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Say "how-de-do," an' say "goodby, Met an' shake, an' then pass by ; Ain't much difference twixt the two, Ray "goodby" or "how-de-do." "How-de-do," with chilly heart. Ain't much difference, meet or part ; Jes' a look, an' jes' a bow, Bometimes only jes a "how ," Ain't mufh difference which they say, "How-de-do" or tothcr way. Meet a friend yer grasp his hand, An' jes' stand, an' stand, an' stand Glad yer met an' hate ter part, Kinder trembly in the heart. Neighbors lived on "Moody Hill," He whk "Tom" an' you was "Bi!!," Kinder stop an' look an' say "How-de-do?" an' then "good day !" Been away from home a spell. Swing the gate la;k, stand, an' well, Kinder don t know what ter do. Heart thumps like 'twas bustin' through. Said "goodby" a year afore Betsy standing in the door Raid "goodby," but "how-de-do," Heems the strangest o' the two. Brace right up an' waltz right in, Shake the tremble from yer chin, Betsy's waitln' there for you, Waltz right in with "How-de-do?" The Housekeeper. THAT 1)0(1 JAGS, BY EDNA C. JACKSON'. OOR Japrg -as hungry. In fact, he was almost starved. H i s snarply o n t lined aoainsthis manfry hide and there was an un quenchable crav ing inside of theru for bones. It fseems funny when one thinks of it, when there was nothing to him but bones. He raised his head from his paws and snapped eagerly at a great, bulgy bhiefiy that buzzed lazily around, and swallowed it with a gulp. But one fly is not much when one has a hollow within him that feels as big as a church. Those hollows were common in Eat Iiow. It was the river street of a large city, where squalid men, women and children fought, quarreled, cursed and stole their wretched lives long to keep that inner void just sufficiently filled to ward off the Totter's Field. "Stole," I said. The younger habitants, per haps, limited their achievements to this. As for their elders well, if a man with a comfortably filled stomach strayed into their power and would give up his "ticker" and other valu ables like a gentleman ami evince no disposition to "squeal," all right, perhaps; if he rebelled, the river was handy. Then a fresh How of fire water, more desperate lighting, curs ing and cutting for a day or two. Sometimes a rush of patrol-wagon and armed police, a bleeding body carried away, a living, sullen, horrible one or two to answer for it it was an old story to the blue-coats. Thus. Jags was a dog of the slums, kicked, culled and starved, with good points in him that once led an uptown clubman to coax him off the street when' Jags inadvertently wandered, foraging, to a respectable quarter. For three days Jags was fed, petted and began to grow handsome. The first hour of liberty found him fawn ing joyfully at the feet of Blinks, the most brutal of all the Hat Row brutes, whom Jags followed with a worship ing fidelity only found in some women and most dogs. He was ready to starve with his horrible idol rather than desert him for soft treatment and . unlimited bones with meat on them. "Here ye be, bo ye, 3-e cuss? Been 1 nought ye a mosey, iul ye : feedin', has ye? Thought ye'd sneak ! Take that 'nd that 'nd that!" "That" was a series of brutal kicks that made the poor dog yelp out in piteous agony. When they ceased one of Jags's beautiful, loving brown eyes was gone, knocked out of its bleed i ng socket by the master for whom he hail sacrificed wealth and comfort. That was merely a variation of the tortures that Jags's master habitually put upon him. If it ever occurred to the dog that he had anything to for give he did st, freely, generously and lovingly, creeping all the more adoringly to the feet that kicked him. If he ever thought, wistfully, that his master might have done a more merci ful thing und relieved him of a real trouble by kicking out his stomach, he never said so. Just now he draggedhis bony length to the side of Blinks, keeping a watch ful eye for kicks, and breathed along, sobbing sigh of relief when he got close to his idol without awakening him. The man was seated on a broken chair outside the tottering tenement house where he and Jags had a kennel. His bloated red face was turned up ward to the sun, his breath reeked bad whisky, the soft summer breeze stirred his loathsome rags. One wonders how even the breeze could touch him. Blinks was happy. He was "full," not of that unnecessary luxury, food, but of vile whisky. His slumber was soon disturbed by p. splash, a chorus of yells from the gamins on the river bank, and with bare, red arms dripping with soap suds, her frowsy hair flying in the wind, Betsy O'fiilcy rushed from her wash-tub. "Th.ebabby! The darlint ! It's drowndid he is intoirely ! Howly Mary ! Bun. yo murtherin' divils ! Save'im! Hilp!" It would not have created much of a sensation in Bat Row society if a half dozen little "rats" 'had been swept away altogether by the river. At few draggled women lounged to doors or windows, two or three blear-eyed men, among w hom was Blinks, lurched lazily toward the place where the f mall, dirtv lienre had cone Tinder the 0 muddy water, giving it plenty of time J to drown in the most leisurely way ! before their arrival. Only the screech ing mother and the dog were really alive to the situation. ' : v&tr fet Jags was weak from long fasting, but the instinct inherited from a long line of noble ancestors nerved him. In a flash, it eeemed, his gaunt body was in the water and out, and Betay had snatched her Boaked "kid," drained the water out of him and ad ministered a ringing slap. "Ye Kpalpane? Will yez be kapin' away from the wather will yez?" The child replied with a vicious Bquirm- and an unchildlike curse. Betsy went back to her washtub, while Jags crept patiently to the side of his master who, with another, had dropped from sheer exhaustion on the yellow earth. No one thought of praising or thanking Jags. Such small, sweet courtesies were not customary in Rat Row. Only Blinks's companion, who seemed more alive than his surround ings, looked approvingly at the dog. "Fetch n carry?" he said laconi cally, nodding in Jags's direction. "Like !" drawled his marter, with a laziness strangely at variance with the lurid comparison. "Hyar, dawg! Git it!" Jags looked up imploringly ns a stick flew far into the water. He was willing enough, heaven knows ! But when one has had only one fly to eat for twenty-four hours, and had just dragged a heavy squn ming body from the water, he may be pardoned for feeling trembly and averse to unneces sary exertion. "Git it !" snarled his master. There was a kick in the eye, Jags went meekly out into the turbid water and came trembling all over to lay the stick beside the tyrant. Again it flew out, farther than before. This time Jags was almost swept down the river. "Let up !" said Blinks's companion ; "the dawg's nigh croaked." "Lazy, cuss 'im!" drawled Jags's energetic owner. Jags gave a whine of almost human entreaty when the stick was thrown again, but tottered away to almost certain death. Amicable relations are easily dis turbed in Rat Row. Big Andy caught Blinks by that part of his garment where the collar should have been and shook him into a stupid protest. "Blame yer mizzable hide!" he shouted furiously. "Call 'im back or I'll fling ye in arter 'im !" Blinks fell limply to the ground and obeyed. But J ags had already turned to defend his master and bounded back with a growl at his assailant. "Cussed if the dawg wouldn't fight fer ye now, ye sneakin' hound !" mut tered Big Andy wTith an admiring grin at Jags. He went into his own nest in the tenement house and flung Jags a bone. "Hyar, dawg! Put that down your neck !"' Jags snatched it with the fervor of starvation, but his master was filled with a sullen spite against the inno cent cause of his shaking, and, look ing to see that Big Andy was at a safe distance, he called : "Hyar, je imp." The dog came, clinging desperately to the precious food. "Drop it!" The poor animal obeyed, eyeing it wistfully the while. "Now, come git it!" Jags bounded joyfully forward to meet a kick that made him howl. Re peating this amusing performance un til he was weary, the human brute finally threw the bone into the river. Jags started weakly after it, but obeyed with something like tears in his one pathetic eye when commanded to lie down. Well, he had been hungry before, and if his master willed this, he must know best. It has been seen, long before this, that Jags was an ideal Christian. Hours after this even Bat Row was wrapped in slumber the heavy sleep of the drunkard or the leaden one of exhaustion and weakness. Blinks, af ter taking several more drinks from a flat, black bottle, staggered into some corner of the Old Mill, after ordering Jags in language savoring of brimstone to stay out, when the poor dog tried to follow him in. The stars shone as serenely down on the foul smelling city slums as upon the clover-sweet meadows far away. The river murmured and gurgled along the black piers. Sometimes the "chug-chug" of a steamboat came clearly through the night; then its hoarse whistle one long-drawn, three short, another long woke the echoes and it puffed past, its high, colored lights and trailing smoke making it look through the darkness like some tiery-eyed demon of the mists. Jags, lying prone on the rickety steps of the Old Mill, moans and cries j a little in his sleep as vague realiza tions of his wretched life and empty j stomach visit his dream. j Suddenly he starts.up, nose in air, and listens. There is nothing unusual, Jags ! The river gurgles on softly, the stars twinkle undimmed, there is no variation of sight or sound that hu man mind can detect. Not human mind, perhaps, but dog instinct Jags quivers, he sniffs the air and walks about uneasily. He stops and whines, tries to push in the barred door and fails. Then he breaks into a long, plaintive howl. Surely that will awaken some one in that narrow street, that crowded house! But there comes no other sound but the rippling river, the roar of the far away, sleep less streets. Again and again he howls. Silence ! What is that ? A mere shadow of a sound, faint, stealthy, as if some one had stepped lightly on a dry twig and snapped it. It rouses Jags to frenzy. Scores of human beings, men, women, little . children, sleeping calmly in a tinder-box, that tinder-box on fire and only he, Jags, a dumb, helpless ani mal, to know and save them ! And he ! his idolized tyrant, in there ! Jags throws himself against the door with a yell of agony. It falls open. A thin puff of smoke wavers to meet him. Barking, howling, fairly shrieking, Jags tears straight for the room where he and Blinks have their kennel. . He isn't there! Out again, jumping against doors in his frantic search, choked with smoke, rushing through curling tongues of flame, goes the dog. Are they all dead in there 1 His mas ter, where is he? It is well that one in that vast hive is not too tired nor too drunk to awaken. Big Andy rouses to realize that the dog is making "a fusa," takes in the situation in a j flash, and bounds out of the smoke- filled room. ! 'Great God ! The house is on fire ! "Fire, fire, fire!" Somewhere a wire vibrates above the city streets. A great bell tolls out on the night. Clang, clang, clang ! Rattle, rattle, rush ! Streams of feparks in the wake of flying engines. Sharp and clear the engine and patrol gonge strike, in time with rattling hoofs and wheels. Over all booms slowly and solemnly, with pauses between the strokes, the great bell. All this time a dog was flying, with feet scorched now by the heated floor, from room to room, hunling for one object. He finds him at last, in the second story, coiled up in a drunken heap on the floor. He springs upon him, tugs at his clothing, barks, TOhines and tries to drag him toward tt j dooi'. At last the man awakes, stolidly, stu pidly, then to a vague terror and ab ject fright. He bounds to the door. It is u wall of flames. He reaches the window ; no thought of the creature who saved him comes to the brute's mind. He raises the sash and leaps out. It fulls behind him. prisoned in a tomb of fire Jags is lm- The people have swarmed out, dirty, dazed, half-dressed. The cordon is thrown out ; the engines throb and scream. The firemen work quietly, streams of perspiration dripping be neath their helmete. Floods of watei glitter like liquid fire in the red flames. The Old Mill is doomed. "Is every one out !" asks the Chief brusquely, gazing up toward the tot tering furnace. As if in answer there is a crash of breaking glass at a second-story win dow and a living thing appears there, pitiful, pleading, ablaze with little tongues of flame. It whines implor ingly. Big Andy has private reasons of his own for preferring to remain incog, among a swarm of policemen. Buf now into the full blaze of light he dashes forward. "The dawg, the dawg that saved all our lives ! Git 'im, boys ; git 'im out ! My God! I hain't got no money, boys, but look hyar ! They 's a re ward of $500 out fer me ! I'm Big Andy, the safe-cracker. You know me ! I'll give myself up to anybody that'll save that duwg. I mean it, boys!" There was good in Big Andy ; he was sobbing aloud. For the credit of human nature be it said, no one ever claimed that reward. A quiet order through the Chief's trumpet, and a stream of water from the hose drove the crazy window in. The dog sprang to the sill and tottered weakly. A fireman ran lightly np the ladder and carried him down to the cool earth. There he fell, bleeding and scorched. He roused himself to gaze longingly around, dragged his mangled body to-where Blinks stood, staring stupidly, and laid his head, with a faint moan, against his master's feet. "Speak to him!"' bawled Big Andy furiously. "Pet 'im, or I'll kill ye!" Perhaps something human stirred in the heart of the lower brute. He stooped and laid a not ungentle hand on the bleeding head, "Wy, w'y, Jags, ole fel!" But with a rapturous look of grati tude from his one loving, beautiful eye, the dog had gone. Where? If there is no dog heaven, what will th ! Creator do with the faithful, martyr soul of Jags? The Voice. SCIEXTIFIC AXI) INDUSTRIAL. The engines of a first-class man-of-war cost nearly $700,000. There are now 7500 miles of elec tric railroads in this country. Children, plants and animals grow more rapidly during the nigSt. The largest coast light in the United States can be seen twenty-eight miles in clear weather. Slag from blast furnaces is pulver ized and used for fertilizing farming lands in Germany. The use of furnaces to destroy a city's garbage and refuse is growingin favor. There are now fifty-five mu nicipalities in England where the sys tem is used. Professor Elihu Thompson says that an umbrella with brass chains hanging from the ends of the rib.s makes a com plete protection when held over the head during a thunder storm. Taking the earth as the center of the universe and the polar star as the limit of our vision, the visible universe embraces an aerial space with a diameter of'420,000,000,030 miles. A new chemical element was discov ered during 1893. It was found in some specimens of alum brought from Egypt. It has been called Massrium, from Masr, the Arabic name for Egypt. It resembles beryllium in some of its properties, and zinc in others. Both eyes are necessary to perfect vision. A man who has lost an eye requires some time to adjust himself to the new conditions. He finds it very difficult, for instance, to form a correct judgment of the distance of an object, as well as its position, and sometimes in attempting to pick up a small article, like a pin, will make a mistake of three or four inches in its situation. During the year some further ad vance was made in the product-ion of color photographs by Lipmann, who has discovered that albuuienized and gelatinized plates 6oaked in bichro mate of potash can be employed in pho tographing colors, which appear after immersion in water. The colors are very brilliant, and are produced by the interference of hygroscopic and non hygroscopic layers with variable re fractive indices. Experiments in magnetizing ' and concentrating the low grade soft, red ores of some Southern districts are in process, and said to be so far promis ing of good results. The consulting chemist of the Tennesee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, operating up on 3000 pounds at a time of the crude ore which contained forty per cent, of iron and twenty-nine of silica, has been able to secure fifty-seven per cent, of iron and reduce silica ten per cent. REV. DR. TALMAGE. TIIK BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN DAY SERMON. Subject: "The Liehtnins of th Sea." Text: " Fff maleth a path to shine iftei Aim. "--Job xl'. . 32. If for the nxt thousand years ministers of religion should preach from this Bible, there will ypf be texts unexpoandei and unex plained and unappreciated. What little has been said concerning this chapter In Jo from which my text is taken bears on the controversv as to what w;;s really the levia than described as diturbtn:? the sen. What creature it was I know not. Somsiv it wis a while. Some sty it was a crocodile. My own opinion is it was a se- monster now ex tinct. No creature now floating in Mediter ranean or Atlantic waters corresponds to Job's description. What most interests me is that ns it move ! on through the deep it left the waters flash ing and resplendent. In the words of thi text. "He maketh a path to shine after him." What whs that illumined path? It was phosphorescence. You find it in the wnke of a ship in the night, especially after rough weather. Phosphorescence is the lightning of tha sen. That this figure of speech is correct in describing its appear ance I am certified by an incident. After crosein? the Atlantic the first time and writing from Basle, Switzerland, to an Amer ican magazine an account of my voyage, in which nothing more fascinated me than the phosphorescence in the ship's wake. I called it the lightning of the sea. Returning to my hotel. I found a l ook of John Raskin, and tho first sentence my eyes fell upon was his description of phosphorescence, in which he called it "the lightning o? the sea." Down to tho postofflco I hastened to get the manuscript, and with great labor and some experse got possession of the maga zine article and put quotation marks around that one sentence, although it was as orig inal with me as with John Ruskin. I sup pose that nine-tenths of you living so near the SA'icoast have watched this marine ap pearance called phosphorescence, and I hop? that the other oae-tenth may some day bo so happy as to witness it. It is the waves of the sea diamonded ; it is the inflorescence of tha hiilows : the waves of the sea crimsoned as was the deep after the sea fight of Lepanto ; the waves of the sea on fire. There are times when from horizon to horizon the entire ocean seems in conflag ration with this strange splen lor as it changes every moment to tamer or more dazzling color on till sides of you. You sit looking over the taff rail of the yacht or ocean stcamr. watching and waiting to see what new thing the ftoi of be.iuty will do with the Atlantic. It is the ocoan in trans figuration ; it is the marine world casting its garments of glory in the pathway of the Almighty as He walks the deep : it is an in verted firmament with all its stars gone down with it. No picture can present it, for photographer's camera cannot be success fully trained to catch it, and before it the hand of tho painter drops its pencil, over awed and powerless. This phosphorescence is the appearance of myriads of the animal kingdom rising, falling, playing, flashing, living, dying. Theso luminous animalcules for nearly 150 years have been the study of naturalists and the fascination and solemnization of all who have brain enough to think. Now, God, who puts in His Bible nothing trivial or use less, calls tho attention of Job, tho greatest scientist of his day, to this phosphorescence, and as the Ieviatnan of the deep sweeps past points out the fact that "he maketh a path to shine after him." Is that true of us now, and will it be true of us when we have gone? Will there bfl subsequent light or darkness? Will there be a trial of gloom or good cheer? Can anyone between now and the next 100 years say of us truthfully as the text says of tho leviathan oi tho deep, "He maketh a path to shine after him?" For we are moving on. While we live in the same house, and transact busi ness in the same store, and write on the same table, and chisel in tho same studio, and thrash in tho same barn, and worship in the name church, wo are in motion and ara in many respects moving on. and wo are not where we were ten years ago, nor where wo will be ten years hence. Moving on ! Lvk at the family record, or the almanac, or into the mirror, and see if any one of you is where you were. All in motion. Other feet may trip and stumble and halt, but the fiet of not one moment for the last sixty cen turies has tripped or stumbled or halted. Moving on ! Society moving on ! The world moving on ! Heaven moving on ! The udU verse moving on Time moving on ! Eter nity moving on ! Therefore it is absurd to think that wo ourselves can stop, as we must move with all the rest. Are we like the orea ture of the text, making our path to shine after use? It may be a peculiar question, but my text suggests it. What influence will wo leave in this world after we have gonethrough it? "None," an swer hundreds of voices ; "we are not one of the immortals. Fifty years after we are out of the world it will be as though we never in habited it." You are wrong in saying that. I pass down through this audience) and up through these galleries, and I am looking for some one whom I cannot find. I am looking for one who will have no in fluence in this world 100 years from now. But I have found the man who has the least influence, and I inquire info his history, and I find that by a yes or a no he decided some one's eternity. In time of temptation he gave an affirmative or a negative to some tempta tion which another, hearing of, was induced to tlecide in the same way. Clear on the other side of the next million years may be the first you hoar of the long reaching influence of that yes or no. but hear of it you will. Will that father make a path to shine after him? Will that mother make a path to shine after her? Y'ou will be walking along these streets or along that country road 200 years from now In the character of your descendants. They will be affected by your courage or your cow ardice, your purity ov your depravity, your holiness or your sin. You will make the path to shine after you or blacken after you. Why should they point out to us on some mountain two rivulets, ouo of which passes down into the rivers which pour out into tho Pacific Ocean, and tho other rivulet flowing down into the rivers which pass out into the Atlantic Ocean? Every man, every woman, stands at a point where words uttered, or deeds done, or prayers offered, decide oppo site destinies and opposite eternities. Wo see a man planting a tree, and treading sod on either side of it, and watering it in dry weather, and taking a great care in its cul ture, and he never plucks any fruits from its bough. But his children will. WTe are all planting trees that will yield fruit hundreds of years after we are dead orchards of gol den fruit or groves of deadly upas. I am so fascinated with the phosphor escence in tho track of a ship that I have sometimes watched for a long while and have seen nothing on the face of the deep but blackness. The month of watery chasms that looked like gaping jaws of hell. Not a spark as big as a firmly ; not a white scroll of surf ; not a taper to illuminate the mighty sepnlchers of dead ships ; darkness 3000 fet deep, and more thousands of feet long and wide. That is the kind of wake that a bad man leaves behind him as he plows through the ocean of this life toward the vaster ocean of the great future. Now. suppose a man seated in a corner grocery or business office among clerks gives himself to jolly skepticism. He laughs at the Bible, makes sport of the miracles, speaks of perdition in jokes an I laughs at revivals as a frolic, and at the passage of a funeral procession, which always solemnizes sensible people, says, "Boys, let'g take a drink." There is in that group a yocng man who is making a great struggle against temptation and prays night and morning and reads tils Bible and is asking Ood for help day by day. But that guffaw against Chris tianity makes him lose his grip of sacred things, and he gives up Sabbath and church and morals and goes from bad to worse, till he falls under dissipations, dies In a lazat house and is buried in the potter's field. Another young man who heard that jolly skepticism made up his mind that "it makes no difference what we do or say. for w will all come out at lost at the right place," and began as a consequence to purloin. Some money that came into his haQds for others he applied to his own uses, thinking per haps be would make it straight some other t!m. and all would be well en if he did not make it straight. He -.ds in the peni tentiary. That scoffer who uttered the joke against Christianity never realize! what bad work he was doing, and he p-vjso j on through life and out of it and into a future that I am not nowolng to depict. I do not propose with asAarchllght tc show rne breakers of the awful coast on which that ship is wrecked, for my business now is to watch the sea after the keel has plowed it. No phosphorescence in the wake of that ship, but behind it two souls struggling in the wave two young men destroyed by reckless skepticism, an unilluminM ocean beneath and on all sides ot them. Blackness of dark ness. rou Know what a gloriously poo l man Rev. John Newton was the most of his life, but before his conversion he was a very wicked sllor, and on board the shin Har wich instilled infidelity and vice into the mind of a young man prine!plna which de stroyed him. Afterward the two met, an I Newton tried to undo his bad work, but in vain. The young man became worse and worso and died a profligate, horrifying those who stood by him in Ms last moments. wirer iook out what bat influence you start, for you may not be able to stop it. It does not requrre very great force to ruin others. Why was it that many years ago a great flood nearly destroyed New Orleans? A crawfish halburrowel into the banks of the river until the ground was saturated and the banks weakened until the, flood burst. But I find here a man who starts out in life with the determination that he will never see suffering but he will try to al leviate it. and never see discouragement but he will try to cheer it, an i never meet with anybody but he will try to do him good. Getting his strength from God. he starts from home with high purpose of doing all the good he can possibly do in one day. Whether standing behind the counter, or talking in the business offi e with a pen be hind his ear, or making a argain with a fol low trader, o.r out. jn th fleld discussing With his next neighbor tin wis'-st rotation ot the crops, or in the shoemiker's shop pound ing sole leather, there is something in his face, and in his phraseology and in his man ner, that demonstrates tbe grace of Ood in his heart. He can talk on religion without awkwardly dragging it in by the oars. He loves God and loves the souls of all whom ho meets aa 1 is interested in their present an 1 eternal destiny. For fifty or sixty years he lives that life, and then gets through with it and goes into heaven a ransomed soul. But I am not going to describe the port into which that ship has entered. I am not going to describe the Pilot who met him outside at the "iightship." I nil not going to say anything about the crowds of frien Is who met him on tho cyrstallinj wharves up which he goes on steps of ohrysoprases. For God in His words to Job callls me to look at the path of foam iho wake of that ship, and I tell you ft isr all a-gleam with splendors of kindness done, and rolling with illumined tears that were wiped away, and a-dash with congratula tions, and clear out to the horizon in all di rections is the sparkling, flashing, billowing phosphorescence of a Christian life. "He maketh a path to shine after him." And here I correct one of the mean no tions which at some time takes possession of all of us, and that is as to th 3 brevity of hu man life. When I bury some very useful man, clerical or lay, in his thirtieth or for tieth year, I say : "What a waste of ener gies ! It was hardly worth whili for him to get ready for Christian work, for ho had so soon to quit it." But tho fact is that 1 may insure any man or woman who does any good on a large or small scale for a life on earth as long as the world lasts. Sickness, trolley car accidents, death itself, can no more destroy his life than they cau tear down one of the rings of Saturn. You can start one good word, ono kind act, one cheerful smile, on a missipn that will last until the world becomes a bonfire, anil out of that blaze it will pass into the heavens, never to h lit as long as God lives. There were lu the seventeenth century men and women whoso names you never hoard of who are to-day influencing schools, col leges, churches, Nations. You can no moro measure the gracious results of their life time than you could measure the length and breadth and depth of the phosphorescence last night following the ship of the Whito Star line 1500 miles out at sea. How the courage and consecration of others inspire us to follow, as a general in the American army, ccol amid tho flying bullets, inspired a trembling soldier, who said afterward, "I was nearly scared to death, but I saw tho old man's white mustache over his shoulder and went on." Aye, we are all following somebody, either in right or wrong direc tions. A few days ago I stood beside the gar landed casket of a g03pcl minister, and in my remarks had occasion to recall a snowy night in a farmhouse when I was a boy an I an evangelist spending a night at my father's house, who said something so tender and beautiful and impresssive that it led mo into tho kingdom of God and decided my destiny for this world and the next. Yo.i will, be fore twentj'-four hours go by, meet some man or woman with a big pack of care and trou ble, and you may say something to him or her that will endure until this world shall have boen so far lost in the past that nothing but the stretch of angelic memory will bo able to realize that it ever existed at all. I am not talking of ruiuarka'de men an 1 women, but of what ordinary folks can do. I am not speaking ot the phosphorescence ia the track of a Newfoundland fishing smack. God makes thunderbolts out of sparks, and out of the 6nai! words and deeds ot a small life He can launch a power that will flash and burn and thunder through tho eternities. How do you like this prolongation of your earthly life by deathless influence? Many a babe that died at six months of age by the anxiety created in the parent's heart to meet that chili in realms seraphic is living yet in tho transformed heart and life of thos? parents an t will live on forever in the his tory of that family. If this be the opportu nity of ordinary souls, what is the oppor tunity or tnose wno nave especial intellectual or social or monetary equipment? Have j'ou any arithmetic capable of esti mating the influence of our good and gra cious friend who a few dayj ago went up to rest George W. Childs, of Philadelphia? From a newspapsr that was printed for thirty years without one word of d-f i oi tion or scurrility or scandal, ant puit.ii,' a chief emphasis on virtue and chirity and clean intelligence, he reaped a fortune for himself and tnen distributed a vast amount of it among the poor and struggling, putting his invalid and age 1 reporters oa pensions, until his nam o stands everywhere for large heartednss and sympathy and help and highest style of Christian gentle man. In an era which had in the chairs of hi journalism a Eotace Gn o'.cy, and a Henry .1: Raymond, and a Jamen Gordon Bennett, an I anErastuc L'rocks. and a George Williarr Curtis, and an Iretaeus Prime, none ofthe:; will be longer remembered than George V Childs. Staying away from the unveiling f the monument he had reared at large ex penne in our Greenv70o I in memory of Pro fessor Prcctor, the astronomer, lest I should ehj something in praise ot the man who had paid for the monument. By all acknowl edged a representative of the highest Ameri can journalism. If you would calculate his influence foi goo 1. vcu must count bow many sheets oi his newspapers nave been putdisnea in in i last quarter or a century, ana new man people have read them, and the effect n' only upon those readers, but upon alt who: they shall influence for all time, while 3-on add to all that the work of the churches Ik helped build and of the institutions of mer- he helped founl. Better give up before yo;i start the measuring of the phosphorescence in the wake of that ship of the Celestial line. Who can tell the post mortem influence of a Savonarola, a Winkelried. a Gutenbersr, a Marlborough, a Decatur, a Toussaint, a Boli var, a Clarkson. a Robert Raikes, a HarlaD Tage. who had 125 Sabbath scholars, eighty four of whom became Christians, ani six of them ministers of the gospel. With gratitude and penitence and worship I mention the grandest life that was ever lived. That ship of light was launched from the heavens nearly 1900 year3 ago, angelic hosts chantine. and from the celestial wharves the ship sprang into the roughest sea that ever tossed. Its billows were made ap of the wrath of men and devils. Herodic and sanhedrinic persecutions stirring the deep with red wrath, and all the hurricanes of woe smote it until on the rooks of Golgo tha that life struck with a reso ind of agony that appiUM the earth an 1 the heaven. But in the w.iWeof th-it life whit a phrxph v reeene of sniilew oil the cheeks of ti"lU pardoned, and liv..s refonnM. and Natl.-Mit redeemed. The millennium tr-lf U only one roll of thit ir bate I wv of gln ln nd benediction. la th- dMim-st of ail senses it may be sai l 01 Him, 'HemaKeth a path toshine nftr Him." But I einnot look upon that iu ninositv that follows ships without retiring howfon 1 :he Lor 1 i-i of life. Tiiat Ilr.i of th- deep h life, myriads of creatures ad .i-swim an 1 a play an 1 a-romp in parks of tivirine bev.itv laid out ani parte.-re J aa 1 ro"af ant hlOSSOTie J by O T.n i O' t'!l Whit J the -is of thoss creatures c.vlel by th naturalist- "crustaceans" and '''opep"od." not more than on out of hundreds of billions of which tre ever seen by human eye? Cod create J ahem for the same reason that He rrnte flowers in pla-es where no human foot ever makes thetn tremble, and no human iitmtrll ever inhales their redolence, an. I no humau eye ever sees their charm. In the botanic) world they prove that God loves flowers, as in the marine world the phonphori j r. . t tmt He loves life, an 1 He loves life in play. life iu brilliancy of gladness, life in exuberance. And so I am led to believe that H ore our life if we fulfill our mission as fully at the pho.-iphori fulfill theirs. The Son of Go I earue "that we might have life .md have it more abundantly." But I a:n glad to tell you that our God is not the Go 1 sometimes de scribed as a harsh critic at the hv 1 of th universe, or an infinite scold, or ti .l that loves funerals l.ettc- than w - l iu.g-, or a (So l that prefers tear to l.au ghter, an om nipotent Nero, a feroi-ious Nana Sahib, but the loveliest Being In the universe, loving flowers an 1 life au 1 play, whether of phos phori in the wake of the 5I.ajestie or of the human race keeping a holiday. But mark you that the phosphorescence has a glow that the night monopoli?-,". and I ask you not only what kind of influence you are going to leave in the world its you paw; through it, but what light ar you going to throw across the world' nilit of sin and sorrow? People who are sailing on smooth sea and at noon do not need much sympathy, but what are you going to do for people in the night of misfortun"? Will you drop on them shadow, or will you kindle for them phosphorescence? At this moment there are more people cry ing than laughing, more people on the round world this moment hungry than well fed, more households bereft than homes un broken. What are you going to do about it? "Well." says yonder soul, "I would like to do something toward illumining the reat ocean of human wretehedivss, but I cannot do much." Can you do as much a, one of the pho-i-phori in th; mi Idle of the Atlantic Ocean, creatures smaller than the p.ir.t of a sharp pin? ' Oh, yes." you say. Then do that. Shine! Stand before the looking glass and experiment to sei if you cannot get that scowl off your forehead, that peevish look out of your lips. Have tit least one bright ribbon In your bonnet. Embroider at least one White cord somewhere in the midnight of your apparel. Do not any longer imper sonate a funeral. Shiue! Do say something cheerful about society and about tho world. Put a few drops of heaven into your dispo sition. Once in a while substitute a sweet orange for a sour lemon. Remember that pessimism in blasphemy and that optimism is Christh.aity. Throw some light on the night ocean. If you can not be a lantern swinging iu the rigging, be one of the tiny phosphori back of the keel. Shine! "Let your light so shine before men that others s"oing your good works may glorify your Father which is in heaven." Make one person happy every dav. and do that for twenty years, and you will have made 7:500 happy. You know a man who has lost all his property by an unfortunate in vestment or by putting his namoon the back of a friend's liote. After you have taken a brief nap, which very man and woman is entitled to on a Sunday afternoon, go and cheer up that mau. You can, if God helps you, say something that will do him good alter both oi you have been dead a tnous.and years. Shine! You know of a family with a bad boy who has run away from home. Go be fore night and tell that father and mother tho parable of the prodigal son. and that some of the illustrious and useful men now in church and state had a silly passage iu their lives and ran away from borne. Shine ! You know of a family that has lost a child, and the silence of the nursery glooms the whole house from cellar to garret. Go be fore nightand tell them how much that child has happily escaped, since the most prosper ous life on earth is a struggle. Shine ! You know of some invalid who is dying for lack of an app"litc. She cannot get well because she cannot eat. liroil a chicken and t.-ike it to her before night and cheat her poor appetite into keen relish. Shine! You know of some one who likes you, and you like him, and he ought to be a Christian. Go tell him what religion has done for you, find ask him if you can pray for him. Shine! Oh, for a disposition so charged with sweetness and light that we cannot help but shine! Remember if you cannot bo a leviathan lashing the ocean into fury you can be one of the phosphori, doing your part toward making a path of phosphorescence. Then I will tell you what impression yo,i will leave as you nas-i throub. tMn life and attr-r you are gone. I will tell you to your face and not leave it for tho minister who of ficiates at your obsequies. The failure in ."li eulogium of tho departed is that they cannot h'-ar it. All hoar it ex cept the one most interested. This, in sub stance, is what I or some one else will nay of you on such an occasion: "V gather for offices of respect to this departed one. It is impossible to tell how many tears he wipe 1 away, how many burdens he Iiftel, of how many souls he was, under God, instrumen tal in saving. His influence will never cease We are all belter for having known him. That pillow of flowers on the. casket was presented by his Sabbath-school cluss, all ot whom he brought to Christ. That cross ot flowers at the hea l was presented by the orphan asylum which he befriended. Trios" three single flowers one was sen' Ly a pool woman for whom he bought c ton of coal, and one was by a waif of the street whom h rescued through tho midnight mission, and the other vr-s from a pri-'.t: cell wbich ho had oftcii -visited to encourage repen-.r.co in a young man who had done wron .'. "Th03e three loose flowers mean quite aa much as the garlands now brex.thing their aroma through thio saddened home crowded with sympathizers. 'JJiesaed are tbe dead who die in the Lord. The rest from then labors, and their works do follo w them.' ' Or if it should be the more solemn M;i-:h! at sea, let it be after the sun has gotr: down, and the capt.-.in has real the appropriate liturgy, and tbe ship's bell has tolled, und yoif ar" let dowc from the ftern of tho vessel into the respien lent phosphorescence at the wake of the ship. Then let some one say. In the words of my text, "He maketh a p ith t? Bhino after him." jiinut-ni-e ir firugs on tfie Heart. The temporary expansion and con traction of the heart under the in fluence of certain drugs formed tbe subject of a paper read by Prof. ;ei uiain .cee at the last meeting of the Academy of Medicine, Paris. The professor, in collaboration with Dr. Pignol, (rave the following summary: (1) Sparteine is the substance which diminishes most promptly and e!Tect ually the volume of the heart This drti'l strengthens the cardie aiuscles and augments their vital force, cl) Digitalin also contracts the heart, but only when its cavities are already in a state of dilation, (d; Iodide or potassium tends to contract, hut to a less degree than spartiene. (4) Antipyrin expands the volume, but w.thout influencing arterial pressure. (5) The action of bromide of po tassium may be taken as the opposite of iodide of potassium, but as similar to ant pyrin. It dilates the whole organ, the right side being slightly more ofTected that the left. Certain other drugs have no elective action. Catleine, .says Prof. See, has no nflu encc on the cardiac muscles, in spite of certain assertions to the contrary. HELD UP THE COURT. Daring Escape of , 1'rUo.icr Who Was ArralgnM In IbifUlo. Leroy HarrU. a lame man with n Mn, held up a Vnited State t'(vmnii oner, a I'mte I Stale Pistriet-Attcrney, 1,...U(V Pn-tcl States Marsha's an I t p....(,.ffi.. hnj.e-. tors in th- Tinted States Court in thel office Bail ling at ibiffilo. V V , w!ke ,it of the roo-,,, ,-h-iiis ih onr ltiiu ! Inn, imprison in- th oftl -i.iis. and. limping t . t i4 derttor. cosily rode down to the !r-et ,-tn I iu le hi e,a" It was Harris's plan t enter a p-nto U ..- and represent himself m nn in -tor nu I steal blank potoffl -e orders, department en velopes, nnd th form of .a Ivi u- I i-v potmH!ters to notify en.-h other of tie i,u . of postoi'flce money or 1er. lb- ,11 .ti -. clerk in the New' York l'os..ftl .ml hi! Sufficient familiarity with the worlm.;-. the money order department to n ai ! lu u to operate successfully. The Commissioner real tli complaint against Harrn, which charge I him with forging th name of WUlU n jr. ciilri , money crder for KK, wut from ituT.ilo. in I cashed at Valparaiso, I nd. Then he turn-I to the prisoner, whose handcuffs h- i,e-n taken off to administer the oath preparatory to hearing his t-. lnion-. "Hold up your h. in t," sail the venera'de Commissioner. "Holdup both of yur," was the qui reply, and Harris sprang to the door, put his back against it. an I covered (he little group with his revolver. Deputy United St Mies Marshal Wntts, Commissioner l-'.-iirchil'. mil l'lMr-,t Aft --r ny Maekey, e.nclt with a revolver in hi pocket, threw up their ban Is. "Keep thetn up or I'll tire!" paid Il.irr.s, Mill keeping the men tin ler cover of N tc volvcr. He then opened th door and '-ooiu-locked it on the outside, leaving his vi.-tim-i Imprisoned. He was nfterw ir I captured m t'un.ala and returned without extradition proceedings. A Japanese .Tartc the Kipper. Japan bus suffered from Its Jack th Hipper.'' Fortunately, he has been capture . and his every -day name turn out to be Kobayashi Mltsuya. At his trial It ws stated tha he went to Muyebashl about tli" middle of last year, took up his abode In a che-i Jodj-'ing house, and prowle i abiu( thestreets, sometimes as a shampooer, Honietiiii'jH as an itinerant priest, and sometime uc;aln us a deaf-mute tieggur. In these disguises he be came acquainted with the interiors of several houses, into whicu he afterward broke at night. Not content with mr thieving, ha began to strangle women In lonely places and mutilate them. The ruse proved against him were three, but the murdered women found abut the scene of his operations were greatly in exess of this number, and led the authorities to the belief that Kobayashi had accomplices. This rufllan wdl commit no more brutal murders. 11 has ju-jt been ixh- CUtod. THE MARKETS. Late Wholesale Prices of Country Produce Quoted in New York. H M II. h M' OIM !. 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Southern. V crate.... Spinach, Norfolk, V bbl . . liMIN, Ktr. Flour Winter Patents Spring Patents Wheat, No. 2 Red May Corn -No. 2 Oats -No. 2 White Track mixed Rye State Barley - Ungraded W-stcrn . Seeds-Clover. V 100 Timothy, V 100 Lard City Steam LIVE STOCK. Beeves, city drease 1 Milch Cow, com. to good Calves. City dressed Country dressed Sheep, t1 100 tha Lambs, "t" 100 tt.s Hogs Live, t 100 fhs Dre&sed 1 -
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