fitwftt B, F. HOHWEIEB, vol: xlvii. W. DR. TALMAGf The Brooklyn Divine's Sunday Sermon. Subject : ''Comfort for Business Man." Ttt : "."pealc ye comfortably to Jerusa lem." Isaiah il., 'J. What an awful six week in commercial finrlesl TU. erashiiur ot banks from San lrunciS'V to New York and from o-eau to o.-ean. The complete uncertainty that has halted all styles of business for three months and the pressure of the money market for the last year have put ail bargain makers at their wits" en. I. Some of the best men in the laud have faltered mon whose hearts are eulisted In every good work and whose linn.ls have blessed every great charity. The church of Ood can afford to extend to them her sympathies and plead be fore heaven with all availing prayer. The schools suah men have established, the char-ties thoy have built, the asylums and benefit-out institutions thoy have fostered, will be their eulou-y long after their bankina Institutions are forgotten. Such men can never fail. They have their traasur-s in banks that never break and will be millionaires forever. The stringency ol the money market, I am glad to say, begini ti relax. May the wisdom of Almighty God come down upon our National legislature at their convening next month in Washington and suoh results be reached as shall restore confidence and revive trade and multiplv prosperities ! Yet not only now in the time of fluaneial disaster, but all through life our aotive business people have a struggle, and I think it will be appropriate and useful for me to talk about their trials and try to offal some curative prescriptions. In the first place, I have to remark that a great many of our business men feel ruinous trials and temptations coming to them from small and limited capital In business. It is everywhere understood that it takes now three or four times as mu.ih to do business well as once It did. Onoe a few hundred dol lars w re turned into goods the merohanl would be his own store sweeper, his own salesman, his own bookkeeper. He would manage all the affairs himself, and every thing would be not profit. Wonderfu: chancer have come. Costly apparatus, ex tensive advertising, exorbitant store rents, heavy tnxtatioD, expensive agencies, art only parts of the demand made upon out commercial men, and when they have found themselves ia such circumstances with small capital they have sometimes been tempted to run against the rocks of moral and fluaneial di-struetiou. This temptation of limited capital has ruined men in two ways. Sometimes they have shrunk down under the temptation. They have yielded the battle before the firs, shot was HreiL At the first hard gun the. surrendered. Their knees knocked togethe at the fall of the auctioneer's hammer. The' blanched at the financial peril. They di not understand that there Is such a thing a" heroism in merchandise, and that there are Waterloos of the counter, and that a man can fight no braver battle with the sword than be can with the yardstick. Their souls melted in them because sugan were np when they wanted to buy and down when they wanted to sell and unsalable Boods were on the shelf and bad debts in their ledger. The gloom of their counte nances overshadowed even their dry goo as and groceries. Despondency, coming from limited capital, blasted them. Others have felt it In a different way. They have said "Here I have been trudging along. I have been trying to be honest all these years. 1 And It is of no use. Now it is make or brak." The small oraft that could have stood tht stream is put out beyond the lighthouse on the great sea of speculation. Stocks are the dice with which he gambles. He bought for a few dollars vast tracts of western land. Home man at the east living on a fat home stead meets this gambler of fortune and is persuaded to trade off his estate here for lots in a western city with large avenues and costly palaces and lake steamers smoking at the wharves and rail trains coming down with lightning s.ieed from every direction. There it is all on paper ! The city has never been built nor the railroads constructed, but everything points that way, and the thing will be done as sure as you live. And that is the process by which many have been tempted through limitation of capital Into labyrinths from which they could not be ex tricated. I would not want tp chain honest enter prise. I would not want to block up any of the avenues for honest accumulation that open before young men. On the contrary, I would like to cheer them on and rejoice when they reach the goal, but when there are such multitudes of men going to ruin for this life and the life that is to come through wrong notions of what are lawful spheres ol enterprise it is the duty of ministers of re ligion and the frien Is of all young men to utter a plain, emphatic, unmistakable pro test. These are the influences that drown men In destrU'"-tion and perdition. Again, a great many of our business met are tempted to over-anxiety and care. You know that nearly all commercial businesses are overdone in this day. Smitten with tne love of quick gain, our cities are crowded with men rcsoived to bo rich at all hazards. They do not care her? money comes. Our beet merchants are ii:rown into competition with men of moronisms and less conscience, and if an opportunity of accumulation be ne glected one hour some one else picks it up. From January to December the struggle goes on. Night gives no quiet to limbs tossing in riytleesnces, nor to a brain that will not stoD thinking. The dreams are harrowed by Imaginary loss and flashed with Imaginary gains. Even the Sabbath cannot dam back the tide of anxiety, for this wave of worldli tiess dashes clear over the churches and eaves its foam on Bibles and prayer books. Men who are living on salaries or by the culture of the soil cannot understand the wear and tear of body and mind to which our merohants are subjected when they do not know but that their livelihood and their business honor are dependent upon the un certainties of the next hour. This excite ment of the brain, this corroding care of the heart, this strain of effort that exhausts the spirit, sends a great many of our best men in midlife to the grave. They find that Wall street does not end at the East River. It ends at Greenwood! Their life dashed out against money safes. They go with their store on their back. They trudge like camels, sweating from Aleppo to Damns ous. Tbev make their life a crucifixion. Standing behind desks and counters, ban ished from the fresh air, weighed down by marking cares, they are so many suloides. Oh, I wish I could to-day rub out some o. these lines of care ; that I could lift some ol the burdens from the heart ; that I could give relaxation to soma of these worn muscles ! It is time for you to begin to take It a little easier. Do your best, and then trust God for the rest. Do not fret. God manages all the affairs of your life, and He manages them for the best. Consider the lilies they always have robes. Behold the fowls of the air they always have nests. Take a long breath. Bethink betimes that God did not make you a pack horse. Dig yourselves out from among the hogsheads and the shelves, and in the light of the holv Sabbath day resolve that you will give to the winds your fears, and your fretfu'ness, and your distresses. You brought nothing into the world, and It Is very certain you can carry nothing out. Having food and ralmant, be therewith content. The merchant came home from the store. There had been great disaster there. He opened the front door and said In the midst of his family circle: "I am ruined. Ev erything is gone. I am all ruined !" His wife said, "I am left," and the little child threw up its hands and said, "Paps, I am here." The aged grandmother seated in the room said, "Then you have all the promises of God beside, John." And he burst into tears and said : "Ged forgive me that I have been so ungrateful. I find I have a great many things left. God forgive me." Again, I remark that many of our business men are tempted to neglect their home duties. How often it Is that the store and the home seem to clash, but there ought not to be any collision. It Is often the case that the lathei la the mere treasurer of the family, e sort of agent to see that they have dry goods and groceries. The work of family government he does not touch, Once or twloe in a year he calls the children up on a Sabbath after noon when he has a half hour he does not exactly know what to do with, sad In that half hour he disciplines the children and chides them and corrects their faults and gives them a great deal of good advice, and then wonders all the rest of the year that his children flo npt do petterwhen they have the wonderftiLjllT&utagO ot that semi-ann-i-.: casjlgatfohr Place for pleasant dbu? onht beths ness. often becea tfi Vd chrtul pedltion. If t,H il pU2? of Perilous ex U. it to cut off aT&tlHJ ST"1"? aakwl hand on the carvlnz knif! ndV" 'th the hta Angers. rnaiiS' l?i,a- . Ha counts on lea of the n?? ta the inter- ot tne renant ti,. t: , 'nier- i to the heSt .??WOr ioa"' th hat ' eot, and before' f h. f do table he ha' if I'. To n goea t street, of goods and nn T t Vt "other bundl lead them out to thel? ?P thZ TOpe w'ttl hi children ought ner Iff J1 by tha glUterL."lon "I sin unless you can make your home 1 brighter piaee than any other piaie on rt? to them. OS. gather all oharmTinto oxir house 1 If you can afford It bring books and Picture, and cheerful entertainment, to he Hons -hold. But, above all, teach those cl.ll bkfhtdby bZli ,n b0Ur tWi- aaobathday. but day after day. and ever, lay tH3h them that religion Is a great eUA. ?ltlt ih,r"7 ,naln" of gold .bout th. M;ih,U " f.ttko8 no 9Prm' from the foot, no bluheness from the heart.no sparkle from the eye, no ring from the laughter, but that her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace." I sympathize w.th the work being done In m;i:.y of our cities by which beautiful room aro s;t apart by our Young Men s Christian A wociHt.ons, and I pray God to prosper them in aj taints. But, I tell you, there Is some thing back of that and before that. We need more happy, consecrated, cheerful Christian ho :i -s in America. U.ivo you ever ciphered out in the rule ol lo,s an I gain the sum, "What shall it proflt a Man if he gala the whole world and lose h s soul?" However Qne your apparel, the winds of death will flutter it like rags. Homecpun and a threadbare coat have tome. ti:is Seen the shadow of coming robes made white in the blood of the Lam:). The pearl of great price Is worth more than any gem you can bring from the ocean, than Aus tralian or Brazilian mines strung in one car oanet. Seek after God, find His righteous ness, and all shall be well here ; all shall bo well hereafter. But I must have a word with those wht during the present commercial calamities have lost heavily, or perhaps lost all their estate. If a man lose his property at 30 or 40 years of age, it Is only asharp discipline gen erally by which later he comes to larger suc cess. It Is all folly for a man to sit down in midlife discouraged. The marshals of Napoleon came to their commander and said, "We have lost the battle and we are being out to pieces." Napoleon took his watch from his pocket and said. "It Is only 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Yon have lost that battle, but you have tim enough to win another. Charge upon the foe !" Though the meridian of life has pasnt with you and you have been routed in many a conflict, give not np In discouragement. There are victories yet for you to gain. lij.t sometimes monetary disaster comes to a man when there Is something in his age or something in bis health or something In Irs surroundings which make him know wolJ that he will never get up agauu In 1857 It was estimated that for miny years previous to that time annuailv t'ieK had been 80,000 failures In the United Stat-s. Many of those persons never recovered iro n the misfortune. But let me give a word of comfort in passing. The sheriff may sell you out ot many things, but there are some things of which he cannot sell yon out. He cannot sell out your health. He cannot sell out your family. He cannot sell out your Bible. He cannot sell out your God. Ha cannot sell out your heaven. You have more than you have lost. Sons and daughters ot God, children of ni eternal and all loving Father, mourn no when your property goes. The world Is yours, and life is yours, and death is yours, and Immortality is yours, and thrones of im perial grandeur are yours, and river.- of gladness are yours, and shining mansions are yours, and God is yours. The eternal God has sworn it. and every time you don'il It you charge the King of heaven and earth with perjury. Instead of complaining bow hard you have it, go home, take up yom Bible full of promises, get down ou yom knees before God and thank Him for what you have instead ot spending so much time in complaining about what you have not. Some of you remember the shipwreck o; the Central America. This noble steamer had, I think, about 600 passengers a tour I. Suddenly the storm came, and the surges trampled the decks and swung into the hatohes, and there went up a hundred volcod death shriek. The foam on the jaw of the wave ; the pitching of the steamer as though it were leaping a mountain ; the dismal flare of the signal rockets ; the long cough of the steam pipes, the hiss of the extinguished furnaces j the walking of God on the wave I The steamer went not down without a strug gle. As the passengers stationed thomselves in rows to bale out the vessel, hark to the thump of the buckets as men unused to toll, with blistered hands and strained muscle, tug for their lives. Tiicro is a sail son against the sky. The flash of thedlslress gun Is sounded. Its voice is hoard not. far ft is choked In the louder booming of the sa. A few passengers escaped, but the steamer gave oue great lurch and was gone 1 So t here are some men who sail oa prosperously in life. All's well, all's well. But at last some flnancinl disaster com'-s aeuroclydon. Down they go ! the bottom of this commer cial sea strewn with shattered hulks. But becauso your property goes do not let your soul go. Though all else perish, save that, for 1 have to tell you of a more stupendous shipwreck than that which I have lust mentioned. God launched this world 6000 years ago. It has been goiug on under freight of mountains and immortals, tut one day It will stagger at the ory of tire. The timbers of rock will burn, the mountains flame like masts and the olouls like sails la the Judgment hurricane. Then God shall take the passengers off the deck, and from the berths thorn who have long been asleep in Jesus, and He will set them for beyond the reach of storm and peril. But how many shall go down? That will never be known until It shall be nnnounced one day in heaven the shipwreck of a world. Oh, my dear hearers, whatever you lose, though your houses go, though your lands go, though all your earthly possessions per ish, may Almighty God, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, save all your souls. FOOD TOR THOUGHT. All things may be remedied but dis content. There is no virtue so great and god like as justice. Don't try to please everybody except yourself. You don't bave to be disagreeable to be good. Committees are admirable things, bnt it has been said "if the arit had been bulit by a committee it would not have been finished yet. No one ousrbt to complain if the world measures him as he measures others. To measure one with his own yardstick may be bard, tut it is also fair. Tow4shfor a star is ohildhood's pretty follv Yet be who has not suffered from this malady will never seize the coveted treasure, be it but a glow-worm. The loss or self-respect la the te gl nlng of the habit of meanness. He who looks after pennies ought to give away the dollars. The smallest bird Is the West In-lla humming bird. The body is less than STnchlong and weighs only twenty gralnSa KarlT Christian art was wholly ym boliot the Jamb typified Christ, the fish baptism. THE CONSTITUTIONTHE UNION AND MIFFLINTOWN. .JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 2, NfcW RESOLVES. T ISABELLA VTAIS KAYO. Ierl. I would letve the world anart To spend a btiv time with thee. I" feel Thee i welling in my heart To calm and :heer and counsel me. But ere Tliy nresopce I Invite, I mm t sweep pnue nnd wrath away Must make my conscience sweet and whl'e. Wide open to luy blessed day. I.o! When I turn me to my tak 1 find Trou dost its labors shares For Thu art come before I ask. And for Thyself. Thou dust prepare! Michel Perria's Benefactor. ritA.NSL.ATFD FROM TUB FRKNCH, OF MME. DK BIWn, BY I8ABUI. SUlTHSON. There in notlnnlil nlmnt it AT ilnf - J - I Is to go away as soon ns possible. J. uow very well that jUadoIeine has gold her watch. She works from morning till night, but one woman's needle cannot support two persons. I onght to have gone long; ago. Bat wlere can I go withont friends, with- nt money? How can 1 earn my liv ing, wl.e'i I know no more of the world than a new-born babe! It does not . matter, however, 1 will go if I have lo be on the highway even though 1 die of Iiutiger." This m n -'i-no was uttered at Diion. in tbe year VI If, of the ljepnblie, in a little room, which is perhaps still in existence, and which was then occupied by the former cure of a little village of the Department of the Cote d Or. Michel Perrin, who until now bail ived only to do good to others, to fray to God, aud to work in the little garden of the p rsonage, had been driven away from this home, where IvAntr-tt&n vntro rtf hiu naajnfnl lifa had been passed. Deprived of the I modest salary attached to his position, persecuted by some ol the cdlicials ot tha .Republican Government, and sus pected by all, the poor enre had wan dered for a long time from village to village, partly to escape arrest, and partly to seek aid from persons whose gratitude he had earned ia happier time1!. He had lived in Dijon for tbont a year, hiving joined his sister, to had alwrtyi been the nole mistress of hie I'onso, and who was now his Dnly support. .Madeleine P rrin, on b"irjg obliged to leave the pnrtoiinpe, had gone at noe to Dijon, hoping to find there, tome old aoqnaintances, and to live by her needle. Mie had succen.led in utilizing her skill in needle-work so far as to provide amply for her own wants, bnt when her brother yielded to her earnest entreaties, and came to occupy one of the two tiny rooms which she called her apartment, Mad eleine soon realized that a man in the prime of life and with a good appetite was more difficult to feed than to lodge. She took care, however, to conceal from her dear Michel her anxiety re specting the future of both of them. Any oue who heard her singing over her work, or siuging, "Come Michel, diDner is ready," as she put a great dish of wheat on the table, would have said to himself, "That is a happy woman I" But every night, as soon as she knew by his regular breathing, that her brother was sleeping soundly, her mind was besieged by a crowd of sad thoughts. The slightest delay io pay ment on the part of her customers plunged her into diffi -nlties, a week's lickness, tfc-refore, wonl j canse actual want; be i.li s this, Khe was ev. r grow ing olrior. being bnt two years younger than Miciiut who had just reached bis fiftieth year; her sight was beginning to fail, ii nd soon perhaps, she would not be able to sew even with the help of spectacles. It was in vain that poor Madeleine trie ! to banish these sad anxious thoughts, and more than once, the rising snn lighted her room and summoned her to work again, before she bad cloned her eves. Oa his part, Michel Perrin dis covered the truth, in spite of his sis ter's efforts to conceal it from him; and from that time he never ceased to make plans for trying to earn a few sous himself, Lnt Madeleine objected strenuously to all those schemes which she thought benetth the dignity of the enre of M . Only one of his pro jects met with her approval; she would be willing to see her brother, who was very well educated, give lessons In Greek an I Ii-itio, and accordingly, there was not ono of her acquaintance possessed of a son or nephow who was not solicited to 1 ;t t he child learn the dead lansuacres, and to choose Michel Terrin for his tutor; bnt whether it was that the peop'e of Dijon hod lost their love for the ancients, or whether they had little confidence in the learn ing of a village pastor, Madeleine be sought in vain of her friends and cus tomers to give for the smallest price, the smallest pupil to her brother. "He is so clever," she would say. "I wish you could see him at home; he reads nothing but Latin and Greek. However that is nothing to yon, there is no use in talking about it," and a deep sigh would follow. Jt was true that the good cure had no other amusement than reading and re reading the volumes of Homer and Tacitus which he had m inaged to save from the wreck of his home, and which now formed his whole library. He led a very retired life, taking a solitary walk "when the weather was fine, and seldom speaking to any one besides his sister. His affection for Madeleine was so deep that separation from her seemed the greatest misfor tune possible to him, and it was in an sgony ot suspense that he awaited her return whenever she went in quest of pnpils for him, and when she came and after kissing him without speaking, set down at once to her work, he would say to himself: "I must go away." It was the sale of her leloved watch which decided him, as we have seen. He had secretly fixed the next week as the date of bis departure, when Madeleine came home one day with an onusnally thoughtful expression cn her face. Bbe seated herself at work near tne window, and her brother, who though apparently absorbed in read ing, was racking his brain for some means of making a living, was sur prised to hear her murmur repeatedly: "What a pity that Taris is so far away!" "Why so, dear sister?" he asked. Oh, it is wonderful, marvelous!" she exclaimed, "Son people are so lucky." You and I ar6 not," Said ihe brother with a sigh. "So, bnt your old classmate, ugere Camus, is. You remember that be went to Paris to find employment I Well, be baa come back, and he baa secured a salary el two thousand francs, and a position in the Depart- J ment of Taxes." Two thousand frunosi ' eriad the cure, and then he a Mod with a smile, ! "yon are r ght in saying that some people are luck?, for Kogene Camus was the most idle and ignorant fellow , that ever lefc the College of Juilly. " Well, ho nearly starved in Pari? i for two or three years, but luck so willed it that another stndont of tho Oratory, Joseph Fouche, of whom yoa ' havo spoken." "Ob, Joseph Fonche mnst be quite ' a itinerant sort of a man, 1 am very g ad to he ir that he still lives. He was a knowing one, aud always at the head. He and I were chams at college; ! helped mo with u:y -tu lies, aud in r nr.i I f mght for him 1 was a solid little follow, b it h was nit strong." "That has not preveuted his getting on in tho world. He is uiinmti-rof s mi' thing, I forget what, but that does rot mutU'r; It seems that whon oue is i.i mister, one can do anything, and kiuco he duligh's in lnukia the for tun s of his old classmates " "If 1 were sure of that!" interrupted the cure, exoitedly. "I think he has just proved it by giving Camus such a position. But 1 100 Camas was in Paris; ho was able to see him." "Why should not I go to Paris?" crii d Michtd. slarlmi? to his feet. "I will go there, Madeleine; I will see Poncho and speak to him. If he reo- j ojuized Camus, who was at Juilly for onlv two years, I am sure he will re- memiier me. "Yon want to leave me, Miohel?" sai I the sister sadly, i t the cure, sitting down beside uci, answered: "1 must leave you. dear, whether I co to Paris or not. You can not earn ' bread eu.mgli for both of ns, aud noth ing that you can say will alter my de rision. Paris is the best place for me, bee i use I shall find a friend there." "But it is so far off," said Madeleine, beginning to cry. Dili! Sixty to eighty Ien;nes whit is that, io a good walker! The only thing that griuves me is that I ahull hive to ask von for two or three cro'us, with which to buy food on tho way Something tell mo that 1 shall be lucky directly after I reach Faru, an l that my first letter will give you goo 1 news." Tho cure seemed to be so full of hoy that Madeleine was comforted, and hu even smiled at the thought of her brother's prospects, although he him st I; was far from being sure of tho suc.'o-ts of his journey, but reflected that at lo st he could go on errands or chop wood, where there would be no Mn luteioe to prevent him. The preparations for the journey did not take long, and two d tys later tho good woujuu handed Michel his bundle ttt il. ill. iii a. 4. Aj.. rn Ina .ni r1 stick, and a sealed roll of coins, which ' sho said contained eight 1 ua Ired now; tearfully tho tr ither an I sister kissed each other for the hundredth time, and then parted. Michel Ptrrin, urged by his aaxieiy to reach Paris, and his fear of eih-tust-iug his funds on the way, walked ten learnt s on the first day. But he was much richer than he thought; on the sconJ day his pnrso was empty, i i spite of having lived on bread and cheese, so he opened the roll of coins and his surprise was only equaled by his emotion when he found the threo gold pieces besides the forty francs. He was sure that Madeleine could not have raised such a large sum withont going into debt, and he re solved to return it to her at the first opportunity. He took np his abode in the most modest hotel in the city, and lost no time iu making inquiries concerning his former college mate. His host in formed him tht Joseph Fonohe was Minister of Police, that I'll the state oMcna's gave public an lioncoi once a week, bat that it would be necessary to send a request in writing for a pri vate reception. The cure therefore made haste to in dite tho following; "Michel Perrin entreats his former college-mate, Joseph Fonohe, to re ceive him as snon as possib'e. He is lodging at the Hotel du Holiel, Mouf feUrd street. " Vale el me ama." Miohel showed this missive to citizen licgras. his host, and asked his opin ion of it "The lotter is good enough, "siid Le ers, with a wise air, "for it has the mer it being short. However, is I were you, 1 should put, at the beginning, citizen Minister, and at the end with deepest rctp-cl. You see, these republican oflioials are just as magnificent as of o!d times; they live in palaces, end have more servants than I have hairs on my head. They call eaob other "citizen" just as you and I do, it is trr.e, but if any one should c.illl them "your lordship" they would make no objection, be sure of that." The cure took his host's advice, bnt he did not erae the Latin words, for he thought they would recall to Jos eph's mind tho days when they had hat in the same bench construing Cicero. Nearly a week p issed, and there was no reply, and when the writer asked of tho inn-kneper whether it often happened that s ich an application re ceived no notie-j at all, . Legras cited fi;ty cases in one breath. The poor priest, therefore, gave np hoping, and wondered what his next step should le. One evening, however, the porter handed him a lotter, and his heart beat more wildly than it had ever done be fore, as be broke the seal and went tow irds tho c.indle. The words seemed to him to be written in gold: "The Minister of Police will receive citizen Michel Perrin, on Thursday the '2 1th, at one o'cloek. No ne who has not walked through the crowded streets of Paris, as our hero had, seeking vainly for a single creature willing to extend to him a helping hand, can understand his joy at having found a protector, and such a powerful one! Miohel could not sleep that night without first wtitiug to Madeleine, telling her that on Thursday he was to see Minister Fonche, and Ood only knows how much joyous hope these few words conveyod to the brother and sister. W hen the appointed day came the enre seated himself in Fonche's ante room before twelve o'clock, and began repeating to himself the sentences with which he intended to open the conver sation with the great man. The evi dences of wealth and power whioh he saw around, however, increased his natural timidity so much that he de termined to thine: of nothing but his college days, and was telling himself for the hundredth time that Joseph Fonche was his dasamate, when he was summoned to the minister's cabi net. Fonohe was quite alone, seated at a desk which was covered with papers. THE ENFORCEMENT and he had hardly raised his head and fixed his little eyes upon the new comer; when he exclaimed laugh ingly: "It is not at all neoessary for yon to be announced I could not have passed you on the street without reoognizing yon!'' This friendly greeting pnt the cure quite at his ease, and grasping his friend's band heartily, be replied: "And yon. Citizen Minister, are so little changed that it seems as if we were still at onr studies nnder Father VieiL" An nnwouted expression of ohoerful ness spread over the face of Fonohe, as if the sight of his college friend was driving away a host of unpleasant memories, or perhaps it reminded the diputy to the convention of the days of Irs innocence. ".lit down," he said, in a jovial t.o.", "and tell me what yon have been do iugall these years since we pirted.'' 'I was the hsppieit of moo. for sev eral years," answered Perrin, "for very soon after taking orders, I be came pastor of the prettiest village of Bons.ijuyve." "A po'ir biaiuess inst now, that of beirg a priest," said Fonche, shaking his head slowly. "So poor indeed that, having betu turned out of my home, ruined and persecuted, I bave lived for s-!ven years oa the goo I ness of a few kind souls. At first I was obliged to hide myi-elf, for 1 was snspected, at least t iey sai 1 so. Now, I a k yon, of what would they suspect me? But so it was." 'But when your head was no longer In d inger, why did you not think of your pockets?" "If thin icing of them could have filled them, they would have been overflowing a long time ago," said the po-T priest with a sigh. "I think that more ideas pass through the mind of a poor devil who wants to earn a crown or two, than passed through Homer's when he was writing the Iliad or the Odissoy." "Ani they had no reinlt!" "None, exempting tbt I came to Paris " Michel stopped suddenly, but fixed on Irs c.iil. gj niiite a look which spoke volumes. "Did yon know th it I was Minis ter?" "Certainly!" "And you counted on me," said Fouche, in a tone whioh showed the natural kiudnoss ot his heart. " -o much so," replied ihe oor cure, "that after God, I havo no one but you to turn to. F.tnploy me in any way yon soe lit necessity does not make one very particular, I will not refuse any work I must make my living, one way or another." "You will not relnseany work!" sail Foneho in some surprise. "Do you mean to say that yon wonhl accept em ployment in my dei nrtment?" "Why, lint is all I ubk!" cried Per rin, his eyes beaming with jiy. "iou will make more money witu ns, than by b-.-ing a pitor of souls," said Fonche, looking at Porrin's hou ist face thoughtfully. "You would be valuable to ns you are not without brains, and yon expro-s yourself well." "A good education always tells," replied Perrin modestly, though he was highly fluttered by the couipli ment. "Besides which," continued Fouche, "I have perfect confidence in you, while in most of them " The door of the room opened, and an attendant announced that the First Cousnl wanted to see citizen Fonche at the Tnileries Immediately. The minister rose hastily and gathered np some papers, packing thorn into a port folio with all the eagerness of one who dares not lose a minnte. "And what about me?" cried the cure in dismay, at seeing his friend preparing to leave him withont Laving promised anything. "Wait.' said the Minister, writing a few words hastily, "tike this to Des marest, Chief of Division," then he rushed out of the room and into his carriage. Perrin glanced at the paper which Fonche had put into his hands, and read the words: "Desmarest is to employ Miohaol Terriu and pay him well." Then he went in search of the person age to whom they were addressed. He was admitted at once. Citizen Desmarest seemed to him a much more formidable person than Fonohe, perhaps because he had nover been his classmate. "Take a scat," said tho Chief when he lind read the mossasre, "it is ev ident that tho Minister wishes yon to correspond directly with me, and not with himself." Perrin bowed, saying: "He sent me to you," and then he asked timidly: "When am 1 to begin my work?" "Withont a moment's delay." The Minister having directed me to pay you well, doubtless has immediate need of your ability and your zeal." "I can answer for my zeal," replied Perrin, and I hope that with a little practice my ability will equal it." "No doubt, no doubt. Yon have been chosen by a man who never makes a mistake. I will put your name on my list, and yon will draw twenty francs a day; from this date." The poor priest could hardly re strain his delight at theee words, bnt he managed to control himself suffi ciently to say in a quiet tone, "I hope to prove myself worthy of Minister Fonche's kindness, and of yours, and if yoa will tell me what X am to do " "I have nothing speoial for yoa to day, but yoa can come in again this week, and meanwhile, walk about the city, go to the boulevards, and publio squares, and dine at the restaurants always at the bent ones." "Ah, the best restaurants see very little me," said Miohel smiling, "they are much too expensive for my purse. "I understand. Yoa are ont of funds at present L will pay yon two weeks in advance. Will that do?" "Indeed it will, bnt I do not like to take my wages before I have worked." "Poh! It is the general oustom here; it is not the Minister's intention that yoa go into the cook-shops." "What good angel guided me to these charming people?" said Michel Perrin to himself, as he took the money-order, and while he was utter ing profuse thanks, the Chief, being very busy, told him to go at once and draw the amount, and not to come back until Monday,nnless he had some thing important to telL If the cure's first thought on becom ing the possessor of three hundred francs, was of God, his second was of Madeleine; he could not give a thought to his dinner until he had written to the good sister and sent her half bis treasure. Then, with a light heart, he resolved to follow the directions of his employer and to enjoy some of the pleasures of Paris, OF THE LAWS. "I have three whole days in wh'oh to do nothing bat amuse myself," hi aid. "my faith! It will not be diffi cult He sit off, accordingly, to make a tour ot the City of Paris, before so gloomy, muddy, smokey in his eyes, suddenly assumed a smiling aspect; he was never tired of admiring the beauti ful monuments, or the superb bridges over the Heine; he thought of the vil lage of M , and fancied himself in Fairyland; he could not enter a restau rant to drink a bottle of beer without being dazzled by the luxury he saw around him. "I wish to heaven that Madeleine were her?," he often said to himself, "for she will nover believe me when I describe all this." The boulevards were his favorite promenades. Here, the variety of amusements was so great that he could pass :n entire day withont bein. wearied; the shops, the parades, the l'nnch and Judy s'iows a' trie ted him in turn, and it was nearly night before ha went home to Mouffetard street, ple'isol with even-thing ho had seen, delighted at living in the gay Capital, and charme I above all at hav iug had two no d moAU, a pleasure to which he Lai long been unaccus tomed. When Monday morning came Michel Perrin presented himself bafore Des marest feeling a little nnessy, as to whether the work intended for him would prove to be beyond his capa city. "Ah, it is you," said citizen Des marest, who was busy seirchiug for a crrtna paper iu hU desk. "Well where the deuce can 1 have put it whit bave yoa leoa doing all this time?" "I have been rushing about the city as if I were bnt twenty," sail the good priest, smilingly. "The mischief is in it!" exclaimed the other, opening a drawer which he had not yet searched. "Everything is quiet, I suppose?" "Oh, perfectly quiet, every ono seems to lie as happy as I am." There is plenty of dissatisfaction, nevertheless could I have taken it home with me, I wonder?" "Yes, that is what I was told by a poor fellow with whom 1 had some conversation ou the boulevard of the Temple, an 1 who, inleed, seemed to be dissatisfied himself." Michel stopped sp?aking, anl the other exclaimed: "Go on, go ou, I am listening, but I have to find a p iper," aud he opened two hundred letters or so, one after another. "What sort of man was this?" "One of the old body guards of my Lord the Comte d' Artois " "Ah, here it is, just under mv haul! Well, the old guard?" "He told me his whole history." "Very confiding of him!" "I had already told him that I was ouce a cure." "Von told him you were a enre?" re peated Desmarest, laughing. "Certainly," said Perrin, a little dis concerted. "Very goo.l, very good," returned the other, in an approving tono, "what made me liugh was the th'jught that if you had toll me tuut when you came to me first, 1 should have believed yoa, for you have every appearance of being an ecclesiastic." "1 have never been able to shake it off, though it has ofton been almost fatal to me," Bald the enre witu a sieh. "And now it is advantageous to you, Perrin; yonr whole appearance Is one that inspires confidence." The cure bowed. "Yon will meet your friend again?" said Desmarest. "We agreed to play a game of chess if I could go baok to the cafe Turc.'- "An I what ia to prevent your ga ins? ' Perhaps tho work yo-i hive for me will occipy my whole time." "1 have no work to give you, my friend I am very busy just now, so yon can go and attend to your old gnard aud come here again on Thurs day." Michel Perrin took his departure, feeling not a littlo mystified at being so well paid for do:ng nothing, bnt he decided that the work would be ardu ous when onoe it began, aud that he might as well enjoy his liberty while it lasted. 'Three days more for pleasure and ease!" ho cried, rnbbing his hands gleefully. The next Thursday he waited in the ante-room, together with somo evil looking men, for nearly two hours. Desmarest greeted him with a gracious smile, saying: "Well, what is there new!" "New," repeated Perrin in surprise, and the other exclaimed: "I snppose you came t tell me something!" "I came to see what yon wish me to do." "I have already told yoa that 1 want you to arrange your own movoments to go about the city, as if yoa had nothing else to do and to keep yonr eyes open. That is what I want. Did you have your game of choss?" "No.' "The deuce!" cried Desmarest whose principal duty was watching the royal ists, "1 snppose yoa let him soe you were too strong for him." ' 'On the contrary I told him that I was but a poor hand." "I begin to think that is the case," said Desmarest to himself. "Very well, Perrin," he added aloud, "go your ways, and come here on Monday." The next'time the cure presented himself before his employer, the latter said briskly, "1 suppose yon have something important to tell me." "Nothing at all," was the calm re ply and Desmarost looked at his man in amazement. "You spend your time in your room then?" the Chief asked after a pause, "Indeed I do not 1 walked at least two leagues yesterday through the streets." "And do yoa mean to say that yon see nothing, hear nothing?" "I am amused by things so trifling that yon wonld not waste your time listening to a description of them." Desmarest was completely at a loss, and directly Perrin had left him he called in another man and di rected him to follow the former, keep a strict watch over his movements and report them next morning. All that day, therefore, the cure was nnder surveillance, his every step was taken note of, and as a consequence when he came before Desmarest the next day, the latter knew what he bad been doing rather better than he himself did. "Unless he is either blind, deaf or dumb he will make a report this time," thought the Chief of Division but in n-iy to the usual question. Ferris, 1893. remarked as before, "Oh notaJnil new." "Is this man an iaiot?" though Desmarest, and then be said: "Be good enough to tell me when you dined, yesterday." "At the Palace Royal," was the re ply. "What did you do after that? ' "I drank a cup of coiTee at thi Caveau." "And what happened there? " "Nothing that 1 know of." "Is it possible that yoa did not ob serve three young men at the table next to yours? " "Oh yes, I remember the g;atlemen bnt I cannot tell whether thoie wore three or four. They were drinking punch.'' "And they were talking treason against the First (Joninl? " said Des marest angrily, "they even threatened his life? " "I cannot say, as to that, for I notio ed that the gentlemen lowered theii voices when ever I looked in their di rection, so I got np and change I my seat. You can understand that I did not wish tooverhear." " This is too much!" cried Desmarest, "what do yoa suppose vour business is? " "Indeed, that is just what I have been trying to diso ver for the last two weeks," said Perrin quickly. "Heavens and earth, mm, I will tell you! You are supposed to be a gov eminent spy." "A Spy?' screamed Perrin. "Precisely." Tha cure leaped to his feet, witn flaning checks aud trembling lips. Sir!"he begau, b it added suddenly, "it ia not with you that 1 must speak," and rushed out of the room. At Joseph Fonche's door he demanded admit tance, but was told that the Minister was out. "I wiil wait all day if necessary," he said. "You can wait in tho street then," said the attendant, shutting the door. The next minute, Fonche himself, drove up in his carriage, and the poor oare exclaimed in an agitated voico. "Listen to me, I beg of yon 1" Surprised at his friend's altered look, Fonche let him follow him into the house and when thoy were alone, asked: "What is the matter with you? Have yon discovered a conspiracy ?" "I have discovered that you have seen fit to trifle with tho friend of your childhood,' said tVrrin with a courage born of indigaatton, "although you are a rich man, and I am a poor one, 1 would not change placei with yon, after wnat you hive done." "What on earth do you mean!" asked Fonche, wondering whether tho speaker had lost his semes. "Did not your citizen Ddsmire3t act nnder your orders?" "Certainly he did; aud he hai re ported of you, that you don't earn your money," said Fonche, with a good-natnred laugh. "My greatest regret is that 1 can not return it to you," said Perrin, "for nnfortunately I sent half of it to my poor sister. I have only " "Who asked you to return it, you idiot? If I choose to employ you, that is not Desmarest's affair." "To employ me? To make me a spy!" cried Perriu, flushing with in dignation. "I think, my friend, your scruples come rather late after two weeks. "How was I to know I was a spy?" "Have yoa only just discovered it?' "Your man has just told me " "And you did not know it before?" cried Fonche, and overcome by tho ludicrousness of the situation, ho burst into a peal of laughter. "Honestly, Michel, yon ought not to blame me for this mistake. Did you not tell me that you were penniless, and that yon would do anything to earn money? "I did, aud I would have been con tent to clean yonr rooms, to carrv wood for your stovos, to do anything that was honorable." Fonche laughed no more, but taking his friend' hand, said gently: "It was a mistake, Michel, I assure you; let ns be friends again." After a pauso he added,"! have good news for you, my friend. Religions worship is to be re-established. Cardi nal Gonsalvi had been here a long time arranging matters with the First Consul, and the concordat was signed yesterday. You wiil soon be restored to your parish." "Ah, shall I see my little ehnrch and my dear people again?" cried the cure, his eyes beaming with joy, but imme diately saddening, ho added, "Perhaps they will put Borne ono ek)e in my plaoel" "I shall take care of that," said l ouche, "nnd now you must not stay n Taris it is no place for you. I will give you some money to " "No, no, I want no more money," said the cure, as his friend handed him twenty-five louis. "It is not in payment of your ser vices, laughod Fonche; "it ia simply a present from me to you and to vour sister." J "Oh, very well; I need not refuse a gift from an honest mm," said Perrin and the Minister smothered a sigh. Good-bye, go back to Dijon," he said The next year, MicLel Tcrrin re sumed his old position as pastor, with his sis;er at the head of his house. When Madeleine called his attention, with no little pride, to the fact that the people were doffing their hats to their beloved pastor, he whispered emil lngly , "les, yes, but the good fellows do not know that for two weeks I was a spy!" Secularly Correct. Teacher Stop that drumming with your feet, Thomas Walrath, and tell me who it was that went into the wilderness and nearly perished. Thomas (who came from a G. A. P. family) fJin'ia! !.. 'udje. The French MVners. Officers and soldiers of the French army will henceforward bave a num-, bered metallic plate fastened on their collars for purposes of identifica tion." A similar scheme is being can Udcrcd for the bencfitof miner. Editor amd Proprietor. NO. 33. KEWS IX BRIEF". Tho Chinese are great poultrv raiafr. The Chinese hand is small, slim and with iqnare phi-linges Vandjke brought poitra ture to tht i!ghecl degree of torfucliou. The bttt specimens of alabasler earvings have been exhumed at Nine rth. The bones or tombs of over 200 giants have been found In various pait of fc.uroie. Pilrius says that 400 yeais were ipent building the temple of Diana at Ephesus. The averace length of life is grea ter in Norway than in auy other coun try oa the glob?. A tree thirty feet in dlaTneer was found recently in a grove in Sumti Touuty, Florida. One fquare foot of glass will lo-e as much l-.eat us six squaie Teet ot twelve Inch brick wa '. An ordinary day couch weighs b3ut 50,000 pounds; Pullirai sleeper wciih about 74.000 pound. There Is about four hours an l forty 3ve minutes difference In time between New Xork and Liverpool. A map or the sm kts of Paris has been recently prepare I by M. FouVerr 3t the Tour Si- Jacques. ThoQrst nickel-steel crank ever cast In thi3 country was t imed out re-o-itly st tha Iethlehem (Pa.) Iron Works. A dollar loaned for 10J y-ars .iuu pounded at twenty-four per cant, will tmouut In that time to f 2,551, 7;9,104. "Chump" Is not a new wor I, as Sir Philip Sidney U3ed "chumpish in the lense of "sullen" over 300 years ao. A luminous Idea for ti e emplov ment of lumlnlous paint : Use it f r tli name; of streets and tho numbers if houses. Mjet ctudents of plant ttrr.ciure nalntaln that leaves firing din ctly from the node with which they tteui xmnecteJ. At the bottom of tlieocepn tin tem perature remains practically c; ns?ant it any one spot throughout the who!f Df the year. The snowfall in the Kocky Moun tains along the line of the Can idisu Pacific Railway during the past wli.ttr was tt'iity-ono feet. Aluminum can be hardened ly rapid cooling in water, more espetiill if It l e alloyed with a small peiceiitagf f titanium or turgisteu. A copy of the first dictionary, made by Chinese scholars in the year 1109 R. is Etill preserved among the archive!" f the Celestials. The very first pages of human Li tory, ihe annal of the Kytlan?, re cord that the progenitors if our nee vere worshipers of the dog. A !eT was chaed by dogs through the main srnetof Mays I-ai.U.i.t;, N. J., receutl.'. It jumped a;ai:ist. a p-.ckei 'eDce aud died of its wjuuJj A Georgia man who crossel a stream In his buggy, a few days ago, found, after he had crossed, that a nine paund lisb had jumped into his buggy. Oue Congregational church in Hon olulu laises annually $35,000 for ir llglous, educational nd missionary purpost'E-an avreage cf $70 per mem her. Aluminum is founJ combined with 195 other metals. It is found in every known country on the globe aud con stitutes the larger part of the tarthV rust. The largest spider of tin world is the mlgale ot Central Am -rici, which, with legs extended, is soaieliui'.s firteeu feet in diameter. It preys upon birds md lizards. The only two foods which contain all the sub.-tince necessary to human life are taid to be milk and tha yoke ot eggs. A man cau live in health oa Miese two foods. A well has just Leen cleaned out at Do Kalb, Mo., for the firi-t time in twt-nly years. In the mi ee l ineom collection of hardware w.ii -h hil ac cumulatxd were found f.ur levolvers. The much-dlsputej q lestioo as t the Fource cf Congo R vt-r in Africa, has at la-st been settled by the Belgian explorer Dolcommune, wlufnunl It it a mountain chain siuth of I.ako Tat ganyika. Sclen'lsls are of the opinion lha. Avery's I laud, situated iu the dalta of Ihe Mississippi Is compose.? below the top soli entirely of silt. The salt occurs iu mote or less transparent cafsfs and is quarried for expoit A lit of Information fiat the Algo roaninc may like to pouder ov r is the fact t!:at to display a crest on station ary and plate in Lnglaud cstse;:c'i fami ly a tax of $5 a 3 ear aud about -U.000 persons ray it. A submarine vessel named Ous'avi Zede has been laui died ut Tui'lon, Franco. Its movements re -embH thee of a swimming whale. It Is eas.ly -i I rrerged when required and tie nv u ?xpei ts present declared II a c uiplel' uccess. In a paper recently contribnttd to the U-jyal f-ocit-ty of Lo..doD, D ttor UrUtowe endeavors to show tl.a t ie supposed Icorease In canter is oiay ap parent, being due to impron d dhig tiosis and more o ireful certification o' 'he cause of e'eath. Ia the reign of Queen El z ibe-th, if bad Cah mas sold to the poor, the knav ish fishmonger was U.coia ed with a necklace of his unsavory commodity, aud was (hen perched on a stand in M:e market. In India a huge funnel of. viItK' r work is planted iu a stream Im 1 v a waterfall, and every finny ciea urn coming dowo drops in o it, t e .v..'ir straining out and leaving th; il i -v prey in the receptacle, all r ady to br a'heied in. i he man who preache the real gospel of Christ will give emphasis t. It with his life. Tim rest of Christ is only for tlmss who can be happy without bavin Vhclr own way. Cod never stops trying to i.so au rarnest man because be now and thee Snakes a mistake. God will hear no prayer that dcis not come from a heart full of goot; will for every one. Ir is bard for God to do much (or men who think the- cau get happiness by getting money. There is no more dangerous water than that which makes no noise.
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