DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: "Qod'i Second Gift"—The World is Too Much With Us—The Better Life and the Advantage* of Religion— The Story of Caleb and Otlinlcl. TKXT: "Thou linst given roe a south lnnd; give me also spriugs of water. And he gave her the upper springs and the nether springs."—Joshua xv., la. The city of Debir wns the Boston of an tiquity—a great place for brain and books. Kaleb wanted it.and ho ofTered his daugh ter Aehsah as a prize to any one who would capture that city. It was a strange thing lor Caleb to do, and yet the man who could take the city would have, at any rate, two elements of manhood—bravery and patriot- Ism. Besides, I do not think that Caleb was as foolißh in offe.ing his daughter to the conqueror of Debir as thousands iu this day who seek alliances for their chil dren with those who have large means without any reference to moral or mental acquirements. Of two evil 1 would rather measure happiness by the length of the Rword than by the length of the pocket book. In one case there is sure to be one good element of character; in the other there may bo none at all. With Caleb's daughter as a prize to light for, General Othniel rode into the battle. The gates of Debir were thundered into the dust, and the city of books lay at the feet of the con querors. The work done, Othniel comes back to claim his bride. Having conquered the city. It is no great job for him to con quer the girl's heart, for however faint hearted a woman herself may be she al ways loves courage in a man. I never saw an exception to that. The wedding festivity having gone by, Othniel and Aehsah are ntout togo to their own home. However loudly the cym bals may clash and the laughter ring, par ents are always sad when a fondly cher ished daughter goes o(T to stay, and Ai.-h --tnh, the duughterof Caleb, knows that now is the time to ask almost anything she wants of her father. It seems that Caleb, the good old man, had given as a wedding present a piece of land that was mountain ous, and, sloping southward toward the deserts of Arabia, swept with somo very hot winds. It was called "a south land." But Aehsah wants an addition of property; she want a piece of laud that Is well watered and fertile. Now it is no wonder that Caleb, standing amid the bridal party, his eyes so full of tears beenuse she was going away that that he could hardly see her at all. gives her more than she asks. She said to him: "Thou hast given me a southland; give me niso springs of water. And lie gave her the upper springs and the nether springs." The fact is that as Caleb, the father, gave Aehsah, the daughter, a south land, so God gives to us His world. lam very thanklul He has given it to us. But 1 am like Aehsah in the fact that I am not satis lied with the portion. Trees and flowers and grass and blue skies are very well in their places, but he who has nothing but this world for a portion has no portion at all. It is a mountainous land, sloping off toward the desert of sorrow, swept by llery siroccos; it is "a south laud," a poor portion for any man that tries to put his trust in it. What has been your experi ence? What has bteu the experieneo of every man, of every woman, that has tried this world for a portion? Queen Elizabeth, amid the surroundings of pomp, is unhuppy because the painter sketches too minutely the wrinkles on her face, and she indig nantly cries out, "You must strike off my likeness without any shadows!" Hogarth, at the very height of his artistic triumph, is stung n'lmost to death with chagrin be cause the painting lie had dedicated to the king does not seem to be acceptable, for Ceorge 11. cries ont: "Who is this Ho garth? Take his trumpery out of my pres ence." Brinsiey Sheridan thrilled the earth with lis eloquence, but had for his last words, "I am absolutely undone." Walter Kcott, fumbling around the inkstand, trying to write, says to his daughter: "Oh, take mo back to my room! There is no rest for Sir Walter but iu the grave!" Stephen Girard, the wealthiest man in his day, or at auy rate only second in wealth, says:"l live the life of a galley slave. When I arise in the morning, mv one effort is to work so hard that I can sleep when it gets to be night." Charles Lamb, applauded of all the world, in the very midst of liis literary triumph says: "Do you remember, Bridget, when we used to laugh from the shilling gallery at the play? There ure now no good plays to laugh at from the boxes." But why go so far 11s that? I need togo no farther than your street to llnd on illustra tion of what I am saying. I'ick me out ten successful worldlings— and vou know what I mean by thoroughly successful worldlings—pick me out ten successful worldlings nnd you cannot llnd more thnn one that looks happy. Care drags him to business; care drags him back. Take your stand at 2 o'clock at the corner of the streets and see the agonized physiog nomies. Your high officials, your bankers, your insurance men, your importers, your wholesalers and your retailers as a class— ns a class, are they happy? No. Care dogs their steps, and making no appeal to God lor help or comfort many of them ure tossed every whither. How has it been with you, my hearer? Are you more contented In the house of fourteen rooms than you were In the two rooms you had in a house when you started? Have you not had more care and worriment since you won that 450,000 than you did before? Some of the poorest men I have ever known have been those of great fortune. A man of small meuns may be putin great business straits, but the ghastliest of all embarrassments is that of the man who has large estates. The men who commit suicide because of monetary losses are those who cannot bear the bur den any more because they have only $50,- 000 left. On Bowling Green, New York, there is a house where Talleyrand used to go. Ho was a favored man. All the world Imew him, and he had wealth almost unlimited. Yet at the close of his life he suys: "Behold, eighty three years have passed without any practical result, save fatigue of body and fatigue of mind, great discouragement for the future and great disgust for the past." Oh, my friends, this is a "south land," und it slopes off toward deserts of sorrows, and the prayer which Aehsah made to her father Caleb we make this day to our Father God: "Thou hast given me a south land: give mo also springs of water. And he gavo her the upper springs ami the nether springs." Blessed be God, we have more advan tages given us than wo can really appro ciate! We have spiritual blessings offered us in this world which I shall call the nether springs and glories In the world to eoine which I shall call the upper springs. Where shall I llnd words enough threaded with lig t to set forth the pleasure of religion. David, unable to describe it in words, played it on a harp. Hrs. Hemans, not finding enough power in prose, sings that praise lu a canto. Chris topher Wren, unable to describe it in lan guage, sprung it Into the arches of St. I'aul's. John Bunyan, unable to present it in ordinary phraseology, takes all the fas cination ol allegory. Handel, with ordi nary music unable to reach the height of the theme, rouses It up to an oratorio. Oh, there is no life on earth so happy as a really Christian lifel I do not mean a sham Christian life, but a real Christian life. Where there is a thorn there is a whole garland of roses. Where there is one groan there are three doxologles. Where there Is one day of cloud there is a whole season of sunshine Take the humblest Christian man that you know— angels of God canopy him with their white wings; the lightnings of heaven are his armed allies; the Lord is bis Hhep herd, picking out for him green pastures by still waters. II he walk forth, heaven is bis bodyguard. If he lie down to sleep, ladders of light, angel blossoming, are let into his dreams. If he be thirsty, the Potentates of heaven are bis cupbearers. 112 he sit down to food, his plain table blooms Into the King's banquet. Men say; 4 Look at that odd fellow with the wornout coat." The angels of God cry "Lift up your beads, ye everlasting gates, and let him come in!" Fastidious people cry, "Get off my front steps!" The doorkeepers of heaven cry, "Come, yo blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom!" When ho comes to die, though he may be carried out in a pine box to that potter's Held, to that potter's field the chariots of Christ will come down, nnd the cavalcade will crowd nil the boulevards of hoavon. I bless Christ for the present satisfaction of religion. It makes a man nil right with reference to the past; it makes a man all right with reference to the future. Oil, these nether springs of comfort! They ure perennial. The foundation of Godstandeth sure having this seal, "The Lord kuoweth tbem that are His," "The mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but My kindness shull not depart from thee, neither shull the covenant of My peace bo removed, saith the Lord, who hath mercy upon thee." Oh, cluster of diamonds set in burnished gold! Oh, nether springs ot comfort bursting through all the valleys of trial and tribulation! When you see, you of the world, what satisfaction there is on earth iu religion, do you not thirst after it as the daughter of Caleb thirsted after the water springs? It is no stagnant pond, scummed over with malaria, but springs of water leaping from the Bock of Ages! Take up one cup ot that spring water and. across the top of the cbalice will float the delicate shadows of the heavenly wall, the yellow ot jasper; the green of emerald, the blue of sardonyx, the llreof jacinth. 1 wish 1 could make you understand the joy religion is to some of us. It makes a man linppy while ho lives and glad when ho dies. With two feet upon a chair and bursting with dropsies, I heard an old man in the poorhouso cry out, "Bless the Lord, oil, my soul!" I looked around and said, "What lias this man got to thank God for?" It makes tho lume man leap as a hart, and the dumb sing. They say that the old l'liritan religion is a julceless and joyless religion, but I remember reading of Dr. Goodwin, tile celebrated Puritan, who In his last moment said: "Isthis dying? Why, my bow abides in strength! I am swal lowed up in God!" "Her ways are ways of pleasantness, und all her paths are peace." Oh, you who have been trying to satisfy yourselves with the "south laud" of this world, do you not feel that you would, tills morning, like to have uccess to the nether springs ot spiritual comfort? Would you not like to have Jesus Christ bend over your cradle aud bless your table and heal your wounds and strew flowers of consolation all up and down the graves of your dead? Tis religion that can give Sweetest pleasures while we live. 'Tis religion can supply 'Sweetest comfort when we die. But I have something bettor to tell you, suggested by this texi. It seems that old Father Caleb on the wedding day of his daughter wuntedto make her just as happy as possible. Though Othniel wus taking her away and his heart was almost broken because she was going, yet lie gives her a "south land;" not only that, but the nether spriugs; not only that, but the upper springs. O God, my Fattier, I thank Tlieo that Thou hast given me u "south laud" in this world and the nether spriugs of spir itual comfort in this world; but. more than all, I thank Thee for the upper springs iu heaven! It is very fortunate that we cannot see heaven until we get into it. O Chris tian mnu, if you could see what a piaee It is we would never get you buck aijaiu to the olllco, or store, or shop and the duties you ought to perform would go ne glected! lam glad I shall not see that world uutll I enter it. Suppose we were allowed togo on an excursion iu to thut good lund with the idea of re turning. When we got there and hoard the song aud looked at their ruptured faces aud mingled iu the supernal socie ty, we would cry out; "Let us stayl We are coming here anyhow. Why take the trouble of going back again to that old world? We are here now. Let us stay!" Audit would take angelic vio lence to put us out of that world if once we got there, but as people who cannot afford to pay for an entertainment some times come around it and look through the door ajar, or through tho openings in the fence, so we come and look through the crevices into that good lund which God has provided for us. We can just catch u glimpse of it. We come near enough to hear tile rumbling ot the eter nul orchestra, though not near enough to know who blows the cornet or who lingers the harp. My soul spreads out bothwiugs and claps them lu triumph at the thought of those upper springs. Oae of them breaks from beneath the throne. Another breaks forth from beneath the altar of the temple. Another at the door of"the house of many mansions." Upper spring* of gladness! Upper springs ot light! Upper spriugs of love! It Is no fancy of mine. "The Lamb which is iu the midst of the throne shall lead them to living foun tains of water." 0 Saviour divine, roll in upon our souls one of those anticipated raptures! Pour around the roots of the parched tongue one drop of that liquid life! Toss before our vision those fountains ot God, rainbowed with eternal victory! Hear it! They are never sick there; not so much as a headache or twinge rheumatic or thrust neuralgic. The inhabitant never says,"l am siak." They are never tired there. Flight to farthest world is only the play of a holiday. They never siu there. It is as easy for them to be holy as it is for us to 9iu. They never die there. You might go through all the outskirts of this great city aud tind not one place where the ground was broken for a grave. Tho eyesight of the redeemed is never blurred with tears. There Is health lu every cheek. There Is spring iu every foot. There is majesty on every brow. There is joy in every heart. There is hosauna on every Hp. How they must pity us as they look over and look down and see us anil suy: "Poor things away down iu that worldl" Aud when some Christian is hurled iuto a fatal accident, they cry: "Good!" He is comingl" Aud when we stand arouud the couch of some loved one whose strength is going away nnd we shake our heads fore bodingly they cry: "I'm glad he is worse. Ho has been down there long enough. There, he is dead! Come home! Come homel" Oh, if wo could only got our ideas about that future world untwisted, our thought of transfer from hero to there would be as pleasunt to us as It was to a little child that was dyiug. She said: "Papa, when will I go home?" And be 9aid: "To-day, Florence." "To-day? So soon? lam so glad!' 1 wish I could stimulate you with these thoughts, O Christian man, to the highest possible exhilaration! The day of your deliverance is comiug—is coming, rolling on with the shining wheels of tho day, and the jet wheels of the night. Every thump of the heart Is only n hammer stroke Btrlking off another chnin of clay. Better scour the deck and coll the rope, for harbor is only six miles away. Jesus will come down the Narrows to meet you. "Now is your salvation nearer tbun when you believed." Man of the world, will yoa not to-day make a choice between these two portions, between the "south land" of this world, which slopes to the desert, and this glori ous land which thy Father offers thee, run ning with eternal watercourses? Why let your tongue be consumed ot thirst when there are the netber springs and the up per springs—do di fort here and glory here after? Utility of Diamond Circular Saw. The use of the diamond clroular saw foi cutting stone Is facilitating the erection ol the Paris Exposition buildings. The dia monds whleh to/m '.he cutting teeth of tti« ®aw are worth about $3 a karat, and arc fixed in a steel disc ovet six 's. His style and argument lacked valor. con sistency and posltiveness. His friends looked at one another in despair. The men on the other side wero exultant. It was evident that tho speaker had damaged hlg own cause. Then Howell Cobb and Henry It. Jack sou followed each other for the majority report. They spoke with an air ot expec tant triumph and captured theconventlon. The mujorlty report was adopted. It is unnecessary to follow the history of the next few weeks. The National Democracy was completely disrupted and put two tickets In the field. Lincoln was elected and the country was plunged into a civil war. Had Johnson succeeded in inducing the Georgia convention to adopt the con servative ideas, it is safe to say that other Southern States would have fallen into line with our commonwealth, and the Na tional Democratic party would have re mained united. This Is the story of what a little glass of wine did. It rulued a great party, caused a disastrous war, and besides the loss of life, cost tho South over four billions of dollars. Perhaps this is rather speeula tlve, but there are many who believed it a generation ago. Who Pays tlie Bills? Who pays tho bills? Who feeds the drunkard's children? Who provides for the drunkard's wife? Who supports the beggarly tramps who, having wasted their money in drink, wander about the country? Who repairs the losses caused by the fail ure of intemperate merchants and reckless and hulf-intoxicated business meu? Who makes goo.l the damages caused by tho blunders of drunken workmen, and the hindrances of business caused by tho sprees of intemperate employes? Who pays for the railroad wrecks caused by drunken conductors and engineers? Who builds the asylums where crazy drunkards are kept? Who supports the idiotic chil dren of drunken meu? Who pays the at torneys, and jurle-, and judges who try drunken criminals? Who pays the ex penses of trials and commitments and exe cutions occasioned by the crimes of drunken men? Who pays for the property destroyed uud burned by drunken men? Who builds and supports almshouses, which but for drink might remain unoccupied? Who en dures the suffering, and losses, and brutal ity, which are due to the recklessness uud insanity of drunken husbands and fathers? Who pays for the inquest held on drunk ards found dead by the wayside? Who pays for a pauper's coffin, :tnd for digging a grave in Potter's field, when the last glass has been drunk? A Little Suggestion. There exist In many organizations which sail under tho name "fraternal," customs of conviviality that have no business there, thnt are sources of temptation to the mem bers, and to outsiders the cause of much scandal. Thero Is no reason why, at this late day, men can not gather to transact business, or even for sociability, without the Introduction of liquor. Beer-parties among people with any pretentions to re flnement ure out of date as occasions of entertainment, and the societies that still adhere totbls old Ignorant custom ure far in the rear of the procession. There is in deed a marked improvement of late years in this respect, but unfortunately there are still organizations not only unobjec tionable but praiseworthy In every other way, whose record In this matter is not oiear. Total abstainers in such societies should make their Influence felt on the question, and should do all In their power to combat uud defeat a Bmmtah I We hive the exclusive serrlee* of I sent of the melt eaiaiit Bhjslalans In ■ tie baited States, write rrsily all the ■ particulars la year ease. You will re- ■ -"•'•aftsniiirsfgjiA 1 Put a piece of Ivory Soap in the dainty j 2 basket mother love prepares for the baby. Pure, § I unscented white soap, like the Ivory, is the t g best for the rose-leaf skin of the new-comer. ? % Scents too often disguise impurities that would 1 | injure it. Be wise in time, before the mischief % | is done. $ z The vegetable oils of which Ivory Soap is made, and its purity, g £ fit it for many special uses for which other soaps are unsafe and (• unsatisfactory. J-} Qt Copyright, 189S, by The Pmtei A OaabU Co., Ctaelnuti. A Woman's Nerve. You may talk about naval heroes and rough riders all you like, but for su perhuman nerve and colossal daring, sommend me to a woman I saw in a 3ry goods shop iu town, only the other Horning. I had an excellent oppor- I [unity to observe her carefully, for she ; stood precisely where I desired to stand while ahe—well, this is what she iid. She asked the salesman to show ler a certain piece of red cashmere. Then she produced from her pocket '.he cut paper pattern of a child's ! Iresss, and calmly pinned the pieces !to the cloth. The salesman stood po j litely by, thinking, if a salesman ever has time to think, that she desired to ascertain the quantity required for the garment she intended to make, but she didn't intend to make any garment I»t all. After she had pinned the j whole pattern carefully in place, she i took it off and rolled it up. There was a gleam of triumph in her eye. "Thank you," she said. "That's all ( wanted. I knew it didn't take four yards. That dressninker lias just kept j ;hat extra yard and a half, that's what | ihe's done." But my! my! Think of a dress -1 maker reckless enough to try to de ! Jeive a woman like that!—Washington I Post. Tli« Cltustc and Cold Moon. Wlien the poet referred to the moon | is chaste atul cold he spoke better ;han he knew. Observations by the ;reat Yerkes telescope are said to jontlrm the belief of astronomers that i ihe moon is a dead planet, without water, atmosphere or vegetation. 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