A WOMAN'S PROBLEMS. tiiffiirs a ' nlesred away, Tt1,rnl,l,irn H 'i,ln ipljts .1 to thick "Hwust """i1 prepare, 'i oK illrni'tlom, nlt.,j roll! she fuels niM. raado seteotloos. '",isMiirs m nlenreu away, s tlint I nppur will "i word changed Ml-t.tt for supper?" 'tt It, thm eometblng new, .(!, and thoa begins prrp rmloa. Whsn snpper thing are cleared away, Again n-r mind li worried. For then thinks ot breakfast time, When meals are often hurried. Bhft ponder o'er It long nntll The qnestlon I dualdud. Then bustles 'round till she makes sure That everything's provided. That "womiin'i work In never done" Has often been disputed, But thnt she's worrie I la a (not, And cannot be refuted. The worry over whnt to est! ' Is greatest of time questions. And Rind she'd he It tome one else Would make the meal suggestions. fittaburg Chronicle-Telegraph. )fhl,f II bjcrkn nrn tlallT wet luvt. ( sprlntr from old regrot; ia e innt nnto our ears r, ess the wast of rears ,r,i'.a "f '"'-'"I speech , ' wont beyond our reach, 1 '"-funis micv!i na no art tr' uikr tun pain depart; i li iiiA wuids wa said, mtlr,B the ghostly dead- Wl.. .swell, tie loving word, "ins too long delerred--S cheerless echoes roll K' Umber of the soul; I I I forlil we'd give If wo c-.1j latifiir charity. REMORSE, th(i ope11 Hearts exprossea gore we loved the beat; Tn!c those prlann bars fun beyond the statu, bad Oil , to plane unknown mrj of t! drnd are flown, nt n,l seek oar loved oues' sl.le, ni, and .j 't. Toll nil we ever meant to any Bofore they went their lonely wnvi Obi surely foola are we ami worse, To add ntito onr primal curse, Ily steadfast atrlvlug to coneenl 'I'liH Jove thnt In our hearts we feel. Like rivers running to the sen, Itemorsn's stream flows ceaselessly. Not like the cooling witters flow, Thnt glndden wberiwoe'er they go, Hut liko the luvu streams that pour From mountain tops t) ocean' shore, Turning the region where men dwell Into the counterpart of hell. Thus, thus It Is remorse doth ran In endless stream from slro to son, leaving Its blank nnd dondly truce On every soul of all our men, O Ood lu heaven, make ua bear, J.ft-t heroes here, our load of care. Ami. moat of all, wo Time beseech, (Irnnt us tho use of gentle speenh, No thnt remorse ond her dark roml Hhull starve nud dlo for lack of food. -8. C. I. :rlrTY-MlL SLIDE. KOBABLY few of the boy und girl readers of this paper Lave not enjoyed tbe ' delights of coast inc. Bat what would they suy to a slide down a liill more than fifty miles long? Twice a month, ft tummer I spent at some "iv up in tne nierra iw, f-; s dm Ire.; & " tntaius, I nsed to 1 Vdo. It was like sliding l. r's wel, for the hill was ,i , nor loss than a flame. hi,, ' the lnraber was shot llrontains to the railroad in nit fjto valley, about six rant A below, and fifty-four 1V "oni the mills to the lum df' tie company which owned p' r forget my first ride. g v,oporfitor, bookkeeper and n'e iberintondent at the mills sh.liviaion of tue company, n,,j iqnurtars at the Belmont ii.ii- day Z tvas ordered, by toi ooitie down the flume Jw:in, as soon as the men llni1 Jjippiag' the lumber, to "" Age r, wuowisuea to oon 1 1 jtte large order we were r"j It was my duty to obey, " Id to do so, ,9t,'.is a V-shnped trough, 1:.feet deep, which is set . and trestle-work, and ,eJ:fng the sides of the -Igh whioh Little Child juts way from the high H Suflntmeuto valley. it ia callod, is simply "''box, twelve feet long, front and closed at the 'a. tiree strips of board are talc1 Rbont four inches from t01Jrd are laid on these Mile boritman, or coaster, juii'on thoeo boards, near iof the box. b, ,niug of the real dangers m or I should not have lurih a journey without an rou:and ti aooompany me, B'-kt iuu I thought I had i4enoe to warrant subse- Ha an my own responsU "-Je o'clock iu the after tdowu to the mill-yard ijjery thing ready for my tly bist was lying across or I Hume,' and half dozen r -were waiting to ''start rue off oa my long soon others start 'on "jj and therefore did not f ecnut5 to the mon as 1 ')ard tae craft, after it t ed iu the flume. The lvitarlinfl!-point was easy, '(!ed-gates were partly f was aot much water WO nume; so I started lot go of the the mill, who walked alone iPT- - josi jong tre my this warning: lai 'ri before you start ilJg s:':ido. We've been lx timbers this after Imiy are apt to jump the M got jummed. Ask the Mop or: the big grnda if Ha by nil right. Now I'll (soma moro water "I".! 1 me and ia a few " ' 'ear end of m i....f i wai-J at a decidedly '1 M ,AH. f-.ll '" jarmer tlown I wbi mill, whoro anothor "t".l larger volume of tho steepness of the O lin'ruBSB. an.l T to thu head of whnt w '! Horn craile " t ..... WHO uuou now, and the flume early half a mile tue side of the whiuh tow ht, full, tt hundred i I: ,1 the iueu, Fb'ir.f fiituuou u iij'ii for in t-t alon;; t.- . "If. & ii ,11 two or throe him. . ti iu bottom of whioh I'M ibhngaud roaring n:ia boulders. Tho AUtl steeper; there 1 ; ' till the foot of it """""uuou in tue and a horrible elow. he boat flew along, I had time to wou ;ae was dear be ashed around the bing and griuding dge of the flume, b in the air and ? the canon, ead reossured me. throughout the mile of it through whioh the eyo could follow and, an I had learned, nearly to tho foot of the grade. With a sigh of relief I settled back and begau to enjoy my ride. nrst i nouceu that my progress was not in one continuous swift CicUt like that of a sled, but in a succession of wild rushes. The boat, or box would run faster than the stream till the water backed np in tbe space nn der the boards on whioh I sat. Then it would check and settle, till it seemed almost to touch the bottom of the flume. Then the hurrying stream of water behind would force itself under nenth, lift the stern and send the craft with a wild, dizzying rush down the Blope till another check came. It was like sailing through the air. Above me, on one side, towerod the cliff. On the other I looked down into the iiepms oi tne canon, and could see the birds darting about far below me. I ne stillness wan almost oppressive, There are few song-birds in California, and the only sounds whioh came to my ears were the subdued roar of the ereok in its rocky bed far below, the rushing sound of the water ia the flume, and the low murmer of tho pines, wbieh oovered the mountains all around me. But now I was coming to the head of the "big grade," about whioh the foromati bad warned me. I sat erect, for I bad been half reolining in ray Doat, and looked anxiously ahead. xuu graae is about lour miles in length, and only a short half mile of it is visible from the flume-tender's station at tbe top. frank Horn, the tender, was stand log on the platform ia front ot his little cabin as 1 glided by. He assured me the big timbers had all gone by saieiy and tne name was clear. Ihen give mo a fall head of water," I called out: "I'm in a harry." Ue turned and ran toward the gate wnion admitted the water from a feeder mto the flume. I did not turn to see whether he obeved niv order. for I wus now fairly started down the "Dig grade." It is woll named. It seemed to ma that the narrow ribbou of water wos running down a slope of fully forty degreas. Before 1 had gone a hun dred yards the velocity of my boat had grown to be something appalling. I pulled my hat down over mv ears and sat orouohed as low as I could in the bow of the boat. The wind whistled as the boat flew down the slope, rocking and swaying and grind ing against the sides of the flume as ir tryiug to leap out into the cauou below. Almost before I could realize it we shot around a projecting point ul the cliff, and thou I had a dear view of the flume for more than a mils. My eyes rapidly ran over its length, and at the first glance it seemed all clear. I had risen to my knees to get a better view, and was just settling back whon, far down the bIodb. I caught a gleam of yollow light, whioh seemed to sunuur from tho cliff and stretch across tho II a rue, out pver the canon. 1 realized iu an iustaht what it was, aud what it meant to mo. Une of the large timbers had iumnod from the flume, where it swept around a hollow in the cliff. Tho end hod beou thruBt by tho force of its momoutum iuto a spot of shallow soil and it had stuck there. Justtheu I heard a rnahincr aniinil behind me. The "full head" of water had called for was cominz. The next moment I folt tho rear end of the boat rise;. it swung out over tho ediro of the Hume till for n moment. T thought it would plunge over tho side down to the doDths of tho Then the boat seemed to jump forward like a frighteued steed. The sneed was frightful; away wont my hat but I did not notioo it then. My attention was oouoentratedon that yellow streak lyiug across my path far dqwu the slope. If the timber wero not too near the top of the flume I might lie down iu the boat and pass in sufety: That was my only chauoe. It was impossible to stop the boat on suoh a grade, even with a moderate head of water: but with such a torrent as was bearing me on, it was worse than useless tc try. I Ia my anxiety aniL terrorfor I must admit I was thoroughly fright enedI had risen to nijr feet to get a better view of the dangortus spot. Jt was now olose at hand and I Baw that there was no houe for m 'Ph hi a timber nearly touohed thtr top of the flume at one side, but its on1 1 atA Ami was down and the other eud tilted up. The boat might pass under, bai any thing resting on the boards on wiioh I stood would be swept off and seoi whirling down on the rooks, two hun-l dred feet below. I felt that the end had come, I re.( member wondering dimly how long it wonld be before they would find my body, and when and how my mother wonld hear the news. I felt a vagne feeling of pity for her. I did not seem to think of myself; I seemed to be a thing of the past. Practioally I was, in my own eyes, a dead man, and still I had not given np hope, for every faculty was on the alert, ready to seize on anything which might offer a chance to escape. It wan the instinc tive physical tight for life of man trained in athletic sports, with every muscle nnder perfect control and ready to obey tbe order of the brain. While these thoughts were flitting through my miad and they oonld not have occupied more than a few seconds tbe boat reached the timber and shot nnder it. Involautarily I jumped over the big stick, lauding safely in the boat on the other side, like a circus rider jumping ovor a banner. Then my nerves took their revenge for tbe strain they had been nnder foi tbe long period of about a minnto and a half. My trembling knees gave way and I sank down onto the boards and burst into a wild peal of laughter, which I seemed to be nnablo tooheok nntil long after I had passed the boo-tiou-house at the font of tho grade. The flume-tonder who saw me go by told me afterward that he thought J was a crazy man. From that point down to Chico il was nil plain sailing, and by the time I had finished my long slide down-hill, my norves had renewed their loue, and I was able to telegraph baok to the flume men to remove the dangerous timber. But I never after that fol lowod big timber down a flume. I had received my lesson. Youth's Companion. PRECIOUS METALS IN THE ARTS. In the Knonnous Qiiontltles Consumed Various Industries. It is easy to ascertain hpw much gold and silver are absorbed in the ooinage of the various nations, but the most careful estimates as to the quantities of these metals used in the arts aud industries are only approximate. Hta- tisticinns in the Treasury Department of the French Government recently undertook the considerable task of compiling tho best information on this subject, and the figures they have readied are probably as accurate as any that have yet been published. Most of the gold used iu the arts is for ornamentation, though it is also employed to a largo extent for the most practical purposes, as in den tistry. It is doubtful if even jowelry consumes a larger quantity of gold than some other ways in which it is nsed. Tho consamption for cilding alone is very large. The films of gold leaf are very thin, bnt enormous num bers of them are applied to a consid erable variety of manufactures, such as signs, jewelry, books, frames, fur niture, pottery and other articles, and the aggregate value of the gold thuB used is very large. The consumption of gold for gilding has considerably inoreased siuao electro-gilding came into vogue, but because more gilding is dono and also beoaaBe the new pro cess wastes a considerable quantity of the metal. According to tho French figures the United States consumes in the arts about thirty-one thousand pounds ct gold in a year, which amounts in value to 810,000,000 in round numbers. France, however, with her preeminent manufactures of jewelry nud other articles of luxury, neuds tue list with an annual con sumption of about thirty-live thou sand two hundred pounds a year. Great Britain also surpasses the Uui ted States with 81,100 pounds, Ger many consumes 20,010 pounds, Switz erland 18,000, Italy 11,000, Russia D000, Austria-Hungary 0175, and Bel giura and Holland (1820. Perhaps one reason why the United States consumes iu the arts a good deal more silver than any other coun try is beoauso photography here, with its amateur branch, is far more exten sively in use than in any other land. Xho chief Industrial uses ot silver are for solid silver plate and Bilver plating, mountings for harnesses and other ornamentation, and photography. The silver industries in the United States consume over five hundred and fifty- five thousand pounds a year. Germany and Franoe about three hundred nnd thirty thousand pounds each, Kussia 200,000 and Great Britain 208,000. New York Sun. Names of Wolrd Maladies. 'I have been looking over one of the blanks for the regular monthly mortality report of the Board of Health," said a citizen who admits that he likes to pry and prowl, "and I was amazed at the weird diseases whioh I found enumerated. I had no idea that humanity had such a variety of things with eerie names to select from in the matter of shuflling off. Science has oertaiuly made a great ad vance iu that particular. A few years ago appeudioitis was about the only faucy disease on, the market, and that was beyond the reaoh of people of limited meaua. It was oonflned en tirely to aristocracy. , Here are a few sample maladies from the last Board of Health cata logue: Hiometemesis, apthous, phleg masia, doleuo, cachexia, lympha deuoma, oolioa-piotouom, spina bitldia and mollities-ossium. I'd ike to see the man who would dare assert, after reading that littlu list, that medicine has been at. a staudritill during the last decade. Altogether there are 802 different ways of getting out of the world set dowu ou the blank, and the chap who couldn't find something to suit him in the lot would oertaiuly be ultra- fastidious. The document looks at first glance like the classified ad vertisement of a big bargain sale. It is a magnificent monument of patho logioal perseverauoe." New Orleans Ficayane. CURIOSITIES OF EATING. REMARKABLE CHANCES IN THE FEED INC HADITS OF MANKIND. The Secret or ills Popularity. Dean Hole, of Roohester. Enirlond. tells of a very innocent and ceutle curate who went to a Yorkshire par ish where the parishioners bred horses and sometimes raced them. He was asked to iuvite the prayers of the con gregation for Lucy Grey. He did bo. They prayed three Sundays for Luoy Grey. On the fourth the dork told the curate he need not do it any more. Why," said the curate, "is she dead?" "No," said the clerk, "she's .won the steeplechase. " The ourate became quite a power in the parish. -Argonaut. The Kerenslty of food la the 'fireateat Incentive For Huina.ii Action Some A in. I nit lllils of Fare Dinner lias Keen a Movable Feast. HEY are but sorry individuals who treat with soorn and contumely all that pertains to the inner man and physical de mands of human nature. To them hunger is a deg radation, food a constant r o m i n der that they are bnt men of infinitely limited capacities. But though thus soorned and pHhawed by superior minds, food and feeding form one of the eternals, says the Lon don Standard. To all but an infini tesimal portion of human kind the necessity of food is the great origin of human action. For food hnman genius has achieved its greatest feats in literature, art, and racial progres sion. Fond and the means of obtain ing it form the absorbing incessant topic and aim of daily toil and scheme of the whole world. It is but a false aud hypocritical pride that disdains the consideration of suoh an eternal factor. Hunger, not moral principles and high ideals, is the motive power of mankind. Man made a great advance when he began to eat at fixed times, instead of, as hitherto, when he was hungry or hnd something to eat. The institu tion of meal times, as apart from the mere demands of hunger, notified a stability of society. It is curious to note the alteration in the hours for the principal meals. Dinner and sup per appear to have transcended all other meals. The word "breakfast" as applied to the morning food is not known before the fifteenth century. Until comparatively recent times it appears to have been merely and lit erally a breaking of the fast. That dinner was emphatically the para mount, if not only, meal of the day, is tdiown by the early hour at which it was taken. In the fourteenth century dinner was eaten at 8 a. m. A rbvnie of the period bade man rise at five dine at nine: "At five in the evening thou mayest sup, to bed at nine, au thou shalt live to ninety and nine Iu the "Northumberland House Book" for 1512 it is set forth that th family rose at 6 a. in., broke feast at seven, dined at ten, and supped at four in the afternoon. The gates were all shut at nine, aud further ingres or egress refused. At Oxford, in 1570, it was usual to dine at eleven o'clock and sup at five in the after. noon. All but the highest classes took their meals somewhat earhor, Louis XV. of France postponed din n er to two o'clock, and this time was retained until tbe Revolution, when 6 p. in. became the dinner hour. About the same time dinner iu Germany, which had hitherto been eaten at twelve, was carried forward into the afternoon. In England Horace Wat pole complained of the late practice of dining at 6 p. in., which, he grum bled, meant the evening could not be giu to be spent until ten. But the progress of the dinner hour has been continuous, and the meal, whioh was ouce served as early as 10 a. m., is now, in fcome circles, served nearly twelve hours later. With the gradual recession of dinner and its usurpation of the place of supper, breakfast has become a solid meal, and luncheon and tea institutions. The latter is no doubt responsible for the postpone meut of dinner to so late an hour. Iu character, as well as in time, meals have undergone complete trans formation. Dinner was always the great meal of the day, and as sumptn ous and extravagant as possible. So lavish did the feasts becomo that in the reigu of Edward III. an act was passed ptobibttiug more than two courses being served at dinner or supper, except ou certain holidays The curious may note that this law has never been repealed, and re mains on the statute book to this day. Carving was then a fine art, and the manner iu whioh a gentleman helped hiuiBelf with his dagger from the joint or bird proffered by a page gained him "no mean respect." The absence of forks led to much stress being laid upon the washing of hands before and after meals, and to the rule that the left hand alone should be dipped in the common dish, the right baud be ing ocoupied with the kuife. Small forks were not introduced into use until the seventeenth century, and then guests provided their own. Fepys took his spoon and fork with him to tho Lord Mayor g banquet in 10C.3. The dinner of the best period of English cookery consisted of three courses, each complete iu itself, and finished off with a dish of subtle de vice. Here is a menu of a fifteenth century dinner, which for variety, not to mention solidity, a modern chef would find hard to beat: "Baked mallard, teals roasted with sauce of almonds and butter boiled iu milk. Roasted capon served with syrup of honey and pears well beaten. Roasted leg of a calf, boiled herons, sucking pig, Boethed aud baked, set about in gilt and a citron in his mouth. Flesh tart with sauce of quince. Second course: Roasted hedgehog with jolly of pears. Veni son well baked, with many apples. Almond and white wine pudding. Boar's flesh in soft pudding. Two cranes with the gravy of a young kid. Partridge and curlew with sauce of good syrup. Third course: A pea cock, roasted with grease of pig's chops, sot oat covered with its skin and feathers, many onions under neath him. Fears baked iu syrup. Custard ot cream and the eggs of hens. Wine sauce with mint and tansy well mixed. Also some small birds of all kinds laid iu good wino." After these dishes in whioh it may be noted "tbe roast beef of Eaglaud" is missing the guests retired to an other room where pastry, sweetmeats and fruit were served with wines, A dipner of Charles I. was equally pro fuse and dainty, including indeed, "a sopp of auayles. The English have always been essentially meat-eaters. The gospol of Ooveut Garden is even now held by but few, With the exception of, onions, cultivated roots and herbsg were unknown in Britain of the Mid die Ages. Whot vegetables were re qnu-ed were imported from Holland Tbe introduction of the potato and its general cultivation from about 1619 form the most important event of its kind. Not until tbe time of the Com monwealth did the pudding obtnin popularity, and even now it is role gated in the nursery. That essential ly British dish, plum-pudding, has only assumed its present solid form duriug the Inst hundred years. It was originally a soup, thickeued with brown bread, plums and raisins, It was abhorred by the Puritans, and not uutil Sir Rogor de Coverley hnd seen a Dissenter enjoying plnm-broth in his hall at Christmas had the worthy knight any hope for his moral and social condition. Mluce-pios, another Christmas dainty, were likewise religiously banned. Treatises and sermons were gravely written proving and disprov ing that olergymeu should not eat mince-pies! Through all the changes of gastronomic fashion John Bull taste remaius but little altered. He eschews kick-shaws aud delights in substantial solid dishes. His preju dice for bocf-eating is very character istic. A KNOWING SHEEP. Fomt of Hunting and Constant Cumpan lonshlp With Her Mistress. "Sheepish" is a reproachful adjoo tive, and of the many people whose faces are like sheep's faces I have not a good word to soy. The sheep-faced human is generally cowardly, dull aud uninteresting. But a real sheep can be loviag, lovable, companionable Here ia a life-story of one suoh woolly pet, told by a writer iu the Londou News. "Percini" was brought np by hand When about a year old she chaugod owners, but was regarded at once as a privileged person in hor new home, She attached herself immediately to tue lady or the house, and behaved like one of the inner circle of dogs (not. tne mere outdoor canines). Per cini particularly liked going out rab bit-shootiug. There was a spot at the warren where Percini's friend, with her rifle, used to takeupher position. "lien," tbe retrieve), sat down there too, and watched for the rabbits. (' hundred .might come out, but Ben never moves till a shot is fired," says the sportswoman.) And Percini used to he beside Ben calm and happy, and otten chewing the cud. When shot had been fired Percini would jump up, not because she was startled, hut evidently because she was inter ested in tho result. If Percini heard a shot anywhere she wonld scamper off, thinking, by finding the gnu, to join uer friend. . The sheep had two enemies; one, i dairymaid, who used to chivvy Per cini, who was addicted to eating the poultry food, aud another, a tame deer, who often bit the sheep's back in a kind of rough play. To escape either enemy 1'crciui wonld rush for help and protection to her attached owner aud would force her fat, woolly body through the narrowest paling so as to enjoy the coveted humau com- pauiouehip. She has run a couple of miles after a trotting horse and she al ways followed her mistress when mak ing calls ou foot in the country. The sheep aud the dogs waited at the stranger doorstep for an hour Borne times in amity and patience. Percini wos exceedingly affectionate, took an interest in all sorts of unlikely things rauuit shooting to wit, aud when she died at the early age of two years sue was deeply mourned by her de voted human friend. Rtorv of Kipling' Clill.l. This tale has to do with Kinliucr's little lost Josephine. Onoo the poet was driving up Arundel street in Lon- kon toward the Strand when, all of a sudden, the hand of the "bobby" ahead was raised. The word was passed down the street that Her Ma jesty was coming along the Strand ou an otlloial visit to the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House. Josephine had never seen the Queen and Kipling thought it was a good opportunity to instil a little reverence iu her. He raised the ohild high in his arms that she might see Victoria. The outriders pranced by, followed by the royal car riage. When it was all over, and the finger of the law was lowered". Kip ling put down the child. He said, "Well, Josephine, what did you think of it?" Much to his amazement, the child replied, "Papa, did you see the funny red soldiers on horseback?" Thereafter Kipling never exerted himself to point out Her Majesty to any member of his family. Deaths From Consumption. Owing to the mortality from con- sumptiou in the French Army, whioh has been for some time very heavy and has much exceeded thut arising from the same cause in the German Army, a return showing the rates of mortality from this disease prevailing in different European countries has been compiled by the French military authorities, Rusoia heads the list with a mortality of four per thousand of its population; I'ranoo and Austria Hungary come next with three deaths per one thousand of population; Ger many, Switzerland and Ireland stand n the third rank, with two deaths per thousand, while Eugland, Scotland and Italy oome last with one per thou sand. But consumptiou is not the only disease prevalent iu the French Army; enteric is a scourge; the mor tality from whioh amounts to twenty eight per every 10,000; whereas, in the German Army the death rate is about twelve per 10,000. Army aud avy Journal. OLD TESTAMENT SLANC. Kvrv(lar Kxpronalona That, llavs th Nnpiinrl ot 111 Hlblp. There are many pictorial expres sions in constant and everyday uee, and familiar as honsebold words, hav ing their origin "in passages to be fouud in the matchless English of the grand old "King James' Version" of the Bible. One who did not know might hesitate to believe that they are supported by Buch high authority, end onr modern oversensitive taste might be tempted even to designate them as slang, but they are really word pictnrcs. Nearly one-half of those here qnot cd, with reference to chapter and verse, it will bo noticed, are taken from the Psalms, but David, the sweet singer, was what we would now call familiar poet: I have stnok nnto my testimonies, Oh, Lord, put me not to shame. Ps cxix., 31. Their heart is as fat as grease, bu i delight In thy law. rs. oxix.. 70. I have escaped with the skin of my teeth. Jot. x.x., 20. I may toll all my bones; they look and stare upon me. I's. xxn., 17. Spreading himself like a green bay tree. i's. xxxvu., Is his mercy clean gone forevor, Ps. lxxvii., 9. ine words or nis mouth were smoother than butter, but war was iu his heart. Ps. iv., 21. His enemies ehull lick the dust. rs. Ixxii., 9. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at'their wit's end. Ps. cvii., 27. He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. 1'rov. xi., 15. Tyre, the crowning city, whose mcr chants are princes. Is. xxm., 8. The Lord of hosts shall make unto nil people a feast of fat things, a fcas of wines on the lees. Is. xxv., C. Tho nations are as a drop of the bucket und are counted as the small dust of the balance. Is. xi., 15. As if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel. (A wheel within a wheel.) Lzckiel x., 10. It was not the patriot, Patrick neury, who exclaimed: Peace, peace, whon there is no peace .iere vi., 14. There was one familiar nuotation almost invariably attributed to scrip ture authority: "God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. It is by Rev. Laurence Sterne, and occurs in "The Sentimental Journey.' isoBton ironsoript. Mr. Donley on the llotir War. Mr. Dooley, like others, has been puzzled by the South African dis patches, He thinks they oro written by an "English pote," one of whose tales of battle Mr. Dooley thus gives: ijas nignt at eight o clock,' he says. 'we found our slendher but inthrepid ar-rmy surrounded by wau hundhred tuousau' Uoers," he soys. 'We at tackted thim with cr-reat furv ha says, -pnrsuin- tnnn up th' almost in accessible monutniu-side an' oapturiu eight guns, which we didn't want, so we give tnim back to thim. with stveral iv onr own,' he says. 'Th Uoers retrented,' he says, 'pursued by th' Davitt Terrors, who cut their way through th' fugitives with awful slaughter,' be says. 'They have now,' ue suys, 'pinetbrated as far as Pre tona, he says, 'th' officers arrivin' iu . .... urm-ciass carreuges an- tn men iu trucks,' be says, 'au ar-re camped in th' bettin'-shed, whore they ar-re af forded lvry attintion be th vanquished inimy,' he says. 'As f'r us.' he says, we decided, afther th victhry, to igui out. ir ijaiiysinitu, lie says. Th' inimy had similar intintions,' he says, 'but their skill has been vastly averratod,' he says. Vo bate thim.' he says 'we bate thim be thirty miles,' ho suys," 'The Seal The Sea!" Wo all went one day. savs W. .1. Stillman in tho Atlantic, to Coney Isl stid, on the southern shore of Long slaud, since a popular bathing place or New York, but theu a nolitarv tn tch of seashore, with a few bath- ng boxes and a temporary structure wb iro bathers might get refreshments. Wu drove out iu my brother's "buggy," net as, at a turn iu the road, I caught glimpse oi the distant sea horizon, I ose in the buggy, shouting, "t'ho sea! the star and, in au uncontrolla ble frenzy, caught tbe whip from my brother's hand and slashed the horse iu wild delirium, unconscious of what was doing. The emotion remains ineffaceable after more than three score years, ouo of the most vivid of my life, Aud how ecstatio was tho sensation of the pluuge iuto the break ers, holding fast to my mother's hand. nd theu tho raco up the beach be fore the next comber, trembling lost t should catch me, as if it were a liv ing thing ready to devour me. They ever come book, those first emotions f childhood, and though I have loved he sea oil my life, I have never affniu felt the sight of it as then. II ODEim win. JANUARY 2a iMsom for Simon and Ut. Lukt vil. 33-59 How They Arranged It. During the Civil War the law school at Cambridge was presided ovor by Professors Parsons, Parker and Wash burn. They were divided in their politioal views and eaoli did his best to maintain his opinion. Professor Parker was one duy asked: "How do you get along on politics at the law sohoo?l" "Niooly," he auswered; "we are equally divided." "But how oan that be," continued the inquirer, "sinoe there are throe of you?" "Easy enough," replied the professor; "Par sons writes on one side and I on the other, and Washburn he. speaks ou one side aud votes on the other." Argonaut. t'riiitkneM. Tho amateur elocutionist was tossed nd torn by conflicting emotions. the pcrlot-mance of tho night be fore, when he had appoarod tbe sole entertainer at a charity function, the management of which hnd paid him $10 extra for his services, was the tiiuiKo of it all. But why lnoum? A friend burst in upon him to offer congratulations. The frioud had not attended the recital. "How did it go oil?" he cheerily, grasping the young band iu both his, as ho spoke the audience carried away? "N-n-uo," was the doubtful reply. "They left of thoir owu accord." Under such circumstance a person nevor knows whether to smile or as sume a saddened cast of countenance Scripture Vcrsfs. Lev. iv. so; t Chron. vii. 14; Isa. xxxiii. 24; Iv. 7; Jcr. iii. 12; xxxi. 20, 34; xxxiii. 8; Luke xxiv. 47; Acts v. 31; xjivi. 18; Eph. i. f Col. i. 14; James v. 15; 1 John i. 9. Lesson Thoughts. Christ dors not recognize social dis tinctions; nil are alike warranted and welcome to come unto him and be sav ed. Ko expression of our love can be too costly time, money, life, all. He who has forgiven much is worthy of the praise and worship and scrviec of your heart. Selections. x She sat and wept beside his feet. The weight Of sin oppressed her heart; for all the Ma me And the ,poor malice of the worldly shame ' To her were past, extinct, and out of dale: Only the sin remained the leprous state. She would be nx ltrd bv the brat of love. By fires far fiercer than arc blown to prove And purge the silver ore adulterate. She sat and wept, and with her un dressed hair Still wiped the feet she was so Mcst to touch ; And he wiped off the soiling of despair From her sweet soul, because .she loved so much. Even the greatest sinner need have no fear that God will refuse forgiveness if it is sincerely asked for. Have you sinned worse than David? Yet God ac rrptcd him as the chief ancestor of Christ. Or worse than Paul? Vet God made him the apostle to the Gentiles. Or worse than Peter? Yet be became the rock on which' Christ built his Church. Or worse than Moses? Yet Ciod permitted him to lend his people to the promised land. Our pratitudc depends not on our sin. but on twr consciousness of sinfulness md iis forgiveness. Many good inert have felt themselves forgiven more than most wicked men. C. E. Gospel 1 1 vmiis. 210, 2ii, 195. oX 15S. Gospel Hymti, 1-4 . 1(17,. 64, 94. 197, 4-M. 150. A New York correspondent 0: a Chicago paper deplores ut some length tbe apparent tendency of the fashion able set in tho eastern metropolis to raise bull pups instead of bobi. s. He notes the fact thut. on Filth avenue one seldom sees a baby, but that dogu are in evidence in every block. One looks in vain into the fine carriages on this fashionable avenue to see a baby face, but it is u common thing to see "a little woolly dog cuddlod contentedly beside his mistress." The correspondent elaborates with sickening detail the costly luxuries which New York fashion provides for its pet canines, and then comments npon the difficulty of finding homes in that city lor destitute children. During the first eight years of Em peror William II. 's reign, it has been estimated, the expenditure on the navy was trebled as compared with; the eight years preceding them. The Binu of $(H,70O,O;)O was spent oufresh' construction, including seven battle ships, eight monitors, six lurge era-, isers, thirty-eight torpedo boats and the imperial yacht Hohenzollern. The. debt of the German Empire, it has been pointed out in the Freisinnige, Zeitung, has been trebled between' the death of William I., in 1888, and, the year 1897, It now amounts to 8535,000,000. MARKETS. AI.T1UOUR. T.I U7 ViH M 15 50 iiiain era fLorit rsnlto. Iloet TaU IllCh Uriiiln Vilre WHEAT No. Sited 'OHN-No. 2 White flats Southern & I'euu... 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