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senred la to tbe shad
owy night
One would hare
Thought her a mere
child judging from
her slight figure and
general appearance;
but to-night Babbette
was eighteen.
They knew it in
the great bouse, but
what cared they for
the birthday melting
into blank night
aritbouteven a word or token of affection!
The tears dropped off the long lashes and
bitterness settled over the whito face so
very white now in the deepening twilight.
If her young heart was breaking from
neglect and want of sympathy, what differ
ence did it make; what difference, indeed!
She was only an orphaned niece, moneyless
and friendless, finding shelter under tho
aristocratic rjoftree of Undo Wilton, sim
ply because it could not yery well be other--wise.
People would hare censured, you
sec.
Cousins Kate and Clara were ia the
drawing-room entertaining friends, and the
soft light came through tho drawn curtains
of filmy lace with a dreamy radiance suit
jag well tho slow, sleepy music of the
.guitar some one was playing inside.
The girl paused to look in at tho cozy cn--JoyEient
hungrily. How she loved music;
but then sho could not sing. No; tho mu
sical vein of tho Wiltons had failed to throb
into her lifo for some reason.
She couldn't sing, she couldn't dance,
neither could sho appear well in society; so
Auut Marie said "there was no use bother
ing with tho littlo, ignorant beggar."
The big tears, hesitating oa thodark lash
es, plashed down on the crimson shawl, and
Babbetlo turned away with a cooking sen
sation in her throat.
Out across'there, though, where thoughts
-twin klo through the trees, lived a dear old
friend, tho gray-haired rector. How many
iiappy hours she had passed ia that pretty
cottage; tho littlo study with its modest in
grain carpet and aof Uy-shaded lamps ; with
its narrow, green shutters opening out on a
long, old-fashioned piazza by day, and closed
on the littlo happy world at night, was a
paradise to tho lonely girl.
Doubtless tho low rocker in its snug cor
ner waited her coming to-night as often be
fore; and they wouldn't miss her in there
where the soft, sweet music mellowed the
.sir and floated out on her desolate night.
No, there was no room for her anyway,
bad she chosen to have remained in-doors.
Her place must be among those in the
dreary by-ways of life I
Bat the rector, land old Baa, was com
jnxiooaule and a friend. She would step in
-and have another of those long, serious
-talks she delighted in. Poor bub! He, too,
vma alsnc now, with none but the house
steeper to look after him. His wife slept
over there in the church-yard, and his son
Well I Babbette -didn't mind of ever see
ing him.
4 3e was away to college somewhere, but
tho rector had told her that ho would be at
borne shortly. After bis coming, of course,
.Babbette argued, she wouldn't feel as free
j to occupy tho willow rocker at the rectory,
.-for 1 Well, she was now eighteen and real
: iy schild no more, for all Aunt Marie kept
Jber In ankle dresses and long, childish curls.
Turning from the music and merriment
' -within her uncle's drawing-room, she drew
- the crimson shawl closely under her dainty
asm and went away ia the darkness. Cross
ing tbe lawn and shutting the wicket gate
behind her she ran swiftly along under the
a greening cedars toward the rectory.
Tapping at the study door hhe was ad
'saitted by the gray-haired clergyman, as
ssaaLwho drew the familiar rocker for
erardand, pushing bis books aside, turneo
rand for the talk ho knew was expected
to be forthcoming.
"And to-night I am eighteen," said Bab
bette. letting the shawl drop from her
-shoulders with a weary gesture, "and what
save I accomplished, or where is the pros
pective niche for Babbette Wilton!"
Iter fingers clasped and unclasped them
selves in an aimless nervousness, and the
choking sensation welled up into a sob.
The good old man placed his trembling
baad-on the brown curls. "Daughter," said
fee, "be of good cheer; violets are lowly,
bat I dare say the brilliant and stately blos
soms of the hotrhouse would not be missed
as much as they."
A step sounded in the halL The rector
looked up. "It is my son, Max," he ex
plained. "He came home yesterday; I
dkla't tell you, did II Max!" calling,
daughter, as or good cheer.'
bere is our little friend whom I have
spoken of so often, come in and see her."
"O, O my!" and Babbette looked dis
tressed as she rose quickly to go. 3
"Stay, please!" said the old man, plead-g!y-
"I do so want you and Max to bo
iriends, too."
At that moment the son came in and, see
ing Babbette, came forward for an intro
duction. "I am happy to meet you, Miss
"Wilton," he said in a clear, sweet tone that
thrilled her with its earnestness. "Father
baa written me so often of you, and your
delightful visits which brightened the days,
otherwise very lonely for him."
Babbette fidgeted with the fringes of
mer shawl and wondered if college folks
noticed short dresses and scuffed shoes,
and what they thought of "poor beggars
who couldn't appear well."
But the rector's son didn't seem to notice
any deficiences ia dress or manner, and
talked of her favorite bookstand authors in
an easy, chatty way that made her feel at
.ase in spite of her misgivings.
"Would you allow me to walk home with
oo." asked Max as Babbette rose to go ; "it
:ia quite dark?"
"I have run across here after nightfall
.stone quite often," answered she; "but I
anight fancy myself cowardly for once,"
;nd, aauaag, she accepted the escort
"ft seems to me that we were never
strangers, Miss Wilton, aaid Maxaa they
-sndked slowly along nader the gloomy
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you that I was really anxious and
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glad to get home that I might make your
acquaintance personally."
"It isn't much to know me," rejoined
Babbette, wearily. "lam such a cipher,
and such aauserable, no-account cipher,
toe," A
"Please dent say such sadthings," he
said in a pained wajh "try to iee the silver
lining for yourselfyes find it for others.
Perhaps yon are a vlttle despondent to
night Hewever, that nil wear away. Let
us be friends and cheer oho another up to
grand, good purposes in life."
"I shall be glad," whispered Babbette,
clinging to his arm in the darkness.
"Then God has really sent me to yu,"
he answered, reverently, holding her hand
a moment in parting.
"Have you heard the news!" asked Uncle
Wilton at dinner one day some weeks later.
"No, papa," chorused his daughters;
pray tell us."
"Well," said he, "the rector's son has
fallen heir to a mint of money ; by the death
of a relative he becor.es sole heir to his
property, worth about a million or so."
"Oe my! and he is handsome and a col
legiate, too," simpered Kate, who was fast
approaching the old maid line.
"Wo must invite him to our party down
the river," put ia Clara. 'Til warrant he
handles the oars nicely, and, besides, a
millionaire at tbe Wiltons' rowing pariy
would bo quite the thing; we shall be the
envvofourset"
But Babbette didnt join in the conversa
tion ; she grew very quiet Could it be that
Max was really a millionaire! Would he
"XO, BOW COULD I HELP IT!"
change into a proud, cold and formal friend
merely an acquaintance now that he was
wealthy!
Ho had so often sought out the silver lin
ing to her dark cloud of late that it seemed
impossible to endure a change in him; his
friendship was very precious.
The family knew nothing of her secret,
and went on discussing the rector's son and
his money, not aware that the girl left her
dinner untouched as she crept away to her
room to think it all over.
Her cousins had never recognized their
young neighbor before; but now, because
he was fortunate in a financial sense, they
were ready to inveigle him into companion
ship and matrimony if they could.
Sho saw as much in Kate's blue eyes at
dinner. Would they do it! Would they
take him away from her! Well, it could all
easily be; she had no claim on him really,
after all.
That evening Babbette walked slowly up
and down under the darkening cedars,
alone; she wanted to be alone and the
gloomy shadows were fitting the occasion.
But she was not alone ; no, some one was
coming. "I am so glad to fiad you, Bab
bette," said tho voce that always thrilled
her, "for I have glad news, my little
friend."
"I have heard," answered tbe girl,
wearily. "Yon are s wealthy gentleman
now."
"Won't you congratulate me!" he asked.
"Aren't you glad for Max!"
"Why should I congratulate!" and her
white face was turned to him in the gloam
ing. "Why should I, when it lifts you up
so far away from me!"
"Away from yon!'. Why, Babbette, don't
you know me better than that! It only
brings me nearer to you if if you will; it
gives me liberty to tell you something very
deartomysouL Can't you guess, Babbette
love!"
Then he did love her! She opened her
lips; but the answer would not come.
"I have thought sometimes that you loved
me, dearest; was I mistaken F'
"No," she whispered; "how could I help
it!"
"I don't know ; I am sure I don't want you
to help it," he said with a low, happy laugh.
"Then you will be my wife, won't you,
Babbette!" ,,
"O.Max!"
"Why not, if you love me, dearest!"
"I can not appear well in society and
and I am poor and charity's child."
"Arethosoallthe reasons why you can
not be Max Lawler's wife!" asked he, hold
ing her hands while he waited her answer.
"I believe they are," she said, faintly.
"I brush them aside, then, as I should cob
webs," he said, drawing her nearer him.
"Will you marry mo, little one!' '
"Yes, Max," and the lonely, friendless
orphan-crept into the arms of the million
aire; he whom she thought shut away by a
wall of gold.
At the boating party Max was the lion of
the hour; but he disgusted Kate Wilton
very much by devoting his attention to
little Babbette. "Ho doesn't know she is as
poor as a church-mouse, in spito of her
good looks," she almost sneered, to her
companion.
"Why do you ignore the pick of our social
circle and take up with that girl!" asked
Uncle Wilton, pompously, as he noticed his
own daughter's wiles prove futile in en
snaring tbe young man.
"Because, Uncle Wilton, she is my wife,"
answered Max, calmly.
If a thunderbolt had at that moment rent
the very heavens the surpriso and aston
ishment could not have been greater.
"Do you mean to say that you are in
earnest!'' gasped Uncle Wilton, recovering
from his helpless wonderment
"I was never more in earnest, uncle.
Babbette and I were married this morninf
at Grace Street Chapel, a few friends be
ing present, while my father was the offi
ciating clergyman. Will you not congratu
late us, uncle!"
And ia a dazed sort of a way Egbert Wil
ton gave them his blessing while the other
members of tbe party looked on and en
joyed it as a spice of real romance; all ex
cepting Katy and her sister.
Piqued and taken aback, the proud
Misses Wilton stood aloof and looked down
on little Babbette with disdain and withering
scorn.
She, of all the world, to outstrip them in
the matrimonial racel And they had al
ways tried so hard to nuke her keep her
place, the ungrateful little beggar. All
their enjoyment was suddenly annihilated
by that one fell stroke of the handsome
muUonaire.
But they recovered front their shock,
however, as it was policy te do so, and
grew fond ef referring to the haasy couple
as "our wealthy cassias new traveling ia
mas.' MuTatl
FBOM SEA TO SEA.
Th Wonders of Oar Country De
picted By Or. Talmas;.
A Coaatry Vnskioaes By the Divine Hand
For Christ's Demlaloa The Great
West Its Kataral Wonders
America For God.
Rev. T. Da Witt Talmage, who made a
tour of the West during the past summer,
recently preached a sermon at Brooklyn
apon the subjact: "From Ocean to Ocean,
rr My Transcontinental Journey." Text:
Psalms lxxii. 8: "He shall hive dominion
from ea to sea." The preacher said:
What two seas are referred to? Some
might say that the text meant that Christ
was tore g i over all the land between the
Arabian sea and tbe Caspian sea, or be
tween the Red saa and the Mediterranean
sea, or between the Black sea and the
North sea. No; in such case my text
would have named them. It meant from
any large body of water on the earth clear
across to any other large bedy of water.
And so I have a right to read it: He shall
have dominion from tbe Atlantic sea to
tbe Pacific sea. My theme is, America for
God!
First, consider the immensity of this
possession. If it were only a small tract
of land capable of nothing better than
sage brush and ni'h ability oaly to sup
port prairie dogs, I should not have much
enthusiasm in wanting Christ to have it
added to H s dominion. But its immensity
and rflluence no one c in imagine unless.
:n immigrant wagon or stage coach or in
rail train of the Union Pacific or the
Northern Pacific or the Canadian Pacific
or the Southern Pacific, he has traversed
it Having been privileged six times to
cross this continent and twice this sum
mer, I have ccme to come appreciation of
its magnitude, California, which I sup
posed in boyhood from its size on tbe map,
was a few yards across, a ridge of land on
which one mustwa!k cautiously lest he
hit his bead against the Sierra Nevada on
one side cr slip off into tbe Pacific waters
on the other, Ca.ifornia, tbe thin slice of
land as I supposed it to be in bayhood, I
have found to he larger than all tbe States
of New England, and all New York State
and all Pennsylvania ad led together; and
if you add them together their square
miles will fall far short of Califcrnia.
North and South Dakota, Montana and
Washington Territories, to be launched
j next winter into. Statehood, will be giants
at their birtnr Let tbe Congress of the
United States strain a point and soon ad
mit also Idaho and Wyoming and New
Mexico. What is tbe use keeping them
out in the cold any longer? Let us have
the whole continent divided into States
with Senatorial and Congressional rep
resentatives and we will be happy to
gether. If some of them have not quite
the requisite number of people fix up tbe
Constitution to suit these cases. Even
Utah will by dropping polygamy soon be
ready to enter. Monogamy has triumphed
in parts of Utah and will probably triumph
at this fall election In Salt Lake City.
"But" says some one, ' 'in calculating
tbe immensity of our continental acreage
you most remember that vast reaches of
our public domain are uncultivated heaps
of dry sand, and the 'bad lands' of Mon
tana and the great American desert" I
am glad yon mentioned that Withia
twenty-five years there will not be be
tween the Atlantic and Pacific coast a
hundred miles of land not reclaimed
either by farmers' plow or miners' crow
bar. By irrigation, the waters of the
rivers and the showers of heaven in what
are called tbe rainy season will lie gath
ered into great reservoirs and through
aqueducts let down where and when the
people want them. Utah Is an object
lesson. Some parts of that Territory
which were so barren that a spear of
grass could not have been raised there
in a hundred years are now rich as Lan
caster County farms of Pennsylvania or
Westchester farms of New York or Som
erset County farms of New Jersey.
Experiments have proved that ten acres
of ground irrigated from waters gathered
in great bydrological basins will produce
as much a fifty acras from the downpour
of rain as seen in our regions. We have
our freshets and our droughts. but in those
lands which are to be scientifically irri
gated there will be neither freshets nor
droughts.
The work has already been grandly be
gun by the Unitod States Government.
Over four hundred lakes have already
been offlc ally take i p ssession of by the
naticn for the great enterprise of irriga
tion. Rivers that have been rolling idly
through thee regions, doing nothing on
their way to tho s?a, will be lassoed and
corrallel and peunel up until such time
as the farmers need them.
About eight hundred million of people
of tbe earth to-day are kept alive on food
raised on irrigated land. And here we have
allowed to lie waste, given up to the rat
tlesnake and bat and prairie dog, lands
enough to support whole nations of indus
trious population. Tbe work begun will
be consummated. Here and there excep
tional lands may be stubborn nnd refuse
to yield any wheat or corn from their hard
fists, but if tbe hoe fails to make an im
pression, tbe miner's pickaxe will discover
tbe reason for it and bring up from be
neath those unproductive surfaces coal
and iron and lead and copper and silver
and gold. God speed the geologists and
the surveyors, tbe engineer and the Sena
torial commissions and the capitalists and
tbe new settlers and the husbandmen
who put their brain and hand and heart
to this transfiguration of the American
continent!
Bat while I speak of tbe immensity of
tbe continent, I must remark it is not an
immensity of monotone or tameaess. The
larger some countries are, the worse for
the world. This continent is not more re
markable for its magnitude than for its
wonders of construction. What a pity
the United States did not take possession
of Yosemite, CaL, as it has of Yellow
stone, Wya, and of Niagara Falls, N. Y. 1
Yosemite and the adjoining California
regions! Who that has seen them can
think of them without having his blood
tingle? Trees now standing there that
were old when Christ lived.- These mon
archs of foliage reigned before Caesar or
Alexander, and tbe next thousand years
will not shatter their scepter.
The valley of the Yosemite is eight miles
long and a half mile wide and 3,000 feet
deep. It seems as if it had been the mean
ing of Omnipotence to crowd into as small
n place as possible some of the most stu
jandons scenery of the world. Some of
the cliffs yon do not stop to measure by
fast for they are literally n mile high.
Steep, so that neither foot of awn nor
beast ever scaled them; they stand In
everlasting defiance. If Jehovah has a
throne oa earth these are Its whits pillars.
Standing down' hi this great chasm of the
valley yea look np and yender Is Cathe
dral rock, vast, gloomy minster built for
the elleat wershlp of the moeatalas.
Yonder is Sentinel rock, 8.270 feet high,
bold, solitary, standing guard among the
ages. Its top seldom toached.natil a bride
one Fourth of July moaate 1 It and planle 1
the National standards and the people
down in tbe valley looked ap and saw the
head of the raoun tain tnrbaaed with the
stars and stripes. Yonder are the 'Tare-
Brothers," 4,003 feet high; "Clouds' Rest"
North and Soath Dome and heights never
captured save by the fiery bayonets of
the thunder storm.
No pause for the eye, no stopping place
for the mind. Mountains hurled on
mountains. Mountains in the wake of
mountain. Mountains fl inked hy mount
ains. Mountains split Mountains
ground. Mountains fallen. Mountains
triumphant As though Mont BUnc and
the Adirondacks and Mount Washington
were here uttering themselves in one
magnificent chorus of roci and precipice
and waterfal!.
Sifting and dashing through the rocks
the water conies down. The Bridal Vail
Falls, so thin you can see the face of tbe
mountain behind it Yonder Is Yosemite
Falls, dropping 2 CCt feet, sixteen times
greater descent than that of Niagara.
These waters dashed to death on the rocks,
so that tbe whito spirit of the slain waters
ascending in robe of mist seeks heaven.
Yonder is Nevada falls, ptanging 700 feet
But the most wonderful pnrt of this
American cont nant is the Yellowstone
Park. My visit there last month made
upon me an impression that will last for
ever. After all pee ry has exbausiei it
self and all the Morans and Eierstadts
and other enchanting artists have com
p'o ed thtir c -nvas, there will be other
revelatio is to make and other stone of
its beauty and wrath, spleniorand cginy,
to be red eiL
At the expiration of every sixty-five
minutes one of the geysers tossing it
boiling water 1S5 feet in tho air and then
descending into swinging rainbows.
Caverns of pictured walls large enough
for tbe sepulcher of tbe human race.
Formations of stone in ahapa and color of
calla lily, of heliotrope, of rose, of cow
slip, of sunflower and of gla-liola. Sul
phur and arsenic and oxide of iron, with
their delicate pencils, turning the hills
into a Luxemburg or a Vatican p:cture
gallery. The so-called Tfaanatopsis gey
sey, exquisite as tbe Bryant poem it was
named after, and the so-called Evangeline
geyser, lovely as the Longfellow heroine
it commemorates. Tbe so-called Pulpit
terrace from Its white elevation preaching
mightier sermons of God than human lips
ever uttered. Tha so-called Bethesda
geyser, by the warmth of which invalids
have already been cured, the angel of
health continually stirring the waters.
Enraged craters with heat at five hundred
decrees only a little below the surface.
Wide reaches of stone of intermingled
colors, blue as the sky. green as tbe foli
age, crimson as the dahlia, white as the
snow, spotted as the leopard, tawny as
the lion, grizzly as .the bear, in circles, in
angles, in stars, in coronets, in stalactites,
in stalagmite. Here and there are petri
fied growths, or the dead trees and vege
tation of other ages, kept through a pro
cess of natural embalmment In some
places waters as innocent and smiling as
a child making a first attempt to walk
from its mother's lap, and not far off as
foaming and frenzied and ungovernable
as a maniac in murderous struggle with
his keepers.
But after you ha e wandered along the
geyserite enchantment for days and begin
to feel that there can be nothing more of
interest to see, you suddenly come upon
the peroration cf all majesty and grand
eurthe Grand canyon. It is here that it
seems to me and I speak it with rever
ence that Jehovah seems to have sur
passed Himself. It seems a great gulch let
down into the eternities. Here, hung ap
and let dwn and spread abroad, are all
tbe colors of land and sea and sky. Up
holstering of the Lord God Almighty.
Best work of the Architect of worlds.
Sculpturing by the Infinite. Masonry by
an omnipotent trowel. Yellow! You
never saw yellow unless you saw it there.
Red ! You never saw red unless yon saw
it there. Violet ! You never saw violet
unless you saw it there. Triumphant ban
ners of color. In a cathedral of basalt
sunriso and sunset, married by the setting
of rainbow ring.
Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals and
Egyptian basilicas built before human
architecture was born. Huge fortifica
tions of granite constructed before war
forged its first cannon. Gibraltaas and
Stbistopol that never can be taken. AI
hambras, where kings of strength and
queens of beauty reigned long before the
first earthly crown was empearled.
Thrones on which no one but tbe King of
Heaven and earth ever sst Fount of
waters of which tbe lesser bills are bap
tized while tbe giant cliffs stand round as
sponsors. For thousands of years before
that scene was unvailed to human sight
the elements were busy, and the geysers
were hewing away with their hot chisel,
and glaciers were pounding with their
cold hammers, and hurricanes were clear
ing with their lightning strokes, and
hailstones giving the finishing touches,
and after all these forces of nature had
done their best, in our century the cur
tain dropped and the world had a new
and divinely inspired revelation, the Old
Testament written on papyrus, the New
Testament written in parchment, and now
this last Testament written on tbe rocks.
Hanging over one of the cliffs I looked
off until I could not get my breath, then
retreating to a less exposed place I looked
down again. Down there is n pillar of
rock that in certain conditions of the at
mosphere looks like a pillar of blood.
Yonder are fifty feet of emerald on a base
of 600 f eet of opaL Wall of chalk resting
on pedestals of beryL Turrets of light
tumbling on floors of darkness. The
brown brightening into golden. Snow of
crystal melting into fire of carbuncle.
Flaming red cooling into russet Cold
blue warming into saffron. Dull gray
kindling into solferino. Morning twilight
flashing midnight shadows. Auroras
crouching among rocks.
Yonder is an eagle's nest on a shaft of
basalt Thronch an eyeglass we see
among It tbe young eagles, bat the stoutest
arm of our group can not burl s stone
near enough to disturb the feathered do
mesticity. Yonder are heights that woald
be chilled with horror but for the warm
robe of forest foliage with which they are
enwrapped. Altars of worship at which
nations mlghtkneeL Domes of chalcedony
on temples of porphyry. See all this
carnage 'ef color up and down the cliffs;
it mast have been the battle field of the
war. ef the elements. Here are all the
eoleri ef jthe wall of Heaven, neither the
ssaaatre nor the chrysolite nor the topaz
nor tee jacinth nor the amethyst nor the
jasper nor the twelve gates of twelve
pearla wanting. If spirits bound front
earth te Heaven could pass np by way ef
this caayos, the dash of heavenly beaaty
woald not lie so overpowering. It would
only be 'frees glory to glory. Ascent
threagh sseh earthly scenery ia which
rtal M so bright and tbe red so
weald to It preparation far the
ef glass miacled with ire,"
8taading therein the Grand canyon of
the Yellowstone park oa the morning of
August 9, for the most part we held our
peace, bat after awhile it lashed apon me
with such power I could net help bat say
to my comrades: "What a hall this
would be for the last judgment!"
O, the sweep ef the American coatinent!
Sailing np Paget sound. Its shores so bold
that for 1,500 at less ship's prow would
touch the shore before ita keel touched the
bottom. I said: "This is thi Med terran
ean of America." Visiting Portland, and
Taeoma, and Seattle, and Victoria, aad
Fort Townsend, and Vaaconversaad other
cities of that Northwest region I thought
to myself: These are the Bostons, New
Yorts, Charlestoas and Savannahs of the
Pacific coast But after all this summer's
journeying and my othr jjurneys west
ward in other summers I found that I had
seen only a part of the American coati
nent for Alaka is as far west of San
Francisco as tbe coast of Maine is east of
it so that the central city of the Ameri
can continent is San Francisco.
I have said these things about the mag
nitude of the continent and given you a
few specimens of some of its wonders to
let you know the comprehensiveness of
the text when it says that Christ is going
to have dominion from sea to sea; that is,
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Beside
that, the salvation of this coatinent means
tbe salvation of Asia, for we are only
thirty-six miles from Asia at the North
west Only Behring straits separate us
from Asia and these will be spanned by a
great bridge before another century ctoses
and probably long before that The
thirty-six miles of water between these
two continents are not all deep sea, but
have three islands, and there are also
shoal which will allow piers for bridges,
and for the most of the way the water is
only about twenty fathoms deep.
The Americo-Asiatic bridge which will
yet span those straits will make America,
Asia, Europe and Africa one continent
So you see America evangelized, Asia
will Le evangelized. Europe'taking Asia
from one side and America taking it from
the other side. Our great grandchildren
will cross that LriJg s. America and Asia
and Europe all one, what subtraction from
the pan?s of seasickness! and the prophe
cies in Revelation will be fulfilled, "There
shall be no more sea." But do I mean
litera'ly that this American continent is
goiug to be all gospelized? I do. Chris
topher Columbus, when he wentnshore
from tbe Santa Maria, and his second
brother A!onz when he went ashore from
the Pinta, and bis third brother Vincent,
whtn be went ashore frrm he Nina, took
possession of this country in the name of
tbe Father and the Son and tbe Holy
Gloat
Satan has no more right to thii country
than I have to your pocketbook. To hear
him talk on the roof of the temple, where
he proposed to give Christ the Kingdoms
cf this world and the glory of them, you
might suppose that Satan was a great
capitalist or that he was loaded up with
real estate, when the old miscreant never
owned an acre nor an inch, of ground oa
this planet For this reason I protest
against something I heard aad saw this
summer and o:h r summers in Montana
and Oregon and Wyoming and Idaho and
Colorado aad Califjrnia. They have
given devilistic names to many places in
the West and Northwest
As soon as you get in Yellows tone park
or California yon have pointed out to
yon places curse-1 with such names as
"The Devil's Slide," "The Devil's
Kitchen," 'The Devil's Thumb." The
Devil's Pulpit" "The Devil's Mash Pot"
"The Devil's Tea Kettle." "The Devi.'s
MatvVill 'Tba Tkwll' Vaohtoa Hhnn
The Devi.'s Gate" and so oa. Now it is
very macb needed that geological snr-
veyors or Congressional committees or
groups of distinguished tourists who go
through Montana, and Wyoming, and
California and Colorado give other names
to these places. All these regions belong
to the Lord and to a Christian Nation,
aad away with sa?h Plutonic nomen
clature. BJ,,tl(!wi,?b!!C0tint,t '"f1"
. V'ZSZF&'ES
miehtiest team for the first plow. Not by
Snuest iera mr ids urst piuvr. uui uy
power of cold, formalists theology,
; by ecclesiastical technicalities. I am
the
not
sick of them and the world is sick of them.
Bnt it will be done- by tbe warm-hearted,
Christ is ready to pardon all oar sins and , fiaed the policeman i and costs of
heal all onr wounds and save us, both for ' the prosecution. On boing remon
this world and the next. Let your religion ! strated with, the court said t:. .t the
of glaciers crack off and fall into the Gulf
stream and get melted. Take all
w """ mmv jim
creeds of all denominations and drop out
of them all human phraseology and put
in oaly Scriptural phraseology and you
will see how quick the people will jump
after them.
On the Columbia river a few days a?o
we saw the salmon jump clear out of the
water in d fferent places, I suppose for
the purpose of getting the insects.
And if when we want to fish for men
we could only have the right kind of bait
they will spring oat above the flood of
their sins and sorrows to reach it
The Young Men's Christian Associa
tions of America will also do part of tbe
work. All over the coatinent I saw this
summer their new buildings rising. Ia
Vancouver I asked: -Whatare yon go
ing to put on -that sightly placer" Tbe
answer was: "A Young Men's Christian
Association building." At Lincoln, Neb.,
I said: "What are they making those ex
cavations for?" Answer: "For our
Young Men's Christian Association build
ing." At Des Moines, Iowa. I saw a noble
structure rispig and I asked for what pur
pose it was being bntlt and they told rae
for the Young Men's Christian Associa
tion. These inst:tut'on3 are going to take the
young men of this Nation for God. These
institutions seem in better favor with Go 1
and man than ever before. Business men
and capitalists are awake to the fact that
tbey can do nothing better in the way of
liviag beneficence or in last will and testa
ment than to do what Mr. Marquand did
for Brooklyn when he made oar Young
Men's Christian Palace possible. These
institutions will get our young men all
over the land into a stampede for
Heavea. Thus we will all in some
way help on the work, yoa with your tea
talents, I with five, somebody else with
three. It is estimated that to irrigate the
arid aad desert lands cf Amer.'ca as they
ought to be irrigated it will cost aboat one
hundred million dollars to gaih-r ths
waters Into reservoirs. As much contri
bution aad effort as that would irrigate
with Gospel influences all the wast places
of this continent ' Let as by prayer aad
contribaticnaadrieht living all help to
fill the reservoirs. Yoa will carry a back
et and yoa a cap, aad even s thhalLfal
woald help. Aad after awhile God: will seed
the floods of amrey eo gathered, poeriag
dewa aad over the land, and eeaae ef aa
ia Heaven will slag with Isaiah: "lathe
wilderness waters have broken eat aad
streams la the desert" aad wMh David:
There is s river the streams whereof
" TVL ntTX"!? i
iXZSttllSZSX'uJP'
as tto reservoirs! America far Bed!
shall
All
MISCELLANEOUS.
Amongst the mackerel cuught off
tbe coast of Ireland lately was one
which contained s largo live toad,
which, on being taken out. hopped
about on deck, and seemed quite at
home.
i At the Philadelphia zoo the other
day a monkey tore the blue tulle off a
! lady's bonnet, wrapped it around his
Kits stomach as a sash and then noed
in tho most iludesquo manner imagina
ble for tho admiration of the visitors.
At a foreign railway station:
i HJuard. can I smoke in this carriage?"
No; it is against tho rules." "Then
where do all these cigar-ends on tho
floor come from?" -From smokers
who havo not asked
Pall Mall Gazette.
permission.
Those who give attention to the
deterioration of food liml the most de
terioration in those groceries and
canned goods which are sold with
premiums in tho form of glassware.
teapot3. etc. The quality of the food
deteriorates in proportion with the
value of tho gift. The most adultera
tion is in spices and condiments, tea,
coffee, syrup and baking powders.
In the Southwest they do thing.-
differently from most every other part
d the country. At Plensonton. Atas
cosa County. Tex., they hanged a man.
To express their great joy the citizens
got up a barbecue, which was largely
attended. In the adjoining county a
white man, who was on trial for kill
ing a Chinaman, was set at liberty be
cause the presiding judge could Hud
no laws providing for his punishment.
New York State recently enacted
it law by which criminals condemned
to death shall he put to death by
means of electricity instead of being
hanged asformerly. A great deal of
objection to this new method lias de
veloped and it seems somewhat doubt
ful if the new law will be enforced. It
is contended that death by electricity
is unconstitutional because a cruel and
unusual method of punishment, but
J other States and the municipal council
of Pans, trance, are contemplating
adopting the electrical death penalty.
. Iu Drown ville, Schuylkill Count v.
Pa., the other day. some senseless
1 young men, in want of a lark, soaked a
lot of corn in whisky and dung it to a
. flock of geeso. An hour later the
woman who owned them found them
comatose, and, believing them dead,
picked their feathers off and Hung the
t carcasses down a mine breach. During
the night the birds slept oiT their de
bauch, and next morning were found
huddled at the gate in a naked and
prodigal condition.
j The great organ of the Catholic
cathedral in Louisville was recently
I out of tune for several days. The or
ganist searched for the cause but could
not discover it Then the organ
builder was called in to see what was
the matter. After a short examination
, he found the metallic "D" pipe out of
order. lie had the pipe, which is ten
' feet in length. removed, and found that
A sparrow lodged in the middle of it.
Tbe sparrow was removed and the
pipe replaced, and the organ is now in
good order. It is not known how the
bird could have got into the pipe.
A policeman in a certain town in
Northern New Hampshire recently at
tempted to separate two men who were
! engaged ins row. when one of them
Picked upacluband struck the ofiicer
j - o 1- i-
I The latter pluckily stuck to his man.
, and finally landed his assailant in the
i on iao neaa. laying nis scalp open
lockup. The next morning the prisoner
was arraigned before a justice, who
prisoner had no money to pay him for
x..j trniihlfv nnil h miln t nrnnnoA tn
work for nothing.
"So this is a prohibition town?"
Bald a drummer to the landlord of a
small local option town in Texas. 'Yes,
wo don't allow any liquor to be sold if we
can possibly prevent; but, sir, there are
men in this town so utterty devoid of
honor and principle that for twenty
five cents they will peddle out this
liquid damnation. What do you think
of such an unprincipled scoundrel?7'
"It strikes me it is a mere matter of
business. Where can I find that un
principled scoundrel?" "I am the
man. Follow me!" When the drum
mer returned his mustache was moist.
and he was out a quarter. Texas
Siftings.
In Paris lately a physician was ar
rested for practicing medicine without
a diploma. He had a large and lucra
tive practice, and at the trial several
patients testified that they had beea
ordered by the defendant, as a cure for
their ills, to hold a copper rod on their
hands until it fell off; to stand on one
ler. etc Such disclosures didn't un
nerve the doctor in the least, and when
asked what he had to say, to tho great
surprise of all produced a diploma
showing that he was a regularly gradu
ated physician. Ho then explained
that for five years after leaving college
be had vainly tried to make a living
by regular practice. Then to avoid
starvation, he bit upon his quackery
dodge ami made considerable money.
Closed for the Night.
Sharp Parent (at head of stairs)
Clara! It a time for yo u to go to bed.
Clara (in the parlor) Why, pa, Mr.
Greene is here!
"Oh! I beg pardon. I thought it
was Mr. Brown, and I haven't any
patieace with Mr. Brown. He always
kisses yoa with such loud smacks that
it wakes me up. Stay as loaf; as you
please. Mr. Grease. You are always
welcome." ) ('
Mr. Greene Um! thank vou. bat I
1 Kttiir ready to go, and I-I
VtomamAvSmri be back early.
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