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PARENTAL BLUNDERS. DR. TALIAGE'S SUNDAY SERMON. A Few Wortg of Wisdom About Train ing Children. * TEXT: He fell of frotm the scat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died; for he was an old man, and heaegY''-I Samuel iv., is. . This is the end of a long story of parental neglect. Judge Eli was a good man, but he let his two boys, Hophni and Phinehas, do as they pleased, and through over-indu'gence they went to ruin. The blind old judge, ninety-eight years of age. is seated at the gate waiting for the news of an important battle in which his two sons were at the front. An express is coming with tidings from the battle. This blind nonagenarian puts his hand behind his ear and listens and cries: "What meaneth the noise of this tumult:" An excited me senger, all out of breath with the p , said to hun: "Our army is defeat ed, he sacred chest, called the ark, is cap tured, and your sous are dead on the field" No wonder the father fainted and expired. The domestic tragedy in which these two sons were the tragsd:ans had tinished its fifth and last act. "He fell from o:f the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake and he died; for he was an old m2n and heavy." Eli had made an awful mistake in regard to his children. The lible distinctly says: "His sons made themselves vile and'he -e strained them not." Oh. the ten thousand mistakes in rearing children, :nit.,kes of pa rents, mistakes of teachers in day school and Sabbath classes, mistakes which we all make. Will it not be useful to consider themn! Thiscountry is going to be conquered by a great army, compared with which that of Baldwin the First, and Xerves, and Alexan der, and Grant, and Lee, all put together, were in numbers insignificant. They will capture all our pulpits, stcrehouses. factor'e and halls of le;-lation, all our shippin. all our wealth, an I all our huo.s. they will take roession of all author ity, from the Uinited States Presi dency down to the humblest constabulary -of everything between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. They are on the march now, and they halt neither day nor night. They will soon be here, and all the present active population of this country must surrender and give war. I refer to the great army of children. Whether they shall take posses sion of everything for good or for bad, de pends pon the style of preparation through which they pass on their way from cradie to throne. Cicero acknowledges he kept in his desk a collection of prefaces for boons, which prefaces he could at any time attach to any thing he wanted to publish for him self or others; and all parents and teachers have all prepared the pre face of every young life under their hare, and not only the preface, but the ap whether the vo:ume be a poem or a Families and schools and legislatures are in our day busily engaged in discussing what is the best mode of educating children. Before this question alnost every other dwindles into ins:gniticance, whit4 de fendant upon its proper solution is the wel are of governments and ages eternal Macaulay tells of the war whicii Feederick the Second made against Quern Marie Theresa. And one day she appeared before the Diet wearing mournin- for har father, and hul up in her arms %cfore them her child, the Archduke. This so wrought upon the officers and deputies of the people that with half drawn swords they broke forth in the war cry: "Let us die for our Queen, Maria Theresa!" So, this morning, realizing that the boy of to-day is to be the ruler of the future, the popular sovereign, I hold him before the American people to arouse their enthnsiasm in his behalf, and to evoke their oath for his defense, his education and his miblime destiny. If a parent, you will remember when you were aroused to these great responsibilities, and when you found that you had not done all reqsired after you had admired the tiny hands, and the glosy hair, and the bright eyes that lay in the cradle. You suddenly remembered that that hand would yet be raised to blesss the world with its benedie ton, or to smite it with a curs'. In Arios to's great poem there is a character called Ruggiero, who has a shield of insul'erable splendor, but it is kept veiled, save on certain occasions, and whoa uncovered it startled and overwhelmed its beholder, who before had no suspicion of its brightness. My hope to-day is to uncover the destiny of your child or student, about which Tou have no especial apreiti' and flash upon you the splen dosof its immortal n-itur-e. Behold the shield and the sword of its coming conflict! Iprpoein this discourse to se- forth what Ico'sier to be some cf the errors prevalent in the training of children. First: I remark that many err in too great severity or too great leniency of family gov ernent. Between parental tyranny, and ruinous laxativeness of discipline there is a medium. Sometimes the father errs on one side and the mother on the other side. Good family government is all important. An archy and misrule in the domnesti: circle is the forerunner of anarchy and misule in the State. What a repulsive spectacle is a home without order or discipline. di-obediience and impudence, and anger and falsehood lift ing their horrid front in the place which should be gonsecrated toall th-it is holy, and peaceful, and beautifuL. In the atte-npt to avoid all this, and bring the children under proper laws and regulations, parents have sometimes carried themselve-s with great rigor. John Howard, who was merciful to the prisons and lazarettes, was -merciless in the treatment of his ciiiren. John Milton knew everything but how to train his family. b'evere an l unrea sonable was he in his carriage toward them. He compelled his daughters to read to him in four or five languages, bat wouldI not allow them to learn any of them, for lhe said that one tongue was enough for a womnan. Their rading was me -hanical drudgery, when, if they had understood the lauguages they readl, the employment of reading might have been a luxury. No wonder his children despised hinm, and stealthily sold his boioks and hoped for his death. In all ages there has been need of a society for prevention of cruelty to chil dren. When lirbara was put to death by her father because she had counter-manded his order, and had three windows put in a room insead of two, this cruel varat was a ty'pe 5f many who have acted liio :Nero and The Robespierre in the home circle. The heart sickens at what you sometimes see, even in families that pretend to be Chris:iau--per petual scolding, and hair-pulling, ear-box i, and thumping. and stamping, and fault fidnand tensing, until the children are vxdbeyond bounds, and growl in the sleeve, and pout, and rebel, and vow within themselves that in after days they will retaliate for the cruelties practiced. Many a home has become as full of dispute as was the home of John O'Groat, who built his house at the most northerly inbt in Great Britain. An-1 tradition says t the house had eight windows. al eight doors, and a table of eight sides. l:ecause he chad eight children, a.nd the only way to keep them out of bitter quarrel was to have a eapointment for each one of them. '~c hld'snature is too delicate to be worked upon by sledge-haumnmer, and gouge. and pile-river, Such fierce lashing, instead of breaking the high mettlb to bit and trace, will make it dash off the nmore uncontrollable. Many seem to think that children are 'lax notfitforusetilltheyhave been heteheled and swingled. Some one talking to a child, said: "I wonder what makes that tree out there so families all the iio.'.-:is concentrated upcm one child's head. If anything is done wrong the supposition is that George did it. _Hi, broke the latch. He left open tihe gate. rHe hacked the banisters. He whittled sticks on the carpets. And George shall be the scape goat for all domestic misutndestandings and suspicions. If things get wrong in the culi nary department, in conmes the mother and says, angrily: --Where is Goorge!' lf busi ns matters are perplexing at the store. iS comes the father at night an I says. angrily: "Where is George!' In many a household there is such a one singled out for suspicion and castigation; all the sweet flowers of his soul blasted under this perpetual northeast sporm; he curses the day in which he was born. Safer the child in a bank of bulrushes on the Nile among crocodiles, than in an elegant mansion, amid such* domestic gorgons. A mother was passing along the street one day and came up to her little child. whho did not see her approach, and her chill was saying to her pamte: "You good-for-no hing lit tle scamp, you come right into the house this minute, or I will beat you till the skin conmes off." The mother broke in. saying: -Why, Lizzie, I am surnrized to hear you talk like that to any one"' "Om," said the child. "I was only playing, and he is nay l:ttle boy, and I am scolding him, as you did' me this morning." Chilldren are apt to be echoes of their parents. Safer in a Bethlehem manner among cattle and camels, with gent~e Mary to watch the the litt e cnt, than the most extravagant nursery over which God's star of peace never stood. The trapper extinguishes the flames on the prairie by fighting fire with fire, but you cannot, with the fire of your own dispo sition, put out the fire of a child's disposition. Yet we may rush to the other extreme, and use toward our children too great leni ency, The surgeon is not unkind because, notwithstanding the resistence of his patient, be goes straight on, with firm hand and un faltering heart, totake off the gangrene. Nor is the parent less ; affectionate and faithful because, notwithstanding all violent remonstrances on the part of the child, he with the firmest discipline advances to the cutting off of its evil inclinations. The Bible says: "Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying." Childish rage unchecked will, after awhile. become a hurri tano. Childish petulance will grow up into misanthropy. Childish rebellion will develop into the lawlessness of riot and selition. If you would ruin the child. dance to his every caprice and stuff him with con fectionery. Before you are aware of it that boy of ten years will go down the street, a cigar in his innuth and ready on any corner with his comradts to compare pugilistic attainment. The parent who al lows the child to grow up without ever hav ing learned the great duty of obedience and suomission has prepared a cup of burning gall for his own lips and appalling destrue tion for his descendant. Remember Eli and his two sons, Hophni an I Phinehas. A second error prevalent in the training of chi'dren is the laying out of a theory an I fol lowin_ it without arranging it to varieties of disposition. In every family you will find striking differences of temperament. This child s tro timid, and that tot boli: this too miserly, and that too wasteful: this too inactive, and that too boisterous. Now, the farmer who should plant corn and wheat and turnios in just the same way, then put them through one hopper and grind them in the same mill, would not be so much of a fool as the parents who should attempt to discipline and educate all their children in the same manner. It needs a skillful hand to ad just these chcks an-I balances. The rigidity of government which is necessary to hold in this impetuous nature would utterly crush thit flexile disosition, while the gentle reoroof that woull suffice for the lntter would, when used on the former, be like ettempt ing to hold a chamoing Bucephalus with reins of gos samer. God gives us in the disposition of each child a hint as to how we ought to train him, and. as God in the mental structures of our children indicates what mole of training is the best, He indicates in their disposition ther future occupation. Do not write down that child as dull because it may not be as brilliant as your other children. or as those of your neighbor. Some of the mightiest men and wom-n of the centuries had a stupid childhood. Thomas Aquinas was called at school "the dumb ox," but afterward demon strated his sanctifiel genius and was called "the angel of the schools" andI "the eagle of Brittany." Kindness and patience with a child will conqueralmost anythinr, and they are virtues so Christianlike that they are in spiring to look at. John Wesley's kiss of a child on the pulpit stairs turned Matthias ,ovce from a profligate into a flaming evan The third error prevalent in the training of children is the one-side' development of either the phy.ical, intellectual or moral na ture at the exnense of the others. Those, for instance, greatly mistake who, while they are faithful in the intellectual and moral culture of children, forget the physical. The bright eyes half quenched by night study, the cramped chest that comes from toy much bending over school desks.the weak si:le result ing from sedentariness of habit, pale cheeks an i the gaunt bodies of multitudes of chil dred attest that physical development does not always go along with intellectual and moral. How do vou sunose all those treas ures of liowieugs the chiii > et. will look in a shattered casket? And how much will you give for the wcaithicst cargo whcn it is put into a leaky ship! How can that bright, sharp blade of a child's attainments be wielded without any hands: What are brains worth without shoulders to carry them: What is a child with magnificent mind but an exhausted body? Better that a young man of twenty-one do forth into the world without knowing A from Z if he have health of body and energy to push his way through the world. than at twenty-one to enter u:on active life, his head stuffe.1 with Sorats and Ihcredotus, and Bacon, and La Place, but no physical force to sustain him in thie shook of eart hly' confli:ts. From this infinite blunder of parents how nmany have come out in life w ith a genius that could have piled Ossa upon Pelio:x and mounted noon thiem to scale the heavens, anid yet have laid down panting with physical exhaustion be fore a mole-hilL. They who might have thrilled senates and marshaled armies and startled the world with the shock of their scientific batteries, have passed their lives in picking up prescriptions for indigestion. They owned all the th und.erbolts of Jupiter, but could not get o'it of their rocking chair touse them. G3eorge Washington in early life was a poor speller,and spelled hat h-a-double-t and a ream of paper he speliled "rheam," but he knew enough to spell out the independence of this country froma foreign oppression. The knowedge of the -schools is important, but there are other things quite as important. Just as great is the wrong done when the mind is cultivated and the heart neglected. The youth of this day are seldom denied any sbolarly attainments. Our schools and semmian~es are over growmng in elliciency, and the students are conducted through all the realms of philosoph', and art, and larguage, and mnathemnaties. The most hereditary obtuseness gives wvay before the onslaught of adroit iustructors. But there is a development of infinite importance which mathematics and the dead languages cannot affect. The more mental power th more capacity for evil un less coupled with religious restraint. You riscover wvhat terrible power for ev il unsaae tified genius possesses when you see Scaliger with his scathing denunciations amsulting the best men of his timne, .and Blount and Spinoza and Eolingoroke lead ing their hosts of followers unto the all-consuming fires of sk:3pticismi and in fidelity. Whether knowledge is a mighty good or an unmitigate-1 evil depends entirely upon which course it takes. The river roll ig on between round banks makes all tho valley laugh with golde'n wheat and rank grass,. and catching hold the wheel of mill and facto:-y. w'nirls it wvith great industries. but, breaking away from restraints and dashing over banks in red wrath, it washes away harvests from their moorings and makes the valleys shriek with the catastrophe. Fire ir the furnace heats the house or drives the steamer; but, uncon trolled, warehouses go down in awful crash beore it. and in a fe~w hours half a city will lie in black ruin, walls and towers and churches and monuments. You must accom pany the education of the intellect with the education of the heart, or you are rousing up within your child an energy which will be blasting and terrific. Better a wicked dunce than a wicked philosopher. The fourth error often committed in the training of children is the supression of child ish sportfulness The most triumphant death of any child that I ever saw was that of Seo vile Haynes McCollum. A few days before that he was at my house in Syracuse, and he ran like a deer add his halloo made the wood.s echo. You could hear him coming a block off, so full was he of romp and laughter and whistle Don' put religion on your child as a straight acket. Parents'after having for a good many years been jostled about in the rough world often lose their vivacity, and are as tonished to see how their children can act so thughtlessly of the earnest world about theni. That is a cruel parent who quenches any of the light in a child's soul. Instead of arresting the sportfulness, go forth and help him trundle the hoop, and fy the, kite, and build the snow castle. 'hose shoulders are too little to carry a burden, that brow is too young to be wrinkled, those feet are too sprightly to go along at a funeral pace. God tbless their young hearts! Now is the time for them to be sportful. Lot them romp and sing and laugh, and go with a rush and a hurrah. In this way they gather up a surplus of energy for future life. For the child that walks around with a scowl, dragging his feet as though they were weights and sitting down by the hour in moping and grumbling, I prophecy a life of utter inanition and discontent. Sooner hush the robbins in the air till they are silent asa bat, and lecture the frising lambs on a -u~ 5-3On 01 p ne.q pn entsU15 eus~ structive to the children who must submit to the process. You find children at nine and ten years of age with school lessons only aopropriate for children of fifteen. If children are kept in school, and studying from nine to three o'clock, no home study except music ought to be required of them. Six hours of study is enough for any child. The rest of the day ought to be devoted to recreation and pure fun. But you cannot begin too early the moral culture of a child or on too com piete a scale. You can look back upon your own life and remember what mighty impressions were made upon you at tire or six years of age. Oh, that child does not sit so silent during your conversation not to he influenced by it. You say he does not understand. Although much of your phraseology is beyond his grasp, he is gathering up from your talk influences which will effect his immortal destiny. From the question he asks you long afterward you tind he un-lerstood all about what you were saying. You think the child does not appreciate that beauniful cloud, but its most delicate lines are reflected into the very depths-of the youthful unature, and a score of years from now you wie SC tute t o-hW O that cloud in the tastes anti relneinents de veloped. The song with which you sing that child to sleep will echo through all its life, and ring back from the very arches of heaven. I think that often the first seven years of a liild's life decides whether it shall be irascible, waspish, rude, false, hypo critical, or gentle, truthful, frank, obedient. honest and Christian. The present generation of men will pass off very much as they are now. Although the Gospel is offered them, the general rule is that drunk ards die drunkards, thieves die thieves, libertines die li.>ertines. Therefore to the youth we turn. You fill the bushel measure with good corn, and there will be no room for husks. Glorious Alfred Cookman was con verted at ten years of age. At Car lisle, Pennsylvania, during the progress of a religious meeting in the Methodist Church, while many were keeling at the foot of the altar, this bov knelt in a corner of the chur'h all by himself au-l said: "Precious Saviour, thou art savinz others, 0, wilt thou not save me:" A Presbyterian elder knelt beside him and led him into the light. En throned Alfred Cookman! Tell me from the skies, were you converted too early! But I cannot hear his answer. It is overpowered by the hosannahs of the tens of thousands who were brought to God through his ministry. Isaac Watts, the great Christian poet, was converted at nine years of age. Robert Hall, the great Baptist evangelist, was convertedl at twelve years of age. Jonathan Edwards, the greatest of American logicians, was converted at seven years of age. Oh for one generation of holy men and women. Shall it be the next? Fathers and mothers, you, under God, are to decide whether from your families shall go forth co-ards, inebriates. counterfeiters, bias phemers, and whether there shall be those bearing your image and carrying your name festering in the low haunts of vice. and floundering in dissipation. and making the midnight of their lives horrid with a long howl of ruin: or whethe r from your family altars shall come the Christians, the reformers, the teachers. the ministers of Christ, the comforters of the troubled, the healers of the sick, the enacters of good laws, the founders of charitable in stitutions. and a great many who shall in the humbler sphere of toil and usfulness serve Good and the best interests o' the human rave. You cannot as parents shirk the res:)onsi bility. God has ciargel you with a mission, and all the thrones of heaven are waiting t see whether you will do your duty. W o must not forget that it is not so much what we teach our children as what we are in their presence. We wish them to be better than we are. but the probability is that th-y will only be reproductions of our own character. German literature has much to say of the "spectr. of Brocken." Among these mountains travelers in certain cond.tions of the atmosphere see themselves copied on a gig-intic scale in the clouds, At first the travelers do not real'zo that it is themselves ona larger seal?. When they lift a hand or imor:e the head this mon ster spectre does the alo:ne, :snd with such ea. largement of prop:rt:ons that the scene is most exciting, mind thon'das have gone to that pla~e just to behi"ld ite spectra of Brocken. The p:-obabilhty is that some of our faults, which we considler smail and in significant, if we do not put an end to them will be copied on a larger s:'ale in the lives of our children, and perha~l's cidated and exag gerated into spe-::ral p.'opartions. Y ou note' not go as far ott as the Blrockenx to see that process. The first thing in importance in the education of our children isto make ourselves, by the grace of God. tit examples to be copied. The day will conme whenx you must confront that child, not in the church pew on a calm Sabbath, but amid the consternuationl of the rising dead, and the flyiug heavens, and a burning world. From y'our side that son or daughter, bxne of your bone, hear; of your heart, the father's brow his brow, the mother's eye his eye, shall go forth to an eternal destiny. What will be your joy if at last you hear their feet in the same golden hiahway and hear their voices in the same rap~turous song, il lustrations, while the~ etercal ages last, of what a faithful parent could, under God, ac complish. I was reading of a mother who, dying, had all her children about her, and took each one of them by the hand, and asked them to meet her in heaven, and with tears and sohs such as those only know who have stood by the deathbed of a good old mother, they all promised. But there was a young man of nineteen who had 1:em very wild and reckless, and hard, and proud, aid wrhen she took his handl she said: "Ntny, my boy. I want you to promi~se me before I die, that you will become a Chris tian and neet mae in heaven." The young man made no arnwer~for there was so much for him to give up if he made and ket surh a pron~mse. But the atedl mothe~r prat~e Iinm saving: "You won'r~deny me that before I go, wvill you? This partir~ must not be forever, Tie.1 me now you w i I serve God and meet mue in the lnd ~where there is no part ing " -Quaking with emotion- he stooi. making up his mind and halting a rnd hesitatinr, but at last his stub bornness yieldted and he threw his arms around his mothers ime~k and said: " Yes, mother: I will, I will." And as he finished the last word of hiis p.-onmise her spirit ascended. I thank God tho, young man kept his promise. Yes, he kept it. May God give all murers and fathers the gladness of their chiliren's salvation. For all who are trying to do their duty as parents, I quote the trenmendous passage: ''"Train up a child in the way in which he should go, and 'when he is old he will not de part from it." If through good disciplinae and prayer, and godly examnpe, you are acting upon that chid, y ou have the right to expect him to grow up virtuous. And how many tearsof joy you will shel when you see your child honorable, and just, and truthful, and Christian, and succesful-a hoy man amid a world of dishonesty, a goolly woman in a world of frivolous pr-eten sion. When you conme to die they will gather to bless your last hours. They will puish back the whkie locks-~ on your cold forehead and say: '- What a good father he always was to x'e'" They will fold your hands peacefully and say: "Dear mothefl she s gne.Her roulesare nll over. Don't Brusses I.ac. Brussls lace is celebrated all over the world, :uud we must not fail to visit oine of the places where this beautiful .ndt cost'v la ~e is made. Here we see a nunimbe of women, very q;uiet, very neatly udressed, and in some eases with Sond 'rfully deifeate and soi:-looking hands, although.' th'ev ure all pulaint working-women.z Eamh is busy' fash ioningt the delicato pattern of a piece of lace, and it is said that each woman has a patterni of her own, which she always enakes, and wh'ieb, perhtaps, de-~ scenited fromt her mother and grand mother. Somec of the women are working on cusions, with pius and bobbins, and sonie are u..ing needles and the finest and most delicate thread. We are told that this thread is all made by hand, and it is so delicate that it haes to be spun in damp cellars, because in thte dry upper air it would break before it is finished. There arc old women in Urussels who have spent nearly all their liv;es spunning ini cel 1 re.- Franik i:. Stwkton, in St. AN old maid may; make her-self gen erally useul, but an old bachelor is geneally in everybody's way, unless nn o nsnemthinfi. -.- Piiaturrii FABLES. - TUE FOX AND THE LION. H E Fox had often heard of the Lion and read his name in a list of menage rie performers, but never had seen him. He had seen his pi. tre on circus 'posters, and had even witnessed the performance of the Lady of Lions at the theater, but he had never had the pleasure of meeting Monsieur Lion himself until one day he came upon him accidentally in the woods, rIT IT THERE The other animals had told him what a terrible fellow the Lion was, but the Fox had only laughed at them and said, "What are yon giving us?" but when he came to meet him face to face the Fox was so terrified that he sa.k to the earth speechless, nearly dying with fear. The se, ond time he met the Lion he mustered up courage to look at him, and the third time he stuck out his lit tle paw and said, "Put it there, you big brute!' and borrowed a chew of tobac ca of him. Moral-This is a Lion the face of it. THE WOLVES AND THE SHEEP. HE Wolves and the Sheep had long been at war S. jwith each other, i e /and it was car ried on with great ferocity, -L especially on the part of the Sheep. They harassed the poor Wolves in every way conceivable. When once a vin dictive Sheep gets after a Wolf there doesn't seem to be any let up whatso ever. At last an armistice was agreed upon w:th a view to peace, hostages to be delivered on both sides, to make it more binding. The Wolves, tired a' most to death of being cheased about by the Sheep, were willing to agree to anything if they could be let alone. They offered, provided the Sheep would give up their dogs, which were simply an annoyance, to let the SLep take the same nuiber of young Wolves as hostages in return, stip lating that the young Wolves should be treated tenderly, and allowe~l the same ad vantages as the lambs were for getting an education. This was agreed to, and the exchange made. The parting between the Wolves and GRIIEF OF THlE YOLNG wOLvJ-5. their offspring was of the most tender and affectirng character. "Try and be good now," the Wolves said, "and mind everything the S5heep tell you. Dont play in the streets nights, but stav in and study your lessons." .Sut as they 'saw their aff'cctionate parents moving away each young whelp began cryin g for its dam-not caring one for the Sheep-whereupon tho Wolves camne rushing back, declaring that their children were being abused, and the treaty was therefore broken. Then they de-:oured thle Sheep, only pasing at intervals to smack their mut ton chops. Moral-Whatever you do, try and keep the Wolf from. your door.-fcxas A .nw Si eies of IUee. A very pleasant ev,-ninmg's amilusement for a number of peopic might b'e se cured by having a pronouncing be conducted on the s-ae general primei pies as a spelling bee. '[he words to be pronounced shoel: he: seleet d bya committee and writte up oni a b~lack board in full view c-f the audience. So iety in general ge ts alo:g very- well with uncert-in spec lIn and~ there are mauT smart men an ...; :1~ viho very wise:v -rerain frm" ink. It realhy ma/s in:: smpall di.-nre to society at large how its; ii i ali r.wm'nbers spl. Iy refra:i::g icou:' ink their lapes in this respct~ are ::ot known, but :t is a?bsolutely nuecessary' 10 know how to speak correet.jy andi pronounce words prop~erly. There are !nfry who contnue to stumdbla over sneh small bowlers as finance, ;asary, isyeel et-. A cleverly arrawled pronount ing bee would !urnish a great dleal of fun and some~ money for s:nati chsr~tabie entertainments.-1lare Jl.. A Dearth of 9 iv*es. Mr. C. T. Lewis, of I:d an Head, has devised a scheme by whi~ch he hopes to break the wife ialnm:e which is pre valing in the Northwest Basing his pln on the opin ion of thue Recgina L cadcr that it is not so much a la of marriageabde young people fromt which the .Northwes:. s sniferiv: ns a surplus of young persons of 1 oth sexes u ho have plighted their treh to chosen ones in ths~ Eastern pro~ices or ini t'e old land, lie suggests tlhat the racilwamy companies should i:nne tickets to East ern points on one side of which shiouhi be stated the am~ount, laid therefor, while on the reverse side .should be a marriage certlleate. (ln the return junyte ticket holder shows his certiate, and if it be properly filled in and signed and the bride on hand, not necessarily for publication but as a guaranty of good faith, the whole amount paid for the ticket is to be re inded.-orcnto Globe. She Wanted to Sieg ''Shall I sing~ for vou, Gceorge. some simple ballad. dlear, attue :a-t th le death less lovec we bear e-ach o:hl: 'h ask.1, ind her mn:mneir iudicate-d how~ cr1 dly she would do anything for George.-c 'Yes, sweetheart,' repliel Gceore, in a low, sweet tone, "ing 'Darling, T m errowing old."' Odds and Ends. r FRAixxxfl is reported to have said that rich widows are the only second-haud goods that sell at primo cost. THE furnace-fire shines; we say it's the lstoker's work. The sun shines; we d. not say whose work that is. It is evidently the effect of a cause, same as the other. MANY girls would rather wear their stockings with holes in than have them darned, because when darned they are men-ded, and girls prefer men alive. "DoW'T be afraid to praise your servants when they deserve it," remarks an ex change; but the minute the husband tries that on the hired girl she has to hunt for another situation. JoAN or ARC successfully led an army to victory. But did she ever go to a lienic and not scream murder when a little grass hopper jumped down her neck? History is silent on this point. SOMEBODY writes protesing tigainst hats tl.st are turned up so as to look jaunty, and says that he went to a funeral tLo o'-her day and found his attention dis tracted from the services by the jaunty millinery worn by the ladies present. biOTHER, pronouncing an encomium on her daughter to a young sean who is paying attentions to her: "She sings, plays on t:he piano and on the h:arp, paints. understands logic, crochet, botany, English, Italian, and German, and, indeed, almost every thing. And what are your accosnplish mente?" "I have none." "What. not any?" "Madam, I acknowledge that if we were re duced to extremity, I believe that 1 should know how to do the cooking." A YOVNG lady broke off her engagement with a suitor when a wealtLier lover ap peared on the scene. She wrote to her o..d lover requesting him to return her photo graph. Here was a chance for revenge. which he trok by sending her the follow ing note: "I would gladly comply with your request, but if I do it will s'oil my whist deck. I have a collection of photo graphs which I use for playing cards, and I do not want to break it by giving away the queen of diamond'<." Two small' bos s at dowley, Mass., have been making money by catching eels there frosty evenings. Armed with a lantern and a pole they sought the shallow brooks that empty into the creek there. One toy with the pole prodded the sides of the brook thorough ly as be moved up stream. The other boy, with a lantern, sta :ding some yards above, crouched low over the water and grabbed the eels, which, driven out by the pole, swam up toward the light. As, EnR Apollo touched th? tender lyre, Evoking melody from its mute atrings. So lie: the soi, its latent powers-wins 'hat bear it heavenward, when the holy fie is breathed w-thin. awaketLin4 dear desiro ; Abreath. froe from celestial wanderi:gs, Sal icontent with finite limits brings, And thriils us with an impulso to aspire. Th':n to the quickened soul comes keen unre't. That it would banish not, though half a pain, Bearing some pains wee almost happiness; Anon by hopes of high attainment blest, And satisfaation sweet restored again. Work, wait. and hope we on for froturo bliss. Mrs. Mackay allows herself one hun ired and four new gowns a var. How often is the light of tiv, household clouded by signs of melancholy or irritability on the part of the ladies. Yet they are not to be blamed, for they are the result of ailments peculiar to that sex, which men know not of. But the cause may be removed and joy restored by the use of Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescrip tion," which, as a tonic and nervine for debili tated women. is certain. safe and pleasant. It is beyond all compare the great healer of wo then. The nasturtiumn came origially from 'eru. -___ "Consitimp:fon Cure" would be a tr.t.hful name to give to Dr.Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery; the most eitie - cious medicine yet discovered for arresting tao early devclopmcit of pumonnary disease. But "consumption cure" would not suficiently in dicate the scope of its intluence and usefulness. In al the m~rnv diseases which spring from a derangtement of the liver and blood the "Dis covery" is a safe and sure specitic. Of all drug A inman never has good luck who has a bed wlio. Womean andl Her Diseases is the titl.e of a large li itrated treatise, hv' Dr. R. V. Pierce, BuffaloN. Y..senit to any address for ten cents in stamps. It teaches successful self-treatmnenlt. ___ Sleep is better for the sick than medicine. ROYAL Gitmz mends anythin:;! Broken Chii Eyes Ears Nose -tre alt more or less affected by catarrh. The eyes become inflamed, red and watery, with dull. heavy pain between them; there are roaring, buzzin: noises In the ears. ant sometimies thec hearing is affected ; the nose is a severe su!Terer, wita its coni etat uncomfortable discharge, bad breath and loss of the sense of smell. All these disagreeable sym: rooms disappear whon the dtisease is cured by Hioodl's Sarsaparilla, which expels from the blood the lmpur Sty from which catarrh arlses, tones'and restores thse diseaccil organs to health .md builds up the whole systema. N. B.-ne sure to get only Hood's Sarsaparilla sold by all druggtsts. St ; six for $3. Prepared opmy by C'. L. HooD & CO., Apotihecarics, Lowell. M~ass. 100 Dosena one Dollar 'This represents a healthy life. 'Throughout its various scenes. smnith a SIL E BEANS pmuiy the b] directlyV an~d promptly on the Liver., necys. They consisat of a ve:;etable co: 'as no equal in medical science. 'The: tion, Irflaria, and Dyspepsia, and a ntainst ali forms of fevers. chills and fe arhd Bri::htes disease. Send 4 eents p0os pepcae and test the TRUTH of' U inaledto nyaddress, postpaid. luOS gy. ;g9. imz iideC .I Tie tum w nim a mvted 1 iicom e to ie' douars in a Itubber Cot. awil at his first half hear's experienace in a storm thads to hiasnivoIw that it 1s hards' a 1ette' protection thani a moes- I qu;i:onettna, I.t on~y feh e!:sgrmed at beinga so baihy taken in, but also fel heidos net took exactly tikeE as orteI*ysIIRlitAND"4 Sicas.EP dtot noCt lave the risil IaD, send fo.rdescriptive cate 1888-EVER~Y LADY ~ PETERSON' TlE BEST AND MOST POIR1A~ Amau.. 'ITS CONTRIBUTORS ar.' Frank g Mt'ellan-. Edgar Faweett. Ali,:e l'-,n-n, Mrs. Lu ITS STORIES. NO'ELETS, ec., are al,1:. ITS STEEL-ENG;RAV1NGS are the fane.t ITS FASHION ANt)WbK-AL us'- it asoc gives a F.ULL-SIZE DRE-PA' ..ration,. card', r.urs'ry. hiten,'s etc., nmaing it TERMS, si.o A YEAR. wsith great r--ce crETTZNG UP CLCss. :namph,-c..iLs frce to 5' F - THE YOUTH To any F EER this Slip, Money Or 1 Chock, fc TO JAN will send = for afull ! at once th 1888. E Twenty pages each, with Colored C< "WITH BUBBLING GROAN!" A Fatal Sense of Security Awfully Real. ized at ten. "A wet sPeet and a flawing yea, a breeze that fol lowe fa:t." From his look-out the faithful old Captain of yonder iner. hanit man cast. an uneasy glance at the distant horizon. Ve :! yonder a snial speck of cloud '-no larger than a man's hand." He watches it with his piercing eye for a few moments. then reaches for his long eyeglass To his experienced view, this harnlesss little cloud betokens danger. Across his bronzed facethere comes a look of determination, and, wit'h quick orders to the seamen, the craft is put about and all sail made for the nearest harbor, where in ap parcnt safety the anchor is dropped. and the hardy mariners watch the approaching storm with defiance: The storm bursts: The decks have l;een cleared, the sales close furled, and all ordina:y preparations made for an emergency. The storm increases but all seems safe. But see ! the vessel gives a sudden lurch, turns quickly about. and away the goes I The anchor chain has broken ! This mighty ship might have ridden safely, but for one neak link in that anchor chain ! The strength of the chain is no greater than the stren.tht of its weakest link. On the sea of life, how many men are wrecked because of the unsuspec weak. ness of a link in the chain of ha,-one weak vital organ in the l.oly. The mystery of death is even greater than the mystery of life. We think the links o: our chain are strong, but we too seldom critically examine them for ourselves, and never really know that they will bear the strain that we put upon them. 'I have a friend," said Dr. Dio Lewis, "who can lift C.0 pounds, and yet is an habitual sufferer from kidney and liver trou ble and lots spirits." The doctor who was one of the wisest and safest public teachers of the laws of health, wrote: "The very marked testimonials from col lege professors, repectable physicians, and other gentlem-n of intelligence and charac ter, to the value of Warner's safe cure, have greatly surprised me. Many of these gentle men I know. and, reading their testimony, I was impelled to purchase some bottles of Warner's safe cure and analyze it. Besides I took some, swallowing three times the pre scribed quantity. I am satisfied that the medicine is not injurious, and will frankly a.ld that if I found myself the tictim of a se rious kidney trouble I should use this prep aration." One year ago the Seria, while in a great storm, parted her two-inch rudder chain-no wonder-it tcas rusted through ! The key to human health is the condition of the kidneys, and they may long be diseased and we be i' norant of the fact. because they give fort little or no pain. They in reality cause the majority of all the deaths by polluting the blood and sending disease all through the sys tem. The Greeks called butter bouturos-"cow cheese." Consumption surely Cured. To the Editor:--Pleaso inform vour readers that I have a positivo re:nedy for the above named disease. By its timely use thousands of hopeless rases have teen permanently cured. I shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy FREE to any of your readers who have con sumption if they will send mne their Expresa and '. 0. address. Re spectfnllv, T. A. SLOCC3L M.C., 1I1 Pearl St., N. Y. Taylor's (Catstrrh Remedy. will certainly cure you. or no chare. Treatise on Catarrhal 'lroubes mailed free. 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