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fust for To-daj.
Jf <ord, for to-inorrow and its needs
I do not pray;
Ktcp me, my God, from stain of sin
Just for to-day.
Let me both diligently work
And duly pray:
Let me be kind in word and deed
Ju?t lor to-day.
Let :ne be slow to do my will,
Prompt to obey;
Help me to mortify ray flesh
Just for to-day.
Let me no wrong or idle word
Unthinking say;
2>ot thou a seal upon my lips
Just for to-day.
I/?' me in season, Lord, be grave,
In season gay;
Let me be faithful to thy grace
Just for to-day.
Si.-. !or tomorrow and its needs
1 do not pray,
keep me, guide nio, love me, Lord,
T??. I f'.w fA-rlnv
r>"JvEL 1GI0US READING.
Itllmleil Eyes.
The iron smelter can gaze long and
*t< rtdiiy iiito the heart of the glowing
finnacc, ami see clearly the various
changes the iron is passing through; but,
if he turns his eyes away from the furnace.
it js some time before he can disfvrn
oliieets that are near him clearly,
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tin ugh they be revealed by the light of
the noonday sun. The glare of the furaaee
has dazzled his sight; for the moment
he cannot see ordinary objects.
Scientists gaze upon the splendors of nature
untill their dazzled sightfails to see
the light of the glory of God as it shines
in the face of Jesus Christ. "But and
if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in
them that are perishing; in whom the |
Gou of this world hath blinded the
minds of the unbelieving, that the light
of the gospel of the glory of Christ, "who
Js the image of God, should not draw
upon them." Good, bright, and really
noble lives, the genuine fruit of Christianity,
are facts as patent as any facts
?f science, and they arc discerned by all
clear, health; and unbiased minds; they
arc as truly the fruits of the Christian
life in their estimation as that the blossom
is the product of the root of the
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|l I Li Li L UlUL UV.U1D ii , auv% jvi, wvuwwv v?
Christian life lias a method peculiar to
its own nature of appealing to the mind,
and is incapable of being tested by the
processes oZ the laboratory, it is rejected
by many as unworthy of their acceptance.
They make light of it.?liev. D. Ithys
Jenkins.
The Ideal Sabbath.
'TV.*! ia flip finhhflth Jit
JL Aits iUVOL UUWuvii *<, v??v ?home
'when the head of the household?
farmer or mechanic, merchant or lawyer,
capitalist or operative?enjoys his weekly
rest among those for whom his six
<lays of labor have been spent. Whether
the Babbatic institution was or was not
created by the fourth commandment,
there seems to be in those words,
"Thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter
nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-ser^vant,"
a glimpse of the restful enjoyment
which the day of rest, in theprimiHvp
rnnrnntinn of it. would brinff to the
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families that keep it.
The day of rest, being rest and not
revelry or dissipation, and being therefore
a day of home enjoyments, brings
with it opportunity for sober thought and
conference. A Sabbath-keeping people
will become a thoughtful people, and
such thought fulness is manliness. All
men, and especially the busy millions in
an advanced civilization like our own.
need for the mind's sake, not less than
for the sake of wearied nerves and mus- '
cles, the seventh-dny intermission of
their ordinary work. A true Sabbath is
something far more restful than a day of
noisy jollity. In its calm air the mind
rests by thought, not thoughtlessness?
by quiet musing, by conscious or uncon cious
retrospection; perhaps by consid
-eration of what might have been, perhaps
by thinking of what may yet be,
perhaps by aspiration and resolve toward
something in the future that shall be better
than what has been in the past. The
home in which Sunday ia a day of rest
and home enjoyment is hallowed by the
Sabbaths which it hallows. In the Sabbath-keeping
village life is less frivolous,
and at the same time industry is more
productive, for the weekly rest. A
Sabbath-keeping nation is greater in
peace and in war for the character which
its tranquil and thoughtful Sabbaths
have impressed upon it.?lite. Dr. Bacon.
A good conscience is better than two
witnesses. It will consume your grief as
the sun dissolves ice. It is a spring when
you are thirsty; a stall when you are
weary; a screen when the sun burns you,
and a pillow in death.
Whether perfect happiness would bo
procured by perfect goodness this world
will never afford an opportunity 01 deciding.
But tliie, at least, may be maintained,
that avc do not always find visible
virtue.
"Wliat sculpture ?s to a block of marble,
education is to tlie human soul. The
philosopher, the saint and the hero, the
wise, the good or the great man, very
often lie hid and concealed in a plcbian,
which proper education might have disinterred
and brought to light.
An Irish candidate for parliament in a
speech at Dublin said that $150,000,000
had been spent in Ireland for drink in
the last three years, in districts where
laborers were starving, and where, it
was said, the tenants could not pay their
rents.
The East Pennsylvania evangelical
ministers have, in their conference recently
held at Peading, Penn., passed
resolutions in favor of prohibition, but
detaching it from any political organization.
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DH TALIAGE'S SERION.
MOTHERHOOD.
Rev. Dr. Tnlmage preachod in St. Louis on
his way home from a "Western trip, the
twelfth of his series of sermons on 'The Marriage
King." Its subject was "Motherhood."
Mr. Talmage took for his text:
"Moreover his mother made him a little
coat, and brought it to him from year to
year, when she came up with her husttaud to
offer the yearly sacrifice."?1 Samuel ii., 11?.
'"The stories of Deborah and Abigail are
very apt to discourage a woman's soul," he
said. "Hannah was the wife of Elkanah,
who was a persen very macli like liersen?
unromantic and plain, never having fought a
battle or been the subject of a marvelous escapa.
Neither of them would have been
called a genius. Just what you and I might
be, that was Elkariah and Hannah.
"The brightest tima in all the history of
that family was the birth of Samuel. Although
no star ran along th? heavens pointing
down to his birthplace, I think the angels of
God stooped at the coming of so wonderful a
prophet.
"As Samuel had been given in answer to
prayer, Elkanah and all his family, save
Hannah, started up to Shiloh to offer sacrifices
of thanksgiving. Th9 cradle whore the
child slept was altar enough for Hannah's
grateful heart, but when the boy wa? old
she took him to Shiloh and took chree bullocks
and an ephahof flour and a bottle of wine, and
made offering of sacrifice unto the Lord, and
there, according to a previous vow, she left
him; for there he was to stay all the days of
Me lifo nnri minister in the temole.
"Years rolled on, and every year Hannah,
made with her own liaud a garment for
Samuel and took it over to hitn. Tha lad
would have got along well without that garment,
for I suppose he was well clad by the
ministry of the temple; but Hannah could
not be c ontented unless she was all the time
doing something for -her darling boy. 'Moreover
his mother made him a little coat and
brought it to him from year to year, when
she came up with her husband to offer the
yearly sacrifice.'
"Hannah stands before you, then, in the
first place, as an industrial mother. There
was no need for her to work. Elkauah, her
husband, was far from poor. He belonged
to a distinguished family; for the Bible teils
i)? t.hnt ho was the son of Jeroboam, the son
of Elibu, the sou of John, the son of Zuph.
"Who were they?" you say. I do not know;
but they were distinguished people, no doubt,
or their names would not have been mentioned.
Hannah mi^ht have seated herself
with her family, ana, with folded arms and
dishevelled hair, read novels from year to
year, if there had been any to read; but when
i see her making that garment, and taking it
over to Samuel, 1 know she is industrious from
principle as well as from pleasure. God would
not have a mother become a drudge, or a
-lave; he would have her employ all the helps
possible in this day in the rearing of her
children. But Hannah ought never to be
ashamed to be fouud making a coat for
Samuel.
"Most mothers need no counsel in this direction.
The wrinkles on their brow, the
pallor on their cheek, the thimble-mark on
th?ir finger at est that they are faithful in
their maternal duties. The bloom and the
brightness and the vivacity of girlhood have
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given pia?e lor uwgiauuc. vi^u,?, ?
fulness and industry of motherhood. But
there is a heathenish idea getting abroad in
some of tho families of Americans; there
are mothers who banish themselves from the
home circl?. For three-fourths of their maternal
duties they prove themselves incompetent
They a- e ignorant of what their children
wear, and wliat their children eat, and
whst their children rend. They intrust to
irrcsposible persons thesa young immortals,
and allow them to be uuder influences which
may crij p'e their bodies, or taint their
purity, or spoil their manners, or destroy
thei r souls.
"Who arc the industrious men in all our
occupations and professions? Who are thev
managing the merchandise of the world,
building the walls, tinning the roofs, weaving
the carpets, making the laws, governing the
nations, making the earth to quake and heave
and roar and rattle with the tread of gigantic
enterprises? Who are they? For the most
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part they aes 'enue i irom muusu wu> IllUfUers
who, in the ok} homestead, used to spin
their own yam, and weave their own carpets,
and plait their own door-mats, and flag their
own chairs and do their own work. The
stalwart men and the influential women of
this day, ninety-nine out of a hundred of
them, c ame from such an illustrious ancestry
of hard kuuckles and homespun.
uAnd who are these j>eople in society, light
as froth, blown every whither of tempiatiou
and fashion; the peddlers of iilthy stories,
the danciug-jacks of political parlies, the
scum of society, the tavern-lounging, the
store-infesting, the men o." low wink and
filthy chuckle and brass breastpins and rotten
associations/ For the most part they come
from mothers idle and disgusting, the scandalmongers
of society, going from house tc
house, attending to everyb xly's busiuess but
their ov\ n, believing in witches and ghosts
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auu uui w VUv
churu, and by a godless life setting their
children on the very verge of hell. The
mothers of Samuel Johnson and of Alfrei the
Great and of Isaac Newton and of St.
Augustino and of Richard Cecil and of President
Edwards, for the most part, were industrious,
hard-working mothers.
"Again, Hannah stands before you as an
intelligent mother, From the way in which
she talked in this chapter, and frcm the way
she managed this boy, you know she was intelli
.oat. There are no persons in a community
who need to be so wise and well iuformed
as mothers.
u0h, how much care and intelligence are
necessary in the rearing of children! But in
this day, when there are so many books on
the subject, no i^areut is excusable in being
ignorant of the Lest mode of bringing up a
child. If parents knew more of dietetics
there would not be so many dyspeptic stomaches
and weak nerves and incompetent livers
among children. If parents knew more
of physiology there would not be so many
curved spines, and crainpcd chests, and inflamed
throats, and diseased lungs, as there
are among children. If parents knew
more of art and were in sympathy with al
that is l>eautit'ul there would not be so many
children coming out in the world with boorish
proclivities. If parents knew more of
Christ aud practiced more of his religion
there would not be so many little feet already
starting on the wrong road, and all around
us voices of riot and blasphemy would not
come up with such castacy of infernal triumph.
"Again, Hannah s.tands before you as a
Christian mother. From her prayers and
from the way she consecrated her boy to God
I know she was good. A mother may have
the finest culture, the most brilliant surroundings.
but she is not fit for her duties
unless she be a Christian mother. There may
be well-read libraries iu the hou^e, and exquisite
music in the parlor, and the canvas
of the testartists adorning the walls, and the
wardroSe be crowded with tasteful apparel,
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and the cmiaren oe wonu<- I I III IUI liUCll
attainments and make the h?use ring with
laughter and innocent mirth, bat thore is
something woeffrl looking in that house if
it be uot also the residence of a Christian
mother.
"One hundred and twenty clergymen were
tgether, and they were telling their experience
and their ancestry; and of the 130 clergymen,
how many of them do you suppose assigned
as the means of their conversion the
influence of a Christ an mother! One hunh.
aH mit; nf thfl 120. F'hilii) Doddridge was
brought to God by the Scripture lesson on
the Dutch tiles of a (hiinney fireplace. The
mother thinks she is only rocking a child,
but at the same time slie may l>e roiking the
fate of nations, rocking the glories of
heaven. Th? same maternal power that may
lift the child up may press a child down.
"A daughter came to a worldly mother and
said she was anxious al>out her sins and she
had been praying all night. Tlio mother said:
"Oh, stop prayiug! 1 dou't believe in praying.
Got over all thi>se religious notions and
I'll give you a dross that will cost &>00, and
?ou may wear it next week t > that party."
'he daughter took the dress, and she moved
in the gay circle the gayest of all the gay that
night,aud sureenoughallreligiousimpressions
were gone, and she stopped praying. A few
months after site came to (lie, ant in
her closing moments said, '"Mother,
I wish you would bring me that dress
that costi.'iOO." The mother thought it a very
strange request, but she brought it to please
fKorlvinc rhilrf. 'Now.' said the daughter.
'mother, hang that dress cm the toot of my
bed,' nud the dress was huug there, ou the
foot of the bed. Then the dying girl got up
on one elbow and looked at her' mother, and
then pointed to the dress, and said: 'Mother,
that dress is the price of my soul!' Oh.
what a momentous thing it is to be a mother!
"Hannah stau Is before jou the rewards)
mother. For all the coats she ma le forSam- j
ual, for all the prayers she offered for him,
for the discipline exerted over him, she got
abundaut compensation in the piety and the
usefulness and the popularity of her son Sam- ]
uel; and that is time in all ages. Every
mnthor crofc full nov fnr oil fho nroVflr? nnd
tears in behalf of nor children."
Concluding, Mr. Talmage said: "Lookout
for the young man who speaks of his father
as ' the governor,' 'the squire,' or the 'old
i chap.' Look out for the voung woman who
calls her mother her 'maternal ancestor,' or
the'old woman.' 'The eye that mocketh at
his father and refuseth to obey his mother,
the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and
the young eagles shall eat it.' "
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT,
"No!"
Somebody asked me to take a drink.
What did I tell him? What do you think!
I told him "No!"
Somebody laughs that I would not swear
And lie and steal, but I do not care.
I told him "No!"
ooiucouujf usueu mw tu u*Ke a 5:111
On the Sabbath day; 'twas of no avail.
I told him "No!''
"If siui: ore entice thee, con ent thou not,"
My Bible said, and on the snot
I told him "Nol"
"What Is Malt Liquor?
1. A quart of malt liquor contains an
ounce and a half bf spirits, two spoonfuls n
of decayed barley, a few particles of hop, s
and a pint and three-quarters of water. i1
2. How much nutriment is there in ji
malt liquor? Not more than a farthing's i
worth in a quart, although one and a d
half pounds of good barley are used in a
making it. c
3. "What is malt? It is simply barley Q
brought into the same vegetated state as v
wheat when it sprouts and spoils in un- t
seasonable weather, destroying much of ?
the nutrition. |
4. Why, then, do they malt barley? v
That the ale may be more intoxicating, f
Sugar is the basis of all spirits. By malt- i
ing, some of the starch is changed into ?
sugar; in mashing,this sugar is dissolved, ^
and in fermentation it is converted into t
alcohol. s
5. What induces people to like beer? 11
The alcohol; evaporate that, and nothing ,
remains which could induce any person j
to taste it. a
6. Docs not the alcohol add to its i
value? Nothing; on the contrary, it ^
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produces thirst, stimulation, intoxication,
with all the immense train of evils
which constantly spring from beer-drinking.
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7. What is the influence of the hop? ?
To make people heavy, sleepy, dull and ^
stupid. f
Q Knfii* minnr?V? tli ircf ? Va it f f
increases thirst, and the more a man 1
drinks the more thirsty he is. All beer F
is simply colored and fired water, and ^
hence ale-bibbers drink much more water c
than teetotalers. 6
9. What is there to support a 1
man in ale or beer? The water and alco- v
hoi go immediately into the veins, f
and while the alcohol poisons and S
deceives, the water unnecessarily dilutes 8
the blood, overcharges the vessels, and
loads the kidnejs and bladder, and there ^
remain an ounce and a half of indigesti- i
ble extract of malt, which has been *
grown, roasted, scalded, boiled, embit- ^
tered, fe.mented, 'and drenched with \
water and alcohol, till it seems unfit for t
the brute, and certainly not for the hum an c
stomach. Yet this is all that 13 left in the 1
a
stomach to be digested. No wonder tint c"
all beer-drinkers fed a constant pain and {
sinking in their stomach, and that the *
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are always craving more drink. "
"Do not call it Sir John Barleycorn! It ^
is a libel. In the farmer's hands he is d
'barleycorn:' in the brewer's hands a 1
goodly portion of his vital parts are abstracted,
and, after the malt-crusher has
broken every bone in his body, the j
brewer, by scalding and fermenting, "\
finishes his career, and turns the po;>r c
knight's best blood into aqua vita, cast- |
ing away his last remains as 'barrel-bot- j
toms!' Poor Sir John!"?N. G. T. U. s
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What Converted Judge Loehrane.
Judge Loehrane, of Atlanta, Ga., who q
has always beon a good liver, has emptied f
all his wines and liquors into the gutter, t
and while in New York the other day *
astonished his friends by declaring him- ^
self a full-fledged prohibitionist, and t
glorying in the fact that he helped to v
carry Atlanta against the saloons. He c
gave the following explanation of the ^
causes that brought about prohibition in a
that city. s
"You see our government had come to *
bo a government of whisky, by whisky, ?
and for whisky. The liquor dealers e
asserted their ownership of the entire r
country, and their control of the entire ?
population. It is only a question of 11
time under such a condition of things |
when men will rise up and smite them, p
hip and thigh. It is a thing that must h
be done in order to preserve the man? J
hood of the country. You see drinking L
in the South is not drinking in the North. \
"Here in New York "if a man comes t
into a barroom who is intoxicated, the
bartender will refuse to sell him any ^
more. If the man raises a disturbance
he is promptly led out and 'away. But
with us a fellow comes along bent on
having a 'bender.' He goes into a saloon y
and takes possession of it. He announces s
+Vi.i+ Vi/? id tVirt Dmt Wolf O
or Blue Ruin Jake, or Kuintuck Moso. o
He drinks till he is wild. He makes
everybody who comes in drink with him.
Sooner or later there is a row and some r
one is killed. If it was only the chap
who got up tbc muss who got killed we
could stand it, but nine chances out of
ten it is some innocent passer-by. Then,
when we attempted to regulate the sale
of liquor so as to have things decent,
ho liminr mm rif?fr?jittid everv effort we ^
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made. It came to pass then that we got *
up and licked them out. It is what will (
eventually be done everywhere unless ?
they see what is coming and take a modest *
back seat to get from under."
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There are fifty teetotallers in the new
British parliament; twenty-five years ago r
there was but ou* *
WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT READING FOR FEMININE
READERS.
Tbe Maiden's Suitors.
SUITOR NO. 1.
Sweit maiden with the face so fair,
And eyes that like the diamonds sliiue,
Bright maiden with the queenly air,
Once more I ask, wilt tliou be mine?
Oh, give consent and be my wife, '
Some pity kindly show to me;
I love thee "better than my life,
And cheerfully would die for thee.
THE MAIDEN*.
Oh. do not tease me now, I pray;
Talk love to me some other day.
SUITOR NO. 2.
T' ~ ?- Tt. f
jl lie i nwvu nuj a ? o vuuv-u uuj
Is this?er?well, upon my life,
I scarcely kn:>w just what to say?
And?er?well, will you be my wife?
You'll never know life's cares or ills,
In silks and jewels you shall shine,
I'll foot your millinery bills,
And?well, in brief, will you be mine?
THK MAIDEN.
This is so sudden! But?oh, la!
I think you'd better speak to pa.
?Boston Courier.
Perfumed Pockets.
Among the nere-sary adjuncts of the
nodern gown, says a New York correpondent,
is the perfumed pockct, which
a cnlrl mndft un r/virlv fnr use. bv shoD- l
:eepers aloug with the other "findings,"
or which trifles modistes tack on to their
ittle bills such astounding sum?. These
lainty pockets arc among the newest
cccssorics of the already costly costume
if the day. For some time perfumes
vent "out" and were considered deidedly
vulgar, but they are "in" again
rith a vengeance, and the faint scent of
he many sachet powders that greets
ne's olfactory organs in crowded places
9 quite overpowering, at time3 nauseatng.
Heliotrope to the right of you,
iolet to the left of you, white rose in
ront of you, and jessamine behind you
n the warm, close atmosphere of a
hurch or theatre make you sigh for
rcsh fields and pastures new, and wish
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levoutiy tne edict against scents una hui
>:cn removed. "Women have perfume
ewed into the linings of their dresses,
a their pockets, in their corsets and in
heir bustles, and the effect of all this is
he reverse of pleasing very often. Fashon
never stops half way at anything,
jid the only comfort is that it changes
n the twinkling of an eye. This rage
or perfume has not come to stay, probbly.
Woman as a Fruit-Grower.
A trrt.i?s-* l.-k/3rr nn nn a fnrm
-* juuug luwjr Lfiuug.m , |
hough receiving between the ages of
ifteen and twenty the benefit of a firstlass
education in a distant city, was sudlenly
bereft of both father and mother.
Lfter the settlement of the estate she
ound herself possessed of a farm of
hirty acres, a team of horses and the im lemcnts
of farm work, together with the
um of $150 in cash, with which to be^in
her fight in the world. After due
leliberation she decided to retain the
mall farm and work it. It so happened
hat about two acres had been set to
trawberries some time before, which
vould bear its first main crop the summer
ollowing her removal to the small farm.
Jhe immediately had this bed cultivated
ind manured, doing all but the heavy
vork with her own hands. The crop
aetted her about $110. The next step
7a? to increase the plautation, adding
aspberrics, blackberries, etc., until now,
0 make a long story short, less than six
ears from the time the work was comnenced,
the original farm of ninety acres
las been purchased, and paid for in cash
oo, and is being rapidly laid out in or:hards;
a poultry-yard of no mean dinensions
adds vastly to the income, and
1 snug bank account is ready for a rainy
lay. More than all, she has developed
rom a dependent girl into a strong,
lealthy, self-reliant business women; and
he secret of her success is gor>d sense, a
ack of that b:inc to American girls, false
>ride. and an indomitable will and a
letermination to succeed.?Farmer and
household.
. A Woman in the Army.
There is a remarkable case before the
louse committee on military affairs at
Vashington. It is a bill to remove the
harges of desertion from the reccrd of
franklin Thompson, alias Mrs. Sarah E.
5. Seelye. A woman named Sarah E.
Jdmonds, prompted solely by patriotism,
erved for two years as a soldier in .the
federal array. At the outbreak of the
par she was living at Flint, Mich. She
ssumed male attire, becamc a private in
Company F of the Second Michigan In antry,
went to the front, was at the batlc
of Bull Run, served all through the.
'cninsular,campaign, then under General
Vhvl tliAn with Rurnside at Fredericks
"I" J
?urg, and went West with the regiment
o Kentucky. There the young soldier
ras prostiated with the chills and fever
ontracted on the' Peninsula, a leave of
bsence was refused, and, fearful that
ier sex would be discovered, she left the
rmv, and, returning to Oberlin, O., retimed
her woman's garb. Though paricipating
in over forty battles large and
maH, she never was wounded. Oppoite
the name she bore the word "desertr*'
had been written on the army
coords. This she seeks to have removed.
Ihe was married 111 lb(J7. sne is iuny
lentitied by members of licr own com>.tny
and'regiment. She is now living
t Fort Scott, Kama?, and the bill proposes
to give her a clean record with
tack pay and bounty. It is asserted that
Irs. Sccvleisan invalid as the result of
tcr exposures and hardships in the army.
The committee favors Mrs. Style's
?ill because "it cannot be objected to on
he ground that it is likely to set a
langeroue precedent." This sage remark
las a more spicy flavor than anything else
n the document.? Chicago Tribune.
The Only Chinese Empress.
At the age of fourteen, the strong- j
i-f!Wl Princess Woo bee; m3 one of the !
vivos of the great. Emperor T?i. And j
he prov, d so gracious ami acceptable |
i stepmother to voung Prince Kaou, that,
ls the record tells us, lie grew very fond
rf tlie girl queen and, within a year from
he death of his gre:it father, when he
limself had succeed :d to the Yellow
Hirone, as Emperor Supreme, he recalled
lie Queen Woo from her retirement in
lie Xestorian mission-house at Tung
/how and made her one of his royal
vives. And when in the year 6851, Kaousung
died, she boldly assumed the direction
of the government, and, ascondng
the throne, declared herself Woo ;
low Tsih-tien?Woo, the Empress Su I
)reme and Sovereign Divine!
History records that this Zenobia of I
}hitia proved equal to the great task.
She "governed the empire with discreion,"
extended its borders, and was accnowledged
as Empress from the shores,
>f the Pacific to the borders of Persia,
>f India, and of the Caspian Sea.
Her reign was one of the longest and
nost successful in that period known in
listory as the Golden Age of China. Be
cause of .the native prejudice agains
woman, Chinese historians have endeavored
to blacken her character and under
value her services. But later scholars
now see that she was a powerful and sue- *
ccssful queen, who did great good to her
native land and strove to maintain ks
power and glory. 5
She never forgot, her good friends and
protectors, the Xcstorian priests. During
her long reign of almost fifty years,
Christianity strengthened in the king/Iatvi
on/1 /\l\favrmrl o fnAfinrr 4V?of Afiltf
UV/m (IUU WUl MtUV/Vl U liHH- V'UIJ Hi*.
great Mahometan conquests of five centuries
later entirely destroyed; and the i
Empress Woo. so the chronicles declare, s
herself "offered sacrifices to the great I
God of all." When, hundred* of years c
after, the Jesuit missionaries penetrated t
into this most exclusive of all the nations a
of the earth, they found near the palace c
ac Chang-an the ruim of the Nestorian c
mission church with the cross still stand- i
ing, and, preserved through all the s
changes of dynasties, an abstract in Syria e
characters of the Christian law, and with s
it thfl n.imw of seventv-two attendant i
priests -who had served the church estab- r
lishcd by O-lo-pun.?St. Nicholas. s
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Fashion Notes. i
Bracelets are much worn. ?
Tucks arc revived for d esses. ^
Bordered stuffs are worn again. 1
Queen chains continue in style. r
Brooches increase in popularity. ?
French cashmeres are much worn. j
New hats and bonnets are high as ever, j
Beads arc to continue in favor this \
season. d
Striped cheviots come in new shades a
and coloi'3. s
Clill- Kw.itil? nffonfj orn AM* 6
kJXliY LU.Lllt.L3 V> illi ltaiUUl tutvbo ttiV itcn
trimmings. 8
Rourctte ginghams arc shown with .
new wash goods. ?
6
There is a greater variety of color than $
for many seasons. t
Bine Btripel seersuckers have made i:
their appearance. g
Veiling and ctaminc arc used in com- 1
bination for dresses. a
Raspberry and moss green are a favor- 8
itc Parisian combination.
Colored cloth jackets have plush re- j,
vers corresponding in color. ^
Half-long sleeves are slashed or are i
trimmed with strips of passementerie. c
Jerseys have the edges scalloped or o
pointed, and are trimmed with broad p
braid. ii
Straw is a favored material for the
spring and summer season and endless is
the variety.
Plush jackets have no trimming save _
the large ornamental buttons used for *
fastening them. 1
. c
Ilalf-mourning hose of black and y
white lengthwise striped are very stylish j.
with black satin slippers. v
Wnlk-imr rlrpqqr>? urn Snmnwh.lt lonfrer o
llian formerly, just clearing the ground. I
The skirts of house dres.ses will touch r
the floor. o
Trains are combined with side draper- v
ics, leaving the front and sides, usually
different from the rest of the dress, un- v
covered. s
For children's hnts is a new fancy a
trimming made of six rows of ribbon a c
fourth of an inch wide joined at inter- j"
vals by a woven cross band? J
Buttons are now "works of art." It is |
difficult to know In what category to 1
place them, as wood-carver and goldsmith
unite in their manufacture.
A row of stiffly-tied yellow watered I
ribbon bows across a plastron of crinkled
yellow Japanese crape h is a pretty effect 4
on a black silk or velvet corsage.
Gloves for evening wear are longer than ^
ever. They reach almost to the suoulder.
Economical persons may lengthen those -]
that reach only to the elbow with lace. n
Many of the new figured materials are 1]
to be used for the whole dress, while ?
some of the "box robes" show the combination
of plain with the figured goods. J
Brussscls net in pink, blue, green, *
black and yellow has zigzags of silver or
gold tinsel. The effect when made up I
is like gleams of light in the cloudlike *
fabric." 1
One of the handsomest trimmings for 8
wool dresses is a wide, wool, cord-like .
galloon or gimp ornamented with small, f!
barrel-shaped pendants that look very
like silk, they are so smoothly woven.
Metal clasps are in a variety of rich de- tj
signs. Some are models of the smith's ^
art, others are rococo in their combina- a
tions of imitation gems, and s'.ill others c
show excellent cameos set in oxydized u
wrought silver, like those of fifty years a
ago. u
Old fashions are in vogue now, and al- t]
though the old materials are revived, the b
ugly patterns are left out. The "d'e- 4
laines" of to-day are as dainty in their 'i
graceful patterns and exquisite shades as "
you please. fi
The Biggest Steel Bail Mill. ?
Describing a big rail factory near Chi- ^
cago, the lloruld of that city says: This, P
America's greatest siei-1 rail mill, occu- u
pics 100 acres of ground. There are fif- T
fpnn build in 03. with nearlv eirrht acres P
Uiider roof. Oiie hundred electric lights *1
illuminate the grounds and buildings at **
night. Every year 250 steamers discharge sl
their cargoes of ore at the dock, 300,000 P
tons in all. Every year 28,000 cars of 11
coke, mtiking, with their engines, the h
equivalent of a solid train 160 miles long, f(
are brought from Connellsville and ^
emptied into the stock house. Every ^
year 11,000 cars of coal, equal, with their
iocomotives, to a train seventy-five miles c
long, come from Ohio, Indiaua and Illi- C
nois, are pushed into tne yarns aim mere ^
emptied. Every year 3,000 cars of lime- 0
stone are received from Cicero, and every ^
year eight vessel loads of spiegeleisen r
arc imported from England. Every year S
loO.OOO tons of steel ra:4s, or enough to f(
lay a complete railway track from Chi- "
cago to Utah, are shipped in 7,500 cars,
equal to a solid train of more than fifty &
inilc'r long. Fourteen locomotives are t(
owned by the company, and constantly ft
employed in and about the" works. The a:
cost of this plant ivaa $3,000,00ft and ^
the nnnunl out-put, at present prices, at k
nearly $(3,000,000. i'
ii
The Drummer.
Beholil the drummer!
There he stands,
His eyes o'er reachiug
Many lands;
He goes, ho conies,
And business hums? w
The drummer with the active hands. ^
II
Behold the drummer, a
As he flies ^
And takes the peoplo
Bx surprise!
To-day, he's on, 11
To-morrow gone? n
The man from whom the merchant buys. {Behold
the drummer
As he is, ]
With eager air t'
And smiling phiz! n
Although he's blue,
And orders few,
The drummer alway9 wants what's his. 1
Merchant Traveler. )
THE "ALABAMA."
LIFE OX BOARD THE NOTED
CONFEDERATE CRUISER. j
c
Some Amusements of the Crew? *
Son?ys and Stories?Treatment ^
of Federal Prisoners on J
Rnar/l Vass?1.
" ' " ^
I
From a series of brief and pitliy papers, i
n the Century, on the Alabama and Kear- t
arge, we quote as follows from the article t
>y P. D. Haywood, who was a seaman \
in the Alabama: "After we had swept t
he ocean of prizes we had no excitement, j
^nd we cast about in every way to amuse (
mrselves. The ruffianly portion of the e
xew found their pleasure m hazing and t
11-treating their duller and less resolute e
hipmates, and there were some fearful
samples of this kind of work. "We had
parrinsr matches and single-stick play
ng, in both of which I excelled. Spinling
yarns and singing songs were re- n
ources that never failed. The starboard I
vatch made every man sing in turn c
mder penalty of a pannikin of salt water, I
,nd our poets were kept busy in compos- i:
ng new ditties. One man had a splendid a
enor voice; he was well educated and c
tad been, he said, an officer in the royal c
lavy, and was, like all disrated gentle- a
aen thntl have ever met, a 'vicious and t
rreclaimable blackguard.' How strange t
o hear him sing 'The Lament of the Irh-h a
Emigrant,' and .'My Mary in Heaven' i:
rith taste and feeling, and the next mo- t
aent disgust even his rude associates by c
, buret of obscene blasphemy. One I
ailors a wonderful story-teller, who gen- d
rally prefaced his yarns with 'When I f
ailed in the Taprobane, East Ingyman,' f
pas known as 'Top-robbin.' His im ig- s
nation was nrolific of horrors, and his t
[rim and sepulchral visage aided in pro- t
iucing an effort on his hearers. His I
ales were of phantom ships, that sailed t
a the teeth of wind and current, and of a
;hastly women that came aboard in the t
Leight of storms, etc., and so realistic c
nd impressive was his delivery that
ome of the worst ruffians in the watch c
ought their hammocks in fear and trem- t
ling. But the poor fellow came to grief t
q this wise. It was remarked that he i
iad always missed his 'tip' in the singag
and had rather avoided the tuneful t
hoir. He was on this particular night t
rdered to 'pipe up' and no more tem- e
orizing abput it. He put on a look of c
ntense misery, and commenced: f
n
'How Jerry Lee was hung at sea
For stabbing of his messmate true,
And his body did swing, a horrible thing, 1
At the sport of the wild sea-mew.' I
VTiat a voice??it was at once a squeaky I
reble and a hoarse bass. With one ac
J 11.. 11. J A . 1.! i. TT~ C
uru me men yeueu to mm w biup. xic
ras assured 'If you ever sing again in ?
his ere watch while we're off soundings, 1
re'll fire you through a lee port. Such a *
voice as that would raise a harrycane.'
'oor Top-robbin seemed glad to quit, ^
emarking that he didn't sing for his 1,1
wn 'diversion,' and we all agreed , i
rith him. c
"Most of the songs would not look .
veil in print, but they were nearly all
quibs on the * 'captain and his officers,' ?
,nd were bawled out without mitigation
i voice, and no d^ubt heard in the mess- 1
Anm off TKn V?oliof Ponfoin fiommPfl c
UV1U Ulb( X 11U UUilV/l K,vu*u*vw
tad been a parson inspired many of *
he^e ditties, one of which ran as folowa:
a
Oh, our captain said, "When my fortune's \
made, ?
111 buy a church to preach in, ,
Lnd fill it full of toots and horns,
And have a jolly Methodee screechin. 1
"And I'll pray the Lord from n'ghtto morn e
To weather old Yankee Doodle?
Lnd I'll run a hinfant Sunday-school c
With part of the Yankee's boodle.' " r
a
lie following was the last effort of the s
nuse, and was sung the Saturday night e
efore we left Cherbourg: t
We're homeward bound, we're homeward a
bound,
Ind soon shall land on English ground.;
>utere that English land we see,
Ve first must lick the Kersar-gee.'
Jut we didn't lick the Kersar-gee, and
he poor poet realized the alternative, for
saw him crusho 1 and mangled under a t
un, just before I went over the side." t
The second officer in command of the a
ilabama, says in his article: "Among a
he many prizes we capturcd and de- s
troyed, we necessarily saw many varie- 6
ies of the genus homo in (he guise of e
lie Yankee skipper. While taking the I
urning of their ships very philosophic- s
lly as among the fortunes of war, some t
lung to 'creature comforts' regardless of r
eavier losses. Upon one occasion, going L
board a fine ship, I told the captain 'he
light bring away his personal effects.'
[e made a most ludicrous scene
y earnestly appealing to me
o grant him one request,' that he i
night be permitted to take with him c
;Spurgeon's Sermons" and a keg of very 75
ue whisky." The seiinons I granted, i
ut told him the whisky must go over- n
oard. The prisoners on board of the I
.labaraa as a general practice were not t
ut in irons, but were simply confined to i;
q allotted space with a guard over thein. o
he pri-oners of the first half-dozen li
rizes taken were put in iron1', including fc
10 captains and mates, at which the cap- li
i ns were very indignant, and remon- r
rated with Captain Semmes that their s<
osition should entitle them to diferent s
eatment. Captain Semmes replied that p
e confined them in irons in retaliation <j
>r the manner in which the agents of ' y
le United States govern mcnUiad treated v
le purser of the ConfedCTate States fi
;camer Simter. The purser, under li
rders, was cj. route from Gibraltar to si
adi/. in a French merchant steamer. l]
topping at Tangier to put off and take p
n passengers ana curgo, tne purser y
ulked on shore, and was there, in a rt
e itral country, seized by the United V
tatcs consul at the head of an armed C
>rce of Moorish soldiers, and brutally ?
n prisoned, with heavy manacles. From o
icre he wai taken in irons by the United e
lutes armed vessel Ino, and finally sent e
) New York in irons. The purser was c
gentleman of unimpeachable character d
nd hi?h position. Again, there was oc- d
isions during the cruise when the num- b
er of prisoners warranted placing some li
a irons, but never were captains pHt in b
ons after that first measure of retalia- n
ion." b
Cattle with Golden Teeth, b
Zeigler, i f the meat market on Sonth ?
--Htivet, killed a steer the other day e
host' te-th were completely incrusted j
ith gold and silver bullion. The animl
cime from a ra'ich on ('arson river,
nd the precious metal on the enamel of ?
lie !e.?th doubtless accumulated from ?
r'nking the waer of the river, which is ^
11 ni'gn tol with the tailings from the t
tills reducing Comslock ores. This
ireuinstanee is not new, however, as
i.nn Davis memtioired something similar t
cfore in the C'arsoil Appeal. Most of [
he ea'tlo along the river have their teeth
iHicted in the same way. Their owners
light s raj e <11 quite a revenue from ^
iicm if they ha 1 any financial sense.? ^
Hrg'wkt City (JVfer.) IktrprUe.
THE FAMILY DcCTOB.
Relief for Toothache.
For ordinary nervous toothache, which
s caused by the nervous system being out
>f order or by excessive fatigue, a hot
>ath will so soothe the nerves that sleep
vill naturally follow, and upon getting
ip, the patient will feel very much rereshed
and the toothache gone. For
vhat is known as "jumping" toothache,
lot, dry, flannel applied to the face ana
leek is very effective. For common
oothache, which is caused by indiges- /
ion, or by strong, sweet acid or anything
'ery hot or cold in a decayed tooth, a litle
piece of cotton steeped in strong cam>hor
or oil of cloves is a grooi remedy.
}are in the diet,especially when the bowls
are disordered, is helpful to mitigate ^ 1
oothache. If the tooth is much decayed,
lothing is better than its extraction.
_______ "
Carbuncles and Boils.
Whoever has reflected as to the real
iature of carbuncular inflammation will,
think, eee reason to believe that its
auses are to a large extent local ones.
tespecting both boils and carbuncles, it
s the fact that the most efficient measures
re those which appeal to the local coalition.
This is true of all the different
npasnres in rnmite. however dissimilar
t first sight they may nppear. Some
lave for their object the protection of
he inflamed area from further irritation,
s when we cover up a boil or commencng
carbuncle with leather piaster, others
he subdual of the inflammation by means
f cold and the like, as when we use an
cc bladder or a strong spirit lotion. Nor
lo those who adopt a time-honored
iractice of an early free incision depart
rom this principle, for their object is
till the mitigation of local inflammation
>y the relief of tension, and by permitting
he escape of contaminating matters,
''rom acne, impetigo, and ecthyma to
>oils is in many cases a matter of degree,
nd that there is little or no real disinction
between a large boil and a small
arbuuele, all will, I think,^admit.
The age of the patient, nnd his special
liathetic condition at the time, their site,
he influence of different modes of local
reatment, are conditions which deter- - v*
nine the final result. y,
If a boil occur in an elderly person, on : C%
Vin n<\Tu? r>f Hi <? nfifik. where it is likelr
0 be irritated by the shirt collar, and
(specially if, instead of being systemati*
:ally protected from the first, it be
urther bullied by premature squeezing . :
ind the like, it is very likely to pass into - 1
1 carbuncle. I claim the strong testi- |
Qony which has been borne by Sir Jametf
>aget and others to the efficiency of sim>ly
protective measures in preventing
he development of smnll carbuncles,and
ibviating the supposed necessity for incision,
as proof that local spreading^
n the main, due to local causes, and no
lecessary connection with the general
ipfilth. In other words, it is not a thing
vhich is inevitable. On the other hand,
ve know of no internal remedy which
>ossesses any marked power in arresting*
:arbuncular inflammation. s
If we now ask in what does the pecu- . ; vj;
iarity of carbuncular inflnmnatiou coniist?
In what does a carbuncular differ
rom a boil? I should be inclined to
eply that it is solely in this tendency to
ipread. The spreading is occasioned by
sontagion of continuity, and it has cerain
marked resemblances to what we
>bserve in erysipelas. A carbuncle might
ilmost be defined to be an erysipelatous
>oil, with the proviso that the expression
s not intended to imply identity of imlammatory
type, but only close similarty.
'
Throughout, its whole OMrse, and how
iver extensive it may be, a carbuncle, in
ombination with its erysipelatous
nethod of spreading, contains the charicteristics
of the furuncular process. Its
ecretions and its core, or slough, are
ixactly like those of a boil, excepting
hat they are much more abundant. Ia
i general way there appears to be a*
latural tendency, independently of treatnent,
to arrest the process, and this is
lot generally observed in erysipelas. In
>ther words, erysipelatous infiam nation
s more intensely infective than carbun- *
sular. I must, however, qualify even
his admission of difference by stating
hat carbun *ular inflammation has such *
in injurious influence on health that in
ill cases in which its spread continues in
pite of treatment the patient quickly
lie?. Thus many cases occur in which
10 proof is given of tendency to arrest.
t may easily De tne iact mai ia buuio
tates of system, and some types of caruncle,
there is as little tendency to arest
as there is in phlegmonous erysipeas.?Jonathan
Hutchinson, M. D. \ " ** ^ -~
?
Presents to the President.
A friend of President Cleveland said
n the course of a conversation with a
orrespondent of the Indianapolis Jourlal:
"Talk about the President's refus- . '
ng gifts, I remember at Albany, just
fter his election, what a time he had.
le refused everything. Why, he actually
tad to employ a man especially to work
n repacking "the gifts sent him from all
ver the country. You will hardly be? ' .
[eve it but from November to ^larch he
Lad eighty-nine dogs sent him/ Cleveind
is fond of dogs, but he made it a
ule never to see one of the gifts. As
oon as they arrived they were sent to the
table of the executive mansion, and the
nnrker rcshiDDe.l them. One"
yy Mr. Cleveland happened to be in the
ard when an express wagon arrived
rith a dog. It was a splendid Rewound
land, I can tell yon. When Clevemd
saw him he looked longingly at the
baggy, black creature, as if to say:-'
How I would like to keep you,' but he
as*ed on and the dog was sent back -~
rhence it came. During that time ho
aceived no less than six eagles, splendid
lirds, but they were all sent back. Mr.
Jleveland always sent everything back
hat could be returned, but there was
ne thing he could not return?they were
mbroidered hat-bands Why, I do not
xaggcrate in the least when I say he reeked
as many as a bushel basket full a
ay. I have often seen, at evening time,
uring Noveirber or December, 1834, a
ushel basket full of these thii gs in the
ibrarv of the executive mansion at Al
any. What did he do with them? * He
ever saw them; they were carried out
<y the servants and sold for wa^te paper
r rags. I often used to think how many
lours had been wasted by fair ha ids in
larking the 'G. C.' on the hat-bands. I
raa mistaken when I said he returned
verything.He did keep one gift?canes.
Ir. Cleveland had the finest set of canes
f any man in the world. He had a
abinet made for them. There were
inf.tv oiv in oil fttul such beauties. Ho
lillVbJ'OiA IU M*I ^ ? ? eceives
a large number voted to him from
airs all over the country. He has over
wenty-five gold-headed ones, a number
if them very hand-ome.
"Cleveland has no pets at the White
louse and his well known trait of retnrnng
all presents has stopped, to a certain
i\tent, his being bothered by rcoeiving
,ny. If, however, one doe* stray into
he White House it generally goes back
he way it came before he 82C it. Hia
rders axe to this effect.