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VOLUME VIII. LAKE PROVIDENCE, EAST CARROLL PARISH, LSATURDAY, OCTOBER 12 1895
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aon - - - *-. I inWS a...--- BU* """l "BUCATVONAt
THE GIFTS, laden
packag
Lthen west rich with promises the tra
t sost thou giee
Wha£lWretous boon hats thou to show sad say: muttt
"Take this and live?" throng
Per when the glory lay on far, blue hills burba
On roeks trees.train
The saIld'st: "T'he beauty of the coming vers shoutse
%bold in these" the ros
Or when the air was full of rushing winds "We
Or rain'S soft symphony. the wil
Tho. said'at: "These utter great, mysterious You g(
thals next ti
That are to be." le a
Now get! Give lore, perhaps Dut, "No,' turned
I.rle said: right"
*'Though Love must be de a
And Love ti fair-sy, wondrous fair is Love- ders at
'Tis not for thee." remar
Then Fame! Oh Life, since thtou deaest me him,
Love.
Let me have Fame! ing in
Sweet were the voice of praising multitude "Ye
That spoke my name. growl
Lo. the grand pity in the ftae of Life! The
"But few there are from I
(Alas, how very few!) who climb that height- - ,.
Lofty and far." Itd.
Still Joy is left for me. "Child, dost thou Sme
know got of
How Joy is brief? go
None may the birthright of the race forego,
And that is Grief." co0ld
Not Love, nor Fame, nor Joy!t What gift is I go
don't
left
Worthy to take? keep
Not one; no single onet Life, get tbee gone you."
Let my heart break. The
Ltfe smiled a noble smile. "The best of asil Sme
To all Igtve- miles
Duty and Use! These are the gifts I bring. train,
Take these, and live!" the ti
--Virginia C. Gardiner. in N.Y. Independent.
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A SUBURBAN EXPERIENCE td
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BY MRS. M. L BAY,. band
"It isn't because I am tired of our fiat ell
that I want to live in the suburbs, but wom
the doctor says we both need change," rushe
concluded Mrs. Perry Thorne, who was 61.
making her first plea for country life. locke
"I agree with the doctor that we ~0
need change of one sort at least," an- wom
swered her husband. tract
"Don't be flippant, dear. I am in she c
dead earnest; and oh, Perry, I know of bach
such a dear cottage, one of a row." MI
"I dislike rows," said Perry. "How- spes
ever, if you are determined to be a burg
suburbanite, and with the suburban- vict
ites sta.d, I may as well agree to go. I had
will at once take lessons on the flying mon
trapeze so that I may sometimes be Ing
able to catch a train. I shall study to lock
acquire that dazed suburban stare that
people who eat their breakfasts and haye
dinners by lamplight assume, assisted then
by catching their quota of sleep in she
depots after they have missed the 6
train." don
"Oh, we won't be there long enough blrs
for that," said his wife; "and, Perry, yet
the air is just heavenly-so sustaining." y.
"That's good, as we shall probably will
be twelve miles or more from a grocery
store. Have you caught your house ho
yet, Mand?" den
"Oh, yes. Mrs. Smead has one in the all
same row, and she told me about ours. her
It is the southwest corner house, .1
while hers is the southeast. Isn't it
strange, Perry, that I have never been re
introduced to Mr. Smead? I wouldn't lift
believe there was any such person if I thr
had not seen him."
"Nothing strange about it," growled ma
Perry, in what his wife called his "bull
dog" voice. "I suppose you want to ten
know him because he has the reputa- !
tion of being a lady killer." to
"Perry!" ma
"I am told by fellows we both know ma
that he prides himself on his beauty." liv
"I hate beauty-men," said Maud, ta
soothingly, "they are all vain, conceit
ed creatures. I never would marry a set
handsome man." "h
Perry mumbled something and went we
away, first giving this wife permission wi
to do as she pleased about taking the ne
suburban house. hi,
A week later both families were set
tied in the row which fronted a street a
and a railroad track, and was equi-dis
tant from two depots.
Mr. Smead did not take as kindly to
the change as Perry Thorne did, but
he told his wife, thoughtlessly, that
onu good feature of suburban life was
having the Thornes for neighbors.
"Where have you ever met Mrs.
Thorne?"' asked his wife, suspiciously.
"Don't know her from Adam, my i
dear, but isn't she your friend, and
haven't I heard her praises sang ever
asines we were married?'
"H'mt We have a calling acquaint
anoe, and now we are to be neighbors. d
I suppose you will meet. But you are
so sseeptible, and she is so giddy, I
just know you will set people talking."
*Great Cesar, Laura, you give your
best friend a great send of! I suscep
tible and she giddy? We must be made
for each other!"
Mrs. timead looked volumes at her
husband, but where is the man who
dea not enjoy being a bone of conten
tiol among his women-folk, and if
gSied had a special and particaleur
virtue, it was that of being good na
tured.
Mrs. 8mead. lik, the woman of his
tory, had two treasures-her sewing
machine and her husband, and she
drew the line at lending either, and if
people wsntegI to call her selfash they
might Fortitedby this law she rented
the southwest cottage.
Saturday night! The invisible bridge
apas the distance between the world
ef ibor sad the world of rest. The
tranquil eir gave back no murmur of
the maltitudinous voices that had illed
St with erim of sorrow, anger, or glad
0s duriag the work days of the pasut
'ik. It wuas the sate-chamber of the
sb , a time so sacred toour s
that all work and all pleasure
~.p·oaded, that the soul itself
t rest.
g .t t.hro. of pople wahurry
Sbhomewarda, had all ee-b happy
...ead amog thea Perry Thene and
am e ud, w ,o be streak up a
seenatatie* srad use
spur le~.b.s.s. shm rne '
? eent hir
eBll~~ lee The won 84gl
Jdea to the ears with brown paper TALM
packages and had just time to make
the train, after purchasing their comr
mutation tickets. They went loping *nd God
through the gates in approved sn- Tears
burban style, and caught on just as the
train moved out, and then Perry Th Heaven
shouted in a voice that sounded above bar «I
the roar of escaping steam: MCe
"We've left our Sunday dinners on
the window stand of the ticket office.
1 You go on, Smead, and I'll take the
next train out." Rev. T.
l1e swung himself clearoff the train, the subje.
turned a somersault, and waved "all tion this
right" to Smead, who mopped the cin- on the tex
- dern and perspiration from his face and And God s1
remarked to the man standing next to Rev. vii., 17
him, in a friendly way: Riding a
"Nice way to spend the summer, liv- flowers up
ing in the suburbs?" wheel, an5
"Yes, if you don't care whstyou say," any shell
growled the man. shower, ai
Then Smead took a bit of pasteboard in torren
from his pocket and began to study it. brightly a
"Southeast corn r, Terrace row, Oak- thought
land." this isl S
a Smead asked his gruff neighbor if he not mid-i
got off at that station. pansied t
"No, I don't," s4il the man. "Yon golden sa
couldn't hire me to live in that swamp. bottle wh
I go out ten miles further, where you ilg tear
don't have to sift the atmosphere to tears. and
keep the mosquitoes from choking vest of jo:
you." sowing c
That sounded discouraging, but God rout
Smead was not anxious to ride ten where to
miles further on an accommodation census is
train, that slowed up for every cow on record a
the track, and he wrapped himself in are born,
a speculative reverie until the brake- grave.
man called O'-a-k-l-a-n-d!" as if only Tears
the deaf lived at that station. Alexande
Mrs. Smead was waiting for her hue clipped fi
band, whom she expected on the half- made a g
past six train, but the train had come in all the
and gone, and instead of the handsome, one of I
t well-groomed Mr. mead, a frantic the tears
at woman, her neighbor, Mrs. Thorene, they are
rushed into her cottage. mer you
'a "I've caught him!" she gasped. "He's thunder,
fe. locked up in the library! Oh! oh! oh!' miles av
we "Caught whom?" asked the mystified drift of
Li woman. Then seeing that her di- come an
tracted visitor was very near fainting, it may i
in she collected restoratives and brought there is
of back Mrs. Thorne's scattered wits. all the t
Maud explained as soon as she could What 1
'w speak that a desperate looking man, a Why no
burglar, she was certain, and a con- not In
in- vict as well, by the cut of his hair- all thi
` had feloniously entered her house s eternal
ng moment before she came, and walk- aches?
be ing boldly into her library had beer storm w
locked safely therein by herself. nor'weal
iat "The windows are nailed down; ) togethel
id have been waiting for Perry to ope they m'
them, so he cannot escape that way," other h
she concluded. -the fa
the "I expect Amos on the last train. I marrin
don't see what is keeping him," said Thy no
rgh s.r Smead, "but he has not come other
1ry yet." the ha
L "Neither has Perry, but perhaps they the h
bly will come together. Isn't it dre.adful enough
ery Idaren't go back with that man in tht a snct
se house. I know by his looks he's a mur but, cc
derer. Our girl hasn't come, and I'm dictioni
all alone. Oh, if Mr. Smead were only and al
ars. here?" explain
a', "I guess I'll do just as well," said you thi
t it Mrs. Smead, coldly. "I will take our and ot
d revolver, and you can bring the stove misses
lifter, and we will interview him of a sos
Ihrough the door." a bitter
"But what good will that do? He broken
rled may s-h-o-o-t first!" tear is;
- "Come on," said Mrs. Smead, con' then, u
temptuously. She was only a young trouble
matron herself,. but she was not going 1. It
to be ignominiously routed by a one- this w
man army, and she led the way to her Sometl
now neighbor's cottage. No other people willing
a lived in the row, so they had all the were n
cedl fun to themselves. be a ge
Beitu- Bt at that identical moment the and I
Sa seven-forty train, sometimes called the of this
"husbands' train," so many of them If the!
went went out to spend the week's interval cushio
ision with their families, stopped at the lared
nearest depot, and Perry Thorne, with pens,
his double load of packages, hove in enchai
set- sight. Both women were overjoyed to We
treet see him. alone.
i-die- "What's the row?" he asked, drop- your 1
ping his bundles on the veranda. and y
y to "A man!" said both women at once. yenta
L, but "Where is Smeadl?" world
tha"That 'htis what I would like to know." mi~h
a was said Mrs. Smead; "I expected him on just e
this train." tell h
"I haven't seen him. Who is the gallel
rmas?" mWh"
"A burglar, and he's locked up in the use
n, m library. Don't you think 1 was brave?" Reml
eeasked Maud, who, now that her hu- phael
er band had come, felt that she might yet"
aint- pose as a heroine. worl
n "Burglars already? Hal this is a bas a
diversion Give me the key, Mand. to si
d 'll take your revolver, Mrs. Smead. cret
SNow, ladies, stand aside," and Perry ingas
Imaing. nde a valiant rush for the library an
your door, which he unlocked and threw horis
usc:p- open, at the same prelsenting arms as- pane
cording to the best manual practicean ,
"Don't shoot!" cried a familiar voice bani
t her that trembled, not with fear, but me- migs
n who riment, as Mr. Smead stepped smiling- the
onten- ly forward, and bowed low to Mand: pect
and "I am Mrs. Thorne's captive," he said own
"icular "What does this mean?" demanded Aug
od a- Mrs. 8mead in the measured syllables Jnd
of the divorce court. "sr
f wis- "It means," explained Mr. Smead, pec
adish "that my wife has not yet learned to mas
d box the compass. She gave me 'outh- a
i west' and your wife locked me up in a Her
rn they room that has no ventilation, and un- A
der a criminal ban. But I forgive tro
her," he added, with gallant protest, to
whereat Mand's cheeks grew red with wh(
bridge embarraament and Mrs. mead said: to
d Come homel After this I will meet phe
mr of you at the train and see that you don' tre
Solld get into the wrong house." It.
"Do forgive me, Mr. bmead " said mho
Se Maud, penitently, while Perry glard lik
rof dt arkly like a jealous stage lover, "bat ir
r as- you did look so--4o--"
"She maid you looked like a convit," He
r it s rmarked his wife. 3i
t * least it hau made us acqualtated," pa
oberve4 Mr. Smead, true to his eolors, he
r ap d with this perting shot he fllowd
ws h wile to te "botheas" cottage--' to
a new DetuoltQF5es Puase.
i up a sad raths - .an'oointable, ba$ I hve we
TALMAGE'S SERMON. croesdo
the othl
*&nd God Shall Wipe Away All antel
Tears From Their Eyes." lyptic 1
------ handke
The Ileavenly Comforter Who is Always That b(
hear and Ready to Aid the Al- us now
Iieted--Th Benefts of is soon
Earthly Troubte. which
and ai
built.
Rlev. T. DeWitt Talmage selected as Yet t
the subject of his sermon for pubiica- this we
tion this week, "Comfort," basing it Well, 4
on the text: It is n
And God shall wipe all tears from their eyes. will be
Rev. vii., 17 Job ha
Riding across a western prairie, wild ments
flowers up to the hub of the carriage was no
wheel, and while a long distance from living
any shelter, there came a sudden to go
shower, and while the rain was falling ministi
I in torrents, the sun was shining a worth
brightly as I ever saw it shine; and I Agni
thought what a beautiful spectacle make
this isi So the tears of the Bible are God.
I not mid-night storm, but rain on anythi
pansied prairies in God's sweet and can d
n golden sunlight. You remember that great
bottle which David labeled as contain- them.
a ing tears, and Mary's tears, and Paul's takes
0 tears. and Christ's tears, and the har- assaul
f vest of joy that is to spring from the lance
sowing of tears. God mixes them swelli
t God rounds them. God shows them death,
n where to fall. God exhales them. A arrow
a census is taken of them, and there is a swelli
rn ecord as to the moment when they depen
an re born, and as to the place of their lroubl
Sgrave, child
Y Tears of bad men are not kept.
Alexander, in his sorrow, had the hair I haDI
' elipped from his horses and mules, and had ti
f made a great ado about his grief; but drove
i1 in all the vases of Ileaven there is not team
e, one of Alexander's tears. I speak of was a
ic the tears of God's children. Alas! me! both:
e, they are falling all the time. In sum- to me
mer you sometimes hear the growling ter ta
'a thunder, and you see there is a storm are a
r' miles away; but you know from the life t
id drift of the clouds that it will not such
is come anywhere near you. So, though and
it may be all bright around about you, aSwi
lt there is a shower of trouble somewhere have
all the time. Tears! Tears! row,
Lid What is the use of them, anyhow? and
, a Why not substitute laughter? Why shoe;
rn not Inake this a world where my f
all the people are well and cans
eternal strangers to pain and soon
k- aches? What is the use of an eastern Af
or storm when we might have a perpetual is wi
nor'wester? Why, when a family is put of (
1 together, not have them all stay, or if have
et they must be transplanted to make thre
7', other homes, then have them all live? Onc(
-the family record telling a story of goin
I marriages and births, but of no deaths. trail
id I Why not have the harvests chase each near
me other without fatiguing toil? Why the
the hard pillow, the hard crust. had
'e3' the hard struggle? It is easy God,
nl? enough to explain a smile, or rope
the a success, or a congratulation; seat
err but, come now, and bring all your us!"
I'm dictionaries and all your philosophies eigli
lly and all your religions, and help me foul
explain a tear. A chemist will tell lifel
aid you that it is made up of salt and lime kine
Onr and other component parts; but he Wh,
ve- misses the chief ingredients-the acid reci
aim of a soured life, the viperine sting of frie
a bitter memory, the fragments of a tifu
1le broken heart. I will tell you what a mal
tear is; it is agony in solution. Hear, nes
on' then, while I discourse of the uses of ear
ung trouble. son
)ing 1. It is the design of trouble to keep lesa
ane- this world from being too attractive. I
her Something must be done to make us us
ople willing to quit this existence. If it do
the were not for trouble this world would Goo
be a good enough Heaven for me. You It i
the and I would be willing to take a lease nol
the of this life for a hundred million years cat
hem if there were no trouble. The earth nol
rval cushioned and upholstered and pil- an
the lared and chbandeliered with such ex- frc
with pense, no story of other worlds could pre
in enchant us. to
d to We would say: "Let well enough wi
alone. If you want to die and have ev
g your body disintegrated in the dust, It
and your soul go out on a celestial ad- me
nee. venture, then you can go, but this ml
world is good enough for mel" You hi
ow." might as:well go to a man who has co
mon just entered the Louvre at Paris, and la
tell him to basten oft to the picture hi
Sh galleries of Venice or Florence. fa
"Why," he would say, "what is the se
the use of my going there? There are at
aver Rembrandts and Reubens and Ra- i
hh phaels here that I haven't looked at u
night yet" No man wants to go out of this t
world, or out of any house, until he
Is a has a better house. To cure this wish p
I ad. to stay here, God must somebow ¶
nead. create a dbsgust for our surround- ti
Perry ings. How shall He do it? lie s
brary can not afordI to deface Hlish
threw horizon, or to tear off a fiery p
ns panel from the sunset, or to subtract o
Lle- an anther from the water lily, or to p
vooee banish the pungent aroma from the S
tmer mignonette, or to drag the robes of '
iling the morning in mire. You can not ex- t
aand: pect a Christopher Wren to mar his a
said own St Paul's cathedral, or a Michael 1
anded Angelo to dash out his own "Last
l bles Judgmeint," or Handel to discord his I
"Israel in Egypt," and you can not ex- a
mead, pect God to poil the architecture and I
ad to music of His own world. How. then, a
ot are we to be made willing to leave? a
p in a Here is where trouble comes im.
ad n- After a man has had a good deal of I
orgive trouble, he says: "Well. I am ready
rots to go. If there is a house somewhere
d with whose root doesn't leak, I would like
Ssid: to live there-. If -there is an atmos
I .eet phere somewhere that does not die
ddo n't tress the lungs, I would like to breathe
it. If there is a society somewhere
s aid where there is no tittle-tattle, I would
glaredlike to live there. If there is a home
a,,but circle somewhere where I can find my
lost friends, I would like to go there."
a vi," He eaed to read the first part of the
3ible chiefly, now he reads the last
atted," pt of the Bible chiefly. Why has
eolos, he changed Genesis for Bevelation?
dooed Ahi he usneed to be anxious chiefly
ta.- to know how this world was
gde, and all about the gea
lgle construection. Now he is
Soliely anxious to know how the nest
woslud was made, and how it loo0 , and
LOcUwho hie there and bow they sl"e
igq m U. o evelatlos tlU $*p4a1 gow
whea 11 o ed4*
created the heavens and the earth." I Was the
does not thrill him half as much as touch as
the other story: "I saw a new heaven Where d
,11 and a new earth." The old man'shand to write
trembles as he turns over this apoca- did Day
lyptic leaf. and he has to take out his comforti
handkerchief to wi-e his spectacles. get the
mys That book of Revelation is a prospect- Lerelatl
us now of the country into which he own tea
is soon'to emigrate; the country in through
which he has lots already laid out, a course
and avenues opened, and mansions ment a
Sas Yet there are people here to whom When
'- this world is brighter than Ileaven, the
it Well, dear souls, I do not blame you. poetical
It is natural. But after awhile you knocked
es' will be ready to go. It was not until long ag
Job had been worn out with bereav an not
lid ments that he wanted to see God. I f hay
age was not until the prodigal got tired of the son
-om living among the hogs that he wanted would r
den to go to his father's house. It is the buse per
log ministry of trouble to make this world play a t
i as worth less and Heaven worth more. of airt
ud I Again, it is the use of trouble to I am l
acse make us feel our dependence upon caldron
are God. Men think that they can de without
on anything until God shows them they put in t
and can do nothing at all. We lay our of the
that great plans, and we like to execute caldron
ain- them. It looks big. God comes and tree of
ul's takes us down. As Prometheus was thrown
lar- assaulted by his enemy, when the Then
the lance struck him it opened a great Bethan
fem. swelling tl:st had threatenel his them
hem death, and he got well. So it is the caldron
i A arrow of trouble that lets out great the crt
is a swellings of pride. We never feel our will ct
they dependence upon God until we get afflict
,heir ;rouble. I was riding with my little Martha
child along the road, and she asked if from tl
ept. she might drive. I said: "Certainly." And or
hair I handed over the reins to her, and I mornir
, and had to admire the glee with which she from tl
but drove. ]nut after awhile we met a Jesu,
snot team and had to turn out. The road sympa
k of was narrow, and it was sheer down on verse
i me! both side'. She handed the reins over "Jesus
sum- to me and said: "I think you had bet- of Iis
,linR ter take charge of the horse." So we of eith
torm are all children; and on this road of the li
i the life we like to drive. It gives one Heave
1 not such an appearance .of superiority Weepe
ough and power. It looks big. lint after earthl
you, awhile we meet some obstacle, and we earthl
,here have to turn out, and the road is nar- is sol
row, and it is sheer down on both sides; dew!
how? and then we are willing that God you h
Why should take the reins and drive. Ahl! fathe
vhere my friends, we get upset so often be- arm,
and cause we do not hand over the reins while
and soon enough. of the
Lstern After a man has had trouble, prayer all ter
etual is with him a taking hold of the arm Frio
is put of God and crying out for help. I ation
or if have heard earnest prayers on two or us,
make three occasions that I remember. , we
live? Once, on the Cincinnati express train, work
ry of going at forty miles the hour, the Iowa
eaths. train jumped the track, and we were mete
each near a chasm eighty feet deep; and from
Why the men who, a few minutes before, suggi
crust. had been swearing and blaspheming to tel
easy God, began to pull and jerk at the bell have
e, or rope, and got up on the backs of the flnn
ation; seats and cried out: "Oh, God, save o, 1
your us!" There was another time, about deem
ophies eight hundred miles out at sea, on a and 1
sip me foundering steamship, after the last N
ill tell lifeboat had been split finer than "Goi
d lime kindling wood. They prayed then. theis
but he Why is it you so often hear people, in Iis
e acid reciting the last experience of some good
uing of friend, say: "Ile made the most bean- are I
ts of a tiful prayer I ever heard?" What it is
what a makes it beautiful? It is the earnest- Chrl
Hear, ness of it. Oh! I tell you, a man is in It is
ses of earnest when his stripped and naked tion
soul wades out in the soundless, shore- thin
so keep less, bottomless ocean of eternity. rive
active. It is trouble, my friends, that makes. Chri
lake us us feel our dependence upon God. We this
It it do not know our own weakness or mot
would God's strength until the plank breaks. mta
e. You It is contemptible in us when there is you
a lease nothing else to take hold of, that we diR
,n years catch hold of God only. Why. you do and
earth not know who the Lord Is. He is not reqi
ad pil- an autocrat seated far up in a palace, par
achex- from which lie emerges once a year, get
could preceded by heralds swinging swords are
to clear the way. No, but a father ed
enough willing at our call, to stand by us in a
ad have every crisis and predicament of life. ent
se dust, I tell you what some of you business hoe
stialad- men make me think of. A young
mt this man goes of from home to earn the
m" You his fortune. He goes with his mother's her
who has consent and benediction. She has Sth
iris, and large wealth, but he wants to make ter
picture his own fortune. He goes far away, i
'lorene. falls sick, gets out of money. He
is the sends for the hotel keeper where he is gh
ser re staying, asking for lenience, and the ant
d Ra- answer he gets Is: "If you don't pay in
oked at up Saturday night you'll be removed o
t of this to the hospital." I1
antil he Again, it is the use of trouble to ca
hhis wish pacitate us for the office of sympathy. W
somebow The priests, under the old dispensa- th
arround- tion, were set apart by having water fri
it? ie sprinkled upon their hands, feet and
see iis head; and by the sprinkling of tears m
afiery people are now set apart to the officee
subtractof sympathy. When we are in pros- t
ily, or to perity we like to have-a great many
from the young people around us, and we laugh te
robes of when they laugh, and we romp when
ranotcx- they romp, and we sing when they
mar his sing; but when we bave trouble we
a Michael like plenty of old folks around. Why?
rn "Last They know how to talk. Take an
Iscord his aged mother, seventy years of age h
in not ex- and she is almost omnipotent in com- a
:ture and fort. Why? She has been through it
ow . then, all. At seven o'elock in the morning
to leave? she goes over to comfort a young b
i i. mother who has just lost her babe.
d deal of Grandmother knows all about that
am ready trouble. Fifty years ago she felt it.
omewhere At twelve o'clock of that day she goes
onld like over to comfort a widowed soul. She
an atmos- knows all about that. She haa been
Snot die- walking in that dark valley twenty
tooreathe years. At four o'cdelock in the after- 1
omewhere noon some one knecka at the door,
I would wanting bread. She knows all about
a home that. Two or three times in her life
Sind my ste came to her last lo. At ten o'lock
got there." that night she goes over to sit up
irt of the with some one severely sick. Sh,,
k the last knows all about it. She knows all
Why has about fevers and pleaidses and broken
evelation? bones She has been doctoring all
ns chiely her life, spreading plasters and pour
orld was ling out bitter dr-ps and sbshlzg up
the geo- hot pillows and m otriving things to
rw he is tempt a poor appetite- Dr Aber
w the nuet nethy and Rush and Hlosaek and Hase
oQ'ls, ate vey were great doel'ors, but the great.
wy lies, -ssi deotoe the worI( 4ever saw is an old
-M ow Christt* wmamu. Pea melt Do wet
" hot ass hboat the r-_m0
-n. anw esd is vw bothoeePit
Was there any one who eould 6ver so
touch a sore without hurting it? me
Where did Paul get the ink with whieh
to write his comforting epistle? Where The d
did David get the ink to write his rarely 4
comforting Psalms? Where did Jobhn are now
get the ink to write his comforting them w1
Rerelation? They got it out of their broideri
own tears. When a man has gone themsel
through the curriculum, and has taken they h
a course of dungeons and Imprison- with pe
ments and shipwrecks, he Is 4alified is a par
for the work of sympathy. for tbei
t When I began to preach, my sermons part, tb
on the subject of trouble were all And in
poetic and in semi-blank verse; but God ably th
I knocked the blank verse out of me tl bei
I long ago, and I have found out that I young.
n not comfort people except as I my- relize
if have been troubled. God make me upon t
I the son of consolation to the people! I about
d {ould rather be the means of soothing hair co
e one. perturbed spirit to-day than to upon t
dI play a tune that would set all the sons were
of mirth reeling in the dance. thing
0 I am an herb doctor. I put into the But I
n caldron the root out of dry ground, is betti
e without form of comeliness. Then I tifuL
Y put in the roses , lron and the lily the gir
ir of the vs.. 'W 3 put into the vivid
Scaldron! "o-d Im . (es from the fruity
d tree of life, nd thebranh that was quite
Is thrown into the efiderness marh with n
ie Then I pour in the tears of nor be
It Bethany and Galgotha; then I stir fine as
is them up. Then I kindle under the she ha
ie caldron a fire made out of the wood of she sh
it the cross, and one drop of that potion It mat
ir will cure the worst sickness that ever her no
et afflicted a human soul. Mary and sunkei
le Martha shall receive their Lazarus nostri
if from the tomb. The damsel shall ris have
And on the darkness shall break the may b
I morning, and God will wipe all tears may
he from their eyes. somet
a Jesus had enough trial to make him condil
ad sympathetic with all trial. The shortest able.
on verse in the Bible tells the story: that
er "Jesus went." The scar on the back so t
et- of l is either hand,the sear on the arch light
we of either foot, the row of scars along quick
of the line of the hair, will keep all a flo
ne Heaven thinking. Oh, that Great stron,
ity Weeper is just the one to silence all tion
ter earthly trouble, wipe out all stains of will
we earthlly grief. Gentle! Why His step when
ar- is softer than the step of the and 1
es; dew! It will not be a tyrant bidding wear
od you hush up your erying. It will be a her, i
ti! father who will take you on His left bears
be- arm, His facw beaming into yours. If a
ins while with the soft tips of the fingers stuff.
of the right hand He shall wipe away youti
yer all tears from your eyes. of 1s
irm Friends, if we could get any appreci- exee
I ation of what God has in preserve for who!
or us, it would make us so homesick weas
er we would be unfit for our everyday ing
un, work. I'rof. Leonard. formerly of and
the Iowa university, put in my hands a anyi
ere meteoric stone, a stone thrown off rali
and from some other world to this. How no
are, suggestive it was to me! And I have if a
ing to tell you the best representations we thin
b have of Heaven are only aerolites hers
the flung off from that worl which rolls dem
save on, bearing the multitudes of the re- time
out deemed. We analyze these aerolites, the
a and find the crystalizations of tear able
last No wonder, flung of from Heaven! ing
Shan "God shall wipe away all tears from day
en their eyes." she
Have you any appreciation of the of
ome good and glorious times your friends this
ean- are having in Heaven? How different mei
ihut itis when they get news there of a nea
nest- Christian's death from what it is heret deli
isin It is the difference between embarks- and
sked tion and coming into port. Every- and
lore- thing depends upon which side of the of
river you stand when you hear of a it
Wkes. Christian's death. If you stand on thr
this side of the river, you not
is or mourn that they go. If you to
esks stand on the other side of the river, Ha
re vyon rejoice that they come. Oh, the
it we difference between a funeral on earth
u do and a jubilee in Heaven-between 1
cenot requiem here and triumph there- Tr
ce parting here and reunion therel To- Tw
year. gether! Have you thought of it? They
are together. Not one of your depart- a
ather ed friends in one land and another in b
usin another land; but together, in differ- hO
slie. ent rooms of the same house-the m<
iness house of many mansions. Together! m
ung I never more appreciated that m
eam thought than when we laid away in
ther' her last slumber my sister Sarah. m
has Standing there in the village oe-ms
make tery, I looked around and said: '"There
away, is father, there is mother, there is
he grandfather, there is grandmother,
dththere are whole circles of kindred;"
t and I thought to.myself: "Together
ov in the grave-together in glory." I am
oved so impressed with the thought that
I do not think it is any fanatceIm 7
when some one is going from this
pathy. world to the next if you make them
pensa- the beh r of despatehes to youra
water friends o are gone, saying: "Give
tars my love to my parents, give my love
Sto my children, give my love to my old
e omrades who are in glory, and tell
a pros them I am trying to fight the good
manyfi Bght of faith, and I will join them af
laugh ter awhile." I believe the melage
p when will be delivered; and I believe it will
a they increase the gladness of those who are
ble we before the throne. Together are they, k
all their tears gone.
ske an My friends, take this good-cheer a
f age, home with you. These tears of bereave
n com- ment that course your cheek, and of -
ogh it pers9ecution, and of trial, are not al
ways to be ther. The motherly I
young hand of God will wipe them all I
sr babe. away. What is the use, on the way to I
et suchl a consummation -what is the use a
of fretting about anything? Oh, what I
he gos an exhilaration it ought tobe in Chris
al bhe tian work! See you the pinnaeles
tenagainst the sky? It is the city of oat
et God, and we are approahing it. Oh,
hdorlet us be busy in the days that reasls
for ms!
he bif I put this balsam on the wouds of
a 'clock your heart. Rejoice at the thought of
al what your departed frieads have got
o it up rid of, and that you have a prospeet of
Ia. Sh so soon malking your own esap Dear
dbrokeln cheerfully the ministry of tears, ad
exalt at the thought that soon it is to
rin all be ended.
Dd pour- here we shall arch up the heavy stret
skiwg up AndiO nd e mar at sJes fees.
a Aber- .LWhat the asn is to the solar sye
ad IHar te, Christ is to the great system of
h t truth. He is the oaftral t(ere aromad
ii an old which all other taths revolve. There
I Do we go~ out from Rhm siraes of truth
hee room oo tUh streV'.ame of $ *
Wbothegeit trlis~ti
KEEPING YOUNG. RELIGI
Wme May Retain Tneir YFethflsmltl -Ha
aTher W iL ffice a
The desirableness of keeping young public i
rarely crosses the mind of those who -The
are now young. They see others about God's
them who have lost their bloom, em- God's t
broidered their first wrinkles, smowed -D.
themselves under with white hair; but ost
they have always been surrounded scholar
with people older than themselves; it an sass
is a part of life, a feature of the world, at Corn
for these others to be old; but for their
part, they have always been young. etant,
And in some unexpressed way, prob- a year
ably the natural feeling of the immor gainin
tal being. they always expect to be Protes
young. Whether their expectation is W
realized depends almost altogether n Soul
upon themselves They think no more he we
about it, however, till the irnt gray Now h
hair comes like an admonishing ghost er fron
upon the scene. At seventeen they
were of the opinion that the first missio
thing in the world was beauty. rin
But at thirty-five they find it 513 ht
is better to be young than to be beau- 414
tiful. And it very often happens that missio
the girl who was quite ,beautiful, with
vivid color and sparkling eyes and the
fruity flesh and dimples, when not Bari
quite twenty, finds herself at forty tres
with none of these, and neither young h t
nor beautiful Yet 4 she were really hero
fine and fair at twenty, then at forty ton
she has a right to be fine and fair still; er
she should hardly have gone off at alL erabb
It matters far less than you ean make Chribb
r her now believe that her eyes may be Chris
I sunken a little, that the line from the isid
t nostril to the corner of the lip may uissi
have become marked, that the color I
Smay be less persistent, that the dimple.
a may show symptoms of becoming ehun
something deeper; under certain mont
a conditions all that i hardly notle- was
t able. If she has t the spring that
that used to mnd very motion, thae
k so that she moves now with as tat
h light a step, as erect a bearing, with as 189='
R quick a grace, holds her head still lihke -
| a flower atop of its stem, straight and will
it strong, yet without the least affects- thew
1 tion of juvenile frolicSlng ways, she sigui
t will give only the auggestie of youth ing i
P whenever she stirs If she goes slow thec
'e and lagging, with a stoe ld signs of of E
weariness, she will havsle offered time
a her, and it will be unders that she hut
ft bears a weight of years Beds it.
' If she dresses still in ~ itsand Lad;
rs stuffs that suit her best,: with ston
iy youthful frivolities, but with no sign such
of surrender to age, she will have the and
i- effect of still belonging to the foses ickc
or whose uniform she wears liut if she w
ek wears sad and dull colors, reliaqulsh- face
sy uing with reluctance last year'$ styles, a tl
of and with but little regard to sgles -
a anyway, she will be taken at her own nl*
of valuation. More still, a d of more val- wSh
3w ne than the other wa tis S 'a-d
ye if she still interests ui; ,. | ,
we things that interest y sns. t
es herself from the criti `m
ils demnatory manner wbieh S*
re times give to one's view of tIe, a
es, the young still find het com
rS. able, she not only afeets others
en! ing young, but feels at ffty .areely
om day older than ever. If, meanwhile,
she has taken also to heart a practice qui
the of seeing only the brighter side of his
ads things, of forgetting herself and re- -
ent membering others, of looking into the the
fa next life as into a further stage of the nei
rel delights of this, she has filled her life the
a- and her soul with pity and compassion -
try- and tenderness, with love of God and thi
the of her fellow-being--age, even when pa
'f a it brings white hair, and withered mi
on throat, and dro; ping cheek, will seem Ii
you not to have any trail of eld, but rather
you to be a different and beautiful youth. ev'
r, Harper's Bazar.
the th
aits of Gause fr smmer. B
reen ats of gauze and light materials
e- are in great demand in warm days. ab
To- They have a cool summery appearance to
which even the lace straws can not ti
e aspire to. It is a comparatively easy W
rin matter to make one of these alluring
fifer bonnets-so simple, in fact, that there t
-the is a possibility of their becoming com- t
the mon. The plaited null for the brim
thrt may be bought by the yard. This
y varies in price from twelve cents to
y twenty-five cents per yard, and is
measured straight Two and a bill
me yards is enough to make a wide brin.
r Three concentric eireular wires ie
tir held in place by about six others, whichb
radiate from the center like the spokes
red of a wheel. When the brim is made
h athe hat is practically done, and all that
a is then necessary is two and a half
h yards of straw for a Tam O'~hanter
i crown The straw maybeof any color
th desired, but green is a favorite. The
e feathers to stand up at the side of the
our crown where the brim is slightly
ive rolled, a small spray beneath the brim 1
l in front, where the brim turns almost
4 old straight up, and a smart bow of ribbon
or some aigrettes are sufficient trim
m ning.-St Louis Republic.
a Charit ef *speeh.
twi Charity of speech is as divine a thing
hoare as charity of action. To judge no one
tte, harshly, to misc.nceive no mean's mo
tives, ~o believe things are as they
-c-eer seem t be until they are proved other
rvre. wise, to temper judgment with mercy
-ad of -surely this is quite as good asto
ot al- build uv churches, establish asylurms
therlyand found colleges. Unkind words do
' all asmuchharm as unkd deeds. Many
•a to a heart has been wounded beyond
hse cure, many a repautation has been
what stabbed to dearth by a few little words
Chris. There is a charity which consists in
aales withholding words, in keeping bek
of our harsh judgments, in abstaining from
t Oh, speesh, if to speak is to condemn
rmain Such charity heatrs the tale of sleander,
but does'not reLpeat it; listens is .1
ends of leace, but forbears comment: then
agh o locks the unpleasant seret up in the
vs got very depths of the heart. Silene can
edofstill rumor; itli speech that keeps a
ear story alive sad lends it vlgor.--Detroit
Fre and e Pre _
itito is Cto Us 's f A5555
iron ou th" goes mid the young wife
of coml'erelsl +lavelsr.
"li lifeis insud isn't itry asked
stea of her friend.
rdYes, my dear, it Is."
"Then I dc't sme what you me -
Soh swthWbdmm~ t~k~L ~~
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.
-Kansas has twenty women holding
office as county superintendet~t of
public instruction.
-The world has often got rid of
God's man, but it has never get rid of
God's truth.-Ram's Horn.
-Dr. Ernst Ritter, one of the fore
most of the younger mathema"asl
scholars of Germany, has been elected
an assistant professor of mathematics
at Cornell.
-Le Signal, the only French Prot
estant daily journal, has now attained
a year of existence, and is steadily
gaining support among the Fsaed
Protestant population.
--When a certain medical missionary
in South China first went to hisnation,
he was called the "foreign devil."
Now he is known as the diangelic he
er from beyond the seas."
--Seven hundred and eleven female
missionaries are at work in India.
t During the last year these visited 40,
513 heathen families and instructed
t62,414 heathen girls in the different
mission schools
d -While recently on a tomur among
,t the missions of the Chinese mpire, r.
SBarin-Gould was impressed by the
great innueqco of medical work, the
heroism of the women and the devl
tion of many of the converts"
-hDuring the past year twenty teach
L ers have been supplied for a mission
eabbath school by the Lincoln Park
Christian Endeavor soilety, of Chicago,
Sand 3100 has been given for foreign
missions $100 for home misions sand
3$300for city missions.
-e -The amount raised by the Free
e church of Scotland during the twelv
imonths which ended HMarch 31 last
a was £003,00. This amount Is less than
ithat raised during the preceding
twelve months by £62,39, and less than
that for the corresponding period of
os 189 -'93 by £42,747.
red-Lord Selborne drew an his own
d will and left some money to St. Mat
a thew's church. Blackmoor, in rather
e signifcant terms, for, "for maintail
th ing divine service therein aecording to
Sthe order and principle of the Church
of of England, whether eoanected for the
ed time withthhe state as an established
he church or not."
it -The Franenkirche (church of Our
ed Lady), at Dresden, it built entire of
oth, stone, even to the dome, which s of
gn such solid construction that the shls
the and balls directed agaist it by Freder
es ick the Great, during the seven ysrs
she war, in 1700, rebonaded froms its sr
sh- face. The inside is fitted *p jstm
les,a theater, wt
ris -The a
val- was
mna, and o
tthe re s
ep nes.b w
rsly i
ilthan mee,
tice qualit
[ ere- -Ex
the there in
the eses. w
lif, than met
aion -Mist
and the bek
then pantry ed
ered strewn with
seem not eBits
ther -e-Is pot
dth. -ever befen
(thomeasured; theggrhn
that Ib
Bits
rias erowns of e
days shousted the
rance follow? '
not the back of
SeasyWonder.
aring -la ther nT (
there the country gien him ome ed
com weak strewn with
brim -1`o, not exactl
ad is -Every blade of
l -Why? Tra mp--CO then ye ole'p
bri made another bsr' o' eJder. Ut
" t oslyYou sit on your hoe
who happened to be of royal blood, to
rba veten general who was somewhat
bpo the storms anded their old warrior, w-t
a grimmiather Thins be-Trausep ( my if
tht 've been ading calves himo tohe siaMg-h
h alt weak toodr)--y, MisLate-"r, it's wpt y,"
oanter hd"'tt youhd on e mon repped. thatn
olor closing speech of yours at e epen-o'
mwouded have made any diffcl eree." "It
have been t eep wh
eightly "Yo sit on yrI'orv e have stood e
obrim bungtcher," said pTutter- Miang suppoe
m gboat~dho hanppened to he of rvel blodf to
tr fmit, suddenly, whr It is highly co.obs
blug, I hpoduld the oldut p MIOr,~ thw
sa gimarms around youris bcs all myl .b
Sthint i've kento ldinook so far theo ed.-Bltok *
' ps m a - ame too LatChanged.-t "DoI rt pity
yous the mid .t t bhruh r toh ha is ofl s
daughter, tht yooooid't hage msad th·t
mer ocy ein speech of d orst an ths opes
adrsto ngots tohe c e I don'vr w that ite
Manyouth have en leep when tb idot es
beyonsd crme in and 'wave haveim stood oe
odgeen eho."-Washinton thtabMt
lword y -ysang T1ttr-Miss Car4, snppon
)g ymo t aga ad havig nbred maslf up to
exetyinesaitrf gaSn13 *** thaogh
