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Weddings.

AS the semi-annual bridal season is at
hand, II is the time to plead for reform
in weddings. Every year this sacredest
Of all occasions is turned more and more
into mere opportunity for display, and
for replying to some fancied social obliga-
ton. Instead of the time when few Of
the closest friends gather to witness the sol
emnest compact human beings can frame,
it is chosen as the moment for bringing
together the larger part of family's social
circle, to show the bride in her bridal
garments to prove how many flowers and
refreshments the family can afford and,
with shame be it said, to exhibit to criti-
cism and light comment the precious
tokens that should have come with tender
regard to the maid on the eve Of her new
life.
A wedding must not be uncheerful; but
it must certainly be solemn to all who
realize what it is. On the one side, it is
renouncing old ties, promising to begin
with faith, and hope, and love new and
wholly untried existence On the other,
it is the acceptance of sacred trust, the
covenant to order life anew in such ways
as shall make the happiness of two instead
Of one. Can such an occasion be fitting
for reyelry? 1t is not wiser, more deli
cate, to bid only the nearest of friends to
a marrige ceremony, and leave the feasting
and frolic for a subsequent time2 We
are sure there are few girls who, if they
reflect on tho seriousness of the step they
are about to take, will not choose to make
their vow merely within the loving limits
Of their home circle All our best
instincts point to the absolute simplicity
and privacy of wedding services; only
peryersion Of delicacy could contemplate
tho asking Of crowds of halfsympathctic
or wholly curious people to attend the
fulfillment of the most solemn of contracts.
Let there be as much party-making, re-
joicing and pleasure taking afterwards as
hearts desire; but let the solemn VOWS be
made in the presence only Of those nearest
and dearest. st.--lScribaer's for October.
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Sunset in the North.


Major Butler, in his "Wid North
Land" gives the following picture of sun
set in the north land
He who rides for months through the
vast solitudes sees during the hours of his
daily travel an unbroken panorama of dis
tance. The seasons come and go; grass
grows and flowers die the FIRE leaps with
tiger bounds along the earth; the snow lies
stilrand quiet over hill and lake; the riy-
ers rise and fall; but the rigid features Of
the wilderness rest unchanged. Lonely,
silent and impressive; hoedless of man,
season or time, the might of the Infinite
seems to brood over it, and only in the
hours Of day and night moment comes
when this impressive veil is drawn from
its features, and the eye Of the wanderer
catches glimpse Of the sunken soul of
the wilderness-it is the moment which
follows the sunset Then deep stiffness
steals over the earth; eolon Of wondrous
hue rise aud spread along the western
horizon. In deep sea Of emerald and a
range or fifty shades, mingled and inter
woven together, rose colored isles float,
anchored to great golden threads, while
far away, seemingly above and beyond all,
one broad flash Of crimson light, the part
ing suns last gift, reddens upward to the
zenith.
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Recommending upon the failure off news-
paper manager, the ST. Louis Globe tells
plain truth in the following words :--aThe
business Of journalism win continue 70 be
an inviting field for experiments to those
who have large amount Of money and
a large amount of egotism. A man who
having edited newspaper until he was
forty, should suddenly announce him.,lf
a lawyer, would be regarded as fool by
the legal profession; and yet We often hear
OF lawyers Of forty making sudden pretep-
sions TO journalism. There is an idea that
the business Of editing requires no an
prenticeship that editors come forth from
law offices and colleges fully armed for
the profession, like Pallas from the brow
OF Jove. It is mistake there Is not in
American to-day q. single Journalist Of
national reputation who has not devoted
more time and more hard work 70 his
profession than, with equal fitness and
application would have made him great
lawyer or good doctor. And VET ninety
out Of every hundred men you meet on The
street will hesitate about carrying . hod Of
making a pair of shoes, whereas there win
probably not be one in the hundred who
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Lakes of the Adirondacks.

A sense of exquisite beauty filed me as
the skiff glided gracefully into the midst
of this lovely sheet Of water. The sun was
now well up in the blue, cloudless sky.
Many isles lay around on the bosom Of the
lake. They and the shores were covered
with dense pine and spruce trees. The
water was like polished mirror of steel.
The islands were reflected. So was the
heavens above me. Sometimes over the
forest shores the distant ranges Of noun
tains told me there was q world beyond
and out of the limits Of the bowl IN which
! was floating. But the lake seemed as a
little sea Of glass, clear as crystal, brilliant
in the sun, skirted with living green, ey-
ergreen, and the feeling Of the place was
that Of isolation from ''the world and the
rest Of mankind" During all the tour of
these and three or four lakes yet to be
mentioned, | did pot see boat or the face
Of a man, or anything to intimate that one
had ever entered this charming desert be-
fore. No voice, no gun, no bark Of dog
in the all-surrounding forest disturbed the
deep serenity of the scene. Now and then
the scream Of a loon, fearfully like that Of
a human cry, would pierce the ear and
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revenue TO the government. Women haunt
their gauzes in it. Clergymen sweep their
robes through it. Responsibility uses it
to light Its banquets. In many regions of
this country 1t is highly respectable
candle. Yet every year, sixty thousand
persons in this country die of intemper-
ance and when we think of the blasted
lives that live in want and misery, Of
wives In despair, Of loves bruised and
blotted out, Of children disgraced, of aims
houses filed, Of crimes committed through
its influence, of industry extinguished, and
Of disease engendered, and remember that
this has been going on for thousands of
years, wherever wine has been known /;
what are we to think Of the men who still
press into the iire2 Have they any more
sense than the moths? 1t is almost
enough TO shake mans faith in immor-
tality to learn that he belongs to race
that manifests SO little sense, and such
hopeless recklessness.
There is just one way of safety, aud
only one, and young man who stands at
the beginning of his career can choose
whether he will walk in it, or in tho way
Of danger There is n notion abroad
among men that wine is good that when
properly used it las help in it,---that in a
certain way it is food, or help in the
digestion Of food. We believe that no
greater or more fatal hallucinntion ever
possessed the world, and that none so great
ever possessed it for so long time.
Wine is medicine, and men would take
no more Of it than of any other medicine
if ii were not pleasant in its taste, and
agreeable in its first effects. The men
who drink il, drink it because they like it.
The theories us to its healthfulness come
afterwards. The world cheats itself, and
tries to cheat itself in this thing and the
priests who prate of ''using this world as
not abusing it," and the chemists who
claim sort of nutritious property in
alcohol which never adds to tissue q and
the men who make jest of water-drink-
Ing, all know perfectly well that wine and
strong drink always have done more harm
than good in the world, and always will
until that millennium comes, whose feet
are constantly tripped from under it by the
drunkards that lie prone in its path. The
millennium with grog-shop at every
corner is just as impossible as security with
burglar at every window, or in every
room Of the house. All men know that
drink is curse, yet young men sport
around it as if there were something very
desirable in it, and sport until they are
hopelessly singcd, aud then join the great,
sad army that, with undiminished num-
bers, presses on to its certain death.
We do not like to become an exhorter
in these columns, but, IL it were necessary,
we would plead with young men upon
weary knees to touch not the accursed
thing. Total abstinence, now and for
ever, is the only guaranty in existence
against drunkard's life and death, and
there is no good that can possibly come to
man by drinking. Keep out of the
candle. 1t will always singe your wings,
or destroy you.--ScriJner's.
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WEALTH or THE ANCIENT Hrsaxws.
In the times Of David and solomon
gold existed in enormous quantities among
the Hebrews. The figures given in the
Old Testament appear almost fabulous.
From l Chron. X; IA, wo learn that
David had collected together for the pur-
pose Of the Temple building hundred
thousand talents Of gold and thousand
thousand talents Of silver; and from /
Chron. xxix; 3, we learn that over aud
above this enormous amount, he consribu-
tod from his own possessions three thou
sand talents Of gold and seven thousand
talents Of silver; whilst the people h ad-
dition offered, afor the service Of the house
of God, Eve thousand talents and ten
thousand drachms Of gold, and Of silver
ten thousand talents" (Chron. XIX: 7.)
From these data the total value Of the
gold and silver has been calculated at
nearly five thousand million dollars. - The
Bible Educator.
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Old ROssam, The Bean.


An article ia the Columbus, Ga. SIN,
concerning the authorship Of the old south
ern ballad called @RoAsnm, the Beau, has
brought out letter from Col. Sparks him.
self, in which he gives che original version
Of the song and the incident which prompt
ed him to write IT, Colonel Sparks began
to practice law in small town in Missis-
sippi about the year 1926. Among tho
citizens Of the place were the original
characters, one of whom was the hero Of
the ballad, aad the other tho minstrel who
niade It famous.
The first (says Col. SparkD was a
school-master, who was quite old, and who
had been teaching in that neighborhood
for over forty years. His name was Jas.
Rossum. He was peculiar in bis habits.
On Monday morning, neatly dressed and
cleanly shaved, he went TO his duties in
the old school-house, where two-thirds Of
his life had been spent, and assiduously
devoted himself to the duties Of his yoea-
tion until Friday evening. On the morn
ing Of Saturday he urrayed himself in bis
best, and devoted the day to visiting the
ladies Of the neighborhood He was a
welcome guest at every house This habit
had continued 50 long that he had acquir-
ed the sobriquet Of g Rossum the Beau.
The others name was Cox, who was a roI-
licking good fellow, aud the best vocalist
l ever knew. He was in song what Prem
tiss was in oratcry, and they were boon
eompanions-both died young.
Cox was frequently at my Office, and
upon one occasion whilst he was there,
Rossum walked by the door, and his age
was apparent in his walk, Cox looked at
him, and, after pause, turned to me and
remarked in quite a feeling tone, which he
could assume at pleasure, and its eloquencc
was indescribable: "Poor old Rossum /
some of these sunny mornings he will be
found dead, when he shall have noble
funeral, and all the ladies will honor it
with being present, know" Soon after
he left the Office, and being in the humor,
seized the ideas and wrote the following
| 4 L n ~
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VINO ARE YouR ARIsrocRArs,
Twenty years ago, this one made candles,
that one sold cheese and butter, that one
butchered, fourth thriyed on distillery,
another was contractor on canals, others
were merchants and mechanics. They
are acquainted with both ends of society,
as their children win be after them
though It would not do to say so out loud |
for often you shall find that these toiling
worms hatch butterfies--and they live
about year. Death brings division of
property, and it brings new financiers !
The old gent is discharged, the young
gent takes his revenues, and begins to
trayel--toward poverty which he reaches
before death, or his children do, if he
does not So that, in fact, though there
is sort Of moneyed race, it is not heredi-
tary I; il is accessible to all. Three good
seasons Of cotton, win send generation
oil men up-a score OF years will bring
them all down, and send their children to
labor. The father grubs, and grows rich,
the children trust, and spend tho money.
Their children in turn inherit the price
and go to shiftless proverty next their
children, reinvigorated by fresh plebeian
blood, and by the smell Of the clod, come
up again. Thus society, like tree,
draws its sap from the Garth, changes il
into leaves, and spreads them above in
great glory, sheds them of to fall back on
the earth, again to mingle with the soil,
and at length, TO reappear in new dress
and fresh garniturc.
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Setting young man aaoat with money
left him by his relatives, is like tying a
bladder under the arms of one who cannot
swim ten chances to one he will lose his
bladder aud 60 TO the bottom. Teach him
to swim and he will not need bladders.
Give your child sound education See
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cultivated and his whole nature made sub
servient to the laws which govern men,
and you have given him what viii be Of
more value than the wealth Of the Indies.
You have given him a start which no for
tune can deprive him Of. The earlier you
teach him to depend upon his own re-
sources and the blessing of God the better.
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