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iudes- and phraeeoIogM occurred which,, if taken oir uttered in bis own parlor, would have caused bim to shoot oirfltaMhaactor on thespotj—from this high-priced box sees In a cheaper place the* new clerk of his storey and is led to 6at questions about his habits and wonders how,, on the salary the house pays ! hiin,,he can do as he does; Edward, to recover his physical vigor and' hlsflnahcesi stops awhile and spends n few more even- ings examining the chromo«on the wail and counting the matches in the match box, or goes: down in the boarding-house parlor to Bear the gossip: about the other boarders or a discourse on the &3ufficiehcy of the table fare,, considering the price paid—the criti- cism severe in proportionas the fault-finder pay3 little-oris resolved to leave unceremoni- ously and paynothihgfat all.. \Confound ft?\ cries the young: man, \I cannot stand, this life any longer, and I must go out arid see the world!''' The sameyourig men and others of a now larger acquaintance are ready to escort him. There is never any lack of such guidance. If a man wants to go the whole round of sin he can flnd'plenty to take him, a whole regiment-who Know the way: But-after awhile Edward's money 1 'is all gone. He has' received his salary again: and again,, but, it was'spent before he got ft, borrowing a little here and a little there. What shall he do now* Why,, he has seen in his rounds' of the gambling tables men who put down a dollar and topkup ten,, putdowh «. hundred and took urf a thousand;. Why not he? To reconstruct his- finances he takes, a hand und wins;, is so pleased he takes an- other hand and: wins, is in phrenzy of delight- and takes another hand and.loses all. When he first jeame to this city Edward was disposed, to keen Sunday: ia quieinessy reading a little and going occasionally to, hear a sermon. Now, Sunday is a day of; carousal. He is so full of intoxicants By ft; O'clock in the day he staggers on the \street. 1 Some rriorriihg, Edward, Tiiff breath stpnch- ful w^thiriiih, take his place in the store,He i3 riot fit to be there.- He is -listless or silly or impertinent or in some way Incompetent arid a messenger coirie*to him- and says: \The firm desires to see you in the private office.\ , ' ' The gentleman in the private office says: \Edward we will notneed you any more. Weowe you alittle money for services since we paid you last and here it is;\ e \What is the matter?\ says the young,, man. \I cannot: understand this. Have I done anything?\ The reply S : ''We do'not wish any words with you. Our engagement with each other \Out of emcloymsatl™ What does.that mean to a good\ young man? It means an opportunity to get another and perhaps a better place. It means opportunity for men- tal improvement and preparation for higher work. \Out of employment!\ What, does that mean, to a dissipated young man? It means a lightning express train onadbwn grade 09- the Grand. Trunk to Perdition. AI. Barak was a winged horse' on which Ma> bomet pretended: t o have ridden by night strorii Mecca to Jernsa!eES,'s'ria from Jeriisa- Ieai.to the seventh hsaven with «ueh speed that each step wm as -far us the'eye could: reach..' A young; man out of employment through his dissipations is seated -orif an Al Borak, riding as fast in the opposite direc- tion. It is now only five years since Kdward came to town. He nsed to write home once a week at the longest. He has riot written home for three months. \What can be the matter?\say the old people at home. One Saturday morning the father puts on the bast apparel of his wardrobe and goes to the city to find out; \Oh he has not been here for a long while,\ say the gentleman of the firm. \Tour son, I am sorry to say, is on the wrong track.\ . The old father goes hunting him from place to place and comes suddenly upon him that night ihaplaee of abandonment. The father says: \My son, come with mov Your mother has sent me to bring you'home. sMiear you are out of money and good clotheS and you know as long as we live you can have a home.\ 'SCome right away!\ he says; put- ting his hand on the young man's shoulder. & angry tone Edward replies: \Take your hands off me! .You mirid your own business. I will do as I please. Take your harids off of me or twill strike you down! Yoti.go.your waysnd Twillgo mine.\ That Saturday night or rather Sunday morning—for it is by this timetwo o'clock in the morning; the father goes to the city home of his son. Nicholas, and rings Jhe ball and^ rings again and again,'and it seems as if no answer would be given, but after a while a window is hoisted and a voice cries: \Who's thero?!' \It is me,\.says the old man. \Why father,-is that you ?\ In a minute the door i3 opened and the son says: \What in the world has brought yon to the city this' hour of the night ?\ \ \Ob has brought me here; Ifeared your mother Would go stark crazy not hear- ing from'hihi, and I find oiit that it is worse with him than I suspected.\ •'Yes\ says Nicholas, \Lhad riot the heart to write you anything about it 1 have tried mybestwithhim.ahdallinvain. But it is after two o'clock,\ says Nicholas to his father, ''and I will take you to a bed.\ On a comfortable couch in that house the old father lies down, coaxiiigjsleep for a.few hours, but no sleep comes. Whoie house is it! One rented by his son, Ni'ohplas. The fact is that Nicholas soon after coming to the city became indispensable in the com- mercial establishment where he was placed. He knew, what few persons know, that while in all departments of business and mechan- ism and art there is a surplus of people of ordinary application and ordinary diligence, there is a great scarcity and always has been a great scarcity of people who excel; Plenty of people to do things poorly or tolerably well, but very few clerks or business menor mechanics who can do splendidly wolL Ap- preciating this, Nicholas had resolved to do so gremdly that the business, firm coaldnot do-without hiih. Always at jlifr place; befora the tiine he was reauired'to come. Always- at his place a littleaftereverybodyhadgone; As extremely pollfe to thpsa who declined pujchasinspastothosewhoj! madalarge/pra?' chases; He; drank rio wm»,, for he saw It was the empoisonment of rimltitudej,, and when anyone 1 asked hun to take something.' he said \No\,\ with'1. that, paculiar Intonatioitt' that meant ri'0; His cohvarsatlori' ifas al'jvay/s:, as pure as if his sister had'beeit listeninsr.' He went to no place of amusement where he 1 would be ashamed to die. He never bat; or gambled, even at a church fair. When fie was at the boarding house after he got all the- jirtlstie development hg' could rpossibly- receive, frorii^the cfiromas'pri the wall hto be- gan to study that, which would help him to promotion; study penmanship, study -biog- raphies of successful men, or went forth to places of innocent amusement and to. Young Men's Christian Associations, and Was not ashamed, to be found at a church prayer--: meeting. He rose from position to position and from one salary to another salary. Only five years; fa town and yet- he haj. rented his own house: or a suit of rooms, not, yery;Iarge, but- a home large enough in its nappmess'to be -ft; type of heaved.:. Ib-the..; morning as the old father with handkerchief: Jri hand comes crying down stairs:to the table, there are four persons, one for each side; the young man; arid opposite- to him the best' •blessing, that a God of. infinite, gopdnesi can. bestow, namely, a goodwite, and. on another side the high chair filled with dimpled and rollicking glee that makes the grandfather opposite smile outside while he has a broken heart within. Well; as I said; it was Sabbath and. Nich- olas arid his father knowing that, there is no place so appropriate for a troubled soul as the house of God, find their way to church. It is communion day, and what is the old man's surprise to see his son pass,down the aisle, with one of the silver chalices, showing bite tribe a-churoh official.-. The fact was that Nicholas fromi'the start ta city life hon- ored God and God had honored hiin. When che-first wave of city temptation struck him he bad felt the need of Divine guidance and Divine protection and in prayer had.sought a regenerated heart, and had obtained that mightiest of all armor, tbatmightfestof all protection, that mightiest of all reinforce- ments, the multipotentarid omnipotantgrace\ of God, and you might as wellthrow thistle- downazainst Gibraltar, expecting to destroy it, as with all the cornoinod temptations of eaifthand hell try to overtlirowa youngman. who can truthfully say:- \Godis my refuge aadistrengthv\ Come, let us measure Nicholas around the head. As-many inches of brain as any other intelligent man. Let us measure him around the heart It is so large it takeVin ail the earth aijd all the heavens; Measure him around the purse. He has .niore re- sources than niheitentbs: of any of those who, oil that Monday, September .20, cairiain on any of the railroads from Norths or South,. ,or.JEart,..or.Wesf. _,, .. ._.,. But that SebbsrafcafternQos, whitefe. the ; Edward, there\ fi ajr&gfngjib*jth£ door Fbel£ arid a man with a uniform of a policeman stands there, and with sorite embarrassment Vid some halting; arid in a roundabout wav •says that in a fight in sorue low haunt of th« city Edward has been Burt He says to Nicholas: ''I heard that he was some rela- tion of yours and thought you ought to know it.\ :• ' \Hurt? Is he badlyhurtl\ , ; ., , \Yes very badly hurt!!' ' •*• \Is the wound mortalP, \Yes; It is riiortat. ToteB jou.tha whole truth, sir/' says the policeman; \although I cah'-nardly bear to tell von, he is-dead.\ \Deadl\ cries Nicholas.' 'Arid by this time the, -whole family are ia the hallw^yi. The 'father says': \Just as I feared. Itwillkill his mother when she hears of it Ob, iny son, niy son! Would to God I had died for thee. Oh, my son, my son!\ \Wash off the wounds,\ says Nicholas, \and bring hlnvright here to my house and letthere be all respect and gentleness shown Hfiri. Itisthe'last we can do for him.\ Oh, what obsequies I The next door neigh- bors hardly knew what was going on, but Nicholas and the father arid mother knew. Out of the Christiari and beautiful home of the' one brother is carried the dissolute brother. No word of blame uttered!. No harsh thing said. Onithobank of :camellias is spelled but the word '«EOTHEB.\ Had the prodigal been true and pure and noble in ' life arid honorable in death, he could not have been carried forthwith more tender- ness, or slept in a more beautiful garden of the dead. Amid the loosened turf the brothers who left the country for city life five years before now part forever. The last scene of. the fifth act of an awful tragedy of human life is ended. \What made the difference between these two yourig men? Religion. The one de- pended on himself, the other depended on God. They started from the same home, had. the same opportunities of education, arrived in the city on the same day arid if. there was any difference Edward had the advantage, for he was brighter and quicker and all the neighbors propEesiedgi-eatersuccess for him than for Nicholas. But behold and wonder at the tremendous issue. Voices come rip out of this aiidiericearidsay: Did you know these brothers? Yes, knew thsm welL Did you know their parents ? Yes, intimately. What was the city; whatthe streetwhatthe last names of these yonng men. Yon have excited our curiosity, now tell us all. I will. Nothing in these characters.is ficti- tious except the names. They are to every city arid in every :street of every city and in every cemetery. Not two of them put ten thousand. Aye, aye! Bight before me to- day and on either side of me arid above me tbey sit and stand, the in vulnerable through religions defence and the blasted of city al- lurements. Those who shall haVe longevity in beautiful homes arid others who shall have early graves of infamy. And I am hero to- day ia, the name of Almighty God to give ybu'tbe choice of* twa cnaracters^the two histories,, trie-two experiences; the two desti- nies, thetwo worlds, the two eternities.* Standfngfwitliyoa at the forks otthe road something:makes ma think: -that If td-d^yi '«atrbefbrethe : people the\'termirifof'the'twot roads: they will altof them take tha right one. There are bef ore* me in thft hous^ and In the Irivisible- audiSrice back.ofrthi?—Jijr' Jonrnal-' fipnas generously given nifrevers; week Jfull opportunity,to adaress'She pedpjein* all the' towns and cities of Christendom—I say, m •the visible and invisible audiencejthere. are' *aany who have riot fully irisda up- their minds which road to take. \Coma with us 1\ cry ail the voices of righteousness. • ''Come with us!\:cryall'the vdiceiofsiri.. • ,i 1 Wow, the- trouble is that many make disgraceful surrender. As we- aft know, there is honorable and dignified sur- render, as when a smalt, -host yields to. superior numbers. It:' is no' hu- miliation foe a thousand men to yield, to ten thousand. It is battel' than to keep on when there can be no result except that of massacre. But, those who surrender to sfa make a surrender when on their side tljey havs enough raserveiforjses'ito • routall the armies of, r«rditioa' w&ther led on by what a demonographer calls Belial or Beel- zebub or Apollyon or Abaddon or Ariel. The disgraceful thing about, the, surrispder at Sedan wastBat'-'ihe r Sren'cS handed 'over-419 field guns and. mitrailleuses^.sis: thousand horses arid eighth-three thousand armed men. Anditisbasefor thatmaa. to, surrender to sin. when all the armaments at Alinighti- riess wouldhave wheeled tothe iront toflgh't his battle-If he had waved oneearnest signal. But no!, he surrendered body, mind, soul, roputation, home, pedigree, tune and eter- uityjwMo yet all the prayers othia Christian • ancestors were oh his side and all theprof- ered aid, supernal, cherubic, seraphic, areh- aagelic, deifie. We have talked so inuch the last few weeks about the abdication of Alexander, of Bub garia, brit what a paltry throne was that which the unhappy lunsr'desceridea compared with the abdication,, of that yourig man or middle-aged man or' old\ man who quits the throne of his opportunity and turns nis back upon a heavenly throne arid tramps off into ignominy and everlasting exile. That Is an abdication enough to shock a universe. In ifersia'they will not have a. blind man on the throneyafld whenla reigning monarch Is jeal- ous of some ambitious relative he.has, his eyesextiriguished. so that Be cannot possibly • ever come to crownirigt And that suggests ' the difference between, the way shv an^. di- vttb,graWtake3 Bold bTa man.' * The former blinds bim so-he may never reaoh a throne* while the latter illumines the blind that he mav take coronation. Why this sermon? I have made up my mind thatourcitylife isdestroyingtoom»ny young men. There comes in, every Septem- ber end October, a large, infhix.p£ those be- tween sixteen and tweuty-fouryears of age, and New York and Brooklyn dams at least' a thousand of tfcesi avgijr year, Theyara shoveled off sSS dowiwitB, ai> riKtecora- What with the ndn*eu¥ tod the ^anjBlarTr dice arid the ocsrlet enehantres», no- young man without the grace of God is safe tea minutes. • ' • \ • There is much discussion about Which is the worst city of the continent. Some: say New York, some say New Orleans,: some say Chicago, some say St Louis. What I have to say is you cannot make much com- j parison betweeu the infinities and in all our cities the temptation seemsiBanlte. Wo keep a great many mills running day and night Not rice mills nor cotton mills. Not mills of corn or wheat, but mills for grinding up' men. Such are all the grog-shops, licensed or unlicensed. Such are all the gambling' saloons. Such are all the houses of infamy, and we do the work according to law and we turn outa new grist every hour, and grind up warm hearts arid clear heads, and the earth about a cider mill is not more satu- rated with the beverage than the ground about all these soul-destroying Institutions is saturatedwiththeblbodofvictinia. Wesayto Lorig Island neighborhoods and villages^; \Send ris niore supply,\ arid 60 Westchester and Ulster and all the other counties of New York: \Send us more men and womerito.put under the wheels; Give ris full chance arid we could grind tip ijstac municipal mill five- hundred a day. We haveenough machinery; we have enough men who can .run them,: Give lis more homes to crush! GIveusmore parental hearts to piilverlzet Pat into the hopper the wardrobes and thefamily Bibte; and the livelihood of Wives and .childreE, Give us moire materlarfor'these inighSy mills which are wet. with.-tears and sulphurous! with woeandtrerribling with the earthquakes of an incensed God who will, unless our cities reperit, cover us up asjjuick and as deep as in August of the year 79 Vesuvius avalanched Herculaneum. ; , Oh, man or woman, ponder the path of thy' feet! See which way you are going. Will you have- the distiny of Edward or Nicho- las? On this sacramental day when the burnished chalices standln the presence or the people,'start froiri the foot of the cross for usefulness and heaven. Plutarch tells us that after Cajsar was slalri and his twefiiy-- three wounds had been displayed to the pei»- ple, arousSng an uncontrollable excitementj arid the body of the dead conqueror, accord- ing to ancient custoni, hadbeenputupon the funeral pile arid theflamesaro3e,pe6plerushed rip, tookfrorii the blaiirig mass torches with -which they ran through :the. citiy, crying the glory of the assassiriated and the. shame - of his assassinators. On this sacramental day whss the fivs blesdiug wounds of Christ, your King, are shown to you: and the fires of his earthly suffering blaze before your imagination, each one df - on take a torch arid start heavenward, a .orch with light for yourself and llght.foi others, for the race that starts at the cross ends at the throne. While the twenty-three Wounds of. Caesar wrought nothing bet its consternation of the people, from tha five wounds of our Conqueror there flows «- transformiilg power to • mako all the un- counted ' iriilh'ons'who- VUI acdjiptr It forever happy and forever free. < f. * Signu rrora the TSnn. 8rgm of Main, from tTie Sun.—San rainedim rq^iwaterfsfe; risingw^ ,,w|t6 -btekish. b4ma, jji$«d f lpiig^jiS% at* tajs? risingrfa amMty 0* muadjaeoter; rising re& and turning- blackish v getting, upderathicte cloud.;, setfipg; wife*a red . sky in the east;,. Sudden ramst Sever last Ions; but whentSs^anr grows thick fcy desjrees, and.the sun, moou and stars shine dimmer and* dimmer, then it is likelyt'o rairiVx ! 'ljoursr uauaHyv Signs of Wind, from tha Sim.—Swi rilmg pale and .setting red ; ; irith.',to-. iris'; rising,large in surfacej ri^jjig with * red sky in ' the north; setting* of if bTobd color; setting pale r 'With/one or mote dark circles, or eccompariied with red strealts, seeming concave or hollow; seeming d^yided, great stoiins'f parmelia or mock, suns never appear but they era followed by tempest. Signs of JTair 1 Weather, fr(m\iflie Sun*— Sun rising clear, having set clear the night\ Before; rising\ white -th»-sIoeds about are driving- to jthe west; rising with au iris sBdui'Mm, and that iris wearing away equally on oil sides, then expect fai? and. settle^, weather? rising clear and not hot; setting itt.red.clouds, •cebrdihg to the old oljservaliottr ••'•-<. The evem^grred'andMorhrnggrayv- ' \• bthesure\sigB'0?a,fair.day, ,, L —' . •iiiw,,,' ' :—;—f—r- Grace Darlinp. Grace DarUiig^s'naitfV is the synonym of heroisBaand seH-saeriffeel She. was a native-of Bamboroughr 651. th.ecooist of ETorthuinberiandi England #b<>re-, JU* *as born Noyeinber\ 21V 1815. Her father was keeper of the I,ongstone Lighthouse, 1 -on- 'one *f She niostsiesjao 38 * of the Farriet Islands. The greataefcoh wnjch her fame, chiefly rests was in res- cuing nine personk who, wfthV si r others, we*e the onljr survivors of -a 7 wrecked stssffler feoandj Septsnibsr .©-Tjl.: 18g8, ftoniHull to Dundee. Grace, with the help °f her parents,, but against their,' remonstrances; launched a bbaf^ and, witfi Ker-father, rescued nine of the,sur- vivdr*who were-c.paging;to;mars and ;6ther jarts ,of this wreck. WQI h^r dar- ing . she iras Ayeryijrifeie iignljrf coni- ' rcerided,-.preaente..aid?: i&0%Sini$t.jmSL- . .«b«u*W^0t''»w'^*^'t#'4i^.-:-.-.^^'' There \a*e ; {few inorelpleassnt sounds than the ringing blows-of a woodman's ar whengome^pu.p.els^ is wielding the ax.— Somervilte journal. £ THE MARKETS. sraw-sroEit ST Beef cattle, good toprimelw 6^(9 Calves, cem'n to prime veals Sheep.\; ..'...'.;..'..*, «„*.. •: -, Ijainbs.....^. 1............... Hogs—Live...' Dressed, dtr.:.... FIour-^Ex; St , goodtofanoy S'.'BO West, good to choice S SO 6 ® ,@S70 @5 00 Wheat-'No.'arRed,... • S6J£@ 8T Bye-rState. .„.....;.... 5& @ 60 Barley-^Porir-rowed State... '©''.. Corri^-Ungrad; Mixed 50Jf@ 51}f Oats—White State.......... 85 @ 36K • MfieSWestern;.;...; 32 @ 34 Hay—Med. to pr. Timothy.. 75 @. ,S8 Straw^No. : l,Hye.......... • 55 @ 60 LardT^City Steam. 705 @ 760 Batter—State Creamery.... . 23%@ 24 . Dairy.:......\:....\.\ 18 ® 21 West. Im. 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