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"PRIMUS' A NEW SONG,"
REV. Eth. TALMAGE PREACHES ON
THE ANTHEM OF HEAVEN,
oe. ossattatt In me Sane roe War. ages -
"444 Moves HA a asyslerleas WzipH-
laranie nod en •alvlaitert lasivitmettni
ea4 greatrs-lleaveir Has ./est Benue
lac New eena-A. Heaven Lame czo-,,
' ousel tor Tee xnetisauit Weever/we
A. despatch from Washington says;
-Rev. Dr, Talmage prettehea from tbe
following otext:-," And they ming a
new eong."1-ellev, v. 9,
. Nearty ell the cities et Etirin4; and
Aneerloa have conservatortes of entail;
and associations, whoop objeet It tea by
yahoo and inetrument, . to advance ,the
feet nf rawest aounds. On Tharaday
nights, Exeter • Ifalheofelientlon, .u.sed
tta resound with. the musio of first-olasa
Performers, who gave *their services
gratuitouely to the masses, who came
in with free tickets, And huzzaect at
- the• entertainment. At Berlin, at ele-
ven Veto* eleily, the military band,
with eixte or nue aunared lustre,-
.ments .discourses at the• royal pewee
house•for the people: OnEaster Sun-
day, in Dresden, the hcona of cannon
and the ringing of . hello, bring naul•
' Medea to the Abitrches to listen to
the organ pealeand the exciting sounas
Of trumpet and, drum, When the great
fair-dey of Leipsin memos, the bands
of numb) from far- arid ,near, gather
in the street, and ' bewilder the ear
witle incessant_ , playing a flute, and
horn vielin; and, bassoon. At Dussele
dorf, once a year, tae levers of music
t' assemble, and for three or four days
wait Oen theegreee Singing festiyeas,
and shout. at the 'close of the •chortuies
and greet the successfel coianetitors
at the prizes are distributede-tups and
vaees. cif silver and gold.„ Tliose , who
can sing vvell or p ay skilfully. unon
- inseruments are • greeted. with vocifer-
ation, . anti gerlended . by ' excited . ad -
There are merle wheseneest ecstatic,.
delight, is te be found in- melodiesi and
all the aplenaour of 'celestial eater',
and ale the luseioueness Of twelve man-
. nee of fruits; . and all the rush' of.
floods frain mideit the throne of God,
would not make a heaven fOr them if
there were no great and teansporebeg
harmonies... 'Peseitag eking oar streets.
in the hour of Wei:ship. you hear the
' void() of saered Melody, elthough. een
do not enter the building: And paes
fag..-Along.-..thea.,,airceLpf:: beltietAt--k-9,
hear, from the temeileept God, end the
Lamb; the breaking 'forth of theniaga
• nificent juhilitte. We. may., not yet en-
ter in aniong'ethe favoted throng, but
. G d Will . ot d • ei as
• . . standing awhile on the outside to hear.
John lietenea to .4,, a. great whiTe7Q7,7
and " they sung. a new Nana." '' ,
Let none aspire tothat blessed pima.
Who. have )30' love for this exercise, for.
, althea h'e't, " y e am e e
thrones were set, and the hares Were
sting, there. aat, heen Am 'cessation in
the seng; exceptiog once- for, abont
P • thirty naituttea ; 'and judging; frona the
glorious thipgs .now . traeepiring . in
Sleds world- aod . the evereireuraulat-
• ' log friumphs of the Mestiah, that was
• the last half-hour„ that heaVen will
ever be silent. e
, 1, .Mark the 'fact that this. was a
i new gong:- ' . -
• Sainetinies I 'have in church. been.
floated away uPon some great' choral,
in which alI ourreople seemed to min-
gle- their voices, and • 1' have; io the
glow of my enaotiozisesaid, Surely this
is musks' good enough for heaven. In-
deed I :do net believe.: that "Luther's
• Ilyeineeoa "Coronation," or "Old Hun-
* deed,'" or -”Mount,.. Pisgah," , would
• . sound ill If spoken .by seinted lips, or I
thruntroee from seraphic .harps, There I
/ ,are mime of our fathers and methers '
In glery wtio would leeslow to ohne
heaven% gate ' against them oldetime
harmonies. But thie, we are told; is
.0 new song, ' 'Some of aue (greatest
anthentseand chore's are tomposittons
' . from other tunes -the etweeteeteparts
- of them gathered up into the hare
mone ; and .I. have sometinaea theta/let
. that tale "new Song" may be partly
'made tip. of switet strains of earthly
music mingled in eternal 'choral. But
. it will, after all, be a new song. This
never heard, All the skill of the old -
411,1
1 do know., thee in sweetness . ana
, osier it .will be something that par
'est harpere of• heaven wilt be flang
into it. All; the lOve of God's heart ,
will ring 'from 'it. Ini its oedema the
needs will Map their hands, and it
Will _drop witit the sunlight of ever-
elasting day, and breathe with odours
from the blotisoms of the tree of life.
"A new toter -just made for heti-
.
Many earthly stings are written by
mposers just for the purpose of
' making a tune; mad the land is flood-
- ed vvith note -hooks in which rally
valuable tunes axe the exception. But
°nee tit a while a man is wrought up
by some great Spectacle, or Moved by
some terrible agony, or transported
' hy some eXottisite glacittees, ana he
, site down -to write a Lane, or a
bytan, in which every note Or' every
word is it spark dropped from' the
forge of his own burning emotions, So
'' Mendelssohn wrote,- and so Beethoven,
and so Charles Wesley. %Cowper, de-
___preseed witb Misfortnnes until almost
insane, resolaed bit aitilchlatanti'd asked
, the cab -driver to take him to a ear-.
tein plate where he expected to de -
troy his own life. The oab-delver lost
his way, end Cowper began to think
of his atte and went beck to his bottle,
mut eat down and wrote -a .
. ,
',teed Moves ie a hiesterions way,
Ms wonders to perform;
Ile planta bis footsteps lin the sea,
And rides upon the storm. •
"Ye fearful Saints, fresh outage take,
The clouds you ao much dread',
Are .big with /natty, aid shall *break,
In bleseings on your head,"
.
those by the gatee, those on the rtver thrones ; to itee the laierarchtee. Agree
hank, thoge in the temole. Not feel- on ogee roll, and yet heaven it new I
taat 4eire_waY thraagat Or haeltelaah etreete new 1 The temple new I
or goIng oaC4t, as It toe/ never pewee The Joy new 1 The Bong new 1 .
mug; it, but with u tall round I etayed • a week at Niagara Palle,
voice they ihrOvv their soul Into tine ..hoopg. theroughly to underetand• and
new acing. If eintae Sableeth day e few appreciate it. But en the lain day
notee of that anthem eleould travel they seemed newer and nacre incomnre-
down the air, we could not shig It. heneiblethen on the fleet day. Geeing
Na Organ could toll its thunder. No on the infinite rush a celestial Wen-,
beep, could catch its trill. No lip 'could dere where the mane a delight meet,
announce its eweetnees, Tranefieed, anti pour themselves into the great
lost, -encbanted., dumb, we coutd not heart of God -how goon witl we exhaust
hear it -tete fatutest note of the new the song 1 Never t Never 1 •
ramie. Yet, vvtale I speak, heavenai The otti preachere in desoribing the
cathedral quakes under it, and Reae sorrows of the 10;4 used to lift up
of glory bear it 'from beach to beach, tinge hands. and ehout, "The wratb to
and- ten thousand titaes ten thousand, . come l" "The Wrath to come I" To -
and thousauds of thoesands, rand It- day I lift uP'my hands, and looking to -
"the new song." vvards the great future, toy; "The teY
IL Further: It is n• conaraemorative to come I" "The bliss;to Serae 1"
song, We are diatinOtly told that it 011, tO wander 'ea the banks of the
makes referenee to past deliverances. begat river,. and yet to feel that a
Olt, how inucli have they to sing little farther down we shall .find '3611
about. They sing oe tite darkness. brighter floOde entering into it t Ob,
through • which on earth • theY passed, to stand a thoUsand,riars, listening to
and it is. a plebe gong. That wale ite the ehohantIng music of heaven end
Christian. eiii.ilor-boy that bad his back to find, out, that the harems are only
broken on the shipe halyards,' and tuning their. haroa,e • ..„
•wtth him it is a sailor's SO0g., Tirt V. Finally, remark, thet it will
one burned at Smithfield, and watt be a unanimous song. There will, no
him lt Is a lire Song. • Olal bow they doubt, be some to.lited, but all will be
will sing oe floode waded, °of fires en. expeoted to pine Itaelll be grand eone
dured, perseoution suffered, of grace gregational 'staging, AB the sweet
extended! Song of •haill Song of sword( Items of the reaeemed I.- Grand music
wag of hot lead! song of axet As, it will be, when thet neve Kong arises.
when the oriemdpipes eeal eut some .Lether sings it. - CharletgWesley sings
greae bar:pony,- there. comes oe,Casion.- it., Lowell. Mason sings et.. Our
• th.e eound of the areneulante, voices now matt be harsh and our este
yeeepliag through the eadencee,.- add-, nnoultivated, but, our throats cleared
log exqutsitenese to the perforratenees, at. lest, and our . oarneities enlarged,
. so amidat the stupendous .tteelatin of andeyou. and. I will 'net he ashamed to
. -the heavenly wonhippere 'shall: came: uttlirr our voices as loudly ae any of
tremulous remembrances . of past( en- theme. • ,
durance, adding a sweetness end •glery These gallons that •have alwaytt been
to the triumphal Arida. So the glori- distinguished for their °away in song
fled moeber will sing of the cradle will lift up their vetoes in that melody..
tbat death robbed; and the enthroned Those who have hite much opportunity
seirit from thh alms -house. • will sieg to hear the. Germene, sing will kerne
of a life -time of want.• God, may wiPe 7010^ !Oea I „meat; to give, when I say.
away till tears, but not the memory that 'the great perineal. nation Will
of the grief that started there! Pour their deep, full meets into the
III, Further. It will be an mom, 'new song: Everybody- knows- the
Panted pang. . Some have a greet we- natural gift,: of the African fee sing-.
judice against musical instruments; ing. •Ne singing on this continent like
and even among those who. like them; that of the coloured churobes .in the
theee is an idea. that thee are tenauttd south: = • Every body gMeg to Riche,
'prized. I. cannot. share in such pre-. ,itiohd :or tp • Cherleston wants to
iluitees, when 1 remember . how Ood hear the Africans sing. • But when not
has hogeneed_thero. I love the cym- orily Ethiopia, ant all that continent
boas, for Israel clapped them in of -darkness lifts- up ifs hands, and all
triample .at the Red Sea. I .love the Africa. pours • her- great volunie of.
'harp; eel' David 'struck it in praiging Votes into.. the, new souge-that will be
the Lord..1 love ,the trumpet, for we must° fee you. Addedeto this are all
are told 'that it sbailetvaket - the dead. the platoon .thoneand Millions of .child -
I love all •stringed instruments .and ten that ere estimated to have. gone
organe; for god. demands that we obeli into ,glory, and the host of young and
praise Min on stringed instruments old that hereafter Mutat ••pentee th#
,and ofgans. . • Theee is in kuchmusic learth. and jellaba the. eters.
.much to suggest the higher worship;. Ohl •the new, .Songl Gather it alleupl,
for I•eead • that. Wheu • he had taken !Multiple it' with every sweetness!
the book,- .the foureand-tweety • elders Pceir. into it -every harroonyl Croten
fell- (levee before Abe 'Lamb, having it wtth every gladiessl Belt it with
every. One..of them aharps," And "I every aplendourt • Fite alt with 'every
heard the voiee of the harperti•baree glorel Toss it to the greatese height
hag With -their lierns," end "I• saw of •'Majesty I Roil it •tO the ,grandeet.
eliem thet had gottee the victeryfrorti • cycle ;of eternityl-And then you have
tbe, beast standing on the,.sea. of glass, but the fitintest conception of What
avieg the ups. of God,
• john• experienced when;•• iipaidst 'the
--e-egeseatheeseae_tee eeeeeeemeegieete ,itaaigniticence , of apocalype ic ebe•
'Yeti say • that ell , thee is figuratiee. eheerd, 1teeene eew isong: .• tete;
'Then I saY,' twee% •‘ ite at.• de floe kneest •• GO grant • that at east ete 'rely .all,
how much of it is literal, and how sing it. But it we..do not sing the-
.mitch of it is' ,figurative.• Who can Praise ief 'Christ upon .earth, we eecia.
say hitt 'tbat frOni sotae of the: prec- never sing it in heaven. l3e sure Glut-
tons- woods of -earth and heaven theke Your hearts me ..now attuned ler thet
emay,not. be Made inetruinente of cents- heavenly 'worship. On this. Cbristmae
tial itecord. In...that .worship. Davie, eve, I forsee the tirae.whea the_whole
mar take the harp,,and. Habakku' .the : oarth shall* he brought' hi aceOrtrivillf •
shigionothi. and- when the- great naul- • the Gospel-"Giory-to God in the high-
titudes shall, following their own eat on earth; peace, good -will 'be men'
.chnations, take op tnstruments weed. There is a cathedral na Europe with
e.r than Mozart ever1ingered, or Seleu.. an organ at each end. : Organ answers
'mann ever- dreamed Of, or 'Bee.th von organ, and the music waves backware
ever wrete for, let all heaven meiike -and forward -With indescribable effect.
ready for the buret of . stupenaous Wane my friends, the time will. &Me.
minstreleyeand. the' r011 of pko eternal •when • earth and heaven 'will -be but
orehestrat • , ,• different . parts of one greet tientred. It.
IV...Farther: .it will be an anticline will be joy here Ana. joe there. Jesus_
:tivet eong. ,Why; elaY friend*, heaVen :here and Jesus thee& . • Truennet to
has hardly:- begun „ea, If you had trnmpetl Orgaii to • omen! Hello-
.
taken the opening .piece of music this • loaall to hallelitjahl ,
evening for the :whole service, yon '"Untit 'the day break 'and the shoe -
woutd not have made! so great a nilsa deVeti flee aWaY; Olen, My beloved, and -
take as do suppose that heeven is fully be thee like a roe ,or yOung hart
Ina ug Orated. Festal choresee • ' tippet the mountains of. Betheele
earth lasteozile shot whtle. Thei •• • •
famous andsical eonvocation ati Dusset-
dorf ended •with thel fourth dee. • One , ' NORTHaWEST IMMIGRANTS.,
'holidays last only eig.ht or' ten do* • '
but heizien, although.. singing for so nellWay 'Omen's Rinectiona vitae lite
many years, lute. only, just begtzn "the EnsIbilt Ones: •
new song." if the glorifien :inhabit- • •
.ants recount pagit • 'deliverances, they Alitige party of English iuttnigriente
•
will also enkindle. at glories to mane were forwarded. from Monteeai to ethe
If, at six o check; when, this. cherch • North-areat by the C. Re, the othee
opened, you bad ' taken , the : few peea Arrione these 'w of•
ple tbat twine teattered throiigh it as aaa'....-7e-e -ere
the -Main audiiince' yea would not Reeono-cabin passengers bound for Brit -
have made sot _great. a Mistake at if. lea Columbia, , Taese.,were admirahle
•you suerposed -net the present popu-
team.' of heaven axe • to be int chief e„„,
specircrens of the • English national
citizenship, 'Although ten million. """'"" The 'Men Were stroeg, • Well
the inhabitants are telly a • handful Ituald. and confidente the • evoeien had
compared with the future 'populatioes. that 'fresh, color, and, that elasticity
All China is yet to be itay,ed. oe miyi;enag
India is .yet to be aaved, -A.11 Borneo - —7 ---12
combined with' perfect
a yet to be seved. • All Switzerland epee and otiroplacency which aleiaya .ex-
es'yet to be saved. All Italy is yet to cite notice. "De you know," seta an of -
he saved.: All 'Spain is' Yet to be Bayed.' ficial, musinglya. "that 'the ease and
All Ruegia is yet to be saved.
France, is yet to tiesevede All England is
Ali confidence:which these, people. express
Yet t6 be saved. All America is yet -to is the seeeet pa empire, Talk ad eetz
be saved. Ali the world iseyet to be like, the. British aee destined • to eone
saved.. After that there May beother quer the sworld. meao the World is
worlds to conquet. I. do not know but
that every star that glitters to -night boued to. •yield at last to the• mtiutd-
is an inhebited world, and that teem . •
ing end •congtiering spieibeef this peo-
all those epheres a mighty east are to pie- We handle thousaeds of even,'
r n o our. eaven. There will nationality
be. no gate to keep theta 'out. We do „ , every year.' • Except the
not want to keep them put. eee eon engliele all are as dough in our
not want to keep them •olit.. God will hands. We' treat them well, of course,
not Want to keep. thew oat -• •
I have sometimes thought' that • an we treat the Chienese well, tee; but we.
tiee Millione of earth that go into giort ,direet them all, except the English.
with. -the influx trona the Whole Mil- The Etglish won't be directed. no
. ,
are but a. very small colony cOrapared
Verse. 'God aould build a heaven large Englialnetan wants .nts own Way, aod
will have it. 'We ha.ve to appear ert
enough not .only foe .the universe, but though we attempted no guidance at
fee ten thousand univerees. I do not ail. The Enallehnlan wtrnts to- ho
knots"- justiow it, will be, but this where tie Pleases. .fle objeete to being
know, that heaven is to be constaetly lost in a perty, Ite objects to being
augmented; and that the none 'eteteent anions a lot el immigeanta The
gler-Yeas- rising higher. end highereand atileillient he leads he witets to wanhee
the prooession is being multiplied: l't ' tileont itt aids iee.e•n• ale-ia tiot
heaven .sang when Abel went op -the Idiseemposed at all. He is always sure
first soul that ever teft earth for of himself, It is this confielence which
alerY-how must it sing now 'when makes empire. It is Able, Aetna:icy
souls go up in.flocks front all Christen- whieh helps -him to get the, better of
mdoomm,euhto.ur bet hoer, and motneet by inferior rattes. The gentle races whieh
you tan lead, from which you can ex -
Our teepee gatherings en earth are poet obedience -these do diet make
-chilled by the thought that soon we way tit the weed. This well-built
meet eeparate. Thanksgiving arid Plea Innate tbeke, atatidng Lite feet,
'Mulattoes da-ys came, and the tail perfectly eonfident in himself, in no
trains. flying thither are crowded., way. disconcerted at finding himself
reunione take place. We have a time upen atratige soil. -that iS the type
of great erajoyment, But soon it I's whieli is bound to win the Worid. It
"good-bye in the hall" "good...bye" at trete 'not be a graelotts type; the
the aoor, „ "good-bYe" on the etreet,' getitler met of the European, Con-
"goodebye at the rail train, "geode; tinent floe like it; but it persists;
bye' At the eteamboat wharf, Wel it maxim the map, red; it bends every -
meet tonight in Mauch, It is goOdi thing Wits purpose, and conquers
tie be here. - Bat goon it will be• nine . largely beeause iteis aggressive, and
oetleek. The doxology wilt be sung, aelfwilled,
the benediction pronommed, the lighte '
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EAsTERTIDE. lavriafttuir yteitarktri.efVett
a san'se ot dispate among the village
' * aed
'The Wanting rays of the afternoon
, sun shone in threugh the dating -roam
l windows of the little brown cottage,
at the foot or the hal. The eunehine
gleamed upon the gllded Picture -
frames and palliated mahogany fund -
titre, endplayed In lights and shadowe
_ among the soft folds ot Miss Abigal
Maynard'e crimson •drese. 'Visa Abigal
delighted. In rich, warm coloring* and
from the fleet,' froety dart of early
Ootober, untll the eparrow twittered
to his Mate in the blossom -laden ore
chard, the little fire within the grate
IAbigat allowed boreal.
omit 'its ruddY gloW abont the- room,
It was the only luxury which Miss
a
The door was suddenly puelied open
wide, and vvieh, a Resat atamping of
snow-covered boots, and eatich puffing
and blowing of breath, a diminutive
youngster, with i round, rosy fkip.e,
lit by a pair of dark, roguish eyes;
rushed in, tumbling over the tabbe oat
in his haste, and bringing with hien,
tato the quiet room, a whiff ef. the
lereezy, "outer world. , . '
"0, Aunt Ab," he cried, breathlesgly
athere's loads and loads of furniture
coming to the big honee' on the hilt,
an' we can't play in tee park any
more, an' there's a man cleahing the
windows, an' another _man, wif a, big,
somefin' or other name .fs coining
there to live, an' he's been in India,
an' eay. Aunt' Ab, d'yon think he'll
. being e, tigerewif him 4" • .
Mtss •A.bigal's pretty face waif flush-
ing and paling alternately. °
. 'Is it Colonel Bemboyile 1" 'She. ask-
ed, trying io vain to conceal the quiver
in hex.' voice.
Bobby vigorously' nadded his curly
head, tteres, 'tie an' he'd coming this
week, fth'• say, Auet Ab, . gnome a
doughnnt.. It's most *ten heel:ft:since
dinner." . . _ • '
That night, after Miss A.bigal had
tucked her sleepy, little nepheW into
his warm crib, and -had listened -while
he reeeeted his eveningeprayer, until
et the Words, "lead 1.t'' not -into tempt-
etiona! the drovvsy "voice had Sudden-
. ler ceased, Ai RS...owner had Heated
away to the land of Nod, ehe return-
ed, as usual, to her cosy fireside. But
though the White fingers aed !tinning
,
teeLa
Mozart corapoeed*Ilis own requiem,
end said to his daughter Emily, "Play
that ;" and. while Emily Wan pfaying -
the requiero, Mozart's Sold went up
is ovvrt music. o
, glory. Emily looked around, artd her
father watt dead.
That new" mug of heaVen Was not
bompottedebeeattse heaven had nothing
else to do, but Christ, it memory of
areas and drown, of manger and throne
of earth and heavert, and wrought up-
on by the raptures of the great eter-
nity, poured this from his heart, Made
tvill lower, and the audience will be
gone, tint .there are no separations, A BOOMER SENTENCED.
good-bys in beaten. At tile door
of the house of many ittanSiOnS, no ludgeg eeverely-ziron have boon
"dOod-byte" The liong will be more found 4010 Of etetaing the people's
pleasent, because we are always toeing money, an& you are senteneed ten
it. Mightier song as our other friends years in the penitentiary, and to pay '
Ociane in. Mightier song as other gar. a fine ef five handred thousand dole '
lands ere set on the brew of Seseit, tare, ,
Mightier nOng as Chrieve glories un- Great Doodler. -Yes, y'r honor.
inidge...13Ut ea you will never be tibia
If the first day we ,enter heaVell Wti to pay the fine, the fine ie remitted.
sing well, the next day we Ming better. lloodler--Thank you, judge,
Sonif entielpative of more light, of J-udge--And if you. coedutt yourself
more love, of more triumphs. Always properly. the law will allow time for
something -new le hear, toinething new good behavior, aed you, out get out in
to see, Arany good people suppose that about a yettr and a half,
lt for the erodes of heaven to- thont .
eelebration of victory, for worehip.,
pets to ehant in their temp% serviees,
!or the hinumerable home circlert
titensions. new tune be started I
heaven to sing in the house of many
ehurelt, there is only here and there
pereon that Can eiog it, It is some
Hine before the congregation learn ii.
• nee, tlut not so with the new
tiong ot heaven, The children, Who
wont tilt te-dilet from the waters of
the Ganges are neW tinging it. That
Chriatian into or Women, WhO, a feW
Millates ago, departed from this verY t
itreet, has Joined it, (Pill know
WO shall see heaven the Met day we Doodler -Thanks, Sudge,
get there, ' No 1 You eon not tee Judge -And, by the way, if you hap.
London in two weeks. Yoo eon not pett to feel in a week or two, the
See lhattle in six weeks, You can not see court will team% an order allowing you
Veniee in a month. Yon can not flea to go home to die,
the great eity of the New iTerusalem lloodler-Thanks, Judge; but tun.
ft a day., Not It will take ali eternity pose don't at4t
*M61'0060, to COWIE the towere, to :nage-Don't Mention it. Call the
ttaintifte. the trophies, to gaze upon the next case.
needlee. flashea in and out aiding the
briglitelideil Wools which lee on jier
-tape-her -theughts weie tar awey.
nienaeree atte .,-• had . travelled hack
through the long, deep vieta of years
gone by., • •
A tender, dream.). Smile played abont
. .
her mouth,
• , '7k:wits just fifteen yeari ego thts
Month that we totarielled," slut said,
untionsciousii speaking her thoughts
alana. "Ile was ao strongewillea, and
so positive -about eeerything, and I eves
se quick-teriapered, anti-" .
"Arid yam were two. paling fools,"
added old Ithebe enetgetically;
ing the sentence for her mistress, as'
she noisily replaced the supper dishes
, •
upon their shelves, •
Phebe who had terved the Millard
family Paithfully fur, a geneeation, was
a privileged person in the little house-
hold, and Miss Abigal did not contraa
diot her eraphatio, statement.
5 • , ' '
The little , Ahurch Ilillbank was
unesually welt filled en the foe -
lowing Sabbath morning; •and wben
tell, martial figure, clad in a military
cloak, Pealed down the aisle and en-,
tered the Bemboyne pew, which had
been tor• so Many yeses unoccupied; a
Mite flutter of Mccitement passed
over the congregations's/id there was
Much rustling of silks and craning of
. . .
nec s a ong e nunlike pottier( of
the assenibly, to catch a glirepse of
the distinguished traveller.,
Fenn' -her sheltered seat -behind .
broltd pillar Miss Abigal leaked once
more Upon her lover, The years whith
hed dealt so, kindly with her had
brought to him gray hairs. His
aquaxe-aut .features, ;winch she &aid
flee in 'profile only, bad a. stern, some-
what sad, expression,' so different
frorn tbe look 'of the• gay, impetuous
youth whom she. • had known: ' Her
quick. eyes noticed a tiny bunch of
violets which nestled on the. lapel. of
his coat. Vicilets were her favorite
flowers. She Wondered if be had re -
Membered that, and it were for
her sake that he wore them. Then
she feIt Imre of it, end, womanlike,
wag, glad. She eemerabered' the. last
flowers that tale had given thine. They
Were yiolete, and ahe had faatened,
thorn on hie coat herself, and he had -
but at that point Misa Abigal abrupt-•
ly turned front her wandering
thotighte mad gave close ' attention te
the aermon.
At the Mose of the service, while the
("there crowded around the bearded
soldier,' Miss Abigal• slipped quietly
avvity. Not amid the threat could she
bid him welcome home, '
The day wee eat= and mild, one of
thoge clays which tionaetitnes cotatt In
the wayward month of March. laere
atid there, like. a green oasie in the
midst of a, dreitry. waitte,..e. few tine.
blades .ef.gratts, from their EnOWY bed,.
peeped ehyly forth. A robin red-
breast hopped adross 'her path, • sea
Miss Abigal remembered, with a thrill
of joy, tbat leering AWLS Mane at hand.
With an almost childish delight she
&rank in deep breaths of the fresh
sweet ,ttir; and felt hew good it was'
to Live:,
She had almost ttaversed the abort
distance between the -thumb and her
cottage, whbn " her ear cauglat the
sound of hurrying steim behind. Turn-
ing tlalclele", she found herself fate to
face, with a tell lady, of emptier ap-
pearanee, with thin, bteathed hair
coiled loosely.. around her head, and a
pair of pleb:sing eyes, whith somehow
gave one the uncomfortable- feeling
that tbeir owner was eadeavoring to
read one's innermost tboughts.
Mrs. Van Norton was what she de-
li ht d in h e It 11 "
soots* reader,'" and once a fortnight,.
in her artistie parlors, dispeneed -
dainty- cups of tea and choice dishes'
of seandal arabttg her lady friends of
Milbank; Miss Abigal, who hated --
both tea and <gossip, rarely made one
at these soda' re-unione, end beeause
thie, and of her sharp tongue, which
had a way of frequently uttering yin..
pleasantly truthful speeches, Mrs, Van
alortot had' long eitlee pliteed her on
the list ivith those who were to be let
oeverely aione. Out on this Tumuli-.
ica Sabbath morning, the last trace of
her enmity Atoned to have dimappear.
ed, while Miss Abigal, with this
strange," ne•W feeling of glednese
ing her heart, felt amiable toward all
he wort&
°Did' you See OtilOtlei llemboyne
thumb Don't you think that he
hail greatly ehangedt" Mrs, Van Nor-
ton asked, while with het eharp ey0i
elle dote): terntinized Miss Abigare
Mee,. The mean for Ilareld Dem-
• goeelpa feet many a day.
Mee Abigai intMedietelY relapsed
tate neelipsYltahtes, and Mrs, Van Nee -
on went voluoty en,
"Aa Paid to life, Van Norton thls
morning, "My dear,' I geld, 'how plea -
tient It will be to Bee. that great house
tithe bnebviteeditaetaIptcuepegalleyemapitdy ertueehneensoi:Ifbiele.
Wes, the lonely feenue that It gives
one, to see rows of =Pee., windows
forever Oaring at one, ad'aVen't YOU
ever felt that way la' •
thrat"fiee4linl, ANISiegvaler,k,i7"watiletaltertaeboflufet
teen yeare had she moiled at that deso-
late house without a wave of utter,
hopeless homesickness sweeping over
. her.
Mee. Van Norton waited a Moment
for a reply, but eeeelvIng nenedrate
tled on,
"The Colonel never would lease or
sell the house, I suppose he alwaya
Meant to cpme batik agein. When Mrs.
Bemboyine arrives, we may hope : ter
see the inside oe it,e . •
• ate there a aers. 13emboynea titan,"
Miss A,bigal asked with •taftected care-
_ aterosetsse,haolkthecinguerh the wo:rds attemed to
alratVan Norton aeljusted. her eye-
glass carefully and attired in amaze-
ment at yor..commuon.
"Why, is it poesible that you have
not heard He is to be married ,in
June to a Barnette ladea whom 'fie mei
abroed. 0, as.sure you, It is no sea -
ref., .1 heard it' frora .atrs. abandon,
'and Mrs, Shendon from Mrs. Hender-
son, arta she flora someone, 'who is well
actigainted with •this lady's cousin. So
we may hope for gay times tbts sum-
mer, Teetae Do come and: gee me
sometimes,'" '
Like one in a dream, Miss .A1:fleet
passed up tbe narreW, winding walk,
end -entered her little home. The roes,
hued glaases ttirough which ,she had
been teeking aad dropped teem her
.eyee, and all the woeld tooked grae
again. Going to bee bureau, she tire*
from the innermost depths of the top
dravier a miniature portrait, . Laving-
ly, lingeringly, she gazed at it. •The
handscime, boyish fete,. with the neep,
earnest eyes peened hopefully- hack in-
to her own: But they brought no
ateseyering °gleam of brightness "'into
- the woman's face. ' A sudden Colour
flushed hei. cheeks, her eyee kindled:
mice more WWI. that fiety Man, Which
had (haven het. .lover from her, and
obeyiag a sudden impulse she turned;
and ,flung the picture into thefire.
, e 46. 5 5
'Weeks went .• by, and ' although
Colonee Beixtboyne called repeatedly
at the little, brown cottage, he lyas
mreiviat0=1:33, net even:a glimpse' of its
: Upon the occasion 'of his 'first vent
Miss Abegal was ill, upon the motel
tii?nlaeores,ent worc:t that :she "was engage
ed..a. After that the Colonel came 00
Meanwhile lis.'avaet not puttered .by
the enter world to vein:Ain undisturb-
. ed. Invitations te turicheen, And , to
denim showered, uooti bina. TIM tine.
delicaeelyetirged envelopes piled there-
' Farces upon his library table •and
mingled their delicate. perfume with
tbe musty odor of the elassio volumes:
Bat all were alike anniaetialle refuse
, While the ladies of atilltrank were
• El vain y en eavOuring o ure t e
grave eoldier into society, the tittle.
chalditen•had found in him a neeeplaye
mate, and the broad halls of the great,
lonely: house, echoed. to the sound of
frolicsigne laugater. andathe palter of
childish feet,
But (thief among, then% all, in , his
heart; reigned Bobby. ,,The child Would
'nestle. his: curly heed upon the broad
Stioulder of "Bimbe," each -was t he
word into which his childish tongue
hail twisted the Colonel's long Dante,.
and -would listen with gaping mouth
end everewidening eyes to the mar;
velem" talee which the Colonel had' to
tell of hunting with elephants in the
junglea of far-avvay .
"An' be sheeted at, 'just when it
was a'delin' to spring Sen him. • Ain't
you glad that Birnho wasn't killed 4"
Bobby would ask• his aunt; ed at •the
supper -table ne' poured into her raves.
the wonderfut stories.,
But at such timee Miss Abigial was
always strange! silent.
"Women On' undeestand about
these thingsa' Bobby would confide to
the Colonel , next day, "and taey are
'tio frightened of everything, Why,
1: int Oman,'" he Would add, planting
seine women are afraid, of mice. When
hie stnrdy feet stoutly on the -floor,
end drawing up his little figuee to
its full height, "when I . am a man,
I will go to Indja, too. I like tO fight.
I am not afreid of anything."' '
- There canto a day :when Bobby com-
plained of cola feet, and an aching
head. Even the Btory ot the Colonel's
hair -breadth .esoape from the Matches
ot the tiger, whotie dotted skin now
adorned the library floor, failed to
interest him, arid it Warr witk anxious
ferebodinge • that the, Colonel in tbe
gathering dusk, carried his little
friend to 'Ulas Abigal's gate. Farthe
er he did net yenture. •
Before another day bad passed
Bobby. was tossing 'feverishly upon hia
snowy bed, wbile Anse Abigal hent
over him with a heavy, heavy heart.
Since the dear 'nether, ane fair, youtig
sister' bad gone to heaven, only Bobby
had been left fok lier to love, otaly
Bobby --and one otner. •
. Over 'and over, wbilie the fever was
stroeg upon him, the child wotild fight
the battles of hie hero friend. Then
when tteteely exhitested his " head
would. fall back again upon the hot
pillow he would call imploringly for
vai.d fcctoroe_1;'
head. •
"Iiirebo, want Ilimboa the
weak, little voice would persiet.
So "Beebe" was tient fors and in
the sick Member the two, who bad
been se long and strangely parted, met
once\ raOre, '
Pak and night they viattched toketia-
tir by the bedside of the little ono,
yet neither epoke except about •tlae
'shit&
" At last the eriale eitnle, "If he
rouses from that stupor he will move
era' the kindehearted old (looter bad
said! as he laureled away test the
anxioue watchers should read, In hts
face hove 'hopeless' he deemed the
Can.
The long night Were tglowly aWay,
end morning dawned.. Vista morn.
in'g •
se 1 Ito s ere u
Jae as in a deteni,sieep. •
"Ile will arena hie Mater in
Heaven," Woe Ablgal maid, with a
Stifled AA, "end r, -X will be aeao-
litereete --
The Colonel drew nearer tee her.
"Abbiti," he fetid; gently.
MSS Ablgai !darted. So Iong a time
had petteed Slime she had heard that
dear forgotten name that she had al-
most forgetten how it sounded,
"Can't you forgive the putt yet,
Abblea he eantinUed pleadingly', "the
time of waiting has seemed to long,
end I have been desolate all these
years,"
Miss Ablgal gaVe a smothered pep,
°Dut the Doeton lady*the lady, who
.:--who is to marry you In /one," she
etammered.
The Colonel looked bewildered'.
"Never heard of her," .he annWerefll
with his° enetoreary, soldier blunt-
rinolk, S.
tiThro all My wanderings have
.•
heart true tO the woinexi .love, and I
have comae back et last to spend the
rest of my life witb her, if she will RARIESSINCL
receive nue Am I weleome de. rf"
Before Mee Abigal coped make reply STUPENDOUS PROJECT UF bliGhISO
there was a stir amen the blankete ESC/MORS EOYPZ
in the Uttle cot, and a drOWSy V9100
gpleriZ:11111414111g-:214:171L!g Wrilt17:1:1=1:4114:r:g::44ftrmlied
votes flatly died aWay.ae, with 4 bre
worshippere were tangling' tbe Easter
hymen, of Biblical fame, who foeced the Nile
to v homage to the etaeving province.
"Christ the Lord Is rised to -day, P4e.
Sone, of men and angehe my: of Planta, uP to the present daY, have .
Rais•P your sena 'tad voices high, revealed wondere and yielded riches be- •
Slag ye heavens ;,thou earth rePly1"
Louder and clearer swelled the yea, measure to the reapers of her
frititful Wheu time was young
taitemphant strain, until like a glad
dbeurrkstenoefd sruomunsh.inasudit, berattAgnifinitt? it hi, ee ot hf se a v, aglilgeayntteifo,f;hneaNsiluecowellifs nal evtenhetautreozt.
man and woman clasping.hands across one which, in the light of the nine, -
the littl b d, tio d th teenth centiny, is a pOnle tO scholare
Prayer to Gode, :
result of which will transform the Net-
. lifted up tb tr hearts in thankful and scientiate--the erection of the PYrae-
mids. ' The curtain is Omit to rise on
-4-
DORRII3LE OfttltILTY. another scene equally wonderful, the
. -,e.
flew the Pate de Foie peuesey le Made In bianaleaert from a trackless etretch of
Prance, • paralied sends to a glovving 'EaYldtar*
A recent Paris Figaro gives us a gaiden.
. very interesting description of bow Mr. Frederic- Courtland Perifieldeex- .
,
that delteace of delietteles, pate de foie oconsul-general hi Egypt, tells. us, in ' '
grate ia Made, To the ordinary Man the February Century, in' a schOlarly
and woman rui eta:emotion of the tor: end fascinating wayerefewhat iii to be ,
tore to which the poor. unfortunate one of the •Most brilliant ,triutapbs ot
goose is Pet could possibly be imaginr civil engineering-hdruesstieed the Nice,
ed. ' • and, compelling "it to surrender Ha
The geese when about nine months magical ricalias to the sone! Ile
old are taken from the pastures, and says; "To creete in the heart of the
wileabe,re.. .b.roe.d, slanting stone slabs ttrOo. :Jai:tie:47es th..e su.tre,rficia,,.1. area of
placed in an underground cellar, African. desert apoluankeehaving from' two•
stand. in owe, and aro bound fast to
the tablee, •' They are literally ornate
, • • SCIENTIFIC PRECISION,
Lake Geneva, in Switzerland, and cen-
Feet, wing§ end bodies are spread. 'so that the ire d d tided Ma; be
out and bound by bands,. so that only
the neck le left free.. As may be turned into dietant 'channels at ' wilL
imagined, the animel struggtes with isertha,esi3tsuspetnhdeouestgiunne4ere:t_7ahkaivneg.'p'erN.fee0vt",-
ed their plans' down .to the minuted
details even tat tomputing the exact
volume •of water whieh 'wilt. enrich led
Miles of now barren sane.
"British (=treaters have agreed that .
tlae dam that is to 'hold up the historio e
river on which Oleonatra floated in her •
.gilded barge,'and en which Moses wae
cradled, will be conipleted by Jule le
WM It will be built of granite.ashier,
newel of which Will be quarried from
the Assuan side of the river, coming
from the ledges that furnish, the obe- ,
lisks that now stand in Centred Park
in New York, on Leaden's Thainea Em--"
bankrrient, and in the Place de0a Cqn--
cord' in Paris. It will be seventy-slx
all. its 'might against this stretching,
till, after days of vain' endeavor to
free itself from the bands and its
pesition, its powers -of resistaoce are
overcome, and a " dull resignation,
brekee only by ,its tear ories, takee
riesfs.ession of it. Two- Months must
pass away before death, brings tee
. The aninials meanwhile are oram-.
med With dumplings made of a dough
of buckwheat; cheeenuts and eteeied
maize.- Every two hours, six times a
day; they receive from three to five
.
dumpling pills, wbich in time become
so sweet to the .tortured. creatures
that they stretch their necks tee*
- r ra ect.
The Most difficult task is te deter-
mine the right moment. ler death,
owe accord feet high in _places, and, with its ap-
Those :who die of their
arAaehes, nearly a mile ,and .quarter ;
are lost to the livei factory, therefore
a kind ef 'study. is needed to tee when loni.s. Tlie difference lir wateeelevel
.thoeceleogeagony jeeeeireeeing ocruL above and below the dam will he ferty- •
six' feet, and the top of the etructure7-------
the Jiver is ' ripe for taking.. The thIrty or 'forte• feet to widtle-will give
bodies of such ripe ones are like pumeie • b_riege facidties to pedestrains, dame/
kins--Where ordinarily fingers are trams and other traffic of the region.
-buried in flesh and fat nothing bet eThe contractors peesent...wait looke
like a Moderate bill, They'ais to re- •
cave (1800,000 a year :far 'thirty years,
aggregating about '824,000,000. As an
incentive for them to live zip to their,
'TIMBER ELgcTsICALpr SEASONED agreement, the first payment by the.
Egyptian goeseenment is not to Llamado
A. ;Pam System 'Which Maio* valueless until.the,work is completed afid accept-
ed. The credit ie a long one, certainly,
- Weeds Await:tibia ror Streetaist Work;
And its preemie aotudrial value eannot
The process. of• seasoning aod pre- be much be excess of 810,000,000. The
eerving wood by electricity, which has ability of Egypt to make such a fav-
orable, .contract, by which she appare
wetly takes little risk, and -is to_ pap .
aivaerovery year, only a poetion °dale
slam the reservoir brings to her eta
ehiquer, reflects the •
skin and bone Is found. The . livers
have absorbed all the strength a.nd
juicere
of late •attracted much attention, has
many points of advantage. whieh
likely to go a long way toward in-
suring 'the ultimate success of the
ntelliddaa One great -xecommendatten ENVIABLE POSITION
for fire wood, sin,ce they will not
'woods which are at present uied only eaacrtineen:t omfaayrefautrBthreitar ibuastiankteenutiaosu atna
retain indefinitely ' her grasp upon the
of the new system its ehat certain of her national credit. The trans -
stand seasoning in the ordinary way, lahd' of the Pharaohs. English en.,
can thuti 630 rendered available for gineeas and surveyors and a horde of
nativeddborers are already at work at
znstrerste"xhalibiWtedrk:o 11"11usotraatteththeis sqPecualt
unusable in carpentei; Owing to the
common in France, but hitherto quite
itY aro aome species of larch, yery ilittAripcnn'ebse'ne441
froSmo faarpuwreelhy
that the per ng such a .plan will
f eaaedeasvteso: iifinyl gnetotruietyr.o,opre ad our efeomr etubtrl ea, .
oeenookfrodpaptinttheofmvaitetweti •
extent to wbich shakes developed in be of , b 6 „ aa to Effvotia.
seasoning, The specimens vvere per- onntizatnieett ultiquealtionabie-,—Beaft
featly sound, and both heart and sap mingling, with the enthusiastic crier(
weed could be planed with equal -ease of the engineers are heard minor tenet
and: efficiency. The tteatment makes --the voice of the historiaus archeolo.
the wood absolutely impervious to gists and ' sentimentaltats, ''peotestins
damp and prevents its decay, '' An- against the ruthless hand of.the utile
other advantage of the method is that, earten. A few yearn ago the officials,
to far, none of the large Mass of virood- intent upon darniteing the Nile at the
destroying or wood -puncturing in- ' first cataract, caused a wave of indig.
sects haee been known to attack wood nation to sweep aoross the continents.
'electrically seasoned, Even now more The Nile would be dammed -yes -but
than 25 melee feet can be cured for so alao would•England's honor, accura-
te, and the process is of the kind that ing to the late Sir Frederick Leighton,
will ,naturally be cheapened. The wwibtoh raeumoiaerukfedittihteateew"oaunied tbaernap eft! sne.
wood to be treated is placed on rests
ing blow on the British occupation et
in, a tank containing a solution of 10
per cent of borax, 5 per cent of resin,. mEdeYrgliitn.; ofFtehreiftamwootAdtenithepanie tolareillottmlei
and 5 per cent. of carbonate -of soda
Ombos, part of the town of Assuan, and
totubrenescluenkrt
dWthroiCrall also tbe classic groves and temples n1
cAa uhseeartl'rh ectrorleuntilimis
the bottom to the top, and the whole the island of Philos, for months at a
mass or wood is "tormented by the emu- time- -.1-
bitted resin, borax arid soda, through • And so from then on the utilitarians
electrocapillary attraotion. The resin and ercheolog. ists have been splitting
ing, and the boric abid acts as en an -
seals the fibers of the wood after cool- hairs over their several propositiona
striving to effect a compromise where-
tiseptic, The sap displaped from the 'lay the metal' of eivilization mity.con-
wood rises to the surfaCe of the bath tinue 'without trampling upon the
during the operation, and (he resin in ereasurtegroves of antiquite.
ii, ralarea with that in the solution. The ' '
time required for the operation variee ' - •
BEAUTIFUL WortiC, .
from five to eight hours, acierding to
—.
.
the nature atid stete of the wood. tin-
der treatment, green, wood being •easi- Javanese Workmen Deenetithtg the Masi
er to treat than wood nearly, dry. artisttc Howie ea itissitort.
Whitt has been declared to be the
TEE HUNGRY sEA. most artistio house in London . is just
being completed for Mortimer Ntenpes, .
Three FInglInsIV'zsittuti,4,1:yeideirlit:Iiig-Gro'nea OW -artist-. -- fleventy 4apanesa---o.ral ,...,.. _
Chinese skilled artisan's, working for
Reports from Duneviche Ahlborough a few cents a day, have Produced the
and Southwold, three towns on the demra tattle, whIch in scheme arid, treat..
east coast of England, state Chet dur- meta are strictly japaneee, and. under
ing and since the recent huiritaries the artist's personal planning arld di -
the sett has made alarming inroads up- rection have created iebettereeef mav-
en the shore. Duriwich bas suffered vetoes beauty. '
More titan any town on the coast. This 1610.3 er 3 lute the motif fot Path r. om,
wart at ene time one a tho largest the drawing room being decorated in
commercial citiee ot England, t hough peonies the studio in camelliate Ott.
"t v but a em 11 vtlia 1 th '
dining remit in cherry blossonta ano ,
last century it had a great number
oaf!, eolifatructliehefne<xteinepetnathstii,cruiniost4ituoftiorusi attetheimhruemeae.ntrIanaceetiebharloolnin
i,iitheeidiro3:-
.Saialte Chetah, have been wasbed away In/int !lower idea is carried out in the
by tila sea. And now a number of
beee ., been meet meet minute details. The etering of
private residences
into the deep, and the remainder of : the drawing room is Iaid out inpanels,
the village is threatened with degtruce with the flowers (laved in po.ished
tiott by the waves.
An *Id chrealiole . records that a ' ableeektelevee% epeneacreeehlrogaorldee ardavaino „
Foretit, extended several tailes sehth- .„4I„,i,k, e'''.
wood, called. Eastwotod,montythyeealtatiinag;(130.,
east a the town, bu gold, ' uP which run the
Alt arched *cornice of black aet- ''''*"'
with a frieZe; of the soma flower, whieh
k''-ii‘o^eted stems, connects the ceiling
it was destroyed by the sea. In an
irruption of the sea in 1739 the roots (4 teemed again on Um doox• panels
and casings, and even on the handles
posed. On the copper fitted fireplace it agnio
crroahAntReetts hal Inthaedn' tinovnit4ei:fg Anind: , htiookiretahrs.,. atiwoin eutohremmttailinpegoutfa thoet
borough. Title plitee was. aleo tonnide bronze support the tall and natisrv
Southwoid, since a recent
luth:resetithernhatZ triftaip.eduUmprity)nttotuhseanetirosit bpaioinlotran,l; divtinri.4,5110,0014a Isteinirvizt wanact '
pouride are being *eat oh thIPtlee ,t,ierattilmiiineJ,satullatowee_,tt
trebly larger in the last eentursyu.rv
knilon: toinbe setehne
‘A'Yt' Pi'llegiareltutiftil poreelain ',cherry
vvork ,
Palmed eompleted alortraits of Sir
Dootertet/Iblt:ireleirenyol4tiGhNavTis8Me sort tidy Et i era Cecil, M:s9 Pamela Plow -
Arthur Paifour, Sir Henry Swinge
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