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FAT/LING s tars are numerous in Italy about the time when the Catholic Church celebrates the mar ty rdom of St. Lawrence, They are, therefore, poetically called " tears of Saint Law­rence."

T H E estimated wealth of the United States—that is the value of all lands, buildings, railways, etc.—is put a t $04,000,000,000. The amount of money of all kinds is estimated by the Secretary of the Treasury to be $2,108,130,002.

HANS CAUL CHRISTIAN EMILE LATJRIU/

RASMUSSEN was the name of a resi­dent of New York. He applied t o Judge Bookstaver, in the Court of Common Pleas, for relief, and he is to be known hereafter as Christ Emile Rasmussen.

T H E rivers of Russiagrow shallower year after year, and the Vorskia, once an abundant t r ibu ta ry of the Dnieper, and as wide as the Hudson or Delaware, 250 miles in length, has completely and permanently dried up.

T. SUFFERN TALLER, author of

"Road Coaching Up t o Date" and "Coaching and Coachmen" was black­balled when his name was presented for mem bership m New York Coaching Club the other day. Give a man a bad name and it will get him intc whole va ts of trouble.

ONE cent apiece is what the Chicago sweaters pay women for finishing a vest. Two women, by working four­teen hours a day, are able to earn $1.50 a week between them. Men of the sweater s tamp should not be obliged to wait until after death for their punishment.

T H E wife of a Chicago justice has se­cured a divorce because of her hus­band's pleasant habit of cruelly beat­ing ner. The judge who granted it had an opportunity of learning what kind of men he and his associates are accustomed to recommend for high office.

A p VTENT has been applied for by a Baltimore man to cover the invention of an electric sleigh. Each sleigh will have its own motor, and can be driven a t the ra te of fifteen miles an hour. All the doctors indorse it as a mpans of making their profession lively.

TAKING a census in India always arouses the popular superstition and dread of unknown evils. After the last census of the Bhils their chiefs in­sisted on a new Imperial obligation tha t "in future no Bhil woman should ever be weighed," they fearing t ha t the plumpest and heaviest women, the national beauties, were being checked off for appropriation by the census takers.

"EDISON" is the name of a village in New Jersey which has sprung into ex­istence during the past two years ow­ing to an invention of Edison's. I t stands on the side of an old deserted iron pit called the Ogden mine, which, after Edison invented his "magnetic ore separa tor ," was acquired by the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Concen­t ra t ion Company.

T H E captains of ships which carry bricks have to be very careful. An ordinary brick is eapable of absorb­ing a pint of water. So with a cargo of bricks in the hold serious leakage may quite well go on undetected, far the water t ha t enters is sucked up as fast as it gets in. If this should be the case the consequences are bound to be most fatal.

IDA LTLWIS, the heroine of Lime Rock light-house, in Narragansett Bay, still holds her position and lives her soli­t a ry life on t h a t storm-tossed bit of rock. She has saved a great many lives. Her visits to Newport are few, as it is a hard pull across from the light­house, and when she does go to the "Brighton of America," it is not to see the swell folks or to look a t the shop windows but to buy her pork and cabbage and other food supplies needed in her lonely home.

A FIERCE communal war has broken out in Billy-sur-Ourcq, France, over the peculiar way in which the mayor interprets the swine ordinance. The mayor has divided the swine into two categories. Those owned by himself and hisfriends form one, ^and those owned by his political adversaries the other. The ruling of his honor is t ha t the swine of the first category may roam wherever they choose, but t h a t those of the second will be liable to seizure if found within one" hundred yar^s of a private residence.

DIGEST OF THE NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD.

All Impor tan t Occur rences of t h e Pas t Week, Boiled Down and

Arranged for Rapid Reading.

Washington. The House passed the army appropria­

tion bill. The fort to be built at Helena, Mont.,

has been named Ft, Harrison in honor of the president.

"Lije" Halford, it is said, will be sent as minister to Portugal, that post now being vacant.

The pursuit and punishment of Garza revolutionists in Texas cost the United States government $200,000.

The secretary <»f the treasury has directed a change in the specifications for the hull of the Calumet, the new revenue cutter for the Chicago station, the contract for which was awarded a couple of months aero. As first drawn the specifications called for an iron hull, and it has been decided to change them so as to require steel.

The court-martial of Commander Henry L. Johnson, United States navy, has com­menced at San Francisco. The principal charge against the defendant is negligence in having permitted the Mohican to go ashore recently, while he was commander of the \essel.

Accidental Happenings . F. S. Gilson's new $40,000 ltiinsion at

Charlestown. Mas*., was destroyed by fire. The 5-year-old child of J. Schconcern,

of Smithboro, pulled a pot of coffee from a table and was scalded to death.

Charles Freethy was crushed to death by n fall of earth in the Salisbury mine, near Ishpeming, Mich.

The baggage car and one cosch of the Kansas City-Chicago train on the Santa Fe road went through a bridge near Floyd Mo. The baggageman was injured.

A Mrs. Roberts was crushed to death in a freight wreck on the Ptttsburg, Akron & Western road near Lima, C. The caboose and several cars rolled down a hi 1.

A team attached to a Nashville fire en­gine ran away, fatally injuring Tom Con, the driver, upset a score of vehicles on the bridge, overturned and wrecked the engine and in all caused a loss of $8,000.

Little Ella Wilson sat down in front of an approaching train at Munhall, Pa. Charles Walz dragged her from the track as the train reached her. His hand was crushed.

Mrs. JaneMcWilliams, a ventursome old colored woman, of Muneie, Ind., bantered Mrs, Rabecca Wilson, also colored, to cross the Big Four tracks in front of the ap­proaching express train. Mrs. McWilliams barely escaped with her life and Mrs. Wil-Bon was knocked as high as the telegraph wires and every bone in her body was broken. She died instantly.

Personal Mention. C P Hazard, a pioneer lumber dealer or

Buffalo. N. Y., is dead. A girl in Cornell college has taken up

veteunary surgery as her special study and means to make it her future profession.

Mgr. Louis Galimberti who has just been made cardinal, is the only journalist award­ed the red hat.

Naval Cadet Arthur L. Fairbrother of Rhode Island was disturbed from the An nupolr1 academy lor hazing.

Hon Geo. Harrington, formerly assis­tant secretary of the treasury and minister to Switzerland, under president Lincoln, died at sea while on his way from New York to Hamburg.

Francois Edouard Joachim Coppee, the French poet, is seriously ill with bronchit­is M. Coppee is fifty years old. He has been a member of the French academy since 1884.

Charles I. Emerson, a California Pioneer, hut at present "king of Apemanca," one ot the Gilbert groups of Islands, is visiting his old friends in California.

Bishop Hennessey of St. Louis, it is be­lieved, will soon be named as coadjutor, hence successor of Archbishop Kenrick, whote age interferes with his performance of duties of his office.

Prof. E. J. Phelps, of the Yale law school and ex-minister to England, has been ap­pointed to continue his work in connection with the Bering sea arbitration, which will compel him to give up his duties at Yale • pmporaily.

Among the Wicked. Two women, Hattie Starr and Palma

Morris, each claim to be the law ul wife of the iate Charles L# Harris, the actor.

Marion Heepedgth, the Glendale train robber, was arra nged at St. Charles, Mo., but the case was continued until March.

Mrs. Kate Painter, of Greensburjr, Pa., has been arrested'on a charge of murdering her husband.

Tn a dispute over the payment of drinKs at Middle3boro, Kentucky, Bartender T. L. Russell shot and killed Abe Haigist.

Philip INicholas is in the station-house at Richmond Va , charged with drowning James Mills and Judson Wilkinson.

Ex-State Treasurer Woodruff, of Arkan­sas, has been indicted on a cturge of lar­ceny of <-tate -cript. He gave bail in the sum of $30,000.

A warrant has been issued at Pittsburg for the nirestof Sister Julienne, teacher in a parochial school, on a charge of cru«lry to a child.

Mrs. W. Slattery, a colored woman, is held in S2.000 b til at Springfield, 111., for trial for perjury in an application for a 1-enMon.

A po-se has been organized to extermi­nate the 8 ar-Newcorub band of Indian Teiritoiy outlaws, who recently murdered Deputy United States Marshall Wilson.

Gov. Flower commuted the sentence of John E McNamara, of Corning, N. Y., so thai he wan a free man on December 15. Sixteen years ago McNamarn, then 17 years of ago, killed his sweetheart, lie was sentenced to Auburn prison ot hre.

Levi Hartley, an inmate of the Soldiers' Home in Missouri, shot and mortally wounded Postmaster J. Keiser. of Clinton, Mo. Hartley had been placed in an insane a^vJum, lm wife securing a divoico and marrying Keiser. The shooting occurred in the post-office.

A robbery that equals in boldness any­thing of the year occurred at the Burling­ton grade camp, four miles from the town of Sheridan, Wyo Two men were killed and three wounded, and several hundred dollars and some watches and goods car­ried away. The raid was made on A.J". Case's ta. oon by three masked men.

From Other Shores. An aerolite has been found near the City

of Mexico that weighs 40,000 pounds. John Emile Lemoinne, the well known

French statesman, is dead.

Bismarck .announces his permanent r«» tiiement from politics.

President Carnot of France is expected to resign. Some of his relatives are mixed up in the Panama canal scandal.

A midwife in Russia is convicted otthe murder of over 100 infants.

Fire at Tokio, Japan, has destroyed 000 natiye huts.

Senor Antonio Bernejo has been appoint-minister of the interior of Buenos Ayres.

Venezuela will make a credible showing at the World's Fair.

M. Rouvier, finance minister of France, is implicated in the Panama canal scandal and resigns.

It is said that twenty-five soldiers and revolutionist? were killod in the battle last week between Garza's forces and Mexican revolutionists.

Baroness deRoques, mother of Mrs." fcf&y-brick, says that her daughter's condition has become worse within the past few days.

Baron Frederick Wergelsperg, adjutant to Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria, has committed suicide. No cause ior the act has been made public.

A bill providing for a tax on bourse time bargains, in other words contracts for the future delivery of stocks and bonds, was passed in the French chamber of deputies.

A dispatch from Vilna says that a Jewish innkeeper in the outskirts, his wife and four young children have been murdered by tramps. They have all been arrested.

A man named Sheridan, no w In the Lam-baugh, Eng, workhouse, has come into a fortuue of $1,500,000 through the death of an aunt. She and her two sons came to America some years ago.

Frequent skirmishes between federal and republican iorces have occurred in Rio Grand do Sul, Brazil. It is believed that a serious battle is imminent. Both sides are accused of cruelties.

The English Liberals have been success­ful in their attempt to unseat Sir Price Price-Jones, Conservative member of par­liament for the Montgomery district. The contest was based on charges of bribery, etc , in the election.

The Prussian reichstag adopted a motion declaring that Rector Ahlwardt, sentenced to five month's imprisionment for libel committed in'his notorious pamphlet en­titled "Jewish Guns,""was entitled -to im­munity from arrest.

Final official statistics of the cholera epi­demic in Russia have just betn issued. Ac­cording to these figures, there have been 130,417 deaths from European and 136,343 deaths from Asiatic cholera since the out­break of the disease in the empire, making a total of 265,760 deaths.

Owing to an attempt recently made by the Nobels, the great Lussian oil refiners, and the Rothschilds to corner the naphtha market, the Russian government intends to adopt a law making the cornering of grain, provisions or any other commodity illegal.

The South American Cable company has formally inaugurated servicebetweenBrazil and the coast of Africa. The new cable has a total length of 2,103 marine nailes, and at the island of San Luis de Senegal, on the coast of Africi, connects with the Spanish National Submaiine Te egraph company's lines.

RIZPAH ON THU ROCK

THE STORY OP RIZPAH HER LONG WATCH.

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Labor. A 10 percent, reduction has been ordered

by the Phoenixville, Pa., Iron Company, in all the mills and shops of the plant, except the puddling mill.

The Industrial Council of KansaaCiry de­cided 'thnt each member erhouM aevota one day's wages to a fund for thdj Home­stead strikers. There are between 5,000 and 6,000 members, and their wages willaveraue £2 a day.

The third annual session of the National Marble Cutters and Setters' association met in St. Louis. Prominent delegates from every large city in America were in attend­ance.

Miscellaneous Itesm. Jav Gould's will is filed for probate. It

disposes ot $72,000,000. Ives & Co., Montreal foundry men, failed

owingj$150,000. Mr. Cleveland will open the World's Fair

with an address. Western Union directors declared a li

per cent, quarterly dividend. The first term of the Woman's CoUege

connected with the Brown University has been a success.

The output of salt in Michigan for the year ending December 4 was 3,812,034 bar­rels.

The public and parochial schools of Al­pena, Mich., are closed because of the pre­valence of diphtheria in the town.

Philip D. Armour presents the city ol Chicago $1,500,000 in the shape of an In­stitute lor manual training, artandscienos,

The world's fair executive committee Urt declined to permit the erection ef a theatw at Jackson park.

The trust advanced the price of alcohol 10 cents per gallon, and rectified goods 5 ceno per wine gallon, recently.

Lipman & Co., who failed in Dundee, Scotland, with $1,250,000 liabilities, owe $200,000 in New York.

A New York syndicate ha9 bought the Amethyist, New York, Last Chance, Hill­side, Gold Eagle, Cuba and Hidden Treas­ure mining properties at Crede, Col, for $8,000,000 each.

At a meeting of the Kansas state officers-elect and the citizens' committee it was de­cided not to hold any inaugural ball, the Populists deeming such ceremonies too frivolous to ii'.hdr in their administration. An inaugural reception will be held.

A. R. Clark, doing business a* A. R. Clark & Co., wholesale groctrs, at 39 Wal­nut street, Cincinnati, assigned to Howard Douglass, after havingconlessed judgments in favor of creditors to the sum of over $30,000.

There is a movement on foot in Indiana­polis to abolish Sunday funerals, which bids fair to accomplish its purpose. It had its inception in a petition which was signed and circulated by the undertakers of In­dianapolis, and to which the names of a majority ot the clergyman o the city have been added.

The National Fire Insurance Company established in 1838, one of the oldest in­surance corporations in New York, has de­cided to liquidate its affairs. Its outstand­ing risks werere-msured inthoConimerciul Union Assurance Company, of London. »Rev. W. J. McCrory, the late pastor of

the Oak Grove Presbyterian Church, Pitts­burg, whose church doctrines have caused him to ask for a release from the denom­ination and from the Allegheny Prejliy-tery, will likely figure prominently in a heresy trial before the matter is settled.

Mr. Peters, secretary of the North At-lant c Steamship Association, states that the decision not to carry steerage passen­gers on the vessels belonging to the asso­ciation after January, 1893, applies to American citizens and residents of the United States as well as to per ,or»i who have never been in America.

Feminine Pat lenca and Courage and the S t rength Of Maternal

• Love—Iniquities of t h e Fa­thers—After Death

Watching,

.BROOKLYN, N. Y., Special.—This is one of those discourses of Dr. Tal-mage delivered from tex ts which no one seems to have used before. Im­por t an t and practical lessons were drawn. The opening hymn, in which many thousands joined, was: Couieyedisconsolate, where'er ye languish.

The subject of the sermon was, "Rizpah on the Rock," the text select­ed being II. Samuel, xxi., 10: "And Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, took sackcloth and s pread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning ot har­vest until water drooped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field a t night."

Tragedy t h a t beats anvthing Shaks-peareau, or Victor Hugoian. After returning from the Holy Land I brief­ly touched upon it, but I must have a whole sermon on t ha t scene. The explosion and flash ot gunpowder have driven nearly all the beasts and birds of prey from those regions, and now the shriek of the locomotive whistle which is daily heard a t Jeru­salem will for many miles around clear Palestine of cruel claw and beak But in the time of the text those re­gions weie populous with multitudes of jackals and lions. Seven sons of Saul had been crucified on a hill. Rizpah was mother to two, and rela­tive to five of the' Doys. What had these boys done t ha t they should be crucified? Nothing except to have a bad father, and grandfather. But now t h a t the boys were dead why not take them down from the gibbets. No. They are sentenced to hang there. So Rizpah takes the sackcloth, a rough shawl with which in mourning for her dead she had wrapped herself, and spreads the sackcloth upon the rocks near the gibbets, and acts the par t of a senti­nel watching and defending the dead. Yet eyery other sentinel is relieved, and after being on guard for a few hours some one else takes his place. But Rizpah is on guard both day and night and for half a year. One hun­dred and eighty days and nights of obsequies. What nerves she must have had to stand tha t . Ah! do you not know tha t a mother can s tand anj, thing.

Oh! if she might be allowed to hol­low a place in the side of the hill and lay the bodies of her children to quiet rest' If in some cavern of the moun­tains she might find for them Christian sepulture, Oh! if she might take them from the f ibbet of disgrace and carry them still further away from the haunts ofmen and then lie beside them in the last long sleep' Exhausted na­ture ever and anon fall^j into slumber but in a moment she breaks the snare, and chides herself as though she had been cruel and leaps up on the rock shooting at wild beast glaring from the thicket and a t vulturous brood wheeling in the sky. The thrilling story of Rizpah reaches David and he comes forth to hidetheindecency. The The corpse had been chained, t o the trees. The chains are unlocked with horrid clank and the skeletons are let down. All the seven are buried. And the s tory ends.

TH"E INIQUITIES OF THE FATHERS.

But it hardly ends before you cry out: -What a hard thing t h a t those seven boys should suffer for the crimes of a father and grandfather! Yes. But it is always so Let every one t h a t does wrong know tha t he wars not only as in this case against two generations, children and grand­children, but against all the genera­tions of coming time. This is what makes dissipation and uncleanness so awful. I t reverberates in other times. Jt may skip one generation, but it is ap t to come up in the third generation, as is suggested in the ten commandments which say: "Visit­ing the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation." MiDd you, it says noth­ing about the second generation but mentions the third and the fourth. Tha t accounts for what you some­times 3ee, very good parents with very bad children. Go far enough back in the ancestral line and you find the source of all the turpitude. "Visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, up to the third and fourth generation."

If when Saul died, the consequences of his inquity could have died with him, it would not have been so sad. Alas, no! Look on t h a t hill a few miles out from Jerusalem and see the ghastly burdens of those seven gibbets, and the wan and wasted Rizpah watching them go to-day through the wards and alms-houses, and the reformatory institutions where unfortunate chil­dren are kept, and you will find t h a t nine out of ten had drunken or vicious parents. Yea day by day on the streets of our cities you find men and women wrecked of evil parentage. They are moral corpses. " Like the seven sons of Snul, though dead, un-buried. Alas tor Rizpah, who, not for six months, but for years and years has watched them. She can not keep the vultures and the jackals off.

Furthermome, this strange incident in Bible story shows t h a t attractive­ness of person and elevation of posi­tion are no security against trouble.

Who is this Rizpah sitting in deso­lation? One of Saul's favorites. Her personal a t t ract ions won his heart. She had been caressed of fortune. With a mother 's pride she looked on her princely children. But the scene changes. Behold her in banish­

ment and bereavment. Rizpah on the rock. .

COURAGE OJ? WOMAN.

Again the tragedy of the text dis­plays the courage of woman amid great emergencies. What mother or sister or daughter would daie t o go out to fight the cormorant and jack­al? Rizpah did it. And so would you if an emergency demanded. Woman is natural ly timid, and shrinks from exposure and depends on stronger arms for the achievement ot great en­terprises. And she is often troubled lest there might be occasions demand­ing fortitude when she would fail. Not so. Some ot those who are afraid t o look out of door after nightfall, and who quake in the darkness a t the least uncertain sound, and who s ta r t a t the slam of the door, and turn pale in a thunder storm, if the day of trial came would be heroic and invulner­able. God *has arranged it so t h a t woman needs the t rumpet of some great contest of principle or affection to rouse up her slumbering courage. Then she will s tand under the cross fire of opposing hosts a t Chalons t o ciye wine to the wounded. Then she will carry into prison and dark lane the message of salvation. Then she will brave the pestilence. Deborah goes out to sound terror into the heart of God's enemies. Abigail throws herself between a raiding par ty of in­furiated men, and her husband's vine­yards . Rizpah fights back the vul­tures from the rock.

Among the Orkney Islands an eagle swooped and lifted a child to its eyrie far upon the mountains. With the spring of a panther the mother mounts hill above hill, craig above craig, height above height; the fire of her own eye outflashed the glare of the eagle's and with unmailed hand, stronger than the iron beak and the terrible claw, she hurled the wild bird down the rocks. In the French Rev­olution Cazotte was brought out to be executed when his daughter threw herself on the body of ner father and said, "Strike, Barbarians ' You can not reach my father but through my heart!" The crowd parted, and linking arms, father and daughter walked out free. During the seigeof Saragossa, Au-gustina carried refreshments to the gates. Arriving a t the bat tery of Portil-lo she found t ha t all thefgarVison had been killed. She snatched a match from the hand of a dead artilleryman and fired a 26-pounder, then leaped upon it and vowed she would not leave it alive. The soldiers looked in and saw her daring, and rushed up and opened another tremendous fire on the enemy. The life ot James I. of Scotland was tnreatened. Poets have sung those times, and able pens have lingered upon the s tory of manlv en­durance, but how few to tell the story ot Catherine Douglas, one of the Queen's maid's, who ran to bolt the door, but found the bar had been taken away so as to facilitate the en­trance of assassin. She thrust her arm into the staple. The murderers rushing against it, her arm was shat­tered. Yet how many have since liv­ed and died wno never heard the touching, self-sacrificing heroic story of Catherine Douglas ^and her poor, shattered arm You know how calm­ly Mme. Roland went to execution and how cheerfully Joanna of Naples walked to the castle ot Muro, and how fearlessly Mme. Grimaldi listened to her condemnation, and how Char­lotte Cordav smiled upon the frantic mob t h a t pursued her to the guillo­tine. And there would be no end to the recital if I a t tempted to present all the historical incidents which show t h a t woman's courage will rouse it­self for grea,t emergency.

GRACE DARLING Now I ask if mere natura l courage

can do so much, what may we not ex­pect from women who have gazed on the great sacrifice, and who are urged forward by all the voices of grace tha t sound from the 'Bible , and all the notes of victory t h a t speak from the sky. Many years ago the Forfarshire steamer started from Hull bound for Dundee. After the vessel had been out a little while, the winds began to raise and billows rise until a tempest was upon them. The vessel leaked and the fires went out, and though the sails were hoisted gfore and att she went speeding toward the break­ers. She struck with her bows fore­most on the rock. The vessel parted. Amid the whirlwind and the darkness all were lost but nine. These -clung to the wi\ck on the beach. Sieeping t h a t night in Longstone Light House was a girl of gentle spirit and comely countenance. As the morning dawns, I see t ha t girl standing [amid the spray and tumult of contending elements looking through a glass upon the wreck and the nine wretched sufferers. She proposes to her father to take boat and put out across the wild sea to rescue them. The father says " I t can not be done!" Jus t look a t the tumbling surf!" But Bhe persisted, and with her father bounds into the boat . Though never accustomed to plying the ore, she takes one and her father the other. Steady, now' Pull away' Pull away! The sea tossed up the boat as though it were a bubble, but amid the foam and the wrath of the sea the wreck was reached the exhausted people picked up and saved. Humane societies tendered their thanks. Wealth poured into the lap of the poor girl. Visitors from all lands came to look on her sweet face; and when soon after she launched forth on a dark sea and death was the oarsman, dukes and duchesses and mighty men sat down in tears in Aln­wick Castle, t o think they never again might see the face of Grace Darling.

No such deeds of daring will prob­ably be asked of you, but hear you not the" howl of t ha t awtul storm of trouble and sin tha t ha th tossed 10,-000 shivered hulks into the breakers? Know you tha t the whole earth is strewn with the shipwrecked? Tha t there are wounds to be healed and broken hearts to be bound and drown­ing souls to be rescued? Some have gone down and you come too late, but others are clinging to the wreck, are shivering with the cold, are strangling in the wave, are crying to you for deliverance. Will you not, oar in hand, put out today from the light house. When the last ship's

timber shall have been rent and the last Longstone beacon shall have been thundered down in the hurricane, and the»last tempest shall have folded i t s wings, and the sea itself shall have been licked up by the tongue of alt-consuming lire, the crowns of eternal reward shall be kindling into brighter glory on the brow of the faithful. And Christ, pointing to the inebriate t h a t you reformed, and the dying sinner whom you taught t o pray, aud the outcast whom you pointed to God for shelter will say: "You did it t o them! You did it to me!"

AFTER-DEATH WATCHING But from this weird tex t of the

morning comes rushing in upon my. soul a thought t h a t overpowers me. This watching by Rizpah was an after-death watching. I wonder if now there is an after-death watching. I think there is. There are Rizpahs who have passed death, and who are still watching. They look down from their supernal and "glorified s ta te up­on us, and is not t h a t an after-death watching? I can no t believe t h a t those who before their death were in­terested in us, have since their dea th become indifferent as to what happens to us. Not one hour of the six months during which Rizpah watched, seated upon the rocks, was she more alert or diligent, or armed for us, than our mother, if glorified, is alert and diligent and armed for us. I t is not now Rizpah upon a rock, but Rizpah upon a throne. How long has your mother been dead? Do you think she has been dead long enough to forget you? My mother has teen dead twenty-nine years. I believe she knows more about me now than she did when I stood in her presence, and I am no Spiritualist either. The bible says, "Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister to them t h a t shall be heirs to salvation." Young man! Better look out what you do and where you go, for your glorified mother is looking a t you. You sometimes say to yourself. "What would mother say if she knew this?" She does know. You might cheat her once, but you cannot cheat her now. Does it em-harass us to think she knows all about us? If she had to put up with so much when she was here, surely she will not be the Jess patient or excusa­tory now.

Oh, this tremendous thought of my text, this after death watching! What an uplifting consideration. And what a comforting thought. Young mother, you who have just lost your babe, and who feels the need 6f a nearer solace than t ha t which comes from ordinary sympathy, your moth­er knows all about it. You can not run in and ta 'k it all over with her as you would if she was still a terrestri­al resident, but it will comfort you some, I think, yea, it will comfort you a good deal, t o know t h a t she understands it all You ^ee t h a t the velocities of the heavenly conditions are so great t ha t it would not take her a half second to come to your be­reft heart. Oh, these mothers in heaven' They can do i lore for us now than before they went away. The bridge between this wo Id and the next is not broken down. Ttwy approac h the bridge trom both ways, departing spirits, and coming spirits, disimprisoned spirits, and svmpa-thi/mg spirits. And so let us walk as to be worthy of the supernal compan­ionships, and if to any of us life on earth is a hard grind, let us under­stand t ha t if we watch faithfully and t rus t fully onr bles«ed Lord, there will be a corresponding reward in the Land of Peace, and tha t Rizpah who once wept on a rock now reigns on a throne.

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BETTER SLEEP ALONE.

Hygienic Reasons for the Increased Popular i ty of Single Beds.

" I have been looking a t furnished houses," said a woman recently, "and I am surprised to find how much the use of single beds has increased, a t least among New Yorkers, says the New York Times. I was curious enough t o inquire about the mat ter a t a furniture store, and the dealer old me t h a t in offering suits, par­ticularly the high-priced ones, "the choice was often given to single or onedouble bedstead," which would seem to indicate t h a t the wealthy class t ha t is oftenest abroad is bring­ing home this practice. It is beginning to be understood, however, by a grow­ing number of persons t h a t t o sleep alone appreciably contributes to one's rest and health. The system undergoes electrical changes during the night's sleep, and where persons lodge together night after night under the same bedding these changes must mutually react with appreciable re­sults.

The London Lancet called attention not long ago to the habit of dual sleeping, saying tha t there is nothing t h a t will so derange the nervous sys­tem of a person who is ehminative in nervous force as to lie all night in bed with another who is abosorbent of nervous force. The lat ter will rise re­freshed while the former will awake in the morning weary, peevish and dis­couraged.

Coffee Bubbles a s Weather Proph­e t s .

A Spanish journal tells of an inter­esting experiment to be tried with a cup of clear coffee and a lump of sug­ar. The sugar should be dropped in­to the coffee without stirring; in a moment the air contained in the sug­ar will rise to the surface in the shape of bubbles, and these bubbles a re ex­cellent weather indications If they collect in the middle of the cup a fair day follows; if, adversely, they adhere to the sides, forming a ring of bubbles with a clear space in the centre, take your umbrella, for rain is a t hand; while, if they do neither one thing nor the other, but scatter irregularly, Variable weather is indicated. Jus t what is the scientific explanation of the action of the atmosphere on the bubbles is not stated, but t h a t their indications curiously agree with those of a barometer has been tested, y?"3s

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