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TALMAGE’S SERMON.
KATI, Aug. 24.—Dp. Talmage, who
I this city, today discoursed on a power
v if it had been used as extensively as
fc intended it to be used, would hare
the church and the world from in
discord and sorrow—the power of
His text was, “A soft tongue
keth the bone” (Prov. xxv, 15). Fol-
j is the sermon:
When Solomon said thi9 he drove
q^kole volume into one phrase. You, of
ggone, will not be so silly as to take the
mmds of the text in a literal sense. They
^■4>ly mean to set forth the fact that there
|| a tremendous power in a kind word.
Although it may seem to be very insignifi
cant, its force is indescribable and illimit-
A*. Pungent and all conquering utter
ance: “A soft tongue breaketh the bone.
THE USES OF KINDNESS.
If the weather were not so hot and I had
tern I would show you kindness as a means
gf defense: kindness as a means of useful-
gam; kindness as a means of domestic har
mony; kindness as best employed by gov-
gnments for the taming and curing of
r inals, and kindness as best adapted
the settling and adjusting of inter-
C inal quarrels; but I shall call your at-
on only to two of these thoughts.
And first I speak to you of kindness aa
•means of defense. Almost every man in
flbe course of his life is set upon and as
saulted. Your motives are misinterpreted,
* religious or political principles are
nbarded. What to do under such cir-
stances is the question. The first im-
E i of the natural heart says: “Strike
. Give as much as he sent. Trip him
the ditch which he dug for your feet,
flash him with as severe a wound as that
Which he inflicted on your soul. Shot for
fflot. Sarcasm for sarcasm. An eye for
MB eye. A tooth for a tooth.” But the
getter spirit in the man’s soul rises up and
gays, “You ought to reconsider that mat
te.” You look up into the face of Christ
flnd say, “My Master, how ought I to act
Wader these difficult circumstances?” And
Ohrist instantly answers, “Bless them that
f inn you, and pray for them which de-
Mfttefully use you.”
Then the old nature rises up again and
BBja: “You had better not forgive him un-
fll first you have chastised him. You will
Mover get him in so tight a corner again.
Ton will never have such an opportunity
flfInflicting the right kind of punishment
Wpon him again. First chastise him and
man let him go.” “No,” says the better
Mature; “hush, thou foul heart. Try the
mft tongue that breaketh the bone.”
iLtve you ever in all your life known
Meorbity and acrimonious dispute to settle
M quarrel? Did they not always make
» worse and worse and worse?
dr jour
torn
▲ GREAT CHURCH QUARREL WAS SET
TLED.
Many years ago there was a great quarrel
h the Presbyterian family. Ministers of
flkrist were thought orthodox in propor-
tttn as they had measured lauces with
filhar clergymen of the same denomina-
in. The most outrageous personalities
9N>e abroad. As in the autumn a hunter
IBM home with a string of game, part-
and wild ducks slung over his
Moulder, so there were many ministers
Who came back from the ecclesiastical
Bute with long strings of doctors of di-
otnity whom they had shot with their
m rifle. The division became wider, the
•titmosity greater, until after a while some
Mod men resolved upon another tack,
they began to explain away the diffi-
■zlties; they began to forgive each other’s
{halts, and lo! the great church quarrel
Boo settled, and the new school Prcsby-
church uud the old school Presby-
church became one—the different
Bfi cariosity about the rutnra world,
w a great many people who become skep
tical in religious things. How shall yon
capture them for God? Sharp argument
and sarcastic retort never won a single
soul from skepticism to the Christian re
ligion. While powerful books on the "Erl-
dsncee of Christianity” hare their mission
In confirming Christian people in the faith
they have already adopted, I have noticed
that when skeptical people are brought
Into the kinodom of Christ it is through
the charm of home genial soul, and not hr
argument at alL
Man are not saved through the head;
May are saved through the heart. A storm
aomss out of ita hiding place. It says:
“Vow, we’ll Just rouse up all this sea;”
and it makes a great bluster, but it does
not succeed. Part of theses is roused up—
perhaps one-half of it, or one-fourth of it.
After a while the calm moon, placid and
beautiful, looks down, and the ocean be
gins to rise. It comes up to high water
mark. It embraces the great headlands.
It submerges the beaches of all the conti
nents. It is the heart throb of one world
against the heart throb of another world.
And I have to tell you that while all your
storms of ridicule and storms of sarcasm
may rouse up the passion of an Immortal
nature, nothing less than the attractive
power of Christian kindness can ever raise
the deathless spirit to happiness add to
God. I have more faith in the prayer of a
child five years old, in the way of bringing
an infidel back to Christ and to heaven,
than I have in all the hissing thunderbolts
of ecclesiastical controversy.
THE POWER OP PERSUASION.
Ton cannot overcome men with religious
argumentation. If you come at a skeptical
-had taken a boat and sailed out from «M
beach to the fishing grounds. A contrary
wind drove us back, and while we were
endeavoring to weather the advene breezes
we perceived an object on the water th«,
we at first took for a post or submerged
log until we saw it was maMn K its way
toward us. It came beside our boat, when
we recognized it as the beach spaniel. We
took it on board and wondered how it had
managed to swim the five miles then in
tervening between us and the shore.
We continued our course just north of
Atlantic City and then stored for the
wreck, where the vast fishing grounds are
to be found. This sailing direction brought
us again within a few miles of Brigantine
Beech, and as we approached the niariat
point to it we were surprised to see the
dog lump overboard and begin swimming
fop hie home. That dog certainly swam
tan miles that day, and when we returned
to Brigantine Beach we found him calmly
■sated on the piazza and evincing no signs
of extraordinary exertion.”—Philadelphia
Press.
Bow They Execute Women la Spain.
Thirty thousand inhabitants of Madrid,
mostly women, assembled one Saturday
morning outside the great prison walls op
posite the scaffold upon which a woman
was to be executed. According to Spanish
custom, this was done by strangulation.
The criminal sits upon a wooden bench be
fore a post, against which the neck is
pressedjuid broken by an iron collar. This
execution excited tremendous interest in
all classes of society, and particularly
among the lower orders. Many were dis
satisfied with the sentence, because it was
believed that this servant girl had not been
with an argument on behalf of the ; alone in the murder of her aged mistress.
Christian religion you put the man on his . She confessed her share in the crime, but
mettle. He says: “I see that man has a , accused another woman, who was sen-
carbine. I’ll use my carbine, I’ll answer , tenced to penal servitude, with being the
his argument with my argument.” But
if you come to that man, persuading him
that you desire his happiness on earth and
his eternal welfare in the world to come,
he cannot answer it.
What I have said Is just as true in the
reclamation of the openly vicious. Did
principal actor in the tragedy. The wom
an had to he carried to the scaffold half in
sensible.—London Globe.
New York In 1800.
In the year 1800, except for a few banks
you ever know a drunkard to be saved . “ d ^
through the caricature of a drunkard?! nalaand land neither bondsnor
Your mimicry of the staggering step, and »
stocks were known. The city of New York
the thick tongue, and thfdisgustiug hie- I °12*
- ens his brain But j ® cult j the Battel T was a fashionable waik,
rough only worse maddens
It you come to him in kindness and sym
pathy, if you show him that you appreci
ate the awful grip of a depraved appetite,
If you persuade him of the fact that thou
sands who had the grappling hooks of evil
Broadway a country drive and Wall street
an uptown residence. Great accumulation
of wealth had hardly begun. The Patroon
was still the richest man in the state.
John Jacob Astor was a fur merchant liv
ing where the Astor house aft- rward
inclination clutched in their soul as firmly ,. l “ e . . ? ouse ""-"d
as in-his have been delivered, then a ray of fi f ood ’ and had n °V 6t tllose P Qr -
light will flash across his vision, and it I ' hases of ”‘ al , esta ‘? *hich secured his
will seem as if a supernatural hand was - * ort ““ e - Cornelius Vanderbilt was a boy
■todvim; his stamzerine eait I 6 years oId * P Ia y> n 8 his father’s
many ySre ago there lay in the I fe ^ yboat f Is!land. New York itr
streets a man dead drunk, his face exposed . *“ was “ had been for a hundred
to the blistering noonday sun. A Christian | years past ’ a local ““^t.-Boston Bud-
woman passed along, looked at him and
•aid, “Poor fellow.” She took her hand
kerchief and spread it over his face, and
; Missed on. The man roused himself up
: torn his debauch and began to look at the
handerchief, and lo! on it was the name of
highly respectable Christian woman of
thecitj'. He went to her, he thanked her
for her kindness, and that one little deed
saved him for this life, and saved him for
the life that is to come. He was afterward
attorney general of the United States; but
higher than all, he became the consecrated
disciple of Jesus Christ.
KIND WORDS COST NOTHING.
Kind words are so cheap it is a wonder
we do not use them oftener There are j said to live north of the Wakuma country,
toe of thousands of people who are dying I that abundant evidence now exists in
for the lack of one kind word. There is a ‘
business man who has fought against
get.
The Original Lilli put.
Stories about the pigmies of Africa have
been common in classical as well as mod
ern literature, and yet always read as a fic
tion, a pretty fable to entertain children or
embellish a poem. Three or four centuries
before Christ the Greeks were really aware
of the existence of a people of stunted
growth inhabitating a district somewhere
about the source of the Nile. It was re
served for Schweinfurfch, in 1SG0, to discov
er a race of African pigmies in the Akkas,
since which time Krapf found the Doko or
Berikeemo dwarfs, Du Chaiilu the Obon-
gos and Stanley captured one of the dwarfs
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parts of the Presbyterian order welded by
• hammer, a little hammer, a Christian
ter, that the Scripture calls “a soft
You have a dispute with your neighbor.
You say to him, “I despise you.” He re
plies. “I can’t bear the sight of you.” You
E to him, “Never enter my house again.”
says, “If you come on my door sill I’ll {
k you off.” You say to him, “I’ll put
E down.” He says to you, “You aremis-
n, I’ll put you down.” Aud so the
flflntest rages, and year after year you act
|te un-Christian part, and he acts the un-
Christian part. After a while the better
rlt seizes you, and one day you go over
the neighbor and say: “Give me your
We have fought long enough. Time
> short and eternity is so near that we
fiMinot afford any longer to quarrel. I feel
C l have wronged me very much, but let
settle all now in one great hand shak
ing, and be good friends for all the rest of
Bur lives.” You have risen to a higher
platform t han that on which before you
Blood. You win his admiration, and you
jprt his apology. But if you have not con-
■oered him in that way at any rate you
have won the applause of your own con
fluence, the high estimation of good men,
BBd the honor of your Lord, who died for
MB armed enemies.
THE SOFT ANSWER.
1 “But,” you say, “what fire we to do
when slanders? assault us and there come
flflflmonious sayings all around about us
Bad we are abused and spat upon?” My
Bflply is: Do not go and attempt to chase
ten the slanders. Lies are prolific, and
while you are killing one fifty are born.
All your demonstrations of indignation
tej exhaust yourself. You might as well
flgeome summer night when the swarms
Bt Insects are coming up from the meadows
BDd disturbing you and disturbing your
tenily bring up some great “swamp an-
■d,” like that which thundered over
Charleston, and try to shoot them down.
The game is too small for the gun.
But what, then, are you to do with the
flteses that come upon you in life? You
BM to live them down! I saw a farmer go
flat to get back a swarm of bees that had
wandered off from the hive. As he moved
amid them they buzzed around his head,
BWd buzzed around his hands, and buzzed
■Found his feet. If he had killed one of
lham they would have stung him to death.
Bat he moved in their midst in perfect
placidity until he had captured the swarm
Mwandering bees. Aud so I have seen
■am moving amid the annoyances, and
Aa vexations, and the assaults of life in
flWOh calm, Christian deliberation that all
Ite buzzing around about their soul
ounted to nothing. They conquered
, aud above all they conquered them
selves. “Oh,” you say, “that’s a very good
theory to preach on a hot day, but it won’t
It will work. It has worked. 1
ve it is the last Christian grace -we
You know there are fruits which we
in June, and others in July, and
i in August, and others in Septem-
l still others in October; and I have
to auiait that tins grace of Christian for
giveness is about the last fruit of the
Chriatial soul.
CHRIST’S WORDS WERE KIND ONES.
We hear a great deal about the bitter
league, and the sarcastic tongue, and the
folek tongue, and the stinging tongue, bat
Be know very little about “the soft tongas
that breaketh the bone.” We read Hudi-
hree, and Sterne, and Dean Swift and the
Zlhar apostles of acrimony, but give little
time to studying the example of him who
wee reviled, and yet reviled not again. O
that the Lord by his spirit would endow
tie all with “the soft tongue that breaketh
the bone.”
I pees now to the other thought that I
Aetire to present, and that is, kindness as
• maenn of usefulness. In all communities
Ten find skeptical men. Through early ed-
tiaetlon, or through the maltreatment of
' (bri^tep people, or through pry-
trouble until he is perfectly exhausted.
He has been thinking about forgery, about
robbery, about suicide. Go to that busi-
man. Tell him that better times are
ooming, and tell him that you yourself
were in a tight business pass, and the Lord
delivered you. Tell him to put his trust
in God. Tell him that Jesus Christ stands
beside every business man in his perplex
ities. Tell hipi of the sweet promisee of
God’s comforting grace.
That man is dying for the lack of just
one kind word. Go to-morrow and utter
that one saving, omnipotent, kind word.
Here is a soul that has been swamped in sin.
Ha wants to find the light of the Goepel.
He feels like a shipwrecked mariner look-
ing out over the beach, watching for a sail
against the sky. Oh, bear down on him.
Tell him that the Lord waits to be gra
cious to him, and though he has been a
great sinner there is a great Saviour pro
vided. Tell him that though his sins'are
as scarlet they shall be as snow; though
they are red like crimson they shall be as
wool. That man is dying forever for the
lack of one kind word.
There used to be sung at a great many
of the pianos all through the country a
song that has almost died out. I wish
somebody would start it again in our so
cial circles. There may have not been very
exquisite art in the music, but there was a
grand and glorious sentiment:
Kind words never die. never die;
Cherished and blessed.
LET US TRY TIIE FORCE OF KINDNESS.
Oh, that we might in our families and in
our churches try the force of kindness.
Tou can never drive men, women or chil-
.dren into the kingdom of God. A March
northeaster will bring out more honey
suckles than fretfulness and scolding will
bring out Christian grace. I wish that in
all our religious work we might be satu
rated with the spirit of kindness. Missing
that we miss a great deal of usefulness.
There is no need of coming out before men
and thundering to them the law unless at
the same time you preach to them the Gos
pel. Do you not know that this simple
story of a Saviour's kindness is to redeem
all nations!’ The hard heart of this world’s
obduracy is to be broken before that story.
There is in Antwerp, Belgifim.one of the
most remarkable pictures I ever saw. It
Is “The Descent of Christ from the Cross.”
It is one of Rubens’ pictures. No man can
stand and look at that descent from the
cross as Rubens pictured it without
having his eyes flooded with tears, if he
have any sensibility at all. It is an over
mastering picture—one that stuns you, and
•taggers you, and haunts your dreams.
One afternoon a man stood in that cathe
dral looking at Rubens' “Descent of Christ
from the Cross.” He was all absorbed in
that scene of a Saviour’s sufferings when
the janitor came in and said: “It is time to
close up the cathedral for the night. I
wish you would depart.” The pilgrim
looking at that “Descent of Christ from
the Cross” •» turned around to the janitor
and said: “No, no; not yet. Wait until
they get him down.”
Oh, it is the story of a Saviour’s suffer
ing kindness that is to capture the world.
When the bones of that great Behemoth
of iniquity which has trampled all nations
■hall be broken and shattered, it will be
found out that the work was not done by
the hammer of the iconoclast, or by the
■word of the conqueror, or by the torch of
persecution, but by the plain, simple, over
whelming force of “the soft tongue that
breaketh the bone.”
And now 1 ask the blessing of God to
oome down upon you in matters of health.
In matters of business; that the Lord will
deliver you from all your financial per
plexities; that he will give you a good live
lihood, large salaries, healthful wages, suf
ficient income. I pray God that he may
give you the opportunity of educating your
ohildren for this world, and through the
rich grace of our Lord Jesus Christ of see
ing them prepared for the world that is to
some.
Above all, I look for the mercy of God
upon your immortal souls; and lest I stand
before some who have not yet attended to
the things of their eternal interest, in this,
the closing part of my discourse, I implore
them here and now to seek after God
and be at peace with him. Oh, we went
to be gathered together at last in the
bright and blessed assemblage of the skies,
our work all done, our sorrows all ended.
God bless you, and your children, end your
ahildren’s children. And now I commend
you to God and to the word of his grace,
which is able to build you up and give you
an inheritance among all them that are
sanctified.
A Dog That Did Great Swimming.
Thomas L. Clements, a salesman of the
firm of Wood, Brown r& Co., tells a re
markable story concerning a water spaniel
that is owned by a hotel keeper at Brigan-
tin# Beach. “A party comprising myself
•ad zona friends,” said Mr,
proof of the claim so long ago made that
Africa was the land of the pigmies.—Roch
ester Times.
Fashions In Epitaphs.
A man was returning from the west to
visit his mother’s grave in a cemetery nsar
Boston. "I couldn’t find the lot,” he said,
in telling the story, “and when I got home
I asked my sister about it, and who it was
that had put up the big monument there
with the name ‘Theodosia’ on it. ‘Why,
that was the place,’ said my sister. ‘But
who is Theodosia?’ I asked. ‘That is
mother,’ said she; ‘I know it wasn’t her
name, but it is a pretty one, and I thought
she would like it. And you see, John, I
thought mother looked lonesome in that
big lot, and I had a baby headstone set up
near the corner with “Jennie” cut on it.
You don’t mind, do you?’ ’’—Boston Post.
Of the Summer, Summery.
Jack—Is your latest conquest your sum
mer girl?
Jim—Nothing could be more so.
Jack—Ah? Don’t understand.
Jim—Of course you don’t. But you
would had you noted her summary man
ner of dismissing me last evening.—Pitts
burg Bulletin.
ODDS AND ENDS.
A bolt of lightning recently struck a
bouse in Kansas, setting it on fire and at
the same time touching off the fire alarm.
Women have been occupying the lecture
platform in Italy with great liveliness this
year. The Beatrice celebration has had a
great effect in rousing Italian women to
Intellectual effort.
By the side of the main road, about four
miles from Canterbury, the following curi
ous notice may be read: “Traction engines
and other persons taking water from this
pond will be prosecuted.”
Kangaroos are to be imported into this
country to provide fresh big game for
sportsmen, now that the buffalo is almost
extinct. A number of wealthy Americans
propose to introduce the kangaroos at the
beginning of uext summer ami house them
in the Yellowstone park until they become
acclimatized.
A planter at Alpharetta, Ga., has an acre
of cotton every stalk of which is of a deep
red color, leaf, boil and bloom. This novel
crop is the product of seed derived three
years ago from two stalks of red cotton
found iu a cotton field. There is a fortune
in this new variety if it can be perpetuated.
An effort is being made to have plants
registered, so as to avoid confusion in
names aud to give originators of new varie
ties sole rights for a limited time to sell the
variety they register. A circular upon this
question has been sent forth by the Cali
fornia state board of horticulture.
Fifteen years ago, when a gentleman be
gan the culture of bees, he suffered severe
ly from stings, but they have now lost
their force. For several years past they
have caused only a slight and rather pleas
urable sensation, and that lasts only for a
few minutes. But this thorough inocula
tion agaiust bee poison leaves him a^ius-
ceptible us ever to the sting of the wasp.
An English gentleman, who, with an
American friend, was watching the pro
cession of fashionable turnouts on a New
port drive recently, commented upon the
skill with which several well known New
Yorkers handled their tandem teams. “It
is surprising,” the Englishman said, “how
few otherwise really excellent whips can
drive tandem well.”
J. Price, of Savannah, has a curiosity in
the shape of a young mocking bird entire
ly white. Price purchased the bird from a
negro trapper on the Waters road, who
brought it into town the other day. From
the appearance of the bird’s bill it cannot
be over six weeks old. There is no doubt
of the bird being a mocking bird, as it haa
all the marks of the species except the
color, and has the peculiar chirp of the
young mocking bird. A white mocking
bird is a great rarity.
Two or three young fathers who are in*
eluded among the safety bicycle riders of
New Haven make a practice of taking their
little eons and daughters out to ride. They
’have attached to their machines and in
front of them a wicker seat with a canopy
top, which holds the little one.
A small collection or walking sucks,
formerly the property of George HI and
George TV, fetched astonishing prices. An
ebony walking stick with gold top, en
graved with “G. R." and crown, contain
ing the hair of the Princesses Augusta
Elizabeth, Mary Sophia and Amelia, and
Inscribed, “The gift of the Princess Mary,
1804,” sold for £18; an Ivory walking stick.
CHAT.
This week I will let Winnie Davis chat for me;
her words teem to fit so exactly the niche as a
companion to the letter from Happy Mother. I
hope you will ail extend the right hand of fel
lowship to our new friends and that their let
ters may be frequent.
The society of ordinary people is very tire
some to me. I think you and our darling have
spoiled me for the little talk and aims of the
world. Somehow it is all talk and no conversa
tion. I rt member how we used to discuss the
things that were worth talking about - things
and thoughts that would help me to live better
and think higher; but I do not find that atmos
phere of pure thinking and living out in soci
ety. Do you suppose that political expediency
has permeated all the inner world of ideas, or
that we are really fallen into a decadence? I
hate to beljpve that. Perhaps it is only the old
order giving place to the new, and before the
socialism of the next century, the over-devel
oped individualism and selfishness is necessay
to make smooth the road for tbe political gos
pel. It cannot be a healthy development when
the poor are starving at every street corner and
the luxury of the rich is eating into their lives
until the family relation, and with it all spirit
uality, is crc shed out by pure force or unbri
dled excess of comfort.
“It may be part of that puritanism of which
you accuse me, but I don't think it is half as
easy to lead a high life in the midst of such
luxury and comfort as is invited in the modern
interior as it was in tbe old-fashioned houses
where the Bible was the chief ornament of the
parlor; not that I mean to say that oruamenta
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necessary, or luxury and religion antagonistic;
only, somehow, one grows to take false views
of things, and to be bound by wants of the body.
The soul gathers spiritual dust as the brie a-
brae does, the actual dust.
‘The fact is I am just in the frame of mind
to see more heroic sacrifice in the life of Daniel
than in that of St. John 1 do not wonder tae
great prophet went up three times a day to pray
toward Jerusalem. He must have been glad to
leave the corruption of the court. 1
Mothers, W innie Davis touches the key note!
Life is not complete simply because we dress
and chatter. There is an inner life to be fed
and‘cultivated. Talk to your little ones as
Happy;Mother does and tbe good that results
will astonish you.
Lorena, Ximina, you are to come over here
and tell me all about yonr homes and hopes.
Fondly. mothkk Hubbard.
“TRANSPLANTED.”
“A fragile flower bloomed one day,
Beneath a gray rock’s sheltering shade
The busy reaper parsed that way.
And quickly fiasbed the shining blade.
Why dost our fairest buds destroy?
O, reaper, with your shining blade.
They are our sweetest greatest joy;
Iu utr sunshine pud in shade.
The Lord commanded me to cut,
The sweetest fairest I could find,
From mansion home and lowly hut;
a gather them ai. d closely bind.
They’ll bloom again in Heaven above,
And grace the garden sweetly fair,
Where all is everlasting joyful i ve,
For (Jurist our Savior reigneth there.”
Aida.
OUB FAIR VIRGINIAN.
Dear Mother Hubbard: “Dare to be a Daniel”
I stand quietly at the door of. not a lion’s den,
but at the door of tbe dear little Mother’s heart,
and ask, oh so beseechingly, may 1 enter?
For nearly two years tbe Surky South has
mysteriously found its way to my home, and
gladly have its ptges been carefully read, but
that sacred little corner reserved for the House
hold is that portion of the paper 1 delight most
in. Now is it not natural that I should seek ad
mittance into so charming a place and become
one of you?
i live in the midst of the tobacco region and
quite near tbe great market of that odic us weed
namely Danville. Last year the Dan overflowed
its banks and much was destroyed. Half of the
narrow gauge tnssel went down stream, and
pai t of it lodged in a tree.
If 1 am given tbe band of welcome, one more
little school inarm” will be added to your list.
I have taught only one term and think teach
ing “young ideas” improves tbe teacher if any
thing moie than the scholars. One of my scholars
married in May aud he \vas older than 1 so 1 am
no oLi maid. Love and books are tbe two sub
jects most discussed by the equsiiis. Books I
rave read by the hundreds from Scott and Dick
ens, Libbty, May Agnts Flemming, Augusta
Evans Wi.’son. The Duicbets Bertha Clay, and
others too numerous to write.
Love! Love is something many feel but few
describe. Even 1 must seek the words of anoth-
* A heai fuli of coldness, a sweet full of
bitterness a pain full of pleasantness which
maketo thoughts have eyes and hearts and ears.
This is love.”
Pardon me, too long already have I stayed. I
m going.
Will anyone welcome Louena?
Cottage Hill, Va
live two miles from any church, of course they
never attend Sabbath school. My stories are
mostly Bible stories. I commenced at the fint
and gave them the story of the creation, then
went on picking out such as they could com
prehend of course. I am now telling them the
story of Christ’s life and death. They never
tire of hearing of (Jurist’s travels and talks with
his apostles, his miracles and his kind words.
I never carry them beyond their comprehen
sion. Ob, I wish you could know them. Mother
Hubbard! Their little hearts are filled with
love for God, and they never tire of talking of
His greatness Other children here attend the
Sabbath school regularly, but mine are more
familiar with the Bible and mo r e moral than
they for I teach them every day. My whole
time is spent for my children If I read and
study, it is to teach them; and keep myself
posted that I may be the better able to lead
their minds along the rugged road of knowledge.
Oh how I wish every one could eDjoy teaching
their children as well as I do! I thank God so
of en for my darlings They have been my sal
vation, for when they began to come I felt, oh,
so unworthy to fill the responsible position of
mother; and I resolved to make myself worthy
of the trust God had placed in me, or spend my
life in prayer. I pray yet, day and night. I
pray for help and guidance to raise my little
ones aright. And God helps me oh so much, so
much. If it was not for His help I never could
do the work I do, and raise my children aright,
Don’t think Mother Hubbard that I humor and
>oiled. Not i
d demand oi.^
dience to my commard; but I always try to lie
reasonable in everything and consult their
pleasure as much as I can, for their welfare. I
never tell them an untruth about anything and
demand th ruthful ness from them. I am uev^r
harrih with them, but wheu I tell them postive
ly to do anything, I punish them with a switch
ing if they fail to do it. I think muny mothers
ru n their children by grumbling aud quarrel
ing at them. My health has always been bad
ami sometimes I feel cross and il\ but I crush
all such feelings back and give my husband and
children only smiles aud pleasant words, for
are they not all this world to me? and must '
it because I feelbadlj.
. ith which I fight the
world. I carry everything to God, and ask Ilis
help with all my troubles: and He never fails to
give me help au- strength.
’Tis a wonder to me how some people can get
along without asking God’s help. Sometimes I
wonder if I do not tire Him, when I go to Him
so often then I remember how often he has told
us to ‘ flome unto Him.” My heart overilows
with thankfulness every d-y, for His tender
mercies and watchful care ot His earthly chil
dren Oh, how I wish I could fill every one’i
heart full of love and thankfulness to God.
With a prayer for the salvation of all the
Householders I am a,
Happy Mother.
WOMAN’S WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
XIMTNA’S GREETING.
Dear Hoisuioldebs: For many months I
have stood timidiy at the door of this delightful
home circle, lorging yet fearing to enter, and
now that 1 have summoned courage enough to
knock, will not some one bid me come in?
I enjoy ibis column in tbe dear old sunny
South very much, and wish I knew all the
writers personally.
Dear Earnest Willie: How your patient endu
rance should put to shame the muruiurings of
those who tore blessed with health. Your weak
ness is made strength, for your influence for
good is much greater than ii you were strong
physically
Caiolin* I enjoy yonr letters very much, and
wish you would write every week. I believe
congenial spirits will find each other through
the medium of this column much more readily
than in the social circle, for here a e are our
true selves, with only our names assumed,while
in society we are too often ourselves in name
only, our words and actions being only masks
for the deeper fee<iugs of our hearts
Have any of j on read ‘angel in the Cloud,”
by Edwin Fuller? I think Hone of the grandest
poems I ever read. His comparison ol life to a
web and all human beings to the weavers is
beautiful. Ah! what dingy rags some of us are
wearing, and how leldoni do we bathe in
“The fountain filled with blood.”
Did you ever imagine yourself some one else,
and work through the eyes of another. While
such a view of myself has never afforded me
any degree of satifaction. yet when I return to
mv own individuality after such a glimpse of
myself “as others see me,” it j 8 always with a
deeper longing to reach my ideal and Lowell
says:
“Longing moulds in clay what life canes in the
marble resL”
I like beautiful poems, and regard them as
second only to religion in a refining iLflnence
n %srinViestilother Bnbberd may banish me
from her household, I ask some one to make a
place In her heart lor AiriSi.
A BAPPY MOTHER.
Bias Mothkk Hybbskd; Will you accept one
of the veiy poor claaa In yonr happy household?
I hare been reading “The effect on youth of
doubtful anecdotes,'’ on fourth page of your
Paper of June the 28th, and I wish to tell you
how I teach my little ones. Maybe It will help
some one that is « Poor a. myself
I hare six children living, and so we are
... . . „ , - - too poor to hire help. I do all my work-
with engraved top, £11; a Malacca cane, ironing, scouring, yard cleaning,
with gold top, £8; a bamboo cane, with cooking and stewing, besides the care ot my
bloodstone top, inlaid with gold, and a' one, i» n d they are all small) and the
hazel walking stick, with gold top, £13 ! catching, darning and nursing; bnt while I’at
10a.; a tortoise shell stick, with amber top, at work I’m talking all the time. I tell them
and'* cane with amber crutch. £KL stories whenever they call for them, end aa we
A Lady's Experience in New York Fif
teen Years Ago.
A prominent lady ot Brooklyn tells
me that even fifteen years ago women in
offices down town in New York were
unknown. When she first came east
her husband was not so prosperous as he
is now, aud she determined to act as his
bookkeeper while he went abroad “hus
tling” for the business. The owner of
the building in which the office was re
fused her permission to do so, at^if it
had been proposed to bring a leper or
smallpox patient into the house. She
went to see him, aud begged and pleaded
and brought credentials to prove that
she was the properect kind of a woman.
He conld see for himself that she was a
pretty one. It was only her own hus
band whose office she was going into,
and the business would be apt to go to
ruin if she did not thus take a hand.
Finally this eminently respectable gen
tleman went around to the other tenants
of the offices in the building, and asked
them one by one if they would move ont
in case he permitted Mrs. Blank to enter
the walls of that sacred masculine struc
ture. They considered the matter and
concluded to stay, and for several years
my friend went regularly to the office,
taking often her little girl with her and
keeping her all day. And now there is
scarcely a down town office of any im
portance that has not one or more women
in it as typewriters or clerks of some
kind. Many of them earn $18 and $20 a
week, often more.
The Illustrated American publishes,
witli their portraits, sketches of the
women lawyers who have been admitted
to practice before the supreme court of
the United .States. They are good look
ing women, all of them. The first one
admitted was Mrs. Belva Lockwood.
The next, in 1S87, was Laura de 'a Force
Gordon, of California. Mrs. Gordon
drafted the following clause, wliich was
inserted in the new state constitution of
California: “No person shall, on account
of sex, be disqualified from entering upon
or pursuing any lawful business, voca
tion or profession.” Ada M. Bitten-
bender, of Nebraska, was admitted iu
1888. Tlie fourth woman was Carrie
Burnham Kilgore, of Philadelphia. A
good year for the women lawyers has
been 18D0, no less than "three having re
ceived permission to practice before the
supreme epurt this year. They are Clara
S. Foltz, of California; Lelia Robinson
Sawtelle, of Boston, and Emma M. Gil-
lett, of W ashington. Miss Gillett is the
only unmarried lady on the list. On her
wedding tour in April at Washington,
where all brides go, Mrs. Sawtelle was
admitted to the supreme court. Mrs.
Foltz is a tali, bright, handsome, merry
woman, who can get $100 a night lectur
ing, and is fond of good clothes. She
stumped California in the interest of
tariff reform during the last presidential
campaign.
A pleasant party or women, among
them Alice Stone Blackwell, have gone
off by themselves to camp on the banks
of Lake Memphremagog. Mrs. Isabel
Barrows is another of this jolly party.
The only representatives of the mascu
line sex permitted in the camp are two
boys—one 5, the other 15 years old.
The British house of lords hare sol
emnly settled that women may not sit
in county councils. They were afraid
that women would he contaminated by
ooming in contact with what Earl Cow-
per called the “dirty part of the business
of politics.” There might be some dan
ger of this, if other men were like the
blackguards and blacklegs who have he
reditary seats among the noble lords of
the British house of peers.
Young womankind of today seem to
be dividing themselves sharply into two
desses—the working girls whose business
it is to earn a living for themselves
help others, and society girls whose
business it is to hunt a husband.
COULDNT FOOL THE CAMERA.
A Probable Clew to tbe Juggling of the
Indian Fakirs.
A year or so ago Mr. Frederick S. Ell-
more, of Chicago, visited India accompa
nied by a college classmate, Mr. George
Lessing, of New York. The former is an
amateur photographer and tbe latter has
LESSING’S SKETCH OF THE CLIMBING BOX.
considerable ability as an artist. While at
Gaya they witnessed the performance of
an expert Indian juggler, who caused
plants to grow, produced a boy from under
a blanket, cut him to pieces, broc ht him
back to life and then sent him climbing up
a rope to vanish from sight in upper air.
The youug men made a record of tbe
strange things they saw, Mr. Lessing using
his pencil and Mr. Ellmore his camera.
When the artist and photographer com
pared results they found that what their
eyes had seen the camera refused to record.
Said Mr. Ellmore iu a recent chat with a
Chicago Tribune reporter:
“Lessing’s sketch shows the tree grown
from the hush, while the camera showB
there was no bush there. Lessing saw a
baby, and so did I, and he has got it in his
sketch, but the camera demonstrates that
there was no baby. Lessing’s sketch of
the boy climbing the twine is evidence that
he saw it, but the camera says there was
no boy and no twine. From which I’m
compelled to believe that my theory is ab
solutely correct—that the fakir had simply
U IPIECRDE1TED ITTRiCTIOl!
Onr I Million MsttflwMn
LOUISIANA STATE LOTTKBY CO.
Incorporated by tbe Legislature for educe-
tlonalend Charitable purpose*, and itafranchlw
made a pert of the present State Constitution.
In 1879, by an overwhelming popular
To continue until .
January ist 1895
rra mammoth
DRAWIVa8 take jttaee BemA-Anmmlke.
(June and December), and Ue ORANp
8JNOLS NUMBER DRAWING8 tab*
place in each of the oUusrten month* •( the
year, and are all drawn in public, at the
Academy of Marie, New Ortemne, La,
FAMFD FOB TWENTY YEARS FOB
Integrity of IU Drawings and
Prompt Payment of Prizes.
Attested aa followa:
“ We do hereby certify that we eupenter
the arrangements far all the Monthly
and Semi Annual Drawing* of the Louies-
ana State Lottery Company, and in person
manage and control the Drawing* them•
eelvee, and that the same are conducted
with honesty, fairness and in good_ faith
toward alt parties, and we authorize the
Company to use thts certificate with fac
simile* of our signatures attached, in its
advertisements.”
THERE WAS NO BOT.
hypnotized the* entire crowd, but couldn’t
hypnotize the camera. I’m going to write
out a history of the aff«iir and have copies
made of the pictures and forward them
to the London Society for Psychical Re
search. I have no doubt it will make good
use of them.”
She Thought Herself Beautiful.
The dogged purpose of the Russian waa
eloquently shown in the steadfast lips of
Marie Bashkirtseff y and there was the sign
of her high, quick temper .and impatience
of all restraint in the slightly inflated ;
trils.
An idea of her coloring and expression
can be best given by quoting some of her
own naive expressions:
“My hair is the color of gold. I am
white and pink, pretty as an angel—or as a
woman.”
“Oh, my God, I feel that I am beautifuL”
“I look like Beatrice di Cenci.”
“My complexion looked absolutely da*-
zling, and so delicate, so soft, the cheeks
scarcely rosy; the only strong points of
color were the lips, the eyebrows and the
eyes.”
And this precocious, radiant, misunder
stood genius, filled with boundless ambi
on aud immeasurable egotism, lived only
long enough to leave in half a dozen paint
ings a promise of greatness as un artist.
Her splendid illusions, her visions and
plans, her adoration of her own beauty
ended at 24. What might have been an
unparalleled life for a woman faded into
an epitaph on a tomb.
Daintily Designed Napkins.
Housekeepers have lately found a pleas
ant pastime in the decoration of napkins
suitable for use with various dishes. There
are fish napkins, embroidered in tiny shells,
sea weed and coral; egg napkins, embroid
ered with chickens in shades of yellow silk;
corn napkins, with ears of corn partly un
covered, the grains showing; biscuit and
potato napkins, with nonsense rhymes em
broidered in the corners, aud other nap
kins too numerous to mention. They are
used of course to cover the dishes contain
ing the article to which they are dedicated,
keep it hot until served.
The Sioux City Corn Palace.
The corn palace at Sioux City, la., prom
ises to be more novel, beautiful and at
tractive than in preceding years. It will
of Arabic desigu, and will cover an area
204 by 204 feet, with a main tower 170
feet tall. The principal room will be oc-
;onal in shape and have a diameter of
166 feet. Daylight will be excluded, and
the ceiling will be of sky painted canvas
Commissioners.
We the undersigi ed Bants and Bardeen
will pay all Prizes drawn in The Louisiana
State Lotteries which may be presented ah
our counters,
B. M. Wain sly, Pres. Louisiana Nat. Bk.
Pierre Lsdskx, Free. State Nat’l Bank.
A. Baldwin, Pres. New Orleans Nat’l. Bk.
Carl Kohn, Pr s. Union National Bank.
Grand Monthly Drawing,
At the Academy of Music, Few Orleans
Taooday, September 9, 1890.
CAPITAL PRIZE $300,000.
100,000 Tickets at |20; Halves flO; Quarter*.
$5; Tenths $2; Twentieths fl.
Lin or rBizxs.
1 PRIZE OF |.°,90,000 18 - 1300,006
1 PRIZE OF tlOO.OOO 18 • - ilU0.o0Q
1 PRIZE OF 50.000 is • - • - 51,006
1 PRIZE OF 23.000 is • • 23,000
2 PRIZES OF 10,000 are - - 2'.OOP
5 PRIZES OF 10,000 are - - 0 000
25 PRIZE8 OF 1.000 are - 25.000
100 PRIZES OF 500 are - - - 5\00C
200 PRIZES OF 300 are - - - 60 000
500 PRIZES OF 200 art - * * • l JU.000
approximation rum.
100 Prizes of # 300 are - 30,000
100 Prises of 200 are - - - 23,000
TERMINAL PRIZES.
909 Prizes of ICO are - 99,900
999 Prizes of 100 are 99,900
3.134 Frizes amounting to -. §1,154 80D
AGENTS WANTED.
BSFFor Club Bates, or ary innker Ii joiira.
tion desired, write legibly to ti e ULdeif’gud.
clearly stating your reeidecce, with (cun.
S j. Street and huirber. Mere- rzyid Him x »f]
elivery will te aetuied fcy jour etc!ci«!r i
Envelope bearing ycur full addrew.
IMPORTANT.
Addrt ss M. A. DAUPHIN,
New Orleans, La,
or M. A. DAUPHIN,
Washington, D. C.
By ordinary letter, containing Money Order
issued by all Express Com; suits, bew York
Exchange, Draft or foetal Note.
Address registered letters con
taining currency to
NEW OBLEANS NATIONAL BANK
New Orleans, La.
R EMEMBER that the present charter of the
Louisiana State Lottery Company, which
the Supreme Court of tbe U. 8. has decided to
be a Contract with the State of Louisiana and
part of the Constitution of the State, does not
expire until the first of January, 1895.
The Legislature of Louisiana, which ad
journed on the 10th of July of tbis year, has
ordered an amendment to tbe Constitntion of
the State to be submitted to the People 8t an
election in 1892, which will carry the charter of
The Louisiana State Lottery Com pan y up to the
year Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen.
k iy§|pfift4
IIOW THE PALACE WILL LOOK,
dotted with incandescent lights arranged
to simulate stars. The auditorium, 100 by
100 feet in size, will be given over to
musical entertainments. The remainder
of the space is to be reserved for exhibits.
The decorations planned for the corn pal
ace are said to be of superb design. In ad
dition a parade is announced for which
the claim is made that it will eclipse any
thing of the sort ever seen. The festival
begins Sept. Si and ends Oct. 11.
A Tew Facta.
There seems to be some uisapprahen
sion with regard to tbe time wten the
present charter o? Tbe Louisiana State
Lottery expiree. It is tine that tbe com
pany baa applied for a new charter, and
on the 10th of July of this year the leels-
latnre ordered that an amendment to the
constitntion of the State be submitted to
the people at the election in 1898. Than,
the charter of tbe company will be car
ried np to the year 1919. However, the
present character which bad been ratified
by tbe Supreme Court ot the United
States, doe* not expire until the Bret of
January 1896 The application for its
extension was merely a matter of ton
tine legislation, and there is not the
■lightest doubt that when the present
charter has expired, the people of
Louisiana will order IU continuance till
1919. The management of Gentrala
Beauregard and Early baa challenged
tbe admiration of all men both In tlie
country and abroad. Tbe high character
and storing Integrity of these gentlemen
le the beet guarantee that the company
will fully justify the confidence pine d
in it by ihe State of Louisiana—New Or
leans;(La.)Timet-Demccrai, August&.
IT TOVM MACK ACMES
Or you are an worm out, really good fi>r nothing
r s- A it is general debility. Try
Z 9 „ MEOWS’* IKON MITTSM8.
(M4l^4//YrC4ia4f(/ CfhMttA-/ , It trillenreyotb imd^re a goortappetlic. Sold
Tbe Florida Trunk Lino,
THE FLORIDA CENTRAL
AND
PENINSULAR RAILWAY.
Formerly the F. R. A N. Co-, offers lscress*
facilities this season for travel to Florida, haw
lng in addition to its old and popular tonnsc
tion,
The Louisville A Nashville R. B.,
at River Junction, arranged through its new
connection the
Georgia Southern and Florida,
(the Suwannee River route to Florida) for quick
service from North and North-western points.
The road has now no less then
Six Pointe of Connectione with the
North,
namely, Fernand in*, Callahan, Jacksonville,
Live Oak, Lake City and River Junction.
The Florida Central and Peninsular Ball
Road
•eat artery of travel through the finest
Florida, traversing tweuty /our coun
ties—Gadsden, Jefferson, Duval Alachua, Lake,.
Pasco, Leon, Suwannee Kasbaw, Leroy, Orangtv.
Hillsboro, Wakulla, Columbia, Clav. Marlon.
Polk, Manatee, Maditon, Baker. Bradford, Sum
ter, Hernando and DeSoto—in their richest por»
tions. It runs through the
Middle Florida Region of Hill Courtry?
where are the fine old
Farming Lands,
and the new
Tobacco Farms,
(reached by no other line) some of them con
ducted on a large scale. Here are Quincy, Tal-
lahsssee, tbe capital, Mon lire! lo. Mhdison and
I other towns, from ivboe comfortable, ample
*— *- a fertr-
to emri
Stretcl
The Peach Country
of Baker Bradford, Alachua and Levy c cnutiaOy
through the prosperous
Strawberry Farms
of Lawtey Starke and Waldo— perhaps Miperlo?
in profit to the orange grove—it goes through
the heart of the State, penetrating home of its
finest groves, one body being
70,000 Fail-bearing Orange Trees,
passing nearly a mile between them—makingite
way Southward to the Gulf, and to the more-
tropical sections of the State*
In all portions of the State it reaches points o?
Scenic Interest*
Wakulla Springs in tbe West, the Suwannea
river, as beautiful aud romantic as it is f&mouar
Silver Springs, in the lake region, and tbs
Lakes
themselves, with their surroundings of rolllns
land, interspersed with pleasant homes in green
groves, sloping down to tbe clear lake fronts
By means of this road you can most readily
reach the
Hunting and Fishing Grounds
of the State. Tarpon fishing has of late attracted
much attention from enterprising sportsmen.
We are the shortest line to ibis region.
The settler will find on the line of this rood a
neater opportunity for a varied selection of
land than on any other road in the 8tate—from
lightest soils to those underlaid with clay and
marl, and of richest hammock—whether for
Regular Mixed Farming, Stock or Dairy
Farming, Peach or Strawbenv Colt*
tare, Orange Groves and Vege
table Gardena.
The tourist will be gratified with its scenery,
the health-seeker on its ample route can find
some spot adapted to his wants. On Ota hard
clay roads of
Middle Florida
the horseman will ride with speed and satMen
tion and the Florida Central and Pensacola g
Sportman’a Route
of old.
from Northern connection
having tickets over the Florida Central and
Feninaular to points in South Florida have tho
privilege of bring taken into Jacksonville arm
Oie Company’s line and allowed a stop-over wtth-
In the going limits of the ticket, with return to
their nratelor destination free of extra ehiim
Bend for heat map of Florida. Mailed free
MacDonxll, G. P. A..
„ _ _ , _ Jacksonville, Florida.
N. 8* Pennington, Trafiic Manager.
D. I Maxwell, General Manager.
CHICHNTCVt** CNQUM
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