TUE MIDDLEIiURGII TOST. T. H. HAUTER, Edit! akd I'm'. Mihit.Knri:!, r.. M'Hil i, mi Of tho total working expenses of tin railways over tixtj per tent, goes in various wus In tl.e wa.re enrnrn. AYhile New i.k U talking of restim n! executions liy lian'iti!:, 'hi' i talk in:,' of abandon in;,' tl. method to try t lei trocution. Tlio Austrian iiu '.'i')! of execution jifcuiu", to the Cn'.e i.,'. IK r.il'l, to liu but A slight impr ivrnu.-it o: ilectroeuthm. Tim Aii-tri:iiM swin,' a haVr over tho neck of m ifiliT'T v 1 s'rin up, while tlio i vecutiiinrt in-chief, wetrin( white kid j,ioVi:, calmly li:.h ! 1 the vie tini wrio ,'Io, aid t .vo p: I'Toin miit itiU pull Kill do.vti liy t Ti c lc's. It was rcmarkc 1 iliir.ii- tin' American ('ivil War that soldiers nr lore 1 to some Impossible service pinti' I piper on tenor clothes i lrri! itytii' what would shortly bo the rrni tin. TIiIm rcmiriisceiiei: lends interest to tin; fret, that tin; 1 1 t ; i t m Mini.-ti r of War Iih jil t '1" i ! 1 tint In future each soMirr will lr l-irnis'icl wi'li ii small 1) out disc bear in,: the ii'ini", birthplace and rimuitt.U'. tnt uii. r if tlio holder, SO that ill till' i vr:i'. f his bcin killi'il or injure 1 on the liill of Initio i'leiililiiMtli'U will be easy and r.ipi'J. Inslructive, ilei'l trM tlio Now Vol it Sum, ii the failure of sou e Stato iii'lt' l ettleini iit iu Ne.v Zea'.ui'l. (Sovcru mcnt ives mi t'li-ibif tr;.tl to ri colony; if they briii.; thirty or more ctiiS'ireii tioveriimeiil h'ul'U a m'Ii ioI; nee Iful ro.'i'ls arc pii'l for by love riitiiout, wiiiuli liiie.i tlio tnloi i-N theiiiM Ivim tor tlio work, iiii'l llii-si: me rial loa is lal I out liii'l KUperiiitetiile l by en.;iiiei ri. '1 In -0 colonic have Very generally faile l be cau'O tin: M ttier ai :ue, " 1" 1 1 : liovem mt'lit sent in litre aii'l the (!oViriiiiii;ii lias ot to help in out, whether wo work or iiro i lle." Say the Arou iul : A city which it U natural to compare it!i Siti Kranciseo i .Mtll'oiirir.', the chief seaport, of Vii t.ni i in Au.str.iliu. The two eitiiM nre coeval. California was ivlini'.to I to tho Union in 1S.VI; Victoli a was fvl apart fioiu Now South Wale, of which it hiil constitute 1 the southern .livi-io;i in l .il. In ls, Lonl Melboiirno coii3ftito.l to givo hi nntno to tho new ci.y nt thulicaJ of Port ..U"4U t,n vilAJCJ . ' "' at -i'. .of-X. '"Jlvrtia V.'&UWX, Jilliiiul to SaiA'iu':'1;' cisco. la 1S51 a census gave Mclbourno a population of 2.1,000; in l''2 another census tiave Sail Francisco :Jl,S7i. tolil win tliscovere 1 in California in 1-IS; the like iliscovory was nui'lo iu Australia in 1.M. Iu 1SV.I tho a'lveu. tuiom, tf.e liopcfu!, the c!:tcrpns::, from all Paris (,f the v,.,i!,l ll.ic'.ici t . Sin Fn:i'i-M; tivo ycir lati r tli s iiiiu Ciussf .ste re I lor the Antipodes. J iio t.ui cities nr.- certainly c itiltinpuiary. The I' ock Pure I'.. 1 1 l.lil, which recently p. ts-e 1 the I'm! ' I Slates Scnatu I , ... .1 ii it, 'Pri-- sent liu- his been ili aonnii.'i bv liiauy I Aft' r ymi hn.c liu I tifty or sixty or sev T i" ' ' pi intimes, you have seen enough newspapers as an ulTcn-ivc ami unjust ultciupt I. supervise the Imsiucs of pri- , vate cili.ens. Tlio New j1-r' Sun s iv it '.opens the way f,r most oilcusivc ami tintioocssiry in iuisition into the l)ti,incss of piivalo citi.ens, iittcmliii to their o.vu busiijc-s iu their own States; an I it confers upon tnc Dcp art incut of A ;ri(".il ture cxtri.oiili'iiiry )oi. r. It intiiisH to n chauiiiL; bo ly nf expert, or inex pert, to be KilOtMl as the l'oo I Suction of tlm Cheniic i! Division of Mr, Husk's ilcpaitiuciit, the iluty of nunly.in or liavino i nily.el '.unple of food mi'l lru,'s cpo,e,l f.,r i-alo iu utij Stato or Territory other than that iu which they wi re iimuui'aolurcil, or in a foreion couu try if they are in the original pack i:;e. It ni'iki'i a iiiis.lciucatior, punihhiibli: by li in" ami iuipr'.souitii'ut, tho iutro lucti ju into one State t,r Tinitory from an other ol any I I or .Inr; a.lullcrattil nr ituproperiy bi iteb-1. A lnio, urn id the p'ovioo'is nf thi act, i any Hi' tlii.'inc, i:. '.( .! .1 or eternal. A foo 1 is air.thini; Iain or iiiixcl, himplo or coiiipn'.iuil, w inch is use 1 for foo. I or ill ink liy ii: . it il mm. Kvi ry irsnu who fihips food nr .Iriis ir en .me Stale to mi other, or cxpoavs the miiii! for sale, inu.st furnish ...iinph. to the a-etils of the TihuI Section of the (.'he uical Division of tho Depnrtini nt of A-i icuUuro. Uefuse ami it cost you from l 1 to ij'LiJO, uml Inj. prisDiiiiient for from thirty to ono lum. tired .lays. Who ask for the supervision proposed by thi bi'.li What i its real object f Why are thy States not uhlo to tako euro of the fowl urnl the ilrirs that aro manufactured or sold within their liiniU? Wc uei'd not dwell upon the op. portuiiitics which the bill oilers of an noying ami blackmailing iniinufacturers of ilnio nnJ urticloti of food. Wo havo not hcunl that tho citicus of tho United. Slates aro complaining ubuut tho fjuiity of their iood or their drus," REV. DR. TALMAGES SERMON. DEATH AND THE RESURRECTION. The Sunday Sermon Delivered by the Brooklyn Divine. TrXT! ".furitththitternftn nf death n.,f. ' I Hamu-I 3A Ho rriod Aung, an t the mil objection 1 have to this text in that a b.a I mau nttiriil tt. Nevertheless it is true, an I in a" higher anil better sense than that in rvhi.jh it win originally uttered. Year ago a legend mxni't liiiiii 1 1 kn thi wan toM m: In a hut lived a very tvoor woman hv tho mine n! Mis, ry. In frnt of hir door was n pour tre. which whs littr ftlilv rpsnurc t for n livlti Christ tha lx.r.1. III ivkip onrli IV I. wnllfi..,. tiin.i eh tht-e'ii th ami no one would enter- b.ln I Inn. In vain IIu knoeke I at thu door of pnbics an.l of huinhlo flw.-llinH. I'ol.I nnd liiiiiio v mil instihToiciitlv clad, in II.. id hungry mil ini.iillh'i.'iiilv tlad. ai H.t ii-, none reived Hun. Ih'it fining ono v to tin. Ii.it of tlin woman, who nanio m Mi.erv, fhe r-eiv.;d Hun. ifn I olT-red WlC i;r.y It i tii a tew i-ru-ts and anke I llim to warm llimx' lf at tli linn Iful of r. aX mid she mt up all nii;ht that tlio wayfnr.T might havo a pillow t.i ret on. In the morn n thi' ilivilie beirr; ashed hT a Ibolepartel tvnathe won 1 1 hive Hun lo in the ly o' rward, and told h-r tint He nwnwl tlio iu.iv.TiM' and wool I iMvo her wh it iilie ii-lo'd. All -h" nslod wm tn it l.er pear tree miirht b" prot-et 'd, an I that Hid hoys who sric li. r fruit, onee rlini.mi ; tie tre. tii l l; li t not bealili'to get down without Ii. i' iin-eiit. Ho it mis i; rante I. mil nil who c limhid tlio trif were coini'i'lli I to utay tlnri-. Aftf r n hile I)iath r i ii" ulon nit I told the poor wmnan she mu,t f with him. Hill . In oi l ti"t, wntit to ito, tor. Ii owi ver 1.r uiii-'s lot is no ono want to o with lentil. I hen fie said toll. n'l', "I will ro wii.i i.uif von will lint iiuiii up into my p ir in nnd luiiij; inn ilnwn n l-w pjars 1'i li iel stiirt." This ho in-' iit.' I to iio, i lit liii' iiiK climbed Into tli" II'. ' he Mill tiol a - 'nil eotiie ilnwn. Tl.i n the troubles of the n e i I Ii J in, for iv.t'h did not come. The pavs.ca'.J had no i I . i.iti"iit, the inidertiikers no Im in , law. vers iio wills to make, the pi-iplc ivli i waited ?r iiihrritunei'i. eoiild not u-t th an, tin) oi I lin n f.tuid in nil the profession an i oceupa. ti his so that Hi to was no r mi fur tlio utit' ho wi rc eoniinu on, an I the earth gal ovi tcniw.led, no I from all the enrtii the cry wi nt up: "hi, for Death ' Wlci-ti is Dditli!" Tli. !! Ill" people ea.ir' t th i poor woinaii an I Ix'jvc.l Inir t let I -ii t ii d"?'ll I from tin1 tris. In nympat ly f t tho w.irld, she e. iiisciited to let Deatli eu'lie du ah nil 1 1 ' con lition, mi I that was that he should le v.a inoii -1 it t il.ii In r away, mid on tint eon Ii timi Heath mis allowed to eoaie clown, nil I he l.i pt his word undtirv r re.imvel her. nnd I. r that reason wo al ijs have Misery J I with n-. In that allegory some one has -t forth tan truth that I mean to pret.tit on th.s Ka.t. r iih i iiiio:. loch celebrates tlm resurrect ion of I'lirist an I our i'oniiii resurree'.ioii that niic of the grandest and mu'hti' .t incre.es ol the earth is i.ur divine p' nnHsi.ia to q hi it. Sixty-four persons tvery mmute p ioT tins piiiuet. l'liirty milli on pisie every year board this plnnet. As a steamer mii-t iinioa i l.'f'.re it takes another car,; , an I as tin ;i- n i- ot a rail tram iiiu-t leave it in hi ili r to have another company ot puiwea ters enter it, so with this world W hut would happen to an oe 'an st-a iier if a man, tusiii); a stateroom, naouid slay in it toievcif What would happen to n rail tram if one who purchase a ticket stx.u d niwnys isiaipy th" sfat assii;n"d him ' And what would hapnea to thi wirl I if nit v in im into it. never departed Iro n it:' 'I Iu t'ntve in ns min ii a Ihinudietion as the era lie. What Mink thnt ship In tho lll'icr S.m a l days mj:o? Too numy passengers. What ,V, i i i , Z . i rh.,i.,es w ll. l..a feiTyar.ao, wet doivi, with hoo lives I oo liuiny pas 'lU'-rs. Noi't was the matter nug that steamer mi tu o thin V ","pr "" '"si "eh wn, l..s U, -Oil hiiurtme: i,,.xvs. An Sal.w.i. I rV M'Mt"' I'iu'u'.y'ti.Vf-:. ri.ix It. Is lr. h l.1,.1 with lomintanis and clZTl ....... .. . mid lias in iu Btuwrooun aim sio-riis ! aoou-i I ...xteen l.un lroJ iiiillio.i pas..;..r.. mo I manv are cciinef aboard. It u iie.'.'- ary that ueoolnmiivoisi'.iibiirU. ,,.,,-..e Hat tl,., p ,p.e tb-tt havo hvel .incl.ied.iyso Ailuiianl t.vo weri , .ill ...iv. . M hat a clu.fre i , place tins v., I I w..,, I . , -no ells..v roo u-no plae. , to w k,o ,.nv,...,-l,tl,l.u to e.t or I w. ,,,..i ,ii.v.!.u were lit liehuiim i,i.; w.iil.l, ll... n Inpunvkei cicv. ,,,ve , to I put iii hiiutll rations, eaeu oi us 1: .vni ; I crhai s i nlv u bis ant it lnv. And what chiihc w ii. I th ro be lor tho rising genera t.' m -'I he ineii mid women win stm t ' I when t'e world started would ke'p th" inisl. i n p ".pie buck and down, saying: 1 ti n Me six th His ind years oi l. How ilioi'l. Illsti I V Is nothing f.ir we are old a- than hi ti i v .' What a mercy for the hil- I j man i a "c w ii. dent n ' Within n few y. ars j eill lUi Ll'i ll ill nils it ui ill uil u,:i. 1.1 III , Jt. lilossoins. Alter III 1 y or sixty or seventy " ;' ot"?:T. lolin --. Attcr tiftv or Mixtv nr m v(ntv I winter', vou Imvo si-t-n ciumjli Mi'vtorni 1 1 vv.u lia" ci dens, im I slied t uouh Uiars, mi l sutferu'l I'liouh injtist.ei s, an i felt enough pain;, nnd bis'ii clou I. 'd by enough ilout.ts, am, hiirrouinlcl by enough mysturies. We talk nl ul tho shortness ot life, but if wo oxer cih.-d cood n iisi wo would roahio that life it qiiltu lun enough. If wo are the children of Oo I wo are nt a ln. put, mi l this world is ouly the llrst com -e of tlm food, and we ouht to bo triad that there are other mid better and richer courses of fool to bo handed on. Wo nro lu re In one roo.n ni i.ur Father's hoii-e, but there are rooms np stuim. They tiro bettor piciiirc.l, belter upli ilstered, 'Inttor fur nished. Why do we want to slay iu tho iintei'i ; oui forever. W' iii a there nr.t palatial n arinietits waiting i or our oceupincv? V hut a imrcy th it :h rj is it limitation to inrthlv eiivirounieiits' D. nth also nmliej room for iuiprove 1 physical inai Inn ry . I ilir bJdies b ivo won ilioiiit powerN but th v are very limit 1. Th. re a i'ti beasts tlmt e.i i outrun us. out.ilt ii-. "iit. arry us. I lie I irds h iv,i I, ,th the earth an I mr for travel, vet wo mu-t i-liei; to tlm one. In this wi.i i I, w In h tiie human race takes for its o.va, ther.) him civ.it uiv ot Hod that c.n fur surpass us in miiiiu things. Death r.'uiov. this sio.v. r an I less niiri.it nine'iinerv and ma lies loom lor j.u... llmu lulu r. I In s . , s that can s e haif n mil will be iM.nov .1 f.n tlie that eau we lioin world to world. This- ear-, w i icii can lieur u sound a few f.-. t oil", will I e removed tor em , that can bear from 'lie t ) . iue. Til se e, t will ho rcinov si lor I on. of I. ' , motion swifter tliauth ) rein leer's h iof or eali's plu.no of b,;htu ini;'s Hash. 1 h"ii wu havo only live s'lis, an I to these W e nro shut up. hy only five n'lises? Why pot lilty; ndiv not one huudi'tdi why not tt r.ioiisandy Vvu cm haw, an I wo w ill have them, but not until this pr is -nt physical machinery is put out ot the way. Do not think that tin. body is tlio last that (ioi cuu i lo fur us. do ..il not half try when ho ontrivod y.,ur ho l,y ur clnuis ii. Mind you, I believe witli nil anatomists and with nil iiliysioloisls and witli all te.eutist and with the psalmist lint "ivj arj fearluliy and woiid Tin ly made.'' Hut 1 bolievo audi know that iio 1 eun and will nt us bettur physical dpiiin'ifur. Is ,t posMblu !or a man to nuke improve ment iu almost anything and tlod imt bo able to make improvement in man's pliysi. cnl mncliuiiiryr ISh ill canul boat give way t limited express train? Khali slow luttor tivo p'aco to telegraphy, that place Man rraucisco and Ne.v York within a minute oi communication Hhall the telephone take tho sound of a voice sixty miles ami Instant, ly briiu back another voice, uml UoJ, who luaiiu the uiau who dee these tuiu,c, uot be Mft to Improve tba man himmlf with Inn tilto yrlonitio nd infinite multiplication? UemflnMit Drath oomea In and make the nxrvwviry removal to make way for thee rupernatural Improvement. 8b alto our low prorw of yetting information must bave a tnihutitiite. Thromh prolonitpl ti1v we loam el the alphatiet, and thon we learn-vl to epall, an I thn w liMrnml to read. Then the book ii put before u and the pye travoH Jrom word to worj and from pn to P". and we ta'i whole lav to read tin rnoi, an 1 if from that book of four or five hunilrt paiM we bave irainwl oue or two prolltublo lilei we feel we have done well. There mnit be eorno ewiftor way and more untinfactory wav of tnkin? In (o.' universe of thoiizht.i and fnets nnd eniotion and Information, ltut thli ennnot be ilnio with vour brain In It.j pri-M'iit t it. Manv a brain ives way iiiider thn prn.nt faellity. Thie whitiith MiiiH 111 the iipHr civity or toe ekull mi l nt. ! h. extremity of the IHTVOlM system th ' , ""t'ir of perception nnd sensation cannot , endure more tlmn it now endure, I '." an make a better brain, an 1 Ho i ""'"I rth to remove thi Inferior brain i '"n"" " rtn to remove tm tnrerior urain ''V,'? V" "m7 ,"ti in ,,"P"r,',r brain, I , ll1' 3' ""t that dontroy the J "f re.urr.v-tiop of the present lio.lvr ()!i, no. It will lx the old factory with nw 1 mni'lnnery niw ilrivinit wnwu, new bands, new levers nn I nw powers. Don't you ? So I suppm tho dullest hunan brain aftor tin rixurrif'tiouary rocovi will have more knowh'de, tnorrt eiitnes,more brilliancy, mop breadth of swinn than any Kir William I II limit hi or Ilerseh 'l or Is aae NowMn or Faraday or Aijnsvx ever had in the mortal t.it'i or all th"lr intelloftual powers one bill' d. You u (I I has only Just henuii to build you. The palace of your nature has rmlv the foundation laid and part of the low -r story, nti I only part of one wind .v, but the nr.-it nreliitect has nind- His draft of what you will be when tho Alliaiiihra is e 'iiil !. .lolin va riht wheu he sal I, "It doth not yi t Mo ii ir what we shall lie." lllei.I bed' a'h! b r it removef all tlm hindrances. An 1 who lias not all his life run naiuit Inn Ir ai.c s Wo euiti it fn far up or far iI.ihii, If wo i;o far up we eet dizzy, and if we tro far down we suff'M'uted. If men w.nil l k Isiifti upthi'V nsccud the Matt rhorn or ,r Hiiiialiiyn, but what dis H.f iT4 ItlkV I Ink. tl r..lu il.,.,.l .. llinw num. asters havj bm.n r-lioitod as they eaiiij tuui'iliin down. ( Ir if thnv went down to far, hark to the explosion of tlio firedamp. I and s-o tho ilisfliiroil bodies of tho poor miners at tho bottom of tho coal shaft I J lieu tiier are the clioiitolo;ieil bin I ilr.mees. We run against un:.-opitl iih wi'nti.er of nil sorts. Winter biiz.ird an I su'iiuii'r st'oreli, and rneh season seams to j hatch a bron I of its own ilitorders. Trie I suniiiii r spreads Its wius on 1 hatches out i I ever mil sunstrokes, ant spring an I ' nutiimti upread tli or wingri nnd hatch out malarias, an I winter spreads its wins mi l 1 hati'hef out pneumonia and Kimiau criplic-, I nnd the chnuito or tins world Is a hindranoj r i. i. ..y . . wo'T . ,"",,c"" ' '"?'' felt ll.utfli I. t.k flu. irrinil tf.ntiurufi.iice til i.: ..- 1 i I sup -rior weather went tier nover llckle, and cev. r too col I, nnd never bro hot, aiidiiev.-r ' toil huht, mid never too dark, llavoyouanv 1 dciiM that liol can make Ix'tt-r weatuer 1 than is eliar.i'teritie of this planet' Illcsse I ! is death! for it prepares the way for chuun ' of i. me, yea, it clears tlupath to a iviuioiii- IlilUM-ence. 1 How often we want to bo in different pine -s 1 fit t Im name tiniel How terplex sl wo i;ot j I'.'ini; Conipellet to clioise botwo ui Inviti , tions, betwe -ll Wed lilies, betwoall friendly ' jrroiips, betiviiMi tlireo or four plaeis we would like to bo in tho sumo niorniuir or tlio I saina noon or tlm satno evening. Wliilo itontli i nuiy not open opportunity to Iu in many j places at tho hntno time, so easy and ho quicK I mi I no iusl'intaneniH will o tho transfercne t that it will am unit to all iut tlio saiiie tiling. Vuioker tlmn I ci'i tfak this senteiiea you w dl Ih' niiion your lorioas kindred, anion; the in u t vr-.aiii.in Hie tipostlos, iu the gato, on tho battlements, nt tlio teainle, and uoiv fnen woi-ld to world ns s mju a u roliin hops tro'is to tree liranch to uuothertreo brnneh. . Inndraneo. lnimousity "; si y conlS3 , v - I tJT "'."'i'i .-si-utu. I ' c'"p-; '"I cannot sea how ',.7.. " 7"." ' compare i wiui wnni in nas airjaay Uoni .,.,; ,K. ,,v ,,.. np ,T nr fcU.nilsU tl.'lw th.lf Ul8 iuimM t)0i; ..,,. .... ,i,11i ., i ....... . . A... if you are livcniy-.-i-ht yuir of aie you y,ur lou. tl. body. If you ar" frf)..t4vo Kri nt n;9 yolJ 'VJ aJ ( M ' tvvty j.cnr, of ,, J,, ,MJ .,t Z ,M.,lllv . (ri,,.hl ,,.,., ir f,J:, C) ,,,,, X,m., , ,r Vou four or live , l.'u bo lies II j could ,,. , , f u th r.'siirreetioii ho Iv. Ayo! to make that resurrection Iio ly will nut r.spiiro half as iniieli ingenuity and power as tliosn other ls).ies you havo had. Is it tint easier for a sculptor to make a utatue out of bilent clnv than it would be to make a st ituo out of home material that is icive and movini;, and running Inther tin I timber Vi'ill it not betis.ir turiiod tmnkoth re-ui iitt. en buly out of the silent dust of the crtiinhld bo.lv than it was to make your In ly over live or six or cl-Jit time while it was m motion, Hiilkin', climhiiiK.fulliii or rim;v Uod bus uheadv on vour lour or llva I than He will put uVonhinvsurr. etion body. no iu s ih'stoivci t.ui tinns inor X.'ii, wo havo tho foundation foe tin, resurrection body in usuoiv, Sureoiu mi l physiologist, suy there are parts of tho hiiiiian body the iisos of w hich they cannot mi lerstau I. They nro se.irchlu.; what these parts are ma do lui', but Imvo not found out. 1 can tell them. Thi-y nro tho preliminaries of the resurrection bo ly. (bid doe not make miythiiie; for imtbint;. Tlio uses of those now surplus parts of tho body will bo demon strated wne:i tho glorill .'J form is construe ted. -Now, if Death clears tho way for nil thi, why paint him ns a hobgoblin? Why call hlui tho kin' of terrors? v 'hy think him as a Kreat spoak? Why sket.-h hnu with i-keleton and nrrows, an 1 stau liuson a bank of dark wut-rs! Why havo children no frij;hteno I at hi name that they dare not KO to bo I alone, uri I old men Imvo their teeth chatter lest soiiij shortness of bivnth hand them over to tho in oust Tf .All the aifc have he.ti busy iu innliiiim; Death, hurling repulsive luotapliois at Death, sluu lerinn Death. Oh, for tin sweet bream of Kister to come down on tho earth, ltight alter tho vernal tipiinox, un I wiion the 11 iwers urn I c ,'inniii4 to bloom, well may Rn uatlous with onj and with c.)ii.i;ratulaliou mid ttar lati Is celeh;-4tn tho resurreiftioii of Christ, an 1 our ow n resurrection when tlio tlmo is t;ono by, nn I tho trumpet! pour through tho Myitis cl ni Is th j harmoui.'s tint shall wnko the.l'ud. liy tlio empty niche of Joic-ih's niiim) leuui, by the rjeks that partol to lot thi Lord come thro ili, let oar ideas of chaiij' iii'4 worlds bo torovir revolutionized. If what I l.avo be n sayiue; istruo, how dif ferently w.) oiiejht to think of our friends departed. Tho bo ly they havo put olH is only when eut. riiu u hull light I and ivioiindm with luusicil bun Is, you leave your hat and cloak in tlio cloakroom. What would n bunipi.'ter do if In had to carry those encuiiibraiicrfs of apparel with him in to the brilliant roevption'r What would your departed do with their h i lies if they had to bj eiKUiiibered with tlnin in the kin"' drawing room? Uotio into tlio liht ! liouo into tlio inus.c! liono into thu festivity I (iono umon kiu-s and queen ai.d con querors! Untie to meet Khjah'Hiid hear hnu tell of tue chariot of Uro Uruwu by horse of tire and tlio s iisatioii of mounting the sup pliire ste p! Uoiih to ino a with .Hosi' and Ic.-iir him ilescrih.1 tho pile of black b isalc that shook w hen tho luw was ttveu! (Iono to meet I'uui aud hear lnui t.dl how Kolix trembled, nud how tho ship went to piece in tho breakers, and how thick was the durkiiess in the Mmnertine duueou! Gone to meet John Knox aud Johu Wevley ami Hiiuii'ih .More and Francis liuvoral. flone to meet the kindred who preceded theuil Why 1 should uot wonder if they bad a larger lauiilv group there than thoy ever liau hero. Uh, iiow many oi tlnin have Rot toother ajjaiul Vour fathor and mother went years apurt, but they have Rot to gether, aud their childruu that wout yean ratra got tofrether eirain. Gone where they have more room I Gone where they have more Jubilant so ciety t Gone where tbey have mightier capacity to love yon than when they were here I Gone ont nf hindrances Into un bounded liberty I Gone out of January Into Janet Gone where they talk about you a we always talk about ilavnt friend and say t "I wonder when they will com up hero to loin us. Hark ! the outside door of heaven swings open. Hark) there are feet on the golden stairs. I'erha s they ere eominR-!" I was told at Johnstown after the fliol that many paople who had been for month and year beref t for the first time (rot com fort when the awful fhxnl came to think time their departed ones were not present to tee the catastrophe. A the people were floes Inn down on the housetop they said: "Oh, how glad I am that father ami mother are not here," or "Mow cliul I am that the chil dren are not alive to nee this horrorf AnJ ought not wo w ho are down here amid tho Hotuniiii'r of this life Im glad thnt none of the troubles which submerge us can evor affright our friends nsondod? liefore this I warrant our deprrted one have been introduced to all the celebrities of heaven. Home one has said to tbein: "Let me introduce you to Joshua, the man who by prayer stopped two world for several hour. liot tne make yon acquainted with this group of three heroes John Hues, Tbilip Melaticthon nud Martin Luther. Ahat here is Kenolonl Here Is Archbishon Irfihtonl Here are Latimer and Hidlevl litre is Matthew Hitnpson I Here is poet's row James Montgomery and Anna Har bauld and lloratius Donar and 1'hecuO i'almer and 1owell Mason.'' Were your departed ones fond of music? W hat nratoris led on by Handel and Hay den. Were they fond of pictures f Whnt Itapharl pointing out skies with all co!tr wrought out Into chariot wh"el, wings of seraphim and coronations. Were they fond nf ioctrv Whnt eternal rhythms led on bv John Milton. Khali wo pity our plnrif1'. kindred, No, they had iM-ttcr pity us. We, the shipwrecked and on a raft In tho hurri cane, looking up nt them sailing on over calm sees, under skle that never frowned with tomposts, we hop;l . with chains; tbnv lifted by wings. ".Surely tho bitterness if Uisitli is past." rurtliur, if what I havii lf.n saying Is true, wo should trust tin Lord and b thrilled witli the fact that our own day of escape cometh. If our lives woro going to end when our heart c en sod to pulsate and our Iung4 to breathe, I would want to take ten million years of life here for the first installment. Hut, my Christian friends, wa cannot afford always to stay down in tin cellar of our Father's house. Wo cannot always bo postponing the best things. We cntniot always be tuning our violins for the celestial orchestra. Wo must get our wings out We must mount. We cannot afford always to stand out here in the vestibule of the Iiousj nf many mansions, while tin windows nro illuminated with the levej angelic, nud so can hear the laugh ter of those forever free, and the ground quukes with the bounding feet of those who have entered upon eternal piny. Ushers of heaven! Opsn the gates! Swing them clear back ou their jiearly hinges! Let the c.'lestial music rain on us it cadence. U t t ie banging ganlcus of the king breath on us their arotnutics. b t our ro leiimo I onus just look out aul civ us one glance of their c,lori!lo 1 faces. Ye, there they are now I I see them. But I can not stand tho vision. Close the gate, or our eyes will bo quench. I with the overpowering brightness. Hold buck tho song or our ears will never again care fot earthly nntheiu. Withdraw the perfume or we shall swoon in tho fragrance that human nostrils was never Hindu to breath. All these thoughts are suggested ns wj stand this Hister niorii amiX tbe bro":i rocks of tho 'suviour'stoni'i. lndoed, I know that tomb ha not been robuilt.for 1 stood in December ot lns'J uuiid the rums of thit,tho most famous seiiuloher of all time. There nro thousands of tombs in our Greenwood and Laurel Hill and Mount Auburn with more polished stone and more elabji ito ma. Iiici lenta than around any grave of' all ths world since death entered it." I could not breathe easily for overmaster ing emotions as 1 walked down tho four crumbling steps till we cm abreast of tlio niche in wuieli 1 think Christ was bui-.ed. I measured tho sejiuleh -r nnd fo iu I it four teen and a lialf feet Inn;, eight fc t high, nine foot wide. It is n family toaih nnd seems to havj been built to hold live liodi-t. l!ut X rejoice to Hay tiiat tin toiu'i w.u empty, and that tho door ot tho ro.-U wns Soiie, and tho sunlight streamed in. The uy that Christ roie nnd cauio forth tho sopulcher was doinolishoi forever, aul no trowel of earthly masjnry can ever rebuild it. And tbe rupture of those roc'-Ji, and tho snap of that Ciov rnmentul seal, and the crash of those walls of limestone, and the step of the lacerated but triumphant foot of the l isjn Jesus wo to-day celobrnU) with acclaim of worshiping thousand., while with nil tho nation! of Christendom, und all the nhiniug ho.-ts ot Insaven wo chant, "Now is Christ risen from tho dead nud become the lil'dt fruits of tliem that slept." dh, weep no mora vour comforts statu, 'Hie Lord Is risen, lie lives agaln "Aud now may the (tod of peace, who brought again from thu dead our Lord Jesus, thnt great shepherd of tho sheep, through tin bloo 1 of the everlasting covenant make you pirfict in every good word aud work," llallciujuh! Amen. Flax la tho West Flax in tho West is cultivate, to day on virgin or now soil very successfully; but it thrives better ou soil that has been well worked, tillod aud pulverized. Tho seeds demand plenty of fertilizer, both ia tho shape, of welt rotted, old manuro aud commercial fertilizers. Prom four hundred to six hundred pound of min eral fertilizer), consisting chiefly of pot ash and phosphoric acid, aro applied to thu aero. The seed used is imported from Europe, as this is ciimilercd bet ter than tho lluxsecd grown hero. After tho planting tho tlax requires cultivation ami attention tho same as uuy other until it attains a lare, healthy growth, when it can take euro of itself. It is estimate. 1 that each aero ou;,'ht to yield seventy dollars' worth of seed, and about six hundred pounds of liber, (f thero is u market for tho straw tho flax growers will huvo their profits nearly, if not quite, doubled. Labor is also saved by tho new method of gathering tho straw, for the ordinary grass mowur can cut tho plates uu 1 btiudlo them into sheaths. Machinery, iu fact, cun per form nearly all of tho work, from tho time thu seeds nro first planted until tho straw is cou verted into librous mntcriiil for wearing. Flux is to exhausting to tho soil that it should not bo grown ou tho suu-.e Held ofteucr thau two out of every six or seven years, for repeating tho crop upon tho sumo ground for a number of years in succession will sure ly injure tho soil pcritmuoutly. New York independent. Arizona has ono of the greatest copper mines in tho world. The Copper Queen is oue of world wide reputation, and during 1891, with copper down to ridicu lously low prices and the cost of develop ment work running up into tho millions, the uiuio paid a dividend of gSSO.OOO. sonry uml pore ro.laj'iiurroun liiig but as i vventii sfM fflcvr1! J ?;3i ?5 u r-3 "Up in. V su,iltaylS more mid tombs. Around this stnil l iTuird kLiAiiHoMa . TEMPERANCE. M MAT Dnl.tK, II TH LUt- Te may drink, If ye list, Tbe red sparkling wine. From lieakers that gleam With the gems of ths vine, Ve may qua IT, If Ve will, W hen tue foam bend tbe brim From a flagon or goblet, Till your eye shall grow dlinj Cut I've sworn on the altar, And my soul is now free, Nor beaker, nor flagon, or goblet for me. Ye may light the avenge. On ruin's wild path, Like a raging volcano in the bins nf its wrath But your fire-crested waves. All gory with blood, Bhad be hissing like serpent And quenched in the flood; For I've sworn on the altar, And my soul is now frev. This hand shall ne'er falter In its warfare with thee. Then come to the altar. And come to the shrine, I)ash down your red goblets And your flagons of wine Young heroes are thronging Where the battle's beguti. And the sheen of their lianuors Klnshes bright In the sun; AY hen the shock of the onset. As a rock meets the flood, (shall roll back the lountaiiifl And rivers of blood. S. K. I'easo, In the Temporauce A lvoctte. ItOW PHLMtAKIJ A It It MASK. What a terrllilo amount of indlff irenu there is among tl with regard to drunken ness! A little Intoxication is looked upon as a simple thing, a mere weakne-s; while ha bitual drunkenness n terrilil thing, to be sure, but we nil sav, "We are certainly safe from that." That tirutnl, re l-fn"edt, that breaks his wife's heart, or .lestr iys his home, "wo never w ill degrade o'lr.-eives ns low a that." There uro plenty sucii. We know It well. How do they become sucl-f No man ever becomes such a drunkard intentionally. 'o man ever takes tlio glass iu his band and says to himself: "I have a good reputation now. I have good health, a loving wife, children who climb on my knoa, and put their loving arms around my neck, Imt this class will Is! the tlrst step to ruin, and blast all this lmppiiiisx. This glass I know will lead to nnother, and In the end my wife will liecomo a broken hisartisl woman, my chil dren will walk tbe streets in rags and tilth, my health and reputation will bo gone; hut no mutter, here it goes." No man intend it. Iirunkoniifs aud tho whole host of evils that follow In it train come on a fam ily gradually. Warn a man w ho is drinking a little; tell him whnt is before him. He will say : "Do you tuko mo for a fool?" Tbe worst drunkard lying in the slime of bestial degradation said that. No, it is not tho fools that become drunkards. They know a llttlo too much. A man sny, "I know my self. I can take It or leave it." The poor drunkard nf to-ilny who said that long ago unfortunately in every enso wound up by taking it. .Many a time tho man who mi l "hecouid let it aloun when he ha 1 a mind to." ufter aw hilo had thu mind to, but alnsl did not have the ower. "Father," mid a man tho other dny, "I'd give my right hand if I could quit It, but I can't." "1 can give it up," is tiie cry of the young man as ho enter the outer circle, but 1 "won't." "I would," is tho cry of tho do spairing wretch in the vort x, "nut I can't." If by sitting in a draught five iersoiis out ol every teu caught cold, and it developed into pneumonia, wo would avoid a draught. Ho if by drinking habitually live out of every ten become ilrundarJs, why uot avoid the drinking bnHt The practice ot total abstinence is the surest barrier azainst drunkenness. Touch not, taste not, 1 the safest rule. AtCOrtOLIO MRDICATIOit. Kor Htilliuli.il., xt r. i Wiislilnirt.tn " reejjni, nriici 'Th Progress of Temperance." cites the following concerning alcoholic medication from Dr. Greene, of Boston! Vhilo fifty years ago American and Fnglivh physicians had to offer an apology for thoir private dissent from tho doctrine of the stimulant mongers, .Or. Creene, of Jloston, holds that no sophistry can excuse the indirect encouragement which the liquor tnttllo receives trom tUo .-ecsdeut of modi cnl prescriptions. Jles iyi. 'As a result of thirty years of professional experience aud practical observation, 1 feel assured that alcoholic stimulants uro not required as a medicine, and 1 btdieve that many, if not a majority of, physicians to-day of education and experience are sutisliel that alcohol la drugs are worse than useless, an I we hav only to overcome the force of habit und of prevailing fashion to tin 1 a more excellent way, aud a time will come when they will all look bnck with wonder an 1 surprise to bil l that they, as individuals and members of an honored profession, should have boon to lor compromise 1.' " TUB W. C. T. b. SHUT OUT. TTe aro just Informed that tlm World's Wo. man's Christian Temperance Union has been refused space at the World's Fair for a pa vilion such a they had at the I'aris Exposi tion. The World s W. C. T. Union wos in duguratod In America; it is now bu'lding in Chicngo for headquarters one of the n.ost imoTng editlc.js iu that city of lofty build ings. It will be strange, to'say tho least of It, if a World's Fair held In Auieriea, aud in Chicago, cannot do whnt the muuagers of the l'uris Exiiosition did for this same or ganization the largest organization of wo men tho world has ever seen, it lack ot space is to be pleaded by the managers of the World's Fair, we suggest that they cut down tho spneo awarded to the brewers exhibit. The Voice. TeamcnAxcB t.xws and notks. There are .12.000 families homeless iu Lon don through iutomporauoe. The Iird Mayor of London declares that ninety per cant, nf the case that aro beard at tho Mansion House ore duo to drink. Certain I'ooria till.) distillers, who were absorbed by the "Whisky Trust," aud sub sequently sold their stock propose to re enter the distilliug busiuess upon a lurge scale. !Uary Spark Wheeler, of l'liinnlxville. reiin.,hus been appointed Siiieriutundent ot World's Temperance .Mission work, and she is to go out raising tho money to help send out niiMsiouarii's, The Florida Coiuregatioual Association bos entered its protest iigiilnsl the localized liquor trulllc in a set of splendid resolutions, pledging its own intlueuco and recommend ing tho work of tho W . C. T. U, to all funs liau believers. liy a decision of Judge Lacomb?, domestio wine nnd liquor dealers who bave been in tlio habit of falsifying tiie brands and lubels of foreign articles, will eonlinuo to do so at their peril, a tor .'o it. of thi liquor and a llue of f joo. An appeal will likoiy be taken. A year ago John Greater, a wealthy resi dent ot Washington, Iud., wliilo traveling oil au Iron Mouutaiu traiu near iiald Knob, Ark., shot und killed four men. Isadora Meyer was ono of the victims, lireutor was sent to au insane asylum and quickly rocov ere I. Mrs. Meyer lion sued, nu t the evi dence shows 1 that Greater was simply drunk at tho time; aud thu jury gave her a verdict of $18,00' damages. The Rev. Father MeMahon. of Britt, la., at the close ot a recent Sunday morning ser vice called out th names ot about a dozen young men, and asked them to stand in front of tiie altar. The men so summoned have been noted for their fast ways und especially for excessive indulgence in intoxicants. Bundiug in the pulpit bat ore them the priest poke eloquently on the evils of ltitemper. onee and implored the young men to reform. W hen tbe appealed wo eudvd, each one took the pledge, RELIGIOUS READING! hold Tnr. thaii. "Msdani. we miss Hie Irsln at It "Hut csn't you make It, slrf she gaspo "iinposiiniei it leaves snurre, And wc are due at quarter past." "Is there no wayT Oh, tell me, then. Are you christian?" "I am not." . "And are there none among the men Who run the train?" "No I forgot I IhlnK the fellow over Here, Oiling the engine claims to be." She threw upon the engineer A fair face, white w ith agony. Are yon a Christian?" "Yes.! am." "Then, O sir, won't you pray with me, All the long wav that God w ill tnr. Thnt God will bold the train at B T' " 'Twill do no good ; Its due at three. And" "Ye but God can bold ll tra ; My dying child Is calling me, And I must see In r face again; Oh. won't you pray.'' "I will" a nod Kiiinhntic, as he takes his nhtee. When Christians graptho hand of Ooi I hey grap the power that rules tho r : Out from the station swept the train n tlmo swept on pnst wood and les; ilie eiigltii cr w ith cheeks stlanie, Frayed, "() Lord, boltl the train at P. - Then Hung the throttle w ide, and like Some giant monster of the plain. With punting sides mm mighty strides, l'ust bill and valley swept the train. A half a mlnnlc two are gnlned. Along those burnished 11m a of steel His glances leap, caeh nerve is straine I, And still he prays with rertetit real. Heart, blind and brain, witli fuieoc.i r Work while his prayer ascends to In ".lust hold the train right minutes, I,. And I'll make up the other ii ihi." With rush and roar through meadow l'n-t i ottaue Inline and ".rccu billsid The pnuling thing obeys his bands. And speeds along w Iih giant strides. I, J., jjjj see pfharn Ear en tney say an accident delayed The traiu a liltie w liiie i liiit He Who listened w hl'e His children priyi iu answer, ueiu tne ir.tin at j New Oricaus Pi , WOMANLINESS flKST. It li' ci P! Was Li Ml Frances E. Wlllnrd snvs, con fnyree mam says, con r jejirc n of woman : .a;. ihe must lay il. f At tin , m; if. while l .ri i ers rust , if a i i f I I the higher education lake up the classics, she dust-brush nnd broom; briihtens. her innnnei Homer Is Incompatible with n t i fnM th home; If, In line, she must put otT t Ii-1 rft.rvai of womanliness ere she can wrenth Ii . i eiirp with laurels of schfilarshlp, then, amn coi sake of dear bumanity, let her tling a ) 1 1 t laurels that she may keep the creii i. , must gain wltl.nut losing or all is ; .Like P this her motto: 'Wouianliius lir!.vsira,mj ward whul you will.' " f ,o svss . io Ma.. r.M.BK llf.MIMTt. fSKsiUb, . tv'kloverts Ttic master is runne l of tnueli si r a false humility which he'itUcs i Importance. It would not bave proper thing for the prodigal to I; nround to the kitchen like a tram;, futher opened the front floor for In nnd olb ricl a full reinstatement i: f,treli,g air f ' I P mr sjisjiKua ie t i imsatid privileges of sonship. A u lesson of the grand parable wliic well lay to heart. We may not t il fdacc thun that to w hicli God cal s quite a general ten letiey tot: humble spheres of rtrviee. Sri. churches contract the'r effort wr selves nnd withhold their eon tri the Hoards, because what they r:t: so insignllieatit. Individuals tl.it they do nelstand on high pede:: no light f'W to shed. But : Uod's thJsA Mrusiia l ngann: niss of tho work o'owilfl.ft , ; Individual, may seem of small ac gun In hnttlu docs not seem deei-i all ono soldier is called upon to m ran nnd does make use of the o nnd the one man power very ofttimcs. One Moses was cnou. purpose In bringing his church c One Luther w us enough to lire which set the reformation a! Stanley Is enoirirh for God's nlan continent so far. His work wi. i entire church enough to do ere '. 4p sreTedeetned in units, not In ni.tJIJ I f t Ilimrf'. I. I A F kmis P IU can vi P " (Veil ko 1 potties o Sod' I lb put IQensTi kn i fuses', A f. Te, v ill ni, i redeeming blood rescues each rn:- ion rescues cacn ra jr S. v. ry canee. There is i fi.sj. 1 1 lie sicrameiital si-. 1 blind? Neglect i f I t 1..., ti s iituii t..lr, U I 7 Irom tiislguitl nii inher in all is that in thy that is in thee. -IChrbttlan lutelllg Iutelligeticer. . (11 4U lIlltriNO THE MIKIsTfL Wallare is seven years old. Y. was three, he hns been a Sutnln He loves Minday school; but, tii ; 1 urn iiki'ii going to cniircu. It wns so much ph asunter Ii. t4Vebeei May nt home, ns he was t-onictl' ISatJ j COtlstii with inanima, who Is nn InvniW fiT 1 to her stories from the Bible uu.1:. nf one ai Ones." -on; was st (ine day last spring a jrrrat td, lifjt to n Into Wallace's life; his papii.oK, , ' was suddenly killed. J"--Vnaed . When the next -ubbnth n U Cannot c asked "Mayn't 1 cotno lioiuu i J Ll Vhieh J h school und stay with you?" ,s r i i t lease i But his lonely, heart-broken f (urden the courage to ssy, "No, my 4 idcrfnr ber papa will not be there toda IZ fULrlu' tS the minister looks from bis im ,vf:i to every tbe i miity seat, it may trouble P? Ida and Li he will like to see you in pl':l iv-o Pri... 8o thnt morning, at tbe cl.e.L ' , ' "Uer school, the little iiuiii went at and took the seat bis father 'dK Kl L from week to week, with ra'" for years bnck. ,J titer service ne nurricn ii" mother I "1 guess I belpiil 'cause he enme nud spoKe to u ISIiiee then, every Sunday, j thnt he hits a place to fill in "' , Whin, sometimes, the u-lc'l gcrs to that pew, the little l" standing up makes his sleii l'i small that they nuiy puss iu : 1 1 up "papa s seat to unv one. ' Not ouly the pastor, hut m1 fc ", our hi arts ache with idty, f ' i sueii a buy, (villi seen a lie j day take his good father' p n t si' und the world. National sNcC . ,Vv TUB DIUNK THAI' 7 If the shocking tra;;n.lh's l-X 'If s- r jt 'W tuo liquor trumu wereuoi. " i , lar inuigu ition agninit in 1 " Verand ration wuul.l speudlly cu 1 "i fsi,,. so frequent that thoy havoc i -ilC IIIJIj ever iiorriblo, accepted "; 'f'Paln In Joint,. generally as umutU.r of co. . fcMiieiit cuIIm, irr a dissipated driver named vel u'wnntloii orci city, wliose drunken habits fc "") I married life wretched, ," L1 Ci evening fiercely drunk, nn1 l'in;l'.'"w',l0n, sout bis wtts. Working bimsell w "r ,CT cuns, rage, he finally struck her i 'uary trouh such force that bhi fell h IT"! IB ground, her light iirmbeiu:(L( tt J he lilud tbe moauiiig woiio ".tn'l wi and despite her shriek an' , w. i "T.'oi ot carried her to the stove uu prv . " "'"'I and held ber there until t it "J., r 1,1 side were toirblv tuiwiKn.- at rv, ,,'',r V r-.t-1 i.'t,..i... iih O 66 rare or tlrs ck-,iM that 3 Tin o f1Uo' ut rlp ) o o tendernes from the iin ivuin n old; i; the hoarded and long pur -r of years, a if it had surviv the sciilshrieia of youtb. r Kl 1: 1 iven intt ill Hav S'fti mi J
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