OR. TALMAGE'S [SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: “God’s Second Giff’’=The World is Too Much With Us—The Better Life and the Advantages of Religion— The Story of Caleb and Othniel. Text: “Thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water, And he gave her the upper springs and the nether _springs.”—Joshua xv., 19, The city of Débir was the Bostun of an- tiquity—a great place for brain and books. Caleb wanted it, and he offered his daugh- ter Achsah as a prize to any one who would capture tbat city. It was a strange thing for Caleb to do, and yet the man who could take the city would have, at any rate, two olements of manhood—bravery and patriot- ism. Besides, I do not think that Caleb was as foolish in offering his" daughter to the conqueror of Debir as thousands in this day who seek alliances for their chil- dren with those who have large means without any reference to moral or mental acquirements, Of two evil I would rather measure happiness by the length of the sword than by the length of the pocket- book. In one case there is sure to be one good element of character; in the other there may be none at all. With Caleb’s daughter as a prize to fight for, General Othniel rode into the battle. The gates of Debir were thundered into the dust, and the city of books lay at the feet of the con- querors. The work done, Othniel comes back to claim his bride. Having conquered the city, it is no great job for him to con- quer the girl’s heart, for however faint- hearted a woman herself may be she al- ways loves -¢éourage in a man. I neversaw an exception to that. The wedding festivity having gone by, Othniel and Achsah are akout to go to their own home. However loudly the cym- bals may clash and the laughter ring, par- ents are always sad when a fondly cher- ished daughter goes off‘to stay, and Ach- sah, the daughter of Caleb, knows that now is the time to ask almost anything she wants of her father. It seems that Caleb, the good old man, had given as a wedding present a piece of land that was mountain- ous, and, sloping southward toward the deserts of Arabia, swept with some very hot winds. It was called “a south land.” But Achsah wants an addition of property: she want a piece of land that is well watered and fertile. Now it is no wonder that Caleb, standing amid the bridal party, his eyes so full of tears because she was going away that that he could hardly see her at all, gives her more than she asks. She said to him: ‘Thou hast given me a south land; give me aiso springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs and tho nether springs.” The fact is that as Caleb, the father, gave Achsah, the daughter, a south land, Bo God gives to us His world. I am very thankful He has given it to us. But I am like Achsah in the fact that I am not satis- fied with the portion. Trees and flowers and grass and blue skies are very well in their places, but he who has nothing but this world for a portion has no portion at all. It is a mountainous land, sloping off toward the desert of sorrow, swept by flery siroccos; it is ‘‘a south land,” a poor portion for any man that tries to put his trust in it. What has heen your experi- ence? What has been the experience of every man, of every woman, that has tried this world for a portion? Queen Elizabeth, amid the surroundings of pomp, isunhappy because the painter sketches too minutely the wrinkles on her face, and she indig- nantly cries out, “You must strike off my likeness without any shadows!” Hogarth, at the very height of his artistic triumph, is stung almost to death with chagrin be- cause the painting he had dedicated to the king does not seem to be acceptable, for George II. cries ont: “Who is this Ho- garth? Take his trumpery out of my pres- ence.” Brinsley Sheridan thrilled the earth with his eloquence, but had for his last words, “TI am absolutely undone.” Walter Scott, fumbling around the inkstand, trying to write, says to his daughter: ‘Oh, take me back to my room! There is no rest for Sir ‘Walter but in the grave!’ Stephen Girard, the wealthiest man in his day, or at any rate only second in wealth, says: “I live thelife of a galley slave. When I arise in the morning, my one effort is to work so hard that I can sleep when it gets to be night.” Charles Lamb, applauded of all the world, in the very midst of his literary triumph says: “Do you remember, Bridget, when we used to laugh from the shilling gallery at the play? There are now no good plays to laugh at from the boxes.” But why go so far as that? I need to go no farther than your street to find an illustra- tion of what I am saying. Pick me out ten successful worldlings— and you know what I mean by thoroughly successful worldlings—pick me out ten successful worldlings and you cannot find more than ono that looks happy. Care drags him to business; care drags him back. Take your stand at 2 o’clock at the corner of the streets and see the agonized physiog- nomies. Your high officials, your bankers, your insurance men, your importers, your wholesalers and your retailers as a class— _ as a class, arethey happy? No. Care dogs their steps, and making no appeal to God for help or comfort many of them are tossed every whither. How has it been Tigo my hearer? Are you more content in the house of fourteen rooms than you were in the two rooms you had in a house when you started? Have you not had more care and worriment since you won that $50,000 than you did before? Some of the poorest men I bave ever known have been those of great fortune. A man of small means may be put in great business straits, but the ghastliest of all embarrassments is that of the man who has large estates. The men who commit suicide because of monetary losses are those who cannot bear the bur- den any more because they have only §50,- 000 left. On Bowling Green, New York, there is a house where Talleyrand used to go. He was a favored man. All the world knew him, and he had wealth almost unlimited. Yet at the close of his life he says: ‘‘Behold, eighty-three years have passed without any practical result, save fatigue of body and fatigue of mind, great discouragement for the future and great disgust for the past.” Oh, my friends, this is a ‘‘south land,” and it slopes off toward deserts of sorrows, and the prayer which Achsah made to her father Caleb we make this day to our Father God: “Thou hast given me a south land: give me also springs of water. Ana he gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.” Blessed be God, we have more advan- tages given us than we can really appre- ciate! We have spiritual blessings offered us in this world which I shall call the nether springs and glories in the world to come which I shall call the upper springs. Where shall I find words enough threaded with lig.:.t to set forth the pleasure of religion. David, unable to describe it in words, played it on a harp. Mrs. Hemans, not finding enough power in prose, sings that praise in a canto. Chris- topher Wren, unable to describe it in lan- guage, sprung it into the arches of St. Paul's. John Bunyan, unable to present it in ordinary phraseology, takes all the fas- cination of allegory. Handel, with ordi- nary music unable to reach the height of the theme, rouses it up to an oratorio. Oh, there is no life on earth so happy as a really Christian life! I do not mean a sham Christian life, but a real Christian ‘1ife. Where there is a thorn there is a whole garland of roses. Where there is one groan there are three doxologies. Where there is one day of cloud there is a whole season of sunshine. Take mathe bumblest Christian man that you know— angels of God canopy him with their white wings; the lightnings of heaven are his armed allies; the Lord is his Shep herd, picking out for him green pastures by still waters. If he walk forth, heaven is Ms bodyguard. If he lie down to sleep, ladders of light, angsl blossoming, are let into his dreams. f. he be thirsty, the potentiates of heaven are his cupbearers. f he sit down to food, his plain table blooms into the King's banquet. Men say: “Look at that odd fellow with the wornout coat. The angels of God ery ‘‘Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates, and let him come in!” Fastidious people cry, ‘‘Get off my front steps!” Thedoorkeepers of heaven cry, ‘Come, yo blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom!” When he comes to die, though he may be carried out in a pine box to that potter's field, to that potter’s fleld the chariots of Christ will come down, and the cavalcade will crowd all the boulevards of heaven. I bless Christ for the present satisfaction of religion. It makes a man all right with reference to the past; it makes a man all right with reference to the future. Oh, these nether springs of comfort! They are perennial. The foundation of God standeth sure having this seal, ‘The Lord knoweth them that are His,” *‘The mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but My kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of My peace be removed, saith the Lord, who hath mercy upon thee.” Oh, cluster of diamonds set in burnished gold! Oh, nether springs of comfort bursting through all the valleys of trial and tribulation! When you see, you of the world, what satisfaction there is on earth in religion, do you not thirst after it as the daughter of Caleb thirsted after the water springs? Itis no stagnant pond, scummed over with malaria, but springs of water leaping from the Rock of Ages! Take up one cup of that spring water and across the top of the chalice will float the delicate shadows of the heavenly wall, the yellow of jasper; the green of emerald, the blue of sardonyx, the fireof jacinth. I wish I could make you understand the joy religion is to some of us. It makes a man happy while he lives and glad when he dies. With two feet upon a chair and bursting with dropsies, I heard an old man in the poerhouse ery out, “Bless the Lord, oh, my soul!” I looked around and said, “What has this man gottothank God for?’ It makes the lame man leap as a hart, and the dumb sing. They say that the old Puritan religion is a juiceless and joyless religion, but I remember reading of Dr. Goodwin, the celebrated Puritan, who in his last moment said: ‘““Isthis dying? Why, my bow abides in strength! I am swal- lowed up in God!” ‘‘Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.” Oh, you who have been trying to satisfy yourselves with the “south land” of this world, do you not feel that you would, this morning, like to have access to the nether springs of spiritual comfort? Would you not like to have Jesus Christ bend over your cradle and bless your table and heal your wounds and strew flowers of consolation all up and down the graves of your dead? ’Tis religion that can zive Sweetest pleasures while we live. Tis reiigion can supply ‘Sweetest comfort when we die. Jut I have something better to tell you, suggested by this text. It seems that old Father Caleb on the wedding day of his daughter wanted to make her just as happy as possible. Though Othniel was taking her away and his heart was almost broken beeause she was going, yet he gives her a ‘‘south land;” not only that, but the nether springs; not only that, but the upper springs. O God, my Father, Ithank Thee that Thou bast given me a ‘‘south land” in this world and the nether springs of-spir- itual comfort in this world; but, more than all, I thank Thee for the upper springs in heaven! It is very fortunate that we cannot see heaven until we get into it. OO Chris- tian man, if you could see what a place it is we would never get you back again to the office, or store, or shop and the duties you ought to perform wouid go ne- glected! Iam glad I shall not see that world until I enter it. Suppose we were allowed to go on an excursion in- to that good land with the idea of re- turning. When we got there and heard the song and looked at their raptured faces ald mingled in the supernal socie- ty, we ‘would cry out; “Let us stay! We are coming here anyhow. Why take the trouble of going back again to that oid world? We are hers now. Let us stay!” And it would take angelic vio- lence to put us out of that world it once we got there, but as people who cannot afford to pay for an entertainment some- times come around it and look through the door ajar, or through the openings in the fence, so we come and look through the crevices into that good land which God has provided for wus. We can just catch a glimpse of it. We come near enough to hear the rumbling of the eter- nal orchestra, though not near enough to know who blows the cornet or who fingers the harp. My soulspreads out both wings and claps them in triumph at the thought of those upper springs. One of them breaks from beneath the throne. Another breaks forth from beneath the altar of the temple. Another at the door of ‘the house of many mansions.” Upper springs of gladness! Upper springs of light! Upper springs of love! It is no faney of mine. ‘The Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living foun- tains of water.” O Saviour divine, roll in upon our souls one of those anticipated raptures! Pour around the roots of the parched tongue one drop of that liquid life! Toss before our vision those fountains of God, rainbowed with eternal victory! Hear it! They are never sick there; not so much as a headache or twinge rheumatic or thrust mneuralgic. The inhabitant never says, ‘I am siek.”” They are never tired there. Flight to farthest world is only the play of a holiday. They never sin there. It is as easy for them to be holy as it is for us to sin: They never die there. You might go through all the outskirts of this great city and find not one place where the ground was broken for a grave. The eyesight of the redeemed is never blurred with tears. There is health in every cheek. There is spring in every foot. There i3 majesty on every brow. There is joy in every heart. There is hosanna on every lip. How they must pity us as they look over and look down and see us and say: “Poor things away down in that world!” And when some Christian is hurled into a fatal accident, they ery: ‘Good!’ He is coming!” And when we stand around the couch of some loved one whose strength is going away and we shake our heads fore- bodingly they cry: *‘I'm glad he is worse. He has been down there long enough. There, he is dead! Come home! Come home!” Ob, if we could only get our ideas about that future world untwisted, our thought of transfer from here to there would be as pleasant to us as it- was to a little child that was dying. She said: “Papa, when will I go home?’ Aud he said: ‘To-day, Florence.” ‘To-day? So soon? Iam so glad!" I wish I could stimulate you with these thoughts, O Christian man, to the highest possible exhilaration! The day of your deliverance is coming—is coming, rolling on with the shining wheels of the day, and the jet wheels of the night. Every thump of the heart is only a bammer stroke striking off another chain of clay. Better scour the deck and coil the rope, for harbor is only sixmiles away. Jesus will come down the Narrows to meet you. “Now is your salvation nearer than when you believed.” Man of the world, will you not to-day make a choice between these two portions, _between the ‘‘south land” of this world, which slopes to the desert, and this glori- ous land which thy Father offers thee, run- ning with eternal watercourses? Why let your tongue be consumed of thirst when there are the nether springs and the up- per springs—comfort here and glory here- after? Utility of Diamond Circular Saw. The use of the diamond circular saw for cutting stone is facilitating the erection ot the Paris Exposition buildings. The dia- monds which form the cutting teeth of the saw are worth about %3 a karat, and are fixed in a steel disc over six feet in diame- ter, (EVTONE STATE NENS CONDESE MOTHER INTERFERED. A of Lover 45 Attempts Suicide Because His Parents Would Not Permit Him to Bring Home His Prospective Bride. William Mong, aged 45 years, resid- ing at Centerville, was engaged to a young lady of that section, but his mother, with whom he makes his home on a farm, objected and refused to al- low him to bring home his prospective bride. William brooded over the mat- ter and the other day went across the road to the barn of Samuel Anderson and hanged himself. A neighbor dis- covered what Mong had done and cut the rope. Mong cannot recover. The state superior court Monday granted a new trial to Rev. Dr. Silas C. Swallow in the criminal libel action brought against him by John C. De- laney, state superintendent of public buildings and grounds. Dr. Swallow, in his paper, the Pensylvania Metho- dist, had accused Delaney of corrup- tion and malfeasance in office in con- nection with the purchase of materials and supplies for the fitting up of Grace church, Harrisburg, for the use of the state legislature, after the burn- ing of the capitol. At the trial Dr. Swallow was convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of $500. Judge Smith, who delivers the opinion of the superior court reversing this verdict and sen- tence, says the defendant has been convicted of a libel on the superin- tendent of grounds and buildings and the state officers who are by law com- missioners of public grounds and buildings, in their official character as such. The alleged libel was contained in an article published in a newspaper cf which the defendant was editor. The jury at Washington trying the ccse aganst James Altiere of New Castle - for the murder of John. V. Stuckrath returned a verdict of not guilty the other day after having de- liberated half an hour. Young Altiere will be recommitted to Morganza re- form school, to serve out his unexpired term. Harry Fisher of Allegheny, who pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree, was called for sentence. C. L. V. Acheson made an eloquent appeal for a light sentence, on account of his extreme youth. . Judge Taylor, how- ever, thought a severe sentence should be imposed, the crime having been committed in a house of correction; where young criminals are given a chance to reform. Fisher was sen- tenced to the Western penitentiary for tifteen years and six months and to ray a fine of $500. The trial was a very short one, consuming less than a day. The following pensions were granted last week: Thomas L. Phillips, Pitts- burg, $8; Hugh Bales, Pittsburg, $6; John T. McCurry, Allegheny, $8; Rich- ard Williams, Johnstown, $8; Sarah Bothel, Creekside, $8; Martha New- hard, Meadville, $8; Lizzetta Michael, Industry, $8; John H. Larimer, Turtle Creek, $6; John Fisher, Jennerstown, $8 to $12; Adam Bowser, Quincy, Franklin, $12; minor of Luther Hart- son, Putnamville, Warren, $8: Margret Shaffer, Apollo, $8; Samuel Wertz, Conemaugh, $12; Thomas McKee, New Castle, $6; Mansa Shaw, Waynesburg, $8 to $10; David Campbell, Indiana, $5 to $10; Perry Jarrett, Selins Grove, $8 to $10; Walter® Lowry, Pittsburg, $6; Mena Spigelmyer, McClure, $8: Susan- nah Houts, Greensburg, $8. A meeting of the board of pardons was held at Harrisburg last week at which pardons were recommended for Herbert John of Philadelphia, fortune telling; John Hathaza, Westmoreland, assault; George Wilson Barrett, alias James J. McGunigle, = Huntingdon, burglary; J. Bert Davidson, Alle- gheny, robbery, and Amazie Miller, Lackawanna, statutory burglary. The case of Zenas Anderson of Allegheny, first degree murder, was continued. No action was taken in the other cases on the calendar. Mrs. Pauline Poiza, of Mt. Carmel, a few days ago, concluded to kill her in- fant son and herself. She hurled the child down a flight of stairs, and then swallowed a lot of corrosive sublimate. She went into canvulsions. When a floctor arrived he found = her throat horribly eaten by the poison. Tle lab- ored all night with her, but she couli not recover. The child escaped with a few scratches. George Henry, aged 40, a well-to-do resident of Buena Vista, Salisbury township, was found dead thz other morning about a mile from Gay, where he had spent a convivial evening with friends. There is every reason to be- lieve that he fell exhausted in the snow while on his way home and froze to death. A widow and several chil- dren survive. : The Luzerne county court, at an ex- pense of $100, met in special session last week for the purpose of counting the soldier vote. Only one vote was received, that ot Charles B. Knecht, a member of the Fourth Pennsylvaniy regiment, organized at Allentown. He voted the straight Democratic tickat with the exception of Sowden for lieu- tenant governor. For the second time within a month the general store of Lott & Son and KF. A. Weber and the postoffice at Trout- ville were entered by burglars last week. The thieves carried off mer- chandise, looted the money drawers in the stores and carried off all the loose money at the postoffice. A reward will be offered for their capture. Mrs. Valentine Krantz, 76 years old, died of a mysterious illness at Katon a few days ago. She took dinner at her son’s residence, from the effects of which she, her son and her daughter- ir-law and their children were taken violently ill. All recovered except the older woman. The police are investi- gating. It is reported at Grove City that a panther is roaming the woods north of there, his cries being plainly heard by a number of farmers. A number of domestic animals have lately been badly tern in some manner, it is sup- posed by its attacks. A hunting pariy will likely be organized to run it down. While cn his way to the poor house. Homer Wilson, an. octogenarian of tochester township, was overcome by exposure and exhaustion and sank to the ground, where he was found dead last Saturday morning. His body was identified by committment pap2rs iss sued by Squire Douds of Vanoort William Keefer has returned to Five Points, Mercer county, after a 14- months’ absence in the Klondike, with $9,000 in gold dust. He says the region is not fit for a dog to live in. Dawson City is a lawless place, life being held in small account if a dollar is at stake. He will not return. It was unanimously decided by the several classes «of the Pennsylvania State College, at meetings held during the past week, to abolish hazing of all kinds in order to prevent the spread- ing of such exaggerated reports as have been circulated in the past in re- gard to hazing at State. A squash grown by Dr. A. B. Clark of Wilmington, weighs 51 pounds. It was raised from seed brought from Armenia by a refugee, | This TE SHBBNTH SCHOOL ESSN INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR DECEMBER 4. Lesson Text: “The Book of the Law,” II Kings xxii., 8-20-=Golden Text: Psalms cxix., 2—=Commentary an the Lesson by the Rev. D. M. Stearns. 8. “I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord.” By comparing IT Chron. xxxiv., 14, it looks as if it might have been an original copy of the law. Josiah was the last good king of Judah; and he reigned thirty-one years. In the thirteenth year of his reign Jeremiah be- gan to prophesy and continued a prophet of the Lord for forty years (Jer. i., 2, 3). It is written of Josiah in II Kings xxiii., 25, that there was no king either before or after him who like him turned to the Lord with all his heart and soul and might. Hezekiah excelled all others in his trust in the Lord (II Kings xviii., 5). Josiah be- gan to reign at the age of eight years.: When he was sixteen, he began to seek God. When he was twenty, he began to cleanse the land of idols. When he was twenty-six, he repaired and cleansed the temple, and kept the greatest passover that had been kept since the days of Samuel (IT Chron. xxxiv., 3, 8; xxxv., 18, 19). It was while they were working at jue tomple that they found this book of the aw. 9. S8haphan the soribe reported to tha king that the money which had been gath- ered in the house of the Lord had been de- livered to the overseers of the work, and it is said that they were so faithfui that no reckoning was made with them of the money (verses 4-7). We do not read of any lack of funds for.the work, for the blessing of Elshaddai (the mighty God who is all sufficient) was upon His faithful people. 10, 11. Shaphan told the king of the book that had been found, and read it to him, and when he heard it he rent his clothes. Joslah was possessed of a poor and con- trite spirit and trembled at God’s word (Isa. 1xvi., 2; lvii., 15). It is written in Ex. ix., 4, “Then were assembled every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel because of the transgression.” Many are indifferent to the word of God and never read it or hear it read. Many who read it do not give heed to it. Many, even of those who are supposed to be preachers of the word, dishonor it by doubting it and questioning it, while but few comparatively tremble at it like Josiah. 12, 13. *‘Go yo, inquire of the Tord for me and for the people, and {or all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found.” {The priest and scribe and others were thus commissioned by the king. It may have been such passages as Deut. xxviii., 15-37; Lev. xxvi., 14-46, that so stirred Josiah, but whatever portions speec- ially effected him he evidently believed what many professing Christians do not to- day believe, that there is such a thing as the wrath of God and that it is a very seri- ous matter not to believe and obey the words of the Lord. To set one’s heart upon and observe to do the words of the law was said to be their life, but if one would not hearken God had said that He would require it of him (Deut. xxxli., 46, 47; xviii, 19). A common form of unbelief now is that God is too good to punish any- one and that there is no place of fire and brimstone either for the devil or his fol lowers. 14. “They went to Huldah the prophetess who dwelt in Jerusalem, and they coms muned with her.” So there were at other times a Deborah and an Annu who knew the Lord better than others (Judg. iv., 4; Luke ii., 36). God has His hidden ones to whom He reveals Himself and whom He uses to instruct others when His time comes. It may be a Joseph in a prison, or a Daniel who has been crowded out by a younger and more progressive party, an Elijah at some cherith, or a Stephen or a Philip ready for any manner of service. Wherever you are be sure that you are learning to know God, for in due time He will call you. 15, “Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me.” She had no words of her own for them, no opinions or suggessions, no words of peace- ful flattery, but only a faithful message from the Lord, regardless of what they might think of it or of her. When God has a messenger whom He can use, He always glves a message. He said to Moses, “I will be with thy mouth and teach thee what thou shalt say.” 16. “Behold I will bring evil upon this place—all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read.” Every purpose of the Lord shall be performed, for hath He sald and shall He not do it? Or hath He spoken and shall He not make it good? (Jer. li., 29; Num. xxiii.. 19). All that God purposes to do is as good as done, for He is able to carry out all His plans; there is nothing too hard or wonderful for Him. He cannot err, neither can He (fail nor be discouraged. He did not fail to lay upon His dear Son all our sins. He will not fail to let His wrath fall upon all who despise His Son and His love. 17. “My wrath shall be kindled against this Jlase and shall not be quenched.’’ ecause they forsook God -and wor shiped the works of their own hands. They forsook the fountain of living water and made themselves cisterns which could hold { no water (Jer. il., 13). We think it strange that Israel could possibly turn from the living God to worship idols of wood and stone. Yet in the so-called service of God among us there is a great turning from the simple worship of God in spirit and truth to that which is possibly worse than the idols of Israel. 18. 19. ‘‘Because thine heart was ten- der, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, when thou heardest what I spake.” Although wrath would surely fall upon the nation, yet upon Josiah and such as humbled themselves before God there would be mercy. At one time the Lord said that though Noah, Daniel and Job were in the sity, they would deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, Again He said that, though Moses and Samuel stoodsbefore Him, His mind could not be toward Israel (Ezek. xiv., 14; Jer. xv.; 1). There came a time when all that certain righteous ones could do was to sigh and ory because of the sins which they loathed, but could not prevent. On them God set His mark of approval (Ezek. ix., 4). We cannot rectify the wrong things that are all about us, we cannot bring righteousness everywhere to be mani- fested, but we can, each one for himself and herself, be right with God through Jesus Christ our Lord, and He will then use us to hless others as far as He can, and it shall be well with us. 20. “Thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place.” When the time comes for us to be called out of these mortal bodies, we ourselves are in- stantly in glory (Phil. i., 21, 23; II Cor. v., 8), but our bodies rest in peace and under His care whose temples they were until the resurrection.—Lesson Helpor. Trom the Depths of Despalr. Tn all seasons and moods we are to do our work with unflinching courage; we are to be loyal to the highest truthsthough our hearts are lead within us; we are to inspire and lead though we cannot see the way for the darkness. A man o'ten does his noblest work in the deepest depression; he often speaks the greatest word which ia given him out of the depths of something very like to despair. It is our part to sail courageously and unhesitatingly on in the blackest night or the dreariest day. The same power that made the sea made the weather.—Outlook. En ——— —— —— Pedro Perca, New Mexico's newly- elected Congressional delegate, is of pure Spanish lineage, being able to trace his family back to Castile be- fore, 250 years ago, they first came to the New World. .ing a fine THE MARKETS. PITTSBURG. Grain, Flour and Feed. WHEAT—No. 1lred......... J No. 2 red CORN—No. 2 yeilow, ear....... No.“2 yellow, shelled. ........ OATS—No. No. 8 white FLOUR—Winter patents Fancy straight winter Rye flour HAY No. 1 timothy Clover, No. 1... FEED—No. 1 whit Brown middlings Bran, bulk Oat sie ye BEEDS—Clover, 60 Ibs, Timothy, prime Dairy Froducts BUTTER—EIlgin creamery. Ohio creamery Fancy country roll CHEESE—Ohio, new New York, new Fruits and Vegetables, BEANS—Lima®qt............8 POTATOES—Fancy White, ® bu CABBAGE—Per bbl ONIONS—Choice yellow, # bu. Poultry, Etc, CHICKENS—Per pair, smail ..$ TURKEYS—Per Ib EGGS—Pa. and Ohio, fresh.... CINCINNATI, CORN —Mixed OATS . EGGS... .. BUTTER—Ohio creamery. . PHILADELPHIA, OATS—No. 2 white BUTTER Creamery, extra.... i EGGS—Pennsylvania firsts. ... 21 NEW YORK. FLOUR—Patents..............3 3 95@ 4 WHEAT-—No. 2 red 77 7 CORN—No. 2 BUTTER Creamery..... EGGS—State of Penn LIVE STOCK. Central Stock Yards, East Liberty, Pa. CATTLE. Prime, 1300 to 1400 Ibs.... Good, 1200 to 1300 Ibs Tidy, 1000t01150 tbs. ........ Fair light steers, 900 to 1000 Ibs Common, 700 to 900 Is.... ... 4 8)@ 5 460 4 43) 450 8:70. 4 3 37 Medium Roughs and stags.............. SHEEP, Prime, 95 to 105 ihs Good; 85:t0%0:1hs.. ............ Fair, 70 to 80 ibs. .... “TCE Ha He Springer, extra Springer, good to choice Common to fair Extra yearlings, light. Good to choice yearlings Medium common... TRADE REVIEW. Thanksgiving Week Witnessed Prosperity Among Many of the Industries. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review ot trade reports as follows for last week: Thanksgiving in 1898 means more than for thirty years. The ‘harvest home” has never recognized larger crops on the whole in this country, the general prosperity is attested by the largest volume of business ever rec- orded, the people's verdict has given reason to hope that the nation’s honor will not again be in peril, and a war not matched in history for swiftness of success with smallness of loss has brought more perfect union than ever between North and South, and closer bonds than ever with ‘kin beyond the sea,” ending with the most important increase of territory since California was added to the union. There has been more liberal buying of cotton goods in part because of last week's reductions in bleached goods, and the curtailment of production in print cloths has caused an advance of a sixteenth, while the export demand supports heavy brown goods, and all are helped by the feeling that cotton has probably seen its worst. There is slight improvement in reorders for men’s spring woolens, though neither jobbers nor clothiers have yet been buying freely. The bulk, of the de- mand is for medium plain fabrics, es- pecially serges and clays, but high grade goods are quiet. Mgqre is doing in dress goods, but not enodgh for pro- ducers. Sales of wool have been 35,- 975,000 pounds for four weeks, includ- ing about 5,000,009 for export, but mostly at concessions which have been this week a little increased on fine unwashed fleeces. When the steel rail contract was ready for final signature, withdrawal of one large company Killed it, but a working compact is nevertheless said to have been made, apparently a sort of “gentiemen’s agreement,” in which more confidence is perhaps expres:=ed than is felt. The market for bessemer grows stronger at Pittsburg and gray forge advances to $925; billets at Pittsburg are in heavy demand at $15 25 and steel bars at $16; the Edgar Thomson works have started on rails with three to four months’ orders ahead: Chicago works have booked turther orders for plates, including one for 1,500 tons, and statements made by the Iron Age shows that bids for the 75,000 tons needed -in the Coolgardie pipe lines, with other heavy export contracts, are hindered only by an ocean freight syndicate. Wheat has again advanced a shade, though for spot only 3c during the week, while western receipts are y; for four weeks have been 38,- 291 bushels, against 29,119,104 bush- last year. The Atlantic exports, flour included, have been 3,957,87 bushels last year. Pacific exports, 371,185 bushels, against 1,626,959 bushels last year, making for three weeks of November 13,642,066 bushels, against 15,195,209 bushels last year. While At- lantic shipments exceed lats year’s, a decrease from the Pacific affects this market but little. Moreover, corn ex- ports continue heavy, in four weeks 10,583,218 bushels, against 9 328,788 bushels last year, lifting the price 7%e¢ and showing a continued demand for nearly five months almost equal to the unprecedented demand of last year. Failures for the week have been 188 in the United States, against 236 last year, and 21 in Canada, against 25 last year. Ha Hh Gr C1 Ot els Gen. Wood Prevents Cock Fights. Gen. Wood at Santiago has given his approval to a scheme for a school for the higher education of women similar to the American normal school. Last week he issued a notice impos- of $1,000 upon any person promoting a bull fight and a fine of $50 upon any promoter of a .cock fight. In the case of a cock fight the fine will fall upon witnesses as well as pro- maters, PEARLS OF THOUGHT. If cheerfulness knocks for admis- sion, we should open our hearts wide to receive it, for it never comes inop- portunely. A thoughtful observer remarks that there are two classes of persons whom it is hard to convince against their will—women and men. Temperance and labor ave the two best physicians of men; labor sharp- ens the appetite, and temperance pre- vents him from indnlging in excess. Learning is either good or bad ac- cording to him that has it—an excel- lent weapon, if well used; otherwise, like a sharp razor in the hands of a child. Life is no idle dream, but a solemn ceality based on and encompassed by eternity. Find out your work, and stand to it; the night cometh when no man can work. All brave men are brave in initiative, but the courage which enables them to succeed where others dare not even attempt is never so potent as when it leads to entire selt-forgetfulness. Not unremembered is the hour when first friends met. Friends, but friends on earth, and therefore dear; sought oft, and sought almost as oft in vain, vet always sought, so native to the heart, so much desired and coveted by all. Those who despise fame seldom de- Serve it. We are apt to undervalue the purchase we cannot reach, to con- ceal our poverty the better. It is a spark which kindles upon the best fuel, and burns brightest in the brav- est breast. “Laying Jane Seymour's Ghost. In England Hampton Court Palace has long enjoyed the reputation of being haunted by the ghost of one or the other of the numerous wives of King Hénry VIII. Indeed, tle official records of the corporation of the city of London show that the lord mayor and aldermen ordered during the reign of King James II twelve thousand masses to be said for the repose of the soul of Queen Jane Seymour, with the object of “laying’’ her ghost, which was wont, according to popular belief, to wander about the corridor near the room where Queen Anne Boleyn caught her sitting on the king’s knee. I'ifteen years ago the inhabitants of the palace, which is now used as a residence for the widows of distinguished officers of the army and navy, as well as of members: of the Queen’s household, were alarmed almost out of their wits by the sound of the whirring of a spinning-wheel at night, and in de- ference to their urgent entreaties the government office of works instituted an invesiigation, which resulted in the discovery of a bricked-up and until then unsuspected chamber containing an ancient spinning-wheel showing marks of recent use, Reference to the old records of the palace showed this room to have formed one of the private apartments of Queen June. — New York Tribune. Luecchini’s Fate. Apropos of Austrian Empress’s mur- der, it is gratifying to hear that sol- itary confinement for life is the sen- tence of the Swiss courts for murders of exceptional ferocity. Tris sen- tence, it is believed, will be the fate of Lucchini. He will pass the rest of his existence in an underground dun- geon in which noray of sunshine can penetrate. He will not be givena bed or anything else in the shape of fur- niture. At night-time he will have to stretch himself on the ground. Books will be denied him, and his food will be the plainest and consist principally of bread and water. Once a week he will be permitted to take exercise in a yard adjacent to his dungeon, but during that time he will not gaze on the face of a living creature. Other- wise the remainder of his life will be passed in the awful solitude and idle- ness which, it is related, was suffered by prisoners who were immured in medieval days. Surely death a dozen times over were preferable to such punishment as this; but the wretched destroyer of the gifted Empress will have no sympathy. —New York Mail and Express. Thomas Carlyle’s Recipe for Shirts, Here is an extract from a letter of Thomas Carlyle, in which he asks his sister to make some shirts and sends the measurements. How many women could make a shirt after them? “My dear Jenny—. .. In the meanwhile I want you to make ma some flannel things, too—three flannel shirts especially ; you ean get the flannel from Alick, if he have any that he can well recommend. You can readily have them made before the other shirts go off. I have taken the measure today, and now send you the dimensions, together with. a measuring strap which I bought some weeks ago (at one penny) for the pur. pose! ‘“You are to be careful to scour ths flannel first, after which process the dimensions are these: Width (when the shirt is laid on its back) 22 1-2 inches, extent from wrist button to wrist button 61 inches, length in the back 35 inches, length in the front 25 1-2 inches. Do you understand all that? I dare say you will make it out, and this measuring band will enable you to be exact enough.” —Atlantic Monthly. 2 en A Curious Boiler. The boiler of a cleverly-constrneted small working engine, is a quarter- pound coffee tin; the wheels, quarter and half-pound tin lids; the chimney, an umbrella top; the steam pipe, an India rubber tube; and other parts consist of a knitting needle, a bicycle spoke, a piece of brass lamp, some gas piping, a cartridge end and the screw stopper of an oil tin.
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