s-ll
Wash's v
THE BLUEBinD'S SONO,
'
It the swaying mountain barelioll
Hal It choice.
An t co til I shatter the sweet silence
With a voice t
If A Vlol-t till 1 Its ffSkTMlt
Koul hn I fonn 1,
An i would treat .in the lovely secret
Forth In souud t
If Hip summer sky the meaning
of a run
Would unfold In one cnchau'lu j
Hit of tun" ;
If a poet lil fl 't fancies,
HingM in villi.
Would o'crt i';o In one compe'.linf
IVr'e.'t strain i
If n tover til flrt nr I t.
Hi. 1. 1, ti Inn,
Won! I r',-i In on? rcve.ilin?
T n-lT song :
ri"Wi-r nnd "Kf, sky nn I lover,
Weil mivlit o.iit ,ir
rr.vn a Win-Mr !' fir :it the mi
tin
Tuin of riptu'".
-I'.ill.-rt Iv, in Mpnln
tt.
THE STRAW-RIDE.
r.v rr.vr-r a. yh-m
Xl, l,i; ii pack or
M 111 l I ' to tl H
timt'e nil I've put I
t-. sny n'.inut it !" j
HKV'I.Kn pnek of I
r '14" '"'"n 1'le.
i?iU H it- 1 the
loi .ic.m .iop ii into
the bowl of Lis
pipe lis he Hpnke. I'lu n lie opctieil
the dour of tlii- hitclii ti Move, dexter
oiily traniffrreil a live eonl to the
pipe, mi I tli'-ti loaned Imck to putT
contefitodly, Liivnig nuveii tbe value of
a liiiitch. '
"Yniiii folk can't lie cxpeetel to
lip ji-nt iiB htid lruHoll mien like un,
JSllllDU. If tlli-V thlllk t!ll'l'i;'rl miro
comfort ridm' over a frot-n road in
an oM hny-wii.'on with straw on the
liottolil oll't til keep thirfe?t lrotlj
freezin', it ain't for us t ) iunrrol with
'em 'liout it."
Ho leiMini-d S.imnnthii l.il?, who
wt elutuiin the Mtjipt r uihe at the
tink.
"It's well 'nonsh f r the Jenks g'tln
mi l the young feller up to ('iirtor',"
ndniitte.l Simon, nitha MiilV. "Hut
1 thought M'rye LaiI more hclr than
to ko with 'in. I cliiiitl 1 hiniled to
see you go to h ht raw-ri le when you
Wii9 goin' on t wenty-eiglit. "
"We'd been married nun year then,
Simon," nui reniindeii hint.
"So M'ryo wnuld have been if she
hadn't sot her mind on bavin' William
I'rye'a khm. l'retty nili ton years
fiuee thoy had their falliu' out, niu't
it, SamniithnV"
"It'll bo ten roar Thai)kniviu'
time." "And they lmven't spoUe to one
'not her since, have they'"
"Votaworl."
his mother. And as for M'rye
"Hush, Kiinou I Here cou .ue
wagon, uinkiu' as much noisa as a train
of ears. And here's M'rve, h!1 rcaiiy."
The door from tho stair way hud
aoftly opened, aud a tall voting wotnitu,
mutHed up in hood nu I lnr, and with
a heavy nhitwl on her nr:u, came into
the room.
With her praoeful curves, sa'tly- j
rounded cheeks, with n dish of piuk
in them, and a sweet dignity of bear
ing1, Maria (Sale was im.ro beautiful,
perhaps, than she had erer boon before
iu her life.
"They are coming, mother," she
aid.
"Guess everybody thi side of the
State line will hear Via!" said her
father, with n'twUt of his shaven lips.
The rumble of the heavy waou
could not, iudeed, have been mis
taken, aud with a chatter of merry
Toices and ripple of laughter, it wa
plain that the occupants of tho hay
wagou felt little apprehension, of
frozen feet or stinging ears.
The team drew up at the door with
s flourish.
"Halloo, house!" came from mascu
line voiceH.
I . And then, from the Jenks girl :
t, "M'rye 1 All aboard for Wi-sonV"
- "Do you think I'm silly to go? I'm
o much older thun the others," Maria
faltered, as her lips touched her moth
er's cheek.
"So, no. child; it'll do you good;
you're alius so hober-like. And be
sides, they'll need sjnieboly oiler
aud Middicr to bakuou their giddy
heads. "
"I so like to
hoiue, with its jf,
homelike ii"okn. '
go to the Wi,;son
rout tu'epliices aud its
"Yes, child, an 1 they're chcerfuller
tiiAn we be, and they've read more
and hnv more to tali; about. Go
along, M'rye, and Le sure nnd not git
Cold. (lot my heavy shawl, have ye?'1
"Yet-, mother, and I promise to be
careful."
rihe wer.t out into tho keen Novem
ber air and up into the big wagon,
with its settees set lengthwise, with
barely room upon ouo of them for
Maria to sit. Joe Carter, a stripling
of seventeen, lifted her into the cart.
With her feet buried in the muss of
straw on the tloor, and with a Jenks
girl upon one sida and Lou Jluxter on
the other, there see. nod little danger
of suffering from either cold or en
nui. "I'm via l the wagon mukei lots of
noise," Lon confided to her, as they
weut clattering away tlowu the road.
"For there's something I'm just dy
ing to aar to you, aud nobody can
Lear any more than if we were all soul
alone. You know I alwuy tell you
vervtnlug, aitria.
, "It is about 1'hil Marstou, of course,
and your voice and sliming eyes tell
me that it is something good this
time ; don t deny it, you rogue !"
f A little tremor of delight shot
'through tht petite form of Lwu Bax
ter.
"Yea, Marin, it is really ao. lie
spoke to me this very night, tad he
has loved tne ail along, and he haa
never cared for Almn dray. Ob, I am
bo Loppy! lint poor Alma, when ihe
come to know "
"Perhaps Alma won't cara, Lon.
Ton mustn't think that Thil has the
power of making everybody so miser
alilo as he could you," said Maria, with
her sweet amile.
And so she listened to the raptuons
confidences of Lon Master, teeming to
enter into the joy of her fresh young
heart, though there was a faint mem
ory of pain at her own.
Down a long hill tlnw the heavily
freighted wagou. Three powerful
horses male tip the team, and Joe Car
tor' twin brotlii-r, Jerry, was driving.
He was said to be a famous lad to
hnuille hornf, nnd ly the rate they
w en1 goitK some of the older members
of the party judged that he wan yield
ing to the youthful propensity for
'Vhowiii'' lift."
The union wm "in the full," and
hid not Tit ribrii high enough above
tin' horizon t ) ail'ord much light upon
the road. There were few house and
many trees; and At the foot of the
long hill the driver niAde the most of
the momentum guined in the dt scent
to help the team tmrthe begi tmng
f tho u. gr.i lo which began at that
i "e : H
P'd'lt.
The feat
caused the
was successful, bat it
setters to give a bounce
n;i I a fltde toward the reir end of tho
H''on, while a ehor.is of fciiinine
sort urns and luuv'itline shouts of
wai'tiiir to the reckless driver inter
rupted the cliAt nn i laughter which
had beeu going on.
There was a moment of desperate
clinging to Heats and wagon rails, a
shouting to the driver to stop, in the
midst of which confusion Lou l!axter
found the sneet delight of a strong
hand to hold her from falling out,
with Phil's magnetic voice telling her
not to be afraid whispering the as
surance unnei'es:rily close to her ear.
It took some moments for the driver
to bring tho horses down to a walk,
however, and when they got the set
tees back into place, and the occu
pants had rcluescd from avoiding into
chatter and liughter again, Lou found
herself in tli forward end of the
wagou, with l'hil mumbling his happy
nothings ut h-r side.
"And joyous iugrate that she was
not a thought of Maria Gale entered
her mind until the tam drew up with
a flourish iu tr.mt of Wigsou'i.
liy this tunc the :noou was high
enough to hh'.sl transforming light
upou t'ueiu. JoL'C.uirr, with the shy,
boyish likiug for a young woman many
years older tiiau him self, lookod around
for Marin, bent upou showing her how
easily he could li;t her out.
Hot tiie wuou was quickly emptied,
nnd Joe blankly looked to find how
Maria had given him the slip.
"Whero'a M'rye?" he demanded of
Lou.
ported,
aroused from ut own -lenant
thoughts. "I'm sure I dom : know.
Who must have jumped out al)d gone
into the house nhe.ul of us. Yon know
she was at the rer cud of the wagon.
And that imikes me think. I don't
believe she suspected that ho was
with us. It was so dark she couldn't
hnve seen him, and I kuow she wasn't
told of his intention to go."
Jou shrugged his shoulders and
scowled.
"I s'pposo you mean Jimmr Frye?"
he nskeu.
"Of course. And he sat right op
posite to us when she got iu. Uut ho
was so muillcd up aud so glum that I'm
sure"
"Don't kuow what that aigniflos,"
snapped Joe.
And he abruptly turuod hi back
upon this youu lady, who, with nil
her own experience, had no thought
tor tho fU-rcd llamo of jealousy which
her miggestiou roused iu his boyish
heart.
He I e'an his search for Maria dale
theu iu earnest.
But not for her alone did he in
quirefor it was quickly discovered
that James Fryo, the "old bachelor"
of tho party, was also missiug.
Groat was the consternation when
there could be no longer any doubt as
to tho truth.
It was Lou Baxter who first put it
into words.
"They must have been jolted ont of
tho wagon when we all eaute so near
being upset! aha oried.
Joo Carter, without saving so, had
reached this conclusion some time be
fore, and while the others were talk
ing of going back to see if the missiug
ones were injured, he was striding
alone down the moonlit road, with his
young hnirt alow with the resolution
to show Maria Gale that he had been
tho first to discover her mishap, and
the promptest to come to her relief.
"As for Jim t rye," ho muttorod. as
he strode along, "he is too much of a
mummy to appreciate anv decent nirl.
let alone such a real lady as M'rre
Gale!"
Joe suddenly slackened his pace;
then withdrew his sturdy form in
among the roadside shadows.
Up the road two form were slowly
walking, vury closo togather. The
low murmur of their voices sent a
seething rlame to the heart of Joe as
they drew near passed almost within
reach of his outstretched liApd, with
the moonlight full upon thn and
theu on up the hill and out) ol his
sight. (
"It was them!" gasped Joe, as be
stooo I for a moment gazing after
them in a tragio attitude.
"I thought I heard umeon holler
ing for us to stop, when we was all
jumbled up in the wagon there at the
foot of the hill," he added. "Audit
was him calling to us, and aha waa
there, tool Why didn't I jump out
aud go baok? If I only wasn't so
ttiok-heded!"
While poor Jo waa tUtu lashing
himself into a jealous fury, Jimmy
Frye, with Maria upon hi arm, met
I'hilip Marston and Lou Baxter on the
porch at W'igson'a.
They were just starting ont to find
the missing ones, and a horse and
buggy had been brought to the door
to expedite the search.
"It i such a joke that is, if yoa
arennhnrt?" Lon exclaimed, with one
of Maria' hand between both her
own.
"I was a little stunned tor a mo
ment," she explained, as Jimmy and
l'hil left them together, and they
lingered in the hall where the tall old
clock was solemnly ticking.
"But Jimmy was he stunned,
too?"
"Oh, no; for yon see ho wasn't
thrown out at all. He saw me fall
aud jumped to save me, for there he
was sitting right opposite us all the
time while you nnd I were talking."
"Perhaps I didn't know," said Lon,
her bright eyes looking into those of
her friend.
Hometuintr, like happy tears were
glistening in the eyes which had been
sweet and grave for ao many years.
"I almost knew," Lou hurriedly
tittered, "that if you could only bo
brought together again, that the ice
would be broken, and that your fool
ish pride and his would give way.
Maria, dear, it is so, isn't it? Yon
have made up with each other you
aud that obstinate Jimmy Frye
haven't you?"
"Yes, you silly child. Now hash !"
was the soft answer.
The moon ro le high in the heavens
as tho big wagon and its loal went
back over the hilly road. Tho air was
stinging cold, and shawls an I muftlcrs
were w rapped close about chins and
ears, while aching feet shuffled about
amongst tho straw on the floor of the
wagou.
Thre was much chatter and aomo
laughter, but on tho whole the home
ward ride, for various cause was
quieter than it hail been when they
were going toward Wigaou'e.
Jerry Carter did not attempt any
new exploits with the team.
Jon Carter, w th his taco like a
thunder-cloud, did not break tho si
lence all the way. When the crowd
had all been distributed among the
straggling houses, and Joe and his
brother wero driving the team to the
stable, Jerry leered into the face of
the former, and said ;
"M'rye and Jimmy Frye have made
up. I reckoned she'd do better than
to adopt me or you. "
"James Bays that ho was an obstinate
brute," wero Maria's words, with her
cheek against her mother's sympathetic
lips.
"And yet yon havo taken him back,
M'ryo?"
"I told him that I was more in the
wrong than he and I know it was no,
mothe.'. Ho toll futacr not to blame
him any more."
Simon Gale only sniffed - in
creduonsly when Saraanth old him
wL. ... acknc iut 1.
Saturday Night.
Chemistry to Regenerate the World.
In a reaent address beforo tho manu
facturing chomists of Paris, M. Per the
let indulged in some extraordinary
dreams of what chemistry is to do for
this world of ours. Ha said that by
utilizing tho central heat of tho earth,
which can readily bo procured by
means of shafts sunk to the depth of
ilOOi) or 4 .Mil metreswhich modern en
gineering can dig with little trouble
from these water will be obtained hot
enough to keep nil possible machinery
going ut tho smallest expense, and it
would bo an uufniling souroo of me
chanical nnd electrical energy. With
such a source of heat all chomical
'j"iisfonuatiou would be easy. Tho
production of alimentary matter will
be one consequence. This production
is resolved in principle, aud ha been
for forty years, by the synthusoa of
grease aud oils. That of hydrates of
carbon is going on, aud that of nitro
genous substances is not far off. When
energy can be obtained thus cheaply,
food can be made from carbon taken
from carbouio acid, hydrogen taken
from water, and nitrogen from tho air.
What work tho vegetables havo ao far
done science will soon be able to do
better, with far greater profusion and
independently of seasons or evil
microbes or iuseots. There will ba
thon no passion to own land, boasts
need not bo bred for slaughter, man
will be milder and more moral, and
barren regions may become preferable
to fertilo a habitable places, because
they will not be pestiferous from age
of maturing. The reign of chemistry
will bonutify the planet. There will,
under it, be no neod to diedgiire it
with tho geometrioal works of the
agriculturist, or with tho grime of
factories and chimneys. It will re
cover its ver '.uro and flora. The earth
will be a vast pleasure garden and the
human race will live in peace and
pleuty. New Orleans Picayune.
Do Minerals (iron I
The disousiion at the meeting of
tho National Aoademy of Soienoe, held
in Washington last week, brought up
the very curious question whether
there was not some sort of life in min
eral substances. It was averted that
crystal certainly have the power of
growth. If injured or broken they
can, under favorable circumstances,
redevelop their characteristic form.
A grain of sand broken from the parent
rook age ago, and worn aud polished
by the restless wave to a round ball,
will, if placed under certain condi
tions, resume it normal cbryatalline
shape, with polished face of geomet
rical regularity. In order to do this
the injured crystal muit be placed in
some solution of it own element.
New Orleans Picayune.
The most rtluahla seavougora about
the trett aud iu the sewer of a large
city art the rat.
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
TIIK BROOKLYN WVIXE'S SUX
DAY 8KRMOX.
Subject: "Another Chance."
Tit : "If the tri fall towaM the south or
towsnt the north, in the piai-e where the
true fnlleth there It shall be." Ecolesiaste
SI., 9.
There l a hnverlnn hope In the mind of
a vast multltiiilethnt there will tm an op
portunity In th nxt worlil to eorreet the
mistaken of this ; that If we iio make com
plete shlpwreelt of our earthly life it will be
on a shore, up which we may wulk to a pal
ace i that, as a lfen'lsnt mv lose his ease
In the circuit court and o.irry It up the su
preme court or court of chsncerv an.! Bet a
rerernsl of Jm lament In his hchnlf, all the
ots .elnir thrown over on the other psrty,
so, If we full In the earthljrtrhl. we mnr In
Him hleher jurisdiction of eternity have th
i'.lilirment of the lower court set esdle, all
Ihe com remlite'l, sii'l we mnr l victorious
defendants forever. My olijecf In this ser
mon is to show thnt common sense as well
ss my text leclnrcs that u,Mi an expectation
Is c'llmerieii. You say that I h Impenitent
men. hnvitnr cot Into the next worhl anil
seeing the disaster, will, as a result of that
rtlnter. turn, tho pain the cause of Mi
relormatlon. lint von can llml 10.000 In
tnnces in this worM of men who have done
wrong, end ditr-ss overtook them sud
denly, in,) the distress heal them? No i
tliev went riir;it on.
Tlmt man w.is flunij of dissipations. "You
mit-t stop ilrlniiinir," silil the ilootor, "end
Hint the fat tlf yon nro lending, or It will
ili stroy you." Tiw p.itient surfers paroxvsm
aftr pn-oxvm. .nt under skillful medical
treatment he tieglns to sit up, lieuins to walk
shout tin room, l.eifins to ko to luislnes.
And. lo. he noes ,:,k to the same iiroif-nhop
for li s inornluu dram, and his evening drsm.
and the itr.ims Let wen. Flat down nitain?
Hume doctor ! Sa-ne physical nnculsh ! Hame
medical warning ' Now the lllne is more
protract-I. the liver Is mote stuhhorn. tha
tnitic:i more Irnt-i'.K ami thedigesilve or
Bstis nre more rebellious. Hut ater a while
he Is out again, goes hack to the drnmshops
and goes the simie round ofsacrilegs ugainst
bis physical heilth.
He ee Unit his downward course is ruin
ing his household . thnt his life. Is a perpet.
tinl perjury ngiilnsr his mnrringe vow i that
that iToki'ii hearted w uiiiin Is so unlike the
hopeful young wife whor.i he married thnt
her old schoolmates do not recognize her s
thnt his ons nre tn he fitinted for n lifetime
by the father', drunkenness i thatthednugh
ters me to pns Into life under the scarifica
tion of n disreputable uneeitor. He Is
drinking up their Imppiness. their prospects
fortius lii'e, and perhaps forthe life to come.
Sometimes nu appreciation of what he Is do
lug come upon him. His nervous system Is
all ii-tangle. From crown of head to sole of
foot he is one aolnng, rasping, crucifying,
damning torture. Where Is Uet In hell ou
eurth. Does It reform him?
A'ter awhile he has delirium tremens, with
a whole juugle of hissing reptiles let out on
his pillow, nnd his screams horrify the
neighbors as he dashes out of his bed, cry
ing, "lake these things off me !" As he sits
rale nn 1 conv.ilex.ent the doctor says
'Now, I w.iut to have a plain talk with vou,
my dear fellow. The next attack of "this
kind you have you will hn beyond all medi
cal skill, nnd you will die." "h guts better
end sons lorth Into the same tight again.
This tune medicine takes no effect. Consul
tation of physicians ngree in saying there is
no hope. Death ends the scene.
That process of iuebriution. warning ami
dissolution Is goingon within n stone's throw
of you, going on Iu all the neighborhoods of
Christendom. Pain does not correct. Suf
fering does not reform. Whit Is true in one
onse is true in all senses and will forever be
so, and yet men expecting In tha next
world purgat rejuvenation. Take up
tne printed reports of the prisons of the
United htstrs, and you will rind thnt the
vnst majority of the In vireersted have bsn
there before, some of thnm tour, five, six
times. With 1.O0D.000 Illustrations all work
ing the other way iu this world, people are
expecting that distress In thu next state will
he salvutory. Vou cannot Imagine anv worst
torture In any other world than that' which
some men have suffered here, au 1 without
any salutary consequence.
Furthermore, the prospect of a reforma
tion in the next world is mare Improbable
than a relorinntion here. ual world the
life started with Innocence 'A Infancy. In
thu case supposed the other life will opsn
with all the accumulated bad habits of many
years upon him. htir;!y it Is easier to build
a string ship out of new timber than out of
au old hulk t hut has lie mi ground up In the
breakers. If with innocence, to begin with
In this lite a man does not become sodlv.
what prospect Is there that In the next world,
stnrtiug with sin, there would be a seraph
evoluted? Surely the sculptor has mora
iirospect ol umklug a II no statue out ol a
block of pure white Parian marble than out
of nu old Mack rock seamed and cracked
with the storms of a half eenturv. fcurely
upou a eleim white sheet of paper it is easier
to write a dee 1 ora will than upon a sheet
of paper all scribbled an 1 blottsd aud torn
Irom top to bottom. Yet men sesra to think
that, though the lire that began here com
paratively perfect turned out badlv, the uext
lite will succeed, though it starts with a dead
failure.
"JJut," says some one, "I think we ought
lo have a chance In the next life, beoaus
this life Is so short it allows only small op
portunity. Wo hardly have time to turn
around between crjidle and tomb, the wood
of the one almost touching the marble of the
other." Hut do you kuow what made thean
clent deluge a necessity? It was the longe
vity of the antediluvians. Tuny were worse
In the second century ol tbuir lifetime than
in the first hundred years, and still worse In
the third century, and still worse all th way
on to 700, 800 aud WW ye:irs, ani the oarth
bud to be washed au l scrubbed and souked
and anchored clear out of sight for more
thun a mouth before it could be made fit for
decent people to live In.
Longevity never cures impenitency. AU
the pictures of Tim represeut hlin with a
scythe to cut, but I never saw any picture of
Time with a cuse of medicines to heal.
Seneca says thnt Nero for the first rive years
of his publlcj life was set up lor an example
of clemency and kindness, but his p.itn all
the way descended until at lis A. I), be be
came a suicide. If N00 yours did not make
antediluvlaus any better, but only made
them worse, the age of eternity could have
no effect except prolongation of depravity,
"But," says some one, "in th future state
vil surrounding will be withdrawn and
elevated Influence substituted, and. bene
expurgation nnd sublimation and glorillca
tlou." Hut the righteous, ail their sins for
given, have passed on luto a heatlllo state,
and consequently the unsaved will be left
alone. It cannot ba expected that Dr. Duff,
who exhausted himself In teaching Hindoos
the way to heaven, nnd Dr. Ahsul, who gave
bis life in the evangelization of China, and
Adoniram Judson, who tolled for the re
demption of Uorueo, should he sent down by
some celestial missionary society to educate
those who wasted all their earthly existence.
vaugiilstio ami missionary efforts are
ended. Tlis entire kingdom of th morally
baakrupt by themselves, where are the
salvatory Influences to come from? Can on
speckled aud bad apple in a barrel of dis
eased apples turn the other apple good?
Can those who aro themselves down help
other up? Can those who hav themselves
failed In th business of th soul pay th
debt of their spiritual Insolvents? Can a
million wrouifs uiak one right?
1'oneropoli was a city whore King Philip
of Thraci nut all th bad people of hi
kingdom. If any man had opened a primary
cuool at I'ousropolls, I do not think th
parent, from other oil la would hav seat
their children there. Instead of amendment
in tha other world, all tb association, bow
that th good r. evolved, will be degenera
ting and down. You would not want to ud
a msa to a cholera or yellow fever nor:ts.t
for his health, and the great Isssmtto of the
next world, containing the diseased nni
plague struck, will be a poor place for moral
recaverv. If the surroundings in this world
were crowded of temptation, th surround
ing of th next world, after the righteous
hare passed up and on. will be a thousinl
perer t. more crowded of temptation.
The Jount of Chateaubriand made his lit
tle sob sleep at night at the top of a castle
turret, where the wind howle l, and where
specter were ssld to haunt tha place, and
white the mother and sister almost died
with fright the son tell ns that the process
gave him nerve thnt could not tremble and
a courage that never faltered. But I don't
think that tower of darkness and the spec
tral world swept by sirocco and enroolydon
will ever fit one for the land of eternal sun
shine. 1 wonder what Is the curriculum of
that college of Inferno, where, after proper
preparation by the sin of this life, the can
didate enters, passing on from freshmnn
elas of depravity to sophomore of abandon
ment, and from sophomore to junior, an t
from Junior to senior, and Hay of gradua
tion comes, and with diploma signe t by
satan, the president, an! other professorial
demoniacs, attesting thnt the candidate has
been long enough under their drill, he
passe up to enter heaven I 1' mdemonlti'ii
a preparative course for heavenlr a Imls.
slon ! Ah, my friend, sntan and his coherts
have fitted uncounted millions for ruin, but
never flttei one soul for happiness!
Furthermore, It would not b" safe for this
world If men hAl another chance In the
next. If It had been announced thnt, how
ever wickedly a man might net in this world,
he could tlx It up all right in the u-'Xt,
society would be terribly demoralised, mi l
the human race demolished in a l-w yetr".
The fear that If W are bad nnd unforivn
here It will not be well for us In the n 'Xt ex.
Istence is the chief influence thnt keeps civil
isation from rustling Imck to scmbctr ar
ism, and B'-mlhnrbarisin from rushing Into
mighty savagery, and midnight siv.igerv
from Mtinction. for it Is the nstringcut Im
pression of all nations. C'nr.stl in nn I
hsthn, that there is no future chance for
those who have waste 1 this.
Multitudes of men who are kept within
bound would say "(it to, now Let me
get all out of thls'llfe there is In It. Come,
gluttony and Inebriation and uncleanneM
and revenge end all sensualities, nn i wait
upon met My life may be somewhat short
ened in this world by dlsolutenes, but that
will only mnke heavenly Indulgence on a
larger scale the sooner possible. I will over
take tha saints at last nnd will enter the
heavenly temple only a little later than
those Who behaved themselves here. I will
on my way to heaven take a little widr ex
cursion thnn those who were on earth piou-,
and I shall goto heaven via gehenna nnd
via sheol." Another chnii"e in the next
world means free license nnd wild abandon
ment in this.
Suppose you were a party In nn Important
case at law, and you knew from consultation
with judges and attorneys that It would be
tried twice, and the Mrt trial would be of
little importance, I ut tlmt the second won, I
decide everything, for which trial would you
make the most preparation, for which retain
the ablest attorneys, for which be iuot anx
ious about the attendance of wituesse? Y-jii
would put all the stress upon the second
trial, all the anxiety, all the expenditure,
saying, "The first is nothing, tin Inst Is
everytnlng.'' (live tho rucenn assurance of
a second aud more importune trial in the
subsequent life, and nil the preparation f r
eternity would be "post mortem," post Mi
neral, post sepulchral, nnd the world With
one jerk be pitched off into impiety and joi
lessuess. Furthermore, let me ask why a ehnn"e
should be glveu iu the next world It we have
refused innumerable chances iu this? Sup
pose you give a banquet, an 1 you invite a
vast number of friends, but one man de
clines to come or treats your invitation with
Indifference. You in the course of twenty
years give twenty banquets, nnd the aniue
man is invited to them all nnd treats them all
Iu the same obnoxious way. After a while
ycr. re.nnv to another house larger and bet
ter, nnd you a , t.it your frl-uds, .' '.
end no Invitation to the man who decline 1
or neglected the other Invitation.
Are you to blume? Has he a right
to expect to be invited nltr all
the indignities he has done you? God iu
this world has Invited us all to the banquet
of Mis grace. He invited us by His provi
dene and His spirit 8 '.5 days of every year
since w knew our right hau I Invn our left.
If we decline I It every time or trentol the
Invitation with IndilTereuce au 1 gave twenty
or forty or fifty years of indignity ou 'ir
part toward the huuqueter, mi l nt hi't Hi
spreads the banquet in a more luxurious nil 1
kingly place, Hinld tho heavenly g.irten.
have we a right to expect Him to iuvite us
agiiin, und hnve we a right to blame Hun if
He does not Invite us?
II twelve gates ot salvation stool ojvn
twenty years or llfty years for our n luiis
siou, uud at theend of that time they are
closed, can we complain of it nni sav :
"These gates ought to be open again, (iive
us a not In-r chance?" If the steamer is to sail
for Hamburg, aud we want to get to Ger
many by that line, an I we read iu every
evening and every morning newspaper that
It will sail on a certain day, for two weks
we have that advertisement before our eves.
and then we go down to the nooks tlitci'ii
minutes alter it has shoved oT luto the
stream and say- "Come back! Give me
auother chance ! It is not fuirtotre.it me
In this way I Swiug up to the doik ag.iiu
aud throw out plan. s and let me come on
board 1'' tfucli beliavior wouid invite arrest
as a madinau.
And if, alter the gospel ship has lain at
aucbor before our eyes for years and years,
and all the beulgn voices of earth and
heaven hav urgdd us to get on board, as
she might ssll uway at any moment, uud
after awhile he sails wuhoat in, is it
common sense to expect her to come back?
You might as well go out on the highlands
at Navesluk aul call to the Majestic after
sLs has been three dnys out uud expect her
to return as to call back an opportunity for
heav4U when it once his spid away. All
heaven offerej us a a gratuity, nud for n
lifetime we retuse to take it, nud then
rush on the bosses of Jehovah s bu lkier de
manding unotber chance. There ought to
be, tuer can be, there will be. no such
thing as posthumous opportunity. Thus
our common seuss agrees with my text, "If
the Ire fall toward the south or toward the
north, in the place where tha trie .Jul loth
there It (hall be."
You ee this Idea lifts this world up from
an unimportant way station to a platform of
stupendous Issues und makes all eternity
whirl around this hour. Uut one trial for
which all the preparation must be made In
this world or uever ma le at ail. That piles
up all the emphusesand all the climaxes and
all the destinies luto life here. No other
chance I On, how mat augments the value
and Importance of this chance !
Alexander with his army used to surround
a oily and theu would lilt a great light in
loken to th people that if they surreudere I
befor that light went out all would be well,
but if one the light went out then tha but
tering rams would swing against the wall,
and demolition nud disaster would follow.
Wall, all we need do for our present and
everlasting safety is to make surrender to
Christ, the King und Conqueror surrender
of our hearts, surrender of our lives, sur
render of everything. And He keeps a great
light burniug, light of gospel Invitation, light
kindled with tha wood ot th cross aud
flaming up agulnst the dark night of our sin
and sorrow, hurroinler while that grout
light oontinues to burn, for alter It goes out
th.r will be no otheroppurtunlty ol making
peso with God through our Lord Jesus
Christ. Talk of another chuuoel Why, tbl
I a aupernsl ohsncs I
la th tlm of Kdward VI., at tb battle of
Musselburg, a p rival soldier, seeing that
tb Esrl ol Huntley bad lost hi helmet, took
oft hi own helmet aud put it upou th head
of th arl, and th head ot the p rival sol.
dler, uncovered, be wss soou slain, wtill
bis commander rode salely out of th battle.
Hut la our on, instead of a private soldier
offsriug helmet to an arl, it 1 a Klug put
ting Hst orowa upon au unworthy auhjuot,
he Ring dying that w might live. Tell it to
all points ot the compass. Tell It 1o night
and day. Tell it to all earth end heaven.
Tell It to all cnturies. All Ages, all millenni
um, thst we have such amngnlfleent chanco
In this world that we need no other chance
in the next
I nm In the huriishel Judgment hnll r.f the
last day. A gr-at white throne is lifted,
but the judge has not yet tnken It. While
we are waiting for hi arrival I hear Immor
tal spirits In conversation. "What nro you
wnltlnf here for? ' say a soul that went up
from Madagascar to a soul that nscended
from America, The latter say. "I came
from America where fortv years I hear t the
gospel preached and Bible read, and from
the pr.iyer.thnt I learned In Inmny on my
mother's knee until mv Inst hour I had gos
pel Advantage, hut for some reason I did not
mnke the Christian choice, and I nm here
waiting for the judge to give me a new trial
end Another chance." "Striuge !" savs the
other. "I had but one gospel call In Mada
gascar, nnd I neeeptcd It, nud I do not need
Another chance."
"Why nre you here?" says oni who on
ear;h had feiipt fnf-llect to one who had
great brain an I silvery toncue nn I set.ters
of Influence, 'f he latter rcpou Is "Oh.
knew more than my fellow-. I mas;erel
libraries and had learned titles from eoU
lege, and mv name was a synonym for
eloquence and power. And yet I neglect e.l
mv soul, nn i I am hern w.i tini for n new
trial.'1 ".Htrangc." says the one of the
feni.le earthly cap iclty. "I knew tint little
of worldly knowledge, but I knew t'hri:
and ma le Him my pinner, uu i hav -no nee 1
of nnoth'T oh inc.
Now the ground trembles with the ap
pro "!ilng chariot. The great f ildlii - do ,rs
of the hail swin j open. S!an l h i"k'.'" tv
the celestial tihi r. ".-Van 1 biek. n-i 1 )-t
th Judge of quick nnd d".i I pas through '. '
He takes the thron. nnd longing nvrthe.
turong ol nations H sav, "(,'.v.n to la le
nient. th last Jn l.'itvnf. t n holy in Ij.
nient?' llv on" It h fro u tliethrii'ta'.l tlie
lii-torv of e idi oil" flames for.u to the
s'on of Himself mi l nil other-, Divide!"
savs the Ju I re to the nss - n'ilv. "I ivi I" !'
echo the walls, "Divide I" cry the guar is
unrclK
Andnowthn Immortals separate, rushing
this way nu I that, nn I niter nwhlle ther ' Is
a great nllo between them, and a great
vacuum widening nnd widening, nn l tho
judge, turning to the throng on on side,
says, "He thnt is righti'O.n. I -t bi n be right
eous still; nnd lie that Is holy, l-t him bn
holy still," mil then, turuin,; tu.v.irl the
throng on the nppnite hc, he say-, "He
that is unjust, let iiltii be unjiwt still: and
he that Is'llithy, let him lie lllttiy still,'' and
then, lifting one bun I loe'iird each group,
he declares. "If the trn fall toward tin
sou'h or toward the north, iu the place
where the tr" falleth there It shall be."
And theu 1 hear simetiiiiig jnr with u great
sound. It Is the closing of the bon ot
ju Igment, Tim Judge nccni th stairs be
hind the throin. Tin hall of the last nsi.
is cleared nnd shut. Tne Uiga court of
eternity is a tjourne. I forever.
Makm? the Desert to IMossom.
"The desert wastes of New Mexico
an I Arizona may jet be broad fields
of pasturage covered ',U herds of
fattening cattle if the', opes of the
men who nre deeply interested iu cer
tain experiments are realize," said
J. F, Wilcox, n lnrflo rauch owner in
the ranhnuillo country of Texas.
"The expectations of the-e mn are
based upou the wonderful vitality of
Alfalfa, or Mexieau clover, tho growth
of which is astouiuhtupdy rapid and a
field of which will yield several cropa
iu a' season. Its roots nre .said to go
far down iu search of moisture, Koine
times to a depth of eighteen to twenty
feet, aud its nutritious properties and
tho avidity with which stock eat it ar"
rm'f kncwD. Ths larje land and li
stock investment companies which are
now operating iu New Mexico and
Arizona have, as an essential part of
their schemes of utilizing the desert
lauds, the Krowiui? of lare tract of
hi fulfil, with which to feed their range
cattle nnd other btock. At one ranch
iiluiie, La Cueoii, in Mora County, New
Mexico, 10J0 head of rauqe cattle are
now being fed and fattened for mar
ket ou iilfalfa. The Mexican clover is
grown by aid of mo lern irrigation
and the hinds laid down to it tend to
improve iu fertility. Stockmen down
in that country have lost nil iuith in
tho prowess of modern rain-maker
mid their schemes, und they are turn
ing; their etl'orU into limro practicable
channels." Sun Francisco Chronicle.
Nutritious Fruits,
There are many kinds of fruit which
of themselves nro Hiillicieut t ) sup
port healthy life, am U;jr which may1
bo mentioned the date, bausua nud
plautaiu, tigs when drie 1, the beau of
the carob or locust tro, aud the fruit
of tho baobab or monkey-brend tree,
which is euteu by tha natives iu West
Africa. All the cotitniu sullioieut
fat, sugar, starch, pocUu, gum and
nitrogenous matter to support healthy
life. Of all these preference must be
given to the banana, which supplies
to many millions a permanently nutri
tive food, and to the fruit of the data
palnl.sjor Fhueuix dactylifera, which
serves as an exclusive article of ali
ment iu parts of North Africa, Arabia
aud l'ersia. "Iu all Fezzau," says
one authority, "the date is the staple
food not only for men, but for camels,
horses aud dog. Nineteeu-twen-tieths
of the population live ou dates
alone during nine mouths of the
year." In tho Hadji, or pilgrimages,
tho price of dates at Mecc aud Me
diua forms the first ipiebtiou aslted be
tween the Arab pilgrim goin.g; to nnd
returning from the sacred city. Cakes J
of dates poundeti an t kneaded into a
solid muss constitute the maiu nutri
meut of the caravans crossing the
Sahara. From the fresh juioe of the
date wine and, also, vinegar are made,
aud spirits distilled, while the stones
or seeds are roasted and largely tued
instead of coffee. New York Dis
patch. The Lighthouse Hop,
A dog owned by Captain Orctitt,!
keeper of the Wood Island light, haul
become famous this week. Jt is cus
tomary for passing steamers to salutel
the light and the keeper returns it byl
riugiug the bell. The other day a tuA
whistled three tunes. The captain dull
not hear it, but the dog did. He raul
to the door aud tried to attract the I
captain's attention by howling. Fail
ing to do this ha rau away aud theul
came a second tune with no better re-j
suit. Then ha decided to attend tu
the matter himself, ao ha seized tUel
rope, which hangs outside, between!
nu teetu ana uegan to ring in ueu-i
Lewistou (Ue.) Journal.