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Mystery of Chastisement. !
Waglory In tribulation also."?Rom. 5:3.
Within this leaf, to every eye
So little worth, doth hidden lie
Most rare and subtile fragrancy.
Wouldst thou its secret strength unbind!
Crush it, and thou shalt perfume find
Sweet as Arabia's spicy wind.
in Uus (lull stone, so poor anu uarw
Of shape or lustre, patient care
Will find for thee a jewel rare.
But first must skilful hands essay,
"With file and flint, to clear away
Tha film which hides its fire from day.
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This leaf ? this stone ? It is thy heart;
It must be crushed by pain and smart,
It must be demised by sorrow's art,
Ere it will yield a fragrance swcot,
Ere it will shine a jewel meet
To lay before thy dear Lord's feet.
?Hymns of Vie Age*
RELIGIOUS READING.
A Good Illustration.
Canon Liddon was lately advocating
the public acknowledgment of Christ in
a sermon at St. Paul's, London. There
were, he said, workshops where a fierce
scowl would be the herald of more active
opposition if the claims of Christianity
were acknowledged or pressed, and in
the clubs of the educated classes there
was not the less bitter curl of tlic mouth
and the contemptuous shrug of the
shoulders for those who generally professed
Christ. And here followed the
remarkable illustration. The preacher
related that fifty years ago, at a dinner
party which was given in the West End |
of London, when the ladies had retired
the conversation of the gentlemen turned!
on what (to describe it no more closely)
was dishonoring to Christ as our Lord.
One guest was silent, and presently he
asked that the bell might be rung. On
' the appearance of the servant he ordered
his carriage, and with perfect and polished
courtesy he apologized to his host
for his enforced departure, for he was
still a Christian. The canon proceeded:
"All will think it must have been a
bishop or at least a clergyman. It was
not; he was then a rising member of
parliament, and became the popular
prime minister of the early days of
Queen Victoria's reign. It was the lato
Sir Robert Peel."
Bring a Shovel.
Three thousand men all at work on a
huge bank of snow, all in motion, intensely
in motion, trying, struggling,
agonizing in their efforts to get that great
mound out of the way. There they
pant, digging, digging, for underneath
over twenty people are buried by the
avalanche, buried in their homes, buried
on the street, buried in some hall of
T>lo?icnrp huripd in some mart of busi
ness, all under that horrible Austrian
avalanche. Quick! Clear away the
snow. Ah, there is a hat! It is a sign
of some one beneath. Make no tarrying.
Lay hold. Is there a spare shovel? Lay
hold. The digger's own brother or sis
ter, father or mother, son or daughter,
may be under the garment that has just
come in sight. Work away intensely
now!
Buried beneath an avalanche 1 How
much it means, not alone in Austria,
where the above happened, but all over
the earth! That great avalanche, sin,
has rolled down upon U9. Not a soul on
the earth but in some way has been struck
by it; not a nature but has been damaged.
Every life shows the bruises made
by this sin-avalanche. Some are under
-it to-day, not above it. They may be in
business, and yet covered up. Doing
business under an avalanche 1 They have
invited self to come in and God to step
out They are buried under a mass of
selfish plans, selfish cares, selfish
pursuits given to these things and
immersed in them. They may be in the
halls of selfish pleasure?rioting under an
avalanche, trying to make merry when
this great incubus of death is upon them!
That young man stealing out of some
place of licentious pleasure, ne has been
struck by the avalanche. That miserable
drunkard, he is under the avalanche
of appetite. God help himl And how
many who fed not 1 he solicitations of apnr
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of sinful indifference to God. They are
unwilling to act, unwilling to think even,
and all the while the suffocating stupor
of death is upon them.
Who will not lend a- helping hand and
attack this avalanche? God help them!
You help t hem. God helps through you.
Has any one a word to say or wnte, a
hand to stretch up to God in prayer, a
hand to stretch out to his fellow in active
help? Who will bring a shovel and
go to work? Only a shovel! It is true
a shovelful is not a cartful, but it leaves
that amount less to be removed by
the next laborer, and then shovelfuls
make the cartful. Work awav. Say
youv one word to that tempted young |
man. Rcach out your hand, though it
count only one, to your neighbor in trouble;
it w ill be prized if there be warm
blood, if there be heart in it.
The avalanche may be near you in
your own home. Your brother may be
under that wrecking mass, and if not, it
is Christ's own prodigal brother, for
-whom he died and whom he yearns to
save. Take that shovel. Work away.
Save, save from the horrible death of tho
avalanche!?Rex. E. A. Itand in Amo*iean
Messenger.
A correspondent of the New York
World, writing of his efforts on a recent
Snndav cvenincr to obtain liouor in Port
if O i
land, Me., says: "In still another place
our liquor was brought on sealed up in
egg-shells, the meat having been blown
oufcP
Liquor papers are citing every possible
casoof sickness caused by impure drinking
water, to ehow that it is a dangerous
beverage. There is a popular impression
that a man never drinks so much water
as the morning after he has been on a
*pre?.?Good Templar. 1
1 TllliGE'S SilON.
THE DOMESTIC CIRCLE.
Text: "Go home to thy friends and tell
41 * Al?/v T A?/) Unfk /-I An a
infill DOW gTVttU lUlllgs ur? .uviu uaiu uuuv
for thee."?Mark v., 19. Following is the
sermon in full:
There are a great many people longing for
some grand sphere in which to serve &od.
They admire Luther at the Diet of Worms
and only wish that they had some
such great opportunity in which to display
their Christian prowess. They admire Taul
making Felix tremble and they only wish *
that they had some such grand occasion in
which to preach righteousness, temperance
and judgment to come. All they want is an
opportunity to exhibit their Christian heroism.
Now the Christ comes to us and he
practically says :"I will show you aplace where
you can exhibit all that is grand and beautiful
and glorious in Christian character, and
that is the domestic circle."
If one is not faithful in an insiguificant
sphere he will not be faithful in a resounding
sphere. If Peter will not help the cripple at
the gate of the temple he M ill never be able to
preach three thousand souls into the kingdom
at Pentacost: If Paul will not take pains to
instruct in the way of salvation the jailer
of the Philippian dungeon, he will never
make Felix tremble. He who is not faithful
in a skirmish would not be faithful in an
armageddon. The fact is we are
all placed in just the position in which we
can most grandly servo God; and we ought
not to be chiefly thoughtful about some sphere
of usefulness which we may after a while
gain,but the all-absorbing question with you
and with me ought to be: "Lord, what wilt
thou have me now and here to do?"
There is one word in my text around which
the most of our thought will this morning revolve.
That word is "home." Ask ten different
men the meaning of that word and
they will give you ten different definitions.
To one it means love at the hearth, it means
plenty at the table, industry at the workstand,
intelligence at the books, devotion at
the altar. To him it means a greeting at the
door and a smile at the chair. Peace hovering
like wings. Joy clapping its hands with
laughter. Life a tranquil lake. Pillowed on
the ripples sleep the shadows.
Ask another man what home is and
he will tell you it is want looking
out of a cheerless firegrate, kneading
hunger in an empty bread tray, the damp air
shivering with curses, no Bible on the shelf,
children, robbers and murderers in embryo,
obscene songs, their lullaby, every face a Picture
of ruin, want in the background and sin
staring from the front. No Sabbath wave
rolling over that doorsill, vestibule of the
pit, shadow of infernal walls, furnace for
forging everlasting chains, faggots for an
unending funeral pile. Awful word! It is
spelled with curses, it weeps with ruin, it
cnokes with woe, it sweats with the death
agony of despair.
The word "home" in the one case means
everything bright. The word 'home" in the
other case means everything terrific.
I shall speak to you this morning of home
as a test of character, home as a refuge,
home as a political safeguard, home as a
school, and home as a type of heaven. 1
And in the first place I remark that home
is a powerful test of character. The disposition
in pubiic may be in gay costume, while
in private it is in dishabille. As play
actors may appear in one way on the stage
and may appear in another behind the scenes,
so private character may be very different
from public character. Private character is
often public character turned wrong side out.
A man may receive you into his parlor as
though he were a distillation of smiles, and
yet his heart may be a swamp of nettles.
There are business men who all day long are
mild and courteous and genial and good-natured
in commercial life.datnmine back their
irritability and their petulance and their discontent,
but at nightiall tha dam breaks and
scolding pours forth in floods and freshets.
Reputation is the only shadow of character,
and a very small house sometimes will cast a
very long shadow. The lips may seem to drop
with myrrh and cassia, and the disposition to
be as bright and warm as a sheaf of sunbeams,
and yet they may only be a magnificent show 1
window to a.wretched stock of goods. There 1
is many a man who is affable in public life
and amid commercial spheres who, in a cowardly
way, takes his anger and his petulance
home and drops them on the domestic circle.
The reason men do not display their bad
temper in public is because they do not want
to be knocked down. There arc men who
hide their petulance and their irritability
inst. fnr thp snmft rwunn that, th?v do not let
their notes go to protest; it does not pay; or
for the same reason they do not want a "man
in their stock company to sell his stock at
less than the right price lest it depreciate the
value. As at sometimes the mind rises, so
after a sunshiny day there may be a
tempestuous night. There are people who in
public act the pnilanthrophist, who at home
act the Nero, with respect to their slippers and
their gown.
Audubon, the great ornithologist, with
gun and pencil, went through the forests of !
America to bring down and to
sketch the beautiful, birds, and after
years of toil ana expense
completed his manuscript and put it in a
trunk in Philadelphia and went off for a few
Haw nf r?r>ration and rest, and pjuna back
and found that the rats had utterly destroyed
the manuscript, but without any discomposure
and without any fret or bad temper, he
again picked up his gun and pencil and visited
again all the great :.'orest3 of America 1
and reproduced his imrrortal work. And
yet there are people with the ten-thousandth
part of that loss who are utterJy irreconcilar
ble, who, at the loss of a pencil or an article 1
of raiment will blow as long and loud and
sharp as a northeast storm.
Now, that man who is affabl9 in public and
who is irritable in private is making a
fraudulent overissue of stock and he is as Dad
as a bank that might have* four or five hundred
thousand dollars of bills in circulation
with no specie in the vault/. Let us learn to
show piety at home. If we have it not
there we have it not anywhere.
If we have it not there, we have it not anywhere.
If we have not genuine grace in the
family circle all our outward and public
plausibility merely springs from a fear of the
world or from the slimy, putrid pool of our
own selfishness. I tell you the norae is a
mighty test of character. What you are at
home you are everywhere, whether you-democstrate
it or not.
Ajain I remark that home is a refuge Life
is the United States army on the national
roac to Mexico, a long march with ever and
anos a skirmisn and a battle. At eventide
we pitched our tent and stack the arms; we
hanj up the war cap and, our head on the ,,
knaosack, we sleep until the morning bugle .
calls as to marching and action. How pleasant
.t is to rehearse the victories and the sur
prists and the attacks of the day, seated by
the still camp fire of the home circle.
Yea, life is a stormy sea. With shivered
masti, torn sails and hulk aleak we put in at the
harbtr of home! Blessed harbor! There we go
for repairs in the dry dock of quiet life. The
candh in the window is to 1h toiling man
the li(hthouse guiding him into port. Children
jo forth to meet their fathers as pilots
at the "narrows" take the hand of ships. The
door -jill of the home is the wharf where
heavy life is unladen. (
There is tho place where we may talk of '
what ve have done without being charged .
with s?lf-adulation. There is the place where
we nuy lounge without being thought ungracel
xl. There is the place whore we may
expres affection without being thought silly.
There sthe place where we may forget our
annoyi.nces and exasperations and troubles.
Forlorn earth piltrrim, no home? Then die.
That i better. The grave is brighter and
erandfRnd innm irlnrinns thfin this world.
with n( tent from marching, with no harbor
from tz 3 storm, with no place of rest from
this sc< ie of greed and gouge, loss and gain.
God pi, / the man or woman who has no home.
Furtler, I remark that home is a political
safegua-d. The safety of the State must be
built 01. the safety of the homo. Why cannot
Fraace come to a placid re,)ubli<;* Ever
and ancn there is a threat of national capsize.
France ts a nation has not the ri<?ht kind of a
Christian home. The Christian hearthstone
is the o)ly corner-stone for a republic. The
virtues aiitured in the family circle are an absolute
Jecessity for the State. If there be
not enojgh moral principle to make the family
adhee, there will n;t be enough political
principle to make the State adhere. No
home mans the Goths aud Vandals, means
the Nonids of Asia, means the Numidians of
Africa o.anging from place according as tho
pasture lappens to change. Confounded be
all those Babels of iniquity which would overtower
fftd destroy tne home. Tho same
storm thit upsets the ship in which the family
sails 'ill sink the frigate of the Constitution.
Jais and penitentiaries,and armies and
navies axs not our best defence. The door of
the homeis the best fortress. Household utensils
are U) best artillery and the chimneys of
our dwelling-houses are the grandest monu
ments of safety and triumph, no nome, no
republic.
Further,remark, that home is a school.
Old ground must be turned up with subsoil
plow and it must be harrowed and re-harrowed,
and then the crop will not be as
large as that of the new ground with less culture.
Now, youth and chiidhood are new
ground and all the influences thrown over
their heart and life will come up in after
life luxuriantly. Every time you have given
a smile of approbation?all the good cheer of
your life will come up again the geniality of
your children, and every ebullition, of anger
and every uncontrollable display of indignation
will be fuel to their disposition twenty
or thirty or forty years from now?
fuel for a bad fire a quarter of a
century from this. You praise
the intelligence of your child too much sometimes
when you think he is not aware of it,
aud you will see the result of it before ten
vooru nf nor a in Vila nnnntrmtr ftflFfictationS.
You praise liis beauty, supposing he is not
large enough to understand what you say,
and you will find him standing on a high
chair before a flattering mirror. Words and
deeds and example are the seed of character,
and children are very apt to be the second
edition of their parents. Abraham begat
Isaac, so virtue is apt to go down in the ancestral
line; but Hercd oe?at Archelaus, so
iniquity is transmitted. What vast responsibility
comes upon parents in view of this
subject!
Oh, make your home tho brightest place on
earth if you would charm your children to
the high path of virtue and rectitude and religion.
Do not always turn the blinds the
wrong way. Let the light which puts gold I
on the gentian and spots the pansy pour
into your dwellings. Do not
expect the little feet to keep step to a dead
march. Do not cover up your walls with such
pictures as West's "Death on a Pale Horse"
or Tintoretto? "Massacre of the'Innocents."
Rather cover them, if you have pictures,with
"The Hawking Party," and "The Mill by the
Mountain Stream," and "The Fox Hunt," and
i.t?l.~ nu:u a?u
i- lit? vuiiureu ^luiiu. nunoia, auu a no
Harvest Scene," and "The Saturday Night
Marketing."
Get you no hint of cheerfulness from grasshopper's
leap, and lamb's frisk, and quail's
whistle and garrulous streamlet which from
the rock at the mountain top clear down to the
meadow ferns under the shadow of the steep,
comes looking for the steepest place to leap
off at, and talking just to hear itself talk. If
all the skies hurtled with tempestand everlasting
storm wandered over the sea, and every
mountain stream wens raving mad, frothing
at th^ mouth with mud-foam and there were
nothing but simoons blowing among the
hills, and there were neither larks' carol nor
humming-birds' trill, nor waterfall's dash,
but onlv a bear's bark and panther's scream
and wolfs howl, then you might well gather
into your homes only the shadows. But
when God has strewn the earth and heavens
with beauty and with gladness, let us take
into our home circles all innocent hilarity,
all brightness and all good cheer. A dark
home makes bad boys and bad girls in preparation
for bad men and bad women.
Above all, my friends, take into your homes
Christian principle. Can it be that in any of
the comfortable homes of my congregation
the voice of prayer is never lifted? What!
No supplication at night for protection?
What? no thanksgiving in the morning for
care? How, my brother, my sister, will you
nnsmor fi<vl in t.hft HftV- nf ind'-mient with
reference to your children# It is a
plain question, and therefore I
ask it. In the * tenth chapter
of Jeremiah God says He will pour out His
fury upon the families that call not upon His
name. Oh, parents, when you are dead and
gone, and the moss is covering the inscription
of your tombstone will your children look
back and think of father and mother at family
prayer? Will they take the old family
Bible and open it and see the mark of tears
of contrition and tears of consoling promise
wept by eyes long before gone out into darkness?
Oh, if you do not inculcate Christian
principle into the hearts of your children,and
you do not warn them against evil, and you
do not invite them to holiness and to (rod,
aud they wander off into dissipation and infidelity,
and at last make shipwreck of their
immortal soul on their death-bed, and in
their day of judgment they will curse you!
Seated by the register or the stove, what if
on the wall should come out the history
t>f your children. What a history?
* ? * s 1.1 i:rA
cue morKU anil liuiuurmi iuh vl
your loved ones. Every parent
is writing the history of his child. He is
writing it, composing it into a song or turning
it into a groan.
My mind runs back to one of the best of
early homes. Prayer, like a roof over it.
Peace, like an atmosp'aere in it. Parents, \
personifications of faith in trials and comfort I
in darkness. The two pillars of the earthlyhome
long ago crumbled to dust. But shall
[ ever forget that early home? Yes, when
the flower forgets the sun that warms it.
Ye3. when the mariner forgets the star that
guiaed him. Yes, when love has goneouton
the heart's altar and memory has emptied its
urn into forgetfulness. Then, the home of
my childhood, I will forget thee: the family
altar of a father's importunity and a mother's
tenderness, the voices of affection, the funerals
of our dead father and mother with ,
interlocked arms like intertwining branches
of trees making a perpetual arbor of
love and peace and kindness?then
I will forget thee?then and ,
only then, you know, my brother, that a
hundred times you have been kept out of sin
by the memory of such a scene as I liavebeen
describing. You have often had racing
temptations, Due you Know wnat una utnu
you with supernatural grasp. I tell you a
man who has hf ,d such a good home as that
never gets over it, and a man who has had a
bad early home never gets over it.
Again I rerr^rk that home is a type of
heaven. To bring us to that, home Christ left
his home. Far tip and far back in the history
at heaven there cama a period when its most
illustrious citizen was about to absent him
self. He was not going to sail from baach to
beach; we have often done that. He was not
going to put out from one hemisphere to another
hemisphere; many of us have done that.
But he was to sail from world to world, the
place? unexplored and the immensities untraveled.
Noworld had ever hailed heaven and
heaven never had haiiled any other world. I
think that; the windows ana tne Daiconies were
thronged and that the pearline beach was
crowded with those who had come to see Him
sail out the harbor of light into the oceans beyond.
Out and out and out and on ani on
and on and down and down and down He
sped until one night with only one to greet
Him He arrived. His disembarkation so un- i
pretending, so quiet that it was not known
on earth until the excitement in the cloud
gave intimation that something grand and
glorious had happened. Who comes there/
From what port did he sail? "Why was this
the place of his destination? I question the
shepherds, I question the camel drivers, I
question the angels. I have found out. He
was an exile. But the world has had plenty
of exiles. Abraham an exile from Ur of
Chaldee, John an exile from Ephesus,
Kosjiusco an exile from Poland, Mazzini an
exile from Rome, Emmett an exile from Ireland,
Victor H igj an exile from France, Kossuth
an exile from Hungary. Bat this one of
whom I speak to-day had such resounding
farewell, and came into such chilling recepA
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TriOH, lur IIWU OVOU u I1USU1C71 *? cuu vuu ttaiu
lantern to help him in; that he is more to be
celebrated than any other expatriated one of
earth or heaven.
It is ninety-five million miles from hers to
the sun, and all astronomers agree in saying
that our solar system is only one of the small
wheels of the great machinery of the universe
turning around some one great center, the
center so far distant it is beyond all imagination
and calculation, and if, as some think,
the great center in the dis'ance is heaven,
Christ came far from home when He came
here. Have you ever thought of the homesickness
of Christ? Some of you know what
homesickness is when you have been only a
few weeks absent from the domestic circle.
Christ was thirty-three years away from
home. Some of you feel homesickness when
you are a hundred or a tlionsand mile-? away
from the domestic circle. Christ was more
millions of miles away from homo than you
could calculate all your* life if you
did nothing but calculate. You know what
it is to be homesick even amid pleasurable
surroundings, but Christ slept in huts, and he
was athirst, and he was ah tinkered and he
was on the way from bein? born in another
man's barn to being buried in another man's ,
grave. I have read how the Swiss, when they are
rar away irom tneir native country, ac tno ]
sound of their national air (ret so homesick
that they fall into melancholy and sometime
they die under the homesickness. But
oh, the homesickness of Christ! Poverty
homesick for celestial riches. Persecution
homesick for hosanna. "Wearinesss homesick
for rest. Homesick for ansrelic and
archangelic companionship. Homesick to get
out of the night and the storm and tho
world's execration and all that homesickness
suffered to set us home! '
At our best estate we are only pilgrims
and strangers here. "Heaven is our Home." ,
Death will never knock at the door of that
mansion, and in all that country there is not
it single grave. How glad parents are n
holiday times to gather their children home
again. But I have noticed that there is almost
always a son or a daushtar absent?absent
from home, perhaps absent from the
country, perhaps absent from the world. Oh,
how glad our heavenly Father will be when
he gets all his children home with him in
heaven. And how delightful it will be for
brothers and sisters to meet after lone: separation.
Once they are parted at the door of
th# t/wnh' nnw thovmndf; at. fchA rinor rtf im
mortality. Once they saw only through a
glass darkly; now It is face to face- corruption,
incorruption: mortality, immortality.
Where are now all heir sins and sorrows
and troubles? Overwhelmed in the Red Sea
of Death while they passed through dry
shod.
Gates of pearl, capstones of amethvst,
thrones of dominion ao not stir my soul so
mach as the thought of home. Once there
let earthly sorrows howl like storms
and roll like seas. Home! Let thrones
rot and empires wither. Home! Let the
world die in earthquake struggle and be
buried amid procession of planets and dirge
of spheres. Home! Let everlasting ages roll
in irresistible sweep. Home! No sorrow,
no crying, no teal's, no death. But home,
sweet home,beautiful home,everlasting home,
home with each other, "home with angels,
home with God.
One night lving on my flounge when very
tired, my children all around about me in
full romp and hilarity and laughter?on the
lounge, half awake and half asleep,! dreamed
tins dream: i was in a iar country, il wm
not Persia, although more than oriental luxuriance
crowned the cities. It was not tin
tropics although more than tropical fruitfulness
filled the gardens. It was not Italy, although
more than Italian softness filled the
air. And I wandered around looking for
thorns and nettles, but I found that none of
them grew there and Isaw the sun rise and I
watched to see it set but it sank
not. And I saw the people in holiday attire
and I eaid: "When will they put off this and
put on workmen's garb and again delve in
the mine 01 swelter at the forge?1' But they
never put off the holiday attire. And I
wandered in the suburbs of the city to find
the place where the dead sleep, and I looked
all along the line of the beautiful hills, the
place Svhero the dead might most blissfully
sleep, and I saw towers and castles, but not a
mausoleum or a mouument or a white slab
could I see. And I went into the chapel of
the great town and I said: "Where do the
poor worship,and where are the hard benches
on which they sit?' And the answer was
made me, "We have no poor in this country."
And then I wandered out to find the
hovels of the destitute, and I found mansions
of amber and ivory and gold, but not a
T aaa nnf o cnorVi r?r>nlH
iKrai uuuiu x ow, uuu m w?.^.
I hear, and I was bewildered, and
1 sat down under the branches
of a great tree and said: "Where am 1/ And
whence comes all this scene?" And then out
from among the leaves and up the flowery
paths and across the bright streams there
came a beautiful group thronging all about
me, and as I saw them come I thought I knew
their step, and as they shouted I thought I
knew their voices, but then they were so
gloriously arrayed in apparel such as I never
before witnessed, that I bowed as stranger to
stranger. But, when again, they clapped
their hands and shouted "welcome! welcome !"
the mystery all vanished, and I found that
time had crone and eternity had come, and we
were all together again in our new home in
heaven, and I looked around, and I said:
"Are we all here?1' And the voices of many
generations responded: "all here!" And
while tears of gladness were raining down
our cheeks, and the branches of the Lebanon
cedars were clapping their hands, and the
towers of th e great city were chiming their
wo oli fnorftf-.hftr heean to leap and
shout and sing. "Home! home! home! home!'
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT,
Who Would be a Drunkard?
He who would be a drunkard, must begin
With just one glass and not another
drop;
Sip sparingly, as if he knew 'twere sin,
To deeply drink, not knowing when to
stop.
He finds himself o'erwhelmod with grief and
cai-e,
Thinks that a single glass will do him
good;
Twill cheer him, give him courage for to
bear
The ills of life with Christian fortitude.
The first step in the art of drinking taken,
The second is much easier; is it not*
A sober resolution may be shaken,
A single glass may make the future sot.
*1 ? ?lnf Viim e+ifla
JULtJ YVUU VVUU1U ISO Ck ui uurvaiuj icv UAIM w>V?MV
The still small voice of conscience while he
supe,
Think that a mother's love is but a trifle,
Forget a father's precepts in his moderate
cups.
The final stage is reached; Remorse, Der'r!
'nward course at last has found
its goal;
The youtn whose prospects once looked bright
and fair?
A shipwrecked body and a ruined soul.
?Malcolm R. Bimie.
The Boys and Mince-Pies.
"They all do!" "They all don't! My
mother has never put a drop of brandy
into her mince-mes since the dav Bob
A ?
said he could taste the brandy, and it
tasted good. Mother said then it was
wrong, and she'll never be guilty of it
again; and if my mother says a thing is
wrong, you may be assured it is wrong,
for what mother knows, she knows."
"How about mince-pies? are you sure
she 'knows' how to make a mince-pie
good?" and a laugh went up from a group
of girls gathered over the register of the
recitation-room eating their lunch. But
Bome of them winced a little, when back
weru tossed the words:
"If she don't, she knows how to make
a boy good; and isn't a boy worth more
than a mince-pie?"?Pioneer.
Temperance Notes.
Governor Knott, of Kentucky, says his
State must have at once more penitentiary
room. Less whisky would doubt" j
less make added penitentiary room un
necessary.
Ten thousand persons, it is stated, were
arrested in Boston last year for drunken.
ness, and it is estimated that but one ]
]
drunken person in four was arrested.
It is said that Thcbnw, the ex-king cf ^
Eurmah, never touches liquor, and that
tne omcers 01 trie vessel wnicn took mm <
to his place of exile tried to tempt him I
with every kind of drink, from gin to
champagne, without effect. (
At a recent temperance meeting iq ,
Youngstown, Ohio, Mrs. Knight, a sa- ]
loon keeper, signed the pledge, and at} (
once put her faith into works by turning j
her saloon into a coffee house. ,
John B. Gouffh has occupied a singular !
place before the public since he first \
made his appearance as a temperance i
orator many years ago. He united in him- *
gelf the functions of an evangelist and a J
popular lecturer. His lectures were dra- c
matic sermons, and his exhortations were s
pointed by extraordinary powers of r
mimctic art. There can be no doubt that 1
he did a great deal of good, and that he ^
was actuated throughout his career with j
the desire to save men from the vice of
intemperance.?New Haven News, i *
WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT HEADING FOR FEMININE
READERS.
Tlie Old. Style and the New.
1786.
"Canst thou cherish me, Martha V
"Yes, if it be the Lcud's will."
"And wilt thou wed me, sweetheart?"
"Yea, verily, as the Lord is my shepherd."
1886.
"Can you love me Maud?"
"Well, 1 should shudder."
"And will you marry me dearestT
"What are you giving us?'
?Chicago Ledger.
A Professional Shopper.
"Do you see that woman going there?"
"What about her?"
"She's a professional shopper. '
"What's a professional shopper?"
"A woman who goes shopping every
day and. never buys anything. There's
lots of them in Cincinnati, and they're a
nuisance, too. They come into a store,
walk around, examine everything, ask
questions without end, and then walk
out without making a single purchase.
Wives of some of the most prominent
men in the city do it. They have no
other way to kill time. Often a fine
team will drive up to the door; an elegantly
dressed woman will alight; she
enters the store; examines expensive garments,
has something sent home on approbation.
Next day the package is
returned. It does'nt suit. If you would
take the trouble to inquire you would
find the same woman had done the same
11 A _ J
inmg at several piacea on me same aay.
Business men ought to stop it."?Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Society Expenses in New York.
"How much does it cost to keep in
the swim of society here?" "Well," said
the young man of whom I asked the
question, writes a New York correspondent
of the Philadelphia Press, "that
depends. The men, and espec'ally the
young ones, can keep in on very little,
for the burden of entertaining falls on
the unfortunate with a household and a
couple of pretty daughters. The first
requisite for a young man is membership
in a club. If he wants to go further, he
can have a room at the Brunswick, or
bachelor apartments elsewhere. In that
case it costs considerable for entertaining
his 'set,' who drop in and out at all
hours. But with the exception of bouquets
now and then, that is as far a3 he
need ero. In fact the expense.can be kept
down to cab hire and bouquets, if necessary.
The married man with a daughter
or two has to have an open purse,though.
Each girl needs five ball and reception
dresses a year, at $200 apiece. His wife j
will have to give at least one ball and say
half a dozen teas. He can't get out of
that at less than $2,000. His wife's
dresses can be set down for another thousand,
while carriages, flowers and suppers
will eat up what is left of $5,000. I
am speaking now of people who are
forced to keep their expenses down.
Those in what is called the 'leading set'
here spend all the way from $25,000 to
$75,000. I don't suppose Mrs. Astor,
Mrs. Lorillard or Mrs. Goelet spend a
penny less than $75,000 a year in society."
The Queen of the Lobby.
T il. ~ It *!,,?
? saw tuu IJUCCU ui LilO IKJUUJ L11U
other day. I've read about her in novels,
in stories of Washington life, and in
the letters of correspondents who write
fanciful lines; but although I've been
around the Capitol for a dozen years or
so, I never saw the lady before. While
I was sitting in the marble room of the
Senate a bridal couple came in under the
escort of a guide. He described the room
to them, told the story of its construction,
pointed out Senators Logan and
Hampton, who were receiving constituents,
and then in a melo-dramatic whisper
exclaimed: "Do you see that finelooking,
richly-dressed lady over there,
with the paper in her hand and a bunch
of red roses in her bonnet? That's the
queen of the lobby! You've read all
about her, of course. She's got more influence
in Washington than the PresiV?
% ? -? n HAriMMAflo ttrJll /I /\ nrtTrfltinr*
ucuu miiiauii* uuugi too TV 111 uu ou JUJIU^
she wants. She secures legislation for
railway companies, gets big claims
through Congress, and is in all the big
steals. She lives in a fine house in the
northwestern part of the city, gives big
dinner parties to Senators or Congressmen,
plays poker with them, and gets her
schemes through in that way. She gets
biggerfees than any lawyer in "Washington."
"How much?" gasped the awe-stricken
bride. t
''There's no telling, but she won't
touch a thing for less than $1 ,000, and I
suppose she often gets as much as $50,000.
She's paralyzed the old man there:::
see how she works him. He can't resist
that smile! I suppose that paper the has :
in her hand is some big railroad subsidy,
and it's pretty certain she's got him to j.
support it." |<
The couple loooked with all their eyes, j,
The handsome temptress they had read j
so much about was right before them?
the woman whose business is to juggle ,
with legislation and give smiles for their
votes. The bride didn't overlook a
wrinkle in her dress, and the groom was
impressed more than by anything he saw
before or after in Washington. The mental
photograph they will carry home with j
them will be that of the president of the |
Home for the Destitute Colored women ;
nsking Senator Morrill, of Vermont, to :
introduce a bill to exempt that institu
tion from taxation.? Washington Capital, i
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Women Who Work.
The report of Labor Commissioner I j
Peck, of New York, is an exceedingly j
interesting and instructive document,
ispscially in that portion which refers to 1
the condition of the workingwomen of I
the State.
In the last century, so far as can be appertained,
women's employments in
towns were chicfly of a domestic nature.
iroung persons went out from the parcntil
roof, either from choice or necessity,to
In domestic services for the neighbors.
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When steam machinery was first intrn- '
3uced and factory towns. grew up. the |
young women went to work at a greater
listance from home; they received very 1
joocl wages for those simple days, and j
;he "Lowell young ladies" became al-!
nost astereotyped expression in books of j
:ravel written by visitors to the United | a
States. The war brought a gfeat change j ?
1 1*/* An /"\ f iirnm nn In riy !
11 I in; l.WIllllbAlMJ \j L VYWIlltiU. 1 UU lt?
itunber of men who left home (some never
;o return), to take part in that struggle "
)l>liged large numbers of women to seek ^
heir own living, and for the thousands F
>f positions left vacant by the absent
oldiers, women became substitutes. The 1
najority of them remained in employ- a
nent after the war.
To-day, however, women are found in
he following trades, manufactures and fi
jrofessions: ii
Artificial flowers and leaves, awnings,
>eddrng supplies, blank books, paper si
, y P-' '. >'V*-.; * '
: , ' : ; ' ' > '
boxes, collars and cuffs, boys' clothing,
brushes, buttons, canned goods, caps,
cards, carpet sewers and weavers, cases
for jewelry, cigars and cigarettes, cloaks
and suits, clothing, confectionery copyists,
cords and fringes, corsets, dressmaking,
embroidery, envelopes, essences
and extracts, fancy boxes and fans,
feathers, flannel, flags, fringes, furs,
gimps, gloves, gold leaf, hairdressers,
handkerchiefs, hat sweats and trimmings,
labels, laces, laundries, lead pencils,
linen and ladies' underwear, mats, mattresses,
medicines, morocco goods, milliners,
neckties, paper bags, parasols,
patterns, perfumeries, pocket-books, pearl
work, preserves, printing offices, (juilters,
rags, ribbons and ruffles, shirts, silk factories,
soaps, slippers, straw goods, spices,
tags and suits, suspenders, tassels, teachers,
tickings, tobacco, toys, trimmings,
twines, umbrellas, upholstery, watch
cases, waxwork, weavers, white goods,
wigs, willow ware, window shades,
woolen goods, wrappers, worsted yarns,
teleErrauhers. washers and ironers.
It would seem, with so many ways
open, as though there might be work for
all; but most of these avenues are, unfortunately,
narrow, and the inferiority
of women's wages to those of men is attributed
to the ordinary laws of supply
and demand, not that there are more
women actually seeking employment, but
that the number in particular trades is
greater. Then, too, men have their organizations
to fix wages in nearly every
branch of trade, which is a great power.
There are some professions in which
women receive equal pay with men for
equal work, but in nearly all such cases
women are organized, as the printers and
hatters.
Fashion Notes.
Jet is leading all other garnitures.
Fancy-headcd hairpins are fashionable.
Waists are usually short basques with
elbow sleeves.
Red gold brooches have rich floriated
designs in white.
Amber buttons are ussed to trim mossgreen
velvet dresses.
High dog-collars of velvet, jets and
silver are in fashion.
Glove buttoners of nugget gold are
incrusted with gems.
It is difficult to name a drees fabric
which is not fashionable.
Tulle remains the popular material for
young ladies' party dresses.
Gold filigree brooches with hoop earrings
to correspond are again worn.
Jerseys continue in favor, and may be
justly termed the makeshift of fashion.
Antique or unique gold and silver
coins are made into necklaces and bracelets.
Rfcd in various shades and blues of
evfirv tone are shown in all the new
~ ' ?J
goods.
American ginghams are very fine this
season, and some are seen in Japanese
patterns.
There continues to be a combination oi
bright and oxidized finish in silver
jewelry.
Effective evening dresses are made up
of plain tulle in several shades of the
same color.
Lace and tulle skirts are further embellished
by draperies of white crepe de
chine shawls.
A fine armure that has a silky surface
is called feather cloth, and pansy cloth
has a soft twill.
The association of gold and platinum
is being employed on some of the new
jewelry with new effects.
The Bulgarian turban is gaining in
favor, and is most becoming with the
red or yellow paint-brush pompon.
Tinsel gauze fans are extremely pretty,
and those in black gauz6 with silver
tinsel are much affected by young ladies.
Fashions in jewelry are aa whimsical
as any other phase, and new and
strange are the inventions in the new
goods.
The newest train-holders are of
onyx; gold hooks attached to the waist
by long gold chains are novelties for this
purpose.
Scarlet holds its own in public favor,
and it is an unusual thing to see a costume
which does not in some way include.this
color.
Pretty dresses in veiling and albatross
cloth are worn with lace flounces of from
twelve to forty inches in depth, but with
these no drapery is necessary.
Very litele trimming appears on dress
skirts, unless embroidery is used. The
plain skirts in most cases are plaited on
the waistband nearly all around.
aUUUU Vtti 1CI/J ao l311lt tv u au uv41 m
ble for mourning, and when the weather
becomes too warm to use the Henriettas,
much lighter fabrics arc to be had.
The display of goods for spring and
summer wear are almost dazzling. Never
whs so much variety of material and design
shown in any one season before.
Batiste robes in white, cream, pink
and blue are to be had at marvelously
rheap prices. A crcam batiste robe is
smbroidered in brown and cream shades
in a most elaborate design.
Plush may be called the rage of the
season, and is likely to be as popular the
coming season as it has been. The
ludacious combinations of the present
season are likely to continue.
Worth, who does not believe in plaitings
and rnfflings for mourning dresses,
jays: "Crape may be as rich in effect as
reivet, but its peculiar grace is lost when
;t is snipped into little pieces.
A Hat Which Takes Photographs.
The last new thing in hats beats all
hat has gone before it, and is scarcely
ikely to be equaled by anything that can
tolow after it. Ilerr Luders, of Gorlitz,
*as patented a photographic hat?or a
ihotographing hat. The novel head-dress
'ontuin.s in its upper part a small photographic
apparatus ana a number of prepared
plates. In the front of the hat
here is a small circular open, behind
vhich the len.s is fixed. By means of a
iring on the outside of the hat its
vnor/.r ivlipni>vi>r hf> finds himself eniov
wVWI w* y " ? J
ng a pleasant view or attended by an
tgrceablc person, can instantaneously
>hotogr:iph the landscape, the ludv. or
he gentleman unconsciously within
ange of his instrument.
The hat will probably be in demand by
wo sorts of persons?by lovers and deectived.
The former, by merely pulling
string, can set the image of his beloved '
ot only in his heart, but in his hat.
.'he gelatine-bromide plates in the spccilen
exhibited by lli-rr Ludcrs are ;>8x:*3 !
lillimetres in size; but, if one does obset
to wearing a very large hat, the
nun- nmnnrtinnnllv inrrf>fls;f>d in
ize. The potentiality of the hat for poce
purposes hardly needs to be de*
bribed.?St. James Gazette.
There seems to have been a prejudice
;om time immemorial against sunshine
1 March; and according to a German
lying, it were "better to be bitten by a
:iake than to feel the sun in 3Iarch."
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II' 1
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WOMEN AND "WOMEN.
Some women cannot build ? ^
The broken altars of their hearts tip straight*
Their weak hands are unskilled
To mend the breach that perfidy has mad*
And raise behind the gate
Of pride, some newer altars in the shade $
Of first dead hopes. Such women, lt is said,, '-'M
Sit ever wailing o'er their faithless dead.
Their idols, when they fell,
Shook the fair shrine and rent the reu is >1
twain,
And evermore a knell
Rung by the ghastly wraith of hope belied*
Wails a requiem of undying pain
And moves the crushed dead at the altar v
side,
While the dull blasts of ruined love and trust ' *;
Eddy around in clouds the by-gone's dust!
' -''"Si
Some, in the numbing shock 'Mm
Of crumbling rltara, sink to rise more strong
. And build oompleter altars on the rock V&
Of womanhood; to cast the past away '
Without a tear for what is lost, nor long - ' ^
For the bright phantoms of a vanished day; . yi!
But to their new-throned idols incense bring, > . i/s
Saying: "Theking is dead; long live the
- king!"
They find a worthier dust
And raise it o'er the altars of the past, : -5#
And love it dearly, as a woman musTr-r .
They even forget in happier hours thsirloss.,, A''
Of former idols, saying, with smiles at last: '
"How could we deem our broken dreams a M
cross ?" . . V.
Which are the noblest souls: those who forget*;'
Or those who mourn their first sweet idols ,y?g
yet?
?Clare Beatrice Coffey,in Inter-Ocean.
PITH AND POINT.
Every bonnet has a "b" in it.?Louoetl ;o
Citizen.
A friend in need is a friend who gen- >.
erally strikes you for a quarter.
The silver question?"Have you got 'ifcw
half a dollar handy?"?Lowell Citizen.
A close call?Let me look at one of
your ready-made suits.?Boston Courier.
Two heads are better than one?On a
freak in a dime museum.?Boston Builetin.
?
The most forward women look, the *"^
most backward on the street.?Pacific
iitxncr.
The heaviest mash on record was when' * I
truth was crushed to earth.?Texas Tar
antula.
. . The rage for old gold seems to have
passed away, but the enthusiasm for old '^
greenbacks continues unabated.?Detroit
Free Press. ,. , ,'^SSB
Time is money, they say. And we hav?
often observed that it takes a good deal '?&
of money to have a good time.?Somer
viUe Journal.
There is one concern is this city that
makes a great deal'of money and doesn't ,
advertise. It is the mint. ?Philadelphia .vf
North American.
No man ever has a correct idea of the
estimation in which he is held by his fellow
creatures until he attempts to borrow VifijS
a $10 bill. ? Chicago Telegram.
Don't judge a man by the noise he ^ |
makes in this world. Two trade dollars
in the pocket will make more jingle than
$10,000 in bills. ?miladelpnia twain. '
If anybody wishes to observa the
marked decline in silver let him offer a v/vr
silver dollar to a friend when he changes <|j
& bill for him.?Burlington Free Press.
A Waupaca county farmer found a ;>r|
hornet's nest in his barn last fall and .<
tried to burn it The insurance on the
harn is not yet adjusted.?Peck's Sun.
A new fashionable dance is called the ;
"button dance." Yes, we've Bean it.
The wife neglects to do the button, and r
the husband does the dancing.?Statesman.
"Doing anything now, Bill?" "Oh, / Pi
yes; I'm kept busy all the time." "AhI .
Glad to hear it. What are you doing?"
"Looking for a job."?Kentucky Stats
Journal.
The Indians of New Mexico are very ' ^
thriftv and economical. When blood- &
hounds are sent in pursuit of them they ;
shoot the dogs and eat them.?Burliugton r
Free Press. :
THE DRAWBACKS OF LI7K.
There is no kitchen girl, however able,
But breaks the crockery ware:
There is no batter placed upon the table j
But has its lock of hair.
?Boston Cornier* vi
"What station do you call this?" asked :
a man, as he crawled out of the ruins of ' f
a car, after a recent rrilroad accident. '?5
"Devastation, sir," replied his fellowpassengers
in chorus.? Chicago Telegram. " ^
II;,' is a, Jvery easy matter for a person to
be ivi fr?o places at the same time, even 1 ^
though those places be thousands of miles ./jfl
apart. One frequently hears of a man
being in a strange country and home,sick. .
?Si/tings.
An exchange says: "Last week a
stranger came to our town with a turned ' v;
up nose and run down boots." A town
with a turned up nose and run down boots v
Konnma ? errant pnmmpr.
UlUUUb UU^C W l/^V/Uiuu u w;
cial centre.?Arkansaw Traveler. ( w*;
Come into the garden, Maud;
I am here by the gate alone; , 1
Come into the garden, Maud,
For thy father's dog has flown,
And I'm middling sure I won't be "chawed,* . .
For he's busy with a bone!
-Tid-BUx
A correspondent writes to a contemporary
stating that the credit system is a
bad system. It is indeed. It keeps
the creditor constantly on the alert looking
out for the debtor, and the debtor
forever on the jump keeping out of the
way of the creditor.?Boston Courier.
Legal Phraseology.
If a man would, according to law, ?ive '
to another an orange, instead of saying:
"I give you that orange," which one
would think would be what is called in
' 1 ' t l t
lCgai pnraseoiogy au uuauiuio wuvcj*
ancc of all right and title therein," the
phrase would run thus: "I give you all
and singular my estate and interest,
right, title and claim, and advantage of,
all in and to that orange, with all its . A
rind, skin, juice, pulp and pips, and all
right and advantage therein, with full
power to bite, cut, suck and otherwise
eat the same, or give the same away as
fully and effectually as I, said A. B., am
now entitled to bite, cut, suck or otherwise
cat the same orange, or give the
same away with or without its rind,
juice, pulp and pipe, anything heretofore
or hereaftei, or in any other deeds, instrument
or instruments of what nature
or kind soever to the contrary in anywise
notwithstanding."?Halls Journal
of Health.
" Trade."
Trade is fickle as the wind,
It comes and flies away,
Yet many merchants always find
A little fact they bear in mind,
The means to make it stay.
Which is to weekly advertise,
That reading people may
Meet m this sheet before their eyos
The merchants' list of new supplies
That change from day to day.
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