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J. W. ANDERSON, Editor and
The Little Lund,
[ When at home alone 1 sit
And ain very tired of it.
[ I have just to shut my eyes
To go sailing through tho skies.
To go sailing far away
To the pleasant Land of Play;
To the fairy land afar,
Where ihe little people are,
Where the clover tops are trees.
And the rain pools are the sens,
And the loaves, like littl. ships,
Sail about tin liny trips;
And above the daisy tree,
Through the grasses,
High o’erhead the Immblo b o
limns and passes.
In that forest to rind fro
lean wander, I can go;
See tho spider and Ihe fly,
And the ants go marching liv
Carrying parcels with their feet
"Down *ho green and grassy street.
I can in the sorrol sit
Where the ladybird nlit.
lean climb the jointed grass;
And on high
See tho greater swallows pass
In the sky
And the round sun rolling by
Heeding n > such things as I.
Through that forest 1 can pass
Till, as in a looking glass,
Humming fly and daisy tree
And my tiny self I sec,
Painted very clear and neat
On tho rain-pool at my feet.
Should a leaflet come to hand
Drifting near to where I stand,
Straight I’ll boa d that tiny boat
Bound tho rain-poo! sea to float.
Little thoughtful creatures sit
On the grass 3 r eo ists of it;
Little things with lovely eyes
See me sailing with surprise.
Some are clad in armor green —
(These have sure to battle been —
Some are pied with every hue,
Black and crimson, gold and blue;
Some have wings and swift are gone,
But they all look kindly on.
When my eyes I onco again
Open and see nil things plain :
High, bare walls, a great hare floor;
Great big knobs on drawer and door;
Great big people perched on chairs
Stitching tucks and mending tears,
Each a hill that I could climb
And talking nonsense all the time—
O, dear me,
That I could be
A sailor on the rain-pool sea,
A climber in the clover tree,
And just come back, a sleepy head,
Late at night to go to bed.
—Robert Louis Stevenson .
How Greely was Found.
The story of the relief expedition
sent out by tho United States in search
of Lieutenant Greely and his party,
ice-immured in tho Arctic regions, is
full of interest. Particularly pathetic
is this account of how a search party
from the relief vessels came across the
seven survivors:
At last the boat arrived at the site
of the wreck-cache, and the shore was
eagerly scanned, hut nothing could he
seen. Bounding the next point, the
cutter opened out the cove beyond,
There on the top of a little ridge, fifty
or sixty yards above the ice-foot, was
plainly outlined the figure of a man.
Instantly the coxswain caught up the
boat hook and waved his flag, Tin*
man on the ridge had seen them, for he
stooped, picked up tho signal flag from
the rock, arid waved it in reply. Then
lie was seen coming slowly and cau¬
tiously down the steep rocky slope.
Twice ho fell flow n before he reached
tho foot. As he approached, still
walking feebly and with difficulty,
Colwell hailed him from the how of
boat:
“Who all are there left ?”
“Seven left,”
As the cutter struck the ice, Colwell
jumped off and went up to him. He
was a ghastly sight. His cheeks were
hollow, his eyes wild, his hair and
heard long and matted. His army
blouse, covering severalthicknesses of
shirts and jackets, was ragged and
dirty. He wore a little fur cap and
rough mocassins of untanned leather
tied •irniiml the letra As hp ennke his
«. ms i*w, worked
convulsive ,w,tehee. A. the two met.
on ins glove and shook Golwell s liana,
-Where are thayr as M
• l/ihe shoulder,—over ton, "said the mn hil.-.h* pointing
over his the
tant is down.”
■■l, Mr.,Greoly alive?”
"IS ^ Sh« Offl"™?”
“No.” Then he repeated absently,
“The tent is down.”
“Who are you?”
“Long.” -
Beforpthiq pnllrwinv CO loqu V was nvpr V , T^owe
and . Norman ^ had started up the hill,
Hastily filling his pockets with bread,
and taking the two cans of pemmican.
Colwell tola tile coxswain to take Long
o the ri P a f , , fr k n g o,thvvI d
thevs. ey saw w spread out bef ire them a des
fllate expanse of rocky ground, sloping
gradually - j n trom » a ridgo . on the , east . to a.
the ice-covered shore, which at. th
west made in and formed a cove. Back
ol the level space was a range of hills
She (louindtoit Star.
v
rising up,.800 feet, with a precipitous
which the wind was blowing furious
ly. On a little elevation directly in
lront was the tent. Hurrying across
the intervening hollow, Colwell came
up with Lowe and Norman, just as
they were greeting a soldierly looking
Ilian who had just come out from the
t' tent 1 ' « .
As Colwoll approached, Norman was
saying to tho man:
“There is the lieutenant.”
And he added to Colwell;
“This is Sergeant Brainard.”
Brainard imiuediately drew himself
up to the “position of a soldier,” and
was about to saluto, when Colwell
took liis hand.
At this moment there was a confused
murmur within the tent, and a voice
sab * :
“Who’s there?”
Norman answered: “It is Norman
—Norman wfio was in the Proteus.”
This was followed by cries of “Ofi,
it’s Norman!” and a sound like a fee¬
ble cheer.
Meanwhile one of the relief partv,
who in his agitation and excitement
was crying like a child, was down on
his hands and knees trying to roll away
tho stones that held down the flapping
tent cloth. The tent was a “tepik” or
wigwam tent, with a fly attached. The
fly with its posts and ridge-pole had
been wrecked by the gale which had
been blowing for thirty-six hours, and
the pole of the tepik was toppling over,
j and only kept in place by the guy
j ropes. There was no entrance except
under the flap opening, which was held
down by stones. Colwell called for a
knife, cut a slit in the tent cover and
looked in.
It was a sight of horror. On one
side, close to the opening, with his
head toward the outside, lay what was
apparently a dead man. His jaw had
dropped, his eyes were open, hut fixed
and glassy, his limbs were motionless.
On the opposite side was a poor fellow,
alive to he sure, hut without hands or
feet, and with a spoon tied to the
stump of his right arm. Two others,
seated on the ground in tbe^middle.had
just got down a rubber bottle that
hung on the tent pole, and were pour¬
ing from it into a tin can. Directly
; opposite, on his hands and knee;, was
a dark man with a long matted heard,
in a dirty and tatterel dressing gown
with a litile red skull cap on his head,
and brilliant, staring eyes. As Col¬
well appeared, lie raised himself a little
and put ou a pair of eye-glasses.
“Who are you?” asked CoUvell.
The man made no answer, staring
at him vacantly.
“Who are you?” again.
One ot the men spoke up; “That’s
the Major—Major Greely.”
Colwell crawled in and took him by
the hand, saying to him, “Greely, is j
this you?” i
“Y"es,” said Greely in a faint,
broken voice, hesitating and shuffling
with his words, ‘Yes—seven of us
left—here we are—dying—like men. :
Did what I came to do—heat the best
I record,”
Then he fell back exhausted.
“Major Jones.”
One of the personages about Wash
ington during the war was Annie,
•loues, who originally professed to have
ran away from a boarding-school in i
Boston to “follow the drum,” and who
attached herself to the headquarters of
General Stahel, the commander of a
German brigade. A flippant talker,
she ingratiated herself into the favor ;
of the General, and received an honor- j
ary appointment as a member of his ,
staff, and as “Major Jones' became an I
institution in the army. She ate with j
the General, drank with the General, !
rode with the General on all his ha/
ardous forays, chatted with the Gene
ml nursed the General when he was
eke ,.ej M, ..y lealous »n
decs,rappee, and when nigh, drew the
KtLwSfLt witn ner Deiovea coioreu
" “ j
sr«d. '
lie, ord„, were won... be obeyed, j
' necaus -I-she was recognized as a stall !
"“'"'ani i'Ziure. J ,^picket ac i
She WM said to be a girl of
great dash , t and daring, jopintr ana mii x-nnld wouia fen. ne
ni.entlv 4 y venture out beyond the out
posts, and for days watch the mov, I
u nf f anpniy and bring in whole
budlfet8 of . information . . .ti„ n rrom frnm ine the rete' reu^x , ■
g «tpwardshin '
camps, as proofs • ^
and shrewdness. Every one knew
. doff
Major Jones: officers would
-dIpri.^ee«•»« J*™
iTnnie om O^ber comLnds were introduced i
to Ann and admired her, and she
, ef
-«h« maior '
reigned supreme as the * J
cavalry. * _»»
When G^n^rnl Hooker marchpd into
Maryland and Stahel was relieved.
Miss Major Annie joined her fortunes
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, JULY 15 , 1885 .
with the young and gallant Custer
with whom sift remained, retaining
her rank and title until a general or
der from army headquarters rendered
it necessary for him to dispense with
her valuable services, and the Major
was compelled to search for a field of
usefulness elsewhere. For a few days
| she wandered '■‘naerea %DOUt •ihnnt the the camp, r-imn havlmr having
no particular abiding place of contin
- uing city, until Colonel Sharpe, then
acting provost - marshal - general,
thought the interests of the service re
qt ired that she shoo'd be vomovetl to
Washington. Accordingly a pass was
granted her to travel as far as the mil
itary railroaiFwould carry her, and a
j sergeant of the Ninety-Third New
j Y’ork was detailed to accompany her,
to guard against any accident on tUa 1116
way. Arriving at Washington she
stopped at the Kirkwood House,where
| she sometimes appeared in staff uni¬
form and then in fashionable female
attire. It was believed that she was
a Confederate spy in the Union secret
service .—Boston Budget.
Epithelioma.
This word- now so sadly familiar
from the case of General Grant—is one
of the names of carcinoma, or cancer,
It is used because most cases of cancer
are connected with the. epithelium,—
the membrane which lines most of the
internal organs and cavities of the
body,—or With the epidermis (scarf-:
skin), which covers the outer surface j
am! is essentially of tfie same nature. !
Allour tissues—muscles,membranes,
nerves, fat, bones, etc.—ure built up
by, cells and select consist Iron, mainly the blood, of, cells. transform These j
\
and assimilate the element essential to ;
their activity, growth and perpetua- j
tion. They multiply by division. Tu
mors result irom a morbid multiplica
tion of cells. Benign tumors simply
crowd-as they grow by the multipli
cation of cells—against the adjacent
parts. In malignant tumors the mul
tiplying cells infiltrate into the adjacent
parts, and thus constantly enlarge their I
deadly area; or they are taken up by
the blood-vessels and lymphatic ves- |
sels, particularly the latter, and borne .
to distant glands, where they set «P
the same deadly action.
A cancer, of whatever kind, is al
ways malignant, though a hard cancer, !
of which an epithelioma epn, c 1 U na is 1 one u is not !
>
SO malignant as a soft cancer, in
which the cells preponderate the . , j
over
fibrous tissue. What is now called a '
sarcoma, which was once thought to j
he a cancer, is a benign tumor gene¬ i
rally, but may he malignant. It differs
from a cancer mainly in having its
cells separated from eacli other by in¬
tervening substance. In the latter the
cells lie against each other—several
hundred of them perhaps—in (other¬
wise) empty spaces, or nests. The
microscope alone distinguishes be
tween the two—the cancer and the
sarcoma.
A cancer may long remain simply a
hard, nainless tumor, with its true
character unknown. If it can he cut
out then, it may never recur. This,
therefore, is the time for its extirpa¬
tion. A cancer due solely, to local j !
irritation is quite likely to bo cured 1
when operated on early. When due :
to hereditary taint, it is more likely to
recur under some new irritation.
The age at which cancers appear is
generally after torty. Hence tho oc-;
currence of a hard tumor, say from
forty-live and onward, should awaken
attention. But comparatively few tu
mors are cancerous.
In cases where extirpation is ira
practicable, medical treatment may
still do much for the general health,
the relief of distressing symptoms, and
averting the progress of organic dis
ease.— Youth’s Companion.
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TheHarber I Si( , c of It.
A ou hear a g e<i d dt< l f talk about
Xh" ‘S “£ i
and he doesn’t makea good workman,
1U« You see, a man comes in and he gets
I*. —!
« *
has nothing to tniUK nuoui except unu
self, and he immediately begins to
«<* « I”" 1 ’ •
»"'■ -»• ****** l
hi in, and he goes away uissatished
with the shop and and barber barber, Now now on* on*
,,f those good-natured, talkative bar-:
bers ' vouia take take thm ,hat mme al man and
comriieince talking politics and th*
weatlief, the police and the . skaung
£ u, him, and there would never be
kj(>k> N(> sir; thp barbel
.
^ o.vr, :
barber would finish combing hi, ha,.
by telling him that he had hair jus.
like Abe Lincoln or Charles Sumner
b© * s up ■ P and give ** him a cigar anc
£ « - j/uod naUired. and swea.
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that was the best shop in the city.
l Pittuburah ittsourg Dispatch. i
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A -RAPID RISE IN , T
Leaping fom a Dollar a Day
to Great Wealth.
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The Incident that Made an Easy-Going
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Yank " Hand a Man of Prominence.
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.m Walston, -loton ” a a writer writer in in t the . New „
!
York Times sa vs ; Th «y tell a good
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8 t° r y ' n the furniture trade of how
Josial » bridge rose to fortune and
won the thousands of dollars that give
him so conspicuous a place in business
m JNew York. Mr. Partridge was, to
■
I a11 “PP^rances, an unsophisticated,
eas y ff°mg Yankee with no special
! a, nhition or purpose in life till he was
! ' somewhere between 30 and 40 years of
•
age. At ....... that timer the .... Heywards,
.
o*
Gardner, Mass., were the practical con
trollers of the chair business in New
England, as they had been the trade’s
pioneers. Among their hands at Gard¬
ner was Josiah Partridge, or \Siah, as
they all called him. lie was a hard
worker, temperate, steady, and mar
lied. Ilia wages amounted possibly to
as much as a round dollar a day. The
change in his life came about in a sud
den, not to say a very funny sort of a
way. He had been barking a lot of
logs in the factory yard at Gardner all
through an intensely hot July morn
ing. Along about noon he threw down
sis adze and leisurely perched himself
j n the shade of a friendly elm close be¬
fide the scene of his labor. There, bath
ed in a smile of satisfaction, he was
jiscovered by one of his employers,
w ho -it may have been the heat that
made him unnaturally impetuous of
speech—fiercely began to preach upon
the contemptible meanness of eye-ser
vice . « W hat do you suppose we are
doing, paying you for loafing, Josiah
Partridge?” was the petuleno demand,
.. M;m aad , wy; . retorte( i p urt ri<lgo,
<.j> ve worked for vour folks faithfully,
Mr> 1Ievwardi and if you get intosuc'h
a passion for resting a hit on such a
blazing day M this> why> you q, do it
when rm not around ..> j> ay after day
paased and still Josiah Partridge put
jn no appe arance at tho Gardner shop,
Ue had sat hirnaelf down and reasoned
out tile secret of a new stride in sue- '
cessful chairinakltlg. When he , fixed
hi hp e
, bank , and , drew , out , . his . savings, . lust
$oU). 4 ro-in After A f.,... that d, he w<h seen no more
in Gardner. One year later some of
the firms that had been struggling in
competition with the wealthy Iley
wards began to receive letters from a
way up in the Vermont woods. These
missives stated in effect that the ex¬
pense of boating rafts of logs down to
the Massachusetts factories, as was
then the. universal custom, with the
stripping off of the hark, drying and
sawing and jilaning, etc., might he done
away with, and that one Josiah Part¬
ridge could send down frames already
for finishing, guaranteeing that in one i J
car he could pile up “more of these I
frame pieces than a river full of big
logs could be turned into” after ,
ever
their tedious and costly voyage to the 1
Bay State. Trials were made, Josiah’s
offers accepted, and before the Hey
wards had their fairly .. . , opened , .
oyos ri- j
va! firms abonr them were turninu 8 ! j
out goods at prices that were amazing. |
Then thev J too turned toward the for- *
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^ to a;w mill8> but Jos|jlh
. . . ^that^try , , . ,, „ Jfh*£ . .
$500
, , , ,
iu thfworid
had developed into big proportions.
)la(1 n0 lllck 0 f capital now ; rich
by his originulit an(1
^ wanted to join him He com- :
his company went into man..
rf chaira out md out and the ,
fortune grew. He came to New York, |
and to look at the rich old fellow now j
yolI wou ld never imagine that he was |
.
” « S Zl
>y InWrupted on that duly dayso long I
u.lvj, i Treasure. ^l.lws
The
I- «»„e many inhuestio, relics-,
”'7'^ lnos j fascinating w '."‘Xn to men 2 ZZ' letters,
<.]re r e one inav find two humred thou
sand volan.cs. and seven thousand
man,.scripts. But the -gohbu treas
ure ’ jg the iamous ‘Codex Afgenteuy
.U the four . Gospels ,< »1 • translated tr-mslated n .v Bish.m Bishop
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^iphi^s, and written on a hundred
and , eighty-lwo - leaves of panhment nnr <hmpn1 ii ii,
fetters of silver on a ground of faded
purple. It _ is . kept , in a giassedse, , and
un(ier lock a nd key.”
.. Tj . s wontiernil manlls ,rbt Is said
to date bac k to .Lit, the second hlf of the I
,t. Cu,
lebte d fer-aur knowledge eft he early
(j^hic. the parent oi .ill the Germanic ,
tongues.”— iSizW.
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Swans Lavf* , .»* -n »<nown t> „ livf* tu i
t* ol •*'‘-0 and Cuvier Gunks it t
p ' ' gomam^Uve,
LOOO years. ~1
bo chisel f-« was employed »”«• for in
scribing on stone, wood and metal. It
was so sharpened as to suit the mate
rial operated on, and was dexterously
handled by all early artists. Thestyle,
« sharp-pointed instrument of metal,
ivory, or hone, was used for writing on
w-.v ax tuhlete tablets. Th* 1 he stjle w„« was unsuitable
.
j ‘or holding a fluid, hence a species of
ree( l was employed for writing on
parchment. These styles and reeds
were carefully kept in eases, and the
I writers had a sponge, knife and p«m
! mice stone, compasses for measuring,
scissors for cutting, a puncheon to
point out the beginning and the end
of eacl ‘ lino, a rule to draw and divide
the lines into columns a irlass
... Mining . saild, , and . another ., With ... writ- ..
inir 8 ilnifl ‘ ’ These lilPSe were " ele tho tlie chief tf “ el iinnle. ,m P le
ments used lor centuries to register
facts 1,1018 anU -mil ovpnts eve,lts - l!«vU lteeds continued continued tn to
be used till the eighth centurv, though
„„il|, pulls were n Known n nwn in in the middle middlo nf ortne tho
seventh. The earliest author who
Uses the ,, word , for „ writing ...
penna a pen
is Isidores, who lived in that century;
and toward the end of it a Latin son
net “To a Pen” was written by an An¬
glo-Saxon. But though quills were
known at this period, they came into
general use very Slowly; for in 1433 a
present ol ... , bundle ... of .. quills sent .
a was
from Venice by a monk with a letter ’
m Which ... . he “Show ,, this . bundle
says:
to Jjrotner Brother IMCllOias, Nicholas Ih-it mat Iip ne may
Choose a quill.” The only other mate
rial l ‘11Which tn which we we would would refer refer ia is ink, ink
the composition and colors of which
v lhe black made oi
were various, was
burnt ivorv ' and the lienor 1 of the cut
tlelish. We are not prepared to say
what wnat other otner ingredient ingredient w-,a was used used or nr
how it was manufactured, but these
ancient manuscripts prove that the
ink was of a superior 1 description. 1
, Ked, purple, Silver, and gold inks were
also used The red was made from
vermilion and carmine, the purple from
th. anil tho manufacture ol
these, especially the gold and siiver
varieties, . ., was extensive , and . luera- ,
an
tive business.— Chambers’s Journal.
An Enterprising Boy.
One nf the n.nql promising n.-mnisimr of the inn
younger artists in Boston has a wealthy
. ‘ather .. Who . opposed ... his son aspliations, .
I and wanted him to devote himself to
I business , instead, . ^ the boy, , however,
was determined determined to to studv study art art abrond aoroacl,
and finally the father compromised.
MoiM..ih.mw«LiDrn ie v\as d large western dealer i., ill eat
tie, and sold his son on credit, but at
a Stiff ... market price, a small ,, i herd , of „
choice cattle, with the stipulation 1 that
the boy should take them to Liverpool .
to to sell. sell The 1 ne nrnfiu profits on on the the tran«-,e transne
tion, if any, he could have to pay his
expenses while . studying . , . abroad, tii. hut
if he lost monev uey he no should snouiu return ie urn
home and go into business.
The boy brought the cattle to Bos
ton, shipped them from here to Liver- !
pool, * .* the steamer , with ..]
going on „ snme |
thorn, reached that port in nine days *
struck , a good , market, , . sold ,, out . in . one I
day at a biff b profit i > cabled ■ a check to !
his . father for the amount of his loan,
and in les$ than a week, with the
profit of the t ransaction in ilis pock
... .. . , . ,
e "’ WaS ln 1 ilnS C11 ^ SUl< ng, wnere
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lie was able to remain two years. ;
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* 13 ^ an< ‘ als present success has
so pleased his father that tho latter
now says,‘T«o hack an l continue your
3tudie8 whenever y«u get ready, and
call on mo for wliat funds you want.”
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The Average Cost of Living.
How many persons have even a
rough idea of the average sum upon
which by far the larger part of the cit
i/ens <* the United States are fed,
c,othed and housed? A recent atari
Cla n estimates that eighty per cent, oi
‘he population of this country is sup
ported b} fr " m forty-five to fifty cents
per capita a day. At the latter figure
“ •» *’—•
even su^'Jli.o t',J
iftv cents adav is a o-Pnernns estimste
................erative, ear,, only
W T T’ ??
wages of farm hands run from $20 t<.
All) a mntli and that on thcie sums
several „er*,n, are olden .n|,por,ed.
When it is romemlmred, too. that some
other human beings have a vearlv in
come equal to what is necessary for , (K the
subsistence of five hundred or a thou-:
s:in q . of f these “average mortals, the
startling s contrast between the extremes
of our modern society inustt be most
evident .-PhibuMphia Bulletin.
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Ahserne lh of Mm I.
JX^ZZV „ . Z^'Z
u: , de#k writlngafewnightsaff0 when
^ of hischll<IrPn entrle(b
“\vi.a» ' <lo 3 von want J I ‘ ciAt. I e d
turbf*(l now. „
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“I only . tu sny g'ood , nigh . . . *,»
wan. .
-Nevermind now To-morrow
morning m „, nin „ wui _ n] ao just iu , t as wen. we n »
mother!
Again, Hannah stands before ns as an intel
™ j
who used to be so wise and well informed as
mothers. Oh, this work of culturing chil
d re n for this world and the next Thischild
»tim'd and it must be roused up and pushed
out h into activity. bo This child is forward and
, must held l.a<k and tamed down into
modesty and for politeness. Sewards for one, ,
punishuienUs another; that which will
make George will ruin John. The rod is no
e^nry in one case, while a frown of dis
t^^nds "Cl da^ Sdott axC
ail of domeetic discipfiae. There
S
g* bSS? in this d.e when there are so many
igun^nt
up a child If parents knew mem of ac t.
SS,ms-*r-'Twol'^n sfcomd hs un. .yoik iki n- a 8 0*5 ” and inactive d {f p *? iiv- i tic
ers among children. If parents knew more
ph' fiologv there would not be as
many curved S pine S and cramped ohescs and
mflame.1 throats and diseased lungs as there
are among children. If parents knew more
il l Q||R|I)]| QJjllllJUli RV D1 TUT lAuflliluE. M1RB
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“A First-Rate Mother.”
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Text, I. Samuel, ii. t9 : “ Moreover his
mother made him a little coat ami brought it
: to from year to year, when she camo up
with her husband to offer the yearly sacri
The story of Deborah and Abigail is very
^ ^'1? l^Z^ible'thftl ever
achieve any such grandeur of character, and
^d refSTto tfay^ e*htS b^ule
! he cannot execute a “William Tell.” This
: with ordinary S?d^
woman, intellectual capacity,
n11 C^xtraordhfa'ry^lety’staiiUnK^ouT'before tlle ages to the model Christian
mother. Hannah come,
was the wife of Elkanah,
who was a person very much like herself—
I j unromautic and plain, never having fought a
battle or been the subject of a marvelous
j ! escape. Neither of these would have l>een
i called a genius. Just what you and I might
be _ that wa8 Elkanah a nd Hannah. The
j family brightest time the in birth all of the Samuel. history Although of that
j ! was
] no to star his rau birthplace, aloug the I heavens pointing down
I think the angels of (iod
stooped at the coming of so wonderful a
j prophet. As Samuel had been given in
answer to prayer, Elkanah and all his
family Shiloh save Hannah, started up to
to offer sacriiicesof thanksgiving. Tho
cradle where the child slept was altar enough
for Hannah’s grateful heart; but when the
boy was old enough she took him to Shiloh
and took three bullocks and an epnah of Hour
and a bottle of wine, and made offering of
sacrifice unto the Lord; and there, according
to a previous vow, she left him; for there he
j was in to the stay all the days of his life and minis
i*r temple. Years rolled on, and every
year Hannah made with her own hand agar
ment for Samuel, and took it over to him.
The lad would have got along well without
that garment, for 1 suppose he was well clad
! cpuld fly the not ministry be contented of the temple; but Hannah
| unless she was all the
time “Moreover, doing something for her darling boy.
: Ilia mother mads him a little coat
and brought it to him from year to year,
when she came up with her husband to offer
the yearly sacrifice.’
Hannah stands before us then in the first
place need as an industrious mother. There was
for her to work. Elkanah, her hus
baud, was far from poor. for*the _ He belonged to a
distinguished family; Bible tells us
j ‘‘^h they'” “fVoL^'Ton^f I
; 0 were you say. do not know;
j but they were distinguished people no doubt,
I or their names would not have been men
P 0 !"* 1 -, Hannah might have seated herself
i m her family, and with folded arms and dis
! beveled hair read novels from year to year,
I Samuel, I know she is industrious from
principle would as well as from pleasure. God
not have a mother become a
; drudge or a slave; He would have
! her employ all the helps possible in this day
| In ought the rearing of be her ashamed children. But Hannah
\ never to to be found mak
ing a coat for Samuel. Most mothers need
no counsel ill this direction. The wrinkles on
their brow, the pallor on their cheeks, the
thimble mark on their finger attest that they
| are bluommid fathful the in brightness their maternal and the duties. vivacity The of
| I girlhood have given place for the grander
j dignity hood. But and usefulness and industry of mother
j j there is a heathenish idea getting
ttbroa d in some of the families of Americans;
I there are mothers who banish themselves
from the home circle. For three-fourths of
, their maternal duties they prove themselves
I incompetent. their children They are ignorant of what
j wear and what their children
eat and what their children read. They en
I fcrus * to irresponsible persons these young im
mortals and allow them to be under influences
which may cripple their bodies or taint their
! sou]; P ur »ty or From spoil the their awkward manners cut or destroy of Samuel’s their
.
coat yon know his mother Hannah did not
make it. Out from under flaming chandeliers
and off from imported carpets ami down the
granite stairs there is come a great crowd of
( . hiWrell in this day, unrestrained, saucy, in
competent for all practical duties of life,
ready and sensuality. to be (aught in the first whirl of crime
Indolent and unfaithful
mothers will make indolent and unfaithful
children. Y r ou cannot exiiect neatness and
order in any house where the daughters see
nothing but slatternness and upside-do wnna
tiveness in their parents.
Let Hannah he idle and most certainly
® am,,el W »H grow up idle. Who are the in
dustnous men in all our occupations and pro
fessions? Who are they managing the mer
chandi.se of the world, building the walls,
tinning making tho the roofs, weaving the carpets,
laws, governing the nations,
making the earth to quake and gigaitticen- heave and
roar and rattle with tho tread of
they terprises: descend Who are they? For the most part
from industrious mothers who
intheoid homestead used to spin their own
K SwaTw"“j
and do their own work. The stalwart men
such an illustrious ancestry of hard knocks
parties, fej the scum of so.-iety, the tavern
end rotten associations! For the most part
™
f
house to hou-e attending teewryhody’s
am/g^teand hoi^'sho^to^D^tite'devU
„, 0 thers of Ssmuri Johnson "and of. Alfmi
the Great and of Isaac Newton and of Saint
ST 3&T
riifidrcn-s behavior, her children s foo t,
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ripe for heaven. Her eyesight is almostgone.
but the splendors of the celestial city kindl*
up her vision. The gray light of heaven’s
m-rri hns struek through the gray lock which
are foiden back over the wrinkled temptai
»toops very much now under the burden
*he used to carry for her chiMren.
She sits at home, too old to find her way to
tho h °use of^God; hut while she sits there, all
t™iareund hera^W
^lm‘where thThT^a? 1 ,^
tn the gat^onffe stall hft 1 m 1 Jte°th2
pilgrim into eternal ^ring-tiJ. and
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P> M.-fleveral of the Georgia torn s
hoyf* liit UDon s novel dIah to decide
w ^ shall e their Poe p f -masters. K p. r $ty .
man who receives mail from the oflioeis
entitled to a vote, which he drops mto a
box provided for the purpose.
VOL. XL NO 35.
I' dre coming
! I n out in the world with
would S <
not be so many little Set
with such blasphemy
eowo up Jovefthe^lete ecstacy of infernal
vanteg
ago; tiie kids have no superior way of
jug up the rocks than the old goats
hundreds of years ago; tho whelps know
^
desejt; but it is a shame b^mannl?’of that in this
taring children, that so often there is no
whelps,
ChrfsUan “ “ h^ayera^nd
from the way she consecrated her boy to
have the'fim's^cuUurc^tlm most brilliant "'ur
roundings, less she but she is not fit for her duties un.
be a Christian mother. There may
be well-read libraries in the house, and ex
quisite music in the parlor, and the canvas
tho best artists adorning the walls, and the
wardrobe be crowded with tasteful apparel,
and the children be wonderful for their at
tainments, and make the house ring with
laughter and innocent mirth; but there is
something woeful-looking in that house if it
be not also the residence of a Christian
mother. I bless God that there are noi
many prayerless mothers—not many oi
them. The weight of responsibility
is so great that they feel the need of a divine
hand to help and a divine voice to comfort,
and a divine heart to sympathize. Thou*
ands of the others have been led into the
kingdom of God by the hands of their little
children. There are hundreds of mothen
who would not have been Christians had it
not been for the prattle of their little ones,
thought Standing someday in the nursery thoy b&
themselves: “This child God ha»
influence given mo to raise it? foretermty. Not being Christian What is my
self, upon a my
how can I ever expect him to become «
Christian! Lord help me!” Oh, are then
anxious mothers who know nothing ot tin
infinite help of religion! Then I commend U
them Hannah, the pious mother of Samuel
Do not think it is absolutely impossible tbai
your children come up iniquitous. Out ol
just such fair brows and bright eyes and soft
hands and innocent hearts crime c-ct.a its, vie
rubbing tims—extirpating tho purity from the heart and
out smoothness from the brow,
ing squelching the lustre of the eye and ehrivel
up and poisoning and patrefying and
seething ing and scalding and blasting and burn
with shame and woe. Every child is a
bundle of tremendous possibilities; and
after a life of usefulness on earth go to a life
of joy in heaven; or whether across it shall
jar doing eternal discords, and after a life of wrong
on earth it shall go to a house of impen
etrable darkness and an abyss of imtne&sur
able plunge, is being decided by nursery song
Oh, how many children in glory, crowding
all the battlements and lifting a million
voiced hos«ana—brought to God through
Christian parentage. One hundred and twen
ty clergymen were together and they were
telling their experience and their ancestry;
end of the 130 clergymen, how many of
them do you suppose assigned as the
means of their conversion, the influence of a
Christian mother? One hundred out of the
120! Philip Doddridge was brought to God
by the scripture lesson on the Dutch tile of
the chimney fire-place The mother thinks
she is rocking a child: but at the same time
she may be rocking the destiny of empires—
rocking glories of the fate of nations—rocking the
heaven. The same maternal power
that may lift a child up may press a child
down. A daughter came to a worldly mother
and said she was anxious about her sins, and
she hail been praying all night. The mother
said: “Oh, stop praying! I don’t believe in
and praying. I’ll Get over all those religious notions,
hundred give dollars, you a dress that will cost five
and you may wear it next
week to that party.” The daughter took the
dress and she moved in the gay circle, tho
cayest of all the gay that night; and sure
and enough all religious impressions were gone,
she stoppel praying. A few months
after she came to die, and in her closing
momentssaid: “Mother, I wish you would
bring me that dress that cost five hundred
dollars?” The mother thought it a very
strange the request; but she brought it to please
“mother, dying child. “Now,” said the daughter,
bed;” and hang the that dress on the foot of my
dress was bung there on the
of the bed. Then the dying child got up
one elbow and looked at her mother and
dress pointed is to the price dress and said: “Mother,
the of my goal!” Oh,
Again a momentous and lastly, thing Hannah it is to be a mother!
stands before us
the rewarded mother. For all the coats she
for Samuel; for all the prayers
offered for him; for the discipline she ex
erted over him, she got abundant compen
sation in the piety and tho usefulness and the
of her son Samuel, and that is
true in nil ages. Every mother gets full pay
for ail the prayers and tears in behalf of her
children. That man useful in commercial
takes marte?'"mKic-why, in life has echo of gladness ‘eve^X^ in
an the
d^ hi ^
what you have done, or what you have
old mother’s tremulous hand fly quicker,
Zn'nZ wi^Vumre™ vi>roT«
Parents love to hear good news
. W
Sk
his father as the^governor,’’
or woman who cafla her mother
0 “"^’ mocketh^nt'hU
to obey his mother the
of the valley shall pick it out, and the
wave or nonentities m a world
her Timothy learned In the scriptures.
hat is the mother's
