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u 4 I mumm path Dlt TALMAGE'S WA.'fNlNG AGAINiT RL., aNG iNlJ DEBT. Tke EtII luaiirur * ol Harint LireTbiil Drivr Mrm "Like an 0\ in ih« 8lnticl> t^r"'â€" lt««ii 'lis o; nnnritlyaiKl Sndiiniiy. Smv. Dr. TaLfcaag* preached on Sunday maTBiiTig from Pravertu vii, 22, "As •!» AS in the sllaxag'hter." Tiitre iA nathiog in the voice or man- mer of tliB lvii« -fhiar to indicate to the «x tlhal there i« iij«!a.th ahead. The ox tihiinks he is g<irj|g on to a rich pa&- twre fieifl of clover -Hihsre all day he wiiit revel in the herbateous luxuriance, but after nw-liL'e the nu'n and the boyB olcse in Ufon huni with sticks and atoD'W ftnd Bhonting. and drive him through bars ajid ioto a doorway, where he is fastened, and wi.h a welJ- fcimed stroke the ax £els him, and bo the ,'.n.ticip*tioTi of the redolent pae- tuxe fieud is completely disappointed. Bo many a youjng man boa lieen driven on bj- temptation to what he thoiiight wouiti be paradiBi/'al enjoyment, bui af- ter awhifjb ijifluences with darker hue tBvd •warthier arna ciloie in upon him, (md be finds that Lnstead of making an Axcuxsidn into a garden be has been driven "as an ax to thu alAugbter." We are apt to b^iiiiei young men for beiag desitroyed whien we ought to blame tile llnfluenic-«s)g ihat destroy them. Society sotu^ihiers a great mairy younK men l:^ the hebest; "You must keep u|p appearances. Whatever be your â- aJlar7, you muBt dress aa well as oib- eis, you must give wine and brandy to as many frieods, yau must smoke as cosliy cig-ars, you must give as eipeji- â- ive eoi.crtainments and you must 2(v« Ln as taiiiiionabile a boarding bouse. If you bavent (.be money borrow. If you can't tjorrow, maie a fajse entry or sulitracl here amd there a bill from a tmjidle of bank bills. You will only tiiave to make the dec>l^eption a little wbiJe. la a lew mouths or in a year or two you can tuaka it aul rig^bt. No- body wi.l be hurt by it, nobo<iy will bo Ube viiiser. You yourae-if will not be dati' i^-^ed." By Ibal, awful £>rot«iS8 a b'undred thouband men have been »,ia U4fblered tor lime and slaughtered for eternity. Suppose you borrow. Ihiere is no- tbing wrong abwut Lurrowing money. Ibere is hard-ry a man ^^ ii > Las not wuietimes lx>rrtrwed money. Vast tataies have been buili on a borrow- ed dcflar. BuJt tlbere are two kinds (4. borrowed money ; Money borrowe<i for the ;.virr<»ie oi' starting or ke^i-ing U4> iegi'iinate enterprLses and expen.-^e aUtl moniey lx>r rowed to get that whi>:h you can do witboul. 'i'be first Is right the oi.l;er m wroovg. If you have moiity enou*;h of your own to buy a coat, how- evm- ptUin, and then you borrow moni-y for, a duflily's ouUiiL, you huve taken Ube fintt ruvollitiaa of the wheel down grade. Borrow for the ncL-essilies; tibil may lo weU. B->rrow for th*s iiuxuries: ii. . tipe your prcepecls over la tile wrr..:^- dixectiL>u. The Bil'j) diattinioily says the bor- rower iB6«>rvant oif ibie ifender. It is a bad slain o^' thinigs when you have to go down some oXJit<r sireiL't to ei>,a;o meetiu.g efmcoiie whom you owe. lu yoiuig ii:eu kneiw wbat is the despotism off txfiug in Uebt, more of ib^iiu wouM keep out Oi it. What did tlelii do tor Lord Ba'on^ with a mirni towering atjove the tejiiuriew? It Induce* him to take bribes and convii-t hiiuisetf as a orimiua,-. l«lore all ag«». Wbal di(i debt do for Wal'iej- Scott, brokenheart- ed at AliljOlaford ? Kept biin writing unlil his hand gave out in paralysis, to keep the alheriif away Iroui bis pic- turCH and statuary. Better for him iX be had minded liiu maxim which he had chihc.ed aver the fireplace at A,bbotaiford, "VV'aste not, want not." Tbe trMilt^e ie>, my friends,' tbut peo- p>.<K do not uudersi^ind the ethica of gnkinx in Ueljt, and thtit if you pur- chtuse gotnti with uo expeciatiou of pay- ing for them or go inno delt which you caD,uoit meat you stetu. just (» much piwney. U I go into a grocer's store and I Uiy gugiirs and coffees and meats with no capH'iiy to pay for them and n<> intention oi ['•aying for them, I am more disti<;oeBt tban if I go into the •tore, and, whem the grocer's face is turned the otiier way, 1 fL:l my iMK'k- «ts with the artindJas 0i merchandi.se »Jld carry off a bam. in the on*- case 1 tajift the men-huint's time and I take the time «£ his messeinger to transfer the goods to Uiy hou^, wbi;© in the other case I take none oC the time of the merchant, and I wait upon myself tod I transfer tbie goods wltbout any trouhifc to hitu. in other words, a Kieaii: thief is tiott so l>ad as a man who contracls del>tsi he never expects to pay. No wonder that bo many of oujr mer- obantH fair, in business. 'i'bey are â- wind.ed into Umj£rm>U'y by these wan- dering Araljs,tbeae nomads of city life. Th»y cheat the grocens out of the green app-esi wWch make them sick, the phy- »k-mn who attends them during their diiatreae, and t,hie. undertaker who fits tinemi out for depiarture from the neigh- borhood Nvhere th«^ owe everybody when they pay the debt olf nature, the Only de'bt they ever do i»ay. Now our youn« mem are coming up ioo/ this deprtaved sla,te of commejxial etbjics, find U am soJititous about t'bem. 'I Wiuiil to waan tliem about bedjig slaugh.tt*ed on Uie .sliarp edges of (lobt. Vou wan/t many tbiimgs you Uivie, not, my youmg friends. Ylou ahall huve' Uiftmi if yoiui have patience and huxn^'tsty and imdniatiy. Oerta.in lines of comduct alwo,yi» lead out. to certain puk-cesaee. Tlhere js a. law which c<jin- tr«iU eweii t(ho«e thimgs which seeoi liajftiaEard. I havei been told by those wfco h.ive observed tha^t it is possible to calculate just how owmy letters will tei sent to the dttid letter offli-e every ye<iir l'b,rough mSiKUrei^tioo, tha-t It is â- wwible to oalculate just bow mjaniy IdtteTs will be deffaiiaM for laei of postage 8t«.nnii8 throiugli the forgetful- â- MK> of the serarijeirs, and Hint it is jmb- â- Ible. to tpll juflit how ini»,nly i.»«if)le will IrJI in the streets by slijipLng on an orange peel. Itn other words, there mm, ao aocidemta. Thie most insignifi- CBint eve(nt you eveir (hieaird of is the Jiiu'k ^ctwflBin two etternitiwi-thie eter- axty of (Jw. oaflt (iTiid t.He ete^vnity of ihn Mttuiie. S^ad tl-e right wao . youixg maa, and yod will come out at the rigWt gcrni. iBring men a youiQ^f mjitn and leJIme w'.hat UU pbysii'.iJ h-alib is an/1 what hi.s mental cuiibr? a,n«i what hi i hab- LLs. .i-nl 1 will I :i you whoi will he hus destinft" f;.'r 1 uis world and his destiny (or the world to onme, and I will not nuuaB fivt Lnmccuraie pro- pbHt-ieis cuit at tlie 00.1. All this OKikes me: solicitous in re^aril to young men, un I i i^vajult to <nak.e. them nervous in regard to tjie contrictiMn of uni«i.y- alile debts. 1 give v:»u, a pamgrapfa. fr^m my oiwn ex[;erle'nce. .Mv first settleinunt is pastor was in a villagB. My salary was fJkiD'j ani a (Kirsonage. iihie amount seemel euor- m<»uB to me.. I aa'id to ^^^â- selt, ' What, all thio for ooLe ye;ix!'' I was afraid of getijmg woiTlJjly umdelr no miu<'h pro.^ perity. I reficiivenL to invite all the uoinigregatlon to my houBe in groups of 25 eaoh. We l»etgnn„ and as the(.v Were the besti oongreg) 1 1 un in all the world ;iin/ft we fedt notiiiitog was too good lor theim we piiled all tlhe lujtur- ita oiu tile tnblo I nev<>T completed thie uindertakimg. lAjO tlno end of six nwutl-.B I waa ilm flninciail djpspair. f fouaid tliia.6 w^ nt>t) unly had not the surplus of luxuries, but we ht.td a strurggle Co get tine nje»re«oities, and I learnnd wbiat every youmg man learns iin. timie to a-ive himself or too late, that you must measure the size (Kf a •i.-in's body before youj begin to cut the cl'.>th for his coat. iWbeA a young man wilfully and of cboice. having the ct>ni(orts of life, goes into tJiB contraction of unpay- able debba, he knio<ws not into whut he goes 'nhe credxtoiia get a,fter the debtor, the pack of hounds in full ory, ami alas, for the reindeer. They jingle his d<x>rbell before he gets up in the morning; they jingle his doorbell af- tex he has gone to bad rtt night. They meet bim as he comes off liis front steps. They ae(ad hiim a postal card or a letter in ourtest style, telling biim to pa^y up. They attack bis goods. They wato/t cash or a note at 80 dttyB ' r a note on demand. 'ITiey call biu' a knavd, They say he lies, the? want him disciplined in the church. They want liiuu turned out of the bank 'i°!h«y coonie at bim from tbi^ slide and fronu that Hide and from ^bova and from beneatli,. and he is in- sulted and gibl'eted, and .i^ued and dun- ne<l and uworn at unt il he gets nervous dyspt^psi^ gets neunilgia, gets liver, complaint, gels heart disease, gets convulsive disorder, gets con- .s>i>mptioa Now he h* dead, and you â- aj, "0^ oourae they will let him vJotna." Oh, no. Sow they aje watchful to see whether iliere ;:re any unneces- saxy expeU'^o at the obsequies, to seid whether mere is aniy useless han- dle on the casket, to see whether there is any surplus plait on the shroud, to see whether the. lasirse is costly or cheap, to see whether the flowers aeoit to tlte cisket have l)een l)Ought by thr^ f imily, or don;i.led, to see 'in wlios^ mine the deed of the grave is m«id»- uut. Tl'vm thej" ransack tha bereft house- bold, the books, the picttues, the car- pets, the chairs, the sufa. the ^>iauo, the. mrattresses. the pillow on which he died. Cursed Ije deiiti For the sake of your owu happinwas. lor the sake of your good iuora,l», lor the s;ike of your iim.mort.-il soul, for Ood's sake, y<i.uu9 man, as far as puesLble keep out of it. .But I thlok miore young men are slaughtered through irrelitfion. Take away a young man's religion and you make, biim the prey of evil. We all ku'w that the Bi<ble is the only per- fect system of mora.ls. Now, if you want to destroy the young main's mor- aU, take bJsi Bilde away. How will you do tliiit? Well, you will <^;i.rica- ture his reverenre for the ^cripturej. you. wi,ll taJii' ail those iucideint-s of tln» Uible. which caai. be made mirth of â€" .'onah's whale, Sam.son's foes, Adam's ri;l) â€" then you will caricature eccen- tric Christians, or inconsistent Chris- tians, thea youl wUl ikisb off as your uwn all th^ise lrijckuieyo,l arK-Uinients iig.i.i.nBt Chr'tstiaiiitv which an., as old aa Turn L*aint% as old as Voltaire, as old as seo. Now', you have captured hils Bible, amd you h<i.v» taken his strongest fortress. The way is compara- tively clear, and all the gates ot his souli are set uieui m iiiviuitioa to tlie sins of eajtih ajid the sorrofws of death, that they may come in and drive the staiie for their encaoup- meint. A steamer 1500 miles from shore with broken rudder and lost compiiss and hulk leaking 50 gallons thie hour is bet- ter off than a young man when you have robbed him of his Uible. Have you ever noticed how despicably mean it is to lake away the worlds Bible without proposing a substitute ! It is meaner than to cosuip to a sick main and steal his medicine, meaner than to come to a cripple and still his crutch, mean- er than to come to a poor man and Im-n' his bouse down. It is the worst of all larcencies to ileal the Bible which has been crutch and me lioine and food and eternal home to so many. What a gen- erous and magnanimous liuainess in- fidelity has gone into ! I'his splitting up of lifeboats and ta^'ig away of fire escaiKis and extingtisuing of light- houses. 1 "ome out and 1 sayl to such people, ' 'What are you doing all this for?" "Oh," they sao", "just for fun!' It is such fun to see Christians try to hold on to their Bibles I Miany of them have Irjflt loved ones ami have been told thial there is a resurrection, and it is suchi fu/n to tell them there will be no resurrection. MJany of them have be- lieved that Christ came t.o carry the burdens ami to heaJ the wounds of the world and it is such fun to tell tnem they will have t.o be their own savior. rhink of the meanest thing you ever heard of, then go down 1000 feet under- (meiath' it aind you will find yourself at the top of a stairs 100 miiles long. Go to the bottom of the stairs, and you will find a ladder 1000 miles long ; then go to line foot of the ladder and look off a precipice half as faJ: as from here to China, and you will find the headnu.-ir- ei°8 of the meanness that would rob this world of i,ts only comfort in life, its only peace in death and its only hope for immortality. Slaughter a young man's faith in God. and there is not mfuoh more left to slaughter. Now, bow is this whol^aale slaughter to lie stopped? There is not a person who is not interested in tlisit question; Thie object of my sermon is to put a wea.son in each of your bands tor your own defense. Wait not for Young !Vfen'\ Christiiin Associaiions to pro-' t*:t y«>u or churcbaB to jTotect you... Appealing to God for help, take care of yourselfj First, have a room somewhere that yon can call your own. Whetiier it he lii<> back parlor of a fashionaMe board- ing hou»-( or a room in the fourth at'or ey of a oUetip lodging 1 lare not. Only I have that one room yOtf'r fortress. Let I not I he d'jssli aier or umdean step over 'i the lhre|i/iold. If they come up the long I flight oV stairs and knoik at tlie door. meet thotii face to face and kindly yet firmly refuse them aduiittance. Have a f»>«\' family portraits on the wall, if yeu brought iheni with ynu from your country home. Have a Bible on the s'.and. If you can affor ! it and can play on one, have an instrument of musicâ€" harji or flute or cornet, or me- lodeim or violin or jiiano. Every morn- ing before you leave that room pray Every night after you come home in that room pray. Make tbAt room your Oiliraltar, your .-vbastopol. your Mount Zion. Let no bad book or newspaper oome into that room any more thap you would allow a cobra to coil on your table. Take care of yourself. Nobody else will take care of you. Your help will not come up two or three or four flights of stairs. Your help will come through the roof, down from heaven, from that God who in the 6000 years of the world's history never betrayed a young man who tried to lie good and a Chris- tian. Let me aaiy in regard to your adverse worldly circumstances in pass- ing that you ajce on a level now with those who are finally to succeed. Mark my words, young man, and think of It 30 years from now. You wUl find that those who 30 years from now are the millionaires of this country, who are the orators of the country, who are the poets of the country, who are the strong merchants of the country, who are the great philanthropists of the country- mightiest In church and stateâ€" are this morning on a level with you, not an inch abtive, and you in straitened cir- cumstances now. Htorecbel earned his living by playing a violin at parties, and in the interstices of the play he woujd go out and look up at the midnight heavens, the field of his immortal conquests, (ieorge Steph- enson rose from l>eing the foreman in a collier^' to be tlie most renowned of the world's engineers. No outfit, no caj)- ital to start with. Young man, go down to the library and get some books a,nd read of what wonderful mei-hanism tJod gave you in your hiind, in your feet, in your eye, in your ear. and then ask some doctor to take you into the dis- secting room and illustrate to you what you have read about, and never again commit the blasphemy of saying you have no capital to start with. Equipped ! Why, the poorest young tiuin is equipped as only the God of the whole uinverse could aifonl to equip him. Then his body â€" a very poor affair when compared with his wonderful soul â€" oh. that is what makes me s<djcitous I 1 am not so much anxious about you, young man, because you have so little to do with as 1 am anxious about you )»â-  cause you have ao much to risk and lose or gain. Ah. when I told you to takeicare of yourself you misunriersioo I me if you thought 1 meant you are to depend up- on human reeolutaon. which may !« dis- solved in the, foam of the wine ctip Or may be blown out with the first gust of temptJitiom Here is the helmet, the sword of the Lord God Almighty. Clot he yourself In yiat panoply, and you shall not he put to c<mfusion. l-n l>''.vs well neither in this world nor the next, but right thinking and right believing ami right acting will take you in safety through thui life and in transport through the next. 1 never shall forget a prayer I heard a young man make some 15 years ago. It was fi very short prayer, lul it was a tremendous â- prayer: "O. Lord, help usi We find it so very easy to go wrong atul so hard to do right. Lord. help ii«!" That prayer, 1 warrant you. reached the ear of God and reached His Iheart. And there are a hundred men who have foil ml outâ€" a thousand young men. perhaps â€" who have fo«ind out that very thing. It is so very easy to do wrong and so hard to do right. I got a letter tone day. only one par- agraph which I shall read: "Having moved around somewhat, I have run across many young men of in- telligence, ardent st rivers after that will-o'-the-wisp â€" fortune â€" and of one of theite I would speak. He was a young Englishman of '23 or 24 years who came to New York wjiere he had no acquaint- ances, with barely sufficient to keep him a couple of weeks. He had 1 een ten- derly reared perhaps, I should say. too tenderly and was; not used to earn ng bis living and found it extremely diffi- cult U) get any possition that he was capable of filling. .VClcr toany vain ef- forts in this direction he found him- self on a Sunday even.njJt in Brooklyn near y<:ur church with about $3 left to his small capital. Providence seemed to lead him to your door and he determin- ed to go in and hear you. "He 1 1)1.1 me his going to hear you that night was undoubtedly the turning point in his lite for when he wl^nt in- to your I huroh he felt desperate, but while listening to yo<ir discoursn his bolter nature got the mastery. 1 truly believe from what this young man told me that your sounding the depths of bis heart aione that night brought him back to bis God, whom he was so near leaving." That is tin' ocho of multitudes, lam not preach iiK un almtroclion but a great reality. O, friendless young man I O prodigal young man, discour- aged young man, wounded young man, I commend to you Christ this day. the best friend a man ever had. He meets you this morning. One Sabbath iiinrningf at the close of the servic<> 1 .«aw a gold watch of the. world reni>wn;l and deeply lamcn ed violinist, Ole Bill. You remember he dieil in his island home off the cxjast of Norway. That gold watch he had wound up day after day through his last illness, and then he said to his companion, "Now I %v»nt to u'nlthis watch as long as ' i a;i and thi n when i am gone I want you to keep it wound up unTiJ it goes ( ') my friendi. Dr. Uore- mus Ln New York, and then he will keep it wound up until his life Is done, and then I want the watch to go to his young son, my special favorite." The great musician who more than any other artist lad trade the violin speak and sing and weep anl laugh and triumphâ€" tor it seemed when he drew the bow; ncr<'.<.'» the str ngs as if a'l earth and 1-'. a.in shivere'l in de- the. close ot, a 1,1' ' that hal done so ritui^ to vt»kii th* world 'happy. But 7T :^-^ * •- ' I have to t*ll yo(i. ynung man. if you ighlful sympathyâ€" the great musician in a room looking oit upon the sea an li surrounded iiy his lavnrit* instruments ^.f music, dosed liis eyes in <leath. '-Vh:!e all the world w-ts mourning at Ills departure si.\t°en crowded sleain- prs fell into line -of funeral procession to larry his ijody tx) the mainland.. There were 50.(Kin of his countrymen gathered in an amphitheatre of the hills waiting to hear the i-ulogium.and il was said, when the great orator of the day wilth stentorian voice Ix'gan to speak t.h°i ."in. 000 people on the hill- sides burst intji tears Ah. that was the close of a life that had done so much to make the world happy But I have to te'l you. ynnnfr man. if you live rigbt and di*. right- that was a t.ajne scene c^impnred with that which will gre«'t you when from the galler- ies oi heaven the one hundred and forty and four thousand shall accord with Christ in crying. "Well, done, thou good and faitlifu! servant!" And the influences that on earth you put in motion will go down from genera- tion to generation, the influences you wound up banded to your children, and thiir influences woun I. up an I handed to their children, until watch and (dock are no moro needed to mark the pro- gress. lie<-auss' time itself shall be no loni^r. THE RETIRED BURGLAR. Bi* I'Mrloas Experteare lu a UouHe With Crruklnt l^cairs. "Tou know hbw the stairs puff up." said tlhe retired buirgiur, "after you stop umng 'em nights! Yuu crowd 'am down close togetiiler, solid, treading oin 'em ail diiy long, and tlhen wlhbn yolu iet u|) oIn 'eim Hub fibres of t*he wood lift up agaJn, and t he stairs setun to swe.1. You know how they creak, aometimes, imd snap a little, when you go down 'em flrslt in tlie morning; and some of the alepB yie.jd a little Uioder the tread 1 That's them set- tle down Into idace again. "i hove to hear 'e;ui in llie mommg. It Neecuitt kind o' llike libe stairs wakiu' up and ftpfakm' u> you as you go a-hng down. IBiut I don't like to hear 'em at night. And u-t the time 1 go about lliey've had a chaiuw to do con- siderable puffin', and no Uiu/lter how ve,. vet-footed a uuin may lie be can' I. Jc.^«ea his weighit veiy well, a<ad so X .earned euriy to tread near the wall or near the iiauuiiers going up stairs, and nut on tbe Ixiw in tihe midd.e. iba ureak, or the .udle Bolt snapping, that souuds so pi^asaoil in iihm morning, and that nobody wouldn't uuiwe then, sounds mighjty .Oud at night, when every thing is sciij. II auyiiody was awiLke, you know, you cou.d hear il from vtui end oi tlL» buutae to the olhei . 'io be sure Ul iiugillti, not acUrm any- body, be. aujie tiuue's uuber sounds in a liuuiA: tvl uigln; bounds that just make .beuiceives. lAus. 1 suppose, to changes ui temi.erH.iuj:e. Boards swe.l and ^bralk and sihiil a .iiile. aud you mitsht Qe.ar a little bUap somewhere in tjbo hoa(iu ani)' tioua ui night. iJ'Ul I aLiways nated to hear the stairs creak when 1 was gotiig v4> eni. aJl the same. lfc!.auise 1 a.\v .y» Uiougbt that as likely a» not il would wake up suuiebody, and thai 1 scuoual liind suiuucbody uaiiii;^ up m bed .ouiciuig xor me whiacu 1 looked into the door ui a room. a>ud. as a mat- ter ai fact. Uiiit did sumelimes hap- P<ein. , "1 .boked one ui^jihlt after 'a wreti:h- ed pair at sitairs, iniio a ha.f-lignted room where 1 raaw a uuuk, sitting upi in bed, over on ihie o.uur side oi the room, and .ouki'ii^ pI'iuuD at liie door tihtti. 1 waa Blandiug m. As 1 to.d you. 1 wati always ou t.ii« luukouii lor just uhiis thing, but thu man suiiirisud me, ior aii Uiat. Hb iKit; Llnere in Ited all keyed u|>, and loukuin; wi.uare at me. I I could see huu v'c^'tecUy plain, and 1 knew be could bieje me just as pdain. and 1 expected every min'UKe he'd find bus volte and begin to hoi. ler. "But iniiieud uui Uiut he threw the cuoUhes Ijack off bis legs aind swung bis ,l!gH arolutid out oL l>t»d, and stood Ui<. Ufc put biilj riglu't band out to .mcatB a chiair uhut stood liy the head of tlhiL* lied, and uheiK he i»tarted for the door, bauds ou,t a .IjLtU) on. eiu:ih side of him, and fce.ln" our a iiitle on both sides aud sort of uiiwail of him as he oame a^ong. â- H^UMiph! iB-ind. He'd heard tbd noise aiiid ivos going to .uok for it. t miiiiiil have stood there ajid s.'ugged. him eosy as hb WMn't by, but I didn't wunt no rat tie with a blind man. i ji.M went out and *ft huix. tiien.' look- in'." HER OOa LICKED HBR FACE. 4 Vouns French Wuniiin Iklrii of KiiIiIfk, ThouRh !«he Hnil Kol Keen Rill There is a starl.iing warning in the fate of tlie Paris young womau who died of hydrophobia a few days ago. She wafe noit bttteni, buit. a.;ilawe<l a pet dog which wUB ill to lick her face. Mfle. S<inta(9iero had a >ni,ll terrier, &)b, of which Bihe was very fond. Hob, two months ago, faiil ill, Hia mistress nursed and caressed hlni and he showed his grati(u/le liy liking her hands and nice. He then ran from her and howlied if Bcho weint near him. 'Hie bruite may have felt an irreslslilile desire to bite and so he i>referred notl to have an op- portunity. Hi' grew worse .md bit three men some (Eiys ago. They want to the Pas- tpux Ini<titiite oind wv-ni to be doing Weill. H'is misitress, wlbowe foot he at- tempted to bite, fedl ill last week ijhouKh the dog's teeth had not pierced her shoe. Fever sujierveued and then she hfed convuiitiions. When her moth- er went to kisB her slio cried: "You m^iut not. I on.fy kissed iBbh and, see, I hiive his distemper." Fiuuyy she died in convutfeions. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONA*. LESSON, OCT. tl " PuiU> TayuKe and HUi-WVceb." AeM «7. ia.'.!e. <;olil:'ii Text, let.-, tl i 'ii- PRA.CnCAL NOTES. Veme 14. Not long after. Probably while the vessel was still off the 8ou,lh- ern coast of Crete. Ulempestuous wimls. A wind wlt5i â- Â»ai;'ling eddies anr;i t>udden cbangoo :n dr. •» tion. Eu- ro:;lydcn. One of tbo e f uxioiis storms still common on thie Mediterranean.' and known as a "Levanter." So in life, 'the gentle south wind of to-<iay may be followed by a £»torm to-mor- row." 15. The ship was caught. Being whirl- ed hel{)lt.ssly in the cbajiging blast. Could not bear up into the wind. Lit- erally, "ooul 1 not eye the wind." from the fact that a pair of eyes were gen- erally iiaintc.l on the pi^w of ancient Hii,i|». We let her drive. As the vo»- ^iei i-ould mot fai-e the storm, it must neetls U B^vept on by it. 10. R,imning under. Tliat b. under the lee or shelter of. A certain island . . . called Clauda. A small isle near the southwestern extreuiity of Crete. Much work ho come by the l«Bt. Foua<l it difficult to hoist on loard the little lioat whu-h was towed ab-t..'rn. Thes.- little details sho^v that an eye witness wrote the history. 17. Undergirding. By imaslng strong ropes lightly around the vessel to aid in holding it together. The quick- sands, iliwo large sand bunks off tiis coast of AfricH, called the I Ippar and iLower Syrtea. and greratjy dreaded iy navigotors. Stj-ake sail. Lowered .lie trigging, in ordek' lu save ithe ship. 18. Lightened tie ahia». By casting ov- erboard the axiiclaa not a.lisolutely ne- cessary. la. With our own hajids. .V worh in wbic-.li not only the sailors. iHit also the prisjtters and pessengers look part. 'Ji). Aeither sun nor stars. Thus they could neither lake observation nor reckon whitJier they were driven at the mercy of the gate. "Yet one -tar shone for Paul, the promise I'liou must l>ear witness at Rome' "â€" Besser. Many (lays. We learn from verse 93 that thh gale lasted a fortnight, on uncommon, thougi: not unpi\«;edenie<l, peried for a Levanter. All hope. . t;iken away H:i|b clings to ihe last blessing; when that leaves desjioir alone remains. "The sinin l)oi:b of mind and Ixjdy, the incessant demand for la- bor, the terror of the tussengers, the ho{)eles8 working nl the pumps, the laboring of tlie ship's frame and coiv dagv.. the ilriving of the storm, the bo- numbing effiei-t of iJie cold and wetJ, make up a scene of no ordinary confu- sion, anxiety and fatigue." 21. Lung alistinence. Probably not entire, but partial; from the difficu.ty of preparing food .the constant m-ed of labor, and the, general dejection of spir- its. Paul stixxl forth. In times ot trial true character comes to the front. Il.'ingers and distress which conquer c'.rrii.ion men. only inspire great ^o.ils. Ye should have hearkened unto me. Ha remin.ls Iheiii ot this, not as a reliuke, Inil to impart confidence in his pres- ent words. 'Si. IBi of good cheer. Not only is the lieliever himself cheerful, but ha ca'-ries i hcrer t'> other trouble I hearts. !i3. riiere srtood by me . . the angel. "Paul knows not where he 'S him- self, lait God's angel knows where to find him out."â€" Henry. God. whose, t am. 'Would that all discirdos might all menll Whmn I serve. Noblest am- thus Ixddly confess their Lord before ong Ihe sons of men, Paul ptou'lly ack- nowledges himself a servant. -1 Brougi.t b,.fori' C'.ies:ir "Man ia iaiunort:iil till his work Is dons;" Pn.ttr.s Oiireer is n't compleie until he had borne testimony for Christ before the highest in the llom.in rpiUrn. (Jod hath giVi^ni thoe all Ho had doubtless pray- ed for their .sifety and received aMSur- ance of an answer. Even sinnef-s may lie thiinkful that sa'mts are in the world. â- J5 I liellevu GcxL It is e;isy to be- lieve fliNl's word in prosperity, l«ut to rest on tlie proimses in adversity tests faith. 26. A certain islajid. The result is reve i.lftd, biut not the jwirticular plan. KVbat island I'aul kne-^v not, though he knew that (Jod woa guiding the shuttered Imrk over tlie waste to some land of rest. In.spir.it ion and pro- phecy bavp their limits. WHiatE IT FAILED. Didn't I see H'osslekus going into a doctor's office a liltle wbile ago ? Ye». I thought he was a believer in the failh sure. Hie iH as a generwli thing, Inijl the per- suasion that he had a big boii- on the bock of his neck wtis so strong u|jon him this lime that it wouldn't yield to the faith treatuueat. A MATT.BR OF PRINCIPLE. One of the neighbors of Mrs. Brooen-' bit. the wife of a carpenter, oailed in one; morning to have a friundlly chat. I miust hvLvo been very careless as i came up your front steps she said. 1 seei 1 have caught my dress on .soinethiing and torn> a big hflOe in the skirt. Yuu eiiughit it from, a nail .sticking up from the. bottom step, repiietl Mrs. Bracenbit. dohu was mending that steii> wlien t he mem came along and told him the union had ordered a strike. He h.ad tha.t nail half driven in, Init he threw down the haimmerand salil he wai*n't going to do another lick till the strike w.is called off. It's very inconvenient for us, of conrse, but it's a matter" of principle with John. WecLl, rejoined the nolghbor, shrug- ging her shoulders and looking out of the window at the offending mii'l, there's nothing like sticking up for principle. ' ^ . l" IN HIARD LUCK. Bii likenâ€" What's the matter, Willi- ken 1 WUliken â€" MJat'ber (eniough. Yoai know, some time ago I assigned al'l my pioperty to my wife, toâ€" to keep It oiut ot the bands ofâ€" of iieople I owe, you know. Yes. Weil, she's taken the money andga. '.« off â€" says she won't live with me iDe* OAuse 1 swindled my orediton. is^i^iiJiMiii gsas BBtrr- â- Mi