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~ ws, Be > Doot d r-'- -~: _- aMilford Hidings ; 1 papers dlufigntinnined when. time péid \Wflh spottces honesty gro white. > 7 makes my bumble lffo completo - ' . Aw untired wheol-Hles onthe ground, [ s F . E ~ He binds the wooden circle rotind, - \_ The symbol of soms great strong min 1 \I wows DWiX in _Sa'urday Night , , Hotaetiments of the rebols, it soon bo. . came clear that an oxtensive + old), hil{ sleep, hail nwake, ~ was delighted to see 'man as | POBHSEED EvEity FRIDAY MonNIng _. EF: CROWE, MLLPORD, OTSEGO CO.; N. Y. 'erms, $1.00 per Year, c, _ iN apvasxc® 09, for expires. monn er ttn L2 Uo _ .ADVANCGEMENT aND ProsrEmity is our MOTTO. ., . 185~9~ oe ,N0.Vf1:~~ [8 mee prFige Ergo“? PREPARED: HP & To po att Kixps OF ;, 0 > . JOB -=-APRIN'TII)V;(} - AT LOWEST PRICES. ale kills, Lafgest Pdstcfrs, Letter Heads, [ Bill Heads, Cirealars, Cards, &n. >> ‘i’IEOLII’TIAY‘ ExEcunk». VOL. I. . - Who Cheorful Toller, / The bellows grim, swith olf his might, ° 'While at the blazing forge he stands, > __ The blackemith dlows, His. blackened | Shards ' \_ And while his stropg arntewings, ts cheery song ho sings: al *The bellows I blow, for well 1 know \Tholove of friend and:ngighbor, Aud many Joys knows hero below - L Aro won by honest labor.\ - ~. Snow-white with heat ho-likes to soe fron on tho anvil lie, > 5 And purpose gllstons in his eyes. «As ho tho bar beats Tisfily. *~ \~ *And While the anvilrings ' 'This is the song ho sings: \ *The tron I heat, for work is sweot, It my only fronsure; ' * With comfort.iind with pleasure.\ - Placed thore by bis cer stoady han, < «And goon with a strong fron band . . And as his right arm a wings, is the song he sings: . *The whool I bind, iad joy I fnd In this firm fron fotter- That makes the world grow botter.'\ Ho is a plain and hearty tan, This worker by the forga and fire, His lifo has one supreine desire To do the very best he can. -And as his swings, This is t ig ho sings; \Work on, work on, oh, toiling one: * Be hopeful and not tearful, Aud better wll your task be done If you but make Jt choorful.\ Ah, well for all who toll 'twould bo > If peace within their hearts would sing, And bid all discontont take wing, «An ke a of passige, feal | mile tho other side, koy might bo spen intently watching from bohfad some truak or limb: of s | tree the intruder in its leafy-home. The open landscape, dotted occasionally with some small farm-houso nestled in the shadow of 'a ill, the homo of 'some Dutch farmér, at all times tho hospita« \| blo 'of the weary travoley. Tho first and duty town I- came to was Tady-Brand,-tome three miles from the Basuto Lond-border, Mosera boing ond I rived at Ledy Brand just in'tme for tific ot the tho- tol. My horse and I both boing very tired, and feeling that attpation to the wants of-the inner man would. not be nlfdgcther misplaced, I determiged to dismount and 'rofresh both nian and bedst.. I rode into the yard of the ho- tel, gave my horse to a-Kafir, saw him watered and fed, and then wout fuside. As I camo into the bir my 'nttontion was attracted by a discussion that was taking 'place amobg some Boers. - As I spoke their language I soon found out that all. night the incessaht discharge of artillery had been beard from the \fort A -and-from time to time the rattling dis- charge of small arms from the same di- rection. Tho fring had ceased for some little time and tho question being dis- cussed - was whother tho Kaffir bad been repulsed or thefort captured. My excitemont can be imagined, but as was now no uso hutrylng,I-lot my horas cat his formgo and snatchol a feed. my- solf, and then with fear tat the worst bad happengd, I remounted and' bogan tho last quw miles-of my journey. . O2 thi the-bous ~~ MILFORD, OTSEGO CO., N. Y;, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 8. m To. md 12 C - i> \ - 3 CHILDBENS filia a s R 8 f’Lihe toresail; topgallant, the sltysqil, the , * , Y- NL. [ sail and other cany Faith ur canvas. - . . REV“ DR' T‘ALNLA‘GE' Hoist is and the winds of heaven ' will (live | vooess U . vos __ | youegxmd.“ a mndofl ut oleuuy other can- sor so ¥» pivogms rang. pes honfaithoelt be ale t bation by (the a . * WELL SEEMON. i a-battle, T6. will' erash foes, blesk rocks, - Felt each day in spelling class; . i ° 31min lightgings/ thrésh niountains, Jt isa , Never could sho go abdvd ., cee - - leld to\ the warrior, n craile to tho most ~ Lily, or for gold or love.: © | «Dictating a Sermon to His: Many ponderous wheel.a lever to pryaip pyramids, <a . 200 ~ steador® na- He Embarke , a drim whtose.bont gives strdn‘gt}: 5mm ate Though she studied might and main, for the Holy Land, F rea ays ‘g‘y. ond saile to with . ha * a aden H ess pearls from the gifitxnsl: gal-“fig!!!“ td ~ ® 2] L ' . - 22 bait; iof earth to ghnrh‘orpqt heavon, , Canes The Rov. T. Do Witt Talmage, D. D., on us you are not yet oquippai.. You must Kept her old place head, > his embarkation db Now York fur. the Hol hito Shat stainoy cau the ace , gives an interesting incident in cop! | Mo was a lazy, dissipated glassblower, pl But ono day, at last sho came . Running with ber face aflams, She the Rubicon had passed, 6 She was nt the boad at Inst! What delight! 'what pride! Wo said; you really at the liead® - © \'Yes oh yes,\ sho cried in gloo, * \Lily stayed athome, you spe!\ -Harrict Spofford in Youth's Companion, R Ti EYES Or A DoLt. _Dr. Mackenz'q, the English physician, nectiqn with the manufacture of dolls' cyes, _ Years ngo an English glassmaker named Q«lor, being examined a committee of the House of Commons, teat fixd that, having received an order from Franco for a large quantity, of the best dolls\ eyes, ho was unable to fill it. On inquiry he found that there was only one man at that time in the world_ able to make a doll's eye with the irls on it. who never did that kind of work, for which he obtained. very high prices, until.he was utterly penniless. He was in the last stage of consumption, and Mr. Olsen paid him $59 for his secret. The process was no‘simplt; that in five Then they to flying time Might sing this simple rhyme; 'We toil, we toll, 'mid life's turmoif, And will not harbor.sorrow; For though we may be poor today, We may be rich tomoffaw.\' ~ / AMBUSHED. AN ADVENTURE IN soUTi AFRICA. \ &e - I was stopping 'for a tim: at Win- burg, n email town in the Orange Free Stato, in November, 1831. ~I was pass- ing my time in a hammock uader the trees, smoking, roading, and I must confess, [coling pretty tired of the mo - notony of my existence fo South Africs. The Busuto Land Rafirs had some time provigusly taken it into their heals that things that no heathen should be called upon to pag, and con® sequently they were in rebellion. After some sinall skirmishes had taken place between the Cape Colony . troops and (taxes wore war was coming. Colony, awakening slowly to the enormity of the danger thréatoning her,_cominonced organizing corps of colonial volunteers, and it was at this time that I almost determined to offer my services ns an old imperial of- ficer to the Colonial government. 1 was lying one morning as usual in my hammock, having just fnisfied the Intest Cape-Town paper (fourteen dips when I heard my name shouted from the but- Fide of the inclosure. Girncing up 1 nn old friend, Colonel Griffiths, It E. C. M. G., as gonial, brave and trur-hoarted an Trish» Providence has moulded and encasel in a uniform. To jump up, to shout (o my worthy aboriginal to take 'the colonel's hors», was the work of a sscon:, and then, graspiog him by the hand, Linquired to what stroke of for- | tune I owe} the pleasure of his com- fring. Well,\ answered the colonel, ''the Government wants me to get to Maseru as quickly as pogsible ani take over the f Cape command, ns that imp of a Larotodi (a power{ul Katir chief) bas been making things hum a bit for the residents and the force of colonial troops statfoned | there, and I am going to organize (wo volunteer regimants, one white and one black, and if you feet inclined to do some more soldicring 1 can offer you a trump“? My surprise was only exceoded by my | joy at this opportunity of reheviag the monotony of outh African life. 1 lost no time in accepting the offer, and . . during a capital tiffin, I arranged to} join the colonel at Moseru in ten days, | giving me time to fetch up from Natal | the necessary kit of an officer. -o | It was a bright summer morbing colonel that, mounted on my ofd ard | tried hGnter, a valise strapped on the baee of my saddia, a pocket fall df to. i | a Martin Henry express rifle (one { my favomte my old regi mental swoud strung to my saldie, I cet out to jorn my coonel and a«mme com- ard of my My - decination was distant fom» esa boadred aad thir. prey hour Chickiy woeded (a) parts troop. ty mies mr rad li .ag over /A - un fre pedcefcl caim, | orok¢3 . the bm. Chips oof ofre trop lng of tir by desk sn be mows qs enerm in i ng oak Are £ v very pack hommes n vane tases a tang the ourn ng (ace 0s mes | My decision | was quickly made. this 'sidg-of the-river-Caledon-thi dary separating the; free - tates. 'from Basuto Land is a small hill overlooking the whole of the imimadiato country, and from which a distant view | of the fort and residency, cach of which is situated on small hills some sever hun- dred yards apart, the vilinge being bo- ing betwgen the two, was obtainable __| On the first hill were groupsl some Boors, from whont~ inquired the news. I was answered by a surly young Boor that the Kafirs had rotired'after a pefate attempt to capture the | fort, Thaaking him nod oxporiencing the relief, I lilsurely walked my horse down to the river and crossel. Thal walked some 'bupdred yards when \ping\. camo a bullet over my head, followed by suothor and another, Llooked up at the fort, thinking I was being mistaken io the distance for a Kafr, throuh the stupidity of the raw native lovies who, from former experience in the Zulu war, I knw to be only too glad of an oxcuse for firing off their rifles. 'The bullets were now coming protty lively, but as I fortunately 'had mot been hit I detirmined to rectross the river. . As I turnéd in my | saddte I was thunderstruck, | for from | under the banks of the river curled tho Tittle pulls of white smokodonoting so much. They had got between me and the river, and my retreat was cut off. - With in yards, | crawling on - the amongst the long rgods, was the black carcass of a Basuto tFarrier. 7 Realizing at once the truth, I drew a revlover, set spurs to iny hore iy and was just bounding into a gallop, when from out of the ground, as it seemed, in fronk. [= of the blac c skinned demons. I was surr uide. [ reined >- up. Retreat was impossible, advance seeme ! equally so, while to stand still mosant 'death, perbaps torture. - I had presence of mind to goto that none of them carried roso a - dozen the deadly assegai, and Dbreathed freer, N tenchor. 'them. When ho fotired from business thirty | £ ground in | as I knew what | thundering | bad shots | they were. That I was properly am- bushed was clear, for now on all sides in the swampy reeds appsare® the black brutes, uttering their horrible war-cries. My ohly chance was to break through those in front and gain the Tort. r straight at what Tconcluded was the captain of those in front, and he, mot noticing my Colt, awaited my charge, edvidently belieying me to be unarmed; aod as I came up he snatched st the, | bridle of my horse, snd as he did so I fire@e putting a 44-Colt through my dusky friend, and déwn dropped No. L. 1 quickly emptied the remain- ing - chambers, - and _ was the _ savages. I- war gratulating msself on my sucosss on breaking through, | when rom e ther side of reeds which skirted the | narrow brid'e- path over which I whs going at con- **geven days alter my interview with the | ful speed, jamped two stalwart sav- ages. - My pistol was etpty, but 'the aword which had stood me in good stead in many a savage fight was q nex» iy nasheath-d. ~ With a quick | pressure of the knes, which mp horee 49 ck'r understood I turned him fa.. upa the left-hand Kafr so sa ideniv that ne dis uppeage 1 beh nd the feet of my borse, ®hd at the samo issteat gate pout to my friend oa the right, and 1 wae \<> 'o my mated. +n minutes after=a 4 I Mesecas biked 4 wn \4. gmat rec wong the oto reat me bo noen ASicem -~ Praskb [an ed Fea ahop d Ne a mane! met He a ware seca goes des at Ceak | making mud- ples |i -a way. mitmates-fr.-Ostor; -with-the-ald-of-n gnsliglit and a blow pipe. was able to make as good a 'natural eye\ ms his Mr. Osler concluded that part of hs evidence by. stating that he sub- sequently rbceivod an order for \nat. ural eyes\ to tho extent of%§2500, aad that ho grow rich by mafiufacturing he gave a dinner to his rivals in the trade, and ba fore they separsted s ho w od them how to mako the oycs. Trio common- \ot dolls' ayes no# briug‘ about $1.25 for twelve dozen pair, while the best, or \'natural eyes,\ can be had for about 8 cents n pair. Titk minks coxsrinatons. One day, when little Arthur was ' the front-yard, ho heard some one call{ him. It was his Aunt Jino, who was standing on the front porch with n letter in hor hand. '«Rut neross the streot and put 'this etter in the box, Arthur; ploaso,'' sho said. No, I don't want to,} sill Arthur, who did not like to bo disturbed. Ho Aunt Jane went reross the stroct herself and mailed tho lottor. | Not long ofter this Arthur's nother asked him to take a spool of silk to Aung Jane, who was up stairg \No 1 don't want to,\ anawored Land, by tho steamer Ulty of Parks,. ad~ dressed ill c.by translation, thra lubber.\ If Paul's advice bad been taken would-mvercimve \I © leaving into ft. now dicta? mi eparture for the tnfllions of friends through the ress, taking for his toxt Alaska \And accompanied, him unto the hip.\ His sermon is printed below in full: 'To the more than twenty-five million peo- ple in many.countries to whom my sermons come week by' week, in nglish touguo and I,the kindness of the. r press, I nidiress these words, hom to a stenographer ort the ove of d oly Land, Palestine. n you read this sermon will be mid- Atlantle, 1 go tobe gon w weeks on n. religious journey, I go because I~want for quyself and benvors and readers to seo Beth- Ishem, and Nazaroth,, and Jerusalem, and Calvary, and all the other. p connected with my Saviour'slife anlileath,aud so re-on- force myself for sermons, I go becausy I am writing the \Life of Christ,\ and can be more-accurate and graptiGwhen I have been an eye. witness of the cored places. Pray' for my successful journsying and my safe repurn. . I wish on thoirg-of departure to pronounce a loving benediction all my friends in high places and low, Upon eongregations to whom my sermons are. read in nflence of pastors, upon grours guthered out on the prairies, and in mhtiog Aistricts, upon all sick and\lnvalld and aged ones who cannot attend churches, but to whom I have long administered through the printed page. My next sermon will be addresséd to you from Rome, Italy, for T'feel like Paul when he said: \Bo as much -as ij mo is, to preach the Gospel to yu that are at Romo aso.\ The fact that-? cas ever mov- a“ about on land or ses, He was am ofd~ lor-not from octupition, but from fre- quency of travel, I think be contt havo taken a vessel across the Mediterranean as well as some of the ship aptains. The sil- ors never scoffed at hinr for being a \land I am'ready Melita, When the-vesse! went seudding under bare poles Paul was the only sel{-possessed man On board, and, turning to the excited: crow and despairing mge:s, he oxglaims, in n voice that sounds above tne thunder of the main“ and the wrath of the sea: \'Be of good cheer,\ > . The men who now go to sen with maps, and . charts, 'and modern compass, warned by buoy and lighthouse, know n +hing of the porils of ancient navigation; Horace said-that tho man who first ventured @ the sea must have had a heart bound.with onk and triple brass. People then ventured culy from headland to headland, and from island to Island, and not until long after 55er thdir sail for a voyage across the sen. efore starting, the weather was watched, and vessel hnving been « bauled up on the hore, the mariners placed. their shoulders against toe stern of the ship and heaved it off -they, at the last moment, essels wore then chiofly ships of burden- the transit of passengers g the exception; for the world war wot migrator®y, as in our day, when the first desire of a man in one place seems to be to pdt into nuother place. The ship from which Jonsh was thrown overboard, and in which Paut was carried prisoner, wont out chiefly with the Idea of taking a cargo, As now, so then, vessels were necustomed to carry a flag. In those times it was Inscribed with the name | f a heathen deity. A vessel bound for Syra- | had on it the inscription, \Castor and | x.\ Theships wore provided with an- chors\ Anchors were of two kinds-those dropped Into the sea, and those that were thFown up on tothe rocks to hold the vessel fast, .This last kind was what Paul alluded to whes he said: \Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both mu‘wd steadfast, and which enterath Into that Ir- in the vail.\ That was what the sailors call a \hook anchor,\ aThe rocks and sand ' bars, shouls and not being innppcf} out, vessels carried a plumb line, They woul drop it and find the water fifty fathoms, and drop it again and find it forty fathoms, and drop it again and find it thirty fathoms, thas Iscovering their near approach to the shore. Arthur again. His mother said nothing, but when | up stairs herself | with the silk, sho had a little talk with Aunt Jine about Arthur. An hour later Arthur ran to Aunt Jano with a broken whip. \'Please t mend this, Aunt Jano,\ he erfed. \No Idon't want to,\ said Aunt ‘ Jane, without looking up from her sow > | ing. , i Atthur seemed surprised for a mo- l ment, then hung, his head and turned | When supper was over, Arthur | carried a book to his marnma. | ©Picase, read me a story, mamma,\ ) ho said. \I don't want to,\ mail wno wa; knitting. Arthur's lip quivered, and his eyes were full of tears as he set down on a his mother, - qushion in the cornar to look at the pie--+ 1 rode , -h+m3n4mm eame and took him off * boy who never wanted to do favors, and past > tures in the book. \ But ho forgot h's / troubles when hit papa came in. . ' O5, papa! he said, runnihy to him; \please make me q whistle®* *~ C- , No, I don't want to,\ said his paps ~ This was too much for Arthur and he barst into tears. - But no one comforted to bel. While she undressed him she told him that no one could Tove a little if he were not ready to oblige others ha must not expect others to oblige him. The next morning Aunt Jane came 'S@E again with a ititer, . As soon as he saw het he left his mud-cakes and ran to her. ‘I * + Lor ma pwihfrlener in the box Aus{ Jans,\ he said Aunt Jane enf'~+l «od kissed him as The gav: him the letter - She that Arthiss had learned a god lesson, and ha nevor aga®o refeed to do a favor -- We z omy es nene ges i> cas W freer Not a Searecrow. < planks arehanled in, and Paul is goue. In the spring, sumer and nutunn the editerranean Sea was white with the wings of ships, but at the first wintry blast the hied themselves to the nearest harbor; al- though now, the worlds commerce prospers | In January ns well as in June, and in mid- winter all over the w«le and stormy deep there flost palaces of I ght, trampling the billows under fout and showering who sparks of ferrible furnages on the wild wind; and the Christina passenger, tippefed and «shawléd, site under the shelter of the smoke- stack, looking off upon the phosphorescent deep; on which is written in scrolls of foam and fre: “1'le way, O Hod, is in the sea, and Th]; {nth in the great nater«\ t is In those day« of early navigation that I see a group of men, women and children on the bench of the Mediterrancan Paul is about to Teave the congregation to whom he | bad preached, and they are come down to 1 see him off. It isa eclemn thing to part. ; There are so many traps that wait {fr a | man'g feet. The rolid ground may break through, and the ser-how many dark mys- teries it hides in its hos-m'! A few counsels, a hasty good-by, a last look, and the ropes rdiftle, and the snils are hoisted. nndlthe ex- pect to sail aver some of The camo wateré over which Paul sailed. but before going I want to you alt t-embark for - The church is the dry dock where sonis are | to be fitted out for heaven, In making a yess | sel for this voyage. the first need is sound the timber _ The fgor timbers ought to he | of solid stuff - For the want of it, vessels that Ioaked able to run their jibbooms into the eve of any tempest, when ina storm have been crushed hike a wafer | The§truths of God's Word are what I mean by floor timber« Away with your lighter materials . Nothing but oaks, hown in thih : wrest of divine truth, are stanch enough for this craft You must Have lies for a helm. to guide and. timm the craft - Naithor pride, nor am- bition. nor avarice <-H do for a radder. Love. not only in the heart. bat fasting in the eye and tingling in the hand-love mar. ried to work. which many Took n as a> homely a bnde-love. .t fike brooke which foam and rattle vet d nothing. but lors like a river that runs up the of imll. wheels and works in the haress of factory bands- love that will not pas by on the cther side, but visite the man ho fell among thieves |- the pirate vessals of temptrztion will,, This comprises the ship's _bracos, t clew lings and such like, Without theso a?! rdacould mot be braced, the «alls lifted nor. e cany dmywiso managed. \Wo have pr?” for the running rigging. Unless you understand this tackling\youare not a spirit- usfsenman. By pulling on thess ropes you holst the sails oyt 9am: and turn them overy. whithor, The prow of courago will not cut the wave, nor thosdil of faith spread oud flap its flea, unless you have prayer for i balllard.~ h One more arrangement and you will be ready for tho' sea, You must hive ncoimpass -which is the Bible, . LOpk at it overy day, nud always sail by it, as its needle points th- ward the Btar-of Bethlehem, Through fog and darkness and storm it_works faithfully. 'ch the Seriptures. \Box the compass.\ t me give you two or three rules for the' voyage. +Atlow your appetites and passions only an under dock passn . Do not allow them ovet to comme up on romenade deck. Mortify gom‘ members which are upon: the earth, Nover allow your any- flflnfi botter than a steerage ~ Let watchfniness walk the decks as an armed son- tinel, und shoot down with great promxnugs’ anything like a mutiny of riotous appetites.\ Be sive tolook out of the forecastle for icebergs. _ These are cold Christians florting about the church. Tho frigld zone pro- fessors will sink you. Stear clear of Icchergs. Koep a log-book during all the voyage-an account of how many furlongs ke a (he? The merchant keeps a- day book as well as a ledger, - You bught to know every night as well nsevery year, how things are 50 Ing. - When thoexpress train. stops at the spot -you hear a hammer sounding on all the wheels, thus testing tho safety of the rail train, - Bound, as we aro, with more than express speed toward a great ought we not often to try {e work of self- examinatiunrk « A You kn. e sure to eep your colors up! You know I—Egglnnd F Bpain by the ensigns they carry, Sometimes it is a Hon, sometimes an cale, sometimes a star, somotimes a crown, Lot it ever be known who you are, and for what«,ort you are bound, t \Christian\ be tritten on the very front, with a, figure of a cross, a crown sad a dove; and from the masthead let float the streamers of Inmaun-'s Then you lire unbarmed'ns thoy say: \Theré gor's tian, bound for the port of heavei. W) not disturb her, for sho has tos many aboard,\ Run up your flag on this Y \I am not ashamed of the Gospel of _fpr jt is the power of God and the wisdom af God unto salvation.\ Whe driven back, or Inboring under great stress of weather-no0w changing from starboard' tack to larboar'1, and then from larboard to starbsard-look above the topgallants, and. your heart shall beat like a war drum as the streamers float on the wind, The sign of the crow will make you 'patient, and the crown will make you glad. Bofora you gain port you 'will smell the land Ofll‘flvibn: [31d Christ, the Pilot, will meet you as you e into the Nurrows of Death, and fasten Won, and say: \'When thou passest through the 'waters 1 will be with thea; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee.\ - Are you ready for suck a voyage? Maka up your minds, | The gang- planks aro lifting. The bell rings. All aboard for heaven'! The world is not your rest. - The chatinich is the allliest bird in all the earth for trying to make its nest on the rocking billow. 0g, how I wish that as I on- bark for the Holy Land in the East, all to whom I preach by tongue or type would em- bark for heaven. What you all most need is God, and you need Him now, Some of you 1 leave in trouble. Things \bro going very rough with you. You bave had a hard struggle with poverty, or sicknew or perse- cation or bereavement. Light after ligmhm me out and it is so dark that you can ardly see any blasting loft, May that Jean: who comforted the widow of Nain, and mised 'thedaceased to His gentle hand of sympathy \is” al, ¢ your toays. . All is well. hen David wa» nceing through the wil- derness, pursund by, his som, he was being proparad to become the sweet singer of Is- raol. . The-pit and the dgageon were the best whools at which Joseph ever gra inated. The hurricane that upsot the tant and Iille I Tob's children propared the man of Uz to write tho magnificent poem that has as- founded the ages. There is no way to get the wheat out of the straw but to thresh it Thers is no way to purify the gold but to burn It. Look at the people who have always bad it their own way hey are proud, dis- contented, uselew and unhappy. If you want to find cheerful folks, go among those who have been purified by the fire. | After\ Rossini had rendered \Willian Tell\ the five Ima-redth | time, a. company -of~ musicians came under his window in Paris and sere naded: bin. | They pot upon his brow a { golden ceréwn. of Inure! leaves.. But amidst sll the applause and: enthnsiasm [Rossini turned to a friend and said: \I would give all this brilliant scene for n few days of youth sind love.\ Contrast the melanche'r feeling of-Rosani, who had everything that this world could give him, to the jag ful ax- ence of Ieanc Watts, whose misfortunes were innuraerable, whet he says: The hill of Zion yields A thousaad sacred sweets, . Refore we reach the heaveniy feld® ur walk the goblet streets, Then let nar songs abounds And every. tear be dry; We're marching through Immanuel's ground To fatrer worlds on high It is prosperity that kills and trouble that saves, _ While the Israalites were on the march, amidst great privations and hag ships, they behaved well . Aftern while, they prayed for meat. and the sky darkenel with a largo flock of quails, and these quails fell in grest multitudes all about them; and the ls raclites Ete &nd ate, and stuffed themseives i i Ob\ my friends. Jp is not shin. or trial, or starvation that injures the soul:but abundant supply. | It is not the vulture of trouble that aft“) the Christian's life; it is the quails® it is \®. 'qnails' ] cannot leave yeu nat ince more fees my faith in theeRiviour whom I have preached.. He is my all in all. I owe mora to the of Ged than most men. With this arent temperdment if I had gone over- Inard I would Kn gone to the very You know I can do nothing by balves. 0 tm grace how great a debtor near Jericho, not mere'v saving | \Poor fel low' you are dreadf /v burt,\ but like the | good Samaritan pour: in ol and some and pays his beard at the ivern | Them most also be a prow. arranged to out anl ~verride the billow That is There are three m antain «arges that Aach agains a soal ina minate the ward. the Sh and the devil -and that ia well drmff® neva that nag bem? over o tham. | Forlack of the mang hace puifack ando never ctc tei o Ir herba ie adage 0 Tame thet ao witen eweepe the deck ang fob ] the batches horn] @t emda on fount is harmiegs | Meet \5 occa mey as vou surmormt tsar Stang oputhe pros I v Daily I'm constrained to bei I think all wall be well.. To pot be worried about me. I know.that my Redeemer Ii and if any fatality should befall ma, think I should gn «traight | I bave heen most unsorthy, and sould be sorry to think that any age of my friends had been as unwort a Chrisuan as mysef - Raf GST has a t many through ani I beps He will hes; me thrvigh |: ie a leng aeomint of shomesmimge 'at if He « gning to rob any afin ort d tana He smi rabort add nat Add now give an fo Ego mot alone: year henadictin | When vou send betters to a from im a distant lati voa say cia sach a mv or nin euch a steamer When rou send and as vw v pe f cpray split s you give wibes to us sad then tis the srrga ry at ann e c Nine O* + (hill Werkal set tavel out of thee thongs mors we cet as viz-rt tp m ~f voir pravore stay aft. mast mgs omg cer hh -t. that Wom Pars #0 canias [o Tos dey a war seamer «--- ccm tennt nan Race a good «trong anchor Thus | ao mc we a wen nave as an ane ard eintbass s any ar ca r-T t* % mg oa han mech ine mee tmvthore sut cotore. aind 4 ] that 1 hand tightly clasped in{bo ~- TEMPERANCE ever forming, The leaves nover fall. ~mfinewihzxilmr They know neither four seasons, for their fruit is always un.; TL God has pragared fgr those who love Him} I uiter nos the word farewell; it is. 'too sa‘d, m}; formal tilt! wind {fl-t an; to spea or write. | But, considering that ave your 5h of mine, I utter a kind, an affectiongte fud a cheorful good- byi - news © . L THANKBGXVVIHG. » Plenty of peace sit smiling here, ', ~ ~~ We thank the Giver of Fill \ the large loaf of n food, - Zhe product of a plenteous year. Here commerce sproads her sails of ~ Here anvils ring and (cries glow, Here freely swings the school-houso -Here science aweeps the starlit floor. Have not our daysbeen golden days, In happy_houtes where honor dwells? *__ Music and song the star; tells Of hearts that overflow with praise, For gifts from the sweet heaven above, For filia! and parentatiove, Eor health and life and the good cheer ~ Which crown another prosperous year. , Our bins aro filled with golden wheat . From fruitful fields, hard labor Magi-l Orchards and vineyards here have filled *, «Our vaults with unspoiled julces*® sweet, In gamma]! praise wo lift our eyes To Him who gave us genial skies, And blessed the nation at its task = \With daily bread for which we ask. The Benjamin of nations born, Our land no needed hlefiinis lack, \The loving cup is in the sack, With shekels hid amid the corn; £11101: the just and the unjust 'The rain has fallen on the dust, - And from it food abundant springs, Fit for a continent'of Kings. ow, , ~ +*Canned fruits. - G. W. Burgay,in Temporance Advocate. -THE DEVIL'S ORCHARD. ' . If a tree is to be judged by its fruit, then surely we have all, seen enough of the “quot business. to know that drinking saloons are only so many avil trees that never can produce any fruit worth the space they occupy. It does not require the skill of a gardener to see that these liquor trees are evergreens, They are always blooming, | Fresh (rui'h‘ls e seasonable, They care nothing about the four quarters of the year, because they show the world .q@ quarter at any time., In the devil's orchard it ichuryest-time all the year' round, and yet, strange to say one wants the fruit of this tree when they've gotit. | It Is a puzzle and a trouble to get rid of it-a shamd to tmmanity, and a disgrace to the com- mon sense of the country to produce It' Youth's Banner. Evite ow atcormon, . 'The evil wrought by alcoholic drink is now ricknowledged and proclaimed. by all theor- zans of public opinion, r t infecbles the will, conrsens the mind and in- fames animal passions, It separates busbands and wives, (Yin , shildren of the home influence which noth: ing elso. can mipplyy | It Jowers the of morals, fills prisons and insane lums with its vietims, and feeds the germs'of.gor _ ruption in the body politic. | It is, ina word, the enuse of the occasion of four-fifths of the wime by | which our Dational life, is dis- raced.- Bishop Spalding. , \ _Z. - * THE seer onixcEns. The World révently.sunt-out a reporter to a number of the big breweries of New York city to sco if there was any truth Ta the won- derful stories told of the drinking habits of brewery employes, abd~i claims that the wildest stories aro not tod. Brewery hands are genorally mm gratis, with all the beef\ they can drink, and the World man says that ther take advantage of this privilege often to the extent of from forty to oue bundred glasses daily. One monumental beer-guzzler, who tips the scale at330 pounds, has a recordof 140 glasses in a single dan-. \Our men.\ anid one brewer, \drink'tWenty glasses n day.\ Another declare. r io azerago number of glassesdrunk by our people during a (MK is seventy-five apiece, each glnss hblgin bulf a pint. We have a fow brilliant stars who con- sider 100,‘;Iassm per diem to be only ordinary exerciso.\ But what stars! Six of them weighed 1520 pounds. If men were to be val: ued for the samo qualities as are copxitered to constitute excellence in hoge, no doubt all the prizes at any exhibition of hnman an- imals would be carried off by some of these browse hands, Their only: competitors would some of their best customers. For all beor-driakors tha Brewers Journal tates in 1870 at 7.05 gallons capit while in 1889 it' had N'fieyiéé per cent to 12.48 gullons. During these years tho.comsumption_of beer in England and y remained nbout stationary, being 324§ gallons in England, and %4. lons in Germany. Three figures show two ings: First, that while in England and Germany the per capita amount of liquor donsamed has remained the same during the last ten years, vet in this country it has in- creased during that short period seventy- seven cent, And second, that the ave tage an imbibes two .and the lish threo times as freely as the American. CJ drunkermess is more common in this country. rewrkBance yews asp sores A boy five old was treated In a pri- vate hospitad in Berlin for delirinm tremens. * Nearly two hundred new W. C. T. U.\ unions have been organized in Pennsylvania thficymr. If is estimated that $10,000 is t for. drink on an average steamship from England to Australia. The Cadiz (Ohio) Flambeau estimates that fifth household. In Germany fifty per cent. of the poor and seventy per 0131115 eriminal are incor- rigible drinkers. The total number of licenses in Great Britain and Judgfor the sale of intoxicat- ing liquor is 163, The keeper of, the morgue in New York city sintes thst, -fiffHis of the 5000 bodies that reach the fity dead-house every year are sent there by ess « John Greenway, widow, of the late millionaire brewer of Syracuse, New York, courts an habt *T have treated nearl Tme of inebriety, and eight-tenths of that nom f ted trom wine and malt Hiqnors,\ says Albert Day, M. D. Superintendent of the Washingtonian Home At Boston. Ban Obispo. Cal, a town of 1500?inkabit m}su‘ppm'ts eighty saloons, | A \Focal W. C.T.U mcretary. in frying to raiss funds for a building for the gun, exclaims: \Help us, for our children are being eaten like bread before our eyes.\ An Epfcopa Immwnmfly roect a tern: perance meeting by ing ten com- mandments, pref the mot with these neds. -I will resd the every one of whose commands is romctantly vialazed in the saloon ~ Great Brituin bas st leset three: fistin- gaithed military tommanders who ara total abstainars viz mander-m-hief of Her Majesty's armies in Bombay Sir Henry Ramey, late cam mander of a @ in Taim, and Sir MMM Burmah during the inta Bermess war - The New ¥ ark comrequedent of the Phila- Aetphca Ledger wrote m a to thas 'in a trmement beme on Rightsaxtlt pemew Cress an Gier {mmflgngsafllbfia won c 69h see that scarecca® out there gsm ork } » dn ea boa Cw. nome pes ner gee nn w ment e cops p< zo. man a nok C-- , a » i aoa s act « avg £089 Ts nes al wa peetan n oe en ing nade | Nou w won 6 Ree n ca Meave . - Tra weg oan no a « Cal S2 | Ahed en o talin and an ccd Ths imagination of a ener of the fs s | +_: Whether dim fore! Itundermines health, |. des and deprives I inces the consumption of beer in tho United | the liquor traffic takes one boy from every ! Sit Robert Thayer, com + RELIGIOUS READING, v2 00 = - 0 ELL to R . (When thou wakest in the morning © Bro thou tread themmenéfrfw e Of the lot Shat lies before th . Through the conting busy dayix - \Whether sunbedrms promise Ifrig inces. 3 Roping: Be thy dawning.glad or wigomy.> P (an a) Jesus-£451 Him ail! , . Io In the.calm of sweet communion ._ Let thy daily work be done; In the gene of soul outpouring, Care be banished, patience won; And if earth with its enchantmcnh Heck the spirit to enthfall, --. »Ere thou listen, ere thou answer, Turn to Jesus-tell Hinval}J Then, as hour by hour glides by the6, . .- Thou wilt blessed fie dance know; Thine own burdens being lighdened, Thou cangt bear another's woe; \Thou. canst help the week ones onward, .._ Thon caust raise up those that fall; © But remember, while thou servest, Btill tell Jesus-tell Hiru allt . And If wenriness creep o'er thee . As the day wears to its close, Or if sudden, fierce temptation 'Brings thee face-to fuce with focs, P In thy weakness, in thy peril, Raise to heaven a trustful call; Strength and calm-for every crisis Come-in telling Jesus all. - ¢ i . romacco x prisom. ._ New York State spends $20.000 to supply its prisons with tobacco, And this tobscco just feeds the fires of appetite for liquor so ~ that when the convicts come out they go at once for whisky and there is no salvation Crom their old habits. - erve az vour:noy. The saloon must have boys or It must shut up shop. 'Can't you furnish it one? | It lea great factory, und unless it can get 2,000 boys from each generation for raw material, some of these factories must | close out, and its operatives must be thrown on a cold world, aad the public revenue will dwindle. - 'Wanted 2,000,000 boys,\ is the 1 notice, One family out of every five must i y to keep up the supply. Will you help? | Wifish of your boys will 1 be? The minotaur of Crete had to havea tri- ~ reme full of fair maidens each year: but the minotaur of America demands arity full of }boys euch year. Areyou a father! Have ou {given your 8 to keep up the supply ¥ur this preat public institution that is belp- re ing to pay your taxes and kindly electin filicgnfllcinls for you? - Have you pnnLrE uted a boy?, If not, some other family has had to give thore than its share. Are you selfishly yoting to keep th con open to . Erind up boys. and then doing nothing to eep up the supply?-Selected, i g- B .> 40 a - DENIED, ABT + When Augustine, in his home at Carthage | resolved to visit Rome,\ his mother wished . either tyrevenc hint from: going, .or togo \ with hin. | He would listen to neither pro- eal, and resorted to a 'trick to carry out' js plan. One evening (he went to the sea- shore and his mother followed. . There were | martyr Cyprign, and he pressed ber to spend one evening in the church of the martyzy-- while be would accompany a friend on board a Ship, there to say farewell. While she was there in tears, praying and |_ wrestling with God to prevent the voyage. guanine sailed 'for. Italy, and his deceived mother next morning found herself alone. In quiet. resignation she returned to the city and continued to pray for the salvation.of her son. Though menning well, yet she erred in her prayers, ,for the journey of Augustine was the means of bissulvation. The denial of the prayer was, in fact, the answering of it. Instoad of the busk, God granted rather the substance of her petition in the conversion of her son, \Therefore said he, \\O God, thou bast re- and 1114151 not do what she then prayed for, that thou mightst do for me what she ton- tinually implored.\-Anon. * J. r. LOWELL OX RELtGNON. \I fear that when we indulge ourselves in the amusement of going without a religi we ate not perhaps, aware how sustained at present by a all abogt.ng of roligi ous convicncrt tafe for ns to think-for us who have t advantages, ana bave been vrought up in ch a way that a certain moral direction has been given to our character-I do not know what would become of the les-fay- ored classes of mankind if they undertook to play the same game. \\W batever defects and imperfections may attach to a few points ofthe doctrinal sys- tem of Calvin-the bulk of which was sim- ly what all Christians believed-it will be Found that Calvinism, or another ism which claims an open Bible and proclaims a ert fied and risen Christ, | is nflnitcli' prefern- ble. to any . form El?- ite - ahd polished skepticism, which gathers os {tv votaries the degenerated sons of heroic an- cestors, who, having been trained in a so- ciety and educated in schools..the founda- tions of which were laid by men of faith and piety, now turn and kick down the ladder by which they bave climbed p, and : ade men to live without God, and leave them to die without hope: . -**Fhe worst kind of religion is no religion at all, and these men. living in esse and luxury, indulging themselves in the 'amuse- ment of gol without religion;' may be th ul fgzzgtbey live in lands where the that they neglect bas tamed the for Christianity, might long 5&3;ng their careaseey HKG the South Ses Isl&nders/ or cat off their heads and tan'péd their hides like the mogsters of the - ch Revoln- tion. | When the mimotgaic search of skep- ticieim. which bis bunted'the heavens and , sounded the seas to di the existence of - a Creator, has turned its attention to human society and has found a piace on this planet {an mm: square, thre sham; Toan can ive in deceney, comfort abd security, sup» porting: and educating his eSfidren un- speiled and unpolluted: a place where nge is reverenced. infaney protected, resected. wnmanbood honored, and human: life held in dne regard: when skeptics can frod such a place ten miles rquareon this globe. where the G of Christ bas. nok gamma cleared the way, and Inid the foun- ation and-niade decency and ity 'pos sible, it will be in order for the skeptical Jit eratito move thither and thete 1 ‘ mm But a] as theebggdmm ent upon the religion whi ey discard for every privilege they . enjoy, they may well hesitate a little Mariska-y seekits .Tob the Christian of his ofits faith in that Savior who alone has given , \to man that hope of Efeeternal which makes - Iife tolerable &nd society possible, and Tobs | death ofits terrors and the grave of iis i gm“ = * } 1 ‘figésted terself to the service of Ret Raviear \I cannot describe the-dep well two chapels dedicated. to the memory of the. _>: --. gard to the aim and essence sof het desires, ~* iness and ferocity of the men who, but -* i of joy that 2 possesed ma mets eras est duy\ bein oid mot like to te 12 | Thons \haps nour nf to ree: but Bey #14 me herp. for T wss lems to t}% i
