Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 28, Petersburg, Pike County, 28 November 1889 — Page 4

THE SECRETS OF HEAVEN. 8ertnon by Rov. T. DoWltt TaJmaee Delivered at Athena -- # What u» Nmlai Mysteries In the M. / via* Economy »ioU trill la »«« Tim* Kxplala ami Man Will Acknowledge HI* WlMlom. Standing on ground made sacred by the ministrations of Paul, the apostle, Rcr. T. DeWitt Talmage delivered the following sermon to the Athenians, from the texts; ■ye hath not *e«h nor ear heard.—I. Corinthian*, II., 9. Tor now we see throngh a (lam darkly.— L Oorlnlhlaan. xlU.,1 Both these sentence* were written by the most illustrious merely human being the world ever saw. one who walked these streets, and preached from yonder pile of rocks. Mars Hill. Though mart' classic association* are connected with this city than with any other city under the sun. because her Socrates, and Plato, and Aristotle, and lleuiosthones, and Pericles, and Herodotus, and Pythagoras, and Xenophon, and Praxiteles wrote or chiseled, or taught, or thundered, or sung, yet in my wind all those men and their teachings were eclipsed by Paul and the Oospcl hc^Ri-achcd in this city and the noar-hy city of Corinth, Standing on the_old fortress st Corinth, the Aero-Corinthus, out from the ruins st its base arose In my imagination the old city just as Paul saw it. 1 have been told that for'splendor the world behold* no such wonder today as that ancient Corinth, standing on an isthmus washed by two seas, the on* bringing the commerce of Europe, the other sea bringing the commerce of Asia. From her wharves, in the construction of which whole kingdoms had heen absorbed, war galleys with three hanks of oars pushed out and confounded the navy yards of all the world. Huge-handed machinery, such as modern Invention can not t*iual. lifted ships from the sea on one side and transported them on trucks across the Isthmus and set them down in the sea on the other side. Tire revenue officers of the city went down through the olive groves that lined the beach to collect a tariff from all nations. The mirth of all people sported in her isthmian games, and the beauty vt all lands sat in her theaters, walked her porticos, and throw itself on the altar of her stupendous dissipation*.

column, snu sisiui-, anu w-iupie •»- wildcred the behcdder. Tlhore wonwhite niarl>li- fountain- Into which, front aperture* at the side. there. j^p- 'i waters everywhere known fuf Hfiallh-giv-ing qualities. Around these Iwtlna. twisted into wreaths of stone, there were all the beauties of sculpture and architecture, while standing, as if to guard the costly display, was a statue of Hercules of burnished Corinthian brass. Vases of terra cotta adorned the cemeteries of the dead—vast-s so costly that Julius Ciesar was not satisfied until he had captured them for Rome. Armed officials. the Corinthtrii, |aenl up and down to see that no ttatue was defaced. no pedestal overthrown. no hoa-relief touched. Front the edge of the city the hill held its riCkrnitirent burdens of columns, and towers, and temples (a thousand slaves waiting at ,one shrine), and n citadel so thoroughly impregnable that tiihraltar ia a heap of sand com pa red with it. Amid all that strength and magnificence Corinth stood and defied the world- Oh! it was not to rustics who hail never seen tny thing grand that Paul uttered one >f my texts. They had heard the best music that had nun* from the ls-st in-„ Uruments in all the world; they hail beard songs floating from morning por- - tiros and melting in evening groves; they bad passed their whole lives among picture*, and sculpture, and architecture, mil Corinthian brass, which had been molded and shaped until then- was no thariot wheel in which it had not sped, md no tower in which it had not glit-, trred, and no gateway that it had not •domed. Ah. it was a bold thing for l*aui to ttand then- amid nil that and say: "Alt this is nothing. These strands that tome fn»m the Temple of Neptune are not music compared w ith the harmonies >f which 1 speak. These waters rushing in the tiasin of Pyrene are not pure. Fhese statues of Bacchus. and Mercury are not exquisite. Your citadel of AeroCorlnthus is n»>t strong compared with that which 1 offer to the poorest slave that puts down his burden at the hnuten gate. You Corinthians think this is a splendid city; you think you have heard all sweet strands and seen nil beautiful sights; but 1 tell you eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man. the things which tiod hath prepared for them that love Him.” Indeed, both tuy texts, the . one spoken hy l*aul and the one written by Paul. show us that we have very imperfect eyesight, an-i that our day of vlsfrm ii'tycl to come: For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to (So Paul takes the responsibility of •awing that the ltihie is an indistinct mlmier and that its mission shall l»fl^ally suspended. I think there may he one.Bible in Heaven fastened to the throne. Just as now. In a museum, we have a lamp exhumed from Hervulancum or Ninevi-h, and we look at it with great interest and say: “How pour a light it must have given compared with our modern lamps.” So 1 think that this ltilile, which was a lamp to our feet in this world, may lie near the throne of Hod, exclUnjjjour interest to all eternity hy the contrast between its com

lion of Heaven. The Bible, now. is the scaffolding to the rising temple, hut when the building is done there will be no use for the scaffolding. Tlic idea I shall develop to-day is. that in this world our knowledge is comparatively dim and unsatisfactory, hut neverthe- j less is introductory to grander and more j complete vision. This is eminently true in regard to our view of llod. We! hear so much about (Sod that we conclude that we understand Him. He is j represented aa having the tenderness of j a father, the firmness of a judge, the pomp of a King and the love of a mother. We hear about Him, talk about Him, write about Him. We lisp His name in infancy, and it trembles on the tongue of the octogenarian. We think that we know very much about Him. Take the attribute of mercy. Bo we understand it? "the Bible blossoms all over with that word—mercy. It speaks again and again of the tender merries of God; of the ante mercies; of the great maitdea; of the mercy that end ureth for- . ever; of the multitude of His mercies. And yet I know that the views we have «f this greet Being are most indefinite, one-sided and incomplete- When, at death, the gates shall fly open, and we shaU look directly upon Him, hoar new and surprising' We see upon canvas a picture of the morning. We study the cloud in the sky, the dew upon the grass and the husbandman on the way to the field. Beautiful picture of the morning! But we rise at daybreak, and go upon a hill to see fear outsclre# that

walk upon; and there U morning on the sea. The crags uncover their scarred visage; end there inmorning among the mountain*. Now you go home and how tame your picture of the morning seems in contrast! Greater than that shall he the contrast between this Scriptural view of God and that which we shall have when standing face to face. This is a picture of the morning: that will be the morning itself. Again: My testa are true of theSaviour's exoelenoe. By image, and sweet rhythm of expression, and startling antitheses, Christ is set forth—His love, itls compassion. Ills work. His life. His death. His resurrection. We mreicballengcd to measure it, to compute it, to weigh it. In the hour of our broken enthrallment we mount up into high experience of HU love, and shout until the countenance glows, and the blood bounds, and the whole nature U exhilarated: "I have found Him!" And yet it is through a glass, darkly. We see not half of that compassionate face. We feel not half the warm th of that loving heart. We wait for death to let us rush into His outspread arms. Then we shall l>e face to face. Not shadow then, but Substance. Not hope then, but the fulfilling of all prcflgurement. That will be a magnificent unfolding- The rushing out in view of all hidden exoeleney; the coming again of a long-alisent Jesus to meet us—not in rags, and in penury, and death, hut amidst a light, and pomp, and outburating j«y such as none but a glorlfled-in-telligence could experience. Oh! to gaxe full upon the, brow that was lacerated, upon the side that was pierced, upon the feet that were nailed: to stand close up in the presence of Him who prayed for us on the mountain, and thought of us by the sea. and agonised for us in the garden, and died for us in horrible crucifixion; to feel of Him, to embrace Him, to take His hand, to kiss His feet, to run our fingers along the sears of ancient suffering, to say: 1 “This is my Jesus! Ho gave Himself for me. 1 shall never leave His presence. 1 shall forever behold His glory, i shall eternally hear His voice. Iawd Jesus, now 1 see Thee! 1 behold where the blood started, where the tears coursed, where the face was distorted. I have waited fur this hour. 1 shall never turn myjSbck on Thee, No more looking thrjmih imperfect glasses. No more studying Thee in the darkness. But as long ns this throne stands, and this everlasting river flows, and those garlands bloom, and these arches of victory remain to greet home Heaven's conquerors, so long 1 shall see Thee. Jesus of my choice, Jesus of my song, Jesus of my triumph, forever and forever—fane to face!"

The idea of iuy texts is just as true when applied to liod't providence. Who has not come to Some pass in life thoroughly inexplicable? You say: ••What does this mean? What is Hod going to do with me no*? lie tells me that all things work together for {rood. This does not look like it." ’ } You (Continue to study the dispensation. and after awhile ft ness about what Hod means. “lie means to teach me this. 1 think lie means to loach me that. lVrhaps it is to humble my pride. lVrhaps it is to make me feel mors* dependent. lVrhaps to teach me the uncertainty of life.” Hut, after all. it Is only a guess— a looking through the glass, darkly. , The lit hie assures us there shall he a satisfactory unjolding. "What f do thou k no west not now, hut thou shalt know hereafter." You will know why llod UK»k to Himself that only child. Next door there was a household of seven children. W hy not take one from that group, instead of your only one? Why single out the dwelling in which there was only one heart beating responsive to yours? Why did Hod give you a child at all. if He meant to take it away? Why All the pup of your gladness brimming, if He meant to dash It down? Why allow all the tendrils of your heart to wind around that object, and then, when every fiber of your own lift' seemed to be iuterlueked w 1th the child's life, with strong hand to tear you apart, until you fall bleeding and crushed, your‘dwelling desolate, your hopes blasted, your heart, broken? 1V> you suppose, that Hod will explain that? Yea. He will make It plainer than any mathematical problem — as plain as that two and two make four. In the light of the throne you will see that it was right —all right. “Just and true are all Thy ways Thou King of saints?” Here is a man whocan not get on in the world. He always seems to buy at the wrong time and sell at the worst disadvantage. He tries this enterprise, and fails: that business, and is disappointed. The next door to him has a lucrative trade: but he lacks customers. A new prospect opens. His inrome is increased. Hut. that year his family are sick, and the profits are expcmhst in trying to cure the ailments. He gets a d'iseourged look. Heroines faithless as to success, ltegins to expect disasters. Others wait for something to turn up: he waits for it to turn down. Others, with only half *s much education and character, get on twice as well. He sometimes gueaaes as to what it all means. He says: “IVrhapa riches would spoil me. lVrhaps poverty is necessary to keep me humble. lVrhaps I might, if things were otherwise, he tempted into dissipation.” Itut there is no complete solulion to the mystery. He sees through a glass darkly, and must wait (or a higher unfolding. Will there he an explanation? Yes; Hod will take that man in the light of the throne and aay: “Child, immortal, here the explanation? You remember the failing of that great enterprise. This is the explanation ” And you will answer: “It is alt

I see every day profound mysteries of Providence. There Is no question wo ask oftener than Why? There are hundreds of graves that need to be explained. Hospitals for the blind and lame, asylums for the idiotic and insane. almshouses for the destitute and a world of pain and misfortune that demand more than human solution. Ah! «Sod will clear it all up. In the light that pours from the throne no dark mystery cah live. Things now utterly inscrutable will be illumined as plainly as though the answer was written on the jasper wall or sounded in the temple anthem. Itartimeus will thank God that he was blind: and l^axarus that he was covered with sores; and Joseph that he was east into the pit; and Danielthat he was denned with lions; and Paul that he was humpbacked; and David that he was driven frwpj_Jerusalem; and and the sewing woman that she could get only a f«*r pence for making a garment; and that invalid that for twenty yearn he could not lift his. head from the pillow; and that widow that she had such hard work to earn bread for her children. You know that In n song different voices carry different parts. The sweet and overwhelming part of the hallelujah of Heaven will not be carried by those who rode in high places and and give sumptuous entertainments, bat sing it, beggars will sing it, redeemed hod carriers wiU sing it, those; of earth will sing it. The haUeiuwill beaUt!

k»w tat little Idea of the number of the righteous in Heaven. Infidels say: “Your Heaven will be n very small plane compared with the world of the lost; for, according? to your teaching, the majority of men will be destroyed.” I deny the charge. I suppose that the multitude of the finally lost, as compared with the multitude of the finally gaved, will J>e a handful. 1 suppose that the tew Suck people in the hospitals of our great cities, as compared with the hundreds of thousands of well people, would not be smaller than the number of those who shall be cast out in suffering, compared with those who shall have upon them the health of Heaven. For we are to remember that we are living in only the beginning of the Christinn dispensation. nnd that this w hole world is to be populated redeemed, and that ages of light and love are to flow on. If this be so. the multitudes of the saved will be in vest majority. Take all the congregations that have assembled for worship throughout Christendom. I'ut them together, and they would make but a small audience compared with the thousands and tensoi thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand, nnd the hundred nnd forty nnd four thousand that shall stand around the throne. Those flashed up to Hesven in martyr fires; those tossed for many years upon the invalid couch; those fought in the armies of liberty, and rose as they fell; those tumbled from high scaffoldings, or slipped from the mast, or were washed off into the sen. They came up from Corinth, from Laodicea. from the Red Sen bank and tiennesaret's wave, from Egyptian brickyards and titdeon's threshing floor. Those thousands of years ago slept the last sleep, and these are this moment having their eyes closed, and their limbs stretched out for the sepulcher. A General, expecting an attack from the enemy, stands on the hill and looks through a field-glass and sees in the groat distance multitudes approaching, but has no idea of their numbers. He says; “I can not tell any thing about them. I merely know that there are a groat number.” And so John, without attempting to count, says: “A great multitude that no man can number.” We are told that Heaven is a place of happiness; but what do we know about happiness? Happiness in this world is only a half-fledged thing; a flowery path, with a serpent hissing across it; a broken pitcher, from whi^t the water was dropped Is-fore we eoum drink it; a thrill of exhilaration, followed by disastrous reactions. To help understand the joy of Heaven, the Itifrle talAs us to a river. We stand on the grassy -bank. We see the waters flow on with ceaseless wave. Hut the fllth of the cities is emptied into it, and the banks are torn, and unhealthy exhalations spring up from It, and we fail to get an idea of the River of Life in Heaven.

m> got very imperfect ideas of the reunions of llesven. We think of some festal day on earth, when father amt mother were yet living, and the children come home. A good time, that! liut it had this drawback—all were notthcre. That brother, went off to sea, and never was heard from. That sister —did we not lay her away In the freshness of her young life, never morein this world to look upon her^^BK there was a skeleton at the feast; and tears mingled with our laughter on that Christmas Day. Not so with Heaven's reunions. It will be an uninterrupted gladness. Many a Christian parent will look around and Rnd all his children there. “Ah!*.' he says, “can it be possiblo that we are all here—life's perils over, the Jordan passed and not one wanting? Why, even the prodigal is here. 1 almost gave him up. How long he despised my counsels! Hut grace hath triumphed. Alt here! All here! Tell the mighty Joy through the* city. Let the bells ring, and the angels mention it in their song. Wave it from the top of the walls. All here!” No more breaking of heart strings, but face to face. The orphans that were left poor, and in a merciless world, kicked and ruffed of many hardships, shall join their parents over whose graves they so long wept, and ga*c into their glorified countenance forever, face to face. We may come up from different parts of the world, one from the land and another from the depths of the sea; from lives affluent and prosperous, or from scenes of ragged distress; but we shall all meet in rapture and jubilee, face to face. Many of our friends have entered upon that joy. A few days ago they sat with us studying these tiospel themes; but they only saw dimly—now revelation hath come. Your time will also route, liod will not leave you floundering in the darkness. You stand wonderstruck and amased. You feel as if all the loveliness of life were dashed out. You stand gasing into the open rhasm of the grave. Wait a little. In the presence of your departed and of Him who carries them in His bosom, you shall soon stand face to face. Oh! that our last hour may kindle up with this promised joy! May we be able to say, like the Christian not long ago, departing: "Though a pilgrim walking through the valley, the mountain tops are gleaming from peak to peak," or. like my dear friend and brother. Alfred Cookirian. who took his flight to the throne of Ood. saying in his Inst moment that which has already gone Into Christian classics: "I am sweeping through the pearly gate, washed in the blood of the Lamb!"

•mm CiflMi MMm KsUom. A curious light is thrown on tin rural life of Brnftl by the contents of t [Hiper reprinted lately in the annual report of the llombay Anthropological Society. From this paper we are told the following among other things: Shooting the name of the king of birds (Garuda) drives away snakes. Cholera that attacks on Monday or Saturday ends fatally, but not cholera that attacks on Thursday. The flowering of bamboos augurs famine. In fanning, if the fan strikes the body it should be thrice knocked against the ground. When giving alms the giver and receiver should not be standing on different aide* of the threshold. If a snake is killed it should be burned, tor it Is a Brahman. At night the words “snake" and “tiger" should not be used; call them creepers and insects. Do not wake np a sleeping physician. A morn*ng dream always cornea to pass. Iron is a charm against ghosts. A black oat with a white face is very auspicious. The favorite ornament of the Roman beauty was undoubtedly the bodkin, the pin long and pointed, widening at the top and carved with the figure of Fortune or some other favorite goddess. It was occasionally arranged to contain poison and put to tragic uses, or answered the mote ignoble purpose of a weapon to torture the slaves who assisted at the difficult function of the toilet. To prepare the hair and skillfully blend the false with the true, a variety of i Ivory and bone combs were employed, ss well as the disoenticulum. a pointed instrument to make a parting straight enough to satisfy the exacting object of nil these attentions.—Domestic Monthly. Thut who are most weary of life, and yet are most unwilling to die, are such who have lived to no purpose; who haw

THANKSGIVING.

1 1 I 2*CE itts \The Mute have . —. KrtaK Down ZTom push | The vanished w ner leaves To hint of her stilted minstrelsy. With darkened owe bare. *. And winter's dtUHnc blasts begun. Today we think what glories rate

The mmh Brought mm sun to sun— What fruit* are la the cellar's bln. What wealth the mow* and granaries hold— While radiant cheer prevails within. And crackling Ores keep oat the cold. Then heap the board where Joy has placed— Let sorrow sleep—be banished fear; It doubtful feet began the race They end one more triumphant gear. Not ours alone Is all this gain— The harvest we have safe In store Should help us soothe some neighbor'* pain. And spread kind gifts to hunger's door. The bounteous hand that spreads our feast. Which sent the rain and sunshine, too, Makes all our blessings twice Increased By every generous deed we da So. when our Uhle groans to-day. Aim! happy hearts are gathered there, Let's find some tepr to wipe away, Some welcome gifts which we can spare, -Joel Benton, la America. A MIDNIGHT RAID. A Jack-O'-Lantern Parade and Its Satisfactory Result.

AS PER was sitting on the bench by the old wellcurb, making a Jack -o'- lantern. It was a soft, still day In early November, and/the pleasant pliry^rd, with its clean flagged walks and prim borders around the grass plots, looked doubly pleasant

in tne warm, mellow sunsniuc. o of cornstalks was going In at the farm gate and a row of yellow pumpkins sunned themselves in the open barn window, while bunches of peppers hung drying outside. Through the yellow (eaves of the big elms the sky showed deeply blue, and afar off the river glittered like e silver thread through the meadows. But Jasper wasn't thinking of the beauty of the afternoon, being very much engaged just now with his Jack-o’-lantern. He had got quite a bewitching slant to the eyes, and what he regarded as a most “fetching” expression to the mouth, and was proceeding to elaborate the nose when Kaehel came out. “Another Jack-o’-lantern. Jasper?” she called out before she was fairly off the door steps. “What a boy you are!” “Yes, ma’am;" Jasper kept on carving. “And the biggest one of the season. tool Uoin’ to have a parade tonight.” “Jasper. It's almost Thanksgiving.” Jasper laughed. “Tell us something we don't know, won’t you?” he suggested. holding off his Jack and surveying it critically with one eye shut. Rachel laughed a little, too, but soon grew grave again. “Well, what are you going to do about it you know?” “Ho?” Jasper stared at her with both eyes open. “Why. let it come, to be sure. What are you driving at?” Rachel sat down on the bench beside him to talk comfortably. “You know the Gordons, don’t you?” sh«f said. “I'm driving at them.” “llick’s folks, yes; what of-’em?" “Why; they're in great trouble. Mr. Gordon broke his leg last week, and their cow's dead—" “1 know it” interrupted Jasper. “They took Dick out of school and put him in the mill. He’s a smart little, chap and I s'pose somebody's got to earn money.” “Yes. And Ellen’s in the mill, too. She was in my class.” Rachel stopped to muse again. How she would hate working in the mill herself! “Well?” prompted Jasper, and she roused at once. “O, yes! Well, I’ve been thinking: and if you'll give some of your vegetables and things. 111 give a pair of my chickens and we can send them a Thanksgiving dinner.” “They won't take it I’ll bet" said Jasper. promptly. “They're awful proud.” “Ah, hut how oan they help it?” said Rachel. “We'll hang It at the door the night beforehand, and they’ll never know. who sent it They can’t send it j hack then! See?” She hoped that Jasper wasn’t going “to throw cold water.” This was such a nice way of helping the Gordons, and she was so sorry for them. But she needn’t have been afraid; Jasper was only considering, and presently he said: “Ail right Rachel, go ahead; and, 1 say. put in one of my honey-combs, too, for the babies.” \ *.i “That’ll be Jolly,” Rachel beamed on him. “And if you don’t turn nil your

/-w “JASPER, IT’S AUfOST tllAXKSOIVISO." pumpkins into Jack-o'-lanterns before th»t, ru mike some pies. It'll be t famous bosket! You'll see.” She jumped up lightly end ran off to! Inspect ber chickens and decide on the two to be sacrificed. "That wasn't hair bad of Ray.” said Jasper to himself as she disappeared. “She thinks a lot of those chickens, too. Meant to sell them tor her Christmas money. Won't it help the Gordons though? Must be haring a tough time of it, I declare! Why don't I tell the other fellows to-night and get 'em all to do something? They needn't interfere , with Ray's basket, and I guess the Gordons will need all the help they can get ! this winter. Perhaps their fathers will help. too. if the boys do; anyway it’ll set the ball a-rolling. There, if that rln’t a j fine ‘Agger' of a Jack-o'-lantern I never saw one,** and Jasper swept up his chips and carried his Jack off in triumph to be displayed. The parade duly took place, and was a fine affair with two or three doaen boys in the ranks, with “Jacks” of all degrees of ugliness. Jasper hadn’t been able to keep his plan a secret till after the pertormance as be had intended, but had

ho idea. Nothing would do but they oust go through the village and down ! h© aide street where the Gordons lived, (ringing the whole family to the winlows by their noisy demonstrations, vhen each boy waved his hat wildly, and [eve them three times three before they novedon. The Gordons were rather puziled by this proceeding. Dick indeed bought it rather kind of ais old schoolnates to give him a bit of their fun, .hough he was no longer of them. Mrs. lordon wished they hadn’t been so noisy tnd waked “Pa,” who had just dropped nto an uneasy slumber, but boys don’t hink, she added, apologetically. Ellen dghed over the pumpkins wasted on bat procession and wished she had one ’or piesf while the smaller fry one and dl were wild with excitement and longed » give chase, but were relentlessly swept iff to bed by the motherly Jane, who same next Ellen in age, and was nursemaid in general. Little did any of the family guess at die plans developing in that noisy srowd. Every boy was ready to do something, for Dick had been a favorite, uid then Jasper's artful proposal that the things should be bung at the door. May-basket fashion, promised unlimited larks. They were ail country boys, with each Iris own way of earning money. Some Sad vegetables of their own raising, some apples; several of them kept hens tnd had eggs to sell, and though none of them eould give much, yet as one boy's gift met another's, a good deal wa^ made up. mk ‘Til give wood.” cried Toni Horton™ loudly; “I’ve got a wood-lot this year.” “And so've 1,” shouted Billy Gray, ’‘and 1 will give just as much as Tom ioes!" “I'll ask father to send a load of Boal," said Waiter Hale, at last, consequentially, but the boys would have “That will he jolly for your father,” said John Teal; “but what are you going to give yourself?” Walter lifted his eyebrows su'perriliously. “Isn’t that enough?” he said, haughtily. ^ “More than enough for your fath$” said Jasper, bluntly; “but you don’t give it. 1 thought we boys were running this business,” and then Walter offered his mite with the rest. The night beforff Thanksgiving came, a dear, starlit evening, dark .enough for the conspirators, but not too dark. The Gordons were all at home, Mr. Gordon sitting up and busied with a pie** of wood-carving. He was a carpenter by trade, and had some skill, which he hoped to turn to trifling account during his illness. He looked pale and anxious, and there were new lines of care in Mother Gordon's face as she bent over her mending-basket. Tho younger children were safely in bed. and Dick and Ellen at the table, with their heads close together, were puzzling over a hard “sum.” for they were trying to keep up with their classes by evening work. To-morrow would he a holiday at the mill, but there would he little festivity at home. It was so hard to earn the daily food for the family now; there was nothing to spare for luxuries. “I wish I eould get up a little something extra for the children," thought Mrs. Gordon, with^weary sigh, and at

BUT MORE SURPRISES WERE TO COME. the moment ctno a thundering* rapid the door and a sound of swift feet scurrying* away. “Those boys!” sighed Mr. Gordon, half irritably, and Dick sprang? up and ran to the door. « ‘•What is it. Dick? Don't keep the door open,” called his mother, for Dick was looking? up and down the street for the mysterious visitant. “It's a box.” he called back, excitedly. “A big? hox!" and Kllen Hew to help him, and between them they tugrgred into the room not only the big? hox, but a smaller pasteboard one that had been hidden behind it. And there were Rachel's plump chickens dressed for cooking?, and looking? almost g*ood enoug?h to be eaten then and there; there were potatoes, turnips and onions, nicely washed and made ready, and a quart bowl of ruddy cranberry sauce. There was a loaf of bread for staffing?, while the smaller box held two spicy mince pies i below (which Rachel's mother had sent! ; and above the pumpkin pies she had I promised, of which she was justly proud, ! so glossy, so g?olden were they, with j crisp edgfes of crust delicious to see. * And if she and Jasper could have seen j the Thanksgiving? their gifts made in the Gordon household they would have been repaid a hundred-fold. But more surprises were to come. The Jack-o'-lantem boys had decided with many regrets not to hang their gfiftS' separately, “beesuse some of us are dead sure to be caught—that Dick, you know,” so they had met at Billy Gray’s house, the back yard whereof joined the back yard of the Gordons. Hero on© or two of them had climbed over the fence, the re«t occupying the vantage ground of shed tool and fence itself to superintend operations. One by one the thing?* had been handed over in profound stillness. and a big stack made by the Gordon's back doorstep. There were bags of potatoes, of turnips. of onions and of beans, two big bundles of wood, one or two cabbages and yellow pumpkins to give color to the pile and the bag? of Sour above, while crowning the whole was cautiously ret in place a Jack-o'-lantern fixed to a pole. It had a cross-bar for arms and was comfortably attired in Tom Horton's outgrown overcoat, which would be just big enough for Dick, while its “hands” were ornamented with a pair of new blue mittens sent by Mrs. Gray. How the boys gloated over that stack, to be sure. Dear, dear me, nothing but the fear of getting caught ever induced them to tear themselves away. Then they bid behind the fence on the Gray side of it, while Tom gave a thundering rap and then bounced over among them, nearly demolishing Billy In his haste. •ftey nearly exploded when Dick ©.-.me to the door and gave a perfect yell of surprise. Then as he shouted to the rest of the fatally to come and see, how the eyes at every crack in the fence did shine. It was well the Jack beamed so, or really I don’t know but the eyes would have illuminated for themselves. If the Gordons got more pleasure out of it than the boys did I don't know how they did it. And this at least I am sure of, that every single boy gfbo had a hand in that pUe declared it wait the julliest fun he had ever bad in his life, and that ban one substantial presept that its way to the Gordon house ia weeks was a result of the

•■CoooANVT-nAT” parts of India during August. On that day are throwninio tho sea the Hindoo gWs. The Chinese are aooustomedjto eat pumpkin seeds between, tho courses at dinner, and they are probably taken as an appotiier and digester. Toeap seeds are rich in nitrogen and oil and are very nutritious. * , A traveler in Terra del Fuego was puzzled to distinguish the ' sexes, until he discovered this infallibly rule: The native who carries a how is a man; the native who is loaded down with heavy burdens la a woman.. The proudest boast among Cuban women is the daii^r smallness of -their feet. They requiWNnthing larger in.tho way of footgear than the 1 size for American women. Thre peculiar, ondowmtry, is perfectly natural; no pinching or pressure of any kind is used.: The natives of the Arctic regions have a barbarous butlfeffectlve way of dealing with tho wolves, which are a pest there. Sharp blades are stuck in the ice and baited. The meat freezes, and in thawing it out with his tongue the blade cuts tho tongue, ultimately prevejrting the beast from liewhg the snow, aAfinaily kills the animal the Hindoos there are some .pastes near Ahmedabad in which widow marriages are allowed, and a girl can he jdven in second marriage without*the Imnous expense considered necessary on the ooca^on of a first alliance. The parents, therefore, marry a girl to a bunch of flowers, which is afterwards thrown down a well. The husband is then said to he dead, and the airl, as a widow, can be married at moderate cost. A gentleman who has traveled considerably, in speaking of the beauty of foreign women, says ho believes the Swedish peasant women to be tho most beautiful in all the world. The young matrons are like madonnas, and the girls are ideals of pure and exquisite maiden* hood. Their quaint peasant dress and head covering add to their charm, and' he has thought home photographs of these women that would each one make an ideal head for a painter. Egyptians are said to bear surgical operations witl^sxtraordlnary fortitui and success, (m Bey, the founder gypt, says: “It repry to kill on* |iropeans. In the nan whose thigh lat^wo o'clock is a™six o'clock, ply unknown, and. modern me^icino in quires as- much S’ Kgwmati as seven nati^BtospUats th has neen amputa’ sitting up and liv Sho^Bs almost ent" drcBrof an impending operation quite an exception. The explanation given for this abnormal physicalvexeellenee is the resignation inculoateoby the religion of the people; the very small proportion of meat in. and tho total absence from alcohol from, their diet, and, tin general, the regular,Abstemious, out->f-door life.

t-KVJM LMO OUUm^tO. Tins Shah of IYrsia hast announced that he will never visit England again. Skvkbai. thousands of Jews, under orders to quit Bessarabia, have accepted engagements to colonize lands in the Argentine Republic. The Dowager Empress Victoria, of Germany, sold some New*York City bonds a day of so since at public sale. The royal insignia was stamped on each bond. Since 1800 the population of Europe has just doubled itself. Then the population was 173.000.000; in 1830, 316,000,000; in 1860, 380.000,000; in 1880, S31,000,000; in 1888, 830.000,000. Servian farmers who can not pay their tax arrears in money are now allowed, by tho finance ministry, to pay in cereals. The military authorities take the grain at a fixed price. The congress of Orientalists at Stockholm went lately to the grave of Odin at Upsala, where tho Minister of tho Interior drank to tho health of the congress in the regular old Viking mead. A cpriops gastronomic entertainment was an oyster feast recently hold in Colchester, Eng. Tho celebration is of very ancient origin. Ten thousand Colchester oysters were consumed on the last occasion by the mayor and his guests. TunTonquin pirates, whom the French thought they had, atone time, completely suppressed, have reappeared again and are striking terror among the merchant shippers. The Government will send a fleet sufficient to hunt them down and to annihilate them lyIk the race with automatic machines Paris has put herself in the lead with a machine exhibited the other day in tho Place de la Repuhlique. You brought with you a penny and a cup. You parted with your penny, dropping it into the accustomed slot, and your onp was full of steaming fc!a»k coffee judiciuusly mwd Toe may slimr the beauty of aprinstlma TkatcwnMf But l mac of a t H the cheek of the jeans, beauty uk't rarer __of which ToFhuTe suns. Thu bu^nr that’s seen in the fucea Of iMa whose summer is e’er. The autumn-like beauty that charms us Fsr morn than the beauty of yore. But this beauty is seen too rarely. The faces of most women lose tho beauty of youth too soon. Female disorders are like frosts which come to nip the flowers which betoken good health, without which there can be no real beauty, if our American women would fortify themselves against the approach of the terrible disorders so prevalent among them, by using Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, their good looks would be retained to a ’’sweet old age.” This remedy is s guarantnd cure for all thedisu-essin#w*knessee and derangements peculiar to worsen. Dr. Pierce’s Pellets, one a dose. Cure constipation and indigestion. * Otbtkbs are very *elf poasea*ed ereaV urea. They never turn red when they |Htntoaatew.

THE MARKETS. Mw Tusk. Not. ». W CATTLE—Natlae Steers....» 3 M *8 4 COTTON—Middling. • ■ FLOCK—W inter Wni'«t. 8 » * 4 WHEAT—No. » Bed.. 84K« CORN—So. J. 4I%« OATS—Western Mixed.. 21 PORK—Mess ...« " ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling. BEEVES—Export Steers. 70 10tt IK • II SO m « 4 HO Sapping “ . aw HOGS—Common to Select.. . 3 50 SHEEP—Fair to Choice. 3 2S « FLOCK—Intents.. 4 IS * XXX to Choice. a 20 * WHEAT—No. 2 Bed Winter... TW*« corn—No. a Mixed.... awo oats—No. a. wa* ItVE—No. a. 40 • TOBACW-Lngs^nri);; 7* « * HAT—Ctioiee Timothy. 8 SO • 11 BITTER—Choice Dairy. 18 • BOOS—Frenh. • „ PORK—Standard Mess (new). ....-KM BACON—Clear Rib. ® LAKH—Prime Steam. • WOOL—Cholc* Tub. e CHICAGO. *» 2 * 8HJKEP—Good toCbolee. 8 SO 4* 4 FLOCK—Winter Patents. 480 • 4 Spring 44 ..*••• 440 8 4 WHEAT—No. a Spring. • CORN—No. 1. • OATS-No. 1 White .... SM* ms ata aw* 4a 18 78 8% » as » saw n* at** » PORK—Standard Mem. . .... • 9 KANSAS car. CATTLE—Shipping Steers. 880 • 4 ' HOGS—Sales at. 8 80 « 8: WHEAT—No.I (hard).. WWW OAT'S—No. a. 1«%« CORN—No. a. K « NEW ORLEANS. *s:4S

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rTipm. It is vrry important in this age of vast material progress that a rernedc bo pleasto the'W'.ve, easily ng to the taste.'and laken, acceptable to the stomach and leal thy in its nature and effects. Possessng these qualities. Syrup of Figs is the oue torfoot laxative and mdst gentle diuretic inown. m Tna same obituaries seem to do for almost every man who dies in these days, j. Oregon, the Paradise or Farmers. -Iregoo Imraigr^ion Bo^rd .Portland,Oregon Onk would think that a jailer would be In [tain all the time with so many felons on his bands.—Kearney Enterprise. lr retry *rumn* in this land. knew for herself the actual quality of Dobbins’. Electric Soap, no otter washing soap coujff he sold. Millions do use it, bat milbons have never tried it. Have goaf Ask your grocer for it TV ns money is said to be close it is realthis is authentic.—Oil ly far away. Blizzard. City The Public Awards the Palm to Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar for coughs. Pike’s Toothache Props-Curo in on|.minute. A Brsissss engagement--Securing the matrimonial promise of an heiresa.—Merchant Traveler. Tuo»s who wish to practice economy should buy Carter's Little Liver PiUa. Forty pilPiu a vial; only oue pilla dose. V Tbb base-ball player naturally looks out or a change of base. Best, easiest to use add cheapest. Piso’s Kerned}- for Catarrh. By druggists 85cWiiex a train is telescoped the passengers re apt to see stars.—Baltimore American. lr afflicted with Sore Eves use l)r. Isaac' hompaou's Bye Water. Pruggiats sell it. 8ac A svstHCATB of cattlemen has a perfect right to water its stock.—Rochester PostExpress.

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