LATE TELEGRAPHIC JOTTINGS epi: DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN. —— What is Going on The World Over. Important Events Briefly Chronicled. — Washingign News, 1 Representative McCreary of Kentucky | while leaving the capitol slipped on the icy ! sidewalk and fell, breaking one of his arms. He was conveyed to his home and received medical attention at once. Logan Carlisle, son of the senator, will be | chief clerk of the treasury department. The election of W. N. Roach, a Democrat, in North Dakota, to the senate of the Uni- ted States, gives the Democrats & clear ma- jority for the organization of the senate of the Fifty-third congress. George E. Spencer, ex-United States Sena- tor from Alabama, died at his room in this city. The funeral took place Tuesday morn- ing. His wife was the'only relative present. ‘The remains were interred in Arlington cemetery. The desk occupied by Senator Carlisle of Kentucky was decorated Wednesday with the model of a log cabin standing in a gar- den of roses in honor of Mr. Carlisle's suc- cessor, Mr. Lindsay, who appeared and took the oath of office. ' Appropos to the local celebration of Washington's birthday a bill passed finally in Congress, appropriating $17,138 for the purpose of erecting a monument at Wake- field, Va.. the birthplace of George Wash- ington. The bill providing for an appropri- ation of $6,000 for the wharf passed the Senate last week and was referred to the House Committee on Library. Nearly ten years ago the original appropriation for the $3,000, was made. From time to time Con- gress became impressed with the import- ance of having the birthplace of Washinton marked,and the appropriation was increas- ed severa! times until it reached $30,000. The President has issued a proclamation revoking the tolls levied on Canadian ves- sels and cargoes in the Sault. Ste. Marie ca- nal, in consequence of the Dominion Gov- ernment adopting an order removing the discriminations against American vessels passing through the 'apadian canals. A Fires At Louisville, Ky.,the factory of the Harry Weissenger Tobacco Company was burned. The loss is estimated from $225,000 to $250,- 000, with an insurance of about $145,000. At Canton, N. Y., the St. Lawrence coun- ty court house was burned. All indictments and the records of the board of supervisors were destroyed. At Peoria, Ill., the whiskey trust head- quarters in the Ingersoll's homestead were burned. It is believed that all the records and vouchers wanted in the congressional investigation were destroyed. The buildings of the Wooeber car and carriage works at Denver, covering an area of 10 acres, were burned. Loss, $100,000; insurance heavy. At Flatbush, L. I, a block of 13 dwelling houses in Windsor Terrace. Total loss about $40,000. Origin believed to be incendiary. At Kadky. Turkey, five hundred houses. More than 3,000 persons are homeless. Loss, 5,000.000 francs. The English quarter was not touched by fire. SRL Crime ami Penalties. Mary Shorter, 24 years of age, was mur- dered by Jobn Archibald in Philadelphia on Friday. He slashed her across the face with a dirk knife and afterwards cut her throat. At Springville, Ala., Richard Hays, a ne: gro who assaulted a Mrs. McBoyer, was taken from jail and lynched. While mail was being transferred to the St. Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern Rail road at St. Louis, a registered mail pouch was ripped open and the contents stolen. John C. Eno, the second National Bank embezzler, who surrendered himself to the New York police authorities after being in exile for nearly nine years, went to the District Attorney’s office and gave $10,000 bail on two indictments for his appearance at trial. He pleaded not guilty to six - in- dictments. Judge Wallace, in the United States Circuit Court this afternoon, on the petition of Colonel Bliss, counsel for Eno, issued a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that the offenses with which Eno is charged do not come within the jurisdiction of the State courts. Len GFR Hd Legislative. In the Texas Senate Mr. Baldwin intro- duc d a bill to suppress mob violence; to provide damages for any person maimed by a mob or for the surviving relatives of any person killed by a mob, and to define, pre- vent and punish official negligence by re- moval of the Sheriff. There has been introduced in the Wiscon- sin Legislature a joint resolution favoring a constitutional amendment providing for the election of the President by direct vote of the people. The resolution also provides for a single term of six years, and that ex- Presidents shall be United States Senators- at-large for life. The Indiana senate passed the house bill prohibiting corporations from discharging men because of their membership in labor organizations. The South Dakota divorce bill requiring six months residence in all cases and one year where personal service cannot be Lad has become a law. The Indiana House has passed the bill to wipe out the insurance system of the Penn- sylyania Railroad. The Arkansas State Senate passed the World's Fair appropriation bill by a vote of 22 to 5. The House, it is feared, will kill thie measure. Thirty thousand dollars is the amount asked for. The House passed the bill prohibiting cigarette smoking in Arkan- sas, and the Senate will do likewise as soon as it reaches the measure. . = Disasters. Accidents and Fatalities At Ottumwa, Iowa, the residence of Adolph Neise was burped and his wife and child were cremated. Judicial. The supreme court of Missouri has de- cided that railroad companies have a garding the color line between passengers. -— Miscellnnesona, At Newburyport, Mass. Mrs. J. Gilman Adams, who was badly burned a few weeks ago, submitted toa novel and seemingiy successful surgical oreration, The wound was so large that it was impossible to obtain human skin for the purpose of grafting. so the skin of frogs was used. Nearly 3J0 grafts were put on. The frogs were chloroformed. Three members of a family named Zeis at Waterloo, Ill.. have died and several more are ill, supposedly from eating applebutter that was made in a copper kettle last fall and left standing in it over night. W. F. Lewis, 24 years of age, died in New York. His death is due, in the opinion of the physicians who treated him, to the al- most continuous use of cigarettes. He smoked at all times, except when asleep. Twenty-five valuable horses, the property of Israel Underwood, were killed in the wreck of a wild train on the Illinois Central near Lena, 1ll., Monday. The crew and twenty passengers on a train on a Michigan railroad were stuck in a snow drift all Sunday night and were dug put in the morning. Mortaary. Rufus Hatch, the once famous Wall street magnate, died at his residence in Sputen- duyville, N. Y. He was 62 years old. He retired from the street two years ago and had been failing in health ever since. General Beauregard was buried at New Orleans on Thursday. Nearly all business was suspended during the funeral. eter ¢ apital. Labor and Industrial. The Nanticoke (Pa.) mine strike is as. suming serious proportions. Superintendent Morgan ordered all the mines to shut down. This will throw 1,700 men out of employ- ment. —e Pree THE MINT REPORT. pes The Director of the Mint Submits Some Very Interesting Figures to Congress. The director of the mint has transmitted to congress a report on the production of the precious metals, covering the calendar year 1892. It follows: The value fof the gold product from the mines of the United States was approximate- 33,000,000, about corresponding to the average product of recent years. { The product of silver from our own mines is placed at 58,000,000 ounces, of the com- mercial value at the average price of silver during the year of $50,750,000, and of the coining value in silver dollars of $74,939.900. This is a falling of of 330,000 ounces from the product of the preceding year. The amount of silver purchased by the government during the year under the man- datory provisions of the act of July 14. 1840, was 54,129,727 fine ounces costing #$47,394,- 291, an average of 874 cents per fine ounce. From this silver 6,333,245 silver dollars were coined during the year. The imports of gold aggregated $18,165,056, and the exports, $76.735,592, a net loss of gold of $58,570,536. The silver imports ag- gregated $31,450,968, and the exports, #37.- i an excess of silver exports of $6,000,- The director reviews the recent movement of gold from the United States commencing in May, 1888. During the last year, that is, from February 19, 1842, when the la-t move- ment commenced, to February 15, 1893, the export of gold from the port of New York has aggregated $90,728,830. The total metalic stock on January 1, 1893, was estimated to have been: Gold, $649,788,020; silver, $593,365,265: total, $1,- 243,153.385. The stock of gold in the United States fell off during the last calendar year $39,000,000, while the stock of silver increased $46,000,- The amount of money in circulation (ex- clusive of the amount in the treasury) was $1,611,321,753 on January 1, 1893, an increase of $18,928,124 during the year. There was an increase ot over $12,000 000 in the gold product of the world during the last calendar year. Ofthis increase $2,500,- 000 was from Australia, and over $9,000,000 from South Africa. The total silver product of the world in- creased during the last calendar year about 7,650,000 ounces, occasioned chietly by an increase of 4,600,000 ounces in the product of Mexican mines and 2,400, in the pro- duct of the mines of Australia. BEYOND OUR BORDERS. A terrible explosion occurred in Skalis mine, Styria, Austria. Fifteen min- ers were killed outright or suffocated and over a score were more or less injured. The Rudolph mine at Carlsbad, Bohemia, was flooded and six people were drowned. It has been announced in the house of commons, London that the commander of the British fleet on the North American dtation would attend the naval review at New York in houor of the Columbian anni- versary, with several vegsels of war, and the admiralty was considering whether it would send additional vessels. W. W. Thomas, Jr., United States minis- terto Sweden and Norway, gave a Wash- ington's birthday ball at his residence on the evening of Feb. 22, at Stockholm. Most of the diplomatic corps and the court were present. The dancing was led by, Mrs. Thomas and Prince Eugene, youngest son of King Oscar. . In Tangiers, the rebels forced an entrance to Wazan on Wednesday for the purpose of looting the city. When all were within the walls the citizens closed the gates and at- tempted to annihilate the attacking force. The streets were scenes of horrible carnage for four hours. Hundreds were killed. the Ileven Sicilian brigands were convicted at Caltanisetta, and all sentenced to penal ser- vitude for life. In August last they captur- ed a wealthy land owner named Billotti and demanded for his release 500,000 lire. The money was raised, but if failed to reach the robbers at the time they had set. They thereupon tied their victim to a stake and built a fire around him, After he was al- most dead they strangled bim untillife was extinct. In the last month 973 cases and 369 deaths of cholera bave been reported in Russia, principaily in the provinces of Podolia and Kieff. KANSAS REPUBLICANS WIN, The Decision of the Supreme Court is in Their Favor. Chief Justice’Horton, of the Kansas su- preme court, has announced his decision in the Gunn case in favor of the Republican house, holding it to be the legal legislature. Of the other two justices, Judge Johns (Rep.) supports Justice Horton in the Gunn case. This makes the decision in fayor of the Re- publican house. The Populists are in a rage over the adverse decision of the su- preme court, They are, as usual, when ex- citement reigns, making all sorts of wild tareats be ya SosmiatTars co Ties Slaw TH ‘DR. TALMAGE ON CONCHOLOGY , Among the Birds;” the ‘Mineralogy of the BIBLE LESSONS IN SEA-SHELLS. epee How the Mollusks Saved the Lives of the Israelites in the Wilder- ness.. The Pearl | of Great Price a Prize. ——— TEXT: “And the Lord said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte and onycha.”—Exodus xxx., 34. You may not have noticed the shells of the Bible, although in this early part of the sacred book God calls you to consider and employ them as He c lled Moses to consider an Simploy. them. The onycha of my text is a shell found on the banks of the Red Sea, and Moses and his armv must bave crushed many of them under foot as they crossed the bisected waters, onycha on the beach and onycha in the unfolded bed of the deep. 1 shall speak of this shell as a beautiful and practical revelation of God, and as true as the first chaoter of Genesis and the last chapter of Revelation or everything be- tween. Not only is this shell, the onycha, found at the Red Sea, but in the waters of India. 1t not only delectates the eye with its convo- lutions of beauty, white and lustrous and serrated, but blesses the nostril®with a puo- gent aroma. This shellfish, accustomed tos eed on spikenard, is redolent with that odorous plant—redolent when alive and re- dolent when dead. Its shells waen hurned bewitch the air with fragrance. In my text God commands Moses to mix this onchya with the perfumes of the altar in the ancient tabernacle, and I propose to mix some of its perfumes at the altar of Brooklyn Tabernacle, for, having spoken to ou on the ‘Astronomy of the Bible; or, Among the Stars;” the *‘Chronology of the Bible; or, God Among the Centuries,” the “Ornithol of tbe Bible; or, God Bible; or, God' Among the Amethysts;" the “Ichthyology of the Bible; or, God Among the Fishes,” I now come to speak of the ‘‘Conchology of the Bible; or, Goi Among the Shells.” It 1s a secret that you may keep for me, for I have never beiore told it to any one, that in all the rsaims of the natural world there is nothing tome so fascinating, so completely absorbing, so full of suggestive- ness, asa shell. Whnat? More entertaining than a bird, which can sing, when a shell cannot sing? Well, there you have made a great mistake. Pick up the onycha from the banks of the Red Sea or pick up a bivalve from the beach of the Atlantic Ocean and listen, and you hear a whole choir of marine voices—bass, aito, sopranc—n an unkmnown tongue, but seeming to chant, as I put them to my ear, ‘I'he sea is His and He made it;” others singing, *‘T'hy way, O God, isin tae sea;” others hymning, ‘“‘deruleth cheraging of tbe sea.” “What,” says some one else, ‘‘does the shell impress you more than the star?’ In some respects, yes, because I can handle the thell and closely study the shell, while I raunot handle the star, and if 1 study it must study it at a distance of muilions and millions of miles, “What,” says some one else, “are you more iwpressed by the shell than the flower?’ es, for it bas far greater varie- ties and far greater richness of color, as 1 sould show you in thousands of specimens, and because the shell does not fade, as does the rose leaf, but maintains its beauty cen- tury after century, so that the onycha which the hoof of Pharaoh's horse knocked aside in the chase of the Israelites across the Red Ses may have kept its luster to this hour. Yes, they ars so ticolored and many colored that you might pile them up until you would have a wall with all the colors ot the wall of heaven, from the jasper at the bottom to the amethyst at the top. Oh, the shells! The petrified foam of the sea. Ob, the shells! The hardened bubbles of the deep. Ob, the shells, which are the diadems thrown by the ocean to the feet of the continents. ow the shells are ribbed, Fooved, cylindered, mottled, iridescent! hey were used as coin by some of th: Na. tions. They were fastened in belts by others, and made in handles of woolen im- plements by still others. Moliusks not only of the sea, but mollusks of the land. Do yon know how much they have had to do with the world’s history? They saved the church of God from extinguishment. The Israelites marched out of Ezypt 2,000,000 strong, besides flocks and herds, ‘I'he Bible says * ‘the people took their dough before it ‘was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in the clothes on their sboulders. They were thrust forth out of Egypt and could not tarry; neither had they prepared for themseves any victuals,” Just think of it? Forty yearsin the wilder- ness, Infidelity triumphantly asks, How could they live forty years in the wilderness without food? You say manna fell, Oh, that was after a long while. They would have starved fifty times before the manna fell. The fact 1s, they were chiefly kept alive by the mollusks of the land or shelled creatures, Mr. Fronton and Mr. Sicard took the same route from Egypt toward Canaan that the Israelites toox, and they give this as their testimony. “Although the children of Israel must have consisted of about 2,000,000 souls, with baggage ard innumerable flocks and herds, they were not likely to experience any in- convenience in their march. Several thou- sand persons might walk abreast with tae greatest ease 1n the very narrowest part of the valley in which they first began to file off. lt soon afterward expands to above three leagues in width. ith respect to torage they would be at no loss. The ground is covered with tamarisk, broom, clover and saint foin, of which latter sspecially camels are passionately foo, be- sides almost every variety of odoriferous plant and herb proper for pasturage. *“The whole sides of the valley tarpugh which the children of Israel marched are still tufted with brushwood, which doubt- less afforded food for their beasts, together with many drier sorts for lighting fire, on which the Israelites could with the greatest ease bake the dough they brought with them on smalliron plates, which form a constant appendage to the baggage of an oriental traveler, Lastly, the herbage underneath these trees and shrubs is completely covered with snails of & prodigious sizs and of the best sort, and, however uninviting suca a repeast ought appear to us, they are here es- teemed a great delicacy. They are so plenti- tul in this valley that it may be literally said that it is difficult to take one step without treading on them.” So the shelled creatures saved the host of Israeliteson the march to the promised land, and the attack of infidelity at this point is defeated by the facts, as infidelity is always defeated by facts, since itis founded on ignorance. In writing and printing our interrogation point has at the bottom a mark like a period and over it a flourish like the swing of a teamster’s whip, and we put this interrogation point at the end of a question, but in the Spanish language the interroga- tion point is twice used for each question. At the beginning of the question tne inter- rogation pointis presented upside down, and at the close of the question right side up. When infidelity puts a question about the Scriptures, asit always indicates igno- rance, the question ought to be printed with two interrogation points, one at the begin- ning and one at the close, but both upside down. Thank God for the wealth of mollusks all up and down the earth, whether feeding the Israelites on their way to the land flow- ing with milk and honey, or, as we are bet- ter acquainted with the mollusks, when flung to the beach of lake or sea. There are three great families of them. If I should ask yon to name three of the great royal families of the earth, perhaps you would re- spond, the house of Stewart, the house of Hapsburg, the house of Bourbon, but the three royal families of mollusks are the uni- valve, or shell in one part, the bivalve. or shell of two parts, and mutivalve, or shsll in many parts, and I see God in their every hinge, in their every tooth, . In their Fown bodies and is adorned with a colored color, prism on prism, and their adaptation of thin shells for still ponds and thick coat- ing for boisterous seas. They all dash upon me the thought of the providential care of W hat is the use of all this architecture ¢f the shell, and why is it pictured from the outside lip clear down into its labyrinths of construction? Why the infinity of skill and radiance in a shell? What is the uss of the color and exquisite curve of a thing so in- significant as a shellfish? Why, when the conchologist by dredge or rake fetches the crustaceous specimens to the shore, does he find at his feet whole alhambras and coli- seums and parthenons and crystal palaces of beauty in miniature, and these bring tolight only an infinitesmal part of the opulencs in great subaqueous world. Lienozus counted 2500 species of shells, but concholozy had then only begun its achievements. While exploring the bed of the Atlantic Ocean in preparation for laving the cable shelled animals were brougnt up from depths of 1000 fathoms. When lifting the telegraph wire from the Mediterranean and Red Seas, shelled creatures were brouzht up from depths'o! 2000 fathoms. The Ene- lish admiralty, exoloring in behalf of science, found mollusks at a depth of 2433 fathoms, or 14,210 feet deep. What a realm awful for vastoess! As the shell is onlv the house and the wardrobe of insignificant animals of the deep, why all that wonder and beauty ot construction. God's care for them isthe y reason. Aud if Go1 provide so munifi- cently for them, will He not see that you have wardrobe and shelter? Wardrobe and for a. periwinkle! Shall thers not be wardrobe and shelter fora man? Would God give a coat of mail for the defense of a nautilus and leave you no defense against the storm? He build a stone house for a creature that lasts a season and leave with- out home a soul that takes hold on centuries and eons? Hugh Miller found “the Footprints of the Creator in the old red sandstone,” and I hear the harmonies of God in the tinkle of the sea shells when the tides come in. The same Christ who drew a lesson of providen- tial care from the fact that God clothes with grass the field instructs me to draw the same lesson from the shells, . In almost every men’s life, however wall bora and prosperous for years, and in al. most every woman's life, there comesa very dark time, at leastonce. A conjunction ol circumstances will tareaten bankruptcy and homelessness and starvation. It may be that theses words will meet the ear or will meet the eye of those who are in such a state of foreboding. Come, then, and see how God gives an ivory palace to a water animal that vou could dover with a ten-cent piece and clothes in armor against all attack a coral no bigger than a snowflake. I do not thing that will-take better cara of a bivalve than of one of His own children. Irake to your feet with the gospel rake the most thorough evidencss of God's care for His creatures, 1 pile around you great mounds of shells that they may teach Jou a most comforting theology. Oa, ye of little faith, walk among these arbors of coraline and look at these bouquets of shell, fit to be handed a queen on her coronation day, and see these fallen rainbows of color, and ex- amine these lilies in stone, these primroses in stone, tbese heliotropss in stone, these cowslips in stone, thess geraniums in stone, these japonicas iu stone. O ye who have your telescopas ready look- ing eut on clear nights, trying to see what is transpiring in Mars, Jupiter and Mercury, know that within a few Rours walk or ride of wheres you now are thers are whole worlds that you might explore, but of which ou are ungon ani among the most eautiful and suggestive of these worlds is the concholozical world. Take this lessom of a providential care. How does that old bymn go? ‘We may, like ships, by tempests be tossed On perilous deeps, put cannot be lost. Though satan enrag:s the wind and the tide, "I'he promise assures us the Lord wul provide. But while you get this pointed lesson of providentlal care from tha shelled creatures of the de2p, notice in their construction that God he.ps them to help themselves; This house of stone in which they live is not dropped on them and is not built around the.n. ‘I'he material for it exudes from their fluid from the pores of their own neck. It is a most interesting thing to see these crus- tacean animals fashion their own homes out of carbonate of lime and membrane. Ani all of thisisa ty lesson to those who are waiting for ol to build their tortunes wen they ought to go to work and, like the mollu build their own fortunes out of their own brain, out of their own sweat, odt of their owa industries. Not a mollusk on all the beacass of all the seas would have a house of shell if it had not itself built one, Do not wait for others to shelter you or prosper you. All the crustaceous craatures the earth from every flake of their covering and from every ridga 8f their tiny castles on Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean coasts say, «Help yourself, while God helps you to help yourself.” : Tnose people who ara waiting for thair father or rich old uncle to dieand leave thom a fortune are as silly as a mollusk would be to wait for some other mollusk to drop on it a shell equipment. It would kill the mol- lusk as in most cases it destroys a man. Not ons person out of a hundred ever was strong enough to stand a larze estats by inherit- ance dropped on him in a chunk. Have great expectations from only two personas — God ant yourself. Lat the onycha of my text become your precaptor. But the more I examin the shells the more I am impressed toat Golis a God of emotion. Many scoff at emotion and seem to think that G4 is a Go1 of cold geometry and iron laws and eternal apathy and ean- throned stoicism. No! No! “The shells with overpowering emphasis deny it. While law and order reign in the universe, you have but to see the lavishness of color on the crustacea, all shades of crimson from faint- est blush to blood of battlefield, all shades of green, all shades of all colers from deepest black to whitest light just called out on the shells with no more order than a mother premeditates or calculates how many kisses and hugs she shall give her babe waking up in the morning sunlight. Yes, my God is an emotional God, and He says, ‘We must have colors and let thesun paint all of them on the scroll of that shel, and we must have music, and here is a carol for the robin, and a psalm for man, and a tion call for the archangel.” Aye, He snowed Himself a God of sublime embdSion when He flung Himself on this world ia the personality of Christ to save it, without re- gard to the tears it would take, or the blood it would exhaust, or the agonies it would crush out. When I see the Louvres and the Luxem- bourgs and the Vaticans of Divine paintin strewn along the 8000 miles of coast, and hear in a forest on a summer morning mus- ical academies and Handel societies of full orchestras, I say God is a God of emotion, and if He observes mathematics it is mathe- matics set to music.and His figures are writ- ten not in white chalk on blackboards, but written by a finger of sunlight on walls of jasmine and trumpet ereeper. 5 In my study of theconchology of the Bible this onycha of the text also impresses mie with the fact that religion is perfumed. W hat else could God have meant waen He said to Moses, “Take unto thee sweat spices, stacte and onycha?’ Moses iook that shell of the onycha, put it over the fire, and as it crumbled into ashes it exhaled an oddr that hung in every cartain and filled the ancient tabernacie, and its sweet smoke escaped from the sacred precincts and saturated the outside air. . Perfume! That is what religion is. Bat instead of that some make it a malodor. They serve God in a rough and acerb way. They box their child’s ears because he does not properly keep Sunday instead of making Sunday so attractive the child could mot hetp but keep it. They make him learn by heart a difficult chapter in the book of Ezo- dus, with all the hard names, because he has heen naughty. How many disagreeable every cartilage, in their every ligament, in their every spiral ridge. and in their every good people taere are! No one doubts their Jin a few moments 1 doxology for the seraphim, and a resarrec- | ct - will have to get fixed up before they go there or thev will make trouble by calling out to uw *‘Keep off that grass” “What do you mean vlucking that flower? “Show your tickets ” Ob, how many Christian peoples need to obey mv text and take into their worship and their behavior and their cousocia and presbyteries and general assemblies and confergnces more onycha! I have some- times gone in a very gala of spirit into the presepce of some disagreeable Christians” and in five minutes felt wretched, and at some other time I have gone the company of suave and genial souls, and felt exhilarant. What was the difference? It was the difference’in what they burned on their censers. The one burned onycha; the other burned asafetida. In this conchological study of the Bible I also notice that the molusks or shelled ani- mals furnish the purple that you see richly darkening so many Scripture chaoters. The purple sap in“the ancient tabernacle, purpie girdle of the priests, the rple maatle of Roman Emy the fl don of Dives in purple and fine linen—aye, the purple robe which in mockery was thrown upon Christ—were colored by the purple of the shells on the shores of the Mediterra- nean. It was discovered by a shepherd's dog having stained his mouth by breaking one of the shells, and the purple aroused ad- BE le! 3s of the purpl y purple! Six pounds ol e purples liquor extracted from the shellfishes were used to prepare one pound of wool. rp! was also used on the pages of books, Bibles and prayer booksappeared in purple vellum, which may still be found in some of the na- tional libraries of Europe. Piu speaks of the purple which kest his beausy for 193 years But after awhile the 3 purple became easier to get, and that wh had been a sign of imperial authority when worn mn robes was adopted by many people, and so an emperor, jealous of this appcopriation of tha purple, made a law that anv one except Royalty wearing purple should bs put to eath. Then, as if to punish the world for that outrage of exclusiveness, God obliterated the color frem the earth, as much as to say. “It all cannot have it, none shall have it.” But though God has deprived the race of that shellfish which afforded ths purple there are shells enough left to make wus glad and worshipful. Oh, the entrancement of hue and shape still left all up and down the beaches of all the continents! These creatures of the sea have what roots of ensmeled por- celain! They dwell under what pavilions blue as the sky and fiery as a sunset and niysterious as an aurora! Andamli not right in leading you for a few moments through this mighty realm of God so neg- lected by human eye aud human footstep? 1t is said that the harp and lute wefe in- vented from the fact that in Egypt the Nile overflowed its banks, and when the waters retreated tortoises were left by the million on all the lands, and these tortoises died, and soon nothing was lets but the cartilages and gristie of these creatures, which tight- ened under the heat into musical strings that when touched by the wind or foot of man vibra making sweet sounds, and so the world t the hint and fashioned the harp, and am I not right in trying to music out of the shells and lifting them as a harp, from which to thrum the jubilant praises of the Lord and the pathetic strains of human condolence? But I find the climax of this conchology of the Bible in the 1, which has this distinc. tion above all pon gems sta; it requires no human hand to ng out its beauties. Job speaks of it, and its sheen isin Christ's sermon, aud the Bible, which o with the opyeha of my text, closes with the pearl. Of such value is this crustaceous uet ‘I do not wender that for the exclusive right of fishing for it on the shores of Ceylon a man paid to the English Government $60,- 000 for one season. So exquisive is the pearl I do not wonder that Piiny thought it was made out of a drop of dew, the creature rising to the sur- face to take it and the chemistry of nature turning the lignid into a solid. ou will see why the Bible makes so much of the pearl in its similitudes if you know how much iteosts to get it. Boats with divers sail out from the island of Ceylon, ten divers to eacia boat. Thirteen men guide and manage the boat. Down into the dangerous deptas, amid sharks that whirl around them, plunge the divers, while 60,0)0 people anxiously gaze on. After three or four minutes’ absence from the air the diver ascends, nine-tenths stranguiated and blood and postrils, and flinging on the sand fellsinto unconsciousness. Ob, it is an awful exposure apd strain an peril to fish for pearls, and yet they do so, and is it not a wonder that to get that whieh the Bible calls the peat! of great price, worth more than all other pearis t together, there should be so little anxiety, so little struggle, so little enthusiasm? ould God that we were all as wise as the merchantman Christ commended, “who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he bad and bought it.” But what thrills me with gest) Tenses is the mat8rial out of which all pearls are made. They are fashioned from the wound of the shelifish, The exudation from that wound is fixed and hardened and enlarged into a pearl. The ruptured vessels of the water animals fashioned the gem that now adorns finger or earring, or sword hilt or king's crown. . So out of the wounds of earth will come the pearls of heaven. Out of the wound of bereavement the pearl of solace. Out of the wound of loss the pearl of gain. Out of the deep wound of the grave the pearl of resur- rection joy. Out of the wounds of a Saviour's lite and a Saviour’s death the rich, the radiant, the everlasting pear! of heaven- ly gladness. “And the 12 gates were 12 pearls.” Take the consolation, all ye wao have bsen hurt, whether hurt in body, or hurt in mind, or hurt in soul. Get your trountes sanctified. 1£ you suffer with Christ on earch, you will reign with Him in glory. Tae tears of earth are the crystals of heaven. ‘‘Every several gate was of one pearl.” Gave Maria a Lesson. Evidently there is no Servant Girls’ Protective Union in London, or if there is the yonng woman mentioned below did not belong to it. ‘fhink of sucha thing happening to one of our own top- lofty servant girls! A German merchant in London has a servant who at first was very forgetful. This fault was especially +¢Maria,” said Herr B——, ‘just run the attic and bring it here.” dinner, gave a grunt of dissatisfaction, the ladder. exertion. «sNow,” said Herr B the top.” observed . us if you can see any salt on the table. My wife and I could not find it.” This settled the business. Herald. piety, aud they will reach heaven, but they posed by two London vestries. annoying at meal times, when somfething esential was sure to be lacking from the table. One day the family were seated at the table, and the bell was rudgg as usual. Tae girl hurried to the dining room. and fetch the big step ladder down from Maria who had been disturbed at her but ran up three flights of stairs to fetch In about five minutes she returned to the room, panting with her ‘put it up at the other end of the room and climb t3 Maria did as she was told, and when she was at the top Herr B—— quietly «Maria, you have now a better view than we have; just look around and tell Maria has pever forgotten the lesson.—Epworth A tax on street organ grinders is pro- SUNDAY SCHOOL. SE LTSSON FOR SUNDAY, MARCH .5 epee. “Keeping the Sabbath,” Neh. xiii, 15 22. Golden Text: Exodus xx; 3. Commentary. : —p—— This chapter gives an account of the dis cip.ine of Nehemiahin separating from Is rael the mixe 1 multitude, and in cleansing Israel from all strangers with whom they had become entangled by marriage (verses 3, 30). 1t tells also of the discipline in ref erence to Sabbath desecration, which isjour Wecial lesson for the day; but bfore taking this up consider: the dangers o! being en. tangled and hindered by a mixed multitude. When Israel left Ezypt a company of that kind went with them, and caused them much trouble (Ex. ii., 38; Num. xi,, 4, Much trouble in the church to-day arises from tha people who ara half and half—the worldiy church members who are neither one thing nor the other, If any think that ths restorati>n under Zerubbabel and the reformationof Ezra and Nebemiah fulfilled the prophecies concern- ing restoration, let them compare Isa. xiv., 1-3. with Neh. 1x, 36, 37. If any think that we are now in the millenoial age, or thatths church with her present z24l will bring that age, let them be honest enough to. believe what is written, and they will surely sea that the Lord Himself must come for Isreals restoration and to introduc» the millennial age (Ps. cil, 16; Acts iii., 19-21), 15. *‘in tuose days saw lin Julah some treading wine presses on thé Sabbath.” Then he enumerates their other deeds of Sabbath breaking and says that he testified against them. The Sabbath was instituted in Eden before ever sin entered this world, and when wrote with His finger the T'en, Commandments on two teolets of stons He said, ‘‘Remember the Sabbath day.” ‘'hat man should give unto God oné-seventh of his time is a law from the beginning aru of perpetual obligation. 16, **I'here dwelt men of Tyre, also, wh~ fold on the Sabbath unto the children of Judab, and in Jerusalem.” gives His laws to Mis children because they are His children. He gave no laws to Isrdel until He bai redeemed them from Egypt. No man can be saved by the deeds of the law, but ony by the grace of God, but bein saved througk Jesus Christ, who is the ns of the law for righteousness for every one that believeth, it is then, and only then, that the righteousness of the law can be ful tilled in us who walk not after the flash, but after the Spirit (Rom. iii, 20, 24; x., 4; viii, 4), Those who know not 30d know no Sabbath, but the people of Judah should bave shown the men ot Tyre that they kept holy the Sabbath because of their God. There can ve no trade with no buyers, and unless the ple of Jerusalem had bought the men of I'vre had not sold. 17. *“‘I'hen 1 contended with the nobles of Judah and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do and profane the «Sabbata day?’ In verse 11 waread that hs contend- ed with them because they had forsaken the house of God. The hous: of God was Israel's center, and the laws of God their especial delight, 1f they were Israelites indeed; but they were prone to forsake His house and despise His word (II Chron. xxxvi., 16), and for this they went to Babylon. Now taat they have returned from captivity and left thew idois their hearts still wander from God and His laws. And so it was long after, in the days of Maiucaoi, when thay robbed God in tithes and offerings and said that it was vain to serve Goi (Mal, i, 8, 14). 1¥, “Didi not our fathers tous? Yet ya bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the Sabbftb.”! Although judgment hai overtaken their fathers, yet they continaa in the same sins, Tor nov until the Ethiopiaa can change his skin and the leopard his spots can those do good who are accustomasl to do evil (Jer. xiii, 23.. **An empty min will get underStandinz when a wild ass's colt is borg a man” (Job. x, 12, RK. V,, margin). Nothing wilt make man waat ne ought to be but a naw heart, a birth from ‘above, and this is a new creation accom- Plisoed by the word and the spir.t of Gol. t is the gift of God (223k. xxxvi, 26), ant nothing can deprive ons o. 1t but refusal tw receive it, \ 19. **And some of my servantsset I at tha gates, that there should be no burden vroughtin on the Sabbath day.” There is fucn a thing as compelling law breakers to be obedient, and it our city rulers had tae spirit of Nehemiah there would not bs toe Sabbath desecration whica is increasingly and alarmingly prevalent in all our cities, God will hold our rulers responsiole for alt tbat they can prevent of evil and do not. But to be personal, there are such com- mands as these for believers. *L3t us lay ‘ a-ide every weight and tne sin whica doth so easily beset us.” “Liat us cleanss our: selves from all filthiness of the flash and spirit.” “Put off the old man, with his aeeds” (Heb. xii, 1; 1I Cor. vii, 1, Col iii., 9). And these we are bound to obey 'if wa would know in our daily life anything of the meaning of true Sabbath rest. 20. *‘So the merchants and sellers of all kina of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twic:.”