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fije ?yarara n? ScHi|r0iL RELIGION, MORALS AND PHILOSOPHY. Rev. C. C. BROWN, Editor. KISSED HIS MOTHER. She sat on the porch in the ososhine, As I went down the street A woman whose bair was silver, But whose face was blossomed sweet, Making me think of a garden, "Where, in spite of the frost and snow Of bleak November weather, late, fragrant filies blow. I heard a footstep behind me, And the sonnd of a merry laugh, And I knew the heart it came from Would be like a comforting staff In the time and the hour of trouble, Hopeful aird brave and strong j One of the hearts to lean on When we think that things go wrong, I turned at the click of the gate latch, And met his manly look; ir A face like his gives me pleasure, Like the pages of a pleasant book. $ It told of a steadfast purpose, Of a brave and daring will A face with promise in it, That, God grant, the years fulfill. He-went np the pathway singing ; I saw the woman's eyes Grow bright with a worldless welcome, As sunsine warms the skies. "Back again, sweetheart mother, '* He cried, and bent to kiss The loving face that was lifted . For what some mothers miss. That boy will do to depend on, I hold that this is true From lads in love with their mothers Our bravest heroes grew. . - . Earth's grandest hearts have been loving hearts, Since time and earth began I And. the boy who kissed his mother. Is every inch a marfK m Grains. > __ v- n - -Speak not evil one of another. The sting of reproach is the truth of it. Idleness is the key of 'beggary and the root of all evil. Indolence is the mst of >?\e mind and | the inlet of every vice. Every act of life is a stone ^in the formation of character. s Where Sabbaths are neglected, all religion sensibly goes to decay. It is a most degraded nature that trill betray an honorable confidence. The faithful obedience to the dictates of goodoonscience gives moral strength ft> overcome ail difficulties. Often external calamities have the work of hastening the revolution of the inward wretchedness of sin Look on skaders as__direct enemies to civil sodety ; as/'persons without honor, honesty ornumanity. Iiove's secret is to be always doing j j things for God and not to mind be- j ( ca?se tbey are such very little ones. j s Farewell is a sad word, but if we j ] could only contrive to say it to some of ! 1 oar bad habits, we irould be much hap- j I ^^Ehere are^-great many people in fi the church like ??b4ittle boy, who was j very agreeable if-adid^cd to have his M .own way. Parents who are ignorant of their <duty will be taught by the misconduct of their children -what * they ought to bave done. With love the heart becomes a fair ' and fertile garden glowing with sunshine and warm hues, and exhaling sweet, odors. j j Every man we meet with in this j t world, though we should never meet | ( with him again, will meet with us at j < the day of judgment. j t The friendship of a dog that can be j t relied upon is of more account than the J t friendship of a man who must be bought j < with gifts. j s ^ If you have trouble keep it to your- j1 self. A smouldering fire can be ex- f t?Dgalshed, but scattered coals are not j so easily picked up. All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirm- ! ' lng more and more strongly the truths ! ' contained in the the sacred Scriptures, j * More hearts pine away in secret an- j ^ guish, for the want of kindness from j ! those who should be their comforters, j ' than for aoy other calamity in life. j j I have found by a strict and diligent j { observation that a due observance of ! < the duty of Sunday has ever had join- j j ed to it a blessing upon the rest of my ; t time. 11 My usefulness was the last idol I j t was willing to part with, but now I can-; . part with that, and ana content to be i 1 laid aside and forgotten, so that He may j ? be glorified. ] s Our true sphere of activity is the I * place where Providence has located us. \ * Escape therefrom, however agreeable ; 1 to our ease or interests, would be sure ! * to work damage to us. Just in porportion as you gai o a vic- ! ' -tory over the evil which you have be? come aware of in yourself, wiil your spiritual eye be purged for a brighter perception of the Holy One. We should not despair for the good? ness of the world if we do not happen to see it immediately around us. The atmosphere is still blue, though so much of it enclosed in our apartment is color? less. I remember hearing of a young con- j vert who got np to say something for I < Christ in the open air Not being ac- j costomed to speak, he stammered a | good deal at first, when an infidel came j right along and shouted out, 'Young ' j man, you ought to be ashamed of your- j self, standing and talking like that.' ; *Well,' the young man replied, Tni j, ashamed of myself, but Fm not ashmed i - of Christ.' That was a good aohwer. ', D. L. In Christ is peace, joy and consola- | tion. lu him is solid comfort. In him i is hope. In bira is safety. He is all i and all. The church and the world ? should hear more about Christ. Take i him away and all is gone. No hope, i BO joy, no peace, no heaven. Take j I him away, and nothing remains but the : blackness of darkness forever. Take j i him away, and who will go through the valley of the shadow of death ? Take j1 him away, and who will wake us io the 1 morning? Ah, there will be no morn- j 1 ing. Take him away, and who will re- { eeive BS into yon bright heaven of rest ? j 1 Ah, there will be no heaven. Take M him away, and what then ? j * How Can I Win Men to C??st. By having the life of Christ as your model, his thoughts in clear, cleanly cut outlines in your mind, and his mo? tives the energies to direct your move? ments. That a man may speak a lan? guage; likewise that a man may speak the works of Christ with effect his me? ditation of the words must in be in the spirit of Christ. The thoughts of Christ must flow out of him as fragrance from the rose, as eloquence from heart oratory. He must have not only know? ledge, but the life of truth. The words of Christ arc the words of the Eternal Word ; they have the ideas of thc eternal life. We may expect the fire of inspiration wrapped up io them. Brooding over them will bring into them fhe breath of the Spirit. By this inspiration the dry bones of the let? ter will live, stand upon their feet aD exceeding great army, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against them. By secret communication with Christ his words become instinctive with ener? gy, warm and palpitating, the very cloven tongues of Pentecost. They give inspiration, 'put a soul under the ribs of death,' and create 'thoughts that breathe and words that burn.' This kind of study is one element of success LR winning souls.--Thomas Parry. The Helpful Man. 'There is a man,' said his neighbor, speaking of the village carpenter, 'who bas done more good, I really believe, in this community than any other per- \ ?on who ever lived in it. He cannot j talk very well in prayer-meeting, and be does not often try. He isn't worth two 'housand dollars, and it's but little that ' t be can put down on subscription papers \ For any object. Buta new family nev- I 2r moves into the village that he does t aot find them out to give them a neigh- \ borly welcome and offer any little ser- a vice he can render. He is usually on the e lookout to give strangers a seat in his t pew at church. He is always ready to t ivatch with a sick neighbor and look I xfter his affairs for him, and I've some limes thought, he and his wife kept j c! :iouse-plants in the winter just for the >ake of being able send little bouquets ;o invalids. He fiuds time for a pleas mt word for every child he jneets, and rou'll see them climbing into his one- I _orse wagon when he has no other t oad. He really seems to have a genius I br helping folks ia all sorts of common ways, and it does me good every day ust to meet him on the street.' Politeness Among Children. Politeness, with the French, is a natter of education as well as nature. The French child is taught that lessou rom the begining of it existence, and t is made a part of its life. It is thc me thing that is never forgotten, and :he lack of it is never forgiven French children do not go about cla noring for the best places: and sulking f they do not get them, and talking in i rude, boisterous way. They do not ;ake favors and attentions as a matter of jourse and unacknowledged. The slightest attention shown them is ac? knowledged by the sweetest kind of a x>w-not the dancing-master's bow, mt a genuine one-and the invariable Merci, monster !' or madame and mad- ! imoiselle, as the case may be. I was in a compartmeut with a lit .le French boy of twelve, the - precise t tire at which American children, as a i .ule, deserve killing for their rudeness 1 ind general disagreeableness. He was [ ?ressed faultlessly, but his clothes yere not the chief charm. I sat be ;ween him and the open wiudow and he jc vas eating pears Now, au American j't joy of that age would either have drop- I c >ed the cores upon the floor, or . tossed 11 hem out of wiudow without regard to 1 ?nybody. But this small gentleman, ?very time, with a 'Permit mc, mou- L >ier," said in a most pleasant way, rose f md came to the window, and dropped ^ hem out, and then 'Merci, monsieur,' v ts he quietly took his seat. It was a s iclight. I am sorry io say that such ?mall boys do not travel on American * .ailroads to any alarming exteut. tVould they were more frequent. And when in his, seat, if an elderly . jerson or any one else came in, he was he very first one to rise and offer his )lace, if it were in thc slightest degree nore comfortable than the one vacant : ind the good-nature with which be in? sisted upon the new-comer taking it was something 'altogether too sweet for luything.* And this boy was no exception. Eic was not a show-boy out posing be bre the great American Rt-public, or tuch of it as happened to be in France it the time; but he was a sample, a ivpe of the regulation French child. I lave seen just as much politeness in ;he ragged waifs iu Faubourg St. Antoine, where the child never saw ;he blue sky more than little patches ;hat could be seen over the tops of seven storied houses, as I ever did in the Champs Elysee. One Sunday, at S*. j ^loud, where the ragged children of j coverty are taken by their mothers j for air and light, it was a delight to fill j he pockets with sweets to give them. ! They had no money to buy, and the lit- j le human rats looked longingly at the j -iches of the candy stands, and a sou's j wot th made the difference between per- j bet happiness and half-pleasure. .You ! 2;ave them the sou's worth, aud what a j , glad smile came to the lips, aud accom- i panied with it was the delicious half- j bow and half-courtesy, and invariable j 'Merci, monsieur.' One little tot, who ; ?ou?d not speak, filled her tiny mouth with the uuheard-of delicacies she had received, and too young to say 'merci,* ! put up Uer lips to be kissed.-Ex- j 'JtUWjC. j Childhood. The qualities which are the most at- : tractive in childhood are not by any _ieans the most valuable ia maturity.1 We look for determination, will, deci- j sion of charcter, firmness in the man, 1 ind refuse him our respect if he have i them not. Ba*, wheu the child exhi? bits these qualities, even ia their iv.- ! si picul stages, we were annoyed, and; perhaps repulsed. Instead of rejoicing in his strength of will, and guiding it into right channels, we lament it as % grievous fault in him, and a mis- : Fortune to us. It is a meek and yield- j ing elitlcl who cares not to decide any? thing for himself in whom we deligbt, md whose feeble will we make still feebler by denying it all cxercjse. Yet when he grows up and enters the : world and yields to temptation, and per- j haps disgraces himself and family, we; look at him in imbecile won 1er that so ' good a child should have turned out to be so bada man, when, in truth, his jourse has been only the natural out- I som of his past life and training. i A Collection of Insects. Prof. C. V. Riley has deposited in the United States National Museum his extensive private collection of insects. The collection comprises some 30,000 species and upward of 150,000 speci? mens of all orders, and is contained in some 300 double foldiDg boxes in large book form, and in two cabinets of eighty glass-covered drawers. The specimens are all in admirable condition, and the determined species duly labelled and classified. The collection. is chiefly valuable, says Hie American Natural? ist, for the large amount of material il? lustrating the life-histories, habits, and economy of species, 3,000 of which are represented in one or all the preparatory states, either in liquid in seperate boxes, or blown and mounted dry with the im? agines. Fifteen blank books are filled svith notes and descriptions of these spe? cies, most of them yet unpublished. Though several special collections sur? pass it in single order, few, if any, gen? eral collections of North American in? sects equal it, and perhaps none from ;he biological point of view. A Woman's Wit. A woman's advice is generally worth having, so if you are in any trouble, tell your mother or your wife or your sister all about it. Be assured-that light dil flash upon your darkness. Women ire too commonly judged verdant in all jut purely womanish affairs. No )hilosophical students of the sex thus udge them. Their intuitions or insight ire most subtle, and if they cannot ;ee a cat in the meal there is no cat here. I advise a man to keep none of lis affairs from his wife. Many a lome has been saved and many a for une retrieved bj' a man's confidence in lis wife. Woman is far more a seer :ad a prophet than man, if she be giv ;n a fair chance. As a general rule he wives con?de the minutest of heir plans and thoughts io their hus >ands. Why not reciprocate, if but for be pleasure of meeting with confi [ence ? The men who succeed best in ife are those who make confidants heir wives.-Exchange. of The best recipe for going through ife with beautiful manners is to feel hat everybody no matter how rich or low poor, needs all the kindness he can ret from others io this world. Disease is an effect, not a cause. Iis origin s within: itSsnj'vnifeStations without, Hence, o cure the the disease the cause must be re? cored, and in no other way can a cure ever ,e effected. 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These are* not empty assertions, as thousands of our countrymen and women who have experienced its e?lects are aware, but are backed up by irre? fragable proo'S. The Kilters also give a healthful stimulus to the urinary organs, ?or sale by ail Druggists and Dealers Centrally A DISORDERED 8JVER ES THE BANE of the present generation. It ia for the Cure of this disease and its attendants, SICK-K? AD A CHE. BILIOUSNESS, DYS? PEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, PILES, etc., that TUTTS PILLS have gained a world-wide reputation. Ko Kemedy has ever been discovered that act3 so gently on the digestive organs, giving them vigor to as? similate food. As a natural resnlt, the Nervous System is Braced, the Muscles are Developed, and the Body Bobust. OtL?ls and Fevor E. RIVAL, a Planter at Bayou Sara, La., says r My plantation ls In a malarial district. For several yearnl could not make half a crop on account of bilious diseases and chills. I was nearly discouraged when I began the use of TUTT'S PILLS. 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A LECTURE TO YOUNG MEN ON THE LOSS OP M?NilOLt ALECTURE ON THE NAT?RE, TREAT mcnt aud Radical euro of Seminal Weak? ness, or Spermatorrhoea, induced by Self-Abuse. Involuntary Emissions, Impotency, Nervous Debility, and Impediments to Marriage gener? ally; Consumption. Epilepsy, and Fits; Men? tal and 'Physical Incapacity, Ac-By ROB? ERT J. CULVER WELL, M. D.f author of the ?.Green Rook," Ac. The world-renowned author, in this admir able Leetare, clearly proves from his own ex? perience that the atrial cons?quences of Self Abuse may be effectually removed without dan? gerous surgical operations, bougies instruments? rings or cordials ; pointing out a mode of cure at once certain and effectual, by which every sufferer, no matter what his condition may be, may cure himself cheaply, privately and radi* cally. ^rTbis lecture will prove a boon to thoa? sands and thousands. Sent, under seal, in a plain envelope, to any addres, on receipt of six cents, or two postage stamps. Address THE CULVERWELL MEDICAL CO., 41 Ana St. Nsw YOES; Post Office Box, 460. April 4 ly