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\Vin love dear for t He came to the sinful and the unhappy ; the despised and rejected were his friends ; to the poor he preached the Gospel ; the sick, and overlooked, and cast-out, the un- loved and forgotten, the unfashionable and unpopular, he selected. These to his church on earth he left in charge. These he cher- ished. For such he had lived. For them he had suffered. For them he died. People of Saint Agathn’s, where are they ‘2 \tht ‘lzave ye done to his beloved? Thou ancient church, honored and privileged and blessed among men, where are those little ones whom thy Master chose ‘2 Up and down these godly aisles a man might look,he said. and see them not. Prosperity and complac- ency he saw before him ; poverty and huâ€" mility he did not see. In the day when habit cannot reply for duty, whnt account will ye give of your betrayed trust? Will ye say : “Lord we had a. mission chapel. The curate is :esponsxblc for the lower classes. And, Lord, we take up the usual collections ; SaiutAgaLha’s has always been called agenerons church”? In the startled hush that met these pre- posterous words the preacher drew himself to his full height, and raiaed his hands. He had worn the white gown throughout the day’s services, and the garment folded itself about his figure majestically. In the name of Christ, than, he commanded them: \Vhere were those whom their Lord did But now the preacher’s mannerof address had changed again. Always remembering that itis now impossible to quote his lan- goage with any accumcy, we may venture to say that it ran in some such way as this : The Son of God, being of the Father, per- formed his Father’s business. What do ye who bear his name? \Vhat, holy errands are ye about? \Vhat miracles of consecra- tion have ye wrought? \Vhat marvels of the soul’s life have ye achieved upon the eaEEh since he left, it to your trust? The choir rustled uneasily in their seats. .The soprano covered her eyes with her well- gloved hand, and thought of Lhe follies and regrets (she called them by these names) that beset the musical temperament. But the tenor turned his face away, and thought about his wife. Down the avenue, in the room of the “shut in" women. where the telephone carried the preacher’s voice, a 'peth‘etic cry was heard : Then like the voice of the living God, his words began to smite them. \Vhat was the chancel of Saint Agatha's? The great white throne? And who was he who dared to cry from it, like the command of the Eternal? Sin ! Sinners ! Shame ! Guilt : Disgrace l Punishment! What words were these for the delicate ears of Saint .Agatha’s. What had these silken ladies and gilded men to do with such ugly phrases '.’ Smiles stifiened upon refined, protesting face. The haughty under lip of the vestry- man’s wiie, and a. hundred others like it, dropped. A moral dismay seized the ex‘ clusive people whom the preacher called to acoount like any vulgar audience. But the shabby woman in the “poor” seats humbly wept, and the young reporter who lost his position cast his eyes upon the ground, for the tears that sprang to them. From the delicate fingers of the vestrymen’s wife the smelling-salts fell upon the eushion~ ed seat ; she held her feathered fan against her face. Her husband did not even notice this. He sat with head bowed upon the rail before him, as a. good man does when reconsecrating himself at the communion hour. ‘ “Forgive'! Forgive ! au_t put out gin !” THE SUPPLY AT ST. AGATHA’S. The preacher began quietly. He remind- ed his hearers in a few words of the true nature of the Christian religion, whose 1n- terests he was there to represent. One {eh that he spoke with tact, and with the kind of dignity belonging to the enthusiast of a great moral movement. It occurred to one, perhaps for the first time, that it was quite manly in a. Christian preacher to plead his cause with as much ardor as the reformer, the philanthropist, the politician, or the devotee of a. mystical and fashionable cult. One became really interested in the charac- ter and aims of the Christian faith ; it ac- quired the dignity of a Browning society, or a study in theosophy or hypnotism. The attention of the audienceâ€"from the start definitely respectfulâ€"became reverent, and thus absorbed. The stranger announced this not unusual text with the simple manner of a. man who promised nothing eccentric in the sermon to come. Yet something in the familiar words arrested attention. The phrase, it; i6 was spoken, seemed less a hackueyed, biblical quotation than a pointed, personal question to which each heart in the audience-room was compelled to respond. It was not until he had his hearers thoroughly in his power that the preacher’s manner underwent the remarkable change of which Saint Agatha’s talks in whispers to this day. He spoke entirely Without manuscript or note, and he had not left the lectern. Suddenly folding his hands upon the great Bible, he paused, and, as if the audience had been but one man, he looked it in the eye. Had these existed stenographic rezords of that sermon, this narrative,uecessarily so defective, would have no occasion for its being. One of the most interesting things about the whole matter is that no such re- cords car. today be found. Reporters certainly were in the gallery. The journals had sent their picked men as usual, and. no more. Where, then, were their columns of verbal record? Why has so important a discourse gone afloat upon vague.conflicting rumor? No person knows; the reporters least ofall. One, it is stud, lost his position for the default of that report; others receiv- ed the severest rebukes of their experience from their managing editors for the some cause. None had any satisfactory reason to give for his failure. When the Son of man cometh, shall he find falth on the earth? “I forgot," said he who had lost his posi- tion for his boyish excuse. “All I can say, air, is I forgot. The man swept me away. I forgot that such a. psper as ‘ The Daily Uossip’ existed. Other matters.” he added with expensive candor, “ seemed more im- portant at the time.” Litum l 1n BY ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS. IN "THE CENTURY." U0, nu the towx Oh, if bufl‘ering did knom Hast by inch, to “devil” in the Museum f0] their luckier or better-equipped broth ers and sisters! If the reading-room could tell tales it might relate many a. Lragi: story of blighted prospects and disappoinbw hopes. But after all, the Museum is a refugi ' Thus and there, abruptly, the preacher cast his audience from him, and disappeared ifrom the chancel. The service broke in consternation. The celebrated chair was not called upon to close the morning‘s wor- ship. The soprano and the tenor exehanged glances of neglected dismay. The prayer- book remained unopened on the sazred desk. The desk itself was empty. The audience was, in fact, authoritatively dis. missedâ€"dismissed without 3 benediction‘ like some obscure or erriug thing that did not deserve it. hopés. Bu}. afterâ€"all, Ehe Museum is‘a‘ r: for which many a struggling writer has and is unfeiguedly grateful. Such wretchedness, such pallor, hunger, cold, envy, sickness, sin, and shame were as unknown to those dedicated and decorat- ed walls as the inmates of hell. tags and disease, uncleanliness and woe and want, trod the house of God as if they had the right there. Every pew in the church was thrown open. Tattered blanket shawlsjost- led velvet cloaks,and worn little tan-colored reefers, hall concealing the shivering cotton blouses of last summer, rubbed against sealskin furs that swept from throat to foot. \Vretched men, called in by the throb oi repentance that follows a. debauch, lifted their haggard eyes to the chancel from the pews of the wardens, and women of the town sat gently beside the “ first ladies” of the parish and of the city. There were a. few ragged children in the audience, wan and shrewd, sitting drearin beside mothers to whom they did not cling. The pew of our friend, the vestryman, was filled to overflowing. The wife with the underlip sat beside him and did not protest. She had herself gone with him to the hos- pital to select their guests. For their pew was filled with the crippled and other sick who could neither walk nor afford to ride, and whom their own carriage had brought to Saint Agatha’s. One of these,u woman, came on crutches, and the lady helped her, not knowing in the least how to do it; and a man who had not used his feet in six years was lifted in by the pew‘ owner and his coachman and butler, and carried the length of the broad aisle. (To BE CONTINUED. The people shared in one unother’s faces for one astounded moment, and then, with- out; words, with hanging heads, they moved to the open air and melted out of the church. The sexton rustled up to the vestryman, pale with fear. “Sir,” he whispered, “he is not in the “Trust him,” repiied t} with a. face of pace, “am him. Who he may be, I than you ; but. that he is : know. he is about his I Do not meddle with in,” “Lord forbid !” crie‘l t sooner meddle with somet stand." vestr Upon the afternoon of that long-remem- bered Sunday there was seen in Saint Agabhufs the strangest; sight. that those ancient wellshed witnessed since the corner- stone was laid‘with a. silver trowel in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost “whom we, this people, worship.” Every member of that church no from Town or known to be ill in sought his pew that afternoon. M deed left. their sick-rooms to be pm that long-remembered service. man or woman of these came alone brought; a. chosen companion ; many three ; some mime accompanied by dozen worshipers : and upon these man or woman of these came alone. Each brought; a. chosen companion ; many, two or three ;some camie accompanied by half a dozen worshipers ; and upon these invited guests Saint. Agatlm's looked with an aston- ishment that seemed to be half shame ; for up those velvet: aisles there moved an array of human faces at which the very angels and virtues in the painted windows seemed to turn their heads and share. guests Saint. Ag ishment (mat se “Ruhose v_elveta serv Mode of :foi-e the chimes rang for ice, the house was filled. nze lips of the bells were y-room. He has taken himself away iknows whither. What. are we to Britain‘s Treasure House. Moral Improvement I" crier‘l the sexton ith something I can .ng for the vesper 5 filled. Before the 113 were mute, the Before the stranger 1d the transept over- a man or (iron) Father’s business 1e church officer, luod who sent know no more ait I can under the POW aws, and m carried any in- sent at But no rumors Iis bed I mbed :fuge been esf More than fo: the UniLed Stu who hal no reg 1116 Queen 0 needle-woman i1 makss most; of h Holland is the land ot flatness, windmills: dykes, canals, and cheese. Of the latter it produces 40,000 tons and more in a. year, and consumes only a fourth part). Alkmaor, one of the most noted and historical towns in the country, is the great cheese market, and in Its streets over 12,000,000 lbs. are sold annually. 0i sixty-Seven Queens of France, only thirteen have died without leaving their histories 8. record of misery. Eleven were divorced, two executed, nine died young, seven Were widowed, three cruelly treated, three exiled ; the poisoned and broken- liearted make up the rest, Crime in the army is punished on a. scale ten times more severe than anything known to civil life; the most trumpery offences against disciplineâ€"a. momentary ebullibion o! temper, or a. casual iniiscretion in the matter of drinkâ€"are almost every day in- volving men in the loss of rank and per- manent disadvantage in their profession, more often than not accompanied by sharp terms of imprisonment. An Austraiian confectioner has hit upon the idea of printing the news of the day upon thin paste of dough, using chocolate instead of ink. He delivers these cakes to his customers, who first read them, and then eat them with their coffee. In a. very éhor thing of the past More than four-fifths of the murders in the United States last year were by men who ha. I no regular occupation. 'lhe Queen of Greece is the best royal needle-Woman in Europe ; she cuts out and makss most of her own underclothing. rl’he mushroom lies for days, and in dry times for weeks. just under the surface, fully developed, waiting for a. warm damp night. The average height of men in Europe is 5 feet 7 inches, of women, 5 feet 4 inches. The English and Russians are the tallest of European peoples. In tropical forests so large a. proportion of the_ plants are oi the sensitive variety that sometimes the path of a. traveler may be traced by the wilted foliage. Queen Victona. has a. fondness for relics of her girlhood, and to this day uses to cut the pages of new books an ivory paper-cutzer that, was given to her when she was a little princess. Mr. Stanley, from What, he has seen of the Australian people, his come tn the con‘ clusion that, theymuchmoreclosely resemble the people of the United Slates than those of Great Britain. - Liverpool‘street Station of the Great, Eastern Railway is now the largest railway station in the United Kingdom. With the additions just, completed it, covers 143 acres, occupying nearly the whole of the parish of So. Botolph, Bishopsgate. Some of the German cafes serve hot milk as a beverage. II: is said that this drink is a remedy for various disorders of the stomach. ' 22,000, so that, years the number by nearly 80,000. Cluthier bees cover their nests of eggs with a cloth made from the woody fibre of plants, and thus preserve their young from sudden changes or temperature. Out of every 1,000 births in England twelve are twins. The British Mint coins twenty-five tons of pennies every year. The lungs of the average man contain about five quarts of air. Nearly 1,000 children are born yearly in London workhouses. The practice of liypnotism is considered a. crime in Belgium. Nearly a third of the English small-fruit area. is to be found in Kent. The woodland area. ot the United King- dom is stated at 3,007,569 acres. Four-fifths of the sugar plantations in Hawaii are owned by Americans. The Tartars takes a man by the ear to invite him to eat and drink with them. It is said that women criminals have larger hands and feet than average women. The secretary bird of South Africa, can whip any snake of twice its size. Stanley used to aver that tho repLiIes would crawl away from this bird’s shadow in wxld fear. Philadelphit is a. brick city, and well illufitmbes the durabllity of brick houses as a buiiding material. There are brick houses npparzmbly as good as new in Phila- delphia which were built in 1760. When the Queen ascended the throne more than 41 per centmf the English people could not wriLe their names. The propor- could not wriLe their names. The propBr- tion in that condition has been reduced to 7 per Cent. There are nearly 1C0,000 electric lamps â€"iucandescem and arcâ€"in use in Paris. At the end of March, 1890, the number was The born f1 mouth 000 nor 122,574 acres. Peru has only thirty-six telegraph offices in the entire country, and but 1,600 miles of wire. has inc-rease‘ to 64. 000,00‘ impor Some butterflies lay over 100,000 eggs. Germany took 2,000 VVorld‘s Fair prizes. The Himalayas have been seen 2'24 miles away. Cows are used in Japan exclusively a; pack animals. l85,000 acres. The county of Hunts, England, the largest, area of woodland in L Some Inlerestlng Bits of Nt‘ws From All Parts or the World. Ther p‘ errltory average length of hte among Paris- amilies is twenty-eight, years and one Tartax‘s takes 9. man by the ear to him to eat and drink with them. ysaid that women criminals have hands and feet than average women. orchards of Great Britain c res. Ten years back the ‘pulation of Inlay :g 270 people to ev 1 than 1,234,950 into the Unwed iu READABLE ITEMS \ction of cotton 1 from 1,000,301 9 pounds in 18! | of them ugly; many famous any military p ory attaches Lc I suddenly a time the slmko will be a. in the French army. 16 in the garrison of Paris. born in Hungary, and de. {ed hat. lblms assumed during a penod of four of lamps in use increased yarns in Japan )pounds in 1888 000 eggs were Kingdom 1113!; is very dense, ry square mile m in. over 210,- area. was possesses nglandâ€" It is a. region Lf eternal winter and of unmelting snow, whereâ€"so far as is kncwn â€"not a. single plant finds life within the inner circle, and where never a living crea- ture roams. The zuologist is not drawn to the southern circle as he is to the northern, and yet the attractions for him are great, because they have all the charm of the un- known. It is believed that only a few of the hardiest birds build in a few of the sheltered corners of the inner Antarctic ; but who knows? Who can say that deep within those awful solitudes may not be revealed the mystery of the life of the fur seal when he vanishes from the waters of the north Pacific? Or that on some Ant- arctic continent or island may not be found the priceless remnant of the great auk tribe? We know notI at any rate, what riches or poverty may be there until we go to see. And nobody has yet gone to seeâ€" beyond the fringe. been no department of mineral prospect ing which has been fuller of disappoint- ment. and, in some cases, ruin to individ- Inals. Gold in Canada. does not appear to be found in such quantities as have at various times in history been the cause of mad rushes to the site of the “ pay dirt.” In Australia, a shepherd might pick up a nugget, and be in five minutes a comparatively rich man. In ’ 49 a digger, after a few days washing might become extravagant, mightorderchampagne - suppers, and throw nuggets on to the stage of the improvised theatre. Here another state of things seems to prevail. The prec- ious metal is so combined with the ore that it takes industry, machinery, and business tact to develop its value. Instead of being a business composed of mad rushes and feverish excitement, itis one in which patience of a dogged character, conbined with mechanical skill, are required. It is more a question of good ore-crushing mills than of happy luck. There are ores of various qualities. but many of them are of such a. nature as to yield no return to mere- l_v individual exertion. But capital rightly employed in the purchase of the proper machinery seems to have its reward. It has been found that ore containing only 65 cents’ worth of gold to the ton can be pro- fitably worked. A recent instance taken from others shows that thirty days’ work produced 4,047 tons of ore. The bullion produced by working this. which took 29 ‘. days, was worth $52,644, and the total ex- !pense of reduction was $2,120, leaving a 'profit of $554. There are many locations ; in Canada where richer ore than this is to be found, and the moral is that it is best not to expect an El Dorado, but when a mine containing moderately rich ore is found, it has to be worked on business Iprinciples, just like other mines. “ It’s pretty damp for a person with the rheumatism to be prowling around, Uncle Josh. ” ‘ Do you mean to tell me the doctor ad- vised you to be out nights ?” “ Nob ’zacbly dat wayâ€"but hesaid I must have chicken brof.” Tommy -â€"“Yes, cats can see in the dark :md so can Ethel ; ’cause when Mr. \Vrieht walked mm the parlor when she was sittin’ all alone in the dark, I heard her say to him “Why, Arthur, you didn’t get- shaved to- And yet another thing differentiates the Arctic from the Antarctic. In the North there isâ€"unless Dr. Nansen is grievously mistakenâ€"a pole surrounded by water. In :he south there is a, pole surrounded by landâ€"a. polar basin as opposed to a polar continent. \Vhile the books and essays, the theories and journals, which have been published concerning the Arctic regions would fill a. library, a handful of volumes contain all that has ever been printed of records in the Antarctic. “ Mebbe, Boss, but it’s der doctor’s ad- vice.” It is a curious fact that no one has ever wintered within the Antarctic, many as have been the expeditons and ships’ com- panies which, compulsorin or voluntarily, have Wintered in the Arctic. There has been no need to do so, for there has been no possible goal beyond, such as India, which first led our mariner! into the Arctic; no scientific romance such as has characterized the quest for the North Pole. Though considerably smaller in quantity than the yield 01 1875, the mast prolific on record, and less abundant also than that. of some other years previous to 1878, the pro duccion of wine throughout France last year exceeded in quan Lity that of any one of the last fourteen years ; for 11; amounted to 1,101,535,940 gallons, and thus was 461,- 000,000 gallons, or nearly 80 per cent. in excess of the yield of 1892. More Than luan That of Copper and Trohles That of Iron. If any considerable development of the gold industry of Canada. were to take place, it would solve our difficulty of sparse population in a. shorter time than anything else would. The discovery of gold in Australia had much to do with the building up of Australia's settlements and it would be the same here. Under these circumstances, it is interesting to note that in the published report of the Geological Survey Department on the mineral pro. duction of Canada. in 1893, the output of gold in the Dominion more than rivals that of copper, and trebles that of irofl' ore. The amount of gold mined was 51,609 ounces valued at $827,214, whereas the value of the copper was only $875,864, and that of the iron ore dug up $298,018. It will, therefore, be seen that gold mining in Canada. has arrived at a. recognized posi- tion among the industrial pursuits of the conntry,a fact which is encouraging on the whole, though it is possible there has the south of the colony. At era thought. the plant was a. finding oub its true nature Lh cultivate lavender on a. canal with she View of establish perfumery trade. South Australia,theplantsp riautly over 9. large area. of CANADIAN GOLD MINING. In the Antarctic Region. The Doctor’s Advice. And Ethel Blushed. ngmgup u u- mck swamp in first the settl- weed, but on ey resolved to idemble scale, ing a regular On April 2 the welcome spires of Fayal loomed up and more mighty shouts of joy arose from the decks of the disabled Ems. Reaching a moorage Capt. Livingston boarded the Ems and was at; once sur- rounded by the overjoyed passengers. The women embraced and kissed him in spite of his blushes and protest, and the passen- gers cheered him till they grew too hoarse to cheer more, and then told him over and. over of there gratitude. When the people got 05 the Ems they crowded around the VVildHower in boats and cheered the oflicers and crew to the echo. A cutler has recently brought out a razor stropping device to be used in connection with safety razors, as here shown. It con- sists of a nickled frame, with around WJOd- en part fastened rigidly to the Centre of two side arms pivoted at the top. These move back and forth, reversing the blade every time the direction of the machine is changed. At the end of the aims is a. springmeml receiver for she blade ofasafety razor. A slight pressure on the strap when the machine is in motion causes the blade to burn always in an opposite direction to which the apparatus is going. making it impossible to cut the strap and at the same time requiting no skill to sharpen the razor. Mme. de Lesseps a Fine Equestrienne and an Accomplished Linguist. The wife of Count de Lesseps was a young governess in a country gentleman’s house when the builder of the Suez canal met and fell in love with her. Her husband, one of the most distinguished men of mode rn his- tory, is now wavering in mental darkness on the brink of the graveâ€"a pitiable close to such a notable careerâ€"but his faithful wife is his constant attendant. Considerably less than half her husband’s age, she is still handsome and attractive in spite of her sorrow. In the day’s before social and financial ruin overcame the count Mme. de Lessepswas a frequent and favorite enters tainer at her country home, but of late years her time has been almost entirely occupied in snperintending the education of her numerous family of children. For this task she is eminently well fitted, being a. woman of varied accomplishments. She is an especially fine linguist, the study of languages being almost her chief delight. Mme. de Lesseps is also a. splendid horse- woman, and in the days of her prosperity her seat in the saddle was the admiration and envy of many a. gay Parisienne. She has the typical complexion of women who habitually reside in Paris, and has a. fine though slender figure, with Spanish eyes and small features. The story of the rescue of the Ubeamer Ems as told by Capt. Livingston of the \Vildflower is thrilling throughout and depicts the herosim of the master in saving the ship under decidedly adverse circum- stances. ’l'he \Vildflower left Cape Henlo pen March 19. On March 26 she passed a number of icebergs. The Ems was sighted the next morning in the trough of a heavy cross sea, and was tiring guns and flying signals of distress. Captain Livingston low- ered the only boatlefton his vessel,and,after placing the chief officer in command and picking a crew, sent the frail craft on its errand of mercy. After a. long and tedious struggle the Ems was reached and the chief officer was greeted as one from Heaven. When the Wildflower's chief officer return- ed and reported that the Ems was leaking badly nndtoleave her meantcertain death to th ose on board, Captain Livingstone prompt- ly decided to risk everything in an eifort to tow the ship to a haven of safety. It re- quired delicate and skilful manoeuvering to work the Wildflower about in such heavy sees in a thick fog and so close to the Ems, but after four hours of patient tail the two hawsers were stretehed between the vessels. When the Wildflower, with steam all on, her funnel belching out great thick clouds of black smoke, forged ahead and the lines creaked under the fearful strain, the passengers on the Ems sent up a. mighty cheer. The greatest peril, however, had just begun, for there was imminent risk of the lines foulingin the Wildflower’s propel- ler and disabling her, too, but she forged ahead for Fayel. Good weather was en- joyed for two days, but on the 30th and 31st very heavy gales were encountered, and the Wildflower plunged again and again beneath the mountainous seas. Time and again she was almost wholly submerged the towing strain keeping her stern down and preventing her from rising to the seas. On April 1 a terrific gale came up with sees that rose to mountainous heights, and the brave fellows on the Wildflower ex- pecbed that their vessel would founder beneath them. Captain Livingston never flinched. In a certain town in the north of York- shire a traveling American found an omni- bus which carried first, second and third class passengers. As the seats were all alike, the traveler was mystified, but not for very long. Midway of the route the omnibus stopped at: the foot of a long,steep hill, and the guard shouted: “First-class passengers, keep your seats. Second-class passengers, please peg out and walk. Third- clsss passengers. get. out and . in." HOW THE STEAMER EMS Wés SAVED. Towed Into Faan In the Wildflower In Heavy Weather, Though that Boa! Was Disabled. ‘ NOT HALF HER HUSBAND'S AGE. The Blade Always Is In the Right Position. RAZOR-STROPPIN} DE VIC CANNOT CUT THE STROP‘ According to Class.