= Told Lb sol ime
rove That Infinite Wonders
in Despised Objects—Credit is Due .
© ‘fo ‘Humble Work. :
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“TEXT: “The spider taketh hold with her
nds and is in kings’ palaces”—Prov-
erbs xxx., 2S. Jr ee he i
_ + Permitted as I was a few da ago toate
_ténd the meeting of the British Scientific
Association at Edinburgh, I found that no
paper read had excited more interest than
that by Rev. Dr. McCook, of American, on
the subject of spiders. It seems that my
talented ¢ountryman, banished from his
pulpit for a short time by ill health, had in
the fields and forest given himself to the
study of insects. And surely if it is not be.
* neath the dignity of God to make spiders it
; jsnot ‘beneath the dignity of man to study
em. :
azing of cne meteor. A whole flock of
robins take not so much of our attention as
one blundering bat darting into the window
La summer eve. Thingsof ordinary sound
ind sight and occurrence fail to reach us,
and yet no grasshopper ever springs, upon
our path, no math ever dashes into the
evening candle, no mote ever floats in the
sunbeam that pours through the crack of the
~ window sautter, no barnacle on ship’s hull,
no burr ou a chestnut, no limpet clinging to
. arocs, no rind of an artichoke but would
~ teach us a lesson if we were not so stupid.
God in His Bible sets forth for our consider-
ation the lily, and the snowflake, and the
locust, and the stork’s nest, and _the hind’s
ooh and the aurora borealis, and the ant
© In my text inspiration opens before us the
gate of a palace, and we are inducted amid
Hie pomp of the throne and the courtier,
nd white we are looking around upon the
‘magnificence inspiration points us to a
‘spider plying its shuttle and weaving its net
on the wall. It does notecall us to regard
the grand surroundings of the palace, but to
afolemn and earnest consideration of the
fact that ‘I'he spider taketh hold with her
‘hands and is in kings’ palacas.” .
Ft isnot very certain what was the par-
ticular spacies of insect spoken of in the text,
“but 1 shall proceed to learn from it the ex-
quisiteness of the divine mechanism. The
king's chamberiain comes into the palace
and looks around and sees the spider on the
wall and says, ‘Away with that intruder,”
"and the servant of Solomon’s palace comes
wita his broom and dashes down the insect,
saying, ‘‘What a loathsome thing it is.”
But under the microscopic inspection I fin 1
_ It more wondrous of construction than the
-embroideries on the palace wall and the up-
~ holstery about the windows.
| All the machinery of the earth could nos
- muke anything so delicate and beautiiul as
the prehensile with which that spider
clutehes its prey, or as any of its eight eyes.
‘We do not have to go so far up to see the
power of God in thd tapestry hanging
around the windows of heaven, or in the
“horses or chariots of firs with which the
dying day departs, or to look at the moun-
tain swinging out its sword arm from under
She mantle "of darkness uatil it can strike
with its scimeter of thelightning.
1 Jove better to study Golan the shaps of
a fly’s wing, in the formation of a fish's
© scale, in the snowy whiteness of a pond lily.
Llove to traci His footsteps in the mount-
ain moss, and to hear His voice in the hum
ol the rye fields, and discover the rustle of
His robe of light in the south wind. . Oh,
this wonder of divins power that can build a
habitation for God in au apple blossom. and
tune a bee's voice until it is fit for the eter-
nalorchestra, and can say to a firefly, “Let
there be light:” and from holding an ocean
in the hollow of His hand, goes forth
to fin i heights and depths and length and
breadth of omnigotency in a dewdrop, and
disineunts from: the chariot ef midnight
huryicane to cross over on the suspension
Lridee of a soider’s web :
You may take your telescope and sweep it
across the heavens in order to behold the
glory of God, but I shall take the leat hoid-
inz the spider and the spider's web, and I
shall bring the microscope to my eye, and
. whoile I gaze and look and study and am
coniounded 1 will kneel down in the grass
and cry, ‘Great and, marvelous are Thy
works, Lord God Almighty ¥ |
Again, my text teaches me that insignifi-
€apes is no excuse for inaction. ‘This spider
that Solomon saw on the wall might have
said: ‘can’t weave a web worthy of this
great palace; what can Ido amid all this
gold embroilery? I ‘am not abie to make
anything fit for so grand a place, and so I
witlnot work my spinning. jenny.” Nog so
said: the spider, “The spider taketh hold
+ with her hands.” Oh, what a lesson that is
. for you and me! = You say if you had some
great sermon to preach, if you only had a
great audiencs to talk to, if you had a great
army to marshal, if you only had a con-
stitution to write, it there was soms
tremendous thing in the world for you to do
—then you would show us. Yes, you would
show us!
What if the Levite in the ancient temple
: had retused to snuff the candle bscause he
could not be a high priest? What if the
humming bird should retusa to sing its songs
into the ear of the honeysuckle because it
cannot, like the eagle, dash its wing into the
sun? What is the raindro) should refuse to
descend because it is not a Niagara? What
if the spider of the text should refuse to
move its shuttle because it cannot weave a
‘Bolomon’s robe? Away with such folly! 1f
ee are lazv with the one talent, you would
f lazy with the ten talents. If Milo caun-
mot Jifé the calf he never will have strength
ito lift the ox. ' In the Lord’s army there is
lorder for promotion, but you cannot be a
igeneral until you have been a captain, a
{Heutenant and a colonel. 1t is step by step,
. tis inch by inch, it is stroke by stroke that
tour Christian character is builded. There-
fore be content to do what God commands
‘you to do.
. God is not ashamed to do small things. Ha
is nat ashamed to be found chiseling a grain
of sand, or helping a honeynes to construct
tse ceil with ‘mathematical accuracy, or
tingeing a shell in the surf. or shaping the
bill of a coafiinch. What G1 does, Hedoes
ll. ‘What you do, do we.l, bs ita great
Work or a small work. If ten talents, eniploy
ill the ten. If five talents, employ ail the
ive. If oue talent, employ the one. If only
the thoms:ndth part of a talent. employ
that, *‘Bethou 1aithful unt» death, and I
will give thee the crown of life.” I tell you if
you are not faithful to Got in a small sphere,
ot would bs indolent and insignificant in a
Ze sphere.
Again, my text teaches me that repulsive-
. ness and doathsomeness will sometimes
climb up into very elevated places. You
vould have tried to Rill the spider that So -
(omon saw. You would have sail: ‘Ihisis
no vlace for it. It that spider is determinai
| to weave a web, let it do sa down in the cel-
dar of this palace or in so fie dar dunzeon.”
Ah! the spider of tha text could not be dis-
eourazed. It clambered on an! eclimbad up.
~ higher and higher and bither. until after
awhile it reached the king's vision, and he
veaid, “Lhe spider taketh hold with hor
‘and is in kings’ palaces!’ Anlsoit
is now that things that ars loathsoms
pulsive get up into very eievated
plage ao &
’ The church of Christ, for instance, is a
“palace, ‘Lhe King of heaven and earth lives
3 Pe t. According to the Bible, her beams
are of gedar, @nd her rafters of fir, and her
windows of agate, and the fountains of sal-
tio ash a rain of lizht. It is a glorious
eanrch of God is, anlyet, some-
and loathsoma things: creep
il speaking and rancor and
ackbiting and abuse, crawling
of ‘the ‘elrureh, spinning a.
chy and from Sho of
of cholera on the Costinent.
he up.
and the scene of peaca and plenty becomes
the scene of domestic jargon and dissonance.
ou say, is: t ta the
house.” I will tell you what is tie matter
with it. A'spider in the palace.
A woll'developsi Christian character is a
grand thing to look at. ou see some man
with great intellectunl ‘and spiritud! pro-
portions. You say, ‘How useful that man
must be!” But you find amid all his “splen-
dor of faculties there is some prejudice;
some whim, some evil habit that a great
many people do ok naties Je that you
nave pappenea to novic3, an gradu
ep ] g that man’s character—it is :
Hy
going to injure his entire influence.
Others may not see if, but you are anxious
in regard to his welfare, and now you diss
cover it. A dead fly in the ointment. A
spider in the palace. : :
Again, my text teaches me that perseve-
rance will mount into the king’spalace. It
must have seemed a long distance for that
spider to elimb in Solomon's splendid rests’
dence, but it started at the very foot of the:
wall'and went up over the panels of Lieba-
non cedar, higher and higher, uatil it stoc1
higher. than the highest throne in all the na-
tions—the throne of Solomon. ‘Ani so God
has decreed it that many of thos> who are:
down in the dust of sin and dishonor shall
gradually attain to the King’s palace. We
see it in worldly things. ; ¥
Who is that banker in Philadelphia?
Why, he used to be the boy. that held the
horses of Stephen Girard while tbe million.
aire went in to collect his dividends, Ark-
wright toils on up from a ‘barber shop un-
til he gets into the palace of invention.
Sextus V. toils on up from the cffice of a
swineherd until he gets into the palace of
Rome Fletcher toils on uo from the most
insignificant family position until he gets
into the palace of | hristian Slouence, . Ho-
arth, engravi wier pol or a living,
oe on up oder 48 reaches the palace of
world renowned art.
The spider crawling up the wall of Solo-
mon’s palace was not worth looking after or
considering as compared with the fact that
we, who are worms of the dust, may at last
ascend into the palace of the King Immor-
tal. By the grace of God we all reach
it. Oh. heaven isnot a dull placa, It is
not a wornout mansion, with faded curtains
aud outlandish chairs and cracked ware,
No, it is as fresh and fair and beautiful as
though it were completed but yesterday.
The kings of the earth shall bring their honor
and glory into it. ;
I do not know but that Christ referred to
the real juice of the grape when He said that
we should drink new wine in our Father's
kingdom, but net the intoxicating stuff of
this world’s brewing. I do not say it is so:
but Ibave as much rizht for thinking it is
bo as you have for thinking tha other way.
t any rate, it will be a gloricus banquet.
Hark! the chariots rumbling in the distance,
. I really believe the guests are coming now.
The gates swing open, the guests dismount,
the palace is filling, and all the chalices,
flashing with pearl land amethyst and car-
bunecle, are lifted to the lips of the myriad
banqueters, whilestanding in robes of showy
white they drink to the honor. of our glorie
ous King,
*'Oh,” you say. “that is too grand a place
for yor and me.” No, ibis not. Ifa spider,
according to the text, could crawl up on the
wall of Solomon's palace, shall not our poor
souls, through the blood of Christ, mount
up from the depths of their.sin and shams,
and finally reach the palace of the eternal’
King? i é
Years ago, with lanterns and torches and
a guide, we went down in the Mammoth
cave of Kentucky. You may walk
fourteen miles and sso no sunlight. It
is a stupendous place. Some places the
roof of the cave is a hundred feet
high. The grottoes filled with weird
echoes; cascades falling from invisible height
to invisible death. Stalagmites rising up
from the floor of the cave; salactites de-
scanding from the roof 5% the cave, joining
each’ other and making pillars of the Al-
mighty's seulpturing. There are rosettes of
ametayst in halls of gypsum. As the guide
carries his lantern ahead of you tneshadows
have an aopearance supernatural and spsc-
tral. The darkness is fearful. x
Two people, getting lost from their guide
only for a few hours, years ago, were de-
mented, and for years sat in ther insanity.
You feel like holding your breath as you
| walk across the bridges that seem to span
the bottomless abyss. The guide throws his
calcium light down into the caverns, and
the light rolis and tosses from rock to roci
and from depth to depth, making at every
plunge a new revelation of the awful power
that could have made such a place as that.
A sense of suffocation comes upon you as
you think that yon ars two hundred and
fifty feet in a straight line fron the summit
sursace of the earth. :
The guide after awhile takes you into what
isca.led the “star chamber;” and then he
says to yon, “Sit here;” and than hs takes
the lantern and goes down under fhs rocks,
and if gets darker and darker uatil the
night is so thick that the hand an inch from
the eye is unobservable. Aud then, by
kindling one of the lanterns and placing it
in a cleft of the rock there, is a refisction
cast on the dome of the cave, and there are
stars coming out. in consteliations—a brii-
liant night heavens—and you, involuntarily
exclaim, “‘Beautitul! beautiful!”
Then he takes the lantara down in other
depths of the cavern and wanders on and |
wanders off until he comes up from behind
the rocks gradually, and it seems like the
dawn of the morning until it gets brighter
and brighte;. The guide is a skilled ven-
triloquist, and he imitates the voices of the
morning, and soon the gloom is all gone and
you stand congratulating yourself over the
wonderful spectacle.
Vell, there are a great many people who
look down into the grave as a great cavern.
They think it is a thousand miles subterran-
eous, and all the echoesseam to ba the voices
of despair, and the cascades seem to ba the
falling tears that always fall, and the gloom
of earth seems coming up in stalagmite,
and the gloom of the eternal world s2ems
descending in ths stalactitey making pil-
lars of indescribable horror. The grave
is no such place as that to me, thank God!
Our divine guide takes wus down into the
great caverns, and we have the lamp. to our
feet and the light to our path, and all the
echoes in the rifts of the rock are anthems,
and all the falling waters are tountdins of
salvation, and after awhile wo look up, and
benoll! the eaverin ot the tomb has become
a king’s star coamber.
And while we are looking at the pomp of
it an everiasting morning begins to rise, and
all the tears of earth crystalliz> into stalag-
mit, msing up in a pillar on the one side,
and all the glories of heaven seem to be de-
scending in a stalaciite, making a pillan on
the other side, anil you push against the
gate that swings between the two pillars,
and as that gate flashes open you fina it as
one of the twelve gates which ars twelve
pearis. Blessed be God that through this
Gospel the mammota cave of the sepulcher
has bacome the illuminated star chamber of
the King! Ob, the faces! the: eternal
palaces! the King's palaces!
‘Status of the Widow at Law,
The widow's share of personal
property varies in each State. As a
rule she has one-third of it and the
children two-thirds. If mo children
are living or their descendants, she
has a larger share, one-half in
some States, the whole in ‘others. As
the widow is legally competent ‘to
transact business, she can be ap-
pointed: administratyix of ther: hus-
‘band's. estate and guardian of the
ichéldren.—The Chautauaguan.
ENGLAND reaped a rich Ane tourists”
; ‘native Frenchnien
outings op the island, Fiat
i tS
and Germans. | $955,000. 0.
The jury empaneled to in
cident on the Cambria & Clg
of the Altoona division,
road, by which Cu. W.
Parrish, W. 8. Rowland,
Edward Ables, Guisepp
Martin, Daniel Rich and
their lives on the 8th ins
Alter examining sevents
jury rendered the verdict
was caused by, gross neglig
obedience of rules;governi
ofthe said railroad by Condi ( )
mire and Engineer G. S. Yoder of the con-
struction train, a ey
PICKED PEACHES ON SUNDAY. ~~
A sexsaTion has been ca ‘by the arres
of Horace G. Broadhurst for harvesting
crops of peaches on the Sabbath day. The
arrest was made at the instance of Samuel
C. Brooks. Broadhurst was arraigo®d be-
fore Justice Ely. He admitted picking 47
baskets of peaches on Sunday last, but
claimed it was work of necessity and com-
ing under the act of assembly. Various
witnesses were heard, after which the justice
wmposed the usual fine amounting to $50.
A CHOLERA CIRCULAR. ;
Governor Parrison has had sent to the
local boards of health and other authorities
of cities and towns 1n: the State, 5,000. copies
operation
G. EDun-
of his proclamation, urging the introduction
of proper sanitary measures as a precaution
against the breaking out of cholera. The
Governor expresses confidence in the abil-
ity of the State Board of Health, assisted by
authorities of the cities and towns, to pre-
vent cholera from invading Pennsylvania.
“FARMER'' ADAMS GOES CRAZY.
“Farmer” George W. Adams,’ who was
convicted at New Castle for obstructing the
Fort Wayne track at Enon, became a ray-
ing maniac. He calls continually to be
protected from imaginary detectives, whom
he believes to be after him, He will be
placed in an asylum.
KILLED AT ITS CHRISTENING.
At the christening of a Hungarian baby
near Morrisdale, whisky was as free as
water. One of the drunken Huns, while
walking about the room, stumbled and fell
on the child, crushiug the life out of it.
REFUSED NATURALIZATION FOR ILLIRERACY.
At New Castle Judge Hazen, in open
court, refused to grant naturalization papers
to an Italian who could neither write or.
speak thre English language. The Judge
said: “We do not want citizens who are ig-:
norant.’’
Turre are said to be 50 cases of typhoid
fever in Washington. .
At Morris ballast quarry at Tyrone Forge,
where there has been no blasting for three
months, a mass of rock 60 feet high, 100 feet
long and weighing 10,000 tons, fell without
a moment's warning. Six men we.e at
work below, but all escaped €xcept John
Harmody, a Polander, who ran back tosave
| his tools and was killed.
Peter McCrarxey, a Leith coke worker,
was struck by a shifter: on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad near Leith, and instantly
killed. Accidental death was the verdict.
NATURAL gas, piped from the Morley well
‘at Blacksville, W. Va., 14 miles distant, was
lighted at Waynesburg for the first time a
few nights ago.
Frrreex thousand people attended ‘the
Granger interstate fair at’ Bellefonte, Thurs.
day.
Tne Baltimore & Ohio railroad between
Uniontown and Smithfield has been com:
pleted. Freight trains will run this week
and passenger trains on and after October 1.
SurerINTENDENT of Public’ Instructions
D. J. Waller, Jr., has issued a circular to
Pennsylvania school superintendents and
teachers requesting a general observation of
Columbus day,and suggesting that a promi-
nent feature should be the planting of trees.
Tue condition of the river at Johnstown
is said to be simply terrible, owing to the
amount of garbage and filth dumped within
its banks by Johnstown and its suburbs.
Wirriam Morrissey was fatally injured
at the Scottdale brick works by a large
mass of clay falling on him.
Josrua WiLsoN, a miner living near Bra-
densville was assaulted by an insane man
named John Frown, the maniac crushing
his skull with a stone. Wilson is not ex-
pected to live. .
Prrer McCarey crawled under a rail
road car near Uniontown to escape a rain
storm. He fell asleep, and when the car
was shifted he was killed.
Tre diphtheria epidemic has again
broken out at West Newton witli great
violence. There are 50 cases in the vicinity.
READING has recently been flooded with
spurious silver dollars, and on Saturday the
police arrested Linda Myer and Annie Mil-
ler with 80 bogus dollars in their possession.
Mac M1suBAUGH, a switchman at the Con-
way yards; Rochester, on the Fort Wayne
road, was thrown off an engine and mstant-
ly killed.
Wiritam Rewce was: drowned by the
sinking of a pumping boat near Monongahe-
la City.
Mrs, Jane Potter,of Washington was struck.
by a train on the Kt. Wayne railrgad at
eoneary, and sustained serious injuries
from which she died.
Ar Boiling Springs, the large barn on
the farm of Zach Meixell, together with
the season’s crops: were burned. Loss,
$5.000, partly insured. a ;
Tromas Garner of New Brighton was
iia by a train on the P. & L. E., at Rock
2oint. {
Grant E. Progr, a typhoid fever patient
died at Reading after a desperate strugsle
with his wife. He had gone to the garret
and dashed his head against the wall.
Tue Everett furnace at Bedford and the
Everett glass works started up after under-
going repairs. © Five hundred men are em-
ployed.”
T'HE man who buys. the most ex-
pensive books is often the one who
seldom reads them.
A MAN is never so stupid but that
he can seé something to laugh at
when fortune smiles. = :
OO
A proLITE editor wrote to a brother’
editor calling him “an ass,” and
signed it “Yours fraternally.”
maw German miliary bill will provide for
doubling the strenztn Of military companies
and that tha consaqu ant increase o! expen-
diture fo military purposes will
isin A
Delusion’s d
1 The's
| should be to find tha way to cultivate both
oxceed
rs hve
ave the loud crash of ruin decays
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Skeptics we er
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Wie ve nes hie Feil Ar
They. cannot see the Shep
With et hae De ie stand
They cannot hear him calling fender;
“Comé untome? © TF BE epson
They. cannot see the. Saviour's bleedin i
. Wour pid & Bk hg i po
Nor hear the sound
8
Of grief be uttered
Dread Calvary.
: they pass blindly by :
Bid him pnstop thy hearing, Jo! thine ean
His blessing cheers; Si al
Bid bim but touch thine eyelids, lo! th)
WARY. : PEL
Is pertect day.
—[F. W. Hutt.
« UNSELFISH ‘WORK.
. Work of sone sort is made necessary to ui
by the law of God, by the demands of ow
own natures and by out relation to others
The kind of work we shall do and the ‘man
ner of doing it, are with us mitters of choice
Ordinarily we choose the most agreeabl(
work, or that which at least conduces best ta
tour own selfish interests, and we feel ofter
selves unsatisfied at the completion of oui
cherished schenies. i
. We venture to suggest that there is a mon
excellent way, and that if it be Tollowed wt
shall find pleasure not only in the progres:
of our work, hut also satisfaction in its‘ con: |
summation. The path we propose to treac
is that of unselfishness and selt-denial. z
. Tle greatest victories ever won are those
over self, and the purest hnpoiness ever se
cured comes through unseltish devotion tc
the interest of others. We have. begun tc
discover that the very best reason for the
performance of any duty is the fact that we
do not ‘want to do’ it; Pride sometime:
whispers a protest, nnd self-love puts in its
strong plea, but duty makes its stern de
mand and will not tolerate .dallying with
temptation, since it puts conscience vigor |
ously to work, and if we intend to be true
at oil we must follow the diciates of an en
lightened conscience and go with alacrity
whenever it leads. We’ say with alacrity,
because a mere sullen submission, and only
mechanical obedience, not only fail to give
us the joy of service, but prevent the results
being as valuable to God and man.
The question of motive should be carefully
cxamtned. Sometimes it may be foud thal
the ood we are doing, is being done . from:
selfish. motives altogether, We may tak
great pleisure in being cotsidered liberal, or,
alas, may find out that our public piety is t¢
‘be seen of men! and further scrutiny maj
be shown us to be so pear akin to a by poerite
that we may well be alarmed, and ask God
to pardon and guide wus aright. If ow
motives be pure, it will soon be discovered
that we are thinking only of duty for itsown.
dear rake, and that self does not even raisg
its voice. The joy we can bring into othet
lives is quickly reflected back on our own,
and we may yet learn: the lesson the Maste)
teaches us, who for *‘the joy that was set be
fore him endured the cross, ‘despising the
shame and is set down at the right hand oi
the throne of God.””—[Selected.
4 TEACH OBEDIENCE. tad :
The Secretary of the Prison Assoeiation—
which interests itself especially in the refor:
mation of the convict and restoration of the
discharged prisoner to a decent position in
society—Hhas given it as his opinion, the re
sult of years of study, that the greater pro
portion of crime is due to the failure of
parents to teach their children te obey.
That spirit of Iawlessness.g that rebellion
against ‘authority and contempt for the
majesty of the law to which; in faet, nearly
all crime may
gs is evident, entirely opposed to a
spirit of obedience; and ‘it requires
“httle serious reflection to make evident that
the boy, the girl to whom obedience to par:
ents has become second nature is not likely
to become a prey, in mature years, to the
spirit of lawlessness. “And the converse rea:
soning makes plain that those who bave nol
the subordination of their own will to.par-
ental authority, are peculiarly open to the
attacks of this spirit. * However intelligent,
‘however cultivated they may be, it. needs
only a temptation or a provocation which
appeals to them for them to fall a prey.
This thought.may- serve to throw some
light upon the puzzle presented by the fact
that the spread of education does not seem
to diminish crime. It is evident that a great-
er intelligence, without‘a corresponding in
crease of self-control and the power of self:
denial, only affords ‘increased ‘opportunity
for the breaking of law and for sins against
society. ‘Without falling into the error ol
those who say. ‘‘the former times were bet-
ter than these,” it is impossible not to see
that there was never a time, in our eiviliza-
tion at least, when parental control was sg
alight, when the reins of family diseipline
-were 80 loogely held and the independence
of the child ‘began at so early an age. |
There is much that is beautiful, much
that is desirabie, in the changed relations be-
tween parent and chila in the present day
as compared with a hundred or even. fifty
years ago; there iseverything in favor of the
loving famiiiarity of today over the stern dis-
tance and cold formality of the former time.
But there ismo reason why loving familiarity
should not exist in connection = with the
strictest obedience. In these days of ram
pant’ lawlessness the study of the parent
virtues.— [American Messenger.
THE NEW S0IL, 4
It eannot fail ‘to ‘strike you, .in reading
missionary annals, that the true converts
from heathenism ' often present a higher
Ler of our old established churches.
They are deficient in knowledge, perhaps,
but in’their simple faith in the gospel, their
childlike trus in God, their absolute resig-
tion ta hixywill, their realization of joys to
come; they ure nearer to the standard of
apostolic Christianity than some of us. =
Now Jay alongsidé of this’ the ifear that
sometimes oppresses us, lest, in the midst of
pussion and prejudice, of worldliness and
selfishness. of ritualisn and superstition, of
denominational fierceness, of atheism and
liberalism, the ‘pure faith of the church
should he damnged: And what suggests it-
self? Why that these poe springing up
on fresh seil; these heathen Christians, may
be conservers of the truth for us, and may
give back to us the gospel we are now send-
ing to them} Then let us speed the messen-
gers who ate to carry the glad tidings to the
nations still sitting in darkness and in the
region of the shadow of death.— [American
Messenger.
3 *
' Ir is estimated that 2,500,000 bushels of
corn have been shipped into Mexico from the
United States during the past seven months.
The Mexican railroads are blockaded with
the increased traffic. Corn is still selling for
$4 a bushel in the City of Mexico and many
arts of the Republic, bub the sufterng of
Tee poorer class has beon greatly relieved by
ithe tres donations made them oy the Gov-
ernment, ; : :
In Montana: - there ‘are 1839 irrigating
ditches and. seveuty-sight mimng ditohie
which have been built since 1864, Th
also ninety-thi ) irs and
1, the scoffer’ |
as he stands |.
pleased as we Llogresss, but discover our |
‘skirts, or mayhap we shail find ourselves
be ultimately traced, are, |
been trained to obedience in childhood, to {
form of Christianity than the average mem
+iexpected to dress
have blown
he summer |
d blighted,
rdrobe. . At
%
- tion you see a very
ternoon indoors, a
stamped. surah, sal-
A HOUSE GOWN, mon toned, » with
black flowerets. The lace plastron has a
transparency of plain foulard.. There are
two skirts, the under being ornamented
wits -uching and open galloon, the upper,
with the galloon only. The sleeves arggar-
nitured with lace, the lower slsevée having a’
band of the galloon. At the front the pleats
are held in place by a ribbon rosette.
AEADGEAR FOR MORNING WEAR, . =
‘During early fall we shall have to content
ourselves with old conceits. The queen bee
of fashion is brooding; she has withdrawn
to her thinking chamber to hatch out new.
ideas and fancies. What will they be? Ah!
if Tonly knew, batat this moment Ican
only guess. Perhaps we shall sit in grand
state this winter with square toed shoes
thrust solemnly out from under short
wearing bag ‘gowns or paniers. Who can
tell? Anyway, the flying hour has quite
enough to carry it alobg till the new styles
have been promulgated. What could be
prettier than a gown in apercale or'in a satin.
finish stuff, sky blue, water green, pink,
sulphur or mative, skirt and corslet in one, |
coming up oper a pleated silk blouse with
ribbon belt? In the picture you will find
wi
SA
I AAS \
£4 ul EUR AR
HRS
7 NN
Wiel
EARLY FALL GOWN,
a September fete, in embroidered batiste,
theunder-skirt being in plain batiste. The
corselet is made from a strip of the embroid-
ered material and must’'be boned. | Tt closes
at the back like the gown. Two piented
ruchings ornament the corsage, yoke-style.
THE BOOKISH GIRL
The sleeves are very full. and have ribbon
bracelets, and the opeawork silk gloves
should be of the shade of the ribhon used for
garniture, and they may, if you. choose, be
sewed to the sleeves. asi i
The illustration to-day shows the hookish
ain
striped surah. Assheis almost
tall. and slender, the ~eorslet and blouse
effects are very becoming to her. Bpeaking,
jof books reminds me of the rumor th
literary societies are to be a great
the coming winter ‘season and you
ao dress Tr
y
pretty gown for af- | 3
an‘extremely fetching outdoor gown for |
headgear for
It consists of lace colo
off with a large bow of do!
to which you add lace loo
18 suitable for & young ma
should be worn with an ive
trinrmed with the same g
Grand Army encampment at
D. C.. Chairman Fdsom, of
committee, announced that
would be held, cholera or no chi
How to Po: ch ; : :
To poach eggs in a bal
known to all clever cooks
¥ ‘ter is heated to boiling and
idly stirred till a small wh:
produced, in the hollow
which maelstrom the egg
dropped. The ‘motion
crystalizes the white instantl
| circular covering for th
pF
velle.
THE WHOLESALE JE GIVE
“8 GRAIN, FLOUR AXD FEI
WHEAT-—=No. 2 Red $
No.3 Redi. cules
CORN—No. 2 Yellow e
High Mixed est ...... 00
Mixedear..,.l.ii.....
Shelled Mixed... ..vssiss
OATS—No. 1 White... s.eue
No. 2 White.......
3 Whit:
FLOUR-—Fancy winter pat’
Fancy Spring patenfts.....
. Fancy Straight winter. ...
XXX Bakers.......a une 8 |
Rye tion ames rh vas ce.
HAY —Baled No. 1 Tim’y.. 1
Baled No. 2 Timothy... 11
Mixed:Clover. vu. cumin dl
«Timothy from country... .
ab {
ve
STRAW — Wheat... ... .... 3
Oats: as
EEED T.
Brown
T
“Chop
TE THLE DAIRY PRODUCTS.
BUTTER—Elgin Creamery
Fancy Creamery. .....«..
Fancy country roll. .
‘Choice country toll...
Low grade & cooking....
CHEESE—0 New cr'm mild
New York Goshen....
Wisconsin Swiss bricks...
Wisconsin Sweitzer. .,....
Limburger: .::.
Sib PRUID AND VEGET:
APPLES—Faucy; 9 bbl...
Fair to choice, ® bbl....
BEANS—Select, ® bu..
Pa & O Beans, @ A
Lima Beans,
ONIONS—
. Yellow danvers ® bbls...
Yellow.onion, # hbl.....
Spanish, @ orate... ies
CABBAGE New JP crate...
POTATOES :
Fancy Rose per bbl ;
Choice Roselper bhl. i...
wiih Sil POULTRY. ETC.
DRESSED CHICKENS—
Dressed ducks BI ..cva. 12
- Dressed turkeys @ .....
LIVE CHIOKENS= oii
Live Spring chickens § pr.
Live Ducks 9 pr..
Live Geese ® pr.....
¢ Live Turkeys @h........
BGGS—Pa & Ohio fresh. ..
. FEATHERS So
"+ Extra live Geese P h....... Hl
No 1 Extra 'live geese®@h
Mixed Adina 3
essen
Vaeniyeaniaay
a MISCELLANIOUS.
TALLOW=—Country, 8...
a ; : a
SEEDS West Med mi clo’er
Mammoth Clover Tr
Tim« thy prime... pt
Timothy choice... ..
Buckwheat. wisi.
RAGS—Country mixed .
HONEY—White clover.
Buckwheat... ;
: CINCINNATL
FLOUR Sufi a Ui
WHEAT-—No. 2 Bed...u.ci
RYB==No. oR... ve daidnan
CORN-—Mixed.
OATS. 0)
EGGS sabi
BUTTER «....
i . PHILADELPUAL
FLOUR— ...inaeins i
WHEAT New No.
JORN—No. 2, Mixed 5
OAES—No. 2. White. citi.
BUTTER—Creamnery Extra.
EGGS—Pa., Firsts, i
NEW YORK.
ELOUR—Patents....
WHEAT—No, 2 Re
RYE—~Westerni. i siuiiva
CORN—Ungraded Mixed...
OATS—Mixed Western.
BUTTER Creamery.
EGGS—State and Penn...
ca die el
‘ LIVE-STOCK REPORT.
EAST LIBERTY, PITTSBURG STOCK
¢
Bulk ) di
Veal Calves
i nk
nd
‘three reservoir: nN
pn tiches' irrigate 242,000 acres
under euitivation, in all 976.000 acres. ©