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r$fr$z$ !fQpT$pilTfn9nfT'r "r,"" ";' 3- "TJf " t."- V , " sa.-.'! ---- S55 aAMavamhmVS ,i-fr) j i.f ' r v iimjmPgreaanapagaci2.aw-taBMa . ,, . rv'T if ft TERY ABSUBD. BomanceS of the Statre, Probably True. but SO you wonder why a fellow with my tal ent should have left the stage, do you! Well, Ford, I'm much obliged to you for your little compli ment, so I'll tell you my true reason, which is known to but few people, either in the profession or oat of it, 'The last three years of ray public life were quite successful. I was kicky in having a tip-top fellow for manager Gus Bailey, :va honest, square man, who could keep his own secrets and other people's too. "Like most actors, 1 was not quito satis fied to play the parts for which I was best adapted; my 'old men" pleased the public far bettor than they did me. J preferred the Itoinco business, and once In a while' Bailey consented to bill me for such parts. "Jty one of these coincidence which really do occur now and then, Murray, ourlcad ingyoungman, broko his hip just at the timcMiie. d'Ebtcrrc joined us, audi, having been longer in the company than any other man, was cast in his place. This made an enemy for me of Lawrence, who firmly ex lectcd the promotion, but I cared little for that. "Had the-wholc company been down on me I would not have known it, for it was patent, to me as well as others that our new star was quito well satisfied with the change iu her stage lover. Lawrence was a capital actor, but his private life was not of the best, and that was one reason why he did not get the vacant berth; occa sionally he would become too hilarious to be depended upon and his under-study did not enjoy a tinecurc. " 'How much you inustonjoy the 'Pastimo of an Hour,' ilr. Osmyn l" said Mile. d'Esterre to me. 'Why so!' I said, in surprise. " 'I always seeyou in the wings, when you r.rc not on Vac stage, through the whole of this act,' she answered. i was flittered; this young and pretty girl wi:h the fanciful French uamo was an honest, simple-hearted American girl with out either flightiness or prudery, and I was Kkulih.it sue took note of where I was. I replied carelessly: "'Oao must, stand somewhere, and my waiiVarc very short.' " 'i)o you know,' she added, sinking her Voi jalmost to a whisper, 'itisarealcom- V-.5 r7nrtL.TnFr L',,u,,9mmis " 'BET LOVE IS MOKE AUDENT TOAS FIRE." fort to me to know that you are so near. I dare say you will ttunk me very silly, but I nevrr feel quite easy until Mr. Lawrence haa stamped on that buvniug paper; my 'dress is very fluffy aud " "Have no more uneasiness.' I said, truth xuliy. 'I, too, disliko that business and I watch your dress as carefully as if I wero yocr maid.' I dared not say more nor speak in too ten der a tone, for Lawrence had drawn near and was scowling fiercely at us. I fancied that he was not quite himself. "The second sccno in our "play was a hackneyed one. Lawrence, the unsuccess ful uitor, flourished before his lady's gaze the will her father bad made subsequent to the only one found at bis death; the ono he tad just found rescinding the old man's be quest of- great wealth to his daughter, pro vided sho marry Sir Harry Vaughn (Law rence). "When she firmly and for the third time refuses to marry him or any one but Jack Iies.jp (myselt) he fears the paper in his rage; thrusts tacHwo strips into a lighted', candle, and, wavingthem before her, -cries: "So vanishes all proof that your father wc;Uy changed his mind 1 No one but you and sue knows that this will was ever made, and as these flames flicker und spread you see ypur case, and luxury, and comfort dis appearsdisappear forever, unless you marry ha? !'. "Then' be throws tho burning ends of the paper on tho floor, and, stamps on thcm,i crying; ' "'tow, Ictus see what is before you! Comfort with meor starvation with your plebeian suitor.' "As the days had grown into months I bad s-ccn very plainly that Lawrence and I spoke our respective lines from our hearts. Did Mile. d'Esterre! How I longed to know! Law rente was ..a fascinating fellow, I was not; be had a fairly good social position, sad 1 was supposed to have none; ho had a good income besides his salary, I'had nothing. "No one in our company knew my his tory, but I will tell you tho gist of ..it now. Though I was billed as. Max Osmyn my law ful appellation was Henry Osmyn Maxwell; my grandfather, who was very wealthy, had announced his intention of making mo heir to most of his property, but after years of kindness and indulgence ho cut mo off without a shilling because I refused flatly In marry the granddaughter of ono of his cronies, an old reprobate whom I detested. "Ofcoursc, Lawrence did not know it, mnd the numberless ways in which the cad tried to teach me my place, socially, were very amusing. I scorned tho fellow too much to feel angered at him. "This night when Mile. d'Esterre had con fided her anxiety to me I was even more Tvuu.-bf ul than before. I imagined that lawrcuce was unusually excited (I learned afterward that she really had rejected him in earnest that afternoon) and threw much emphasis into his lines. "He .brandished the burning papers ia a vvilil ?iasucr and then cast them to the floor in & Tcciless way. Just what I feared would happen sonic time now took place. " V breath of wind, caused, perhaps, by a sudden movement of Mile. d'Estcrre's tnul jn" robe, flic".:ed ono of the papers close to her; the dying flame gave ono last flicker, Ir-ns forward, and seized a diaphanous frill or liouuee or somcthingon her skirt, started into new life, and was fain to clasp my dar lingin its dcry embrace. "But love is more ardent than fire. In an Instant I darted forward and crushed out the ilamc with my hands. . "Lavvrcace, who had not seen the Are, thought 1 was improvising something U j9 vi vSaBHaaaa 9 'fl . ,- v . spoil his situation, I presume, for he grasped me by the shoulder and swung me forcibly into the flies. How the a jdience hissed him 1 Most of them bad understood the unexpected scene and many were breathless with terror. The orchestra leader whispered to Mile. d'Esterre that it was 'all right,' and she went on with her TefusaL "'Comorf, with a craven like you! Soon er would I diet Sooner, a thousand times sooner, would I starve with my dear Jack and here ho is, to learn bow I love him and detest you,' were her lines. "And how tho audience applauded now! They did not seem to notice the rather dis heveled condition of 'dear Jack's' wig and collar and necktie, a result of his sudden and unintentional exit at Lawrence's hands, and they certainly did not know that the hands of 'dear Jack,' so tenderly clasped by the heroine, were smarting and blistered ! "Of course the knew the condition of my paws, and it was when she insisted on dressing and bandaging them for mo that I found courage enough to tell her how I loved her. 'You say you love me and want to mar ry me,' sho said, by and by, in a tone of surprise, 'yet you know nothing of me, not even my name, for I am not French. '"I know that you arc a sweet, noble woman, be your name what it may,' I made reply. 'But before 1 insist on an answer to my question I must tell you my story.' "Vhich I did, accidentally omitting all names. "How very strange! My father, at the instance of my ambitious step-mother, turned against mo because I would not agree to marry some one he had selected for me. Perhaps I was romantic, for I refused to even sec tho young man. I said I would be loved for myself alone and would give my hand only where my heart went' '"Had you seen tho fellow may bo you would have liked him, and then I should never have met you. I said, jealously. '"I catUd not have fancied him ! In all tho country there is not an idler, gayer, more i useless man than that young Henry Max well ! A dcotco of tennis ' "II7ior I cried, excitedly. "Henry MaxwelL Did you over hear of him in New York?' "Well, rather,' I answered, smiling. " '111 warrant you never heard any good of him!' I have the impression that he once j risked burnt fingers tocxtin?uish the flames on a young lady's dress that of a Miss Anna Gordon, I believe; did you ever hear of her!' "'Who are your she asked, abruptly, in open-eyed amazement. " 'Henry Osmyn Maxwell, hilled as Mas Osmyn, very much at your service. A fool ish fellow, who angered his grandfather. Colonel Maxwell, because he refused to marry ono Anna Gordon, sometimes now known as Mile. d'Esterre.' "'How perfectly absurd!' was all sho said. "It may have been perfectly absurd, but it was all quite true. "Wo dosed our engagement with Gus Bailey that spring, and he, who had known my wife's story, was tho only person taken into our confidence and the only witness at our quiet wedding. 'Of course, our respectivo families re ceived us with open arms ; to bo sure, they, laughed at us, but at the same time they showered gifts upon us and my delighted grandfather presented me with a charming villa up tho Hudson. "Here's our address como and see us on your way home and tell us whether you, too, think our conduct was 'perfectly absurd,' as our relatives express it" Chicago Times. SOME ODD REMEDIES. How Ague ,Wa Treated aad Cared la the Days ef Tore. Ague was much mere prevalent In tho old days, when so many thousand acres of what is now good arable land were lying in waste marshes, recking with malarial vapor. But the sufferer was not without choice of other remedies which, if their efficacy was at all in proportion to their simpliuity, left little to be desired. If ho wero unable to obtain the chips of a gib- j uei, or oujeciea u inera on superstitious grounds, many other courses were open to him. Thus, he is directed to have a cako baked of salted bran; while the fit is on be is to break up tho cako and give the pieces to a dog. The disease will then leave him and stick to poor Tray. Another authority recommends him to seal up a spider in a goose-quill and hang the quill round his neck, allowing it to reach us low as the pit of the stomach. Aspen leaves wero good against ague. And this reminds me of one curious principle which appears to have influenced tho leech stronglvin his choice of remedies the so called "Doctrine ot Signatures." To the old physician all plants seemed to possess such curativo powers as would render him valuablo as sistance if ho only knew the ailments in which a particular plant, or part of a plant, might bo prescribed with propriety. His peculiar "method of reading between the litres in the book of nature "Soon enabled him to surmounttbis difficulty to his own satisfaction, if not to the advantage of the patient. Tho shape of a leaf or flower, its color and a hundred other trifles were gladly accepted as indications of tho medic inal virtues upon which he could most confidently rely. Thus, nettle tea was sure tb prove helpful in a case of nettle rash; the heart-shaped leaves of the ordinary wood sorrell were remedial in cardiac dis ease; and turmeric, on account of its deep yellow color, was of great reputation in tho treatment of jaundice. Is it hit -nrnnrfoi- then, that the quivering leaves of the aspen ! J - ..... were csicemea as a cure lor ague. AU uio Year Round. A Useless Journey. My little four-year-old brother was led into the room to see a new sister. Ho stood for a moment in deep thought, and then asked: "Mamma, did baby turn from Heaven!" "Yes." "Did I turn from Heaven!" "Yes, dear." "Did 'oo turn from Heaven?" "Why, yes." "Is wc all doing back to Heaven!" "I hope so." "Denl'ddessas leave have stared dare and saved tar f are." N. Y. World. TThea They Besaa. un.,TTMi ...i :?T, ;?ivES " " -w au style. Wo played at a little theater in Sa lem, Ore., two weeks ago, and when I asked an old man with long whiskers, who was a sort of general factotum about the theater, ' what time they usually rang op the curtain, j he said, shifting a quid of tobacco in bis j mouth: Well, we don't have no reg'lar j time; wogen'ly begin when the folks be i gin to stomp.' So we waited until our audience got there and 'stomped,' which was aoout nine o'clock. St. Louis Republic. Aa Inooratloa. Bagley So Bailey has turned over a new leaf in regard to drink, ch! He never drank very hard. Peterby No; but he does now. That's where the new leaf comes ia. Judge. Tax Irish question. 'That'll ye taker THE BUMED TEMPLE. Dr. Talmage on the Destruction of the Tabernacle. Lessons Learned From the Late Fire The Power of I he Lord Acknowledged Con solations or Religion An Appeal to All 3Ieo. On the Sunday succeeding the burning of the Brooklyn Tabernaclr, Rev. T. De Witt Taltnage preached at tue Academy of Music in that city, bis subject being "The Baptism of Fire," and bo took as his trzt Acts xx. 24, "None of these things move me." Ho said: But, Paul, have you not enough i ffl'ction to move you? Are you not an exile from your native land? With the most genial and loving nature, have you not, in order to be free for missionary j uruey, given yourself to celibacy? Have you not turned away trom tne magnificent worldly sue cesses that would nave crowned your illustrious genius? Have ym not endured the sharp and slinging neuralgias, like a thorn in the flesh? Have you not been mobbed ou the land and shipwrecked on the sea; the Sanhedrim against you, the Koman Government against ycu, all the world and all bell against you? "What of that?" says PauL "None of these things move me!" It was not be cause be was a bard nature. Gentlest woman was ntver more easily dissolved into tears. He could not even bear to s.e any body cry, for in the midst of bis ser mon when he saw some one weeping her sobs aloud: "What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to b bound only, Lut also to die at Jeru salem for the name of the Lord Jesus." What then did Paul mean when he said: "None of these things move me?" He meant: "I will not bo diverted from the work to which I have bien called by any and all the adversities and calamities." I think this morning I express not my own feeling, but that of every man, wom an nnd little child tolongiug to Brooklyn Tabernacle, or that was converted there. wben 1 look toward the blackened ruins f tno dear anj consocrated spot and with an aroused faith in a loving God cry out: i "None of these thing-t move me." V hen I say that, 1 do not mean that we have no feeling about it. Instead of standing here to-day in this brilliant auditorium, it would bo more consonant with my fee ings to sit down among the ruins and weep at the word of David: "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right I forget ber cunning." Why, let me say to the stranger here to-day in explanation of the deep emotion of my flock, we had there in that building sixteen years of re ligious revival. 1 believe that a hundred thousand souls were born there. Tbey enme from all parti of tne earth and we shall never see them again until the books are opened. Wby, sirs! our children were there baptised, and at those altars our young men and maidens took the marriage vow, and out of those gates we carried our dead. When from the roof of my house last Sunday morning at three o'clock I saw our church in flames, I said: "That is the last of the building from which we buried our De Witt on that cold December day when it seemed all Brooklyn wept with my household." And it was jmt as bard for you to give up your loved ones as for as to give up ours. Why, like the beautiful vines that still cover some of the fallen walls, our affections are clambering all over the ruins, and I could kiss the ashes that mark the place where it once stood. Wby, now that I think of it, I can not think of it as an inanimate pile, but as a soul, a 'mighty soul, an indestructible soul. I am sure that majestic organ had a soul, for we have often beard it speak and sing and shout and wail, and when the soul of that organ entered Heaven I think Handel, and Haydn, and Mozart; and Mendelssohn and Beethoven were at the gates to welcome it. So I do not use tne words ot mv text in a heartless way. but in the sense that we must not and will not be diverted from our woik by the ap palling disasters which have befallen us. We will not turn aside one inch from our determination to do all we can for the present and everlasting happiness of all the people whom we may be able to meet. "None of these things move me. None of these things move you." When I looked out through the dismal rain from the roof of my bouse and saw the church crumbling brick by brick, and timber by timber, I said to myself: "Does this mean that my it ork in Brooklyn is ended? Does this terminate my associa tion with this city, where I have been more than twenty years glad in all its prosperities and sad in all its misfor tunes?" And a still small voice came to me, a voice that is no longer still orsmall, but most emphatic and commanding, through pressure of hand and newspaper column, aud telegram and letter contribu tions saying, '"Go forward !" I have made and I now make an appeal to all Christendom to help us. We want all Christendom to help, and I will ac knowledge the receipt of every contribu tion, great or small, with my own band. We want to build larger and better. We want it a National church, in which peo ple of all creeds ami all nations find a home. The contributions already sent in make a small-hearted church forever im- lsslD'a fT !! Would not I be a sorry specta cle for angels and men if, in a church built by Israelites and Catholics, as well as all thestvles of people conunouly called j evangelical, I should instead of the ban- ner of the Lord God Almighty, raise a fluttering rag of small sectarianism? If we bad iSV.OOO we would put tbem all in one great monument to the mercy of God. People ak on all sides about what we shall build. I answer, it all depends on the contributions sent in from here and from the ends of the earth. I say now to all the Baptists that we shall have in it a baptistry. I say to all Episcopalians, we shall have in our services as heretofore at our communion table portions of the Lit urgy. I say to the Catholics we shall have a cross over the pulpit and probably HM .1. mmaw f mmr tn Um 1.tkA.I tat IV "" " "' t"r "Zd Z, TZu.- .uiruu i iug id iuo .vOJ . u..,- thundering. I say to all denominations. tm ,Aff! to we mean to Dreacn reusion as wiae as ,' Heaven and as good as God. We have said we bad a total loss. But there was j one exception. The only things we saved were tbe silver communion chalices, for they happened to be in another budding. ! and' I take that fact as typical that we are i n ha In rnmmnninn with all Christendom. I "I believe in the communion of saints I" I think if all tbe Brooklyn firemen and all the insurance companies should search among those ruins on Scbermerborn street they would not find a splinter larga as tbo tip end of the little finger marked with bigotrv. And as it is said that tbe ex humed bricks cf tbe walls of Babylon have on them tbe letter N, standing for Nebuchadnezzar. I declare to you that if we ever set a new church tbe letter we sboald like to have on every stone and every timber woald be the letter C, for that would stand D3tn 'or Christ aad catholicity. The last iw words I uttered in the old church on Kriday night, some of you may remember, were "Hallelujah! Amen !" Tbe two words that I utter now as most expressive of my feelings in tL'is our first service after tbe baptism of fire, are Hal lelujah! Amen! "None of these things move me." We are kept in this mood by two or three considerations. The first if, that God rules. In what way the church took fire I do not know. It. has been charged on the lightnings. Well, the Lord con trols the lightnings. He managed them several thousand years before our elec tricians were born. The Bible indicates that, though they fl.nsh down the sky recklessly, God bniids for them a road to travel. In tbe Psalm it is said: "Ho made n way for the lightning and the thunder." Ewer since the time of Bonjamin Franklin the world has been trying to tame th lightning, nnd tbey seem to be quito wtl harnessed, but they occasionally kick over tbe traces. But thoush we can not master great natural forces, God can and does, and that is our Father and bast friend, ami this thought gives us confidence. We are also roin forced by tbe increased consolation that comes from confraternity of sorrow. The people who, during the last sixteen years, sat on the other side of the aislt", whose faces were familiar to you, bat to whom you bad never spoken you greetod them this week with smiles and tears as yon said: ''Well, the old place is gone." You did not want to seem to cry, aud so you swept the sleeve near tbe corner of tbe eye, and pretended it was tbe tharp wind made your eyes weak. Ah! there was nothing the matter with your eyes; it was your soul bubbling over. I tell you that it is jmpossiblo to sit for years around the same church fireside and not have sympathy in common. Somehow you feel that you would like those people on the other side of tbe aisle, about whom you know but little, prospered and par doned and blessed and saved. You feel as if you are in tbe snme boat, ami you want to glide up the sr.mo harbor and want to disembark at the same wharf. If you put gold and iron nnd lead and zinc in sufl.'c ent beat they ill melt into a con clomerate mass; and I really feel that last Sabbath's fire has fused unll, grosser and finer natures, into one. It seems as if we all had our bauds on a wire connected with an electric battery; and when this church sorrow started it thrilled through the wiiole circle, and we all felt the shock. The oldest man and tbe youngest child could join bands in this misfortune. Grnndiat her said: "I expected from these altars to be buried;" and one of the chil dren last Sabbath cried: 'Grandpa, that place was next to our house." Ya, we are supported and confidrnt iu this tim? by tbe cross of Christ. That is used to the fire. On the dark day when Jesus died, the lightning struck it from abive, and the flames of bell dashed up against it from beneath. That trarlul, painful, tender, blessed cross still stands. On it we bang all our hoi.es; beneath it we put down all cur sins; in the light of it wa expct to make tho rest of our pilgrimage. Within sight of such a sacrifice, who can feel he has it bard? In tbe sight of such a sym bol who can bo discouraged, however great the darkness that may come down upon him! Je3us lives! Tbe toving,patienr, sympathizing, mighty Jesus! It shall not be told on earth, or in heil, or in Heaven, that three Hebrew ciildren bad not tbe Son of God beside them in the fire, and that a m hole church was forsaken by tbo Lord wben tbey went through a furnace about two hundred feet wide. 0 Lord Jesus ! shall we take out of Thy hand Ihi flowers and the fruits, and the brightness and the jiys, and then tarn away bf cause Thou dot give as one cup of bitterness to drink? O. no, Jesus, we will drink it dry. But bow it is changed! Blessed Jesns. what hast Thou put into the cup to sweeten it? Why. it has be come tbe wine of Heaven, and our souls grow strong. 1 come now, and pipes totbef my feet deep down into the blackened ashes of our consumed church, aud I cry out with an exhilaration that I never fait since tbe day of my soul's emancipation. "Victory ! victory ! through our Lord Jesus Christ!" Yonr harps, ye trembling saints, Down from tli; willows take. Loud to tbe praise of lorethvine Bid every string awake. We are also reinforced by the catholicity that I have already referred to. We are in the academy to-day. not b cause we have no other place to go. Last Sabbath morning at nine o'clock we had but oae church; now we have bbout thirty, all at our disposal Their pastors and their trustees sav: "You any take our main audience room, you may take our lecture rooms, you may take oar church parlor?,, yoa may baptise in oar baptistries, and sit in our anxious seats." O! if there be any larger hearted ministers or larger hearted churches anywhere than in Brook lyn, tell me where tbey are, that I may go and see tbem before I die. The milleniorn has come. People keep wondering wben it is coming. It has come. Thelioaaad tbe lamb lie down together, and the tiger eats straw like an ox. I sboald like to have seen two of tbe old time bigots, with their swords, fighting through that great fire on Scbermerborn street last Sabbath. I am sure tbe swords would have melted and they who wielded tbem would have learned war no more. I can never say a word against any other denomination of Christians. I thank God I never have been tempted to do it. I can not be a sectariaa. I bave been told 1 ought to be and I bave tried to be, but I bave not enough material in me to make such a structure. Every time I get tbe things most done there comes a fire or something else aud all Is gone. Tbe angels of God shake out on this air "Glory to God in tbe highest and on earth peace, good will toward men." I do not know but I see on tbe horizon the first gleam of the morning which shall unite all denom inations in one organization, distinguished f only by tbe locality as in apostolic times. It was then the Church of Thyatira, and tbe Church of Tbessalonica, and the Church of Antiocb, and the Church of Laodicea. So I do not know but that ia tbe future history, and not far off either, it may be simply a distinction of locality, and not of creed, as the Church of New York, tbe Church of Brooklyn, the Church of Boston, tbe Cbarcb of Charleston, the Cbuicb of Madras, tbe Church of Con stantinople, tbe Church of America. My dear brethren, we can not afford to be severely divided. Standing in front of tbe great foes of our common Christianity we want to put on tbe whole armerof God and march down ia sol id column should? to shoulder! oae commander! one tri umph! Tbi trumpet gives a martial strata O Israel ! gird thee Jor the fight; Arise, the combat to malatain: Ansa and pot thy foes to Sifht. We also leel reiaforced by the thought that we are on the way to a Heaven that can never Lara down. Fires may sweep through other cities bat. I am glad to know that the New JerasaUm is flreproofc There will be so engines rushing through the Two Trim Requirements or the Guld those streets; there will be no temples !. tr' Tradr. consumed ia that city. Coming to tbe Gold-bantinjr is a trade of muscle and doors of that Church, we will find them ju,jj;nient. Therc w judgment in know open, resonant with song, and not,cries :nl111.n,!i.,fi, i;i ., of fire. O, my dear brother and sister! If "- h"wr to "e tho II package on this short lane of lire come up so tho stone, muscle in the hammer soon to that blessed place, what is the j clock-like rib and fall. The motion use of our worrying? I have felt a good j is one of tho wrist. Tho workman's many times this last week like Father elbow joint stiffens, the hammer fait Taylor, the sailor preacher. He got in a and whonM!i w t . Martin loag sentence while be was preaching one i . - . . 'l,,r'"'' day and lost himself and could not find ' I,tn"V i' :utliu!1-v- U UH not tI"-' his way out of tbe senteace. H stopped ( physical effort, it ei!i. even though ana .-aiu: "uremren, x uave iosi me nommsiiva oi mis sentence ami mings are generally mixed up, but I am bound t for tbe kingdom anyhow." t Ana ilinii); iuis ia ncn, nusu a van the rusbiag to and fro and tbeexcitement; I said to myself: "1 do not know just where we shall start again, hut I am bonnd for the kingdom anyhow." I do not want to go just yet. I want to be a pastor of this people until I act about eighty-nine years of age, but I bave sometimes thonght that there are such g!orieahead that I may be persuaded to go littT earlier for instance at ci5iity- two or eighty-three but I really think that if we could have an appreciation-of what Got! has in reserve for us wo would want to go, stepping right out of the Academy vf Music into tbo glories of tto skies. Ab! that Is a good land. Why. they tell me that in that land they never haver hpnrtnirhp. TIibt tnlf bum thnt n tn-.n ! might walk ive hundred years in that land and never see a tenror hear a sign. They trlt me that our frirnds who bave left us and gone there, their feet are radi ant as tbe sun, and that they take hold of tha band of Jesus familiarly, and that they open that band and see in tbe peliu of it a healed woand that must havo been very cruel before it was healed. And they tell me there is no winter there, and that they never get hungry or cold, and that the sewing girl never wades throuph ulu ww o;u- ' Ber pnnu-ies are the anon b ink to her daily toil, and that carefully bru-hed otf i.ito an apron at tho clock never strikes twelve for tbe taeheel txf the stone, for the workman night, but onlv twelve for the day. must acroutit iov every nie of hi titty oto moi iikui iu iu w ii .now. x wunuor who set it there. O! you say. "my father that went into glory must have set that libt in the window." No; guess again. "My mother who died fifteen years ago in Jesus. I think, most buvo set that lizht there." No; guess again. You sav: "My darling little chilli, that last summer I put away for the resurrnc tion, I think she mu t have set that light there in the window." No; gue- again. Jesus set it there; and lid will keep it Lurnitig until the day we put our finger ou the latch of the door and go in tote at home forever. O, when my sight gets black in death put on my eye! ids that sweet ointment. When in tbe last weari ness I can not take another step, jot help me put my foot on that doorsilL Wben ' my ear catches no mora tbe voice of wife ' and child let me go right in to have my deafness cured by the stroke of the harp ers whose lingers fly over tbe strings with the nntheras of the free. Heaven never burns down! The fires of tbe last dny, that are already kindlfd I in the heart of the earth, but are hidden because God keeps down tbe batches those internal fires will after awhile break tbrcugb tbe crust, and the plains, and. the mountains and the seas will be consumed, nnd tbo flames will flirg their long-arcis into the skies; but all tbe terrors of a burning world will do no more barm to that heavenly temple than tbe fires of the setting sun which kindle up the window glass of the bouse on yonder bill topi O. blessed land ! But I do not want to go there until I see the Brooklyn Taber nacle r built. You say: "Will it be2f You might as well ask mo if the sun' will rise to-morrow morning, or if the next spring will pat garlands on its head. Yox and I may not do it you and I may not live to see it; bat the Church of God does not stand on two legs nor on a thousand lezt. How dil tbe Iraelites get through the. Red sea? 1 suppose somebody may have come and saidr "There is no need ot trying, yoa will get your feet wet. you will spoil your clothe', yon wiit drown yoarselvei. Whoever beard of gettingtbrougb such a sea as that?" How did tbev get through it? Did tbey go hack? No. Did tbey go to the right? No. Did they gato the left? No. Tbey went forward in tbe strength of the Lord Al mighty and that is the way we mean to get through tbe Bed sea. By going for ward. Bat says some one: "If we should build a larger church would you be able with your voice te fill it?" Why, I have been wearing myself out for the last six teen years in trying to keep my voice iav Give me room whrra I can preach the glories of Christ and the grandeurs of Heaven. Forward! We have to march on. brea-f ing down all bridges behind us, making ?r..t j,..!,..? Thm. -v t knapsack if it impedes your march, Keep your sword arm free. Strike for Christ and His kingdom while yon may. No peop'e ever bad a bettor mission than yon are sent on. Prove yourselves worthy. If I am aot fit to be your leader, st. me a-ide. The brightest goal on earth that I can think of is a country narsonage amidst tbe mountains. But I am not afraid to lead you. I bave s medullars; they are all at yoar disposal Ihavegeod physical health; it is yours as long aa it lasts. I bave enthusiasm of soul; 1 will not keep it back from your service I have some faith ia God and I shalLdircc: it toward the rebuilding of our new spirit ual house. Come on, tbe3 ; I will lead you. Come on, ye aged men, not yet passed over Jordan I Give as one more lift before yoa go into tbe promised land. Yoa men in middle life, harness all your business faculties lo this enterprise. Yoaagman, pat tbe fire of your soul into this work. Let women consecrate their persuasive ness and persistence to this oatue, and they will he preparing benedictions for their dyiag hour and everlasting rewards; and if 8atan really did barn. that taber nacle down, as some say be did, he will And it tbe poorest job he ever undertook. Good-bye. old tabernacle, i pat my fingers to my lip and throw a kiss to the departed church. In tbe last day may we able to meet tbe songs there saag aad the prayers there offered and the sermons there preached, GooJ-hye, old place, where some ot as first felt tbe Gospel peace aad others heard the last message era they fled away into the skies! Good-bye, Brooklyn tabernacle of 187a! Bat welcome our new church. (I see it as plainly as though it were already built)! Your gates wider, your songs more triumphant, yoar ingatherings more glorious. Rise oat of the ashes aad greet oar waiting vision ! Burst on our ou!s O day of oar church's resurrection ! By your altars may we be prepared for the hour when the fixe shall try every maa's work of what sort it is. Welcome, Brook lyn Tabernacle of ISO)! Typhoid fiver is reported epidemic ia nearly every village aad towa la the ay per peaiasala ef Michigan. MUSCLE AND JUDGMEN1 . me nuiuiucr.i. one lor e:ic; process weijrh eighteen. twelve, and seven pound.. Each beate- receives tiftv nennv- wcight of gold, roiled Irwn the bar int the form of a crinkly ribbon seven yards long- and au inch in width. Cut into 1SJ pieces the:e : into the cutch." This eun-isis detached leaves of a vegetable fiber: between each ot" which is pined a piew of o!d- J Slipped ii.fcva ti"!itlv-tittins pud, ih j wu..ka.r0 jft ,! on luc stone- and th. bstntser fa!! ajain and aa:n the aim brinto driver th.j weight toirttrd thw etics. From the "cutch" the -beets, then leaves, -iru picked out with curious ho.vwoctl pincers, llarilling with tho fiiie, especially at the hit ter stages. wouk.l. be most likely to break the leaf, lvieh leaf is then quar tered by a section of bamboo e.ine on iu littltr implement kumvn as a wajjoti,.' but in reality a tiny sled. The second pad is-the "slioder." Ifc has. 720 leaves and i t. ineiio s(iiare. The-force of the blowl;re i- jrreaier The leaves are beaten. it to the very- edge, they were not before, and the i i.i . .... fi.i ... - pimvvjiMit.' A rf In tha- third proce- thwe are three "molds" of yiJO leave-, ea-th and live inches square. Each mold require: some four hours work. The leaven are now so thin that the slightest :nis judgmenfc will produce disastrous re sults. In spite of the heat- jjeneratcd by tho blows dampuc?:? creeps in be tween the edires. Dryness U positively essential here: so, whenever .rece.-sary. the mold is placed in a pres-j not un like an ordinary eypyinir press jttst taken from a.a oven. A shorn pressure liberates th. moisture. When sutlieiently beaten I'm molds go to jriris. v.ho with pincers and wagon" makeup books of twwity-ILvo leaves each, three and thrrs-eightli inches square- Each workman, from his beating" of three mold-. Is to till eighty books. That is called a -t.-4iL' For it he receives .". The uiiitls show a total numbur-of 2.700 leaves. Eighty books need but :?.(W0. For every other book he can fill, perfect leaves jnly being used. 6 cents is paid. Thus, if every leaf was perfect, he wouIi m.- $1.75 extra. As the wagC'-t" cuts the lersv -. inches square shcre is a continual waste. This, with the imperfect leaves, is put in with the shoder w:iste. It is all melted into a "biittoi:' and weighed. This avast come to ' penny weights. For the 80 books 17 penny weights is allowed, but they may weigh whatever the workman can make Shcm. The thinner the leaf, so long as perfect. ; tho better. Whatever the waste weighs over 33 pennyweights $1 a penny weight is paid the workman. FAr ev ery pennyweight under $1. is dedttrted. Thus, although the gold is tiseul over again, it takes 50penny weights t-'nturn. out .17. And. again, a man. even though he turns out an over number of books, may hav such shortages in his wastes as to bring his balance c the wrong way. Three beatingsa week is the a'.ierago number. The skilled workmair. can make $20, and perhaps a little sore. The actual number of men employed i small, there being only 17." in this-city. Most are Engjishmen. Gold-bcnting is done nrincinativ in the East. IZostou ,! Philn,1lnW fnrnishin.r n-.,i of . , .. . . "., , ., the otBer workmen. It is m the latter city that the largest shop in the f-Jnited States is located- A union regulates. wages and matters of tho trade Tho filing out of a.gsld-beaters shop.whero a number of men are employed is a rather expensive matter. Each man's personal outfit is worth some $i"0. tho molds alone costing $30 apiece. X. Y Mail and Express. Winsonseness in Women. Do you recollect what your-feeling were immediately after you had spoken the first unkind word to your husband? Did you nob feel ashamed and. grieved, and yet too-proud to ad mi t it? That was. is, ami ever will be. your evil genius! Ia the temper which labors incessantly to destroy yoi peace, which cheats you with an evil delusion that your husband deserved: your an ger, wheat he really most required your love. Iff your husband is. hasty, your example-of patience will dside as well asteachbim. Your violence may alien ate his-heart, and your neglect impel him to- desperation. Your soothing will redeem him yoursoftness subdue him; and the good natured twinkle of those-eyes, now filling with tears, wili make Lira al I your own. Catholic Standard. The phonograph has reached aatch a degree of perfection that gapes and yawns are reproduced by it with great distinctness. At a recent trial given. at Mr. Edison laboratory a Meeting between two lovors wa3 recorded, and pe?sous of experience say that the kisses were reproduced with tantaliz ing accuracy and fervor. A hired man struck because he had worked thirty days for a farmer and had been served, with ninety meals. I fcTuidle-cairafl durlag that time. ank fc