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"The Ererl JstlDff Arms."
FiJgrim on the road to glory,
Pressing toward the Heavenly prize,
'Mid the ills that now disturb thee,
'Mid the dangers that arise;
When the way is dark and dreary,
Rugged, filled with vain alarms,
"When perplexed, exhausted, weary,
Trust "the Everlasting Arms."
And when all below is closing,
When thou dread'st the briny flood,
When thou 'eel'st the waters rising
Thou shalt find the promiso good.
Timid Christian! venture on it;
Bid farewell to all alarms;
Tis enough that underneath thee
Are "the Everlasting Arms."
RELIGIOUS READING.
Ask (he Friee.
"Whenever I want anything I always j
ask the price of it, whether it be a new i
coat or a shoulder of mutton, a pound of '
tea or a ball of pack-string. If it ap- ;
pears to be worth the money I buy?that
is, if I can alford it; but if not, I '
let it alone; for he is no wise man who
pays for a thing more than it is worth.
But not only in the comforts of food !
and clothing, but in all other things, I
ask the same question; for there is a
price to a day's enjoyment as well as to a
joint of butcher's meat.
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pensive baubles, but he does not ask
their price; he is, therefore, obliged to .
give them his houses, his land, his j
friends, and his comfort; and these are
fifty times more than they are worth.
The drunkard is determined to have
his brandy and gin and his strong ale; !
and he never makes the price an object, '
bo he pays for them with his wealth, his
character, and his peace?and a sad bar- |
gain he makes of it! It is the same with j
others.
The gamester will be rich at once, but ;
riches may be bought too dear; for be
who in getting money also gets the
habit of risking it on the turn of a
card or throw of the dice will soon bring 1
pounds to pence. The gamester puys for i
his riches with his rest, his reputation '
and his happiness. Do you think, if the
highwayman asked the price of ungodly
gain, that he could ever commit robbery?
No, never I But he does not ask the price,
and foolishly gives for it his liberty, if
not his life.
Ask the price of what you would pos- |
Bess, and make a good bargain. A little !
prudence will secure you a great deal of
peace. But if, after all, you will have
pleasure of sin, I pray you consider the
price you must pay for it.?Evangelical j
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The Power of a LlritiB Bible.
? Nowhere is it more true than in the
Christian life that actions speak louder
than -words. A young man had become
an infidel, and would no longer read the
printed Bible, but he could not help seeing
the fruits of faith in the life of .
another. "We quote from the Young
Mai's Christian Magazine:
"In his father's house a young lady resided,
who was a relative of the family.
Her fretful temper made all around her
uncomfortable. She was sent to a Doaraing
school, and was absent some time.
"While there she became a true and earn
est Christian. On her return she was so
changed that all who knew her wondered
and rejoiced. She was patient
and cheerful, kind, unselfish and charitable.
The lips that used to be always
uttering cross and bitter words, now
spoke nothing but sweet, gentle, loving
words. Her infidel cousin George was
greatly surprised at this. He watched
her closely for some time, till he was j
thoroughly satisfied that it was a real
change that had taken place in his young 1
cousin. Then he asked her what had ?
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caused tnis great cnaage. one iuiu mm
it was the grace of God which had made
her a Christian and had changed her
heart.
He said to himself, "I don't believe
that God has anything to do with it,
though she thinks He had. But it is a
wonderful change that has taken place in
her, and I should like to be as good as
she is. I will be so." Then he formed
a set of good resolutions. He tried to
control his tongue and his temper, and
kept a strict watch over himself. He was
all the time doing and saying what ixe did
not wish to do and say. And as he
failed time after time, he would turn and
study his good cousin's example. He
would read this living Bible, and said to
himself, "How does it happen that she,
who has not as much knowledge or as
much strength of character as I have, can
do what I can't do. She must have some
help that I dont know of. It must be as
sne says, tne neip 01 uoa. i win sees j
that help. He -went into his chamber i
and prayed t? that God whose very ex- '
istence he had denied. lie prayed earnestly.
God heard him, helped him, and
he beeamc a Christian.
Here is the great truth: Christ gives
Himself to us. All that he is and has is
ours. God has blessed us all with spiritual
blessings in Christ. "All things are
yours," cries the great Apostle, 4'Christ
Jesus is made unto us wisdom and right
eousness and sanctification and redemption."
"Who will believe this? The moment
faith takes hoM of this great truth,
that moment all is ours. "We which
believe do enter into rest." The secret ,
is faith. "The believer is called to livo
by faith, to stand by faith, to walk by
faith, and to overcome by faith." How
simple the way of the Lord t
The Baptist Total Abstinence association
of England numbers in its ranks
1,171 ministers, 2,688 church officers,
and 212 students, making a total of 4,071,
having an increase of 355 over last year.
ii you are iona or wine, you ougnt to '
abstain for your own sake, and if you are
not fond of wine you ought to abstain
for the sake of others.? Caiwn Farrar.
The State, a Boston paper, says: "The
policy of science on the saloon issue is
the policy of moral cowardice," ?
1 TALMAGE'S SERMON.
EVILS OF BOARDING-HOUSES
AJN1J HUXELS.
Rev. Dr. Talmage's eighth sermon of the
series on the "Marriage Ring," related to the
evils of boarding-houses and hotels, and was
preached from the following text: "And
Drought him to an inn and took care of him.
And on the morrow, when he departed, he
took out two pence and gave them to the host
and said unto him, Take care of him, and
whatsoever thou expendeth more when I
come again I will repay thee."?St Luke, x.,
S4. 85. The following is the sermon in full:
This is the good Samaritan paying the
hotel bill of a man who had been robbed and
almost killed by bandits. The good Samaritan
had found the unfortunate on a lonely,
rocky road, where to this very day depredations
are sometimes committed upon travelers,
and had put the injured man into the saddle,
while this merciful and well-to-do man had
walked, till they got to the hotel and the
wounded man was put to bed and cared for.
It must have been a very superior hotel in its
accommodations for, though in the country,
the landlord was paid at the rate of
what in our country would be four
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day's wages and the two pennies paid in this
case about two days' wages. Moreover it
was one of those kind-hearted landlords who
are wrapped up in the happiness of their
guests, because the good Samaritan leaves
the poor wounded fellow to his entire care,
promising that when he came that way again
ne would pay all the bills until the invalid
got welL
Hotels and boarding houses are necessities.
In very aneicnt times they were unknown,
because the world had comparatively few inhabitants
and were not much given to travel,
and private hospitality met all the wants of
sojourners, as wnen Abraham rushed out at
Mamre to invite the three men to sit down
to a dinner of veal; as when Lydia urged the
apostles to accept of her home as when the
people were positively commanded to be
g^iven to hospitality; as in many of the places
in the East these ancient customs are pracfcrk-Hav
But we have now hotels Dre
Bided over by good landlords and boardinghouses
presided over bv excellent host or
hostess in all neighborhoods, villages and
cities, and it is our congratulation that those
of our own land surpass all other lands. They
rightly become the permanent residents of
many people such as those who are without
families, such as those whose business keeps
them migratory, such as those who ought not,
for various reasons of health or peculiarity of
circumstances, take upon themselves the cares
of housekeeping.
Many a man falling sick in one of these
boarding houses or hotels has been kindly
watched and nursed, and by the memory of
her own sufferings and losses the lady at the
head of such a house has done all that a
mother could do for a sick child, and the
slumberless eye of God sees and appreciates
her sacrifices in behalf of the stranger.
Among the most marvelous cases of patience
and Christian fidelity are many of those who
keep boarding houses, enduring without resentment
the unreasonable demands of their
guests for expensive food and attentions for
which they are not willing to pay an equiva- J
lent; a lot of crank}' men and women who '
are not worthyto tie the shoe of their queenly
caterer. Tha outrageous way in which
boarders sometimes act to tbeir landlords and
landladies show that these critical guests had
bad early rearing, and that in the making up
of their natures all that constitute the gentleman
and lady were left out. Some of the
most princely men and some of the most elegant
women that I know of to-day keep
hotels and boarding houses; have given
up their homes and taken apartments,
that they may have more freedom
from domestic duties and more time for social
life, and because they like the whirl of
publicity better than the quiet and privacy
of a residence they can call their own. The
lawful use of these hotels and boarding-houses
is for most people while they are in tram "ai,
but as a terminus they are in many cases demoralization,
utter and complete. That is
the point at which families innumerable
have Degun to disintegrate. There never has
been a time when so many families, healthy
and abundantly able to supjx>rt and direct
homes of their own, have struck tent and
taken permanent abode in these public estab
1 isomerics, ix is an evu wiae as cnrisienaom,
and by voice and through the newspaper
press I utter warning ana burning protest,
and ask Almighty God to bless tne work, ,
whether in the nearing or reading.
In these public caravan-series the demon of
gossip is apt to get full sway. All the boarders
run daily the gauntlet of general inspection?how
they look when they come down
in the morning, and when they get in at
night, and what they do for a living, and
who they receive as guests in their rooms,
and what they wear, and what they do not
wear, and how they eat, and what they eat,
and how much they eat, and how little they
eat. If a man proposes in such a place to be
isolated, and reticent and alone, they will begin
to guess about him?who is he? where did
ne come from? how long is he going to stay?
has he paid his board* how mucn does he
pay? perhaps he has committed some crime
and does not want to be known;. there must
be something wrong about him or he would
speak. The whole house goes "into the detective
business. They must find out about him.
Thev must find out about him right away. If
he leaves his door unlocked by acrid ?nt he
will find that his rooms have been inspected,
his trunk erolored. his letters folded differ
ently from the way they were folded when
he put them away. Who is he? is
the question asked with intenser interest
until the subject has become a monomania.
The simple fact is that he is nobody
in particular, but minds his own business.
The best landlords and landladies cannot
sometimes kinder their places from becoming
a pandemonium of whisperers and
reputations are torn to tatters and evil suspicions
are aroused and scandals started and
the parliament of the family is blown to
atoms by some Guy Fawkes who was not
caught in time, as was his English predecessor
of gunpowder reputation.
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homes families have so .much to
keep them busy, in these promiscuous and
multitudinous residences there are so many
who have nothing to do, and that always
makes mischief. They gather in each other's
rooms and spend hours in consultation about
others. If they had to walk a half mile before
they get to the willing ear of some
listener' to detraction, they would get out of
breath before reaching there and not feel in
full glow of animosity or slander, or might,
because of the distance, not go at all. But
rooms 20, 21, 22, 23,24 and Mere on the same
corridor, and when one carrion crow goes
"caw! caw I" all the other crows hear it and
flock together over the same carcass. "Oh.
I have heard something rich; sit down ana
let me tell you all about it." And the first
guffaw increases the gathering and it has
to be told all over again, and
as they separate each carries a
spark from the altar of Gab to some other
circle, until from the coal heaver in the cellar
to the maid in the top room of the garret, all
are aware of the defamation, and that evening
all who leave the house will bear it to
other houses until autumnal fires sweeping
across Illinois prarie are less raging ana
cwriff iVian tKof flnnia nf pnnenmino' ronnt.n.
tion blazing a toss the village or city, 'fhose
of us who were broueht ud in the countiv
know that the old-fashioned hatching of eggs
in the hay mow required lour or
five weeks of brooding, but there are new
modes now of hatching by machinery which
takes less time and doos the work in wholesale.
So, while the private home may brood
into life an occasional falsity and take a
long time to do it, many of the boarding
nouses ana ramuy noceis anora a swuier ami
more multitudinous style of moral incubation,
and one old gossip will
get off the nest after one hour's
rooding, clucking a flock of thirty lies after
her, each one picking up its little worm of
juicy regalement. It is no advantage to hear
too much about your neighbors, for your
time will be so much occupied in taking care
of their faults that you will have no time to
look after your own. And while you are
pulling the chick-weed out of their garden
yours will get all overgrown with horse-sorrel
and rnuBen stalks.
One of the worst damages that comes from
the herding of so many people into boarding
houses and family hotels is inflicted upon
children. It is only another way of bringing
them up on the commons. While you have
your own private house you can for the most
part control their companionship and their
whereabouts but by twelve years of age in
these public resorts they will have picked up
all the bad things that can be furnished by
tne prurient minds of dozens of
people. They will overhear blashemies
and sea quarrels and gei precocious in sin,
and what the bar-tender does not tell them
the porter or hostler or bell-boy will Beside
that, the children will go out into the world
without the restraining, anchoring, steadying
and all-controJling memory of a home.
f From that none of us who havo been blessed
t oi? such memory have escaped. It grips a !
man for eighty years if he live3 so long. It j
pulls him back from doors into which he otherwise
would enter. It smites him with contri- '
tJon in the very midst of his dissipations. As
the fish already surrounded by the long wide
net swim out to sea thinking they can go as
far as they please and with gay toss of silvery
scale they defy the sportsman on the beach,
and after while the fishermen begin to draw
in the net, hand over hand and hand over
hand, and it is a long while before the captured
fins beein to feel the net, and then they
dart this way and that hoping to get
out, but find themselves approaching
the shore and are brought up
to the very feet of the captors, so the memory
of an etyly home sometimes seems to relax
and let men out further and further from
liod and furtiier aud further from shore, five
years, ten years, twenty years, thirty years,
but soma day they find an irresistible mesh
drawing them back, and they are compelled
to retreat from their prodigality and wandering,
and though they make desperate effort
to escape the impression and try to dive
deeper down in sin after a while are brought
clear back and held upon the Rock of Ages.
If it be possible, oh, father and mother, let
your sons and daughts go out into the world
under the semi-omnipotent iaemory of a
good, pure home. About your two or three
rooms in a boarding-house or a family hotel
you can cast no such glorious sanctity. Your
children wiil think of these public caravansaries
as an early stopping place, malodorous
with old victuals, coffee3 perpetually
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broil, the air surcharged with carbonic acid
and corridors along which drunken boarders
come staggering at 1 o'clock in the morning
rapping at the door till the affrighted wife lets
them in. Do not be guilty of the sacrilege or
blasphemy of calling such a place a home. A
home is four walls enclosing one family with
identity of interest and a privacy from outside
inspection so complete that it is a world
in itself, no one entering except by permission,
bolted and barred and chained against
all outside inquisitiveness. The phrase so
often used in law books and legal circles is
mightily suggestive?every man's house is his
castle. As much so as though it had drawbridge,
portcullis, redoubt, bastion and
armed turret. Even the officer of the law
may not enter to serve a writ except the door
be voluntarily opened unto him. Burglary,
or the invasion of it, a crime so offensive that
the law clashes its iron jaws on any one who
attempts it. Unless it be necessary to stay
for longer or shorter time in family
hotel or boarding-house?and there are thousauds
of instances in which it is necessary as
I showed you at the beginning?unless in this
exceptional cas9 let neither wife nor husband
consent to such permanent residence.
The probability is that the wife will have
to divide her husband's time with public
smoking or reading-room or with some coquettish
spider in search of unwary flies, and
ir you do not entirely lose your husband it
will be because he is divinely protected from
the disasters that have whelmed thousands of
husbands with as good intentions as yours.
Neither should the husband without imperative
reason consent to such a life unless he
is sure his wife can withstand the temptation
of gocial dissipation which sweeps across
such places with the force of the Atlantic
ocean when driven by a September equinox.
Many wives give up their homes
for these public residences so that they may
give their entire time to operas, theatres,
balls, receptions and levees and they are in a
whip top spinning round and round and
round very prettily until it loses its equipoise
and shoots off into a tangent. But the difference
is, in one case it is a top and in the other
a soul.
Beside this there is an assiduous accumulation
of little things around the private home
which in the aggregate make a great attraction,
while the denizen of one of these public
residences is apt to say: "What is the use?
I have no place to keep them if I should take
them," mementoes, bric-a-brac, curiosities,
quaint chair or cosy lounge, upholsteries, pictures
and a thousand things that accrete in a
home are discarded or neglected because
there is no homestead in which to arrange
them. And yet they are the case in which
t.ViA Tv>nrl nf dnmftstin hanniness is
set. "Sou can never become as attached to
the appointments of a boarding house or
family notelas to those things that you call
your own, and are associated with the different
members of your household, or with
scenes of thrilling import in your domestic
history. Blessed is that home in which for a
whole life time, they have been gathered until
every figure in the carpet, and every panel
of the door and every casement of the window
has a chirography of its own, spelling
out something about father or mother, or son
or daughter, or friend that was with us
awhile: what a sacred place it becomes when
one can say: '*In that room such a one was
born; in that bed such a one died; in that
chair I sat on the night that I heard such a
one had received a great public honor; by
that stool my child knelt for her last evening
pi-aver; here I sat to greet my son as he came
back from a sea voyage; that wa3 brother's
cane; that was mother's rocking-chair. What
a joyful and pathetic congress of reminiscences
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Tho public residence of hotel and boardinghouse
abolishes the grace of hospitality.
Your guest does not want to come to such a
table. No one wants to rim such a gauntlet
of acute and merciless hypercriticism. Unless
you have a home of your own you will not be
able to exercise the best rewarded of all the
graces. For exercise of this grace what
blessing came to the Shumanite in the
restoration of her son to life because she entertained
Elisha, and to the widow of Zare{)hath
in the perpetual oil well of the miracuous
cruse because she fed a hungry prophet,
and to Rahab in the preservation of her life
at the demolition of Jericho because she entertained
the spies, and to Daban in the formation
of an interesting family relation because
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Lot in his rescue from the destroyed j
city because of his entertainment i
of the angels, and to Mary and Martha and
Zacehers in spiritual blessing because they
entertained Cnrist, and to Publius in the
island of Melita in the healing of his father
because of the entertainment of Paul,
drenched from the shipwreck, and of innumerable
houses throughout Christendom
upon which have come blessings from generation
to generation because their doors swung
easily open in the enlarging, ennobling, irradiating
and divine grace of hospitality. I do
not know what your experience has been, but
I have had men and women visiting at my
house who left a benediction on every room
in the blessing they asked at the table, in the
prayer they offered at the family altar, in
the good advice they gave the children, in
the goepelization that looked out from every
lineament of their countenances and thtir departure
was almost like a bereavement.
The queen of Norway, Sweden and Denmark
had a royal cup of ten curves or lips,
each one having on it the name of the aistinsuished
person who had drank from it.
And that cup which we offer to others in
Christian hospitality, though it bo of plainest
earthenware, is a royal cup and God can read
on all its sides the names of those who have
taken from it refreshment. But all this is
impossible unless you have a homo of your
own. It is the delusion as to what is necessary
for a home that hinders so many from
establishing one. Thirty rooms are not necessary,
nor twenty, nor fifteen, nor ten, nor
five, nor three. In the right way plant a
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cup and a chair and you can raise a young
nara li.se. Just start a home on however
small a sr-ale and id will grow. When King
Cyrus was invited to dine with an humble
friend the king made the one condition
of his coming that the only dish be one loaf
of bread, and th? most imoerial satisfactions
have sometimes banqueted on the plainest
fai e.
Do not be caught in the delusion of many
.thousands in postponing a home uutil they
can have an expensive one. That idea is the
devil's trap that catches men and women innumerable
who will never have any home at
all. Capitalists of America! Build plain
homes for the people. Let this tenementhouse
system in which hundreds of thousands
of the people of our cities are wallowing in
the mire be broken up by small homes where
people ran have their own firesides and their
own altar. In this great continent there is
room enough for every man and woman to
have a home. Morals find civilization and
religion demand it.
We want done all over this land what
I George Peabody and Lady Burdette Coutts
did in England and some of the large manufacturers
of this country have done for the
villages and cities in building small houses at
cheap rents, so that the middle classes can
have separate homes. They are the only
class not provided for. The rich have their
Ealaces and the paupers have their pcorouses
and the criminals have their je.ils,
but what about the honest middle cl&ssejj, who
are able and willing to work, and yet have
small income? Let the capitalists, inspired
of God and pure patriotism,- rise and build
whole streets of small residences. The lar I
borer may have at the close of the day to
walk or ride further than is desirable to
reach it, but when he gets to its destination
in the eventide, be will find something worthy
of being called by that glorious and impassioned
and heaven-descended word "home."
?Young married man, as soon as you can,
buy such a place even if you have to put on
it a mortgage reaching from base to cap
stone. The much-abused mortgage, which is
ruin to a reckless man, to one prudent and
provident is the beginning of a competency
and a fortune, for the reason that he will not
be satisfied until he has paid it off, and all the
household are put on stringent economies
until then. Deny yourself all superfluities
and all luxuries until you can say: "Everything
in this house is mine, thank God; every
timber, every brick, every foot of plumbing,
every door sill. Don't have your children
born in a boarding house, and do not yourself
be buried from one. Have a place where
your ch\ ldren can shout, and sing, and romp
without being overhauled for the racket.
Have a kitchen where you can do something
toward the reformation of evil cookery and
the lessening of this nation of dvspeptics.
A Napoleon lost one of his great battles by
attack of indigestion, so, many men have
such a daily wrestle with the food swallowed
that they have no strength left for the battle
of life; and though your wife may know
how to play on all musical instruments and
rival a prima donna, she is not well educated
unless she can boil an Irish potato and broil
a mutton chop, since the diet sometimes decides
the fate of families and nations. Have
a sitting room with at least one easy chair,
even though you have to take turns at sitting
in it, and books out of the public library or
of your own purchase,' for the making of
your family intelligent, and checker boards
and guessing matches, with an occasional
blind man's buff, which is, of all games, my
favorite. Rouse up your home with all styles
ot innocent mirth and gather up in your
children's nature a reservoir of exuberanc e
that will pour down refreshing streams when
life gets parched and the dark days come and
the lights go out and the laughter is smothered
into a sob.
* First, last and all the time have Christ in
your home. Julius Caesar calmed the fears
of an affrighted boatman who was rowing
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sar is with you in the same boat no harm can
happen." And whatever storm of adversity
or bereavement or poverty may strike your
home all is well as Ions; as you have Christ
the king on board. Make home so far-reaching
in its influence that down to the last moment
of your children's life you may hold
them with a heavenly charm. At seventysix
years of age the Demosthenes of the
American Senate lay dying at "Washington.
I mean Henry Clay, of Kentucky. His pastor
sat at his bedside and the old
man eloquent after a long and
exciting puDlic life, transatlantic and
cis-Atlantic, was back again in the scenes of
his boyhood and he kept saying in his dying
dream over and over again: "Mv mother I
mother!" May the parental influence we
exert be not only poteniial but holy, and so
the home on earth be the vestibule of our
home in heaven, in which place may we all
meet, father, mother, son, daughter, brother,
sister, grandfather and grandmother and
grandchild and the entire group of precious
ones of whom we must say in the words of
transporting Charles Wesley:#
une iamuy we aweii m nun;
One church above, beneath;
Though now divided by the stream?
The narrow stream of death;
One army of the living God,
To His command we bow;
Part the host have cross'd the flcod
And part are crossing now.
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT.
The Two Neighbors.
There lived two neighbors in our little town,
Both, in their way, of great and wide renown;
One, fierce and warlike; peaceable the other,
Trial to make of his dread foe a brother,
One, king was called, and one the poor man's
friend,
Whidli led them, often, hotly to contend:
Ana long the war was wagea, is raging swiu
Which has the- greater power, the stronger
.will.
At last the people met, and sought intent to
see
If these two foes could dwell in unity.
But, after earnest prayer and long debate
Which served still more to aggravate the
hate;
Have now decided, every one and all,
No more to tolerate King Alcohol,
But to accept, and greeting true extend.
To pure Cold Water, everybody's friend.
?Martha J. Hadley, in Boston Traveler'
The Courage of His Convictions.
In an address at Reading the other
pr-fjnvprnnr Cnrf-.in hnmnrnnslv
said: "Who ever knew an old soldier
to refuse commissary whisky?" To
his surprise a tall, gray-bearded man
arose and answered: "Here's one." The
governor was not so much surprised but
that he could exclaim: "Then you must
have been as dry as a graven image."
The old soldier who was not afraid to
make known his temperance principles is
William H. K. Bush, of Reading. He
served as sergeant four years in the war
and was in twenty-two battles. He was a
temperance man first, last and all the time.
He organized a temperance society of
twenty-eight members in his company,
but after he returned from two months'
imprisonment at Belle Isle he found that
all but four had broken the pledge. He
at once reorganized the society and built
it up to sixty-eight members. Once
there came an order that every soldier
should have two doses of quinine in
whisky every day. Sergeant Bush
marched his company up to the surgeon's
tent at "sick call" and the surgeon said:
"Pour out a big one for the sergeant."
But the sergeant answered: "I swore
allegiance to Uncle Sam to fight, but not
to drink whisky."
The snrgeon was inclined to make a
fuss, but the colonel backed up the sergeant
and others of his company who refused
the whisky.
""When the governor asked that question."
said Mr. "Rush. "I thought it mv
duty to stand up, and up I went."?New
York Sun.
"Repeaters."
It appears that the House of Industry
on Deer Island, near Boston, kept an accurate
record last year of 9,0S4 men and
women sentenced for drunkenness. This
number actually appeared upon the records
of the courts as 08,960 different
persons. Each drunkard averaged over
six commitments, and many of them
were on record a score of times. The
Tomb3 and other of our city prisons,
from which drunken prisoners are continually
seut to Blackwell's Island, could
tell a similar story of drunken "repeaters."
Short time sentences for drunkards
and thousands of license? to liquor- i
sellers suffice to produce these disgraceful
and, to tax-payers, costly results.?
Temperance Advocate.
Mrs. Susannah Evans Peck has been
appointed national lecturer and organizer
for the department of youDg women's
work of the National Women's Christian
Temperance union. She is warmly and
deservedly commended for the service bj>
Miss Francis E. Willard and by Mrs. F?
J. Barnes, the national superintendent of
that department.
The Christian Home, of New York,
says: "Of the sixty-eight married men
received in this Home during the past
year, two-thirds of that number have
been separated from their families on account
of their drinking habits."'
BILL NYE
WRITES A LITTLE SCREED ON
FINANCIAL MATTERS.
The Currency Question and the Silver
Dollar?Unhappy Lot of a
Luckless Editor?Making
an Aggressive Paper,
It would seem, at this time, that while
so little is being said on the currency
question, and especially by the men who
really control the currency, that a word
from me would not be out of place.
Too much talking has been done by
those only who have a theoretical knowledge
of money and its eccentric habits.
People with a mere smattering of knowledge
regarding national currency have
been loquacious, while those who have
made the matter a study have been kept
in the background.
At this period in the history of our
country there seems to be a general stringency,
and many are in the stringency
business who were never that way before.
Everything seems to be demonetized.
The demonetization of groceries is doing
as much toward the general wiggly palsy
of trade as anything I know of.
But I may say, in alluding briefly to
fhp silvp.r dollar, that there are worse
calamities than the silver dollar. Other
things may occur in our lives which, in
the way of sadness and three-cornered
gloom, make the large, robust dollar
look like an old-fashioned half-dime.
I met a man the other day, who two
years ago was running a paper at Larrabie's
Slough. He was then in his meridian
as a journalist, and his paper was
frequently quoted by such widely-read
publications as the Knights of Labor, at
Work, a humorous semi-monthly journal.
He boldly assailed the silver dollar, and
with his trenchant pen he wrote such
burning words of denunciation that the
printer had to set them on ice before he
could use the copy.
Last week I met him on a Milwaukee
and St. Paul train. He was very thin in
flesh, and the fire of defiance was no
longer in his eye. I asked him how he
came on with the paper at Larrabie's
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OlOUg-a. Ql! saiu il mas uu uiuic,
"It started out," said he, "in a fearless
way, but it was not sustained.'1
He then paused in a low tone of voice,
gulped, and proceeded:
"Folks told me when I began that I
ought to attack almost everything. Make
the paper non-partisan but aggressive,
that was their idea. Sail into every
thing, and the paper would soon be a
power in the land. So I aggressed. ,
"Friends came in very kindly and they
would neglect their own business in order
to tell me of corruption in somebody else.
I'went on that way for some time in a
defiant mood, attacking anything that
happened to suggest itself.
"Finally I tnought I would attack the
silver dollar. I did so. I thought that
friends would come to me and praise me
for my manly words, and that I could afford
to lose the friendship of the dollar
provided I could win friends.
"In six montns I toos: an unexpired
annual pass over our Larrabie Slough
Narrow Gague, or Orphan road, and withnothing
else but the clothes I wore, I told
the plaintiff how to jerk the old Washington
press and went away. The dear
old Washington press that had more
than once squatted my words into the
pure white page. The dear old towel on
which I had wiped my soiled
hands for years until it had almost
become a part of myself, the dark blue
Gordon press with its large fly wheel and
intermittent chattel mortgage, a press, to
which I had contributed the first joint of
my front finger; the editor's cnair; tne
samples of large business cards printed in
green with an inflamed red border, which
showed that we could do colored work at
Larrabie's Slough just as well as they
could in the large cities; the files of our
paper; the large wilted potato that Mr.
Alonzo G. Pinkham, of Erin Croners,
kindly laid on our table?all, alll had
to go.
"I fled out into the great, hollow mocking
world of people who had requested
me to aggress. They were people who
had called my attention to various
things which I ought to attack. I had
attacked those things. I had also attacked
the Larrabee Slough NarrowGuagc
railroad, but the manager did not
see the attack, and so my pass was good.
4 'What could I do!
"I had attacked everything, and more
especially the silver dollar, and now I
was homeless. For fourteen weeks I
rode up the narrow gauge road one day
and back the next, subsisting solely on
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the sample pecan meat iuul uac ucwsuu)
puts in each passenger's lap.
"You look incredulous, I sec, but it is
true.
' I feel differently toward the currency
now, and I wish I could undo what I
have done. Were I called upon again to
jerk the Archimedean lever I would not
be so aggressive, especially as regards the
currency. Whether it is inflated or not,
silver dollars, paper certificates of deposit
or silver bullion, it does not matter to
me.
"I yearn for two or three adult doughnuts
and one of those thick, dappled
slabs of gingerbred or a slat of pie with
gooseberries in it. I presume that I could
o o^othincrArJifnnal on the abuses of I
VT&Al/Vs U UWUViMKg
our currency yet, but I am not so much
in the scathe business as I used to be.
"I wish you would state, if you will,
through some great metropolitan journal,
that my views in relation to the silver
coinage and the currency question have
undergone a radical change, and that any
plan whatever, by which to make the
American dollar less skittish, will meet
with my hearty approval.
"If I have done anything at all through
my paper to injure or repress the flow of
our currency, and I fear I have, I now
take the occasion to cheerfully regret it."
He then wrung my hand and passed from
my sight.?Bill Nye, in Boston Globe.
Wealth of Principal Nations.
The subjoined is the estimate given in
Mulhiirs "Dictionary of Statistics." It
is only an approximation, of course, but
probably it is as near the correct truth as
such approximations ever are:
a?si fmooo.ooo
Australia 4,950, (>00,000
Austria 18.060,000,000
Belgium 4,030,000.000
Canada 3,2.50,000,000
Denmark 1,830,000,000
France 40,300,000,000
Germany 31,G15,(HJ0,0!)0
Greece 1,055,000,000
Great Britain and Ireland 43,({00,000,000
Holland 4,0/55,000,000
~ + a nnn n/v%
Italy i-;,wm>,u?A/
Mexico 190,000, (XX)
Norway 1,410,000,000
Portugal 1,885,(XX),()00
Spain 7,965,000,000
Sweden 3,475,000,000
Switzerland 1,620,000,000
United States 47,475,000,000
Baron Leon de Lenval, of Nice, has
offered a prize for the best easily carried
instrument for the use of the d eaf. It
must be constructed on the principles of
the microphone, and must be sent in before
the end of 1887.
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FACT?FOR THE CUBIOtfi
The last slave was sold in Virginia m
the spring of 1865 for a hundred head of
ra.Mifl.cre nlantR
w??0- r??w*
It is said that the fat from wild ducks
not only makes leather pliable but thoroughly
water-proof.
Mainsprings of watches break most
frequently in the fall of the year, and
watchmakers are said to put in more'new
spriDgs in two fall months than in all the
rest of the year.
The ancient Roman ladies held large
pear-shaped drop pearls in high esteem.
They were fond of wearing two or three
together as pendants for the ear3, or
dangling from the rings of the fingers.
It was customary among the Romans
to erect altars, shrines and small temples
on the spots on which religious rites in
honor of the Lares Compitales, the deities
who presided over cross-roads, were performed
by the country people.
An autograph letter by George Washington,
which reveals some interesting
fnrf-.o in his domestic history, has iust
becni published. He pathetically writes
of the running away of his colored cook
and the trouble experienced in getting
another.
The newest Paris sport is snail racing.
The race course is a smooth board, at the
end of which is a lighted candle, toward
which the snails begin to creep when the
room is darkened. There are miniature
hurdles on the course and a river, and the
famous racing snails are handicapped
with pellets of clay.
When a European takes his dog out
for a walk, according to the North China
Mail, a Chinaman carries a cage, imprisoned
in which is a bird, and when
I /
he sits down to rest he hangs the cage
upon a tree in order that he may enjoy
the flood of melody which is poured
forth from the bird's throat.
Once a shepherd, caught out upon the
hills at night, built a fire under the lee of
a pile of stones that he had tossed together.
The heat ?split some of the
stones, and in the morning the man saw
within one of the cracks a piece of shining
silver ore. That happened, in Peru
and thus was discovered the mines of the
Cerro de Pasco, which have yielded
$400,000,000.
An extraordinary aversion to horses
was a peculiar characteristic of a Hungarian
magnate recently deceased. He
would not allow any animal of the kind
to come upon his lands, so that visitors
who rode or drove to see him had always
to alight at his park gates. Trained deer
used to draw his own vehicle for many
years, but lately his carriage was drawn
by a team of oxen.
England's Broad Arrow.
The property of the English crown has
been marked with the broad arrow from
times so early that no one now can tell
when it was first used for this purpose,
or what was its meaning. This usage
remind one of the practice at Athens
more than two thousand years ago to
brand the captives taken in war with the
figure of an owl as a mark of Athenian
?T? tlia noma manner Somf?Q
UWliCli9iiiU. JLU 1>UV/ uurnu uiuuuv* NTMM.W
branded her captives with the figure of a
ship.
A recent writer upon England speaks
of seeing the mark of the arrow upon the
backs of convicts employed upon the
public works. He found this mark
stamped upon the queen's property of
every description, from castles, ships and
big guns, down to a pieee of Liverpool
bagging; and there is a penalty of two
hundred pounds for removing it.
The broad arrow has figured for a long
time, and in many important matters.
There is a small English property in this
country which was secured to the crown
by this mark before the Revolution, and
which is still subject to the order of her
majesty.
Some time before the opening of the
? "iniyRr ill.? oimfrnrrrtfa /\f +TlP WflOP
war iu 111Of luc Duiicjfvii} ui >uv 0
were sent through the woods of Maine
within ten miles or so of the coast, to select
such pines as were fit for masts to
ships-of-the-line in the British navy, and
upon these trees the broad arrow was
cut. In 1778 or 1774, workmen were
sent to cut the masts and prepare them
for being hauled to the nearest port from
which they could be shipped to England.
On one lot about ten miles from Portion
furn nf flips* larorft trees were cut. It
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was, however too late for the crown to
secure its property. The feeling on the
part of the colonists had become so hostile
to the home government that none
could be found to naul the masts to a
landing, or to let their oxen for any such
service. The English government was
forced to abandon the trees where they
were lying.
In 1781 this particular lot of land was
occupied for a farm, and a house was
built upon it in a very substantial manner.
For shingles and clapboards for the roof
and walls of the house, the two masts
were woijced up by hand where they lay
in the wood.
Of course both kinds of lumber were
rived and shaved, for there were no mills
near the place then. The shingles upon
the roof have had to be replaced more
than once, but the clapboards on thewalls
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remain sound to tne present, ana mis,
too, without ever having been painted.
The writer admits that this lumber was
wrongfully appropriated, and he begs
that the queen will graciously regard the
house as her own whenever she may
honor him with a visit. ? Youth's Companion.
Hancock and the Militiamen.
An army officer told me an anecdote of
General Hancock about his love of dignity
and discipline.
He was in command of the train which
brought General Grant's remains from
Mount McGregor to New York. General
Hancock and his staff were in the coach
next to the last. In the rear car was a
party of Pennsylvania militia officers, who
were popping an occassional bottle of
champagne and smoking quite sociably.
General Hancock saw from his car what
was going on in the rear. It did not
comport with his ideas of the proprieties
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conductor, he said:
"Will you present my compliments to
those gentlemen, with the request that
they cease smoking?"
In a few moments the conductor returned
with the announcement that the
convival officers returned their compliments
with a peremptory declination to
relinquish their cigars.
"Where is the next switch?" asked
Hancock.
n a U?.i UrtlAtif 'J rarvlinrl fli4
'"iVUUUL/ liVU I1111C3 UC1UIT,
conductor.
' When you reacli it, if the smoking in
that car has not ceased, swiitch it on a
side track and leave it. You may tell
the gentlemen what I have said."
In two minutes there was not a cigar
to be see in the appending coach. Its
occupants knew that Hancock meant just
what he said.?Atlanta Constitution.
A la3y who left" her false teeth in a
glass of water one night daring a cold
snap had them ruined by the freezing
they got.
MUCH FROM flTTLE.l|
THE JUGGLERY OF COOKING IK
BIG CITY HOTELS.
Haw Various Dishes are Made from ,v|
a Few Materials?Many Soups
from One Kettle?A Cook's
Confession. ;J??
The hotel population of Detroit aver- {'f.
age ,1,000 persons daily. What do they ,'j
eat? Everything that is good, the answer
is. Oh, no, they don't knew what they
eat, and the hotels, as a rule, don't intend
that they shall. There is the bill of
fare, it is true. It presents nine or ten
courses at one of the best hotels. For
dinner?soup, fish, boiled, roaat, cold :
dishes, entres, vegetables, relishes, ; , ^
pastry and dessert. The dishes on it
number as high as a hundred, and it is . ^
interesting, if not provocation to gustatory
delight at the tables where they are ,
served, to consider them.
First, soup. The basis of soup is the
stock?colored with a little sauce it is
consomme; add a few shreds of carrots
and cooked peas taken from the vegetable
department, and there yon hare
your Julienne; some boiled grains of /V'3
KawIATT A lifflfi +V>iAlr<?ninr? on/9 VAN -**>' ^
i/ai icj auu a iivviw uuivavuiu^ t?uv? j w??
are favored with, barley souj>. Very :?||B
simple? Yes, very. Is it oxtail? Bless ; ^
your heart, essence of beef to strengthen --'.rag
and a few joints of oxtail, and you are
served. Mock-turtle? Mock-turtle responds
to a similar jugglery, only shifting
it as to method, ana using some force,
meat balls and a little of calves' brain.
Chicken salad for one. No sooner said ' jM
than ready?yesterday's roast of veal, its
meat white and tender takes the place of
chicken, and daintly cut into cubes, and
fitted with the usual condiments, then
stalks out before you a chicken salad, as ?
irrecognizably such as if the poultry-yard
tiad been drawn upon for it. . . ;
It was in conversation with the chef
of a well-known local hotel, whose ex- ^
perience in hotels of this country has
been long continued, that a complaint
waa morlo tft thfl writpf flVirmfr fhft rnnft. V: to
deuce gameplayed by hotels upon their
guests. "The bills of fare," said he,
"are as untruthful as Tom Ochiltree, as
unreliable as Goshen butter, and as curi- kn
ous as a mule with fire ears. Take th? dinner
I had to-day! Tomato soup; , '???
stock with strained tin tomatoes, brought
to a boil, a trifle of thickening, baked ^ ^
white fish, a la chambord. Well, if anj
guest can tell me what chambord sauce " T*2
is, he may know whether he got it or
not. I know he he did not I
first made a straight commonplace every- 33
day fish-sauce and put in a shred
parsley, a few cubes of mushroom and a,
little grated celery. The next dishes you
see are plain enough. Leg ol mutton, jyj?
caper-sauoe. Just rattled a few capers
into the fish-sauce before I added th?
parsley and mushroom, and then
corned beef, the tongue, chicken,
turkey, beef, mutton and so on are
honest enough. However, we often
use tailed mutton for roast. All |??j
we do, suppose we have run out of
roast mutton, or it appears on the bill
and does not appear from the oven,
slice up some boiled mutton, dip it into
thick, brown gravy, and serve it with.
brown gravy. The hotel guest does not
mind, because he does not know. Cold HV&j
mutton is often treated the same way. T:
Just heat it a bit, put brown sauce over >is$
it, and serve.
, "There's many a jumble in the business,
I tell you. For instance: a bill
fiirp offers both chicken and turkev 'I
roast. Turkey will do all right. A good M
carver takes chicken from turkey as well ' ;$j|
as turkey. Did you ever notice that v.
boiled chicken shows so regularly on bills ,Qp.
of fare and roast does not? Well, you ,
can boil a chicken tender, but you can't
roast nor quill him so. Speaking about Jj
chickens reminds me that eggs are the vwjrf
things to handle. A good cook ought , $[
never to waste an egg. He gets a bar- / &
rel of eggs or a box from the best
sources but there will be at least ten per
cent of them stale and one or two per
cent not good. None of these should be ^
wasted. Now you have noticed very jl
often, I suppose, that poached eggs are
frequently left off the bill that gives no
end of omelets, jambon, with pastry, ionions,
tomatoes, Spanish omelets, omelets
au rhum, olives, fine herbs, celestin?
and eggs scrambled, shirred, fried, panned' :1;]
and boiled, but not poached. Thereaeoa ;"i
ia fwonlt rxn 11 nnf
13 mat aa egg tuav xo iauw huju uv* *^
poach. You break the shell, drop the
egg into hot water, and instead of coagulating
nicely as it does if it is fresh it '
goes off in curdling masses, the yolk
breaks and runs and your egg must be>
fished out and tossed into the omelet ' <3
beater. But the other day Yankee ingenuity
took the last prop from under the
faith of the believer in poached eggs. <
He has invented a material, which, put
in the water before the egg is dropped,
will make the stalest egg poach beauti^'"11"
TIohtbo o(?rf ortnV of Mnmv
I/Xl U11JT . iiV II ? Vjjjj VVVO ?V J , ,.
Hill hotel in New York. H^,is now on $
the road selling this stuff, and you cnadepend
upon it there will be poached
eggs on nearly every bill-of-fare hereafter.
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Perhaps the kitchen is the least inviting
place about a hotel. There are to be
seen slatternly scullion maids whose inharmonious
voices discordantly follow- :
ing the eaten songs of the day,or quavering
off into some tuneless ditty, go up
with the mingled oders of the rangeCleanliness
and order in a well regulated
kitchen are necessary, but the degrees of
cleanliness are as varied as that of that
godliness to which the old saying gives it
proximity. The cook, stem autocrat of
the situation, rules with unbending firmness,
and never unbends unless to wink
at some more attractive maid or curse
some dunsy waiter. These little excursions
from his native dignity throw him
into his shell once more, which he holds
more closely than ever. The appetiteless
rows of food uncooked, cooking, or
cooked, are to be seen strewn in every direction
in all the disorder which adds to
its uninviting appearances, and such a
picture is shown as to dull the edge of
the keenest appetite, or leave without a
gustatory desire the whims of the least
discriminating palate.?New York Tri~
tune.
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Some Definitions.
A great undertaking?Burying the fafc
woman.
Changing the subject?Making an Englishman
a citizen.
A pretty plight?The maiden's yea.
A killing affair?An English joke.
Hanging fire?The chandelier.
A great head?The cabbage.
Beats the deck?The cabin.
Level-headed?The snake.
Very much cut up?Hash.
A cast-off?The anchor.?Puclc.
"That Hircnen Tree.''
Oh, woodman, spare that birchen tree,
In youthful dayB it tickled me;
And many a lick, and many a whack,
The teacher did lay on my back*
It taughtme what I ought to know,
And showed me where I ought to go;
And still I do delight to see,
That good old fashioned birchen tree.
?Wake HubbelL