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mht ittontgomarg JttMtitor*. D. C. SUTTON, Editor and Proprietor. A wonderful mountain of slate has been discovered in Blount County. Ten nessee. It is described as “a solid wall of slate, illimitable in extent and of very superior quality.” A per-on with a bad temper should adopt a vegetarian diet. Meat makes people of bad dispositions w.fnt to fight • or quarrel upon slight provocation. Any one addicted co drink can overcome the dangerous (mbit much easier by adopting a proper diet of vegetables, c reds and j fruit, Meat eating, especially pork, ba con and bam, has a tendency to lead to , ; intemperate habits. Carpenter, an American corre spondent who lias been making a tour of , the British Isles, was much struck with 1 7 ] this point that follows : The fact that , England is the workshop of the world 1 can onlyjbe appreciated by a ride tv. rough . it, and by the thousands and tens of 1 thousands of factories which one sees j during a trip across it in any direction. There are about five persons here en gaged in manufacturing to one engaged , • in agriculture. A newly married couple from the in terior of Nevada, who had evidently never before ventured upon a railroad train, took the cars to go upon the ir i wedding trip. When the conductor came around to collect the tickets, the bridegroom vtaa so flustrated by the ! novelty of the situation that he handed cut his marriage certificate. The con ductor looked at it approvingly and > handed it back with the remark that it i ' was a highly useful document in its i place, and one he had often contem- ( plated securing for himself, but that its I possession did not entitle the holder to i J free passage over that railroad. < adern inventions hive kept pace « 1 with all the requirements of social life j and made possible housekeeping ou an j t appearance of elegance even in one room. J The variety of folding beds an 1 other articles of furniture is surprising. A j ( handsome parlor with bookcases, cabi- | 1 nets, easy chairs and lounges can be ; 1 transformed m a twinkling into a bed 1 chamber or dining room, or even a kitchen. The novelties of this class make possible tlie change of a pai l r to J the nursery, and a child s bath tub and ■ other useful articles can be evolved from , ornamental and innocent appearing par lor tables. It must be perplexing occ.i sionally to the owners of a roomful of this furniture how to prepare against sudden changes. Concerning Mr.'‘Miller’s discovery the i New York World observes: In answer to | the inquiry, “Why is it that we have no 1 old American ships engaged in the oil , trade between this country and Europe?” an old sea captain in Philadelphia said : “An American capitalist will invest any where from $75,000 to SIOO,OOO in a line, j hard wood clipper ship, and # will spare i no extra expense in having her fitted out with all the latest improvements known to marine architects. He will put a voung captain in her of little experience, sis a general thing, and send her out on j probably a dozen or more deep water voyages. By the completion of these voyages she will need probably a couple of thousand dollars 1 worth of icpar- ( done, and sooner than this her owner will sacrifice her to some one either in Ger many or Nova Scotia at less than one tenth of what she cost. These people will put hor in the oil trade, and she will, nine times out of ten. pay them ten per cent, interest on iheir investment, and pay for herself in less than three year.” - An interesting story is told of Geoffrey Goodman,a wealthy farmer of Lawrence burg, Indiana, who is now an insane leper. The leprosy appeared several months ago,and physicians recommended a trip to Hot Springs, Arkansas. While the steamer on which he, in company with his brother an l sister, took passage stopped at a small place along the river, the latter escaped from his relatives and ran ashore, where he was soon lost amid the dense undergrowth. Continued search failed to find him. Decently, however, the people living in the vicinity ha e been excited over stories of a wild man who had been seen on a high clifi waving his arms and bhouting incoher ently. These stones met the eye o< Goodman’s brother, who knew at once that the wild man must be none otiiei • than the demented leper, and he set out to look for him Goodman was found ir a cave, eating a piece of raw mutton.anc he willingly submitted to be taxen home He was destitute of clothing, and hi: hair and bcird were long and matted. I is a curious feature of the story t„ t tin insane man’s instincts followed the oh idea th t lepers mast be outcasts ivoi society. MT. VERNON, MONTGOMERY GO., GA„ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 188(i. REV. Dli. TALMAGE. |j THE BROOKLYN mV INK’S SI X DAY SEHMON. j 1 s Subject ot Discourse: “The Proud In- , valid.” T- . . \ lext: “/7e trttsrt leper.*' It. Kings, v., 1. t Hers wo have a warrior si -k; not with 1 pleurisies or rheUmittisins or consumptions, j 1 lint with a rlier-a.se worse than all these put I together, A ml mark has come out on tlio ' forehead, precursor of cemplete disfigure- 1 meut and dissolution I have something aw- 1 ful to til you. Genoral >'aa'nan, the Com- 1 mntulet'-iii-i’hief of all tie Assyrian forces i Gks tbo leprosy! It is oil his hands, on his 1 luce, • n lus feet, no his entire i erson. The i lopr. sy: < ivt otit of the way of the pestilence! j i li hi* lo.viitli strikes you, you are ahead man. ' 1-onunandor-in-Chief of all fort es of j c Assyria And yet lie tyoald be glad to ex- I j change conditions with the boy a this stirrup, j 1 or the other tl<At blankets his charger. Tlio i news goes li’„o wild Are all through the realm 1 an • .no j eoplc'are sympathetic and they cry 1 out: “Is it nossible that our great here who 1 hot Ahaiie, around whom wr came with t sadi vociferation whenlift Returned from vie- ! tor ions battle—On it be possible that our j { grand and pTorious Naumau has the 100- j , rosy' * J J it's. Everybody has something ho wishes J 1 he ha I not David, an Absalom to disgrace 1 lain; l’aul, a thorn to sting him: .lob, oar- j j onncles to plague him; Samson, a Delilah to | rii'ur him; Ahab, a Naboth to deny him; 1 j Hainan, Mordecai to irritate him: George i Washington, childlessness to alliict him; j 1 John Wesley, a termagant wife to pester him; j . 1-cnli, weak eyes; Dope, a oroo od back; ; J Byron, a club foot; John Milton, blind eves; j • Charles Lauib, an insane sister, and you, and | ' .vou, ami you, anti you, something « hieh you ’ never bargained for and would like to got ] rid of. Tlie reason of ibis is that (led does not want this world to bo too bright; other \v so, we would always want to stay and eat ‘ these fruits, and lie on those lounges aud 1 shake hands in this pica ant society. Wo are only in the vestibule of a grand temple. God , ’ does not want us to stay oa the doorstep, and ■ t uereforo he sends ache- and annoyances and ! sorrowsandbeieavemeiitsandallsortstopush j : u sou and push us up toward riper fruits and | 1 brighter society aud more radiant prosper!- ties. God is only whipping us ahead. The I 1 reason that Edward Payson and Rob- ! ‘ ort Hall had more rapturous views of I heaven than other people had was be- I f cause, through their aches and pains, God 1 pushed them nearer up to it. If God dashes 1 oat one of your pictures it is only to show 1 you a brighter one. If Hosting your foot 1 with gout, your brain with neuralgia, your * tongue with an inextinguishable thirst, it is 1 only, liecauso He is preparing to substitute a j 1 better body than you ever dreamed of, when \ the mortal shall put on immortality. It is to - push you on and push you up toward some- ) ' thing grander, that God sends upon you as * He did upon General Naaman something you ] 1 do not want. Seated in his Assyrian man- j £ sior— all the walls glittering with the shields whi hbe had captured in battle; the corri- * dors crowded with admiring visitors who just j 1 Banqueting filling ail the mansion, from t -s* | J sainted floor to pictured ceiling—Naaman | would have forgotten that there was any- I 1 thing better and would have been glad to i 1 stay there ten thousand years. But, oh, how i : tlio shields dim and how the visitors fly from j the hall and how the music drops dead from i the string, and how the gates of tlio mansion j 1 slam shut with a sepulchral hang, as you ' read the closing wonts of the eulogium: “He j was a leper! Ho was a leper!” There was one person more sympathetic | with General Naaman than any other person. Naamau's wife walks the floor, avr.nging her j hands and trying to think what she can do j lo alleviate her hush mu’s suffering. All ran edies have failed. The Surgeon-General ; ami the doctors of the royal staff have mot, \ and they have shaken their heads as much as j to say: “No cure; no cure.” I think that I the office-seekers hail all folded up their recommendations ai.d gone home. Probably most of the employes of the establishment : had dropped their work, and were thinking of looking for some other situation. What shall now become of poor Naatnan’s wife? j She must have sympathy somewhere. In her j despair she goes to a little Heb, ew captive, a servant girl in her house, to whom she tells th ■ whole story: as sometimes, when over borne by the sorrows of the world, and find- ' ing no sympathy anywhere else, you huve gone out. and found in the sympathy of some humble domestic—Rose or Dinah or Bridget —a help which the world could not give you. What a scene it was! Ono of the grandest women in all Assyria in cabinet council with a waiting maid over the do lining health of tlie mighty General! “I know something,” ; says the little captive maid. “I know some thing,” as she bounds to her bare feet. ‘' fn the land from which I was stolen there is a. certain prophet known by the name of Elisha, who can cure almost everything, and j i I shouldn’t wonder if ho could cure my mas- ; 1 ter. Pend for him right away.” “Ob. hu-hl” you say. “If the highest medical i 1 alent in all the laud cannot cure that leper, • there is no need of your listening to any talk of a servant girl.” But do not scoff, do not sneer. The finger of that little captive maid is pointing in the right dire tion. Hhe might have said: “This is a judgment on you for st aling me from mv native land. Didn't they snatc h me off in the night, breaking my father and mother’s heart ! And many a time I have laid and cried all night because I was so homesick.” Then, flushing up into child ish indignation, she might have said: “Good for them; I’m glad Naaman's got the leprosy; I wish all the Assyrians had the leprosy. No Forgetting her own personal sorrows, she’ sympathizes with the suffering of her . I master aDd commends him to the famous 1 Hebrew prophet. And how often it is that the finger of ! childhood has pointed grown persons in the ri-dit direction. Oh Christian soul, how long islt since you got rid of the leprosy of sm; / You say: “Let me see. It mast be five years now.” “Five years. Who was it that, point.- -1 5 you to the Divine Physician:” “Oh, you . say “it was my little Annie or Irel or i Charley, that clambered up on m.vknc— aud 1 looked in my fa •■■■ and asked me why I dam l I become a Christian aud all the time strox.ng my cheek so I couldn’t get angry, ms s. -* upon knowing why I didn t have family ■, prayers.’ There are grandparents here who nave been brought to Christ by in* ir Rtt, >' grandchildren. Tuere are many Christian ri mothers here who had their attention first ,T called to Jesus by their little children. How II did you get rid of the leprosy <>■ sin.' How did you find your way to the Divine I bysi f 1 cian? “Oh, you say, “my child, my dying '* child, with wan and wasted finger pointej :e that way. Oh, I shall neve r forget, y* sav “that scene at the cradle and tue or ; !r that awful night, it was hard, hard, vt It bard: but if that little one on its dying j _ ha/1 not point©! me to Christ, I don t ever would nave got rid of rny leprosy, j d into thf* Sabbath-school this you will find hundreds of little fingers - ing In the same direction, toward Jesus an i toward heaven. that T . Years ago the calculator n * there must be a world hanging at war ic r»oiDt in the heavens and a large p ttiat , offered for some one who could dis'j. ob . 1 world. The telescope ; from tne a -j ! m servatories were pointed in vam ; * at Nant&ucket, Mas«. ; fa-hioned iftt i and looking thro<;?h it. drover* “SUB DEO FACIO FORTITEft.” and won flic prize, and adn’irHUou of all the astronomical. A-orh! 'i sum.! ama .cd at ' her gi'Tiiu'. Ana so it is oft n the caso that grown people see tho light, while saine.ittle child beholds the star of panlon, the star of hone, tho star of consolation, the j star of Bethlehem,the morning star of Jesus. “Not many mighty men. no* mftnV wise men are calls!! hut God iintii ehoscu tho weak things tlf the Worlil toconf uud tho.mighty; Sn i Base tilings and things that are not. to bring to naught things that are.” i ih, do not despise the prattlo of little child On whoa - they are six'aking about God and Christ aud heaven. You see tho way your child! is point pointing; will you take that pointing,or wait until, in the wrouch of some awful bereave- 1 ment, Go,I shall lift that child to another world and *hcu it will beckon you u iwardf ] IVill you take the pointing, or will you wait for tho beckoning? Blessed ho God that the < littlo Hebrew captive pointed in tho right di- | rection. Blessed l o God for the saving miu istrj of Christian children. No wonder the advice of tliislittle Hebrew j captive throw all Naamau's mansion and Ben-hadaTs pula -o into excitement. Good • bye.Nanman! With face scarified and ridged , and inflamed by the pestilence and aided by those who supported him ou cither sid\ ' hie staggered out to the cha iot. Hold fast the fiery coursers of tho royal stable while the poor sick man lifts his swollen feet and 1 pain-struck limbs into the vehicle. Bolster , him up with the pillows and let him take a , lingering look at his bright apartment, for , perhaps the Hebrew captive may be mistaken, . and the next time Naaman comas to that ] place lie may be a dead weight on th * shoul ders of those who carry him an expired j chieftnn seeking sepulture amid the lamenta tions of an admiring natirfn. Good bye, Nna- ( maul i.et the charioteer drive gently over tho ( hills of Hermon lest he jolt the invalid. Here , goes the bravest man cf all his day a captive of a h irrible disease. As Ilia ambulanco Winds through the streets of Damns-us tho tears and prayers of all the people go after the world-rauowne 1 invalid. Rerhaps you | have had an invalid go out from your house | on a health excursion. You know how the , neighbors stood around and said: “Ah, ha | will never come back again alive.” Ob, , it was it solemn moment 1 tell you when | tho .invalid had departed aud you went into the room to make the bed, and to remove the medicine ph'als from tlio j shelf and to throw open the shutters so that, the fresh air might rush iut i the lung-closed i room. Good-bye, Naamau! There is only one (heorful face looking at him, and that is tho fare of the littlo Hebrew captive,who is sure he will get cured and who is so glad slio helped him. As the chariot winds out and tho escort of mounted courtiers and the mules ladened with sacks of gold and silver and embroidered sniis of apparel went through tho gates of Damascus and out <m tho long way, the hills of Naphtali and Hph raim look down ou tho pro o sion, and the rotinuo goes right pa.->t the battlefields where Naaman, in the days of his health, used to rally his troops for fearful onset, and then tho procession stops and reclines a while in tlio groves of olives and oleander —and Gen eral Naaman so sick; so very, very sick I How the countrymen ga oil as the proces sion passed' They bad seen Naaman go [last like a whirlwind in days gone bv. and, b.-i/l monts; uut nutv tn**v rOTdi?nisorauo linn. Tiioy say: “i’oor man, tio will never get home alive 1 i’oor man!” General Naaman wakes up from a restless sleep in tho < liariot, and he says to tho charioteer: “How long before we shall reach this Prophet Eltsba s- Tho charioteer says to a wavsiiler: ■‘How far is it to Elisha’s house?” He says: Iwo miles ” “Two miles.” Then they whip up tho lathered and fagged out horses. The whole procession brightens up at th i pros pect of speedy arrival. They drive up to the doer of the prophet. Iho charioteers shout “whoa!” to the horsos. aud the t.rauiii Ing hoofs and grinding wheels coaso shaking the earth. Come out, Elisha, come out; you have company; the grandest company that ever came to your house has come to it new. No stir judde Elisha’s house. The fact was, the Dord iiad informed Elisha that the sPk cap tain was coming and just how to treat him Indeed, when you are sick aril th . Herd wants you to get well. Ho always tells tho doctor how to treat you; and the reason we have so many bungling doctors is because they depend upon their own strength and in structions and not on the Dord God, anil that always makes malpractice. Come out, Elisha, aud attend to your business. Do'i ernl Nan inn and His retinue wait'd and wait d anu waited. The fact was, Naaman had two diseases—pride and leprosy; the one was as hard to get rid of as tho other, Eli sha sits uuietly iu his house and dries not go oat. Alter a while, when he thinks ho has I humbled this )>ro id man, he says to a ser vant- “Go out and tell General Nunman to bathe seven times in tho river Jordan, out ; yonder five miles, anil he will get entirely j well '* r Tlio message comes out. “What!” says tho ’ Commander-in Chief of the Assyrian forces, 1 his eye kindling with animation which it had j not shown lor weeks, aad his swollen foot stamping on the bottom of tho chariot, re gardless of pain. ‘ VVdnt! Isn’t he coming out to soo mo! Why. I Bought certainly ho i would come and utter anno cal nlistic words over mo or make renf enigmatical passes over mv wound/. V'iy, I don t think be 1 knows who I am; Isn ho . omn.g out? Why, b when the Shunamitereman came to him, he J rush'd out and cried I s we 1 with thee? Is f 1 it well with thy Im-and.' Is it well with the | child?'and will hf treat a W™ unknown t 1 woman like that, nd let me, a titlwl person- ] | age, sit here i, my chariot and wait and u wait! I won’t pdure it any longer. Chariot- « : . ,| rlvtj or Wash in the Jordan! Hat r ha 1 ’ The slim-Jor lan—tho muddy Jordan— u the monotoii'ij Jordan. 1 wouldn’t he i-een <' waslnn" in z'' h a rlver us th,xt W hy, we ' w Unred or horses in a better river than ’ 11 it on outlay here, the beautiful river| the u , iasner pa'« river of Pharpar. Besides that, n we ha'e our country another Damascene y ; with foliaged itank and torrent'l > ever sw-and ever clear, under the flicker- d ing sha'waof wcamorenndoleander. Areh ; rw q apa ami Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, i better” 1 ' 1 all the waters of Israel!” (- 1 Isi (OSO Naaman felt very much as we woii’leel if. i>y wav of me li'al pres-rir>- - ti Nine ono should tell us to go and wash \s Danube or the Rhine. We would an- < ' ' “Are not the Connecticut and the / I jpson just as good!” Or. as un Englishman :i 'aid feel if he were told, byway of me li- ji rj r pres ription, he must go and wasli in the ' uudssippl or the Ht. Lawrence, ile would ' II ry out: “Are not the Thames and the Bhan- I z ,on just as well!’ The fact was,that haughty l< ,v Naaman ne/;de Ito learn what every Eng- n H-hmen and every American niy:ds to learn , —that when God tells you to do a thing, yon j f must go and doit, whether you understand, the reason or not lake the prescription, whether you like it or not. One thing is cer , tain; unless haughty Naaman does as Elisha J commands him, he will die of his awful sick- h n'-ss. And unless you do as Christ com- r mands you, you will I/O seized upon by an, everlasting wasting way. Obey and live— disobey and die. Thrilling, over-arching, ij un'ler-girding, stupendous alternative! j. Well, General Naaman could not stand the, rest. The charioteer gives a jer s to the right” line until the hit soaps in the horse’s month l( and the whirr of the wheels and the flying,, of the du t show indignation of the great- , commander. “He turned and went away iu,, ara :e.’ So pouple now often get mad at re- 1( , ligi m. T. ey vituperate against ministers, 0 i against churches, sgainst Christian people. r( 1 One would think from their irate behavior thnt God had boon studying how to annoy mid exasperate and demolish them. What has 110 l>o li doing! Only trying to euro their death-dealing l '|»ro>y. That is nil. Yet j they whip up their horses, they dig in tho spurs and they go away in a rage. So, after ali, it teems that this health-ex cursion of General Naaman is to lie a dead failure. That littlo Hebrew captive might j as well have not told him of tho prophet,and j this long journey might ns well not have j been taken. Poor, sick, dying Naaman! Are yoti going away in high dudgeon and wors > than when you came! As his chariot halts a mom lit, li s servant; clamber lip iu It and coax him to do ns Elisha said. They sav “It's ea>y. If tho prophet had told you re walk for n milo ou sharp spikes In or der to get rid of this awful disease you would havo done it. It if! ensv. Come, my lord, just, get down and wash in the Jordan. Non take a hath even- d.iy anyhow, and in Hurt climate it is so hot it will do you good. Do it on our no omit, and for tlio sake of Iho armv you command, aud for tho sake of tho nation that admires you. Como, my lord, just, trv this Jordanie hath.” “Well,” lm says, “to please you I will do as you sav.”’ The retinuo drive to tlio brink of .the Jor dan. The horses paw and neigh to get into the stream themselves and cool tlieir Hot Hanks. General Naaman, assist’d by his attendants, gets down out of the chariot and puinftillv comes to tlio brink of tlio river and steps in until tlio water comes to tho ankle, and goes ou deeper until tho water comes to the girdle, and now, standing so far down iu the stream, just a little inclination of tli bend will thoroughly iinnieiso him. II bows once in tho flood and comes up and shakos the water out of nostril aud eye; and his attendant* look at him aud say: “Why, i General, how much better von do look. ’ : And lie hows a second time into tho flood j and ho comes up and the wild st are is gone ' out, of his ovo. Ho bows tho third time into the flood and comes tin and tlio shriveled ; fiosli has got smooth again. He bows tlio i fourth time into the flood and comes up and , Hie hair that hud fallen out is restored in thick locks again all eve the brow. lie bows tlio fifth time into tho i’ood aud comes up and tho hoarseness lias gone out of li s throat. Ho bows tho sixth ti.no and conies up utld all tho soreness and an lush have gouo out of tho limbs. “ Way,” li l says, “1 am ulmo t uoll, hut i will make a com plete cure, 'mi l l.c bows the so.cnt'i tune into tho flood, and ho < oine up, and no so much ils a foster, or a seulo, or a i eruption as big as tho hea l of a pin is to bo so'ii ou him. Ho stops out on the bank and s i vs; “Is it possible!” mid the attendants look and say: “Is it possibles” ami as, with tho health of an athlete, lie hounds bad; into tlie chariot and drives on, there goes up Iroin all ids attendants a wild “Huzza! huzza!” (>£ zourso they go hack to pay and thank tho man of God for his coun •; l so fraught with wisdom. When they left the prophet’s houso th- v went olf mat; they have come fia k glad. Deo do always think bettor of a minister ; after ihoy are converted than they do before con etsion. Now wo are to them an intoler »blo nuisance because wo tell them to do things that go against the gra in: hut some of us have a groat many letters from those who tell is that once they were angry at wlint we p:-.*ao|H»<l, but afterward gla lly received the *•«!■.. ■'* cViuin./i 'V-ueiiuos; nmV tlcy ■all u; friends. Yon Icr is u man—l sp: aka litoral fact—who said that ho would never coinemto tho, church again Ho said that two years ago. Ho said: “My family shall cover come hero again it such doctrines as j that are preached.” But lie came again and I his family came again. He is a Christian, his wife a Christian, all his children Chris tians, tho whole iioiisohold Christians, and 1 shall dwell with them in the house of the Lord forever. Our undying coadjutors are those who onco heard the gospel an t went tway in a rage. “ixow, my bearers, you notice that this General Nnainan did two tilings in order to ;et well. Tho lir-il was—lie got out of his diariot. 110 might have stayed there with ! jis swollen feet on the stuffed ottoman, ! seated on that embroidered cushion until his ; ast gasp, ho would novel' havo got any relief. | do had to get down out of tho chariot. And 'ou have got to get down o’lt of th ■ chariot of ' ’our pride if you ever become a Christian, sou cannot iii iv ■ up to the cro s with a j each and four, and h i saved among all the I punglcK. You seem to think tlmt the Isird i going to beeomplimented by your coining, i •h, no; you poor, uii-oruble, scaly, leprous ! inner, get down out of tlmt. Weullcome ; i tho same haughty way. AVo export to ide into the kingdom of God. Never until I ■e get down oti our knees will wo find mercy, j he Dord has iinUor-ed us uueharioted us. i Set down out of your pride. Get down out j f your self right'Oiisiie s and your hyucr riticism. VVe havo all got to do that. That ! sthe journey wo have got to make on our i inees. It ts our infernal pride that keeps ns | fri.m getting rid of the leprosy of sin. Dear what ha; o we to bo proud of? I’roudof our scale ;! Frond of our unejeannass? Frond of this killing infc .dion' Bring us down at Thy feet, weeping, prayin ;, penitent, bcliev ] ing suppliants. “For sinners, Lord, Thou earnest to bleed, Arid I’m n -inner vile indeed; Lord, I believe Thy grace is free, Oh, magnify tlmt grace in me.” But ho had not only to get down out of i his chariot. Ho hud to wasli. “Oh!” you . say. “I am very careful with rny ablutions, j Every day 1 plunge into a bright and beaut,i ful bath.” Ah, my hearers, there is a 11 od j brighter than any other. It is the flood that breaks from tho granite of the eternal hills. 1 It is the flood of pardon and peace and life and heaven. That flood s aided in the tears oi Christ and the sweat of <tetliemaiio and . rolled on, a<- umulntin; 110 >d, until all earth 1 and heaven could bathe in it /.o Jiariuh called it the “fountain open for sin and un- | cleanness.” William C iwper called it the “fountain filled with blood.' Your fathers and mothers wnsheiall theirsinsand arrows away in that fountain. Oh, iny hearers, d > you not to-'lay feel like wading into it! Wade down now into this glorious flood, deeper, deeper, deeper. Blunge once, twice, thrice, four times, five times, six times, seven times. ; it will take as much as that tocure your soul. Oh, wash, wash, wasli and hr clean. J suppose that was a great time at / unins pus when General Neuman got ba k. Tho charioteers did not have to drive slowly any longer, lest they jolt the invalid; but as the | aorses dash' d through the streets of Damas ;u- I think the people rushed out to hail ! jack their c hieftari. Naamau’s wife hardly •cognized herhusoaud: he was So wouder 'u)!y changed she had to look ut him two or , j Jiree times before /he n ode out that it, was ter restored UTishand. And the little captive 1 naid, she rushed out. clapping her hands i , aid shouting: “Did he cure you? Dili lie nre you V' Then music woke up tho pala -e ,ud the tapestry of the windows was drawn way, that, the multitude outside might rnin •Je with the princely mirth inside, and the eet went up and down in the dance and all i he streets cf Damas'-us that night echoed , nd re-echoed with the news: “Naamau’s ured! Naaman’s cured!” But a gladder time t han that it would l>o in li this pia'e or wherever this s rinon shall e read, if the soul should get cure 1< f its f jprosy. Tho swiftest white hor ex hit tied . > the King's chariot would rush the news ite the eternal city. Our loved ones before 1 je throne would welcome the giad tidings. t 'our children on earth wi h more emotion i j, lan the little Hebrew rapt- <- would notice ie change in your looks and the change in our manner, arid would put tlx ir arms l round your neck and say ‘.Mother, i guess t J you must, have baconw* a Christian. Father, 1 think you havo got rid of the loptosj. Oh, Dord Gikl of Klislia, have liwrcy on us! THE STORY OF A CARPET. rtio Trtnls mill Tribulation* of u House, wife nt Clrauing Time, [From the Youth’s Companion.J- A Indy gives the following account of her experience with a negro man whom she had engaged to take up and cleau a carpet and put it down again: He had told me that he would bo on hand “bright an’ nil lv,” and even hinted ut the possibility of iiis coming by day light, “If you arc here at half past seven, it w ill do,” 1 said. “lltt’-pas’ sehen. lady! Dntammon s tous late fo’ a man to begin a day’s wuk. Lso mo’ likely to be roun’ by ha’ past (i, lady.” Half [Hist seven came and went the next day, and no Jerry. Eight o’clock, nnd no Jerry. At half pr.st eight he came leisurely sauntering into my yard. “llow is ibis, Jerry I” I asked. “You said you would surely bo hero by hull’ past seven.” “So I did, Indy bo I did; an’ how I happened to oborslcep myse’f dis mnw ! nin’ is tie mos’ mazin’ circumstance, j Mos’ gin’rally I’se up lo’ day. But I’ll htib dnt kynrpet up an’ out’n de back j ya’d ic.ss’n no time.” I “It’s so late, you’ll have to hurry if I you get il all done to-day,” “Sho, Duly! Hit’s jess play fo’ me to 1 take tip a kynrpet like dat, clean hit an’ put hit down iu free hours.” A little after nine l went into the room. Jerry had tho tacks out ou threo sides of tho*carpet, and was lying fiat on his back staring up at the ceiling. “I ’elnr’, lady,” ho said, “lint's ,de pnttiest wuk on dat ceilin’ l eber saw 1 Esc try in’ an’ trvin’ to make out if hit am recly painted on dnr, or if Hit am only [tapered on.” “You’d better let, tho coiling alone and get this carpet out on tho line,” I naid sharply. “Don’ yo’ min’ ’bout dis kyarpet, lady. Hit’ll be out o’ liyar in free shakes ob a dead sheep’s tail,” he said. At ten o’clock I lignin went into the ! room. Jerry had folded tho carpet up in the middle of the room and was sit j ting un it. ; “Takin’ up kyarpets is a kind o’ wn\- | in’ wuk,” he said. “I mos’ ullus has j some one to help me.” i “You don’t, need any help in clo““‘“8 IW MMWf* £. . . .i*, •. <4 a “J.a, no, lady! I could clean dis ( kyarpet wid ono hand tied behind mo ” It was eleven o’clock when Jerry got I the carpet on the lino. Ten minutes I later he ha.l disappeared. My littlo boy , found him two blocks away in a perfect ccstacy over a hand organ aud a mon key. “I ’clar, ma’am, dat am de smartest moiikey! Hit do beat sill Wundor if . hit makes much money,” ho said, when lie came back. Ho gave the carpet a few listless ; strokes with an old l>room-lmndic and ! then laid himself down on tho grass “cleau tired out.” 'Feu minutes later I found him initiat- I ing iny littlo boy into tho mysteries of ; “Mumble the-peg.” “Jerry,” I said, pointing majestically , to the carpet “Yes, lady, hit’s all cleaned. I’ll put ! li it down in ten minutes.” “It is not half cleaned,” I said, “You , have not beaten one-tenth of tho dust out of it.” “All right, lady, all right,” he said, | ominously. “Hit’s yo’ kyarpet, an’ I j reckon yo’ can stan’ do loss if I beats , hit to rsgs. I’se pounded dat kyarpet , ! ull hit’ll stan’, lady, but hit’s yo’ kyar j pet.” But why write more ( At five o’clock ! th t carpet was still on the line and Jerry was leaning over the back fence watching two boys playing a mar- le* in the alley. At six o’clock lie dragged the carpet into the house and wanted his pay for that day, saying that he would get a man to help him and “git dat kyarpet down quieker’n wink the next day.” 1 paid him for half a day’s work, bade him good by forever, and put the car pet down myself the next day. * Judicious Little Willie. Little Willie, who live; in a suburb,in district bordered by a region where very many poor people live, was sitting at the side door of his father’s house one eating a big sugared piece of bread mid butter which his mother had given him, when a poor and u- ry hungry-looking bov passed along outside the fence end looked wistfully at Willie’s bread and butter. “Don’t you think, Willie, that it , would be nice to give that poor hoy half your piece of bread and butter?” , “Half of it, mamma! ’ “lea, my boy; lie look-very hungry.’ “I'd like to give hint some, but don't you think—he sso poor, you know I that if f gave him as much as half of it ■ it’d make him kind of greedy?” —Han o i lierorJ. A Reckless Woman. “If you don’t get out of tills alley von il hear irogi nm 1” shouted a 8 pen cer street woman to a couple of boys who were pounding on the fence. “How:’ queried one ‘‘l'll call for a policeman !” “You will, eh? Jf you are t'le kind of a woman that wants to sec two or three policemen hammered to death by two desperate boys, who will never Be taken alive, blow vour whistle! AYe w.h our hand-, of ail r ponsibility.” Ihe sober second thought seemed to prevail with her, as she retired and left them masters of the field — Detroit Fret j J'ren. VOL. I. NO. 43. ANOTHER YEAR', Another year, ah mo! I’to passed A mile'tone more, nnd now I cast \ moment's glance behind to trwe The journey to this resting place, Where, if I could, I'd anchor fast (treat love has hlossoil mo tirst and last— The only fortune I've amassed. U'hat greater could 1 ask to grace Another year! Olio day my skies were overcast From out mysterious regions vast Death came, and in her soft embrace j A loved one took—my mother’s taco Will smile upon me from tho past Anotlior year! William S. Lord, in, Current PITH AM) POINT. To pet, the full weight of a fish, weigh it in its own senior. —Bouton Courier. “You have no biekbono about you,” as the angler remarked to the fishwortn. — SI. Louis Whig. “Ah! what would lif * ho without thn nobility?” --nid an English l.idv, mu singly. Peerless, madatn '.— Tid-Bits. Life sa\n: “What wo need in fiction is more beef.” 7w<, like the small l>oy, wants “built” stories. —Norristown Her ald. , .. . Edison says tliat lie can do his best work at night. Certainly that is when his host work shows up tho brightest. Boston rod. I old Gentleman—“ And how old are i you, niy little mini” kittle Freddie— “l’m not old at all, sir; I'm ncnrly new.” , Harper's Bazar. A business man with no advertisement in tho paper always reminds us of a bumble bee without any stinger. He is only half equipped for business. —Dane I ville Bieczr. TtK CAN’T TU". FOt ND. Who U rich.' And who is lmppy' Who coaid ho content with, loss? let, us Hoo—lii.s name is—name is— Pshaw, we’vo lost tho man s address. Waxhinton Critic. The state merit is hardly believable that tenor singers arc becoming a rare commodity. The voice of the young man on tho other side of tliostrcet is still in a condition of pernicious activity. - Washington Hatchet. Some one is said to have invented a sub tiinec tlint, etui be seen through more clearly than glass We don’tknow what item he unless ii is a man’s excuse to his wife for uot returning homo befora . ti A. M.— -V> tli I TT Sr,, *. A IIARA AVIS. What makes that rnan thoro look so glad, Ills fan, so cheery? He’s scon a scientist who ne’er had An earthquake theory. —Boston Courier. “You sny you were in Germany six months, and in all that time you did not seo a drunken man?” “Notone.” “That is remarkable. In what part of Germany were you all this time!” “In jail, pard, in jail. Sav, stake a fellow for break fast, can’t you I”— Burdette. maki.no light ok liberty. Wlier.co comrs tho light of Liberty? Well, really, we should smile — For while she holds the torch o’orhead pile's standing on tho i(s)lo! And see, tho maid is doubly docked In manner quite an fait— on has the laurel round her brow Aud at her font tho liny. —Cleveland Voice. Sugar Statistics. Tho ordinary sugar of commerce is j made from sugar cane and beets. Thore is very little difference in the quality of the two varieties. The bulk of tho cane ! sugar is grown in the tropical regions of North and South America, tho Fast and West India Islands, British India and Southern < hiua. The beet sugar is pro duced chielly in Frame, Germany, Hus sein Poland and Austria-Hungary. Tho relative amount of cane and beet sugar is very nearly e pial, the prospective crop of nine s igar for the current year in what are known as exporting countries, being 3,44 5,000 tons, while the prospec tive crop of beet sugar will not he far from ii, olio, 000 tons, making a total available supply fortheyearof 4,080,000 tons. Statistics show, however, that sugar, like some other good things in the world, is not distributed evenly. Great Britein consumes more sugar per capita than uuy other country, and the United States come next iri the list. For tho year 1885 tho consumption of sugar, so far us it can be traced by relia ble figures, was as follows: Too*. Tom. rnited State*. ..lyftM'WjO Oih<*r Karopean <in;u IJriUm.. ) countries... . 838,009 France ~.. 6»ft,000 Non - exporting man Empire H2O/KH) countries 1,800,000 A nutria I*B,ooo Holland 45,000 Total 5.432,000 This statement, allowing the last year’s crop to have been as greet as the prospec tive crop for 1880, would letve 1,141',000 tons on hand or to have gone into con sumption unaccounted for. The per capita consumption of Great Britain was a trilie over CO pounds; that of the United States, 49.3 pounds; that of France was scarcely 30 pounds, and that of Germany still less. The consumption for the United States varies somewhat, according to the condition of business. While in 1885 it was 39.8 pounds per capita, in 1861 it was 51 and in 1883 only 47.6. —Ph iladelph ia Times. Two Ways. B CRN’S WAY. Then gently t-eau your brother man, And gentler si3ter woman, And if they gan a kennin wrang, To step aside is human. TUB MODERN WAY. Then keenly s an your brother mail. An 1 k*-ener sister woman, Aral if they gang a kenniu wrang t 'on d vii upon Hi.-m like a thousand of J.trii md siiow that you have no sympathy For anything savo yourself,that is human. Boston Courier