Hendricks County Republican, Volume 5, Number 36, Danville, Hendricks County, 17 June 1886 — Page 3

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TALMAGE

Strong Drink the Worst Toe of Labor Ita Cost ia Thirty Tears Would Build Every Workingman a Eome,

Sermon Delivered in the llrooklyii Tubernacle by the Kev. T. DeVYitt Talmage, 1. I.

Biiooklys, N. Y., Juno 13. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, 1). I)., preached to-day U the Brooklyn Tabernacle the fifth of bis seriesof sermons ou "The Labor Quesiion." His subject was "Strong Drink, -he Worst Foe of Labor." The opening nymn was: ' So let our tiim ttnti lives expr. ss The lioly Go-nel we Jirolion: Ho lei our works ami virlui-n since. To prove the doctrine sll dirine." Alter explaining appropriate passages of Scripture Dr. Talmage took his test rem lls'r:u i., v. G: "lie that earucth wages earneth wgo8 to put it into a tag with holes."' Dr. Talmago said: Jn l'ersia, under the Hgn of Darius Hystnspes, the people did not prosper. They made money; hut did not keep it. I'lmy were like people who have a sack ;n which they put money, not knowing that the wiek is torn or entn of moth; jt in some way made incnpiblo of lioldiii(t valuables. As fast as the coin was put in one end of the sack it droppod jut of the other. It made no difference how much wages they got, for they lost them. "He that earncth wages, enrneth wages to put it into a bug with holes." What has become of the billions and billions of dollars in this country paid to the working elases? Some of these moniv's have gone lor bonne rent or the pur;iiase of homesteads or wardrobe or family expenses or the necessities of life or to provide comforts in old age. What has become of other billions? Wasted in foohsh outlay. Wasted at the gaminglable. Wasted in intoxicants. Tut into a bag with a hundred holes. (hither up the money that the working glasses have spent for rumduiing TI1K LAST THIRTV YEARS And 1 will build for every workingman a house and lay out for him a garden and jlothe his sons in broadcloth and his (laughters in silks, and stand at bis front door a prancing span of sorrels or bays, ami secure him a policy of life insurance, so that the present home may be well maintained utter he is dead. The most persistant, the most overpowering enemy of the wot king classes is intoxicating liquor. It is the Anarchist of the centuries, ami has boycotted and ia now boycotting the body and mind and soul of American labor. It is to it a worse foo than monopoly and worse than associated capital. It annually swindles industry out of a large percentage of its earnings. It holds out its blasting solicitations to the mechanic or operative ou bis way to work, and at the noon-spell, and on lists w ay homo at eventide; ou Saturday when the wages are paid, it snatches a largo part of the money that might come to the family, and sacrifices it among the saloon-keepers. Within eight hundred yards of Sands-street Methodist Church, Brooklyn, it has fifty-four saloons, and is plotting now for another. Stand the ral oni of this country side by Bide, and it is carefully estimafed they would reach from Kew York to Chicago. Forward, march! says the ruin power, and take possession of the American nation! The rum business is pouring its vitriolic and damnable liquids down the throats of hundreds of thousands of laboreis, nod while tins ordinary strikes are ruinous both toemployersand employes, ) proclaim a universal strike against s.rotic drink, which, if kept up; will be t i r i f ( f t e w )ikm cla-i -es and the i I i i I will undertake bMt 1 t w p it a healthy laborer I i 1 s v. h ),

WITHIN Till! NKXT TKV YEARS, It lie will ret use all intoxicating bevera H nltc hi mav not become a omili.hst. on a small scale. Our country in a year spends r-L.iiMi.000,000 for rum. Of course, till! working classes do a great deal of this expenditure. Careful statistic show tiiiit the wasr-oaniiisg classes ol Great ilntam expend in liquors 100,000.OUO or $.;l0,000,M), a year, frit down and calculate, O workingman, how much you have expended in these directions. Add it all up. Add tip w hat your neighbors have expended, mid realize that, instead of answering the beck of other people, you might have been your own capitalist. When von deplete a workingmaifs physical energy you deplete his capital. The .stimulated workman gives out before the unstimulated workman. My father said: "JJiecanie a temperance man early in life because I noticed in the harvest field that, though I was physically weaker than other workman, 1 could bold out longer than they. They took stimulants, I took none." A brick maker in England gives his experience in regard to this matter among men in his employ. He nays, after investigation: "The beer drinker who made1 the fewest, bricks, made (jo!),. 00; the abstainer who made! the fewest bricks, made. 740.000. The dilli-ronee in behalf of the ubstramer over the imltilger XT.OOO." There came a very exhausting time in the r.ritish Parliament. The session w as prolonged until nearly all the members got sick or worn out. Out of six hundred and fifty-two members only two went through undamaged. THEY Wi;liE Tl: TOTAI.KCS. When an army goes out to the battle the soldier who has water or eoH'ee in his canteen marches easier Hud lights belter thauthi- soldier w ho has whisky in hiseanteen. Bum helps a man to light when he has only one contestant, and that at the street corner. But when ho goes forth to maintain some great battle for ( iod and his count ry he n niitu no rum about him. When the llussians go to w ar a corporal passes along the line and smells the breath of every soldier. If

there he in his breath a taint of intoxicating liquor the man is sent back to the barracks. Why'.' Ho cannot endure fatigue. All our young men know this. When they are preparing for a regotta or for a ball club, or for an athletic wrestling;, they abstain. Our working people will be wiser after a while, and the money they fling away on hurtful indulgences they will put into co-operative association and so become capitalists. If the working man put down bis wages and then take his expenses and spread them out so they will just equal he is not wise. I know workingmen who are in a perfect fidget until they can get rid of their last dollar. The following circumstances came under our observation: A young man worked hard to earn his f300 or $700 yearly. Marriage day came. The bride had inherited $ 500 from her grandfather. She spent every dollar of it on the wedding dress, Then they rented two rooms in a third story. Then the young man took extra evening employment almost exhausted with the day's work, yet took even,'. employment. It almost extinguished hia eyesight. Why did he add evening employment to the day employment? To get money. Why did he want to get money? To lay up something for a rainy day? No. To get bis life insured so that in case of his death his wife would not be & beggar? No. He put the extra evening work . to the day work that he might get $150 to get his wife A SKAL-SK1N COAT. The sister of the bride heard of H achievement, and w as not to be eclipsed. She was very poor, and she sat up work ing nearly all the nights for a great while till she bought a sealskin coat. I have not heard of the result on that street. The street was full of those who are on small incomes, but I suppose the contagion spread, and that everybody had a sealskin coat, and that the people came out and cried, practically, not liberally: "Though the heavens fall we must have a sealskin coat." I was out West, and a minister of the Gospel told me, in Iowa, that his church and the neighborhood had been impoverished by the fact that they put mortgages on their farms in order to send their families to the l'hiladelphia Centennial. It was aot respectable not to' go to the Centennial. Between such evils and pauperism thereis a very short step. The vast majority of children in your alms

bouses are there because their parents

are drunken, or lazy or recklessly improvident. I have NO SYMPATHY FOH KKIN-KLIN'T SAVISO, But I plead for Christian prudence; You say ij is impossible now to lay up anything for a rainy day. 1 know it, but we are at the day-break of National prosperity. Some people think it is mean to turn the gas low when they go out of the parlor. They feel embarrassed if the door-bell rings before they have the hall lighted. They apologize for the plain meal if you surprise them at, the table. Well, it is menu if ills only to pile up a miserly hoard. F-ut if it bo to educate your children, if it be to give more i o to your wife when she does not fee! strong, if it be to keep your funeral d.'y from being horrible beyond all endurance because it is to be the disruption and annihilation of the domestic circle if it be for that, then it is magnificent. There are those w ho are kept in poverty because of their own fault. They might have been well off, but they amok, ed or chewed up their earnings, or they lived beyond their means, while others on the same w ages and on the same salaries went on to competency. I know a man who w:cs all the time complaining of his poverty and crying out against rich men, while he himself keeps two dogs and chews and smokes, and is full to tlte chin with- w hisky and beer. Wilkins Mieawbor said to David Ooppertield:

"Copperfield, my boy, one pound income, twenty shillings and six pence; result, misery. But, Coppertiidd. my boy, one pound income, nineteen shilling:and six pence; remit, happiness." But, O workiiigutaii of America, take yout morning dram, and your noon dram, and

your evening dram, and spend every-j thing you have over for tobacco and cxcursioi.s, and you IN'Sl'HK 1'OVEKIY For yourself and your children forever. If by some flat of the capitalists of this country, or by a new law of the Governmentoflhe Fluted States, I'o per cent., or (ill per cent, or 100 per cent., wen added to the wages of the working classes of America, it would be no advantagi to hundreds of thousands of them nnlesr they stopped strong drink. Aye, until they (put that evil habit, the more money, the Inure ruin, the more wages the morn holes in the bag. My plea this morning is to those working-people who are in a discipleshin to the w hisky-bottle, the beer-mug and the wine flask. And what. I say 'to them will not he more appropriate to the working classes than to the business classes and the literary classes and to Unprofessional classes and all classes, and and not, with the people of out! ago mure than of ullages. Take one good, square look at the suffering of the man whom strong drink has enthralled and remember that toward that goal multitudes are running. Tim thsriple of alcoholism sellers tinloss of his self-respect. Just as soon its a man wakes up and finds that he is the captive of strong drink he feels demeaned. I do not care how reckless he acts, lie may say: "1 doiit care," he does care. He can not look a pure man in the eye unless it is with positive force of resolution. Three-fourths ol his nature is destroyed; his self-respect is gone; he says things he would not otherwise say, be does things he Would not olheiwise do. When a man is iiine-tontl'.s gone with Blrong drink, the first thing he wants to do is to persuade you that he can stop any time he wauls to. lie can not. The Philistines have hound him hand and loot, and shorn his locks, and put out his eves, ami are making him grind in lie mill of n great horror, lie can m

stop. I will pro.e ii. He knows that his course is bringing ruin upon himself. Ho loves himself. If ill! could stop he would. He knows his course is bringing ruin upon his family. He loves them. He would stop if he could. He can not. Perhaps he could three mouths or a year ago, not now. Just ask him to siop for a month, lie can not; he knows he can not, so be does not trv. I had a friend w ho for fifteen years was going down under this evil habit. He had large means. He had give thounsands of dollars to Bible Societies and reformatory institutions of all sorts. He was very genial, very generous and very lovable, and whenever he talked nliout this evil habit he would say: "I can stop any time." But he kept going on, going on, down, dow n, down. His family would say: "1 w ish you would stop'" "Why," he would reply, "I can stop any time if I want to." After a w hile he had delirium tremens; he had it twice; and yet, after that, he said: "1 could stop at any time if 1 wanted to." He is dead now. WHAT KILLED HIM? Rum! Bum! And yet among his last utterances was: "I can stop at any time." He did not stop it because he could not stop it. Oh, there is a point in iuabriation beyond w hich if a man goes lie can not stop! One of these victims said to a Christian man: "Sir, ii I were told that I couldn't get a drink until to-morrow night unless I had all of my ringers cut off, I would say: 'Bring the hatchet and cut them oif now." ' I have a dear friend in l'hiladelphia whose nephew come to him one day aud when he was exhorted about his evil habit, said: "Uncle, 1 can't give it up. If there stocd a cannon and it was loaded and a glass of wine were set on the mouth of that cannon, and I knew you would lire it oil' just as I came up and took the glass, 1 would start, for 1 must have it." Oh, it is a sad thing for a man to wake up in this life and feel that he is a captive! He says: "I could have got rid of this once, but I can't now. I might have lived an honorable life and died a Christian death; but there is no hope for me now; there is no escape or me." Dead, but not buried. lama, walking corpse. I am an apparition of w hat 1 once w as. I am a caged immortal heating against the w ires of my cage in this direction; Ix-uting against the cage until there is blood on the wires and blood upon my soul, yet notable to get out. Destroyed without remedy!" I go on and say that the disciple of rum sutlers from the loss of physical health. The older men in the congregation may remember that some years ago Dr. Sewell went through this country and electrified :he people by his lectmvs, in which he showed the effects of alcohol! m on the human stomach. He had seven or eight diagrams by which he showed the devastation of strong drink upon the physical system. There were thousands of people that turned buck from that ulcerous sketch, swearing eternal abstinence from every thing that could intoxicate, COD ONLY KNOWS What the drunkard suffers. Tain tiles on every nerve, and travelsevery muscle, and knaws every bone, and burns with every llaiue, and stings with every poison; and pulls at him with every torture. What reptiles crawl over his creeping limbs? What fiends stand by bis midnight pillow? What groans tear his ear? What horrors shiver through bis soul? Talk of the rack, talk of the inquisition, talk of the funeral pyre, bilk of the crushing judgement ho feels them all at once. Have you ever been in the ward of the hospital where the inebriates are dying the stench of the wounds driving back the attendants; their voices Bounding through the nitdit? The keeper comes up and says: "Hush, now; be still; stop making all this noise!" But it is effectual only for a moment, for a? soon as the keeper isgone they begin agatu: "Oh God! Oh (iod! Help! Help! Bum! Give ine rum! Help! Take them off me! Oh, (iod!"

And then they shriek, and they rave, and they pluck out their hair by handfills, and ,

III I'K TIIKIil NAllJi INTO THE UI.'H'K, And then they groan and they shriek, nd they blaspheme, and they ask the keepers to kill them: "Stab me! Smother me! Strangle me! Take the devils off toe!" Oh, it is no fancy sketch! That thing is going on now all up and down the land, and I tell you further that, this is uoing to be the death that some of you w ill die. I know it. I see it coming. Again the inebriate sliders through the loss of his home. 1 do not care how much he loves his wife and children, ii this passion for strong drink has inaslerrd him,, he will do the most outrageous things and if he could not get. drink in anv other way he would sell his family into eternal bondage. How many houses have been broken up in that way no one hut (iod knows. (Hi, is there anything that w ill so destroy a man for this life and damn 'him for the life to come? 1 hate that strong drink. With all the concentrated energies of my soul 1 bate it. Do not, tell me that a man can he happy when he knows that he is breaking his w he's heart and clothing his children w it h raj's. Why there arc on tinroads and streets to-day little children, barefooted, uncombed and unkempt want on every patch of their faded dress and ou every w rinkle of their prematurely (dd countenances --who have been m churches to-day and as well clad as you are but for the fact that rum destroyed theii parenls ami drove them into the grave. O ruin, ihoti foe of God, thou despoiler of homes, thou recruit ing ollicer of the pit, I hate thee! But. my subject takes a deeper tone, and that is that the unfortunate of w hom I speak suiters from the loss of the soul. The I'.ible intimates thai in the future world, if we. were unforgiven here, our bad passinnsand appetites, unrestrained, will go along with us and make our torment there. So that, 1 suppose, when an inebtiate wakes up in the lust not Id he will feel an infinite thirst clawing on him. Now , dow n in the world, all hough lie mav have been very poor, be could

-og or l.u c ,M steal live cents with which to get that which would slake his

thirsl for n hill, wtiilo; hut in eternity ! where is the ruin to come Iroin? Dives J

could not get one drop of water. 1-tom what. I'll A LICK OF 1'tr.K Will the hot lips of the drunkard drain his draught? No one to brew it. No one to mix it. No one to pour it. No one to fetch it. Millions of worlds then for the dregs which the young man just now slung on the saw-dusted floor of the restaurant. Millions of worlds now for the rind thrown out from the punch howl of an earthly banquet. Dives cried for water. The inebriate cries for rum. Oh, the deep, exhausting, exasperating, ever-lasting thirst, of the drunkard in hell! Why, if a fiend came up to earth for some infernal work in a grog-shop, and should go back taking 0ti its wing just one drop of that for w hich the inebriate in the lost world longs, what excitement would it make there! But that one drop from off the fiend's wing on the tip of the tongue of the destroyed inebriate; let the liquid brightness just touch it; let the drop lie very small, if it only have in it the smack of alcoholic drink; let that drop just touch the lost inebriate in the lost world and he would spring to his feet and cry: "That is rum, aha! That is rum!" And it would wake up the echoes of the damned; "Give me rum! Give me rum! Give me rum!" In the future world I do not believe that it will le the absence of God that will make the drunkard's sorrow. I do not, believe that it will be the absence of light. 1 do not believe that it will be the absence of holfitess. 1 think it will be the absence of rum. Oh, "'look not upon the wine when it, is red, when it movejli itself aright in the cup, for at last it biteth like a serpent and it stingeth like an adder." It, is about time that we have another woman's crusade like that which swept through Ohio tenor twelve years ago. Willi prayer and song the women went into the groggeries, and whole neighborhoods, towns and citieswere redeemed by their Christian heroics. TIUHTY WOMEN' Cleared out the rum traffic from a village of one thousand inhabitants. If thirty women surcharged of the Holy Ghost could renovate a town of a thousand, thre thousand consecrated women resolved to give themselves no peace until this crime was extriputed from this city could in six months clear out three-fort lis of the grog shops of Brooklyn. If there is three thousand women now in this city who will put their band and thier hearts to the work I will take: the cont,r ict for driving out all these moral nui. nances from tne city- at any rate, threefort hs of them in three months. If, when the host of three thousand consecrated women is marshaled, there le no one to lead them, then, as a minister of the Most High God, I will offer to take my jjosition at the front of the host, and I wilt cry to them: Come on, ye women of Christ, with your songs and your prayers! Some of you take the enemy's right wing and some the k ft wing. Forward! The Lord ot Hosts is w ith us; the God of Jacob is our refuge! Down with the dram-shops!" But not waiting for those mouths of hell to close, let me advise the working and the business classes, and all classes, to stop strong drink. While I declared sometime ago that there was a point beyond which a man could not stop, I want to tell vou that w hile a man can not stop

in Ids own strength, thy Lord God, by His grace, can help him to stop at any time. I was ina room at. New York where there were many men who had been reclaimed from drunkenness. I heard their testimony, and for the tiint time in my life there flashed out a truth 1 never nnderstooi". They said: "We were victims of 1 1 rong drink. We tried to give it up, but always failed; but somehow since we gave our hearts to Christ, he has taken care of us." 1 believe that

the time will soon come when the grace of God w ill show its power not only to sae man's soul, but his body, and reconstruct, purify, elevate and redeem it, I verily believe that, although you fuel grappling at the roots of your tongues an almost omnipitent ihirst, if you will give your heart to God, lie w ill help you by his glace to conquer. Try it! It is vour last chance! I have looked oft upon the desolation. Sitting in our religious assemblages there are a good many people in art ful peril; and judging from ordinary cii'ciin,. stances, there is not. one chance in five thousand that they will get clear of il. There are men ill my congregation hiitn Sabbath to Sabbath, of whem 1 must make the remark, that if they do not change their course, within ten years thev will, as to their bodies, he down in drunkards' graves; and as to their son's, lie down in drunkards' perdition. I know it is an aw ful thing to say, but I can not le-lp saving it. Oh. beware! You pave not yet been captured. Beware! Whether the beverage be poured in golden chalice or pewter mug, in the foam at the top, in while letters let there be spelled out to your soul. "i!i:w i;i;" When the books of judgment open and ten million drunkards come up to get their doom, I want you lo hear w itness that I, this morning, in the fear of (iod ami in the love for your soul, told you with all alfection and all kindness, to beware of that which has already exerted its inlliieiice noon your family, blowing out some of its lights -a premonition oi the blackness of daiknes forever. Ob, if vou could only hear this morning, Intemperence with drunkard'sboiies drumming on the bead of the liquor cask the Dead Match of immortal souls, meihinks the very glance of u wine-cup would make vou shudder, and the color of the liquor would make you think of the blood of the soul, and the foam on the top of the cup would remind you of the froth on the maniac's hp; and yon would go home from this service and kneel down and pray God that, lather than vour children should lieeoine e; pt.ivesof ibis evil habit, you would like lo curry ... m out some bright spring dav to the

cemetery, and put liiein away to the last sleep, until at the call of the south wind the tlowers would come up all over the grave sweet prophecies ot the resurrection! (iod has a balm for such a wound; hut w hat llower of comfort ever grew on the blasted breath of a drunkard's sepul-cber?

The tMumifrict n . ..f canity, , 11 arpia-'.i -M. z ne.j The word candy comes to us from the Arabic and Persian qand, another name for sugar. Candy-making is a considerable trade in itself. The census of lti.SI) reported 13,0112 confectioners. There are eight or ten large factories in New York alone, employing perhaps a hundred people each, and using a hundred barrels or more of sugar a week, besides quantities of glucose. The "stick" candy, which seems to be an indigenous American product, is of ordinary "A" sugar, boiled down with water and a little cream of tartar to prevent, crystalization. The mass is taken in batches of about fifteen pounds to a imn '-le table, where it is kneaded like bread, and the flavoring and coloring worked in. " lie pnsta then goes to the "pulling-hooks," where for five or six minutes it is pulled and twisted and repulled and retwisted at the hands of a workman who certainly earns his living. Thence it returns to the marble table, at one en4 of which is a metal plate,, kept hot, on which he works the candy into its final shape. Stripes are pressed into the batch, two feet lonu and a foot thick, and it is then drawn and twisted out till it is the proper size of the penny "stick," the right length of which is cliped off by huge scissors. Clear candy is not kneaded or pulled. Flat candy is run into pans, and a knife is run across w heie it is to be broken into sticks or squares. The drops, fishes, and other fancy shapes are made by passing the paste through a machine, which cuts and presses it to the proper size and shape. lozenges are rolled out like pie-crust, sometimes printed in carmine with a hand-stamp, and then cut out in dies. "Sugar-plums" and sugared almonds are made in a very interesting way, by throwing the nut, seed, or other nuclus with boiling sugar into great copper pans; which are shaken by hand or revolved by machinery over a hot fire. Boiled over and over in the moist sugar, the plums soon begin to grow, and are "polished oil"' by each, other, while, above, steam-worked fans carry off the dry dust. Gum drops are made of gum-arabic and sugar, boiled and mixed, seven or eight hundred pounds at a time, in huge copper steam-kettles, whence the mixture is taken out into smaller kettles to ho tiavqred aud colored. The cheap gum drops and "marsh-mallows" are now made from glucose. Cream or soft candies are made in a simple way, from sugar mixed with cream of tartar to prevent crystnlizing. To give them their fancy forms, a flat tray is filled with starch, which is pressed into moulds by a series of planter of-Faris models a drop, hand, face, berry, or what it may be arranged on a long stick. Into these starch moulds the hot cream is poured, and then allowed to dry. Some factories have as much as 50,000 pounds of starch in this use- The drying-room is kept ot a high temperature, in which the "cream" soon become dry and solid. They are then separated from the starch by huge scives. If they are to be glossed, they are placed in huge tin pans and a cold solution of sugar

poured over mem to siatm ovei nignt. in

the morning the ice of sugar is broken; and the "creams" are found coated with tine crystals. The liquor drops are a very curious product. The syrup is mixed with brandy or flavored water, and is poured info the starch moulds. As it cools at the top and on the mould; the crystals make a continuous case, imprisoning the liquor within. The adulteration of candy is chiefly by the use of terra alba, or white clay. This harmful stuff can be detected by dissolving t he suspected candy ill wafer, w hen the clay falls to the bottom undissolved. An ounce roil of cheap hctigeS will sometimes contain three-quarters of an ounce of this injurious stall'. The coloring of candies is, for the most part, not dangerous, since a piece oi red coloring matter the size of a gum drop will color ."lOOO pounds of candy. 1' nscrupulotis manufacturers, however, sometimes use mineral instead of the safe vegetable colors, and cart-loads of such candv have been seized and destroyed by the heallhoHicersin N. w York. For the nnsl part, carmine and cochineal are used for red, sail run for yellow, caramel or burnt sugar for brown, and this with carmine for orange. Green and blue candies unto be avoided. These colors are used sometimes, however, in "decorating" -a surface treatment of line candies by band, in which i water-color artist is

employed to do art work lit wholesale

ni'ciuoiug to ine niouci Met nun. .is lor this puprose the proportion of coloring matter to sugar is about one-millionth, the result of swii'lowiug phint is not so disastrous as might be evpected. In flavoring, essential oils are used, about a pound to a thousand pounds of sugar, and this is worked in during the boiling or kneading. Licorice colors and fiivors both at once.

Kayilrcum. Sitiu,l,y Ki.-inn..- isl. Daydreams lire sometimes defended on the greund that if useless,, they are at least harmless; that if they confer no benefit they inlliet no injury. This, however, cannot !)(' the ease. Nothing occupies so neutral a position. Fselessness is of itself an injury, but, besides this, the habit of idle reverie produces positive evils. Valuable time is wasted, energy is flittered away, the mind is enfeebled, the activities are di.-.coiu ged, the present actual life is rendered tame and insipid. When a youth acquires a habit of blooding over a possible manhood, full of power and boll r; with wealth to supple -ver desire, and a name that is to com nand the i)inage of all, with friends lo 'X n!t in his proiperily, and a.piamlanccs

I o lie promt ot Ins notice w hen he paures to himself bow tneeUv 1c h ill h -ar I his hnnois. low Widely he n ill cxett his

.,' -, Iiot judiciously ho will exii ii;s rich., how lib-rally he will . -1 : r.-c ! i i.s i-li.it i ; p-s, h -is positively uuhuag himself for present duty, and rending any alt nam cit of his dreams an utter impossibility. I'.ir dnler -at is the action of a w isely cultured imagination. The pictures draw n by it are not those of exaggerated fancy, but of practical attainment. There is no painful and irksome return t; real life, for its conceptions are those of truth, and such as a noble and laborious life may realize. The chief dillerence liowever, is that the daydream pictures only give pleasure without elfort while the true imagination ever connects the two. Thus, w hile one gives us falselycolored views of life, and leaves us powerless and discouraged, the other gently leads us upwards, and teaches us, through energy and toil, self-denial and patience, to win whatever is really worth desiring. , A Chluens Farm. Chr it nu t worli J The Chinese farm-house is a curious lo iking abode. Usually it is sheltered with groves of feathery bamboo and thick spreading banyans. The walls are of clay or wood, and the interior of the house consists of one main room, extending from the floor to the tiled roof, with closet-looking apartments in the cornea for sleeping rooms. There is a sliding window in the roof, made of cut oystet sluilts arranged in rows, while the side windows are mere wooden Bhuttere. Th8 floor is the bare earth, where at njglitfall there often gather together a miscellaneous family of dirty children, fowls, u cks, pigeons and a litter of pign, all living together in delightful harmony. In some districts insested by marauding bands, houses are Btrongly fortified by high walls containing apertures for tirearms, and protected by a moat cross! by a rude drawbridge. Kaltng Oranges. In Brazil the orange-eater begins by transfixing with a fork the vegitable globe in the neighborhood ot the Bouth pole. Then, with a sharp case-knife he makes through the rind a circular cut, which may he likened to the Antartic circle. Next he slices off the whole o the Artie zone. Then, cutting from north to south, be Blices off the rind from one polar circle to another. The rind having thus been removed, and the luscious sphere being still transfixed and held in his left hand, the eater, with the knife in his right, sclices off from the tropical region, aud puta the pieces in his mouth on the flat side, or pierced with the flat side of the cutting instrument. In this operation one-sixth of the substance of the fruit is wasted in removing the rind, and another sixth in cutting away the core; but with the best ol oranges at less than a cent each at retail, no matter; we can afford to eat artistically.

I "The Welcome."

Four miners sat one night in June ISoti, in a tent at an Australian dinging, diseasing their future plans and dej 'Wring their ill-tortine. For weary months they had worked the mine without getting more than a bare living. At length they decided to leave the spot, tasough not without regret. Three of them were in the mine taking a last look around, when one said to his mates, "Good-by, I'll give you a farewell blow," and with his pick sent the splinters of quartz in all quarters. His trained eye spied a glitter on one of tiie bits that landed at his feet. He picked it up, examined it, and found it to be gold. He at, crneo proceeded to work with a will. His clonus

saw that something out of common had happened, and they, too, plied their picks vigorously. With silent resolve they worked on until they unearthed a big nugget. Then a tierce, glad yell of joy reached the ears of the fourth man at the windlass at the mine top. "What's amiss?" he shouted! "Wind up," was the reply, and when he did so the lump of pure gold met his gaze. They called it "The Welcome" and obtained $10,000 for it. The claim where the nugget wt got is now covered with the fine at recti! of the thriving town of Ballarat. Oh! Time I'liner. Men who are most familiar with steampower and modern machinery are puzzled to explain how the grand structures of the ancient world were erected. Builders say that no modern contracter could erect, the great pyramid ill Fgypt. and lift the gigantic stones at the summit to the height of four hundred ana fifty feel. A recent visitor to I'.aalbee and the ruins of the great temple of Baa! Ii in Ids if n n y modern architect could rebuild the temple in its ancient grandeur Three huge shines, sixty four foot long, thirteen high and thirteen wide, stand in the wil l at the height of twenty feet Nine other stones, thirty foot long, ten high, and ten w ide, are joined togctlu-i with such nicety that a trained eye cannot discover the line of structure. A column slid stands in the quarry, a mile dis taut, w hich is complete w ith the exception that it is not detached at the bottom It, is sixty-nine feet long, seventeen high, and fourteen broad, and one cannot understand how it can he separated at the bottom from the quarry without breaking. The ruins of this vast ten-pie inspire re. spect lor the genius oi former yens. The great ancestor of the peach w:ts purely a tropical plant that c. uld not endure the least touch of the trust,. The almond, from which, by man aidmn nature, the peach has i,,, u produced, ip so fragile that it can scarcely be made to, grow even in the warmest portions of the I'liitod States; yet, alter many years ol coaxing and gradual acclimatization, it was transplanted from the hot -tm and warm fields of Arabia to the f niched

highlands of Persia. But i rich kernel being the , which the tree offered t as was the case with tl. in Arabia, it w as the I ate in l'ersia; but not th

indigestible woody rind of the ! but the rich luscious peach. People should be guarded (

temptation to unlawful pleasures by furnishing them the means of innocent ones.

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