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APRIL 26, 1000
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both War!, f do Opt know whether
the door a the among A.ek Wee lift-
* ed, Or rolled on binges; but, Ode door
oj Chririt opene both Ware R sevings
lout toward all tner weep; It wings
In toward the ranturee a heaven, le
wino in to let me in; it ewliage out
to let oltr retnietering ones eeme out,
All are one In 011riet-Ohristiane oa
earth, and saints in heaven.
" One army ue the living God, I
At hie conunitod we bow;
ranL the hentitled ht nave etled the
goa
And part are ongoing now."
Swing to, 0 Nemec' door, unell alT the
earth shall go in and live. Swing out,
nail all the 'leavens ignae forth to
celebrate the viotory,
But further, it is a door with hoe
tentage. The Bible says of Noah,
The Lord Mint him in." A vessel
without built arks or doors would not
be a safe vessel to go in. When
Noah and his family heard the fasten-
ings of the door of the ark they were
very glad. Without thee° doors were
fastened the first heavy surge of the
sea would have whelmed them; and
they might as well have perished ont-
eide the ark as inelde the ark. "The
Lord shut hica in!" Oh, the perfeet
safely of the ark. The buil of the sea
and the lightnings of the sky may be
twisted Into a garland of now and
5re-deep to deem etorm to storm,
darkness to darkness; but once in the
ark all la well, "God eleut kiln in,"
There comes upon the good man a
deluge of financial trouble. Ile had
his thousands to lend I now he •
CANNOT BORROW A DOLLAR.
Rev. Dr. Talmage Discusses
the Time of the Deluge,
A deesnateh from Washington, says:
toleev, Dr. Talmage preacaed from the
eollovving text :-Oijonee thou, Mel all
thy house Intel the ark." -Gee, ell. I,
We do not; need ehe Bible to prove
the Deluge. The eeelogistet hatniner
ennouncee it. Sea sbells and marine
formetiene,001 tbe top of some of tne
teighest mountaine of the earth, prove
that at acme them the waters dashed
over the tdp ot the Alps and the
Andes. In what way the eatast.roPhe
came vre know not; whether by the
stroke oil a comet, or by fleabite of
lightning changing the air into water,
or by a stroke M the nand of God,
like the stroke of the axe between the
horns at the ex, Um earth Is to be
staggered. To meet the catastrophe
God ordered a great ship built. it
WaS to be without helm, for no human
hand shoati guide it. It was a vast
structure, probably as large as two or
three Cunard steamers. The Ship is
done. The door is open. The lizards
crawl In. The cattle walk in. The
grasshopper hops in. The birds fly in.
The invitation goes forth to Noah -
"Come thou mid all thy house into the
ark." Just one tureen family embark
on the sirauge voyage, and I hear the
door slam shut. A great storm sweeps
along the hills, and, bends the cedars
until ell Om branchas snap in the
gale. Theo is a moan in the wind.
like unto the naoan of a dying world.
The blackness of the heavens is
pattered by the flare of the lightn-
tags that look down into thee waters
and throw a ghastliness on the face
of the mountain. Efow strange it
looke I How suffocating Ilea air seems.
The big drops of rain begin to splash
upon this upturned faun, of those who
am watching the tempest. Crash go
the rocks in convulsions I Boom go the
bursting heavens! The inhabitants of
the earth instead. of flying to house-
top aad mountain -top, as nien have
fancied, sit down in dumb -white hor-
ror to die. For when God grinds
mountains to pieces, and lets the
ocean slip its cable, there is no place
for men to fly to. See the ark pitch
and tumble i the surf; vebile from
its windows the paseengers look out
upon the Shipwreck of a race, and the
carcasses of a dead world. Woe to
the mountaine I Woe to the sea 1
I AM no alarmist. When on the 201,11
el September, after the wind has for
three days bean blowing from the
north-east, you •prophesy that the
Equinoctial storm is coming, you
Pimply st ite a Got not to be disputed.
ad, Neitber am 1 an alarmist elma
1 ay that
A STORM IS COXING,
compared with whioh Noah's deluge
was but an April shewer1 and that it
le wisest and safest for you and for
LO get safely housed: for eternity.
The invitation that went tOrth LO
He once owned a stove in New York,
and had branch houses hi Boston, Phil-
adelphia, and New Orleans. He own-
ed four homes and employed a man
to keep the dust off his coach,
ton, carriage anti oabriote; now he
has hard wulk to get shoes in wheel.
to week. The great, deep of commer-
ce fore
innehee tote him, anti horse hoe
comae unnannegeeele, and 11.0 OMAN
"Wheel" "Wheal" and tlieu takes tend
twiate he the nine, and Pleas bie
Mee agaiasO the deelarbeard, end
fells Iback. lie use, .11 te
not 00 Mien ttoWa Flathelen
Avenue "hitt he elles, as On the wey
to eternity. Out oe tne Weeek ot the
erased hie \body ite drawn, but hie soul
Is not Picked lute It fled behind a
nwittee eourser We the great euture.
Deed! end outeida the at'k Or, some
night he wakes Me With a die -
teem that nuoneotarily inereases,
until he reArielts out with pain,. The
dootore 04010 in, and they give him
twenty tholes, but no relief -forty
drops, fifty drops, sixty drays, but no
relief, No lime for prayer, No time
te read one of the promisee. No time
to get a single sin pardoned. TM
&Baron scream. ellee wife faints.
The pulses fail. The tieert stops.
The soul flies. 0, my God 1 Dead) and
outside the ark!
(11, have not doubt that derision kept
Mane PeoOle out of the ark. The
world lauighed to ciee a man go In,
and said, 'Flare irs a mato starling for
the ark, Why, there will be no de-
luge. If there is one, that miserable
ship will not weather it. Ala I go -
Int; into the ark I Well, that Is too
good to keep! Here, fellows, leave
pat heard the neva! "This mon is
going into the ark I" Tinder We ar-
tillery of acorn the man's good reso-
lution perished.
And ap there are hundreds kept out is not so Lmportant as the great here-
by the fear Of derision. The young alter. It is not so much the few
man asks Ihimself, "What would they furlongs this side the grave, as it is
say at the store to-m,orrow morning, the unendlog leagues beyond. 0
if shieuld become a Christian ? eternity 1 eternity! Thy locks white
When I go flown to the club -house with/ the ages! Thy voice announe-
they evemed ehout, 'Here collies tbat ing atupendous destiny I Thy terms
new. Christian! Suppose you won't reaching acrOSS all the pant and all
have anything to do with us now
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elafete, tis eeardien, no hope, Pe hea-
ven1
to get thane in? GO in your -
Self i If Noult atuyeet out, Me yeti
not eirlePoee that his sons, Shenk, Hann
and Japhet, would lutve etayed out 1
Your tione Patel ateagleters will be ant
to, do juet as e011 ate Reject Owlet
t'oUrself, and the probability is that
your ceildren will, reject Hite.
An remount wee taken of the rellge
ious on-44ton of the families in a cer-
tain district. In the fiunilles of pious
parents, two-thircis of the children
W500 Christians. In the families where
the periods were ungodly, only end-
teveltili a the Melleren were Ohrise
tains. Responsible Eta yoti are eor
tbeir teinotgal existenee, you are al -
tee responalble for their eterni Ly.
Mali way will you take then? Out
tbe deluge, or Into the ark? Have
you ever made one earliest prayer for
thole immortal acmes'? What will you
eily in the Judgenent, when God asks,
"Where is George, or Hoary, or Frank
or Mary, or Anna ? Where are Liriefie
preotous souls, wbose interests I have
aommitted into your hands?"
A. dying son seta to Ms father, "Fa-
ther, you gime me an education, and
good. manners, and everything that the
world could do for me; but, father,
you never told me how .to clic; tied
new bey soul is going out in the dark -
nem."
0,h, ye /keel° have taught your
Milldam how to live, have you also
taught them hdw to die? Life hare
GET DOWN ON YOUR, KNEES,
and let us hear you pray. Come, now,
ive us a Louth Won't do it, eh ? nit/ 1
. . If t IN ST. PAUL'S, LONDON,
the future. Illy heart beattug with
gaptureS Hutt never die, and agonies
that never oease 1 0 eternity I eter-
0180 (1lS1iStBr W115 4100K4'01 0117, ma la you 11001 15
and aft, and aoross the hurricane deck, 10104. the fear of being laughed at that tbere is a whispering -gallery. A
the waves struck him. BM he. wee safe -Ikea s /you out of the kingdom of vole° uttered ,m.ost freely at one side knees. Tim crowd imagined that an
attempt on hie Majesty's life was be -
THE SEITAN OF THEKEY.
HIS LIFE OF SOLITUDE IN THE PAL-
ACE'Ole THE STAR,
The Haverolge 01 natty and Varlet? Mate
urec-leery Sleep -ping Nears or
Vern and Pearce.
His Majesty the Salton Abdul Ham-
ill n„ 211 Ullak, the Shedew of God,
lives a life of retirement, In the Palate
a the Star. He livea there so per-
mineently that lie is ecetreely seen
outelee its precinots twice n, year,
once in his religieue character as
Khalif, or Commander ef the Faith-
ful, to kies the hera of the Prophote3
Mantle at Wee foot oe the IfIrkae
Shared at Stamboul and once as Lord
of the Two Turkeys to recteive the
holnage of his leading servants at the
"Indee-main" oeremony in the Dolme
Bagteiheh Pelee°.
Though email and light in build, the
Sultan in endowed with an iron con-
stitution. Rumors are frequently
circulated that his health ia breaking
up, but the truth le that he has not
had a day's iierious indisposition since
his accession to the throne, and tele
In spite of a sedetary life, attended by
cares enough to undermine any but
the most robust physique.
His bee tells very little of the in-
ner man, being of the usual Oriental
Lyn% sOhooled into even more than Its
common impassivity. The writer
happened to be present on one occasion
when a petitioner broke through the
files of troops guarding the road, and
reaching the step at the carriage
flung his prayer on to the Sultan's
ly sheltered from the storm. The Lord , God ? when you lie down on a dying of the gallery, is ear i , yat
pillow, which of theta will be there? the opposite side, a great distance oft
shut him in 1" A flood of domestie ,
troubles fell on hien Sickness and 1 In the day of eternity will. they bail So every word of earnest prayer goes
bereavement came. The ram pelted; I you, out V Alt, they oan keep you out all around the earth, and makes Ilea -
the winds blew; the heiavens aro
of 'heaven, hut can they keep you out yen a whispering -gallery. Go into
• t t et down but to stand
aflame; all the gardeus of earthly de-
light are svashed away. The =nun -
tams of, joy are buried fifteen cubits
deep. BM standrag, by the emit e
crib, .and in the desolated nursery, 1 eat toward you. Come in and be
and in the doleful hall once a -ring I saved. Come and be happy. "The
with merry voices, now silent for ever ' Spirit and the Settle say, Come."
he criee, "The Lord gave, the Lord Room, in the ark I
lurch taken away; blessed be the name But do not come alone. The text Ohristanas or Thanksgiving festival der heavy brows, being usually oast
of tho Lora,•• entie gore ehat, him invites you to bring your family. will be the reunion, if we .get all our down in thought. He wears all his
et hell? , 0118
My friends and neighbors, come in in the door and call, until all the Lam -
right away. Conte in through Christ, ily come in, .Aged Noah! where is
the wide door -the door that swinge Japhet David! whore .A.bsalom?
Hannahl where is Samuel? Bring
tbe,m in through Christ -the door.
Won't it be pleasaut to spend eternity
with our families! Gladder than
Ing perpetrated, and the only perfect-
ly oalm person there was probably Ab-
dul Hamid himealf. Not even an in-
voluntary movement of the body and
face betrayed the slightest emotion,
and he drove on amidst the cheers of
the people without nolloing the inci-
dent.
His eyes are small and set deep un -
fond, itellervising the °demotion ot hie
children In every Partielelar, Suneraer
and Winter he rieee between, 4 and 0,
and parinkee ef simple breakfaet, to
whieett the young epee are eoreetimee
invited. Direotly tide ts over he ad-
journe to the "mubayin," wliere be re-
oelvea the First Semetary, witle yellow
he worke Lill tenth time, arid. onwarde
witb brief intervals for mayor and re-
fresignent, till midnight, anil often
Gil 2 or e in. the morning. The work
oonsiste in beering endless repOrte
train provincial authoritiee, foreign
embassies and. Pollee, eecret and other,
and in signing a wearisome sheaf of
!redoes. So (centralized is the system
of government in Turkey that not a
clerk or even a porter on be appoint-
ed or changed throughout the empire
without a iradele while every little de-
tail, evert to the geanting of a licenee
to open a cafe, or the miler to pave
a street, must receive the sanction of
an inmerial iradeh better° beaming
Inwful. Seated on his dlyan with
Tabsin Bey, Elamil By or another of
his high officials standing before him
the Outten wields his fateful reed -pen
hour after 'bour in almost perfeot
Silence on his part. Written raceme
mendatione receive apparent atten-
tion, as do spoken ones when asked
for, but seldom oall forth comment.
A, nod or "pek 'Ma," "very well,' ol-
sun,e "so let it be,' is aufficient to
grant a concession, appoint a minis-
ter, or bestow a decoration, and the
neitessary doeument is laid on the ace
eepted side tor the signature. "Ohnaz,"
"it won't do," or 'bosh lakerdele"
"nonsense," dismisses other proposals,
WITHOTJT APPEAL,
u31" "Come, then, and all thy house." That femily into the ark. Vehiclo of them mustache and beard, which are scanty
All the sins of a life -time clamoured means your wife and your children. oan we spare out of beaven ?
for his overthrow. The broken vows, Yon cannot drive them in. If Noah On one oil the Lake steamers there and close trimmed round a mobile
mouth. Be is short-neeked, and the
rageous profanities, the misdemean- I had tried to drive the pigeons and the was a father and two dauglaters
the dishonoured Sabbaths, the out -1 doves into the ark, he would only journeying. They seemed extremely head is planted on a patr of rather
ors of twenty, years reached up them I
i have scattered them. Some parents poor. A. benevolent gentleman stepped narrow, but square, shoulders. His
hands to1 ihe dean of the ark to pull me net wise about these things. They up to the poor man, to proffer some invariable dress le the "Stamboule"
• e , cut. like a .eurate's but at the Selamlik
lora out. The boundless °aeon of his
sin surrounded hie smut howling like a
semoom, raving like an Eteroclyden.
reeks loon rules about Sabbaths, and form of relief, and said, ou
they 10tree the eatechinn down the be very poor, sir." "Poor, sirl" replica and other functions In pubiec a light
th t s the would hold the child's the men, "If there's 404400101' man GRAY IVILIITARY cowl:
But looking, out of tee window he nose and farce down a dose of rhu- than me a troublin the world, God is thrown over all.
saw his sins sink. like leo,d into the begb and calatuel. You cannot drive pity botb of usl" "I will take one of In the days •of his youth his Ma -
depths of the sea. The dove of heaven your children into the ark. You can your children, and adopt it, if you/ me jolty was much addicted to all bodily
brought an olive -branch to the ark. draw your children to Christ, but you so. I think it would be a great relief exercises end sport, and svith Adram
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The wrath of the billow only meshed cannot comoe them. The Cross was to you," "k what?" said the poor Pasha had the reputation of being one
hem toward heaven. "Tbe Lord, shut lifted not to drive but draw. "If I be man. "A. relief?" "Would It be relief of the best pistol shoes In Europe. His
hem Mr lifted aP, I will draw all men unto to have the hands chopped off feelle fondness for all arms, and especially
The same door -fastenings that kept um." As the sun draws up the drops the body, or the heart torn from the pistols, still remains and every im-
Noith in keep the world out. I am otemerning deer, 60 the Sun of Rig'h- breast? A relief, indeed! God be good prevenient In this weapon is always at
glad to know that when a man reach- ceousness exhales the tears of re- to us 1 What do you mean sir?" once shown le him, the perfeoted new
es heaven all earthly troubles are pentance. Go home to -night and creek a fami- Mouser automatic revolvers especially
done with him. Here he maybevelled Coile thou and. all thy house into ly altar. You may break down in meeting with his approbation.
Noah sounds in our ears-"Comei thou , It hardo getbread' . ' ; Ide aok.Be eure that you bring year prayer; but never mind, God will As far as fur and feather go, hares
and all thy house into the ark." there he will never hunger any more. your husband and wife with you. How take what you mean, whether you ex- and ducks are still bred and kept
Well, how tad Noah and his family Here be may have wept bitterly; there would Noah have felt if, when he press it intelligibly or not. Bring all within the palace grounds but the 01-
oome into tbe ark? Die they climb in "the Lamb that is in the midst of the heard the rain pattering on the roof ,yout house into the arkels there one toman sovereigns of to -day have but
at the window or come down the roof? throne will lead hital to living folio- et the nriti be knew thole his wife was son ethom you have given up? Is he so 'little leisuxe from the harassing bur'.
No, they went through the door, Ane thine of water; and God will wipe ! outside in the storm? No; she went !dissipated Hint yau heve stopped coun- demi et state to devote to recreation
lust sO, if we get into thd ark of God's away all tears from, his eyes," Here 1 with' him. -.And yet some of you are 'selling arteloraying? Give him up? How with the gun. Like almost all of his
Mercy, it will be through Christ the he may leave hard work to get o. house; on the sleep "outward bound" for i dare 7011 give him up? 'low dare you race the Sultan is a fine horseman
door. The 0010,00100 to the ark Mole but: in "my Fa theta house are many heaven, bat your comeanion is unshel- ; give hire up? While thou haat a single and brings up his children in 'the roy.
must have been a very large entrance. iTh.lhSt°118i' and, rent -da Y never comes. tered. 'You remember the day when articulation of speech left, cease not al tradition, one of the most promin-
We knew that it was from the fact Here there are death -beds. and cot- the marriage-riag was set. Nothing to pray for the return of that prodigal. ant features of the Selamlik being the
b bl t h 1 it Sick- He may now be standing on the beach eons of his Majesty mounted on MP -
that there were monster animals in fins, and graves;
THERE Is NO srmereeeee nese eame, and. rim finger shrienk, but i at HongEong, or Mh'
adras meditating
the earlier ages; and in order to get o cind two, no- - t , the ring stayed on. The twain stood return to his father's ouse. Give him
them intthe ark two no weary watching. Do choking cough, ' Clone above a ohild'a grave, and the up l Ho.s God promised to hear thy
cording to the Bible stalement, the
door must have been very wide and cnbuinc,oneuming.. force,r. 09 Ihetter...,in,,g dark mouth of the tomb swallowed up - prayer only to meek thee? It is ndt
no cohing v......1. r.rn gr.va.. 1,-e a, thousand hopes • but the ring drop- too late.
mercy of Gad is a largo door. wa go 1:,2,rrows tt tele 'riot teeme etp., and pad' riCet into the 'open grave. - —•----
very high. So the door into the ei es` n' ;'
Tee -ereettoeltee. et ....1-e tote- eeene eo ,
Lind by thousands, and by reitteene. . g . et,. .,„ „,.. „. . eo ee,..,,o_ azie tee hanel did many a hard day's There is a hidden life In all of us,
Yea, all the nations cd, the earth '“:.'"'" s.'"''''' ""' '"' ---- 1.io-lt- but the rubbing of the work
go in ten millions abreast. mae taeoe tele fr.-.: eree. A- -,t,e egoey
' e e -.Teem, the ring only made It aline and it makes ue whla,t we are. It is
The door of the ant:tent ark we. c ..x.- '''''". r et* ee- '''''- '''''.'"- -eut-ut---g twr-giv.:ir Shall that ring ever be this hidden life that chisels the fame
e ee - Asr i...".. "it ro,,,irlil.a Or' tz,011 ' ""
the side. So now it is in the stele ee " — _ - - - • g ----- mot T Will the iron clang, of seoulohre the.t Outs the strange expresston on
- •••• ae: - eten ',,rk. ' •iv't . ow .r.c.i. viz,
Christ -the pierced aide, tee wiee gem - — , ' - - '' et ' , • ga'a crash it for ever? I pray God .
in, not two and two, but by•bundreds, 'Le Alna. t DAYS OF POVERTY CA.ME, TED HIDDEN LITE.
, e geao eo iteeee ' T ete etui d t. The hidden life of sensuality marks
; side, the heart side, that `Aro, 0,'" .: ::, .1'. , •"'" • " ' ' ':,,,,.q. yea who beve been married on 1
i Ala 1 the Rumen melee:h - - 'tt - ''''' '''''''' 'r'
, t -ea- ree ete. earth may be gathered in heaven. 0, the line on the outer life. The man may
ispear into the Saviour cs solo, eet,,,,„e„, .e.a. eeet •,- 5 reeeee eee teem,. Ore vide, by the golet ease of your earthly never have indulged in sensuality ; fee
ad quay to let the bleedS.,. .1.• : a,3, AW,- Oa '1,...,V VA 01741' 1e..111 vtra ant eveth berme; by the baby's cradle; by all may have been held backer= sense. -
opened t.he wag to tee atc, ees- otenet, evil. gee., esteem ;eel_ at. oeeglers enct. %ernes of that day when you start- ality by fear, but if, deep down in
In. Oh, what a brread ei,getice, ee 'teee e. eteek .ite,".. -Leh., 110 5‘‘sirli,:t 'al efe. together, I beg you to see to his heart, there is the sensual nature,
preach I If a man is -ateetrt •er. irmr„ , ,n -.1 :.•:& 'qtr.... eheeee eeer tient eelt, it that elm both get into the ark. the sensual nature shows Itself an his
an entertainment, he tattege eae, or 1 tr.:,,ntz,.. 001..0,0,... 't, V":".. eat Tee ili Cents uhand bring your wife oryour face, YOU know that. Youwomen know
two hundred invitations, taeeeetiy pee aeme. aegeore s elegy teeteL eIne..make imehand with you -not byfrelting it, at all events. Y,ou have seen men
4144and directed te tee parlete,eg nee Leek 3 et enekeet ettee-re, ant cm- aberet reiigion, or ding-donging theoi whom you would not Care to travel
tearsons whom he wiehes to trete:teen. foleteeetel 't'e'ere reee tie erk 1tt7 -melee ' ebeert relLglon, but bea eeolulstent alone with in a car, and yet you know
Bat God, oar Fa.ther„ meeee a ;etre_ wit* ,ree 10-ge teeheeroo egeetta eeno, Ofe, and by a. compelling prayer that nothing against them save what is
bring the throne of God down written, on their faces. And, on the
gust, and goes oat to the trent -few- sote 1.0311 50 "1,40 1'2" 1040 01111184 '13'3
of Heaven, awl streceteeo oat h,,,,e earan see:beat grezaog the. poste ro.ght lb' ,1 your bedroom. Better live in the other hand, there are sometimes that
. hands over land and see, and velth a be trit,4":410 ;0'% emailest house tn Brooklyn awl get carry la thetr lines a benedicttion, a
voice that penetrates the III44oeia0-' s,;,a a the erk M Motet is 50 5rad into heaven, than live fifty years in blessing, a peace. They do not (know
lee, and the Greenland lee castle. and a Place LW weeeti -at lire and dee, and the finest house on Madison Square, It. Yoe cannot eay their faces are
Ilcazilian grove, the. English faetero triumph, eorne. Oleo the! erk Know eaul wake up at last audited that one beautiful -put them in marble, and
-mad American bome, cries out. "Come, well thet the deer that slier. Noah be ' of yeti for ail eternity is euteetle the You do not care tor them -but the
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for ate wow, era tow reedy:, le ie a t, shut, toe, emeere ee.e. end toe,,00 wben ark. Go home to -night; Lock the door soul shines through. This is tbe secret
Wide door I The old erase leas been; the Pootees storm eeme j,e,ring 00 ,./f your room ; take up the Bible and of those strange attractions and re-
taken apart, and its two pieced are their heeds, tbey teat, upon the door lead it together, and then kneel down pulsions which we all sometimes feel,
et up for the door -posts, so fgr apart. saying. "Let me in! I.M. Ink III': the . and commend your souls to Rim who, We come into the presenoe of one man
hat all the world can come in. Rings door did not OP?Il Fro one hundred hem watched you all these Yeerrel en° and we are instinetively repelled; we
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11u1- try to put the feeling away as a pre-
judice, but we motet, We come into
the presence of another man, and WO
me drawn to bine, we know not why,
and yet we are drawn to hini. It is
not all prejudice; the intuitive soul
of one eorceives the sooret soul of the
other. Women and children, it is of-
ten said, are good jedges of human
nature. They do not discriminate; they
do not analyze ; they cannot tell you
why, but they are sensitive and tbeir
nature responds to the suboonsoious
life of those with whom ehey come in
contact.
atter treasures on days of great re -
'Icing. So Christ, our King, comas
d scatters the jewels of heaven.
LOwland Hill said that he hoped to
,et into heaven through the crevices
f the dom. But he was not obliged
hue to go in. After having preach -
d the Gomm!, in Surrey Chapel, go -
g up toward heaven, the gate -keeper
i
led, "Litt up your heads, ye ever -
Ie ating gates, and let this man dome
.
THE DYING THIEF WENT IN.
,bard Baxter and Robert Newton
nt In. Europe, Asia and Afrioa,
rib and South America may yet
te through this wide door without
eletieling. lie 1 every one, all condi-
tepee, all ranks, all people. Luther
wild that this truth was worth carry -
114g on mien knees trom Rome to Jer-
tolahon; but I tbink it worrth carry-
iwg. all mound the globe and all around
the heavens-tbat "50(1 so loved the
World tho.t Efe gave His °illy begot-
ten Son, that whoeoever believeth In
Hiatt ?head not perleh, but have ever -
leafing life." Whesoever will -let bite
come tbrough the large dotie. Arad -
modes wanted a -Oiler= on which to
piece his lever, end then he mild that
110 could move the world. Cavalry Is
the Martine anii tbe Oracle of °brief;
le the 'weer ; and lie that power et mt.
Lions shall yet be lifted.
Further, it 18 18 tloot Met swings
end twenty years. they were inviteeid; ore you rise ere
they expected Lf) come in; but the intro inti.nge of wings 0000 701011 heed, angel
diluvians said, ewe mum cultivate t OryIng to angel, "Behold, hey pray I"
these fields; we muse be worth more l But this doee not 1011,4(10 ell Ynur
flocks of sheep and herds of mitt le; : family. Bring the children too. God
we will watt until we get a little blase the dear ohildren I What would
longer." But wee nwhile the s t urrn , our homes be without them I We may
Was brewing. The fountains of have dono much for them. They have
heaven were filliug Op, !tee wy „„, done more for as. Wind a salve for
a woUnded heart there is in the soft
being pieced beneath the foundations '
ef the. great deep. The last year bad , palm of a child's hand. Did harp or
come, the last inontio the lamt week, , flute everotutve suoh Oalltde fla there
the last day, the last balm, Lhe lest Ls in a child's "good niglite. From
moment. In an awful dash; an ocean , riour, coarse, rouge life, the angels of
dropped from, the sky, and another 1 ""u" are °lien driven beak; but who
comas into the nursery without feel-
ing that angels are hovering around.
They wbo die in infancy go into glory;
put oef going into the ark. .rbeyeay bat you are copiloting your ohildren
to gr9w upin thls world. Is it not le
they will grareme !In, that rigs through
WAIT TWENTY YEaRS EIGST. a
They will have a little time with then, heighthe willrnicit)rgdeVitIle Wolindyionifrh' 840'1
worldly eatiootates. They will wah what is to become of your sons aline
until they get older. They say, "you
mining expeot, a man of my Motile -
meats and, of my position to surrend-
er moselt, just now, But before the
storm comee I will go( in --yes, I will;
I know what / am rebottle Trust ma
Afber, a while, one night, about
Leveler! Ohlook, going homel he passes
O. scaffoicttng, an a gust of wind
strikee tt, and a plank ROIL Deadi
toed outsidel Lim ark, or, riding in
Prieepece-perle, a recklese vehtele
rolled upi from beneath; and God roll-
ed the earth and eery Into one Waire
of ,unfversal destruction. So matt notsr
daughters for lime and eternity?
"Oh," you any, "7 mean to Hee (Int
they helm gond •monners I" Very
well. "I mean to dress thorn well if
I 'Mee mgeelf in go shabby." Very
good. "I elven ,give them an eductir-
Lion, end I 13130 11 leave them a fore
tune." Very well, Bel is that DIU
Dim't you moat to take I hem into the
ark? DOn'i you 1001010 tint
THE STORM. IS COMING!
and that tent Let (nest there is 'no
erb obargere in Generals' uniforms,
the youngest having for long requir-
ed to be lifted in aud out of the sad-
dle, but holding himself bravely and
proudly before his father. The Sul-
tan himsi3lf rides occasionally inside
the park but never in public as above
desoribed, driving his small victoria
himself bank from mosque on Fridays.
Nevertheless, he prides himself on a
magnificent stud, kepi up by yearly
presents of thoroughbred stallions and
mare,s without, prose from the Arab
princes of the Najd, and the ohieftains
of Mesopotamia. In turn many a
handsome creature finds its way to
Europe as a souvenir from Yildiz, giv-
en to a departing ambassador or dis-
Lieguielied guests, considerable dis-
crimination being instanced in the
choice of the gift, the finest. being per-
sonally ohosen for a reeiplent who is
known to have "an eye for a. terse"
and less troulale being taken if the
souvenir is merely a formal token of
wrumG.
Rick -Young Woman, to her fiancee!
servant, -Johnson, I am afraid it is
have your master marry. ?
Ohnson-You are mistaken, madam,
shall then be sure at least of a0 -
curling my thole wages.
to add to the heap of rejected,
ft Is popularly supposed that the
meanest subject oan reach the sov-
ereign's ear by an "arzouhal," or pe -
titian In writing addressed directly to
his majesty, and that snob missives in-
variably reach hira. Ace however, ev-
erything is commemorated only
through the Mat Secretary's offloo,
and as that bard -worked °Meal pro-
bably receives some 2,00 or 800 doou-
meats per diem, It may be allowed to
surmise that he babitually uses a
largeoliseretion as to not worrying his
august master with what appear to
him to be ridiculous trifles, although
they may represent the least desper-
ate hopes of the unfortunate peti-
tioners.
'We have purposely abstained in this
slight sketch from touching upon the
political learning and influence of the
Sultan. • Ie is the hablt to talk of
palace favorites and the influence they
are enlivened to exercise upon the
royal mind, but as a matter of fact,
those best acquainted 3vilh the inner
working of Turkish statecraft de-
clare that the Sultan, whilst listening
to other opinions, soon forms his own
and seldom changes, rusting on it ir-
respective of outside suggestions.
The autocracy of the Ozer is usually
quoted as the standard and ideal of
that. form of governraent, but tha
real autoorat of Europe is the Sultan.
For twenty years he has swayed the
mighty sceptre of Othman, without
brooking the slightest semblance of
opposition to his will within his em-
pire. There have been reform parties
and efforts innumerable to steal away
some fragment of his all-pervading
power, but they !have not only failed
in their object, but have led to a
hyper -centralization at Yildiz, whittle
hes become the nerve centre of the
empire, absolute and exclusive. And
as long as Abdul Hamid sits on tee
throne of his father, fate is no surer
than that he will retain the unques-
tioned limitless exercise of his sov-
ereign will in Turkey;.
JUST AS AN APPETIZER.
rhe Strecleedi petiole are Orem ratere-a.
nue and a ?mutt at Every smell legion
cambering -en hemmed pompon eity,
Mention the wore "SMorgleibOrd" Is
a Swede and, uniese he as hopeleael
Onnieboledriae, you will 050 him, mule,
The word is pronounced something like
"eullregees-boore." IL mama literal.
le a "eandwieb table," The feet
which it atande fog is regarded an one
of the oolletiettleonal institutions of
Sweden.
Sweden ie a land of nnlimited hospite
allty feud muolt eating. Every one is
coestentte giving and aLteeilinO
parties, and no :t45LLire 0005 53001 01 any,
kind, wedding, funeral, beptiein, hole -
day tenet or weekday Spree, Is com-
plete melees a solid meel Lorne*
part a its programme. There us a
saw over there to the offset that "yen
don't know a man until you have °atria
in hes coneMeny," NO vieltor la per-
mitted to leave a house without "it bite
and. a drink." A refueal to partake of
anything is resented, and even the ale.
Io -date skeptical "Pre•nehneun of Life
Norele," as the Swede ot social position
tikes to call himaelf, remembers the
old, old edage that the, guest who( goes
Away huingry and thirsty carries away
tho luck of the house. That is tan tn-
heritanee that hats been carried down
to the last year of the nineteenth nen
-
tare from the vikinge of a, thoutsand
years ago, who, like the Arabs of the
desert, thought that a guest whit re-
fused their hoepotality oould eci for
no other reason than to be able to
leave the house as ani irreoonoilable
enemy hampered by no
?DEFIED Toth BRITISH ARMY.
An. event that ishows heavy raid 4.5
unparalleled fa history was that
provuled by a woman of noble race,
-the Ranee of Jhainsie, who stood at
the head of her own troops, and twice
defied the British army, she, oat the
second ocoasion, being so desperately
wounded as to be carried off the field
supposely dead,
When the terrible conflagration of
the Indian mutiny wee thought to ,be
almost extinguished, this wOmen—
who was sengularly handsome and, in
the European sense, still quite young
-not only fanned the dying flame
among her own subjeots on Central
India, geeing every naive direction
tor the defense of her eity of Jhansie,
but her fiery and Intrepid sprit
FRIENDEfSP AND ESTEEM.
Next to horses comes dogs. Al one
time it was principally sporting dogs
that were required, but lately the im-
portation lifts been of toy and pet
breeds,' Pomeranians especially find-
ing favor with the Sultanies. For the
last year or two, bowever, pigeons
have ousted four -tooted elaininnis and
his Majesty delights in surrounding
himself with all the rarest and most
beautiful epeolmens of every strain,
seemly s. week ,passing witbout fresh
arrivals to swell the cooing feathered
throng at the Star Palace.
'Wben we ndd that hortioulture is
another pursuit which is followed pas-
sionately, will he seen that the
Sultan is a sovereign of many and
varied pleasures. The Yildie green-
houses are particularly large and fine,
and luxuriously stocked with (run and
flowers, ebnoet without exception per-
sonally seleoted by bis Majesty, who
con, arid does make out an order for
seedsman or landscape gardener telltale
would astonish many an amateur who
considers himself an expert, and which
often surprises the recipient by the
taste end knowledge displayed.
'Unlike most ot his subjects, who ha
oeneral are feeders, his 1VIajelity
le sober to exeese In the indulgenee of
not altogether ogremble to you to bodily appetites. His favorite dishes
are eggs 01101 outlets, of which he par-
takes sparingly, and he smokes noth-
ing but cigarettes, and these in mod-
eration. It is probably in great meas-
ure due to extreme frugality in his
diet and use ot tobitcoo, and the regu-
larity of his life that the Sultan owes,
like inivarying health, and almost un-
ending eapeette for work.
Par Lb. thirty round is made up al-
most severely of work and prayer, five
or six flours being the utmost, followed
for alum. end an hour or so morning
and evening for retereation with his
rurally, of whom he is eassiouniely
edURAL DECORATIONS.
My wife is crazy about having
things tramea,
She
Yes; she framed our merriage oar.
tinware
Well, that's all right.
But she leas framed tny letter of
proposal,
Oh, Jiminy I
OBLIGATIONS OF GPATITUDE.
It seems almost as if the Swede's re-
ligion of eming had bosom° eoucen-
trated in his devotion to the Smor-
gaiehord. This is the name given to
a spread of cold food which is ta serveo
ageaceiprnitopppeerti.zlitileinetvreordyutebtill
io: ellosentehe
thee earth, clam Smorgasbord is ex-
tremely variable with regard to 00111"
440811(00 and mope, hut three things
are inseperably connected with it,
namely, 'b rannvin," "agave" and
oheeee. Of these the brainovin is pro-
bably the most important, first, be.
cause 'without it a Smorgeobord, ts nu
Smorgasbord, tend, secondly, because,
if some high authorities may be believe
but an excuse for tbe consumptton oll
ed, the entiee Institution la nothin
blunnvin. The name of this drink,
laterally translated, means "burat
wine" or "burning wine.". Why it
should be so called is Incoraprehene
allele, unless the narne hes been ap-
phut En recognition of the faot that
the stuff burns the tongue and the
throat ot those not ecoustomed, to ite
use, It is simply a sort of colorless
whiekey distilled out of potatoes for
the most part. There Is also brannvia
of higher grades, bowever, distilled out
el gram aod sometimes spiced.
The Swedes are le atnging people, bite
Lew of their songs are devoted to the
pleasures of tbe roup. The song flow*
freely, at their drinking bouts, but it
treats a Nature's beauties, the sweet, -
ewes of love and friendship, the glories
of a deatb for Xing and fatherland.
Bacchus seed hos joys, to wench the
gathering is devoted, recelve Yuman
a passing mention even, When they,
drink, they clang theta bumpers
agamat each other, cry "Selma,
brotherl" and drink deeply. "Schaal"
is their equivalent for "Here's to youlr
' But it is different when they gather
,.round the Smorgasbord lo strengthea
the appetite by frequent libations of
bramivin, Then ell stand around the
table with the filled glames let
their hands and somebody takes up the
first notes of one of a dozen or more
Bangs especielly adapted to the 00Ca-
61611, whereupon all join In singing' for
inettieee:
''' Ree50ea
r5008°out
el
Ante he who does not drink' it dowel
Must rkia
tolliriitit wheel number two mines
Here goes 'ono,
Sing ho fal le ral lal 111
The threat means tiornething ter-
rible, for one end two ara followed
by number three, that aghtn by a
fourth glass and so on. Thotto,,,who
know how to arrange a genuine Sher-
gasbord say that there should be epee*
rounde of brannvin, eneh being bora Ide
ad, by an appropriate song. The
muds have names, too, and aril
known, respectively, as the Whole.
the Hale Lhe Third, the Quart, the
Quint, Little, Manasseh and Fifteen
Drops. Beer is in order when they
have been disposed of, but it is con-
sidered foolhardy to
MIXED THE TWO DRINKS.
"Agave!" is the nome applied; to
canned and spiced small herrings and
tbey constitute ono of the male tooth-
some delicacies of the Smorgasbord.
Generally there are two or three londa
of anjovis, besides herring rue in sncall
slices and steeped in vinegar, -fresh
herring in Its raw Meta fried herring,
boilea herring, broiled herring, devil-
led herring and herrieg aided. The
last Mentioned dish is much more come
plicaLed then its nante inclietites, for
10 Is rdwde out of 'herring, leold meet.
raw exiles, boiled potatoes, hard boiled
eggs mut red Mottled beets, Mt sliced
very fene and mixed well. 11 (03 eigen
with a dressing made out ob sugar,
cream, olive oil, neuetard aad vine-
gar. TIM is a true story, es evetec
Swede mai te.stily,
Herring is not Gm only ttsh on the
table, and what theme is of other limas.
I ! prepared in manhole, wage, Caviare,
and sardines aro indispensable, while
lobster tieul crawfish are included
while in enson. Cold meats cut up
In thin alices, hirainutive meat; halls,
the only wariat dish permitted, redo,
them olives, °termini:ems and onions
help to fill out the bill. Table celery
is utterly unknown, strange lo my.
leveed end butter an, Otrettssaries Ot
COUXSB, WWI there otileht to bo iour
kinds of bread at Ion l, namely, hard
rye bread baked in 7(10y' ilia and very
brittle calms, "Lin* ," or sour -sweet
rye breed, plain etc5., bend end whent
breed. , ea
alit Tla es:eel:: vtos:,:ettol rbeildbdi ye n. ;hit:sweet:0i:
globes uotil inatie,
to eat it as Old sat"pdoenlielree, Is
: °1:1 -
who is a conneletteue la 4311005e, evatita
preeiatea it hight aeo, pave well Inc
fe
11 when ,11. beKinit th look ilikii 0, greed
netteldering neettS 'WI of cheese worms.
brought the -eery Dement and most
bloodthirsty of the mutineers through-
out whole provinoes to her aid. Sir
Hugh Rose, with a British tone, made
a most memorable speedy march in
order to intercept the hordes rushing
to her bouncer, aand when he Cit1110 be-
fore her oity she sent out messages of
Insolent. defiance, declaring that she
would nave him murdered, as she, had
ordered other Britons to be massacred.
With \ her own hands she helped'. at
the gum, wbile furiously unplug on
her men, and wben the piece was
magnificently stormed and taken at
the bayonet's point she escaped,
wounded badly. But she soon rallied
another reirmy, and when she was again
defeated at Subejnee she fought in
the first line like a. veritable fury and
while anortally wounded.
WHAT ONE WOMAN THINKS..
No friends are better than make-
believe friends.
Th'C' best blessing a child oan bay°
is a good mother.
A man must think a great deal of
his wife to go with her to pick out a
new spring boneet.
The gas bill is a liglat oonsideration
but it generally manages to east gloom
over the household.
Some people look at their own faults
through a teleseope; others' through
EL mieroseepo.
Tbe man who knows it, all ought to
apply for a pohition the faunae of
information et 1141110004 station.
When it Woman starts out to gin a
piece ue her mind she usually ends up
by robbing other people of their peace.
--0—_
UNAMTABLE.
I see those friends of yottre, the
Rustlers, have their names in the pro-
per again, Mid the lady who la inter -
sated in Social topics.
Have they indeed? responded Mien
Ceyeene, languidly. I didn't know the
delinquent tax list lied been publish-
ed again I
reaccon for thetebeeettettee eee nom