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INTERNATIONAL LESSONS.
Fourth Quarter.
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Deckm HBK 18.
Lesson 18.—Review.
Oolocs Tilt:—"Th* rl.rnil (lod M thy roftifco
Mid uudornoMh oro tho mrbtfOog ornio."—Dout.dJ:
*7.
Central Truth .—The grace and pa
tieuce of God in bis dealings with his
chosen people.
With the present lesson, the regular
studies of both the quarter and the
year are brought to an eod. It will
be Well therefore for teachers ami
scholars to allow thought to run hack
over the entire year; to consider what
great truths have been learned, what
practical lemons have been mastered,
and what spiritual profit has been
gained. It cannot be a pleasant re
flection for auy of us that grout oppor
Untitles have brought us little good.
Life's years are not many. To accom
plish its appointed work, and to secure
"an abuudaut entrance" into the rest
nnd unwearying activities of the lift
to come, we need to make good use of
them all. Are we, or any associated
with us, still without Christian hope ?
Having learned so much of the supe
rior happiness of the people of God,
do we still hesitate to join the divinely
favored company? Must any of us
still say "ana we are not saved ?"
The first quarter of the year took us
over the first part of the Gospel by
Luke ; and brought before us the sto
ry of the birth, boyhood, and preach
iug of Jesus, the healer of the sick and
the sinner's friend. (lo<l with u* was
the ceutral truth whichclaimed our at
tention.
The second quarter was spent upon
the remainder of the same Gospel. 1
Following Jesus, The Good J-iaruarilan, !
Lost ami Found, The Prodigal Sou, I
The Rich Man and loizarus. Parable* ;
on Prayer, The Parable of the Pounds,
The Crucifixion, and the Walk to Km
maus were the principal topics ot the
quarter; delighted all of them. Christ*
tore for sou'*, and eagerne** to sure
them, seemed to be the central truth.
With the third quarter we turned
to the Old Testament, Ix-giuniug with i
the first chapter of the Ihsik of Kxo- !
dus. The first lesson gave us a glimpse
of the cruel bomiage of Israel in Egypt, j
The Birth aud Rescue of Moses, his j
Call to be the Leader of God's People, ,
his Commission along with his broth- j
er Aaron, The Story of Mosea and the
Magicians, The Passover, The Escape
through the Red Sea. The Manua in
the Desert. The Commandment* giv
en amid signs ami wonders at Sinai,
and the Shameful Relapse into Idola
try, filled up the quarter. The cen- j
trai and cbeeering truth, of which
each lesson seemed to atford some il- (
lustration, was that God it able to sore
itnto the uttermost.
The fourth and last quarter is that
which is now coming to its end. It
began with Free Giving, as seen in the !
building of the Tabernacle; and taught
us the two great truth* that God lov
eth a cheerful giver, and it i* more
blessed to give than to receive.
Its second lesson wa* upon The
Tabernacle, built after the pattern
given iu the mount; intended to lie
God's earthly house and home; his
meeting place with his people ; also a
tent of witness, where, through aliars,
sacrifices and consecrated priests, he
might testify his truth and grace.
The third and fourth lesson* were
The Burnt Offering and The pent*
Offering. In both.it is seen that God
is ready to be approached, but that
the way to his favor is through sacri
fices of expiation. By bis own act, or
his believing assent to aoother's, the
sirner must appear with an atonement
for bis sin. But, besides this idea,
common to all the sacrifices of animal
life, the Burnt Offering especially ex
pressed grateful self-surrender, and
entire self-dedication to God ; and the
Peace Offering, the blessedness of re
conciliation and communion with him.
It should not he forgotten that the
tierson offering the sacrifice, placed bis
tand on tl* victim's head, and thus
made it the representative of himself.
our faith take* Christ to lie our
representative and substitute in his
surrender of himself unto death on
the cross.
The fifth lesson was Sadah and
Alihu, whose transgression in offering
strange fire before the Lord brought
upon them divine judgmeut It im
pressively reminds and warus us, that
God will be worshiped in bis own way,
and not according to human fancy.
He does not indifferently regard the
pride which sets aside his revealed
wisdom and will.
The sixth lesson was The Day of
Atonement; the great day on which
the high priest entered the most holy
place, and there sprinkled the blood
of expiation for his own sins, and those
of ail the priests and the people. The
ceremony peculiar to the day wa# two
fold. Two goats having been provid
ed, one was slain, aud iu blood sprink
led as a sin-offering, while the other
was made the bearer of the sins of the
w people confessed over it, into "a land
not inhabited." Thus was symbolized
the completeness of the work of Christ
as bis people's Saviour. Not only did
he nmko propitiation for our sins, but
for those who appropriate him as their
own he bears sin away —"as far as the
east is from the west."
The seveuth and eighth lessons were
The Feast of Tubernaeles, and The
Year of Jubilee. Of these, the one
was a delightful autuiuual Day of
Thanksgiving and harvest home. The
people commemorated God's mercy to
them iu the wilderness, and gave
thanks for the year's bounty. They
made the day a kind of ty|e of that
heavenly feast, when after the hurvest
of the end of the world, God ehuli
dwell in the midst of his jicople for
ever. The other was a great year iu
Hebrew history; ushered in with tho
joyful shout and clangor of truni|>ets ;
bringing rest to the land, liberty to
captives, and tho recovery of lost es
tates. Our .Saviour ret erred to it as a
type of the Gospel age, "tho accepta
ble year of the Lord," which he him
self proclaimed.
The ninth lesson was The Serpent
in the Wilder net* ; a believing look at
which saved those ready to die of the
bite of fiery reptiles ; and an impres
sive symbol of him who, us Hon ol
Man aud Saviour of the world, was,
in like manner, lilted up, that whoso
ever believeth in him should not perish
but have everlasting life."
Then tenth lesson set before us the
double-in iuded aud unstable Balaam ;
one who could speak noble words, and
whom Gud could use to utter true
prophecy ; but whose fatal example is
a lasting warning against attempts to
serve God and Mammon.
The eleventh and concluding lesson
was The Last Day* aj Mote*. Israel
is now upon the cast tiauk of Jordan,
and ready to cross to the promised
land. Hut first the people must purl
with their leader. 'I hero is both
cheer and admonition in what is told
us of the last work, couuscl, experi
ence with six, and support aud com
fort ot this great and good man.
God gave him one look at the earthly
Canaan, and then buried him iu a
valley on tin summit of Neoo. To
the last and at the last, God was with
him.
In each of these successive lessons,
the grace and patience of God in his
dealings with his chosen people, and
the blessedness of u part with theiu,
bas fresh and strikiug illustration.
Often they murmur and complain, yet
he Dover casts them oil". Ity experi
ences of trial ami discipline he pre
pares theui for the promised inherit
ance, and then brings them thither.
So he does with nil Ins people of every
age. lie fits them for heaven, and
then opens to them its holy gates.
AKCIIUUMI HIKIIKM ON AMERICAN
MOI.IUKKV.
Speaking of the Connecticut troop?,
?aid he, I could not hut be struck with
that miraciilou? gift of talk which is
the attribute of the American citizen.
We Kglisbmeii have a iinhit of look
ing down ujM>n a miking man and to
agree with Carlisle when ho says the
able man is the silent mail. And I
am bound to say that the first night I
was here, when 1 heard thi**e Coutiee
cut men get upon their hind and
orate freely, with a go-ai deal wf bun
combe thrown in, I said to imyjfv
Much that I nin told I will to
morrow will lie promise without ful
fillment. lful it eame about quite
the other way. And iam Irce to -ay
that it seems to me that if there are a
great many regiments like the Con
necticut regiment which I saw here
on parade iu the nation, it don't want
any standing army at all, as they con- j
stitute a tar cbea|>er and more cff'ec
live force than any standing army
would be. I have seen al! the armies
iu the world, I believe, from the Afg- j
hau scalawags to the Husiun lin peri-i
ral Guards, and 1 have never seen
greater precision and solidity than
those men manifested on that dress
parade. To ine it was a revelation, !
and rather a disagreeable revelation,
simply from this (mint of view, which
you can easily understand, that 1 lie- j
came painfully aware that here was :
another factor in the world capable j
of Iwating us. A man never likes to j
find out that the number of uicn strong
er than himself is on the increase. We j
Englishmen.have been indulging in
satisfaction that however the coalmen- |
tal countries might grow with their
millions of reserves agaiust our hun
dred or two hundred thousand traiued
troops, we were yet capable of swag
gering over the t'nited States, in the j
matter of drill and discipline and !
punctilious performance of evolutions. ,
But what i saw yesterday proved to |
me that such was not the case. These
men marched and wheeled quite equal
to our Granadier Guard, and I don't
tbink I have seen auylbing to equal
tbe percision in the manual in that
dress parade. It seemed to me that
tbe commanding officer, who went to
the front and moved aa a piece of
mechanism and not like a creature
with bowels in him at all, had his foot
on an electric wire which communica
ted with the regiment and with ever?
man in the regiment, anil that each
was a mere automaton, not moved by
the word of command, but by their
colonel's foot on the concealed wire ill
tbe grouud. And what I admired
most of all was the absolute rigidity
of accuracy that was preserved in the
minutes detail.
The tendency of a republican coun
try like this is to despise accuracy
which does not bear fruit right away.
Bat tbe accuracy in military affairs
which appears good to outsiders is re
ally the means to nn end. It is the
evidence of that discipline which in
time of danger may be found to have
no other stable reliance than by that
cnusuctude which rigorous dull mid
practice, the intuition of discipline,
carries with it. Discipline becomes
second nature to n soldier—aimost first
nature. The weak |ioint of all volun
teer improvised forces is that they
huvc not the amount of discipline
that becomes engrafted into the very
nuture of the old soldier. Hut those
men seemed yesterday to liuve been
(but way so long that what tin y did
was not the result of thoughtful lie**, it
was not the result of a first rehearsal
or a second rehearsal, hut the jierfor
mancc of a thing by rote. And they
bud come to that perfection us natural
ly as tbe taking of a coctail. All litis
seems to come out ofuti infinite capaci
ty lor taking pains in these Couliecti
cut people.
NO I'M) i'IIL.NO.M fcXO.N.
It ID ENGINE UEI.MI ANO WUIS7LIUI SOME
TINES VABV IN I'ITCII.
Frotldemc Jufirtial.
"When two trains, goiug iu oppo
site direction ul a rapid rale, meet
each other, with the engine bells ring
ing, or whistles blow lug, u pu*M.-ugtT
of one truui notices a marked varia
tion in tbe pitch ot the belt or whistle
of the other train. When the sound
first strikes the ear, the pitch is ul its
highest. Gradually it goes down as
the train duplies past, uud the lowest
pitch is reachetl when the last notes
tall on the ear. Why is this?"
Tins question was propounded to an
engineer the other day by au individual
thiisiiug tor inluriuutioii.
"The quesliuu is simple enough,"
wus the reply. "To start with, It is
UII axiom which uceds no proving
liiul llie pilch of a sound depends ou
its number of vibrations. Thus, while
forty vibrations a second produce the
lowest sound,-IU,i lit*) a second produce
the highest. I'itch rises with an in
crease ul the number of vibrations.
"A certain number of vibrations
ure cuutlcd by the bell or whistle dur
ing the time the train is running a
cerium distance—say a quarter of a
mile. Suppose each tram runs the
distance lu half a minute. Then as ,
tbe one train approaches that in which
the listening passenger is seated, all
the vibrations emitted during the hall J
minute will strike the car in less than j
hull a minute (suppusiug, of course, i
(hat they can bo heard over so great
a distance.) The reason for this is
that tbe first will uot he heard until
more than two seconds after it has I
been emitted, as the sound will have to
travel half a mile, while the lust will j
he lu-ard the instant it i emitted, be- 1
cause the engine will then Is- within a
few leet of the ear. Thus, .'lO seconds'
vibrations will he beard in UN seconds.
When the trains are receding from
each other, the vibrations emitted
■luring the half-minute will take rather
more than 32seconds to reach the ear,
as that emitted when the train is half
a tuile off will have to travel to the
car."
"Can you .illustrate this to make it
plainer?" the engineer was asked.
"Certainly I can. Suppose a man
with a rubber hose stands ten yards
from a tub. The capacity nf this hose
enables him to squirt u pint of water
per second in that tub. Hut if, dur
ing. sav five seconds, he walks up to
the tub, nil the. while allowing his
hose to |xiur water into it, there will
he more than live pints of water as
the result of that five seconds' work.
There will lie five pints plus the quan
tity contained ill the stream which
would have fallen to the ground if he
had stood still and at the end of five
seconds turned the cock, shutting ofT
the stream. By the approach of the ;
whistle or bell of an engine, a greater
number of vibrations meet the ear in
a given time, just as a greater quantity
of water reaches the tub from the hose
by the approach of the nnr./.lc. And, ,
accepting as correct the axiom that
the greater number of vibrations the j
higher the piteh, it will lie seen that!
when the trains approach the car
gets more than its due share of vibra
tions per second, and when they re
cede it gets less than its share.
HEI.F-rOXTROf. IS NOCIETY.
Never show that you feel a slight.
This is worldly-wise as well as Chris"
tian; for no one person will put a
slight on another, aud such a person
always profoundly respects the pernio
who is unconscious of his feeble spite.
Never resent publicly a lack of cour
tesy ;itis in the worst taste. What
you do privately about dropping such
an acquaintance must be left to your
self.
To a person of noble mind the con
test of sohiety must ever seem poor
and spurious as they think of these
narrow enmities and low political ma
noeuvre* ; but we kndw that they exist
and that we must meet them. Tem
per, detraction, and small spite arc as
vulgar on a Turkev carjiet and in a
palace as they could be in a tenement
bouse; nay, worse; for the educated
contestant.-' know belter. Hut, that
they exist we know as we know that
the diphtheria rages. We must only
reflect philosophically that it takes
all sorts of (teople, to make a world;
' that there are good people rank and
| file; that there is a valiant army and a
; noble navy; that there are also pirates
who will board the best shipw am!
traitors in every army, and that we
inust be ready for them all; and that
If we life in a crowd wo must propiti
ate that crowd.
Never show a fractious or peremp
tory irritability iu small things. Be
patient, if a friend keeps you waiting.
Bear, n* long a* you can, heat or a
draft, rather thnu make others un
comfortable. I)o not fie fussy about
your supposed rights; yield n dispu
ted point of precedence. All society
has to be inadeupof these concessions;
they are your unnumbered friends iu
the long run.
\\ <• are uot always wrong when we
quarrel hut if wo meet our deadliest
local a friend's house we are hound to
treat him with perfect civility. That
i* neutral ground. Never, by word or
look, disturb your hostess; this is an
occasional duplicity which is ordered
by the laws of society. And, in nil
honesty, cultivate a graceful salutation,
not too familiar, iu a crowd. Do not
ki-w your friend iu n crowd ; lie grave
and decorous always. Burke said that
maimers were more important than
laws. "Manners are what vex or
sooth, comfort or purify, exalt or de
base, barbarize or refine ti* by a con
slant, steady, uniform, insensible ope
ration, like the air we breathe."
A salutation may have a great deal
of meaning in it. It may *av, "I respect
you, and I wish von well." It may
ay,"l love von." It may say, "I hate
you.'' Ina crowd, it should simply
nav the first. The fxiw of a young
lady should he maidenly, quiet, not
ton demonstrative; yet not cold or for
bidding. The salutation of a man to a
woman can not lie too respectful. It
i* to be feared that "old fashioned
courtesy" hits no place in our fashiona
ble society. There i* either coldness
or too great familiarity.
The manners of young women are
apt to IK- I<MI careless. They emulate
the manner* of men of the age ton
much, not remembering they should
carry in their gentle ways the good
manners ofal l ages. Hhe should remem
ber that when a woman's salutation
ceases to be delicate, elegant and fin
ished, she stejis down from the thmue
and throw# away her sceptre. There
is no ruiutat ion, however, more displeas
ing than that of a too efflorescent and
flattering miistrvienry. "He bows 100
low" should never be Mid. Avoid be
ing asuoh in private as iu a crowd.
01.1) lilt kOKI'N WIFE.
When General Jackson was a can-
I didatc tor the Presidency in 1828, not
| only did the party op|>o#ed to him
abuse bun for his public acts, which,
if unconstitutional or violent, were a
legitimate subject for reprobation, hut
; they detained the character of his wile.
Uu one occasion a newspaper publish
ed iu Na*hville was placed upon the j
! General's table, lie glanced over it,
and ins eyes fell U|N>U UII article in
the character of Mrs. Jackson
was violently assailed. So soon as he
had read it he sent for hi* trusty old
servant, Dunwoodle.
"Saddle my horse," said he to him,
' iu a whisper, "and put my It'olsU-r* ou
I him."
Mr*. Jackson watched him, and
! though she hoard not a word she saw
j mischief iis Ins eyes. The General
went out alter a ft-w moments, when
she took up the paper and understood
; everything. Hie rau mil the south
j gate of the yard of the Hermitage, by
which the General would have to pa*-
, .She had uot been there more than a j
i few second# before the geueral rode up j
with the countenance of* a madman I
She placed herself la-lore the horse and
cried out:
"O, General, don't go to Nashville!
Let I lint poor editor live! Let that
poor editor live ?"
"Let mo alone," he replied, "how
came you to know what i wo* goiug
for ?"
She answered: "I saw it iu the
pa|R-r after you went out; put up your
iiorse and go back."
He replied, furiously : "But I will
go —get out of my way I"
Instead of ibis she grasped his bridle
with faith bauds.
He cried to her : "I say let go my
horse! The villain that reviles my
wife shall uot live !"
Hhe grasped the reins but the lighter
and began to expostulate with him
saying that she was tbe oue who ought
to lie angry, but that she forgave her
persecutors from the bottom of her
heart, and prayed for them—that he
■houid forgive if he ho|icd to be for
given. At Inst, by her reasoning, her
entreaties, and her tears,she so worked
upon her husband tiiat he seemed
mollified to a certain exteut. She
wound up by saving :
"No, General, you #W/ not take
the life of even my reviler—you dare
uot do it. for it is written, 'Vengeance
is mine, I will repay.sailh the Lord!'"
The iron nerved hero gave way lie
fore the earnest pleadiug of his be
loved wife, ami replied:
"I yield to you ; but had it not been
for you and the words of the Almighty,
the'wretch should not have lived an
hour."
Two Irishmen, fresh from the old
country, where they had no such var
mints, were bothered mightly one
night by the incessant attacks of the
mosquitoes. Then they lay on the j
bed and lit the lamp, which they
fouud attracted additional hosts of
the enemy. Putting out the light
they crept under the tied, thinking
tliev might get a respite there, A
firefly then came into the room, when
one of them exclaimed iu despair—
"Oeh, niurther, its of no use; there
comes a fellow after us with his lan
tern!"
i ■ ..'.a-
THE NEW HOtITH AMD ITH WEALTH.
IS, II.MMI.IIU Tlm
The chief lesson of the Atlanta Ex
position are eminently practical, and
they are so regarded by the southern
people. They will give not only im
mediate hut lasting and incalculable
f'ruitfi of the grandest character. The
CottOO Exposition will silence the hum
of many spindles in tbe north and it
will make the south much more legiti
mate field for both invention and capi
ml than it bus ever iieen in the past.
It will teach to the great mass of the
southern people what only the theorists
have known until now—that the great
est boom to the south after tbe cotton
gin is the cotton spindle ; and I hazard
nothing in sayiug that in auother de
cade Georgia will spin all her cotton,
have looms for the most of it, and
make the music of the cotton factory
lu-ard in every cotton centre of the
south. Of all civilizations of the nine
teenth century, the old south was the
only one that would have |id more
than two hundred millions of dollars
annually to a hated north to spin its
cotton. With the cost of a thousand
miles of tran*|>ortatioii ; the cost of
baling ; the injury to the fibre by press
ing ami separating it again for the
spindle, and the increased cost of labor
in the north, nil pleadiug for the spin
dle in the south, the north gathered
the chief profits of southern product*
by receiving the raw material and re
turning it in w<-h to fie sold largely to
those who made it. Hut
the new south ha* studied simple arith
metic and its Cotton Kxpositi-ui is
merely a huge blackboard on which
is presented to the whole south the
plain lesson that the three hundred
millions worth of cotton, produced this
year, will be worth three hundred
millions more when the ample and ice
less water (MOUTH of the south shall be
employed to whirl the merry spindles
at home. This is the great lesson of
the Atlanta Exposition, and the pre
liminary progress that ha* made the
grand Exposition possible, has
veloped a measure of invention and
advancement in the south that is truly
wonderful. No one can carefully note
the cotton machinery at tbe Exposi
tion without accepting the conviction
that even the old cotton gin and the
old spindle will soon become integral
|mru of tbe same cunning implements,
and that the raw cotton from the field
sack will be ginned and spun by a
single process. That once attained, or
even the spinning of tbe cotton, with
iu two or three hundred millions of
annual compeusation, assured to the
south, iu progress will ouUtrip the
wildest calculation, and every channel
of industry will share the impetus. It
*E a hard up hill struggle even for j
Atlanta and Georgia to lay the solid !
foundations for southern progress, hut j
it ha* lieen done, and the active men
of to-<lay will live to rejoice in tbe en
lightened advancement and wealth
ami grandeur of tbe new south.
lUlloon Vsyare* far the North Pale.
The project for the reaching of tbe
North Pole by balloons is no new one,
hut the advisability, of the attempt
being made is revived by tbe recent
arrival in this rounlry of Commander
Cheyiic, of the Royal Navy. This
gentleman was one of those who went
in search of Hir John Franklin, aod
in (his enterprise he has accompanied
three expeditions. He is now inter
ested in the fate of the Jeanuette, sent
out by the New York Herald, and
came to the United Stale# for the pur
pose of ofTeriug bis services in the
search for that vessel, as well as to
preseut his view# of a plan for the suc
cessful discovery of the North Pole.
Commander Cheyne wishes, in com
pany with Lieut. Hchwatka, who ap
proves his plan, to make an attempt
Ui reach the North Pole by means of
ba!loons, heretofore considered im
possible. His method is to go out
next spring in a vessel as far as St.
Patrick's Bay. There he would put
up a house uear a coal field and stow
away provisions io a cave iu the cliff
At that point also he would fill three
balloons, each one intended to carry
three men, a sledge, Esquimaux dog#,-
provision# and instruments. Ohserva
lions would be made at three different
point* to determine the variations in
the course of the wind, and when
found to lie in the right direction tbe
balloons would he released to drift to
ward the Pole. 496 miles away, which
Commander Cheyne thinks would be
reached iu twenty-four hours by one
balloon, the other two being left at
proper distances behind, iu case of
necessity. Cheyne, after having photo
graphe<i the vicinity of tbe Pole, would
allow the successful balloon to drift
beyond the Pole to the shore of Russia,
and continue the journev to St. Peters
burg, from which city the news of the
discovery could be telegraphed to all
parte of the world within one week
after haviog taken place.
The cost of the expedition is esti
mated at between 1100,000 and #150,-
000—a um of money that were the
Herald satisfied the enterprise would
be a success, it would itself doubtless
advance.
PlCKS fsctmow produces no sincere
csviviction, nor any real change of
opinion. On the contrary, it vitiates
the public morals by driving men to
prevarication, and commonly end* in
a general, though secret infidelity, by
impoiing under the name of revealed
religion, systems of doctrine which
men can not beliave aod dare not ex
amine.
3L* *•••• ....
The Newspaper In i fambooM.
People who live near the great tho
roughfares, where they have acceaa to
two or three daiiiea and a half dozen
weeklies, do oot fully appreciate the
value of a uew#|ajier. They, come,
indeed, to look upon them u necesei
tiea, and they an cheerfully do with
out their morning meal a* their morn
ing mail. But one inuit be far off in
the country, remote from the "madde
ning crowd," to realize the full lux
ury of a newspaper. The farmer who
receive# but one newjaper a week
doe# not glance over it# column# hurri
edly, with an air of inifialience, a# doe*
your merchant or lawyer. He begin#
with the begiuuing and read# to the '
c!o#e, not permitting a new# item or
advertisement to escape hi# eye. Tbeu
it ha# to be thumbed by every member
of the family, each one looking for
thing* iu which he or #he i# most in
terested. The grown-up daughter
look# for the marriage notice#, and i#
delighted if the editor ha# treated
them to a love story. The #OO, who
:i# ju#t about to engage in farming,
with the enthu#ia#m that will carry
him far in advaoce of hi# father, read#
all the crop report#, and ha# a keen
eye for hiuU about improved modes of
! culture. The younger member# of the
family come in for the amusing anec-
I dote# and scrap# of fun. All look for
ward to the day that brioga the pa|er
I with the liveliest interest, and if by
some unlucky chance it fails to come, it
is a hitter disappointment. Oue can
hardly estimate the amount of infor
mation which a ||er that is not only
read hut studied, can carry into a fami
ly- Tbey have, week by week, spread
before their mental vision a panorama
of the busy world, it# fluctuations and
its vast concerns. It is the poor man'#
library, and furnishes as much mental
food a# he has time to consume and
digest. No one who has observed how
i much those who are far away from
; the places where men most congregate
value their weekly paper can tail to
t j >:u iu invoking a bh-ssing on the in
ventor of the mean* of intellectual en
| joy meat.
What Peeple KnTer Saloon* Far.
Nothing i* more deceptive than the
saloon business. When you ret" a fat
man rolling into a saloon on a hot
•lay your fir*t thought is that he will
(ling hi* hat on the Hour, fall into a
chair and call fur a claret with ice on
it, and you wrung him. He simply
enters the saloon to see if coal will be
any higher, if he wait* another month
before buying. The saloon keeper al
ways knows whether coal will he up
or down, and is a!way willing to tell.
You see a couple of lawyers enter
a saloon, and your inipremiou is that
they are going to shake dice for the
drinks.—Kothiug could be more er
roneous. They are simply going to
consult a State map, to decide a bet.
Having secured their ioformatiou,
they walk right out without stopping
to reflect on the awful suction nature
must have given a man to pull a whole
glass of lemonade through a straw six
inches long.
An iusurance agent is encouotered
as be comes out of a saloon wiping
his mouth on the hack of his hand.
The public at once jumps to the con
clusion that lie has been struggling
with a brandy sraa*b.—That's where
the public wrong him. He holds a
policy on the saloon and he acciden
tally dropped in to see if the stock
was being kept up to the given figures.
A fly bit him on the chin and he in
stinctively wiped bis mouth.
Out of a hundred meu who enter a
saloon only a hundred per cent quaff
the goblet. The rest go to find out
the exact shortage on the wheat crop,
the fluctuation in bank stocks, and
various other things ; and if they hap
pen to wipe their mouths as they
come out, it is simply an involuntary
movement for which they can no
more be held responsible than a year
ling bake.
WHEX a woman sees a new fall
style bonnet on another woman's head,
she declares it to be hideous. The
next day, when she gets one also, she
suddenly discovers it to be as pretty
as it can be.
WIIAT should a young man carry
with him when calling upon the affi
anced of his heart? Affection in his
heart, perfection in his manner ami
confectionery in his pocket
MKX are like II' old fashioned conn
try wagon. When loaded, everv
thing works well and smoothly ; with
nothing in, it rattles so it can be heard
for miles.
LET US not forget that every station
in life is necessary ; that each deserves
our respect; that ifot the station itself,
but the worthy fulfillment of its duties,
does honor to man.
' THE mill will never grind with the
water that is past," maybe, but the
hand-organ grinds right along with
the sin that are past c couple of hun
dred years.
THE roan whose thoughts, motives
and asptffttlons and feelings are all
devoted to himself is the poorest judge
as to the effect of his own action on
other mm.
*hfsem*ker in Alleatown named
Jerry Wilson, shot at a companion be
cwnse be circulated a story that he mm
an infidel. Boh logersolt will he
M hemH of that fsllun