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To the philosopher who ruminateS’ over the efforts men make to have their ideas carried out after death the .Vill made by the late well-known Ital- ian caterer of New York Cit y, Pompeo Marcel. is unusually suggesdve. From small beginnings, by thrift and by en- terprise. this man amassed a large forâ€" tune. He had a family which-he kept in comfort (but with no ostentation of wealth, and it is the future of his family rather than the disposal of his money that he seems to have had most at heart. The distribution of be cared for will be either dead or ma- ture men and women. with their hab- its already formed. The testator‘s in- tent seems to have been to ward off from his people as long as possible the evils of weahh be had so seduously struggled to accumulate. the wife. The use of the home and a modest yearly income are left to her ;' the income continues it she shall choose to marry again. but in that event she must leave her first bus- band‘s house. His widow‘s remarri- age is a contingency that many 3 Thus- band dWells upon with displeasure. bui age is a contingency that many 9. Thus- band dwells upon with displeasure. but the general solution is to place hindrances in the wife’s way when she is not left absolutely free. The daughters are apparently to stay with the mother till they marry, when they receive moderate incomes. enough to support them reSpectably. but not sufficient to attract suitors who care for money alone. As. a .‘l'urther safe- guard a daughter‘s husband is cut off from all expeciations should his wife die before him without children. The Son’s education is planned for. the sums to be paid him are carefully pro- portioned to his needs at. different ages and when he reaches his twen- 1y+91ghlh year he will receive a sum sufficient to start him in business or else a moderate income. In forty years the capital and accumulations will be divided equally among the children, more, it also looks. because some disposal mus; be made of it, than from lhe wish to have the fortune Notes and Ccmmcnts. 3 r0 w The purpose seems clearly to be to huld {be family together and in the Nation in life it held during the fa- zhz-r‘a life, to protect its members from want, but at the same time not to al-- hm: :hez- family wealth to prevent them from working or trying to make their awn way. “’hen they have reached middle life, whether they have failed at succeeded in :he-ir own efforts, their father’s fortune will come to their reâ€"i Iiei‘ or to that of their children. Being liaiians, among whum the old Roman idem of “patria potestas” are still Strong. it is likely that the testator’s intentiuns will receive a fair trial. There are some odd ethnographic pe- L'uliarilies in the bequests. The daugh- lets receive so much pin money a ’dny, and a brother, 'too. is provided for by it daily allowance. That is a thorough- ly Italian way of reckoning. To most Italians asgiven sum a year or month is meaningless till they have figured out what it makes a day. and then, wheaher it be one lira. or twenty or a hundred, they try to 'live on its and save a little from day to day. A sister is to have not only an income for life. bus also a firStocluSS funeral after dumb, a. quaint bit of thoughtfulness. The Begs-icy to an Italian church for a repust of specified viands for the priesrs on a. given date carries one back several centuries. The will is an instrucdve document for the study of Italian character. There was a let of hard sense in the man who made it. MARCHING “'HILE ASLEEP. is the marriage institutionku due-s, "T _ \ . t _ . not, as at the beginningda e away 0 . iv.” day; after the battle ot Glen * from him a rib. Now it; is an addi- . e “e w ere suddenly told to get what I tion of ribs. thins“ WP had, as we were going to. This institution of marriageohas march to Ladysmith," writes a British ’ bizn defamed in gur day. Somalismci " . ~ ° .. er 4a poygamy, an marmontsm, an inure to London T‘t'BltS“ We had ; the most cursed ot'all things, free- ardlg, hi" the camp when the Boers I loveLs-m, have, been trying to turn‘ started shelling it again. They did? this earth into a Turkish harem or a not know we had shifted. The whole 1 great Salt. Lake City. \Vhile thepul- brigade was about two miles long. We pits have been comparatively sxlent, were marching all night until about novelsotheir cheapness only equalled five o‘clock in the morning_ When we by their nastinessâ€"are trying to edu- had three 'hours’ rest. and then start- ’i cate; they have taken upon themselves ed again until five o‘clock in the afJ to educate this nation in regard to ternoon. On again at night, then? holy marriage which makes 9r breaks another rest. 0n again at six o’clock ‘- for time and eternity. Oh, this 18 not next morning till three o’clock in the a mere question of residence or ward- al‘fternoon. Forward again at six . robe. . It is a question charged with O'CIOCk. marching all night. The” gigantic joy or sorrow -â€" with heaven transport kept losing the path, audition of George Sand. Alas, for this could. not keep with us. Raining all 3 or hell. Alas, for this new dispensa- the time. ' Through drifts up to our ‘ mingling of the night-shade with the knees nothing 0}! but khaki. gmarriage garlands. hlas, for the __m- Lt- L-_‘_ “We reached Ladysmith about eight ‘ o’clock next morning. very nearly ; dead. Most of our fellows were walk- ; ing while fast asleep. Others fell out g and dropped to sleep directly they ; touched the ground. I don’t mind the ‘ fighting, but I never went to ' got through such a march again.” ‘ Bust on Matronâ€"My love. you should and: domestic as well as political economy. for in the exigencies of mundane existence no seer can prog- nosticato the future. You have al- ready disbursed all of the present your uncle gang you. very annual provision is made Small Danghterâ€"I know, mother, but the money was all in new cams. and the. designs are so inartisziv: that I disliked to retain them in my pos- HIGHER I‘IDUC ATION. A. 01‘ LWKO --I wâ€"â€"â€"_ V following text :â€"â€""Let them learn first to Show piety at home." -â€"1. Tim. '0 I. A church within a church, a world within a world is spelled by four let- tearsâ€"Home! If things go right there, they go right everywhere; if things and state. A man never gets higher than his own garret, or lower than his own cellar. In other words, domes- 'II A CDII‘I'CD WanLu a vuu-v-v '- ' t . There are some things that. qu . ' r o 18 . : Uh l w‘thm a “ arid “3,6” 116d by four ' to bring before you. I know therel WIS-"Home! If things 3° “3.“ there, are those of you who have had homes! they go right everywhere; If things set up for a great many" years, and' go wrong there, they go wrong ev- notwithgtinding tthethhardships wig; erywhere. The door-sill of the dwell-g 1‘18 3 a come 0. em you “0“ a in -house is the foundation of church ; not surrender tth’ and then there; g . ,are those here who have Just estab . and state. A man never gets higher 1 lished their home. They have only! than his own garret, or lower than his been in it a few: months or a few: own cellar. In other words, domes-,years. Then there are those who; '. - ~ . def uides 9.11 3 will, after a while, set up. for them--: no me overarches and un g selves a home, and it is right that 1- other .1if0. The highest. house at 001:- should speak out upon these themes. 85853 13 the domestic circle; the rocL- My first counsel to you is: have} ing-chair in the nursery is higher than l Jesus in your new home, if it is a new th . hr sostom’s mother made home; and let Him who was a guest a rone C y at Bethany be in your household; let his pen for him. If 3' man Shfmld‘: the Divine blessing drop upon your start out and run seventy years “1 a, every hope. and plan, and expecta- s'craight line he could not get out tion. Those young people who from under the shadow of his own begin with God end with . . ~. - heaven. Have on your ri ht mantlepiece. I thereiore talk to you ' . g this morning about a matter of in- ‘ hand the engagement _ring 0f the ZDivine. affections. If one of you be a finite and eternal moment when 1iChristian, let that one take the Bible SW11: of your home. lapd read a few verses in the evening 0 time, and then kneel down and com- ' ' ~ ra ments Gfdbraflgeslghljljacewfn :11: aid then me?“ ”91‘3"” t? .3111 Who Sitteth ”‘0 . Y solitary in families. I want to tell. He gradually puts us together. \\ hat you that the destroying angel passes 1 luck you make up; what you lack I by without touching or entering the make up; our deficits and surpluses of ! 2grhggilagffngkggex;gfi.,thewtgoyogs (3: character being the wheels in the 2 that in some families they never get mechanism. One person 1 along, and in others they always get great social _ . .. _. along well? I have ‘waiched such __ i t n _. “A unnl .nflr hzls the Vial-Iv- n-cvâ€" â€"-â€"v _, grass is the domestic circle; the rock- ing-chair in the nursery is higher than . a. throne. Chrysostom’s mother madeI his pen for him. If a, man should ( start out and run seventy years in at? straight line he could not get out from under the shadow of his own mantlepiece. I therefore talk to you‘ ' of in-g Urvt‘n- vâ€" J ' As individuals, we are fragments! God makes the race in parts, and then He gradually puts us together. \Vhat 1 lack you make up; what you lack 1 make up; our deficits and surpluses of character being the wheels in the great social mechanism. One person has the patience, another has the courage, another has the placiditY. another has the enthusiasm; that which is lacking in one is made up to" another or made up by all. Burn tame: in herds; grouse in broods; (meals .9. flocks; the human race in cut-12+ ban has most beautifully ar- ranged this. It is in this way that He balances societyâ€"this conservative and that radical keeping things even. Every ship must have its mast, cut- Water, taftrail. ballast. I have.no more right to blavme a man for being different from me than aarlvlng wheel has a right to blame the iron shaft that holds it to the centre. John Wesley -- A n- M"- LHJL uwug .. 'ov -..., __.._, balances Calvin's Institute. Dr. M'- Coeh gives to Scotland the strong bones of Lheology. Dr. Guthrie clothes them with u throbbing heart. and warm flesh. The difficulty is that we are not satisfied with just the work that God has given us to do. The waier-wheel wants to come inside the mill and grind the grief. and the hopper wams to go out and! dabble in the. water. Our usefulness and the welfare of society depend upon our ‘ 1 ' ' 0 place that God has pm Us, or intended we should: occupy. For more compectnees.‘ and that we may be more useful, we are gathered in mill smaller circles in the home group. And there you have the same Varieties again, brothers, SiSLers. hus- band and wifeâ€"all different in fem- peraments and tastes. it is fortunate Lhai it should be 50. H the husband be all impulse. the wife must be all prudence. if one sister be sanguine in her temperament, the other must be lymphatic. Mary and Martha are "| 1.- --.‘ A:nnar U6 I.) myuuu.v. --....-‘, ____ necessities. There will be no dinner for Christ if there be no Martha;there will be so audience for Jesus if there be no Mary. The home organisation is most beautifully constructed. Eden has gone; the bowers are all broken down; the animals that Adam stroked with his hand that morning when they came up to get their names have since shot forth tusk, and sting, and growled panther at p'anther; and midair iron boaks plunge, till with *rLâ€"L-n L‘nA Luxuau. LIV“ wv‘~.â€"~ ‘â€" h V , clothed wing and. eyeless sockets the twain come whirling down from un- der the sun in blood bud fire. Eden has gone, but there is just one little fragment. left. It floated down on the river Hiddekel out of Paradise. It is the marriage institution. It does not, as at the beginning, take away from him a rib. Now it: is an addi- tion of ribs. Liv- or hell. Alas, for this new. dispensa- mingling of the night-shade with the marriage garlands. Alas, for the venom of address spit into the tank- kards. Alas for the white frosts of eternal death that kill the orange blossoms. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is to assert what; is right and to assert what is wrong. Attempt has been made to take this institution which was intended for the happiness land elevation of the race, and make lit a mere commercial enterpriseâ€"an exchange of houses, and lands. and equipageâ€"a business partnership of two. Stuffed up. with the stories of l romance and knight-errantry, and un- faithfulness. and feminine angelhood, the two after a while haveroused up ' to find that, instead of the Paradise ; they dreamed of they have-got nothing but a Van Amburgh’s menagerie, {ill- eEâ€"QtHV‘tâ€"igfierzgna Wild cat‘s. Eighty . thousand divorces in Paris in one year jpreceeded the worst revolution that {France ever saw. It was only, the â€" «~-v~ despatch from Washington says: v. m. 'I‘almage preached from the first course in that banquet of hell; and I tell you what you know as well as I do, that wrong notions on the subject of Christian marriage are the cause at this day. of more moral outrage before God and man than any other cause. . There are some things that [want im bring before you. I know there "‘rfi 1n the first instance, nothing seem- ed to go pleasantly, and after a while there came devastation, domestic dis- aster, or estrangement. \Vhy? They started wrong. In _the other My second advice to you in your " home 'is, to exercise to the very laSt I possibility of your nature the law 1 of forbearance. Prayers in the house- lhold will not make up: for everything. I Some of the peoyle in the world are the hardest to get along with. There I are people Who stand up in prayer- meetings and pray like an angel, who at home are uncompromising and, cranky. You may not have every- thing just as you want it. Some-" times it will be. the duty of the hus-Z band and sometimes of the wife to: yield; but both stand *punctiliously on, your rights and you will have at Waterloo with no Blucher coming up; at nightfall to decide the conflicti Never be ashamed to apologise when; you have done wrong in domestic af-i jfairs. Let that be a law of your: Ehousehold. The best thing I ever} lheard of my grandfather, whom I4 l never saw, was this: that once havingi iunrighteously rebuked one of his'; ichildren. he himself having lost his: 'Ipatience, and, perhaps, having been; ,misinformed of the child’s doings! ifound out his mistake, and in the; levening of the same day gathered alla his family together, and said: “Nomi I have one eXplanalion to make, and, one thing to say. Thomas, thisl {morning I rebuked you very unfair-l ‘ Iy. I am very sorry for it. 1 rebuked 1 , you in the presence of the whole fam-l lily, and now i ask your forgiveness‘ [in their presence.” It must have 3 taken some courage to do that. It was ;right, was it not? Never be ashamed fito apologize for domestic inaccuracy. ’Find out the pointsâ€"what are the -,weak points, if I may call them soâ€" ‘of your companion, and then stand aloof from them. Do not carry the. "fire of your temper too near the gun- , powder. If the wife be easily fretted by disorder in the. household, let the husband be careful where he throws has slippers. 'If the husband comes 1, home from the store with his patience all exhausted, donot let the wife un- , necessarily cross his temper; but both 'promise the everlasting sound of the war-whoOp. Your life will be spent â€"'â€"'U case although there were hardships, and trials, and some things that had to be eXplained, still things went on pleasantly until the very last? Why? They started right. ~ in making- up, and. marriage will be to you an unmitigated curse. Cowper said: “The kindest and the happiest faith “ill find occasion to forbear; And something every day they live 10 pity and perhaps forgive.’ I advise, also, that you make your chief pleasure circle around about that home. It is unfortunate when it is otherwise. If the husband spends the most of his nights away from home, of choice and not of necessity, he is not the head of the household; he is only the cashier. If the wife throw the cares of the household in- to the servant’s lap, and then spend five nights of the weel: at the opeg'a or theatre, she may clothe her chil- dren with satins, and laces, and rib« bons that would confound a French milliner, but they are orphans. Oh, it is sad when a child has no one to say its prayers to because mother has gone off to the evening entertain- ment. In India they bring children and throw them to the crocodiles, and‘ it seems very cruel; but the jaws of1 New York and Brooklyn dissipation are swallowing down more little chil- dren to-day than all the monsters that ever crawled upon the banks of the Ganges. .l have seen the sorrow of a Godless mother on the death of a child she neglected. It was not so lmuch grief that she felt from the itact that the child was dead as the fact that she had neglected it. She said: “If I had only watched. over and car- ed for the child. I know God would nor, have taken it." The tears came not; it was a dry. blistering tempest â€"a scorching simoon of the desert. When she wrung her hands, it seem- led as if she would twist her fingers lfrom their sockets; when she seized lher hair, it seemed as if she had. in have just estab-! [1‘ right-she has a. right to know: ev- They have only yerything. If a man goes into a busi- aonths or a few {mess transaction that he dare not tell are those who;his wife of. you‘ may depend that he set up for them-- :is on the way either to bankruptcy or it is right that I tmoral ruin. There may be some in these themes. ’things which he does not wish to trou- to you is: have :bLe his wife with. butr if he dare not me, if it is a new ltell her. he is on the road td. discomâ€" ‘ avho was a guest ifiture. 0n the other hand, the hus- < .ur household; let ,band ought to be sympathetic with I drop upon your gthe wife’s occupation. It is no easy < u. and expecta- 3 thing to keep house. Many a woman ‘ Lg people who that. could have endured martyrdom as 1 d end with -; well as Margaret, the Scotch girl. have ‘ 3 your right ac.ually been worn out by house man- ' ent .ring of the agement. There are a thousand mar- j 5 one of you be a tyrs of the kitchen. It is very annoy- 4‘ »ne take the Bible ing after the vexations of the day, ‘ Les in the evening around the stove. or the table, or in ,1 down and com- the nursery or parlor, to have the hue. :11 who sitteth the band say: “You know: nothing about’ , I want to tpn trouble; you ought to be in the store ying angel [78889.8 hali-an-hour.” Sympathy 0i occupa- ; or entering the non! . It the husband’s work cover with the blood of him With the soot of the furnace, or inant, \Vhy is it odors ot‘ leather. or soap factories, let es they never get not the Wife be easily disgusted at the 3 they always get begrimed hands or unsavory aroma. h watched such Your gains are one, your interests are ,e to a conclusion. one. your losses are one; lay hold of Be, nothing seem- that Work of lLe with both hands. Four and after a while hands to fight the battles. Four eyes Lion, domestic dis- to watch! for the danger. Four shoul- gement, \Vhy? ders on which to carry the trials. It lg. In the other is at very sad thing when the painter e were hardships, has a 'wiie who does not like pictures. e things that had It is a very sad thing for a. pianist 11 things went on when she has a husband who does not very last? Why? .like music. It is a very sad thing » iwhen a wife is not suited unless her husband has what, is called, a ”genteel business.” As far as I understand “a genteel business," it is something to ayersin the house- which a man goes at ten o’clock in up for everything. . the mornin r, and comes home at two in the world are or three o'c ock in the afternoon, and along with. There Sets a large amount 9f monevflor do- ind up in prayer- {“18 nothing. That IS. I belle“. a like an angel. who genteel busmessr‘ and there has cmpromising and been many a Wife who_has made. the 7 not; have every- mistake or not being satisfied until the want it. Some-;hl1$b3;nd has given up the tanning of e duty of the hus- ; the hides, or the turning of the banis- es of the wife to tens, or thebuilding of the walls, and mi thunctihously on ‘ put himself in circles where he has no- you will have a {thing to do but smoke cigars and Blucher coming up gdrtnk wrne, andgot himself into hab- gcide the conflictilis that upset him. going down in the to apologise Whehvnsaelstrom, taking his wife and chil- ng' in domestic 3f. ‘dren With him. There are a good )3 a law of your tmany trains running from earth to deâ€" I >est thing I everlstruction. They start all the hoursl idfather, whom I l or. the day. and all the hours 01! the L: that once havinginight. They are the freight trains; uked one of hisfthey go very slowly. and very heavi- lf having lost hisily; and there are the accommodation ‘haps, having beengtrain-s going on towards destruction, 1e child’s doings,iand they stop very often. and let a stake, and in theiman get out when he wants to. But L6 day gathered allfgenteel idleness is an express train; r, and said: “Now, iSatan is the stoker. and Death is the lllOD to make, and‘engineer, and though one may come y. Thomas, thislout in front of it. and swing the red 1 you. very unfair- flag of. “danger,” or the lantern of rfor lt. [rebuked {God's Word. it makes just one shot 2 of the whole fam- - into pcrdition. coming down the em- it your forgiveness ‘bankment with a shout, and a wail, and .” It must have . a shriekâ€"crash, crash! There are two 3 t0 do that. It was classes of people sure of destruction; Never 138 ashamed first, those who have nothing to "do; 0319“” inaccuracy. secondly. those who have somethtng ateâ€"what are the to do, but who are too lazy or too nayqalllfttem soâ€" proud to do it. “1...... .1 . to you in your 3 to the very last nature the law “u“ WI-V-. ?-w"_ - â€" with her nght hand. N6 tears! Comrades of the little one came in and wept over the coffin; neighbors came ‘in. and the moment they saw the istill face of the child the shower fhroke. No tears for her. God gives Itears as the summer rein to the pal-oh. w§ld terror. grasped a. coiling serpent L-.. _!_-LL 1....) ”A font-n. "-.v â€"- v- -.-â€"wâ€" â€" ed soul; but in all the universe the dryeet. the hottest, the moat scorch- ing. and consuming thing is a mo-_ ther’s heart if she has neglected her child when once dead. God may for- give. her. but she will never forgive herself. The memory will sink the eyes deeper into the sockets. and pinch the face. and whiten the ham, 'and eat up the heart with. vultures {that will not be satisfied. for ever plunging deeper their iron beaks. Oh. you wanderers from your home. go back to your duty! The brightest flowers in all the earth are those which grow in the garden of a Chris- itian household, clambering over the porch of a Christian home. I advise you also to cultivate sympa- thy of occupation. Sir James M’Inâ€" tosh, one of the most eminent and ele- gant men that ever lived, while standing at the very height of his eminence said to a great company of scholars: “My wife made me.” The wife ought to be the advising part- ner in every firm. She ought to be interested in all the losses and gains of shop and store. She ought to have 1' have one more word of. advice to give to those who would have a happy home, and that is: let love preside in it. When your behaviour in the do- mestic circle becomes a mere matter of calculationâ€"when the caress you give .15 merely the result of: deliberate study of the position you occupy. hap- piness lies stark dead on the "hearth- stone. When the husband's position as head of the household is main-tain- ed‘ by loudness of voice, by!~ strength of arm. by fire of temper, the repub- lic of domestic bliss has become a des- potism that neither God nor man: will abide. 0h. ye who promised to love each other at the altar. how: dare you commit perjury? Let no shadow of Suspicion come on your affection. It 18 easier to kill that flower, than it is to lmake it live again. The blast from hell that puts out thug light leaves IYou. in the blackness of darkness for never. . Here L". amen and wife; they. agree in, nothing else, but they agree they will have abome. They will have a splendid house, and they think that it they have abouse they Will have a home. Architects make the plan.an‘d the mechanics execute it; the house to cost one hundred thousand dollars. It is done. The carpets are spread; llghts are honsted; curtains are hung; cards of invitation sent out. Thei horses in gold-plated harness prance at: the gate; guests come in and take‘ their places; the flute sounds; the dancers go up and down; and with one grand whirl, the wealth. and the fash- ion, and the mirth oi. the 'great town wheel amid the pictured walls. Hal this. IS happiness. Float. it on, the {SMQKIDQ viands; sound it in the music; ‘Whlrh it in the dance; cast: it on the SD9W= of sculpture; sound it up the brilliant stairway; flash it in the chem- delters. Happiness indeed! Let us build on the centre at the parlour floor a throne to happiness; let all the guests, when come in, bring their “OWGI‘S, and pearls, and diamonds, and_throw' them on this pyramid, and let: it be athrone; and then let Hap- Piness, the queen, mount the throne. and’ we will stand around, and all cbalices lifted, we will say: “Drinknoh queen; live tor evert” But the guests depart. the flutes are breathless. the last: clash of the impatient hoof! are heard; in the distance, and the twam of the: household come back to see the queen of Happiness on the throne amid the parlour floor. But. alas, as they-come. back, the flowersh'ave fad- ed, the sweet odours have become the smell of a oharnel-house. and matead- on the queen of. Happiness there site there the gaunt form of Anguish. With bitter lip and sunken eye, and‘ ashes in her hair.. The romp of the dancers who have left seems crumbling) yet.- like jarring thunders that quake the} i floor and rattle the glasses of the [east rim. to mm. The spilt; wine on the floor turns into blood! The wreaths of. plush have become thggimg rep- tiles. Terrors catch tangled in the canopy. that overhangs the couch. A strong gust of wind comes through the hall, and the drawing-room, and the bed-chamber, in which all the lights go out. And from the lips of the Wine- beakers‘ come the words: Happiness is not in me!" And the arches res- pond: “It is notâ€"in me!" And the silenced instruments of musio, thrum- med on by invxsible fingers, answer: “Happiness, is not in me!" And the frozen lips of anguish break open, and seated on the throne of wilted flowers, she strikes her bony hands together, and' groans: "It is not in me!" ._..... °_‘""‘ That very night, aclerk,with’ asalâ€" ary of a thousand dollars a yearâ€"only one thousandâ€"goes to his home, set, up three months ago, just after the marriage-day. Love meets him at the (1001‘: love. sits with him. at (the table; love talks over the wprk at the day; wâ€"â€"â€" â€"-wâ€" ove‘ takes down the Bible, and reads; of( Him who came our souls to sa've',‘ and they kneel, and while they are -' kneelingâ€"right in that plain room} on' that plain carpetâ€"the angels oi ; God build a throne, not out of! flowers that perish and fade away, but out. of garlands of heaven, wreath on topi of wreath, amara-nth on amaranthfl. until the throne is done. Then thef harps of God sounded, and suddenly there appeared one who mounted the throne, with eye so bright, and: brew so, fair, that the twain knew it was Christian love. And' they knelt at the foot of the throne, and putting one hand on each head, she blessed them. and said: “Happiness is with me!" And that throne of celestial bloom withered not with the passing years; and the queen left not the throne till one day the married pair felt stricken in years- felt themselves called away, and knew not which way to go, and the queen bounded from the throne, and said: "‘ Follow me; and I will show you the way up to the realm of everlasting love.” And so they went up to sing songs of Love and walk on pavements at love, and to live together in man- sions of love, and to rejoice for ever in the truth that God is love. lzszlnmiod at 2.000.000 Elves In Nlnety Years-Jncrcnm or Germans. A statistician of Venezuela has just made public an interesting fact re- garding the population of that coun-o try. His figures show that in the past ninety years Venezuela has lost 2,000,000 of its inhabitants in war alone, and he predicts that if such losses continue the: republic in anoth- er century will be in the control of a. foreign nation whose peOple are set- tling .there. To-vday Venezuela. has a popula- tion of about three millons. Begin- ning with the war for independence in 18l0, it is figured that more than 100,000 Venezuelans met their death: in that struggle. Then in the five years' civil war. which began in 1859. another 50,000 men were killed. The other losses that make ipn the 2,000,000 occurred in the many revolutions which have continued to the month of October last, when another rebellion was started by Gen. Jose Hernandez. Of the foreigners in Venezuela the. Germans predominate, and if the re- volutions which have so greatly re- duced the population continue for an- other hundred years it will. be no dif- ficult task for the German inhabi- tants, who increase at a greater rate than the natives! to acquire control of the country "by reason of their greater numbers. fleurly liverySoldler flu: a Inn‘crent Way lo Show ll If you take a dozen soldiers as like each other as peas, so far as height, weight, strength, age, courage and general appearance, and wound them all in precisely the same way, you will find that scarcely any two of them are affected alike. One man, on receiving a. bullet in} his leg, will go on fighting as if noth- ‘ ing had happened. He does not know, . in fact, that he now contains a bul-1 let. But perhaps in two or three min- utes he will grow faint and fall. . Another man, without feeling the slightest pain, will. tremble all over, totter and fall at once, even though the wound is really very slight. A. third will cry out in a way to frighten his commades, and will for- get everything in his agony. A fourth will grow stupid and look like an idiot. . Some soldiers wounded in the slight- est manner will have to be carried off the field. Others, although perhaps fatally injured, can easily walk to the ambulance. Many die quickly. from the shock to the nervous system. , ' A very curious dose is recorded in the surgical history of the American Civil Wur, in which three officers were hit just at the same time. One had .his leg from the knee down oalrried ; away, but he rode 10 miles to the hos- Fpitul. Another. lost his little finger, l and he became a raving lunatic. While a. third was shot through the body, and, though he did not shed a drop of blood externally, dropped dead from the shock. VENEZUELA’S LOSSES IN WAR. Are your Skinner. , W'Well iihey' re not exactly they are pretty near nice. "4 SHADES AND DEGREE: STRUCK BY BULLETS. new neighbors nice?- Mrs. nice, but THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. E2; is INTERNATIONAL. LESSON. MAR. .“Jcol'eâ€" [lull-x In taper-Inuit.” Mark 1 I: use. Golden l'cxt. Mark 1. at. i PRACTICAL NOTES.” Verse 21. They went into Coperna.‘ um. “They" stands for Jesus. Peter. Andrew, James and John. Having A made oapemaufin ms home; Jasus’ promptly made it the centre of his- work. The town thus honored above!1 all others, and, as we learn from ‘ Matt. 11, 28, honored more than the ‘ conduct of its inhabitants merited. is A not mentioned in the Old Testament, and but once by Josephus. It stood ion the western shore of the Sea of Gal- ilee. and its site according to the best authorities is a village called Khan Minyeh. Straightway. Immediate”. ia word characteristic of Mark. who, ‘more than the other evangelists-I. notes the prox'nptness and energy. the 11013 enthusiasm, of the Saviour. 0n the Sabbath day. Apparently his first Sabbath in Capernaum. He entered into the synagogue. Jesus regularly attended services in the synagogues until at length he was driven out of 'them. Misunderstanding and religi' Qous corruption did not prevent his reg. guitar worship. Synagogue worship {has been repeatedly explained in our motes. It. was inatituted either dur- ging or after captivity, and brought. re. aldgious truth nearer to the common ample than the temple services could ldo. Taught. The reading of the allow and the prophets was the chief -ieature of synagogue worship, but ai- ter.the reading it was expounded, and [apparently any rabbi might be called iupon to take part. n-.. ags “ how far one might walk on Sab- bath," or “what vessels might be msed for cooking,” but living truths which penetrated the heart and con- science; he proclaimed the kingdom fi'm which all Jews looked as having come; and he spoke as one that had authority. '22. They wére astonished at his doc- trine.‘ “ At his teaching." He spoke not of the puerile themes of the scribes “hwy...” 23. A men with an unclean spirit.’ The word “ unclean" was used by the Jew to describe things which the haw forbade, and persons with whom. he must not associate. in those days no kindly provision was made for the seclusion oi lunatics and irresponsible persons, and this poor creature. see-. ing the crowd enter the synagogue, followed it. Thst them are evil spirits, and that. in our Lord‘s day .they took possession of human bodies, is the plain teaching of Scripture. He cried out. “ The loud cry often mentioned in such cases was no doubt,“ says Dr. Alexander, “0d such a nature as to indicate the presence of the foreign agent speaking either through or without the organs of the man pos- sessed." wwwâ€"V“ 24. Let us alone; what have we to do with thee. “Why should you inter~~ fete ?" The person that Speaks is evi- dently not the afflicted man, but the demon inside him; and this demon knows well that Jesus is “his enemy, and destruc- tion is his destiny. Our Lord baa not uttered a word respecting the judgment or punishment, but guilt (accuses and condemns itself. The Holy One of God. The Messiah. Spirits even of evil recognize the holiness of Jesus. v v-â€"... 25. Jesus rebuked him. Jesus never accepted the testimony of demons, though he welcomes that of saved men. Hold thy! peace. Literally. “Be muzzled.” Come out of him. Jesus does not speak to the man. but to the invisible spirit. 26. Had torn him. "Convuised him." Cried with a loud voice. “A cry of rage, despair and fear."â€"-\Vhe¢on. He came out. . .kgainsi' his W1“: :1an ‘Ah' vuuv V‘vv because of the Fower of our Lqrd. Luke’s description of this scene 1n}- plies that the evil spirit dashed his victim violently to__t.he grognd. 'l‘l. A... "V"“"‘ "V ‘‘‘‘‘ J -- ~--- ‘4 27. They were all amazed. They had wonder. on top- of wonder. Here was a rabbi against. whom the dem- ons were particularly bitter; this rabbi had power to expel demons; and. more wonderful yet, the.demone recognized him as God’s Holy One. They queStioned among themselves. Talked over the matter by themselves. in groups and apart. What thing is this? Note the exclamation of wonâ€" der at Christ’s word and work as given in the Revised Version. With authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits. He does not resort to incantations and ceremonies such as ordinary Jewish exorcists used. 28. Immediaj ely. "Straight way." His fame spread abroad. The miracle called attention to the new teacher and excited a spirit of inquiry which prepared the. pecple to accept. his ut- terances. Neither of the evangelists who record this miracle says that. it was the first, but they imply that it was the first; which excited general attention. All the region roundi about. Galilee. “All the region of Galilee round about." >-"‘ ‘ C y _‘ V. lvuuu “mlu‘o ‘29. Fc'rthwith, ”Straight way ," again. The house of Simon and An- drew. See Matt. 8. 14. These disciples had 1101 been iong “settled" in C‘apel’nzium. 30. Simon's wife’s mother, This passage and 1 Cor. 9.5 prove. that Peter was a married man. Anon. “Straightway,” again. They tell him of her. Confident. that the. power :hut -A-MA‘ L‘asu .vu .- 32. At even, when the sun did set. The setting sun brought the Sabbath to a close, and immediately crowds who were conscientiously restrained from asking his help on the. Sabbath bro-ughi unto him all that were dis;- ea.;-'ed,znn(]i them that were possessed Wt}! 1.07312 'aig? ii‘; the ciiy was gathered togeth- A Disturbing Impedance 'uh n was: and Nervous nit-d lam. i “I have told you,” said the retired burglar. “of one little eXperience wit)! .. to leave nobody in the homes. 81. He healed many. This phrase does not mean that he ledt any that had applied unhealed. For “devils" reed “demons." Notice that Jesus suf- fered not the demons to speak. HO would have no indorsement from" and! fl SOUICO. a blind manâ€"this is another I had gone into a very big but comfortable looking farmhouse and looked around! below without finding anything. and: got upstairs. 'I hadn’t more‘n struck the upper floor before I realized that there wasn’t many people in the house; funny about that, but when there’s a lot. of people it fills it fl with 'a kind of electricity that y ' can feel. and. when there isn‘t it £0018 dull and dead. “Well, I got into a front room on one side of this house and found no- body there, and I might remark, no- thing besides; in the back room on that side, a big room,. with a big bad. I found a small boy, £asc 8.81er i didn’t dare put the bullseye on him. But I could see well enough by 8 dim light that. was burning on a table in a little, alcove in one side of this room to guess that he was, maybe, 9 or 10 years old, and of course I could‘ see that he was sleeping in his moth- er’s bed ; mother away, somewhere, and he sleeping them: because he’d feel easier and safer there while she waggoqe. I '- _ L “ Nothmg in 11111 room, and I went out and across me hall into a room on the other side opposite the room the boy was in. The first step I took into that room made the floor creak, just the least little. bit in the world. but I halted, right. where I stood;qu the next instant I heard a bed in thisl room snap a little and I knew there} was somebody sitting up in it and: listening. It was still for half a minute. and then I heard whoever it was in the bed, and it was a man‘s voice‘ saying: “Willie 2" “01’ course there wasn’t any answer to this, because Willie was fast asleep; I’d just: seen him in bed a minute be- fore myself; but the man that wal sitting up in bed and listening called again: "Willie S" _ "When he got no answer this timo.§ he started to get up. as I expented_ kg" v â€"â€"w "-â€" would, and when he made the bed cmak in getting out off it I stepped~ back a step and around the door jam 7 and hugged the wall in the hall, an in a minute the man came thr the doorway. He was as blind as a_ hat. I couldn’t see that, in that light in his eyes, but I could see it in his manner and way of moving, in the way he carried his head and his hands; but he made straight for Willie's room. just as well as though he could see , perfectly; the blind man was going to look after \Villie. "And he got in there. all right and found the boy all rightâ€"I don’t know how he told it. 1 couldn’t see from where l was; but maybe he touched the boy’s head, or stood and", listened to his, breathin , but. any-4 how he satisfied himself 1 at the boy; was all rightâ€"and then he started} back for his own room. I suppose I might. have got out when he was in the youngster’s room, but it would have been a sort of clumsy thing to do, he‘d have been almost certain to ' hear me, and, though I could have got ' away all right, I didn‘t like to go in“ ‘ that bungling way, and thought I' ‘ ’ let him come. out and get back in , his own room and go to sleep be I started; but he gave me a g E shake-up before he did that. -‘_.- fl-- atoth'e door. Such a crowd i ‘A curidus mode of catching tutti sis praciioed in the \Ve5L Indies. :consists in attaching a ring and ” 'line to the tail of a species of sucke ‘ dish. which is then thrown overhaul-(1,7: {and immediately makes for the finsfi lmrtle he can spy, to which he at-t? ,attaches himself very firmly by {attaches himself very firmly by means :of a sucking apparatus arranged on the top 01’ his head. The» fisherman the-n hauls both turtle and sucking- “The door to his own room was, , most directly opposite the door at. room where 1h? boy was. A H toward the front of the house it his own door was the head of t , stairs leading to .zhe. floor below? When he came oht of the. boy‘s room; he didn't. make straight across to his,- own door, but he took a diagonal course toward the head of the stairs and I thought he’d lost his way, but- the distance was short and he was there before I could realize it. : L!__I_. IHULD "(ILVLv A VV_-~._ “It made my heart go down to think of being found the-re. in the house with a blind man with a broken neck. or a. broken leg, or something of that sort; but he didn’t go over. He went. plum-b“ to the verge of the stairs and halted there as though it had been broad daylight. and he could see, and 51004 there for a minute and listened. It wasn’t Willieâ€"what; could it. have been? He didn’t hear anyihing; and he turned and went back into his own room and go: into bed and sat up in it: again for a minute as he had done before he gm up, and lhen lay down. “And I waited for him. and when he’d go: to sleep again. I skippvd. very gently; going down the Stairs so as not: to make ’92:: creak under my weight, and got. out and glad to get. away. I don’t want any run-in with a blind man.” Do you beiieve you will succeed hi having your man acqui‘gted ? asked one Lawyer. A _ , n . n _ 44- the other. But I am absolutely con- fident that we can have the trial posts ponetd often enough to prevent acon‘ viction. ‘ j 7‘ I “haven't given much thought 3’ that phase 91' 1h: question, answered THE RETIRED BU RG LAB. QUEE R TURTLE FISHING. ALMOST AS GOOD.