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The Press and Banner!
Wednesday, Sept. 23, 1891. <
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Twelve "Pni^es. i
A foreign periodical published some [
interesting figures relative to the j
population of Ireland : "Ireland's
population in 1S41 was 8,1 i??;,oVJ7 ; In
1851, 6,574, 271: in isw, o.cw,;..., , ...
1871, 5,412,377; in 1881, 5,174,.SMii, and
inl891, 4,70<>, 1?>2. These are I lie official
figures of the census authorities at
their regular ten-yearly computations.
Along in 1S41 Ireland had beengrowing
in population, her increase in the ten
years ending with that date having
been 5.25 per cent. The decline then
set in, and between 1841 and 1851 it
had amounted to 1H.S5 per cent.,
between 1S51 and 18G1 to 11.50, between
1801 to 1871 G.(>5, between 1*71 and
1881, to 2.40 and from that vear to ISO]
to 9.05.
Emigration, due to bad government, is
responsible for this decline, and should
the policy under which Ireland has
suffered so severely, be|continued, not
many years will pass ere the Irish
question is settled by depopulating the
country.
The Chicago Advance says : "Liquor
dealers and anti-prohibitisls who are
constantly harping on the blighting
effects of prohibition upon the
r>mcr*>i-itv nf a citv will not be able to
v
draw much comfort from the experience
of Des Moines, Iowa. Desl
Moines is a city of (>0,000 people and :
has not an open saloon within its
limits nor within the county in <
which it is situated, and yet it is just
now enjoying an era of the most
remarkable prosperity. Such a house (
or store room to rent can scarcely he
found at any price, while more than i
1,000 new residences and more than
$1,000,000J worth of new business i
blocks, some of them the finest in the <
West, are in process of erection, j
Hank clearances run from twenty-five i
to fifty,per cent, higher than a year j
ago; its manufactured products *1890 i
exceeded those of 1889 by more than |
So,000,000. Every kind of business is
extremely prosperous, and the actual |
statistics of the lransier ruuniiwuv.hIiow
that the population is increasing,
by new arrivals alone, at the rate of
1,00 per month. A good many other
cities would like to ' lie killed in tin
same way that prohibition has killed
Des Moines."
Word* of I.pnriHMl I.cut;(li.
Fift}' years ago cultured men and
women spoke and wote in Johnsonized
English. One of the poet Bryant's
friends, a Miss Robins, was remarkable
for herbrilliant conversation.
"Her talk," says the poet's biograph- J
er, was a stream of narrative, argu- '
ment, criticism, anecdote, and pathos. 1
But, like all valuble talkers, she was ?
at times (riven to 'words of learned '
length and thundering sound.' " Mr. 1
Bryant used to frequently take her
vocabulary to pieces.
She was sitting alone in Ins library' f
when a cabinetmaker brought a rickety s
old rocking-chair he hud mendeft. As J
Mr. Bryant caine, Miss Bobbins said 1
to him, "The mechanic has returned y
your chair and expressed the hope ;
that its equiblirum had been properly 1
adjusted." * }
"Did he say that ?" replied Mr. Bry- 1
ant; "he never talked so to me.
What did he really say ?"
"Well, if you must know," rejoined
Miss Bobins, "he said he guessed *
the rickerty old concern would't jog* >
trie anv more." $
A Cure Diphtheria.
Should .you or any of your family
be attacked with diphtheria, do not be (
alarmed, an it easily and speedily cur- (
ed without a doctor. When it was j
raging in England a few years ago 1 (
accompacied Dr. Field on his round.to
witness the so called wonderful (
cures he perfomed while the patients j
of others were dropping on both sides, i
The remedy is so rapid it must be
simple. All he took with him was* ,
powdered sulphur and a quill, and '
with these he cured every patient ]
without exception. He put a teaspoonflll
nf Hnnr nf til*?,nthiiio i?
glass of water, ami stirred with lii>
linger instead of a spoon, ad the sul ,
phur does not readily amalgamate
with water. When the sulphur was |
well mixed he gave it as a gargle, and <
in teii minutes the patient was out of
danger. Brimstone kills every species
of fungus in man. beast and plant in a
few minutes. Instead of spitting out .
the gargle, he recommended the swal- .
lowing of it. In extreme eases, in
which he had been called just in the
nick of time, when the fungus was too .
nearly closed to allow the gargling, he
blew the sulphur through?<juill into
the throat; and after the Tungus had '
shrunk to allow of it, then the garbling.
He never lost a pittient from (
from diphtheria, if a patient cannol |
gargle take a live coal, put it on a shovel
and sprinkle a spoonful or two of
Hour of brimstone upon it; let the sufferer
inhale by holding his head over ,
it.?Belfast (irelaud) Witness.
A little boy had to l>e punished for I
saying bad words. His sister said that ?
mamma was "unlearning" Freddie the I
bad words. I should think that was a :
great deal harder than learning them. 1
Thereto abetter way to "unlearn." '
It is the squirrel's way. When he gets (
a bad nut he does uot till his mouth
with it and then make a wry face and
spit it out. He just throws it away
without tasting it. It is easier to keep <
sin out of the heart than to put it out. t
Love ok Chii,i>kkn.?Whoever
takes a child into his love may have a i
very roomy heart, but that child will :
fill it all. The children that are in t
the world keep us front growing old
and cold; they cling to our garments 1
with their little hands, and impede i
our progress to petrification; with t
their pleading eyes they win us back \
from cruel care; they never encumber s
us at all. A poor old couple, with no
one to love them, is a most pitiful pic- i
ture ; but a hovel, with a small face itt! t
it, is robbed of jts desolation.
_ ma m m 11
The devil never puts a straw iti the
way of the man that preaches against j f
the sins of ihe people in the nexti,
county. 'f
The First Year of Housekeeping.
To inosl housekeepers the llrst year
s usually very trying. The natural
i..i..n (.cui'v tliiiio- iii nerfeet
U'Sikjia/ ixttv x ?vi j n?.?n ...
>vder, to show that one is capable of
iecpihouse as it should be kept, oflt*ii
associated, as it is, with ignorance
>f methods, and especially with unformed
habits of domestic industry,
places the neophyte in unpleasant situations.
She may not know just
where and when and how to begin
preparations for some specified work,
and she must often learn the right
way by doing the wrong. She soon!
finds out that there is in even the
smallest domestic enterprise a succession
of steps, which, if taken in their
natural logical order, make the word
easy. She must learn to have a dozen
irons in the fire, and not let any of
them burn ; to hold many threads in
her hands, and not let them get broken
or tangled with each other. But
experience at last makes this easy.
It is well to think out beforehand
every separate step that must be taken
in doing any one tiling, the first, the
""'i <- '* "t> tn thf> last, and to es
OCWIJU, ituvt ou UU WW _
limate how long time each and the
whole will require. This done, the
mechanical part will be the least of
the work. A note-book in which out-,
lines oi plans for various industries
are kept is very useful. Lists of work
to be done may be entered here, and
when one is at a loss what she had
best be engaged in, ? glance at the list
will suggest. The young housekeeper!
will be encouraged by seeing ho\v|
much she has already accomplished, or]
stimulated to renewed exertion by seeing
how much remains to be done. A
slate with a pencil attached hanging
on the pantry wall is convenient for
daily jottings of cash paid out, groceries
bought or to be bought, and many
little items of which one wishes todisrdiarsre
hfi* mind.
It is well to allow time for preparation
for many tasks that seem simple.
It takes two or three days toget all
ready to make mince-pies or fruit-cake,
:>r to tack a comforter or to make a
garment. The materials must be got
together, recipes ami patterns selected,
And a day chosen not liable to interruption
when the linal work -shall be
prosecuted.
"One war at a time" is a good motto
for the housekeeper. Sometimes one
mist keep half ado/en enterprises gong,
as in getting an elaborate meal,
uid be every-where at once, so to
speak, but the habit of keeping at
Hashing dishes till they are all done,
-r ? 2 ?1. 2 -r- ? WisvtV* HU COO 11
H HIJIHIIIII^ uiciiuiug ii mi/in o.,
is possible after beginning it, of havng
one garment at a time in the proms
of making, is 11 good habit. A varety
of unfinished work staring one iu
lie fare is disheartening. Jf the
foting housekeeper lias "help," close
ittention to the interests of her housciold
will require her to know exactly
jow every thing is done, and to see
,hat it is done well; tliat there are 110
leglects, no wastes, no extravagances;
ind this close attention will enable her
,o appreciate and commend her assisant
with discrimination.
(Gradually the young housekeeper
>vi 11 become familiar with tliose saniary
considerations of water supply,
sewage, drainage, disposal of refuse,
jpon which in so great a degree the
lealth of household depends. >She
vill find that good housekeeping is a
tcience no less than an art, ami that it
s worthy of the devotion she will be
;ompe)led to give it in order to master
t in all its details and connections.
* An Ant Funeral.
A lady gives this account of some
ints which she saw iu Sydney. Havng
killed a number of soldier ants,
ihe returned iu a half hour to the spot
.vhere she left their dead bodies, and
n reference to what she then observed
she says:
"I saw a large number of ants sur'ounding
the dead ones. \ determined
o watch their proceedings closely. I
bllowed four or live that started oft'
rom the rest toward a hillock a short I
listanee oft', in which was an ants'!
lest. This they entered, aiul in about j
ive minutes they reappeared, followed j
)y others.
"All fell into rank, walking regularly I
iu<l slowly, two by two, until they
irrived at the spot where lay the dead |
uodies of the soldier ants. In a few|
minutes two of the ants advanced andj
took up the dead body of one of their
. onirades ; then two others, and so on
until all were ready to march.
"First walked two ants bearing-a
body, then two without a burden, then i
;wo others with another dead ant, and J
jo on until tho line extended to about i
forty pairs ; and the procession now
moveil slowy onward, followed by an j
irregular body of about two hundred
illtS.
''Occasionally the two laden stopped I
md laying down the dead ant, it wasl
laken up by the two walking unbur-j
lened behind them, and thus by occa-j
donally relieving each other, they ar-;
rived at a sandy spot near the sea.
"The body'of ants now commenced i
Jigging with their jaws a number of I
holes in the ground, into each of which j
i dead ant was laid. They had tilled I
up the ants' graves. This did not
juite finish the remarkable circum-j
stances attending their funeral.
"Some six or seven of the ants had :
ltieniptcd to run of!' without performing
their share of the task of
ligging. These were caught and:
wrought back, when they were at once
ittacked by the body of the ants and '
killed upon the spot. A single grave [
ivas quickly dug, and they were all!
iropped into it."
A HhimI of Mercy Ito.v.
It was a cold morning in March, in
[}hicauo. A little old mail stood oil'
lie corner of Clark and Randolph
Streets selling newspapers.
lie was thinly clad, kept trotting up
ind down, trying hard to keep warm,!
ind his voice was hoarse from cold,
md passers-by could hardly hear him.
Some boys jeered ami laughed at
lim ; but one, about thirteen years old,
ather better dressed than the rest,
ifter looking at him for a few moments
valked up to him and said, "1 will
iliout for you.''
The old man thought the boy was
liakiug fun of him, but the boy began
o cal out. '"Times,' 'Herald,' Tribun.'
News,'" in a clear voice, which
ittracted so many customers that in a
ittle while the old mail sold his stock.'
He ottered to pay his youthful {
lartner, but the boy would take
lothing, and went oil' with a smiling!
a?-e.
<nrlii? it llliinl <?iitnl.
Calcutta is a line, large oily, on tb(
northeast coast ot India, ami one whc
lived there tells :i strange but tru<
story of how a doctor cured the biggest
patient he ever had. The patient wai
a huge elephant, who for a long (inn
had su(ler?:d from a disease in his eyes
which at last got so bad that lie eonh
not see.
Hisowuer, an English otticer, weu
to Dr. Webb, and begged him t(
come and see what could be done. U<
did; and after looking carefully at tin
giant creature, the doctor said :
"The best cure that I know of i
nitrate of silver : but it will give i
good deal of pain."
Perhaps some of my readers whoa
friends have bad eyes have heard th
name of this remedy.
Well, the owner said he had bette
try, and if the animal-would not allov
it he must give it up.
But?would you believe it?th
elebhant, who like most of his race
was as wise as he was big, found s<
much relief from his first day's doc
toring that when Dr. Webb visite<
him the next day he lay down of hi
own accord, placed ms great neav;
head 011 one side, curled up his trunk
and then, just like you or I might i
we were going to bear some dreadfu
pain, he drew in his breath and lu^
perfectly still. The healing mixtur
was dropped into each eye. and wli'ei
the sharp, short pain was gone, hi
I gave u great sigh, as much as to say
1 "That's a good thing got over. I fee
j all the better for it." -When he go
up, he tried, in his poor dumb fashion
to thank his friend forgiving him bacl
his sight.
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A IlrleT Harangue on Talking Slang
This "sermonette" is especially fo
you, dear girls. The advice could b<
put in three words: Don't do it
1'ossiblv there might come all oeca
sion? say once in a life?when a gooi
round bitof thegenuineartiele "slang/
would prove funny. Hut to hea
vulgar words used by a gentle girl i:
almost invariably shocking. I reniein
ber passing two girls in the street am
hearing one of them say : ''JM1 bet yoi
a quarter." It gave me a shiver. Auc
when a group of school-girls fill theii
conversation?as, alas ! they often d<
?with one slang phrase after another
the effect on an outsider is painfully
disagreeable.
The habit of talking slang grow:
rapidly. It is like reporting a bit o
scandal. Have you never noticed i
you say at) unkind word against i
neighbor, how quickly a chance comet
to say anotherV And with just Ilia
same appalling ease a habit of using
careless, coarse words increases. Weed!
grow rapidly.
There is plenty of good, strong
English to give expression to wit
.Iml inn ni> uvmnulliv
Wlt/IIVIJ, IUUI^UUtlU.1, w. .-.J...,, J
without rccourso to the phrases \uhicl
belong to horse-jockeys, gamblers
tipplers, and vagabonds. The stree'
Arab picks up slang as he does tin
ends of old cigars from the gutter
Surely a well-bred girl is not on tin
same level in her speech and manner
Why should shetise vulvar words an)
more than she would stain her hands'
There ought to do something akin t<
dowers in a fresh younft girl. Sin
need not he prudish nor priggish. N<
one wishes her to nay, "Prunes atu
prisms" to coax her lips into the propel
curves. ]>ut refined and dainty it
speech as well as in dress she surely
ought to be.
How <?oil Teaches The Itirtls.
On the island of Java grows a tree
the leaves of which are said to he i
deadly poison to all venomous reptiles
The oder of the leaf is so offensive (<
the whole snake family that if the)
come near the plant in their travels
they imemdiately turn about and tak<
an opposite direction.
A traveler on the island noticed
one day, a peculiar fluttering and cn
of distress from a bird high above hi:
head. Looking up he saw a mother
bird hovering round a nest of litth
ones in such a frightened and perplexei
manner as to cause him to stop ant
examine into the trouble. (Joitif
round to the other side of the tree, lu
found a large snake climbing slowlj
up the tree in the direction of tin
little nest.
it was beyond liis reach ; and, sinci
he could not help the little featherei
songster by dealing a death-blow, he sa
down to see the result of the attauk
80011 the piteous cry of the bird ceased
and he thought, "Can it be possibli
she has left Tier young to their fate
and has flown away to seek her owi
safety ?"
No; for again he heard a fluttering
of wings, and, looking up, saw herllj
into the tree with a large leaf from tliii
tree of poison, and carefully spread i
over her little ones. Then alightin;
011 a branch high above her nest, slu
quietly watched the approach of hci
enemy. His ugly, writhing body kep
slowly along, nearer and still nearer
until within a foot of the nest; then
just as lie opened his month lo take ii
Ilia-dainty little breakfast, down In
went to the ground as suddenly a:
though a bullet had gone through hi:
head, and hurried ofl" into the jungl<
beyond.
The little birds were unharmed; and
as Hit! mothqj--bird flew down am
spread her wings over them, the poisoi
leaf?poison only to the snake?fell a
the feet of the traveler; and he felt, a:
never before,'the force of the words
":Ve not two sparrows sold for 1
farthing? yet not one of them shall fal
to the ground without your Father.'
For who but he who made the deal
little birds could have told this one tin
power there was in this leaf??(iooc
Words.
"The most ancient of profane his
toriuns has told us that the Scythians
of his time were a very warlike people
and elevated 011 a platform an old cim
eter, as a symbol of the god of war
and offered more sacrifices to it than t<
all their other gods."
"Are we then at all advanced, in one
respect, beyond these Scythians!
What are contributions to charity1
education, morality, religion, justice,
and civil government, when compared
to thewealth we expend in sacrifices
to the old cimeter representing
war?"?John Bright.
The value of pedigree is not in its
vouching for ancstrv, but in its vouching
for offspring.
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A MAN OF MA^.Y DONT'S.
) All <>!'tlieni Aimed Strai^lH at Wo,
mini's Shorlroiiiin^N.
t A person who seems to know a greai j
a deal lias sent (he following "Dont's
to the esteemed New York Jleeorder : L
t Don't stand at the door of a streert
i ear and worry some man near at hand j
into giving you a seat when there are
11 three empty seats at the head of the
3 j car. You all do this.
?| Don't sit down in a car until space
e | has been made for you. It is vulgar
; to sit even on other women.
g| Don't get oft'a car with your back
;i j to the horses. Men get a great deal
!of fun out of your persistency in
q doing this. But you are not bound to
e amuse men.
Dont leave your handkerchief and
r pocketbook iu your lap when you are
v riding jin a street ca\ Some man
: wiII pick them up for you as you arc
e passing out, but they will get muddy.
, Don't wait until you get iu front
0 of a ticket-office betore taking out
.. your pocketbook. Tne wives of the
j eight men who are patiently waiting
9 the opportunity to buy tickets are
y wondering why they are so lute home.
Don't have your skirt badly fastened
} at the back so that your underskirt
1 becomes visible. You cau't see this
rr and no woman seems to tell you.
e Don't keep smoothing the wrinkles
3 | out <)i yuui waisi. a ie\\? wriiiKies;
e will keep you from looking like u|t
; fashion plate.
ji Don't try to have a long waist. 11
t! For 3,000 years the artists^?the pro-|
lessors and conservators of beauty?Is
; have been saying that a short waist!
is more beautiful. At least please take c
the hint. i
Don't forget that no one who could
possibly be considered an authority .
ever said a small waist was beauti- 1
B ful. c
Don't wear shoes that are not at!
least three-quarters of an inch longer|ji
than your feet. Pretty feet are better'
! than small feet. And besides, rem-|
ember how nervous and peevish you
I are. 0
! Don't ^et hot and cross when your0
child whimpers a little on the ferryIboat.
Let him howl a little. Nobody I j,
: will complain but a few old maidsjt
, j and a stray bachelor, and they are not j
worth considering.
; Don't forget to be punctual in keep-;:
I ing an appointment. You never are, i1
but it*is not too late too reform.
Don't ridicule dress reform until
IIyou have found out what it is! : ,i
J Dont forget to keep to your right in j'
[igoing up and down stairway*. You1
i lose much time in shopping because| ?
!? yon overlook this necessity. ' f
Jj Don't he led by a pug dog unless'
> you have no further interest in tlie' v
'Iadmiration of an honest man. ,t
! Don't he so dreadfully cordial whenjn
? you meet a woman you detest.
M Don't use the "gentleman" when I
?i"man" will do. Kvery real gentle- i
1 man is willing to be called a man.
?! Don't leave the kissing good-bye,
j until the car has come to a full stop.
I Don't handle articles you have ab-|>
solutely 110 intention of buying. j t
' Don't use that precious adjective t
; "lovely" fortjvery and any occasion,
j Don't make your husband a selfish i
brute by eternally waiting on him.
I Don't give yourself a questionable1
position in the word by living in idle-j
j I ness on your husband's labors. No!
| intellingent woman is willing to be*li
rj "supported." il
' Don't run a charity kitchen and a
' have the words "For the Poor" on c
I the wiudow. This is not London,
I whore the poor are willing to he lab- i.
Unied. 1
until vnn i?at t ? tl>n ?
i piano to-pull off your gloves when i 1
. you are asked to play. j c
> Don't choose a time when you have |
r company to find fault with your litis- j
, hand. if you do lie will get even f;
e with you it it takes all winter. f
If you wear a traveling skirt in the j
, street don't claim that it is because e
f you rather like it. Admit candidly
14 that you lmvn't the pluck to defy an t
- absurd fashion. ~ ^
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1 The Immortal Soul.
;; At a dinner given to Victor Hugo, u
Jjin Paris, some years ago, he delivered u
r' an impromptu' address, in which he
jjgave expression to his faith in the j
1 intftiite and in the soul's immortality. |'
ii His friend Houssey, who was present,j t
* soya . I t
"Hugo at that time was a man of:*!
. jsteel, with no sign of old ago about 11
, 'him, hut with all the agility, supple- j r
ujness, the ease and grace of his best;
, | years." He was contradicting the j.
11 atheists and his friend says, /his faceja
jwas bright with the heavenly lialo |
j;and his eyes shone like burning;
f coals."
!! " 'There are no occult forces,' he|
t said, 'there are only luminous forces, j
?| Occult force is chaos, the luminous L
iI force is Ciod. Man is an infinite little! ^
i copy of God-; this is glory enough fori t
t*man. I am a man, an invisible atom, a ;
, drop in the ocean, a grain of sand on ;
, j the shore. Little as I am, I feel the
i.'God in me, because' I can also bringj 1
i j forth out of my chaos. 1 make books, j r
* which arc creations; I feel in myself i
3j that future life; T am like a forest jt
i which has been more than once ciil |
, down; the new shoots arj stronger, ii
, and livelier than ever. '
I " 'I am rising, I know, toward the;
i sky. The sunshine is on my head,
t The earth gives me its generous sap, v
^.but Heaven lights mewiih the reflec-11
,; tion of unknown worlds. You soy i v
i the soul is nothing but the result of r
I i bodily powers. Why, then, is my| j
' jsoul, more luminous when my bodily | r
r powers begin to fail? Winter is on my ' i
j : head and eternal spring is in my heart. s
1, There I breathe at this hour the fragratice
of the lilacc, tbe violets and j,
,the roses as at twenty years ago. The s
nearer I approach the end ihe plainer ln
il hear around me the immortol sym-!u
* phonise of the worlds which invite)
, me.
j " 'It is marvelous, yet simple. It is!
, Ja fairy tale, and it is historic. Fori
> half a century I have been writing.v
| my thoughts in prose and verse, his- a
Mtory, philosophy, drama, romance, |V
'! tradition, satire, ode and song. I have| b
'said all, but I feel I have not said aje
i j thousandth part of what is in me.lt
jWheu I go down to the grave, [ say, iq
. like many others, 1 have finished my je:
' | day's work. But I cannot say I havele
i Ilnished my life. My days will begin 11]
j again the next mornfug. The tomb is li
i j not a blind alley ; it is a thoroughfare, n
I ft closes on the twilight to open oil the b
dawn.' " o
I iiii'ntlitiiile.
15 low, blow. thou whiter wind,
. Thou art not so unkind it
As mnn's Ingratitude;
Thy tooth is not. so keen. ; \\
Hecuusu lliou art not seen. sl
Although thy h'reath l>c rude. I,
I '
Kreeze. freeze, thou hitter sky. j 11
Thoti dust not Into so nigh
As benefits forgot ; i 11
Though thou t he waters warp,
Thy stint; Is not so sharp ! |j
As friends rem ember "d not. i ^
Tlie Xig;lit Comes 011.
I am tired, Lord and tearful,
My courage well-nigh gone ;
And I He soul in me is reariui. j .
For, lo the night comes on !
And dark the shadows gather, i s
And thick they rent upon
The way liefore me. Father, j Ci
And lo, the night comes on ! j r<
0.elasp me. Church, and hold me,
For lo, the night corncson! I y
1.et Thy lender arms enfold m*e : i.
Till the blesed morning dawn. ^
As the last touch of theartlst ft
Gives the work Its perfect grace.
Ah the last stroke of the sculptor n
Is its crowning lovliness I)
As the author's closing sentence |j
Oft with most of heauty glow*,
Be thy life, that wondrous poem,
The most beautiful at close ! 0
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GRAINS. v
Jesus Christ never tried fo make a U
lisciple by argument. e1
It lakes contact with other people j"
o make lis acquainted with our- ,
elves. ,J
C(
There is but one sure way to keep 1>
?ut of debt, and that is never to get ci
n it. g
God is in all that liberates and lifts; !l
11 all that humbles, svectens, and .
onsoles. tl
Don't measure a man by his prompep,
a little man will make the great- ei
st promkee. ' w
Love in its purity is the triumph ^
if the unselfish over the selfish part
f our nature.
Xo church is ready for a revival so tx
ring as the members are afraid of siting
too close together.
People have lo be living very near9!
he throne before they can enjoy hav- P
ng their faults pointed out. ' *
Oue of the hardeftt things to do is lo p
elieve that the man is honest who]
losn't look ut things as we <lo. C
IV
Let us us be content in work to do ?
lie tiling we can, and not presume to Ul
ret because it is little. .
No man loves Cod with all his heart- al
vho spends the most of his time in w
rying to get the start of his fellow
nen. o.
If sone people would be a little v
nore-careful where they slep. those
vho follow them wouldn't stumble so $
nuch.
Make olhera to see Christ in
our moving, doing, speaking and
hinking. Your actions will speak oi
lim, if he be in you. la
The man who says he is kept oul
if the Church because there a?e s(. w
nany hypocrite? in it is not influenwl
hv them anvwhore else.
It is by the general bent of a man's ci
ife, by his heart impulses and secret ti
Icsires, his spontaneous actions and cl
biding motives that his class is delated.
11
You will never see God's face
hruogh your sins. You must throw ?
lowu your sins and look over them ^
f you would see the smiles of mer- jj
yAll
pleasure must he bought at the
trice of pain. The difference between
alse pleasure and true is just this? ci
or the true the price is paid before ei
ou enjoy it; for the false after you fi
njoy it. fi
. If an angel were sent from heaven
o find the most perfect man, he ?]
vould probably not find divinity.
mt perhaps a cripple in a poorhouse N
vhom the juirish wish dead, and ^
tumbled before God with far lower
houghts of himself than , others 11
hink of him. ?
i u
The avoidance of little sins, little ?
ncousi-tences, little follies, indiscre- ii
ions, and imprudences, little foibles, I
ittle indulgences, of the flesh: the a
voidances of such little thirgp as ti
hese go far to make up at least the ?|
icgative beauty of a holy life.?Bonar. tl
"Money has a digraceful history. It ^
las had the career of a corrupter and s<
l despoiler. Its march down the ages *
ins vertifled and illustrated the divine *
U linition of it as'root of all evil."'
u
Covetousness is the tap-root of the oh- s<
ections which men oiler to the de- ?
nands of the Church for money.
The real objection is to the depart ure of d
he engle, and not to the direction of ?
ts flight. a
11<
When you make a mistake, don't lu
ook back at it long. Shake the ?
eason of the thing into your own n
nind, and then look foward. Mis- t<
akes are lessons of wisdom. The h
>ast cannot be changed; the future t
a yet in your power. Ip
^ Iv
Life is so short, we have no time to'
raste on trifles, liowevvr innocent
hey may t>e. Times eome to earnest!
rorkers when body aud mind musti^
est, lest they wear out prematurely. | y
iut the heart should never rest. SVea-, n
y brain and tired limbs must rest,if,
iut heart bears on steadily, and its if,
toppage means death. So our minds 1
mi bodies may lie weary, but our j p
iearts i c, our affections ami our wills, i p
hould never rest; and when we can do I o
lothing else, we can pray and praise i|f
nd love. >;
ChIn Ah CloekN. , pi
The Abbe Hue relates that when he'
,'as traveling ill China he asked hisjj,
tteudant what time it was. The man
,'ent over to a cat that was quietly U
asking in the sun and, examining its jsl
yes, told the abbe that it was about
ivo hours after upon, and, on being
uestioned on how he knew that, be K!
xplaiued that the pupils of a cat's tl
yes were largest in the morning, and 111
iiat they gradually grew smaller as the 'c
ght increased, till they reached their
linimum at noon; and then they,10
egan to widen again fill at night MieyjP'
lire more became large. "
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Tlie Legem] of tlie Dial Plate.
" JIoriiK nun numcru mm ucrenaa"?
I number only the sunny hours"?
'as written on an accident dial-plate,
ml is quoted upon many modem
nes. The Philosophy contained in
ic legend is v.-iluable in ils applicants
to daily life.
"The last time I saw you," said a
idy to her littl? nephew, "you were
ery. very sick, and suffering terri
ly."
"O," rejoined I he little philosopher,
I forgot'all about that long ago."
Quite different was the mood of anther
little fellow whom his teacher
oticed crying bitterly as he sat on his
jhool-bench. Inquiring as to the
nuse of his tears, she - received this
iply :
"Dick Yetten threw a stone at me
esterday and hurt my head," and
ere the grief broke out into loud
)bs. )
In one of his famous speeches, Rujs
Choate exclaimed (we quote from
lemory): "Shall America, proud,
uoyaut America, just starting out on
er splendid career among the nations,
orrode her young heart by brooding
ver the wrongs of the Stamp Act,
nd the Tea Tax, and the tiring of the
<ropanl on the Chesapeake in time of
cace ? No, sir ; a thousand times no!
We are born to happier destinies."
We knew a lawyer once who used .
> quote that whenever any untoward
vent, like losing a case or failing in
jme enterprise, overtook him. Afif
nrr\innr MVPrtlio whnla or mil ml nf Vlifl
efeat, and deducing all the lessons he
[>iild as to its causes and the points to ,
e avoided in the future, he would reite
the above quotation with' due
esture and emphasis, and then disliss
the whole subject from hip mind,
'hus he escaped corrosion and cynicsru,
and kept himself buoyant, enuisiastic,
lresh.
The greater part of our troubles are
ither in the future or in the past,
e refuse to cross every bridge until
e coiue to it, and make the motto of
ie sun-dial our own, the majority of
oes will disappear, and leave us siuaIv
the burden of the present moment
> bear. ' #
The largest specimen of the bovine
pecies ever recorded was the 4,900
ound ox raised by Samuel Aarkley in
ennsylvania, and exhibited at the
entennial Exposition at Philadelliia.
The largest trees are in Tulare
ounty, Cal. Some of them are over
ro feet liiglkand 34 feet in diameter,
ml are from 2,<M)0 to i!,o0() years old.
At the Woolwich (Eng.) arsenal i9
ie largest anvil. It weighs <><H) tons,
iwl Mih lildflv nimn which it rests
eighs 10.'5 tons.
The largest library is the Imperial
f Paris, which contains over 2,000,(X)0
oluiues. . > - ;
The cost of a palace sleeping-car is
15,000; or if "vestibuled." $17,000.
The largest desert is Sahara, 4,000
titles long and flOO miles wide.
Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, is
le largest park in the world.
Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky, is the
irgest cavern in the world. ' m
Of the twelve largest cities iflFthe
orld three are in Japan.
The J3kic;ht Sidk.?Cheerfulness
in become a habit, and habits someraes
help us ouer hard places. A
leerful heart seeth checrful things.
A lady and gentleman were in a
imber yard situated by a dirty, louiuelling
river.
The lady said : "How good the
iue boards smell!"
?Pine boards!" exclaimed the geneman.
"Just smell this foul river !"
"No, thank you," the lady replied,
"I prefer to smell the pine boards."
And she was right. If she, or we,
in carry this principle through our
11 tire living, we shall have the cheerll
heart, the cheerful voice and cheeril
face.
There i? in some houses an unconsci- 4
lis atmosphere of domestic and social
'.one which brightens everybodj'.
health cannot give it nor can poverf
take it away.
We depend a good deal, in our lifejlings,
upon the names by which we
ill things. If we do not class a
miptation among our temptations,
e are very apt to be entangled.
? iiu fivlHu lu>fnro wo irnnar if ?
ndeed, it is a part of the Tempter's
i t to prevent onr seeing the tempta011
in temptations. We are often regained
from wrong doing by the fact
iat we feel ourselves being tempted.
^re shun deceit, lyihg. theft, and a
jorn of well-recognized sini, because
e realize in-them the power of the
'eitipter. But these temptations that
lore nearly all Vet our outward conuct
among our fellows are in no wise
;> subtile ami so dangerous as those ^
rliich bie more essentially personal
nd spiritual.. The temptations to
oubt, distrust, and reject (Sod steal
ver us before we are aware that we
re in the Tempter's.hands. We are
.>mpted to think of God's mercy as
nfairncss or injustice, of his love as
rrnth, and to set ourselves up as judgs.of
what (hid has or has not a right
> do. Kveiy occasion of suffering,
i.ss, sorrow, ought to be regarded as
he peculiar opportunity of the Tem
ter. But such temptations are coratpondingly
to be regarded as divine
pportunities given to us to witness
>r Christ.
The iiieonsistenry of our invitation
* all nations to participate in the
World's Kxposi?ion at Chicargo, while
ur laws forbid any (.'hinaman to set
>ot on our shores except those who
>me on diplomatic businesess, has
een brought out by a letter from Vice
resident ilryan to the Treasury ])eurtoieot,
iii<|ttiriiig a.s the hearing of
le exclusion law upon Chinese visi?rs
to the Fair: Assistant Secatary
'ettli'toii has replied that the intent of
lese laws would not be violated by
emitting Chinese citizens, under
roper regulations, to visit the United
tntes in 1 SiW, but that, should any
itliculty arise, Congress will have anile
time to take the question into con(leratirii.?Christ
ion Statesmen.
Thut great, statesman said: "if clerynH'n
of the present day would reirii
to the simplicity of the Gospel
lit preach more to individuals, and
ss to the crowd, there would not be
> much complaint of decline in relign.
Many take a text from'Paul and
reach from the newspaper."?Daniel
rchster.