Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1891 — Page 7

SIN IS A KING.

THE OPENING AND CLOSE OF THE BANQUET* Writing Ever on the Wall—Revels Shrouded in Robos of Death—Dr. Tal- . - - ~ Sermon,

Abv. Dr. Talmage, at “Brooklyn and New York, Sunday and Sunday night. Text: Daniel, v., 80. He said: After the s.te of Babylon ha J. keen selected, 2,000,000 men were employed for the construction of the wall and principal works. The walls of the city were sixty miles in circumference. They were surrounded by a trench out of which had been dug the material for the construction of the city. There were twenty-five gates of solid brass on each side of the square city. Between every two gates a great watch-* tower sprang up into the heavens. From each of the twenty-five gates, on either side, a streeiPran straight through to the gate on the other side, so that there were fifty streets, each fifteen miles long, which gave to the city an appearance of wonderful regularity. The houses did not join each other on the ground, and between them were gardens and shrubbery. Trbm house-top to house-top bridges swung, over which the inhabitants were accustomed" to pass. A branch of the Euphrates went through the city, over which a bridge of marvelous structure was thrown, and under which a tunnel ran. To keep the river from overflowing the city in times of freshet a great lake was arranged to catch the surplus, in wnich the water was kept as in a reservoir until times of draught, when it was sent streaming down over the thirsty land. A palace stood at each end of the Euphrates bridge; one palace a mile and three quarters in compass, and the other palace seven and a half miles in circumference. The wife of Nebuchadnezzar, having been brought up among the mountains of Media, could not stand it in this flail country of Babylon, and so, to please her, Nebuchadnezzar had a mountain 400 feet high built in the midst of the city. This mountain was surrounded by terraces, for the. support of which great arches were lifted. On the top of these arches flat stones were laid: KjJhen a layer of reeds and bitumen; then two rows of bricks, closely cemented; then thick sheets of lead, upon which the soil was placed. The earth here was deposited so deep that the largest trees had room to anchor their roots.

All the glory of the flowery tropics was spread out at that tremendous height, until it must have seemed to ono below as though the clouds were all in blossom and the sky leaned on the shoulder of the cedar. At the top an engine was constructed which drew the water from the Euphrates far below, and made it spout up amid this garden of the skies. All this to pleasp his wife! I think she must hate been pleased. In the midst of this city stood also the Temple of Belus. One of its towers was one-eighth of a mile high, and on the top of it an observatory, which gave the astronomers great advantage, as, being at so great a height one couid easily talk with the stars. This temple was full of cups, statues and censors, all of gold. One image weighed a thousand Babylonish talents, which would be equal to $52,000,000, All this by day, but no.v night was about to come down on Babylon, The shadows of her 250 towers began to lengthen. The Euphrates rolled on, touched by the fiery splendors of the setting sun; and gates of brass, burnished and glitting, opened and shut like doors of —■flame;™™'-—_ The hanging gardens of Babylon, wet with the heavy dew, began to pour from starlit flowers and dripping leaf, a fragrance for miles around. The streetsand squares were lighted for dance and frolic and promenade. The theaters and galleries of art invited the wealth and pomp and grandeur of the city to rare entertainments. Scenes of riot and wassail wese mingled in every street; godless mirth and outrageous excess and splendid wickedness came to the king's palace to do their mightiest deeds of darkness. A royal feast to-night at the King’s palace! Rushing up to the gates are chariots upholstered with precious cloths from Dedan and drawn by fireeyed horses from Togarmah that rear and neigh in the grasp of the charioteers, whi’e a thousand lords dismount, and women dressed in all the splendors of Syrian emerald,and the color blending of agate, and the chasteness of coral, and the somber glory of Tyrian purple, and piincely embroiederies "brought from afar by camels across the desert and by ships of Tarshish across tho sea.

Opei wide the gates and let the guests come in. The CbamberlaintAnd cup bearers are all ready. Listen to the rustle of the robes and to the carol of the music. See the blaze of the jewels, »Lift the banners. Clap ithe cymbals. Blow the trumpets. Let the night go by with song and dance and ovation, and let that Babylonish ,tongue be palsied that will not say: “O iKing Belshazzar, live forever!” Ah, my friends, it was not any comImon banquet to which these great ■people came. All parts of the earth had sent their richest viands to that table, Brackets and chandeliers shed -their light upon tankards of burnished (gold. Fruits, ripe and luscious, in ■baskets of silver, entwined with leaves iplucked from royal conservatories Vases, inlaid with emerald and ridged with exquisite traceries, filled with Inute that were threshed from forestso r lands. Wines brought from the royal vats foaming in the decant- ! era and bubbling in the chalices. Tufts -Of cassia and frankincense wafting > their sweetness from wall and table. 'Gorgeous banners unfolding in the

treeze that came through the open windows bewitched with the perfume of hanging gardens. Fountains rising up from inclosures of ivory, in jets of crystal, to fall in clatter.ng rain of diamonds and pearls. Statues of mighty men looked down from niches in the wall upon croons and shields brought from .subdued empires. Idols of wonderful work st inding upon pedestals of precious sto.ies. Embroideries stooping about the windows. and wrapping pillars of cedar, and drifting on floor inlaid with ivory and agate. Music, mingling with the thrum of harps and the clash of cymbals, and the blast of trumpets in one wave of transport that went rippling along the hall and breathing among the garlands, and pouring down the corridors, and thrilling the souls of a thousand banqueters. The signal is given, and the lords and ladies, the mighty men and women of the land, come around the table, Pour out the wine! Let foam and bubble kiss the rim! Hoist every one his cup, and drink to the sentiment, *‘U King Belshazzar, live forever!” Bestarred headband and carcunet of royal beauty gleam to the uplifted chalices.as again and again and again they are emptied. Away with care from the palace! Tear royal dignity to tatters! Pour out the wine! Give us more light, wilder music, sweeter perfume! Lord shouts to Lord, Captain ogles to Captain. Gob lets clash, decanters rattle. There come in the vile song and the drunken hiccough and the slavering lip and the guffaw of idiotic laughter, bursting from the lips of Princes, flushed, reeking, bloodshot, while mingling with it all I hear, “Huzza! huzza! for great Belsha.zarl”

What is that on the plastering of the wall? Is it a spirit? Is it aphantom ? Is it God? Out of the black sleeve of the darkness a finger of fiery terror trembles through the air, and comes to the wall, circling about as though it would write, and then, with sharp tip o f flame, engraves on the plastering the doom of the King. The music stops. The goblet falls from the nerveless grasp. There is a thrill. There is a start. There is a thousandvoiced shriek of horror. Let Daniel be brought in to read that writing. He comes in. He reads it: “Weighed in the balance and found wanting.” Meanwhile the Assyrians, who for two years had been laying seige to that city, took advantage of that carousal and came in. I hear the feet of the conquerors on the palace stairs. Massacre rushes in with a thousand gleaming knives. Death bursts upon the scene, and I shut the door of that banqueting hall, for I do not want to look. There is nothing there but torn banners and broken wreaths, and the slush of upset tankards, and the blood of murdered women, and the kicked and tumbled carcass of a dead King. For “in that night was Belshazzar, tho King of the Chaldeans, slain.” I go on to learn that when God writes anything on the wall, a man bad better read it as it is. Daniel did not misinterpret or modify the handwriting on the wall. It is all foolishness to expect a minister of the Gospel to preach always things that the people like, or the people choose. Young men. what shall I preach to you to-night? Shall I tell you of the dignity of human nature? Shall I tell you the wonders that our race has acomplished? “Oh, no,” you say: “tell the message that came from God.” I will. If there is any handwriting on the wall, it is this lesson: “Accept of Christ, and be saved!” I might talk of a great many other things; but that is the message,and so I declare it.

Jesus never flattered those to whom he preached, He said to those who did wrong, and who were offensive in sight, “ft generation of the vipers! ye whited sepulchers! how can you escape the damnation of hell!” Paul the apostle preached before a man who was not ready to hear him preach. What subject did he take? Did he say, “Oh! you are a good man?” No he preached (of unrighteousness to a man who was unrighteous: of temperance to a man who was the victim of bad appetites; of the judgment to come to a man, who was unfit for it So we must always declare the message that happens to come to us. Daniel must read it as it is. The King of Terrors has there a ghastlier banquet; human blood is the wine.and the dying groans are the music. Sin has made itself a king in the earth. It has crowned itself. It has spread a banquet. Itinvits all the world to come to it. It has hung in its banqueting hall the spoils of all kingdoms and the banners of all nations. It has gathered from all music. It has strewn from its wealth the tables, the floors, and the arches. And yet bow often is that banquet broken up, and how horrible is its end. Ever-and anon is there a handwriting on the wall. A King falls. A great culprit is arrested. The knees of wickedness knock together. God’s judgment, like an armed host, breaks in upon the banquet; and that night is Belshazzar, the King of Chaldeans slain.

Here is a young man who sayst “I can not see why they make such a fuss about the intoxicating cup. Why, it is exhilarating. It make me feel well, 1 can talk better, think better, feel better. 1 can not see why people have such a prejudice against it." A few years pass on. and he wakes up and finds himself in the clutches'of an evil habit which be tries to break, but can not: and he cries out. “Oh Lord God! help me!" It seems as though God would not hear his prayer and in an agony of body and soul he cried out. “It biteth like a serpent and itstingeth line an adder” How bright it was at the tart! How black it was at the last! Here is a man who begin sto read corrupt novels. ‘‘They are so charm-' ing!” says he! “I will go out and see for myseif whether all these thing* are so.". He opens the gate of a painful

’life. He goes in. A sinful sprite meets him with her wand, She waves hei wand, and it is all enchantment Why it seem as if the angels of God had poured out phials ch perfume on the atmosphere. As he walks on he finds the hills becoming more radiant with foilage and the ravines more resonant with the falling water. Oh! what a charming landscape he sees! But that sinful sprite, with her wand, j meets him again: but now sherd-' verses the wand, and all the enchant-; ment is gone. The cup is full of. poison. The fruit turns to ashes. All| the leaves of the bower are forked ■ tongues of hissing serpents. The flowing fountains fall back in a dead pool, stenchful with corruption. The luring songs became curses and screams of demoniac laughter. Lost spirits gather about him and feel for his heart, and beckon him on with “hail brother! hail, blasted spirit hail!” He tries to get out. He comes to the front door where he entered, and tries to push it back, but the door turns against him, and in the jar of that shutting door he hears these words: “This night is Belshazzar, the King of the Chaldeans, slain." Sin may open bright as the morning. It ends as dark as night!

I learn further from this subject that death sometimes breaks in upon a banquet. Why did he not go down to the prisons in Babylon? There were people there who would like to have died. I suppose there were men and women in torture in that city who would have welcomed death. But he comes to the palace; and just at the time when the mirth is dashing to the tip-top pitch, death breaks in at the banquet. We have often seen the same thing illustrated. Here is a young man just come from college. He is kind. He is loving. He is enthusiastic. He is eloquent. By one spring he may bound to heights toward which many men have been struggling for years. A profession opens before him. He is established in the law. His friends cheer him. Eminent men encourage him. After awhile you may see him standing in the United States Senate, or moving a popular assemblage by his eloquence, as trees are moved in a whirlwind. Some night he retires early. A fever is on him. Delirium, like a reckless charioteer, seizes the reins of his intellect. Father and mother stand by and see the tides of his life going out to the great ocean The banquet is coming to an end. The lights of thought, and mirth, and eloquence are being extinguished. The 'garlands are snatched from the brow. The vision is gone. Death at the banquet!

I have also to learn from the subject that the destruction of tbe vicious, and of those who despise God, will be very sudden. The wave of mirth had dash* ed to the highest point when that assyrian army broke thoough. It was unexpected. Suddenly, almost always comes the doom of those who despise God and defy the laws of men. How was it at the deluge? Do you suppose it came through a long north-east storm, so that people for days before were sure it was coming? No; I suppose the morning was bright; that calmness brooded on the waters; that beauty sat enthroned on thehills;when suddenly the heavens burst, and the mountains sank like anchors into the sea that dashed clean over the Andes and the Himalayas. The Red Sea was divided. The Egyptians tried to cross it. There could be no danger. The Israelites hid just gone through; where they had gone, why not the Egyptians? Oh! it was such a beautiful walking place! A pavement of tinged shells and pearls and on either side two great walls of waters —solid. There can be no danger Forward, great host of the Egyptians! Clap the cymbals and blow the trumpets of victory! After them! We will catch them yet and ’they shall be destroyed. But the walls begin to tremble. They rock!They fail! The rushing waters! The shriek of drowning men! The swimming of the war horses in vain for the shore! The strewing of the great host on the bottom of the sea or pitched by the angry wave on the beach—a battered, bruised and loath - some wreck! Suddenly destruction came. One half hour before they could not have believed it. Destroyed; and without remedy. The destroying angle went through Egypt Do you suppose that any of the people knew that he was coming? Did they hear the flap of his great wing? No! No! Suddenly, unexpectedly, he came.

Skilled sportsmen do not like to shoot a bird standing on a twig near by. If they are skilled they pride themselves on taking it on the wing, and they wait till it starts. Death is an old sportsman, and he loves to take men flying under the very sun; he loves to take them on the wing. Are there any here who are unprepared for the eternal world? Are there any here who have been living with out God and without hope? Let m say to you that you had better accept of the Lord Jesus Christ, lest suddenly your last chance be gone.

Russian Forests.

In order to preserve the forests of Czar’s empire the ministry of imperial property has issued the following regulations: First, forests shall not be cut throughout in small portions at a time; second, when a part of the forrest is cut the ground immediately be cleared of the rubbish and fenced in, so that no cattle can graze there: third; sheoherds are prohibited, under a heavy fine, to build fires either in a forest in places that have been cleared of the woods.

No Mote To It

“The home of the Keely motor is in Philadelphia, isn’t it?” asked Shattuck. • ‘Yes,” replied her husband. • 'You might have known that from the fact that it doesn’t go,”

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Brigham Young’s eighth wife I# dead. The Chinese are being driven from Ore* gon towns. Governor Pattison, bf Pennsylvania, was inaugurated on the 20th. The first ground was broken for the World’s Fair buildings in Chicago Friday. Five of the World’s Fair buuuiugs are to be erected on the lake faunt near the Auditorium. English Lutherans at Galena, Hl., are forbidden becoming members of the G. A. R,orF. M. B. A. At Washington, Pa., a house was blown up by au explosion of natural gas, and two . men were seriously hurt. Bucci, the faster, is to go to Buffalo in about a-mon th, and will attempted to beat his record by fasting forty six days. The United States steamer Charleston has sailed from San Francisco for Honoa lulu, with the remains of King Kalakaua. Oliver Hixon, the negro who assaulted white girl near Fayette, Me., was taken from the jail by a mob and hanged from the limb of a tree.

The explosion of a stick of giant powder at the Lampson mines, near Ashland* Wis., seriously injured five men and caused (4,001 damage to the mine. Assistant Secretary Bussey has decided that the mother of a soldier who became insane from army service, and committed suicide,is entitled to a pension. Rev. C. O. Branch, a Baptist minister, of Portsmouth, 0., broke the jaw of a scoundiel who made an infamous proposal to his sixteen-year old daughter. At least 2,000 negroes from all parts of the South are at Atlanta inadestitute condition, as a result of the Liberian colonization fraud, engineered by men of their own color in Washington.

An Arkansas mob assaulted a negro named Rich Brown, in his house, near Little Rock. He defended himself with a shot-gun, and killed one, and wounded an* other of the assailants. The astrologer who told Mrs. Anderson of Brockton, Mass., that her husband was unfaithful and caused her to kill her children and herself has been arrested as an a?cesory to a suicide. At Cedar Rapids, la., the Sheriff advertises astock of liquors, seized to satisfy a fine, to be sold at auction. This is the first instance of liquors being offered at sheriffs sale in a prohibition State, and a test case is expected.

It is reported that a natural gas trustls. being formed, and that the action of the gas company at Columbus, 0., recently in shuttingoff thesuppiy on the plea that the wells were exhausted was part of a scheme to extort higher prices from consumers. A company with 13,000,000 has been incorporated to construct a tunnel between New York City and Brooklyn. Austin Corbin, of the Long Island railroad, heads the directory, and others upon It are Edward Simmonds,B. F. Tracey and Ed ward Lauterbach. Gen. Lee’s birthday was celebrated throughout Virginia and other Southern States Monday by a general suspension of business, processions, speech-making and banquets. General Grant’s name was cheered at a meeting of the ex-Confederate Society in New York. Fully 20,000 tons of bonded Java sugar lie in the warehouses on Mission rock in San Francisco bay. It is the property of Claus Spreckles, and will be held there till April 1, when under the provisions of the McKinley bill it will be admitted into the country free of duty.

The private car Youngstown of President H. W. Oliver, of the Pittsburg & Western railroad, took fire in the B. &O. s .ation at Pittsburg on the 22nd and was damaged to the extent of 18,050. The car was valued at 117,000, and was one of the most richly furnished cars in the country. At New York on the 22nd., Surrogate Ranson decided that the marriage of Eva L. Hamilton to the late Robert Ray Hams ilton was void, and that Eva is still the wife of Joshua J. Mann. The woman yes* terday admitted that Robert Ray Hamilton wao not the father of the famous Ham, ilton baby. Bishop Ireland, of the Catholic church, has issued an order absolutely prohibiting in his diocese the raising of money for re • ligious or charitable purposes by the sale of chances, the use of wheels of fortune or by any (.method savoring of lottery or gambling; making no exception. This order is issued in deference to public sentis me nt. A Washington special to the Cincinnati Enquirer says: The free coinage bill is dead. The Coinage Committee of the House, to which it was referred, has a majority of its members, including two Fast* ern Democrats, against it. This means it will be smothered and never be report ed. On a square vote the bill would pass the House by a majority between ten and fifteen.

The great pipe of the Eureka oil field ' company broke the night of the 20th where it crosses Buffalo creek, and when the break was discovered the creek and Monongahela river were covered with oil. After dark some one fired the oil and the streams were soon ablaze. Every object was visible for miles. Thousandsof trees were killed and five bridges burned, including the great iron bridge at Pine Grove. : The funeral services of historian Bancroft took place at Washington on the 20th His remains were conveyed to Worcester Mass. The pall bearers who officiated were as follows: Chief Justice Fuller 1 Justice Field, Justice Blatchford, Senator Evarts, Mr. Bayard, Admiral Rogers, Mr. Spofford, Mr. George William Curtis and Mr. John A. King. Among the many telegrams of condolence received at the Bancroft mansion is one from the Emperor of Germany. A review of the troops in the field took place Thursday morning four miles from Pine Ridge agency. The column was led by tho Ogallalla scouts under Lieutenant Taylor of the Ninth Cavalry. The infantry followed under Colonel Wheaton, of the Second. Then the artillery, under Captain Carpon, and finally the cavalry under General Carr, of the Sixth. The review was held by General Miles, who was attended by his staff. The column marched past the commanding gt neral in company front. As ter the review of the military there was

F a display of tfie transportation department of the army. There were 3,000 men and 3 0 horses in line. i Thomas Northwood, who was a boss roller employed in the rolling mills at Boonton, N. J., was crushed in the rollers Thursday morning. Northwood was in the act of repairing what is known as the coupling-box, when his overcoat caught in the wires holding the stretcher. The men who were at work in the mills were star* tied by hearing North wood make a sudden outcry, and most of tne workmen who saw the man’s body drawn into the coupling seemed paralyzed at the shocking sight. The body of Northwood was slowly drawn through the couplings, and when it came out it presented a terrible spectacle. It was a flattened mass, not more than three Inches in thickness.

The Farmers’ Alliance of Ohio adopte resoluV one VV ed nesday demand in g that the government loan farmers money at 2 pe P cent., and that postage be reduced tol cent. Eighteen delegates were elected to the National convention, with instructions to secure the National meeting, for Ohio. The accounts ofex-Secretary Keys,against whom there have been charges of misappropriation of funds, were invested and found correct. A proposition to unite the State organixation with the Knights of Labor was unfavorably received. Ther o is a manifest feeling of opposition against forming a third party, and the prospects for the organization on a political basis are poor. _____ FOREIGN. Unknown parties skinned a cow alive in County Clare, Ireland.

Minister Mizner says General Barrundla wai a common criminal. Fifty-two people were killed by an ex-, plosion at Galsenkirche. , Kroukowski, the noted Russian brigand, is now on his way with a convoy of exiles to the mines of Siberia, whither he has been sentenced for life. Prince Baudouin, nephew of King Leopold, and heir to the throne of Belgium, is dead. He died at Brussels at 3 o’clock on the 23d. The cause of his death is alleged to have been bronchitis. The death of the Prinoo has caused a tremendous sensation, and creates consternation in all classes in Brussels. Prince Baudouin Leopold Phillippe Marie Charles Antoine Joseph Louis was the son of the Count of Flanders, brother of King Leopold. Prince Baudouin was born in Brussels, June 3, 1869. He was n captain of Belgian carbiniers and a captain of Prussian cavalry,being attached to the Second regiment of Hanoverian dragoons.

An ominous coincidence is mentioned in connection with the court festivities on Monday night at Berlin. Emperor William was to have made a speech, but his physicians insisted that he should not, owing to a sore throat. This was exactly the first public announcement made regarding the trouble which brought about the death of the late Emperor Frederick, aad the recollection of that part cast no little gloom over Monday night’s brilliant assemblage. A question suggested to many minds is whether the young Kaiser has the beginning of the terrible complaint which gave him the crown at thirty. German papers dare not hint at such a thing, but Berlin is full of whispers.

DISASTROUS SNOW STORM.

A disastrous storm prevailed in the East Saturday night and Sunday. It extended over the entire region from Boston,through the lower Eastern States, Southern New York, New Jersey and Delaware. About six inches of snow fell and it was of the wet, clinging kind that fastened itself to everything it touched, loading trees until they were shorn of their branches or fell prostrate with their trunks snapped off as though they had been mere twigs, and clinging to the electric wires until they gave away under the pressure and broke in all directions, or until the poles on which they were strung fell, crushed by the immense weight. The poles fell across streets and against houses, blocking all traffic on the former, and threat* ening death- and destruction to tbe latter and their inmates. At daylight, Sunday, the work of destruc* tion had commenced,and itcontinued until the snow fall ceased, at noon, when the wrecks of trees and telegraph poles were to be found on every street, while irregular festoons of wire were hanging On every hand and detached lengths of wire were strung on every sidewalk. No such work of destruction has been known since the great blizzard of March, 1»88, and it is a question if that memorable storm was more serious in Its effects upon tbe tele* graph poles and wires of the city." Several accidents to people occurred.

THE ASYLUM MURDER.

James Woods Found Guilty and Sentenced to Twenty-one Year* The jury in the case of James A. Woods charged with the murder of Thomas J Blunt at Richmond, at the Eastern Indian * insane asylum, returned a verdict Friday night, finding the defendent guilty of voluntary manslaughter and fixing his penalty at imprisonment in the penitentiary for twenty-one years. The jury was out just three hours, Judge Comstock having concluded bis charge. The defendant heard the verdict without changing countenance, but, as the bailiff led him fiom the court room, it was evident to all observers that it was with the greatest effort that he bore up under the burden of his emotions. During theentir e day the court room and all halls leading thereto were packed as they have never been before in the history of the county and hundreds who desired to hear the closing arguments were compelled to turn ' away, being unable to gain admittance to even the building. Many ladies were in the court room. Of the scenes in the jury room.the number of ballots taken and their several results, nothing is known. The usual motion for anew trial will at once be made by Wood’s attorneys. The verdict is a surprise to every one, th® generally accepted opinion having been that the sentence would vary from two to five years, while one or two bets were offered on the street that it would not be for less than to* years, but no one wn* willing to aeoept them.

"A LIGHT IN THE WINDOW."

The Beautiful Story on Whfeh the Well Known Song Wan Founded* Louisrl’le Tlmps. . Few are probably the persons who have not one tlmq or the other heard the Sunday school song. “A Light in the Window.” Unless lam mistakan it is founded upon a story told upon the little island of Sylt, but which might easily have its exact counter, part on almost any sea shore where a mother’s heart beats with yearning love for her sMlor sou and keeps its fond promise from night to night Among the simple fisher folks on the island lived a woman and her sou* He was her only child, the pride of her heart, as well as the cource of content dread, for the boy love the sea as his father befor had loved it, and nothing gave him -o much pleasure as to watch the incoming tide tumble ita curling waves over the sands. No sooner was he strong enough to wield an oar and steer a boat than he joined the men in their fishing [expeditions. The mother with all her fears, and the fate of a long lines of sailors in her mind, yet would not have had it otherwise, for it would have been deemed dishonor among the hardy coasters to have kept the boy at home or sent him safely at work for some farmer. Whatever the dangers, they must be faced for the sake of family pride. Had not the boy been a Captain when he want away the last time? Had not his father nailed his own ship when he went down in a great storm. The child was the lost of his race, but he must not dis, honor it by tame and cowardly safty on shore. So the boy grew up, tall of his age, straight as a mast,, nimble as the fleetest and handiest boat, blueeyed, fair-haired, true-hearted, and a real-son of the sea. The fishermen taught him the tricks of his craft until he knew how to sail a boat, splice a rop« or do many little things which a sailor must know. Whenever a ship was in the offing he was soon aboard, learning the rigging and how work was per* formed upon her. He was a great favorite among the longshore folk and the sailors, and when at last his 13tb year came around and he obtained the consent of his mother to go to sea, he easily found a good ship and Captain. Then there was parting and tears shed by the mother, while he looked forward into the great wide world with all the joyous eagerness of a boy. But with her last blessing the widowqdi mother promised that every night a l.qht should burn in the seaward window of her cottage to light him home«~ ward and to show him that she still lived, awaiting bis return.

The ship sailed. Six months passed and sailors dropped into the little village and told how she had been spoken and all was well, and the neighbors came to the cottage and told the pleasant news to the waiting mother, who nightly trimmed the candle, lit it, and set in the window to make a bright pa’hup the sands. Again six months elapsed, and other sailors arrived from far-off lands, but they had no news to tell of the ship. A great storm had happened and she was overdue. She might yet make port, but—and the people shook their heads and carried no tales tn the widow, whose candle burned brightly every night and cast long streamers of light out upon the sea. Another year passed, but the sailors going or coming brought no news of the ship, and the neighbors whispered apart, and shook their heads whenever they spoke of the widows son, but no ope was cruel enough to cut the slender threads which held the anchor of her hope. And thus the light continued to glow out toward the sea at every gloaming, and burned steadily through every night Years came and went. The children who had played with the sailor lad had grown to be men and women* and her own head had been silvered with age, her form was bowed, yet no one dared to cut the cables of her hope. Tender words cheered her and tender hands smoothed the way for her as she patiently waited for the home* coming of her fair-haired boy. and every night the glow of her candle Streamed out to seaward and told the story of the loving heart waiting at home. How many years did she watch and wait? Ido not know. But one day at eventide, there was no gleaming patch of light across the sands. The win - dow remained dark, and the accustomed beacon failed the fisher folk, and when they wondered and went to the cottage they found that ths mother’s soul had gone out to seek ths son.

All in the Family.

I asked the hand of rich Min Binn, For I waa hardly pul; But did I get it? No, indeedl I got her father's foot. —Washington Star. A Collection of Martyr*. Detroit Tribune. A recent canvass was made of ths convicts of Joliet prison, and out of over 600 men, sent for almost ever) crime In the calendar, not a single on( would acknowledge that he waa guilty of the crime charged. The great ma jority looked upon themselves a* martyrs to the law, and felt that they had been grievously wronged.

The Old Way the Best.

CharlotteJßronte, a Brooklyn servant girl, left her place because she was forbidden to use kerosene to start the fire. She got another place and the same rules were laid down, but after two weeks she got lonesome for the old ordor, went back on new ideas, and poured half a gallon indo a fire-place. She sleepswell.