SENATE PAGES. Bright Lads Who Get Good Pay and Have Easy Work. Of all the 110 appointments under the Sergeant-at-arins of the Unit d States Senate, those of the pages only san be said to be nonpolitical. With the beginning of the extra session several of the pages will go out of of- fice owing to the fact that they have reached the age limit. No boy can be appointed a page of the henate who is not 12 years of age, and no boy can continue as a page who is 16 years of age at the beginning of a session of Congress. 1t is a lucrative position, and few of the boys are not sorry when their term has ended. Usually four of the boys who are graduated from the page's position at the beginning of a session are ap- | pointed riding pages. Their tion depends upon their records for | efficiency and faithfulness. The page | on the floor of the Senate draws $2.50 | a day during the session of Congress The riding page receives $2.50 a day | the year round and has a horse to | ride. His duties keep him out of | doors a great part of the time, car rying messages between the Capitol and the departments. The position | js considered more desirable than that of a page. Speaking of their | work the Washington Star says: “The | page's life is a peasant one. He must be on duty at 9 o'clock each morning, but the serious business of the day does not begin until noon, when the Senate meets. Before that time he arranges the files of the Con- gressional Record and the bills and reports on the desks of the Senators, who have been assigned to him. These are sixteen pages and eighty- eight Senators, so none of the pages has very much to do. The morning hours are not all working hours, There is a gympasium in the base ment of the Capitol, furnished spe cially for their use. They exerc.se their arms and their ther selec- | chests every morning; their legs get enough exercise through the day.” The Dog Held Fast Basket. 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Jonah ii., 5. “The Botany of the Bible; or, God Among the Flowers," is a fascinating subject, I hold in my hand a book which I brought from Palestine, bound in olive wood, and within it are pressed flowers which have not only retained their color, but their aroma. Flow- ers from Bethlehem, flowers from Jerusa- lem, flowers from Gethsemane, flowers Irom Mount of Olives, flowers from Bethany, flow- nette, buttercups, daisies, cyclamens, camo- revelation. It is the New Testament of the flalds, But my realm of the botanical kingdom, Having spoken to vou in a course of sore mons about “God Everywhere '-—on ‘Tue Astronomy of the Bible; or, God Among the God Among the Birds" ‘The Ichthyology of the Bible ; or, God Among the Fishes" “The Mineralogy of the Bible ;or, God Among the Amethysts ;' “The Conchology of the Bible: or, God Among the Shells” “The Chronology of the Bible ; or, God Among the Centuries —I speak now to you about “Tne Botany of the Bible; or, God in the Gardens of the Bea.” Although I purposely take this and least appreciated of all the botanieal templation very absorbing. In all our theological seminaries where wa make ministers there ought to be professors to give lessons in natural history, Physical be taught side by side with revelation. It is the same God woo inspires the page of the natural world as the page of the Seriptural world, What a freshening up it would be to our sermons to press into them wead | We should awially dry if we imit have fewer tated our blessed i or and in our discour lke Him, we woud let a lily blo or a crow fly, or a hen brood her chickens, or a erysial salt fash oat the preservative qualities of religion, Fhe i it in many of our theo. y #0 dry them- sermons 3 trouble pe pple 10 cOm» now trying to teach you bh, and the student is put bet wees it resses of dogmatie th . until thers is no life l im cast ane | over the , he sank 1 eA fdnight lanterns of the o flame ¢ vant 5 + thease pros kions of vor the of the d these fHaminati won fhean of tha Al author ol on vegetalion not he sp ‘ eried ont, "The wrapped abon ¥ §. all those who had buried at sea or in Inkos Which of us brought up on the Atlantic coast bas not had kindred or friend thus sepuichered? We had he useless horror of thinking that they were denied proper resting place, Wesaid © “Oh, ff they had then expired! What trouble it wonld have beautiful family plot, fis ad Haly : apr fehty in the mw rl hee the text felt the pull « yo hid of the Mediterranean, tei] its heantiy % T 3 er of . Wer head my ia who hb great An an weg! our arie alleviation of our to put where | have p anted flowers and trees Why, God did better for the have done for them, into beautiful gardens rene an been we coud over them.” than we vould They rf hrow we away for the last sinmber, and fathers of sailor down in our last wre Aubuirns so beautiful on the land as there ners Hear it, mo boys whose ship wont August harricana! There in the depths of the sea, and eanopied and housed with such glorie ax stiend no other Necropolis, They were swamped in lifeboats, or they struck on Goodwin sands or Deal beach or the Kkerries, and were never heard of, or dis appeared with the City of Boston, orjihe Ville de Havre, or the Cymbria or were ton down in a flaking smack that put out from New. foundland., But dismiss your previous gloom about the horrors of ocean entombment, When Sebastopol was besieged in the nglo-French war, Prince Mentohikof, eomn- manding the Russian navy, saw that the only way to keep the English out of the har. bor was to sink all the Rossian ships of war in the roadstead, and so 100 vessels sank. When, after the war was over, our American snginwer, Gowan, descended to the depths in a diving bell, It wis an impressive speo- tarle, One hundred burind ships! Bat it is that way nearly all across the Atiantie Ooean, Ships sunk not by command of admirals, but by the command of oyslones, Pat they all had sublime burial, and the sur. roundings amid which they a the inst sleop are more imposing than the Mahal, the mausoleum with walls inorusted with stones and bullt by the grest mogul | of India over his empress. Your departed ones wera buried in the gardens of the sea, fenced off by hedges of coraiiine, The grentest obseqguies ever known on tha fand were those of Moses, whers no ons bt God was prosent, The sublime report of that entombment is in the book of Deuteronomy, which says that the Lord buried him, and of those who have gone down to slumber in the deep the same may be sald, The Lord buried them.” As Christ was buried ina garden, so your shipwrecked friends and those who could not survive till they reached port were put down amid iridescence—'‘In the midst of the garden thers was a sepulcher.” It has always been a mystery what was the particular mode by which George G. Cook man, the pulpit orator of the Methodist Church aud the chapisin of the American Congress, left this litle after embarking for Englend on the steamship President, March 11th, 1841. The ship never arrived in port. No one ever signaled her, and on both sides of the ocean it has for fifly years been ques. tioned what became of her But this I know about Cookman or conflagration midsea or collision he had more garlands on his ocenn tomb than if, ex- pizing on land, seach of his million friends sd put a bouquet on hi< casket, In the midst of the garden was his sepulcher, 3ut that brings me to notices the mi suomer The prophat not only made a mistake by trying to go to Turshish him on the day he sank. A weed is some- thing that is It is something you throw out from the garden, It is something wheat, It is something to among the cotton, it unsightly to the eve, It is au or floral world. But this growth that sprang up from the depth of the Mediterransan or floated ou its surface was among the most besutiful things that Gol ever makes, It was a water plant known as the red colorad sige and no weed at all. It comes from the infinite eruty., heavenly love, It is the star of 8 sunken firmament, Itis a lamp walch the Lord kindled, cord tiv which to bind whole sheaves ol sugeestion, It is a posm all Who are rung by Divine goodness, make the n i Jonah made io 10 it and eall it & weed, “The woe were wrapped about my head.” Ah, that is the trouble on the land as on the swim! We eall those weeds that are Howe Pitehad up on the bene society are chil dren withou , without opporiuaity for apything but sin, seemingly wahout God, They are washad ur helpless, They are called raganuiin I ares spoien rakings of the world, They arowaits. Ti sre street arnhe, They are flotsam and je of t issn, T Bre 801 useless, is something § joom of It is planted by ’ stake that re, no { home of as the Jey ABM neth to +43 be trod ng i i 3 On, y Nothing rickety stairs of in theo VY EWelle ha | or someth OF BOM dne » Rive uo to They are up the They house, Ht weeds hat garer~t Are GOWH that tenement Ihe g Of mers when tae day FOF yeas Ar O winters th SIRWS pary I when 1! th Itunes ana tae shilanthranle and Christian ¢ weeds, bat fl all ne gees. of i ind # girls, and Humane wATR hae hsmes fing for frien reformatories an BESO t. How much they hav Pahed Out of what wre o what good homes! OF 21 000 of of the treats and sent twelove children 5st VIER mes only ty years a number that no of the vagranis have ant ganluiness Lar ery wl into respectability snd hristian life, Many of them have homes own Though ragged boys once and girie, now at the head of prosperous fox, honored on sarth and to he grorions Some of them have been Govern Some of them are ministers of In sil departments of life those who were thougit to be weods bave turned out to flowers.” One of those rescued lads fran the streets of dur oities wrote to another, gaving : I have heard you are studying for he minfetry., So am L" My hearers, I implead you for the news. boss of the streets, many of them the bright- est children of the city, but with no chanee, Do not step on their bare fest Do not, when ther steal a ride, eut behind, When the paper is three cents, once in 8 while give them a five cent piece ani tell them to keep hange. 1 like pnewshoy sent baek had heen sent 10 8 2 York newsooy's lodging house : “Boys should show ourselves that we ara 20 | that we can becomes as respectable ns any he countrymen, for Franklin and Clay George Law and Vanderbilt and Astor, of their ee ’ Fun onen the wonders of God's workines In tha great deep and nover for hntian devastation! Oh, the marvels of the water world! Thess go-cnlled seaweeds are the pastures felde an | the forace of the innumerable anuimals of ths deep. Not ons species of them can be spared fronr the economy of nature, Valleys and mountaing and plants miles underneath the waves are all coversd with flora and faring, Sunken Alps and Apennines and Himalnyas of Atlantic and Pacific oceans. A continent that onee connected Europe and America, so that in the ages past men came on across from where England is to where we now stand, all sunken and now covered wita the growths of the seans it once was covered with growths of the land, England and Ireland once all one piace of jand, but now much of it so farsunken as to make n channs!, and Ireland has become aa island. The islands, for the most part, are only the foreheads of sunken continents, The sea conquering the land all along tha coasts and crumbling the hemispheres wider and wider become the sul RGOBOUS G0 minions, Thauk God that s<illed b drographers have mads us maps and shar of the rivers and lakes ani seas an l show us something of the work of the eteraal Gol in the water world, Thank God that the great Virzinian, tenant Maury, lived to give us "The Puy and that men font sic of weeds that wrapped about Jonah's head an i be eoronsis of 1 uts tide recaded down and picked up pictured leaves ofthe ocean, the naturalists and Hooper and Walt gathering them from the beach of Long Isian Blodgett preserving them these scientis BIViney re them ald and Professor Gibbs gat Charleston harbor, and ng Bost ering for all or the science of wend, Why confine ourselves to theold an hae ations of the God, when there sens full of fHlastrations every root and frond movement and habit «¢ “hod ) He adorned of our ances growin, w * 0 Go waters which were und shall be the God o have got the real stall in you, Come out % 9 once 8 Newsboy. God forever, It i high time that Jonny finds out that that which is about him is nod wesds, but flowers, As | examine this rol alga whis’y wae abodt the recrsant prophet down in the Mediterranean depths, when, in the words of my text, he eried out, “The wee ls wore wrapped about my head,” and I am led thereby to further examine this submarine world, I am compelled to exclaim, What a wonderful God we have! [I am glad that, by diving bell, and Brooks’ deep sea sounding apparatus,” and ever Improving machinery, we are permitted to walk the floor of the ooean and the wonders wrought by the great G Study these gardens of the sea, Easier and easior shall the profounds of the ocean bes coma to us, and more and more ite opuienss of color and plant. unroll, especially as “Vil leroy » submarine boat’ has been construct. ed, making it possible to navigate under the pon almost as well as on the surfeze of the son, and unless God In His mercy banishes war from the earth whole fleets of armed ships far down under the water move on to blow up the argosies that float the surface, May such submarine used - its dead. We have heard His com we have oheved, ‘Praise the Lora, great the unintelligent rants | Moditerranont Fah At rUtLds Wilh sRC8 US Anan GUELILUE Kisses what a hagven ora mar ernst “¢ siwaye} prophet of the text, f of the Mediterranean the boiling sea, that w he sup wesds wrapped about his head wore wee ls, but lowers And am I not botany of ¢ an John's vine, and phire, and J rust, and t and ¥ +i 0s went in this glance at the a Bit in adding to 1. Matthew's tares of ske's mint, and ile. Jo's bul- Bewd nd eamin, cluster , and terobinth, and Hosen's thistle akiel's cedar, and “the hyssop that springeth out of the , aad the “rose aron sad lly of the valley,” and frankineenes and myrrh and cassia which the astrolozers broucht to the mane ger at lonst one sulk of the ainga of Lo Maodllerrancan. And now 1 make the marines doxo.00 David my peroration, for it was writs about forty or fifty miles from the pias where the seene of the fexi was enantio “The son is His, and He made ft, and H hands formed the dry land, bes us worship and bow down ; lef us kneel tw fore the Lord, Maker. ¥ He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture.” Aw, evemink’s Tunis Oh, fome, our Cop II Rebuking the Conrt, dressing the court in behalf of a prisoner, when suddenly he perceived dozing. He paused for a minute, and then, bringing down his fist with a terrible thump on the desk in front of him, he shouted in his resonant and clarion<like voice: I was saying before the awakening of the court!” period of two months Less ener getie, yet equally effective, was Maitre Rousse, who, having likewise observed that the presiding magis trate was indulging in a nap, sud denly stopped talking. The pro longed silence, which lasted for four minutes, had the effect of wakening the judge, and, as soon as he opened hig eyes, Maitre Rousse made a pro found bow and resumed his speech, as follows: “As I was saying, Mes. sieurs de la Cour, at your last audi ence,” laying special stress on the word “last.” The reproof was so dell vate that everybody smiled, even in cluding the judge himself, Ral Gov't Report. B : oe Powder HIS MONEY'S WORTH. No Company Could Make Him Vay for More than He Bent. 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