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SIMPLICITY OE ATTIRE. As Related to the Promotion or social Purity. By Josiali W. Leeds. An observant Christian, Elizabeth P. Allan, writing in the Sunday School Time.* concerning the way these things work among the "Sabbath school" children, and what is the responsibility of mothers in this matter, says: "The little cirele of faces seemed to rise before me, and I realized that my chief obstacle in gaining and holding their attention aud interest was their own attire. I don't know what special device the devil has for preventing boys' classes from giving heed (some other teacher knows that), but this matter of dress is one that never seems to fail him, at any season of the year, on the girl's side of the room. Of course, the tug of war between me and the enemy comes at the turn of the season. A teacher with any knowledge at all of the femioine heart must make allowances for the intense which each of the six girls feels in the winter or summer outfit of the other five; that must be accepted. But just as 1 hope, to a reasonable state of indifference with regard to hats and dresses, some mother provides Jennie with a new costume, aud for several successive Sabbaths efforts are made by the other five after some variety in their own dress, and the precious lessontime is spent in speculation as to tne effect of these changes; admiration, disapproval, or, to often, envy of the others : aud in such a troubled atmosphere the white-wiuged blessings cannot settle. I could describe an infinite variety of forms which this evil assumes, for I would fain reach the ear of the mothers with a plea for help." There are doubtless many beside the writer of this essay, who have de plored the brigand style or fcats ior women and girls which of late years has become so common. To place a hat of this sort, peaked atop, flared up in front or at the side, and conspicious]y decorated with feathers or plumes, upon the head of a modest school girl, seems tantamount to bidding her be bold, to hold ber head bigh, and speak her mind smartly. The influence of this costume in producing just this effect of uufeminine boldness, is probably greater than most of us have any conception of. Its tendency cannot 1 be otherwise than one of autagonism to that meek, lowly, aud chaste demeanor which the Lord our God de lights in. Recently I read a pathetic Story concerning a pretty looking young girl of unusually retiring but ; engaging manners, whom the narrator of the rccount had observed to take the train at a certain station to attend ; school in the city. When she first began to make the daily trips she was very backward in her way, and seemed shocked at the free aud boisterous manners of other girls en route to school like herself; but in a single sea- ' son she was observed to have develo Hrtlfl amu rt.annl'An miab wpvu iUbV U VV/lUi DLUMI V U?>WW| even permitting the brakeman to sit down and chat with her. The not un expected sequel was a runaway match with an nuprincipled man, and heart- : broken parents at home. I woudered ' to what extent this ruin was made ' possible through wearing the bold style of hat I have referred to. Repelled at first by the ill-bred behavior ! of the other girls, she soon became 1 their willing companion, and doubtless quickly fell in with their style of dress 1 as she had with their manner of ad- 1 dress. The fashionable style of reception and opera dress in vogue the past year, 1 seem to have partaken of a more "sen- , suous character than anything previ- 1 ously known in American "society." J A passing uouiuueiu?liwui wit; x>u\v York correspoDdeut of the Public Ledger of Philadelphia?is in point. : He says : "The Roman Catholic press : are joining their Episcopal coutempo- \ raries in denouncing or deprecating 1 some of the prevailing fashions in ap- ] parel, especially at places of amusement. Thus in the same spirit that characterized an article in the Church- \ man, from which your correspondent had occasion to quote the other day, the Freeman's Journal of today does not hesitate to declare, what a secu- ' liar writer perhaps would hesitate to ! say, that 'Juvenai's description of the dress of the Roman matrons in the * worst days of pagan Rome would al- . most fit the immodesty of Christian women at this day at the opera house ' in New York.' This is severe, but it . may not be undeserved." Again, a metropolitan paper, com- , menting upon the sudden death of a ; conspicuous leader of fashionable society in Washington last winter, mor- \ alizes as follows: "And there are thousands going her way, intoxicated with the exciteuieut ' that comes from brilliant assemblages, ; compliments meant and not meant, i and the whole phantasmagoria of the great world of hollow mockeries. . . . . The mass of the human race has not yet progressed to the point ot per- ! fection where the bar of modesty may be removed with safety. The respec oK]a thoArir r%f a HooaIlota nAotnmo 5c . yiv kUWV4 J VI M UVVW41V.IV WOIU1UV AO that it is artistic and beautiful, that it Ratifies the (esthetic taste; the other ' theory is that it appeals to the sensuality of men. There are two classes ol women who go to extremes in this freak of fashion?the women in scarlet and the women in white. The women in white are followers of the respectable theory, while the women in scarlet are followers of the other?and both wearing the same sort of costume A thing may be highly artistic aud highly immoral at the same time, aud one can sacrifice good taste aud propriety in pursuit of * the artistic. Innocence and good motive are a protection so far, and no farther. If in order to till the requirements of the art of fashionable dressing a woman subjects herself to criticism that would make her cheeks burn like a red hot coal, is she not losing more than she gains ? It is my sincere opinion that the wo man in scarlet has the better of the argument. She has a plain undisguised purpose, and her atlire. is consistent with that purpose. She has the right by discovery and appropriateness, to this extremity of dress, and the woman in white ought not to eucroach on her domain." It is worth while to inquire whence ' do the fashions that so please the , world generally, originate. A recent . writer in speaking of some of the much affected styles of female attire, 1 says : "The Paris stage is the origina- : tor of fashions in the female dress. The costumes of the actresses in the s (,'omedie Francaise are those usually ] copied by the society leaders of Paris, s and when these ladies adopt a style, the whole world follows suit." In conclusion, I trust that all who t read these lines, and who feel a con- t cern for the promotion of the cause of t social purity, may by example and i v precept, do what they can to uphold i the standard of gospel simplicity in j thia matter nf annarel. None, how- \ ever Jowly or however exalted, but \ may labor in this cause. Much may s be done by handing out tracts which t treat of the subject, though I am ? obliged to confess that this theme of simplicity of dress has been one too much overlooked by the tract-makers, while I grieve to say that one of the 1 best that I ever read, Dr. Judson's Letter ou Ornamental and Costly Attire, appears to be out of print. (I , have since then learned that H. L. ] Hastings, 47 Corn hill, Boston, and j Palmer & Hughes, Bible House, New ] York, publish the tract.) Seeing the abundant need there is for just such , literature, may our Baptist friends re- , issue this tra'jtin new clean type, aud ( in greater quantity than they ever did in the past.. Judson's letter, at the , first, was a pathetic cry to the women aud young women, members of Christian churches in America, to drop their ( f5 iioni o fault innn lilo ntlirp for love of the perishing souls of the far-away Burmese and Karens. Should we not give heed to the same pleading voice, | for the love of those who are much nearer our own doors, lest they stumble and fall through our inconsiderate or uusantified example ? DruidM. Long, long ago before Christ came into the world, a mati named Julius Caesar sailed away from France, with a great army, to a laud that was then called Britia i, but which we know in our modern days as England, or the British Isles. When Caesar landed he found a wild barbarious people, who were constantly lighting among themselves aud with their neighbors, and who were "fierce, cruel and bloodthirsty." ; But. like all other nat ons, no matter how wild ;or savage, they had their religion, and the ministers or priests of this religion of the Britons were culled "Druids." These druids had the greatest influence over the people, so that even their princes were obliged , to obey them. i Like all heathen nations, the 'Britons had many strange superstitions ' and customs. For instance, they thought that snakes were sacred aud ] they reverenced the mistletoe, a vine with spiky leaves and white berries, | which is common in England, and | which I think most of you must have . seen here at Christmas time. This j strange plant is called a parasite, | which means a plant growing not out of the ground, but out of another j plant The mistletoe grows out of the < oak trees and winds about their bran- j ches. The Druids thought the misile- | toe a cure for all poisons, and when a vine was discovered they would collect ( in great crowds, clad in white robes, j to gather it. One of the white-clad | priests would go up the oak aud with | a golden sickle cut the vine from the | tree, and as it was falling to the ground < two other Druids would step quickly ] forward aud catch it in a white cloak. Then two pure white heifers were im- ( mediately killed and offered for a sacrifice, and the remainder of the < day would be spent in rejoicing. j The Druids did not have any church- i es such as we have in which to hold ] their services, but they had temples | which was built in this way: Great j blocks of stone were stood on end, at i some distance from one another, in * the torra of a circle, and then other | itones were laid over the top, forming i kind of railing. There was gener- * illy two of these circles, one within | [he other. t On Salisbury Plain, in England, jtauds to this day the ruins of such a j. temple. It is called Stonehedge. ( which means "hanging atones," and s many people think thai these ruins i ire the remains of one of those very 1 Druid temples which Julius Caefar j found when he came sailing to Britian ilmost niueteeu hundred years ago. ( The Druids sometimes built their i temples and worshiped in great groves [ under the spreading branches of the r splendid oaus? ior wmcn i^uganu is t famous to this day, and which the j Druids thought the most sacred of all trees. It seems to me a very beautiful ? idea to worship God under Ins trees with his owu sweet sunshine stream- | ing through thegieen leaves; but, alas! ( the worship of the Druids was anything but beautiful, aud in many * jases most cruel and terrible. They i would often ofler human beings?uien { ind women?as sacrifices to their God. s fhese poor people were usually pris juers taken in war or who were "sup- i posed to have comitted some crime, f rhese were put to death in the most iruel and dreadful ways, for the j Druids nretended that !tlie more they i tortured the better their Gods were t pleased. Does it not seem very horrible that [ Sod's lovely 'groves should have ever t l>eeu put to such a use? But we are s thankful to know that long ago the t worship of the Druids came to an end; ind though, sad to say, there are still places in the world where our J Uod, the only God, is not known or ' worshipped, they are every year becoming fewer in number, for the mis- ' iionaries are preaching the glad tid- t ings of great joy; and where tho?e \ tidings are preached the dreadful cruel- s ties of the heathen religions come to i in end.?Morning Star. I a g Ou nnd <)?' (he StBjfe. 1 The following telegram was publish- a sd in the New York Times : t "Long Island City, March 8.?The c handsome and exclusive masquerade r ball given by the Frobsinu Sinking y Society at Koch's Hall on Saturday a night has been the means of throwing c the Germau-American social circles of I the city into a tumult. It seems that when the dancing was at its height a 3 vision of female loveliness burst upon c the assembled multitude with electri- ? fying effect. The lady was masked as F to face, but she had chosen to repre- 0 sent a ballet dancer iu scantiest possi- r ble attire and flesh-colored tights. k Her appearance was the signal for pan- cJ ic among the women dancers, and F caused a gasp of astonishment even 1: imong the masculine contingent. a "True to the character she was enacting, she pirouetted along the ballroom e from end to end, and returned over b lhe same course. By that time even u the musicians had forgetten their roles 11 md were gazing in open-mouthed won- e Jer upon the amazing spectacle. Sud- 0 ienly the lady disappeared as inyste- i riously as she had appeared, and now ii tnininti Su rlS tf o u f / ? oi* ypuuwu 10 uiuuuu c*o IU nuciuci aiiv left the floor voluntarially or by reason n )f a feverish request by the Floor Com- t mittee." No doubt most of these masqueraders were theatre goers and considered the jallet costume proper for gentlemen md ladies to see at the theatre. If ight for a lady to see.it ought to be ? ight for a wear. Ought on this double itandard of decency! What is not ? >roper in a parlor is not proper on the J itage.?Christian Statesman. In a small class of children the c eaclier desired, bv illustration, to ob- fl ain the word favorite. She said, after g leveral fruitless attempts, "Well, ehild- a 'en, if there was some one you loved ii nore thau anybody else in the world, fl md wished always to keep her with g ,'ou, what would you say she was? fl vhat name would you give her?" A c nuail boy held up his hand, and when si old to answer, responded promptly, b 'My mother." h A BEAUTIFUL THOUGHT. The Yoiidk Man, Death mid the c Three JIe**enjfer?. One evening, says the allegory, a a >'oung man was sitting in his little cotrjg age, talking with his wife as to their< future. He was poor as to money, but ? had the wealth of a good and strongj( constitution, and able and willing to j work. He was blest with a good mind, c md full of energy and industry. Sit- i ting in his lap wa? his little son who t had not numbered his first twelve 2 months. The young mother was busy with her needle. Just then a knock was heard at the front door, and a cor- i dial and free invitation was given to | come in. A neighbor, thought the | young couple. But much to their < alarm in walked Death. Fixing his < eyes upon the young man, he said, in i an authoritative manner: i "Young man, I have come for you, j and shall make you a citizen of my si- ] }) 1 trill' tVHI^UVU. ; Have mercy!" exclaimed the young man. ''You have mistaken the house; i and certainly must have come for my i old and rich ntighbor whom you have j permitted to journey on life's course, j over his three score years and ten. Go take him, and spare me !" I make no mistakes. I came for you. ] I respect neither age, circumstances < nor condition. Come go!" Said the young man in terror and | despair: < i "Let me reason with you ! Let me j plead my case ! Hear my petition for ; a longer life." Death said : I "Speak on and let me hear your case, j r do sometimes relent, for a season, at least." < Said the young man. j "Iu the first place, I think you have j come too soon for me. I have just started - life, aud there you see my h young wire, an,a nere in uiy mp uui i little babe. Would you make her a i widow so soon, and my babe father- i less? Besides, here is my little home ] [ have just bought; my prospects In j life are fair and inviting. Would you j blight all in a moment ? I am young, strong and healthy, and I thought I < had a good many years yet ahead of me ; are my hopes to be thus blasted. Let me mature my plans, and see my t)oy grow up to man's estate, so that he i will be able to take care of his mother; 1 itid the last, but not the least, reason I < bave is this : i "I have not made that preparation I should have made for so important a j louruey as you would send me on. I i bave neglected my soul's greatest iu- ' ierest, in looking at and thinking of ( my temporal. I am unprepared for l pou, O, Death ! Neither am I ready to t meet ray Creator." i Death arose from where he sat and jaid. "Young man, you have stated your ;ase ami condition fairly, and with i *ood reasons ; I will leave this time without you, but mark me well, I will i -eturn at some future day, but will i lear no reasons?you must then go. ( But before I come again I will send >rou three messengers?each will tell 1 fou I am coming; take care that you i aeed them." t "I will!" exclaimed the young man \ 'an/1 ihnnlr vnn for vniir kindness in t jow going, and your generous consideration in sending rae notice." t Time rolled on. The young man 1 jrew to middle age and in time old age i ;ame upon hiin. His life bad been a tuccess so far as to the accumulation of j wealth and of comfort and luxuries. \ffluence. children and grand-children lad blessed his declining years. One pleasant evening, sitting at his 'ase and comfort in his elegant home, vith a little grandson playing about < lini, he heard a ring at the door bell. i Too old and stiff to go to the door, he s sailed the vistor to step in. In stepped < Death. i "What!" exclaimed the old man J 'come so soon." < 'Yes," answered Death, who, eyeing t lis old acquaintance, added : "I have J iome for you, as I promised." ' promised!" said the old man. I 'Yes, you promised to warn me beforemnd by sending me three messengers 1 jefore you yourself would come in per- f ion and I have not seen of one them." ' "I sent them," said Death, "and it 1 ^ou did not heed them, it was not my ' ault." I "When did you send your messengers, for I have not the faintest recol- t ection of their coming?" rejoined the ' >ld man. "I sent them,answered Death; "and i f they came quietly and geDtly re- ' ninded you in looks aud touches, you t ibould have heeded their silent but yet I expressive admonitions." 1 "Explain yourself," said the old t nan," "for I do not nnderstaud. You j alk in riddles or fables." "Easily enough done," said Death, t 'When I first came you were a young i nan ; your hair was black as a raven's \ ving?now it is grey, and your locks ire thinned by age. That was my first ' nessenger. Those eyes of yours were t >right aud undimmed by age ; now I ? ee you use glasses to aid your failing i ight. That was my second messenger, i rhat form of yours was stout and t itroug, unbent by years; now you tot- i er as you walk and lean upon your r sane for support. That was my third nessenger. Your babe whom I saw in c four lat>. has grown to man's estate c iud is himself a father and your grand t ihildren remind you that your years r lave not been few." "But hear me," said the man, "what f rou have said is "very true; but my 1 ares aud business affairs, have been so I [real inai 1 nave uegieuieu w? iiiukh i ireparaiion for so important and- seri- t >u8 a journey. I have made no prepa- t ation to meet you, 0, Death though 1 mew you were coming at some future li lay, but not so soon. I am not pre- li tared to meet my Creator and Judge b low. Give me a little more time?just c , few years more, will you not?" o "No," answered Death, "if ycu faild to atteud to so great a matter for so ong a time the fault is yours, not nine. I warned you before, but you nust now go, prepared are uuprepar- v d, and the consequences be upon your t wo immortal soul. Come !" and lay- ^ ng his cold hand upon the old man, < i?s soul departed. t Reader, how are you acting !n this natter? Have you ^eeu or felt the f ouches of any of the messengers? ? V A Swarm of liees.?An evidentlyi? bserving apiarist states that a swarm j * f bees is made up of a queen, thirty,8 o forty thousand worker bees, and in I J1 pring several nunureu u roues. i ue * een is uot ouly the royal liead of the " iiiiily, but the mother of all. She lys two or three thousand eggs daily 11 the spring, when building up the, olony for the approaching honey " ow. The laying seasou usually beins about December in the South,!18 nd the number of eggs deposited is S jcreased daily until the hive is over-j J' owing with bees, if the queen is a| A ood one. Just before and during the y ower blooming season the brood | hamber should be full of brood in all J1 Late.s of deyelopmeut, and the young r< ees hatching out at the rate of many 11 undred daily. j1-1 Little by Little. Louise Parr, a young girl of sixteen, ifl'ered to take a class in the mission 1 cliool, aud was given seven ragged, f mkemnt boys of ten or twelve years of ' ige. Sne began early to teach them to 1 pell, and continued to do this for two 1 >r three Sabbaths. After studying the ( ilphabet she would read to them a 1 chapter of the bible and try to explain 1 t. But one Sunday Dr. Storrs, the 1 >ld pastor, saw that the boys were 1 .vhispering and scuttling, while Louise sat indifferent, silent, and despondent. ] \s be walked home he joined her. ' "What was the matter?" he asked. j "Thev know nothing. I know little ' uore. Wheu I thought of the months, 1 possibly the yeurs, it would take to 1 each them to read the Bible, and of 1 ill the doctrines and wisdom and iivine meaning in it !which I do not understand, I concluded to give it ' up. It is of no use to try. It is the learned doctors and great saints who 1 must help the world. I am nothing but a stupid, weak child. "YeH," said the old minister, thoughtfully, "God has put a great store of truth here in the world to Teed our souls; in the Bible, in nature 1 in the thoughts and lives of meo. "Suppose," he said, suddenly, "that you should see piled up here in (he field all the bread and meat which you will eat in the course of your life. It i would appall you. You would turn from it in horror. But you gladly receive it, a mouthful at a time, and it gives strength and nourishment to your blood and brain. "Your soul will be fed by God in the same way. You are weak and Peel your need of greater knowledge. He does not expect you to become as wise and holy as an apostle or martyr In an hour, but slowly?as the body ^ivnot "Human beings do not reach mountain bights by one mighty leap, but foot by foot, tramp, tramp> through the thorny brush and over rocks, and through pleasant places, too; by hard labor ana happy rests. But they reach it at last, aud stand in the sunshine 1 ibove the clouds." 1 "1 can understand that," said Louise. J 'But it certainly seems to be folly for me to try to help these boys. They are so ignorant, so indifferent, and so vicious. And they are but two or three outof the hundreds like them in our towu. And our town is one ' >ut of millions in the world, with ignorance and vice in all. The old pastor was silent for a long Jme, as they walked along the path thiough the fields. He said at last, ' 'What a terrible drought we have had Ihis summer. The ground has been I )aked with the heat, and the vegetation scorched from the Atlantic to :he Mississippi. "When the rain came last week, supnose each little drop of water, as it left the cloud could have thought and mid: " 'Why should I fall upon the vast, irid plain? What good could I do? It seeds countless drops to freshen the ground and bring it to life again.' "But the rain-drop did not know ivhat God knows, that one drop may .vet the earth above a buried acorn, Jt tr? hpnnmp ft creat tree uu J,VI F 1 v ? O ivbich shall give shade aud comfort omen for centuries." Louise made no answer to the docx>r'd parables, but when she reached ler home she held out her hand, sayng: r,I suppose all teachers sometimes jet discouraged. I will try again." First Growth a Failure. We had set out a beautiful young ;herry-tree, it was of a rare kind and ive had paid a good price to the nur>ery-man for it; it was planted in a ihoice place, carefully iuclosed, and ve hoped to have good fruit from it. 1 Hut it was not long before there came 1 ?vil tidings of our young tree: "the .op is dead; all of its early groth is de- j 3troyed; if it ever becomes a fruit bearng tree it will have to put out from he root." We went to examine oui* tree and J fouud that it was as we had heard; its 1 jrowtb of several moths was all deadwould have to be cut away?if there ' was any hope of it, it was that it ' would put out from the root; its first growth was a failure. I did not look far before I saw my ree again. 1 saw a Doy wuu uau weu eareaiu a pious household, the sub- ' ect of many prayers aud anxieties, ] iviio had been faithfully instructed rom the pulpit, faithfully taught in j he Sunday-school; I saw him choose )ad ways and wicked associates, disomy his parents, rebel against his eachero; I saw him (Oh! sad sight!) is be lost the good name which he had * nherited from his parents, and became ' he mock and derision of fools; I saw ! lie years given to evil which were so 1 avorable in making progress in that ' vhich is good. I said as I looked sadly at him, AH of this evil must be cut away; here must be hearty repentance for ill this misdoing; it may chance there 1 ssouie good in him still?still some >lace left for repentance: he will have o cut away the dead year's misdoings; j t may be from the root good fruit yet , nay grow. j But oh! the sad loss! the years i that ( night to have been given to the devel- j ipment of buds of promise that were ? o ripen into fruit over which God and { neu would rejoice, wasted! A boy's failure! how sad it is! Un aitbfulnei-s, dishonesty, falsehood: iow they blight a young life; how ike the boughs of a dead tree they ] iave to be cut away and the boy bus ? o commence again?to begin from ) he root! Boys, O boys! be failhful, truthful, f lonest, when you are boys. Don't Jj iave to cut away the bright days of t oyhood as so much dead wood; dou't j otnmence life with the bitter draught a f repentauce. t m m 1< Dick'* Aflcr-tliouKlil. A certain celebrated Southern judge, k'bo was not a believer in reveuled " ruth, was in the habit of twitting his ody servant on religious matters. 'Dick," he said one day, "you say ? bedevil besets you ; now T want to ^ now why he lets a sinner like me off P ree." Dick could not tell why, but (j he next day he went duck shooting " fitli his master. The tirst time the udge tired into the flock he killed two i r three and wounded as many more. ^ it once the hunter threw down his un and with sticks and stones tried 0 make sure of his wounded game ,? ut paid no attention to the dead ones outing down stream. v "Massa," called Dick, "it jist come 3 my mind why de debil troubles me i) much, sah, an'let you 'lone. You ' ke de dead duck ; he dun got you ife, sah: I is de wounded duck; J g| 1 tryin' to get away,Jan' he feured I % wine do it. Jf v?u wuz to fluttle a a] tflo mill unr! nipk nut. von trwiut or it, vay, I spec' be mek a tig snash arter tt ou, same he do arter me, sab." t,] How much Dick had to do with the rt idge's finding the truth Dick's biog-'t^ ipher does not know, but master and a] tan at length sat together at the lord's table.?Well Spring. gl Rent Klndne**. A blind and crippled old man sat at he edge of the icy stone pavement p grinding out his few tunes on a wheezy I mnd-organ, and holdini; in oue baud 8 i tin cup for pennies. The cold wind e >lew through his jags, nnd he was in- r ieed a pitiful object. Yet few of the;" passers-by seemed to pity him. They j d ;vere all in a hurry, aud it was too cold b :o stop and hunt f>r pennies in pockets s uui purses. r A sudden gust of wind blew the old s man's cap off. It fell by the Bide of the pavement, a few feet distant. He s felt around for it with his bare, red t nanas, ana men wun ius cune , uut ueiu could not find It, and finally began c playing again, bare-headed, with his e scanty giey locks tossed about in the wind. c People came and went, happy, well- 1 dressed men and women, in silks aud c velvets and seal-skins, in warm over- j coats and gloves aud muffluers. But ? none of them paid any attention to I the old man. i By and by a woman came out of au alley, au old woman iu rags and tatters with a great bundle of boards and Bticks on her bent back. Some of the boards were so long that they dragged I ou the ground behind her; and it had 1 evidently taken her a long time to tie ( all the boards and bits of lumber to- 6 gether and get them on her back. She came elong, bending low uuder 11 her burden, until she was within a few J feet of the old orgau-grinder. She paw his cap lying bv the pavement; she c saw him sitting bare-headed. ? She stopped and untied the rope that bound the bundle to her back, and in a moment the boards were lying on the ground. Then she picked up the cap, put it on the old mau's head, and ti?i it down with a ragged string of a handkerchief taken from her own neck. t 'Cold, haint It?' she said. He nodded. . 'Ain't gittin' much to-day ?' He shook his head again. She fumbled in her ragged skirts for a moment, and finally brought forth a c copper. She dropped it into his little s cup. hoisted the great bundle on her c back, and weut on her way. 8 t To Cook Vegetables. ( Vegetables to be thoroughly cooked t should be kept on the stove as follows; f Potatoes, boiled, thirty minutes. * Potatoes, baked, forty-five minutes. ( Sweet potatoes, boiled, sixty rain- ? utes. i Sweet potatoes, baked, twenly to < forty minutes. ] Grean peas, boiled, sixty minutes. ( Shelled beans, boiled, one to two j hours. , Green corn, twenty-five to sixty < minutes. < Asparagus, fifteen to thirty min- f utes. 1 Spinach, sixty minutes. j Tomatoes; fresh, sixty minutes. Tomatoes, canned, thirty minutes. { Cabbage, three-quarters to two * hours. I Cauliflowers, one to three hours. 1 Beet greens, one hour. Onious, one to two hours. Beets, one to five hours. Yellow turnips, one aud oue-half to ^ two hours. Parsnips, oue to two hours* t White turuips, forty-flve to sixty j minutes. j Carrots, one to two hours. The Son 1 a Picture Gallery. Your souls are a picture gallery. L'over the walls of them with things jerene, noble, beautiful, and (he foui smd fleshly will only seera revolting. "Hang (his upon the wall of your room," said a wine picture dealer (o an Oxford undergraduate, as he handed to him the engraviug of a Madonna of Ranhiel, "and then all the pictures of jockeys and ballet girls will disappear/' Try the same experiment with your jouls. Let their walls be hung with illjtbinga sweet and perfect?the thought of God, (he image of Christ, the lives of God's saints, the aspirations of good and great men, the memories of golden deeds, noble passages of poetic thought, scenes of mountain, and sunset, ana ocean. I O Ho this, and there will be no room for the thoughts of carnal ugliness, ivhich deprave corrupted souls! c Be pitiful, be courteous. The roots a }f plants are hidden underground, so :hat themselves are nol seen but they c ippear in their branches, and flowers and fruits, which argue there is a root md life in them; thus the graces of the Spirit planted in the soul, though :hemselves invisible, yet discover * their bfing and life in (he tract of a v Christian's life, his words, and actions, md the frame of his carriage. t A man's realest self is his best self. He can never do better than to do as le was originally designed to do. It ti n as when the prodigal son "came to ti limself," that he was ready to return o his better life and his father's house, before that he was beside himself, or * iway from himself. In every man 11 here is a better self to which to ap- ? Deal. He who would win souls should u ict on this conviction. "Peace on earth and good will to 2 tiien," was the chorus of the song of {j mgelsrheard on the plains ol Beth- u ehem when the uruma opened, q 'Peace I leave with you," was the arewell legacy of the glorified. Releemer, as he was about to suffer and o overcome. Aud peace restored and fJ >erfected between man aud his Maker, c< ,ud man and his brotlier, will orown w he final consummation ana prepare or the end of time; and seal up its ssues to everlasting retributions. ^ ?Doubt* have been called "spectres '[ f the mind." When we wrestle with ? hese unsubstantial appearances our lands often fail to grasp anything, nd come together in striving. If bey come together in the posture of w rayer that is well. Uod will hear and bi eliver us with his truth, from our ai oubt. at God's word simply gives men facts, 8j octrines, duties, and promises. It oes not stop to explain all the eurius questions respecting the new birth in nd the hereafter, but it simply says: If ye know these things, happy are ? e if ye do them;" and "he that doeth VV lis will shall know of the doctrine, bj 'hether it be of God or whether JI l,a peak of myself." la he The nearer our Savior drew to His hi lory the more humility He expressed, lis followers were first His servants, nd he their Master; then His disciles, and He their Teacher; soon af- .at rward they were His friends, and He Re leirs; straightway after His resur ction and entrance into an immor- .vv l1 condition they were His brethren; !9 id, lastly, they were incorporated f1? ito Him and made partakers of His ory. Gt Helen Hunt Jackson's Cblld. Babies think more than grown-up eopie quite realize. Very early little tennie began to reason things out. As rton as he could understand, hismothr set herself to explain to him the eason of things. She never said, You must <lo so and so because I orler it," but "because it is kind, and rave, and unselfish." She would oraetimes add, "It would please nam ma very much if you do it, but he never commaded. "It has cost him a hard struggle ometimes," sha told me, "not to do be pleasant thing which was selfish >r greedy or mean, but, never, not >nce. has he disappointed me in the nd !" This happy child, thus led, not Iragged, in the right direction, and iviug, on terms of the closest intimacy with his mother, grew into a ?u>erb, manly boy, one of the handmmeat and dearest I have ever mown.?Susan Coolidge, iu Wide ^.wake. ??? How Southern Cooks Prepare Rice. Wash a pint of rice in two waters, jour over it two quarts of boiliog .vater, add En ever, teaspoonful of fait, ?ver closely and set over the fire, itirrlng it often, boil fast twenty minites; pour off the water, cover closely ind set on the back of the stove to iteam, half an hour or more, to?slug t often with a silver fork. When lone each grain will be soft but whole ind perfect. Serve with roast poultry. Where Hli Coffee Grew. "Where is the Island of Java situated ?" asked a school teacher of a mall boy. "I dunno, sir." "Don't you know where coffee comes rom ?" "Yes, sir; we borrow it from the lext door neighbor." Ladylove Pancakes.?Mix the yolks >f two well beaten eggs with a dessertpoonfUl of ground rice and a gill of Team, Ada two ounces of catter ugar, a small piece of powdered cinjamon, blade of mace, pounded, and i daah of nutmeg. Ruo a perfectly ;lean frying pan with a piece of bnter tied In a cloth. Fry the pancakes i light golden color ana as thin as pos iidie. xvju uieiu aim jay not more han five at once on a hot dish screened with ornamental paper. Dust over >ach a little caster sugar. Garnish with green sprigs of myrtle and serve quickly. If too many pancakes are oiled upon the dish they become sod* len ana hea?y. Bice Pancakes?Boil half pound of :be best rice to a jelley in a little water; when cold mix with it a pint >f cream, eight well beaten eggs, a lash of nutmeg and a pinch of salt; itir into this six ounces of butter, just seated, and enough dry, warm flour to make into a smooth batter. Grease he inside of a pan with hotter, then rry the pancakes a golden brown. Send them to the table rolled, a few at i time; lay them on an ornamental Mtper, dust over a little caster sugar ind serve with red current jelly. A Boy's Religion.?If a boy is a over of the Lord Jesus Christ, though jie can't lead a prayer-meeiing, or be a Church officer, or a preacher, be can )8 a godly boy, In a boy's way ;aud In i boy's place. He need not cease to >e a Christian. He ought to run, ump, climb and yell like a real boy. But lu It he ought to be free from vulgarity and profanity. He ought to jschew tobacco in every form and jave a horror of intoxicating drinks. He ought to be peaceable, gentle, nerciful, generous. He ought to take he part of small boys against larger :>nea. He ought to discourage fighting. He ought to refuse to be a pary o mischief, to persecution or deceit. \.nd, above all things, he ought now ind then te'show his colors. He need lot always be interrupting a game to o say he is a Christian, but he ought jot be ashamed to nay that he refuses o do something because be fears God >r is a Christian. He ought to take io part in ridicule of sacred things, >ut meet the ridicule of others with a >old statement that for thing* of God le feela the deepest reverence.?Prea>yterian. The real meaning of reform is trv ng to make a tiger behave itself. A bad oiao hates the thiuge that ;an do him good. Beware of the man whose wife is ilways sayiug he has no faults. There is a brotherhood of error as lose as the brotherhood of truth. The church has aims which the aen of the world understand not. Trust in the Lord, and do g<?od; so hou shall dwell in the land ant1 erily thou shalt be fed. No man will want to have anything r> do with Christ as long as he is satisied with himself. The best education at college is obEuned by those who pay their own tuilou. Blessed is he who shall be counted worthy to see that hour in which all hat love the immortal Bridegroom re taken up into the clouds to meet im. "Inward indifference, not outward pposition, is the real reason for slow rogress in God's work." The lions ave all been found to be chained 'Ueneverwe nun luecourage lomarcn uite within their reach. 8ecret prayer is the christians foundn where bis soul is constantly reeshev'*. If it if neglected the life Lewies dry and barren. A preacher 111 blacksllde in a revival if he negcts to pray in secret. The spirit of forgiveness and for?arance is necessary to the christian fe. While we are In the world we and in need of forgiving, and being rgiveu; of bearing with others, and jing borne with ourselves. Charily does not require of us that e should not see the faults of others, it that we should avoid all needles id voluntary observance of them, id that we should not l>e blind to leir good qualities when we are so larp-sighted to their bad ones. ' There is a great mistake in suppos- j g that giving is concerned only , ith material benefits. These form \ deed but a small part of its mission. ' 'hatever creates happiness, whether r a kindly greeting, or tender symithy, or inspiring presence, or stimuting thoughts, is as true a giver as i w ho empties his purse to feed the ingry. At NVellesely Female College there e twenty minutes reserved daily, iring which each young lady must in her room---no passing through e halls, no conversation, no laughter hat the young lady does in her room between herself her conscience and r God. Let all have their quiet ne when the soul communes with s id. i An Overeomer. Ey Mary K Bamford. H Addie stood with her back to th^HH|^H| others and looked out of the window^^^^^^H She roust go straight home. had only ruu over to Mrs. Ha*tings [ return a flat-iron, aud there were the^H|^^H three Hastings young folks, twoH H brothers aud a Mister, the boys belpiqgfl^^^^H do up the housework, Fred with bucket and broom, so that Etta could have^^^HH more time to make ready for a socia-H H ble. Addie had uo brothers who would help her. She went home to the sweepping. "On, don't talk any more! I don't want to bear another word!" H That was what Addie said inwardly, not out loud. She wanted to say it to her mother, which made matters worse mmm Addie bad been sweeping the two Hj^^H bed-rooms upstairs, erne was wipiug khi with a damp cloth the steps of the HH|H steep, narrow staircase, and her mother, in the dining room below, had opened tbe stair door and talked a littie about an investment she thought of HHH making. There was nothing -in the words to cause Addie's ill-humor. She did not know herself why she was cross. That morning, when her little sister had begun to help about setting the table, Addie had stopped her with : "Oh, do go out of this kitchen and let H|| me alone! Getting breakfast is my work, and I don't want your help." 9Rfl Some way, the remembrance of flH those hasty words had troubled Addle all the morning. The little sister was not a Christian. Would she be won to Jesus by Addie's example ? hB Little things irritated Addie so today. She had felt impatient because the tablecloth did not go on smoothly Hfl as she Intended, aud because a chair was not pushed close to the table. She had given the chair a jerk, and one of HQ the chair legs had gone through a raffle flH in the bottom of her dress, and If there was one thing above another that Ad* die hated, it was sewing. "Oh, what makes me so cross? H What makes me?" she groaned, in- n wardly, as she wiped out the narrow, H yellow-painted steps. "I wish I could 19 feel differently." H She remembered that lagt Sunday the primary class bad lackedlts usual teacher, and the assistant superintend- V ' ?- ?, j ? 1 * u? fl em emu spieu ner auu put ucr iu wum. ^ There were thirty-flve little scholars 1 in the class, but they bad a separate 1 room, and it was review ,bundayt so I that by means of the largt colored I pictures of the quarter she had man- | aged to get along very well. In speak- < iugof one of the pictures, she used ' 1 the word "Jesus' disciple," and then tearing that the little ones might not 1 understand the expression, she asked if any one of them could tell her what a disciple was. A little boy raised his hand. "What was a disciple?" questioned Addie. 'His man," answered the little boy. "And are you trying to be his boy ?" she questioned, gently. "I guess that little boy wouldn't think I was trying to be Jesus' disciple if he could look at me aud see just how cross I am and have been," thought Addie, sarcastically, as she wiped the last step. "A person who can't keep her temper any better than I can through the week hasn't any business to be teaching on Sundays." She went to the faucet and wrung out her damp cloth. She hung it in the back hall to dry, and taking another cloth and a duster, she went upstairs again. She remembered something else about last Sunday. A minister had talked to the people about those promises in Revelation to "hiref that overcometh," and bad used one expression that bad fixed itself in Addie'smind? "an overcomer." Addie had prayed that she might be one. "f don't believe I can ever, ever conquer my temper," she said to herself. "No one knows how hard I try." Addie came downstairs to set things to rights. She found eome mud on the parlor carpet and by the hall door. "It's Victor and that < ther boy that was in lo see him about that debate last ni^ht," fhe said. *lI'd just like to kuow if that boy'? never going to learn to wipe his feet clean " Then the stopped. She went and got a cloth and dust pan. As she knelt in the parlor, brushing the dry mud into the dustpan, those two words came back to her?"an overcomer." "Oh, but the Bible could't mean such little bits of things ! Such things as brushing mud, aud pushing chairs, and twitching table cloths straight!" At supper, there came a most unexpected trial. The chief thing for supper was a squash pie, and the little sister, Jennie, put this over the small coal-oil stove to warm, but made the unfortunate mistake of putting it on an old pie tin that had a few minute holes in it. The smoke penetrated these holes holes, and Addie found it permeated with coal oil smoke. The pie was ruined. Oh, how much "overcoming" it did take to quietly put that spoiled pie aside and go to making a jelly cake ! l/\/\l?n/1 of A HiTifi iFAnHpriiifflv. UCIIUIC JWIXVU ?V A1MUIV ff VMM V . ? ov * "What makes her not scold?" the younger sister questioned, inwardly. "I thought you'd scold me awfully !" sighed the r?'peutant child, when the jelly cake, brown and warm, sat on the table ready for supper. ' Dear Lord," she prayed earnestly, before she slept that night, "help me in the little things. Do make me oue of thy overeomers." A Faithful Preacher. A singular tradition which is current in regard to St. James's Church, Bath, illustrates the existence oftheseutiments respecting war, which gave birth to the Peace Society, and with it to the modern Peace movement in Europe and America. On one memorable morning, it was arranged that the incumbent, now well remembered as the Rev. Richard Warner, should preach before the volunteers in the great French war. He did so, powerfully expatiating on the inconsistency of the practice of war with C'hristiauity, to the surprise of the citizen soldiers who thronged the body of the church. ? The rush of the Jews toward Jerusalem is pheuomenal. In 1880*1889, :uilv four vears. it reached twenty thousand. More than haif the city's present population are Jews. The country, too, is tilling up with Jews, fhere is new life in old Palestine, commerce begins to flourish, money is nvested, industries are developing, ind many eyes are turned thither in wonder. The Rothschilds are lending their immense wealth (nearly) $4,000. jOO, 000) to rebuild and restore theolu jlory of the famous site of their anient kings. Meanwhile Turk, Pope, md Czar covet and intrigue for the jrize of the "holy mountain." But Jhrist will win.?P*. ii. 6.?Ex. Shatter my idols, O Lord, destroy my elf-love, overcome my sins, and build ne up anew in thee.