MKMIDDLKBURGliruST. T. B. ITARTKR, Edit add re'a. Minni.Kiiiritoii. r... may is. mi. Tbo Netherlands ere Mid to he worth $4,035,000,000 aud Delgium 4, 0:10,000,000. There arc snid to bo 70,000 lawyer en the United Ktatcs, one-seventh, of hum have offices in Now York. Australia linn just completed the first locomotive i vi r Imilt on the island Continent. It was constructed nt Mel bourne. Tbrt colored ic opk of Virginia par ;axes on real -.t rtt valued at $;',4J.",. 5H(", and on m Tnoiml .ropcrt7 valued t .?,34'J.;:i. A llronklyn (X. Y.) inventor ear lie ran rnjtl a lii' stcini-dup across tin1 Admit:.' in three and a li'ilf days with nlvhurii acid, )wcrcd sugar aud chlorate of (ntli. Altlm-igh ! have th" oir always itii ii", n tw.i-e.iit I'.ritihh (iiiiuiui, lS.)D Issue, iMstip. mhiiiji, was Hold at miction in tlii't t.ty the nth t week, muses the N. w York Iiidcoctidcut, for 81010. ' The New York Sun shows that while in the country nt Vv.' thi irooortioii of foreigu-lmrii iiilmliitai.t in about fourteen ju r rent., it is only 'J.f.O jie? cent of the tut.il in the foiirtecn South ern Mai-s. Spinnim? wheel are not altoptthrr thin? of tho past, (lu into Cornwall or WalcH, t to tlie Scotch Highlands, declares the t!hi'ii(,i Herald, and you will rind plenty of cottigco where t'.ie spinning wheel is as much n piueo of household furniture ax are th seruliliim.j Lrm-U. an! the kitchen broom. The new railroad from Jala to Jer rmlem in only fifty-three Miles long. Passenger trains make seventeen miles an hour. The rail came from Eng land, the ties from France, the engine' from Philadelphia, the cars from Franco and the heavy work was done by Arnlts and ryj tian-. The road is not likely t yield a profit for a long timo to come. The dedication of the Morman Tern- pie at Salt Lako City took place under far different condition!) thau were ever I v - 'i . . . 1 I ' I I' tions. Kililoqnizes tbe' " Francisco Chrouiele. Polygnmy is now prescribed by rigid laws, and though the npirit of the laws ia violated by many Mormans, etill the fear of imprisonment has done much to check one of the worst fea tures of the Hystiiu. The younger Lieu among thj Jlormuns claim that they have discarded polygamy nud that it no loader plays an important pnrt iu their religion. Many villages in nil parts of the United States have taken the names .f the roa.lcide. iuns about which thry have grown up, but it w perhaps only in cf.nsi'rv;itive Southern Virginia, re marks the New York Sun. that the "ordinaries" for entertainment of man and beast have (riven ti'iuu-sto villages. Th-e is Jenniun'fc Ordinary m Not to way County, Smoky Ordinary in lininswick County, and doubt lo. nmiiy ithers in the s.ime regioti. It is lure, too, that local mi.iis immortalir.e tho hho;ikeei)iTS the miller'- und the black smiths of aii earlier generation. Oddly eno.igh, one looks almo-t in vain fo: names growing out of tho bloody struggle from Y1 to V5. A sort of mythology has grown up about the American Indian iu region whence lie vanihhed liiO years ago. The popular names of many plants in clude the adjective Indian. Few per sons in America aay Indian corn now, but Indian cakes is a term still htrougly intrenched south of Masou und Dixou'a line, and there in even a plaut known to cbildrea as Indian tobacco. The brilli&nt cunua ia called Indian tthot be cause iU beeds are black, bullet like ptdlct. Indian traditions are pre nerved with a sort of reverence in the South. Twenty-five years ago loca' travelers on a ccrlaiu roud in Worces ter County, Muryluud. commonly utopped at a point iu the remote coun try, reached uuder a buhh at the road side, drew forth a stoue mortar an' peatle Ubed by the Indians 100 yean before, showed the relics to nuj stranger iu the company and carcfullj put them back. A whole neighbor hood knew the w hereubouts of these in struments, but they teemed as bf m ill a museum. The Free Uold Xncrcsaiog. At the close of busiiiens halurday ut the Katioual treasury had on baud l-'Mi) of free Kuld.'snd hsd aei.'epted but bad not yet put on the books fl.KUUOO, waking the Tree cold bslance 2,(XXi,0oj above the IHW.Oi), mO fluid reserve. TRUTH. There's a hand on the rudder that wtU not flinch, There's no fear In the Pilot's fae As He guldts tho worlds, Ilk boat ia a storms, Through the rocking sen of space i And whether they make the harbor at last &yond the shoals and the swell, Or nll forever a shoreless eea I know thnt all I well, -And I li-orn tries' thln from tho hrort cf tho wood. From the solemn soul of the sea :- To' never a bird in a wire-bound c.iga Told n!l ties? tilings to me. And the soul of m.in Is a sunworJ llr 1 With wings that are made for flight. To pierce to ti e fount of the shining d:.y An I float through tho depths of night : And t road th. sMhlug-t in that IJIble of od Whose leavi-s nre the sprtMdin sk And the legible fit' of the dark Kri"'n With the eye hi'lilinl the rye. Tor truth Is not ehwed in the lids of n I ook, Ko. lis elminlroi .ml is free And never a I Ird in a wire- ,und c.i,T' ToliI all thi'S'- tiimv to n-e. Tor truth suri- lnt. tho opvn le?.ir: And Into the willinK f ye. And stre.in.s from the breath or tlic inenrth. And drops from tfio l endlni; sky : Tl" not kllllt ill II booL. In n i'liiir..S - school. Nor er.unp -d in the i lio!li of n creed. Hut lives in the open air and li'ht For nil ne ii in their ceed ! Tut the IVn th.it sv. iinn i.i n pi'.dllsh vnn Kie-ws not of the miti' 1 n,..4. And never a bird in vir-lfiinil e.-.;.- To!.! .ill th, -e thlinf to rii'. 'Tb the Vol,-., th.it ei men from t':e t;i!'!cj Vro'ii the Mils Ciat shoiiMer the sl;v. Thr, 'tlk'il tile topi. IieiL;lits of a n'.'.n's ovu !r. an. This Voice o mn.lerlu? I y ; And who ro.m t':e mrt'i w.t;: as c-ra heart, With nil c.-,r nttur.ed to :r;.r. Will c.iti'h soir.e brniit'ii eo-d of the sound Win n-ver the Vole,. e,.n es nenr. Eut n.t p.ist the prUen of eutoni or croc J Will the Vt.icr or the Vision flee ; And never a bird In a frir,'.Hund cao ToliI nil tie fe thiiiif to me. S;ini Vi'.i'trr Kos. in Yunlii-e T-IaJc. A n0"MPT.TP.T TM A TTTrrTvTT'T t nrr.tnr.T r.fsssu, haw tuken my I: rst-cluss ticket n't tin London tir minus of une of the grent northern railways, and, lm--a long night journey to mukc, looked nbimt for mi empty com partment, intend-1 ing to swathe Eiy wlf in rnr mc! ro o slec-ii on r. th 1 have JlartciT. I had but smad difil culty in finding what I sought, and a little well-timed liberality to the guard secured me what I then considered the additional privilege of being locked iu. It was about ( o'clock on a lute No vember evening win n we started ; piite urk, witli r. frost inef.s in the t:ir that fpc'ilily clouded the vrindov.s f the carriage with hoary nn.Mr.re. The lump in the rmif .' the compartment burt;t with n small, clenr tlu'in. 1 t r; chang. d n.y hut of late.-t mttropolitan build for u warm fur cap. raised my feit on to the cusiiio:; i f the opjiositV seat, and in this posture drew it stout traveling blni.lv t idout u.c, und com- ('s, d melf to sleep. I presume tlu.t i must htvo fro flneniy do."d oil", for the roaring of the tr:iin seetncil t i grow faint and dis tant, like the subdued sound of t.'.'.rt' beard ar.ir. Iml Uiy n:ij was nf short dnrutioii. i.nd I was soon wide nwuke again, .gazing out through a little space which 1 rubbed ch.ur upon the fre-iie'd Window pane. Ou a sudden my eye wii's taken by something stirritig under the scat iii the far corner of the carriage. 1 thought at first it mif.Lt be a shadow, caused to move by th t cillat ion of the train. Hut, coutinuinir to watch it with a dull kind of curiosity, I waa ex- j lremciy siuriieu to perceive a man s lieud thru;-t out of the obscurity ; a pair of fierce-looking yes glared at mo for a moment, and then, whilst I Ft ill sat motionless with surprise, a man scrambled out, and getting upou Lis feet stood surveying tin:. He was-a burly-looking fellow, with A course, ugly face, imint'tisly square shoulders and close-cropped hair. He wore a loose, clumsilv-fittiutr suit of VI some gray material thut looked sua-! amid horrid blasphemies, his intention piciouvly like a prison dress. He wus ; of having me dead in that tunnel, without u cup, und 1 noticed that his jw here my body might lie undiscovered jacket was torn and his face a good deal for w eeks. Dead men, he said, told scarred. I gazed ut this uncouth ap-1 no tahes, and Lo wasn't going to loao parution in silence for a littlo while the liberty he had that night regained, with an expression, I do not doubt, of : But all at ouco I felt Liu relax Lis grip considerable dismay ; then 1 instinc-' of my body, and he called to me to let tively looked around me for souk- j go. Glad of a moment's respite, I re mcaus id communication with the leased my hold of the fellow, though guunL The fellow understood my i stiindiug ou my guard meanwhile, gsture, and Lis eye swiftly darted wary of boiuc desperate trick upon his around the carriage with an insolent , part. After a little, finding that he leer of satisfaction us he perceived thut ! did not renew the uttaek, I spoke and the compartment was not furnished j usked whut Le was doing, at the same with the usual uppliuuee for signaling, time groping about to try and feel All rietit, tuv ner, said he in a course voice. ".No need to trouble yer self. Yer surely don't want to hincou- venieccc the rest of the paeugciB by j delaying the train ! "Who lire you and what do you want V" said I, slowly clearing iny limbs of the folds of the rug which eu velojK'd me. "Who am I, an' wLat do I wantV" Le rejx'Bted. "TLat's axking, air, em'titr However, I aiu't A-going to tell you who 1 um, an' us for what I want, you'll be finding that out before very long." His manner aud the looks of the man made we feel uueuy. J udgiug from dm Appearance 1 guefwed him to be more than my match la point of strength, and I m quite ttnartnftd. He turned and let down the frame of the window against which lie stood, then thrusting his arm out trfed tho handle, but found tho door was locked. He ntt red an inarticulate enrwi be twixt his teeth and pulled up the win dow with vehemence. "Ltt's try the door it your end, gnv'nor," said lie, coreii g along tho compartment. I hastily rose M h ep pronched and bsx-ked awry a eep or two while he lowered th window and leaned out to tnrn th handle. The door proved to be unlocked. Teople to whom I have told thU story assure nie thnt it ought not to have been un locked, as the off doors f (k train are alw ays locked I believe this is so, but the fact remnins. He dr ;w in his head sgnin with the exclamation ofVitisfae tioti. leaving the door unfastened, though the rush of wind created by the pnssage of the train prevchteij it from H.vinging open. ; . "Now, mister," raid hc fTuffly, measuring mo from bead to. foot with his little dcep-st eyes a 1C oke, "you've got to change clothes with me, d'ye see? 1 must Luvo them togs of Jotirn." "You will do nothing of Jhe land," I nuswered, resolute ly, though ith my heart starting tn bent a trifle quicker. "Come, r.ow," said he, "don't r.mkc Ho luss. Ye'd best chop quietly." At thnt i list nut the locomotive gave r. long screaming w histle, oud the train plunged with n ror.r into a tunnel. "Look here, now," etclaimed tho .eihnv, putting on a most menacing nir, r.nd leaning toward tne with his fists clenched, "if yon don't do what I v.a:;t then out you go through thnt door." v Without answering I again sat down in the middle seat of the carriage. On this the nun stood looking at nie for a Uiomcbt ns though undecided how to act. lheu, prceiviug my silk hat renting ou the rack overhead, he took it down and put it on. This" impudent act of the dirty villain to incensed tne that, senrcely thinking what I was about, I jumped up ond snatched it off his ltenil. In a second he whipped round and rtruck mo a blow full in tho chest with his heavy fist; I grappled with him, and then began a fierco aad desperate conflict. ,. As soon as I closed with the ruffian I felt that his whole effort was to get mc close to the door and thrust me through it. He was an immensely strong fel low, but as clumsy as a bear". I, on the other hand, was light and 'nimble, with some small knowledge of Inning. For all tlmt I felt myself greatly out matched in thnt Land to hand fight. No sooner had 1 grappled with the vil lain than he gave me a blow in the face savage enough to have broken my nose had he delivered with as much judg ment as he did violence. Bnt I had taken him by the throat with both hands', and I continued clutching his windpipe with the tenacity of a bull terrier. We twlstou hml wriggled and ' T.n'.pwl t'Om side to srd-oWje-$on-fined space, and til tho while I felt him drawiug ine in the direction of the open door. At Inst I twined my foot about his legend threw him; he fell heavily, striking his head against the cushioned seat, and down I came with him, still clinging to his iron hard, muscular throat, upou which ruy grip seemed t. make scarcely any impres iiion. We rolled about for awile, each i r.dcivoriug to beep uppermost, and win n with his superior strength he got ubove me mid knelt upon my chest, I thought he would murder me as I lay in thut idmost helpless posture. Lut instead be guspeil out, "Will you c':H!it.e clothes now V" and whilst he waited f. r my answer I got my fist free :t!:d struck him Howards under the chin, knock in.; his teith together withaclick like the snap of a rifle trigger and iii t.rly dislocating his neck ; and then I ,-iie a heave up which threw him off ii.e, and a moment later we were both u; on our feet ugaiu and pounding u'.v..y if. before. I v.us beginning to feel tlmt 1 could not continue the struggle much longer, ;i:il thut, ehuusted as I was, he would be able tj drag me to tho door and pitch hid through it ou to the line. .My opponent breathed hard aud fast, but snowed no siirus of civit In. On a sudden the l-ain guve a violent jolt, t li nt tlung us both against tho bulkhead of the compartment ; the flame of tho lump leapt up, then flickered a moment and went out. We continued fighting in n darkness as deep as that of the jTiive, Now that we wero both com pletely in the dark, I felt myself more on nu equality with my antagonist. .My sole dread was thut I should find myself tumbling backwards through the open tloor. tie bad biased out. him. I received no answer, neither did lii y Luuds come iu contact with Lis body. At thut moment the train em- rged from the tunnel, aud the gloom in wliicu the carriage bad been plunged by the extinction of the lamp gave place to a kind of faintness sift- : ing in through the windows, sufficient to buvo revealed the figure of tho xuua hud he beeu still iu the compartment. 1 Lad a box of mutches in my pocket, aud with a trembling Laud 1 pulled it out and struck A light. The place was empty. With a long sigh of relief and thankfulness, I tank exhausted into a seat to wait uutil the train should pull u at its tint stopping place, Hair an boar later we came to a standstill in the ttation of a large town. I eonght out the guard ami told Lim what had occurred. He at once dispatched a porter for the station-master, and when that official arrived the two of them heard my story, and then searched the compart ment thoroughly. But not a trace of the villisn did they discover. My own opinion is that, taking advantage of the blackness; he had gone out upon the footboard, there to wait until the train should slacken speed sufficiently to enable him to jump off with safety and make good his escaiv. Be this a it may, I never heard more of the matter, althongh the memory of thst experience lingers m a sort of night mare of my railway traveling; and whenever I now get into a compart ment by myself I take very good csre to first of a'l peer under the seats and make sure that there exists the meant of communicating with the guard. Xew York Advertiser. Increase In Murders. Tbo race of public executioners if not wholly extinct in Belgium, id though the office has been little mort than a sinecure for nearly half a cen tnry. The other d.iy the' Leadsman ol Brussels was Inirrowed by the head manless Brnges to go through with be coming solemnity the exceedingly silU ceremony of nailing to n post a sen tence of imprisonment pronounced in default on some petit larccncr. Ant werp almost simultaneously obtained s loan for n similp.r purposes of the ser vices of "Monsieur do Liege, out Hamel, whose practical acquaintance with the guillotine censed in lHGTi. Tho disappearance' of n condemned convict necessitated the journey of M. Hamel to the bunks of the Scheldt, where he gravely jcrformed the same fnree as was enacted by Lis colleague ef Brussels in the city of Mcmliug. Since 1H.", no assassin has perished ou A Belgiau scaffold. Last year's cata logue of crime iu Belgium was long ami terrible; lH'Jil is still young, bnt i-act wee k has brought with it some deed ol blood. Within tho last few days the Belgiiir. press has chronicled the deaths by de liberate violence of no fewer thau five persons, some of them Wing attendee with circumstances of nggravatiot which beggnr description. In view ei this state of affairs the Belgian Ni wi asks whether this long suspension, amounting almost to abolition, of cupi tl punishment has or has uot been foi the public, good, and suggests that it spite of the great aversion which Kinfl Leopold is kuown to feel to siguing t death warrant, the amended Belgiat Constitution must deal e fl'ei tuallv with n state of things which has insensible rendered negative end illusive that most salutary clause of the Belgian renal Code which should, under othet cirenmstauces, strike terror into the hearts of evil doers. St. James Ga zette. Hon to Catch KheumatJun. The plan is simple, and is invariably Fuccessful when diligently pursued. Clothe as warmly tin possible w itb flan nels next the skin, nud sealskins outer most from November to tho ls giuning of Murch. Then em tho first clear sunny day in March, when the wind is in the north or northeast, take off all outer wraps, mantles, capes, sealskin and tho like; wear gowns of a lipid and thin material, and go for a walk iu the park or other open and unprotected place. Sit down full iu the wind on a convenient seat, and sit for half an Lonr. Then go home and wake with a successful uttaek of rheumatism next morning. , If perchance the rheumntism should fail, it is probable that pleurisy or pneumonia may be the reward. But if, by u miracle, neither the eme nor the other repays the trouble taken, then go out und repeat the same tac tics the next day, aud the next, und the next, uutil success is assured. The recipe is warrauted never to fail il IM-rsuvcrvd in for a sufficient length ed time. A plan almost eoually good is tho one followed by two young ladien last week. They had both had rheu matic fever previously ; yet, because the1 sun happened to shine brightly in ut the dining-room window for a few hours, they allowed the fire to go ent. They sat without fire the remainder ol tbo day and evening. Tlio following being a brigbt morning, they did not Lave the fire ligLted at alL They were loth extremely surprised when they were attacked by rhenmutio pains in all their limits, and blamed tho neigh borhood. Loudon Hospital. The Beginning or New York, Fort Amsterdam, begun ubont the year 1G2C it northern wall about on the line of the existing row of houses facing the BowLn? tireen re'ully was the beginning of the present city. Tho engineer who planned it, Kryn Frederick, hiul in mind the creation of works sufficiently large to shelter in time of danger ail the inhabitants of a considerable tow n ; and when the Fort was finished, the fuet that such a stronghold existed was one of the in ducements extended by the West In dia Company to secure its needed col onists; for these, lieing most immedi ately and personally interested in the matter, could uot bo erpittud to con template the iHsibility of their own massacre by savages of the land or sea iu the same large and statesmanlike manner that such accidents of colonial Administration were regarded by the Company's Director. The building of the Fort, therefore, w as the first step tow ards Anchoring the colony flrmlv to the sod. By the time that the Fort waa finished the population of this island amounted to alxut two bumlreil souls ; and tho island itself, for a con sideration of f24, had been bought by Director Minuit for the Company, and m formally had passed to Dutch from jLuula.Uurper'i Muiiaziue. - TEMPERANCE. wbat nrmn cmnxtm Th f rwenoe of manr working pfsjple, In dustrious, sober, honest. Is a valuable help to anr business 'but hy as much a any of them patronize the dram-shop, by so much tbeir valu as clttxens will be Impair!, the com munities pauperized, and every Interest of the people demoralized. Demurest 'e Faniiiy est oir.it exest or riwism. Count Leo Tolstoi declare that drunken. Dees wss one of the great oausne of the recent awful famine In llussla. We be,rln to woo der If there is any really widespread dlssstec nowadays to the bumsn family la which the alcoholic fiend Is not present as a eontrih utlns cause or to Increase the reeuitma nusoTT. The Voice. tint "DOCTORS DtSAOr.f A. When one tells you to put tomts. Ilmrds, unices, etc.. In bottles filled with alcohol st as to presmre the flesh from dissolving and keep fresh for a term of years, another tells you to put alcohol in your stomach where a good meal of fresh meat tins Rnn, for the purpose of dissolving 1t and "aidina; diges tion." The man who takes oWhol to help digest his food must first throw off the alco hol before bis stomach can commence the operation. National Tempersnoe Advocate. I'KATit I tii err. The number of death from the tiso of strong drink has lieen variously eetirtisuxl In the I nited ntut to I from 0,M0 to 100,000 a year. I)r. Norman Kerr, an eminent sclentlntof Englnnd, tins for somo flftw-n ywirs bn pursutmr an lnijulry Into the matter In connection with several medical experts, and. ncordlnif to their deductions, tho lutt estlmntn of deaths of adults annu nlly caused by lntemernce Is: In Orent llritnfn. l'JO OnOlIn 1'n.n.u 14-1 (VW h.I I. the I'niW Ktutes H0.000, or nearly half a million In nn aweunto of lin.000,000 of people If yellow fever and cholera, which carry off a few thousand each year, are so feiirt-d und shunned, what shall be done witll tbo drink which slays its hull mlliious .-r.L:cAi ni sets or ALconor. I have Wn fully enirnRct in the general practli of nWlctne, Including much hospi tal and d!r pns-.ry. work, continuously for a period of llfty-el year-, lurimr the lost forty-live of those years I hnvo preserilsl for internal use no forms of either fermented or distilled liquors iu the treatment of either acute cr chronic dlscnsen, simply becaiiM I fend previously proved to my own satisaotlon thnt their effects were n positive litiidrnu". to the reeovcry of my patients. Imring all those years I have embraced every oppor tunity pnwnted by consultations with other practitioners, to study the cllnlcul results oh. tnined by them, and I nm certain tlmt there Is no disensi) thnt cannot l treated mora suivcssfuily without aleoholio liiiuors thua with.- X. . Uavls, M. I. A STATE'S ZXI'SniXXMT. Pouth Carolina Is to try an experiment tn the fitnto P'tfulutlon of the 'liquor traffic. I'ndcr whst Is kuownas thuKvuu l)ispensary lull, which was pusscd by the Legislature ut its recent siuslon, tho State is to control all sales of llipior. It Is nn adaptation of the (Kithen. burg system, which has bnenluuseinlSweden and Norway for somo year. I'ndcr It II eenss are gr.iutcd to compaub-s to sell spirit ous liquors under certain limitations. These comp.'tnteg nre. to receive six per cent, for capital invested, and to turn all profits In ex cess of this amount over to the Ktate. Each coinpuny has a monopoly of Its buslutws in its particular locality. Ut and wlues ore ex cepted from the provisions of the system ( bnt Iu Houth t'arolliia these. ur included, and hereafter there cm be no legal saloons In the Ktato except thosn ccutrolled by tho Mate authorities. Tho Legislature hna appropria iru ou,uw us enpuai to start tne business, and tlovernorTllim.'in proposes to buy a stock of liquors with this mouey and on the credit of the titnte. The purose of the law is to insure, we suppose, thut good liquors shall be sold, that they shall be sold only to persous entitled to rcculve them, and thnt all the conditions of restrbtlous shall be properly olwerved. Whatever profit there may ls in the sale will go to the Statu and not to individuals. The reu son that tho liquor trafllc has bocomo so great a troflbi Is because there aro largo prollts in It. If It should cease to bo profitable, men now engaged In It would go into otiier lims) of business. They do Uot sell liquor because they want to debauch their fellow-men, but because they wnut to make money , and as a general thing they are williug to do unythlng to increase their profits. They become linrdcned to evidence of suffering and deg radation and ruin, regnrdlng these ss Inci dental to tho busluess. Their one purpose is to n.uke money. If the possibility of prolit wvre no longer before them they would cease to be liquor dealers. We shall wait with in teriut to see how tho Houth e'arolma law operates. There seems to Is) no question of Its coustltutionuli:y, as the lawyers who have been consulted tytho liquor dealers advise them to ruu no risk, but to close their places of business promptly on tho first of July, wheu the new luv takes eiloct. New Vori LuduucadeuU Tr jirr.nsc news and hotks. French bruudy Is tho most dim gerous drink la Paris. In raws, it luw lccn found that the men who do not uso ttlmulctU do ty far thu best work. If drinking men ecnld only see the effect thut whisky bus nil the stuuucb, tliey would lu-ver drink unotlier dioo. Tho Chief of Police of mtimori snys thnt he never found boy In the-iulootu until luger beer wss introduci-d uud gauics prcjiarud to eiitlcu them In. Iu one of the grcnt Pnrls hospitals, it was found thut of eighty-lbr -o pstieuts who luffenMl from epilepsy, sixty wore childrtuof llrunken p:vr;?uis. Men ia foundries, who used to drink n great deal of liquor und Ijeer.tiowvery gener ally dnuk outmenl aud water aud Lad tbut tiiey work much better. General l'-ooth, of the Bdvntioa Army st thut tilnn-teiitbs of the evil that he has to light agiilutt lu the social departmeut of his work is caused by drink. People make a great mistake In using liquor in case of sickness. Tbo use of liquor iu sicknivs has beeu known to muko into uruukard for the rest of their lives. Mlldura, a town of New Houth Wales, was founded by the ChutTey brthers in IHSS. by lueuus of irrigation it has lceu trausformed from a desrt to a beautiful garden, by tha terms of the "Mlldura Irrigutloa Act" no liquor is allowed to be sold lu the settlement, aud iu uousoqui'uce every oue appears hupp) aud prosjieroun. If liquor could te ker.t from tho Indians of tho plains we should seldom hnar of any bloodshed betwts-u thum aud tbo white. The pity of it is that the men who sell the liquor seldom suffer for their misdeeds, while the lists nearly always falls upou innocent persous. A few exceptionally severe sea. teniies dealt out to men convicted of sulUug liquor to ludlnus would do great good. Stlss Frances )'.. WUlard was given a great reception reieutly by the Engllub MethoJIsU. City Itoul Wenleyan Chapul, "the Cathedral of iirittsb Mithoillsin," was erowdisl to over flowing. Thu gathering represented about '4)0 Iiudou eouKrMgutious,iwnl speei'hus wore cordial iu the extreme. Mum WUlard was preevuted with on illustrated edition of ''Wesley's Journal" and a copy of John and Churlt-s Wesley's Ifyinu. The Womau's Temperance Hospital, pro Irtted lu ISHii st the Detroit NuUoiuU W. C. i'. U. ('onveutiou, und owned oa the south side of Chicago iu IHstf, was removed butt Juue Ul grnatly Improved quMrters lu a baud some building on the North Hide, juat outside Lincoln I'urk. The bospltul bss accommo dation for sixty putlnuU,ascoreof physicians represcutiug all the organ bmd s.'hools, oud was founded to doaioiutrute the use of aou alconoucs In wudiootlou. RELIGIOUS JIEADINR I ttLOSSOMS IJf AQI. Yon Is an sppie-tree, Jolnu all shrunk like an old min'i kn.. Osping trunk half rsten awsy, e rumbling visibly day by day ; Itraucbes dead, or dvlng fast, Topmoat limb like a'splintered matt l et behold, in the prime of May, ' How It blooms In the sweet old way Heart of it brave and warm, tplte of msnv a wintrv storm ; Throbbing still with tlie deep dealrs. ! on nn who ine eager ore, Striving still with the teal and truth Of the glsdsomo mornlng-daya of vomk Mill to do and to be. for..K)th. riomethlng worthy of him whoecnn; Hummer or Winter, failed It ne'er- ' Tnls is motive for you and me. When we grow old like the applo-trw Uy Jamei Uuckbsm, in Christian i;,.. a cmxr cAtB or ciumr. Often Whrtl I Lava baan . L I ...I... ft tlie causes, or what lathe particular cf' that sends most men to prison, I ln : late years livariahly anawtred : Tut; -of fsmlly dlM-ltillne'" itt The liidulgrnco of the father and moihr' vbo allow the child to grow up out any discipline to form chars,!,. lesda almoat Inevitably toevil wayaaiidc,V emietitiy to prison. v Tb child, even nf Under veftrs, whn ( ,f elulged in it natural waywardness. and eV I alloweil tossy to its father or its mot -I will" or "I won't." l In a fair way !",. come an inmate of our penal Institution l'srents are also refponiible for llii'w,t wardnesorth. lrehii.irn which leaiUii,. ? Into crime from a pi sctice or deceit ine ti,. 5 The Intelligent elilld. when deceived In t parent In small things, is likely to form',, i lisluis, which in it future life w ill nut si easily eradicated. ' This cannot Im3 better Illustrated tlnn t l the growth of fruit and other trees. If t(,. i are allowed In the first veor of their gnu 5 t lecome crookeil. distorted and out ,r shape. It Is found nearly orqulto liqpn.. in later yenrs, to bring iheni into vmi;i,-! and to mske perfect trees of them. ' L ho with the child. Its enrly training la. 1 for a lifetime, and unless there nre eli-iii.g In Its character and will power, to enrrm- if evil bringing up, It mitnrally grows wiU and worse as it cron-s oi.b-F l P..u ... I. urutu oi oinjf piiig. pkiisomal r.rroitT. A ( brlstlnn w ho Is keen for work i soon find bis right place. If he Is ' ant i tench." If he lis. the knnck of breaking llii, truth Into nice morsels lor children's nmutt:, then be w ill soon scent bis wsv into ti Habbsth school. I have often watched, t sdrairntlon, the superintendent of the 'm" rant ilcnartuiont' in tltA C.il.k.11. . i ... , - .. . .,, L-uiiuniu -l,.. QI my late charge as sbo held hundreds of htt eyes and ears in a wsv that any i..;. pit orator might envy. That skilful n u'ii t had evidently found her place. Atiui!,.r person had some leisure and a alncrrc ii,. of souls; to aiieii an one personal isibi!i,,n among the poor and among the uneven,?:, lied Is a wclcomo work. It emlv n-quirr. health enough to walk, snd loving cotirtm enough to talk lo those who are visited. u x.iuie nun airuci go Willi tlie Visit us weii as a loaf for the hungry or a tu tor the ehlldren. then all tho better. The system of dividing New York into di-trl. t with a visitor for everv dl.trlet, which h carried out so efficiently by the Cnv Trad Society forty years, waa hii aduiirahfc one; and it oliabt llevi'P lo bnvn Im,ii at.-n.1..n. .1 It wss one of the liest methods for brl.lcinir the chasm iHtween the tospel-fed und t'i )nsH'l-starvcd. The outlying masses m v. r n ! im vTnnKi-n:eu iiiiiii mere is mure per- rvuni iimiiu, i mm iersonni eiion. Il.cv. I L. Cuyler, In The Kvangctlst. TIIK IXEmciKXCV OK W'OIMiS. The wife who would depend upon tor worus nioiie 10 express ncr love sml lieri. leglnncc to her husbHiid, line a verv pw: medium of expression. It la tho little m tho constant thouglitfulucks, the unt:! csretaklng thut shows her real aflectiun And so w ith us. VV'c ought, manv of u. t speak more earnestly in the prayer-im . tin. to take a more active part in the publii- : vices. Hut there Is a life thnt speaks ni : distinctly than words in a prnver-meetin; tt I il... I....I.... i..r. ... .1.- i.. .. ..is mi- h-ii ui me iioor oi ine JH..-I c It fa the kneeling form st the bedside of tt f nvmg. it is me exieiHied liiiml field out t the Mmrigi-r. It U tho benmlng face n li e Inir tbo love of ( lirl.t A n.l tl... ..I,,,,.. IIU'IIiImt who deneiii's vulirclv mu,ii .. words for the eir.ri'K.lnii of !: Li. i.w I. i or man. or his sllctuiice to bia church, ie i?: very snailow ciiurcli-memlicr, however lin-f ly he tuny spcuk. and however bvnutifi'.u combined bis Words mid sentences liinv I- ' He is loving liod most who ucts mojt :.. bill), dues luust I'jr lillii. r MV I.AMr. "Thy word Is a Limp unto my feet." sv the l'salinisl of old. Vou want your lm to bum ua brightly ns possible. You tr; thu wick i you wush, dry and folM li glass chimney; you keep the shade cltiti Let the dust gather and tho smoke mukc r sooty deposit, and tne wick become rn-' nud hard and black, and tho light iinon tt- open page is flickering and weak. The lite is your friend, but you must take good nr of It. It will treat you as you tre- it. t uni mc muie unngs 10 v will depend In large measure upon what ": bring to it. Vou may have a erumo. an loaf, or a granary full to bursting, juat ai y choose. There u gold ou Its surface tin are jewels in it mint's, tbcro sre roval piw in its depth. All are not eually'eqiii'',' for Its siiidy, but every 0110 of us con du In utmost In its patient, loving study, and d labors will bring a surer or richer rewurJ. -Dr. A. J. F.liebrend. Christianity l not the religion of r'f given time or pace. It apis-als to up human soul, not to the fui cies of any '!) or period. It doe not seek lu supports! tbo prevailing idea of the day, but '"t'r and Und it In the milTeilugs uml thu abMiu; niplratiuns of hiimauity. lleatb will Ik) reality; the question It arouses mi'f be act okide today, they will recur t'i" morrow. inertur. A righteous person must not or.lv ret"! nlze and Ineorporstn Into his code of nir-f tlie principle of right, but imiat conioruii tin iu iu bis practice. KreeUud. k Ixive does gladly and Joyoiulv all It can & ; for Its objects, snd grieve that It cannot J more, it count no losd heavy, no wuu, aou uv uuur loilf(. " Power from on high " Is the prom:" It come only from ou blh, tor huiuu lowvr i weiiKiie. iu the court lo il on other above thu world. He that e.te nictli himself viler than nien, und Judgt-th himself most unwortb:' Is nttet tu receive the greater hn-siiig ' Ihuinas a Ki inpl. uuee wuo uvc m ine love or I'htut aiiou never be melancholy, lor they have a u aaiid source of juy of vhiub otbsi ku Utile minds are tamed and subdued 1 niislurtiiue, but great miuds riuabotlt Washington living. ., T. le I. f 2 ) L... vr.,.i...wirM.ii. .' S .ajM-aNO
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