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Life's Mission.
Life is wasted if we spend it
Idly dreaming how to die;
Study how to use, not end it;
Work to finish, not to fly.
Godly living?best preparing
For a life with God above;
"Work! and banish anxious caring!
Death ne'er comes to active love.
jjeaui as due an opening poruu
Out of life to life on high:
Man is vital, more than mortal,
Meant to live, not doomed to die.
Praise for present mercies giving,
With good works your age endow;
Death defy by Christlike living,
, Heaven attain by service now.
?Newman Hall.
RELIGIOUS READING.
Pergonal Influence*
TTpon the higher Alps, the snow is
sometimes piled so high, and so evenly
balanced that the crack of a whip, or the
shout of a voice, may give sufficient vi
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bration to tlie air to Drmg aown me
whole mass upon the travellers below. \
So in our moral world, there are souls .
just hovering over the abyss of ruin; a. j'
word, or even a look from us, may cause j
them to plunge down into the depths :
from which there is no return; or a helping
hand stretched out to them in the ! ,
moment of peril may lead them back to J
the safe, sure paths of virtue. ]
Knowing that we have such power, j
shall we not humbly pray, "Lead us not j j
into temptation, but deliver us from all
evil?" ,
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Are There Few? Will You ibe One? 1
"Are there few that be saved?" Not j
so very few, when the final reckoning ! j
comes to be made; for in the Father's j
house are many mansions, and that house '
is to be "filled." Not so very few; for ]
the Saviour is to see of the travail of his
soul and be satisfied, and He who died ,
for all, would not be satisfied with a few '
souls as his recompense. But the saved '
will be far. fewer than they might have 1
been; and the failure will be wholly j
their own fault?simply because they did 1
not "'strive," and strive in time, to enter ;
infa fhnf om+o nf whosn strmtness thev ]
were forewarned. They thought it bet- J
ter to "labor and tug and strive" for the *
world's wealth, honor, pleasure, of which , ]
the most utterly failed. With tbe same I (
effort they might have won the riches ! ]
and glory of heaven. Reader, will the (
number of the saved be one less than it j
might have been, for lack of your name !
, :
written among them? I
Poaaeaatng the r>and. <
This glorious land of ours is destined j
to become Imraanucl's land, the efforts ;
of Satan to the contrary notwithstand- ;
ing. Before ever human eye beheld the j i
mountains of Colorado, Christ had put j J
his mark (Ez. 9: 4) upon one of their ! ]
highest peaks. At an altitude of 14, - |
178 feet we behold a white cross, its per- j 1
pendicular arm 1200 feet, and the horizon- j j
tal 700 feet, sunk into a cleft 50 feet | j
wide and 100 feet deep, filled with per- i ,
petual snow. Already we see how the j'
rUfTnronf /Innnminntinnc vir> wif.h fanh ! t
other in their efforts to reach and elevate j j
the masses, and to spread light and truth ]
abroad. Our own church (General As- <
sembly) supports 1610 home missionaries, j
in addition to those laboring in foreign
fields, and contributed during the past ,
year to her eight boards the enormous *
?um of $10,192,053, and our church is
only one -among many others equally 1
zealous and liberal. In view of these ,
facts, how absurd the assertion that 1
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Christianity is dying out in the world! j
Could Voltaire, who predicted j
that in the year 1800 the Christian \
religion would have disappeared from the
earth, see the church in 1835, how aston
ished he would be! Then let no Christian
worker be despondent. Pointed j
reefs may seem to defy the rolling waves,
but soon they disappear beneath the ?
waters of the incoming tide. So infidel- J
ity may lift up its proud head for a while i
but the time is speedily coming when j
"the earth shall be full of the knowledge I
of the Lord as the waters cover the sea" j
(Isa. 11:9). Let all Mission Boards and i
all missionaries, at home and abroad, take J
new courage, and prepare thoroughly for t
the last decisive battle between light ana |
darkness, evidently near at hand. While x
Satan is concentrating all his forces, it J
does not behoove the Christian to be in- 1
active and consult his ease. Light can- j
not illume without consuming itself. Let c
him who would aid the great cause of j
Home Missions begin the work nearest s
home?in his own heart?and then try to J
bring another soul to Christ, as Andrew t
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brought his brother Simon, who af^er- j
ward became the prince of the apostles, t
Thus any one, in high or humble station, jj
may become a Home Missionary.?Rev. |
P. A. Sc/iicarz, xn Presbyterian Home j (
Missionary. ?
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If you want to know the character of j
a house, ask the servants?especially the <
old servants. If you want to know |!
i _ a L. _c _ J!i.: r.i . ?
"Wiiai, sort 01 a uuuuiuun me puunu 11
services are in, sometimes you wil hear !
various accounts of them. But it is different
with the scrvice of our Lord. Ask j
the old servants, and you will get the i
best account of it. There may be servants
who have tried it for a little while
and become froward and wilful. Those
who have been at it longest have the best
things to say about it. Ask such an one
as Paul the aged. Observe the cheerfulness
of the latest Epistles of Paul.
Rev. Dr. A. J. Gordon, of Boston,
says: "The queen of Madagascar, in tho
very year when Massachusetts took half
a million of dollars revenue for strong
drink, wrote in her proclamation: 'leannot
consent, as your queen, to take a
single cent of revenue from that which
destroys the souls and bodies of my subjects.'
Here is a land, that a little while
ago was heathen, speaking back to Massachusetts,
the home of the Puritans. It
ought to stir our blood."
DR. TALHAGE'S SERMON
I
INFLUENCE OF SISTERS OYER
BROTHERS.
Text: "And his sister stood afar off, to witness
what would be done to him."?Exodus
ii. 4.
Princess Thermutis, the daughter of Pharaoh,
looking through the lattice of her bathing
house on the tanks of the Nile, saw a curious
boat on the river. It had neither oar nor
helm, and they would have been useless anyhow.
There was but one passenger in the
boat, and that a baby boy. The Doat was
made out of the broad leaves of papyrus
tightened together by bitumen. Boats were
made out of this material as we learn from
Pliny and Herodotos and Theoprastos.
"Kill all the Hebrew children born," was
me order 01 jrnaraon. ao save uer i
boy, Jochebad, the mother of i
little Moses, put him into this queer boat and |
launched him. Miriam, the sister of the babe,
stands on the bank far enough off not to
draw attention to the boat, but near enough
to offer her protection. Tharo she stands on
the bank of the Nile, Miriam, the poetess,
Miriam the quick-witted,Miriam the faithful
sister, but nevertheless very human, for after
a while she got mad at that very brother,
because he married a woman sha did not
like.and this Miriam made a great row in the
family, and for her behavior was struck
with leprosy. But Miriam was a splendid sister,
although she had her faults like all the
rest of us. How carefully she watched that
papyrus boat that was caulked with asphaltum
and carried but one passenger. A gust
of wind might upset that boat. The buffalo
that are found in that region in a plunge of
thirst might sink it. Ravenous water fowl
might with iron beak pluck out the eyes of
the child. Crocodile or hippopotamus crawling
through the rushes might crunch the babe.
So, Miriam, the sister, lovingly and bravely
ivatcaes that brother uutd Frin:ess Ther- |
mutis comes down, a maiden on either side
her holding leaves over her head to shelter
her from the sun, and enters her bathingtiouse.
.Then, looking through the lattice
of this bathing house, and seeing the queer
boat, sh? orders that it bo immediately
brought to her. She turns aside the leaves
from the boy's face. The child cries aloud
for he is afraid and he is hungry, but he will
not let the princess take him. He would
rather be hungry than acknowledge any one
nf all the court as his mother. Then Miriam,
t^e sister, runs down from the bank
incognito?for no one knew that she was the
sister of this babe?and she says she knows
where there is a nurse that will pacify the
:hild. Consent given, she runs up to
Jochebad who comes incognito?no one
knowing that she is the mother of the babe?
md when Jochebad takes Moses in her arms
tie ceases crying, his fears are pacified and
tiis hunger is appeased. You may praise
Jochebad, the mother, and the world praises
Moses, but 1 clap my hands to-day in applause
at the behavior of this faithful, selfienying,
heroic, strategic sister. "Go home,"
some one might have said to Miriam. "Why
stand there alona on the bank and risk
yourself, and breathe the miasma of this low
land and be subject to attack f rom wilJ bea^t
or ruffiian? Go home." No. Miriam, the
sister, stands on the bank, and how
lovinglj- she watches, and how bravely
she protec ts Moses, her brother. "Was he
worth all that care and courage on her part?
Yes. In the sixty centuries of the world's
history there has not been so much involved
in the'arrivatofauy ship at any port as in
fchg -afe landing of that boat, woven from
water plants and made water-tight by being
:aulked with asphalton, and carrying but one
passenger. Why, that one passenger is to
be as none such in history. He is to be lawyer,
politician, statesman, legislator, organizer,
conqueror, deliverer. As a bale he
was so beautiful- that Josephus tells
us in his history that when he was
carried through the streets, people stopped to
^aze at him, aud workmen" would actually
leave their work and come to admire him.
So wonderful was he as a boy, that one day
Pharaoh in play put his crown upon the boy's
head, and tne boy dashod down that crown
and put his foot on it, aud Pharaoh, the
king, was alarmed, and thought, perhaps,
this might be a sign that after a while the
boy would take his crown, arid so, according
bo the Jewish legend, he applied this test:
rhe king had brought before Moses, the boy,
two bowls; the one containing rubies and
the other containing burning coals. If the
t>oy chose from the coals he should
live, if he took of the rubies
tie should be slain. By some strange influ
jnce when these two bowls were presented
Moses took one of the coals and put it to his
mouth, and though it saved his life his tongue
was so burned that profane and sacred history
says his utterance was very indistinct
ALUCi ?cu. u, uv kjtj ck uiau, v?iao uajr uo
Dpens the palms of his hands and spreads
them abroad in prayer, and as he does so the
Red Sea parts and lets and lets 2,500,000 people
escape. And then putting the palms
of his hands together the Red Sea
closes on a strangulated host. Well,
& man of such unutterable grandeur
must have a burial corresponding with his
life. God would not let any man or saint or
archangel weave for him a shroud or dig for
him a grave. God one day left His throne
in heaven and came down, and if the question
were asked, "Where is the Bang of the Universe
going?1' the answer would have been:
"I am going down to bury Moses," for God
took this lawgiver to the top of a high hill,
and the day was clear and the eye of Moses
swept over that magnificent reach of country.
There was the valley of Esdralon, where
the final battle of all nations U to I
? rough t. There were the mourtain I
anges Hebron and Lebanon and the hills
>f Judea. There was Bethlehem; there
vas the city of Jericho; and as the eye of
Closes sweeps over the landscape it almost
akes his breath. Then the Lord put His
lands on the eyes of the law-giver, and they
;losad. He put His hands on his lungs, and
;hey ceased, and on his heart, and it stopped,
md the Lord commanded to the skies the imnortal
spirit and without a pane on the part
>f Moses, so far as I judge from the statement
;hat he was undimmed, and his natural force
mabated, one divine hand was put against
;he back of Moses, and the other divine hand
ivas put against his pulseless breast, and he
was let softly down on Mount Nebo, and then
5*% 4-Urt A 1 minrViftr'o ni*mO
-liu ittvv|givci in yuo xx&ha&kuvj 0 m u>.?
was carried to a cave opening in the hills,and
le was gently let down in one of the crypts,
md then the Lord passed His hand over the
:ountenaaee of Moses, smoothing it into an
iverlasting calm, and then a rock was rolled
;o the door of the sepulchre, and the only ob;equies
at which Goa ever filled all the offices
)f priest, undertaker, grave-digger and
nourner, were ended. Oh, was it not a good
;hing, an important thing, a glorious thing
:or Miriam, the sister, to watch that lad in
ihe boat of papyrus? Did she not put all
;he ages of time an i all the coming ages of
iteraity under obligations when she drove
jack from that boy in the boat all the
perils aquatic, reptilian and ravenous? She
t was that brought that wonderful babe and
;he mother together, so that he could be
pnrA 1 for a d?liver?r of his nation when
>ther wise, though he might have been saved
from the rushes, he would have been only
>ne more of the God-defying Pharaohs, because
this Princess Thermutis of the bathinglouse
was the heiress of the crown, and as
she had no children of her own, this adopted
^hild Moses would have come to the coronation.
Hud there been no Miriam there
would have been no Moses. Oh, what a
garland for faithful sisterhood. For
bow many a lawgiver and for how many a
hero, and for how many asaint are the church
and the world indebted to some good, f aithful,
self-sacrificing, watchful, brave, godly
sister. Come up from the farm house, come
up from your inconspicuous home, come_ up
from the banks of the Hudson and the Penobscot
an-J the Savannah and the Mobile and
Mississippi, c>me up and lot us look at you,
ye Miriams who watched and protected the
one who has become the leader in law, or I
medicine, or merchandise,or art,or science,or
religion. If I should ask these attorneys and
physicians and merchants and artists and
mechanics and successful men in all
department and all professions
and trades, who are indebted
for early influence and kindly influence from
a good sister, or who were helped in their
education and got a prosperous start from such
influences?if I should ask such to rise there
would be hundreds who would rise. God
knows how many of your Greek lexicons and
how much of your education was paid for by
money that would otherwise have gone to the
replenishing of a sister's wardrobe. The brother
may have sailed out into resounding
spnere, out tne sister watched him rrom the
banks of privation. Moses was the elder brother
of the families. Moses and Aaron were
brothers.
Oh, how much this world owes to the eldest
sister. She drives off sometimes more perils
from a brother than Miriam ever drove back
water fowl or crocodile from the ark of bull
rushes. She it is who often derides whk.'^
way the cradle boat shall sail, whether towafA
the palace, uot of a cruel Pharaoh, but of \
a holy God, and a princess brighter than '
Thermutis shall lift that brother out of peril,
like religion her ways are ways of pleasantness
and all her paths are paths of peace. Oh,
how much the world is indebted to the
eldest sister. Born in the family at
a time when the means were
limited, she had to take part of the cares of
the household?holding and carrying around
the younger children after awhile, and if
there is anything that excites my sympathy
it is a little girl, carrying, lugging around a
great fat boy, getting her ears boxed because
she cannot keep him still. By the time the
elder sister has came to young womanhood
nltn in rtllf vwfi'f U m vi rl V\ c*
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ficed her attractiveness, perhaps?, on the altar
of sisterly fidelity, and may be consigned to
celibacy. The world may call her some unfair
name, but in heaven they call her
Miriam. The two most unfortunate
places in the records of births are the first and
the last places?the first because she must toil
for the home before they can afford hired
help, and the last because she is spoiled as a
pet. Amon? the brightest of the equipages
that will sweep through the streets of heaven
will be those occupied by sisters who have
sacrificed themselves for brothers. They
will have the finest of the apocalyptic white
horses, and some who looked down
upon them on earth will have to stand aside
to let them pass as the charioteer cries:
"Make way, tne queen is coming!" Oh, let
not sisters begrudge the care they bestow upon
their brothers. It is a very hard thingfor you
to think that a boy whom you know as well
as you do your brother will ever be anything:
very useful. He may not be a Moses. There
is only one of them needed in six thousand i
years. But I will tell you what your brother I
will be?either a blessing or a curse to society;
he will bp a candidate either for happiness or
for wretchedness. He may not be the delivorfir
r?f n nnHnn hut. after vnjvrfflthfir and
mother are dead ho may be t&e deliverer of
the household. Thousands of houses to-day
are kept going by the elder brothers.
Estates well invested and yielding comfortable
support for the younger members
of the family just because the elder brother
had the courage to be a leader when father
laid down aud died. Do not begrudge the
care and the attention, oh, sister,you bestow
upon your brother. Whatever you ao for
vour brother will come back to you. If you
be ill-natured and unobliging and censorious,
all these things will recoil upon you after
awhile from his vitiated and despoiled disposition;
but if you are patient with his
infirmities, and if you set before
him a good Christian example, the influence
will be reflected back upon you in his splendid
behavior in some crisis of life when he
would have failed but for you. Do not snub
him. Do not tease him. Do not disparage
his abilities. Do not speak depreciatingly of
his prospects. In many families brothers and
sisters think it no harm to tease each other.
Sometimes teasing may be pleasurable
and only an innocent hilarity,
and innocent raillery, but when it
makes the eye flash with anger look
out. You committed a sin against God,
you snail tiave to answer ror on cne j uugment
Day. You might better take a bunch of
thorns and draw them over your brother's
cheek, or take a knife and run its sharp ed^e
across your brother's hand until the blood
spurts. That would be a damage to the bcdy,
but the spirit of teasing, that is the thorn
and the knife that scratcn and cut the soul. It
is the curse of a great many families that the
brothers do not think it any harm to tease
the sisters, and the sisters do not think it any
harm to tease the brot ers. Sometimes it is the
color of the hair. Sometimes it is the shape of
the features. Sometimes it is an affair of the
heart. Sometimes it is the revealing of a
secret Sometimes it is a suggestive
look. Sometimes it is a guffaw.
Sometimes it is the mere coughing of an
"ahem!" Tease, tease, tease. For God's sake
quit it Christ says that he that hateth his
brother is a murderer, and when you tease
brother or sister into hate you turn him or
her into a murderer or murderess. Moreover,
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let HOI/ JtJUHJUSJf c v Cl winyiwpiaio iu aoioini o i
soul because brother has more honor, or be- I
cause he comes to more means. Even this
heroic and glorious Miriam of my text
was struck with this evil passion
of jealousy. She had in former
times had unlimited influence over
her brother, and now he got married, and
more than that he marries a bla"k woman.
He says she is an Ethiopian. The sisiar is
outraged beyond all bounds. First, because
he married at all; second, because when he
married he committed miscegenation, and
she is thrown into a frenzy and then she gets
as white as a corpse, and th3n gets whiter
than a corpse, and then she is as white as
chalk. In other words, she has the Egyptian
leprosy. Then Moses,whom she had wat -hed
from the banks of the Nile, by one earnest
prayer brings to her restoration. Oh, let not
jealousy have any place to sit or stand
ma sister's soul. Your brother's successes
are your successes,his victories, oh, sister, are
your victories; for you must remember that
while Moses in crossing the Red sea led the
vocal music, Miriam, his sister, with two
sheets of brass uplifted glittering in the sun,
led the instrumental music, clapping the
cymbals until the lastaffirighted neigh of the
Egyptian cavalry horse was smothered in the
wave, and the last Egyptian helmet went under.
Oh, brothers and sisters, stand together,
how it strengthens the family; and what
awful wreck it makes when there is disin^~om?4
oicfnro ot?q mioi*.
v^ru.biuiif auu ui uuuot o uuu otowvi ^ utu \|um?
reling over a father's will, making the surrogate's
court horrible with the clangor. Better
if when you were children in the nursery
that with your playhouse mallet you had accidentally
killed each other fighting across the
cradle than having come to maturity, and in
your nerves and arteries the blood of the
same father and mother, you goto fighting
each other across the parental grave of the
cemetery. Let me say, brothers and
sisters, your interests aire identical. One
of the finest specimens ever seen of
a family standing together is the family of
the Rothschilds. When Meyer Anselm
Rothschild was dying in 1812, he called his
sons about his deathbed?Anselm, Solomon,
VnfUnn Pkarlail .Tomoc and Via mo/lA fchfim
nauuau) vuaitu^, v MW*. -??.?
there by his death pillow promise that they
would always be united on 'Change. The
obligation kept, that house became the
mightiest commercial force on earth, and
when they lifted their sceptre or lowered it,
nations rose and fell. Powerful illustration
of what a family may achieve if they stand
together. But if instead of doing this for a
selfish purpose, if instead of doing it
for a magnitude of dollars, the family
stand together because they want to
to be useful and they want to help raise this
fallen world, and th;y want to do good, how
grand and glorious. Let the sister do her
Sift and the brother will do his part. If
iriam will watch her brother from the bank
of the Nile, Moses will rescue her when
struck with leprous disaster. After your
father and mother are dead?and they will
be soon, if they have not already made exit?
the sistjrly and the fraternal tie will be the
only ligament that will hold the family
together. Have you ever thought of that?
Oh, how many reasons for deap and unfaltering
affection you have, brothers and sisters.
Rocked in the same cradle, bent over by the
' f/vilarl VvTT f/iVl
bRIIl6 lUULIlUl ljr i*?uut?i ucm, \j\jlitj-l m.\jk ijj w^u
same father's weary arm and aching brow.
with a common inheritance of all the family
secrets, with a name given you by parents
who expected your prosperity and happiness,
I charge you, oh, brothers and sisters, D3 lovins:
and kind and foreivinz. If th? <*i*ter
will see that the brother never lacks a
sympathizer, the brother will see that the
sister never lacks an escort. Oh, if sisters
knew to what terrific and damning temptations
the brother is subjected in this city fife,
they would hardly sleep nights with anxiety
for his salvation. Oh, if they would only by a
holy conspiracy of kind words and gentle attentions
and earnest prayers save his soul from
death, and hide a multitude of sins. But just
let the sister go off in one direction, in dis
cipleship of the world, and let the brother go
in the other dire--tion, into dissipation, and
they will scon both meet at the iron gate of
des| air, their blistered feet in the hot ashes
of a consumed lifetime. What a pity it is
that brothers aud sisters, though living together
for years, do not seem to know each
other?chiefly cognizant of each other's faults,
and not aware of each other's virtues.
General Bauer, of the Russian
cavalry, weut off from home
when verv young and joined the army, and
the family never heard of him, and the /
thought he wa3 dead. After the general had
won a large fortune he came with his army
and pitched his tents at Humas, his native
place, and ho mad J a great banquet, and he
invited all the military chieftains, ai.d he in
vited also a plain miller ana nis wiie uving
Dear by. The miller and his wife came somewhit
affrighted, not knowing but some harm
mi^ht be done them; but tha general put th o
miiler on one sida of him and the miller's
wife on the other side of him at the banquet.
Then the general questioned the
miller about his family, and the miller said;
"I hav6 two brothers and a sister." " Well,"
said the general, "haven't you any other
brother?" "No," he said, 4'we had a younger
brother but he went off many years ago into
the army and we haven't heard of him. and
of course ho ha3 been dead a long while."
Then the general said: "Soldiers, I am this
jnan's younger brother that he has not heard
ot and who he thought was dead." Oh,
\vhat A shout there went up and how warm
wa"^ the e>nbrace. Now, there are brothers
and sisters here this morning who need an
introJ action to each other as much as those
two did. You do not know each other.
The sister" thinks the brother is grouty
and cross and ?iueer, and the brother thinks
the sister is selnsb, and proud and unlovely.
Both wrong. That brother will yet be a
Erince in some woman's eyes; that sister will
e a queen in some man's eyes. That brother
is a magnificent fellow; that sister is a
June morning. Come. let me introduce you
to each other. Moses, this is Miriam. Mariana,
this is Moses. Add seventy-five per
cent, to your appreciation of each other, oh.
brothers and sisters, and when you kiss goon
morning, do not put up your cold cheek, wet
from the recent washing, as
though you did not want your lipe to
touch in affectionate caress, but let it
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nave an tne ionaness ana uuriuu.ni/y <ji a. Having
sister's kiss. I am sure I carry with me
this morning the deep emotion of all parents
when I say to you, on, brothers and sisters,
make yourselves as agreeable to each other
as possible, for soon you will part. The
Sears of your boyhood and girlhood will soon
e gone, and you will go out to other homes
and you will have to fight the battle of life,
and there will be deep graves across your
pathway, and there will be awful steeps hard
to climb, and deep and shadowy ravines
through which you will have to walk. But
oh, my God and Saviour, may the
journey end where they started at
father's and mother's knee, if indeed
they have inhorited the kingdom. You know
how it was when we were boys and girls: we
used to rush into father's house, having been
absent all day, and how we would recite the
exciting adventures, and they would be just
an much interested in hearing us tell the
OC wo in 4-allinnr if. And sn T SnnnnSQ
at the last we will go up the hillsiSe of
heaven, and we will rush up to father and
mother and we will recite about this earthly
expedition, and they will be glad to see us.
and oh, how glad we will be to see them, ana
they will say, "come in," and we will say.
''Here wo have come, fatherand mother, and
we have brought all our children with us."
The old revival hymn described it in glorious
repetition:
Brothers and sisters there will meet,
Brothers and sisters there will meet,
Brothers and sisters there will meet,
Will meet and part no more.
I was reading of a lad who stayed at a
neighboring farm house on a stormy day
listening to some fascinating stories that were
being told until it got dark and he was
afraid to go home. I was the more interested
in the incident because it reminded
me of a scene in my boyhood.
But the lad of whom I was reading had tarried
there listening, aud after a while it was time
to go home, and it was dark, and he asked his
i. ? ?j a.i J:J
comrades to go witn nun, ana mwy urn uui<
dare to go. It was 7 o'clock in the evening,
and it was 8 o'clock, and it was 9 o'clock, but
the lad had not gone. "When at last he opened
the door the flash of the lightning and the
roar of the thunder overmastered him. But
in a few moments after, he saw a lantern
coming,and it was a brother with the lantern
coming to fetch him home. He
rushed out and joined this brother
and he was taken home, and they were all
ready to greet him, and supper had a long
while been ready and waiting. So may it be
with us when the night of death comes down
and our friends cannot go with us, and we
dare not go alone, that' our brother, our
elfiflr brother, the friend that is closer than
a brother, shall come out with the light of
the lantern which shall be the lantern to our
feet, take us up to join the loved ones in the
heavenly home?the supper all ready, the
marriage supper of the Lamb!
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT.
Going to the Dogs.
Drunkenness used not to be a French
vice; but what with the destruction of
the vines by the phylloxera, the manufacture
of brandy out of beet-root and
potatoes, the beer devoid of malt and
hops which floods the cafes, and the
drugged wine, the race is going to the
dogs in towns. That ability which mak
the Frenchman a great artist renders him
unable to resist the noxious effects of alcohol
on the nervous system. When the
artisan earning good wage3 goes to dino
at a gargote he begins with a nip of vermouth
or absinthe, which is at once an
irritant and stimulant. Then he drinks
half a litre of "manufactured" wine, in
which there is not a drop of grape juice.
After his coffee he takes a pousse cafe of
beet-root or potato brandy, on which he
pours a cfume cafe, and finally a rincette.
The rincette is all that remains in the carafon
or brandy decanter of the liquor,
which is thrown into the coffee cup to
rinse out the sugar remaining at the bottom.?New
York Hour.
Johnny's Calculations. !
Johnny was pouring over his mental
arithmetic. It was a new study to him,
and he found it interesting. When
Johnny undertook anything he went
about it with heart, head and hand.
He sat on his high stool at the table,
while his father sat just opposite. Ho
was such a tiny fellow, scarcely large
enough to hold the book, you would
think, much less to study and calculate.
But he could do both, as you shall see.
Johnny's father had been speaking to
his mother,and Johnny had been so intent
in his book that he had not heard a word;
but as he leaned back in his high chair
to rest a moment he heard his father say:
"Dean got beastly drunk at the club last ,
night; drank ten glasses of wine; I was
disgusted with the fellow."
Johnny looked up with bright eyes.
"How many did you drink?"
"I drank one, my son, "said the father,
smiling down upon his little boy.
"Then you were only one-tenth
drunk." said the boy reflectively.
"John!" cried his parent sternly in a
breath. But Johnny continued with a
studious air:
"Why, yes; if ten glasses of wine
makes a man beastly drunk, one g'ass
will make him one-tenth part drunk,
and?"
"There, there!" interrupted the father,
biting his lips to hide the smile that
would come; "Iguess it's bed-time for
you, and we'll have no more arithmetic
to-night."
So Johnny was tucked away in bed
and went sound asleep, turning the problem
over and over to see if he was wrong.
And just before he lost himself in slumber
he had thought: "One thing is sure:
if Dean hadn't taken the one glass he
would not have been drunk. So it is
the safest way never to take one; and I
never will." And the next thing he was
snoring, while Johnny's father was thinking:
"There's something in Johnny's calculation,
after all. It is not safe to take
one glass, and I will ask Dean to sign a
total-abstinence pledge with me tomorrow."
And he did so, and they both
kept it. So great things grew out of
Johnny's studying mental arithmetic,
you see.?Temperance Banner.
THE CAPITOL.
THE NATIONAL BEEHIVE AND
SOME OF ITS INMATES.
The Little Woman Whcr Sells Trinkets?Ladies'
Reception RoomLively
Lobby Scenes ? The
Bank of the Houso,
Some of the most interesting scenes
about Congress do not get into the newspapers.
The capitol is a little city in itself,
and its four floors cover nearly twslve
acres of space, every inch of which just
now booms with the life of a hot congressional
session;. The population of
this city is macfe- up of the busiest, wittiest
and brainiest men from all parts of i
the United States. It has its aristocrats J
and its plebeians, its millionaires and its <
paupere, its masters and servants. It
contains citizens of both sexes. It ]
abounds in queer characters,and its popu- 1
lation is as cosmopoFitan as that of Paris, i
All that the public knows of this
mighty beehive city is that which goes ,
on in the chambers of the House and f
Senate and in the parlors of the supreme .
court. It enters only the places where
the leading men of the capitol city pose .
for the outside world, and where the god
of buncombe is all supreme.
The main boulevard of the eapitol is
the lower passage which runs from the
Senate at one end of the building to
the front door of the House at the other.
It is a grand, vaulted, arcaded street
twenty feet wide, paved with gaylvcolored
tiles, and during the session
filled with a jostling, hurrying throng
of sighseers, statesmen, messengers, lobbyists
and people of all classes, conditions,
ages and sexes. Booths of different
kinds are kept in the recesses c
which jut off from its side, and :is it nears ^
the House door it is walled with tele- 1
graph offices, cable offices and cigar
stands. 1
The little old French woman, just be- i
yond the rotunda, is one of the charac- c
ters of the capftol. For years upon years
she has been standing behind the counter
selling trinkets to generation after generation
of bridal couples and "Washington
sight-seers. No one knows when shfe
first came to the capitol, and old statesr
en will tell you that she looks as young
now as when they first came to Congress.
She is a petite little body, with a very
fair complexion, and eyes, which, though
beautiful once, are now deeply sunken,
The little iron gray curls hang down
upon her forehead out of the big broadbrimmed
hat which she always wears.
She has on a cream-colored necktie,
and her shoulders are covered with
a curious little cap of bright
red plaid, fringed at the shoulders.
She talks with a foreign accent,
and bustles around as busily as though
she were in charge of the whole building.
Every day she pays a five minutes'
visit to the ladies' galleries of the House
and Senate. She knows most of the c
prominent men in public life, and the
statesmen speak to her as they pass by. ^
She sells photographs of public men, pic- ^
tures of Washington, models of the ^
Washington monument and little images
of canceled greenbacks ground into pulp, ^
so that you may get a paper weight <
made up of money that was once worth '
$5,000. J
Just beyond this cigar stand you come ?
to the lobbies of the House, and here are ^
found some of the liveliest scenes of the g
capitol. The wide] brmle- ard branches ]
off at this point in two directions like ^
the head of a "T," and runs all around
the House chamber. The grand entrance (
door has always a great crowd surround- j
ingit. Two doorkeepers are kent busy t
guarding it, and cai: ing cards into the j,
members. The card writing is done by $
a frowsy-headed little fellow at a desk to (
the left of the entrance. I
You see but few ladies at this door of <
the House, but Congressmen will tell
you that the ladies of the lobby are the ]
greate t bore of the:r lives. By this I r
do not mean lady lobbyists. There are
few purely bu.*ine?s lobbyist* among the
ladies of the capitol, and the character
abounds more in fiction than in reality.
But there are scores of women with E
claims, women office seekers and adven- ]
turesses of different kinds that come to c
the capitol, and the rooms reserved for a
their reception are always full while Con- -v
wiu Dcasiuu, JLUU lauico j
room of the House is opposite the north ]
door. It is a long room, with great white t
marble corinthian columns running t
through its center, and with a number ]
of red cushioned leather chairs and sofas T
around its walls. As I passed through r
it to-d.iy it contained forty ladies, some j
sitting and waiting and others e
engaged in talking to Congressmen. The ^
ladies come to this door and srivR their a
cards to a man at the desk within it. He T
sends the cards in to their respective a
members by a page, and the members are j
expected to come out and see their call- c
ers. Sometimes they come and sometimes ],
they don't, and some members instruct s
the boys to go out and tell tho ladies that a
they are not in. A moment later th?lady j
in question goes to the gallery and sees a
her member in his seat. She then comes e
J atta onrl Qrnrpfl _
UUWII Willi UIC 111 li^l tJV Mu*4 |
the boy with lyinsr. The majority of the a
women callers are office-seekers. Several j
hundred lady callers send in cards every c
day, and it is not an uncommon thing to a
see a kind-hearted Congressmnn give c
monev here to needy women whom he f
cannot furnish with offices. f
Just opposite this reeeption room away <3
around at the other side of the capitol is s
the sergeant-at-arms' office, or the bank e
of the House of Representatives, s
Mr. J. P. Leedom is the sergeantat
arms and the banker of the
House. It is in bis office that the
members are paid,and here many of them j
do all their banking business. It is a j
long hall-like room, with a hiffh vaulted j
ceiling, and walls kalsomined in light ^
pink. As you enter you sten into a caronnop
lilfA that in front of a narrow ;
-f? _ j
bank office,and all your surroundings are ^
thoce of an ordinary bank. On the left ^
are desk shelves, with aeks above them,
containing: checks and deposit blanks, f
and on the other side, back of the railing
and walled off by a net work or wire a9 j
high as your head, the teller and cashier
look out of two little holes, through
which they pay out or receive money. ^
Standing beside them is a big safe in
which the money is kept, and which con- ,
tains every year about $3,000,000.
Congressmen can check upon the bank
of the capitol to the extent of their deposit
or their salary. Some of them do
not draw any money till the end of the t
yen r, and take their whole $r>,000 at once. 1
Others check out their pay every month, s
and others come in regularly and draw t
their $15 every day. Some of the t
wealthier members keep thousands of t
11"/Int-vncif Tvifh tVi#? v-/>rm?nnf.-at- v
UWllUld UU UU|/?/U4V v..v MV t
arms, and there was a member not long \
ago who had as much as $o0,000 in the i
bank here. A close account is kept with t
every Congressman, and a regular set of a
banking books are balanced every day. g
In addition to their salaries members are ^
here paid their mileage, and as an exam- i
pie of the inequality of the present sys- 1
tem Delegate Bean, of Arizona, receives
$1,600 for mileage, while Representative
Barbour, of Virginia, can draw only
$3.30.?Baltimore News.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Waste nothing, neither money, time nor talent.
The wise carry their knowledge as they \
do their watches, not for display, but for (
their own use. ]
Put this restriction on your pleasures: 1
Be cautious that they injure no being
which has life. <
Happiness is often at our side, and we |
pass her by. Misfortune is afar off, and j
we rush to meet her. <
Receive no satisfaction for premeditated <
impertinence; forget it, forgive it, but J
keep him inexorably at a distance who {
offered it.
One of the illusions is that the present 1
irour is not the critical, decisive hour, t
Write it o*> your heart that every day is 1
;he best day in the year. *
Too many young men believe that 1
"the world owes every man a living" (
ind that it requires no effort on man's 1
)art to' make the collection. * (
r
In early childhood, you may lay the *
'oundation of poverty or riches, industry
>r idleness, good or evil, by the habits to
vhichyou train your children. Teach
hem right habite thenr and their future
ife is safe..
Idleness is the hot bed of temptation,
he cradle of disease, the waster of time,
he canker worm of felicity. To him that
las no employment, life in a little while
vi 11 have no novelty; and when novelty
s laid in the grave, the funeral of comort
will soom follow.
If you cannot be happy in one way,be in
mother; and this facility of disposition
vants but little aid from philosophy, for
lealth and good humor are almost the
vhole affair. Many run about after feicity,
like an absent-minded man huntng
for his hat, while it is in his hand or
>n his head.
The Country's Growth.
The Cincinnati Sportsman has a curious '
:ompli"ation of facts relating to. the
growth of this country:
Twenty-five years ago we were 30,)00,000
of people; now we are nearly
>0,000,000. Then we had 141 cities and
owns of over 8,000 inhabitants, now we
lave 286 of such, cities and towns. Then
;he total population of our cities was
>,000 000, now is about 12,000,000.
Our coal mines then produced 14,000,)00
tons, now 86,000,000 tons, or six
imes as much.
The iron product amounted to 900,000
onsofore; to-day it foots up over 8,)00,000
tons a year, almost a nine fold
ncrease.
In 1860 our metal industries employed
ibout 53,000 hands, consumed $100,IAA
AAA r\f wofopiol anrl fnrnofl
'vv)vuv "Ultu VA
>ut about $180,000,000 in annual pro- <
iucts. i
To-day these industries employ 300,)00
hands, consume $380,000,000 of ma;erial,
and their annual product amounts
;o $600,000,000 a year. 1
In 1860 the wool industries employed j
1.30,000 persons; to-day they employ 1
540,000 while the value of their annual ]
Droducthas trebled. ]
The woolen industry employed 600 per- (
ions then, and now employes 160,000, j
vhile our home mills, which produced 1
joods of the value of $80,000,000 in <
I860, now turn out an annual product <
vorth $270,000,000. 1
In 1860 we imported 220,000,000 yards i
)f cotton goods; in 1881 we only im- <
jorted 70,000,000 yards. In the mean- i
Ji 1 _ e l j. l ^ ,
line tne aumuer ui iiuuua cmpiujrcu m i
American cotton mills has increased to <
500,000, and we export nearly $150,000,- f
)00 yards of cotton a year instead of im- <
sorting 227,000,000 yards as we used to i
i j. <
The total of our exports has doubled. 1
'n 1860 it stood at $400,000,000, and
tow it stands at about 900,000,000. i
1
A Secret of Carpet Making.
In 1735 English Axminsters were first i
nade. But it was not until 1749 that a
oom was constructed which would pro- 1
luce a Brussels carpet, and just here is i
in exceedingly interesting anecdote, 1
rhich has been banded down from father i
o son as an inviolable truth. During f
730 and 1795 John Broom traveled <
hrou?<h Toui nay and Brussels studying <
he stitch which was then known as the <
Brussels stitch. In Brussels particularly 1
reavers were at the time making a carpet <
tamed after the town?the Brussels car- i
>et. Broom studied with much j
arnestness the mystery of the
aanufacture, and finally made the 5
cquaintanee in Tournay of a 1
veaver understanding the secret. He 1
,nd this weaver immediately repaired to 1
Dngland. and near Mount Skipet, Kid- <
lerminster, they put up the first Brussels s
oom, 1749. They operated in absolute <
ecrecy, but in time their modus oper- t
ndi was exposed. Broom and his <
Belgian workman labored night and day, 1
,nd it being well-known where their op- i
rations were conducted, some enter- i
(rising fellow climbed to the window, (
,nd night after night, from his perilous
>erch outside, he studied the operations
if the mechanism within, until he was
ible to carry away in his mind a model ]
>f the Brussels loom. Then a second ;
inn and several others came into the ]
ield, and in 1753 Kidderminster was t
loing a great trade in the way of Brus- 1
els. To-day there is hardly anything r
lse but Brussels mftde in Kiddermin- \
ter- _____ j
New York's Living Ex-Governors. c
The Syracuse Courier gives the list of ?
^ew York's living ex-governors as fol- r
ows: Hamilton Fish, who was elected *
n 1848; John T. Hoffman, who served *
rom 1869 to 1873; Samuel J. Tilden, a
yho was governor in 1875-6; Lucius Rob- 1
nson, wh? served from 1877 to ioau; *
Llonzo B. Cornell, who served from 1880 c
o 1883 ; Grover Cleveland, who was 0
;overnor in 1883 and 1884. It adds: c
'These are all the governors that are *
till alive, unless Myron H. Clark is still 8
a the land of the living, and whether he ^
3 or not we do not just now recall." c
fes; Mvron H. Clark is now living in 1
?anandaigau. A letter written by him I
vas recently received by a friend in a
Jtica.?Utica Observer. 1
G
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Where the Major Conld be Found. E
Judge Morrill related an anecdote of f
ne Aroostook war, in which Major Strick- t
and wag the hero. The major made a v
peech in which he told the men that ?
hey were to charge for their country, v
hat battle would be forced upon them, f
hat the eyes of the country were riveted
ipon their actions, that they should v
vatch for him and follow his white plume j;
nto the very jaws of battle, "but," con t
inued the major, "if from any unforseen a
.ccident you should want me 'during t!ie f
mgagement and cannot find me at the d
run. I think vou will have no difficulty
n finding me behind Simon Barrett's barn I
iving in hope."?L+uixton {Me.) Journal J fc
POPULAR
SCIENCE.
? " <M
A French geographer reports that all;
the peaks of the Alps, extending oyer a
iistance of more than 150 miles, are easily
visible from the summit of the Dole,
which has an altitude of 5f5O0 feet.
In a cannon foundry at Bourgea,
Prance, electricity has been successfully , \?&
applied to mechanical purposes for more .,^8$
than five years, two large moveable ?-;]
iranes, each weighing over twenty tons, .'<
having been worked by electric motors
without difficulty.
The musical quality of the so-called
!'singing sands" of California is thought
:o be easily explained by the fact that ;
imong their coralline particles are also
jmall black particles, formed principally '
)f crystals of aDgite, nepheline, and ' ":>fi
magnetic oxide of iron imbedded in ? %
glassy matrix,
A remarkable discovery, illustrating .|[J
Ihe value of photography in the study of , m
lolar physics, has been communicated to V
:he Paris academy of sciences by Mons.
fanssen. On June 22, 1885, there appeared
on the sun's disc one of the larg?st
spots ever detected there, which; ? ^
ivould hardly havt been- perceived, nowiver,
if its occurrence had not been re:ordctf
by photographic apparatus.
Says the Boston Journal: "It is an in;eresting
fact to know that the present ^
ityle of stereoscope was devised by Dr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes. The older appli- 'V^
inces were set in a box. He conceived! '
he idea of an cpen stereoscope, exjlained
it to Joseph L. Bates, the well. . m
? now n merchant "who Mas just passed' T %
iway. and the latter brought out the in- ' :>3
mention. Undoubtedly they did not patent
it, and thereby lost a fortune." ' * t v ^
Foot-and-mouth disease- has recently
!ormec3 the subject of some important in- 3#
restigations by Dr. Nosattd, the welL
snown Italian scientist and- veterinarian.
His researched have led him to the folowing
conclusions. (1) Thut epizootic
iphtha is not a disease susceptible of dereloping
itself spontaneously- (2) It is- ||
lot an indigenous, but an exotic disease. %
'3) Its nature is eminently contagious.
;4) Its virulent element is represented by
ivicrobes, discovered first by Rivolta, (5) '
rhe virus can be cultivated when placea ' ^
n appropriate media, and by. reducing ^
ts virukncy by successive- cultures it A;!
nay become a safe and. proper agent of . , V'V^j
inoculation.
Perhaps no more striking illustration
>f the wonderful reproductive powers of
certain insects could be given than that
n wnTTT -nfAwlr litr Mr 'I'hOA^nfft' .
;uilIU1UCU Jul a lierv nviawj i?i. auwwv ;w
Wood, an English entomologist. It is '
issumed first tnat 1,000 ophides weigh.
io more collectively thama single grain;
ind, secondly, that only a veiy stout man '>j
;an weigh as much as 2,000,000 grains.
Shen. it is found, that if multiplication
ivere entirely unchecked, the tenth brood $
ilone of the descendants of a single ophis ' i
(vould be equivalent in actual, matter to >
nore than 500,000,000 of very stout men . M
?or one-third of the human population
)f the globe, supposing each person to- $
iveigh 280 pounds.
Glass Eyes..
Nearly all the artificial eyes used in. ! ,f^l
his country are imported from Europe- v M
Attempts have been made to manufac- ? It
;ure them here, but the industry has $
lever flourished, The finest eyes are- ;$
made in Pans, and good oAes come from /$
jfermany and Switzerland. The eyes are
nade of glass, and are in the shape of &. :
lollow hemisphere. The pupil is formed, . )f
colored glass, and its execution requires
the greatest skill on the part of ' .{$
;he workman. The white of the eye is
imitated with wonderful accuracy. It is
)f cream white, yellowish, white, blue
ivhite, or any other shade so as to exactly "M
natch the white of the remaining real ' < ;.
jye. Before the final glazing is put on
small red veins are traced with a pencil
an the surface. There is & slight ridge - V
ilong the edges which enables the muscles
if the socket to take hold and move the V %
^oll
Dealers in artificial eyes, keep them in %
separate boxes, which they calL the blue
box, the black box, the brown box, and 'M
so on These boxes contain eyes of all
sizes, from as large as a marble to one j
is large as a pigeon's egg
A dealer in artificial eyes said: "We
it the eyes to the sockets by heating and.
softening the ball, and then cutting it
tvith hot scissors to the proper size-, and
shape. The hollow part fits over the
stump ofi the eye. When this ia neatly . . ^
lone the eye moves as readily aa the - ?
ithereye, and it is difficult to tell which
>ne is glass. The great majority of arti- ^
icia4 eyes are used by workmen, espeiV/Mio
?n inAn fnunflnAd vllPfft
JlttUJ IUUOO JUX uvu TT^v*
nany eyes are put out by sparks. It i&
seldom that a woman has a glass eye.
4'Artificial eyes are used not only to
mprove the appearance, but also to pro:eet
the stump from injury, which would
je apt to affect the other eye. An arti- '
icial eye costs five dollars, and lasts from -m
)ne to five years. It is acted upon by the
Hilt of perspiration and of tears, which )
lulls and roughens the surface. For
;his reason it is customary to take the
;ye out at night, which also gives a rest
;o the socket. If the lachrymal duct has
iot been destroyed, a man can cry as '}
svell with an artificial eye as with a good , c
mip "?New York JSun.
A Bulgarian Amazon.
The Widdin correspondent of the Sfc. , ^
Petersburg Novosti sends to that newspaper
the following account of a young
Bulgarian girl who took an active part in
he late war against Serbia, distinguished
lerself at Slivnitza and at Pirot, and
eccived two crosses for bravery. Previous
to the outbreak of hostilities she
oined a company of militia?such combines
were then forming in various parts
>i Bulgaria?and accompanied it to the
mjithern frontier with the hope of their
neeting with the enemy. During some
ime she managed to conceal her sex, for
ler comrades took her to be a youth with
,n effeminate face, of which there were . *
nany such to be met with among the
nilitia. Only the commander of her
ompany knew her secret; she was
bliged to disclose it to him when the
ompany set out upon its march, and
le appears to harve loyally kept it to himelf.
In all exercises, parades and reiews
she took part jointly with her male
omrades. At last, wlien Servia declared
var against Bulgaria, the heroine took
>art in the forced march to Servia, fought
,t the battle of Slivuitza and joined m
he attack upon Pirot. During the tight
he did all she could to encourage her
omrades and they, in return, unaniaously
voted to her the company's meckil
or bravery. When, in consequence of
he war coming to an end, the militia
rus dispersed, she went to Sophia, and
vas there presented to Prince Alexander,
tr)m awarded to her a second decoration
or bravery. She then returned to
Vidrlin, her place of domicile before the
var, where she acts as servant to an old
adv. She says that should the Servians
>egm another war she will again fight
gainst them, but in her woman's attire,
or it is not worth while to change one's
[ress for such an enemy.
ITonesty, like gold, is freque ntly used.
9 plate base metals.
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