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II Aid. EM. GEORGIA
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Onr yvf* M Ml* '* ' 'f tl»*'
*tod'"f thh <<’’intrv from th« Hnt' iiw nt
es th< R<v. Hr. Burro' . in Ilx
Hint if II" " tin |«.pnhiti-.ii
•f the glxlx <*f illiati dat I. «<M» OOtI.OOO.
WWr ditiib 1 Into f imilii -of five. tin
of Tern iilorw loiihl gi'< i h
funil' half an wr< of land l<> lit' iijion.
Tin- Florida or»ng» tre< * nni*t In vert
if all that io written about
tb> in i» true, remark* h n< « York piqm
It la o»id that a man in Ixwv county. that
Matr, lim an orang'- tr< f on l»i» |ila< <■ that
b about forty jcarn old, from which In
Will gather thio year over 5,1Kt0 orange*,
tod ha« gathered n> high n» !t, 000 in one
}Biu Thia i» ahead even of tin glorious
Atimnto of California.
Ju*ti« haa finally been done to the
Btsitb family, and they now have an
ergan of their own It lieara their name,
•nd ia published by the Smith Publish
ibg Company, in a Michigan town. It ia
•Btirely a family affair, every item and
artif le in It referring to persons la aring
U>e name of Smith. If the publiaheni
•an Induce all tin- Smiths in country to
•übacrilie, their future ia amured.
I-_!
The laland of Jersey, when Mrs. Lang
the professional Ircnnty, cornea from,
la, betides lining a pln< e of wonderful
natural beauty, a pnradiw for married
folks who want to live economically.
They can get their lodging, food and ser
vice all for *lO a week, and then' will
be nothing whatever to complain of with
.reape■ t to any of the a< < ommiMlation*.
The people of the island are largely
French, and know, of course, how to g< t
th e moat and the Iwst out of everything.
From time immemorial pickled cub
bag- haw been denounced by do< tors as
outrageously indigestible of hit- how
ever, that dietetic preparation has grown
to la- quite rerqiectablc. It hna risen to
tin- dignity of an alkaloid produc- i M
Tuya|Higu Ims Isolated the *u!> l.mei . „nd
finds that it suppresses the drlirium du
to a prolonged u»- of alcohol b ■ tl.i
whiskey seller, in placing pickled <ah
bagc upon his lunch table, Im* been fol
years uiicoummiisiy <n: ,■ ■<) ,n pint jig
his gue*ts with pn>|« t ii.:t lb to .1
m« nt
Him -' the l»t -d last M- I'.’ <al load*
of bom have bun slipp'd < t fi nil
Cim.a."W, Killi'ii* ing 1'.’.0
pound* to tin -. .: I at 1 .:)
ton*, oi gilt,otai |Niui.d>. i’ll ■ ■ eia
principally the bum • m.d h : if I.
falo. and. of ..an*. ... an- bom . . I ...
nicstii ..I'.iri: 1* w i irh have died. Tin y
have II III’.. n th. I> dI : :
ring fur y. , . I ire roti -I up I y
citireiis aial hauled fifty red Minh file
and soim turn's 100 milt * Tin' ill ‘
110 per tnin Kin mid i. . ipp .1
east when they In. i < .‘.n tir. ■ i ii t i
hand I. tor cutlery. t . tli-bni*lu*. ring*
ami ornament* I. i harm>* ami various
Othll piiijaiM*. whih tin >. fm iiiitnil
into du*l and Used a* a fcltilirct 0 the
worn out soils of tin oldel -tat »
A novel interpri-i i to b. . t afoul
•non in England, whereby an opportunit'
will be atbirded to those who have nioiier
and leisure to enjoy traveling in a peen.
|arway. \ vessel has Im-.u chartered
which will carry some fifty first class pa
•angers, in eoiti|uuiied by an artist, it pho
Uftapher, a geologist, n mim ralogi-t, a
botanist, a rimjugi-t, mid other*, who
will explore and collect wherever oppor
tMity offer*, but mon- e*|s ciully in di*
Mcls practically unvisited hitherto. The
•m voyage will last twelve month*.
There will I* no hurrying ovet ground
when anything valuable to science or art
can be obtained, and at intervals the voy
nget* will have the opportunity of break
ing up into section* and landing when
cither the beauties of rivem or the life
and scenery of coasts can !*• studh-d mid
•njoyed. The collections made on the
voyage will be carefully ptsserved for
subsequent exhiliition or for pn*entation
muM uiiis
Million* an- talked almut glibly it,
the*, times without a clear understanding
of the enormous sum rcpr< M-nt<sl l.v the
t&O.OOO.OOO left by Cornelius Vanderbilt,
tbcehlir. or the $300,000.000 left by
William II Vanderbilt to his s.-is
Chicago po m her helps ~n , to realize the
magnitude of such fortunes by th< tigur
ing mit that if i . rneliu- Vanderbilt had
lies'll !*>:« at the Ix giuiiing of tin Chris
tian cm and had saved *'*s.4*oo a year
ever since, he would not yet have mad.
up his fortune of *.\O.OOO.IKm>. and that,
if M illimn H Vanderbilt had Ixx-ti a
COUtriapormy of Adam .nd i, saved -it
the same rate of $35.tK*Q is i . anum > ,
Would Still has been far s| , ~
IttOO.ihsl.OOil ut th. t.im t>
aud w< i.i.; itiil b.\i b. .1 , : . . ,
for 2! IA yeais In tin i.tu . b. ■. n . t
ing hi* fort urn- of * . o ... ( i
eaieukt'on is | d t‘ i
.1, t * «
c.n» 4 r..< i r.n . t i* . t
pio|«t / < OI -woo ,
Mims
It , . ofii- i.-.ity ■mo itw- -i tha< "i the
1 short Iwi-lvr dry •’ v.a; t’l- Bulgartin
I |o«M - w<r o0<» kiilid. IHH* aoc-idi'd
and -’ion prison-r«. whil- t'i<- > rvian
■ loss's, of <<.ur- by B-ii-.' ; : in i -tinmte.
'lire i.W kill- I. I.IM ■ • >l. id.-d ami
prisoner*. The figlin . tlioiiyli omcml.
arr- probablv rn under* *.m;.i on lw>th
side*, but tin numls-r i- nmuli for a
f< w days of the - gmii- of king*.”
1,-s.k to tlie grent v. -I for . gmirrnd-'
that our im.it supplies -hull not nm
short Th-- I;.t<--t cut rprise in the pro
vision lim-out that way i* the business
of raidng buffaloes for their hide* and
mi nt For ;--m- p»*t wi- hnvelieen hear
ingot lb- inevitable extinction of the
great herds of that huge animal, but this
is all to Is <ln- k- d by the <-nt- rpri- -d
Western Kiinsas |sopl< who lune found
' that buffalo *t< aks are worth mon than
Ih-i I for f-sxl pur|sis.«, mid hide* an
valued nt from *1.7 to *M rai h. The
market pri« for buffalo calve- for breed
ing puijHis-- is s*>•* -'rn h. A year or two
hence, we *up|*oM’. we hull se-e buffalo
st* aks and roast* on the bill* of fare of
all the fir*t < lim* feeding e-t ibliahments
in the country.
Visiting Cards of Cactn*.
Os courw all boys and girl* know what
the cactus i- n gn-cn. grotesque Imiking
plant, almost covered with sharp spines
ami bearing a most gorgeous flower; but
I am sure thev do not know all of the
UM-a to whi< h tin- <a< tus <an be put, nor
do I bclir-vc that th-- most ingenious
guesses could < ome near to the truth.
It is n native of America, but it has
lain taken to Europe and Africa, and
now grow* in tin latter country in great
profusion.
But, after all, the oddest use of the
cactus prevails in Cape Town, South
Afrirn, where it* h-nvi * are made to serve
the purpose of visiting cards. Fancy
carrying about in your < oat po< ket a lot
of thick leaves covered with spines ns
sharp as nccillcs! But, wait n moment.
The leaves of the pnrtii ular kind of cac
tus so used are not very prickly, but,
moreover, they are not cairied nbout, but
are left growing on the plant, which
stand* nt the fool of the front steps.
Win n a Indy cull* *h Ims only to draw
out one of those cv< r really hat pin*,
! with which Indie* i:r- .ilwnv* provided,
and witli th.- sharp point scratch her mime
on tin- glossy , green surface of a leaf. \
gi ntli inmi generally uses the point of his
pnkuifi Tin-line's turn silvery white and
remiiin on the leaf, ch at and distinct, for
years and y ars. On New Year's Bay,
these vegetable curd* are e*pci iully con
v. nii nt. mid ladies who wish to keep the
calls of that day apart from those of other
days, nppropriut ■ a branch of tin e.u tu*
i to that purposi'.
J Vti :t' .ill in Cap Toiv.'t has a
I cmtii. plant i.iiicli i* t! ..rly lilt.'on feet
high ll* gr. at thick loaves are almost
nil in II". Us visiting laid-, so that he his
a eompli t and la ting r eor.l of his vi
itors. Il cannot be -lid that this pine
tii e adds to t n b mty of the plant, but
then it is oddity and md beauty that s
di sired in sill'll eas ■
Tin re is on iin tu-, not so plentiful a*
that just dis.rilad, which is of a very
accommodating charm ter. It not only
Im* smooth leavi-. but the spine* it ha,*
are so large and still that they can be
med a* |*'iis for writing on th. leave*.
Mn*ieal Sands.
An exnmiiuition of the musical snnd*
of Kauai. California, which has excited
so much intiUi -t oil the part of geologists
and others, shows that they possess a pi
culiar mii roacopicalstructure. Thegrains
are found to be chiefly composeil of small
jwirtions of coral and apparently calcare
oils sponges; they lire all more or less
]»erfonitcd with small holes, in some in
stance* forming tubes, but mostly termin
ating in blind cavities, which are fre
quently enlargi'il in the interior of the
grains, communicating with the surface
by a small opening. There were also in
the sand small black jiarticles, formed
principally of crystals of augite, nephe
line, and magnetic oxide of iron, embed
ded in a glat-y matrix. The stnictureof
these grains explains, it is thought, why
M-und is emitted when they an* set in
motion; that is, the friction against each
other eau*e* vibrations in their substance,
and eoiiM'qaently in the side* of the eavi
ties they contain and these vibrations
being communicated to the air in the
cavities, under the most favorable condi
tions for pnwlueing sound, the result is
the loud noise <*•< a-ioneil whi n any large
inass of sand is *•! in motion.there being,
in fact, millions U|*>n millions of resonant
1 ivities, each giving forth sound.
Didn’t Want a Chromo.
Gue*t (in cheap restaurant)- Very
much obliged, but I’m not an entomolo
gist
I’roprii t r very much pu.-zled) -An
i nto w hat ‘
Gue*t Entomologist. I have no doubt
thi* i* a very rare bug which 1 found in
■ the pie, ,-iiid this fly floating in th< iS'tTia'
i is. J* rli.'ip*. the only specimen in AuWri-
I ca
Proprietor tin a whi*|* r I* -n’t 'teak
so loud you will ruin uh
Guc-t I* that *..? )\ hy, 1 thought
you »cr. giving them away instead <d
I elinmiiss. and 1 was nw ,v ly alwait to nu n
i t’on that l‘d jizvfer a small d->g. P/u.-t-
Only a Boj.
Only a boys
< »rdy a healthy awl nay faea,
Mare wliare at time* th»> Mhadowa |4> r
Like the light cloud* on a hummer a oay
Only a lw>yf
< hdy a loving and triiAting heart
'fhat throb* and strain* for a long life’*
That yields in love to the gentle txiuch
< if one who will rbifie not avermuch.
• >nly a lx>yl
< >rdy an eamcat and longing noul
Through which wild fancies and wiahe* roll,
Peoring from out those eager eyea
\t the untried world that around them lie*.
< )idy a lx»y f
fjely the germ of some unknown gain
T<* a world that waver* ’twix joy and jxun,
Tell me of better gift who can,
T<» give U> tlu* world, than an honest man.
Only a Imyl
< ndy a man with a Mddened fare,
K«*aring of grief and win the trace,
< raving a love that might clean*** the stain
< if the old thoughts that will come again.
I inly a boy I
< >nly a apirit that hoars at last
< >’er the chain* and blindr* of a pretty past,
Hardened, but faithful. Maddened, but true,
Saved but the praiao i* not for you.
Charlotte //. Course n.
The Waif of the Plains.
An cndli ss sea of sandy plain, almost a
dead level, save the sand-dunes which
h !■ and there, like billows from some
fm -fl sea beating upon the endless shore,
- ro**<-<l the country in long lines lost in
tin distance, cactus, sage bush, and a
few w ild flowers of vivid coloring, whose
vi i y existence on the dry desert waste
- w i- a marvel, coin|«ising the only vege
tation visible. Occasionally in the dis
tance, along the banks of the sluggish,
turbid river which flows hundreds of
mil- s across the desert, could be.seen a
f w cottonwoods and willows which
tor.ll the cover for numerous antelope.
Awav in the opposite direction, however,
stretching into the far distance until lost
in the horizon, was the same dreary, mo
notonous level waste. It was early morn
ing. and the sun was shooting its hori
zontal ray s across the glistening sands.
Tw i horseim n were riding along the
trail, when a small object, moving slow
ly along, sometimes seemingly walking
upright, anon crawling on the ground,
e\i ited their attention and curiosity.
Nearer the object comes and, wonder of
wonders, the men discover while yet at
some distance that it is a human being,
apparently a child. Turning their horses
they rapidly approach the waif on this
waterless sea, and discover a child of
perhaps 5 y ears of age, now walking then
tailing to the ground in its apparently
aimless journey. Upon reaching the
lonely atom of humanity it is found to be
a girl w ith face and hands scratched and
hie- ding and clothing torn nearly to j
shreds from frequent contact with the I
thorns of the cruel cactus. Upon the j
approach of the men she ceased her cry- ,
ing and gazed at them with a frightened |
look. Where did she come from and
how did she get here? Did she drop ‘
from the clouds? Nothing else of life
was visible; the whole expanse of plain
whs a blank. It was some time before
the child could be reassured and coaxed
to lalk, : nd then only incoherently be
tween her sobs. The men gathered that
some time about daybreak an emigrant
train -W two wagons with the child's |
pairiits and several other persons had
bei ii attacked by Indians, the women
carried off, and the men all killed. The
child tried to indicat ■ the place of the
ma-sacre, but was so bewildered bv her
wandering that it was impossible to learn
any thing from her confused talk. One
of the men took the little thing on his
horse in front of him, and after a fruit
less search for an hour or two, the men
pushed on, as the sun was getting high
in the heavens and there was a long jour
ney before them ere arriving at the
ranch and cattle corral for which they
were bound and wished to reach before
night. Alter some hours of hard riding
their destination was reached without
incident. On the following day one of
the men at the ranch, having business in '
Denver, brought the foundling to the
then young city. The child’s story ex
cited considerable attention and smypa- I
thy from the citizens, and a childless ■
married lady of West Denver named
Clark, who had cross 'd the plains some .
years before, adopted the waif as her
own. The only name the child could
give was Rita, and there was nothing
about her clothing or ]M*rson to indicate
who her parents were or w here she came
from. All she knew of her former home
was that it waa in a large city far away.
Rita grew rapidly, and in the course- of
several years bid fair to become a beauti
ful young lady. Her foster parents wen
in thriving circumstances, and lavished
their means freely on the education of
the child, whom tluy cherished and lov
ed as if she were of their flesh and blood.
One day Mr. Clark, having business at
Pueblo, was induced by a friend to visit I
the insane asylum. The official, in ac- |
companying them through the different
wards, explained the various phases and
jxvuliaritics of tin- fancies of the patients.
Finally they reached an apartment occu
pied by a w oman, whose csv. the official
explained, was rather jx-culiar. She wa
ns. ued from the Cheyennes several years
ago by the troops. How long she had
boon a < iptiv was not know n, but tis
•trip,*.-, I that lb • indignities she had
\ -uff- red and the horrors she hud pu**cd
( through had turned her brain, as whi n
fipund ski- »»s insane, and ever since the
‘ Murden of her talk had been massacres,
tights, and all the horrors of Indian bru
talities. Then she seems to have a thild
for whom she is constantly calling. The
party entered the room and found quite a
lady-like looking person, who at first re
ceived them pleasantly and as any sane
person would. Something about her
features, which, although careworn and
haggard, gave evidence of former beauty,
i struck Mr. Clark as of some one he had
seen la-fore. After a few moments’ con
) versation with him, the startled him with
j the question: “Where is my Rita? You
have taken her from me—my beautiful
child.” Mr. Clark was so astonished for
a moment that he could not speak.
After recovering somewhat from his
surprise, he endeavored to question her,
' but could get no intelligible answer, and
after some little delay left the asylum.
The interview, however, preyed on his
mind, and on his return home he commu
nicated to his wife the strange interview.
She, with a woman's quick perception, at
once jumped to a conclusion, which suc
ceeding events proved to be correct. It
was finally arranged between them that
Rita should be taken with them to the
asylum and Mrs. Clark’s theory tested.
Accordingly on the pretense, of an excur
sion the three took the train one day and
arriving at Pueblo proceeded at once to
the asylum. After a slight delay they
were shown into the crazy woman’s room.
At first she did not see the girl, then in
looking at her visitors she suddenly dis
covered her and with a cry that was
hardly human in its intensity she threw
herself upon her screaming: “Rita, my
Rita!” hugging and kissing her and
crying at the same time, the tears, proba
bly the first shed for years, rolling her
cheeks. The frightened girl endeavored
at first to disengage herself, but at a re
assuring sign from Mrs. Clark submitted
to the caresses of the insane woman.
With considerable difficulty they tore
themselves away from her, and, making
a solemn promise to return the next day,
they departed. On the following morn
ing, according to promise, they called at
the institution and learned that a won
derful change had come over the patient,
that instead of raving the whole night
long, she had been very quiet and had
wept a great deal. Being shown into her
presence, she seemed only to see Rita>
who, having been instructed by her fos
ter parents, submitted to the caresses
lavished upon her, but in a more quiet
manner, by the unfortunate woman.
Feeling satisfied that her suspicions were
correct, Mrs. Clark insisted upon remain
ing in Pueblo for a few days, during
which frequent visits were made to the
asylum, the woman seeming to become
more sane with each visit and talking
more coherently about the past. Finally
the whole cruel history was told by her,
proving beyond a doubt that she was the
long-lost mother of Rita. Her discharge
was easily secured, the Clarks agreeing to
care for her, and she was taken to the
pleasant Denver home, where she entirely
recovered after a time. Rita, blessed
with the love of two mothers, was happi
er if anything than before, and some time
afterward married an estimable gentle
man of means, being comfortably dower
ed by her foster parents, is living in a
cozy dwelling on Broadway with her
mother and husband, an ornament to the
circle in which she moves.— Denver
Newt.
Raising Mules.
Col. Joe Marley, of Ripley, Tenn., who
is as well known for his elevated charac
ter as for his genial hospitality, has of
late years turned a part of his attention
to mule raising. His method is as sim
ple and economical as it is effective. He
owns a large body of land situated near
the Mississippi river in Lauderdale coun
ty, covered with a luxuriant growth of
cane. In the midst of this cane he fells
a sufficient number of trees for the pur
pose, bores a number of large auger holes
in the logs, and fills the holes with salt.
Under the lead of an intelligent gray
marc, whose habits have been fixed and
whose temper has been mellowed by the
flight of years, he turns his mules into
this magnificient cane pasture, from
weanlings up, where they remain until
ready for market. The lick-logs are
their homes, the trees their only shelter.
Their feed is costless. The old mare
gives them motherly care and direction—
restraining them from running away in
search of “wild-oats,” and inviting them
to regular festivals at the lick-logs.
The mules thus brought up are well grown
strong and hardy, with compact muscles,
and are equal, if not superior to those
raised within fence bounds, besides being
unacquainted with many of the more con
spicuous vices contracted by the latter
during their playful youth. Natfaille
(Tenn.) American.
Corn and Corns.
tee by the papers that in Kansas the
y.eld of corn is forty to the Isr’’ 1
that remarkable?"
“Not ut all; only it seems to me that
item i* upside down.’’
"Upside down?”
“Yes. My experience is that the yield
is about forty achers to the corn. Get off
my foot, please."— Call,
Xavigalfng Under WaltT.
Submarine navigation seem* to lx- go-
I ing ahead of late. Goulzet of lari*, v*l*
. four years ago constructed a submarine
: boat with such success as to receive an
order from the Russian Government for
; three hundred sets of hi* mai hinery, has
now improved his device. In the Russian
boats the locomotion was effected by a
crew of four men, working treadles; now
electricity is the moter, the speed obtain
ed being five knots. The crew can ac
cordingly be reduced to an officer and
one man, who enter the craft at the top
by a dome-shaped hatch, secured with
hinges and bolts, and fitting into a rub
ber-lined recess. In a reservoir is a sup
ply of compressed air said to be sufficient
to last the two men for ten hours, while
the carbonic acid they give off is absorbed
by caustic potash distributed through the
boat. In this, as in all submarine craft,
the object is not pleasure, for little of
that is to be had, but warfare. At one
end of the boat is fastened a torpedo,
charged with 110 pounds of dynamite,
arranged so as to be operated from with
in.
A discription of this boat, given in a
recent number of Engineering, shows
that there are seven glazed openings in
the hull, with glass half an inch thick,
protected by external grating and inter
nal shutters. The two men sit back to
back on the compressed air reservoirs.
The craft seems to be full of machinery,
except in the space occupied by the men,
and their heads go up into the dome.
But the boat can thus be made small and
compact, so as to be rowed with oars if
the dynamo fails. There is a pump for
expelling water from the reservoirs,
when the boat has to rise, and these res
ervoirs, which effect the immersion of
the boat, are divided into several com
partments to prevent the water in them
from surging forth and back. There is
an air pump for extracting the vitiated
air, and a double-acting pump to secure
the stability of the vessel. As a safety
appliance a heavy weight is attached to
the bottom of the boat, which may be re
leased and dropped off in case of an acci
dent requiring a rapid ascent. An explo
sive signal for help can also be sent tc
the surface.
When the tw r o men enter the boat they
turn on the compressed air, which is
passed through the water reservoirs so as
to become humid, and start the electrical
motor. The officer steers the boat under
the ship to be attacked; and when the
right position is gained he casts off the
torpedo, which floats up and attaches it
self to the vessel by contrivances provid
ed for the purpose. The boat then rap
idly withdraws, and at a safe distance
explodes the torpedo by electricity.
This, at least, is the theory of Mr. Goubet
—New York Sun.
Cold Waves.
Lieutenant T. M. Woodruff of the
Fifth Infantry, who is acting Signal offi
cer, has been making a special study of
“cold waves.” He has found that a fall
of temperature succeeds an- area of low
barometer, and a rise precedes such area;
and that in general the reverse is true of
an area of high barometor, viz, that a fall
precedes and a rise follows it; but wheth
er these phenomena have the relation of
cause and effect cannot, as yet at least, be
determined. About fifteen per cent, of
the cold waves observed come from the
Pacific coast and eighty-five per cent,
originate east of the Rocky Mountains, or
came down the east side of these moun
tains from the British northwest territory.
All of the cold waves traced out during
these six months in each year appeared
first at Helena, Mon., except five, which
five were felt at Bismark, Dak., before
being felt at Helena; and we must con
clude, says Lieutenant Woodruff, that
they have their origin in the vast regions
of ice and snow near the Arctic circle,
far to the north of the observing stations.
It often happens that a cold wave sets in
from the extreme Northwest, and upon
reaching the Mississippi Valley divides, a
part going northeast to the lower lake re
gion and the other part southward to the
Gulf States; in either case the intensity
appears to be greatly diminished. This
action seems generally to be due to the
sudden development of a storm some
where in the southern part of the Missouri
Valley. Another frequent feature is that
after a cold wave commences the temper
ature continues to fall in the northwest,
and another wave is formed entirely dis
tinct from the first, from which it
becomes separated by a warm wave; the
warm wave is only a narrow belt, but th«
cold waves are perfectly distinct.
It Cared the Cat.
A man recently cured his cat of get- 1
ting upon the table in search of proven
der. He left some nitro-glycerine in a
saucer close to the edge of the table I
and jKiured a little milk on it, then went
out and waited. As he peeked through
she window he saw the cat jump upon
Um table. He smiled. Soon the cat
Sound the milk, and in drinking it put
its paw into the saucer. The man
laughed aloud with glee. Then he
heard a noise, and slowly got up from a
corn-field over the fence, picked several
cords of splinters out of himself and
started into the house to see how the cat
felt, but was surprised when he found I
the cat had gene and taken ths
with her.
Life’s Mission.
Life is wasted if we spend it
Idly dreaming how to die;
Study how to use, not end it;
Work to finish, not to fly.
Godly living—best prej-aring
For a life with God above;
Work! and banish anxious caring!
Death ne’er comes to active love.
Death is.but an opening portal
Ou» of life to life on high:
Man is vital, more than mortal.
Meant to live, not doomed to die.
Praise for present mercies giving,
With good works your age endow,
Death defy by Christlike living,
Heaven attain by service now.
—Newman Hall.
RELIGIOUS READING.
Penonal Influence.
Upon the higher Alps, the snow i»
I sometimes piled so high, and so evenly
balanced that the crack of a whip, or the
' shout of a voice, may give sufficient vi
bration to the air to bring down the
j whole mass upon the travellers below.
So in our moral world, there are souls
just hovering over the abyss of ruin; a
word, or even a look from us, may cause
them to plunge down into the depths
from which there is no return; or a help
ing hand stretched out to them in the
moment of peril may lead them back to
the safe, sure paths of virtue.
Knowing that we have such power,
shall we not humbly pray, ■ ‘Lead us not
into temptation, but deliver us from all
evil?”
Are There Few 1 Will You be One!
“Are there few that be saved?” Not
so very few, when the final reckoning
I comes to be made; for in the Father's
house are many mansions, and that house
is to be “filled.” Not so very few; for
the Saviour is to see of the travail of his
soul and be xatisfied, and He who died
for all, would not be satisfied with a few
souls as his recompense. But the saved
will be far fewer than they might have
been; and the failure will be wholly
their own fault—simply because they did
not “strive,” and strive in time, tc enter
i into that gate of whose straitness they
were forewarned. They thought it bet
i ter to “labor and tug and strive” for the
world’s wealth, honor, pleasure, of which
the most utterly failed. With the same
effort they might have won the riches
and glory of heaven. Reader, will the
number of the saved be one less than it
might have been, for lack of your name
written among them?
Possessing the lu&nd.
This glorious land of ours is destined
to become Immanuel’s land, the efforts
of Satan to the contrary notwithstand
ing. Before ever human eye beheld the
mountains of Colorado, Christ had put
his mark (Ez. fi: 4) upon one of their
highest peaks. At an altitude of 14,-
: 17S feet we behold a white cross, its per
i pendicular arm 1200 feet, and the horizon
i tai 700 feet, sunk into a cleft 50 feet
wide and 100 feet deep, filled with per
: pctual snow. Already we sec how the
different denominations vic with each
■ other in their efforts to reach and elevate
the masses, and to spread light and truth
abroad. Our own church. (General As
sembly) supports 1610 home missionaries,
in addition to those laboring in foreign
fields, and contributed during the past
year to her eight boards the enormous
sum of $10,192,053, and our church is
only one among many others equally
, zealous and liberal. In view of these
facts, how absurd the assertion that
Christianity is dviii” out in the world!
i Could Voltaire, who predicted
that in the year 1800 the Christian
religion would have disappeared from the
i earth, see the church in 1885, how aston
ished he would be 1 Then let no Chris
tian worker be despondent. Pointed
| reefs may. seem to defy the rolling waves,
but soon they disappear beneath the
waters of the incoming tide. So infidel
ity may lift up its proud head for a while
but the time is speedily coming when
“the earth shall be full of the knowledge
of the Lord as the waters cover the sea”
(Isa. 11:9). Let all Mission Boards and
all missionaries, at home and abroad, take
new courage, and prejoare thoroughly for
the last decisive battle between light and
darkness, evidently near at hand. While
Satan is concentrating all his forces, it
does not behoove the Christian to be in
active and consult his ease. Light can
not illume without consuming itself. Let
him who would aid the great cause of
Home Missions begin the work nearest
home—in his own heart—and then try to
bring another soul to Christ, as Andrew
brought his brother Simon, who after
ward became the prince of the apostles.
Thus any one, in high or humble station,
may become a Home Missionary.— Her.
P. A. Schitan, in Presbyterian Home
ifissionary.
If you want to know the character of
a house, ask the servants —especially the
old servants. If you want to know
what sort of a condition the public
services are in, sometimes you wil hear
various accounts of them. But it is dif
ferent with the service of our Lord. Ask
the old servants, and you will get the
best account of it. There may be ser
vants who have tried it for a little while
and become froward and wilful. Those
who have been at it longest have the best
things to say about it. Ask such an one
as Paul the aged. Observe th ■ cheerful
ness of the latest Epistles of Paul.