TALMAGE’S SEEMON.' *THE CITIE9 SAVED,"LAST SUN DAY’S SUBJECT, 'Ami th* AtTMU ef tb* Cltl** Shall B* gall of Boy* and Girl* Playing In th* It mat* Thereof"—ZacharlaU, Var** aa, •—«. LIMP8RS of our cities redeemed! Now, boys and girls who play In tbe streets run such risks that multi tudes of them end in ruin. But, In the coming time spok en of, our cities will be so moral that lads and lassea •shall be as safe In tne public thorough* fares as In the nursery. Pulpit and printing press for the most part In our day are busy In discussing tbe condition of the cities at this time; but would It not be healthfully encour aging to all Christian workers, and to ill who are toiling to make tbe world better, If we should for a little whllo look forward to the time when our cit ies shall be revolutionised Ly tho Gos pel of the Son of God, and all the dark less of sin and trouble and crime and •ufferlng shall be gone from tbe world? Every man bos a pride In tho city If bis nativity or residence. If It be a tlty distinguished for any dignity or prowess. Caesar boasted of his native Rome, Virgil of Mantua, Lycurgus of Jparta, Demosthenes of Athens, Arch imedes of Syracuse, and Paul of Tar •us. I should have suspicion of base, keartedness In a man who bad no es pedal Interest in the city of his birth ^ or residence no exhilaration at tho evidence of Its proeperlty or Its artistic embellishments, or Its intellectual ad ranccmcnr. I have noticed that a man never like: a city where he ha* not behaved well People who have had a free ride In tb< prison van never like the city that fur nlshes the vehicle. When 1 find Argon and Rhodes, and Hmyrna trying tc prove themselves the blrtbpluce of Ho mer, I conclude that Homer behaved well. He liked them and they liked him. We must not war on laudabU elty pride, or with the Idea of bulldlw ourselves up at any time, try to pul others down, boston must continue U point to Its Panned Hall and to lti Common, and to Its superior educa tlonal advantages. Philadelphia tniui continue to point to Its Independent Hall, and Its mint, and its Girard Col Isge. Washington must eontlnue *< point to Ita wondrous Capltollne build Ings. If I should And a man eomlni from any city, having no pride In that elty, that city having been the placi •f bis nativity, or now being the placi of bis residence, I would feel like nek 1»* "What mean thing have you don< there? What outrageous thing havi you been guilty of that you do not Ilki the place?” , . , I know there are sorrows, and (hen are sins, and there are sufferings al around about us; but as in some bitter eold winter day, when we arc threshing our arms around us to keep our thumbi from freezing, we think of the warn ansltio /lav that will aflat* aivftlla /»/*tvia or In the dark winter night wo look up and Bee the northern lights, the win dows of heaven Illuminated by r,omc great victory—Ju«t no we look up from the night of Buffering and sorrow and t'retchedness In our cities, and we see a light streaming through from the other aide, and we know we are on the way to morning more than that, on the way to "a morning without clouds." I want you to understand, all you who are tolling for Christ, that the castles of sin are all going to be cap tured. The victory for Christ in these great towns is going to be so complete that not a man on earth, er an angel in heaven, or a devil In hell will dispute It. How do I know? I know just as certainly as Hod lives and that this Is holy truth. The old lJIhlels full of it. If a nation Is to be saved, of course all the cities are to be saved. It maxes a great difference with you and with me whether tye are tolling on toward A defeat, or tolling on toward a victory. Now, In thts municipal elevation of which T speak, 1 have la remark there will he greater financial prosperity than our cities have ever seen. Home r people seem to have a morbid Idea of the millennium, and they think when the better time iom«i lo our cltlea and the world people will give their time up to paalm-alnglng and the relating of tbelr religion* experience, and. as all aoctul life will be purified there will be no hilarity, end, a* all Mtstness will be purified there will be no enterprise There la no ground for eweb an absurd anticipation In the time of which I apeak. »Iter# now one fort wo* la made, there will ba a hundred furtusma made Wa all know bualneaa prosperity da panda open oob Advene he tear* man and man Now whan that lima • -' > ness men are taxed for ever thing. City taxes, county taxes, Sta*o taxes, United States taxes, stamp taxes, li cense tax, manufacturing (axes—taxes, taxes, taxes! Our business; men have to matte a small fortune every year to pay their taxes. What fastens on our great industries this awful toad? Crime, Individual and official. We have to take care of the orphans of those who plunged into their gravee through sensual Indulgences. We have to sup port the municipal governments, which are vast and expensive Just In propor tion as tho criminal proclivities are vast and tremendous. Who suDoort tho almehouses and police stations, and all tbs machinery of municipal govern ment? The taxpayers. • • • In our great cities the churches are not to-day large enough to hold more than a fourth of the population. The churches that are built—comparatively few of them are fully occupied. The average attendance In the churches of the United States today Is not four hundred. Now, in tho glorious time of which 1 speak, there are going to be vast churches, and they arc going to be all thronged with worshippers. Ob, what rousing songs thpy will sing! Oh, what earnest sermons they will preach! Oh, what fervent prayers they will of fer! Now, In our time, what is called a fashionable church Is a place where a few people, having attended very carefully to their toilet, come and sit down- -they do not want to be crowded; they like a whole seat to themselves— and then, if they have any time left from thinking of tlicir store, and from examltllnrt The style of the hat In front of them, they sit and listen to a sermon warranted to bit no man s sins, and lis ten to music which Is rendered by a choir warrant's! to sing tunes that no body knows! And tnen after an hour and a half of Indolent yawning they go homo refreshed. Every man feels bet ter after he has had a good sleep! In many of the Churches of Christ In our day tho music Is simply a mock ery, I have not a cultivated ear, tun a cultivated voice, yet no roan can do my singing for me. l nave naming vu say against artistic music. Tlie two or five dollars I pay to hear any of the great queens of song are a good Investment. But when the people assemble In reli gious convocation, and the hymn Is read, and the angels of Cod step from their throne to catch the music on their wings, do not let ns drive them away by our Indifferenoe. I have preached In churches where vast rums of money were employed to keep up the music, and It was as exquisite as any heard on earth, hut I thought, at the same time, for all matters practical I would prefer the hearty, outbreaking song of a backwoods Methodist camp meeting. !>-t one of these starveling fancy songs sung In church get up before the throne of Cod, how wonld It seem standing amid the great doxologles of the redeemed? Ij*1 the finest operatic sir that ever went up from the Church of Christ get many hours the start, it would be caught and passed by the hosanna of the Sabbath School chil dren. I know a church where the choir did all the singing, save one Christian man, who, through "perseverance of the saints,” went right on, and, attor ward, a committee was appointed to wait on him and ask him If he would not please stop singing, as he bothered the choir. J-el thorn* refuse 1* strr« Who never knew our Cod; But children of the Heavent>' Ktns Sh-.uid speak their Joys abroad "Praise ye the l^ord: let everything With breaih praise the Ijord." In ihe glorious time coming In our cities, and In the world, hosanna will meet hosan na. and hallelujah, hallelujah. In that time aka* of which 1 weak, all the haunts of iniquity and crime .and squalor will he cleansed and will be Illuminated. Mow is It hot tte done? You say, perhaps, by one Influence. Perhaps I say by another. 1 will tell you what is my Idea, anil I know i am right In It: The Gospel of the Bon at God Ih the only Mgeury that will wer accomplish this. A gentleman in England had a theo ry that if the natural forces of wind and tide and sunshine and wave were rightly applied and rightly developed It would make this whole earth a para dise. In a book of great genius, and which rushed front edition to edition, he said: •Fallow-man, i promise *# show (he means of creating a paradise within ten year*, when- everything de sirable for human Ufa may be hud by | every man In superabundance without labor and without pay where tb* whole face of nature shall be changed into the most beautiful farms, and man may live In the moat mugntfh rnt pit seat. In all Imaginable refinement# of tukury, and In the moat delightful gar dena where he may accomplish with out labor In one year more than tilth erlo could ha don* In ihoaaunds of y*«ira. From (he house* to l># built will bo afforded moat cultured view* that «** be fancied Fruni the gallei lea from tb# fuof, and from tb* tar* rota, aany be seen gardens as far aa tbs ay* «m a**, full at fruit* an* Bow ars arranpwd iu tba mast UeautlM or dar. with w*tb« < •duanad**. ague duets, maoi*. poods, plains ampht tbeatrs*. iirrwm fountain* *«>*•*' *d wurha, pattftaw*. gondola*. plaeoa af popular amassment, to lore tho ays All tbta to bo dun* b tag tb* water the wind and the ana shin* tu tkrlf full g***iop*MBl ** a a a In that day of thhl I *p**b da yon h*!i**o |^*ra alii bo any mid night miMMl* Will th*ro ha any kicking all from ih* nwM* st*p* of ablsariag weudtcaat*’ Will ih*r* ho any | • ashed, uafad uaeomhad children * Will tfceea ha nay inahrtot** •«•#••«•*•* I pool * No N* win* atur*a No ltg*r boat aalnon* Na figildtiM a Sin they mak. ih* 'hr*# X a Na btu»dah« < ay* Na hiogtou ib«#h No than *»••«* of ruin and destruction. No flat-pound- | ed forehead. The grandchildren of that i woman who goes down the street with 1 a curse, stoned by the boys that fol- I low her. with the reformers and phil anthropists and the Christian men and j the honest merchants of our cities. • • • OH, you th'nk sometimes It does not amount to much! You toll on In your different spheres, sometimes with great discouragement. People hare no faith, and say; "It does not amount to any thing; you might as well quit that.” Why, when Moses stretched his hand over the Red Sea It did not seem to mean anything especially, People rams out, I suppose, and said, "Aha!” Boms of them found out what he wanted to do. He wanted the sea parted. It did not amount to anything, this stretch ing out of his hand over the sea. Rut, after awhile, the wind blew all night from the east, and the waters wers gathered Into a glittering palisade on either side, and the billows reared as (Jod pulled bark on their crystal bits! Wheel Into ltne; O, Israel! march! march! Pearls crashed under feet. Klylng spray gathers Into ralnb^v arch of victory for tho conquerors to march under. Shout of hosts on the beach answering the shout of hosts amid sea. And when the last line of Israelltos reach the beach, the cymbals clap, and the shields clang, and the waters rush over the pursuers, and the swlft-fln gered winds on the white keys of tbs foam play tho grand march of Israel delivered end the awful dirge of Egyp tian overthrow. So you aijd I go forth, and all tho people of Ood go forth, and they stretch forth their hand over the sea, the boil ing sea of crime, and sin, and wretch edness. "It don’t amount to anything," people say. Don't ft? Hod's winds of help will, after awhile, begin to blow. A path wilt he cl'-ared for the army of Christian philanthropists. The path will he lined with the treasures of Christian beneficence, and we idiall bs greeted to the other beach by the clap ping of all heaven’s cymbals, while those who pursued us, and derided us, and tried to destroy us, will go down under the sea, and all that will bs left of them will be cast high and dry upon tho beach, tho splintered wheel of ■ ei'arlot, or tnrust out irom me roam, the breathless nostril of a riderless churger. SPOKEN LANGUAGE. The Sanskrit language la aald to have about 600 root-word*. The word "language" comes from the Latin "lingua," the tongue. The rabbis taught that the language spoken by Adam was Hebrew. Tbe Chinese language has 40,000 sim ple words and only 460 roots. Philologists agree that all languages are developed from one root. I Geiger «ay* that "all words ere de veloped from a few simple sounds." Jager, Jlleck, Muller and many others assume language to be an evolution. The speech of the aborigines of Afri ca changes with r.lmoet every genera tion. Very rapid speakers enunciate about two words per second, or from 120 te 160 per minute. In 1801 there were only 6,000 Itallan epeaklng people in the United States; now there are 460,000. Of the leading dialects, 937 are spok en In Asia, 687 In Kurope, 276 In Africa and 1,624 In America. Kllbu lturrltt, the learned black smith, Is said to have understood from forty to fifty languages. There *vcre. In 1S01, 230,000 person* In the United Stales who spoke Krench, there are now over 1.000,000. In ninety years the Spanish-speak ing people of the world have Increased from 26,190,000 to 42.800,000. Thu German and Spanish languages are remarkable for one fact, that every letter has u uniform sound. It Is estimated by Grove that tha Idea of the pipe organ wua borrowed from the human chest, mouth and larynx. SOUTHWEST BREEZES. Calamity Is man's true touchstone. It is a waste of time to watch a hypo crite. The while daisy le emblematic of la IMteenue. A tan-perked husband has very llttls to ervt over. The "bump of destructiveness"- A railway collision. There is n charming elasticity about a girt mt ugtr.een springs No mat! should au art os to take ad vantage «f another's folly The only )uatta friend, ae long v I study and prsetlee humility. I Use where I am. ■very one hgwee »hw< these hard, tlose deled lime# will hM Inst fereest, Blessed he he whs hath s etswa shirt on tee M mi seei bis test uwhut> hued. there are wwil ways le pay hut*, eoi the m*|»*t'y are peid with talus* i iggee. teideration Iw the silken string run- ) ting through the petal chela af sit i Mittal A wekMin ismly deeigne te <*pew pet ; koshagd a tellers uhiese they ere narked privet# fke itaeiheeet Of nit peekg the man whe hns tate : •« te tell u4 tens it in a shipper. IP the ears* j FARM AND GARDEN. | s - I •HATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. ' ■ ■ I Horn* t'p-to-dst* Hint* Atinut CultlT* I Ion of thn Ho 11 anil Yield* Th*r*of — Horticulture, % Itlrult are end florl eatturo □ W that the water atew from on high ave been opened, fter the manner of Auld latng Syne," he wlaeacre* who ave been predlct lg this country rould no Dinger get he usual average f rainfalls of for t a r years. on account, or tne great change wrought In physical features of the country, by the destruction of foreata and *h<’ reclaimed marshes Interspersed tavoUgh their once nlmnat Impenetrabh fastness, will have to "knock under,” uelf Included), for nothlngls apparently more easy than to sco rain pouring atmlght down out of clouds not much larger than a bod blanket, that last year were as devoid of the coalescent vapors aa the cuticle eoverlng the phiz of some teetotaler would be of bourbon putrescent Iniqui ties. "Whenoe the wind comet h or whither It. goeth man knoweth not, may he quite aa applicable with our rainfall from standpoint of observa tion by the ken of humble mortals dwelling on this mundane sphere. And yet here eomes an argument favorable to Increase of rainfall In lower Callfor nla, on account of a largely Increased urea of timber and orchard culture; so that ’ll* a poor rule that don’t work both ways, notwithstanding phenom enal conditions existing as at present lime. The promising oat and corn crop of u few weeks ago has been materially Injured by a profusion of showers, rot ting oats In the shock, and damaging corn by the continued soaking of soil about the roots and stalks. Twelve yeuns ago Grant county, Judlano, whs tho banner county in the state or Grilled Stab's for the number of tile mills turning out tiles for undenlrulnlug the low level lands within its border, not unlike many others In that respect, covering an area or many square miles In several states; hut the rapid conversion from swamp to grain Helds, followed by a serle* of unusual dry summers In succession, most all the factories had been closed Indefinite ly and rnauy abandoned altogether, yet recent rains have created considerable stir among the farmers and tllemeu, again reviving their manufacture, and s number have started In turning out a moderate supply. That It pays the farmer, as well as any other man with a business, to be on the alert at all times and ever ready to push his busi ness to best advantage, even to a change of method. Is never more ap parent than during unfavorable sea sons for work. One man near here who puts up considerable quantities of bay each year has been following the plan of culling all his meadow* and piling the hay In small heaps over the entire Held, before stacking or mowing into sheds. This year he got It about all cut and In cock, but the Incessant showers have continued so long that It Is now all worthless for market, feeding, or where it Is in the Helds. Had he Increased his force a little and loaded the bay on wagons fast ss dry enough, like most of his neighbors, be could have hud all or the greater part in the sheds and stacks In lime, used as It was. Another thing noticeable this year with wheat und oats crop harvested by several different parties is rented ground for share of the crop. That tlie soli was put In very fine condition, but for want of having thoroughly cleaned the seed or set the drill for planting u sufficient quantity, crop waan t so good. As an instance, one drilled In his oats about ino bushels per acre und hud a clean crop of oats that threshed out all right from the shock excepting for a little dampness of grain in cup sheaves. The other man used eutnc drill follow ing day in pnrtiMi of same Held of forty acres, with same kind of soil and advantages, but did not put so much seed in to tbs acre, consequently stand was not so good ss the other, and the few little rag weeds ooriipying spaces, this prolific yesr (or the weed crop everywhere, given a rhanre. was gaih iho' ahm-kod n«U. much ut the unta »4« badly damaged by th* w*»da rut iiiik In tha ah«av*ri and luakliiR auiuu ihluK u<*ar trn buabela Iraa |«r acre. With nevernl ytearo id wheat a like roudltlon mated lor aam ut properly wIh-imI wred and planting *u flaunt •piautlty to luauie a »uwd ''aland'' agatnat all odda. 1. il. I’pland. Ind H«« Ilf R>M»<4 Ha*. M Mahln: It ta altan n«r«* •ary to mu*e b»«a h* railroad, aad It la well tr know the heal way t« da It lla«ia« hid a Miwaahai riimau and rarlad aayertnni* la Iha aialia*. 1 ran. ear ha pa. glue InluiMatloa that mat mu Mima tin* Irani am tuna I wan I hart attaa had atiaaiua to nwu beau la lw« hi**a. and I hat# navar mm with tkr alighiaal luaa la doing *>» I ha** tuttnnvd Iha plan t*« MuktuuWiI in »«g a H*« Kapui Ini Ituuh*' arntag tha hi** but lam wynarda, I ha** larked «'»«»» *aaryM »u* the a» - nh at it, b aiding th« *«■ k tag la N*>-a by yfecea at lath Tha hl«a »an th*n ha yla»ad In an •kpraaa •nr. hattam upnarda. aad varttad alii i »*th*l aaMy I ha«a aat mad ably MM feat ilia* in freight train a It Iha ka«a in It M aaagaad mar* than a faa bo.ua *h»e of our large dll** were Inspected by a committee to examine Into tbia industry, and they reported that one farm of to acres yielded annually |i«. uM) worth of fruits sad vegetable*; another of six acres yielded I* 000; another af W aciwa returned MviOOd and another of Jt acres returned |s 0*0 Thane ftguree represent gross re • ipls hut • ven after making realm tiena for fertilisers and other neeea •ary etpendliure. the net returns, al though not stated, were no dwuht handsome Apart, however, front the J fistn treat eadeelt* truck farming ih« garden sere an the farm «an be made an important Item In the dentes He Hsuoni ef the heme, if uh, into • uMstderalioa alt Ik# lachtag to the purchase of rtmtuve necessary to be hanlih. «uw Wt Sud well being e the i*srm and fiwtitv I If prwpetly hep* and JwdWieoalf sp dted i« laud, poultry manure la north •mhalf 'he mmt af the feed I he towU let. sad yet titlbs *< -•«ohl is tehee «| h* dropptagw w ktt *a vettmsta is iae«U 11he prwtMn rHE SUNDAY SCHOOL -ESSON XIII—SEP. 27—A REVIEW OF DAVID’S LIFE. '■olden Test! "The Name of tlie Lord to I Nt mug Tower- The Ktghtrooo Runnel I. Into It suit Are Prof verb* IK: to. HE Life of Dev Id. —Birth. David whb the eon of Jew, and wan born In Bethlehem In Ju dah, about H.C. 10*6. Hie mother'* nemo Is unknown. He had seven brother* ft ’ flam IB: and two elder slater*, whose names aro given, - /.erulah and Abigail (l Chron. S: Natural Endow ments These were of a high He hud physical strength tracllvenees lie had natural ablllt e^or a high order and great variety. **_ business man, slab sman, ' stela!) and port. There wa* a -r blnatlon In him Ol »" 1 oxslted tender and mild, with the , billon*, enthusiasm, th. most nobb a*ptrt«U«™. the moat generous sentiment*, the mo»* manly deportment, the mo*i W,.M Ing and the most lnvl'"'" r«t cm for Joined to Invariant.'h’l.ilden*** an• “ ' f fruit Of previous training and o good, and tin means to larger dutn*. " Bcrlptur*. "To bln. that uvereomet^ "I will make a pillar In the trm|.Mf W clod ”; "and l will give him the morning "'Nine year* of Training and Trlul tn the court Of Haul for about two David learned many lessons of '1 ‘ of self.reMrai.it, of reslatanee to wrWH ness, of soldierly conduct and shm I " use of arm*, the hlesslnx and pow.r ... ...Iul.il> Then for •even year* more h_ learning necc»*ary le**on» m ‘'■*' • learned Hie character and i‘,!rIuti people, and their grievance*, men «rel how to govern men. Hie »er»on» in privation and humility «>un^eragted the danger* of lit* court Hf< 1 * , a knowledge of the country "e gather^ around him choice and heroic >*" rlt* In preparation for til* defense arid con nue*t*. Illu*tration. The mahogany l"" ln ,n and dump *cdla, I* of very rapid hut the mo«t valuable tree* grow »lowly iimidst rock* and on sterile soil, and *eem to gather compaetne** and beauty of grain and texture from the very difficulties with which they have to struggle for existence Just a* In human life affliction and trial develop the loveliest trait* »f human character. In the Bahama Inland*, spring ing up on rocky hillside* In place* almost death Hie of soil, and crowding It* con torted root* Into crevice* among the rock* — 1 speak now of a lime long pa*t It formed that much esteemed and curiously veined variety of wood known and valueft. so highly In Burope a* "Madeira wood, Itavld become* king of Judah for seven, and a half year* at Hebron. This was hl» preparation for the larger kingdom. Bcrlpture. Well done, good mid faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over » few things, I will make thee ruler over many things fMatt. 25: 21), David Become* King Over All Israel. He became king a* all men altaln their best life work,—(1) by tho guiding provi dence of Hod. (2) hy some kind of choice of the people, (3) hy a right heart mu) persevering will, 1. David enlarged the kingdom. 2. He nubdued the enemies that at* tackl’d him. 3. lie organised the government. 4. He organised the array. 5. He arranged the services of religion. 6. He enlarged commerce, business aui) material prosperity. David's sin marks a sad era In his life. His repentance changed the very at mosphere of his later life. There were two streams bowing side bjr side; one from his sin. culminating In Absalom's rebellion, but felt to the owl of his life and beyond; the other from his changed character. Ills penitence and tho new phase of his religious life. This stream gradually widened as the evil stream grew less. David spent much of his later years In preparing materials for wvId was ay years old Macular History During Davnl s rsrgu and doloiuon's the great htuadonts vf tkrpt and of Assyria were suffering sg sctlpse Iteiua la Straw Maks A ioipte of korsrn wearing straw Hats were sewn alt*.!tev| to a Wtlvksuaia landau lu Issudou Iks olksr day. It la said that horses suffer from ike Wat uWu their heads are riyusJ ta th# sun. run uDiit umv did* voaiirs are «a st/ttak aa suae, am a>e nut m v'»n«pn ui»ua4y aunt «a hgSMil). * he plain Skirt remains tka farorMa d|k, and aWa aeit made ta geaaeaUy hurumiap fW must etyMak aaraiture fa* ip* rat* '“» kata senates# of gar «a »« el sutuns* taaras and ktnka •*e» Stupe uttk small posketa aa tka eater Ms lost aWvo tW ‘Mk ata tkaaa Mi tka skopa.