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. __ __ __ _ I trary, Is remarkably inprt, entering in to combination with reluctance, and freeing Itself with extraordinary facil ity; its compounds are notably unsta ble, often to the extent of being vio lently explosive, and it is as useless for the maintenance of life as ashes to feed a fire. Oar Drutl Karth. Wo conclude, therefore, that the at mosphere, while It becomes less In vol ume and density, will at the same time deteriorate in quality, and the lungs of man must needs accommodate them selves to the change by gradually en larging their capacity. Thus the very constitution and aspect of the human race will In the course of ages suffer marked alteration. And what will be the final outcome? It Is a disheart ening picture. Even the scanty supply of water which we have thus far as sumed, must at length begin to fall; it will no longer be sufficient for the en tire population. Unavoidably some must perish. There Is no imaginable alter native; and who shall It be? It Is im possible to conceive of any other solu tion than a struggle for bare existence fiercer than anything which history re cords—-a conflict In which the strongest and most unscrupulous will constantly prevail. Such a condition of things means, of course, a rapid reversion to savagery; and that, In turn, will but hasten the end, for the elaborate sys tem of works necessary to muke this decadent world habitable can be main tained only by a strong and wise gov ernment under a high civilization. If this falls, the last degenerate remnant of the race will soon be extinguished— the sooner the better, when that sad stage Is reached. And what next? At last poor mother earth, dry and shrunken with age, the bloom of flower and leaf quite faded from her cheeks, her face scarred and pitted with the tombs of all her offspring, will lie as dead and silent as the ghostly moon. ON MARRYING A POOR MAN. Word! of Kfi«’our»ff#*fri«fit for fli« Girl Who Horn It. "I have been young and now am old,” said one of the charming middle-aged women of the period, whose looks belle the baptismal register and who rather enjoy arrogating to themselves the wisdom and experience of age, says the New York Journal. "And I have reach ed that period of life,” she continued, "when I can look back and see results and note how seldom those who are born with silver spoons In their mouths, as the saying Is, have the sli ver fork when they are grown up. When I look back and remember who were the Jeunessc doree of my youth the men whose lives and position! above all others seemed particularly enviable and desirable—and then look about me now and see how few of those men who were called men of pleasure In those days have attained an honor able and useful middle-age, I feel that I can preach a sermon to my boys and their friends with object lessons that ought to make It very impressive. Some are poor, having spent health and substance, like the prodigal, hi riotous living. Even those who have apparent ly not suffered In purse or health, are a set of discontented, blase, w^ary worldlings, who go over the same , treadmill of fashionable existence year | by year without pleasure or profit. | Another thing I have noticed from my i vantage ground of experience Is that, , If only as a purely worldly maxim, hon- 1 esty certainly is the best policy. Many | minium man x nave hccii wno nas de stroyed his prospects by the crooked ways In which he sought to better him self financially, politically and even socially, whereas, if he bad walked honorably before all men, he would have gained the world's good opinion and in many instances the very things he coveted. And finally there are the j young married couple of my youth. In nine cases out of ten those of my friends who married poor young men and who gave up the luxury of their homes to prove veritable helpmeets to the men of their choice are now almost without exception prosperous and in many cases wealthy, while those men and girls who married for money are, as a rule, greatly in want of it. ‘Be good and you will he happy' is the uid maxim and certainly it seems true from a materialistic as well as from a religious point of view.” lltKli Tides Affect Wells. The high-water marks of several extraordinary high tides have been kept at Kaston I’otnt. St. Michael's and Oxford. What ia known as the "ceu unnlul tide" of September. lx?t>, has held the record of the highest water mark, and still holds It. although last Thursday morning's tOct. 1> tide was within an Inch of the centennial mark. The recent flood had a singular effect on the flow of the artesian well# on TUhbman's Island. These wells aver age too feet In depth, and many ol them have a surface overflow, which In creased fully double la velocity and mure In volume when the tide was at Its highest It has been noticed before that may unusual high tide is percepti ble la the effect It hee ea the flow ol the Welle A t keep Meet. Boring the past tew years Mr Lee Junes, honorable secretary ol the l.l **f ■ pool Food sseo. tat ion has labored on Hringty to rid the seaport ol wader feeding sad starvation and every day he feeds sums thousands of school chil dren Kerb child Is given one pint of tktch soup and otre slice of (am and brand For tbta they pay one half pen ny ano farthing defrays tho coat of the toed and the other farthing pats the a urging expense*. The weals prn yk|e«t are. as are Informed practtvaily I vegetarian Mr lee donee conceived end began the *- hemc end In vten id the anti-J pat e-t develop in eat of the as seeietton he has been appointed ben scabtc dimmer I’br. Talmage’s t • Sermon--*®^ [ i ** f i f < ROYALTY IN t I DISGUISE... | Washington, Dec. 13, 1896.—In this sermon from a bible scene never used in sermonlc discourse, Dr. Talmage draws some startling lessons, and tears off the masque of deceit. The text is I. Kings 14:6: "Why feignest thou thyself to be another?” In the palace of wicked Jero bonm there Is a sick child, a very sick child. Medicines have failed; skill is exhausted. Young Abljah, the prince, has lived long enough to become very popular, and yet he must die unless some supernatural aid be afforded. Death comes up the broad stairs of the palace and swings bnck the door of the sick room of royalty, and stands look ing at the dying prince with the dart npllfted. Wicked Jeroboam knows that he has no right to ask anything of the Lord in the way of kindness. He knows that his prayers would not be an swered, and so he sends his wife on the delicate and tender mission to the prophet of the Lord in Shiloh. Put ting aside her royal attire, she puts on the garb of a peasant woman, and starts on the road. Instead of carry ing gold and gems, as she might have carried from the palace, she carries only those gifts which seem to Indicate that she belongs to the peasantry—a few loaves of bread and a few cracknels Bnd u cruse of honey. Yonder she goes, hooded and veiled, the greatest lady In ail the kingdom, yet parsing unob lerved. No one that meets her on the highway has any Idea that she Is the first lady In all the land. She Is a queen in disguise. The fact is that Peter the Great, working In the dry locks of Saardam, the sailor's hat and !he shipwright's axe gave him no more Llinrmiifli (lluimliut Ihun <r.irh rtf t ho peasant woman gave to the queen of rirzah. But the prophet of the Lord aw the deceit. Although his physical •yeslghf had fulled, he was divinely Il lumined, and at one glance looked through Ihe imposition, and he cried but: "Come In, thou wife of Jero boam. Why felgnest thou thyself to be another? I have evil tidings for :hee. Get thee hack to thy house, and when thy feet touch the gate of the j :ity, the child shall die.” She had a ; •Ight to ask for th'' recovery of her son ; i ihe had no right to practice an Impo- | lit ion. Broken-hearted now, she start- | id on the way, the tears fulling on the ! lust of the road all the way from Shiloh to Tirzah. Broken-hearted now, ihe Is not careful any more to hide her tueenly gait and manner. True to the brophecy, the moment her feet touch be gate of the city, the child dies. As ihe goes In, the soul of the child goes mt. The cry in the palace Is Joined by he lamentation of a nation, and as they arry good Abijah to his grave, the air s filled with the voice of eulogy for the leparted youth, and the groan of an tfillcted kingdom. The story of the text impresses me vlth the fact that royalty sometimes lasses In disguise. The frock, the veil, ho hood of the peasant woman hid he queenly character of this woman if Tirzah. Nobody suspected that she vas a queen or a princess as she passed >y, but she was Just as much a queen is though she stood In the palace, her obes Incrusted with diamonds. And :o all around about us there are prin :esses and queens whom the world loes not recognize. They sit on no hrone of royalty, they ride In no char ot, they elicit no huzza, they make no I,..* Li- tli.. ..e n - .1 .i . . ire princesses and they are queens. Sometimes In their poverty, sometimes n their self-denial, sometimes in their lard struggles of Christian service— Jod knows they are queens; the world [oes not recognize them. Royalty lasslng in disguise. Kings without he crown, 'onquerors without the lalm, empresses without the Jewel, fou saw her yesterday on the treet. You saw nothing important in ler appearance,, hut she is regnant over i vast realm of virtue and goodness— i realm vaster than Jeroboam ever ooked at. You went down into the louse of destitution and want and ent ering. You saw the story of trial vritten on the wasted hand of the uother, on the pale cheeks of the chll Iren, on the empty bread-tray, on the Ireless hearth, on the broken chair, I’ou would nut have given a dollar for ill the furniture In the house. Hut by he grace of (Sod she is a princess. The iverseers of the poor couie there aud Heeusa the case and say, "It’s a pan ter." They do not realise that (Sod has turnuhed for her a crown, and that ifter she has gut through tb* fatiguing ourney from Tlrsah to rihlloh an I rum rihlloh hark to Tlrsah, there will » a throne of royally on which she ihall rest forever. (Story yelled Af luenre hidden Ktrrnal rapture* hushed tp A queen In mask A prtu.*»s m lingulae. Hut there waa a grander disguising fh* favorite of a great koue* looked tut of the window ol kl* palace aad h« aw that the people were carrying Mi* burden* an * that we* of idem * ere hobbling ea crate kea. and he saw am* of them lying at the gat* evliibli ng their eurea, and then be heard their a met)tel hut and he said "| will Juat ml on th* clothe* af lb** poor people in4 I all! go do*a and toe what their narrow a are, aad I will sympathise with hem aad I will he one of them and | till help them “ Hell the day cam* Hr him to start The tend* of th* land tame to see Mm off AH who could dag Jotaed in the parting rung, w hi. h d* .ok the tut la and woke up the eitep herds. The fftet few atgtlte he haa been >leaping with the btestlef* and th" rgmet drtveea. fur no nac knew there ■ ng n amg in town. Me went atm og the doctors of the law, astounding them; for without any doctor's gown lie knew more law than the doctors. He Ashed with the Ashermen. He smote with his own hammer in the carpenter a shop. He ate raw corn out of the Aeld. He fried Ash on the banks of the Gen nesaret. He was howled at by crazy people In the tombs. He was splashed of the surf of the sea. A pilgrim with out any pillow. A sick man without and medicament. A mourner with no sympathetic bosom In which he could pour his tears. Disguise complete. I know that occasionally hln divine roy alty Aashed out, as when In the storm on Galilee, as In the red wine at the wedding banquet, as when he freed th® shackled demoniac of Gadara, as when he turned a whole school of Ash Into the net of the discouraged boatmen, as when he throbbed life into the shriveled arm of the paralytic; but for the most part he was In disguise. No one saw the king's Jewels In hi* sandal. No one saw the royal robe In his plain coat. No one knew that that shelterless Christ owned all the mansions in which the hierarchs of heaven had their hab itation. None knew that that hun gered Christ owned all the olive groves, and all the harvests which shook their gold on the hills of Pal estine. No one knew that he who said "I thirst” poured the Euphrates out of his own chalice. No one knew that the ocean lay In the palm of his hand like a dewdrop In the vase of a Illy. No one knew that the stars, and moons, and suns, and galaxies, and constellations that marched on age after age, were, as compared with bis lifetime, the sparkle of a AreAy on a summer night. No one knew that the sun in mid-heaven was only the shad ow of his throne. No one knew that his crown of universal dominion was covered up with a bunch of thorns. Omnipotence sheathed In a human body. Omniscience hidden In a hu- 1 man eye. InAnlte love beating In a human heart. Everlasting harmonies subdued Into a human voice. Koyaity en masque. Grandeurs of heaven In earthly disguise. My subject also Impresses me with how precise and accurate and particu lar are God’s providences. Just at the moment that woman entered the city, the child died. Just as It was prophe sied, so It turned out, so it always turns out. The event occurs, the death takes place, the nation is born, the despotism Is overthrown at the ap pointed lime, God drives the universe with a stiff rein. Events do not just happen so. Things do not go slip shod, In all the hook of God's provi dences there Is not one "If.” God's providences are never caught in disha bille. To God there are no surprises, no disappointments and no accidents. The most insignificant < vent flung out in the ages Is the connecting link be tween two great chains tho chain of eternity past and the chain of eternity to come. I am no fatalist, but I should be completely wretched if I did not feel that all the affairs of my life are in God s hand, and all that pertains to me and mine, Just as certainly as a!l the affairs of this woman of the text, as this child of the text, as this king of the text, were in God’s hand. You may ask me a hundred questions I cannot answer, but I shall until the day of my death believe that I am under the unerring care of God; and the heavens may fall, and the world may burn, and tho Judgment may thunder, and eternal ages may roll, but not a hair shall fall from my head, not a shadow shall drop on my path, not a sorrow shall transfix my heart without being divinely ar ranged- arranged by a loving, sympa thetic Father. He bottles our tears, he catches our sorrows, and to the orphan he will be a Father, and to the widow he will be a husoand, and to the out cast he will be a home, and to the most miserable wretch that this day crawls up out of the ditch of his abom ination crying for mercy, he will he an a!l-t>ardnninir God. The rocks shall turn gray with age. and the forests shall he unmoored in the last hurri cane. and the sun shall shut its fiery eyelid, and the stars shall drop like blasted figs, and the continents shall go down like anchors iu the deep, and the ocean shall heave its last groan and lush itself with expiring agony, and tho world shall wrap itself in a winding sheet of flame and leap on the funeral pyre of tho judgment day; but God's love shall not die. It will kindle its situs after all other lights have gone out. It will be a billowy sea after the last ocean ha* wept it self away. It will warm Itself by tho g tire of a consuming world. It will * sing while the archangel’s trumpet Is i * tiling forth and the utr Is Ailed with the crash of broken sepulchres and the tush of the wings of the rising dead. POMl'SCRIHTS. A rector sixty years old in Annapolis Is learning to rlV a wheel. A (Irene# is required to (#11 gtug#r b»#r in Kupland after lo o'clock st olgtht. Thousands of bushels of iomato#e nr# rotting on tbs farms n#ar Ditnuu dais Mick At fctigiieh dispensaries ever ITM.OtW wortk of medieiae is annually dietrlh died gratia She Nu t tks rut# When In douht, pis) trumpsT* He The ueual rule la. Wb#n in douht. ash »k*l are trumps ttcoHish .Sights In the Hrltinh isles during Ihw pr«n eat f'utury seven Instance* have been rewwdrd m which the hrtds has mar 4 **hii> # poMiut tiuti •>r >«al last year tstxuni'M |„ in, gitsat liSsMilf of M • * ton* an M##.« a of I.HIM* tons »«t the prevedins war hlr w tiM*eh> if is; mil eul} sav lb n I .an has* mur daughter. I *n* willing to wail for her f#tevet" “It s • s« «vtung « >a You can hate hsr • h«n the time a ttv* Intrsli y*t#e Press Is the earth drying up? it la a start ling question; and, what Is yet more startling, the answer given by science Is undoubtedly affirmative. Not that there Is any occasion for alarm. The terrestrial water supply Is adequate for a long time to come. It is not In our day that the fountains of the deep will fall; neither we nor our children, nor our children's children, are likely to suffer from a general water famine. The question Is a real one, none the less, and most serious; for upon the answer depends the ultimate fate of the human race. And this answer, based upon strict scientific reasoning and the most Just analogies accessible to us. Is, as has been stated, affirma tive. Our earth, In very truth, Is slow ly drying up. Of all the planets of the solar sys tem Mars bears the closest resemblance to the world on which we dwell this is conceded. Further, It Is In every way probable that Mars is, or has been, covered with vegetation; there Is much reason to believe that it Is even now, like our own orb, a theater of life. But It Is older—In effect, much older —than the earth. Listen to what Per clval Lowell, one of the highest au thorities on this subject, says of Its present condition. After a careful sur vey of all the evidence he summarizes the matter thus "It follows that Mars is very badly off for water. * * * Such scarcity of water on Mars Is just what theory would lead uh to expect. Mars is a smaller planet than the earth, and therefore Is relatively more advanced i In his evolutionary career. He Is older In age If not in years; for whether his birth as a separate world antedated our* or not hi* aniatler site, by catmlng him to cool more quickly, would tt«w eaaarlly uge him faater. "Hut aa a planet grow* old It* ocean*. In all probahtllly, dry up, the ; water retreating through crack* and racttiwa into tta Interior. Water thu* j Utaappear* from It* aurface. to aay nothing of what la continually Imprta oned by chemical combination*. ttiana nf hating thu* parted with It* uceaa* we *ee la the caa* of the moon, whoa* *o called aea* war* probably aa In thalr day. but hat* now become old •** bottom# k* cm Mae* "tta Mar* th* tame ptuceaa ta going on hut would aeem not yet to hat* prugteaaeil *o far. the •*»« there bwtag midway ta their career from the real aaaa ta arid and depreaawd dewert* no luagei water #urfa»e# they ate atltl the tow eat porttu** of the planet and lhatwfot*. *tand to umIh what *»aat water mat yet irate! atef the wrfiuc iMar* pp Iff lltt Here, then ar* not one, hut two, «m IWNMlttf ( Unmmimi «t*4 «It» t ftf* tut read** till it* lilt peecatiu that l|i | at wet I aaauatw* at ocqu**« t<ut*d that thlt analtuii I* ....... as i. to the earth Mara t»« *>ad tall • dried away, aatlf It# aurfa a •• III* a deaan through pacta «f wt< h >k* *t »*■»*»* from the melting Ice caps still descend In floods at certain seasons, making a iystem of Irrigation possible; and It Is t well known fact that the telescope *eveals what appears to be a network >f canals all over the planet’s disk. The noon, being much smaller, has reached t still more advanced stage. Water Is is essential to the life of a world as dood to the life of a man; and the noon is like a dried and shrivelled nummy, dead for ages. Its almost air ess sky—If sky it can be called—Is without cloud or rain; the basins of ts lakes and the beds of Its ancient teas are empty; Its parched rocks are inclothed with verdure, and appear Ike a ragged mass of hardened slag, luch Is a perished world In Its last es ate, the result of the complete disap >earance of water from Its surface; ind, If scientific reasoning is of any lalue, there is little room for doubt hat the earth is on Its way to a condt lon equally deplorable. For the teach ngs of geology and chemistry lead to he same conclusion. There Is no loubt that there was once far more water on the earth than now—far too nuch, in fact. Vast oceans of hot and urbld brine raged over almost Its en Ire surface. The murky air was torn with storms of which we can form but he faintest conception. Over what Ittle land there was the acid laden alns poured with Incredible violence, 'atlng and wearing the hard rock un it finally a soli was formed capable of mstalnlng vegetable life. Then the waters slowly cooled anil cleared and in balded. (hung«* .Now Vrogrennltig. They are still subsiding, though the prows* Is so gradual as to be Imper ceptible to man. Just as of old. some portion of moisture Is constant ly sinking deeply Into the trowels of the earth, never to reappear; while an other portion Is every moment entering Into chemical combination* which rea ver! It Into solid substance, and little of this Is ever released The world now is in a transition stale, and prob ably Is near that stage of evolution moat favorable to the eslstenre and de velopment ol intelligent being* In the remote past the conditions were in rr mpatibie with life. In the remote fu ture life will again become impossible and the lack id water will presumably he the prime muse of Its Aaal dump pearam-e l^ei us now endeavor to trace the serteo of ebaag** by which thts will be brought about, and their progreaatve Influence upon man and hu man iMHuikar (all the drained Held* id what Is nun the bed of the ocean nltl he suitable for urenpatlua by the human race Kits there ttttl* a*ter Wilt remain though In the low est depths * fen Intense!} saline lake* will Ungei thetr desolate halt duel ed With salt their ggtetn more Intol erable than those of the U-ci n»s fust a* the waters mil have !*-«#* * sal •a the air wtll hats hc»a* thin ditch apparently is the case on Mars to-day and the toc-m has no sir at nil. or has an atmosphere so slight that we cannot detect It. And owning to this thin ness of air there will be few clouds, and little If any rain; even the winds will subside Into Insignificance. At the poles, however, and on the heights, snow will still fall, and on the—).'**N unow will still fall, or at any rate frost will be deposited In large quantities; and the melting of the Ice caps thus Formed will furnish the whole available supply of water. The streams from this source, which will be fairly abund ant In season of flood, will be care fully guided through an intricate sys tem of canals and stingily hoarded In huge reservoirs, whence It will be drawn for Irrigation and other neces sary uses. Gold and silver will not be half so precious as this beautiful, transparent liquid of which we are so lavish; wealth will be measured In cab le feet of water, and a spring or foun tain will be more valuable than any mine. Nor can this be called a mere rancy picture. To all appearances It Is exactly the state of affairs which ob tains on Mars at the present time. The whole ocean bed, therefore, will be like a vast valley of the Nile— fertile, indeed, but rendered so only by Incessant care and the highest en gineering skill; while above and around It will lie a chill Sahara, a desolate and deadly waste, unwet with show ers, unprotected by any veil of cloud, Its impotent atmosphere scarcely suf ficient to drift Its abounding dust. All over it will be scattered the unvlsited remains of the cities that we know, and Its plains will be furrowed with the half obliterated channels of our great rivers. It will have but one re mulntug uas—II will have litvome the cemetery of the world, both the old and the new. The great valley below, which la to iim the bottom of the tea. will be densely crowded with a popula tion which'Will admit of no Increase. How the people of that late and de clining age will solve the difficult prob lems that will confront them It Is hard ly poastble wen lo tonjecture. but meet them they must, or perish A highly paternal form of government would seem to be law liable for the water must be panelled out with the utmost wladom and impartiality, and no tsaats can he tolerated Navigation, of course sill be a thing of the past wen I ha Ashes wIII become almost or gaits sa tinet Mors than this, man sill doubt less have suffered actual physical mod ttest Iona, gradually brought about by the changes in his snvirunmeni Hums sf the** sill be due lo aimoephertc ,badges fo« the sir besides being mu h dimlnUhed sill almost »ur»l» b* impoverished In its west vital sts mead It Is a vtr> suggestive fac t that tu day the prop* »n,•« aaygen is only about oste port la live. w# ore pretty sole in nssuming that the ptupurthMi a as *« * «t.!« ably grsaitr list m to aa estnmelt active vlemsai, * <artl» catering tatw -omt-ineMoas of vsrtsHM hiads ahUh barb It up la solid at Hold form NttngpMi sn lhe too*