THE SOUTHWESTERN, BENM IIOTKH * OlItSON, K-ht pattern at Auckland, Wellington an 1 other vulnerable points are, of course, suggested, and an Imperial ro-erve, towards the payment of which the aid of the imperial authorities may he In voked, Is proposed. Eilgar Haltus In a newspaper article refers to "the avalanches of dry goods and groceries that cataract from the took shelves of the department stores" ns submerging the real novelist. This, It must he submitted, la rough on the real Action-producers, but con cerning not a few of the latter a sub mergence. even by means of dry goods and groceries, would he h good thing for the general public. Of course, ai to Mr. Haltus—but we will let readers draw their own conclusion. A treasury warrant for 1 cent, cer tified with all the customary solem nity, wan isent by the auditor for the pos to (lice department to Frank If. Lynch an hia salary for carrying the mails during the last fiscal year, Lynch carries the malls from Mineral I’olnt. Iowa county, Wls, to Dodge, villc, dally. He drives a stage an 1 makes a fairly good living off h i passenger and tratlle trade. He war afraid someone would underbid him for carrying the malls, ho h year ago he contracted with the government to perform this service for four yearn fur 1 cent per year. Prof Farrington, curator of the Field Museum, and professor of geol ogy at the university, has lately re turned from a tour of the Indiana caves with SOO spe tniens of stain. tUes, Ills most lu'eiestlng It ml was a stalac tite biohen oft and marked by u party of scientists in 1850, which has grown three-fifths of sn Inch since that date. He brought home with him a column si* feet high and one foot in diameter, which Is the largest specimen ever ub talned fur » imiM-uin Figuring from the basts of the one which was mean ured, It required about 5,400 years fur It to grow t^ Its present alae On ta« same baaixd the professor thinks, be will be able to figure out how long it has taken lor the tit lamia limestone to form, Details of the defcli-e of the lega tions in Pehia «.*e a picture of war tu its must Imurious form The be sieged defend, d then seises belli'. I sand-begs made of aiik brocade ant similar valuable slug* The r aw munition was eked out with missile, made of metal ftoin «andl*t*ewh«t iieieM history »s* r-preeent. d i*< Crimea * guaa, from the Hu.Un I gaitoa. Which wum have tx-en a U e Hurt u same of the atlachera TALM AGE'S SERMON. AN ESPECIALLY TIMELY DIS COURSE. Tlio Wan Faithful t» a nil U Ilia >to»t Puituriil to lilt Country and »<> III* I ellon iiien—\n Kxmiipl* from (ha l.lfa of Uxnli'l. (Copyright, i.miis Klnpsrh, N. Y.) This discourse of Dr. Talmagu Is ap propriate for all seasons, but especial ly In times of great political ngllatlon. The text Is. Daniel vl, 16, “Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel and cast hltn Into the den of lions." Darius was king of Babylon, and the young man Daniel was so much a fa vorite with him that be made him prints minister, or secretary of state But >o man could gatn such a high postil m without exciting the envy and Jcaloi^y of the people. There were demagogues In Babylon who were so appreciative of their own abilities that they were affronted at the elevation of this y mng man. Old Babylon was afraid of young Babylon. The taller the cejar the more apt It Is to he riven of the lightning Three dema gogues asked the king to make a decree that anybody that made a petition to anyone except the king during a period of thirty days should bo put to death. King Darius, not suspecting any foul play, makes that decree. The demagogues have accomplished all they want, be cause they know that no one cun k cp Daniel from rending petitions before God for thirty days. So fur from being afraid, Daniel goes on with his supplications three times a day and is found on his houau top making prayer, Hu Is caught in the act. He Is condemned to be de voured by the lit.us. Hough execu tioners of the law seize him and hast en him to the cavern. I hear the growl of the wild beasts, and l scu them pawing the dust, and as they put their mouths to the ground the Bond earth quakes wun mcir neuow Inn. 1 see their eye# roll, and 1 ulmcit hear the fiery e>-( balls snap la the darkness. Three monsters approach Daniel, They have un appetite keen with hunger. With one stroke of their paw or one snatch of their teeth they may leave him dead at the bot tom of the cavern. Hut what a strange welcome Daniel receive* from these hungry monsters! They fawn around him; they lick his hand; they bury his feet, In their long manes. That night he has er.lm sleep with his head pillowed on the warm necks of the tamed Hons. Hut not so well does Darius, the king, sleep, lie lias an uttark of ler rille Insomnia. He loves Daniel and hates this, strategem by which he h s been condemned. AM night long the king walks the floor. He cannot si 1 P. At the least sound he starts*, and h * flesh creeps with horror. He Is Impa tient for the dawning of the morning. At the first streak of the daylight Da rius hastens forth to see the fate of Daniel. The heavy palace doors open and clang shut long before the people of the city waken. Darius goes to the den of the lions. He looks In. All Is silent. His heart stops. He feels that the very worst has happened; but, gathering ull his strength, he shouis through the rifts of the rock, "U Dan i lei Is thy God, whom thou servest con tinually aide to deliver thee?" There conn s rolling up from the deep dark ness a voice which says: "O king, live forever. My God has sent his angels to shut the lions' mouths that they have not hurt me." Then Daniel Is brought out from the den. The demagogues are burled into It, and no sooner have they struck the bottom of tbe den than their flesh was rent an I their hones cracked, and their blood spurted through the rifts In the ro«k, and as the lions made the rocks trem ble with their roar they announce to all ages that while God will defend ; bis people the way of the ungodly , shall perish. I'lmiti’* Or#aloMf oiT(mi«p. 1 Ia-nrti from this subject that the great* st crime you can commit in the ejea Wtv< snd , yoa ought to be scow lt d ivf from un let 13m rtfs of i ' it ? i. You .v'rh .1 1 Word nr two us )Citt p-i 1 by (hero j *'Ptu*k up," says «*u*. "ii**t It dtsbon ! vstly," says another Will burnt • sin ears a third (Story *uiu<* in your Hi 4'H ft*# dthibf* )tiaf fm| lull, If you ir*» Niurt tiiitiuu*, if paa j A fa MkOf# lilt If yo M are wore IntFi •Hllgl, you istt a shadow ou lu pr v : pe> fa of ai be 1 s The nu!»**i And stowss I* wtr. .1 re* b <>f tts. *«« J my s guns I**!..a* »•*»*, *»t *f dor-*, or I’ll knock you down.” "I do not like you," says the anowfta^e to j the snowbird. "Why don't you like me?” said tho snowbird. “Oh,” said tha snowflake, "you are going up and I am coming down.” Young mer chants. young lawyers, young doctors, young mechanics, young artists, young farmers, at certain times there aro those to sympathize with you but now that you are becoming master of your particular occupation or profession, how in it now, young lawyers, young doctors, young artists, young farmers, —how la it now? The greatest crime that you can commit is the crime of success, of ( liNrnrlrr. Again, my subject impres es me with the value of decision of churactei In any department. Daniel knew that if ho continued his adherence to tho religion of the (and he would be hurled to the ilous; but, having set hit compose well. In* sailed right on. For the lack of that element of decision of character so eminent in Daniel many men are ruined for this world and ruined for the world to come. A great many at -10 years of age are not settled In any respect, because they have not been able to make up their minds. Perhaps they will go west, perhaps they will go east; perhaps they will not; perhaps they will g> north; perhaps they may go south; perhaps they will go cart; perhayr tuoy make that Investment In real es tate or In railroads; perhaps they will not. They are not like a mcaiiier that should go out of N'« w Yoik har bor, stilting' for Glasgow, and tho next day should change for Havre de Grace, and the next for Charleston, -and the next for Boston, and the next for Liverpool. These men on Use sea of life everlastingly tacking ship and making no headway! Or they are like a men who starts to build a house in the Corinthian style and changes it to Doric, and thru completes It In the Ionic, the curse of utl styles of archi tecture. Young uiau, start right, and keep on. Have decision of character, Character is like the goldfinch of Ton quln. It is magnificent while stand ing firm, but loses all Its beauty In n gill, now mill'll iieriMon in i in win - ter In order that them- young men way he Christian*! Their old associate* make an astir flings at them, They go on excursions, and they do not Invite them. They prophesy that he will give out. They wonder If ho la not getting wings. As ho passes they grimace and wink and chuckle and say. "There goes a saint." O young man, have decision of character' Y* u can afford in this matter of religion to he laughed at. What do you care for the scoffs of these men, who are affronted because you will not go to luin with them? When th<* grave cracks open under their feet, and grim m< cengets push them Into it, and et' rnlty conus do.vn nurd upon their spirit, and conscience stings, and hopelr: s ruin lifts them up to iiurl them down, will they laugh lien? 4 lirlutlimlly fer llu»y Men. Again I ham from this subject that a man may take religion Into Ills poli tics. Daniel had nil the affair* of 1 state on hand, yet a servant of Ood. He could not have kept his elevated position unless lie had been a thorough politician, and yet all the thrusts of officials and all tic danger of disgrace did not make him yield one iota in his high toned religious principle He stood before that age, he stands he fore all ages, n specimen of a godly politician. Ho there have been In our day ancl In tin* days of our father* men h,i eminent In the* service of Ood as they have bctn than Bethlehem, hut because thi ie an* bad men around the ballot box is no reason why Christian nun should retreat from the arena. The la»t time you ought to give up your child or forsake* your child Is when it is irrciumlcd by a company of (i.ix. laws, and the Inst time to surrender Hi.* ballot box is when il la surrounded by Impurity and dishonesty und all scu ts of wiekmlnoa*. It* I imi lu •**.|itt« a. DaniH mi i qic»*t uuiHiptiUr platform. lit* ni*ni 1 III inly, tuuufcti tilt* itt>Uiau<*UU*a Ilf tile tin) hUni'ti u( him unit iin* | in overthrow him \V«* ***** * i airy our leHatua Into our poli U*'* lint lhtre ate a ureal tumiy men who . in lu fa\or of tikl'U religion Into uatiouwi yioliti* it, who t|o not me the iittiMiruuie of laUim u into ally yolltk* a i thtHigli ,t man were ItitHII* e>nt about the welfare of l.i* n* uh* oil <»l (>nl It4*1 no eon* ere .ihoul l * own iiome My * u.J« i t n'i.l Imp**- * . Hte with t>t* hi t that l i.m 4i. >ol huit a « »o liiruwn lulu lh- i* n \y I* it .» mi* uu Ihtt fair yo u* mu w ■ *i*l hate litdti lor tho hungry mail* ’* * 1 • I |* in- * l at It.-.I ; i t n h ,. flow * .i into a .* •* * I Hit* ieat h t*| their I*- * * (it* i- * t of ti > * ifroth They * a * * l«t* * e i, all aiooH*l at«“it h ut, . m h «i*t«» *** futon u at th* wall ktmwu whistle come hounding to his feel You need not go to Nutnidia to get many lions. You all have them after you—the lion of financial distress, the lion of sickness, the lion of persecu tion. You saw that lion of financial panic putting Lis mouth down to the earth, and be roared until all the banks and all the insurance companies quaked, With his nostril he scattered the ashes on the domestic hearth. You have had dial after trill, misfortune after misfortune, Hon after Hon, and ytt they have never hurt you. The Persians used to think that spring rain falling Into sea shells would turn Into pearls, and I have to tell you that the tears of sorrow turn Into preelmiH gems when they drop into (toil’s bottle. You need he afraid of nothing, putting your trust In Ood. Even death, that monster Hon, whose ileu is the world's sepulcher, and who puts Ills paw down amid thousands of millions of the dead, cannot affright you. When in olden times a man was to get the honors of knighthood, he whs compelled to go fully armed the night before among the tombs of tho dead, carrying a sort of spear, and then when the day broke ho would come forth, and, amid the sound of cornet and great parade, he would get the honors of knignttiood. And so It will he with the Christian In the night before heaven, as, fully armed w.th spear and helmet of salvation, lie will wait and watch through the darkness until the morning dawns and then he will lake the honors of heaven amid that great throng with snowy robes, streaming over seas of sapphire. ——— JAMAICA FROGS Only Hi »imi of On#* llumlri <1 him! Fifty Murvivtf s« J4 \oviik«, Til® billing.<:ul department of the Johns Hopkins I’nlvernlty lots a num ber of interesting specimen* of zool ogy, some of which will b« of value In the higher research work of tho department this year, says the llaltl more Hun, The summer vacation la usually u time for collecting queer creatures and plants for winter In' vcstlg.itlon, a students’ trip to .Ja maica last summer being especlaaly productive of such rarities. Hr. I.nw renee 1C. UlIBn and Mr. W. (’ Coker left lust June for Jamaica. Among other things they collected 150 bull frog*. They we re unable to stand tho voyage to tlila country, and tho seven that survived are now at. the univer sity In mi ema lated condition. This Jamaica product I* not u r* .1 bullfrog, but a toad. They wei o brought to Jamaica from Jlarbadocg under tho Impression that they would kill rats, 'I bis was found to be a mistake, and the toad remained and Is now qulto common. They are of a dark brown color, with a body the size of a large bullfrog, but with short legs like a toad, and are not edible. Like all toada, they are not aquatic. A hand some feature of the Jamaica ropertlea, and tb» Rifted spellbinder htuolly re* treated behind the sheet-iron curtain. Uni) foi a moment, however, did the >1 sotd« i ii ian supreme \ bullet pro it phon 'graph, with steal tiicga pbuna attachment, wa pished upon the . t ige Its rmr of oratory Instant* l> drowned the noise made by the ills 0 ijetly eji'in. lit that Was seekiliR to throttle free spec. h and the meeting pr>-*e tied to a triumph int coin litdon etoe itoi ad oil m i it,i sen e at bad trt H plied over the Mail (‘hit MRU 1 11 Ini lie %•)«• ilui l lilt % klWliltW Mayor Kle. t .vines sml County Cum no douet tliown . f AMnnta are push ihr a tooji t fur an in|U. .lin t ft urn tha i oiiiitM.ii of ninth tleoigia to li.iug w it 11 to the ii> named din Mai ta detail to purchase a tract ot laud, I’ 'h 't*s ■ -oa »i ii , in the mol at.un- u( Uoito tl.uigi* at smile thii it shrtii • Oil'.,; ale Mb .lotaSt and hMht thsca an * IioMUoUs imnuir Ciom Ms rm VIVlUr UU ailUldUit ot IUft.UMIt,>VV gal luiei i n purity par day would b« built to Atlanta and be iwiriud througu lair- i aiim lu ini) lorn-r ot tha *,tly THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON VII, NOV. 18 LUKE XVII: ll-IO, Tim Ten l.epera I leuuoed — "IS* V* Thunk fill" Cal. 81 l»—Leprony u Type of Mu and It* KITarM—Tho Cry for Help The Grateful line. 11. “Ah he w rlil." A* they were going. "Through the mid*i of." It. V. margin, "between," on the bonier* of, In the mid dle way between, "Pitinurla and Galilee-*' Doing i net wind, toward tho Jordan, which In afterward* ernaaed, und Went •otithward, through J'erea, toward Jeiu .”—Clodel. 13. "And thej" (of thcmaclv**. without waiting lo be apokeii to, a* the Greek hIihwhI ‘‘lifted up tllelr volt;**" t»o a* lo In- hi urd a long way) and raid, Jeatl*. Miiater fdlng, appropriately here, the term peculiar lo Mike, which dlgiillle* i ulerMhlp, authority lill»*. "Have mercy on u*,” in whui manner needed no ex planation. It. And win n hr raw tin in," lie turn ed and looked when he heard their cry. Ilo aaw their need, the r dealre, and lllelr faith. Me aaw not only their d xeared bodle*. blit llolr heart*. "lie Hill linlo them." Itow iearly the Havlor ulwnyi vsaa to gt aul Ida mighty healing piat n wlon be *nw the falnteat dealre for ha In-Ip, noil fnltli a* it grain of muaturd geeill "ul mm w.ll hx Pfl.ly III* llrxl fu III hud I-■ n Miiiirl.nl (iii hix 111! 11 ti «r: lilx grateful lull" *. hnwi I Hi (I I he hi i| Ii larg er lull It, I.y wlilili In. ri.iilil rccelva xplr* liual blexdnip uml lie made h now man In i In 1*1 .Ii i iix. 17 "Ami Ji- pm iiiihv. i i Ing " "fint In any woriln ihnl l.-nl In on nitrreil, lull to the liingiuigc nf the < lr< tim«taui ex nml lho oci'.ixiun." Kendrick. "Ilul where are i li«* nine?" (Ii S'. In i" Vi.i. they once? ii) When* are 111»• v nnw? 13) Where wall I hey ho hereafter?- Van Horen, They hull g'im* i'll In ri.l.l an.| literal olNajlclc'i* l.i tin i'iin.maii.1 of Je-ne, not haling hue nr nmi111 nili■ rnnugh to X' e that they conhl obey and rsptcxx their Inn ; ihnt true ftf f* i*lIpii lx tlii* hlghext Obi'dlenee, lx. "There are not found that returned in give glory to Hod " "IngrnlHude lx line nf the niDXt Iinlierx.il and deeply settled nf human vlocx, and our I,old wax perfectly familiar wlili It. Hui In thlx liixtiinie ho w .a moved l.y thu depth of thlx Ih.ioklexHln x. J|.; felt ax If all hix l/e lie II11 ‘Wire falling Into dorp, illelif gruve.' Hanilirldgi- Hlhle Mnllnax of the At non. It la remarkable how many educated people sei m to have vague notion* about the apparent mot Iona of the moon. The able painting In which tin arils! represented the new moon lining in the emu contains no absurdity for them. A little care in noting the course of the moon throughout a month's revolution would give them some now Ideas. The fact that the 'noon moves i sisterly among the star* from night to night would lx* hailed by them u.i u new discovery should they chance to make it themselves. Per haps even inure hazy Ideaa exist re garding the explanation of the phases of the moon. The writer once met it n ry Intelligent young woiius-i pub lic school teacher, fu fact- who hon estly thought that the moon's phases were dee to the shadows of the earth' — <1 T. II. in New York Mall. PEHTINENT PHILOSOPHY. A foul Ik nearly always a great talker. In every happy home the III bio Ih a lot cleaner than tin cookbook. A woman prays moat when aim lx in love, and u map when he'x in trouble. A woman that has no tnnn to love h< r lx almost as ttuhnppy ux a do* that Iiuh nobody to wash him Generally when a woman thinks khe looks "ui ti. tie," kite ought to la> mud < to go uinl tomb her lour. When a woman past to disappear.! from xlglit for a few weeks, it is u xlgtt she lx getting new teeth, A woman b tit via an proud ax when her boy voluntarily w»k* for a fork w ilh w ln> h to eat lit • pin. You can educate a woman alt her UUtIII ui life, ull'l kh'* Will lievei g,( over speaking of a dead person as "the remains" When a woman g* t» w.ddlns pies. • nt fiom another woman that she sent one to, It always make* h«r mad II it didn't mot inure Ih in In-fa dht |te|Mtbl|rai! orating aie nuking the full dluuer pill the.r theme, and th* IW’Wi.mrati, i iieli.!a' are making a • o.niter claim that its loniontu ,IM| muru t * i a it mi It uat the rmiutfy nerds, 111kkr»»1111,* nt pottiira, tn gome one to go an Ulid and iieuMiid that ih contents he loiter rooked What t* the iditttltyt of a *»*ll bile I dium r path with • irt) thing spwlled |ng train Jour neys In Kussiu are depressing experi ences. Once past the limits of the towns, every village Is the same a wide street or two—not really streets, of course, but deep dust or mud, ae cording to the season, und from n score to a couple of hundred gray, ono story wooden houses, usually dilapi dated, und a church, Russia Is still first and foremost an agricultural country; she produces Including (Po land) two thousand million bushels of grain, and grain products form more than half her total exports to Europe; therefore, at the right season, there are great stretches of waving fields and lalnr, the huge mounds of straw, whence the grain has been threshed. But It Is In her most fertile districts that the worst famines occur, for fa mine a little ono every year, a big ono every seven years lias now be* „ come a regular occurrence. And the country, as ono dies across It, leaves tlie general Impression of Indigence. In sharp nnd painful contrast with western Kurope, there are virtually no fat stackyards, no cosey farm bouse, no chateau of the local lands owner, no squire's hall pitiful assemblages of men and women Just on the hither sldo of the starvation line. And, from all one learns, disease In rife. Whole vil lages, l was told by men who knew them well, are poisoned with syphilis, uml the authorities, gravely alarmed at this terrible state of things, hive appointed of late, several commis sions of Inquiry to devise remedial measures. Drunkenness, too, Is a na tional vice, the peasant having his regular bout whenever he lias saved up a small sum From "Russia of Today,” by Henry Norman In the Oc tober Scribner’s. FAMILY OF DESTINY. Visitor* to Cor*Im Ho f*» H « Napoleon'* ftlrllip'flt «*, Visitors to Corsica always go to soo the tiouao where Napoleon win horn. A sojourn In this Napoleonic mansion hi ih tho Imagination working when one remember* (ho children that wore born therein. There was Joseph, tho eldest son; Napoleon, the second; La den, Louis, Jerome, Caroline-, Wise, Pauline all tho children of nn oh- ^ reure notary, and In tho course of time fund not so long, either) they wore crown torn from the beads of kings, wore them defiantly, too, In the sight of the whole world, and caused them selves to ho embraced as brother by h« l»* *ut'»l « bull in 1771 fttipitrcMlng th» or '••T of Juanita | hit *o< My m .uhllahiut by ImutlUft *l«- laoftlu In I Ml to tnUhii*n the |H.w*r of I ho l‘op«v l'(i>tiit.uita. Kitty a to I national Utah o|>a ftar* to he rt|)HM n» rnantlca, »n4 It l« < mo tho m at inthirnttnl ao ■ Icly in lit* tKitrvh In IKM, alien IM *ulta nera hi tha hci«ht uf »h*lf |atftnr, Hfta ,*l |iubl|*he•,' ill im I Item th at t ic, III. r Hill i tt»i» tic. lift. .I, until Franca, l*,>rt««»' 'I' 'i» t. I >•! h. r . tciult ir > of I'Uro,* ilrnuii |v,| lh.ll tha |V|M abolish Ih* *n4i-( » Kl> K a a* ftftftr«ai4 rntuM If l*la- VII , In IH1 Tkft wan vhk tha ku« la mIIIM '* * grnU alakft,