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[BTT ULLIAT G. WOOt>IX.]
I think sometimes th^t-if we <mly knew,
Where, when and low nenext wotrtd meet
onr friend, ?
We d be more kind aid tender at the parting: i
And to ''farewell ' more thoughtful mean- J
iag lend. %,
Oar knowledge of all ^|ture days is dim,
And tho' the present be bright and '
g?7
This brief farewell may be your last on earth, j
So, thoughtful, earnest be. while yet you
may.
Kind words of parting, trembling on your]
lips ; ; ?
May prore a talisman of noble' worth;
The influence of such an hoar as this,
If rightly used, makes bettor all the earth, i
For inasmuch a?, every evil thought
Will have its consequence of sad dispair,
So loving words and deeds are not in vain,
. 3at to oursonls and others good fruitbear. j
four friend beside yon may be ent'ring even !
' now
liark paths of sorrow, doubt or mortal !
pain:
Perchance, awaiting for a bnghter morrow, i
Which nerer is to dawn so fair again.
Then speak instead of idly laughing ?
A helpful word to cheer hi* earthly lot;
L?tet words retain a parent power,
When hours of conversation are forget.
AT THE TABERNACLE. !
THE DIVINE AND THE MATERNAL
TRIBUTES COMPARED.
I>r Talmage Believe* We Should Think o
*><xl as Onr Motbor u Well at* Our
Father? Me. -cy, Patience. Lovtffor /
the Weak and Gentle Teaching. /
Bkookly*, Dec. 11. ? Rev. Dr Tal
rnage today, ia selecting a subject for
his sermon, chose an aspcct of the oli
vine charcter which is seldom consid
ered. To an unusually large audience
he discourse^ on God a3 "The Mother
oi. A4i>" the text being uiken from
Isaiah Ixvi, 1 %y "As one Whom his
mother comforteth, so will I comfort
you r - |
The Bible is a warm letter of
affection from a parent to a child, ;
and yet there are many who see chiefly ;
the severer passages. As there may j
be fifty or sixty nights of gentle dew j
in one summer that will not c$*se as ;
, much remark as one hailstorm of half I
an hour, so there are those who are \
more struck by those passages of the j
Bible that announce the- indignation |
of God than by those that announce j
his affection. There may come to a j
household twenty or fifty letters of
affection during the year, and they }
will not make' as much excitement in I
that home as one sheriff* s writ, and so
there are people who are more attentive
to those passages which announc#^the
judgments of God than to, those which \
announce hiu mercy and his favor.
(rod is a lion, John says in the
book of EeveJ&tion. God is a breaker, j
' Micah announces in his * prophecy. |
God is a rock. . God is a king. But
hear als^ th&rGod is love. A father
and his child are walking out in the
fieida-dn a summer's day, and there
. coiges up a thunderstorm, and there
. is a tfush of lightning that startles the
y ? child, and the father says, "My dear/
- that is God's eye." There comes a peal
of thunder, and the father says, "My
dear, that is God's voice.'' But the
clouds gp oil tq$ sky. and the storm is
gone, and light floods the heavens and j
JJoods the landscape, and the father
>3^j?gets to say, "That is God's smile." '
<iOD * LOVING TEACHER.
The text of thi# morning bends
with-great gentleness and love over
all who are prostrate in sin and trouble.
v It lights up with compassion. It melts \
with tenderness. It breathes upon us j
the hush of an eternal lullaby, for it j
announces that God our mother.
"As one whom his mother comforteth,
so will I comfort you."
I remark, in the first place, that
God has a mother's simplicity of
^ instruction. A father (tfes not know
how to teach a child the A BC. Men
are not skillful in the primary depart- 1
meat, but a mother has so much
patience that she will tell a child for j
the hundredth time"the difference be- j
tween ? and G and between I and J. j
Sometimes it is by blocks; sometimes
\ by the worsted work; sometimes by
\the slate; soiae*ime3 by the book. She ?
tftas teaches the child and has no j
awkwardness of condescension in so :
doing. ; So God, our Mother, stoops
down to our infantile minds.
/ Though we are told a thing a
thousand times and we do not under
stand it, our heavenly Mother gees on,
v line upon iiTT^ precept upon precept,
there a little. God ;
v nas been teaching some of us thirty
ears and s^ine of us sixty- years one
wwihotonc syllable, and" we do not \
Whett wej
come & that word we stumble,we halt, i
we lose our jlace, we* pronounce it
wrong.; j
Still God s jiatience is not exhausted.
C?od, our Motner, puts us in the school
of prosperity, ' and the letters are in
sunshine, and we cannot spell them.
God puts tr* in the school of adversity,
* the letters are black, and we can\
spell them. If God were meremj
he would punish us if he were |
father he would whip us;
is a. mother, and so we are !
and .helped all the way I
A mother teaches her child chiefly )
by pictures. If she wanfe-to set fox
to hex child the bidepusnft?s ^
t ; oarre1#)nv3 spirit, instej^oFgiving a '
lecture ?p>n that subject she turns
over a leaf shows the child two
wrangle, and say3, "Does j
not tailPfook horrible?" If she wants '
to teach her*chiid the awfulness of war
she turns ever the picture book and
shows the war charger, the headless
truskaof batchered men, the wild, blood
shot eye of battle rolling u&d&r lids of I
flame, anil she says* "That is war!" j
The child understands it
In a great many books the best \
parts are the pictures. The style may j
be insipid, the type poor, but a picture
always attracts a child's attention.
Xow God, our Mother, teaches as al
most everything by pictures. Is the
divine goodness to be set forth? How
does God, our Mother, teach us? By
mi atttomual picture. The bams are
full. The wheat stacks are rounded.
The cattle are chewing the cutkjazity
in theses.* The orchards are dropping
the ripe pippins into the lap of>tfcej
&nner. The n&inr^l world &at ha%
b$??3busy all summer seems no**to
be resting in great abundance.
-We look at picture and say,
"Thou cawne-t the year with thy |
gpodnese, and thy paths drop fatness." '
Oar family comes around the break- ?
fertile. It has been atery cold I
night, but the children are all bright
because they slept um?r thick j
coverlets, and they are in the |
warm blast of the open register, and
their appetites make luxuries out of'
the plainest fare, and we look at the
picture and say, "Bless the Lord, O *
my sod!"
('OD teaches by riff ire.-.
. wishe* to set forth tie fact that
m the judgment the gooH will be
| dividedjVom the wicked. j How* is it !
; done? By a picture; by a parabte? a j
jishiug scene. A group of hardy men,
long bearded, geared ior ttanding to I
the waist in water; sleeve^ rolled up. |
Long oar sun gilt; boat battered as I
though it had been a playmate of the I
storm. A full n^t thumping aboiM i
with the fish, whitfNJiave just diJl
covered their captivhy, worthless j
raowbonkers and - ti\ useful
flounders all in the **ne net.
The fisherman puts his hanW down '
amid the squirming fins, tskesYut the
moss-bunkere and throws themVJnto
the water and gathers the j g)od
into the pail. So says Christ, it sbaln
be at the end of the world j. The bad
he will cast awa y% and thd grxxl he
will keep. Another picture.
^ -God, our Mother, wants? to set forth
the finty of neighborly love, and it is I
done by a picture. A heaj^f wounds
on the road to Jericho, h traveler !
has b^e-g/'hting a robber! The rob
ber stabbe<^ him and knocked him
do*n. Tw(K ministers cjmie along
-They look at fhe poor fel^w, but do
| not help hingr. A traveler comes
along ? a Sair.aritan, Tie says
hoal to the beast he is riding and ;
dismounts. He examines -the wounds; ?
he takes out^pme wine, aqd with it I
i Hashes the Miounds, and then he takes j
| some oil an ft puts that in to make the I
wounds stop smarting, aid then he I
tears orf a piece- of his owfn garment !
for a bandage. Then he helps the ?
wounded man. uj>on. the beast and j
walks by the \ side, holding him on !
until they conte to a taivern. He
%sto the landlord, a^ere is money
to the .man's board fbi two days;
take care *>f him; if it cos& anvthin"
"more charge it to me, and j A will pav
it. Picture^ ? '-The Good Samaritan,
or Who Is Your Neighbor?"
GOl>'s MOTH EEL V MOVE.
^?es God, our Mother., want to set
forth what a foolish thingjit is to go
away from the right, and how glad di
vine mercy is. to take back c; he wan-'
derer? How is it done? i By a pic-;
ture. A'good father. Large farm
with fat sheep and oxen. j Fine house
with exquisite wardrobe. Discontented
boy. Goes awnv. Sharpers fleece
?hun. heeds hogs. Gefc homesick, j
Starts back. Sees an did man run- !
ning. It is father! The hand, torn '
of tlie husks, gets a ring, j The flwt, j
flamed and Weeding, gets a sandal! j
The bare shoulder, shying tlirough j
the tatters, get4 a robe. - t^Be stomach, ;
gnawing itself with hunger, gets a full i
platter smoking- wJ?h meat. The I
iatner cannot eat for looking at the j
returned adventurer. Tears running
down the face until they come to a
smile ? the.uight dew melting into Shp
morning. \
No work on the farm that day, for
wheai a bad boy repents and comes ;
back promising t> do better, God
knows that its enough for one dav, !
"And they began to be merry. " Pic- j
ture ? '"Prodigal Son KAurned' from
the Wilderness." So God, our Moth
er. teaches us everything 4 by pictures.
The sinner i9 a lost sheeji Jesus is
the bridegroom- The useless man a
barren fig . tiiee. The Gospel is a-i
great supper. : Satan, a sower of iares.
Truth, a mustarj^eed. Jhat &hich
we could not have undertrood in the
abstract statement God, jour Mother,
presents to us in this Bible album of
pictures, ( ?od engraved. Is not the
divine maternity ever thus teaching
us? - i j ? i ;
I Temark again tliait God has a j
mother's favoritism. A father some- j
times shows a sort of favoritism. Here
is boy? strong, well, of high forehead
and quick intellect. The father says,
"I will ^ike that boy into my firm
yet," 6r, "I will give him the very
best pffssibleisdueation." There, are^
instances where, for the culture of the*]
one boy, all the others have been rob i
bed A sa$ favoritism, but that is :
not^the mother's favonte. I will tell j
yoqf her favorite. }
There is a chikl who at two.years of !
age had a fall. He has never got
over it. The scarlet fevor mutHed his i
hearing. He is not what he once w?s.
That- child has caused the mother j
more anxious nights than all the other i
children- If he cough# in the night
she ^pring^out^of a sound sleep and
goes to him. The last thing she does
when going out of the house is to give !
a charge in regard to him. The first '
thing on coming in is to ask in rccrard i
to him.
Why, the children of the family all i
know that he is the favorite and say: j
("Mother, you let him do just as he
pleases, and you give him a great
many tilings which you do not give f
js. He is your ^axonie.f* The moth
kr smiles; she knowsiH*^). So , he j
ought to be, ?>r if there is any one in '
the world that needs sympathy, more
*han another it is an invalid child, j
weary on the first njile of li^'s
journey? C3 Tying an adhing head, a j
weak side, 'an irritated tyng. So the
mother ouglit to make hjim a favorite.
God, * oar Mother, lias faraateg.
"Whom the
eth" ? that is^ one whom Be especially
loves he cha^teneth. I FT '?'}? -
God loves us all, bat is - there one i
weakand sick and sore and wounded [
and /suffering; and faint? j That is the j
one who lies -Rarest aufl "more per
petually on tfti great lojring heart of -
God. Why, it never equghs but our j
Mother ? God ? -hears it}. It never
stirs a wearr limb in tlje bed Out our
Mother? (io$ ? knows of it. - There is j
no such a watcher as G?jd. The best
nurse may be over-borne bv fatigue
and fall asleep in the chair; luit God,
our Mother, after being up a vear of
nights with a suffering; child, never
slumbers nof sleeps. " [
IS THE FURNACE OF AKFU<TU?\
- <4Oh, says jone, cannot understand
all that abodt affliction! } A refiner
of silver once explained j to a Christ
ian iadj, "I put the silver in die fire, j
and I keep refining it and trying it j
till I can see my ft ce*i;i it, and I then'j
take it out*' Just so it is that God j
keep his dear children in the furnace j
till fhe divine image may be seen in j
them: then they ate taken out of the <
fire. "Well," says some one, "If that j
is the way* God treats his favorites. I j
do not want to be % favorite." - j
There is a barren field on an i
autumn day just wanting to be let;
alone. There is a bang at 'the bars i
and a rattle of whiffietrees and elevi- i
see. The field says, 'What is the
farmer going to do with me now?
The fanner puts the plow in the |
ground layouts to the horses, the colter
goes te&rcngTthrongh the sod, and** ?Uu*';
furrow reaches from fence to fence. j
Next day the#e is a bang at the bars j
and a rattle of ?*fctfietrees again.
The field says, ' "J. wonder what the ;
farmer is going ~to do now?" The
farmer i itches the horse to the har- :
row, and it goes bound ihg and tearing 1
across the field.
* ?Jext day there ig a rattle at the bars
.again, and the field says, "What is the |
fanner going to do now-" , He walks ^
Ijeavily across tl*e iiejd, scattefing
seed as he walks, Aft-jr awhile a j
*4oud comes. The field say3, "What, j
itjorS^Hy^le!" It begins to rain. After j
awhile the^i^d changes to the north- j
east, and it begins to snow. Says the
field: "Is it not enough that I have
been torn and trampled upoir and |
drowned?"' Must! I nr>w be snowed
tinder?" .After awhile spring comes
out 01 tlie gates of the squth, an<l
warmth and gladness come with it. A [
green scarf bandages the gash of the j
wheat field, and the July morning
drops a crown of gold on the head of ;
the grain.
"Oh," rays the ;lield, "now I know
the use of the plow, of the harrow, of ;
the heavy fW)t, of the shower and of
the snowstorm. ._J^Lia^well enough to i
be trodden and trample^ and drowned ;
and snowed under if in the end I can |
yield such a glorious harvest.'' "He
that goeth forth and weepeth, l>eari ng
precious seed, sliall doubtless come
again with rejoicing, bringing his
sheaves with him."
TltROlKJH GREAT TIUP.ULATI05.
: + } 1
When I see God especially busy in 1
troubling' and trying a Christian, I
know that out of that .-Christian's
character* there is to come some special
good. A quarrynian goes down into j
the Excavation, and with strong handed
machinery bores into the rock. The
rock say 8} "What do you do that for?"
He puts powder in; he lights a fuse.
There is a thundering crash. The
rock says, "Why, the whole mountain
is going to pieces." The crowbar is
plunged; the rock is jl ragged out.
Alter awhile it is taken-" in to the artist's ;
studio. It says, "Well, now I Jiave !
got to a good, warm, comfortable place j
at last" |
I>ut the sculptor Likes the chisel and
mallet, and he digs for the eyes, and
he cuts for the mouth, and he bores, ?
for the ear, and he rubs it with sand
paper,] until the rock says, "When
will this torture be ended?" A sheet
'is thrown- over it. Itstands in darkness.
After awhile it is taken out. The
covering is removed. It stands in the
sunlight, in the presence of ten thou
sand applauding people, as they greet
the statue of the poet, or the princje,
or the conqueror.
"Ah," sa^-s the stone, "now 1 under
stand it. I am a great deal better off
now standing a3 a statue of a conqueror
tthan I would have been down in the
quarry." So God finds anuan down
in the quarry of ignorance and sin.
How to get him up? He must be bored |
and blasted and chiseled and scoured j
and stand sometimes in the darkness, j
But after awhile the mantle ofaftlic- ;
tion will fall of!', and his soul will be i
greeted by the one hundred and forty- j
four thousand and the thousands of i
thousands as more than conqueror.
( >b, my friends, God, our Mother, is
just as kind in our afflictions ag-in our
prosperities.- God never /tonches us
bnt fo?.our good. If a lieW-^lean and
cultured is better off than a barren
field, and if a stone that has become a
statue is better off than the marble in
the quarry, then that soul that God
chastens may be his favorite.
Oh, the rocking of the soul is not
the rocking of an earthquake, but the
rocking of God's cradl^. "As one!
whom his mother comforteth, so will
I comfort you." I have b<*en told that
the pearl in an oyster is merely the
result (T^a^vound or a sickness inflicted
upon it, and I do not know but that |
the brightest gems of heaven will be j
found to have been the wounds of
earth kindled into the jeweled bright
ness of eternal-glory.
I remark that God has a mother's i
capacity for attending to little hurts, i
The father is shocked at the broken
bone of the chHd or at the sickness j
that sets the cradle on fire with fever, I
? - i
hut it takes the mother to sympathize
uith all the little ailments and little
bruises of the child. If the child have
a splinter in its hand ii wants the
mother to take it out and"- not the
father. The father sayE,: ' Oh, that is
nothing," but the mother knows h, is
something, and that a little hurt some
times is very great. ?o with* Clod,
onr Mother; all our annoyances are
important enough to look at and j
sympathize with.
Nothing With <i.?l is something.
Inere are no ospners in God's i
arithmetic. A ud it' we were only good
enough of sight we could see as much -
through a as through a
-telescope, ^JTiose things that may Ik
palpabltf'an ; inSnitesimal to us may
pronounced and ignite to God. A i
jterbauciu point isUc..t-d as hav- f
no 3?irts,,ao I magnitude. It is so ]
?._J1 #ou cannot imagine it, and^t
?i?atramatical point may be a starting ;
bointi Jur a gtiat eternity. X<od*s
surveyors carry & very long chain. A ;
*cale must l>e very delicate that can
weigh a grain, bntrGod's scale is s >
delicatiBjthat he fai, weigh with it thai
W&ichjisso small that a grain is a
million times heavier.
When John Kitto, a p or boy on a
back street of Pivmtotih, cut .his., toot
with a piece of gSass, God bound it up
so successfully that he became the >
great . Christian ^geographer and a
cornn>iRt:itor kn?wn among all nations.
every wonnd of the soul, ? however
insignificant, God is willing t<>: bind
up. As at the Ejrt cry of the child
the mother rusfiee to kUs the wound,
so God ,our Mother, takes the smallest
wound of the heart and presses it to
?
the lips of divine sympathy, "As one J
wh<?m his mother dbmlbrtclh, so will I j
comfort jyou.**
rV"
j I)!VIXl?A>-]> MOTIIERI.Y PATljESjCE.
J remark further that God has a
mother's patience lor the erring. Il |
one doei wrong iirst his associates in i
life cast him cm; if he goes on in the ,
wrong way his business partner casts ;
him oif: if he goes on his best friends i
cast him off ? his father casts him oiK ;
But after all others have cast him oil. j
where does he go? Wh? -holds no j
grudge and forgives the 1'ftst time as :
the firstt Who sits by the murderer's j
counsel al! through the long trial? j
Who tairries the longest at the win- j
dows of a culprit's cell? Who, when j
all others think ill of a man, Jkeeps on
thinking well of him? It is hjainotfie^.
God bless her gray hairs if she be stilfl
alive, and bless her grave if she be
"gone! And bless the rocking chair in
which she used' to sit, and bless the
cradle that she used to rock, and bless
the Bible she used to read!
So G<jd. our Mother, has patience f<>r
tell the erring. After every body else has
cast a man oH'God,our Mother, comes
to the rescue. God leaps to take"
charge of a bad case. After ail the
othes doctors have got through the
heavenly Physician comes in. Human
sympathy jat such a time does not
amount to much. Even the sympathy
of the church, 1 am so it/; to say, tiflen
does not amount to mucK. if have
seen the most harsh and bitter treat
rr.ent on the jiart of those who professed
faith in Christ toward those who were
wavering and erring. They tried" on
the wanderer sarcasm and billingsgate
and caricature, and they tried tittle
tattle. There were one thing they
did not try, and that was forgiveness.
A soldier in .England was brought
by a sergeant to the colonel. " What,"
says thq colonel, "bringing the man
here again! We have tried everything
with him." "Oh, no," says tliescrgcant;
{?'there is one thing yuo have not tried.
I wou hi like you to try that." "What
is that?? said, the colonel. Said the
man, 'Forgiveness." The case had
not gone so far but that it' might take
that turn, vatfd^. so the colonel sa:d:
"Well, y>ung man, you have done so
and so. < What is your excuse'?1' "I
have no excuse, but 1 am very sorry,"
said the man. ^
?"We have made up our minds to
forgive yon," said the colonel. The
tears started. He had never beei.j
accosted in that way before. His life
was reformed, and that was the
trting point for a positively Christian
j. 0 church of God, quit your
sarcasm when a man fa,lls! Quit your
irony, <juit your tittle tattle, and try
forgiveness. God, your Mother, tries
it all the time. A man's sin may be
like a continent, but God's forgiveness
is like the Atlantic and Pacific oceans,
bounding it on both sides.
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- ,r the Di vrx r-: n a n d.
The JUble often talks abjjirt God's
hand. I wonder how it looks. You
remember distinctly h?w your mother's
hand looked, though thirty years ago
it withered away, it was: different
from your father's hand. When }0ii
were to !>e chastised you had rather
have mother punish you than father.
It did not hurt so much. And father's j
hand was different from mother's j
parti? l#:cause it had outdoor toil, and I
partlyi^ecause God intended it to ?jc j
diflerc-it. \The knuckles were more
firmly ?et, and the palm was calloused.
But mother's hand was more deli-'
cate. There were blue veins running
through the. back of it. Though the
fingers, some <*f thsm, were picked
with abeedle, the palm of it was soft.
Oh, it was very salt! Was there ever
any poultice like that to take pain
out of a wound? 4 So God's hand is a
mother's hand. What it touches it
heals. If it smite you it does not
hurt as if it were another hand. Oh,
you poor wandering soul . in sin, it is
not a bailiffs hand that seizes you
to-day! It is not a hard hand. Jt- is
not an unsympathetic hand. It is
not a cold hand. It is not an enemy's
hand. Nd. It is a gentle haLd, a
loving hand, a sympathetic hand, a';
soft hand, a mothers hand. ' "As one
whom his mother comforteth, so will I
comfort yorr,"
I want to say finally that God has
a mother's way of putting a child ' to
sleep. You know there Js no cradle
song like a mother's. After the ex
citement of the evening it is almost
impossible to get the child to sleep. If
the roeking chair stop a -liioment the
eyes are wide open; but the mother's ,
patience and the mother's soothing j
manner keep on until after awhile the
angel of slumber puts his wing over
the pillow.. Well, my dear brothers
and sisters in Christ, the time will
come when we will l>c wanting to J>e
put to sleep. Thcsday of our life will
b& done, and the shadow^of the ni^ht
of) death will be / gathering
artund us. Then we want God to
so<*he us, to hush us to sleep.
/ Let the mug^e at our going not be i
tluv dirge offhe organ, or thekucll of j
theehurch tower, or the drumming of |
a "dead march, '' but let it be the hush |
of mothers lullaby. Oh,. the cradle j
of the grave will be soft" with the pil
lowyiiall the promises! When we are
being^v^ked into thai hist slumber i
want thnr*t> be the cradle song, i?As-j
one wbonKa mother comforicth, so j
will I comfort you."
Asleep in Jesus ! Far from thee j
7 ' 1 1 v k : T! ? rcduiHi
l'i < ;,wjib2K none over wake to weeo.
t >? ; ' r :
i Scotchman was dying. His!
<fetiglker Hiellie sat by the bedside. It I
was Sunday evening, and the bell of J
the elm re i was ringing, calling the j
peop!<j to church. The good old man, j
in hisj dying dream, thought thatlhe'
was on the way to church, as he ujed
to when he w**nt io the sleigh
across the river, and as the evening j
bell struck up in hi- dying dream he j
thought it v.a.-s the call to church.
He said. "Hark, children, the bells *
arc ringing; we shall he late: we must
make the marp step out qqick !" He
shivered, ana then said: H^ull the
buffctlorobe up closer, my lass ? It is .
cold crossing the river, but Ave will
soon 1? there, Nellie; we will'so-jm be
there." Aind he trailed a /id sail,
rJustr there n<?w." Xo woudtir he,
s ii The good eld man bVi got]
to church. Not the old country!
church, but the tern pit; in the skies. ?
Just across the river. H?)w comfort
J ? , ?
ably did i God. hush that old ban to
sieep ! As <ftc whom his mother coni- j
iertetb, so Cmd coriiforted bim.
ODDS AND ENDS.
a ? j
A fat kitchen luakos a lean will.
Rather go to Led su^perless than rise
in debt.
Saline county ,Mo. , lavs claim to a 188
pound pumpkin. ? - #
Office is one of the things that -rrow
smaller ok possession.
The German emperor has a walking
stick made of rhinoceros skin.
The dinner fork was introduced into
Italy in 1-i'Jl; into England in I(X)3.
An Atlantic cable was first projected
in 1S53 bV Cooper, Field and otUors.
A woman would rather lose- a lover
than let hip: know sow much she loves
him. ? -
Ferfectci humanity will live in & dead
calm. All movement arises from un
perfection.
The o: Thomas Paine was z
corse: mak^sand taught his son th?
same trade,
It is not a waste to scatter \ leasant
owords everywhere; you will reap a bene
' nt from them
It is rumored that a deposit of red ox
ide of copper has been discovered in i
Georgia town. ??
Mr. Gladstone first spoke in the house
o t commons on May 17, 1833, nearly
sixty years ago.
An Atchisor. (K(in.) prophet predicts
that the world will come to an end in a
little over a year.
Plant electricity discovered by
Sanderson and reported to the British
association in 1 873.
Eoquiam, Wash.,' boasts of a mar:i^
moth\vliite turnip which measures 1 fort
2 inches in circumference.
Ho is wise indeed who, after shaking
morality and immorality in life's dice
box, can tell the difference.
Orange peel, dried and grated, makes
a fine yellow powder that is delicious for
flavoring cakes and puddings.
Acting on impulse saves a vast amount
of preliminary work and generally re
sults about as well as any other course.
Cut glass should bo first thoroughly
washed and dried, then rubbed witlijjpcr- '
pared chalk, using a soft "brush, aedbe
ing careful not to neglect any-ufjtjio*
crevices. This will givo it a fine p<|ish.
Woman's Share in the World's Progress.
One of the purposes of the woman's
share in the Columbian fair, and perhaps
not the least important, is that the ex
hibits shall demonstrate that women,
have had through the ages greater orig- !
inality and inventiveness than they have
been accredited with. Among the primi
tive pupils women were the originators,
it is claimed, of industrial arts, and it
was only after they became lucrative
that men usurped them. Women de
vised the curing and dressing of game
and the fashioning of tho ski^s of ani
mals into garments. Women invented
the needle, the shuttle, tho weaving of
texfiles. She was tho first potter, and
sh^priginated basket making. J
Thajro will be shown as illustration of
the influence of women during mediaeval
times a copy of the old Baveux tapestry
made by Matilda of Flanders and her
maidens, wfiich is tho best and rnopt au
thentic history* of tho conquest on Eng
land by her husband, William thi Con
queror; reproduction of the statinesVf
Salina von, Steinbach, daughter amt-is
sistant of the architect Of Strasburg
cathedral. To her is ascribed the change
from tho stiff mediaeval angles to the
graceful flowing lines that followed, and
of tho remarkable book prepared in the
Twelfth century by the Abbess of Her
rad, which contained a compendium of
all the knowledge of the day, illustrated
by illuminations, and considered by
many to be the origin of the modern en
cyclopedia.
v There will be records, too, of the wo
Tnen who were professors in the early
Italian universities, and many other
things of interest illustrative of woman's
early prowess, and proving that the
present uprising in the ranks is only the
natural force of the stream seeking its
level, and not at all a new departure. ?
New York Sun.
A Girls' Higli School in Iceland.
A year ago the first;, high school for
girls vcas opened in Reikiavik, Iceland,
details of which arc just now becoming
known, so slow is communication with
'this isolated country. The^school was
started with fifteen girls, asittaaiy more
bein^ refused from want of funds. The
curricuhim is peculiar, embracing tai
loring, slojd (whatever that may lx)>
^Icelandic language and literature, Eng^
lish, Danish, arithmetic, history, geog
raphy, singing and writing. Cooking is
also taught. The tailoring department
is most important, but as there are no
'tailors in Iceland, except a few in lieiki
avik, women have to make. the men's
clothes as well as their own. The high
school is perforce a boarding school, as
the pupils come from distances taking
from three to fourteen days' travel.?
New York Times.
the Cranberry Season.
The cranberry picking season on Cape
Cod is now at .its height," and thousands
of the poorer people have been profiting
* by the opportunity to make money. Of
late years, however, it lias been found
that the native workers are insufficient,
and foreigners have been introduced.
An average picker gathers from twenty
to thirty measures per day. A fast
picker can easily earn five dollars per
I day. The working hours are short, as
( the heavy autumn dew does not dry oil i
until about 9 a. m. and begins to fall j
I again about 5 p. in.? New York Tribune, j
?
A Hint to Lazy 'Electors.
Air. Ballance, the premier of New t
| Zealand, lias suggested a very novel !
j method of keeping the electoral rolls j
I honest and pure. After every election ;
j he would strike off the name of every '
j elector who failed to record his vote,
j Absentees and dead men would thus be :
; removed at a stroke, and the trouble tUo ?
i lazy live electors vfould experience in
getting on -the roll again would .teach
them to value and exercise the franchise
joi^uture.? London Tit-Bits.
lVhexe Xh?4&cray Lived.
It was at Willis' rooms, the old aP
mack's, in King street, Pall Mall, that
! Thackeray delivered, in 1851, hi- liv- 1
tnreson the "English Humorists." In
1 ? I
j the vicinity of Broropton and Kensing
ton his life?s a successful author wnsji
mostly passed. Becky Sharp, on her
marriage, retired . to snug little Bromp- ;
ton lodgings, and in a cottage in a street :
leading from the Fulham road, with the
rcwaantic title of St. Adelaide villas,
Aj|na Maria road west, ol<l Mr. Setfley
hid his head with his wife and daughter
when the crash cam?-.
, There is a touch of Dickens in Thack
eray's description of this neighborhood,
"where the houses look likebaby'h ?ases; ?
where the people looking out of the fir. si
floor windows must infallibly, as you
think, sit with their feet in the parlors;
where the shrubs in the lirtle gardens in .
front bloom, with a perennial di>; iay of
children's pinafores. little red socks r.n l
caps, and where, little porter pots ham;
on the jailing sunning themselves."?
Chambers' Journal.
Statesmen halted by a snake, j
With the Help of Warriors ifhcy Man- 1
age to Do Up the Reptile.
The first^nspection of land said to tx
desirable Ipc a military camp was made ;
yesterday afternoon by the joint legis- ;
lative committee appointed io secuiv a
permanent camp for tho. Rhode Island :
militia
The committee consists of one senator
and two representatives. The commit
tee was accompanied by Brigadier Gen
orals Dennis and Kendall, Colonel 1
Thorifcon, Colonel Photteplace, Captain j
Barker, Captain George A. Forsyth j
Captain Howe and Senator Andrews.
The first propoeed^ite visited was the
several hundred acres at Hill's grove
The expedition met with an adventure
in pushing its way through several acres
of brake and brier. The party was
marching in Indian file along the oh! '
Peqnot trail, when the head the col :
nmn was' abruptly halted by a large i
'black snake poised on; the decay ed limb
of a tree, its head erected, - its fangs
ready to strike and its entire attitude
betokening defiance "to the Rhode Islam! J
militia, tho legislature and the commit
tecs thereof.
"Forward! forward !" calle<l General !
Dennis, who was in the rear, but those i
in tho van declined to budge an inch
Tho reptile gave a warning hiss and its
gaping jaws closed with a suggestive i
snap. *Its 5Sniiou$.body advanced to a i
higher limb, and again its crest was i
erected to do battle. It -gave a spring J
to another branch, and tho head of the :
column wavered; a moment more ami it !
would liavo broken, but just then Sou !
ator Titus Andrews, who had l>een gatti j
cring a bouquet of mushrooms, came up
and sized up the situation.
^Back, back!" exclaimed those who !
?jfrad recovered speech, and who wore i
fearful of losing a vajnablo senator i
"For what?" "The snake, the snake!' I
they cried. "Oh, yes, I see him. Why j
tho?varmint. Anv_of }*ou want him?' |
He"spoke as though Rh would pass the
reptilo to any one shore i of a snake. Col j
nel Phetteplnco was soriry ho hadn't hi* j
sword, and Colonel Forsyth regretted 1
that he was without a guru "Tut. tut*' j
exclaimed -tho yeoman senator from j
SmiU^ield, and passing beneath the
snakfrseizedlt by the tail fust as Cap j
tain Forsyth aim<?%si blow at it with a j
sapling.
"I will show you a little trick,]' oh \
served General Kendall, lifting thr
dead snake by the tail. "See unj snaj
his head off." lie snapped tho sn.\ke ;u
one would siiap a whip, but the trick j
did not work. The shock reviveji the j
.srtafco and the trick was not renertved. ~
PrfrricUmce Journal.
| .
A Bottomless Pot.
An East Sido dealer in New York woe
lately made tho object of a swindle that
was rather novel and original. A mid
dlo aged woman came into his store one j
day carrying on her arm a large basket,
-in which was- a pot with a lid. She j
placed tho basket on tho floor, made !
numerous purcli^ses, had her bill count- ;
ed up, and thqn carefully put all her !
articles into the ]>ot and replaced thr
lid with the greatest caution. She next
asked permission of the store keeper tc :
leave the Articles in his care, as she }
wished to do a little >moro shopping ir
tho neighborhood, promising to retnrc j
in the courso of an hour.
This request was willingly acccdecHo i
and lifting the pot out of tho basket she
earned it carefully to a corner, where
it would be out of tho way, set it down,
and again slipping the baski t under her
arm, left tho store, after profusely
thanking tho man for his kindness, j
Hones went by, &it the woman failed !
to call for her precious pot. At last J
when closing timo came, a salesman ;
went over to the corner for the purpose i
of placing the earthen waro in a safer I
place, and quickly discovered that, like j
a certain locality to which sinners art ,
supposed to be consigned after death. !? 1
was bottomless, ^'he mere mcuti<?not ;
?i not is now sufficient reason to canst J
tmTvictirai.ced dealer to go into convul j
sions. ? House F umishing 'Review.
IScar's Gall Is Worth Money.
A bear's pall was recently sent to a
gentleman in this city as a slight token
of esteeja from an intimato and dear
friend iii the country, with the sugg<*
tion that it might possess a pecuniary
value in the Chinese language. Think
ing that it was intended to imply that
ho lacked gall, our city gentleman
threw it in the street. Soon afterward
a Chinaman came in, and, on being in
terrogatpd, offered one dollar for it. |
Tho work of redeeming it by a side
door occupied one minute, and the price
obtained was two dollars. They arc
considered very valuable by Chinese'
physicians, and arp much sought after
We now quote liar's gall in fair d<
mand, with limited supply; political
gall abundant, with few takers. - id
Paso Herald. \
Troubl*soifte I?ritics,
Young married people arc the most
troublesome customers except bahies
that a plu>tographer has, and few piu>- !
tographers like to see a couple in their j
wedding finery enter a gallery. The i
man never makes any objection, he tr-'ii - j
erally has trouble enough to keep his i
hands out of his pockets, but the hn !?? |
seems to consider it a part of her dr.tv
to find fault with everything. She will '
object to the accessories, to the way the j
folds of her dress fall, to the groom - j
pose, to the size of lier feet and hand.- I
iu the negative, to everything and every j
body, apparently just :o find fa;: It
Pleasing her is out of the question s< ? |
the photographer generally does the Ik- : |
he can and lets her grumble.? Interview (
in St. Louis Globe-Democrat. I
Ducks for the Navy.
The novel suggestion lias been mad" j
that ducks should bo trained and used j
for naval purposes in the j-ame way thai |
pigeons an? u^vl f<*conveying military |
messages. Tho .*9. osal come* from J
Major Allatt, a practical pigeon trainer,
who says that if we are going to ' u.-i
bird: to iiy ovej. water for naval pur
pose's ducks would than i>ig
eons, because when the duck gets tired
he drops and sits on the water until hi
is rested arid then ur"e< on again. Ducks,
moreover, can fly by night, while pigeon.-?
cannot. M;'j?'r Allatt think-> that sea
gulls might be train*. d also b<r mi
bearing purposes.? London Court Joniv
nal. ' .
An E;;i; Within r>.n
W. S. Miller, of tins place, has a curi
osity in the way of an egg, which Ids ?
daughti r found in one of hi* hens" nests j
"last week. It ;.<< an eg:,' witliin an egg, I
, c ~ i
tne outer one It-in^ as large as a g> j
egg, with a very thin shell, whic h had I
been cracked. Insido of this was an- !
other perfectly termed egg of the usual \
size, with a smooth sh.ell of the 'ordinary
thickness, th ; spac betwi-f n it and the
outer jdiell lwing tilled with "white."?
Farmi:igton Times.
Jlis J><>?.
The subject l'or conversation at ai. !
evening entertainment was the intelli
gence of animals, particularly <iogt..
Said Robinson, -There are dogs that
have more s?ik>e than their masters."
"Just so,' n* responded young .J;n.i.
"I've got that hind of dog "
London Tit-Bits.
What is
Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescript n for Infant*,
and Children. It contains neither Opltam, Morphine H or
other Narcotic substance. It is a harm ess substitute
for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups^aitd Castor Oil,
It is Plcris.izii. Its guarantee is thirty jyears' use by
of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays
feverishness. Castoria prcve nts vomiting? Sour Curd,
cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic* Castoria relieves
teeth: Hi* troubles, cures constipation rind flatulency.
Castoria assimih^es fnrLtJ, regulates the stomach
and bowels, giving healthy and ,natu Jal sleep. Cas?
jorui is the Children's Panacea? the 3?ojher?s Friend.
Castoria.
" Oar.tin.n excellent mcdicim for chil
dren. niviiuTs liavo repeatedly U>M mtf of its
CuOtl cfToc-S njx>:i their children."? >
l)iL G. C. Osooon,
Ixjwcli, Mans.
' CasUirin is the }?fst remedy for children of
which I ::::i .acquainted. 1 hope tho tiny is r.ot
f.;r I'.istar.t when i:*>thers will consider the real
i::t? ::vst of their children, and uso CasU>ria in
s'c.id of the+ariousquack noflrums which are
1 1 -:;4. roving their l->vc<I ones, by forcing opiJjm,
morphine, s.?.*?h:ri? syrup and <>UicrT*jrtful
a,?ent6 dow n throatk, thereby .sending
'hem ti' [ ivm.it ure graves."
Du. J. F. ICiscnJxoE,
C?>nwaj\ Ari
Gastoria.
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" fastorfa is sct'dl adapted to children that
I recommend it aisuperior to any prescription
kuown to rue." I
J H. A. Archer, if. D.,
Ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
" Our physiciaas in the children's deport
ment Lave ppokin JiJgWy'of their expert
? once in tbeir outfido pmclicc with Oartoria,
a:;d although wk only tare anion;; o*tr
medical supplies What is known as rv^-ul .r
product^, yet uc 41* fm; to confess UtaC Ums
merits of Castorfa lias won us to look wIUi
lafor u|)on it." j
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