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READING FOR THE SABBATH 2vrilig:i<>us Notes. In Mexico there are 100 Presbyterian congregations, ten native preachers, aud two schools. The pay of the Archbishop of Paris has just been cut down from $9,000 to $6,000. The Bishop of London has $50,000 and two pa I aces. The new Lord Mayor of London declines to t ike out his sta.e carriage and liveries on Sunday, because it would give work to his servants, and he wishes to give tneni a day of rest. Tlie Rev. Brooks introduced Pere H yacinthe to his first Boston audience last week, saying: “He has made his impression upon our whole age aud upon the entire Christian world.” A movement is on foot at Rochester, N. Y., to substitute English for the time honored Hebrew in the ritual of the Jewish Church. Tiiis proposed innovation, it is said, is the first of the kind ever attempted. The Rev. Ilyacinthe Loyson told his Boston hearers on Monday that when with Catholics he abstains from meat on Fridays outof respect to their feelings, but that he has no personal scruples of conscience on the subject. The Rev_*F. A. Douglas, for many years the secretary of the American Foreign Bible Society, has accepted a call to the Baptist Church in Middletown, N. J., near Long Branch. It is one of the oldest Baptist churches in the country, having been organized in 1688. Chaplain McCabe has succeeded in gaining pledges for the payment of the entire debt of Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington, D. C., and now calls upon the subscribers to send their money by the first day of the new year. There are 1,400 subscribers of $5 each among them. Bishop Gilmour, of the Cleveland diocese, Is negotiating for the purchase of a valuable lot on Euclid avenue, Cleveland, for the erection of a large Catholic theological college. Such an institution has long been his dream, and he has been shaping the finances of his diocese with that end in view. No more than Bishop Colenso did Dr. Moffat end his missionary work the possessor of any considerable fortune. Colenso’s will, is already stated, was proved at $27,000. Dr. Moffat’s was proved at $18,500. It is believed that the most of Colenso’s small forInne was derived from the sale of his celebrated arithmetic. It has not been a hundred years since all of Christian England gave only $05,000 for foreign missionary purposes. And it was not a treat while before that that the declaration was made that it would not be long" till a aiceting-house would hold all the Methodists, but now the Methodists of England alone ive $1,000,000 in a single year to send the Sospel to the heathen. Francois Lenorraant, the French archaeologist w- 1 -ad, aged forty-eigh t years. He was e leading orientalists of his time, 1 as a decipherer of cuneiform in- *>.. s. The “Manual of the Ancient , of the East ” which he published in an ion with E. Chellavier, i3 a standard ' a* .diuni in regard to antiquarian re--oll' in Egypt, Assyria and Phoenicia. |IgT •> . a i S-irtol said: “Yon know what Abe ’“Q- i said to Dr. Bellows, who went to •im t'„peak in favor of the appointment of Dr. Hammond as Surgeon-general? Abe lis.ened to him for half an hour, and then, yhen Dr. Bellows was done, said with a imile: ‘Well. I appointed Dr. Hammond sine days ago; but I do like to listen to your sratory.’” Dr. Bellows was a fascinating ialker. Mr. B. J Warner, of Brooklyn, N. Y., is srecting a beautiful structure in New York jity, in memory of the Hon. William E. Dodge. It is to have large temperance halls, reading-rooms, coffee-room and offices, with ihe intention oi having a place where the fenth of the neighborhood will find a friendly and pleasant resort, without going to the laloon. It is expected that the building will tost SIOO,OOO. Hr- who hath led will load All through the wilderness; Ho who hath fed will feed; tie who hath blessed will bless, He wbo bath beard tby cry Will never close nis ear; He who hath marked thy faintest sigh Will net forget thy tear. Heloveth always, fuiieth never. So rest on Him, to-day. forever! —F. It. Havorgal. We picture death as coming to destroy; iet Ds ratiier picture Christ as coming to save. We think of death as ending; let us ratiier think of life as beginning, and that more tbnndantlv. We think of losing; let us think of gaining. We think of parting; let is think of meeting. We think of going lira?; iet us think of arriving. And as the toice of death whispers, “You must go from tartli,” let us bear the voice of Christ saying, ‘You are but coming to me.” —Norman M’ Leod. Among tlie recent calls to the bar in the Middle Temple. London, are two names well known in clerical circles—Dr. Griffiths and Dr. It. Wallace. Until lately Dr. Griffiths was a popularclercyman at Blackheatb. near London, and Dr. Wallace some years ago was known ; s the popular and aggressive minister of Gray Friar’s Church, Edinburgh, and professoi of church history in the university if that city. Time was when men graduated ■nto the church through the laiV. Tlie tables ieem to lrtve been turned. Dr. Wallace was looked upon as the rising hope of the broad party in the Scottish Church. . English church circles are greatly excited ibout the nomination by the authorities of Oxford University of the Rev. Mr. Horton, a Congregational minister in London, as an eximiner of the rudiments of faith and religion. The nominee is a scholarly and promising graduate of the university, but it is leemed scandalous by churchmen that a dissenter should be selected to examine the tandidates for degrees on religious subjects, is the great majority of the students who try ibis examination are candidates for ordination in the established church. Roman Catholic worship was not permitted in New York until after the British svacuated it. The first church'was in Bar:lav street, and bore date 1786. and was rebuilt fifty years afterward. That was the only Catholic Church till 1816, when the Cathedral of St. Patrick wa3 erected in Prince itreet. As the communicants began to inafter the jiotato rot in Ireland, tne Catholics almost systematically sought oild Protestant churches. Tiie Rev. John Hughes in 1358 set the corner-stone of ihe Fifth-avenue Cathedra], commanded the ihield of tlie American Union to be put beiore it.-and the marble in its walls is from Westchester county. The following list from the Boston Pilot ibowsthat of the twenty-two generals of tlie lesuits from the foundation of tlie company ,o the present time eleven were Italians, namely: The Fathers Aquaviva, Vitelliscbi, oaruffa, Piacolomini, Gottifredi, Oliva, famburini, Visconti, Centurioni, Ricci, and Fords. There have been four Spaniards— Ignatius Loyola. Jacques Lainez, Frmcis Borgia and Gonzalez. Germany has likewise tiven four generals to the order—Mercurian, Nickel, Retz and Anderledy. the future gensrai, who is a German-Swiss. Holland and Belgium have furnished three—Novelle, Bothaan and Beckx. No French, English or Portuguese Jesuits have ever attained to this lignity. Information has already been received by sable to the effect that M. de Pressense has Been elected a life member of the French Senate. It is not so generally known that De Pressense is a Protestant clergyman of the Free or Voluntary school, popular as a ►readier, and the author of many works, religious and semi-religious. His book on the

"Life of Christ” is one of the ablest replies yet published to the work of Renan. It is the best reply yet published in the French language. M. de Pressense is radically opposed to all state endowment of religion. He was a deputy from IS7I to 1876, and he is the only free-church minister who lias ever enjoyed legislative honors. It is a fact worth noting that since the death of Bishop Dupanloup, iu 1878, the Senate has not had a single ecclesiastical member. In the eyes of the law, however, Pressense is only a layman, the church of which he is a member not being reconized by the state. A Genuine Scotch Sabbatli. London Truth. The Scotch are, of course, a very righteous people, indeed, and their reverence for the “Sawbath” is a matter of common notoriety. Last Sunday a bark arrived at St, Andrews bay, flying a flag for assistance. A fishingboat put off, and it was discovered that the captain and crew were in a state of semistarvation, having been reduced for several daj-s to a diet of one biscuit a day per man. But the godly people of St. Andrews are so strongly opposed to anything approaching Sunday trading that provisions were only procured with the greatest difficulty, and for some time it appeared as though the unfortunate sailors would have done better to remain on board with their one biscuit until* Monday. I wonder if it occurred to these rigid Sabbatarians that if any of the men had died they would have been morally, if not legally, guilty of manslaughter? Prayer. Ivan Tonrguencff. Man may- pray for anything; lie prays for miracles. Every prayer is after this fashion: “Great God, grant that tyro and two may not make four.” And such a prayer is only- a true prayer from one to another. To pray- to the Onima Mundi, to tne Deity, to the God of Kant and Hegel; to pray to the abstract, unsubstantial god, is impossible, not to be thought of. But can even a personal, living, actual God cause two and two not to make four? Every true believer is bound to answer: “Yes, He can do that!” and he is bound to bring his own mind to this conviction. But what if his own reason contradicts such senselessness? Then Shakespeare comes to his aid: “There are more tilings ia heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in our philosophy,” etc. • But if one. in the name of truth, contradicts him? He need only to repeat the famous question, “What is the truth?” Therefore let ns drink and be merry and pray. FASHION NOTES. Undyed beaver is the fashionable fur. Indian red and the dark raspberry shade are handsome for house dresses. The fashion is revived of closing the dress with hooks and eyes; a jabot of lace conceals tlie fastenings. A hat to match each costume is considered necessary by ladies possessing a complete wardrobe. Plush ties of bright red or orange are seen on some of tlie small black velvet bonneta for young ladies. Stockings to match the dress with whicii they are worn, or else black ones, are considered the best form. Small turbans or capotes are very stylishly trimmed with Astrakhan fur, to be worn wi.h cloth suits also trimmed witii this fur. Bouquets of one color roses tied loosely with a broad satin ribbon, and fastened on the left side of the belt, are fashionable for evening wear. Cloth bonnets and toques are now considered more elegant than those of felt. There is really very little difference between the two. but jnst enough to give that touch of chic which to an ultra fashionable woman is dearer than refined gold. Short walking jackets of black or blue rough-surfaced cloth are bordered with Persian lamb or Astracban fur, profusely braided in military style, and others close-fitting or with cutaway front, displaying a waistcoat, are marie of anew rough material called Astracban cloth, the surface covered by raised and curiously knotted loops, and with good effect. Velvet will be the rage for this and the comiugseason. The handsomest of the imported costumes in velvet for autumn wear are totally untrimmed, save in the matter of buttons, winch, to make up for this simplicity of style, are often very beautiful and very expensive. Silver is the favorite metal for these buttons —the designs corded frequently from buttons worn in the time of George I and those worn at the court of Louis XVI. The bonnets for little girls are this season very important affairs. The poke in felt and the old-fashioned “calash” in velvet and Ottoman satin are the prominent styles. Tlie latter has a soft plaited "cap” crown and projecting cabriolet brim, and is often made in white or strawberry-red. Genuine pokes of white French felt are garnished with white ratin ribbons and full plumes of ostrich feathers for little misses not yet in tbeir teens. New French breakfast caps are made in the Leonardo da Vinci shape after the style of the velvet ridingcaps worn last winter. Some of the most fanciful of these are formed of gay oriental foulard, run through with long, sle der gold pins to hold the cap in place. Others are made of gold lace and trimmed with a spray' of scariet japonica and star jasmine blossoms. A third style is of black Spanish net adorned with small butterflies and tiny jeweled beetles. Many plush capes are worn just now, and with a good deal of wadding they are nearly as warm as fur. The collars are high, and the half sleeves set lit in the fashionable way. In color thev are expected to match the costume worn with them, or otherwise to correspond to that of the dress trimmings. Anew shade of plush, very thick and heavy, exactly matching the color of natural beaver, is much used for pelerines and shoulder cajies. These come with jockey caps and muffs to match. The jockey cap seems to have taken anew lease of life, and is especially popular in the skating world. Many y'oung ladies do not set the cap on the head after the manner of the natty equestrienne from whom they originate, but wear it rather far back on the head; consequently the little poke, instead of shading the eyes, curves upward and allows the soft Langtry bang or fluffy confusion of wavv hair to be seen. A fiat wing is set on one side, and the cap is much less obtrusive than its name would imply. A Bride’s Pretty Present. “A pretty little story is told.” says the Newport correspondence of the Boston Journal, “of the Earl and Countess of Rosebery, who were here a short time since. A day or two before tbeir wedding took place Miss Rothschild asked the young Earl what he would like for a wedding present from her. Oh, be replied, suppose yon give me a box of gloves. The box of gloves were sent inclosed in an elegant inlaid case. On opening the box the earl discovered an envelope addressed to him in a well-known hand. He expected it contained a dainty little note. It did, but not the sort of note he imagined. The contents of the envelope was a check written out and signed by' Miss Rothschild, and in favor of the Earl, and was for the modest little sum ol £200,000. She Didn't Relieve in Hero WorshipDavv;,port, la.—Tlie Democrat furnishes this 'te.io: In onr schools a little girl, who said 6he worshiped tier papa because he married her mother, and was asked by tho teacher If she believed in hero worship, answered: “No, hut I do believe in saint worship, because Balnt Jacobs Oil saved my Utile brother’s life when he was 6ick with sore throat, and it cured mamma’s neuralgia.”

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, ISS3.

THE ATONEMENT .' Was the Death of Christ to Vindicate Law, Substitutional, or to Uplift Mau ? Sermon Preached in Central Avenue M. E. Church, by the Pastor, Rev. Dr. Marine. Sr. John xii, 32, 33. “And I, If I be lilted up from earth, will draw all men unto me. This he said, signifying wliat death He should die.” In the popular notion religion consists in creeds, in forms of worship, ceremonies and rules of life. JJut in any exact sense these are only the inodes and means of religion, and not religion itself. Keligion is the exercise of man’s rational and affectional nature toward God; hence it is only as we come to the recognition of a divinity, and to the exercise of thought and affection toward the same, that we enter the religious state. Beienco is but quackery—it is empirical, until it finds an authentic solution for the phenomena it comprehends. We look not only for reasons, but for the reasons and for the reason for the reasons, for the cause of causation itself. The final solution of the building must be sought in the character and intentions of the builder. Thus, whether wo take matter or thought, law or duty, probation or destiny, we reach God, the final and suificient reason to all lines oi iuquiry, and to all the suggestions of fear and hope. The study of God will satisfy the mind. If rightly directed it will yield a perfect intellectual satisfaction. God gives to the intellect a 6ubtect for eternal thinking. Tho study of God must afford, also iu theory and experience, perfect satisfaction to the heart. Tne heart as much needs food for eternal loving as the intellect does for eternal thinking. Tho truthful presentation of God should have prominence in ull religious teaching. Especially should tho dlviue character be made prominent. We do not want many elaborate sermons of profound argument in proof of tho existence of God. Atheism lias never made permanent headway, and never can. Our religious intuitions forbid it. Atheism is a sporadic thing and comes of frenzy or folly, but does not leniHin with any considerable number. No man ever reasoned himself into atheism; it ia assumed against ail evidence. Without God, without religion. True, religion is the development of the soul toward the true God. There are many virtuous affections belongiusr to the sphere of earthly relatione, and they are rich in beauty and value, and may all be wrought into the religious life, ouch are gentleness, kindness, honesty, truthfulness, friendship, the parental and filial affections; but all these, even in their highest form, do not of themselves constitute true religion, hat true religion curries with it all these virtues, lifting them upinto the domain of the spiritual, giving to them the purity, liberty, dignity and immortality of the divine nature. True religiou is an inward life, and is affectional rather than intellectual. Pure intellect, simply as such, is not capable of religion. It may apprehend the. character of the true God, and all the. facts and truths of revelation, as it does the faers of history and the truths of philosophy, but it can take, on no religious character until tne heart responds to the.™ manifestations of divine love. Christianity alone gives us a revelation of tlie t:ue God, to which the human heart respouds—“Gotl is love.” “Herein is love, not that we lovrd God, but that he. loved us, and sent His don to oe the propitiation for our sins.” It is nn historical fact that Jesus Christ came in ihe highest oouoeivable form of character and power, and ma le the great multitudes of earth ihe object of His infinite love. The welfare of mankind was His study, His w. .k, His pleasure and pain. Christ could nave avoided the cross had He abandoned the peopie. But He so loved the world that He went forward with His work for man. although death was inevitable. Viewed in the light of ihe most orthodox rheology, or In the light of the most liberal and rationalistic, the conclusion must be tlie same—that Christ accepted death rather than abandon the salvation of the people. Here, then, in the living and dying Christ, lies embalmed the greatest lesson to be learned by mankind. Tlie inarch of Clmst from the manger to the cross was incomparably sublime.. In that sublime march of the Soil of God and the Soil of Man to victory over sin, death and hell, lies a picture of human possibilities. As in mathematics there are axiomatic truths, in philosophy fundamental principles, so iu Christianity there is a central doctrine. Our text presents to your consideration the central doctrine of the Bible, namely the atonement, and It is so presented as not only to challenge the powers of the mind, but more especially to awaken and enlist the affections of the heart. There is in this world so muoh need of God’s love, aud God’s help that it seems to me there should be no differences or divisions among the disciples of Christ as to the necessity, nature ami extent of the atonement. It seems to mo that in this, the nineteenth century of the Christian era, there should be such a universality of conception and belief in the essential feature of this central and distinctive doctrine of Christianity as to lift it forever out of the, field of controversy. Tho theologians’analysis of this sublime doctrine of essential oneness has contributed more to the confusion and perplexity of the believer’s mind than it has to the confirmation of his faith in the Sou of God, while the tenacity with which the denominations'have held to their respective theories concerning this great truth has done much to foster the sec;ariau spirit aud feeling in the visible church of Christ. There is a theory that had its origin in the fourth century,in which Cfirisr is represented as a sacrifice offered to But.au The foundation of this theory was that *atau owned man, held man as a slave or captive taken in war, aud riiHt Christ gave himself to Satan to be templed, buffeted and crucified that man might be released, and that as the result or this commercial transaction all men were emtneipated from the bondage of tlie devil, ami hell was emptied of imprisoned spirits. But the refutation of this lowest conception of tho atonement may be found in the fact that God has never surrendered His ownership of man to any power or combination of powers. Aye, more, He has never ceased to be the father of His lost child. The divine paternity underlies tho entire scheme of redemption. God loves sinners, not. because they are sinners but because they are His children. This great truth is brought out in the parable of the prodigal son. The child forsakes the fainor, but the father never forsakes bis child. God does not discount, loyalty, nor place a premium on prodigality; bu' His paternal nature does o*ll in all the angeis of heaven to rejoice with Him when His Inst child com ts home. In this connection you will please notice one or two inconsistencies, as they stand related to tlie theory of a strict legal substitution m which Christ received the punishment due to the transgressor, wniob has its found-ntion in the doctrine that tlie whole race sinin tl in Adam—that the. sin of Adam was so computed, or accounted man’s sin, that man justly deserved to be punished. Christ receives this punishment in tho sinner’s place, and ther> bv satisfies the claim of r'Miibutivc justice. But dors this theory meet the ends of government!Can wo hold man guilty for Adam’s transgression I That we have inherited a fallen nature we admit, and thar we are held responsible t r our own sins there can be no doubt; hut. can we transfer our guilt to another? Would the punishment of the innocent in the place of the guilty satisfy t he demands of justice or meet the requirements of God’s government? Bur. back of these questions concerning the substitutional and governmental theories of the atonement, in which is our Heavenly Father the most interested, the punishment of the sinner or the salvation of tho child? If I have caught the spirit and de sign of God’s interposition it is not so much to vindicate His law' and maintain His government as it is to lift up and save His child. While he is lifting up and saving the child by the attractions of tlie cross and the moral influence of the. atonement, His law is vindicated and His government is maintained. We are disposed to look for the great central truth of the Bible fro.n theological stand-points. One man finds it iu the glory of God; but that is a declaration of the “hea yens,” Bib le or no Bible. The stars reveal it, hut they do not show ue the Father. Nowhere in The greet concrete book of nature is it written that “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son that whosoever bellftveth in Him might not perish,” etc. Another man finds the great central truth of the Bible in the exaltation of Christ; but according to tlie most rational and scriptural interpretation of the life of Christ, tbe great central thought, truth aud purpose of Christianity is the lifting up of humanity, the redemption and exaltation of mau. The consummation of this great plan glorifies God in the execution of tills divine “purpose. ’’ Christ is exulted far above “principalities and powers,” aud to Him “is given a name which is above every name.” “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth will draw all men unto me.” We limy differ iu onr theories about tbe fall of man, but we will all agree that humanity ia not as high in the 6cale or the spiritnal as it ought to be or as it deserves to be. The great fact iu tbe history of the world is mans moral degradation. Observation and experience corroborate the truth of this statement. The great problem in the world’s history is, how can this degraded humanity be lifted up! It is the problem of the statesman, the churchman,

tho scholar and the reformer. We turn over tho pages of history and we read that nations have worn themselves out in the desperate effort to lift themselves up. Man is wrecked. The philosopher speculates about the cause of tho disaster; the moralist talks about tho consequences of the catastrophe; the humanitarian pities the unfortunate victim, and talks plausibly about his plans to lift up his fallen brother; but they all fail. Why? Because they are all a part of tho wreck themselves. Tho stream never rises higher than the fountain. A man cannot lift his brother man higher t ban he is himself, intellectually or spiritually. We are told that Zeno could not attract tbe sanguine,nr Plato the practical, nor Epicurus the lymphatic, nor Aristotle tlie imaginative. Then there are milllions who have neither time nor Impulse for culrure that none of these scholars could attract. But we find that Christ attracts all men. Tn the equation of this proposition, that the moral influence of the atonement draws all men, there are two quantities—the known and the unknown. Tne cross is the x which represents both the known and the unknown. Tne atonement has lifted up all men. Total depravity is the pre-supposed condition of men without the atonement. “But by the grace of God, Jesus Christ ta9ted death for every man.” Therefore, “Tho grace of God which bringeth salvation hath appeared to every man.” There is an unknown power exerted on pagan and heatheu peoples that we cannot compute nor define. But there is a power that came under our observation, and that became a matter of experience that we may “comprehend with the saints.” Behold the influence of the cross upon our Christian civilization, the ameliorations and amenities of social life, and the sacred and sanctified relations of the Christian home. Why do His w ords take hold of us as the words of no oilier being, even surpassing in power, pathos and matchless tenderness tbe words of our dearest kindred? Because they are the words of infinite love. And why does Ills examample inspire my soul with hope? Because He is a man, my brother and companion. Christ is divine; but it is because His divinity comes to me incarnate in humanity, that f ara attracted and held and lifted up by it into fellowship with God. “And truly our fellowship Is with the Father and with His 8on.” That which makes the atonement efficacious is tbe perfect obedience of Christ—obedience even unto death. Tne battle of the wilderness, the struggle of the garden, the tragedy of the cross, were Incidental to the volition of Christ. The blood of Christ is the outward sign and visible expression of the obedience of Christ. Ye are “saved by His life.” “The love of life in Christ Jesus” makes us “free from the law or sin and death.” This law of life is love. The blood is its symbol. “Tne blood of Jesus Christ Ilis Son, oleanseth us from all slu.” Why? “Because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts.” Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. Christianity is not coercive, but responsive. Tbe time has gone by when Christians can be made b> a t lire ashing machine. For as many as are led by the spirit are the sons of God. With the great apostle Paul, may wo all “apprehend that for which wo are apprehended iu Christ Jesus, that we may know Him and the power of His resurrection.” The uplifted Christ brings ns nearer the thought of God as Father, goes deeper into the hearts and motives of men, disclosing the corruption and need of the soul, showing that men are not only to be pardoned, but united to the life of God. He loid of the love of God in sending His Son into the world that men might be saved, and witnessed that love by a life of sympathy and suffering and His death on the cross Now what impression do we get from all this? Simply that God has come nearer the world in Jesus Christ; that God has invaded this world with His mighty love, con vineing the world of sin, righteousness and judgxneut; that as Father and Savior He Is judge and ruler, upno.diug law, and yet lifting up the fallen woman and welcoming hack the long lost son. As Father and Savior He 1* both merciful and just, forgiving and healing His children. How oau He do this? He does it, aud that is all. Tho great burden and achievement of the atonement is our reconciliation to God. “God in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.” There is not one word in the Bible, so far as T know, that represents Christ as reconciling God, Christ came ro reconcile man. In this way He does a work forma n and in man. He brings God to man—God in the tenderness of Ilis love and the Justice of His love; reproving sin, yet loving the sinuer, reaching and melting the heart —a manifestation of God to which man’s affeciional nature respouds in a life of trustand unfaltering devotion. Ami this solution is not only “the forgiveness of sins that are past through the forbearance of God;” it is this and more. It is so atoning, reconciling man, that enmity is gone and his soul purified, being “washed in the blood of the Umb,” not, of course, in an outward literal sense, but in tht real, deep, inward consciousness of the power, love and life of God. O, divine ami beautiful world, when the uplifted Christ shall draw all urnn to Him—when all men shall receive the spirit of adoption iuto the family hood of Christ. MAKING THERMOMETERS. Soino Material ami Considerable Trouble for Fifteen Cents. “First-class thermometers for fifteen cents!” called out a man who stood in the lower part of Broadway, with a large basket of thermometers in front of him. "Here is a good chance to buy a perfect register of atmospheric temperature for the small sum of a dime and a half. Step forward, gentlemen, and embrace your opportunity!” The thermometers were inclosed in neat japanned tin cases, and the scales were silverplated and marked in black. Some of the tubes held mercury, and some held colored alcohol. “I cannot comprehend how thermometers can be manufactured for that price,” a ther-mometer-maker said. “Where can the profit be? You have no idea of the great trouble and the amount of time that it takes to make an accurate thermometer. I know that thermometers can be bought throughout the city anywhere from fifteen cents up, and I must say, also, that many of them are good thermometers. These cheap thermometers are not manufactured in this city. They come chiefly from Connecticut, where there are several large factories which turn them out in vast numbers.” “Why are accurate thermometers so costly to make?” “In the first place, we buy the glass tubes and test them. According to my experience, only one out of every six is fit to put into a thermometer.” "llow are the tubes tested?” “By drawjng into them a short column of mercury, and measuring its length at different points with a pair of dividers. It is absolutely necessary that the bore of the tubes be uniform. Then the bulb has to be blown and filled with mercury. The air is driven out of the tube by heating the mercury to boiling point, and then putting a tip of sealing wax on the open end. The amount of mercury necessary for the tube is regulated by vaporizing it off. Then tlie open end of the tube is closed bv heating the glass. The next thing is to make the scale.” “Must a fresh scale be made for each thermometer?” “Certainly. To make tlie scale it is necessary to have at least two points on the bulbed tube which holds the mercury. The points usually selected are the freezing point and boiling point of water. For the former the bulb is surrouned by ice, and for the latter it is placed in boiling water. From these points the scale is made. Each scale is stamped out by hand. Afterward the bulbed tube is fastened to the scale, which is on a silver-plated strip of brass. It is then fastened in a tin ease,” “Are the fifteen-cent thermometers made in this way?” “I suppose that they must be, and it is for this reason that I don’t see where the profit Comes in,” ‘Ts there no other way of grading a thermometer than by putting the bulb in ice and in boiling water?” “Yes. The points may be obtained by putting the bulbs in water, the temperature of which is told by a standard thermometer kept especially for that purpose. That method is often used.” “Is mercury better than colored alcohol in thermometers?” “It is, except where the thermometers are wanted for measuring extreme cold. Mercury can be frozen solid, but it is impossible to freeze alcohol. Experiments have been made which show that the most intense cold known will only have the effect of making the alcohol oily in its appearance. Mercury withstands more heat before it boils than alcohol does, for alcohol boils at a lower temperature than water. The kind of thermometers which I have been speaking of are those which are most commonly used.”

THE YOUNG FOLK’S COLUMN. THE PUZZLE DEPARTMENT. [Everything relating to this department must be addrossed to W. H. Gratfain, West Scarborough,('umherland county, Maine. Original contributions and answers to each week’s puzzles are solicited from all.l Answers to Pu/,zld No. 923.—Wator-spout. No. 921. p NEE NAN D U PENS I L EDI Jj E N L E E No. 925.— 1. Sole. 2. Pike. 3. Loach. 4. Doree. 5. Goby. 6. Rudd, 7. Tench. No. 926.—Wagtail. No. 927.—1-ran. No. 928.—Idleness alwavs euvios industry. No. 929. L A BOR ADORE B O II E A OREAD READY Original Puzzles. NO. 917.—HALF-SQUARE. 1. Vessels made of dried gourd shells used for containing liquors or goods, as pitch, resin and the like. 2. A student in a university or college. 3. Toward fche land. 4 Courtship. 5. Moistens fobs.) 6. To add tuanv things together. 7. The plural of a word of respect used iu addresses to men. 8. Maintained. 9. Half an em. 10. A letter. Amos Quito. Silver Lake, Ind. NO. 948.—NUMERICAL ENIGMA. lain composed of rwenty-ftvo letters. Mv 8,2, 1(5, 24, 19 is a kind of play. My 9, 11. 21, 10, 3. 20 is a promoter. My 11. 7.16, 10. 25, 5 are streams. My 4, 18, 12. 22, 23 is refine. My 1. 12, 15, 6, 13 are certain fishes. My whole is a quotation from Macaulay. W. 8C vRBOROUGH. Me. XOA. NO. 919.—CURTAILMENTS. 1. Curtail military progress, and leave a weight. 2. Curtail a kind of cherry, and leave additional. 3. Curtail an anthem, and leave a spot. 4. Curtail a province, and leave a name. 5. Curtail an aquatic animal, and leave a Greek prefix. 6. Curtail a fragment, and leave a fish. XOA. NO. 950.— HALF-SQUARE. 1. An island of the Indian ocean. 2. A sandbath. 3. Decline. 4. Fillets. 5. Finery. 6. In ancient Greece, public disgrace. 7. Sin offerings. 8. To flatter. 9. One. 10. A letter. amos Quito. NO. 951. —NUMERICAL ENIGMA. My 1, 2. 3, 4 is a coal-wagon. My 5, 6 ia a preposition. Mv 7,8, 9is a color. My 10 is a vowel. My whole is a stranger. -OA, NO. 952.—DECAPITATION. 1. Decapitate au annual and leave an ancient king’s name. 2. Decapitate a g.line, and leave a hard substance. 3. Decapitate courage and leave a pause. 4. Decapitate to argue and leave, a metal. 5. Decapitate a motor and leave above. 6. Decapitate to click and leave a wash. Uncle Will. NO. 953. —CHARADE. My first is the name oi a Gr clanking Whose lame was made through tho world to riug. He was mighty and great, But sad was his fate, For by violence he died, And few for him cried. My second is found on mountain and dale, Aud though of two kinds, the yellow and pale, If you find it alive And able to thrive, Where e’er it is seen It is sure to be green. My whole lies silent amid storm and motion. And quietly peeps from the depth of tho ocean. Stiil many a rich store Is brought, as of yore. By the waves, wild and free. From these isles of the sea. lIOBBIBVILLE, Ind. Ebmina. NO. 954.—CROSS-WORD ENIGMA. My first i9 in age, but uot Iu date; My second is in ire, luu not in hate; My third is in figure, but not in cut; My fourth is in barn, but notin but; My fifth is in end, but uot in fate; My sixth is in tardy, but not in late; My seventh is in sober, but not in sad; Mv eighth i9 in vile, but not iu bad; Mv ninth is in cl'ose, and also iu near; Whole will name a chandelier. Uncle Will. lAnswers in three weeks.) Our Prizes. 1. First complete list, a book. 2. Next best list, fifty cards. Puzzles Answered. By Mamie LePage, Indianapolis, Nos. 924 to 929, inclusive. By E. J. 8., Evansville, Nos. 923 to 929, inclusive. By Nina 8., Lebanon, Nog. 923 to 929, inclusive. Prize Winners. 1. E. J. B—A book. 2. Nina B.—Fifty cards. Foot Notes. We wish all our correspondents a merry Christmas. Xoa’s work is thankfully received. K. Ty.—Please let us hear from you again. E. J. B. —Your list of answers is perfect. Tnank you. Damon.—We hope ro hear from you again soon. Mamie Le Page says: “Thanks for ‘Under one roof.’ ” Nina B.—Ditto. Will do as you request in rela; ion to rue prize. Ehmina, who has taken lip her abode in Hobbieville, Ind., is back again in the puzzle department with a good charade. Hereafter sc will contribute regularly to thin column. Our friends may expect something excellent from her pen every week. Amos Quito writes: “I hope yon will excuse uiy absence for the last few weeks, as I have been very busy lately in my school duties, preparing for a literary entertainment recently given by our local club, etc. Enclosed find a few hastily-scribbled puzz es, whicii I hope will be acceptable. 1 wonder what has become of Frank C. Lucas, Pere, Kir C. Bunnel, K. Ty and all the rest of j our old contributors?’’ Christmas Day. O tell me, children who have seen The Christmas-tree in bloom, Which is the very brightest thing That sparkles m the room? The candles? No. The tinsel? No. The skates and shining toys? Not s>, indeed, nor yet the eyes Os happy girls and boys. It’s Christmas day itself, ray dears; It’s Christmas day alone— The brightest gilt, the gladdest gift, The world liasever known. ; —St. Nicholas. Ted’s Christmas. Ella Guernsey. Ted was a brown-cheeked boy of nine. He was a jolly and good tempered in tlie main, but on this lovely Christmas morn he wasn’t pleasant at all. because he had set his heart on getting a little watch, and mamma knew he wasn’t big enough for such a costly present. He pouted, and looked ugly, and pushed away his story-books, oranges and candy, and mamma felt grieved. Who can blame her? Directly a nice old lady came to see mamma, and soon saw something was wrong with Master Ted Brown. “What ails my boy?” asked Aunty Graham, kindly. “O, nothin’, but I didn’t get nice things for Christmas, and it s real mean!” “You didn’t, hey? Well, I know of some little people who would think themselves quite rich if they had half of your presents. Suppose aunty tells you what she and brother Herbert got in their stockings one Christmas forty years ago! Herbert and I hung up our stockings. His were brown, home-knit, and mine pretty blue, clouded ones, on Christmas eve. We lived in a wee brown house on a farm, and didn’t have

much company. We went to bed early; mother sang some Christmas songs to us. There was fresh snow upon the ground, and when we awoke the earth was covered with the beautiful white snow. Os course we ran to look iu our stockings, and found two little papers of brown sugar and six plump raisins; but they pleased us more than this Cile of confectionery does you, Teddy At reakfast mother put upon our plates a cookev soldier, with allspice eyes, aud a big piece of mince pie. We had a long play day, mother sang the Christmas anthem and father sang the bass. We thought we had a beautiful day. Aunty rubbed her eyes as she thought of her dear ones; they were in a happy clime. But then she was lonesome here without them. Ted was ashamed of his selfishness. Aunty’s little story did him good. He divided his candy and fruit into four packages, and somebody saw little lame Tim .Tones with one, and Sarah Winters with another of Ted’s parcels; and we will have to guess where the others went. At night papa took him upon his knee and told him again of the great, precious Christmas gift, and the star in the East; and mamma said she thought Ted had realized it was more blessed to give than to receive. Don’t my little friends think so, too? December. O month of sohbine storms—with smiles anon; With piercing winds—tlien softly falling flake*' So pure ami wmte they bring forgetfulness . Os all the transient gloom and wrathful skies. Like some impetuous youtli dost thou give sway To many tearful moods and bitter tears; Then speedily uni welcome to sweet peace, Up-springing from the sad aud tearful strife. Within December’s litfnl days and nights The shadows huger, darken well around. Then, fading, blending with the rosy light Os a grand birth-morn dawning o'er our race, Are hist, forgotten ’mid the ioy unri song Andlmursof high aud holiest delight. O month of gifts and offerings fair to seel With thee there came to us the royal gift— A glorious Savior horn to one and all, Whose love doth brighten all our wintry path. Through seasons fair or dark, to Him we give Our sweetest praise, onr ever gratetnl hearts. —Margaret P. Janes, in Vanity Fair. SPARKS. A two-foot rule—wear easy shoes. Cynical Spanish proverb: “A woman’s tears cost little, but bring her much!’’ A Frenchman is teaching a donkey to talk. What we want in this country is a man who will teach donkeys not to talk.—Boston Post. Oscar Wilde says his poems will be read - after Shakespeare has been forgotten. That’s-; the proper time to read them.—Hartford* Post. A newly-married Texas man shot his bride while she was mixing her first batch of bis-J ouits. His plea in court will probably be self-* defense. —Bismarck Tribune. A bill posted in Lumpkin county, Ga.,; offers for sale a “one-eyed mule with three-i white feel, and to tlie best of my recollection, two of them on one side." “Are your domestic relations agreeable?”; was the question put to an unhappy-looking j specimen of humanity, “Oh, my domestic! relations are all right,” was the reply, “it’s my wife’s relations that are causing thetrouble.” An exchange feelingly reminds us tliati nearly all the men identified with the New' York Tribune under Horace Greeley nre either dead or have gone elsewhere. Thej same is true of those who served under Julius' Caesar. —Lowell Courier. Box Passenger: “By Jove, driver, it blows; hard up here. Quite sure you’re full in-1 side?” Driver: “You’re right, sir, it do! blow sharp; and, as you’re so pressin’, I ain’t so full but I can find room for Two o’ Rum] ’Of wiien we gets to tbs Angel. Way up! I Tchk!”—Fun. In a prayer meeting in Westfield, Mass., a . brother arose aud said: “I want to hear sung that beautiful hymn, Split Doors.’” A ripple of laughter was suppressed by a sister; who struck up “Gates Ajar.” “That’s it! ’ that’s it!” the brother shouted, as he sat down' to enjoy the melody. Little Ada W., of Brooklyn, went to a , neighbor's on the eve of election to fold Seth Low tickets with the other little girls. While there a lady related the following, which Ada repeated to her parents when sh.o got home: A Chinaman came into the ladies' cabin on the ferry-boat, and took a seat beside an Irish market woman. He seemed i to want to make himself agreeablp, and, rub- j bing his hands, remarked: "Belly cold.” The woman looked at him with an air of contempt, and replied: “If you’d put your sliurt inside your pants your belly wouldn’t be cowld, you heathen blagard!” Whittier at Rome. Harriet Prescott Spofford, in January Harper. Mr. Whittier has never married, and, with j the single exception of the exquisite lines entitled “Benedicite,” he has given the public no clew to the romance of his youth. His sister Elizabeth, sympathizing with him completely, of a rare poetic nature and fastidious taste, and of delicate dark-eyed beauty, was long a companion that must have made the want of any other less keenly felt tiian by lonely men in general. The bond between the sister and brother was more perfect than any of which we have known, except that between Charles and Mary Lamb, and in this instance the conditions were of perfect moral and mental health. To the preciousness of the relationship the pages of the poet bear constant witness, and Amesbury village is full of traditions of their affection, and of the gentle loveliness and brilliant wit of Elizabeth, whom the people admired and reverenced almost as much as they do the poet himself. For his old neighbors have the closest affection for Mr. Whittier; except very occasionally, what was his thought has. been theirs; and now that he is not with them daily,they miss him sadly, and among those who miss him most and make the most complaint about it are the children on the street. This is not remarkable when one remembers that Mr. Whittier does not stand on his dignity, but joins in the game played in his presence, writes his nonsense verses on demand, lias the keenest sense of the ludicrous, and loves all sorts of innocent fun. We have heard him say that lie was known among the children as the man with the parrot—the parrot being a remarkable bird that used to stop the doctor’s gig with his “Whoa!” and when the school bell rang would call from his lofty perch, "Run in, boys! run in!”—the fact being that the children felt the parrot to be a bond between tnera, and he was less of a demigod and more of a man to their imagination on account of “Charlie.” Mr. Whittier is of course very fond of children, and lias been known to rick the loss of an important train with equanimity when the easy-going, good-natured hackman had been overtaken by an uproarious school of children, and had gone with them for a little drive, appearing at the door at length, tho carriage overflowing with the rosy faces of the laughing little people, who.cared nothing aoout time, tide and the train. j An Indian's of Hand, Venango Spectator. Andrew Jackson is a Seneca Indian who has exemplified the saying that a little learning is a dangerous tiling. He could write a little, and only a little, and so wlipm one day he borrowed $2.50 from John Hnlfto’wn, he gave him his note for the money with interest. It ran like this: "Me, Andrew Jackson, day after to-morrow six months, will pay to John Hulftown, maybe three or four days, $3 or $4 dollars, no fetch paper no get money, by dam.” The Throat- “ Brown’s Bronoliial Troclies” act directly on the organa of tlie voice. They have an extraordinary effect in all disorders of the throat.