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r m\. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: "The Grandmother and Her Grandchildren." Text: "The unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois."?II. Timothy, L, 5. In this love letter which Paul, the old m i n icfnr ie irrifinry f A TiniAfliTT tKa VAtinr* UIUI1C1UI) IO "living liV AiMivbuj, mo j vuu^ minister, the family record is brought out. j Paul practically says: "Timothy, what a good grandmother you had. You ought to be better than most" folks, because not only was your mother good, but your grandmother. Two preceding generations of piety ought to give you a mighty push in the right direction." The tat t was that Timothy needed encouragement. He was poor in health, having a weak stomach, and was dyspeptic, and Paul prescribed for him a tonic, "a little wine for thy tomach's sake'1?not much wine, but a little wine, and only as a medicine. And if the wine then had been as much adulterated with I logwood and strychnine as our modern wines, he would not have prescribed any. But Timothy, not strong physically, is encouraged spiritually by the recital of grandmotherly excellence, Paul hinting to him, as I hiut this day to you, that Goa sometimes i gathers up as in a reservoir away back of the j active generations of to-day a godly in- | flue nee, and then in responsa to prayer lets j down the power upon children and grand- : children and great grandchildren. The > world is woefully in want of a table i of statistics in regard to what is j the protractedness and immensity of influence j of one good woman in the churcn and world. We have accounts of how much evil has j been wrought by Margaret, the mother of i who livpd near a hundred vears ' ago, and of how many hundreds of criminals her descendants furnished for the peni- I tentiary and the gallows, and how many j thousands of dollars they cost this country ! in their arraignment aud prison support i as well as in the property they burglarized or destroyed. But will not i some one come out with brain compre- | tensive enough and heart warm enough and ; pen keen enough to give us the facts in re- i gard to some good woman of a hundred : years ago, and let us know how many Chris- | tian men and women and reformers and use- j tul people have been found among her de- ] scendants, and how many asylums and col- ! leges and churches they built, and how many j millions of dollars they contributed for hu- | manitarian and Christian purposes.' The good women whose- tombstones were j planted in the 18th century are more alive j for good in the l'Jth century than they were i before, as the good women of this 15>th cent- I ury will be more alive for good in the :30th j century than now. Mark you, I have no j iriaa that the Grandmother's were ar.V ' better than their granddaughters. You cannot get very old people to talk much about how things were when they were boys and girls. They hcve a reticence and a non-committalism which make3 me think they feel themselves to be the custodians of the reputation of their early comrades. While our dear old folks are rehearsing the follies of the present, if you put them on the witness stand and cross-examine them as to how things were seventy years ago the silence becomes oppressive. A celebrated Frenchman by the name of Volney, visited this country in 17%, and he says of woman's diet in those times: "If a premium were offeied for a regimen most destructive to health, none could be devised more efficacious for these ends than that in ] use among these people." That eclipses ! our lobster salad at midnight. Every- j body talks about the dissipations of J mnHorn cn/Motv And lir?w wnmnnlv i health goes down under it, but it was worse a hundred years ago, for the chaplain of a French regiment in our Revolutionary War wrote in 1783, in his book of American women, saying: "They are tall and well proportioned, their features are generally regular, their complexions are generally fair ; and without color. At twenty years of age the women have no longer the freshness of f outh. At thirty or forty they are decrepit." j n 1813 a foreign consul wrote a book en- | titled: "A Sketch of the United States at | the Commencement of the Present Century," | and he says of the women of those times: ' "At the age of thirty all their charms have j disappeared." One glance at the portraits of , the women a hundred years ago and their i style of dress makes us%onder how they ever j f;ot their breath. All this makes me think j hat the express rail train is no more an im- | provement on the old canal boat, or the ; telegraph no more an improvement on the ; old-time saddlebags, than the women of our ! day are an improvement on the women of ! the last century. But still, notwithstanding that those times ! were so much worse than ours, there was a glorious race of godly women, seventy and a hundred years ago, who held the world back j from sin and lifted it toward virtue, and ' without their exalted and sanctified influence j before this the last good influence would have perished from the earth. Indeed all over I this land there are seated to-day? not so much in churches, for many of them are too feeble to come? a great many aged grandmothers. They sometimes reel time tue world nas gone past | them, and they have an idea they are of ! little account Their head sometimes gets aching from the racket of the grandchildren downstairs or in the next room. They steady themselves"by the banisters as they go up and down. When they get a cold it hangs on to them longer than ?t used to. They cannot bear to nave the granrhildren punished j even when they deserve it, ana have ; so relaxed their ideas of family discipline that they would spoil all the youngsters of the household by too great leniency. | These old folks are the resort when great | trnnhlf^ nmnft nnrl tharA ia n r?nIminrr nriH 1 soothing power in the touch of an aged hand ' that is almost supernatural. They feel they ; are almost through with the journey of life and read the old book more than they used to, hardly knowing which most they enjoy, the Old Testament or the New, and often stop and dwell tearfully j over the family record half way between, j We hail them to-day whether in the house of : God or at the homestead. Blessed is that j household that has in it a grandmother Lois, j Where she is angels are hovering round and God is in the room. May her last days be , like those lovely autumn days that we call | Indian summer. I never knew the joy of having a grandmother; that is the disadvantage of being the | youngest child of the family. The elder j members only have that benediction. But , though she went up out of this life before I i began it, I have heard of her faith in God, j that brought all her children into the king- i dom and two of them into the ministry, and j then brought all her grandchildren into \ ; the kingdom, myself the last and > least worthy. Is it not time that you and I do two things, swing open a picture gallery of the wrinkled faces and stooped shoulders of the past, and call down from their heavenly thrones the godly grandmothers to give thern our thanks, and then persuade the mothers of to-day that they are living for all time, and that against the sides : of every cradle in which a chill is rocked j beat the two eternities. Here we have an untried, undiscussed and J unexplored subject. You often hear about your influence upon your children?I am not talkinz about that. * What about your influence upon the twentieth century, upon the thirtieth century, upon the fortieth century, upon the year two thousand, upon the year four thousand, if the world lasts so long. The world stood four thousand years before Christ came; it is not unreasonable to suppose tliat ic may , stand four thousand years after his arrival. Four thousand years the world swung off in j sin, four thousand years it may be swinging back into righteousness. By the ordinary i rate of multiplication of the world's popula- | tion in a century your decendants will | be over three hundred, and by two l centuries at least over fifty thousand, j and upon every one of them you, the mother of to-day, will have an influence I for good or evil. And if in four centuries your descendants shall have with their names i filled a scroll of hundreds of thousands, will j t some angel from heaven to whom is given I the capacity to calculate the number of the stars of heaven and the sands of the seashore, ! step down and tell us how many descend- j ants you will have in the four thousandth year of the world's possible continuance? j Do not let the grandmothers ar.v j longer think that tney ara renreu, i and sit clear back out of sight from the world, feeling that thev have no relation to it. The mothers of the last century are today in the senates, the parliaments, the palaces, the pulpits, the banking houses, the professional chairs, the prisons, the almsr nouses, the company of midnight brigands, the cellars, the ditches of this century. You have been thinking about the importance of having the right influence upon one A ! nursery. You hava l*vn of tiie importance of getting tlio* two little feet on the right path. You havd bOn ?>>"?"?* of your chilli's destiny for the ne'.T&w 'ghty years, if it should pass on to be an oct?>v*enn,j!ai1That is well, but my subject sweep!? 0 . U1 sand years, a miilion years, a quadri.'N?11 01 years. I cannit stop at one cradle, 1 looking at the cradles that reach all arou'flA the world and across all time. I am not talk- i ing of mother Eunice, I am talking of grand- j mother.Lois. The only way you can tell ths j force of a current is by sailing up stream: or j the force of an ocean wave, by running the [ ship against it. Running along with it we j cannot appreciate the force. In estimating | maternal influence we generally run along j with it down the stream of time, and so wft don't understand the full force. ! Let us come up to it from the | eternity aide, after it has been working on j lor centuries, and see all the good it has done and all the evil it has accomplished, multi- | plied in magnificent or appalling compound I interest. The difference between that mother's influence on her children now, and the j influence when it has been multiplied in [ hundreds of thousands of lives, is the j difference between the Mississippi River way up at the top of the continent starting j from the little lake Itasca, seven miles long j and one wde, and its mouth at the Gulf of j Mexico, where navies might ride. Between /\f t.haf. rivor a nrl if.c in thft I sea the Missouri pours in, and the Ohio pours i in, and the Arkansas nours in, and the Red j and White and Yazoo Rivers pour in, and all j the States and Territories between the Alleghany and Rock}' Mountains make contribution. Now, in order to test the power of a j mother's influence, we need to come in off of | the ocean of eternity and sail toward the one | cradle, and we will find ten thousand trib- I utaries of influence pouring in and pouring ! down. But it is after all one great river of j power rolling on and rolling forever. Who can fathom it? Who can bridge i it"? Who can stop it? Had not j m/vfliAio ha inf*mcifvin<r Mi pi r I prayers? Had they not better be elevating I their example? Had they not better be rousing themselves with the consideration that by their faithfulness or neglect they are starting an influence which will be j stupendous after the last mountain of earth | is flat, and the last sea has been dried up, and the last flake of the ashes of a consumed world shall have been blown away, and all the telescopes of other worlds j directed to the track around which our world j once swung shall discover not so much as a i cinder of the burned-down and swept off I planet. In Ceylon there is a granite column j thirty-six square feet in size, which ! is thought by the natives to decide : the world's continuance. An aneel : wii-.n rni? cnnn from zennvrs is once a cen- I turv to descend and sweep the hem of that j robe across the granite, and when by that at- | trition the column is worn away they say i time will end. But by that process that j granite column would be worn out of existence before that mother's influence will be- j gin to give away. , If a mother tell a chil l if he is not good i some bugaboo will come and catch him, the | fear excited may make the child a coward, ! and the fact that he fin is that there is no i bugaboo may make him a liar, and the echo j of that false alarm may be heard after fifteen I generations have been boniand have expired, j If a mother promise a child a reward for i good behavior and after the good behavior f i forgets to give the reward, the cheat may ! crop out in some faithlessness half a thousand j i years further on. If a mother culture a j i child's vanity and eu'o^ize his curls and extol j i the night-black or sky-Blue or nut-brown of , the child's eyes, and call out in his presence | the admiration and pride of s;>ecta- i 1 tors, pride and arrogance may be j i prolonged after half a dozen fam- ' 1 1_ J- 1 1 ~ 1,1 TF oil ny R'wrus aavo wcu uuntvi awgu. x?. u > mother express doubt about some statement I of the Holy Bible in a child's presence, long j after the gates of this historical era have j closed and the gates of another era have , opened, the result may be seen in a champion ' blasphemer. But, on the other hand, i if a mother walking with a child j see a suffering one bv the way- I ] side and says: "My child, give that | ten cent piece to that lame boy," the result j may be seen on the other side of the follow- j 1 ing century in some George Muller building j a whole village of orphanages. If a mother j sit almost every evening by the trundle bed ; of a child and teach it lessons of a Saviour's love and a Saviour's example, of the im- i portance of truth and the horror j of a he, and the virtue of in- j dustry and kindness and sympathy i and self-sacrifice, lone after the mother has gone and the child haifgone and the lettering ! shall have been washed out by the storms of i innumerable winters, there may be standing, as a result of those trundle-bed lessons, flam- ] ing evangels, world-moving reformers, weep- j ins Paysons, thundering Wliiteflelds, emanci- I pating Washingtons. Good or bad influence may skip one generation or two generations, but it will be sure to : land in the third or fourth generation, just as the Ten Commandments, speaking of the i visitation of God on families, says nothing j about the second generation, but entirely skips the second and speaks of the third and ' 1 fourth generation: "Visiting the iniquities | of the fathers upon the third and fourth | generations of them that hate me." Parental j influence, right and wrong, may jump over a j i generation, but it will come down further on j as sure as you sit there and I stand here, j minicfpir nc nrniwfavl hv his ! i UUVmj o UUiJMVI ^ ??*W J 4VJVV? ~J | grandmother, Lou. Then? are men and , ; woman here, the sons and daughters <5f J ; the Christian Church, who are such as ; a result of the consecration of greatgreat-grandmothers. Why, who do you I ! think the Lord is? You talk as though His j memory was weak. He can no easier remember a prayer five minutes than he can five ' centuries." This explains what we often see j ' ?some man or woman distinguished for I benevolence when the father and mother I were distinguished for penuriousness. or yc u i see some young man or woman with a j bad father and a hard mother come ' /.IaimamsIi. frtu PKw'ef nnH nmlra ' g.vy. iv/ua.j iv. i the church sob and shout and sing under , i their exhortations. We stand in corners of ; . the vestry and whisper over the matter and i say: "How is this, such great piety in sons and daughters of such parental worldliness and sin r I will explain it to you if you will fetch me the old Family Bible containing the | full record. Let some septuagenarian look with me clear upon the page of births and marriages, ana tell me who that woman was with the old-fashioned name of Jemima or j Betsy or Mehitabel. Ah, thero she is, the old | grandmother, or great grandmother, who j ( had enough religion to saturate a century. I ! There she is, tho dear old soul, Grand- ] mother Lois. In our beautiful Greenwood? j | (may we all sleep there when our work is : done, for when I get up in the resurrection I moraine I want my congregation all al>out j 1 mej?in Greenwood there is the resting place | . of George W. Bethune, once a minister of j j Brooklyn Heights, his name never spoken j j among intelligent Americans witnout suggesting two things?eloquence and evangelism. In the same tomb sleeps his grandmother, ' Isabella Graham, who was the chief inspira- i tion of his ministry. You are not surprised j at the poetry and patho3 and pulpit power of the grandson when you read of the faith and ; devotion of his wonderful ancestress. When you read this letter, in which she poured out j her widowe 1 sou! in longings for a son's sal- j vation, you will not wonder that succeeding j generations have been blessed: With such a grandmother, would you not have a right to expect a George W. Bethune? j 1 and all the thousands converted throueh his j < ministry may date tue saving power bacic to Isabella Graham. ' i New York. May 20. 1791. This day my only son left me in bitter wringing of heart; ne ia again launched on the occan, UocTa ocean. The Lord saved him from shipwreck, brought him to my home, and allowed me once more to indulge my affections over him. He has been with me out a short time, and 111 have I improved it: he has eons from my sight and my heart bursts with tumultuous grief. Lord, have mercy on the widow's son. "the only son of his mother." I ask nothing in all this world for him; I repeat mr petition, save his soul alive, give him salvation from sin. It Is not the danger of the sc-as that distress me; it is not the hardships he must undergo; it is not the dread of never seeing him more in this world; it is because I cannot discern the fulfilment of the promise within him. I cannot discern the new birth nor its frnit, but eveiy symptom of captivity to satan, the world an I self-will. This, this is what distresses me: and in connection with this j his being shut out from ordinances at a distance , from Christians; shut up with those who forget | God, profane Ills name and break His Sabbath; i J men who often live an'l die like boasts, yet are ac- ! cnuntfihle creatures, who must answer for evory ! moment of time and every word, thought and j action. O Lord, many wonders hast Thou shown ' me: Thy ways of dealing with ma ana mine nave I not been common ones; add this wonder to the rest. Call, convert, regenerate and establish a sailor In the faith. Lord, all things are possible with Thee; glorify Thy Son anil exiend His klugdom by sea and land; take the prey from the strong. I roll him over upon Thee. Many friends try to comfort me; miserable comforter* are they all Thou art the God of consolation; only confirm to me Thy ) precious word, on which Thou caasedst me to hope <n the day when Thou sa dst to me: "'Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them a'ive.'' Only let this lire be a spiritual life and I put a blank In Thy hand to all temporal things. I wait for Thy salvation, Amen. God fill the earth and the heavens with such grandmothers; we must someday go up and thank these dear old soul3. Surely | liod will let us go up unci tell them of the results of their influence. Among our first questions in heaven will be: "Where is grandi mother-'' They will point her out. ror we ! would hardly know her even if we had seen her j 1 on earth, 30 bent over with years once and ! there so straight, so dim of eye through the j 1 blinding of earthly tears and now lier eye as i clear as heaven, so full of aches and pains .^once and now so agile with celestial health, wrinkles blooming into carnation roses, anCj her step like the roe on the ninniiU'"ls- Yes, I must see her, my grandmother i-.n flier's side, Mary McCoy, descendant v ^ ~ ie.1} SP? ,0 to an aiiriieixvo 111 klasgow, Scotland, and felt Smewhat SWt, being a stranger. I begun by telling thenf grandmother was a Scotch woman, anfi ^19n there UP a shout of welcome whft?5? J^ade me feel as easy a3 I do here. I must set? Wr* ... You must see those wo'!tKn. or ^e 0^rJv nineteenth century and of tv'0 oishtegntn century, the answer of whose phk v?rs Is in your we1 fare to-day. God bless all vhe aged women up and down the land and <in all lands: What a happy thing for Pomportius Atticus to say when making the funef^t address of his mother: "Though I have resided with her sixty-seven years I was | never once reconciled to her, because there never happened the least discord be- , tween us, ana consequently there was no neel of reconciliation.' Make it as easy for the old folks as you can. When they are sick get lor tnem tne Dest doctors. uive mem your arm when the streets are slippery. Stay with them all the time you can. Go home and see the old folks. Find the place for , them in the hymn-book. Never be ( ashamed if they prefer styles of apparel ; a little antiquated. Never say anything that . implies they are in the way. Make the road J for the last mile as smooth as you can. Oh, my! how you will miss her when she is gone. How much would I give to see my mother. I have so nuny things I would like to tell her, things that have happened in the twenty-four yeai-s since she went away. Morning, noon and night let us thank God for the good influences that have come dowa from good mothers an tue way oacK. | Timothy, don't forget your mother Eunice, ! and don't forget your grandmother Lois, j And hand down to others this patrimony of i blessing. Pass along the coronets. Make re- | ligion an heirloom from generation to generation. Mothers of America, consecrate yourselves to God ana you will help consecrate all the ages following! Do not dwell so much on your hardships that you miss your chance of wielding an influence that shall look down upon you from the towers of an endless fu- J ture. I know Martin Luther was right when j he consoled his wife over the death of their j j daughter by saying: "Don't take on so, wife, | ( remember that this is a hard world for girls." | , Yes: I go further and say: It is a hard world i ( for women. Aye, I go further and say: It | is a hard world for men. But for ' " > ?I 2X11 women unu men v> uu ui uicu bodies and souls in the hand of Christ the shining gates will soon swing open. Don't < you see the sickly pallor on the sky? That is < the pallor on the cold cheek of the dying ] night. Don't you see the brightening of the | clouds? That is the flush on the warm fore- i head of the morning. Cheer up, you are 1 coming within sight of the Celestial City. ] Cairo, capital of Egypt, was called " City of Victory;" Athens, capital of Greece, was ( called " City of the Violet; Crown;"' Baalbeck j was called " City of the Sun;" London was , called " The City of Masts;" Lucian's im- , aginary metropolis beyond the Zodiac was , called4 'The City of Lanterns;" but the city to ( which you journey hath all these in one; tbe . victory, the crowns, the masts of those that j bave been harbored after the storm. Aye, ] all but the lanterns and the sun, because they have no need of any other light, since j tie Lamb is the light thereof." 1 ' * ( i wftRits nv WKiift vr i Take things always by the smooth j handle. Nothing is troublesome that we do ivillingly. a n. gruuiuus mau mieiiuiity iu 10 one but himself. * How much pain the evils have cost :bat have never happened. 8 There is nothing either absolutely good t )r absolutely bad in this world. Feebleness of means is, in fact, the e 'cebleness of him that employs them. When angry, count ten before you ^ ipeak, if very angry, count a hundred. Extraordinary afflictions are not always s ;he punishment of extraordinary graces. Happy the chiid who sows the good ind the true. The harvest will not fail i lim. j h Desire is a tree in leat, hope is a tree . d n flower, and enjoyment is a tree iu !. Tuit. " ! a In an angry moment a man may do j c fehat a lifetime of repentance cannot j e indo. j Be content to do things you can, and j j ret not because you cannot do every- j ;lung. i i To look at everything in a gloomy } ight is silly, in a roseate hue is a de- j ? usion. i Weak characters never snow any a?- > :ision, exc ept when they commit some j ict of stupidity. E In sonic instances je.ilousy is a sign of : r ove, but it is more frequently proof of J )verwhelming egotism. Magnanimity, which is so highly j c praised, usually consists ot a goou ueai a i>f pity and a little contempt. ; ? We are always casting the shadow of v >ur life upon some one. always helping j ? )r hindering some weaker one by our in- o luence. I t b Changes In Washington. { p Washington, says a New York World sr :orrespondent, is rapidly changing from j. i country town to a city, and within the ( past five years the business aspects of the a :own have advanced more than the prices j >f its real estate. It has now many fine t four and five story buildings, and the 0 Baltimore Sun building of white marble ? is eight stories in height and is a struc- j 0 him tVinf w/vilrl hnnnr New York. The ! t jtores have changed and the people no r longer go to Baltimore or New York to * shop. Five yours ago all the measuring in the dry goods stores was done with yardsticks and the latest styles of goods were not to be seen on the counters. One Df the price marks was the "levy," which c is s term sometimes used here for shilling. v Silks were so many "levies" a yard and ( jggs might be a "levy" a dozen. The J furniture stores were muih of the same | character, and if anything really tine r 4-1 iV. J- L.J A. ^ I < ivas wauieu ioe customer uau iu yu tu i the larger cities for it. Now you will 1 5nd as good dry goods stores here as ? there are in the country and we have a ( number of art furniture stores which s keep hand-made furniture. The Japanese f store and the Turkish vender of rugs ? and attar of noses is now doing business ' in Washington in the winter as he does s it Saratoga in the summer, and the jew- j ?lry stores sport many fine diamonds, l'he fa-hionable population which is rapidly settling at Washington and the c :rowd> which come here now to spend * the Winter for the sake of the society * xre lavish buyers and they pay good t prices, and as for markets, Washington t lias as good as you will find iu me United StatC3. j Japanese Hriea-Brae. i The craze for Japanese bric-a-brace in 1 this country received its first impetus \ when Commodore Perry returned to j "Washington from the land of the Mikado { in 1854, bringing with him the first 1 Japanese curiosities ever seen here. Among them were two large lacquered bowls, with covers, one of which was 1 bought by Edward Everett. Lacqured ' ware was greatly admired and it was de* ' ! clarcd that the Japanese had made wood j malleable. * TEMPERANCE. Bill Nye's Advice to GirlsBill Nye gives the following advice to . girls, which is sensible as well as witty: "Try to get acquainted with the man whom you propose to wed. As you get more thoroughly acquainted, try to get a whiff of his breath. Bee that he is tempprate. If you find that he loves the flowing bowl, and that his hot breath, as it comes through his clenched teeth, scorches the cotton in your ears, draw yourself up to your full height, crack your heels together twice in rapid succession and go away." A Novel Movement. The National Anti-Nuisance League, which proposes to suppress the liquor traffic without tllP ft i rl nf roofpoi'tiinnr r\t* nrnliiKif/\rv an a ments, is lacking neither in boldness nor originality. It proceeds upon tb8 assumption that it is not in the power of either the J people or the Legislature to sanction that which injures the public health or the public morals. A decision of the Supreme Court of the United States is cited in support of this proposition, and the inference is that drinking saloons may be suppressed as nuisances, the laws passed for their regulation being an- i constitutional and void. This would be a I shoitcut toward actual prohibition, whatever might be its effects upon the interests sought to be protected and promoted?the health and morals of the people. If the courts can be induced to hold that every drinking saloon, licensed or unlicensed, is a nuisance itself and detrimental to the health, peace and morals of the community in which it Bxists, the common law proceeding in regard to nuisances would be sufficient to effect itas ! suppre sion, if applied. The licensing of the liquor traffic is as old as our colonial history, ( and if there is nothing in the Constitution to authorize the Legislature of Pennsylvania to regulate and license the traffic, the wonder is , that the discovery was not made prior to, or at the time of, the adoption of the first , licensa law. The history of the manufacture ; and sale of liquors, both in colonial days and j under the Constitution, is inseparably con- , nected with laws for their taxation, license , and regulation, in almost every conceivable ( form, and it seems rather late in the day to set up the plea that tho license laws are \ wholly void. It may be said, too, that even if the principle laid down by the Nntional Anti-License League should be found correct, there are grave doubts whether the supression of the traffic in the summary manner I 1 proposed could be accomplished. Let it be aiice clearly established that there is no an- ' ihority to either license or regulate the sale jf intoxicants, and temperance reform will < eceive a most disastrous check.?Pittsburg i Gazette. ' Xlie W. C. T. U. Advocating a New j Law. ( Judge Henderson, Mrs. Woods, Mrs. Al- 1 irich.and other prominent prohibition worksrs in Iowa have appeared before the Com- i mittee for Suppression of Intemperance to ( set before them another bill relating to the sale of intoxicating liquors. The bill is said ] to meet more favor than the Custer bill. The main features are as follows: j It places the sale of liquor in the hands of ] irnggists, who to get permits must secure i nompc r?f nnfl.thirH nf t.ho vntiirs in t.hoiv* wards or townships and an equal numi^flBL women over 21 years: they must give Bor^n Eor $3,000, liable to penalties and costs. AflTfl ilerk selling liquors must be a registered pharmacist. Certificates of sale must be made the same as now, except that they shall be numbered and have the seal of the County Auditor. A buyer making false affidavit is to be deemed guilty of perjury, and giving a false name guilty of forgery.. A druggist must show that he has never been convicted }f crime or addicted to the use of intoxicating liquors. The present permits will expire aext June. This bill does not banish beer, as the Custer bill. The Custer bill originated with the State Temperance Alliance, and this with the VYoman's Christian Temperance Union.? Chxcaao Tribune. Temperance News and Notes. Moderate drinking i3 the down-hill road to j ntamperance. ' Ail use or intoxicating liquors as a Dever- j ' Lge is an abuse. j The issue of rum is to be discontinued in ( he British army. ( Beer aggravates many, if not all, skin dis- . i ases; particularly eczema. ! < So long as rum is free to whoever wants to ' my, it matters comparativelv little that it j ' >e free to whoever wants to sell. The Ithacan says tho Cornell University tudents have formed a total abstinence I aague, which already has more than 100 j aembers. A bill has been introduced in the Kentucky j legislature which among other things pro- ' , tibits and makes void marriage with a J > runkard. j Of over fifty inebriate asylums which hare ! t een established in this country, about thirty | i .re now in operation, the others having liangod into insaue asylums, water cures, to Dr. G. A. Shurnlief, former Saperinten- I lent of the Stockton,Iowa,State Insane Asy- j am, says that intemperance produces more . r\sanity on the Pacific coast than anj other ! nflueDce. " j' At the late session of the Territorial Teach- , rs' Association, Mrs. R.H. Harvey, President | if Montana W. 0. T. U., presented the sub- j ect of scientific temperanco instruction in ; rnblic schools. j The New South Wales (Australia) Parlia- | aent has authorized a Drink Inquiry Com- j nission, and the results of its investigation | tave made a profound impression against ' he liquor traffic. The National Temperance Hospital in Chicago is demonstrating the fact that distilled nd fermented liquors are not necessary for i he cure of disease. "Typhoid fever is i reated there with uniform success without i i rine; consumptives are built up without 1 rhisky; collapse from shock overcome with- i >ut alcohol. 1 There is hardly a single Chinaman among 1 he Chinese denizens of New York city who 1 las ever fallen into the iiquor habit, and a 1 >olicemaii who patrols the Chinese quarter ays he never yet saw a drunk Chinaman. There are more Americans of both sexes who ] lave taken up the Chinese opium habit than ,'hinamen wno have been seized with the J Jcoholic mania of the Americans. 1 An item is going the rounds of tho press to he effect that whisky is now manufactured ut of old rags. We see nothing remarkable i bout this, is the New York Observer's com- s nent. Every one knows that nearly all the Id rags now in the country are manufac- < ured out of whisky, and there is no apparent ? eason why the process of conversion may not s vork as well one way as another: from j rhisky to rags and from rags to whisky. Vhat a beautiful business it is! ^ ? Prohibition in Turkey. Tho Turks, being prohibitionists by order t ?f the Koran, have commenced a littlo war x innn tram cnlnnns lf?nt hv thn Christians in 4 Constantinople. Such establishments in Lhe ] Christian quarter do not give offence to the x Turkish authorities, but there are numerous aloons in the immediate neighborhood of the j nosques or Turkish temples. All the drink- ( ng places within 'S.Q feet from the houses of I'urkish worship have been ordered closed, j tnd the policeare giving effect to the decree, o such a thing is too much, of course, for Christian diplomates. All the foreign Conuls held a meeting and resolved that a uni- r orm protest should be signed by all of th<m s igainst so outaageous a proceeding of the r 'unspeakable" "lurk and be delivered by } heir respective embassies to the Porte on the i ame day. I The Creates! Sufferers. i It is not the drunken husband, father, son sr brother, remarks an exchange, that fools 8 he keenest torments of the drunkard's home. )h no, it is the wife, the mother, the sister, j t ind the daughter. The intemperate man j c Irinks the cup Lut the dregs are at tho bot- ^ ??.?-l l~P?- ia?. flm u'Ainon To tliie nnf cr\4 U1JI U11U 1UU IVI i/uu VIIIVIII V...? uv. Then why not protect?by removing the :urse, drink?from the innocent and defenseess. 1 | c A saloon can no more be run without 1 ising up boys than a flouring mill without j ? wheat, or a sawmill without logs. The only : | juestion is whose boys?your boys or mine? j -* >ur toys or our nighbore? Will you give , rour husbands and sons, or must other women j jive their husbands and sons, that the mill of : uin may grind on! f More tlnn $180,000,000 was spent in the * United States last year for whisky and beer I ^ by workingmen. When one figures up how many neat little $300 cottages that sum j would build, and realizes that every dollar of , It was more than wasted, it makes him feel j solemn, * I RELIGIOUS READING. Everlaating' Peace. We hear the words of love, We gaze upon the blood, We see the mighty sacrifice, And we have peace with God. Tis everlasting peace! Sure as Jehovah's name; TTis staple as His steadfast throne, For evermore the same. Our love Is ofttimes low, Our joy still ebbs and flows; But peace with Himfremains tho snme; No change JehdVah knows. We change?He changes not, Our Christ can never die; His love, not ours, the resting place, We on His truth rely. The Cross still stands unchanged, Though Heaven is now His noma; The mighty stone is rolled away, But yonder is His tomb! And yonder is our peace, The grave of all our woes; We know the Son of God has come, We know He died and rose. We know He liveth now At God's right hand above; We know the throne on which He sits, we know His truth and love. Dr. Arnold's Dally Prayer. This is a short but very beautiful prayer that Dr. Arnold wrote for his own use Defore he went into the school of Rugby every day: "0 Lord, I have a busy workl around me; eye, ear and thought will be needed for all my work to be done in that busy world. Now, ere I enter upon it,. I wjould commit aye, ear and thought to Thee I Do Thou bless them, and keep their work Thine; that 33, through Thy natural laws,, my heart beats and my blood flows without any thought of mine for them, so my spiritual life may hold on its course at these times when my mind sannot conseiouslv turn to Thee to commit ;ach particular thought to Thy service. Hear my prayer, for my dear Redeemer's sake. Amen. Call of Evangelical .lllhwc?. The conference recently held in Washington made a deep impression on the country, [t was remarkable for its numbers, character and earnestness. There was an extended discussion of the iaigers to our national life. The great resources of the Christian church?so largely imused?were fully considered. All present felt that new and remarkable opportunities axisted for bringing the practical teachings 3f Christ to bear upon the social problems of the times. It was shown that active co-operation of all Christians was absolutely needed and jasuy possiDie, not umy wnuuui lura'cuug with the work of any church, but distinctly helping forward that of each. A deep impression of personal responsibility grew out of these discussions, and the members left with the conviction that wise ind prompt action should be taken. We, therefore, venture to suggest tbaWn wch city, town and neighborhood, pastors denominations, and such laymen as the^Mgv select, be invited to meet and :arefuUy"Btudy the needs and problems of the special locality. This may include such organized visitation as shall give a certain knowledge of those who do not attend religious services, and as far as possible the reasons which keep them away. It is especially desirable to devise plans for winning the confidence of working people. Such visitation can readily includo a knowledge of the sick and deserving poor, the number and location of saloons and places of ill-repute, md all the evil influences that affect tho moral character of the community. Such ' will draw Christians into closer sympathy, and will so reveal needs as to stimulate earnest and united action, by which alone tho desired work can be affectively done. As the value of the work will depend ;hiefly on its continuance, we suggest that permanent organizations bo formed, and, in jrder that they may be mutually helpful and ihat they may co-operate in the prosecution if moral reforms and in the defence of cherished and endangered institutions, we incite such organizations to bceomo branches )f the National alliance. Documents will be furnished on applica* ;ion to the general secretary. John Jay, w. E. Dodge, Chairman Ex. Com. President. Josiah Strong, Secretary. "Tftll other It'? Brother Will." At a Moody and Murphy mooting at Farwell hall in Chicago, Major Hilton of New STork being present was called out by Mr. Moody and made a particularly impresdve address. Among other things he gave ;he following incident, which occurred not ong since on the Scottish coast while he was ;here: Just at break of day of a chilly morning ;he people of a little hamlet on the coast were awakened by the booming of a cannon jver the stormy waves. They knew what it jieant, for frequently they had beard before ;he same signal of distress Some poor souls were out beyond the breakers, perishing on a wrecked vessel and in their last extremity iui? Vtaln fVIA ruvmla 'ailing WliUljr jlui uuiiiaii uo*y. *uw lastened from their houses to the shore. STes, out there in the distance was a dismantled vessel pounding itself to pieces, with wishing fellow beings clinging to the rigjing, every now and then some one of them iwept off by the furious waves into the sea. The life-saving crew were soon gathered. "Man the life-boat!" cried tne men. "Where is Hardy?" But the foreman of the crew was not there, ( ind the danger was imminent. Aid must be immediate or all was lost. The next in command sprang into the frail boat, followed by the rest, all taking their lives in their hands j in the hope of saving others. 0 how those on i the shore watched their brave, loved ones as , they dashed on, now over, now almcst under ! the waves! They reached the wreck. Like angels of deliverance they filled their craft 1 with almost dying men,?men lost but for . i them. Back again they toiled, pulling for < the shore, bearing their precious freight. , Phe first man to help them land was Hardy. 1 , vhose words rang aDove the roar of the 1 ,reakers. "Are all here? Did yru save them all?" j vv iiq saauaneu ini-o uw icjuj vaiu?, "All but one. Ho couldn't help himself. 1V0 had all we could carry. We couldn't are the last one." "Man the life-boat again!" shouted Hardy. 'I will go. What, leave one there to die ilor.e! A fellow-creature there, and we on ihoro! Man the life-boat now! We'll save iim yet." But who is this aged woman with worn jarments and disheveled hair, who with igonized entreaty fell upon her knees beside his brave, strong man? It wa3 his mother. ' 0 my son! \ our father was drowned in i storm like this. Your brother Will left ne eight years ago, and I've never seen his ace since the day he sailed. You will be ost, and I am old and poor. 0 stay with , ne!" "*r-il H fV?o mon nnfl 1X1UlUOI , CAtianucu uuo utuu, ? ?w* v vuv s in peril there's my place. If I am lost, ? Sod will surely care for yoq." ) The plea 01 earnest/ faith prevailed. With j i "Goa bless you, my boy!" she released him md speeded him on his way. Once more they watched and prayed and vailed,?those on the shore,?while every ( nuscle was strained toward the fast sinking 1 hip, by those in the life-saving boat. It j eached the vessel. The clinging figure was , lfted and helped to its place, where strong lands took it in charge. Back came the ( >oat. How eagerly they looked and called J n encouragement, then cheered as it came 1 learer. ^ "Did you get him?" was the cry from the " hore. | Lifting his hand to his mouth, to trumpet he words on in advance of landing, Hardy ailed back, "Tell mother it is Brother iVill."?[The Advance. Rum Did It. Colonel Hairy liay, mi of the peerless Kentucky orator, fell in front of that gallant barge at Buena Vista. His father almost at he sumo moment, speaking in New Orleans, aid: "If our children fall in battle, our Kv thw pnn^nlnh'nn flint, f.hpv I ell on their country's thresh hold." What vould he have said if his prophetic ken could i lave looked to a scene in a Kentuc ky bar- , oom a few years ago. Last year I stood by J he spot in Louisville where young Harry Jlay, brave and brilliant as his grandsire, ' ell, a drunkard, by the hand of the very ? nan who had ruined him.? Hickory (N. J.) j fj-ess. , The Friends of Philadelphia have a Com- j nit tee which protests against the liquor sign3 s an city passenger cars, and another which ] protests against the renting of city property torsalooo purpos-.a. I CHINESE TRADERST "WAYS THAT ARE DARK" OP PIG-TAILED MERCHANTS. Always On The Lookout To Get The Better of a Customer?Tricks of Trade? Grari ed Charges. The Chinese are what may be termed "natural traders." Possessing the commercial instinct in a high degree, they are close, shrewd, and fur-.sighted in their ba-ga ns, untiring in their cunning efforts to get the better of their customers, and fertile,to an astonishing degree in the "tricks of the trade." They understand so well the principle that "a niin ble sixpence is. better than a slow shilling." that they often manage to get the sixpence aDd the shilling both. The foreign merchant studies the cost of his merchandise, its quality, the condition of the market, whefherthe supply is in excess of the demand or the reverse, rnd fixes his price accodingly. The Chinese trader studies all these points with equal care; but he also ttudies each customer. He looks him over from head to foot, makes a hasty, but generally accurate, estimate as to his gullibility, his closeness or generous hand In rr? r?lrinr? a Korrrnin K!d Irnr?nr 1 af \ rro Af iu mnaiu^ a uai^uiu, ut^ auvn wi ignorance "of the market; and only when be has completed his studies on these points does he name his pric* for the article desired. Thus the price of an article in China always depends more or less upon the person who makes the purchase. A practicul result of this fact is found in the other fact that if a person enters a store in China, and,, after chatting a few moments with several of the employes, as to the price of any piece of merchandise, no price will be named by the clerk, to whom the question is put, until he has asked every other one if he has given a price to the gentleman. If, as very rarely happen?, they overlook this duty, the two prices given by two different clerks will never be quite .the same, thus showing that they diffrflfc their estimate of their customer. The writer once caught two clerks napping in this respect, with the amusing result, that the first clerk asked $5 for an article barely worth two, and five minutes later, the second one gravely declared that the firm were prepared to sell the article at a loss, and hence, only asked $15 for it! Another illustration of the fact that the Chinese merchant studies his customers would be given by an examination of the prices paid by foreigners in ' Pekin for such common articles as beef and mutton. It would be found that every one paid more for a pound of meat than any of his Chinese neighbors, that no two paid exactly the same price, or, if any two did pay the same, that they did not get the same number of ounces to the pound. The solitary barber in Pekin, who understands dressing the hair in foreign style, charges an ambassador half a dollar, a secretary of legation twenty-five cents, and an ordinary foreigner ten. Water carriers grade their monthly bills in the same way. A bargain in China, no matter how trivial the subject may be, is really an intellectual duel, entered upon with all the eager watchfulness and determination of the knights of old. What eloquence, what vigor of expression, and freedom of gesture the writer has seen expended over the price of two pounds of cabbage or two cold boiled sweet potatoes! Quotations from the Confucian classics, impassioned appeals to bystanders, arguments based on justice and reason, and irreverent ; allusions to the ancestors of the other j i man, all come ia play over tne payment of perhaps ten cash more or less. Each is seeking to cheat the other, and frequently each is tvccessful, the buyer paying- less than he ought, and the seller cheating him in the weight and measure. But the argument is an essential part of every Chinese bargain. A wealthy American gentloman, being ' in Pekin in his journey around the ; world, complained to me of the high ! prices charged by Chinese innkeepers for fooms. tJe.had, so he said, offered two J; dollars in payment for a small room without beading: or furniture in a j wretched inn. The landlord demanded i five for a single night. A long wrangle ' < resulted,and finally the gentleman offered , three dollars, which the landlord, after more words, had consented to accept. The customary price for such a room, food not included, is twenty cents, and if the gentleman had offered this sum it ] would have been accepted without much discussion. The lack of laws, or of their enforce- 1 ment, for standard weights and measures goes far to facilitate tricks of trade iu j( China. Cloths of all sorts, wkcthcr of j silk, linen, wool, or cotton, are sold by j ] the foot. But the merchant invariably ! use3 one foot when he buys, aud a L shorter one when he sells. The foot for I j sotlon goods is longer than that for j woolen, which in turn is longer than j that used to measure silk. | j Steelyards are regularly made ana sola in the markets, having two sets of pounds measured on them, one for buy- 1 ing and one for selling. I have seen a : 1 respectable Chinese gentleman and a | Ssherman quarreling over the price, or j s ather the weight, of a live carp, each j' laving his own steelyards, which made j i difference of a pound and a quarter in ; f :he weight of the fish, which at the ut- i ( nost could not have weighed over four j pounds, unless, indeed, as is sometimes :he case, the honest fisherman had forced i pound or two of coarse gravel into his itomach. C In buying various grades of cotton- I wool one gets a varying number of! ounces to the pound. For the coarse \ 8 grades, oue gets sixteen, a full pound, ! * 'or medium qualities, but twelve, while !* :or the vcrv finest, twenty-two ounces | ire called a pound. ! r Of course, such variation?, regularly j \ jstablished by custom, practically coun- I a terbalance themselves, the price varying ^ n accordance with the weight. At the ! ;ame time it is quite impossible to find | j iither reason or sense in such practices. 11 [f an explanation is asked of the most in- y :elligent Chinese, he has none to give be- ^ /ond the remark that it is an old custom. A book might be written upon the more v mlpable frauds and tricks, of which the t Chinese trader is guilty. With a goo-e }uill heblows up his mutton so that the 0 veriest old scrag of a carcass looks fat c ind tempting. He tucks cobble stones ? - ? - i i 1,0. r inio ms neaas oi cauuH^u, mutu uc jy the pound. He sells dwarf orange- = ;rces loaded down with fruit, nine-tenths I >f which is cleverly wired ou to branches J cvhich never fed and developed it. ' If by accident,a hole has been knocked n the side of an old porcelain vase, he J i jriuds the hole into some sort of shape, It 'icvcrly grinds, fits, and glues any bit of j s jld brick into the opening, and then so 1 iccuratcly reproduces ineveiv detail and t ihade of color the outside decoration and r laze, that by the application of acid J ilone can the fraud bo detected. The 1 imallness of the profit to be derived < :rom the fraud never deters him.? < Youth? Companion. _ 1 household matters. To Clean Silks. { To clean colored or black silks with-. * ' ont injury, grate raw potatoes to a fin?' pulp, add water in the proportion of on? I int to one pound of potatoes, pass th? 1 liquid through a coarse sieve into a vessel, and allow it to remain till the fin? white starch subsides to the bottom. 1 Pour off the clear liquor, which is to be \ used for cleaning. Spread the article to m be cleaned upon a table, which should b? j covered with a Ijnencloth; dip a sponge ] in the liquor and apply it until the dirt 4 is removed. Then rinse the article ia "S3 clean cold water several times. The followiu<* is used to clean gilding, etc., ] either alone or diluted with water: Quicklime, one ounce (sprinkle with a little hot water to slack it), then grad- s ually add one pint boiling water, so as to form a milk; dissolve two ounces of pearlash in 1^ pint boiling water; mix two solutions, cover up, agitate occasionally for an hour, allow it to settle, decant the clear liquid, ?ut into half-pint bottles and cork them tightly. This is to be applied with a soft sponge, and then washed off with clean water. It may also be prepared by diluting potasss ' with about five times its volume of prater. ?New York Dispatch. To Carre Roast Beef. Thore are two ways of carving, and the rule will equally apply to the rib roast or the sirloin cut. First, place the beef on the platter, with the thickest part toward you and with the fat sur- will face up. Trim off all burned parts and all the small pieces of backbone overlooked by the dealer. Insert the fork in the centre of the joint and cut off two slices from the right hand side. Now run the point of the knife along the ? whole length of the rib, parallel with it, and make a cut an inch deep over the whole length of the rib. Hold the knife gracefully, but firmly, with thumb ex- . tended over the back of the knife, iustead of the forefinger, and cut thin slices down to the rib. With the finger extended over the back of the knife .v-J| you do not have the same control over jj the knife as when the thumb is extended, and you cannot, therefore, cut a <1 r?lC1*aa< *>V?n4 will Ka onv aahaI 9 ante ucci tiiuu vr ail i/? vi auj v^wm thicknea9 throughout. "When carving, ? small joints, game, etc., this role of 1 thumb is not imperative. The other " '"jgB mode of carving the beef is to place the meat on the platter and trim it, thea turn it on its end with thickest part to- , jfiflj ward you and the crisp, outside fat part to your right. Insert the fork between the ribs, which are now onjQur -left^nd carve crossways toward the left. The object gained is that the juices remua in the meat instead of running oat on the platter.? 2fev>^forl Herald. A KWJtty Be^ -Room. The walla nauat 4>e cream whitMrttS a frieze of rosepink, typMtqa on tacn side with criaaaba: the Woodwork to b* I with narrow b?lids,bf pink and crimson. The carpet, Boxbury tapestry, with pale background ana leaves of olive green and sprays of wild roses. Have the bedstead mpde to order of cheap wood, with high, old-fashioned hea a and footboards painted olive-green with pink and crimson bands. Over the head of the bed put a canopy about 3 feet square. ' The curtains for the canopy may be a linen scrim outlined with wild roses in the shades of pink, real Scotch, linen v flosses. Edge the curtains with cream rajHB white Russian lace, line with pink. ** Around the canopy and over the curtains . V have a lambrequin of abreadthof scriftu v lined with pink silesia, edged with lact?fv 'Xo'sC and looped back with pink ribbons. curtains should, be looped oacg nan way. rgaLaWEi down with ribbons. . V Build a bureau of cheap drawers in -g the corner of the room ana paint the | prevailing colors?with old fashioned 1 brass handle?. Above the bureau, about _ j a foot and a half from the ceiling, put a . ^2*9 pole, over which throw a breadth of the outlined scrim lined with silesia and ' ^ falling at each end of the bureau, looped back with ribbons. The top of the bureau covered ^with a plain white linen towel, raveled at cach end, and a knotted fringe made, headed withdrawn work, and above this outline pink rosea with real Scotch linen floss. The chairs uDholstered with pink cretonne. The curtains of scrim lined with pink cambric.?Yankee Blade. ^ Household flints. - Never let tea boiL The color of the jelly is spoiled by >v3 boiling too long. Hold a hot shovel over furniture to remove white spots. A pretty ornamental dish is the wax sherry preserved with the stem on. Do not omit black currants from the .ISC. lney arc au usuui m If you have no dark closet for fruit, ;vrap the cans in paper to exclude the ' A mass of cobweb pinched up in a wad ind pressed to a cut will stop the flow of jlood instantly. - & Remove fruit stains from white goods sy pouring boiling water directly from ;he kettle over the stains. To extract ink from wood, scour with '^4 ;and wet with water and ammonia. ?*i rhen rinse with strong saleratus water.' To give a good oak color to a pine loor. wash in a solution of one pound of :opperas dissolved in one gallon of strong ye. To whiten the hands melt a half an rnce of camphor gum, half an ounce of jlycerine and one pound of mutton talow and apply every night. A hornet's nest which has been der erted by the hornets, bound on the hroat with a piece of flannel, will cure he most malignant sore throat. To restore gilding to picture frames, emove all dust with a soft brush, and vash the <;ilding in warm water in which - -"t-j J? in onion has Deen uoueu; ury quic&iy viih. soft rags. After buttering the tin for a boiled >udding du^t it with pounded bread rumbs. Bitting pans can be treated vith tiour in the same way and the eake pill never stick. ?Mahogany furniture should be washed pith warm water and soap; an apnlicaion of beeswax and sweet oil upon a s oft cloth, and polished with chamois, fives a rich finish. - -ji The gloss that the Chinese laundrvaen give to collars and cuffs is not alto;ether due to the afrarch. but to heavy nessurc, the a teles pjnsing through ieavy rollers *ut ly adjusted and very lot. * tree nnnlication of soft SOa|) to a ' v' ' 7? - * resh burn almost '.instantly removes the ire from the flesh/' If the injury is very evere, as soon aA th-j pain ceases apply inseedoil, and /{hen dust over with fine lour. When tihis covering dries hard, epeat the oil 4nd Sour dressing until a food coating fis obtained. "When tho atter dries, aftjow it to stand until it :racks and falls \off, as it will do in a day >r two, and a new* skin will be found to iaye formed wheri the skin. was burae<i?