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i.“ bfl‘ - ID, « ford -b 1s PUBLISHED-.EVERY FRIDAY 1 - Terms, $1.00 per Year, ' STRICTLY IN ' All papei-a disco \z-nyE- E. CoRrow m ~ OTSEGO C04 N. Y. 6 lmin: 7 ADVANCEMENT AND PROSPERITY is OUR MoTTo. MILFORD, OTSEGO CO., N. Y., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1889. NO. 6. \ite tpimes orFice 18 ow raspared, To bo ALL Emps or . _ ~ .. PRIN TING AT LOWEST PRICES, ' -an, - Sale Bills, Largest Posters, Ietter Heads; ' a- Bill Heads, Ciroulars, Cards, &0,, PROMPTLY EXECUTED. cA k A pter mie terres) - yop. p - - (mae -t EH- y - ' - - lk 'A Lovo Song. - *'Wa couldn't indogd, ma'am. It] + * Dearest dear, if thou wouldst measure What to mo is meastitéless, Half the pain or hall the pleasure -Of my love's great tenderness, , I will touch my henn'utfln'y for theo- - «Binge to thee, it doth belong— And the echo shall adore {heel In a song withinggwg’. cost us more than that totimp prt it.\ «Tl take | thirty yatdesy\ tux Mrs, Cacklo. - \Let mo 00\. (naionhflgg;on the fat tan-colored fingers whore the rings - bulged - out < so © olstrusively), ''nnught's a naught, sight tinies naught's. % gaovera groat stort and \stared around hor like one who beholds a ghost. \My gooduess mol\ oxclaimsd~sho. | 'Where {d you got that carpet?\ *Ten't 16 nico!\ sald Miss Biggs, beaming through hor .oyegiasses. . \'It ‘fimf trip to Glassybrook,. . however, sho | CC GHEDBEF'S‘COLUM. joe botre ap i. My dolls.and I, so happy are we Under a-big, broad, tall pine tree, We call it our home, the great, green pinc; They have thelr hammocks ond I have mine? ° 200 All a sunny morning we love to.li¢ . REV, DR. TALMAGE THE BROOKLYN DIVINES SUN- - \DAY SERMON, Subject: “flue Holy City,\ (Preached «nit Jerusqlcm.) ninf bad - such n that, | when what unds. - But, a of a and broke his ting to' get the throng marshaled notwithstanding: all of Isracl. and the conflict was beg David, tl \af «cont \' - was possibly be any tfistake. requisite supply of material on the ond , diamond-sot bat, and her plump visage @I tell you, Rosina,\ sho added, ~as | Of the blowpipe. When the gathering == - \___ s bore the traces of pearl powder 82d | apy sop in the elovator, being lowered | i* done proporly, this Tump-ofred-Rot $ \I ** cream of roses, Ighl on with no sPATIOG | gown to tho lovel of tho surface world, | 819% is a porfectly homagencous mass. 0 C hand. *~ _ ~ \I wish I knew who that olegant young-|-Its subsoquont fortures rost | with the - Beside hor sat her doir particular Iady was who was looking at the white. | blower. - Ho Takes - the~ blowpipe from friend, Miss Rosina. Réfford, who al- and- pearl moquelte carpet! I'd like to | the-gathoror, and resting .the plastic . , gays.1)lnyqd the part of Damon to\ | net nor for the pattern of a?!“ shoulder | glass mgainst a mn'rvlcxziug table of stono ythias, and invariably wout shopping | caps. < 1'm sure it must hate come di- | 'T cast fron, he gives the pipe a few with hor. __Lreot from Paris.\ adroit rotations, thus {fashioning the -o- Lf ''You fee, Rosina,!*said Mrs. Cackle, | bg glass into an even eylindrical shaps. . who was one of the kind that (alk very Woll, ‘my dont,\ said Mt hackle, as | By further rolling\ it along the odgo of a loni in public places, and indulge it | po sat down to the soup oud roast beef | tho table ho forms tho smaller prolonga- fillfiort! of dotails, \it's for a wedding | of the plentiful (glblo at home, *'what | tion of glass which is afterward to be- * present. - Lemuel gave mo n. chet £07 | gorp of a parlor (Kl-pot did you buy for | come thonéek of the bottle. Lifting R a hun red dollars, nud told me to DGy 8 | pousln Erminte?\ the still red- hot glass from the table, ho nico parlor carpot for his cousin, who is \O' a beauty!\ . said Mrs. Cackle, | blows through the pips, formiig a to ba marifid noxt month-\} sproadfirg-out hor napkin to protect her | Small bubble of air in the interim: of _ L ©Mr. Oneldo Is always so annex-om,\ dreas the mass of glass. | This is afterward a smiled Miss Rufford, whose new set of \Did you use all my check?\ extended until it becomes the inward- falso tooth mado hor smiles very smiling \Yes overy dollar . of it,\\ answered | 1683 of the bottle. e indeed. _ CA hundred dollats did you | yy, Cackle, \ anlving hor ~consclence Tho partly fashioned bit of glassware way, That will- buy 'a very nico | with the sogolléoton of the black satta | It now introduced into the mold which ong; indeed bs ._ -> -- - \__| and the Escurial lace, which wero . al- | one of the t'shop\ boys has already, 'It would,\ said Mrs. Cackle, Sif I ready in the, dressmaker's hands, *| opened to receive it. - For\ convenionce r R was goose enough to buy it, But 1 ef 1,060 they'll bo p'eased,\ said M-. |in working the mold is placed on a A don't mean to. Cicklo's only a man, Cackle, _ \It's vory essontial to make a somowhut‘slqwur level than that on . and mon never do understand things. favorable impression, I bog you to rg. | which the blowor stands, _ It is mado What $2,121!!!\ out -in «the; wilderness mumbcr: “is, doar, on theso relations, | of cast Irow and commonly . formed in. - of- urlorstand about carpets!) And | foy the young man Erminio is to marry | two plocas. - One of theso is stationdy, \ what do they want of the best grade? |4s a relative of the hoad of out firm, and | whilo the other opons outward, its mo- No, young man, I don't wart any of could, I've no doubt, recommend mo for | tlon being controlled by a foot-lover. the dollar-and «a-quirter linox. =- Thats | advancement.\ When the blower places his incomplete too high. - Haven't you n'nything for 'Wirg-didn'tyrirteil mo all this be- | bottle, still attached to the blowpipe, about n dollar, or ninety conts. _ It | forst\ said Mrs. Cackic, with a pang of | into tho.mold, he closes the mold with to t needa't bo the vory fioest quality, I toll tardy romorso. | \But how on earth did | his foot and blows through th» pips you. If Isperd fifty dollars on it,\ your country cousin come qcross' such a | until the plastic glass is avery whore turning oacs mors to ~Miss~ Rufford, good matcht\ ' forced ngainst the sides of the mold, , \itll bo all that is necessary, ond the I don't know! I believe ho | and has impressed upo n it the form of extra sume 4'll invest in a new satin FOWA | cme out to Gaussybrook fishing or gun- its prison. -Popular-Science Monthly. * for myself. | Hi, ha, hal Cickle is so ning or somothing. | M anio is vory ~ ~- ne-, ~ - very close with his check book that protty, they tell me.\ A Death Tost, , now and then 1 have to circumvent said Mrs. Cackle. . Red If mosfipeoplo are nlrfsid of anything him.\ cheoks and black and hair cut in | \* is of boing burlcd_ alive. - That casas You nto so wilty, deat,\ tifterod a pginted bing right down to the top do happott whore It is very difficult even = Miss Rufford. of the nose-I know what these rustic | TOZAb® most experienced physic an to i \Nothing under a dollar and twelve ' determine whether a person is really or u _ 4 it. prominl y. NEREO portions grpand, As the rainbow-to the'sho wors, - As the light-to sightless eyes; As the flame is-to the fire, As the breaze J8-to the sen; As the gain-to the desire, - So, dedr heart, art thou to mel . A - WEmnINc,.PRESENT ~~*'Carpots, young man, said Mrs. «Cackle. What sort of carpots, ma'am? Mo- quolte? Wilton? -We have some very de- sirable importations of royal velvet-\ 'No, brussels! you have in brussels that is afy way de- Mrs. Caeklo sat up on the sighth floor of Meddic & Minturn's grent store, her , ' sitken flouncos rippling around her-am- po form; ihu bird-6f- paradise plume on |' her hat modding, as if.to give extra sig- nifleance to every word sho spoke. tan kid gloves, gliifening with many buttous, wers distended with rings; \hor- ~Inco searf-was fastoned. with\% gaudy - “Twenty-33m «glollats, ma'am?\ said tha clerk, 'scarcoly ablo' to repress his umazoficnt thnhyi «dng Jn thefe sonees should buy so ugly.a Harpo. will lave seventy-six out of the check,\ said Mrs, Cackle; - glog- 4 fully. _ *I tell you what, Rogina-E can trim the 'black satin with the very nlaost flacddél~1qeemnl..iu‘ppogo theso \Back-country barbarians will invite me to the-wedding, and I'd < Liko-'to wear something that will just paralyz0 them! -And-my | ba auy the Do look, Rosina!\ nudging her companion, “Jflyhnt. a bonutiful mo- quette that tall young lady\tf\\tho black silk suit is choosing! I've got to have somothing now in my reception-room next year. I wish I could afford-\ ''The address, ma'am, please?\ said ithe clerk, pencil and p hand. ! Mrs. Cackle hesitate «Well, 'I don't know,\ said. sho, UI [suppose it had bettor bs sent nt once, with cur card, to 'the bride. Give mo the Paper youfig man, if yod please. TiW it down, so that. thero can't A , » if you please!\ The clé§pest thing Her | ding | gift-tho' 'tunsalable tion of his now relation-in-law, tomer of ming. of. her?\ j i Mr.: Cacklo mado a Jittle noise as if she was swallowing something, and yos, she thought it was. , to, Howard Crespigny 'was the bride. The carpet was her own.wed- ' Wasn't it thoughtful patters,\ And Mr. Catkle mover re: colved promotion in the firm . of Harri- man & Cresp'gny on tho recommenda- Mr. Cacklo thought it vory strange ; Mrs. Cackle didn't -Saturday Night. -----saliinms--.--.. _ Tho Beginning of a Bottle, The process begins with the gathorer, His blowpips is a tubs of wrought fron, five or foot long, and 'of lighter weight than the pips used in.blowing window glass. - Ho dips the ond of his pipe into the molten, contents of the boot, and brings out a mass of red-hot plastic gluss, If the bottles to be blown are small, one Enthoflng suffices, but, for larger wares, two of even three gathorings may be necessary. to get the a cents!\ shrilly repented Miss Cackle, a: the ealesman came back again. couldn't think of paying that no . unsa'able , that nobody else will buy? that I want this earp:t for are. dread- - fully old-fashioned, |___.__ ___. know the ference.\ ' OH, my dear, you aro too funny!\ said Miss Rufford, behind her fan, ~*'Woe have one,\ hesitated the yofnn} clerk-''a scarlet ground, with im- Imeasg olive-green pineapples all over Wo haven} sold a 'yard off Everybrdy seems afraid of it, and I don't really think-\! + \Lot me see it,\ said Mrs. Cackle, The porter presently wheeled up a mammoth roll on Hand- barrow; - cletk ullfolded-its hideous, glaring pro- where, some twined itself among impossible scrolls. benutics are ! ' The time for thy wodding arrived. i +p - Hive The Cackles, in their holiday attire, patterns-nothing traveled down to Giassy brook -and P The pEOPIG there, on the drawing-room floor of an elegant remi-Italian villa, Mrs. Cackle recognized the vary white-annd-pearl |mequetts carpet that sho had so coveted at Meddlo & Minturn's, And the bride -already in hor white. silk aad floating veil, to. whom she was introduced as MistErmiaie Brooks, soon to become Mrs. Howard Crospigny -was none other than the elegant young lady in the Paris wrap and tho porfectly-fitting gloves aud boots, and who had har'd every detail of the bargain for the un- salable carpet. . If the cracks in the floor anderneath the moguitte colors could but have opened and swallowed ' Mrs. Gackle up at that moment, what an indescribable relief it would Kuve beeal ©} ''I have to thank you, Mr. Cackle, and mover will « e it, h ti 0 the against | a - scarlet monster vegetable en - recourse to monne which, while they would at once settlo the dispute,. would jeopardy, may be judged from the fact that the French Academy of Science, ten or fifteen years ago, offered a prize some means by which oven the inex- perienced might at whether in a given case death had en- sued or not. A physician obtained the prize. ing well-known phenomenon: hand of the suspected dead personis through the spaces between the fingers toward the light, there appears a scarlet red color where the fingers touch each other, due to the blood stilt tirculatittg, it shows itsaf through which have nof yet congested. once cesies. The most extensive nod thorough trials established the truth 6T7 this observation. -&, Louir Republic. very prmitick way. nly apparently dond without having lzco life, if it really stil existed, in qual to $8000, for the discovery of once . determine He had discovered the follow- If the eld toward a candio or other artiGeial' ght, with the fingers extended and me touching the other, and oue looks the , tissues When fe is entirely extinct the phenomenon f scarlet space between the fingers at Farming 1&1?de In Spai farming is conducted in a Grain is cut with' a ''You see, mffam, it is quite unsala- for you® present,\ said Erminis, in her Af lll blo,\ said fha_clerk. | CMr. Meddid slow, queenly way: and her smile was |° wis talking of donating it to the TeceD~ ja riddle. , tion room of | the Biink and Doddle \I hope Y‘D“ Hiked it,\ said. honest * __ Orphan Asylum, af-\ R -| Mr. Cackle, looking down at the rose | 1+ a little peenliar,\ said Mfrs. and-pearl shades of the soft pile, that Cackle, eyiug it though ber Torgnstte. closed ground his foot like forest mats. Quite-stiem'!-what I should call an, Tt certainly is a pretty pattern.\ - art carpet.\ ain - -|. Mrs: Cscttlo imptcring-gtases- R Ob, my dear Lonisa!\ giggled Miss at the bride-s gtance that said, plainer * Rofford. . * than words, \Don't betray me'\-and ©Bof very striking, ' said lire, The bride began fo falk with somebody ~ Cackle else sbrut something clse. ; ~ so, ma'am,\ eaid che clerk. | gus gid set enjoy the back satin- 4 coughing «raamwlealy | bit i the Eseural trmmingt to wat ~ erk Say ceventr fra\ spoke the Coto . ued Mr Carke was m*~ pocket handkerehief. «What sil you let me take it fo- mid Mrs Cackle, in a bosiness-like \left ber far in the shade. ceom much as sbe bad erpectel. The Paris cxturses of the 'back country cousing <1 i caver go to that dawir | cakes again ' C450 she in a rage Resaj 14 for Mess Biggs ait <bean cecromfeat | O= a hx'rvhf' said . the the time of the Cmsirs, that is, by tramp- { ing about with asses hitched to a stone boat. pointed. with woo. be teen heavy woolen cats drawn by orer Mut of tha trags feemag, etc, Sand, | brick, everything tha: bas to be: moved-be aveng mo the came way in which we sth thew on The plow is a crooked stick, I1 the towns are to is done by donkeys hamber-in fact afrost Trem animals sad rind an the hecki we mend al themugh Spen, fer -i'vor_r stick mm a golden cage, sings the And hear the brook singing tink-a-tink. We make no trouble, my dolls and I, We do not worry,, wo do not ery. The barber has cut off our curly locks; We.do not fuss about pretty frocks. .- best- Long, beautiful hours of porfect rest; So I play that I am the dollies' mother, And under the pine we fake care of cach other. - Mary F. Butts in Christian Union, --- ostricitEs rack Fon rios. Some timo ag> a gontloman visited a pen of tamo ostriches in South Africa. At his call two boautiful birds came up to him, - Boing desirous of testing their speed ho arranged with the keepor that they should-run a race. - Bo ho caressed the birds and showed them a handful of flys, of wliich they aro vory ford. - The walked to a certain distance, _ At a alg- pol they were sot freo and began to run for the figs. . ° They came bounding along at a ter- rifle rato, taking Ewolvs or fourteon foct at astride. Thay ran neok and nock for more than half the distance, their wings working like arms and making a great sound. - Presently one drow ahead and, looking behind, as you may have notlesxl a boy ina foot-race do to see where his rival was, 'and finding him benton, the winnor slackened his pace and gently troited up for the prize of oe f A wigs mov-xinc. Bo much hai been written nbout ' the boy kings of Bervin and Spain, and such immenso quantities of ink have been devoted -to describing almost every minute of their daily lives, that it . will surely be with a feoling of roliof that the news will bo reesived of another child monarch having appeared upon the scans in the person of King Than- tai, the quaint | liftle nine-year-gld sovereign=of tho Ktbpdunt of Annam, - Ho is one of the quosrost childron imaginab's, and unlike their majestics of Spain and BSsrvia, disdain: all gamss, sports or childish nmuse- monts. - Bolemuly serious and of a meditativs turn of mad, ho sponds his days in tho solitudes of his palace, shunning the companion} of his own ago, gad poring over books and many:. scripts. | It fl ho already realized the heavy load of responsibility which rests» cr the shoulders .of n sovercign, and far from (rying to escape the arduous task 'of cramming in his little brain with the knowledgo ho will so much need in Inter yours, ho insists on being taught,. and has a ready mastere 1 the intricato diffizultics of the Chineso, alphabet, He is now torribly carnost in his efforts to learn Fronch, isloxtremely particular that those who instruct him.shall 40 conscientious and \porfoctly , informed {n - all the difféent brafiches of study which he pursues. ' Lately an old Prince happened to bo reading to his little Majesty a bock on philosophy, which he explained as ho read. - A particularly obscure sen- tence causel the old man, whose frcul- ties nro probably slightly dimmed by age; to pmrte. - King Thantai gazed at at him for a moment and then, with a slightly contemptuous smile, remarked, ''You would do weil in future to study beforehand the works which you under- take to explain to mo''-The old Prince managed to stammer out some excuse and apologies, and then precipitately retreated in order to lose no time in obering his Royal master's commands with regard to the polishing up of his classics. The French Government some time ago dispatched a shipload of costly and magnific:nt toys to the boy King, d as 'most of them are calculated to make him acquainted with the marvels <f civilization, he has deigned to show his satisfaction with the gift. Among these royal playthings are a complete railway train, composed of six cars and which works exactly like an ordinary one, stems, pafis, and. draws the train over genuine rails; a miniature steamboat, perfect in its smallest details; and a nightingale, mads of gold aad preciou: stomes, which, perched on an awee'est of mmlod ew --Nen Fork Trib uns. --name... A Voiee's ~Color.\ Blind people sometimes have wauder- ful perceptions. A young lady, talking for the first time with a DHEA mas, was astonished to fnd that he bad perce.red thet she was a woman, anda blonde. TTew meget you bass if cat\ she scked Fea it mea\ oald the bind man, th s most L the very fint ral she | made there after pyrzmnes 0C the na tin the colar bf pour t sel For our tired rtlamma wo know whutxi; ostriches were hold while the visitor- ethe King. the pret, Can st he that 1 amon -y a . c -»that will. come to' twenty-four dollars, | was a prosont from Mrs, Howard Crs. Toking thy green o os, my dolls and‘ ; buti --> cor them flowers, - = 3 n ~. . lony r mothe ; . : curtains, + bo y3 ~..\ _ As theta midhfsbt’sklm. _; _. | won't it; young man? pigny. Hor mother was ones & us | yig play peeictBod' with the bobolink, 1.31.52? 11-1}, \Jerusalem, - Jerusatem !\-Matt. This oxelamition bi rst from Christ's lips as Ho came in al . he of this great city, and,. although | th ings | have . marvelously changed, who can visit Jerusalem 40-day without ‘Imvlng its mighty . past roll over on him, and ordinat \torthe axcl “13:5 lem, . Jerusalom! utterance u ry as we ery, eru- Disappointed with the oly Land many have m, and I have heard good frienda say that their ardor about ancred placas had been so danipened that they were sorrow they over Vida“ Jerum- lem. - But with mo the city and its surround- lug: are a rapture, a solemmity, an. over- whelming emotion. O Jerusalem, Jerusa- lem! The procession 'of Kihige, conyitarors, Pm“ and intmortal men and women nass be- are mas- I staud here. - Among the throng aro Solomon, David and Christ. | Yes, tin-on?!) theso streets aud amid these sur vomndings rode Solomon, that wonder of uylnndor and | wrotéliedness, . It seem if tho world exbausted itself on that man. | At - wove its | brightest | flowers into 'his | garland, | It set its | richest gemstin his coronet, It pressed tho rarest wine to his lips, It robed him in the purest purple and ombroidery. . It cheered him with the sweetest music in that land of horps | It greeted him with tho gladdest nughter that over leaped: from mirth's lip. | It sprinkled bis cheek with spray from the brightest fountains, - Royalty | had | no - dominion, wealth no luzury, gold no glitter, flamers no sweetness, rong no niclody, light no redianee, liphoistery no gorgeousness, waters no gleam, birds no ‘plumug-g prancing courserino met- tle, architecture no grandeur, but it- was all is. | Across the thick grass of the lawn, fra- franc with tufts of camphire from-Engedi, ell the long shadows of tres brought from distant forests, ' . Fish pools, fed. by artificial channels that\ brought the streams from hills far away., were perpetually rutlled with fins, and golden senles shot from water eava fur water cave with eftdloss diva and «wi attracting tho azo of foreign potentate ids that hud brought from foreign aviaries glauged aud Auttered among the foliage, and to, their mates far beyond the sea. . From thi royal stables there came up the nelghing of twelve thousand homes, standing in blankets of Tyrian parple, ebewing their bits over troughs of gold, waiting forthe King's ord to be hroul; t out in frofit of the palace when the official dignitaries would leap into the saddle for some grand. parade, or, harnessed to some of the fourteen hnndrad chariots of the King: tho fury chargers with flaunting mano and Ufrolibing nostril would make the earth Jarwith the tramp of hoo'x and the thunder of whecls, . W mic- within and with- out the palage you toild not think of a single luxury that\could be added, or'of a single kElan lor that could be kindled, down on, Abe banks of the sea the dry docks oC Ezton-geber _ rang- ..with - the - hammers of _ the | shipwrights | who _ were . con- . structing larger vessels for h still wider com- merce, for all lands and climes were to be robbed to make up Solomon's glory. . No rest till his keelsshall out every sea, his nxmon bow every forest, his archers strike every rare wing, his Ashormen Whig) every stream, Mile merdbamts 1r00e. in ecury. ohwin, nal namo be honored by every tribe. nud royalty shall hava no dominion,. wenith no. luxury, gold no glitter, song: no. melody, light nu radiance, waters nogleam, birds no plumage, prancing coursers no mettle, upholstery no rgeousness, architecture no grandeur, but t was all his. \Well\ you say, \if there is any man happy, he ought to be.\ But I hear him com Ing out«ghrough the ly Incruated with j aust give place. hs | o ting. for thetidings of the conflict. how rapidly his heart beat with emotfor wo great 11:1“qu were to be decided: th safety of - bo the throne, of- Ismel. After _ nwhile, looks off, and to and walt from the flold of battle comes within hail «listance the father erios out; | Is it a tlon do rogard to tho establisment o thirorte? - Does e say't Isradl beon victorious? Am. I to vontinue hi my enemies?\ | Oh, no. 'There is one tiomtthat surings from his heart to the lip and- springs from the H the besweated and justed «. iffusse fying from the battle fleld-tho ques \Is the young mall Absalom safe?\ wap. told to Davit, tho King; that, thoug his arntles lid 1 victorious, his son ha been slain, the father turned his back upoi thctrugmtulutiuns of ithe. nation, and wen up the s ,as he and, then again, uge! fins-slug tném against ii temples as* though he would. press them in O Absalom! my son' my son Would God 1 had died for thee, 0 Absalom my son! my son? . Btu endous grief . of David r nding . throu ages. | This was the cit O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, L am also thrilled a; the remembrance thin stands n~-Mohommedan. inc temple, the .v -one that Solomon's temp uchadnezzar thundered-it down. hrist visited Zerubba t architecture, receding temples to seen eight or ten modern ca because he was fond of and be wanted the Pu porting\ roof of cedar, lo kept ten thonsanl workmen busy forty Jerusalem, Jerasaionm! are eclifeed When wa think that neer here our blessgl Lord was born, that u sown the Atzeets of this city He “Milan His only da; tion. - One di , | tiptop of excitement. high authority. papers for EL helping in the arrest of this stranger when He arrives, and others ng that on the He will coma.inta, the town and by some stpernatural fol oust the mu- nipipal | and royal authoities nud take le blemish, The Bible says that he luxuriant . shock of. hair bnce a year it was shorn, was cut . off: weighed | over th'fiu s pperrance, Be was boy, father's heart, Hiwnapluyt- He had an army to overthrow his father's government. ..Phe day.of battle-had come lace Oh, oy, and. the 'vofitinnance of servant, standing on tho' top of the house, . I he sees some one rapping. . Ho is coming with great speod, and! tho man f the.house annolnces the. com: er, and the father watches and as soon' as. the messenger mes- \Have the armies of: ray imperial authority? Have 1 overthrown ques- ' luto the ear. of tio : When it tairs of his nalde&, his heart breaking went, wringing bis hands sometimes, all succeeding y that heard the woe. id overpowered with youder, . where now e; -stood the - had stood. there, but Neb- bel's temple had stood there, but that had heen prostrated. | Then Herod built a temple and;_illver tu bles on which stood golden cups, and there were carvings exquisite and inscriptions re- spleitdent, glittering, balustrgdes. and orna- mented gateways. | The building of this tem- \4x years. Stupendous pile of pop and ut the inaterial antl lgrazi- tecyural grandour of the building wera very tiunly compared with the spiritual meaning of its altare aud holy of holies, and the over- whehiung nijmifimnm of its ceremonies. O Bat stan-ting in this old city all other facts and and Shit in the butskirls of it He died, | Here was of trinmph, and His nssnssina- this, old Jerusalem is at the Christ has been doing some remarkable works and asserting very The police court has fssued st, for this thing must be swppfizlL i as t - very - government | is | modern versions: tec od ze aud , Comer , that, _ last Mierusaiém, my happle home! village and tufi- {s stopping at the hose wrtn shail my so Yo an ene: of a man whoo u\\hnd Fosty gmtefl after Thy jores when shall I sea? -- four days' sepulture. \Well, @ plo rush = out into the streets, mmuuwx Idea of Noe demplats mist In scene in theo, a Sometimes men on the way to the scaffold have-been rescued by the nob. _ No such at- texpt wasinadein this case, for the mob were against ,- From nine in the morn- ing tll three- in the_afternoon; Jesur hung . a-dying in the outskirts of this city. | It was. a scene of 'blood. We are so constituted that nothing is so exciting as blood. | Itis not the thild's ery in the streetthat so arouses you - li-l'flle Tumor! dripping from its Hp; the \dar a : finger o blood on the' plastering, ou'~ ory: \What terrible deck has been Jam, herai\ Looking upon this suspended victim of the cm we \thrill with the sight of blood- bl dripping from thorn. ani. nail blood rushing Jéfiugxs cheehk, blniwd satmlméiug 131115 aman gathered in a pool beneath. fax called an honor to have in one's velps dite ot te tempting when £- a g. lt -nothitig when mt you to the outpouring bloofi'of the ig of the universof In England thenameof Henry was so, a that ite honors were divided among different reigns. | It was Henry the-First, and Henry the Second, and Henry the Third, and Hear the Fourth, and Henry the Fifth, ' In Fran thename of Louis was so favorably regarded - that it was Louls the First, Louls the Becond, 'Louls the Third, and soon. But the King who walked these streets was. Christ. the First; Christ the Last, and Christ the Only, He reigned before the Czar mounted the throne of or the throne of Aus- tria was lifted, \King eternal, immortal.\ Through the indulgences of the royal family, the physical life degenerates, and some of tho have. been almost jmbecile, and their es weak, and their bidod thin and watery; but the crimson life' that flowed upon Ctldvury bad in it the health of immortal he ai h0 a € a in p. l‘ h d u t s 1 i 4 ell it now to all the earth and to all the - heavens-Jesus, our King, is sick with His Just stckness, Let courlers carry the swift dispatch. His pains are worse: He is breath- log a last groan; through His body quivers, the last anguish; the King is dylug; the King: is dead! It is royal blood. It is said that rome * religtonists make too much of. the humanity of Christ: I respond that we-make-toolit= tle, If some Roman surgeon, standing un- der the cross, had caught one drop of the blood on his hand aud: analy it, it would have been found 'to have .the . same plasmin, the samé disk, the same- . the same albumen, . It was unmistakably human blood, It Is a man that haugs there. His bones are of the same material as ours. a insighiflcant. togetBer, and fhey -would nbt equal | His nerves aro sonsitiveylike ours. \If it were \that ._| structure, lt coverad nineteen an angel being. .despoiled I would not feel it. nerves. , Thera were marble | pillars sup- | #0 much, for it belongs to a different order of beings. But my Saviour is a man, and' m whole sympathy is_ aroused.> 1 can imagine how fl; spikes Telt-how _ hot tho temples deathly ~ sickness seized His heart-how mount- -- ain, and city, and mob swam away from His dying vision--something of the incaning of that ery for help that makes the blood of all the ages curdle with horror: \ My God! my God! why hast Thou forsaken me?\ \ Foraver with all these scenes of a Saviour's suffering will this city be associated, Hero His unjust trial and here His death, Oh, Je- rusalem, Jerusalem! But finally I am thrilled with the fact that this clty is a symbol of henven-which is only another Jerusalem, ''The New Jerussiom!* And this thought has kindled the Imugino- tion of all the sacred poots. I un d that Horatio Bqnar, the tch hynunist, rum- maged WEE 011 manuscripts of the Britislr museam until he'found that hymn in ancient spelling, parts of which we have in mutilated form our imgdern hymn books, but the quaint power of which we do not get in our os colde nor darkzome night : here everie soule shines an the eulttte; There God Mimasclfo gives light Thy walls are made of precious stonce, Thy buiwarkes diamondes «quare; the front ani looks out u What does ho say? your dominion, great is your, honor, great i< your joy® No, all the gplondor, the tears start and his hear: breaks and he exclaims; \Vanity of vanities all is vanity.\ What! Solomon not happy yet? No, fot bapoy. The honors and the emobinients of this world bring so many tafes with them that they bring abo torture and disqtistude. Pharaoh sits on one szfiignm earthly eminences, yet he is miserable because there ave some people in his realm that do not want any longer to make bricks. The lead of Baum T aches under his crown because the pla will not pay the taxes. rnd éweliyn, mum“! Wales. will hot do him homage. and Wallace will be a hero. Frederick William HZ, of Prussia, ie miseralde because France wants to take the Prussian: provinces The world is not large en igh for Lonls XIV. and Wiltiam TL. The ghastliest miffering, the most shriveling fear, the must reading jéa'- 0“;th most gigantic have walketiamidst abseditionts courtiers, anil been clothed ¥n rogal apparel, and sat on judgment seat« of 'power, Honor and truth and justice cannot go so high up in authority mw to be beyond th- range of human na«alt, | The pare and go-] in 1318535 have hon «xwmu‘ by the moh who ery out: \Not thie iia, but Barablas Now, Baralbas was a robber \ By by Christis#. principle, T. would lisve yon for the favor and the bunfidene> of your fellow men; BH do not look upon. some hi ition as though that were always sur thine.\ The mountains 'of earthly honor ar« like the mountains of Switzerland. covered with perpetual ice nnd snow. Having ob- tained the confidence and leve of ymif ness elates, be conteht with mich' thims as va~ have. You nothing nto the world and it is very ceftain you can carry. nothing ont \Cease ye from man. whose breath is in his nostrils.\ There is an honor that is worth possessing, but if m ma honor that comes from God. This day rise up and take it © Behold what manner o live the Father hath bestowed npen us, that we should be called the sons af (M41 '- Whe aspires not for that toyalty */ Coma nmw.and Kings and priests unto God and the Lamb forever 1 wealth and wialom could have sitisfled a rman, Soloman would have bern «x'isfed To say that Soloman was a niidhonzire gives but a very i tet iden of the property he fnberited from David, brs father He had at his command to The value of six him dred and eighty million poris, and he had silver to the value of one billion, twenty aime million. three hmrwi and seventy-seven s ing. eon of Sheba made mxflnfi = S?! seven bundred and twenty thousand poonds «nd Hiram mad him a present of the same amount. If be had lost the value of a whole realm ont (f hi picket, it would have bardiv hen sorth hn while to stoop down aad prs tip He wrote one thousand and five «age He wosie thre thousand proverbs He wrote about aimas everything. The Bibl sape distieethy ly wmie about plants frao the cviar of L banon tothe b irthat oul of the wall, and abont r and heasts and fish = be mit af his moval motes and pn; so - hunters | and went | our with his armwe tn hring Aor (fh st specimens of hinh and other with | his . fishing apparatm | he - wea I Thy gates are of tight.orient pestic, - bes | every U in His own\ hands, The immaflld hew h.“ N ht luxury flit? of. the city gltes until tho ___ Rxceedinge riche \ad rare, pon the vast maing| procession - reaches to the \illage. They Thy turrettes and thy piunacies mu,“ Sdloman, great if come 1 ardund about the house With earbuncles doe shine: where - the | stffnger in - tapping, | and Thy verrin streets are sand with gould, While standing here amidst | peor hito the doors and _ windows, that they urpassing clear and fine, may get one glimpseof Him or hear the hum Thy houser aro of of His voice, - The police dare: not\miake the arrest, because Ho has somehow won the af- fections of nll the people. Oh, it is 'a lively night in yonder.|Bet hany! The heretofore qutet village is filled with uproar and outery, and load discussion about (in! stranga geting countryinas, | J do not think there was any wleop in that house that night where tho «tranger was stopping. Although He came in weary He fads no rast, though for ence in His lifetime He had a pillow. But tho attorning dawns] the olive. gare dens wave dn thy light, nad all aloug yonder road, reaching over the top of Olivet toward this city, there is a vast sway - ng crowed of wondering people. The excite: ment around the door of the cottage is wild ax the ut Y out beaide an unbroken colt that had. riever' bea ftounted, and after Ris fFigrde Hdd *higwn their garnients on the heast form saddle te Sévior miounts it, and the populace, excited and shouting Afid fever» ish, push on back toward this city of Jerisa- toni, Let none jear now or seaff at this rider, wo the populace will trample bim ue Jof donk in an instabt. ra Is one 'nng shout of two miles fuid me fap as he eve can roach you me veiyiuge of denion- «ratione and apprient There: wis some- ming in the rders: vissge. in Hi« mirj whic bmw, something in His princely be- 'imvior that. stirs up the pnlh‘xxzinm flu; le. They u inst the an 257mm pull the gar Bfim their arms and on their shoulders the (Batik-3m «trang The pripuiaee are so exc at they 12rd“ 1mm? What t0 do with them- selves. and «ime rash up to the roadside trees and wrench off branches and thraw them in His way; 'and others dol eir gar- meuts what though they be new and rostly, and spread them for a car- pet for the conquerer to ride over. \Hoan- ma ert the [negr- at the foot of the hill. \Heossona\ ery thd psople all bp and down the mountain The procsssion ha« now come 10 the brow of ma. Magnificent reaching out in évery direction vineyards, olive groves. jutting rock, silvery Sifeans, and above all, rising on its throte of this most hight earth rist-there, in the midst «f the procession, looks off and sees here for- trewed gates and yonder the circling wall, and here the towers in the sun, Phas- relas and Marianne, Yonder is Hippicus the King's castla Looking along in the range of the larger branch of that olive tres, you om 'the mansous of the merchant princes Through this cleft int the Bmestone rock you see the of the richest trafficker in all the .. He has made his money by sell- mg Tyrian po Behold now the temple tUlonds of make lifting from the shimmer- ing roofewhile the building rises up beautiful, grand, majestic, the architectural skill and Slory of the earth lifting themsolves there in one trinmphant dornlogy, the fromn prayer of al} nations. The ered Inoked arousid to see exiitara- hein and transport in the face of Christ, Ob, no' Out from amid the 'gates. and the demes, and the ces. there arose a vision of this city's sin. and of this city's doom, down to the stream to hring %f the doen. avi nt oc tomed the rarest spormer of nes om ams | then he cam» to and amit | books abont melon. the «onc voviimnis about iobthyslegs | the «obme & fishes | about annitBalogy | the «ase n 00 hink + about botany the mene @ wunre Sind potwithstandiag all hw. wakun apd scald beboid his wretebelitne. ENT RT him pesos * D4 any other ~aty ever haboid a: i a mant <). Zerasilom But hare passer through these steers. as in | tnagination [ we him quite as ; #51 a Tar betes imah (IREM The | the very «ity whens be lived am‘wziv-f § David. great for power and grem tr gnat He wes up in bw bey Abrvices Fe was a For. jotiged by the rele C worldly. crista from the xmen «f bm Coupeeits~ read ty Sre sole of his fork Siem was note f this cite the loveliest and must mufestio man of stauge somewhat tall his hair the (“swank-mags ripa pca sare, «hance owns waving about the «boulders; in* rabid the of His forebead in a stream, orpur titlm of His hair. foreheed plain, and very dalicate, His face without spot or a Kreaty red nothing fan be reprecentet; His to color like Hubair-not hm red #hy or ait the H= now and moth soforkelss = beard Occks yrorie. ivindows erystal clare: Thy maderof beaten gould. O God! that 1 were there, W Our aweete is mixt with bitter ganle, . Oar pleasure is bat pane: Our layes scarce last the lookeing on, Our sortowe stille remaine. But there they live to such delight, Buch pleartire and sach shy. As that to thein a thousand yeares seme as yes y. Co Thy gardens and thy allant walkes ntinnally are greeno: Thero grow auch sweete and plearant flowers As no where else are seonc. There trees forevermore bear fruit And evermare doe rpringe: - ' t. nflv evermqre the angels «i d evermore doe singe. . Hjerusalem ! my happle home! Fould God 1 were in thee ! Wonld Gon my woes were at Thy foyes that I might seet an end, A of the gospel, meon of a prominent minister of Loxington, Ky., is sttemipting the extraordinary task of committing the dhtire New Tosti- ~~~ ment tememory. He- has been work- ing on it for years, and, as be has a wonderfully retentive brain, the work is in a fair way to early completion. As he argues, the plan is an exceeding- ly good ome, because he can réfer to his mind at any time milch more easily than pages of any book ever printed. If, for instance, he wants to -quote any passage, he can do so at will and ab the very moment, san sccom- plishment which should make him ore of the most fluent preachers in the: country. A PLAX which has been success- T6 in London, where gardens on bousa taps are not unasusl, has been mooted in New York in connection with new school buildings in the crowded tene- ment district of the East Side. In {has i regions space is limited and dear, and > the play-rooms are usually in dark and damp basements. Now it is proposed . to try the experiment.of havieg pkg”: grounds on the roof. | It wet westhera canvas top would be spresd over-the _> 1 tes reagan sign a epe creer poristatert. He Rad «> (oe inc ni heel a
