovered its spirits. Some remarkable cats arc entered fur the cut show in New Haven Ot. There are :t full dozen or more five or six toed cats. Striped Beauty, a tiger-cat, weighs four j teen pounds. Dick, a maltose, follow s i like a dog. A jet black eat w ith eight toes on each fore paw weighs twenty three pounds. Jack, owned by the men of steamer!!, of the New Haven Kin- Department, lias one yellow and cue blue eye. A cat at Bethlehem, Pa., was chased up a high tree .by a dog. She remained on one of the topmost branches for sev cral days. The neighbors gave her food by tying ii to a long fishing-pole mid holding it up to her. Finally a iniiri climbed the tree to capture the cat. After | chasing her about the tree for some time lie procured a saw and sawed off the | branch on which she had taken refuge. The cat fell to the ground and then ran away. M illing to “Go One Eye On It.’’ In the winter of 1861 the Seventh Georgia Volunteers lay in camp ut (Jen terville, Va. The hoys hud learned to “run tho blockade” with the excellent up nit-jack so abundant in that neighbor hood, and the oarnp was kept constantly well supplied. One day, General Joseph E. Johnston, thinking the applejack had taken the place of water long enough, seized all the applejack in camp and town, and had it carted to the river ond tho heads of the barrels knocked in, preparatory to pouring the contents into the stream. The General then, after ordering the bar rels emptied, thinking to intimidate his men, drew his sword with the threat, that he would cutout the first man’s eyes who attempted to drink a drop of it. An Irishman at once stepped from the ranks of the company, and, covering one eye with his hat, said : “Bejabers, General! I guess I’ll go one eye on’t.” The General was beaten. He walk' d away without another word. Os course there was a laugh and hur rah, aud it may Ik: that some of the hoys went more than one eye on it while the General’s order was being executed. Hank Insanity. Bagley—“l can’t imagine what has be come of that $lO bill.” Do Baggs “Have you lost $10?” “I don't know. Iliad an awful head ache yesterday aud can't remember what I did. I was ” ‘‘Oh, I remember now! Imw you pay • Ponsonby $lO that you owed him. That’s where rour money went.” “There! 1 was sure I was out of mv head 1” Call. “SUB DEO FAOIO FOETITEII." Fortran]. Push on, brave heart, nor yot despair, Though dark and dreary seem the way, Thy sun will shine from skies as fair As ever graced tho coming day. And ever keep before thine eyes * The heroes of the mighty past; l Think how thoy struggled for the prize. Anti thou shalt surely win at last. ! |Push on, as so mo bravo swimmers do. Over storm-capped waves of life, Strike out against the undertow, And como off victor in tho strife. Push on, and win a lasting name Tho nat ions of tho earth among, Nor stoop to uso ms steps to fame i Thy follow-mcn who round you throng. I Push on, and when thou galn’st the day, Hoinembor those bravo words of mine; Bear up beneath each darkened ray, Tliy sun is waiting but t-o shine With tenfold glory from above. That hour is darkest next the dawn* Rueeoss is certain. Do not soar. But lot the watch ward be Push on. —Jack (Sardiner in Detroit Free Dress. THE SQUiKE’S AFPLES. “Pucli pretty apples!” cried Linnet Dcssoir, ecstatically. “With red checks, just us if a fairy pencil had painted them, and delicious, bloomy streaks hero and there 11 should like to copy them on a plaque or a pancßor something, if only one could lie sure of reproducing those delicate tints of rosotnnd white!” “Well, I-dechire 1” said Rose Hebron, I the country cousin, whom she was visit- I ing, laughing with a merry, thrusli-liko j laugh, ns the two girls sat on a moss- I enameled boulder under tho boughs of | tho lady-apple-tree, with hero and there a yellow leaf fluttering dreamly down at ' tlieir feet. “Who would dream of such i a poetical description,applying to the ap ples that grow in Squire Sand ford’s or | chard?” “Wasn’t it good of him to allow us to , gather them?” said Linaict, trimming the I side-leaflets oil a lovely branch of yellow j golden-rod. “I shall not believo that they are ab solutely ours thogprli,” declared Hose, “until I see them in the old apple-bin at home.” “Why not?” “Oh, Squire Cedric is eccentric!” Rose answered, carelessly. “Cedric? Is that his name?” “Yes. Isn’t it an odd relic of tho Saxon times?” laughed Hose. “It’s a very romantic name,” remarked Linnet, wrinkling her brows in pretty consideration of the epithet. “V/c isn’t romantic,” observed Rose. “Isn’t lie? But why not?” “He’s so old 1 Thirty, at least 1” Rose responded, with an emphatic nod of the ! head. “Horrid ogre!” said Linnet, who was in her seventeenth year. “Come, Rosey, let’s go home. I’m as hungry as a canni | bal! Gathering apples is suck hard work !” She skipped ahead, with her yellow tresses floating behind, like stray strands of sunshine, and her white dress him!ling over the drifts of perfumed leaves that carpeted the path. Rose followed, with affectionate eyes of admiration. “What is the difference between mo and Linnet?” she asked herself. “My dress is white also; my hair is as golden as hers. Why is it that she is like a dancing sprite I, a plodding human be ing?” Poor little Rosy! She <1 id not realize that Linnet Dcssoir had grown up in an altogether different atmosphere; that Lin net, had unconsciously modeled her dress from the graceful robes which her father, the artist, kept to drape his lay-figures; that her eye had been trained, her taste cultured, in every possible point. “He’s only a poor struggling artist!” Farmer Hebron had been wont contemp tously to observe, when he saw ]iis broth er-in-law’s name among the lists special ly honored by the Academy of D'-sign. “He’s a good follow enough,” Eugene Dcssoir airily remarked, when his agricul tural connection hupp ned to lie men tioned. “But he hasn’t an idea be yond his own fat cattle 1 He don’t live; he only vegetates!” Linnet, however, the bright, mother less young beauty, was a great favorite of the kind-hearted Hebrons; and when she had so enthusiastically admired the beau tiful pink-aad-whitc lady-apples on Squire Sainlford’s tree, Mr. Hebron bad gone so far out of his way to ask the squire for a barrel. “Just to please the little girl,” said he. “She (kinks a deal of pretty things.” “She is quite !welcome,” said Squire Sandford, with format politeness. “H you will send a barrel to the tree to-mor row, Mr. Hebron, it shall be filled for four niece.” And when the squire said this he pict vred in his mind’s eye the aforesaid uioc c as a romp of eleven or twelve, with shingled hair, freckles and pretcrnatural ly long arms. All night long Linnet Deasoir dreamed of the lady-apples, and when the sun rose, a sphere of rubied fire, above tho eastern hills, she jumped out of bed and dressed herself with haste. “I can’t sleep another minute,” said she. “It’s just the very sort of morning to walk out across the woods and look at the lady-apple-tree, with the little spring gushing out so close to its roots, and tho blue asters, and thickets of golden-rod, by the stone fence. I won’t wake Rosy. Rosy was up late last night, putting la bels on the quince jelly. I’ll let her sleep, and go by myself 1” But Miss Hebron was no more of a lag gard in the morning than was her city cousin. At seven precisely she knocked at Linnet’s door, but the bird had flown. “How provoking!” said Rose. “But I’ll follow her. She must have gone to try to make that sketch of the old mossy rock close to the lady-apple tree I 1 won der if she knows that my father has pas tured Ajax in the adjoining field?” “Ajax” was a savage, beautiful bull, who was at once tho pride mid torment of Farmer Ih-bron, and a thrill of terror came into Rose’s heart ns she made all speed to follow the dewy track of Lin net’s footsteps over the grass. As she reached the belt of woods close to the apple-orehard, she paused in dis may at the sound of a sweet, high pitched voice. It’s Linnet!” she involuntarily ex claimed. “And she’s scolding some body. Dear me, whom can it be? Sure ly not Ajax 1” “You are a thief!” she could hear Lin net exclaim—“a robbcrl Let that bar rel of apples alone, I say. I don’t care whether you are Squire Sandford or not. That barrel of apples is mine!” And as Rose drew near, she could see this dimpled young Amazon resolutely - defending the barrel of apples, with her single strength, against Squire Sandford and his stoutest farm laborer. She stood there, with one slight hand on the red-cheeked fruit, which was brimming over the barrel-hoops, and lie fore her the tall squire and his herculean aid-de-camp were helpless. “If you will allow mo to explain ” i pacifically began tho squire. “I will allow nothing!” declared Lin net. “I repeal, thcso apples are mine I Touch them, at your peril!” Thus far the young heroine was a con queror. But alas I in that very moment of victory Nemesis was at hand. There was tho dull sound of trampling hoofs, then a sullen bellow, and Ajax himself, bursting through a weak spot in the i fence, was upon them. Linnet Dcssoir collapsed, so to speak, at once. She forgot her heroism, her ; dignity—everything but her danger, and flew, for rescue, to Squire Sandford, shrieking: 1 “Save me! save me!” The farm-hand dogged behind the wagon; but Squire Sandford never ; quailed, but held her resolutely in his ■ arms. “Do not lie afraid,” he said, almost as : if lie had been speaking to a frightened child. “Nothing shall harm you, little i one!” For an instant, filings look very block; then Squire Sandford spoke gently once i more. “Do not hold my arm so tightly,” said he, “Let me get at my revolver. I must shoot the brute 1 No, don’t be so terri fied. Do not you hear mo say that notli ■ ing should harm youV' And then the problem resolved itself, as problems often do. Ajax, butting his , huge head against the barrel of lady-ap ples, sent them rolling in all directions, and caught bin horns in the barrel itself, 1 effectually blinding him. He set off at a wild gallop down the hill, bellowing as he went, and there he met his fate in the shape of two or three men with a run ning noose of rope and a good stout i chain. “Hello, pet!” shouted Farmer Heb ron’s voice. “What’s the matter? Who hasn’t fainted, has she, squire?” , And Linnet, realizing that she was safe, blushingly withdrew from Mr. Sand ford’s sheltering arms, and ran to her uncle. “I am ho much obliged to you, sir,” she whispered. “And please—pleas' - don’t mind what I said about the ■ You are r/ai/e welcome to the— ' “Hey? Apples I” sta' Mr ’ ,Icbron “Why, Linnet d^y° u know tbat * carted the fciirr<:l of a Pl ),c * tl,ilt tho squire y ou borno liU,t ni B ht -” Mnnet grew crimson all over, and fled to Rose's faithful breast for consolation. I—l shall never dare to look that man in the face again,” she bewailed herself. ■ “Oh, dear —oh, dear, what mv*t he have thought of me!” But of course Mr. Sandford considered : it only right and proper to call that cve ' ning, and inquire how Miss Dessoir found herself; and really the meeting was not half as embarrassing as Linnet i had fancied it would be. VOL. I. NO. 22. They lmd a good laugh about Ajax and the apples; and Linnet confessed how dreadfully frightened she had been. “And with reason,” said Squire Band ford. “There was a second or two in which wc were in very serious danger.” “lint you will forgive me about tho apples?” said Linnet, with pretty, coax ing earnestness. “Oh, yes, I will forgive you about tho apples I” Sijuiro Sundford laughingly returned. And in that moment Linnet thought what a very pretty color his eyes were, decided that ho couldn’t possibly bo thirty years old. * + + £**♦ “Isn’t it strange," said Hose Hebron, “that we have lived neighbor to Bipiiru Sundford all these years, and he has nev er been more than ordinarily polite to me? And here comes Linnet, and quar rels with him at five minutes’ notice, and calls him all sorts of names, and now they are engaged to be married, and / am to be the bridesmaid.” “Notat all strange!” said Miss Dcaaoir. “To mo it seems as nice anil natural ns possible. But you are mistaken about his ago, Itosy. lie is only twenty--nine. And if ho were a hundred and twenty nine, I should love him all the same.” “Os course,” said Hose; that is what nil engaged girls say,”— Helen 4<'oreat Omvet. > Turkish Public Amusements. The public amusements of the Turks consist of meydan - oyixmoo, kara-g'eot, and the meddah. Meydan-oyoonoo is a sort of low burlesque, acted by men only and without a stage, the changing of cos tumes being ellecteil behind a tompora ry screen. The kara-g’eoz is the Turk ish “Punch and Judy,” rendered in shadows, a white sheet being stretched across one of the angles of the room di agonally, forming the base of a triangle, behind which the performer takes his stand, and by the force of a strong light casts the “shadows of coming events” on the sheet, And tho meddah is the fa mous story-teller of the East. The ab sence of works of fiction, and the general ignorance of the people, who do not oven know how to read, make tho narra tives of the meddabs quite acceptable to tho public, who flock to hear them for pastime, for the love of the marvellous is too powerful in the warm and imagina tive nature of the p 'oplo of that sunny clime to remain without some develop ment. Hence their popularity. Then, again, these meddahs are not destitute of dramatic power, entrancing their atten tive audiences by the magnetism of high ly wrought fiction, exaggerated descrip tion, and effective mimicry. Indeed, some of them have acquired a renown for their specialty. Ki/.-Ahmed, or Lady Ahmed, is so named on account of his successful ability in “taking off” the la dies, and Pidjomin is noted for the “pa thetic.” They exercise certain coup <l« theatre ol their own, and are by the ex cited fancies of the people invested with a genii like power, as they condense into a passing hour the scenes of an eventful life, or detail the enchantments of fairy doin. In fact, these meddahs occupy the Oriental lecture field, and on festive occasions provide a most welcome part of the entertainment. Their tales, general ly vulgar, to suit public taste, arc often not devoid of some good moral, and their comicalitias hold up some popular vice to public derision, llarpcr ’« Umar. doing to Sea in a Flat boat. Recently the pilot at Eadsport on the Mississippi river, noticed a singular looking craft, with two sails and a jib, making its way down the jetties to sea, but paid no particular attention to it. There was a heavy sea on at the time, and when she ha I got about five miles out into the gulf the pilot boat Under writer caught sight of her, and, seeing that she was in danger, went to her as sistance. (tn reaching the strange craft it was found that her rudder was broken, "j J 0 she was unmanageable— fl^boat( was an old-fashioned Qn(l a jib The with two shining out of the gcams, had no bulkheads or strengthening braces, or any similar device of marine architecture. Tho only living things aboard were one man, his wife, two ehil dren, and a dog. These adventurers were all the way from some interior point in Arkansas, on their way to Florida, without knowledge or even chart, chronometer, or other maritime appliances. There was no water aboard, and but little provisions. Tho captain of this nondescript must have been reading some dime novel, and thought he could hitch up at night, get water and provisions, and go ahead whenever he desired. He had, he said, been six years building this craft. The people aboard were r*#cued from death, and brought to the city.