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DR. TALMAGE'S SERMO] The Grandmother. "The unfelgnod faith that is in thee, whi 4welt first in thy grundmother l,oIs. 11 T IN this love-letter which .i'atl, t .okl minister, Is writing to Timothy, t young minister, the family record brought out. Paul practically sa "Timothy, what a good grandmoti .you hadl You ought to bebetter th most good folks, because not only'w :your mother good, but yeur gran mother. Two receding generatic of piety ought togive' you a nigb push 1ri the right dirttion. "- The fs was that Thidthy needed encourai ment. He was in poor health, havi a, weak stomach, and was dyspept and Paul prescribed for him a tonic,. little wine, for thy stomach's s'ake" not much wine but a little wine, a only as a medicine. And If, the wi then had been as much adulterat with logwobd an'd strychnin'e as o modern wines, he would not have pi -icribed any. But Tin'iothy, not strong physicall is encouraged spiritually by-the recit -of grandmotherly excellence, Paul hii ing to. him, as I hint this day to yo that God sometimes gathers up, as i reservoir away back of the active go erations of to-day, a godly influen .and then in response to prayer, 1 <town the power upon children a grandchildren and great-grandchildr< The world id woefully in want of tablu of statistics in regard to what the protractedness and immensity of INFLUENCE OF ONE GOOD WOMAI in the Church and world. We ha dt:counts of how much evil has be wrought by Margaret, the mother crinilnals, who lived near a hundi years ago, and of how many hundre of criminals her descendants fdrnish for the penitentlar, and the gallov and how many hundreds of thousan of dollars they cost this country in tht arraignment and prison support, as wi as in the property they burglarized destroyed. But will not some one cor out with brain comprehensive enoug amd heart warm enough, and pen ke enough to give us the facts in roga to some good woman of a hundred yea ago, ar ul let us know how many Chr tian men and women and reforme and useful people have been fou: among her descendants, and how ma asylurs atld colleges and church they built, and how many millions .dollars they contributed for humanita inn and Christian purposes? The good women whose tombston were planted in the eighteenth centu. are more ALIVE FOR GOOD in the nineteenth century than th wero before, as the good women of tL nineteenth century will be more all for good in the twentieth century thi now. Mark you, I have no idea th the grandmothers were a y better th their granddaughters. Yout cannot g very old people to talk much about he things were when they were boys a girls. They have a reticence and non-committal which makes me this they teel themselves to be the cust .dians of the reputation of their ear comrades. While our dear old fol: are rehearsing the follies of the preseri if 'you put them opr the witness-stai and cross-examine. them as to ho things were seventy years ago, the lence becomes oppressive'. A celebrated Frenchnman by LI ~parme of Vorney visit-ed this courtmtr 1790, and he says of WOMAN's DIET in those times: "If a premium was c fered for a regimen most destructive health, none could be devised more ef cacious for these ends than that in u among these people." That ecips -ourr lobster salad at midnight, E~ver body talks about the dissipations4 modern society, and how woman] health goes, down under It, but It wi worse a hundred years ago, for Li chaplain of 'a French regiment in o1 Revolutionary, war wrote in 1782j his bo'6k of American wvomen, saylnj "They are tall anid wvell proportione< their features are generally regula their coinplexions are generally fair ar without color. At twenty y'ears 'of ai the women have no longer the freshne of youth. At thirty or forty they ai decrepit.'' In 1812 a foreign consi wrote a book entitled, "A Sketchiu the 'United States at tihe Commenc ment ,of the iPresent Century, .and he says of the wvomen of tile times, "At the age of thirty all tihe charms have disalpeared."' One glani at thle portraits of the 'women a hu: dred years ago and their style of dre makes urs wonder how they ever g their breath. All this makes me thir thrdt tl)e express rail train is .no no: aln improvemwent on the old canal-boa or the tdlegraph no more an improv ment on thre'old-time saddlebags, tiu the. women of our day are g~n Ir provemenmt on1 the women of the la - century. Jut still, nothwithstanding that the times were~ so mulich worse than oum there was A GLORIOUS RACE OF GODLY WOMIE seventy aind a hundred years ago, wi held tihe world back from sin and lifti it toward virtue, and withlout their e alted and sanctified -influence bofo tis, Lihe last good influence would ha' perished from the earth. Indeed, i ovor this land there are seated to-day. nrot ' so many ini churches, for many them are -too- feeble to comc-ra gre many'agedl granidmothrers. They som times feel Lilat thre world hlas gote pa them, and they have an Idea that Lih are ef little account. Their head som times gets aching from the racket tihe grandciljdron downstairs or in Il nrext room. They steady thlemselves 1 the banisters as they go up and dow WVhen they get a cold, It hangs eon them 'longer than it used to. Thu cannot bear to have .tho grandchrildre punished even when they deserve' I and have so relaxed their ideas of fat ily -discipline that the'y would spoil i the youngsters of the household by t4 great lenicy. These old folks are the resort wivi great troubles come, and there -.Is calming and 'soothing power in LI touch of an aged hand 'that Is aimo supernatural. They feel they are i nost throngh with the journey of 1i1 and road'the old Book more than tIley vsed to, harudly knbwlng. whi9h inba$ they enjoy, the., Old Tstaiuen0. or the, Now, and often stop and dwell tear; oh fully over the family record half way '" botwee,n. We hail them to-day, whetiler h in the House of God or at the home he stead. Blessed is that household that has in it a grandmother Lois. Where rs she is, angels are hovering round, and er God is in the room. May her last days or be like those lovely autumnal days that we call Indian Sunner. I never knew the joy of having a d grandmother; that is the disadvantage of being the youngest child of the.fam ty ily. .The elder members only have that et benediction. But though she went up e- out of this life before I began it, I have heard of her faith in God, that brought all her children into the kingdom and two Of them Into the ministry, and then brought all her grandchildren Into ue the kingdom, myself the last and least a worthy. Is It not time that you and I ur do two things, swing. open u npicture ur gallery of the wrinkled faces and stoop ed shoulders of the past, and call down from their heavenly thrones the godly al grandmothers, to give them our thanks, ak and then persuade the mothers of to-day that they are living for all tine, and us that against the sides of every cradle In a which a child is rocked beat 0, . THE TWO ENTERNIT1-s. ihere we have an untried, undiscussed n and unexplored subject. You often hear about your influence upon your s own children-I am not talking about. that. What about your influence upon the twentieth century, ulon the thir tieth century, upon the fortieth con ye tury, upon the year two thousand, upon en the year four thousan:1 if the world of lasts so long? The world stood four ad thousand years before Christ came; it dI is not unreasonable to suppose that it ad may stand four thousand years after +s His arrival. Four thousand years the da world swung off in sin, four thousand ,ir years it may be swinging back into >11 righteousness. By the ordinary rate of or multiplication of the world's popula e tion in a century, your descendants will be over three hundred, and by two cen turies at least over fifty thousand, per rd haps two hundred thousand, and upon is every one of them you, the mother of is- to-day, will have an influence for good rs or evil. And if in four centuries your Id descendants shall have with their names y filled a scroll of hundreds of thousands, es will some angel from heaven to whom of is given the capacity to calculate the r. number of the stars of heavefi and the sands of the seashore, step down and es tell us how many descendants you will ry have in the four thousandth year of the world's possible continuance? Do not lot the grandmothers any longer think that they are retired, and i1 sit clear back out of sight from the world, feeling that they have no rela e tion to it. The mothers of the last con tury are to-day in the senates, the par liaments, the palaces,. the pulpits, the n banking houses, the professional chairs, A the prisons, the almshouses the coin w pany of midnight brigands, the collars, d the ditches of this country. You have a been thinking about the importance of having the right influence upon one nursery. You have been thinking about y the -importance of getting those two C little feet on the right path. You have Sbeen thinking of your child's destiny id far the next eighty years, if it should pass on to be an octogenarian. That is well, but my subject sweeps a thou sand years, a n,illion years, a quadril Slion of years. I cannot stop at one ncradle; I am looking at the cradles that reach all round the world and across all time. I am not talking of mother .Eunice, I am talking of -giaiinmother SLois. b. The only way you can tell tiie force le of a current is by sailing up stream; or as the force of an ocean wave, by running .the ship against it. Running along >r with it we cannot appreciate the force. is ESTIMATING MATERNAL INFLUENCE we generally run along with it down n the stream 0f timet and so we don't uin ,derstand the fu 111force. Let us come j'u oi rmthe eternity side, after it 'has been wvorking on for centuries and I he llte good it has dlone and all the. e evil it has accomplished multiiplied .11n s magnificent or appallin'g compound in te rest. The difference between' that imother's infence on'her children now, and the inflnence when it has been myjl .tip)lied .in hundreds of thousands of n ' lives, is the difference-between the Mis e sissippi River way up at the top of the ir. continenit, starting from the little lake eItasca, seven mniles long .and one wide, . and its mouth at the Gulf of Mexico, is where navies might ride. Between the tbirth of that river and its burial in the k sea, the Missouri pours ini, and the -e Ohio pours in, and the Arkansas pours in, and the lRed and White and Yazoo .rivers pour in, and all the States and ,n Territories between the Alloghany and 1. Rocky mountains make .contribution. at Now, in order to test' the power of a mother's influence, we need to come in se off of the ocean of eterniity and sail up toward the one cradle and we will find 'ten thousand tributaries pouring in and N pouring downi. But it is, after all, 1o0 ONE GREAT RIVER OF P'OWER d rolling on and rolling forever Who can <- fathom it? Who can -bridge it? Who to can stop it? lEad liot mothers better re be intensifying their prayers? Had they ,11 not better be elevatinig by their exam - ple? Had they:' not better be rousing f themselves with the consideration that it5 by their faithfulness or neglect they are a- starting an influence which *will be st stupendous after the last mountain of ly eai-th is flat, and the last sea has been a- dried up, and the last flake of the ashes >f of a consumed world shall have been io blown away, and all the telescopes of ,y other worlds directed to- the track n. around which our world once swLung, W> shall discover not so much as a cin iy der of the. burned-down and swp-f in planet. wp-f t, In Ceylon there is,a granite column m- thirty-six square feet in size, 'which is 11 .thought, by the natives, to dlecide the >o world's continuance. An angel with robe spun from zephyrs is once a cen ~n tury to descend and sweep the hem of a that robe aOross the.granite, and when. me by that attrition the column is worn st away, they say time will end. But, by ,l- that process, that granite column would 0, be worn out of etn cen before mother's htfiue4e,e will begin to ,gVe away. -. , . f OTI[ERS $OWJ G SEEp . If a mother toll a child he is not good, some bugaboo will come and catch him, the fear excited may dnake the child a coward and the fadt that he finds that there Is no bugaboo may make him a liar, and the echo of that false alarm may be heard after fifteen generations have been born and have expired.. If a mother promise a child a retard for good behavior; and after the good behavior forgets to give the re ward the cheat may crop out In some faithiessness half a thousand years fur ther.on. If a mother culture a child's vanity, and eulogize his curls,4 and a* tol the night-black or 'sky blue or nut. brown of the child's eyes, and call out in his presence the admiration of spec tators, pride and arrogance may bo pro. longed after a dozen family records have been obliterated. If a mother ex press- doubt about some statement of the holy Bible ini a child's 0'0se4e long after the gates of this histori. era have closed. and the gates oft. an other era have opened, the result may be seen in a champion bhisphemdr. But, on the other )land, if a mother walking with a child seoa suffering oie by the wayside and say; "My child, give that ten-cent piece to. that lame boy," the result may be seen on the other side of the following century in some George Muller building a whole village of orphanages. If a mother sit amost every oveldng by the: trulle bed of a child and teach it lessons of a Saviour's love and a Saviour's esample, of the importance of truth and the hor ror of a lie, and the virtues of Industry and kindness and sympathy .and self sacrifice, loig after: the mother has gone, and the child has gone, and the lettering on both the tombstones shall have been washed out by the.storms of Innumerable winters there may be standing, as a result bf those trundle bed lessons, flaming eangels, world moving reformers, sorayhic Summer ields, weeping Paysons, : thundering Whitelids, emancipating Washing toiis. Good or bad influence may sle .o. generation or two generations,' but it will be sure to land In TIE THIRD OF FOUIRTIt UENERATION. just as the Ten Comnandments, speaking of the visitation of God on families, says nothing about the second generation, but entirely skips the sec ond and speaks of the third and fourth generation: "Visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the third.and fourth generations of then thuit hate me." Parental influence, right and wrong may jump over a generation, but it will come down further on, as sure as yoil sit there and I stand here. Timothy's ministry was projected by his grand mother Lois. There are . men and wo men here, the sons and daughter of the Christian Church, who are such as a result of the consecration of great-great grandmothers. Why, who do you think the Lord is? You talk as though His mempry was weak. He can no easier re membel" a prayer five minutes than he can five centuries. This explains what we often see some man nnn distinguished for benovolene n the father or mother wvere distin ied for penuriousness ; or you see sa yoling, man or wvonman with a tadrer and a hard mother come out gloriously for Chr'ist, and make the church sob and shout and sing under their exhortati.ons. We stand in corners of sthe vestry amd whisper over the matter and say : "How is this, such great piety in sons and daughters of sitch parental worldlinies and sin?" I w'ill explain it to you if .you wvill fetch me the old Family Bible containing tire full record. Let some septuagenarian look with me clear uponr the page of b)irthrs and marriages, and tell me who that woman was with the old-fashioned name of Jemimna or Betsy or Mehitaleh. Ah, t.hero she is, the old grandmother or greatgrandlmother, w,ho had enough RELIGiON. TO SATURATE -A CENTURY. .The sIhe is, the dlear old soul, grand mobther Lois. In our beautIful G~reen wood (may we all sleep there wvhen our work is done, for wvhen I get up 'in.thre Rlesurrection morning I want my con gregation all about me)-ln Greenwvood there is the rdsting-ylace of 'Geofge g. Bethune, onc' a in ister of,'B~roolyrr Heights, h,is name never s Cen ambng itelligent Americans avithdut suggest ing two things-eloquenc and,evangel ism. In the same tolrb sleeps ihis grarndmothrer, Isabella/ Gr'4ham, who wvas the chief inspitation of his ministry. You' are not surptise'd 'at the poetry and pathos and puilpit'power bf 'tho gran4 son when you read of the faith and de votIon of his wonderful .imcestress. When yen read TIIIS 0IRANDMOTmtERi'S,LETTERT, in which she poured out lher widowed soul hr longings for a son's salvation you will not wvonder thrat succeedling generations have been blessed : "NEw YoRKc, May 20, 1791. "This day my only son left me ini bit ter wrigirngs of heart; , ho is again launched eon tire ocean, God's ocean. The Lord .saved him from. shipwvreck brought him to my home ,Amd allowed me once more to indurlge my affections over him. He has been with mne but a short time, and ill have I improved It; he is gone from my sight, and my heart bursts with tumultuous, grief. .Lod have mercy on tire wilow's .son', 'the only seon of, his mother.' "I ask nothing In all this world for him ; I repeat niy petition--save his soul alive, give him salvation from slin. It is not the danger of the seas that (dis tresses me ; it is niot the hasrdsnhip he must undergo ;.it is not the dre of never seeing im more in this world'i it is becaurse I cannot discern the fulfill ment of the nromrise ini him, I. cannot discern the new tbirth,'-nor its fruit,. Irt every symptom of captivity to Saan, the world and solf-will. This, this 10 what distresses me, and in connleetiQn with this, his being shurt out from ot dinances at a distance from Christ is - shut up with those who forget God, ~ro fano Ills name and break H1is..Sabbaas men .wIho often live and die like be~t yet are accountable creatures, whonuL answer for every moment of time lird word, thought and action. "0 Lord, many Wvonders hrast thiou showvn me ;Thy ways of :dealing With me and mine have not been conii on ones i add this woender to the rest, all. convert, re enerate and establish a sailor Sfith. Lord, all, things are lossible ht e ; glorify Thy Son and extend TIis kingdom by-sea and land ; take the prey from the stifong. I roll him over upon Thee. -Many.friends' try to com fort me ; lnisorable 'comiforters'are they all. Thou art the God of consolation ; only confirm to me Thy precious word, on whieh thou. causeat me to hope in the day when Thou saidst to me, 'Leave thy fatherless children I will preserve them allve:' Only let this life be a spir itual life, and I put a blank in Thy hand as to all temporal things. "I wait for Thy salvation. Amen." With such agrandmothor, would you not have a right to oxpegqt a George W. Bethune? and all the thoUsands con verted through his ministry may date the saving power back to Isabella Graham. God Jill the tarth and the 1eavens with such grandmothers we must some day go. tp and thank- these deur old sols.. Sirelf, God will let us go up and tel them of the results of their iuencr. Among our FInST QUESTIONS IN HEAVEN tvill .be, "Where is grandmother?" They will 'point her out for we would hardly kilow her even If we had seen her on earth, so bent over with years once, and there so straight, so dim of eye through the blinding of earthly tears, and now her eye -as. clear of heaven, so full of aches and pains once, and now so agile with celestial health, the wrinkles blooming Into carnation roses,. and her step like the roe on the mountains. Yes, I must see her, my grandmother on my father,s side, Mary -McCoy descendant of the Scotch. When I first spoke to an au'dience in Glasgow, Scotland, and felt somewhat diffident, being a stranger, I began by' telling them my grandmothcr was a scotch woman, and then there went up a shout of welcome which made me feel as easy as I do here. I must see her. You must see those women of the early nineteenth century and of the eighteenth century, the answer of whose prayers is In your welfare to-day. GOD BLESS ALL THE AGEI) WOMAN up and down the land and In all lands! What a happy thing, Pomponius Atti cus, to say, when making the' funeral address of his mother:- "Though I have resided with her sixty-seven years; I was never once reconciled to her, be cause there never lhapl:ened the least discord between us, and consequently there was no need of reconciliation.' Make it as easy for the old folks as you can. - When they are sick, get for them the best doctors. Give them your arm when the streets are slippery. Stay with them all the time you can. Go home and see' the old folks. Find the place for them in the. hymn book. Never be ashamed if they prefer styles of apparel a little antiquated. Never say anything that ihplies they are in the way. Make the road for the last mile as smooth as you can. Oh, my ! HOW YOU WILrL Ms11 HER when she is gone. I would give the house from over my head to see mother. I have so many things I would like to tell her, things that have happened in twenty-four. years since site went,away. Morning noon and night let us thank God for the good influences that have come down .fronm good mothers all the way back. Timnothy-, don't forget your iothter Eunice, and dlon't forget your grandmother Lois. And hand down to others this patrimony of blessing. Pass' along the coronets. Make religion anl heirloom froin generation to generationf; Mothers of America, consecrate your selves to God, and you' will help con secrate all thte ages following i Do hot dwell so much on your hardships that you miss your chance of wvielng an ini JInence thtat shall look down upoin you. from tite towers of ait endless future. I. know Martin Luther was right whten. hte consoled his wife over the deatht of. thteir daughter, by saying: "Don't take on so, Wvife ; remember that itis Is a hard worl for girls." .Yes ; I go further and say : It is A -HARD WORLD FOR WOMEN. Ayo,s I go further and say : It is a~ hard world for men., But for all women and men who trust teir bodies aintd souls in the hand of Christ, thte shtining gates will soon swing open, D)on't you see the sickly pallor on the sky? That is thte pallor on the cold cheek of the dying night. Don't you see the brighitening of the clouds? Thtat Is thel tisht on the wann forehead of thte muornoitg. Cheer up, you are coming withiti sight of thte Celestial City. THlE CELESTIAL CITY. Cairo, cap)ital of E~gypt, was called "City of Victory." Athtens, capital of Greece, was called "City of the Violet Crbwn ;" l3aalbeck was called "City of the Sun -" London was called "Theo City of ifasts." Lucien's imnagimjary metropolis beyond the Zodiac wvas called '"The City .of 'Lanterns." Bunt thte city to which you journey htatht all these in' one,-'the vidtory, the crowns, the masts,' of thtose that have been lhar bored after the storm. Aye, all but the lanterns and -the suit, because they have no needi of- anty othter light, since the Lamb is tile light thereof. N{ow to Selecta a wVire. tIn the first place, see the girl you it tend to honor as early in thte morning at,possible, and niote Whether site Is fresit4iid tidy or limp antd frowzy. Watch how she treats her pets-hter dog, her cakiary, hter little sisters,' ' Discover wvhat she eats and 'drinks, and make yourself certain whether she b*tines or uses perfumery. 'Remember If she makes a habit of walking or driving. SInform yourself whether she dotes upon Owen Meredith.and Henry James, or rends Longfellow -and Fenimore Copr. Go to church 'with her and see if shte cares more for the preacher than- for the Gospel. Mfale a sly 'study oft her anatomy when you. ge$ a chance. Walk her up Murray hill as fast. as you can, and, ~dance a whole waltz through -with her, and mark it shte allows hersel breath ihgo9th and wears tight alippers,. 'amiliarizo yourgelt with her father's affm4ira'and' he'r nmother's temper; and then, my boy, when you'vo fot3nd a girl who is neat, tr'im, true, healthy, wealthy, and wise, sail In and win her. A Practical Joko; or, Lowe's Devious Ways. "Poor. old Barleycprn!". exclaimed "Lelia Whar;on to her friend Alice For tesque, as they looked across the school room at their French teacher, Miss Barley, who had fallen asleep on her desk. "I wonder it. she is dreaming about he" old lover?" "Nonse.se!" exclaimed her friend. "I don't believe the poor 'thing ever had any." "Oh yes, she did, and his name was Johui hates, and lie went away :,t never came back to his long-lost love," with a giggle. "Well, she's a .mean old thlg, any way," said Miss Fortesque, who had been set At a disagreeable task by Miss Barley. "I have an idea how we can get square with her." They. put their heads together and evolved a scheme we shall know more about later on. That night Miss Barley had a note handed to her by a i:agged little boy which read: "In. the, old place at tie Chapel Pond at 9 to night. John Bates has return ed." Could sleio believe her eyes? Was it indeed true .that the old love story broken off seven years ago was to be resumed? She lost no time in repairing to the place mentioned, and, half the girls of the seminary warned of the af fair were aware of the alleged > )ke when Miss Barley slipped out of tile class-room that evening with a suspi olous blush on her face. Only the other tea hers gossiping. around the fire, and hnhe. Appleton herself, writing letters in her own sanc tum, remained in Ignorance of what was going on. Little Louise Belville started to her feet. "Girls," she cried. "It's too bad! It's cruel-that's what it isi It shall not go on! I'll run after her and tell her the whole thing is a deceit!" But Lelia Wharton pulled her back as she was springing to open the door. "It's too late," said she. "You couldn't overtake her now. And it's such a splendid jokel Just wait until you see the expression of her face when she comes back. We shall be avenged for all of Barleycorn's viciousness, nowl" Slowly the time-tarnished minute hand of the venerable clock travelled around the dial. Nine o'clock came, half past 9-10. Still no Miss Barley returned. . . The governess on duty for.that par ticular evening, one Miss Pugsley, with eyes that looked different ways, rose up with a yawn at last. "Time for evening prayers and bed,. girls," said she. "Oh, not yet!" pleaded" the girls with one accord. And each had some special reason to give for desiring five minutes' more delay. "It's past hours already," said 'Miss Pugsley, "and" -Just then' the door opened: Miss Barley came in. But instead of a pale, discomfited face, she wore a mpst radiant aspect. Her eyes sparkled, her cheeks were crimsoned with an unusual glow. She went up to 'Miss,Pugsley (who was a good soul, though not fair to look upo 1, and Alice F?ortesque could hear he&i in low tones:y "Dear Harriet, congraf d4time. My lover has come baci-.anid we are to be mag~iod nox6b W6ek. I have just seeix hifa' down by~ -OChael' rend. I'll tell you all about it by aund by. I am' go ing in to see Madame now." Like|wildfire the news spread through the room. The girls looked blankly at each other. "It can't be possible!" cried Lelia Wharton. "I onily khowv what I heard her' say," declared Alice, lookinig half frightened. "I am so glad!" exch}limed. Louiso B3elvilleo, joyously clapping her hands "oh s glad!" hA ile in Madame's, little sanctum, Ruth Barley was tolling the worthy preceptress how John Ba~tes had travel 10(d half round the world-howv lie had been a prisoner In the heart of Africa for monthis-how at last lie had estab lished himself in a good business in South America, and had finally cpme back 'to claim the promise .Ruth had given him long ago. "Hie has wvritten again and again," she.said, "aind he can't understand how It is th)at lie never got ainy answer. But how could I reply to letters that' rnever reached me'?" Madame kissed the -fiuttering little governess ini hot' 81ow,. stately way. "My dear, I congratulate'you," said she. "Of course, deeply as I regret los ing a good teacher, I shall not object to cancelling your engagement with me, under the circuii'stances!" And she smihled and nodded and look ed pi'eter-natially wise. -"JIowv did it hiapp)en?" said John ]Bates. "Why, in the most natural wvay In the wvorld. I came~ in on the evening stage, andl when I got to tihe little stone s.tile and the footpath that led down to the 'old spot I told tile driver to leave my traps at the hotel and I'd, take the short cut through the woods, seeing thatt it was such a fine night and the moon at full. Just an excuse, you know, to look at the remembQted haunt. As I stood there, thinking of the liappy oIg times, who should comes right into the moonlight but tile womnan I have never ceased to love," and lie clasped her in his arms while Ruth wept tears of joy. What had been inteiided as a joke turnied out a delicious reality, e skippi'ng the Myot.s. *Edward Everett Hale says lie be lieves the George Washingt.on. cherry tree-and hatchet story. Brethren, it i the make 'of a gooid man to believe .th6 good things told of other people, You will observe that every man who doesn't believe that Washington always told the truth, and who seriously doubte that lie prayed at Valley Forge, is firm ly convinced, and joyously declares that' he swore like a pirate at Monmouth. That's the difference between different sorts of people. 1V isdom would be more .va'uable it it would only get around on time. Al it is, It generally gonies too late to be of much practical beneQt to its owner, ToTEM PIEMLI OP.ATa AA, liow tle Indians Preserve Thir ka ily History in carvings, Mostly or Wood. I have said-that the family' historio are regulated by the female side of the house, and this assertion would eem to indicate that they have xneansiof pre serving histories, a rare culture among the North Americari Indians. This assertion is true, limited though the-his torical information may be; -and the means of preserving these scant family facts is in carvings, mostly of wood, in which art, it might be mentioned here, these Alaskan and British Oolumbia, Indians probably excel all others on the continent. In front of their wooddn houses are often seen tall poles, sometimes tower ing two or three times as high as their little one-story hutsi and carved on the outer face from bottom to top. These are called "totem" pole., and Ate noth ing but long sections of the tall trees of the country, which, after being carved on one side, are placed in front of their houses. From a great distance these make the village, always just above high water mark on the seashore, look as if it had a large fleet Qf vessels, with great'thick masts, in its front. The carvings, while well done as a matter of workmanship, are of the most diabolical character, and each: totem pole looks like a sculptured representa tion of so many linear yards of night mare. Grotesque and hideous beasts, birds and lshes, with abnormal limbs, wings and fins, staring eyes and grinn ing teeth, are arranged one above ,the other, from bottom to top, likeso' many imps of Satan trying to reach the sky by climbing on top of each otiter. Thoso knowing the subject best say these totem poles are genealogical rec ords of family trees. Generally two are in front of'each house, one for the man and one. for. the woman; but where there is only one it belongs, as hinted, to the woman, or the woman's family history. These Indians are divided, socially, into clans, of more or less aristocratio pretensions, and each clan is named after some beast, bird, fish or reptile, which the carvings are supposed to rep resent. Thus, to take the totem pole of the woman, the carving at the top rep resents the clan to which she belongs, as the raven wolf or whale clan, and by a stretch of the imagination the beast, or what not, can be made out of the sculpture, in most hideous carica ture, however. The next below is that of her mother, and so on down on the wonan's side Until the grass is reached in some ancient female ancestor,, each one changing with the clan to which they belonged; and sometimes they are repeated consecutively many times, as one wolfor dogfish following another like a pack of wolves or a string of fish. The man's tot begins nwtit himself similar to that of his spouse, but here " the similarity ceases; for instead, of con tinuing backwards on his father's side, to keep up the resemblance, each recur ring totem is on his mother's side, and representing the clans to which she and her female ancestors belonged, making boti. of -"the -"totem--peles-andthaki .,, Aumerous carvings represent only thoe many . clans to which the ' woman be longed, with the single exception-of the one noted,. which stands for. the "lord of -creatin"' in the household before wh'ose door thme'toteni poles rears its quaint and durious carved column. The care of' the Emie. 1., Never put anything into the car for the relief of toothacho. 2. Never put. Cotton in the ears if they are discharging puss. 8. Never attempt to apply a poul. tice .to the inside of the canal of the ear. .4. Never drop anything into ,the ear unless it has been previously va'rm ed, 5. Never use anything but a syrmng and wvater for cleaniing thme cars from puss. 63. Never strike or box a obilds ears this has been known to rupture the drum and cause incurable deafness. 7. Never wet the hair if you have any tendency to deafness; wear an oil ed-silk cap) when bathing, and refrain from diving. 8. Never scratch the ears .with any thing but the fingers if they itch. D~o not -use the head of a pin,. hair--pins, pencil-tips or ainything of that nature. 0. Never let the feet become cold and damp, or sit with.the bac1C toward a windiow, as these things tend to ag. gravate any existing hiardlness of hear ing 10. Never put milk, fat or any oily' substance into the ear for the. relief of paih, as they soon become fanoid and tend to incite inflammation. 'SBimple warm water will answeor the iirpose better than anything else. 11. Never -be alarmed if aillving in sect enters the- ears, rouring warm water- Into the canal. will crown it, when it will generally come to the sur face and can be ea fly removed by the fingers. A few pu if of'emnoke blown into the ear will stupefy the 'Thedt - 12. Never meddle MthI the ear! if a 7 foreign body, such as a bldsI4tton1 oir ' seed enters it; leave it absolutl alone, but have a physician attend to it. More damage has been adone by in4udicious attempts at the extraction of a; foreign body than couhl ever come- frotn its presence in.thetr. An, improved stermographld machine has been patented by a NewaYork city man. It is adapted fsos. apid writing by those who can see, but is nmore es pe6lally inteied for th'e use of the blind.' The alphabet consiists of dif ferent combinations of eightdQts. those being impressed on paper by small im-, pression rode of keys, forpidug the charaoters in relief on the baQk of the paper, so that the matter written may be read by teeenae of touch as well as by sight. A niet organ called an organ eleo trique, has been plcdIn the Church. of .Samte , Clothi. e, inx the'I?ubourg S3aint-EGermain, I is the dret instru ment of the kind that has appears I 'in a Paris church. The accumalators are placed bebid the high -altar, Whence the<wires are connected with the key. boards and the noran nies