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RELIGIOUS READING.
Work Out Your Salvation.

Work Out Your Salvation.
Work out your own salvation, with
fear and trembling. This injunction
does not mean what, to a great many
minds, it seems to mean. In some
! parts Of the country, a tax for the
keeping of the roads in repair can be
paid in cash, or it can be 'worked
out;"-that is, it al be paid by per-
sonal labor. So, land owners often
"work OUT their highway tax. It is
not that kind Of working out that
this text refers to. No man can secure
his salvation by work, even with fear
and trembling, and in prayers and
tears. Again, there is a custom of
working out a farm rent on shares.
The farmer does all the work, and
takes half the result, the other half
going to the farm owner. 1t is not
that kind Of working out ones saliva
ton that is here meant. Salvation is
not secured from God on shares. 1t is
wholly the gift of God, and all the
work in the world could never merit
uOI OUIdlu any POl tAoiA VI Ooo
who has salvation, he who is saved by
grace through faith (and this letter Of
Paul is to persons in that state), has
a duty to work out in the line of his
salvation; to keep right at the work
which is along the course, and in the
direction of the end, Of Gods plan Of
grace. 1t might, perhaps, give light
to this extent to change the figure
from the farmer to the soldier, and
read it, Fight out-or fight on-your
enlistment with fear and trembling.
Now that you have enlisted, and are
accepted as a soldier. keep right at the
soldier business, and do it with such
jealous earnestness' that you will be
all of a trenlble in your anxious desire
to do it just as it should be done.
There is no danger of any over-reli-
ance on ones personal activity in such
working, or such fighting, az this, in
the line Of ones redemption from sin
and its curse, here in this world Of
probation and trial.-Sel.
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MISS CARRIE r.

some young lady, and as they walked
away l couldn't help thinking Of the
graceful swing she gave her body,
and the neat fitting dress which she
managed with 80 much iinesse that it
seemed born a part of her.
What did her gct-up cost? How much
did her guardian angel, otherwise her
well-to-do uncle, lay out for that swing
of her dresss Evidently it was gained
only through long series of seasons at
different watering places, and high.
priced ones, as you don't find just that
peculiar undulation at any second rate
hotels, and it cannot be learned in a
single season. That swing a'one is evil
dence of an expenditure of at least So
900 at high priced watering places. Her
hat must have cost something like
twenty-five dollars, at a low estimate,
and six in a season is none too many.
Kid gloves run about four pair a month.
Dresses, well, heaven and the wearer
only knows what they cost, to say moth
ing of the numerous unmentionables not
visible to the outward gaze but neverthe.
less there, and probably costly, provided
ore could judge the inside from the out.
And so a young man with an income Of
81, 500 per year couldn't think OF marry
ing q lady brought up in this way, and
she wouldn't think of marrying him.
Can it be poss bic Tint there are So
900 bachelors in New York city-bach-
clors of marriageable age who expect to
remain SO through life. 1t is unaunbt-
eddy 80, and this, too, in spite of the
fact that our streets are fairly crowded
and jammcd every Saturday afternoon,
especially Broadway and Fifth avenue,
with throngs Of the most stylish, good
looking, and generally admitted, heart
breakers in the land. What is the mat
ter with the boys! Why is it that there
is apartment huilding after apartment
building tittrl up exclusively for men,
and TO Ialic> admitted, while all promi-
ncnt hat buildings in the c;!y have their
suits of rooms known as ''bachelor
apartments" and well til ed with jolly
single gentlemen Of manageable age
who haven't any idea Of marrying in this
life-men who enjoy life for all there is
In it-generally men who have made
their pile, and have enough to marry on
if they so desired-mcn who belong to
the Union League and other clubs, and
men who have become welded to a life
of celibacy through what?
"Sam, why is it that you have never
married?"
Sam ThaXman, q jolly bachelor of
some forty we'll spent winters, a member
of the Lotus club, and who is album
dainty able now to marry, having grown
grey in the service of the ladies of his
acquaintance, had stopped in front Of
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"Why don't you get up one on your
own account, Miss Catiinl Can't you
find the right oneN
"Oh, my, yes. I found a dozen of the
right ones this summer, but I couldn't
marry all of them you know, and SO
here l am, still in the market, and
autumn is here, too. Well, I suppose
III have to wait till your tiancee quar-
rcls with you and then fall back on
you after all" with a roguish twinkle in
her eyes.
"What kind of a man do you want,
Miss Catlin, anyhow, and what do you
expect to marry him for, if I may
ask"
"For love, Mr.. Thaxman, pure, I'M
adulterated love, and l want a man that
l can really love, and waste my affection
on. A real, live mau, too. None of your
jim handles that loaf about street cor
ners, carry silver headed canes, and look
like golden calves or brazen images"
so you really would marry for love
alone"
eyes. Every time"
"Bnt, suppose the gentleman was
poor"
"My dear MIR. Thaxman, Pm certainly
going to marry for love if l ever marry
at all, ut,-well-to be candid with
you | don't think I could love n poor
man. Come up tomorrow evening and
tell me all about you engagement,
won't you; and now farewell till 1 sec
you again." and with the sweetest of
smiles she tripped gaily away up the
avenue.
.'She's right. She's no business to
marry a poor man. She'd break her
heart in a year it she couldn't have what
she wanted, and that's the trouble with
the most of them" said Sam. "Hcr
father is a broker who once had consid-
cradle money, but | guess the most of it
is spent, or soon will be, for he's a risky
spcculator, and has made some bad
breaks in the market lately. However,
here comes a young lady OF a different
stamp. I'll explain before she arrives
that this girl is al organist, or rather
has been an organist, and is now a music
teacher. If she got away for two weeks
this summer, and took it out at Ashbury
Park, it is probably all the vacation she
had. Just for curiosity I myself would
like to know what her ideas of matri.
mony are"
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"Good morning, Miss Linton.

"Good morning, Miss Linton. !
haven't seen you all summer. Where
have you been putting in the time; may
I inquired"
"Mr. Thaxman, good morning. Real
glad to see you. As to putting in time
this summer, why I've had an elegant
time at Saratoga. Newport, and in
August We went to Cape May-but-mg
name isn't Miss Linton. I've changed
it, you see:"
"Married, Miss Linton, or Mrs.
"Yes, Mr. Thaxman, married, and Mr..
and Mrs. Devlin will be pleased to see
you at the Windsor Hotel any time you
may wish to call. You see, George,
that's Mr.. D., is building a new house
on the Avenue, and it is so very elegant
that it will take several months to COM
plete it. We're going to furnish it from
Paris direct, and quite up to the latest
designs"
ALLOW me to congratulate you, Mrs.
Devlin, OF your marriage; but it surely
cannot be George Devlin, the retired
merchant, hat is your husband"
1T just is, though, and we would like
to see you very much. Call when you
can, Mr.. Thaxman, and goodbye" and
the visitor vanished up Broadway.
"Wcll, we'll, we'll. So poor old Dew
lin, who retired so long ago that the
street has forgotten him completely, has
married this young lady of twenty-five
or six. Why, he must be at least seven
ty-fve or eighty, and I haven't heard of
him before in five years. Got lots Of
money, though. Do you wonder that I
am single after this, and don't marry2
I've seen this thing Of money, position,
blood, ancestry, and ''pure, unadulter-
ated love" for twenty years, and it is get
ting worse every year. 1 tell you the
reason I never married and never will
marry can be summed upin a few words:
I never found a girl with a nose just to
suit me. Good morning" and he passed
away, striking the ground viciously with
his rattan cane as be walked.
Pondering deeply on what had passed,
I walked slowly home and met Kitty
Wayland just entering the door. Kitty
is a niece of the lady Of the house, and a
great ~favorite with the boarders. She
was just returning from a trip to the
country. Fresh air would give her fresh
ideas, perhaps, and beside she wasn't
over sixteen.
"Kitty, what is your idea of married
lifc7 Give a serious answer, for I'm puz-
Zled."
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me on the corner of Twenty.third street
and Broadway. in front of the Fifth
Avenue hotel, the general loafng place
of the swell dandies who wish to ogle
the ladies as they pass, for here Broad
way crosses Fifth avenue, and if a man
will only linger there long enough he
will meet all the friends he has in the
city, since all who are able to walk pass
this spot at least once a week.
"That's a funny question and demands
a serious answer. ! never found a girl
whose nose just suited me-
"Pshaw. What is the reason, seriously
speakingY"
"Well, seriously speaking, the same
thing that keeps the boys generally from
marrying "a wholesome fear of the here
after"
"Explain YOURSELF"
"Stand here with mt a minute, watch
the ladies that pass by, and listen to
what I have to say to ON Of them
whom l know. You know l am a priv
ileged character, and they won't take Of
fonse il I ask questions. You see that
lady coming across the avenue. | mean
that elderly maiden lady, with the cnor-
nous hat and military looking suit. She
belongs to the past tense, as the boys say,
and will v sec the sunny side of
forty again. She's as prim as they make
EN-, and as proud as Lucifer before he
fell like the snowflake. Here she is, and
Pm going to astonish her.
"Bung Jurc, Madam Juvec. May l ask
you q question on an important matter
for the benefit Of my fricnd7"
"Bon Jour, Mccstair Thaxman. Ger
~tainlee, certainlee."
"Madam Juvcc, what would you re-
ouirc in u husbaud2"
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"Good gracious, you aren't going to
propose hope"
mo, Kitty, no to-day. But what do
you know about proposal sanyway2"
"Well, I just know this much, that
the man who proposes to me and ex-
poets to get me will have to have a
pretty solid bank account, for I'm going
to live in one of the handsomest flats in
this city when I marry, and keep up
with the best of them"
"Wouldn't you marry a poor man if
you loved. him, Kitty, and be satisfied
with a small apartment over in Jersey
City7"
III wouldn't marry the best man
living if he hadn't money. You don't
think I'm going to marry and be q maid
of all work, do you, just to please some
man."
"Kitty, are those your irrevocable SEN
timents.."
They certainly are, so if you've got
any poor young man picked out for me,
bring him around and I'll give him the
grand bounce tonight before it goes any
farther. I believe in nipping these
things in the bud. Tia, ia, and don't
forget to bring him around soon,' and
she skipped upstairs.
The problem Of mating the bachelors
and the maidens still remains unsolved.
SPlRTo GENTIL.
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"MoN DIEu! MEEsTAIRE THAXMAN."
"Ion Dicu, Mistaire Thaxnan. Tell
youwh frien' Eat I wouldna' marree re
bes' man Eat leeves in re worrl."
And with q sarcastic glance at me she
passed by like an insulted tornado.
"Whew, good heavens, she thought
you wanted 10 marry her and refused.
la, h., ha, ha," and he laughed until
could have forsworn his friendship for
ever.
."YYcll, the next one you tackle, just
leave me out, il you please, and perhaps
you will get more information and have
less sport at my expense"
"Ill do it, and here comes the very
lady we want to see. She's as winning
and pretty as can he found in Gotham,
spcnt last summer in the Adirondacks,
and will break your hcart, in three eve.
n!ncs, if she wants to. What she will
have to say about welded bliss will be
entertaining"
"Why, MI. Thaxman, how do you do2
I haven't seen you for an age. Thought
you promised to como up in the noun
tains before we lcft?"
$50 | did, Miss Catlin, but the fact is
that I am no longer u free man, and
haven't been since spring. I'm en-
gagged"
"Engagcd, Mr.. Thaxman! Why
didn't YOU give me q chance? Who IS
it2 I'm dying to know who's going to
get married. IIavn't had an Invitation
to a wedding this summer"
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Mr.. Lowell on Christianity.

One of the most serious and notable
of the admirable after-dinner speeches
that made MI. Lowell so famous in
England has only lately been published.
1t was called out by some illusions to
the Christian religion made in the tone
of genteel skepticism quite common
among the literary men of England.
Mr.. Lowell took occasion to remind
those enemies of the religion which is
at the very heart Of all there is good
in civilization, that "whatever defects
or imperfections may attach to'a few
points of the doctrinal system of Cal
yin-the bulk of which was simply
what all Christians believe-it will be
found that Calyinism, or any other
ism which claims an open Bible and
procfaims a crucihed and risen Christ,
is infinitely preferable to any form or
polite and polished skerrticlsm, which
gathers as its votaries the degenerate
sons of heroic ancestors, who, having
been trained in a society and educated
in schools the foundations of which
were laid by men Of faith and piety,
now turn and kick down the ladder by
which they have climbed up, and per.
suade men to live without God and die
without hope"
"The worst kind Of religion" con-
tinued Mr.. Lowell, "is no religion at
all :; and these men, living in ease and
luxury, indulging themselves in the
amusement Of going without religion,
may be thankful that they live in
lands where the gospel they neglect
has tanned the beastliness or ferocity
of the men who, but for Christianity,
might long ago have eaten their car
casses like the South Sea Islanders, or
cut off their heads and tanned their
hides, like the monsters of the French
Revolution. When the microscopic
search of skepticism, which had hunt
ed the heavens and sounded the seas
to disprove the existence of a Creator,
has turned its attention to human So
ciety. and have found a place on this
planet ten miles square where a decent
man can live in decency, comfort and
security, supporting and educating
his children unspoiled and unpolluted;
Il place where age is reverenced, infan-
cy protected, manhood respected,
]womanhood honored, and human life
held in due regard !; when skeptics
can find such a place ten miles square
on this globe, where the gospel Of
Christ has not gone and cleared the
way and laid the foundations, and
made decency and security possible,
it will then be in order for the skepti-
cal literati to move thither and there
ventilate his views. But so long as
these very men are dependent upon
the religion which they discard for ev-
cry privilege they enjoy, they may well
hesitate a little before they seek to rob
the Christion of his hope and humani-
ty of its faith in that Savior who
alone has given to man that hope Of
life eternal which makes life tolerable
and society possible, and robs death Of
it's terror and the grave of its gloom"
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English New Year Superstiti0ns.

At Christmas parties in the country
the young men have the privilege OF
kissing any of the opposite sex they can
get hold of. When Sir Roger DcCoverly
is danced the chief guests are expected
to dance with the cook and butler. All
peacock feathers must be thrown out
before New Years day, or else you will
have ill luck. On New Years eve you
must take pieces of money, bread, wood
and coal, and a little salt, tie them up
in a bundle, and lay on the doorstep
after II o'clock. Some one will then
come, and You must ask his name. If
he says "John Smith, he must not be
admitted, because the initial letters of
his name are curved; but if be say ED
ward Thompson" admit him at once, as
his initial letters are made up of straight
lines; but he must bring the bundle in
with him that was laid on the step. He
must then wish you a happy New Year,
and: after receiving a gift, pass out
by the back door. Then, behold,
good luck is yours for another
year. On both Christmas and New
Years ewes, when the clock begins
to strike twelve, the doors-especially
the front and back-are opened, that the
bad spirits may pass out and the good
ones pass in, and Immediately the clock
has struck twelve the doors are shut, as
it is said, ito keep the good spirits in"
The first person to enter the house on a
New Years morning must be a man.
Many Holderncss folks tell some little
chap to he ready to come in so soon as
the old year is dead, and 81 secure good
luck to the household. When the master
enters his house for the first time in the
new year he must take something in
which he did not take out. A Hull
friend told me he always emptied his
pockets before he left home on New
Years morning and put in some money
and bread, which he procured at his
mothers, and so reached his home
armed with the nccessaries of life. Some
people place a sixpence on the doorstep
on New Years eve, and so soon as the
clock strikes it is brought in. N. B.
This, / need hardly say, is done in the
country! You must never 60 out on
New Years day until some one has come
in is the rule in some parts.-Note and
(yyorjos
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it. Now if YOU really want to know
something about the geography of mar.
ried life in New York just look around
among your friends and see how few
of the boys get married, and the number
is decreasing every year, too. tell you
it is a dangerous thing to marry nova.
days in this city, and the boys know 1t
by heart. There's at least fifty thousand
of them that havn't married and never
expect to, in this city alone, and l am
one of the unhappy band. So long,
there's Miss Carrie r., and [ want to sec
her. See you later"
And as Miss Carrie r., connected with
some of the best revolutionary blood of
Gotham, bowed sweetly, he joined her
and they. walked up Broadway. Miss
Carrie was certainly u stylish and hand
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THE WIN7,RY WIND.

I come from haunts of mount and lake,
make a sullen sally,
And send the small boys milkpail gay
A sailing up the alley.
I paint the maiden's nose with red,
And send the leaves a scooting,
And make the fat man chase his hat,
With bowling and with hooting.
From off the line the clothes / blow,
And cen the line I sever,
For dust may come and dust may go.
But I 60 on forever.
-Cereland Graphic.
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Coming.

60 I am, watching quietly
Every day!
Whenever the sun shines brightly "
/ rise and say,
Surely it Is the shining of His face!
And look unto the gates of his high place .
Boy ond the sea;
For I know he is coming shortly ~
To summon me.
And when II shadow talls across the window
Ofmy room,
Where / am working my appointed task.
I lift my head to watch the door-and ask
NHe is come;
And as all angel swcetly
In my homo, ...
'aOnly a few more shadows
And no will come!"
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Captain Renard's military balloon has
been successfully operated in Paris lately
on calm days. When there is little wind
blowing. it can be moved about in any
direction at the will Of the pilot, but
become unmansgeable in a heavy breeze.
Still it is a great achievement to succeed
as far as the inventor has done. and i!
will surely not he a long time before an
air-ship will be constructed capable OF
dcfying the storm.
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TIMELY TOPICS.

Vcgetarianism is spreading very rapid.
ly in London. Ten years ago l. was
difficult to find an avowcd vcget ,rian,
but now more than 2, 900 persons refresh
themselves daily at vegetarian rcstaur-
ants. =
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Another fiction exploded. The Chinese
do not eat dogs, cats and rats as regular
diet, but only in rare instances. They
live mainly on garden vegetables, rice,
poultry and fish, and are fond of sharks
fins and edible birds nests.
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Love and GrayitatiOn.

"'Tis love that makes the world go round
Glad of the explanation.
We always thought that we had found
The cause in gravitation.
The terms are still synonymous
And they are right who say
Love turns the heads of all Of US
Who gravitate that way.
-diHsbMrG Dispatch.
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1t is only a score of years since the
canning of salmon was begun on the
Pacific coast. Everybody was afraid of
it, and the proprietor of the first cannery,
William Hume, of Oakland, CAL, used
to take a basket of cans on his arm and
80 among the families of his %acquaint-
ances explaining the method of its pre-
paration, and inviting q trial. Now
canned salmon can be found in every
market, and MI. Hume is a rich man.
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There are no fewer than sixty-four
volumes of the German Bible for the
blind. it costs $25. The letters are
n haut-relief and the paper very
shick,
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Faith and Home

T'TIT HHU IIOTC
Are tho bright pillars oil the Golden Gate,
And on the threshold Of the Kingdom wait,
But Charity, tho road, winds onward through
Into tho Land where God makes all things
new. "A. E. Hamilton.
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GOTHAM GIRLS.
And Why Fifty Thousand Bachelors
Are Afraid to Marry the
Lovely Lassies
The Men Say the Girls are Elegant to
Call Upon and Go Out With,
but 80 Expensive.
ESPECIAL New York letter.

"Hello, Cholly, how are you! Lost
your heart, evidently, this season.
Who's the fair one? Might as we'll con-
fess."
eyes, lost it again, Spirto, and this
time for keeps, and my head and peace
of MIND as we'll.
"What's the row9 Can't you get the
lady's heart in returns"
1--WE got it, and there's where the
trouble comos in. If l hadn't got it,
and knew l couldn't get consent, it
wouldn't be so bad. You see I cant
possibly marry, couldn't think OF it for
q minute on my income, and there's NO
prospect of an increase that l can see, so
I'm in a nix"
"What's your mcconnell"
"Well, about $4,000 per annum, at
present."
"Marry the girl"
"What! Do you really mean to advise
a man to marry on such an income! Why,
it wouldn't more than pay rent for the
/ apartments my girl would want to live
in. Do you know what it costs to get
married and live in New York in any
sort of shape, and with any sort Of a
stylish girl. 1t can't be done on less
than S., 0OO a year, and if you havn't got
that much at least. the old man wouldn't
think of it, even if the girl would, which
is very doubtful. No stree, no marry
for me on So, 500 per year, not if I kEow