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; DR. TALMAGE'S DISCOURSE AT THE
TABERNACLE.
no Extremes of Discipline and Leniency?Children
as Often Ruined by Indulgence
as by Tyranny?The Proper
Treatment of the Young.
Brooklyn, Nov; 13,?The weekly pubn
lication of - Dr.^Talmage's sermons is be- vond
parallel. Beside the English speak ^rng~natfons,
including Australia and New
Zealand, the sermons are regularly translated
into the languages of Germany.
Franco. Italy, Denmark, Norway, Russia
and India. The gentlemen liaving in
charge the publication' of these sermons
inform us that in this country, every
week, 10,000,000 copies of the entire
sermon are printed, and about 4,000,000
in oilier lands, making over 17,000.000
per week. A similar arrangement
if now being made for the publication
of Dr. Talmage's Fridav evening
talks.
The subject of the sermon to-day was
"Parental Blunders," and the text was
1 Samuel iv, 18:."He fell from off theMAM
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ZASctb uat&nuiu uj tut: Oiuu ui tiiv; ^aw:,
and Iris neck brake, and be died: for he
was an old man, and heavy." Dr. Talmagesaid:
Tiiis is the end of. a long story of parental
neglect. Judge Eli was a good
man, but lie let his two boys, Ilophni
and Phinehas, do as they pleased, and
through over indulgence they went to
ruin. The blind old judge, OS years of
age, is seated at the gate waiting for tlio
news cf an important battle in whicli his
two sons were at the front. An express
is coming with tidings from the battle.
This blind nonogenarian put3 his hand
_behind his. ear and listens and cries:
"What meaneth the noise of t|iis
tumult?" An excited messenger, all out
of breath with the speed, said to him:
"Our army is defeated. The sacred
chest, called the ark, is captured, and
your sons are dead on the field." No
wonder the father fainted and expired.
The domestic tragedy in which these two
sons were the tragedians had finished its
fifth and last act. "He fell from, off the
scat backward by the side of the gate and
his neck brake, and lie died; for he was
jui old man and heavy."
Eli had inado an awful mistake in regard
to his children.' The Bible distinctly
says: "His sons made themselves vile
and he restrained them not." Oh. the
ten thousand mistakes in rearing children,
mistakes of parents, mistakes of
teachers in day school and Sabbath
classes, mistakes which we all make.
Will it not be useful to consider them?
This country is going to be conquered
by a great army, compared with which
chat of Baldwin the First, and Xerxes,
and Alexander, and Grant, and Lee, all
put together, were in numbers insignificant.
They will capture all our pulpits,
storehouses, factories and halls of legislation,
all our shipping, all our wealth and
all our honors. They will take possession
of ali authority, from the United States
presidency down to tho humblest con
: everything between the
Atlantic^ and Pacific obeaiw. They, are...
on the march now, and they halt neither
day nor night. They will soon be here,
.and all the present active population of
this country must surrender and give
way. I refer to the great army of chii- j
dren. Whether they shall take possession J
of everytliing for good or for bad depends
upon the style of preparation through
which they pass on their way from cradle i
to throne. Cicero acknowledges -he kept
in his desk a collection of prefaces for J
l<ooks, which prefaces he could at any
time attach to anything he wanted to I
publish for himself or others; and
parents and teachers have all prepared
the preface of every young lifer under
their charge, and not only the pre
face, but the appendix, * whether
the volume be a poem or a
farce. Families, and schools, and legislatures
are in our day busily engaged in
discussing what is the l>est mode of educating
children. Before this question
almost every other dwindles into insig- 1
niQcance, while dependent upon its I
proper solution is the welfare of govern- J
meats and ages eternal. Macaulay tells j
of the war winch Frederick the Second i
made against Queen Maria Theresa. And
one day she appeared before the august
diet, wearing mourning for; her father,
and held up in her arms bafore them her
child, the arcbduke. This so wrought -1
upon the oilicers and deputies of the
people that with half drawn swords they
broke forth in the war cry, 4'Let us die
fur our queen, Maria Theresa!" So, this
morning, realizing that the boy of today
|. is to be the ruler of the future, the popular
sovereign, I hold him before the
American people to arouse their enthusiasm
in his behalf and to evoke their oath
f<?i his defense, his education and his
sublime destiny.
1/ a parent, you will remember when
you were aroused to these great responsibilities,
and. when you found that you
liad not done all required after you had
admired the tiny hands, and the glossy
I hair, atid the bright eyes that lay in the
cradle, you suddenly remembered that'
that hand wovild yet be raised to bless
the world with its benediction, or. to
-smite it wiih'a curse. In AriesfepVgreat
poem there is a character called Ruggiero,
who has a sliield of insufferable
splendor, but it is kept veiled save on
certain occasions, and when uncovered it
startled and overwhelmed its beholder,
who before had no suspicion of its brightness.
My hopo today is to uncot^r the
destiny of your child or student, about
which ycu may have no special appreciation,
and flash upon you the splendors of
its immortal nature. Behold the sliield
and the sword of its coming conflict!
I propose in this discourse to set forth
what I consider to be some of the errors
prevalent in the training of children.
First: I remark, tliat many err in too gre
:t severity or too great leniency of
famiiy government. Between parental'
tyranny and ruinous laxativeness of disci]'line
there is a medium. Sometimes
the father errs on one side, and the
mother on the other side. Good family
government is all important. Anarchy
and misrule in the domestic circle is the
forerunner of anarchy and misrule in
the state. What a repulsive S{>ectacle is
a homo without order or discipline, disnlwdipncA
and imnudcnce. and anger
ami falsehood lifting their horrid front
in tho place which should be consecrated
to all that Is holy and peaceful and
beautiful. In the attempt to avoid all
this, and bring the children under proper
laws and regulations* parents have sometimes
carried themselves with great rigor.
John Howard, who was merciful to tire
prisons and lazarettos, was merciless in
the treatment of his children. John
Milton knew everything but how to train "
his family. Severe and unreasonable
was he in his carriage toward them. He
made them read to him in four or five
languages, but would not allow them to
learn any of them, for ho 6aid that one
tongue was enough for a woman. Their
raiding was mechanical -drudgery, when,
if they liad understood the languages they
read, the employment of reading might
have l>ccu a luxury. No wonder his cliildren
despised him, and stealthily sold his
books, and ho])ed for his death. In all
ages there has been need of a society for
the prevention of cruelty to. children:
-
! When Barbara was put to death by her
i father because she had countermanded
! his order, and had three windows put in
a room instead of two, this cruel parent
was a type of man)- who have acted the
Nero and the Robespierre in the home
circle. The heart sickens at what you
sometimes see, even in families that pretend
to be Cliristian?perpetual scolding,
and hair pulling, and ear boxing, and
thumping, and stamping, and fault finding,
and teasing, until the children aro
vexed beyond bounds and growl in tho
sleeve, and pout, and rebel, and vow
within themselves that in after days they
will retaliate for the cruelties practiced.
Many a home has become a3 full of dispute
as was the home of John O'Groat,
who built his house at the most northerly
point in Great Britain. And tradiooro
tUof flm lio r\ nirrl^f Trin_
UUll OUJO LUUb liJV AiV'UCV JUtU vi^uv *? JUU
dows, and eightv doors, and a table of
eight sides, because he had eight children
and the only way to kpep them out
of bitter quarrel was-to have a -separate
appointment for each one of them.
That child's nature is too delicate to bo
worked upon by sledge hammer, and
g?f?ugo, and pile driver. Such fierce lashing,
instead of breaking tho high mettle
to bit and trace, will make it dash off the
more uncontrollable. Many seem to think
tliat children are flax.?not fit for use till
they have been hetcheled and swingled.
Some one talking to a child said: 4'I wonder
what makes that tree out there so
crooked." The child replied: 'T suppose
it was trod upon while it was young."
In some families all the discipline is concenetred
upoft one child's head. If anything
is done wrong, the supposition is
that George did it. He broke tho latch.
He left open the gate. He hacked the
bannisters. He whittled sticks on the
carpets. And George sliall be the scapegoat
for all domestic misunderstandings
aud suspicions. If things get wrong in
the culinary department, in comes- th?
mother and says, angrily:. " Where
is George?" If business matters
are < perplexing ' at the store, in.
comes the father at night ami says, angrily:
''Where is George?" In many a
household there is such a one singled out
for suspicion and castigation. All the
sweet flowers of his soul blasted under
this perpetual northeast storm, he curses
the day in which he . was born. r Safer
the cliild in an ark of bulrushes on tho
Nile, among crocodiles, than in an elegant
mansion, amid such domestic gorgons.
A mother was passing along the
street one day, and came up to her little
child, who did not see her approaclu and
her child was saying to her playmate:
lYou good fo^ nothing little scamp, you
come right into the house this minute or
I will beat yoii till the skin comes off."
The mother broke in, saying: "Why,
Lizzie, I am surprised to hear you talk
like that to any one!*' "Oh," said the
child, "I was only playing, and he is mv
little boy, and I am scolding him, as you
did me this morning." Children are apt
to be echoes of their parents.
Safer in a Bethlehem manger among
I cattle and camels with gentle Mary to
j watch the little innocent than the most extravagant
nursery, over which God's star
of peace never stood. The trapper extini
guishes the flames on the prairie by fighting
fire witji fire, but you cannot, with
; the fire of your own disposition^ put out
\ the fire o? a tjkild'a disposition.;
Yet we may rush to the 'otfbcf extreme
and rule cliildren by too great leniency.
The surgeon is hot unkind because, notwithstanding
the resistance of his patient,
he goes straight on with firm hand and
unfaltering heart to take off the gangrene.
- Nor is the parent less affectionate
and. faithful because, notwithstanding
all violent remonstrances on the part of
the child, he with the firmest discipline
advances to the cutting off of its evil inclinations.
The Bible says: "Chasten
thv son while there is hope, and let not
thy soul spare for his crying." Childish
rage unchecked will, after a while, become
a hurricane. Childish petulance
will grow.up-into misanthropy. Childish
rebellion will develop into the lawlessness
of riot and sedition. If you would ruin
the child, dance to his every caprice and
stuff him with confectionery. Before
you are aware of it tlrnt boy of 0 years
will go .down the street, a eigar in his
mouth and ready on any corner with his
comrades to compare pugilistic attainments.
The parent who allows the child
to grow-up without ever having learned
the great duty of obedience and subrnis-sioa
has prepared a cup of burning gall
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Tor Jus own lips ana appamng uesureetibil
forhis descendant. Remember Eli
and his,two sons, Hophni dnd Phinehas.
A second error prevalent in tfie training
of children is a laying out of a theory
and'following it without arranging it to
varieties of disposition. In every family
you will find striking differences of temperament.
This child is too timid, and
that too bokl^ and: this too miserly, and
that too wasteful; this too inactive, and
that too boisterous. Now, the farmer
who should plant corn and wheat and
turnips in just the same way, then put
them through one hopper and grind them
in the same mill, would not be so much
of a fool as the parents who should attempt
to discipline and educate all their
children in the same manner. It needs a
3killful hand to adjust These checks and
balances. ' The rigidity of government
which is necessary to hold in this impetudhs
nzture would utterly crush v that flexile
disposition, while the--gentle iieproof
that would suffice for the latter would
When used on the former, be like attempting
to hold a champing Bucephalus
with reins of gossamer. God gives us in
the disposition of each child a hint as
to how we ought to train him, and, as
(lod in the mental structure of our children
"indicates what mode of training
is - the best, lie also indicates in
the disposition their future occupation.
Do not write down that child as dull because
it may not now bo as brilliant as
your other children or as those of your
neighbor. Some of the mightiest men
and women of the centuries had a stupid
childhood. . Thomas ?Aqmnas was called
at school "the dumb oy,'* but afterward
demonstrated his sanctified genius and
was called "the angel of the schools"
and "the eagle of Brittany," Kindness
and patience with a child will conquer
almost anything, and they are virtues so
Christianlike that they are inspiring to
look at. John Wesley's kiss of a child
on the pulpit stairs turned Matthias Joyce
from a profligate into a flaming evangel.
The third error prevalent in the training
of children is the one sided development
of either the physical, intellectual
or moral nature at the expense of the
others. Those, for instance, greatly mistake
who, while they are faithful in the
intellectual and moral culture of children,
forget the physical. The bright
eyes half quenched by night study, the
cramped chest that comes from too much
bending over school desks, the weak side
resulting from sedentariness of habit,
pale cheeks and the gaunt Ixxlies of mul.
titudes of children J attest that physical
development does" not always go aloDg
with intellectual and moral. How do
you suppose all those treasures of knowledge
the child gets will look in shattered
casket? And how much will you give
for the wealthiest cargo when it is put
into a leaky ship? How can that bright,
| sharp blade of a child's attainments be
| wielded without any handle? "What are
brains worth without shoulders. to
carry them? What is a child with magnificent
mind but an exhausted body?
Better that a young man 01
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into the world "without knowing A from
Z, if he have health of body and energy
to push his way through the world, than
- at 21 to enter upon active lifo. his head
1 stuffed with Socrates, and Herodotus,
? and Bacon, and La Place, but no physical
force to sustain him in the shock of
earthly conflicts. From this infinite
| blunder of parents how many have come
out in life with a genius that could have
piled Ossa upon Pelion, and mounted
' upon them to scale the heavens, and have
laid down panting with physical exhaustion
before a mole hill. They who might
have thrilled senates and marslialed'
armies and startled the world with tho
shock of their scientific batteries, have
passed their lives in picking up prescrij>tions
for indigestion. They owned all
the thunderbolts of Jupiter, but could not
get out cf their rocking chaii to use
them. George Washington in early life
was a poor speller, and spelled hat
i h-a-double-t, and a ream of paper ho
j spelled "rlieam," but he knew enough
I to spell out tho independence of this
} country from foreign oppression, Tho
| knowledge of the schools is important,
j but there are other things quite as im]
portant.
} Just as great is tho wrong done when i
j tho mind is cultivated and tho heart neglectod.
The youth of this day are seldom
| denied any scholarly attainments. Our
! schools and seminaries are ever growing |
i in efficiency, and the students are conj
ducted through all the realms of philosj
ophy, and art, and language, and matho|
matics. Tho most hereditary obtusoness 1
) gives way before the onslaught of adroit
; instructors. But there is a development j
| of infinite imj)ortance which mathematics
i! and the dead languages cannot affect.
The more mental power the more capacity
for evil unless coupled with religious
restraint. You discover what terrible
'-power for evil unsanctifiod genius posv/scseos
when you see Scaliger with his
scathing denunciations assaulting the
best men of his time, and Blount
and Spinoza and Bolingbroke leading
their hosts of followers into the ail
consuming fires of - skepticism and infidelity.
"Whether knowledge is a mighty
good or an unmitigated evil depends
entirely upon winch course it takes.
The river rolling on between round
banks makes ell tho valley laugh
with golden wheat and rank grass, and
catching hold tho* wheel of mill and factory,
whirls it with great industries.
But, breaking away from restraints and
dashing over banks in red wrath, it
washes away harvests from their moorings
and makes the valleys shrink with
the catastrophe. Biro in the furnace
heats tho house or drives tho steamer;
but, uncontrolled, warehouses go down
in awful crash before it, and in a few
hours half a city will lie in black ruin,
l walls and towers and churches and
J monument. You must accompany tho
education or tiio intellect witn uie eauca- ,
tion of the heart, or you are rousing up ,
within your child an energy which will J;
be blasting and terrific. Better a wicked
dunce than a wicked philosopher.
Tho fourth error often committed in j
the training of children is tho suppres- ^
sion of childish sportfulness. The most ^
triumphant death of any child that I ?
ever knew was that of Scoville Haynes c
McCollum. A few days before tliat, he (
was at my house in Syracuse, and he ran r
iifee --a doer-.-an.cL bip. Jiallpo made - tho v a
woods echo. You could" n?ar~liitD com- -j
ing a block off, so full was he Of romp' j
and laughter and whistle. Don't put re- {
ligion ou your child as a straight jacket. * ^
Parents after liaving for a good many j
year's been joBtlod about in the rough c
world often lose'their vivacity, and are j
astonished to see how their children can. t
act so thoughtlessly of tho earnest world ]
all about them. That is a cruel parent ^
whorquenchcs any of the light in a child's r
soul. Instead of arresting its sportfulness, r
go forth iind help him trundle the hoop, {
and fly the kite, and build the snow castle.
Those shoulders arc too little to 8
carry a burden, that brow is too young *
to bo wrinkled, those feet are too sprightly
to go along at a funeral pace. God %
bless their-young hearts! Now is the ,
time for them to be sportful. Let thom ^
romp and sing and laugh, and go with a
rush and a hurrah. In this way they
gather up a surplus of energy for future ?
life. For the child that walks around :
with a scowl, dragging his feet as though
they were weights and sitting down by f
tho hour in* moping and grumbling, I *
prophesy a life of utter inanition and dis- J
content. Sooner hush the robin3 iii tho ,
air till they are silent as a bat, and lecture
the frisking lambs on the hillside 1
until they walk like old sheep, than put (
exhjlarant childhood in the stocks
The fifth error in the training of childhood
is the postponement of its moral v
culture until too late. Multitudes of j
children because of their precocity have
been urged into depths of study where
they ought not to go, and their intellects ^
have been overburdened and overstrained
and battered to pieces against Latin ^
grammars and algebras, and coming
forth into practical life they will hardly ^
rise to mediocrity, and there is now a
stuffing and cramming system of educa*
tion in the schools of our country tliat ia ^
deathful to tho teachers who have to en- j.
force it, and destructive to the children ^
- \vho must submit to the process. You a
. find- children - at i.and 10 years of age ^
- wiihdcnool IJ^ssOns only Appropriate for z
clnldfen of "f{>. If children are kept In Q
schob\ and studying from 9 to 3 o'clock,
- no home study except music* ought to bo
required of them. Six hours of study is
enough for any child. The rest or the
day ought to ho devoted to recreation i
and pure fun. But you cannot begin 6
too'early the moral culture .of a child, or
on too complete a scale. You can look j
back upon your own lifo and remember j
what mighty impressions were mado
upon you at 5 or 0 years of ago. Oh,
that child does not sit so silent during r
your conversation to be uninfluonced by 6
it. You say he docs not understand, A\- N
though much of your phraseology is be- c
yond his grasp, he is gathering up from
your talk influences which will affect his c
immortal destiny. From the question ho I
asks you long afterward you find ho c
understood all about what you were say- s
ing. You think the child does not ap- ?
predatethat beautiful cloud, but its most
delicate lines are reflected into the very f
depths of the youthful nature, and a ?:
score of years from now you will see the ^
shadow cf that cloud in the tastes and ^
refinements developed. The song with .
which you sang that child to sleep will
echo through all its life, and ring back
' * _ * 1 T il V l. T
lroni cue very arcncs 01 ncaven, * uunic that
often the first seven years of ft
child's life decides whether it shall bo 6
irascible, waspish, rude, false, hypocrite ?
ical, or gentle, truthful, frank, obedient, I
honest and Christian. The present genorations
of men will pass off very much I
as they are now. Although the Goe- t
]x>1 is offered them, the general rule is c
that drunkards die drunkards, thieves f
die thieves, libertines dio libertines, L
Therefore to the youth we turn. Before
they sow wild oats get them to sow j
wheat and barley. You fill the bushel j.
measure with good corn, and there will j,
be no room for husks. Glorious Alfred
Cookman was converted at 10 years of t
age. At Carlisle, Pa., during the progress
of a religious meeting in the Methodist
church, whjlp many were kneeling 11
at the foot of the altar, this boy knelt in a
a corner of the church all by himself and I1
said: "Precious Saviour, thoj art sav- y
ing others, O, wilt thou not sav* me?" 11
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A Presbyterian elder knelt beside him
and led him into the light. Enthroned
Alfred Cookman! Tell me from the
skies, were you converted too early? But
I cannot hear his answer. It is overpowered
by the huzzas of the tens of
thousands who wero brought to God
through his ministry. Isaac Watts, the
great Christian poet, was converted at 0
years of ago. Robert Hall, the great
Baptist evangelist^ was converted at 12
years of age. Jonathan Edwards, the
greatest of American. logicians, was converted
at 7 years of age.
Oh for one generation of holy men and
women. Shall it bo the next? Fathers
and mothers, you under God are to decide
whether from your families shall go
forth cowards, inebriates, counterfeiters,
blasphemers, and whether there shall be
those bearing your image and earning
your name festering in the low haunt3 of
vice, and floundering in dissipation, and
making the midnight of their lives horrid
with a long Ttowl of ruin, or whether
from your family altars shall come the
Christians, the reformers, tho teachers,
the ministers of Christ, tho comforters of
the troubled, the healers of tho sick, the
enacters of good laws, the founders of
charitable institutions, and a great many
who shall in theT^nibler spheres of toil
and usefulness serve god and the host Inf/vroafa
r\f tlm lmmnn r-wm
V4 W1V Jiumuil X uvv
You cannot as parents shirk the responsibility.
God has charged yon with
a mission, and all fhe thrones of heaven
are waiting to see whether you wiil do
your duty. We must not forget that it
is not so much what we teach our children
as what we arc in their presence.
Wo wish them to bo better than wc are,
but the probability is that they will only
be reproductions of our own character.
Serman literature has much to say of
the ' 'specter of Brocken.'' Among those
mountains travelers in certain conditions
}f the atmosphere sco themselves copied
:>n a gigantic scale in the clouds. At
first tho travelers do not realize that it is
themselves on a larger scale. When they
lift a hand Or move the head this monster
;pecter does the same, and with such
jnlargement of proportions that tho scene
s most exciting, and thousands have gone
:o that place just to behold the specter
)f Brocken. Tho probability is that some
>f our faults which we consider small
md insignificant, if we do not put an end
o them, will be copied on a larger scale
n tho lives of our children, and perhaps
lilated and exaggerated into spectral
>roportions. You need not go ns far off
is the Brocken to see that process. Tho
iret thing in importance in the education
>f our children is to mako ourselves, by
he grace of God, fit examples to be |
sopied. Tho day will come when you !
nust confront that child, not in tho !
:hurch pew on a calm Sabbath, but amid
lie consternation of the rising dead, and
he flying heavens, and a burning world,
from your side that son or daughter,
xme of your bone, heart of your heart,
he father's brow liis brow, the mother's
ye his eye, slufll go forth to an eternal
lestinv. " What will be vour iov
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f at last, you hear their feet in j
ho sam^ golden highway and hear
heir voiced in the sam? rapturous song,
[lustrations, while the eternal ages last,
?f what /a faithful parent could, under
Jod, accomplish. I was reading of a
uother^*io, dying, liad all her children
took each. ono of?feJypiil by
he hM^JPtfeoskgd them to ineet^ier"1ii
leaven^S^Jwith tears and sobs, such as
hose only know who have stood by the
leathbecTTif a good old mother, they all
>romised. Bat there was a young man
>f 19, who had\>een very wild and reckess,
and bard, .and proud, and when she
ook his hand die said: "Now, my boy,
' want ym- to promise mo before i d'io
hat you will become a Christian and
neet me in heaven." The young man
nade no answer, for there was so much
or him to give up if he made and kepi
uch a promise. But the aged mother
jersistetVip saying:
"You won't deny me that before I
jo, will-yob? This parting must not be
orevcr. Tell mo now you will serve
Jod and meet me in the land where
here, is no parting." Quaking with
motion he stood, making up his mind
ind lialting and hesitating, but at last
lis stubbornness yielded and . ho threw
lis arms around his mother's neck and
aid: "Yes, mother; I will, I will."
Vnd as he finished the last word of his
iromise lier. spirit ascended. I thank
>od ll^Pyotmg \ man kept his promise.
iTes, lie "kept it. May God give all
Mothers anil fathers the gladness of their
diildrente .Salvation.
For all w}io are trying to do their duty,
is ptingjdbyi fquote the tremendous pasage:
*Triim up a child in theway in
vhich he should go, and when he is old
10 wilL not depart from it." If llirough
jood discipline and prayer and godly extmple
dre- acting upon that cliild,
ou halo the right to export him to grow \
ip vir^iotwl And how many tears of
oy yoi w31 shed when you see your
bild honorable and just and truthful
md Christian and successful?a holy man
iinid a i'oridof dishonesty, a godly wo
naii m a world. ot frivolous pretension.
rVhen to die they will gather
o bless y<asHhst houja. They "wit! push
>ack the $Hite lockS^fe^ your cold forelead
ancbgg1} " Wi^Tasgood father He
ilways They will fold
'our'iiai^*peacefully and say: "Boar
aother!' ?be is gone. Her trouKeh:$re
11 over. fBon't she look beautifutllL .
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Interesting Paragraphs.
A daily illustrated paper is projected
n London. An American is ono of the
yndicater
Switzerland has recently adopted a law
dacing the manufacture of wines and
iquors m the hands of tho government.
At Oxford, Pa., the other day, asparow
hopped upon a pilo of clams and was
uduenly imprisoned by one of tho bi alve.i.W'l^ch
closed its shell together
>ver the bitu's foot, *
A lady interfered with an impatient
Iriver'm ?ynn and started a stubborn,
>alky horse attached to a heavily loaded
:oal wagon by giving the animal foui
ipplo3 Itad then simply saying, "Come ;
tlong.'? f
Montana territory claims to bo ready
'or statdiood, with plenty of property,
Hent^Jf'population. ljt00,000 cattle,
[90.000 horses, 2,000,000 sheep, j.and
jold ?\d silver at the rato of $20,000,000
Oni the tombstone of Martlia Annie
dooii. whoso grave is in Old- Wilner,
>a., k this curious epitaph: "Boys, don't
hoolbirds around Martha's grave." The
?av?is in a wild wood where game is
>len?v
A ?.000 foot well is being sunk at San |
)iegt>, Cal. It is hoped that a supply of j
rati$-;equivalent to 2,000,000 gallons in [
ivory twenty-four hours will bo obtained
roin "that and another deep well now
eing sunk.
Trrfrt* is a cotton plant at Narcoosscc, Ta.|
which is over five feet across the
ranches and has from 350 to 400 blooms,
ludi, and. bolls. It -contains cotton hi
11 its stages, from the swelling bud to
ho mature article itself.
ALjnerchant of Merrill. Wis., has
dopted u novel and successful method of
dvertising. Ho took his old white cow,
ili^red lier over from head to heels
vith advertisements, and set her at large
a fill; streets of the town.
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PEOPLE EVERYBODY KNOWS.
Personal Items Concerning Men and
"Women Whom the World Talks About.
The daughter of Ole Bull is preparing
for the Harvard annex.
Queen Margaret, of Italy, lias had
J capable Jewish instructors, can read thn
Old Testament in Hebrew with ease and
i lias collected'a large Hebrew library,
j with the latest works on Jewish literaj
turc.
Dom Pedro I composed a song entitled
j "Hymne de 1 'Independence,'' and it has
| just lieen executed for the first time at
j Baden Baden, under the direction of his
J son, Dom Pedro II, tho present ruler of
i Brazil, who is said to bo a talented muI
sician.
t
Mr. Edison lias perfected his phonograph
for practical use, and the machine
is soon to Ixi put on the market at a retail
price of $100. The Edison company
claims tliat the machine will reproduce
j the voice so clearly and accurately tint
j the words cannot bo misunderstood.
i ^ -it- n.i.t. .f t
j Ijeorge >v. i auie, lately ui ijuuisiujiu,
now of Massachusetts, has developed not
! only into a great novelist,- but is ac!
counted one of the lx^t biblical scholars
in the e;ist. He has a Bible class in Boston,
and it is said receives a very large
salary from it annsgfily. He was here
tha.other (fey, hut hurried' away to read
somewhere. Ho wbars a full dark l>card
and a thick mustache that struggles over
and joins the mass of whiskers. His
complexion is pallid and somewhat sallow.
In dress he is not dandified and
avoids anything loud. He woro a plain
black frock coat, double breasted, and
dark trousers.
When the late duke of Portland died
most of liis property went to his sisteis,
one of whom was Lady Ossington. As
this lady was a widow she was assisted
in the management of her great inTieritancc
by her brother-in-law, tlio late A.
Denison, and in return for liis services
she made him a considerable present in
money. This money Mr. Denison invested
in a sumptuous watch. A very
musical relator of the best workmanship
was inclosed in a gold case literally
studded with jewels, and each jewel a
stone. The watch* chain had a succession
of black pearte, and the signet was a
scarabceus. The worst of this costly
whim was that the owner scarcely dared
wear the watch for fear of being robbc-l
in the street, and could not leave it at
home for fear of a burglary.
If ever the habit of cigarette smoking
has thoroughly and permanently fastened
itself upon any man, that man is Robert
Louis Stevenson, tho popular romancer.
During a trifle of over one hour of conversation
on his brief visit to New York
.t _ ?j u i>_* ..J
recently, ail average sizeu uuuuiu ui
I cigarettes was entirely consumed by the
| novelist in rapid succession. Mr. Stevenson
lias entirely rained liis health by
the practice, and both of his lungs have
been impaired beyond medical skill solely
by the "constant inhaling of the deadly
. smoke. Ho is frankly conscious of the
evil effects of the vico that has so securely
conquered him, and despito the most
earnest efforts of his mother, wife and
friends, the practice goes on unabated.
With Mr. Stevenson a cigarette is his last
pnn.iyminn r>" p i ii :"fT "r-il"ld_tll '
Ilrai sought by him on rising. Physicians-'
of ail lands liave warned in vain, fearing;
the cuhninating'cffects on a constitution^6
already nearly slin|tered, and on a mind
from which has emanated those wonderful
romances that liavemado their author
so widely popular in .English reading
lands.
An Egyptian Papyrus.
Lepsins, the director of the Egyptian
department of the royal museums of Berlin,
Germany, a very famous Egyptol<>
gist, at his death.Jeft a remarkable papyrus
which he tiad obtained from an
English lady, Miss Westcar. According
to its language it was written about the
seventeenth century before Qirist, the
period of the delivery of Egypt from the
rule of the Avksos (Jews?). It measures
nearly two yards in length and i3 about
fourteen inches liigb. On ono side it contains
nine, on the other three, columns of
an average of twenty-six horizontal lines of
writing each. Some parts of the
writing are entirely obliterated, many so
much as to be unreadable. The beginning
and the conclusion are gone entirely.
Nevertheless, the recitals have been read
and sufficiently restored to become intelligible.
One of the .tales is that King Snofru
was sad of heart, and on the advico of
Zezemonch, the priest and reader to the
king, had a boat manned by twenty
beautiful oarswomen and went on a voyage.
One of tho women happened to
drop a precious jewel of malachite into
the sea, and was so overwhelmed with
grief that sho dropped her oar and 'the
boat came to a-standstill. *Tfco king was
dismayed. But 2ezemonch raised one]?$?
of the waters of the lake and clapped it
on top of the other half, leaving half of
the bottom of the hike dry, descended*
and brought up the jewel, and the boat
resumed its journey. Another legend of
the"papyrus says tho god of tho sun. Re,
had. triplets^ by lioddeclet, the wile or tho '
priest Bfcawosei^ who, he decreed, should*
dethrone the Egyptian dynasty arid rule
in: itr-fctead. '33ufc one of Rededdefc's
jnaids wentr^ffo kin^Chufu (Cheops),
and tells him what lias happenedagitf^ ?
ihl king's ingnU# the country -';
iu a fearful iuundation, destroying every-.' "
thing except Die three boys,' wh% aitf : sa\ed.bvlie.
So, it;seemVneither the
emperor of China^ nor -Hercules, nor"
Romulus and Remus, wer-o the first sons
of the gods bearing rule on earth.?Chicago
News.
Electricity Among the Grapevines.
A man who lives but a few miles out
of Albany protects his grapevines from
fruit thieves in a. novel maimer. H19 .
supports are of wood, but the cross pieces
are ol wire insulated from tlie ground, ana
connected with an induction Coi| .
capable of delivering a- heavy sparlj.
through an/inch of air. The other pole
of the coil is connected to xhe ground,
Six good sized bichromate of potash cettaL
furnish electro motive force for the coil, *
Short wires hanging among tho vines are
secured to the large wires, and when any
0110 monkeys with the grapevine while '
the battery is connected the neighborhood '
is apt to hear from him. J\ /*orks every
time, and no one come3 for a seconddose.
- Albany Argus, . -
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Time for Recreation.*
What little reputation I have 'as an
author -was fairly, won while I was a
hard working and successful lawyer. On
thd other hand, my literary work n^ver
interfered in the least with my law practice.
I look upon a well set method of
working as the chief secret of success in ,
any undertaking, provided the native
ability to succeed be granted. I believo
in the moral influence and vitalizing
force of playing. A man,or a woman
needs play ?recreation?or* whatever is
Clio opposite of work. I have aUvays found
time for outdoor sports and have
been the gainer from them., in every
sense, It is a morbid view of. Ijfe which
would show that in order to succeed one
must work all the year round, play ia
profitable, if held within the bounds pxe->
scribed hy good judgment,
I have frequently lost * 'business" in
my profession by being absent from nrr
/' jT
I
! office when a client called, but it has not
' made mo poor or wretched. On the conj
trary, I liave gone right 011 getting to|
get her a comfortable little fortune, de;
apite the clients I have lost, and I am glad
j whenever I think about the pleasure I
j had at my outdoor recreation while some
I some needier or more money loving lawyer
was getting a few casts at my expense.
To some people it may sound
like romance when I say that for nine
years past I have spent on an average
three months of each year in outdoor recreation,
at the same time successfully
practicing law and pursuing literary
work with sufficient returns to make
a very comfortable bank account. Meanlime
I have been cheerful, in good health
and at all times glad to be alive. What
is the secret? Steady habits, promptness
in meeting even* obligation in law or literature,
and a conscientious reliance upon
Ihe value of painstaking labor.?Maurice
Thompson.
Abolish ths Hangman's Noose.
I think the day is not far distant when
the hangman's noose will l>e done away
with. There are so many things attendant
on a hanging that are not humane.
The horrors of the human mind when
contemplating such a death have been
portrayed in "The Execution," in the
"Ingoldsby Legends,'' better, perhaps,
dian Victor Hugo's interprctafMMflM
leither of them could describe.
)f oil men's failings?moral fear.
"R AO*oty11AC<2 rvf cfnlul ftwfnviic xvKnn
:hc death warrant is being read, there is
io indication of the awful mental drama
?oing on in the brain. It must of nature
ie the agony of agonies. The neck
:winges and the llesh feels the noose long
lefore it is adjusted. Tlie knot that is
;o knock into instantaneous insensibility
die scaffold's victim batters away at the
far until every muscle of the neck is
it retched to the tension of steel springs;
;he veins, like whipcords, arc dilated
with rushing blood that fires the brain
with the lividness of 100 hells; while
itanding on the trap a man must die a
.iozen deaths before the life spark expires
when the hemp is stretched. I say
iliat this death is not humane. As I
view it, electricity should be used and
dio criminal slux ked to death. This is
not only instantaneous, but it could bo
vdministered at an unguarded moment
-o tlie felon. He should never know
when he was to die, and therefore he
wotpjd not be living in that horrid contemplation
of a set day. I think the time
s not far distant when this method of
execution will be adopted.?Governor ,
Johnson in Globe-Democrat.
llad Swallowed His Teeth.
A short time since a man was taken to
)ne of the hospitals sulfering intense
pain. He informed the doctors that his
lome was down in the country, and that
i he should die he wished to be sent
there. The physicians asked him what
10 supposed caused the pain. "Why, I
wallowed my plate and four false teeth
while asleep the other night," was the
answer. Tlie patient was put upon
iquid food and all the examinations
nade by the medicos failed to locate the
wallowed article. The man's sufferings
were lessened considerably and as a test
t was decided to give him a little piece
>f beefsteak. This was done and tlio
poor patient was writhing in againyia..,
iCU uf)i IfcSnii rr ^"*'^7 >1 XlJOUUlflfl.
"Oil, my God!" lie exclaimed. "this is
dlling me! I know I shall die!" and numerous
other such speeches.
The physicians and nurses could hardly
keep him in bed, he suffered so mucli.
igaiii he ' broke forth m exefeunations.
This time he said: "Oh, how I suffer!
I can feel the teeth tearing mv stomach
apart! Oh?V. he did not finish until a
iuree opened a telegram from his wife,
[t read: "Found teeth under bed." The
suffering man,:,who had swallowed those
teeth, got dp and dressed, paid lusbill
md left the hospital without a word.
This is only an illustration of what imagination
will do.? Buffalo Express. ^
Winter Resort# of Europe.
The great winter resorts of Europe for
those in search of mild weather are to be
found in the south of France and Italy,
Including Sicily. The principal. places
where good hotels, coay villas and the
comforts of life are to be found are Biarritz
and Pau (the first on the seacoast,
the second in the Pyrenees),- Hyeres,
Cannes, Nice and Mentonex iff France,
2nd San Reimo, in Italy, all on the Mediterranean
between Marseilles and Genoa.
At these places good comfortable quarters,
good society, good shops and able physicians
may be found, with mauy more
diversions and pleasures than can he had
at the winter resortsin our own country.
For perrons in health, and for those in
delicate health without any settled ?lung
or throat trouble, for such as desire or
require an open air life in a mild winter
climate, they all offer attractions and
comforts greater as a whole than ariy I ' *
have ever found elsewhere; but, like all
climatic resorts, they have their objectionable
features when presented ^f^the
abode of consumptives, wlHch^^oala neither
be unknown nor Ij&fe
iam Smith Brown in Harness Maggie.
The Gentry: of Formosa.
. The resurvey of .Formosa discloses t&o ;
fact that njuch of the land"- is h$Jd in
seigniories or manors/ . The easy Ctindr .*
petty squatters had no title.; f<A- thoyland
appeg^o^cd Trom ajgd./as ,
tidbn^^it'was ,cultlyatetTi*5?pbj ^^
grants, which fhus pieced thetni|^B^PI
tion to treat the cultivators as tc&ht?rs&$*
will.?Chicago News.
Chain of Prairie Dog Towns.
There is a chain of prairie dog towns .2 [
along the Texas and Pacific road, begin- -ning
west of Abilene and extending'
nearly to Big Springs. Tho little fellows
always climb upon their hills and squat
dn their hind-feet tp watch the train go
by. Hunters tbll me it is almost impossible
to kill one of the dogs and get his
body, so quickly does he dive into; his
hole at the explosion of a gun.. Frequently,
if fatally hit. the little burrbwer
falls dead into hi* earth domicOr^Jfcri "
have tried. to make them opine out of ,
their burrows by pouring great quantities
of water in at the mouth of the hole, but
they will not emerge even at that treatment.
Some of the villages cover live
acres of ground, and I think their territory
extends for 100 miles along my run
in Texas.?St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
A Modest Cheek. 9
In the negotiations made some years j
ago by the English government forahun !
of $80,000,000 the successful contractors
were the Messrs. Rothsqjiild, In "paying
the first deposit toward this amount to
the government the. check they drew
was for the sum of $6,ouu.uw. ims
was probably tlie largest check ever
drawn,by a private banking house.?De?
troifc l;Vee Press,
To Writ? a Play.
When Dumas, the younger, once asked
his father how to write a play, the elder
answered: "It is very simple;, the iirst
act clear, the last act short ami interest ;
everywhere."
Princess Beatrice i3 said to be writing j
some clever verse. Two of her little |
gems have recently found their way int< '
jrcoik-ctiou of English poems. :*
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| METHODS OF REFORM SCHOOLS.
Tlie Means of Amendment-*-What Statistics
Indicate?Conversation.
In the United States are about seventy
institutions designed for tlw reformation
of young offenders. Their inmates number
more than 9,000 boys and girls. Tin
causes of commitment embrace nearly
every offense, from petty larceny to manslaughter.
The means of amendment
employed include not only the removal
of the offender from the opportunity of
indulging his criminal tastes, but also tho
teaching of some trade, instruction in the
elementary branches of knowledge, and
endeavor to form an^ upright character.
Concerning the success of tho reform
school in the reformation of those intrusted
to it, there is room for two contrary
opinions. In an examination of
the convicts of the prisons of New York,
which was ordered by the Prison association
of tho state in 1875, it was found
that of tho inmates of the Sing Sing penitentiary,
22.31 per cent, had been "refuge"
boys. As the usual number of jfcbe
inmates of the reformatories of New York
?xceeds 3,000, it is * plain that the large
pro{>ort!on of them do not become inuates
of prisons within th&state.
As to tlu? reforms tiocohinlislrod. esti
j mates vary from GO per cent, to 75. But"4"
B^M|^orpaft^:e8 are included many
without being vicious, but
exposed and homeless, are received into
houses of refuge. The proportion, therelore.
of those who Inyo served in reform
schools who are afterward convicted of. .
crimes is small, not exceeding 30 or 40
per cent. Yet statistics indicate that the
influence of these schools in impressing
evil habits upon a certain class of their
boys is exceedingly strong." Of the 22.31
per cent, of the Sing Sing convicts examined
who had been in these schools,
98 per cont.?lifty-one out of fifty-two?
were habitual criminals. Some light is ^
thrown upon the methods by which the
reform school helps to fix the habit of .
criminality by the following conversation
between a convict at Sing Sing and an
examiner:
"Please, sir, may I ask you a question?"
asks the convict. ?
"Certainly," is the examiner's reply.
4'Why do they send boys to the house
:>f refuge?"
"I suppose it is to teach them to be betx?r
boys."
''That's a great mistake, for tliey get
worse." '
"IIow should that be?"
"I wouldn't be here only I was sent to
;ho refuge."
4'What did you iearn there that should
aave caused you to be sent here?"
4'I didn't know how to pick pockets
cefore I went, and I didn't know no
'enccs; that's where you sell what you
(teal, you know."
4 4 What else did you learn in the way
)f thieving?"
"I learned how to put up a job in
jurglary."
Another inmate?who at the age of 7
itole fruit, and was sent to a reform '
._ 1 1 s 11 + a! La. a
cnooi at iiiuany ior nine momns; at o,
was found guilty of petit larceny, and
ent to the house of refuge; at 12, was
committed to a juvenile asylum, and escaped
three times in four days; and three
>ther times before reaching his majority
was sentenced to reformatories, and who
y rf ni ~ ~-~committed
to pri3c?i ntr iess than ton
dmes?remarkedtathe examiner: v
"I never learned a thing in my life jn
prison to benefit-me outside. The house
)f refuge is the worst place a boy could
be sent to." \
"Why so?"
"Boys are worse than men; I believe
boys know more mischief than men. In
:he house of refuge I learned to sneak;hief,
shoplift, pick pockets and open a
wock." '?;<> ;
"How did you get an opportunity to
!eai*n all this?"
"There's plenty of chance^ They learn
'fc from each other when at play."?Rev.
Charles F. Th wing in Harper's Magazine.
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Information for Coin Collectors.
For IJie information of numismatists,
jollectors of coins, coin dealers, etc.. Director
of the United States Mint Kimball
has prepared a circular giving definitions
>f technical terms used in mint regulations,
and other useful explanations of
joinage matters. A coin is said to be
"proof" when it is specially struck,
hand press, instead of steam press, from
i polished plancbet, and a "proof set" is
i complete set of proofs of current coins.
A. "pattern piece" is an early specimen
of proof from a newly adopted '
die or dies. An impression in soft-iofifatf
to test an experimental die ia ca
"trial piece." ^ . ;*f- .r ,
dies on experimental metal,or al^Yor
from experimental diea-.with jexpglfimectal
legends, devices or depignsjjjS^ de- .
nominated an "experimeataf^||pg^
Trial and experimental piefees, stm^ior? %
mint purposes only, will not be iasped*, * ;
circulated or sold. Pieces; popularly r- *
kSOT-n ? restrites, fete mebl, pece, .
aad metallic rephcas, or cities, are .prohibited
by the revised statutes. Proofs,
and pattern-pieces are sold by the super2 . J
intendent of the mint. The superintend- .. J
enf yrift furnish without charge a pat- .
to anyin?>rpor^ . f
*/Ji
totr folks have dropped Browsing aiujShelley
and the like, and have taken
Russian literature. "You gre expectaH
.to' know," she says, "an about Tolstoi. |
Gogol, Stepniak, and other political and
Literary scholars. Your table must bo
strewn wiih photographic views of every
place of note in Moscow, Pt? "?etcr8burg.
My friend is sick trying to <eep abreast'
with all this. She hasn'tsuu:.ch mind,
and I'm afraid she'll lose vhe little die
has,"?New York Sun.
The Poachers' Trick.
The Denbighshire police went but to
waylay a. gang of notorious poachers, - /
but were surprised to see them" return
empty handed. Shortly afterwards three
"Welsh damsels followed * with a suspicions
displaj* of bustle, which, on investigation,
turned out to be duo to the presence
of twenty-seven rabbits and two
long lengths of rabbit netting.?Chicago
Herald.
Swindlers of China.
The native merchants of China are said
to be inveterate swindlers. A foreign
denier at Tientsin recently contracted for
1,500 bales of camel's wool, guaranteed \
free from dirt and sand. ..When the vret r-?
installment had passed through tlie clean- j ^
ing machine 35 per cent, of its groar \
weight was found to be sand and gravel. {
and besides that the wool had been wel > ^
to make the dirt slick in and also to mak*
it lieavier.?Foreign Letter.
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The continuous decrease of crime in
TTnrrl*1 r> r? to vnri? w\?v?w1r/\VIa ?
Uiiguiuu u ?w; icuiiUUUlC. OU nMJUUJ
as 1869 the prisons contained no lees than .
11,000 convicts. In July last there were \JA
only 7,441. What is also very interesting
i!:e education act marked the turning
point in the history of crime. Sinco lhar
! K?s3age of that act tlie decrease of cru*fe
has been steady.