DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON: The Moonlight Ride. ——— “Thon went I up in the night by the brook, viewed the wall, and turned back and en- tered by the gato of the valley, and so re- turned.” Neh. 2: 15. A dead city is more suggestive than a living city—past Rome than present Rome-—ruins rather than newly fres. coed cathedral, But the best time to visit is by moonlight. The Coliseum is far more fascinating to the traveler after sundown than before. You may stand by daylight and the monastic ruins of Melrose Abbey, and study shafted orlel, and rosetted stone and mullion, but they throw their strongest witchery by moonlight. Some of you remember what the enchanter of Scot- land said in the ‘‘Lay of the Last Minstrel: Wouldst thou view fair Melrose aright. Go visit it by the pale moonlight. Washington Irving describes the Andalusian moonlight upou the Alham- bra ruins as amounting to the enchant- ment. My text presents you JERUSALEM IN RUINS, The tower down, The gates down, The walls down. Everything down. Nehemiah on horseback, by moon- light lo king upon the ruins, While he rides, there are some friends on foot going with him, for they do not want the many horses to disturb the suspi- cions of the people, These people do not know the secret of Nehomiah's heart, but they are going as a sort of body-guard. I hear the clicking hoofs of the horse on which Nehemiah rides, as he guides it this way and that, into this gate and out of that, winding through that gate amid the debris of once great Jerusalem, Now the horse comes to a dead halt at the tumbled masonry where he cannot pass. Now he shies off at the charred timbers. Now he comes along where the water under the moonlight flashes from the mouth of the dragon after which the gate was named. Heavy hearted Nehemiah! Riding in and out, now by his old Lome deso- lated, now by the defaced temple, now amid the scars of the city that bad gone down under battering-ram and conflagration. The escorting party knows not what Nehemiah means. Is he getting crazy? Have his own per- sonal serrows, added to the sorrows of the nation, unbalanced his intellect? THE MIDNIGHT EXPLORATION goes on. Nehemiah on horseback rides through the Fish gate, by the tower of the furnaces, by the King's pool, by the Dragon well, in aod out, in and out, until the midnight ride is com- pleted, and Nehemiah dismounts from his borse, and to the amazed and con- founded and iocredulous body-guard, | declares the dead secret of his heart when he says, ‘Come, mow, let us house of the Lord. When the Temple was in ruins, as ours was years ago, like Nehemiah you walked around and looked at it, and in the moonlight you stood listening if you could Lear the voice of the dead organ, the psalm of the expired Sabbaths, What Jerusalem was to Nehemlab, the Church of God is to you. Sceptics and infidels may scoff at the Church as an obsolete affair, us a relic of the dark ages, as & convention of goody-goody people, bat all the impression they have ever made on your mind agawnst the Church of God 1s absolutely nothing. You would make more sacrifices for it to-day than for any other institution, and if it were needful you would dle in its defence. You can take the words of the kingly poet as he sald, ‘If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.” You understand in your own experience the pathos, the homesickness, the courage, the holy enthusiasm of Nehemiah in his mid- night ride around the ruins of his be- loved Jerusalem, Agaln, my text impresses me with the fact that before reconstruction there must be an exploration of ruins. Why was not Nehemiah asleep under the covers? Why was not his horse stabled in the midnight? Let the police of the city arrest this midnight rider out on some mischief, No, Xe hemiah is g~ing to rebuild the city, and he is making preliminary explora | tion. i In this gate, out that gate, east, west, north, south. All tbrough the ruins, The ruins must be explored before the work of reconstruction can begin. The reason that so many people in this day, apparently converted, do notistay converted is because they did not first explore the ruins of their own heart. The reason tbat there are :0 many professed Christians who in this day lie and forge and steal and commit adultry and go to the penitentiary, is because they first do not learn the ruin of their own bear’. They have not found out that *‘the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.” They had an idea that they were almost right, and they bullt re- ligion as a sort of extension, as an ornamental cupola, There was a su- perstructure of religion built on a substratum of sins, The troubls with a good deal of mod- ern theology is that instead of building on the right foundation, It builds on the debmns of an unregenerated nature. They atterapt to rebuild Jerusalem before, in the midnight of conviction they have seen the ghastliness of the ruin. They have such a poor founda- tion for their religion that the first portheast storm of temptation blows them down. I have no faith in a man’s conversion ii he is not converted In THE OLD FASHIONED WAY —John build Jerusalem.” **What, Nehemiah, have you any money?’ “Wo.” “Have | you any kingly authority?” **No.” “Have you any eloquence?” “No.” Yet that midnight moonlight ride of Nehemiah resulted in the glorious rebuilding of the city of Jeiusalem. | The people knew not how the thing | was to be done, but with great enthu- siasm they cried out, “Let us rise up now and build the city!” Some people laughed, and said it could not be done, Some people were nfuriate, and of- fered physical violence, saying the thing should not be done. But the workmen went right on, standing on the wall, trowel in one hand, sword in the other, until the work was gloriously completed, At that very time, in Greece, Xenophon was writing a his- tory, and Plato was making philosophy, and Demosthenes was raltling his rhetorical thunder, but all of them together did not do so much for the world as this midnight moonlight ride | of praying, courageous, homesick, | close- mouthed Nehemiah, i My subject first impresses me with the idea what an intense thing is CHURCH AFFECTION. Seize the bridle of that horse and stop | Nehemiah, Why are you risking your | life here in the night? Your horse will stumble over these ruins and fall on you. Stop this useless exposure of your life, No; Nehemiah will not stop. He at last talis us the whole story, He lets us know he was an exile in a far distant land, and he was a servant, a cup-bearer in the palace of | Artaxerxes Longimanus, and one day, while be was handing the cup of wine to the king, the king sald to him, “What is the matter with you? You are not sick. I know you must have some great trouble, What is the matter with you?” Then he told the king how that beloved Jerusalem was broken down; how that Lis father’s tomb had been desecrated: how that THE TEMPLE HAD BEEN DISHONORED and defaced; how that the walls were scattered and broken. **Well,” says King Artaxerxes, “what do you want?’ “Well,” sald the cup-bearer Neliemiah, “I want to go home, I want to fix up the grave of my father, I want to restore the beauty of the temple. 1 want to rebuild the mas. sury of the city wall. Besides, I want passports, so that I shall not be hind- ered in my journey. And besides that,”’ as you find in the context, *'I want an order on the man who keeps your forest for just so much timber as I may need for the rebuildiog of the sity.’ How long shall you be gone?’ said the Sing. The time of absence is arranged. In hot haste this seeming adventurer comes to Jerusalem, and m my text we find him on horseback in the midnight, riding around the ruins. It is through scene that we tachment of Nehemiati for sacred Je- rusalem, which in all «ges has been the type of the Church of God, our Jerusa- lem, which we love just as much as Nehemiah loved his Jerusalem, The fact is that TOU LOVE THE CHURCH of God ro much that there is no spot i Bunyan's way, John Wesley's Christ's way, God's way. A dentist | once sald to me, “Does that hurt?” Said I, Of course it hurts! It is in your business as in my profession; we before we can help.” You will never understand redemption until you understand ruin. A man | tells me that someone is a member of | the Church. It makes no impression | on my mind at all. 1 simply want to know whether he was converted in the old- fashioned way, or whether he was converted in the new-fashioned way, If he was converted in the old-fashioned way, he will stand, If he was con- verted in the new-fashioned way. he will not stand. That it all thera is A man comes to me to talk about re- ligion. The first question I ask him 1s, “*Do you feel yourself to be a slonery’ | If he say, “Well, I—yes,” the hesi- | tancy makes me feel that that man wants a ride on Nehemiah's horse by midmght through the rmins—in by the | gate of his affections, oul by the gate | of his will; and before he has got and will take his nght hand aod smite on his heart and say: “God be merciful | to me a sinover,” aod before be had stabled his horse he will take his feet out of the stirrups, and ha will slide down on the ground, and be will kneel, | erying, “Have mercy on me, O God, | according to thy loving kindness: ac- cording unto the multitude of thy ten- der mercies blot out my transgressions, For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sins are ever before thea. ' Ah, my friends, you see this is NOT A COMPLIMENTARY GOSPEL. That ia what makes soms people so mad. Itcomes to a man of a million dollars and impenitent in his sins and says, “You're a pauper.” It comes to a woman of fairest cheek, who has never repented, and says, “You're a sinner,” It comes to & man priding himself on his independencs and says, “You're bound hand and fool by the devil,” I[tcomesto our entire race and says, “You're a ruin, a ghastly ruin, an filimitable ruin.” Satan sometimes says to me, “Why do you preach that truth? Why don’t you preach a gospel with no repentance in it? Why don't you fatter men’s hearts so that you make them feel all right? Why don’t you preach a homaanitarian gospel with no repentance iu it, sasing nothing about the ruin, taking «ll the time about redemption?” I say, ‘Get thee behind me, bdatan.”” I would rather lead five souls the right way than twenty thousand the wroug way. The redemption of the gospel is a per- fect farce if there is no ruin, *'The whole need not a physician, but they are sick.” “If any one, though he be an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel than this,’ says the apostle, “let him be aocursed.’’ There must be the midnight ride over the ruins before Jerusalem can be built. There must be the clicking of the hoofs before thare can be the ringing of the trowels, Again: My subject gives me a specie men of busy and TRIUMPHANT SADNESS, 1{ thers was any man in the world who had a right to mope and give up every thing as lost, it was Nehemiah. You ey, “He was a cup-beare: in the palace of Shushan, and it was a d place.” Su it was, The hall of that palace was two hundred feet square, and the roof hovered over thirty-si murble pillars, each pillar sixty Bik agrtnligrmain, Sa 3 Lr * age, and the white of Lhe driven snow, all hung trembling in the vpholstery. But, my friends, you know very well that fine architecture will not put down homesickness, Yet Nehemiah did not give up, Then when you see him going among these desolated streets, and by these dismantled towers, and by the torn-up grave of his father, you would suppose that he would have been disheartened, and that he would have dismounted from his horse und gone to his room and smd: “Woe is me! My father’s grave is torn up, The Tem- ple is dishonored. The walls are broken down, I have no money with which to rebuild, I wish I had never been born. I wish I were dead.” Not 80 says Nehamish. Although he had a grief so intense that it excited the commentary of his king, yet that pen- niless, expatriated Nehemiah rouses bimself up to rebulld the city. He gets his permission f absence. He gets his passports. He uastens away to Jerusalem, By night, on horseback, he rides through the ruins. He over comes the most ferocious opposition, He arouses the piety and patriotism of the people, and in less than two months, namely, in fifty-two days, Jerusalem was rebuilt, That’s what | call busy and triumphant sadness, My friends, the whole temptation is, with you. WHEN YOU HAVE TROUBLE, to do just the opposite to the behavior You say, **I have lost my child and can never smile again,’ You say, **1 have lost my property, and I never can repair my fortunes.” You say, ‘I have fallen Into sin, and 1 never can start again for a new life.’ If Satan ean make you form that resolution, and make you keep it, he has ruined you, Trouble is not sent to crush you, but to arouse you, to animate you, to propel you. The blacksmith does not thrust the iron into the forge and then blow away with the bellows, and then bring the hot iron out on the anvil and beat with stroke after stroke to ruin the iron, but to prepare it for a better use. Oh that the Lord God of Nehe- mah would rouss up all broken- hearted people to rebuild, Whipped, betrayed, imprisoned Paul went right on. The italian martyr Algerius sits in his dungeon writing a letter, and he dates t “From the delectable orchard of the Leonins prison.” 71hat is what | call triumphant sadness, [ knew A MOTHER WHO BURIED HER on Friday and on Sabbath appeared in the house of God and sald, ‘*Give me a class; give me a Sabbath-school class, I have no child now lefl me, and like shipwrecked, Give we real poor children, back street.” That, | say, is beautiful, That is tri- usmphant sadness, Atl three o'clock this afternoon, in a beautiful parior in pletured and statuetted —there will be from ten to twenty destitute children of the streel, i= How do I know that that has been I Know it in That was the first home in comfort a greal sorrow, The father sob and shriek of that father and resound in my ears to-day. THE LORD COMFORTED trouble. If you should go on the snow- into Laurel Hill I think there has not been an when there was not a wreath of fresh Walter's name. the Christian mother who sends those left, Sabbath afternoons mothers ten or That is beautiful. That is what I call busy and triumphant sadness, Here 1s a man who has lost his property. He does not go to hard drinking, ile does not destroy his own life. He comes and says: ‘“*Harpess me for Christian work, My money's gone. I have no treasures on earth, want treasures in heaven, I have a voice and » heart to serve God.” You say that that man has failed. He has not failed—he has triumphed. Oh, 1 wish I could persuade all the people who have any kind of trouble to NEVER GIVE UP, I wish they would look at the mid- night rider of the text, and that the four hoofs of that beast on whieh Nehemiah rode might cut to pleces all your discouragements and hardships and trials, Gilveup! Who is going to give up, when on the bosom ot God he can have all his troubles hushed? Give up! Never think of giving Are you borne down with poverty? A little child was found hotding her dead mother's hand in the darkness of a tenement house, and some one coming in, the Little girl looked up, while holding her dead mother's hand, and amid: Oh I do wish that God had made MORE LIGHT FOR POOR FOLKS.” My dear, God will be your light, God will be your shelter, God will be your home. Are you borne down with the bereavements of life? ls the house lonely now that the child is gone? Do pot give up. Think of what the old sexton sald when the minister asked him why he put so much care on the little graves in the cemetery-—-80 much more care than m——- loss of a child, do not give up. The old sexton was right, It 1s ALL WELL WITH THE DAIRNS. Or, if you have sinoed, if you have sioned grievously—sinned until you have been cast out by the Chureh, sinned until you have been cast out by society, do not give up, Perhaps there may be in this house one that could truthfully utter the lamentation of another: Once 1 was pure as the snow, but 1 fell— Fell like a snowflake from heaven to hell Fell, to be trampled as flith in the streev~ Fell, to be scoffed at, spit on and beat: Praying, eursing, wishing to dis, Belling my soul to whoever would buy, Dealing in shame for a morsel of broad, Hating the living and fearing the dead. Do not give up. One ike unto the Son of God comes to you to-day, saying, “Go and sin no wore," while He cries out to your assailants, ‘‘Let him that is without sin cast the first stone at her.” Ob! there i8 no reason why any one in this house by reason of any trouble or sin, should give up. Are vou a foreigner, and In a strange land? Nehemiah was an exile. Are you penniless? Nehemiah was poor. Are you homesick? Nehemiah was home- sick. Are you broken-hearted? Nehe- minh was broken-hearted, Dut just ses him in the text, riding along the sacri- leged grave of his father, and by the Dragon well, and through the Fish gate, and by the King’s pool, in and out, in and eut, the moonlight falling on the broken masonry, which throws a long shadow at which the horse shies, and at the same time that moonlight kindling up the features of this man till you see not only the mark of sad reminiscence, but the courage, the hope, the enthusiasm, of 4 man Who knows that Jerusalem will b= rebullded, I pick you up to-day out of your sins and out of your sorrow, and I put you against the warm heart of Christ. “*The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.” - A College For Women. From an article in the Public Lelger wo glean some important facts with re- spect to the contemplated ment, by Mr. A. J, Drexel, our million aire banker, of an institution at Wayne, Delaware County, Pa. for the proper training and education of The project which of the and a se- the other day by the purchase Lowells Mansion at Wayne, trustees and managers for the institution, which is to be ed, “Drexel Industrial College Women,” The object forth in the charter, is to instruct females between the ages of 13 and 19 years in all duties appertaining to the care of a household, and to trades and businesses as will make them practical women, able Lo earn a respec- table livelihood, The bes of college are to be extended, lection of of the institution 2 on or ells first, to the and second, to parents, through adverze cin umstances, are un- ing and education, The property which has been ot hotel, home or living 1 He is 10 be retained as t to erect the college and ad- ministration buil It 1s said tha Sings, Mr, It is stated that in connection with the college, instruction will be given upon the plan of the Cooper Institute, of N. Y., by which pupils will receive while residing atl It will be about eighteen monihs be- About one hundred women will accommodated in the beginning, new buildings are com- tion, be hundred, President, the Right Rev, Bishop tary, Rev. T K. Conrad, ID, D. The Drexel, J. Willlam H. B. 1. K. J. Lippincott, Mrs, J, Rhoades, Miss Martha Brown Mrs, Wayne Mac Veagh, Mrs, Harry Biddle, Mra, Edward Rob- erts, Mrs, Horace Fassett, Mrs. George R. Preston, Mrs. George Krumbhaar, Mrs, J, D. Lippincott, Miss C. B, Smith, Mrs. H. J. Rowland, Mrs George B. Roberta, Mrs, A, V. Meigs, and Miss Marion Biddle, Uutil the college is completed Lhe meetings of the managers will be held at the Lincoln Institution, The first was held on the 1ith inst, ut which Bishop Whitaker delivered an address explain- ing the needs and usefulness of the magnificent institution of which these ladies are to assume the control, Mrs, Cox also made some very inter- esting statements regarding what is to be accomplished rough the instru. mentality of this uwstitution, — Education Not Grace, With all their charms it must be confessed that Boston women lack grace and dignity of bearing, at least when seen on our thoroughfares, as. serts the Boston Evening Post. There are, to be sure, some exceptions to this rule, but usually the maids and ma trons of this modern Athens walk through our streets with a gait that seems to indicate that they are afrald they will not arrive at some reforma- tory or philanthropic meeting on time, where, some sister may get he gw of them in advancing » new an, Falsehood oan make the best spurt, Tal rath enn do the steadiest trotuing, rm —— SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, Suxoay Avni 7, 1858, The Triumphal Entry, LESSON TEXT. (Mark 11: 1-11. Memory vorses, 8.30 LESSON PLAN. Toric OF THE QUARTER: Finishing Hw Work, Jesus GOLDEN TEXT vor THE QUARTER: I have glorifled thee on the earth, having accomplished the work which thou hast given me to do.—John 17 : 4, Lesson Toric: Inviting a Welcome, { 1. Preparing to Enter the City, vs, 1-6 2. Willing to Hecelve a Welcome, vs, 7-10, 8 Moving Amid the Bacred Flaces, v. 1h GOLDEN TEXT : Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zum; shout, O daughter of thee.—Zech. 1: 9. Dany Home M.—~Mark welcome, T.—Matt, 21 1-17. parallel narrative, W.—Luke 19: 28-40, Luke’s paral- lel narrative, T.—John 12 :12-19. lel narrative, "Psa. 118 : 10-20, wel Oe, John 2 : 13-25. The first of the temple, Hev, a 3 17-22. wel LEADINGS: 11 : 1-11, Inviting a Matthew's A psalm of clean- Waiting for a come. LESSON ANALYSIS I. PREPARING TO ENTER THE CITY. I. The Colt Songht: Ye shall find a colt him, and bring him (2). A colt the foal of an ass (Zech, 9 Ye shall find an ass tied, and with her (Matt, 21: 2). Ye shall find a colt tied (Luke 19 : Jesus, having found a young ass, thereon (John 12 : 14). IL. The Lor?'s Need : The Lord bath need of him (3). Thy king cometh: LINDE upon ass (Zech. 9 his came to filled {Matt Jesus sal th {Jo 1 » 1 pH tied;. HR a colt JO}. sal s 9). pass, that it might be ful- 21 4 Lo » 5 it is written nll: 14) The I Teinenioel d they Vere wiriiles SON 10 iii. it these things 16). Fhe Owner's Consent, ¢ rewarded, {. WILLING TO RECEIVE I. The Royal Bid $3 A WELCOME, rr They bring and he sal upon in | Rejoice . « « behold, y thee (Zech, 9 1 4 ehold, thy King (Matt. 21 :5 | They th iy Con, i. 19; Thy King cometh, sitding colt {John 12 «19 i 11. The Royal Greeting: Many spread their garments:... | others branches (8), The most part in the way (Matt. 21 : 8B), Others cut branches, ....and them in the way { Matt, 21 : 8B). | As he went, they spread their g { in the way (Luke 19 : 36). | Took the brauches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him (John 12 : 13). ill. The Royal Song: And they... .cried, Hosanna; Blessed ! is he that cometh (9). | Hosanna to the son of David:.... Hos- anna in the highest (Matt, 21 : 93, The disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice {Luke 19 : Blessed is the King that cometh in pame of the Lord (19: 38). Blessed is he,....even the 1srael (John 12 : 13). comet] cometh garments upon the Jesus thereon (Luke 351, on An ass’s i and is . . spread their garme: spread 3 a verry? ir garments ay kf R the King of and cast on him their garments.” { Brought in obedience; {2) Equip- ped in gratitude 2. “*Many spread their garments upon the way; and others branches.” (1) The coming King; (2) The joyous throng: (3) The grateful act. 8. “They that went before, and they that followed, cried, Hosanna.’ (1) The praiseful throng: (2) The worthy King; (8) The significant pean, 111, MOVING AMID THE SACRED PLACES L Jerusalem: He entered into Jerusalem (11), Jerusalem, the holy city (Neh. 11 : 1). © Jerusalem, the holy city {1am 53:1) He must go unto Jerusalem (Mats. 16 : 21). 1t cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem {Luke 13 : 33). IL The Tempio. He entered. . . .into the temple (11). Jesus entered into the temple of God (Matt. 21 : 12). The parents brought in the child Jesus (Luke 2 : 27). They found him in the temple (Luke 2: 46), He was teaching daily in the temple {Luke 19 : 47). IL Bethany! He went out unto Bethany (11). He....went forth. ...to Bethany, and lodged there (Matt. 21 : 17). Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon (Matt. 26 : 6). Bethany, at the mount of Olives (Mark 11:1) He led them out....over agains Bethany {Luke 24 : 50. 1. “He entered into Jerusalem the temple.” (1) The sacred (2) The sacred temple: (3) mcred visitor; (4) The sacred mi sion. 2, “Looked round #bout upon ab things.” (1) The supreme iuspector (2) The objects inspected; (3) The searching inspection 3, “He went out uuto Bethany.” (1) His destination; (2) His journey: (3) His companions: (4) His pur- POSES, ———————————— LESSON BIBLE READING, CHRIST'S KINGEHIP, Typified by Melchizedek (Gen. 14 : 18; Heb, 6:20 7 : 1-8). Typified by David (1 Sam, 13 ;: Luke 1 : 32). Typified by Solomon (1 Chron, 28 : 6, 7; Psa. 80 : 34 37). lecognized by the £ « 9% 6:1. 1 wise men {Matt tecognized by Nathanael (John 1 : 49), Recognized by his followers (Luke 19 : 38 5 Jehn 12 : 13), Declared by himself (Matt, 25 John 18 : 37). Proclaimed from the 19, 20), Shall be 2:9-11), a LESSON SURROUNDINGS, It is probable that the heating of jartimeus was immediately followed by the events recorded in Luke 19 : 2 the incident of Zaccheus and the { paravle of the ten pounds, It is also probable that our Lord remained over i the house of Zaccoeus, i the word “lodge” (Luke 19:7) i gests ibis, That the next jourvey | to Bethany is clear from John 12: 1, ! but it not certain whether tni { curred on Friday evening or on Bal | day morning. It also uncertain | whether the supper at Bethany took { place before the triumphal entry or later in the week, The former seems more | probable, but the question will be dis- | cu sed in connection with Lesson 6. The place of this lesson was on Lhe | road to Jerusalem, over the Mount of i Olives, The traditional route is the | direct road over the summit, but Dean | Stanley and others think that our Lord | passed along the southern (ioain} road, | between two peaks of the mountain | range, Toe time was probably the first day | of the week, since this makes proper | allowance for the several days referred to in Mark’s account. (Matthew is less exact] For convenieuce, the chron- elogy of Andrews will be given for the lessons of this quarter, The date he | assigns is Sunday, 10th of Nisan (April of Rom J—A. I, 30, Year Parallel pass Matt, 21 :1 - . “HA r ES cross (John 19 : (Phil. universally conceded OK a. i beriit ¥ me night at sifire Kijire ug war oo ir- is A ag 11; : 29-44; . ——EA————— i 5: Jolt Luke 190 The Question of Esting Mear, advocates for an exclusively getarian diet were quite numerous in ir country a few years ago. Theix number, however, been diminish. of late years, The necessity for food, as a means for developing 8 physical nature, is generally con- ceded among the most intelligent class. es of society. The most mnportant question in this connection 18 not whether we shall ect meat or wef; but how often and what guonidy shall wat it. There is no doubt in minds of persons who have given subject of hygiens most attention i that people generally eat muct meal, Nearly all persons eal meal twice, and many three times a day. bh f Fess AN oc Wwe tie the the too We have consulted aboul a dozen e¢m- nen authorities and they alli agres that it is by far the the Dest, especially ol persons of indoor life, to est meat only once a day—and that at dinner time, For breakfast, a variety of dishes may be served up; such as milk toast, and boiled eggs with coffee; or baked pota- toes with butter, salt and pepper, and | egg omelet, accompanied also with cof- fee; hash {one third meat and iwo thirds potatoe), with boiled eggs; fresh | fish and potatoes, mackerel and pota- toes, ete, ete. In the fruit season, fruit should form an every day, dish for { the breakfast table, There is a good old proverb: “Fruit is gold mn the | mornng, silver at noon, and led at | might.”” Our leading object to be kept i in view in the selection, and prepar- | ation, of our food is that it is of vital im. | portance to keep up constantly a good appetite for food, so that we will relish | every meal eaten. Very little good | arises from eating, unless we have a | keen relish for the food we partake, | just at the present time, both as a mat- ! ter of health and economy, it would be | well to restrict one meat diet to one meal a day. For supper, light and ! simple articles of food should be sup- plied, We are quite certain for all persons | not engaged in hard physical work the | plan of diet which we have suggested 1s | the best, though there may be Some | who sre undergoing severe toil that | may require two meals of meal diet a day. The Center of Population. The center of population of the United States is steadily moving west ward at the rate of about 50 miles ever: 10 years, The following 18 the center point at each census: 1790-22 miles East of Baltimore, 1800-18 miles West of Baltimore, 1810-40 miles Northwest of Wash. ington. 182016 miles North of Woodstock, Virginia, ' 1830-19 miles West by 8 W. of Moorefield, West Virginia 1840-16 miles West of Clarkesburg, West Virginia. 1850-23 miles Southeast of Parkers burg, West Virginia. oi miles South of Chillicothe, 0, 1870-48 miles East by North of Cin. cinnati, Ohio, 1880-8 miles West by Boath of Cin cinpati, Ohio, We are never so hAPY OF 80 uAbAPDY A8 We Suppose, Lawyers ought to be good pets; they write lots of “versus.” Each man wants his neighbor to be mote virtuous than himself, A animal is the it can lua ia the anaise; always Man may grumble aod fight, but it has no upon nataral right. Gunners are repOTLing Poor prog bee. oh a
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