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LAND COMPANY'S SEE THE OREGON OO Acres of Garden Land, New Plat of HOP LAND AND FRUIT LAND, FROM $35 TO $60 PER ACRE. Red Brick Block, North. End of Commercial Street. n-n.-rarravr tThtxtjo cju - . mm WfcM MM 1BBM-B- B"" II A SERMON ON BAMLON. I DISCOURSE PREACHED SUNDAY, JAN. 25, DY DR. TALMAQE. A Oraphlo IJesrlplloii of tho Wonilira of tlila Anelent Pagan City Home I.e on That Hlioolil Ho Hcclel to Ho Drawn from IU Fall. Mntiment, "Ob, Kln IieUUizar, live for everl" IJcslftrrcd headband nud carainct of royal beauty plcntn to the uplifted chal loca, ns again and nKaln and again they are emptied. Away with care from the palace! Tear royal dignity to tattcrsl ' I'our out more wind Give u rnoro light, wilder music, Hwecter perfume! Iord uliouU to lord, captain ogles to captain. Goblet rliuili. decnntein rattlo. There cornet) In J the vile bouk, and the drunken hiccough, I and tho dluvcring lip, and the guiTaw of I Idiotic laughter, buretiug from the ilrw of I Tirlnrni (llmlinl. rfcllllLT. l)l(Hxlhot: wllllo Talmago mingling with itall I hear, "Iluzzal huizal Rrooklth. Jan. 25. Dr. preached the following sermon this morn- toT grcat jjchihazzarl" THK IJAKDWIUTINO ON T1IK WALL. Ing in the Academy of MubIc in thU city, and he repealed it lo-mgnt ai me wuriv tlaa Herald ncrvlco In tho New York Acad emy of Mtwlc. His text wan Daniel v, 80; "In that night was Belshazzar, the king of the Cbaldeaai, elnln." Aiter the site of Hubylon Iial Ixx-n ho lectcd, two million of men were nmployeil i M(, u wMl hnr,, t,, 0f flnre, for the construction of tho wall and prln-' Krava4 on tlj0 ,,iMteririg tho loom of cipal works. Tho walls of Uui p city weru k) Thfl nI((lc Hto,w The goblet litv miles in circumference, 'lliry wero surrounded by a trench, out of which had been dug the material for tho construction of tho city. There wore twenty-fire gaU-i of solid brass oh each side of the square city. Uctwecn every two gates a grunt tower sprang up lnU the heavens. Kniui each of tho twenty-five gales on cither side a street ran straight through to the gate on tho other side, so that tliero were fifty streets, each fifteen miles long, which gavo to tho city an appearance of wonderful regularity. What is that on the plastering of the wallf Is It a spirit? Is It a phantomf Is it God? Out of the black sleevo of the darkness a finger of fiery terror trembles through tho air and comes to tho wall, circling about as though It would write, cn-the ng. Tho music stops, me gooiui. inns from the nerveless grasp. There is a thrill. There is a start. There Is a thousand vol co I shriek of horror. I-t Daniel be brought In to resul that writing. Ho comes in. Ho roads It, "Weighed In tho Uilnnto and found wanting." Meanwhile tho Assyrians, who for two years had been laying siege to that city, took advantage of thatcarousnl and came in. I hear tho feet of tho conquerors on the palace stairs, Miuwicru rushes In with a thousand gleaming knives. Death bursts upon the sceno, auu 1 miui uio uoor ui Tho houses did not Join eoeh other mi tho u'mt mmUCtinK' hall, for I do not want to ground, and between them were gardens and shmuocry. rroui nousciop m wiuiw top bridges swung, over which tho Inluilx ltants were accustomed to pass. A branch of tho KuphroUM went through the city, over which a bridge of marvelous structure was thrown, and under which a tumid ran. To keep tho river from overflowing tho city In time of freshet, it great lake was ar ranged to catch tho surplus, In which the water was kept as In a reservoir until times of drought, when it was sent streaming down over the thirsty land. A palore stood nt each end of tho Kiiphrates bridge: one palace a mllo and threi-iiuirtors it. compass, anil tho other paloco seven and a half miles in circumference. Tho wife of Ncbuchadnc7.wr, having lawn brought up among thu mountains of Media, could not stand it In this flat country of Habylon, and so to pleasohcr Nelmehadner..ar had a mountain four hiindrod feet high built In tho midst of the city This mountain was surrounded by ter races, for thosupportof which great arches were lifted. On thu top of these arches lint stones were laid; then a layer of reeds and bitumen: then two rows of bricks, closely cemented; then thick sheets of lend, upon which tho soli was placed, Tho earth heru look. There is nothing there but torn Isiuners, and broken wreaths, and tho slush of upset tankards, and the blcxxPof mur dered women, and the kicked and tumbled carcass of a dead king, l'or "in that night was llebtliazzar, tho king of tho Chaldeans, slain," UKAll IT A8 IT IB. I go on to Iwirn that when God writes nliythlug on the wall, a man had lietUir road it as It Is. Daniel did not misinter pret or modify the handwriting on the wall. It Is all foolishness to expect a mln lster of trim Gospel to preach always things that tho H-oplo like or the p;ople cliuoar. Ycunu men, what shall I preach to you to nlglitf Bhall I tell you of the dignity of human naturer Hhall I tell you of the wonders that our nice has accomplishing "Oh, nol" you say; "tell mo Ihu incwHUgu that came from God." I will. If there is any handwriting on tho wall it Is tlds les son, "Accept of Christ and be savcdl" I might talk of a gn-al many other things, lull that Is the uu-sMige, and so I declare it Jesus never Mattered those to whom ho preached. He said to those who did wrong and wlio were olfeimlvu In his sight, "'t generation of vl.orsl ye whIUxl sepulchersl how can jo escape the damnation of hell!" . ...... . . . .-, -- deiosltl was so deep that lliu largest tree ,, ., t1(J mMUitju ,,rwU;hi)d before a man had room to anchor tlielr roots, All the w() w)m ml mu)v U) iiviur llm pr,a,ci,, glory of tho llowrry tropics was spread out Wml ,,..bj(ict ,u,j ,o Uikof Did hu say, at that tremendous Mulil, until It must 01l , ro n l)iMi .., u vry ,lll4 Ilmll havuHMimiil to ouo Isilow as tliougn llie ' vury llobl ,.,fi- No; ho preuched of clouds wore all In blorwom, mid tho very iky leaned on the shoulder of the cellar. At the top an engine was constructed which drew tho water from tho Kiiphrates, far below, and made It spout up amid this (.anion of tho skies. All this to please his wlfol I think she must have been pleased. THK TKMl'I.K OK IIKMIli. Ill tho midst of this city sIikmI also tho rluliUouiiuMs to a man who was nnrlglit eons; of temperance to a man who was the Willm of bad opputltes; of lliu jndguiont to come to a man who was unlit for it, So wo must always declare tho message that happens to route to us. Daniel must read It as it Is. A minister preached before James I of Knglaud, who was James VI of Scotland. What subject did hu taker tflinplrt of llellis, One of Its lowers was .r, lug wns noted all over the world for ouo-elghth of it mile high, and on the top ,n., unseltUsI and wavering In his Idea, of it an oliservulory, which gave the as , What did the minister preach alsut to ironoiiiersgrwilniivaniago, as, iKMiigai so ; t,, ,,.,, .,, WM jni,-s 1 of Kuglaud itrent a halulil. one could easily talk with thu stars, This temple was full of cups ud statues and censors, all of gold. Ono Image weighed n thousand llaliylonlsh ta louts, which would Ui equal to llfty to mllllim dollars, All this by day; but now uighl was alsiut to comedown on Dab) Ion. The shailows of her two hundred mid llfty towers Isjgau to lengthen, The Knphruti rolled on, touched by thu liery splendors of thu setting sun, mid gates of brass, bur alshcd and glittering, oi-enixl and shut like doors of llmne. Thu hanging gardens of Babylon, wet with the heavy dew, lsgan to X)iir from starlit flowers nud dripping leaf a fragrance fur many miles around. Tho streets and squares were lighted fur tlaneo and frollo mid promenade, Tho theatres mid galleries of art Invited the wealth and pomp mid grandeur of the city to rnre entertaluinontH. 8eene of riot and wassail were mingled In every itrect; godless lulrlh, and outrageous ex cum, mid splendid wlekedutvis oamo to the king's palaco to do their mightiest deeds nf dsrkuess. A royal front to night nt tho king's pal icol Hushing up to thu gates are chariots, nphoUtored with precious clotlis from De ian mid drawn by lire eyed honsn from rogarmah, that rear and neigh In the trnupnf theehnrloteert, while a thousand lords dismount, aud women dressed In all the splendors of Syrian emerald, and the lor blending of sgute, and theehivsteuess jf oonil, and the soniU'r glory of Tyrlau Curple, and the princely embroideries roiight from nfur ly oamrls acro-ss thu icscrt, and by lil from TarshUh liertws the sea. urr nut uummi imk i.s. Open wide tho gates aud let the glints soma iu, Thu ehamtwrlalns mid oup iMutr-' trsnre all ready Hark to ths rustle of the rolie, mid to thu ctrol of thu imi-idl gee tho Mom of tho jewels! l.lfl the iwu Oers. Fill the cup Clap the ryinl wis. Blow the trumpol-. lt tlu night go by with song and ilatioa mid ovation; mid 1st Hist lUbylouUli tougus lw paUled that will uot my, "Oh, King lWhaar, live forevsrl'1 AM my frlsiids, it was uot miyooin-iion Imliqucl to whlsli tlit-M great tieopls uhiu. AH parts of the uirtli lisd sotit their i .ru ral viands to that tahls. HraskwU and ihaudetlers lU.he-l their lUUl upon (auk ordsof buruuhnt gold Krulu, rlM and IumiIous, In boskets of stiver. mt. lived irttli lev-s, pluskrd from royal eooM-rva lories. Vwm, luUld with emerald ami ridged with exqilUtl IretOerlm, tilled "llll uuts that were ikriubed from foreat of JUUnt lands Wine brought fruiulhrsi)nl f ats.fssmlHg 111 the dreamer and bo Wdlug lutUselrSlUv. TufuofeAwiaaudfraukiti censs wafting thvlr awvotiiOMt from wsll ami Utile. Uorgvoils Usiiuer unfolding III the lireote that earn llirouuh I lie oxued lu dow, bowlubed with the perfmno of hsug lux ganleos. rVuutalus rUiug up from lu closure of trury tu J"t4 of crystal, to fall u clslUirtug rotu of dlaiuowds aud -arts. titituos of lulghiy lurw looking Uvu frooi pkhc4 lu lbs wall ui-oaerowns 4 shulds bruUBht from subdued in pi res. IduU uf ivomUrf ul work, standiug wu JcuU of precious stouos, Kwbfvlderteo drooping about tbo windows aud wrapping i-tlUr bf coiar, a4 drlfUug oo tlovir lulald with (rory and agsM. Muuc. imuttng tb Ihruta of bn, aud the olasU of aymbaU. a4 tbblslof truiuiwU loouowawuf ru(wrt tbst weul rippling along tho wall, ftud breihiug among lua garUuda, tMd surlugt)MWU tho corridors, id thrill lug the oouls of a ihwusaud buquetr. Tba sigual It jitvan, aud tb Iprdi am) Udlca, b mighty uca and wowm of lh laud, cwiua arouud tha Ubl. IVur oa U wlua, IM foAW and bubble kU tbs rtml pjoUt Try ouo LU cap, wd drink to U and Jiimes VI of Scotliiudf He took for Ids text James I, 0: "He that waven-th is ilku a wave of tho son, driven with the wind and tossed " Hugh Uitlmer nlTendiHl tho king by a sermon hu preached, and the king sold, "Hugh Uitlmer, come and iiKlogizu." "1 will," said Hugh Iallincr. rJo the day was npHilnttil, and tho king's chapel was full of lords and dukes, aud tho mighty men and women of the country, for Hugh Uillmer was to apologize. He Ixigau his sermon by sarlngi "Hugh Iatimer, Im I think thevt Thou art lu the premtuco of lllllio iMirilil) auik, wmi inn uminij vnjr IhhI)'. Hut Is'lhluk theti, Hugh Uttlmer, that thou art In tho presence of thu King of heaven and earth, w ho can destroy both body mid soul III hell lire." Then he preached with appalling directum til tho King's crimes THK IIUUIXNINU AND THK KN COKTIIAHTK1) Another Icttioti that ionics to us. There U a great illlfereucu betvieti thu opening of thu ttauquclof sin and lu chwe Young limn, If you had looked lu usiiithe ban quel III tho llrsl few hour, you would hao wished you had t-eon InvluJ there, nihl could sit al the fra.st. "Ohl thu grandeur of IWUIiatinr'.i fitastl" you would have said, but you look iu at thu close of the banquet, and our nlood curdles with hornr. Tho King of Terrors has there a ghastlier hiuquul, human blotftl Is U1" wine, mid iblug grem.s are the musle. Bui has Hindu ll-sulf a king lu the esrth. It has crviwiunl iUelf It has spread a Imvii quit. It Invites all the world to comu to It, It has hung lu U Umqilellng hall thu spo.ls of all kingdoms nud the tmunors of all 'lallous. It has gall rsl from all mil sic It ns strewn, from Its wntllli, thu lab r mid the lltsirs an I arches. Aud yet how often l that luuquel brokuu up, mid how horrible Is lis end! Kvur a, id auou thtiM Is a handwriting ou the wall. A kit g falls, A great culprit Is arrested. Tin Mice of wlekuduoK kuook together Gist's judgment, like mi armed litvit, breaks lu iiou lUi Uiuqusl, aud that night la lki idi.iuar, tho king of thu Ohaldmna, shi il. Hsretsa )ouug man who say: "I can not why they uiake stiah a fui aUiut (be iiuoiii.iluu vtip Why, it U eUlls rating) Il mi-.es ins fid wvdl 1 oait talk Mtvr, think better, -J ts-ltsr. I ratiuot kv- why iswidu bao situh a prejudico ag-tiiMi tt A fw -wr xus ou, aud hu wuks up aud finds htm4t lu the alulohra of mi evil Ub4l wbloli ho tries U break, but on h not, od he vns out, ' Oh, Uml Uil. I4 ills'" It tr-wots as thuugh God would uot U-sr his pro)wr, ami tu u agouy uf Uxly ami mhiI he vries out, "ll Uteth like a seriwut, ami It UHg'lh ltk au ailder." Huw bright ll was al Uieslartl How hlsuk ll was al the last! TMK HoMHuUi ur a wsn'i urx llsrv is a utauwho tgtas to read cur rurt uowls. 'Tbey are so charming." so) he, "1 will go out ami fr liijxlf wliWherall theM thlugs are so," He oi-olis (he galoot astuful Ufa. He go.- In. A klhful sprite Uinta htui with Lor waud rh wm bvr w aud, aud ll U all Mihattl Went. Why, It MViuss If the augt-ls of (lil hod Jtourtxl out phials of l-orfums In I he atwtiihcro. A bo walks ou ho ttuds k bills Usxwdug Wre nwIUul with foil Mjnaml tho rat two uwru rona)ii with tUufaiilug water Oh what a ebanuing imUc. bo xwl Uul that sinful sprit wllit hr waud uteris him again, lait uow the ret mm tho waud, ami alt Iho eoohant Htc-t-l U k Tb su(i U full kf oUou. Tk froH turns to aU. AU lbs Icatirs) of lhaboworare forked longuos of bluing aerpauU. Tho fiowlug fuuUla fall twwi lu a dd IKxd, abMxh ful with corrujUott, Tho luriag sor-s Ui- come curses nnd screams of demonLic laughter. Lost spirits gather about blm uml fiw-l for hl'i heart, and Ijeckon him on with "Hail, brother! Hall, blasted spirit, hall!" Ho tries to get out. He comes to the front door where ho 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 Hel shazwir, the king of tho Choldeans, slain." Kin may open bright as the morning. It ends dark as tho jilglit! I learn further from tills subject that Death sometimes breaks in upon a banquet. Why did he not go down to the prisons in Babylon? Theo wero pciplo there that would like to havo died. I suppose there were men and women in torture iu that city who would have welcom-d Death. But he comes to the palace; and just nt the time when the mirth is dashing to tho tip top pitch Death breaks in ai the banquet. Wo have often seen tiie same thing illus trated. Hero is a young linn Just come from college. Ho Is kind. Hu is loving. He is enthusiastic Ho is eloquent. By ono spring ho may bound to heights toward which many men have been strug gling for years. A profession oens before him. Hois established in the law. His friends cheer him. Kmincnt men enconr age him. After a while you may see him standing In tho United Suites semile, or moving n popular lUisufiihhigo by ids eloquence, as trees are moved In a whirlwind. Some night ho retires early. A fever is on him. Delirium, like a reckless charioteer, seizes the reins of his intellect, father mid mother stand by and see tho tides of ills life going out to the gre.it ocean. The b.m quet is coming to au end. The lights of thought and mirth and eloquence are being extinguished. Thu garlauils are snatched from tho brow. Tho vision is gone. Death at the banquet! IIKATII AT TIIK 11ANCJUKT. Wb saw tho samo tiling on a larger scale Illustrated at the last war In tills country. Our whole nation had been sitting at a national banquet north, south, east and west. What grain was there lint we grew It on our hills What Invention was there but our rivers must turn tho now wheel and rattle thoHtriingoshtittic. What warm furs but our traders must bring them from tlio Arctic. What llsh but our nets must sweep them fur tho markets. What music hut It must sing iu our halls. What eloquence lint it must H'ak In our sen iitcs. Ho! to tho national li.iuqucl, reach lug from mountain to mountain, mid from sea to scat To prepare that banquet the slieepfolds and the aviaries of tho countr) wnt their Is-st treasuries. Tho orchards piled up ou the table their sweetest fruits Tho presses burst out with new wines. To sit at that table came tho jconmnry of New Hampshire, mid the lumbi'imuu of Maine, and thu Carolinian from the rice fields, and thu western emigrant from the pines of Oregon, and we were all brothers brothers at il Imnqiiet, Suddenly the feast ended. ' What meant those mounds thrown upat Chicknmaiiga, Shlloli, Atlanta, Gettys burg, South Mountain? What meant those golden grain tlclc!n turned Into a posturing ground for cavalry horses? Wiiat meant Hie corn fields gullied with the wheels of the heavy supply train? Why tlioso rivers of tears those takes of lihsslf God was angry! .Justice must come. A haudwrlt Ing ou the wall! Thu nation iiad keen weighed and found wnnting. Darkness! Darkness! Wisi to the north! Wis) to tho south! Win! to the east! Wis) to tiie westl Death at the banquet! I havo also to learn f rem the subject that the tlcstructlott of the vicious, aud of those who despise (iod, will be very sudden. The wavo of mirth hod dashed to the highest point when that Assyrian army broke through. It was uiiuvik-cUsI Suddenly, almost always, comes the, doom of those wlio despise (iod aud defy Die luws of men. How was It at thu deluge r Do you supposo 11 camu through a long northeast storm, so tltat people for days Ixifore were sure it was coming? No; 1 suppose thu morning was bright, that calmness brood ed on tho waters; that Uvvuty sat en throned ou the hills, when suddenly thu. heavens burst, mid Ihu mountains sauk ilke anchors into thu sua that dashed clour over tlxi Andes and thu Himalayas. OVKHWIIKLUKI) IS TIIK WATKK8. Tho lied sea was divided. The KgyiKlans tried to cross It. There could be no danger Thu Israelites had just gone through. Where they had gone, why not the Kgyp thins? Ohl it was such a beautiful walking place! A Jiaveiueut of tinged shells aud (icarls, mid on either side two great walls of water -nolld There cm tsi no danger. Forward, great hosts of iho KgjptUns! Chip llie eymlkals, and blow the trumpets of lctory! After them1 Wo will natch them yet, and thuy shall Ui destroyed But tlie walls U'giu to tremble. Thuy rock! They fall! The rushing watorsl The shriek of drowning men! The. swimming, of the war buries In vulu for the shore! The strewing of thu great boat on tho Kttouof the wvi, or pitched by the angry waveou the beach -a Uittered, bntlxl and loath some wreck! Suddenly destruction came. One-halt hour bof ore they could not hae Mlowsl It, Destroyed, mid without remedy I im just setting forth a foot, w liich you hate miiiccsl iv well as I. Ananias conies to the t)tlo. The as(le ays, "Did )ou srll the laud for so1 much?" He sys, "Yck" llwasalle, Deadlaaqiiick nslhat! Sspphlra, his wife, romos in. "Did you mdl the land for so much?H "Yes.'' It was a lie, uiul quick as that she was ihvid Gisl's Judgments are mmn those whode spUe him aud dsf) him They eouio sud dviily. The destroying angvl weul through Kg)pt. IK) )ou supikmh) tliat any of the jmople knew thai ho was coining? Did lhay hear tho lisp of Ids great whig? Nol po Suddenly, unenHvtwII) , hu etuiic killed sorlmeii do not Ilk to shoot a hint (.landing on a sprig usir by If they are skilled they prklo thesttslvw ou tak ing It on the wing, and they wait till it ataru. lkvith U an old Kirl-uiau, aiid ho lon to lake men llytug uivler the ury ami. lie hvm lo taku them cu t4io wltij. A WOWU TO THK I'NlMtVltRriUl. Are there any here who are nupreparxxl for Iho denial world? Are there any hre who hs txvti lulug without lUxl aud without hoe? Ut me say to yon that you had luttor awvpl of llto lnl Joaus ChrUt, Irol sttddotily your last ehatiro Is) puo. Tb litiur will vak to breathe, tho heart wtll Up. Tho time will come whoa you hall go no tuivo lo tho oltttv, or to iho tore, or to tho abort. Nothiug will U Utt bill IVtath ami Jndgmotil and Ku-rulty. Oh) riM lo Insl thu hour' It Uioro lw oa u this prewiioe who has wondeml tar way from Christ, though ho iay not hav board iho eall of iho gvpol tor many a year, 1 invito hint mw to eotuo aud bo aavtsl. rlea trow thy alu! Hs to ths stronghold of iho comxJI Now U Ibo a nlglit by something, thou knowest not what, and there be shadows floating in the room, nnd a handwriting on the wall, and you feel that your last hour Is come, and there be n fainting at tho heart, and a tremor in tho limb, and a catching or tno breath then thy doom would be bnt an echo of tho words of the text, "In that night was BeUhazxar, the king of the Chal deans, slain." TIIK GOSPEL ISVITATIOK. ' Hear the Invitation of the Gospel! There may Is) some one in this nous? to whom I shall never speak again, and therefore let it bo in the words of tho Gospel, nnd not in my own, with which I clese: "Ho, every one that tiilrstethl Como ye to the waters. And let him that hath no money come, buy wino and milk without money, and without price." "Come unto me, nil ye who aro.wcary and heavy laden, and I will idvc vourcst." Ohl that.uiy Lord Jesus would now make himself so attractive to your souls that you-omnot resist him; and that, If you havo never prayed before, or have not prayed since those days when you knelt down lit ydur mother's knee, then that to-night you miht pray, saying: Just as I am. . ,thout one pica Iiut that thy blool won she.1 Uir me, , And that thou biil'stind coto-S to tlioe. O Lamb of OoJ, I come! But if you cannot think of so long a prayer im thnt, I will give you n shorter prayer that you can say, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner!" Or, if you cannot think of so long a prayer as that, I will givo you a still shorter ono that you may utter, "Ird, save mo, or I perish!" Or if that bo too long a prayer, you need not utter one word. Just look and live! How to Ilegnrd the Pant. In the "good old times" men lived un der thu horrid shadows of frightful super stitions. Now it is to modern science only that we owe our emancipation from the yoke of tills awful tyranny. Scientific ex plorers have Ikhiii over the earth and, find ing no mouth of hell, that is gone. Science lias explained earthquakes und volcanoes, nnd now devils fight no longer in tho bow els of the earth. A'.lna nnd Vesuvius aro no longer veutholo of the pit. Astronomy lias shattered the follies of astrology, and people hao found out Unit the stars are minding tlielr own business instead of meddling with theirs, and eclipses, no longer moon swallowing monsters, are only very natural and well behaved shad ows. Since psychology is studied wo know that witchcraft is folly, and irusanity is only a disease to bo treated anil curfd, Thus science, likaa niothi r going upstairs to Isjd with licr'friglitcned boy, has been with her candlo into all the old dark cor ners that used to make us creep and cringe and shiver with terror. Croakers always hove had a sH'cial faculty for seeing "breakers ahead" und smooth water be hind. But tho sober facts of history justify the statement that nbver was' tliushipof human hope it; sVauclier trim, aud never was a fairer, broader sea ahead. What tlieu Why, this: In spite of pres ent Ills mid dilllculties mid corruptions and discouragements, learn to seo tilings as thuy are. How many a curse has this servile, unreasoning worship of the past fastened upon us! As if nn evil that has stood a .thousand years was not as abomi nable i us one sprung up today! We ought indeed In church, society and state to rev erenco,tlu piwtjis, father. voftho present, lint not so blindly as to keep errors and fallacious systems simply Is-aiuse our an cestors endured them. Minot J. Savage in Arena. MUlruiltllk" Hook" Title. A isHjicr has jvou read Isifore the Library association ou thu misleading titles of UHMlern Usiks. Thosubject is ono in which tho IsHik bu) ing public Is necessarily in terested. There arc many, even iu these shrewd and careful times, wlio purchase volumes on thu strength of advertisements. or after a casual glance at the luimes of a lxok and its author. -The wiser mind waits to ktiowftlnicdilng utfiut the wurwi tfcred to it, but to many the mere title of i hook is alluring, suggesting all sorts of possibilities which may or may uot be fill filled. Mankind does not loam by expert enca, cither jjcrsonally or by deputy. With the old standing example before them of tho Ingenuous countryman who bought Huskiu's work "On tho Construc tion of Slieepfolds" under the Impression thiil It was an agricultural treatise, men and women still rush upon their fate iu the matter of Uxik titles. And they are meanwhile fooled to thu top of their bent. The title wo have just quoted Is, as every body knows, by no means Buskin's only achievement In tho direction of mislead Ing or at least mystifying tho public. "Swnuie and l.lllos," "The Crown of Wild Olive," "Tho queen of tho Air," "Furs ClvigenM tlieoo, and others in their time, have created quite as much contu sion iu the minds of the simple nnd con fiding.' And, fortified byoo illustrious mi ex ample, the IsHik producers go ou mystify ing and misleading, outdoing each olhur in tlie ix.rvvrted Ingeiuiity bf their Inven tion. London Globe. mUl Unto, now u iu uaj u Miiauua, I Qood-night, wy)ountfnc4MU! May yon havo roy slewji, guardal by hint wbanortr kluutbaral May you awakoiu tho morning l4rou and wolll Uul ohl an thou a do tUer of Uxl U thU thy lart atht on earth C 6hvuldt &a ba awolexvoj la & (hiss ,11ilo ul lunxilMi Hid. ' This U the oasou for wet t I mean men's fi-et. Women, a a rule, wear rubber otetshoc, hot few men will undergo the trouble India rubbers or arctics are sure to inlllut. A shoemaker tiie other day put me up iff a wrinkle tliat U worth try ing. Kv cry ono knows about MrjK)isi hide shoe stnugM, Istw ilurnble they are, nud all thai. ThU aainr shoemaker sliowxsl "me a iair of shotM mtule of tho same material, and told mo thai they wero virtually vfnter)rof on .-uvouhl of thu porois4 hidu retaiuing so much oil. Tho shoes were fashionably cut aud hamlvtiuslr nvulo. Thef do noil jvluh well, ;bti? Ip.l uU, aud once tho fwt are snugly lnmod lu Ihotu, slush ami atiuw aro hold at dstlance. Thr ant U a Mule more Uiaa the ordinary oaltkkln, luit tttoy will viuihut lwx pairs of llie lattvr.-lHtiUilrlnhia Ttwoo. A tirval KlMirlo Ullr4. euwiius-ros, U not saltailrd with the re'uowti ' w hlch the Intrvotuetiou of tho imm tariff , has gained for hint, but Is eoiulug forward i with another pUu by w hlch be proisa'st to give us lh fastest t ratas lu tho wvrhL I ThU idaii U for an electric railway, for ' lwueukr enly, letttv4 1ooua aad Buda Pwlh. Tho du-tace of l Mllea j would t aehtovvd in two hours and a half. ' Qn railway corriago. woukl Urt avory leu ' tutnuu Iwtw'rou 8 in Uo iwarnW aad wldnig)t The only ditteuHy U the p- i Ita) rxsjulred tor the xeeuu,n of the proj-. (VI, whUh U uo Um thau &,uiak) (Urtua. Tho tare trout YiatUM to lrlh wsjukl be ID derina. Ylauua Cor. Lowdoa News. UtUc liwtujlot by Kloolrtrllj. ( lVofeir Uorrett, lite euy tirriei f Chtaao, pro ik iK to routuve tho aieaut -1 gin mw ue4 a taru the h iaW and , MtlkUiMle 4eoiriMiy. 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