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THE BANNER=DEAY MAY 26 1900. AT VOL. XIII. LAKE PROVIDENCE EAST CARROLL PARISH, LA., SATUR MAY 26, - . . iT A TTTr mr fI I weater that week, and he TALAG SERON , l seOt parent.o .. PRISONER OF- WAR. on, "o - do then "No rent again this month? This is You are the third time it has happened within you arn the half-year. I'll go there myself and selfish get the money, or I'll know the reason it I we why." tle boy Matthew Deane was in particularly a corn bad humor this raw December morn- good." Ing. Everything had gone wrong. Mr. I Stocks had fallen when they ought to getting have risen-his clerk had tipped over utmost the inkstand on his special and pecul- "But far heap of paper-the fire obstinate- here a ly refused to burn in the grate-in and gi' short, nothing went right, and Mr. my aur Deane was consequently and corre- to pay spondingly cross, will ye "Jenkins!" promla "Yes, sir." "I c' 'Go to the Widow Clarkson's, and terms, tell her I shat be there in halt an hour "Ver and expect c fidently-mind, Jenkins Miss -confidently to receive that rent pocket money. Or I shall feel myself obliged to her to resort to xtreme measures. You Mr. I understand, nkins?" knocks "Certainly, ir." an Inv "Then don stand there starin' like fact t an idiot," snarled Mr. Deane, in a womal sudden burst of irritation, and Jenkins "Mil disappeared like a shot. us ter Just half an hour afterward Mat- that d thew Deane brushed the brown hair "Mr Suet sprinkled with gray from his "I s square yet no unkindly brow. Put- borho ting on his fur-lined overcoat he "Ve walked into the chilly-winter air fully please determined, figuratively, to annihilate She the defaulting Widow Clarkson. began It was a dwarfish little red brick down, house which appeared originally to watch have aspired to two-storyhood lot, taintl but cramped by circumstances, had was v settled down into a story and a half, so ob but the windows shone like Brazilian "MI pebbles, and the doorsteps were worn "811 by much scouring. Neither of these 'T circumstances, however, did Mr. Deane "I remark as he pulled the glittering I brass doorknob and strode into Mrs. lunch Clarkson's neat parlor. "I There was a small fire-very small, of ye as ift every lump of anthracite was "Bi hoarded in the stove, and at a table "Ai with writing implements before her sat "Ai a ypung lady whom Mr. Deane at once sort recognized as Mrs. Clarkson's niece, "Ni Miss Olive Mellen. She was not dis- Ho agreeable to look upon, though you was. gray and "I "It able He roon "H do?" "I 01 with Deal won you. we a Ing, M ous tion whih eyes prol "I HAVE CALLED TO SEE YOUR "I AUNT." the would never have thought of classing fice. her among the beauties, with shining "1 black hair, blue, long-lashed eyes, and tart a very pretty mouth, hiding teeth like rice kernels, so white were they. * De Miss Mellen rose with a polite nod, on which was grimly reciprocated by Mr. hin Deane. hum "I have called to see your aunt,Miss 'I Mellen." C "I know it, sir, but as I am aware of he her timid temperament, I sent her ise, away. I prefer to deal with you my- car self." eni Mr. Deane started-the cool audacity An of the damsel in gray, with scarlet the ribbons in her hair, rather astonished set him. "I suppose the money is ready?" Ne "No, sir, it is not." pu "Then, Miss Olive, pardon me, I must peak -ainly. I shall send an oficer th here twi afternoon to put a valuation on the turniture, and-o" th "You will do nothing of the kind, ha Olive's cheek had reddened and her "yea flashed portentously. Mr. Deane turned toward the door, but ere he w knew what she was doing, Olive had hr walked quietly across the room, locked y the door, and taken out the key-then It the resumed her seat. "What does this mean?" ejaculated a the astonished "prisoner of war." p "It means, sir, that you will now be obliged to consider the question," said Olive. "Obliged?" c "Yee-you will hardly jump out of the window, and there is no other method of egress unless you choose to go up the chimney. Now, then, Mr. Deane, will you tell me if you-a Chris tian man in the nineteenth century intend to sell a poor widow's furniture because she ais not able to pay your rent? Listen, sir!" Mr. Deane opened his mouth to re monsatrate,but Olive enforced oher words pith a very emphatic little stamp ofT the foot, and be was, as it were, ktricken dumb. "You are what the world calls a shares, bonds and mortgagee-who knows what? My aunt has nothing; I support her by copying. Non, ia this case be carried into a court of law. myi poor aling aunt will be a aswerer you would emerge unscathed and prof iting. You are not a bad man, Mr. Deane; you have a great many noble tnalitles, and I like you for them." color rose to his cheek-it was not dis agreeable to be told by a pretty young girl that site liked him. on any terms. yet she had indulged in pretty plain "DH L~In bare b ke'' b went on, "of your doing kind actions when BERNi you were in the humor of it You can do them, and you shall in this instance. You are cross this morning-you know rAMOU 1 you are! Hush! no excuse; you are W A selfish and irritable and overbearing. D If I were your mother, and you a lit tle boy, I should certainly put you in ' Y a corner until you promised to be Mad i good." over Mr. Deane smiled, although he wa.s Hs Or o getting angry. Olive went on with the r utmost composure. Berna "But as it is, I shall only keep you Son boo here a prisoner until you have behaved, orded n and given me your word not to annoy the fore my aunt again for rent until she is able world. to pay you. Then, and not until then, w an will you receive your money. Do you lace it promise? Yes or no?" aunobi "I certainly shall agree to no such is rich d terms," said Mr. Deane, tartly. a to ir "Very well, sir; I can wait." fre is Miss Mellen deposited the key in the m it pocket of her gray dress and sat downtand 'd to her copying. Had she been a man, another )u Mr. Deane would probably have grown knocked her down; as it was, she wore Mr. Qu an invisible armor of power in the very head of ce fact that she was a fragile, slight Mr. a woman, id she knew it. scholar as "Miss *live," he said, sternly, "let rharact us terminate this m mery. Unlock est mei Lt- that door!" ' custom ir "Mr. Deane, I will t!" land, b Lis "I shall shout and arm the neigh- aified it- borhood, then, or cal a policeman." collect( he "Very well, Mr. De e; do so, if you and po [ly please." eat. I Lte She dipped her pen in the ink and the ing began on a fresh page. Matthew sat would ck down, puzzled and discomfited, and as an to watched the long-lashed eyes and poundi ot, faintly tinged cheek of his keeper. She It w ad was very pretty-what a pity she was died m lf, so obstinate! the faz an "Miss Olive!" Wm. I irn "Sir?" forethe "se "The clock has just struck 12." tor or ne "I heard it." all of .ng "I should like to go out and get some able p rs. lunch." dilly c "I am sorry that that luxury is out and tl all, of your power." and pi ras "But I'm confounded hungry." hold ble "Are you?" An sat "And I'm not going to stand thison ace sort of thing any longer." may 1 ice, "No?" Chmca iis- How provokingly nonchalant she rou was. Mr. Deane eyed the pocket of the plete gray dress greedily, and walked up poetic and down the room pettishly. one ca "I have an appointment at 1." "Indeed! What a pity you will be un able to keep it!" He took another turn across the room. Olive looked up with a smile. "Well, are you ready to promise?" "Hang it, yes! What else can I do?" "You promise?" "I do, because I can't help myself." Olive drew the key from her pocket with softened eyes. "You have made me very happy, Mr. Deane. I dare say you think me un womanly and unfeminine, but indeed you. do not know to what extremities we are driven by poverty. Good-morn ing, sir." Mr. Deane sallied forth with a curi ous complication of thoughts and emo tions struggling through his brain, in which gray dresses, long-lashed blue eyes and scarlet ribbons played a prominent part. 3UR "Did you get the money, sir?" asked the clerk, when he walked into the of ising flee. ning "Mind your business, sir," was the and tart response. like "I pity her husband," thought Mr. . Deane, as he turned the papers over nod, on his desk. "How she will henpeck Mr. him! By the way, I wonder who her husband will be?" ,Miss The next day he called at the Widow Clarkson's to assure Miss Mellen that re of he had no idea of breaking his prom her ise, and the next but one after that he my- came to tell the young lady she need entertain no doubt of his integrity. lacity And the next week he dropped in on earlet them with no particular errand to ished serve as an excuse! "When shall we be married, Olive? Next month, dearest? Do not let us put it off later." must "I have no wishes but yours, Mat ofier thew." ration "Really, Miss Olive Mellen, to hear that meek tone one would suppose you kind, had never locked me up here and tyr annized over me as a jailer." id her Olive burst into a merry laugh. Deane "You dear old Matthew; I give youoc ire he warning beforehand that I mean to coi e had have my own way in everything. Do wo locked you wish to recede from your bargaint hes -then It is not too late yet" sa No, Matthew Deane didn't; he had pul ulated a vague idea that it would be very ma pleasant to be henpecked by Olivel Th iow be Lu ," said very Definite. Mrs. Sewell, who Is the head of s P classical school for girls in Indianap out of oils, could contribute a readable sequel sd other to English as phe is taught, for the be Dose to pupils in a girls' classical school are wl , Mr. not above the amusing blunders which we r- characterize the efforts of their young l rtury- sisters in the public schools. On one by yyiture occasion Mrs. Sewell was instructing O o a clasas in physics. Force was the sub- I to re- ject, and she made plain to the girls h words the difference between centrifugal and ap or centripetal force. "Centrifugal," said * t wre, Mrs. Sewell, "is a force whose dfrectior is from the center and centripetal is a u :llss a force whose direction is toward the rn rows center. Do you all understand that?" railroad The class chorused assent. "Now, wilE s- who some girl give me an illustration?~R thing; I continued Mrs. Sewell. "The domesutc i this virtues are centripetal," replied a smnal ' law, my girl, "because they keep a man in the ferer-- center of his home, and a centrltugaI ad prof- force i -io-well, a saloon i a ceatri. an , Mr. fugal force."-Philadelphis Post y noble I - -- them." * r rosstse. e d in- She (in affright)-"Oh, Tom, wh3 nn t The do you make mich awtlfaea atf - yu dis He (contrltelyl)-"I can't help it, dear y young tm eMyegiases are falling of and y plaiterms: don't want to let go of your hands"- - i en Stray str5s. BERNARD QUARITCH. 'o chic frAMOUS LONDON BOOKMAN A he WORLD CHARACTER. Ion hea mil eUleved in the lionesty of Mea and pla e Made It Pay-Known to Scholars all ant Over the Civil red World - Scholars I Hia rliends. Bernard Quaritch, the eminent Lon u Ion book dealer, whose death was re- die Sorded recently, was unquestionably set 7 the foremost man of his line in the the world. He was born in Prussia in far ' 1819, and went to London in 1842. His place in Piccadilly is as modest and as unobtrusive exteriorly as its interior is rich in all the treasures that are lear to the heart of him who loves the "red morocco's shine." The name will m stand upon. the door in the future, for n another generation of Quaritches has re grown up around the old collector, and ri Mr. Quaritch's son has been the real ry bead of the house for some time. hi Mr. Quaritch's association with scholars and his own natural high let character made him one of the courtli ek set men in Europe. His letters to his customers-who are in every civilised land, by the way-were models of dig :h-ified style and grace. The poorest collector received the same considerate on and polished attention as the wealthi est. It was Mr. Quaritch's boast that nd the inquiry for a book worth a shilling sat would be treated as conscientiously ,nd as an order for one worth a thousand nd pounds. the It was Bernard Quaritch who han- e rae died most of the books that came from v the famous Kelmscott press of the late Winm. Morris. Through his agency and a forethought many an American collec-. A tor owes his possession of several or t all of these superb and now very valu- I me able publications. The sage of Picca- i dilly could borrow any book in Europe t out and the trust placed in his judgment and perfect honesty has been a house- 1 hold word for scores of years. An instance of Mr. Quaritch's devo- I tion to the interests of his customers I may be cited in the experience of a Chicago collector who desired to com th plete a set of editions of a certain poetical work. All his collection was one copy of one edition. He wrote to Piccadilly asking Mr. Quaritch for the rzccaCuz'y asai 6 in,. ýY· i ý. . t ------5 ela cob ena am' at kni "O vo iit nol nol ba' An the rat Iat tbý In' Or pa al HI be III In lit w m a' 9' q If If i1 a c II t 9 1 BERNARD QUARITCH. book. The answer came back that no m copy was to be had, but that a watch m would be kept for one. No more was IL heard from Quaritch for a year. Then Ci same a note to the effect that he had re purchased the book and had shipped by hi mail, and not a word said about price. re The bill came along six months later! T And this collector was practically un- ri known to the famous London book- di 1pafl. h Quaritch's catalogues are a liberal A Ieducation in themselves. They may si be studied with profit by anyone B [whose knowledge of books is not b ,mniscient quite. Almost every branch of art and polite literature is covered by them in their description of the C' books Quaritch has handled or sold t( The price of this catalogue is very h high and a copy is a rarity in itself. h d Kr. Quaritch not only knew the out- p d side of books, but he knew their con- h ients too. His personal manner was v au courtly as his letters, and he seem- t ad never able to forgive the ignorance 1 t. f rich men who bought rare books C LE lust because they were rare. No one v ., without taste could be a bookman, for t c Quaritch. But of such be did culti- " rate the acquaintance. ci n Chis IM15btr'd Wit. I i The Chinese minister at Washing on, Wu Ting Fang, has achieved a I reputation for ready wit. A little ý while ago there was a quiet dinner, in 1 the course of which it Ins up to the Sminiaster to speak. He, began with a Spelimentary allusion to American Swayse but said there are a few things about Oriental civilization superior to our own. There hi been some beast f ly weather that week, and he turned to Willis Moore, the weather bureau chief, who sat close by. "For instance," A he said, fiercely, "we in China would SUI long ago have cut off this young man's head." It dazed the company for a minute, but they soon grasped the Su ud playful allusion to the weather maker, ll and roundly greeted the remark. AMERICAN WITH BOERS. Di in- Duncan N. Hood, an American sol- Dt re- dier and a graduate of West Point, is p ,ly serving as a commissioned officer in he the Boer army. Hood is a son of the VI! in famous Gen. Hood. He attended RI v its eh ad be or tc are be the hi 0ill o1 for Il has at and eal rith g igh b Atli- b his In tIed lig- t rest t and DUNCAN N. HOOD. han- erview Military Academy, where he rom was prepared for West Point. late Duncan was adopted by John Morris and of New Jersey, who educated him. Ilec-, After graduation Hood traveled d or through South America, Central Amer ralu- ica and Mexico. Then he resigned his Icca- position as second lieutenant and took rope up the study of mining engineering in nent Columbia College. When the war be )use- tween the United States and Spain broke out he promptly dropped studies levo- and speculation and went at once to mere his native state, Louisiana. He was of a the firt to suggest to President Mc' com- Kinley the idea of immune regiments rtain for service in Cuba ,and was called to was Washington to discuss the idea. The ite to result was that Mr. Hood was com -- . -.... - .. nlnnn of nne of the refi. ments. It happened that this regi- s1 ment saw no active service in Cuba. il Last July, after being mustered out, P' Col. Hood returned to New York and , resumed his studies. The fact that he b had not seen actual fighting left him g restless to know what battle meant. S Then came the trouble in South Af- a rica, and the young soldier, again ri dropping his books and putting aside his ambition in civil life, left for South 11 Africa just before war began. His c services were eagerly accepted by the c Boers. Tricked Peter the Great. Peter the Great was once very neatly s caught in a trap by a jester attached to the court. The jester was noted for I his cleverness in geting himself and his friends out of difficulties. It hap pened one day that a cousin of his t had incurred the czar's displeasure, and was about to be executed. The jester, therefore, presented himself before his a imperial master to beg for his reprieve. a On seeing him approach the czar, di d vining his errand, cried: "It is no good r to come here; I swear I will not grant what you are going to ask." Immedi ately the jester went down on his knees, saying: ."I beseech your im pertal highness to put that scamp cousin of mine to death." The czar, a thus caught in his own trap, could e only laugh and pardon the condemned a mall. a First-class passengers in England n have increased only 10 per cent in 10 a years, while the nuniber of the third o class passengers has increased 41 per - cent TALMAGE SERMON. for eae p _ _ But ao d SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE ABLF DI. words in rel with a VINE. they are a bath-sec !e Subjects The Home Life-It Potnts Out a d brig r, the Duty of Parents and Admonishes ways so the Children-Don't Stuff the Young had to g People With Religion. They gel [Copyright 19e0.1 comes it WAsxINOTOr, D. C.-This discourse of encount Dr. Talmage will interest young men, while marks o it is full of advice and encouragement to some i s I parents who are trying to bring up their The mat in children aright; text, Proverbs x., 1, "A ing and wise son marketh a glad father, but a fool- must be is Ish son is the heaviness of his mother. hold tilt V- In this graphic way Solomon sets forth truthful the idea that the good or evil behavior of it delai children blesses or blights the parental theybe heart. I know there are persons who seem Some to have no especial interest in the welfare this, an of their children. The father says: "My at and boy must take the risks I took in life, f There 1 he turns out well, all right. It he turns storm 1 out ill, he will have to bear the conse- Bettert quences. He has the same chance that I ment, it had. He must take care of himself." A ting at shepherd might just as well thrust a lamb stroyed Into a den of lions and say, "Little lamb, There take care of yourself." someti Nearly all the brute creation are kind surroul enough to look after their young. I was castle going through a woods, and 1 heard a ward l shrill cry in a nest. I climbed up to the castle bird's nest, and I found that the old shoves bird had left the brood to starve. But that door. Is a very rare occurrence. Generally asbrd and th will pick your eyes out rather than surren- undere der her young to your keeping or your is not touch. & lion will rend you" if you come people too near the whelps. Even the barnyard tatione fowl, with its clumsy foot and hfavy wing, Oh, 1 will come at you if you approach its young styles too nearly, and God certainly intended to Do yoa have fathers and mothers as kind as the to the brutes. one gr Christ comes through all our households a fashl to-day, and Ile says: "You take care of clean the bodles of your ch!!:ten and the minds drunk of your children. What are you doing for the coi he their immortal souls?" I read of a ship ment. that foundered. A life-boat was launched. Into st rl Many of the passengers were In the waters, and he A mother, with one hand beating the wave me?" t. and theother hand holding her little child hotel sled out toward the lifeboat, cried out, "dave young my child!" And that impassioned cry is and fa ýer- the one that finds an echo in every paren- the bc his tal heart in this land to-day. "Save my is in ook cLildl" That man out there says: "I have grees! Sin fought my own way through life, I have got best t along tolerably well, the worli has buffeted away, be- me, and I have h d many a hard struggle. In his ain It don't make much difference what hap- hips, dies pens to me, but save my chlldl" You see glasse I have a subject of stupendous import, and The s to I am going, as God may help me, to show the ft was the cause of parental solicitude and then etern Mc- the alleviations of that solicitude. cheet The first cause of parental solicitude, I fiery enthink, arises from the imperfection of Two d to parents on their own part. We all some- are s The how want our children to avoid our faults, lord' We hore that if we have any excellences wake Om they will copy them. But the probability says regi' is they will copy our faults and omit our ush excellenccs. Children are very apt to be they echoes of the parental life. Some one the meets a lad in the back street, finds him dren smoking and says: "Why, I am astonished histe at yout What would your father say it be dissi knew this? Where did you get that cigar?" nue I "Oh, I picked it up on the street." "What the I would your father say and your mother say So if they knew this?" "Oh," he replies,"that's S0mi nothing. My father smokest" There is roon not one of us to-day who would like to time have our children copy all our examples. soedi And that is the cause of the solicitude on lug I the part of all of us. We have so many edu< faults we do not want them copied and sign stereotyped in the lives and characters of com those who come after us. hon The solicitude arises from our conscious opel Insufficiency and unwisdom of discipline. has Out of twenty parents there may be one shat parent who understands how thoroughly nigi and skillfully to discipline; perhaps not part more than one out of twenty. We, nearly burl all of us, err on one side or on the other. Los Here is a father who says, "I am going to fam bring up my children right; my sons shall lain know nothing but religion; shall see noth- thai Ing but religion, and hear nothing but re- ligt ligion." Tbey are routed out at 6 o'clock pla; in the morning t3 recite the Ten Com- lntc mandments. They are awakened up from of the sofa on Sunday night to recite the the Westminster Catechism. Their bedroom ha! walls are covered with religious pictures T and quotations of Scripture, and when the the boy looks for the day of the month he des looks for it in a religious almanac. It a hat minister comes to the house, he is re- cod quested to take the boy aside and tell him blo what a great sinner he is. It is religion gre morning, noon and night. vas Time passes on, and the parents are wait- tlo ing for the return of the son at night. It is 9 o'clock, it is 10 o'loek, it is 11 o'clock, sta it is 12 o'clock, it is half-past 19 o'cloik. to Then they hear a rattling of the night key, no, and George comes in and hastens upstairs Ba lest he be accosted. His father says, to "George, where ave you been?" He says, rot "I have been out." Yes, he has been out De and he has been down. and he has started it on the broadroad to ruin for this life and be ruin for the life to come, and the fat her says to his wife, "Mother, the Ten C m mandments are a failure; no use of West minster Catechibsm; I have done my very th best for that boy; just see how he has et turned out." Ah, my friend, you stuffed ch that boy with religion; you had no sym- th pathey with innocent hilarities; you had be no common sense. A man at mlife said lt to me, "I haven't mush desire~ for religion; he my father was as good aman as ever lived, uc but he jammed religion down my throat be when I was a boy until I got diagnusted ct with it,.and I h:aven't wanted any of it t since." That father erred on one side. 5 regl- Then the disclpline is an entire failure it C uba in man) households because the father d ed out, pulldone way an the mother pulls the rk and other way. The father says, "My son, I Stold you if l ever found you guiatlty of false that he hood again I would chastise you, and I am t him going to keep my promise." The mother b meant. says: "Don't! Let him off this time." w A father says, "I have seen so many that o uth Af- make mistake by too great severity in tlhe again rearing of their children. Now, I will let g aside my boy do as he pleases. Heu shall have el Ifull swnlog. Here, my son, are tickets to " r routh the theatre and opera. If you want to play o i. His cards, do so; if you don't want to play 0 by the cards, youneed not to play them. Go when you want and come back when you want to. Have a good time. Go it!" Give t a boy plenty of money and ask him not e what he does with it, and you pay his way yneatl straight to perdition. But aft r awhile the lad thinks he ought to'have a still C ttached larger supply. He has been treated, and eoted o hie must treat. He must have wine sup l and pers. There are larger and larger ex ehap- te awhile one day a messenger from ao his the bank over the way calls in and says to andthe father of the household of whbch I am ure, speasking, "The offiters of the bank would ik jester, like to.have you step over a minute." The store his father steps over, and the bank officer reprievesays, "'Is that your check?" "No" he says; "that is not my cheek. I nevermade caar, d1- an 'H' in that way; I never put a curl to ng00d the '¥' in that way, That is not my Lo t grant rin That ls not my signature. That is a counterfeit. send for the police." "SImmedi- topl" says the bank omeer. "Your son on hIs wrote that." or im- Now the father and mother are waiting for the son to come home at night. It is Scamp 12 o'elock it is half-past 12 o'clock, it is 1 ehe czar, o'clock. The son comes through the hall p, could way. The father says: "My son, what does all this mean? I gave you every op 'd portunity. I gave you all the money you wanted, and here in my old days I find that you have becomne a spendthrift, a libertine andn a sot." The son says: "Now, father, gland what isthe use of your talkoing that way? ent in 10 You told me to go it, and 1 just took your he third- suggestiona." And so to strike the maedium b4petween severity and too great leniency, to strike the happy maeiluen between the two andtrain our children for God and for heaven, 1s the anxiety for ettry intes U1r lgent parent. But for the most part the children that live sometimes get cross and pick up bad words in the street or are disposed to quar* D Mc rel with brother or sister and bhow that they are wicked. You see them in the Sab bath-school class. They are so sunshiny Don Ca a id bright you would think they were al ways so, but the mother looking over at them remembers what an awful time she had to get them ready. Time passes on. Be They get considerably older, and the son First DE comes in from the street from a pugilistie Second encounter bearing on his appearance the Third D marks of defeat, or the daughter practices Fourth some little deception in the household. Fifth Di r The mother says, "[ can't always be scold- Sifth D ing and fretting and finding fault, but this - must be stopped." So in many a house hold there is the sign of sin,the sign of the I truthfulness of what the Bible says whet f it declares, "They go astray as soon as Morphy 1 they be born, speakilung lies." Robt. I a Some go to work and try fto correct all John 1'. e this, and the boy is picked at and picked Milton y at and picked at. That always is ruinous. A. V. F Lt There is more help in one good thunder W. W. a5 storm than in five days or co!d drisle J. V. Ci f- Better the old fashioned style of chastise Leon J I ment, it that be necessary, than the fret. Leon J A ting and the scolding which have dq J. 8. L+ .b stroyed so many. Alien J b, There is also a cause of great sollcltudel sometimes because our young people are d surrounded by so many temptations. A " scastle may not be taken by a straightfor. a ward siege, but suppose thq e be inside thi is castle an enemy, and In the night he " Id shoves back the bolt and swings open the " at door. Our young folks have foes without rd and they have foes within. Who does not n- understand it? Who Is the man here whc " or is not aware of the fact that the younn ne people of this day have tremendous temp. rd tatlons? g, Oh, bow many traps set for the young Sg Styles of temptation just suited to them. to Do you suppose that a man who went cleat he to the depths of dissipation went down in one great pluneo? Oh, nol At first it was ds a fashionable hotel. Marble floor. Noun of clean pictures behind the counter. Nc ds drunkeu hiccough while they drink, bat or the click o cout glass to the elegant senti ip ment. You ask that young man now to go d. into some low restaurant and get a drink. r. and he would say, "Do you mean to insult ye me?" But the fashionable and the elegant lid hotel is not always close by, and now the ive young man is on the down grade. Farther isand farther down ntil he has about struck in- the bottom of the depths of ruin. Now he my is in the low restaurant. The cards sc IrV greasy you can hardly tell who has tilhe Rot best Land. Gambling for drinks. Shuffle ed away, shuffle away. The landlord stands leh. in his short sleeves, with his bands on his p- hips, waiting for an order to fill up the s see glasses." Ind The clock strikes twelve-the tolling ofi ow te funeral bell of a soul. The breath of e hen eternal woo flushes in t'iat young man's S cheeks. In the jets of the gaslight the S o, I fiery tongue of the worm that never dies. of Two o'clock in the morning, and now they ' a- are sound asleep in their chairs. Land- " Its, lord comes around and says "mWake up, " Ces wake upl Time to shut upl" "\V hatl" e ity says the young man. "Time to shut upS' e our Push them all out into the night air. ow be they are going home. Golng homel Let " one the wife crouch in the corner and the chil him dren hide under the bed. What was the " shed history of that young man? He began his " I e dissipations in the barroom of a Fifth ave " nue hotel and completed his damnation in *1 That the lowest grogshop. !say Sometimes sin does not halt in that way, rat's Sometimes sin even comes to the dr:awing a is room. Tihers are leprous hearts some l to times admitted in the highest circles of . society. He is so elegant, he s so bewitch el on ug in his manner, he is so refined, he Is so any educated, no one suspects the sinful de and sign, but after a while the talons of death rs of come forth. What is the matter with that house? The front windows have not been a ion s open for six months or a year. A shadow Il ines. has come down on that domestic hearth, a one shadow thicker than one woven of mid ghly night and hurricane. The agony of that not parent makes him say, "Oh, I wish I had early burled my children when they were small" ther. Loss ot property? No. Death in the agto family? No. Madness? No. Soma -il. shall lain, kid gloved and diamonded, tilted soth- that cup of domestic bliss until the sun t re- light struck it, and all the rainbows clock played around the rim and then dashed it Ca Com- into desolation and woe, until the harpies from of darkness clapped their hands and all athe the voices of the pit uttered a loud "Hat ms room hal" tutes The statistic has never been made up in a tile these great cities of how many have been .th Ie destroyed and how many beautiful homes Ia have been overthrown. If the statistic Is re could be presented, it would freeze your 1 him blood in solid cake at your heart. Our lan Ion great cities are full of temptations, and to B. vast multitudes of parents these tempts wait. tions become a matter of great soliritude. rlt It Begin early with your children. You 'Bp lock, stand on the banks of a rlnv r and you try loke, to change its course. It has been rolling takeynow for 100 miles. You cannot change it. Bst out just go to the source of that river, go e says, to where the water just drips down on the says, rock. Then with your knife make a chan d nel this way and a channel that way. and it will takae it. Come out and stand on the of e and baks of your child's life when it is thirty e t e is too latel It is too late Go far Srvev ther up at the source of life and near Shas t the mother's heart, where the ufed character starts, and try to ttke it in Sym- the right direction. But, oh, my friend, bahad he careful to make a line, a distinct e sid line between innocent hilarity on the one ligion; hand and vicious hilarity on the other. Do jed, not think your children are going to ruin troat because tney hnake a racket, Al healthy usted children make a racket. Buot do not laugh ,o it at your child's sin because it is smart. II eyou do, you will cry after aWhle tbecause tlre it is rmalicious. Remember it is what you ther do more than what you say that is going is the to affect your children. Do yon suppose son, t Noah would have got his famly to go Into false- the ark If he staid out? No. His sons Id I am would have said. "I am not going into the boat; there's something wrong; father , won't go in; If father stays out, I'll stay nythat out." ileAre all your children safle? I krnow it is a II have stupendous question to ask, bat I must ket to ask it. Are all your children safe? A I toplay mother, when the house was on fire, got to play oUt the household goods, mafny articles orf , Go beautiful furniture, but forgot to ask till too late,"Are the children safe?" When eeththe elements are melting with fervent heat Sand Goda shadh burn the world up and the his way cry of "First Firel" shall resound amid awhile the mouintains and the valleys, wilt your a still children be safe? sd and wonderif the subject strikes a ehord i! the heart of any man who had Christian ne s parentage, but has not lived as he ought? God brought yon here this morning to Sfrom have your memory revived, Did you have o Christian ancestry? "Oh, yell" says one e Iman. "If there ever was a good woman, k wuld mymother was good." How she watched s" The yOuwhen you were slilk Others wearied. t officr If she got weary, she nevertbeles was 'lo" he wakelul, and the medicine was given at the rdmade right time, and when the pillow was hot curlto abe turned it. And, oh, then, when yoe not my began to go astray, what a grief it was to Thai her heartl poice." All the scene comes back. You remem our son bar the chairs, you remember the table, yout remember the dooraill where you waiting played, you remembe', the tones of her I. It is voice. She seems calling you now, not by is 1 the formaltltle wlt's which we address you, the ball- saying. "Mr." this or "Mr." that, or "l*on in, what orable" this or "Honorable" that. It is very op- justithe llrst name, your first name, she easy yen malls you bytbis morning. Shebhda you to a findthat better life. She says: "Forget not alt the libertine counsel I gave you, my wanderlng boy. r, fat, Turn into laths of righlteousners. I am sat way? waiting for you at the gate." Oh, yes, Gout sak your brought ?Fut tlire this morning to have mrwedium that iremnory revived, and I shout upwar'l lenincy, the tidings. Alugais of lid sendl forwar,| I ean the thens. liugl Rling! The dead is slii* God and again, am the lost is foundl OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. United States Senuters. D McEnery, term expiring on the 4th of Match, 1900. Don Caffiry, term expiring on the 4th of March, 1901. Representatives In Congress. First D'strct .... ...... Gen Adolph Meyer Second District . . obert C. Davey Third District ..............B. F. Bro'is ard Fourth D strict ........ . W. Ogden Ffth Dis: riot ......... -.... J. E. Ralnsdii Sixth District .............. . obertso State Oicers. U Murphy J. Foster..............Governor Robt. H. bnyder....... Lieutenant-Governor John T. . Mi.c.el...........oretary of State Milton J. Cunningham.... Attorney-General a A. V. Fourn t.............State Trea r W. W. Heard ......Auditor Public Accounts e J. V. Ctlhoun......supt. Pub. Education Leon Jastrem ki, Commissioner Immigration Leon Jastremunsi, Comm:ssioner Agrioulture J. 8. Lauler...... Rtegoter State Land Office Allen Jumel ............Adutntat-enera S: THE NEXT TrING TO it o nt ) j he I :ITimes-Democrat tee SILENDID SPECIAL SERVICE l~es. as furnished the New York * he World, New York o el, d* Associated Press and Staff al Correspondents, all in one. 2 : Only $1.00 M MessE. S* Subscribe throughyouews- * • dealer, postmaster ordirect to the * THE TIMES-DtMOCRAT, C wat leath egaa Uen rpassed : :,.,b Shetb t REI 0RLF1AI8 & IUIF S n ithe t at Mmph i trains of the Illinos Os sun- tral aislrod for t Cairo, St. Louis, Chitem of, Cinewn y oinnati, Louisville, Ha making direct connections with through tranes as for all point NORTH, EAST AND WEST, your including Buffalo, Pittsburg, Olove her land, Boston, New York, Poiladelphis, nd to Baltimore, reiomo and St. Pnal, Mi na polis. Omaha, Kansas City, Hot Correspong, Ark, and in Denver. lOs ru tr sonneotion at Chicago with 0entral roing V ppi Valley Bouts, Solid Fast Setibd Daily Trains for Let SUBUQUE, SIOUX FALLS, SIXgITY t. and add the West. Psrtouldrec of t agent Sthe of the Y. A M. V. ad ooneetiag lines t hisr M THEaAT, MD. Ps. Agt., y and WNew Orlans. Sfar- Jo. A. Soon, Dlv. PFa. Agt., r the Memphis. a itv . a . Kam O, G. . A.. friend. 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