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■v. 3 ' Smith’s Experiment. The Church Temporal. ) “Bmith,” said a well known Chi cago merchant to his caBhier, “you are going to the devil.” “Sir— 1 ” “Now, there’s no uso denying it. I ee it in your face. You were drunk last night and night before Iasi, and you are bracing up on whisky to day. It won’t do, sir, it won’t do You can’t stand it, and if you could— why I can’t.” “Well, sir,” replied Smith, “I ad mit I ha\e been going it a little too strong lately.—” “A little I Well I should think you had a little. Look here, Smith ; you're a good cashier and an honest one, I believe, and I don’t want to lose you. Now, tell me, why do you drink ?” “I am sorry to say, sir, that it seems to be a genuine love for 1‘quor. I am always thirsty for liquor.” ‘That’s bad, very bad, but not in curable. I was one of the boys myBelf once, and I got over it. You try nay plan, and I think it will work with you.” “What is your plan, sir?” “I’ll tell you. When I was a sales man, about fifteen years ago, I got to running around nights and drinking and carousing until I began to look jast as you do now. My employer ime to ine one day and remonstrated. Fhis thing has got to stop,’ said he. LYou must eitner let somebody else your drinking for you, or bave lebody else do your work.’ That Ive me an idea, and I acted upon it. pepping into the nearest saloon, J in- ted all hands up to drink. They Tponded with alacrity. pioked out the toughest customer 'the lot and asked him what he did ‘a living. “Nothing,” he replied, tow much will you charge a week to do my drinking for me ?” “Wot £’ye mean ?” he asked. I explained him that I had a perpetual thirst, id that whisky unfitted me for busi- iess, so I wanted him to do my driuk- lg for me. “I’ll do it for $5 a week found,” he replied, “That is, found in whisky?” “Yea that’s it, “Well, it’s a bargain,” said I, we shook hanks on it. I took to tne store with me and sat him ra in a corner out of sight. Wheu to feel thirsty I took him out, ITadehim drink a good, big glasi lisky. Somehow, I felt better |eeing him drink. Well, I had im out several times that day re night he was pretty full, 'time he was helplessly drunk. We are n r t laborers onlv. L‘fe D more than work and drudgery. Tbe world contains, besides bodies and braiue, preciou 1 souls, capable of joy, love, peace, sympathy and a sense o the beautiful. The laws of nature are not, as mod ern naturalists seem to suppose, iron chains, by which the living Cl id, so to sav.is bound hand and foot, but ela tic chords rather, which he can lengthen or shorten at his sovereign will. It is an admitted fact that men who use their brains live longer, other things being equal, than the men who do not. When you give, take to yourself no credit for generosity unless you have denied yourself something to enable you to bestow the gift. A man of true moral integrity ia uniformly just, in thiDgs both small and great. He makes it a matter of conscience to attend faithfully to the smallest things, and by cultivating this principle it grows into a habit, so that in things of greater importance, he acts with fidelity. A man who is unfaithful in little things, cannot be trusted In that which is of greater moment. A straw tells which way the wind blows. So the little acts which a man almost instinctively per forms, afford a true index to his char acter, and reveal the principle which governs his life. The oldest of the Protestant missions in China dates from the year 1842. with the boys and They kicked at Ich a measly looking when I explained ;ood joke. My ap- wa^too strong for F&rSnothtr drinker, and he me three weeks. Then I Jim throwing a glass of whis- lis shoulder, and I discharged fell, I used up nine able bodied Lrds before I absolutely quench- THB DECLINK OP FAITH. \b In some half-burned forest, one by one, We o Ucti far eoboeaoa the dreary breeze, Born of the downfall of Its ruined trees— While even through those that stand slow sliudderlugs ruu, A.s II fate’s hand were sternly laid tfiereoo : Thus, In a world smitten by foul disease— that pest called Doubt—we mark by sad de grees The f ill ol lordliest faiths that wooed the sun: Some, with low sigh of parted bough and leaf. Strain, quivering downward to the abhorred ground; Home totter feebly, groaning, toward their doom ; While some, broad-centnried growths cf old Belief, Sapped as by Are, deteatnred, charred, dis crowned, Fall with loud crash and long, reverbant boom 1 Thus, fated hour by hoar, more gaunt and • hare, G oom the wan spaces, whence—a power to bless— Unbourgeoned once, in grace or stateliness, Some creed divine, offspring of light and air What then ? An ! must we yield to bleak de spair, Beholding God himself wax less and less. Paled in the skeptical flame-cloud's whirl and stress, TUI lost to love and reverence, hope and prayer ? O Man ! When trust Is blind and reason reels Before some flery, fierce Iconoclast, Turn to thy Heart that reasons not, but feels ; Cree ls fall, shrines perish ! “Btlll” (her In stinct salth)— ‘Still the Soul lives; the Soul mast oonquer Death! Hold fast to Gol, and God shall hold thee last iy thirst; bu I never tiiil quenched it at flieve I’ll )o,” said fce it will woj It “I am may take a long year perhaps—but you stick > you’ll down your appetite to r certainty. If you And it is Tng you more than you can stand jfil increase your salary.” People who are not Intimately ac jualnted with Smith think he is go the dogs at lightning express They judge so beoause he is 6ys seen in the oompany of a STuken bummer of the worst possi- description. But Smith’s friends iw he has not drank a drip since lad that talk with his employer, las already used up three drunk- and is looking around for a irth. The Cock-Tails Did It. lvisible lemon : A man recently m on Warren street. He was individual, and took up lots the sidewalk, and a bystander it it the proper time to be fun- ;uie to fall ?” he kof lemon— ^replied no Then only six converts could be found in all China. To-day there are 29 missionary societies at work at 91 cen- ral stations and 511 out-stations, 250 ordained missionaries and 73 < r d lined native ohrgy, 63 unmarried women teachers, 511 licensed preach ers, 71 colporteurs, 90“ Bible women,” 400 churches, 18,000 enrolled com municants, about 75,000 adherents, 20 theological schools, with 231 students, 30 higher boarding-schools for boys, with 611 scholars, 3S for girls, with 777 scholars, 177 day-schools for boys with 4500 students, 82 for girls with 1300 students, 16 missionary hospitals and 24 dispensaries. At the Mildmay Con ference in London, Dr. Legge stated that at the present rate of progress, in forty years more Protestant missions ought to report 26,000,000 communi cants and 100,000,000 adherents in the middle kingdom, The (American) Presbyterian Publishing House at Shanghai printed in 1880, 314,000 Bi bles and Testaments, 4,672,500 pages of tracts, and 226,763 volumes of miEcel- laneous books. Protestant Relics.— The London Eoho speaks thus of relics and relic- mongers: “The left hand of 8'. James the Apostle is in the market, and can be purchased for a consideration, as the strait laced brotherhood who com pose the committee of the Museum now forming at Reading turn up their pious noses at such “superstitous abominations” and “remnants of the scarlet Jady’—the quotations are from a letter we have seen. According to ing a drink^ &Q 0 ; ( j manuscript in the writer’s pos- “ session, and purchased at the sale of the great Stowe collection, the Abb* y of Reading in the reign of Henry II. was uiuch favored I y n y*l y, and its principal attraction was one of the reputed hands of Ht. James, which had been brought over from Germany by the Empress Matilda,and presented with great state to the Abb* y. It was incased in solid gold, which Richard the First stole, and gave the Abb* y an additional charter in compensation for the theft. At the Reformation the hand was buried in the choir, but in October, 1786, it w&h found, carefully preserved, i y the workmen engaged in excavation. The relic oonslsts of tne left hand of a human being, partly closed, and the flesh is dried on the bones. Whether it be the hand of St. James or not, it is certain that from 1100 up to 1500 the Goffers ot the Abb*y received veiy substantial as sistance from its exhibition; and, apart from superstition, it might be cartful y preserved as a memento of the past m the museum at the new Town- Hall of Reading. We may mention that the committee have already made themselves exceedingly obnoxious; for not only have tiny issued an edict forbidding the valuable collection of pictures lent by Mr. Hargreaves to be inspected on Bun- da yi, but nearly all of them were against having the exhibition at all, though the expense is being borne t y private Individuals. How the puted hand of Bt. James will fare be pretty well guessed. We b of Holy Russia; Thaok tthls pen slip, and Bagging a Bull Elephant. said A correspondent of the Cape Timet gives the following acconnt of an ele phant shooting expedition undertaken by four Europeans from the neigh borhood of Kuysna: “The party en tered the iorest aDd after crossing numerous epx-rs finally came upon that of a veritable patriarch, which they followed for about an hour ; but the old gentleman’s wanderings be coming too toituou9 and intricate the party decided on taking a straight course through the forest toward the sea. Finding traces of a numerous herd, the spoor of these was followed until about twelve of our canine as sistants in the proceedings lifted np their voices and announced the vicin ity of the mighty game. As a warning of approaching danger, such an ex pression of feeling on their part waB hardly necessary, as the noise of falling trees, the crackling of brush wood and the shrill and peculiar trumpetings of these huge creatures was quite sufflrient to cause every one who had not already raised him self to a safe elevation to wish that %e bad devoted some of his idle hours to practicing the art of climbing. Buch a serious view of the case was hardly necessary this time, however, as the i er 1 scampered oil, leaving one of their number, a fine bull, to square matters with his tormentor*. The party then rushed fo-ward, each anxious to secure for himself the best chance of a shat, but their ardor was homewhat chilled by a sudden and angry trumpeting on the part of the elei hint, which always indicates that he is in the aot of charging. Then followed a succession of extra ordinary m&nce uvres on his part, the huge brute tearing up trees, some ol them actually nine inches in diame ter. Two of the party just gained a friendly branch for the purpose of reconnoltering, when the elephant, persecuted by the dogs, oharged straight up to the tree and stood right under the branch where they were standing. In this position it was con sidtred inadvisable to fire, as if death had not been instantaneous the ele phant might have easily caught them. Almost Immediately the ele phant was seen coming straight to ward the party. Oahe came in good style and alter a fashion that left little doubt as to his Intentions. There was no cover of any kind, so the party stood their ground. The elephant was now within less than 20yatd* dis tance, and one of tbe party fired, but the shot failed to stop him. The mat ter was getting rather serious; he was now within eight yardB, making straight for the paity. Another gen tleman, who was armed with a double gun of powerful calibre, now fired but having only a very imperfect footing on the stump the recoil pushed him off and he fell right in tbe enemy’s way. His shot, though splendidly aimed, passed, as was afterwards ascertained, through the elephant’s trunk, and glanoing oil under the ear, did him little actual damage. He was now In a stride of the stump upon e who seemed to he reserving their fire too long, now let him have it, and six bullets were put into him; these told, he turned outside of the tree and stubbornly retreated. Bo close did he pass that almost every one of the party could have touched him with their rifles. As he retreated, the geutleman who fell had recovered himself, and gave him a parting shot in the side, the result of which was a very percepti ble stagger on the part of the elephant, and was the first t y Jiptorn he had y t shown of getting the worst of it. He now charged at the dogs, and having covered a distance of about thiri y yards was again brought to bi y ; this time he received a voll< y of bullets » nd displayed as much indifference about tbe matter a* il he only received a shower of mealies. Up to this he showed great coolness a..d command of temper. Another volhy at about fifteen yards distance effected a won derful change. Then commenced such terrific screams and yells of rage—the brute knocking over everything he oame in cantact with—as surpass description He was now thoroughly aroased ; the firing became general, and it was every man for himself. Right and left he charged, the thick bush giving way before him like bulrushes before the wind. His course could be easily seen by the swinging motion of the trees as he pushed by them or smashed them beneath his feet. This, the fir^t really serious exhibition of temper on his part, caused the entire party to draw together. They took up a posi tion between two small trees, and upon an old stump about eighteen inches high. It took ten more shots to finish him. He made his last stand at the foot of a large yellowwood tree, against which the sagacious brute leaned for support. Three times he charged from this tree, and as many times returned. He was now showing signs of weakness and his trumpeting became less frequent. Collecting all his strength he made another rush for his enemies. This time he wa9 hit hard; he staggered, trumpeted ones more, and with a tremendous yell sank heavily to the ground and died in a few seconds. He had twenty seven bullets buried in him. A Human Monster. The Yellowstone Park. Mr. Paul Bert has lately sent to the editor of La Nature from Geneva, two photographs of a human monster ex hibited there, living and aged five years, having been born at Turin in 1877. It ha9 two heads, four arms, and two ohests, but one abdomen and pelvis, and two legs; that is, it is dou ble above the middle of the body. The fusion of tbe two bodies begins at the sixth rib. From due examination and from what has been observed in previous monsters of the kind, they were named Xiphodyme by Isodore Geoflroy, St, Hilaire. It may be af firmed that there are four lungs, two hearts, and two stomachB ; the small intestine is double at its commence ment, but is in greater part simple. • They are really two individuals. The right leg obeys only the right in dividual, »uo alone feels any one pinching it; and similarly with the left. The sensibility of half the body is in exclusive rapport with the head of the same side. The two individuals were baptized doubly under the names of Jean and Jacques. They £re equally developed from physical points of view, except a slight club foot on Jacques’ leg, and intellectually they are much alike. Their intelligence is normal; they reply the questions of visitors in French, Italian and Ger man, They seem to be gentle and amiable, also lively, often playing to gether while lying on cushions, or on the knees of their reputed father. It iBsaid tbat they have never been ill. It has been shown in the case of other double monsters, that one may have an Inflammatory fever, while the other continued well; but the like could not occur with infectious dis ease or poisoning. Beveral cases of these Xiphodyme monsters have been recorded in history, but very few of them have lived.—Irith Timet. The Yellowstone Park is Bimp/y a land of wonders and sur; rises. Such photographs as I have seen totally fail to give the slightest conception of it. There is nothing like it in' the world. The Bwiss Alps appear small and in different to me after seeing these mam moth sulphur springs and geysers. They are literally indescribable. Their extent, their variety, their infinite ir regularity must be seen to be realized. Their incrusted forms seem t*' have a law of their own constri ctlon. Imag ine a series of huge basins, formed as regularly as the fountains in the Eu ropean city, leaning over each other hundreds of feet in height, and each varying in color from a dull lake-red to enow white. There are high hill# of beautifg crystallized sulphur, countless gey! of hot sulphur water, that thrower jets and columns from 20 to 200 feet. As a great sanitarium it seems to me the park will some day be a national' resort. It is bountifully watered by clear streams that abound in fish, and game is plentiful. Except the Marshall House, a rude ] frame structure, there is no place of accommodation there as yet, and while the trails and roadways obvioc enough and fairly passable for vel cies, there has been a strange omission on the part of the government custo dians to erect signboards at the cross ings giving the distances and the dir9CtioDs to the various points. A government police is sadly need ed to prevent wanton and careless conflagrations, which have already destroyed vast bodies of valuable tina; berf and disfigures the face of the country. There can be no dc the abundance of game in th» I saw a herd of elk on three dii occasions, scattered antelope every few days, and bear tracks were plenty in the snow. We had no diffl ruity in procuring elk meat, and what was far better, the meat of the wild moun tain sheep. It was the best mutton I ever tasted ; in flavor and delicacy 1 think it was superior to the famous Welsh mutton. Capt. Gorringe count ed more than three hundred signt- seers; they came principally from the Pacific coast. We also came across companies of men engaged in fishing and sheeting and drying and salting the trout o: winter use. The Detained Juror. A novelty in lace curtains is an nounced, which consists in the pecu liarity of the design rather than in anything special in the fabric itself. It represents, within a border of floral »design, a window with dranei y and a view in perspective bt yand. The idea msy be new, but Is certainly not ar tistlo. Many stateemer look upon a morn- itutfonal amend - We remember an amusing little circumstance occurring during a pro tracted trial for felony in one of the midland counties a few years ago. A boy, entering the court, and quaking his way to the jury-box, banded to the (filler in attendance, a note ad dressed to one of the jury, the effieer handed it, as in duty bound, to “bis lordship on the bench. The J udge— first asking permission—opened and read the, communication. After a solemn pause, he remarked: “I think, sir, I will not hand you this at pres ent. You could not now comply with, its suggestion, and it might distract your attention from the very seJ^ms case we era trying.”*-,^he juryman bowed, and th^judge carefully pla the letter between the pages of notebook. When the case eoncluded,’ about eight or nine o’clock at nigh^ the fudge said, “There is your noie, sir. I am afraid it will giye you litt pleasure now.” The juror opern and read it, smiled, hewed, and hast-~ ily left the box, leaving the note be-' hind, which, we trust, we were gui] of no great indiscretion in re it was in a female hand : Dearest Jim :—Mr. and Mrs. Brown ; have just come, and have brought such a lovely pair of ducks, you oan’t think ! And the onions and things for the stuffing, and we will have the pud ding we had left from Christmas. I’ll put them down to be ready at on^ sharp, because the B’s must lea^f early—by five o’clock train. Do leave that nasty court. Bay you are poorly, or anything. Mind, at one! We shan’t wait I Yours, Kitty. A practical mendicant Is one morn ing missid by one of his regular bene factors. But on drawing near to the poor man’s usual stand the benevolent man sees hla chair, upon it hia hat, and on the hat the foilowini “Kind gentlemen and^ on thf poor blind ‘ 5ft". label