... I Ametemeats." The text was 1L Sam ii, 14: "Let the young man no and play before us." There are two armies encamped by the pool of Gibeon. The time hangs heavily on their hands. One army pro posee a game of sword fencing. Xoth iiir could be more healthful and inno cent The other army accept the challenge. Twelve men against twelve men, the sport opens. But soswthing went adTersely. Ferhaps one of the wordmen tot an unlucky clip, or in some way had his ire aroused, and that which ooened in SDOrtfuloaas ended ID violence, each one taking his contest antby the hair, and then with the sword thrusting him in the side; so that that which ooened innoceut luu ended in the massacre of the twenty four sportsmen. Was there ever a betr ter illustration of what was there true then, and is true now, that that which is innocent may be made destructive? What of a worldly nature is more im portant and strengthening and inno cent than amusement, and yet what baa counted more victims? 1 nave no sympathy with a straight jacket relig ion. This is a very bright world to me, and I propose to do all 1 can to make it bright for others. 1 never could keep step to a dead march. A book years ago issued says that a Christian man has a right to some amusements; for instance, if he comes home at night weary from his work, and, feeling the need of recrea tion, pats on bis slippers and goes into his garret and walks lively round the floor several times, there can be no harm in it. 1 believe the church of God has made a tremendous mistake in trying to suppress the sportfulness of youth, and drive out from men their love of amusement. If God ever im planted this desire. But instead of providing for this demand of our na ture, the church of God has, for the main partj ignored it. As in a riot, the mayor plants a battery at the end of the street and has it fired all, so that everything is cut down that happens to stand In the range, the good as well as the bad, as there are men in the church who plant their batteries of condemna tion, and fire away indiscriminately. Everything is condemned. But my Bible eommedds those who use the world without abusing it, and in the natural world God has done everything to please and amuse us. In poetic fig ure we sometimes speak of natural ob jects at being in pain, bat it it a mere fancy. Poets say the clouds week, but they never yet shed a tear; and that the winds sigh, but they never did have any trouble; and that the storm howl, but it never lost its temper. The worlu is a rose and the universe a garland. To help star the plague now raging I project certain principles by which you way judge in regard to any amusement or recreation, finding out for yourself whether it is right, or whether it is wrong. I remark, in the first place, that you can judge of the moral character of any amusement by ita healthful result, or by its baleful reaction. There are people who seem made up of bard facts. They are a combination of multiplica tion tables and statistics. If you show them an exquisite picture they will be gin to discuss the pigments involved in he coloring. If -you show them a beautiful rota they will submit it to a botanical analysis, which is only a post mortem examination of s flower. They have no rebound in their nature. They never do anything more than smile. There is no great tides of feeling surg up from the depths of their soul, in billows of reverberating laughter. They seem as if nature had built them by contract and made a bungling job out efit But timid be God; there are people in the world who have bright races, and whose life is a song, an an them, a pssaa of victory. Even their troubles are like the Tinea that crawl up the sides of a great tower, on the top of which the sunlight sits, and the soft airs of summer botd perpetual car nival. Toey are the people yon like to have come to your house; they are the people I like to have come to my house if you but touch the hem of their gar ments you are healed. There is nothing mora depraving thsw srtenrttTww upon amusements thai are fall of low tojrgeetion- The young man enters. At first be sits far back, with a hat on and his collar down. Thamsjhoithamt that first came to hctwti anything indecent wss eoavted comes no saore to his cheek. Farewell, young man! You havo preb- aaiy started on the waong real which ends m conenrattt destruction. The statsof hope will go oat one by one, una yom wane ten is utter darkness. liter yoa not the rash of the trots, la wtma enter circle your ism? tmm, making merry with, the wUwatan fist yoa are being wwala,tUta genus motion wilj lSBitai tsrrtae gaaueo. Yen ery for mt lavtjal Ism wia paaattta aartoiawsk, Vnttte stratus wO mwrCl Tew wa to torn tZz til ttiiwrertii, aad swsi- losxJ tj C wtted Cm hat already arrniawcar.-i torn, r . rz ' rtLm wtl , - Kltp-ltiHIJI till further those amusements are wrong wtucn ieaa you uw beyond your means. Money spent in recreation is not thrown asrty. It is ail folly to come from a place of amuse ment feeling that we have watted our money and time. You may by it have made an investment worth more than the transaction tint yielded you hun reds of thousands of dollars. But bow many properties have been riddled by costly amusements. How bright the path of unrestrained amusement opens. The young man says: "Now I am off for a good time. Sever mind economy. Ill get money somehow. What a fine road! What a beautiful day for a ride! Crack the whip, and over the turnpike! Come, boys, fill high your glasses, fill high your glasses. Drink! Long life, health. plenty of rides just like tnisr nam working men bear the clatter of the hoofs, and look up and say, "Why, 1 wonder where those fellows get their money from! We have to toil and drudge. Tbey do nothing." To these gay men life is a thrill and an excite ment Tbey stare at other people anu In turn, are stared at The watch chain jingles. The cup foams. The cheeks flush. The eyes flash. The midnight hears their guffaw. They swagger They jostle decent men off the side walk. They take the name of God in vain. Tbey parody the hymn they learned at their mother's knee; and to all pictures of coming disaster tbey cry out, "Who cares!" and to the counsel of some Christian friend, "Who are you T fussing along the street some night you hear a shriek in a grog sbop, they heir the clatter of the watchman's club the rush of the police. What is the matter now? Oh, this reckless man has been killed in a grog Bhop fight Carry hhn homejto his father's Louse. Parents will come down and wash his wounds, and close his eyes in death They forgive him all he ever did, al though be cannot iu his silence ask it The prodigal has got home at last Mother will go to her little garden and get the sweetest flowers, and twist the in into a chaplet for the silent heart of the wayward boy, and push back from the bloated brow the long locks that were once her prida. And the air will be rent with the agony. The great dramatist says "how sharper than aser pint's tooth it is to have a thankless thild." l our sports are merely means to an end. Tbey are alleviations and helps. The am: of toil is the only arm strong enough to bring up the bucket out of the deep well of pleasure. Amusement is only the bower where business and philanthropy rest while on their way to stirring achievements. Amusements are merely the Tines that grow aitout the anvil of toil and the blossoming of the hammers. Alas for the man who spends his life in laboriously doing nothing, his days in hunting up loung ing places and loungers, his nights in seeking out some gas lighted foolery! The man who always has on his sport ing jacket, ready to hunt for game in the mountain, or fish in the brook, with no time to pray, or work or read, inot so well off as the grey-hound that runs br his side or the fly bait with which he whips the stream. A man who does not work doss not know how to play. If God had intend ed us to do nothing bnt laugh, he would not have given us shoulders with which to lift, and hands with which to work, and brains with which to think. The amusements of life are merely the or chestra pitying while the great tragedy of lift plunges through its five acts- infancy, childhood, manhood, old age and death. Then exit the last earthly opportunity. Enter the overwhelming realities of an eternal world! I had a friend in the west a rare friend. Ha was one of the first to we! coma me to my new home. To find personal appearance be added a gener osity, frankness, and ardor of nature that made ma lore him like a brother. Bat I taw evil people gathering around him. Tbey came up from the gamb ling bells. Tbey plied him with a thou sand arts. They seized upon his social nature, and he could not stand the charm. They drove him on the rocks, like a ship full winged, hovering on the breakers. I used to admonish him. I would tay, "Sow, I wish you would quit these bad habits, and become a Christian.'' "Oh," he would reply, "1 would like to; but I have gone so far I don't think there is any way back." la his moments of repentance, be would go home and take his little girl of 8 years, and embrace her convulsively, and cover her with adormenta, and strew around her pictures and toys. and everything that could around my body. 1 wish you wjo. take tbem off of me." 1 saw it wa. delirium. -On," replied his wife " dear, there is nothing there, there i nothing there." He went on, and said, -just where you sit, Mr. Talmage, my mother sat Sne said, to me: Henry. 1 do wish you would do better. 1 gol out of bed, put my arn'i around bei and said, 'mother 1 want to do better Won't you Lelp me to do better 1 Voa used to helt) ma.' So mistake about it no delusioa. 1 saw her the cap and the apron and the spectacles, just as she used to look twenty years ago, but I do wish you would take the strings away. Tbey annoy me so. I can hard ly talk. Won't you take them away." I knelt down and prayed, conscious ol tbe fact that he did not realize what 1 was saying. I got up. I said, "Good bye; I hope you will be better soon. lie said, "Good bye, good bye. That night his soul went to the God who gave it Arrangements were made for the obsequies. Some said, Don't bring bim iu the church; he was too dissolute." "Oh," I said, "bring him. He was a good frieud oi mine while be was alive, and I shall stand by him now that he is dead. Bring bim to the church." As I sat in the pulpit and saw hit body coming up through the aisle, 1 felt as if I could weep tears of blood. I told the people that day, "This man bad his virtues and a good many of them. He bad his faults and a good many of them. But if there is a man in this audience who is without sin, let him cast tbe first stone at this coflin lid." On one side the pulpit sat that little child, rosy, sweet-faced as beauti ful as any little child that sat at your table this morning, 1 warrant you. She looked up wistfu ly, not knowing the full sorrow of an orphan child. Oh, her countenance haunts me today, like some sweet face looking upon us through some horrid dream. On the other side of the pulpit were the men who had destroyed him. There they sat, hard visaged, some of them pale from exhausting disease, some of them flushed until it seemed as if the fires el iniquity flamed through the cheek and crackled the lips. They were the men who had done the work. They were tbe men who had bound him hand and foot They had kindled the fires. They had poured the worm wood and gall in to the orphan's cup. Did thy weep Xo. Did they say repei.tiugly? Xo. Did they say, "What a pity that such a brave man should be slain?" Xo, no not a bloated hand was lifted to wipe a tear from a bloated cheek. They sat and looked at the coflin like vultures gazing at the carcass of a lamb whose heart ihey had ripped out! 1 cried in their ears as plainly as I could, "There is a God and a judgment day!" Did they tremble? Ohno.no. They went back from the house of God, and that night though their victim lay in Oak- wood cemetery, I was told they drank ana mey gamoeiea, ana there was not one less customer in all the houses of iniquity. This destroyed matt was a Samson in physical strength, but De lilah sheared him, and the Philistines of evil companionship dug his eyes out an i threw him into prifon of evil hab its. iui in me nour oi ueam tie rose up and took hold of the two pillared curses of God against drunkenness and uncleanness, and threw himself for ward, until uown tpon him and his companions there came the thunders of an eternal catastrophe, I saw a wayward husband standing, at tbe death bed of his Christian wife and I saw her point to a ring on her linger, and heard her say to iter bus band, "Do you see that ring ?" He plied, "Yes, I see it." "Well," said she, "do you remember who put it there?' "Yes," said he, "1 put it there,, and all the past seemed to rush upon him. By the memory of that day w hen, in tht pretence of men and angels, you prom. d to be faithful in joy and sorrow, and In sickness and in health; by tht memory of those pleasant hours when you sat together in your new home talking of a bright future; by the cradle and the joyful hour when one life was spared and another given; by that sick bed, when the little one lifted up the hands and called for help, and you Knew he must die, and he put one arm around each of your necks and brought you very near together in that dying kiss; by the little grave in Greenwood you never think of without a rush of tears; by the family Bible, where amid stories of heavenly love, is the brief, but expressive record of births, and deaths by tbe neglects of the past, and by the agonies or we ruture; by a judimari day when husbands and wives, parents aim emuren, in immortal groups, wil all happy: and then, as though hounded by Istand to bo caught up in shining arravs w w BiutuA uuwu into uaTKness; by all Uut, I beg you to give to home your VIM HHCUWU, Ah m frlAflula tk.- i . i , .udio u au nour com ing when our put life will probably pam before us in review. It will be our mm mm. n irom our death pillow we beue to look back and see a life soent In sinful imiiunont v, 1,7. "Pent ""T ,'-gh o'ir Willi WtlH-ll aa evil spirit, he would go oat to the eofieming cap and the boose of shame, like a fool to tbe correction ef the IwattammoasdtohisclsaUiBed. I hatt milT 1 entered the room. I f oond Use, to Mf torprma, ryiag mfaB every aaydremeathetopof tat ceoea. I toSooamytMad. He graspta U ex ctr, asm said, &t dews tit. Tal ahtre, right there." I tat down. Be sojj, -Last 014 leeway methtr.wlse trtlartwlMnyoaittaew. It tmm lwat wlaawate. ttarawmi ae sUact a fai wmttx. 1 mm km jaBtatKjratl set yeev-TTl I wttyMwewa 2 efKOs Tsea est Cp tpt ,3 WOMEN'S DEPARTMENT. knnm iut Low to talk to CUV Mvt- 4 kinds and conditions of men," was tbe recomendation given for a bright wo man who makes her living as much by her ability to pleaee J l,er ctual labors. Nirg that woman afterward, ana observing her closely, one could w. but be impressed with Uie Uum oi hat had been said. She was gay wiiu the gay, always good tempered, never too animated, and never, never visibly u pain nor in tears. She was always charming, bright, sympaineuc sweet. She was witty, too, but not erriblyso. She kept her wit to illu mine conversation and to lighten dull spirits, not to burn hearts uor scorch sensitive feeling. Everybody went from her presence feeling comfortable in spirit and with reasonably satistiea hearts. She was a peacemaker and a court e Rtreiipthener. There are two or Uireo dozen of such women in the world, aua when you find one she will tell that it almost impossible for her to get an evening to herselt, because so many dear, kind friends are apt to drop in of an evening. And she will add: "I'm I glad it's so, for I should not be able to get thrmgh tbe day without tbe pros pect of these pleasant evenings. I wish the days might be all evenings with a timetable that never crept beyoud the limits of 3 to 11 p. m." Xew York World. Wnu'i Sapvrior Coarse. "Most people think that men are more courageous than women, saiu Dr. S. D. lllack, of Xew York, "but the dentist knows that this is not true. As a rule a man will groan and swear when the dentist tries to fill his teeth, squirming, gripping the arms of the chair and making a big row about it. And the heavier the man the bigger coward he is. I've seen a strapping big athlete sit down to have a tooth pulled and almost faint when he was looking at it On the other hand, a light little hit of a woman will calmly close her eyes, lean her head back In the chair and submit to tortures that would make the Sphynx swoon into insensi bility. Xo, sir; a woman can stand a dozen times the pain that a man will nndergo." Philadelphia Press. "Xot worth a button" wasan express ion wont to carry much meaning. Xext season, however, a button may be worth a great deal. Latterly it has been the aim of well dressed women to dispense with any ontwrwtd and visible fattening to their attire, merging the indespeusable junction in much mys tery. The inevitable reaction now threatens, and buttons are to be re vived for ornament as well as for use The more antique they are so much tbe more stylish will they be considered. Consequently, to use the language of Ilibernia, antique buttons are being manufactured in great variety. Minia tures of the beauties of different reigns set round with pearls, enamels studded with paste, old silver, and gold in- crusted with jewels, are all to be in favor. The smartest will be of Wedg wood china or its best reproduction The ground is to be the color of the dress or coat, and the figure or tracery upon each button is white, cream color or delicate relief. London TelegraplL The memory than the Vtrdnins slew his ssEfi'infSKi Shir WaliU aa Bloom o B. Wara. Shirt waists, blouses and round waists without end appear again upon gowns of the very prettiest sort showu as models for the spring and summer seasons. Light wools and soft silks are used for present purposes, and among the useful garments are black satin blouses, embroidered collars and deep Cromwellian cuffs. Blouse waist with belts all around, and basaim vith blouse fronts and girdles, are favorite oouices on imported dresses of llht textiles such as crepaline, lace veiling hallia TnHi ilfea -J . , auu ul0 jj trJmj. parent, old fashioned lawns and muslins wai are revived by leading French moaestes. Tli hl...u i. inures are u compro mise between plain and full waista " '"una very generally be coming They appear upon dresses n simple and ornate. Chinese silk wsisU to wear with skirts of various kinds are made with "coat skirts" Which are annlloH -a- ' ,-r-. u lira rage or a .vuuuwsisi under a belt and stream- .i nuDon. lwelve inch lace flouoc. ""ow iu we same York Post. , How rigeum ''J' The power of pigns on tl wing is proverbial, ssys the I'ornhill Magazine. All trained birds of this species have two qualifications in a marked degree. Tbe first spetd, tbe second long and sustained powers of flight This pro position can be amply demonstrated, and the following are some of the most remarkable records: Oct fi, 150, Nr John Ilos di'Datcbed a pair of young niwons from J: istanct bay, a little a iL. Mte west of Wellington souna, ana im a pigeon mad H apiarnce toe dovecot in Ayrshire, Scotland, w.nre Sir John had tbe pair taken out The distance direct between tbe two places is !,OuO miles. An instance is on record of a pigeon flying twenty-three miU in eleven minutes, and another flew from liouen to Ghent, 150 mi ls in sn hour and a half. An interesting incident of flight Is the case of the pigeon which in IMS fell woun ded and exhausted at Vaux hall Station, then tbe tertninous of the South western railway. It bore a roes sage to tbe effect that it was one of three "dispatched to tbe Duke of Wel lington from Jchnboe islaud, 2,000 m ilea away. The message was immedi ately sent onto his grace, and by him acknowledged. In a pigeon compel! tiou some years ago th 9 winning bird flew from Vetnor to Manchester, 308 miles, at the rate of fifty miles an hour As an experiment a trained pigeon was recently dispatched from a northern newspaper office with a request that it might be liberated for its return jour ney at 9:42 am. It reached home at 1 :10 p. m having covered in the mean. time 140 miles, firinz at the rate of forty miles an hour. In the north pigeons have long been used to couvey messages between coun try houses and market towns, and in llussi they aro now being employed to convey negatives of photographs taken in balloons. The first expert mant of the kind was made from tbe cupola of the Cathedral of Isaac, and the subject matter was the winter pal' palace. The plates were packed In en velopes Impenetrable to light, and then tied to the feet of the pigeons, which safely and quickly carried them to the station at Volkovo. Here is another instance of speed and staying power. The pigeons In question flew from Bor deaux to Manchester, and not only heat all existing records but flew more than evenly miles further than anything previously attempted by English fliers The winning bird flew st the rate of 1,879 yards a minute, or over sixty-four miles an hour, and that for a distance of 143 1-2 miles. The same club has birds flown distances of 613 and 62 miles. These latter, however, were sev eral days returning, and in their cate the only wonder is that they could ac complish the distance at all. The following is still more interest ing, aa it eatailed a race between birds and insects. A pigeon fancier of II am me in Westphalia made a wager that a dozen bees liberated three miles from their hives would reach it in bet ter time than a dozen pigeons would reach the r cot from the same distance. The competitors were given wing at at Itbynhern, a village nearly a league from llsrome, and the first bee finished a quarter of a minute In advance of the first pigeot.; three other trs reached the main body of both detach ments finishing almost simultaneously an Instant or two later. The bees, too may be said to have been handicapped n the race, having been rolled in flour before starting for purpose of identification. ilR FARM DffH ' Baa TbeSuear IIm boot ;uaranU-t for the O tugar beet plant at GraadV that special arraiigenieahO made with the three rauaW) ing inroagn that point u , from the surrounding coesti) muea. inuopeus upcoo inirmert over alarm Muaaagooa supply of ti rial, provided the uimU wining to pay enough u farmers to undertake and culture of beets. This it one of tbe four in tht, pakj each capable of lundiinth- tons per twenty bona j 700 such factories woiud U J meet our Borne demand fa J consumption of fifty-seven J sugar per annum per factories would need uuuioneoi Dee is, grown a ft atj lilAAM a uuau i,iui,uw acres, ana near wars oi zajuuluuu meu lur mu rsevJ er esNai I to UK J rown in the year in cultivating m? ing, besides hundreds of SUJ vehicles and horses Tht iv would use up 3,fi00,(i luu si year, besides the iron, cor4 belting, ettv, required ttg v building of the plants, sudd? give employment to a larfij mechanics' and other aurkJ thought Ike prodnetion of this year will not nm4 1 tons, but (hat will be six i quantity manufactured in tii in 1887. The present cost of t beet sugar is placed at 2 per pound, but it Is lutiuuti impossible it will ere many j ' ducedto abbutl4 cents, iw cost In France and German; -Tribune. Ab Aaatnllae D ator' W ar 1 Uaa II dim. )t of Town of : "I cssj rse is," ml They are aj A correspondent of Town t ty, Australia, says: what a good horse known dealer. "They : as men. In buying a liomt it look first at IU head and e? of intelligence, temper, honesty. Unless a horse i you can't teach him any than you can a half-witted a.; tl.t tail Kav fhfrA a flri.U9 i 1 I 1. . i rr I inai, ii i mil iiiuma iiigu. l- leacn iiiai nurse any uunj r Well, l it show you a dM heads, but have a care of Look at the brute's be-ad, thi full place below tbe eyes. TH trust him, i "That's an awful gmi u. added. "She's as true si Utaa can see breadth and ftiflbeai w the ears and eyes. You wnlAi tbst ure to act mean w brl body. Tbe eve should U itg Ilk. .! UK IJ manner. Xew ,. A ""rafyTaaUSearr. A very pretty scarf tot table or dreV w came to my notice lately. Linen of rrthernnequalityw., hernstiUbed on ends and sides, and 'a,,--. . 0n with atei.- aim wen elmala A .. 0. the same silk, a single thread floflos. being used for t!.!?1 wo for the outline. The Hum" 'C JfMclom together as eoaldba nde tnd the stitch wa. tJ?... Piole on tht wrong iiT Z7n2 "tioUd .ilk flower -Jl"t, -U" result when .n.-ZTT!0? J- trnely jyj Showers of Blood. Mowers of blood from the sky are very rare in (hit day and age of the world, a fact which makes their com paratively common occurrence In the olden times only that much more ex traordinary and unaccountable. In the "Annals of Ilemsrkahle Happen ings in Home mention is made of fourteen different showers of blood scd other substances mixed between the years 319 A D. and 1170. lkeides these there were two "showers of much Intensity, of which tbe liquid resem bled pure blood and was not intermix ed with other matter aa heretofore re ported." In 1222 we find record of a anoweror blood and dust over the larger part of Italy. In 1226 snow fell in Syria, "which presently turned into large pools of gore." a monx who wrote in 1261 tells of a three days' shower of blood all southern Europe. In the same Tear a emy lasen from the oven "did bleed like a new wound" whan aii uie uow. m 1x44 the great chasms made by (be earthquake at Vlllaeb, Austria, "tent forth blood and a pestilenee followed." Burgundy had a .wuuj auower in IKI. arul rwri shire, Fnir'and. -" ik. paeaomenoD In lifiO. In imm tooet fsU In Wurtembur wM. rtTZS. Woe- . -mwhj anuwar on raiMan a eurred in Mam in mna S T00?1 .oc' rjuhii - Jie- SpinsterI came very nee i-j.. Blrrud ti . . B uiuea, put ibare always a slip. Widow urn 1 1 . "oouier Kind of slin-a pUnt, In fact . f. BoatAs Tnli -' , ; 'w; iBere tn Pfi"aa ce to a .i tbttr aandt to tight 4a arava thmttZZ csn't ret them IZ-?!? was hazel is a good color. 1 thin ear, and want a bom i ears forward. Look out for thai wants to listen to all tin sation going on behind him. that turns back his ears til! most meet at the points, (sir for It, is sere to do sotaeihiai Sen that straight elegant fact with a dishing face is cosvfr cowardly brute is usually v! 1 like a square muzzle, with trila, to let In plenty of air t For the under side of tbe nttt horse should be well cat jowl, with jawbones broad apart under the throttle. "So much for the head," h "The next thing to cooa building of the animal Xt tonx-lesmd. ttittv horst, Lfi a short, straight keck, tat I rumo. and von've got i horse. Tbe withers soots a. and tbe thoolaers weU st" broad; but dont get them W I Urn cheat The foreleg soosMi Give me a pretty strait" with the bock low down, that I joints, and around, mulish tH are aU kinds of horses; bat j that hat theet nolnU is slts be tightly, graceful, good -n tervioeable. Far rrmn Tbe red spider Is best kept Bbb M aaaaaiiamaaji aW AT vj inifiuiiii vi " inonn. Hee that tbe outside si side of your butter packsi' Uave them neat also. Whltatuwado not rMtM tMUBaMiiirBi thev should b(K ably Mm quarters in witct ly the young sows. their bosii margia of profit too tmaS to admit InttMexpsrimenU ai the Ohio Kxneriment to have no em whether attd alone or is m not sffori M by go' ; on tbelr r sit of It I aenU tfi Don't Torgei w v- j wtdMtrowiingthe co( that taay kwva dry qoar-" tKmaty warm, oaia wwlsitH bran. J tmm t&xa an to bt e "V eewe may to town taletj m SMwDM(aMllll'j k...i i. ' ie i-MBStWof J wefcxow m