ft mm an
The Noted Washington Divine’s
Sunday Subject.
“INVITED TO A BANQUET."
“Bri ag MOOT the tatted celt ■ad
U all IM of tto world it hM tan «*to«-
nry to eelsfcnto joyful mat* by festivity.
"2K“;
oorocatlon of Mn«s, the Ohrteisu*. the yer
stagv. However rouoh oe other day* of the
year car tael* nay have stinte.l supply. on
Thanksgiving Day there nottbajrorartbUg
boo at eo as. And alt the comfortable home*
of Christendom have at sotao tin* *ti*-
sc? ‘x^sri.’sssf.rt.a
homestead greater than anythin* that ha*
ever happen** before. A favorite son whom
tbawmSpmpnosed ****** ?*«*:
hoed and outlaw forever has got tired of
aightMtng and has rehtraad to his lather's
homo. The world said he would nover coma
lank. The old man always said hie son
weald eome beet. He had been looking for
him day attar day and year after roar. Ha
knew ha woald oome back. How Wing re
turned to hie father’s house the father pro
oleims celebration. There is In tho paddock
a tail that has been kept up and fed to al
most capacity, so as to he ready for somo
occasion of joy that might come cions. Ah,
there never would be a grander day on the
old homestead thaa this day 1 Let the butch
er* do their work, nod the housekeeper*
bring into the Kble tho smoking meat. The
musicians win takothmr ptsces, and the gay
groupa will move up and down the floor.
All tho frlonde and neighbors nr* gathered
in and an extra supply is sent oot to the
table of the servants. The father presides at
the table and say* graoe,and thanks Ood
that his long absent boy is home again.
Oh. how they missed him. how glad they sre
« to havohim backl
One brother stands pouting at the back
door and snyc ‘TWe fa » great ado about
nothing. Tide bad hoy ahoald have been
ebsetteed instead of greeted. Teal Is too
good for him!” Bnt tho father say*. “Noth
ing is good enough.” There sits the vouug
man, glad at tie hearty reception, but a
shadow of sorrow flitting seroas hi* brow at
the mmsashnnee of tho tronbto ho bad seen.
All reedy now. Let the covocs lift. Music.
He was daad and hole abvo again! Ho was
lost and ha is found! By each bold imagery
doeathe Bible sat forth tho merrymaking
whoa a soul coasts home to Hod.
Tint ot alt, there is tho new convert’s joy.
It tone tame thing to become a Christian.
The moat trameadoos moment la a man's
Ufa Is when he surrender* himself to God.
Tho grandest time on the father’s homestead
is when tho boy comes book. Among the
groat throng who In the parlors of our church
professed Christ one night w«s a young man
who next morning rang my door bell aad
said: “Sir, I cannot contain myself with the
joy I feel. I eame hen this morning to ex
press ft. I have found mare Joy In five
minutes In serving God than in all tho years
of my prodigality, and I eame to My so.”
Ton have eeen perhaps a man running for
hi* temporal liberty and tho officers of the
tow after him. s*d you saw him escape, or
afterward you hearths judge had pardoned
him. and how great vra* the glee of that res.
caad man; bat it is a very tamothlng, that,
compared with tint running for one’s cror
tosting Hfa, tho terror* of tho law after him
and Chriet coining in to pardon and bless
aad rescue and says.
Tow remember John Bunyaa in his grad
ttoty till* bow the pilgrim put h<* fingers to
■ Us mws sad tan. erring: “Life, life, eternal
life! A poor car driver some time ego,
sftorynu* having bad to struggle to sup
port Us family. Maidenly was informed that
a largo inheritance was bis, and there was a
joy amounting to bewilderment, bnt that is
• a small thing compared with tho expertene*
of on* when be has pot in hie bands the title
' deed to the Joys, the raptures, the apfamdocs
of heaven, aad ha can truly eay, “Its man
sions are mine, its temple* are mine, its
song* an min*. its God to mine!” Oh, it is
no tame tain* to become a Christian. His
A merrymaking, it is the killing of the
l«t*d salt, It 1* * jubilee. Too know the
BWn never compare* it to a funeral, but
always compare* it to something delightful.
It Is BMW apt to be compared to a banquet
than anything «Im. It fa compared in the
Bible to water, bright, flashing water, to the
morning, roeeste. flruworked, mountain
I wish I oontd today take all the Bible ex
prodooi About DftrdoA. mm) irorfi ud ills*
aad cmfort. aid boo*. *»Bhroran. and
twist them Into oae garland and pot it ou
Urn hnw of tho humblest child of God in
‘his assemblage aad my, “Wear it. wear it
now, wraett forever, son of God, daughter
of tho Lord God Aimlgbtv!” Oh, tho Joy of
toons* convert 1 Ob. &* gladasaa of the
Otetstfaa aerriost Too have seen some
tonsnuto Msemblyyt up
shnrih to heaven, and he said, “How this is
% experience-sorrowful, yet always re
%g»
ta&jjSS&as^sssjtt
tototookStomofGod toe next momenr.
tooy Mid to hits, “Woald you like to send a
■wvotojre to year Monde?”' “Tee, 2 would.
sett tojß toot onfr tost night tho lev* of
MoSih!”’ bh,tbojSrjfthtoc2Hsfln^l
“fttof; potooyor from those tame Joy.
aHBBpIMfeJ
StS£!
4*ool poor than . Beck™
a# iliuetrations of tho fact that this
Saa ßshSr&£sß2
sbooted ia tbs street, “Ood save the Queen!”
ssssffjaiias&r'*
ytf Willi AISO
th.
'
* *ll* but a narrow stream divides
This heavenly land from oars.
Ob, it Is rjMmlran to Hww Irjr sms* a
great religion to die byT Tintsi to «df one
heart throb between yof A#d that religion.
Just look Into tho moo of vour pardoning
Ood aad surrender yourself lor time and tor
rteralty,ano He is your. and>e*ranls
years and all is years. Borneo! yon, like
the young ms* of the text, have rose fas
astray. I know not the history, bat yon
know it, you know it. Whan a young man
went forth lato life, the legend say*, his
guardian angel went tortb with hits, aad
getting him into a Hold, tho guardian angel
swept a circle around where the young man
stood. It we* a circle of virtue aad honor
sad he mast not step beyond that circle,
armed fern eame down, bnt were obliged
to mat et that circle. They could not
tase. Bnt one day a temptress, with dia
monded band, stretched forth and aroused
tost circle with th* hand, aad too
tempted soul took ft, and by tost on* ! Wl
grip was brought beyond the circle and died.
Some of you hava stepped beyond .tool
circle. Would you not like this day, by tho
grace of God, to stop book? This, I say to
yon. Is your hour of salvation. There was
in the cloving hours of Queen Anno what Is
called tbs clock soon*. Flat down on the
pillow la helpless sickness, she could not
move her head or move her hand. Bhc Was
waiting Jor the hour when tbs ministers
of state should gather In aogry contest
and worried and worn out by the com
ing hour, sad In moenentntT absenoo ot
tho nurse, in too power, the strange
power, which delirium sometimes gives
one, too arose aad Mood In ftoalof tho
oloefc Aad stood tkMi watching tho clock
when the nun* returned. The not** mdd,
“Do you sec anything peculiar about that
dock/” She made no answer, but soon
died. Thereto a stock scene In every hie
tory. If some of you would rise from tho
bed of lethargy and oomoont from your de
lirium of sin and took on the otook of your
destiny this moment, you would see and
hoar something yon hsv* not seen or heard
before, anti every tick of the mlaulo, and
every stroke of tho hour aad every swing of
the pendulum would soy, “How, now. now,
now!” Oh, come homo to your FathorV
hones! Coma home, O prodigal, from the
wilderness! Oome home, come home!
Bat I notice that when the prodigal same,
Iheie vu the father’s joy. He dhl not groat
him wiih any formal "Hop do f OO do?” He
did not come oat and a*y “Non si* unfit to
eater. Go and wash ia the trough by the
wait, and then you can come in. We have
had enough trouble with you.” Ah, not
When the proprietor of that estate pro*
claimed festival, ft was an outburst of a
father's love and a father’s joy. God is your
tether. I have not much sympathy with
the description ©I God I sometimes hear, as
though He were n Turkish sullen, hard
aad unsympathetic, and listening not
to the ory of His subjects. A man
told me he saw In one of the
eastern lands a king riding along,
and two men ware in altercation nad one
charged the other with having eaten his rice,
and the king said, “Thao slay the man, and
by post mortem examination find whether
he has eaten tho rioa." And ho wee slain.
Ah, th* cruelty of a aoene like that! Oar
Ood to not a sultan, not a despot, bar a
Father—kind, loving, forglvlng-aud He
makes nil hen ran ring again when* prodigal
come* back. “I have no pleasure. ’He says,
“in the death of film th* dlrtb,” All may
bo saved. If a man doc* not get to heaven,
it is bees use ho wilt not go there. Ho
difference the color, *o difference tho
history, no difference tho antecedents,
no difference lh« surroundings, no dif
fereseo the uto. When the white horses
or Christ’s victory arc brought out to
eetebmre th* eternal triumph, you may
rid* <mo of them, and os God 1* greater than
all, Hl* joy !» f fm *, ar ',“ d „ 1
ooomu book there to In His heart the
eunting of an infinite ocean <rt gl*d
neee, and to express that gladness it
takes all the rivare of pleasure, all
the thrones of pomp and all too ages ot
eternity. It to a Joy deeper than all depth
and higher than all height and witter than
all width aad vaster than all Im
mensity. It overtops, it n&derglnls,
it outweighs *U to* united splendor
and joy of tho universe and who can
tell what God's joy to? Ton remember load
ing tbs story of siring who on some groat
day of festivity Mattered silver and gold
among the people, who sent valuable present*
to hts courtiers, but mothint*, when a soul
comes book, God la so glad that to express
his toy Ha flings out new worlds Into spues
and kind lew up new sums and rolls among
the whits robed anthems of the redeemed a
greater halleluiah, while with a voles that
reverberates among the mountain* cl frank
incense a*d ft echoed hook from the ever,
lasting gates ho. cries, “This, my son, was
dead, and he to ahve again l ’
At the opening of the exposition in Hew
Orleans 1 saw a Mexican flutist, and he
placed the solo, and then afterward the eight
of nut band* of moslo, accompanied by th*
Seat organ, cam* W thjfroSTd otthat
one Ante as compared with all theorohsatras
w 4 greater thSfalltheoomblnM joy of toe
universe when eompared wtth the resound
ing heart of Almighty GoA ForUm yearns
father went threetlmos a day to tho depot
Hto son went oft in agnavrting oireum
etonaea, hot the tether said. “He will oome
back.** The sttatowM too much *nd hto
mind parted, and three times a day the father
went. In it* carte morning he watohod
the train. Its arrival, the stepping ont
of the psHODgere and then th* departure
of tho train. At noon ha was there agjda
watching the advance of tho trail, watching
the departure. At night he was Ibort onto,
wateUdg toe coming, watching tho going
for tea years. He was ears hie sen would
comeback. God baa bsan watching and
watting for some of too. my brother*, ton
yean, twenty yuan, thirty yemnf, forty years,
52%. “iuysu ,7»t
should come borne" what a scon* of glndMM
and festivity, and how the gnat Father s
bear: would rejoto* at your coming bonra
Ton will come, toms of you, will you not?
You will, you will.
I notice algo that when a prodigal corns*
hose* theta lath* joy ofthe ministers of re
ligion. Oh, It to a grand thing to preeoh Ibis
Keeps!! I know there has bean a great deal
soli about tho trials and too hnrdihlp* of
too Christian ministry. X wish somebody
would writ* a good routing book about the
joys of th* Christian ministry, tftco* I oa
ten* th* profession I hava toon mow of th*
goodness of God than I will be abtatotocte
hnra to ail eternity. I know some boast
rteetoto eßthostoaa. and they do not break
down with emotion, hot I ooafem to Ton
gssffefsS
aas^Swss
ana
:ss
iho varytost man gatoa the rooks tosafsty,
grjja.'SKi.’xJvafi:
jb-Ss H
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home. Just heai the Christian* si«g. Jur
rjKSfflSfrasstaffisi!
nul. pM« No lu,
a !IJf p *L y U J'Hto unless they hare
aototogto **T «d their hoan* uu
S Blbta th *‘
ansvrerod won short prayers »Qo<t
mereftul to
reerire my right.” “Leto, ea^to!
One* more I remark that when th* Mol.
fgal gets back th* Inhabitant* of hearen
keep natal. lam vary certain of U. If yon
bare aerer seen a telegraph chart you hare
no Idea how many rittee are connected to
gether. and how many lands. Nearly ell th*
neighborhoods ot the earth seemrottcalated.
and news files from city to city and from
continent to continent. But more rapidly
go the tidings from earth to hearen, and
whan a prodigal returns It to annonnoed be
fbro the throne of Go*. Aad if thee* souls
now present should enter the kingdom theto
would be some on* to the heavenly kingdom
to emys “That’s my tether,” “That's my
mother,” "That’s my son,” “That’s the one
I used to prey for. "That's the on* lor
whom I wept so many team,” and one soul
would say "Hosanna!” and another soul
would any “Halleluiah!'
Pleased with the news, the saints below
In songs the tongue* employ.
Beyond the skies the tidings go.
Aud heaven to filled with joy.
Nor angels oan Ihrir Joy contain,
But kind!* with new Are.
Tho sinner tost to found, they sing,
And strike the sounding lyre.
At th* banquet of Luoullus sat Cicoro th*
orator, at tho Macedonian festival eat Philip
the conqueror, at tho Greolnn bouquet sat
Socrates the philosopher, but at our Father’s
table rit all the returned prodigals, more
than conqueror*. Th* table to so wide tt*
leaves reaoh across sets and toads. Ita gussts
are th* redeemed of earth aad tho glorified
ot heaven. The ring of God's for
giveness on awry hand. Tho robe of a
Ra vicar’s righteousness a droop from every
shoulder. The wine that glows In tho caps
to from tho howls of 10,000 sacraments. Let
sll the redeemed ot earth and all the glorified
of hcavoa rise and with gleaminglehannK
drink to tho return of a thousand
Sing, ring, sing! “Worthy to tho Lamb that
was slain to resolve Usestog and rtobw and
honor and glory and power, world without
end.” That seen* of juhitoaoe comae ontl*-
fora me this moment at in a sort of ploture
gallery. AU heaven In pMorw-
Look! Look! There to Christ. Cayp
painted Him for earthly grileries, uadOor
reggio and Tintoretto and Benjamin Wont
aad Dora painted Him ter cmflMy
bat all those pictures are eritjoad
masterpiece of nearen. Christ! Christ. There
to Paul, th* hero of tho Sanhedrim, and of
courtroom, aad of Maw hill, sad
of Nero’s lntamv, shaking Ms chained fist
fa too very too® «* to® l *
afity. Here to Joshua, tho fighter Os
Bctooron and Gibson, the man that
postponed sundown. And here to Yashtl,
the profligacy or the Persian court unable to
remove her veil of modesty or rend it or lift
ft. And along the corridors of this picture
gallery I find other great heroes and harotaes
—David with hto harp, and Miriam with the
cymbals, nod Zeriiariak with the scroll, aad
8L John with the seven vials, and the resur
rection angel with the trumpet. On farther
In the ourrldora see the fuses of our loved
ones, tho oough gone front the throat, the
wanness gone from the cheek, the weariness
gone from the limbs, the languor gone from
the eye. Let ns go up and greet them. Let
ns go np and embrace them. Let us go ap
end live with them. We win! We will I
From Ibis hilltop I eeteh a glimpse of those
hUitops where all sorrow sad sighing shall
be done away. Oh, that God would make
that world to us a reality! Faith in that
world helped old Dr. Tyng when ho stood by
the casket of hto dead son, whose arm bed
been torn off la the threshing machine,
death ensuing, aad Dr. Tyng, with infinite
composure, preached the funeral sermon of
hto own beloved son. Frith in that world
helped Martin Luther without one tear
to pot away in death hto favorite
child. Frith in thnt world helped the
dying woman to see an Iho sky tho
tetter “W ’* and they naked her what she
supposed that letter •* W” on tho sky meant,
"Oh.” she said, “don’tyou know? ‘W* stand*
for •Welcome.”’ Ob, hearen, swing open
thy gates! Oh, heaven, roll upon us some of
the sunshine anthems! Ob. heaven, flash
upon us the virion ot thy raster! An old
writer telle tu if « ship coming from
India to Franca. Tho crew was made np of
French sailor* who had bean long from
home, and as tho ship eame along tha
coast ot Franoe too men skipped the
deck with gtoo, and they pointed to the
spins of the ohnrohe* where they ones
worshiped sad to the hills whore they
had played In boyhood. Bnt when the ship
cam* into port, and these sailors saw tether
sad mother and wife sod loved ones on th*
wharf, they sprang ashore and rushed np
the banks Into th* ally, and the
eaptaln bod to get another erew
to bring the ship to her moorings,
Bo hoavmi will after awhile oome so
telly in right, we oan as* Its towers, its
mansions, it* hills, and as we go Into port
and our loved one* shall call from that
shining shore and speak oar names we will
spring to th* beach, leaving this old ship ot
s world to be managed by another erew, our
rouch voyaging of ftssni eodod forever.
Mvsauoas at nr«u».
Xn Kaglend the consumption of sherry
snd port hat deoreasod from 11,000.000 gut
ions* yearto 4,700,000, while too shows at)
increase of 0,000.000 pounds during the same
period, and. light wines an increase of 2.000,-
TmomuxoK wstnoowo* coxrouonx.
The teaching of temperance to sow com
pulsory to tho public schools of the pro vino*
of Ontario. Aoeordtng to th* Minister of
Education, no fewer than 180.000 papUs are
studying this question to th* public schools
of th* provtoes, snd 15,#00 in th* separate
schools, aad tho public school inspector for
Toronto states that mot* than 30,000 pupils
to th* pnblfo schools of tho city recriro to
st ruction inlomparanee.
Auosoi urn smetns.
At the recent International Congrats ot
Psychology. Dr. Mailer gave an Interesting
historical.sketch of the etiology of srif-ontr
dor, and by menu of an elaborate series ot
statistics, traced to alcohol th* priasacy
cans* of ft* marked increase of Iris years.
Tbs author estimates th* number or suicides
to Europe at ##,ooo* year, thus showing
that the evil Is increasing at a greater rata
than th* population. Th* most favorite
■oath tor enfold** Is Jane, the least, D*.
eambsr, early morning to chosen in prater
sacs to tho night, white th* mechanic class
fnratobss th* torgeat number of sabjori* and
th* peasant tbs least. Dr. Matter conoids**
brandy the mart peratcloa* ton* erf alcohol,
aadtracos to its isfluenos Iho Wanting of
the** weapon* wbioto to the straggle toelit*
me tbs mast necessary to sustain tbo son
fttot—Wseteriswere Gonott*.
The dough tens of*U» Prince of Wtte
•rald swlm before they eonld read. _
IIIS WORDS FROM IKE PUPIL
SOCIAL REVOLUTION.
I will Overturn, Overturn, Overturn; Until
He Csmea Whoso Bight it Is; snd I
Will Give it Him. Ezektel 21:27.
Mon arc continually tolling us that this to
an ago ®f transition, ae if every ago wars not
aa age of transition. Humanity has not yet
drived at its ideal state bnt to still moving
forward tike Israel to the wilderness, guided
by die mire light ot truth end loro.
The old order ohangrth yielding pine* to
fixts JS\JK
shall be burned up.” *“ ther * l »
The language seem* quite explosive
most Interpretations posh It verv far into Tk.
future B®* msy It not have a* meantur for
us hero and now? IS not the evotatianTf s£
etety carried forward now by the etasdC
working of silent force* as unobserved as tha
tbW to tho night, then Ira a auddSteSrij!
tlon carrying away old obstructions aad ab
utting the new order,,as though a continent
should rise out of the sea. Man find them,
•rives firing in a wider horteoo; the old
heavens and the old earth have passed away
The day of tho Lord must surely mean the
reign of righteousness, truth aud love, and
any movement which removes obstructions
and make* these things neater realities to
men is surely a coming of the day of the
Lord*
A thunderstorm mean* a purer atmos
phere and clearer skies. The clouds charged
with poisonous elements arc carried away
with a great note*. Hot otherwise docs
growing truth dear the mind ot old errors
and of reigning prejudices. The earth, too.
to renewed in th* forront heat of social revo
lution nntU not one vestige of the old tyran
ny remain*. Thn* at last the day of the
Lord has often oome to the history of the
world; forces working silently, penetrating
error, and undermining abuses until the
boar of revolution oomes, when the old
heavens and the old north -things ecclesias
tical and thing* political—ore shaken and re
newed. The fall of Judaism was such a
notable day of the Lord, spprosehing
through Internal causes silently, like a thief
in the nlgbt. and coming at last with suddsn
explosive force. The fall of tho Bomaa Em
pire was' another striking fulfillment of th*
apostle’s words. The Deformation and the
beginning of the modern era was another
clearing of tho Heavens snd of th* earth.
Thera 1s something very suggestive in the
charge that was brought against Paul and
bliss at Thessetonloa when the city wus
stirred by the preaching of the gospel.
“These that hare turned th* world upside
down are come hUber also.” True enough
it to the mission of chrtotlaoity to lift up
things which were brought down very low to
tho uioient world, and to bring down many
things which were ernoUy enthroned in those
day* Christian progress has boon one of
noble reversals. What Imperial tyrannies.
Wbat corruptions of heathenism. What
cruel dynasties have gone down before the
arose? Wbat various forms ot oppressive
oil: yet remain to be overthrown—political
uurlghtcosuuoss, commercial selfishness. In
dustrial slavery?
Social revolutions do not necessarily im
ply violence. When our Lord counselled
nis disciples to buy swords he did not there
by Unply a loss of faith to the triumph of tho
gospel through tore and sacrifice;
he expressed by striking metaphor, rather,
the uncompromising character of the gospel
to every form of evil which enslaves and
degrades hum unity, aud the nature of the
conflict between them. The shock of vio
lence must be neither unexpected nor shun
ned. Slavery In this country passed away
in the disturbance of civil war; in tho British
empire, however. It passed away without war
or bloodshed. It dissapeared before rising
Christian sentiment Uko a snowdrift in the
face of tbo sun. Tha various factory acts
aad laws tor industrial protection and rriisf
which have bean carried through in the last
generation have been marks of social pro
gress almost as gnat n the abolishment of
slavery. Differences between nations have
been quietly and amicably adjusted which a
century ago would have. brought on tha
shock of war. Arbitration 1* test becoming
one Os the ruling ideas of our time jnst as
eooqusst was a ruling Ids* of another
“fto application in tin settlement of nation
al snd Industrial disputes bids fair to be as
progressive and beneficent in the worlds
history as that ot steam or electricity.
Public opinion enlightened and guide! by
the Christian spirit to fast becoming tbs
mightiest power In the world. It has no ris
ible throne, ft leads no army, ft commands
no navy; yrt tt rule* every where Ilk* gravi
tation, as silent, invisible, resistless lore*.
Kings and parUments must how to Its be
hests. Captains justify
themselves its bar. Power and wealth
are no longer irresponsible possessions bnt
must answer to the pubfio eonsstonoe. The
elvil order, sort si customs, Industrial organi
sation that ran not endure the tsst of rigfat
oonsnexe and humanity most bo overturned
in alienee or through explosive violence. The
very highways must be even end true, nodal
injustice and Utter Inequalities removed, for
the King approaches who will judge the earth
In righteousness snd reign In holiness and
love. Naiirui Luccocx.
Acetylene.
It ia hoped thnt the latest muml
unnt, acetylene, will largely take the
{dace of gaa In the future. Acetylene
bum with « brilliant light, and can
now be obtained from what la practi
cally a wonte product—carbide of caL
dun, a cgratnlline body which, when
treated with water yield* acetylene
almost quite pure. Tho gas which la
thus obtained baa a distinct garltc-like
color, so that its presence to air, doe
to leakage of pipe*, would easily be
perceived. During combustion It pro
duces teas beat than coal gas, less mots
turn, aad less carbonic acid, and use*
np about half the quantity of oxygen.
The light to white, and for the
volume yields nineteen times ss much
radiance aa coal gas with an ordinary
burner.
A Baltimore newspaper says that a
contributor recently sent It a mangled
copy of Whlttieris “Barbara ftrJetcble"
for publication, with a note to the effect
that it wm aa entirely original compe
tition! . ,
WORDS 01 WISDOM.
Beroana is a rhetorical flower con
cealing a bee.
Brary man who has good faith, has
great power for good.
An investment fa kaowledgo always
paya tho beat interest.
It disgusts <u to sea others doing
the foolish things we do.
I, *° tt Jots of headway some
t-mra by admitting you are wr ng
when you are not
A married man likes to have a dog
Monad because it always looks as if it
were sorry for him.
Some people seem to imagine that
they can make up for look of deeds by
a surplusage of words.
Common sense is not in tbe same
oleee as genius, but it often gets mors
solid oomfort out of life.
If somo people knew that the sun
had spots on it, they would almost
worry themselves to death.
A set of mortals has risen who be
lisvs that troth to not a printed spec
ulation but a praotioal foot. ,
When a man takes his slater out, he
always sets as though ho wanted
everybody u> know she wasn’t his best
|&9#
-.T* 1 ® wrest sign that a woman wants
“ when * he begin* to
hft,r tha lh » tbiufc* you
* reZnAy? "ypmo* *0 which
would raise him
Uwkuowledge that belonged to hie
Cultivate the habit of alweva . M ; n „
the best in neonU **etn K
t y . . . peopi*, and, more then
Ur “‘ “* *“ Wm»W
Grant stopped at. house and ex weiSd
a desire to prepare some
A number of wounded were
the porch and to th. rooms ftKy £3
made thou way there in
with the usual custom of wounded mei
to seek a house. It seem# to he q u*fo
ia! i net! not, aa a house eonveyl the
idea of shelter and of home I walked
with the general into a back room to
see whether there was * dry spot which
he might take possession of for a short
time to write messages; and look’over
the maps,
Aa we entered, there waa eoen sotting
in the only chair a Confederate !lien
tenant of infantry who had been shot
in the left cheek, the ball passing
through his month and ooming out
near tha right ear. A mass of ooagn
lated blood covered hie face and nook,
and he presented a shocking appear
anee. He arose the moment we en
tered, pushed his chair forward toward
“\" id ’ with * bow and
a a mile. Here, take my chair. «r.”
athim, and re
■ Ah, yon need that chair muoh
more than I; keep your neat. I see
you are badly hart,” The officer ane
wered good natnradly: “If you folks
let me go back to our line*. I think l
ought to be able to get a leave to go
but 1 mkaa
ehe wouldnt know me now.” The
general raid, ‘’lwill see thit on. of
*l3 -topped on* ol th.
room. He told one of tbe surgeons
who was dressing the wounds of our
® wn ®* a *» what he oouid for the
Confederate. We did not bear wbat
beoame of him afterward. He proba
bly never knew that he had been talk
ing to the general-in-chief of the
Yankee armiea The deepatohes were
afterward written in. another roftm.
Immigration to the South.
It is reported from all sidoe that
more people are now ooming to the
South with the intention of becoming
permanent resident* than at any time
ainoe the war. The movement has be
come ra marked that a bureau will be
establiahed in Chicago, in order that
the advantages of this section maybe
promineutty put before tha people ol
tho West and Northwest, from which
quarters most of the new settlers have
oome. Immigrants from Europe h***
generally preferred to go to tho West,
beoanse that section baa b*enjbs*ter
*broad, or on aooonnt of
smlll coal at which land oouid Ire
obtained in tbe newer State*, Th*
l»bor question la the South has awo
operated, to some extent, a* a dt*w-
Imok., It to significant
th* people now oomlngto
are those who have tned
have become convinced *b»t theSouth
offers better advent**** m®.
for the moct p«A JJJ* “fj
owmlyira^errioodL--J ackeon ville(Fl a)
Tjraec-Pnion.
Coin Tames.
Th* Director of ths Hint has act ths
following valoca on foreign coins fox
oca to; German mark, M. 8 canto;
Brittoh pound, 84.8665; Italian Ur#
end Spanish peseta, aame aa Inna