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6 THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA. SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER &9, 1890. CHAT. Th«re §e« ms to be some deep-heated error in the midst of most homes and 1 ran see no way to reach it. Christianity is taught inn vay to do little food. I heard a girl say last wee* that she at tended Sabbath-school ten ye ai> and the same rontine had been repeated until there was noth ftng more to be gained. Then the readings at home weren’t n nch better. She had never read Esther ror Isaiah until hhe accidenty opened her book there and became interested. This reck'ees iush after position and society has much to do with it. The alaiming number of suicides this year sets one to thinkii g~has the BiMe been taught as it should? How esn one n member that the suicide is cue with no chance for the soul and yet venture across the line that divides time and eternity? Ere another week has jassed we shall cele brate Thanksgiving day. Each home will re call the past and all the good that has been theirs. If they do not celebrate it, the mere fact that it is a day set ajait ior that purpose will prevent the* thougl t not rising—am 1 thankful? Have 1 made pood use of the benefits bestowed? And then the losses ar.d crosses will rise. Can you cast your mind over all the sunshine and Indian summers we have had? Nol 1 hen you know the mercies have outnumbered the crosses. If we sre not as well on our way we were one year ago let us be thankful that life has been spared ns to retrace cur misguided footsteps. The City of Content is not in sight: last year it was. We took w hat was pointed out as short cut by Folly, aLd the music and incense mate us foiget to keep to the right, and so here we are far from home and deserted by our guide. • ****• In this sunny clime the leaves are not yet off the trees, and as I write I see the w anton breeze rudely stirring tht m and sending & shower of gold upon my desk and on the window* sill. First the seed, and in time the harvest that results from caie or nt gli ct. The first one to be proud of if we did our best, be the yield ten or an hundred fold. If the latter, may the Father forgive us and help us to earnestly strive with our next venture. ****<« »> » What becomes of our premising young men? Every June tht y ere turned loose from colleges all over the laud. They have diplomas and the latest style of self cent eit and toon threaten to overturn all cur simple ways. But that’s t:>e lastoftbtm. Like the leaves they serve their day and what beet mes of them? Andrew Car negie says college training is rot a good thing for a business man. Son e eminent con tempo rary. who has bad said training:, says it is; and so ri ns the world. When one man makes his mark upon the high pinnacle many are climb ing to, all want to know his method and are sure that’s the way for them. Then why don’t esch one immediately mount the intervening space? for the same rea'son that what strengthens your nerves may slatur mine. There is no royal road,and we mrstaJl go forth to meet the future Clad in Bight ecu si ess and with a brave heart. ••What though unmarked the happy workman toil. And break unthf.nked of man the stubborn clod? eno'V'V.. to* sacred is the soil; U ***JL>ear are the hills of God- Far better in its place the lowliest bird 8hould ning aright to Him the lowliest song, Than that a seraph strayed should take the word And sing llis glory wrong. Faithfully yours, Mote er Hubp.aud. HOW CLEVERTINA MANAGED. BY MARION DURHAM. (Concluded ) He came cn breathless and soon the square envelope was In her own hand, tihe trembled as though she bad suddenly been stricken with palsy while she broke the seal. There was a letter written in a woman’s beautiful hand and above all there were ciisp greenbacks fresh as the leaves of spring and to her just then far more welcome. The twochildren fora moment teemed dumb with astonishment. ‘ Where did they come from?” her brother asked in tones broken for want of breath. “I sent a rich lady at the North a poem and a little sketch,” laid CUvertinn, ‘and sbe has sent me this. It is all yours,” sbe cried. ‘-Take It and go to school ” She laughed and cried, too; her young brother, forgetting where he was, acted as thougn the church was a circus and he a youug clown. He tumbled a somersault and yelled like an Indian brandishing his tomahawk. Finally be sub- aided, aim kissing his sister, told her he loved her more than be did any thing on earth: which ao filled the wild, impulsive heait of Cievertina she vowed to herself she would tell as many more storks for as many more bills. Giving her brother the notes while she re' tafned the letter, ihe twochildren starteo off in full trot to lee which could be the first to tell the news. Cievertina lingered behind and read aud reread her letter, it was full of a uoble wo man's sympathy, ar.d closed by offering to her shelter in the rady s own house, where she oould attend a private school with tne rich lady’s own children. At this the girl laughed to herself, saying: “The Ethiopian cannot chaDge his skin and ■either can the Caucasian. 1 am uot clever •aough to do that • She was a girl of few associates: she lived within hersell and read a gieat deal while not devising how to turn the machinery of the household as smoothly and as economically as possible. That her brother might have every advantage was the aim of her life. She livec for that alone. All compunction of conscience vanished as she water.ed his rapidly disappear ing back, made veiy indistinct by the cloud of dust be and his smaller sister were kicking up, each endeavoring to win the race, so as to be the fiis-t to tell the news. tibe laughed softly to herself and half clapped her hands while she thought how cleverly and ■uccessfuily she had deceived the rich Northern lady. But still there was a feeling of ihame in her glee. Still she thought the lady would never miss the money and it would do her a world of good. Many were the stories and poems, Hard labor different papers and magazines eagerly accepted from her without one oiler of pay; and Clevtriiua resolved that if she could not travel the straight and narrow way to litera ture successfully she would leek < ut some by path, as Chatienoii and Mm pherson bad done. And thei aud there she not only resolved she would keep the money, but also that she would win more if she could in the shit e way. And so for the time leii g Cievertina trampled udou her conscience as all of us do sometimes, the tore the letter into i rag men ts as small as sacrament chips and toned tht m to tr e w ii d. The breath less account given by the children to the moth er, each trying to speak loudt r ti an the otln r, at first made tl.eir story rather<i nfusing, but at last, howc ver, she c*« mj-rt h» nded a nd win n Cievertina oienod the door of her home the arms of the entuc housed old were held out to receiveh« r, just as the mouths of > nest of young birds sre opened wine ro tic very bottom of their yeliow* threats when the oid mother bird is heard to approach.* “Give ne tie letWand let me read it.” said the mothei. “the must be an unuei and we Will all b ess her ” "Where is it? Wf ere is it’ I must have lost It!” cried Cievertina^ agl ast and excited while feeling in impossib c* places for j»» cketsi and ending by putting Iotb bends up to 1 er head in a helpless way as though she were endeavoring to flunk. “near me! How 1 would love to have read it,” said her mother. T l eu the two children eager ly offered to go sesreb for the missingfotier and Cievertina thanked them so warmly and anx iously they rust ed out of the door and their bacis disappear* d a* rapidly up the road In search of it as they had » ut a few moments be fore disrupt areu dowu the road each striving to be the first to tell the mot» t r the wonderful news. But that letter never again saw the light of day, and its lots was long d< plored in tee household. “I never knew you to be so careless, my child,” her mother often said. And then see ing Clevertfnn’s r orta/Iy WGundeo look she would generally odd: “1 hat is your ♦ x< use. J never knew yon to be eo careiiis, my f*vir, swet oUld Bin the gift from that dear ladv. rr ay the Lord bless her, was c uch a mrpiisi 1 cannot wondtr that you lost the letter.” gome time afterward snrtl*cr Teller c*mo; it W88 from an euitor of u very widely circulated piper. A year before Cievertina had sent him several short stories and a poem or two with the timidest H tie note as chaperone. It wss like a shy little mother with big grown-up daughters to manage. The note no doubt ban injured the sale of her ar idea. But now after waiting a year a letter firm the great editor lay in her hand. He complimented her on her peculiar style, called it strong and fresn,and said if she persevered in time she would be a celebrated woman. In a postscript he added while listening to her story being read be forgot it was fiction, it was told so much like the truth. Then be asked her to become a regular contrib utor. stating his terms which seemed enormous to Cievertina. And she with a bound that would make the wildest goat that ever grazed on the Highlands of Scotland ashamed of himself, went tearing to her mother. After reading the letter, the good irotinr, fearing her chill wis getting too smart and that an early death might claim her, spent the resi of the d-*y in prayer and reading her Bible. Now began a great reac tion with this voting heroine, She became horoughly ashamed of her dec^ptto t and seek ingout her broth* r she foot him .. ide; and making him declare the longest day he ever lived he would never tell, she n-ade a fuli con fession. He was jubilant. And declared it was the cleverest thing he bud ever heard. * So she loves blackbirds more than she does white swans!’* he said. ** v\ on’t she reach up her back like a cat when she finds you cut? 1 thought it was mis lily curious yon lost that letter, sis!” Clevertinu did not think he had thought so at all, but she never said anything She did not think he deserved the masculine form her name would make- Clevertinus While he was not quite so clever as she, his olicr sister, he was assuredly the smartest boy in the world. She lmd often envied him his sex. saying frequently to her mother. ‘If I were your Clevertinus in stead of your Cleveitina, I would be president but men are so stupid, and women cam.ot enter into politics.” “Help me what to say,” sbe asked her brother *'for 1 am going to make her a lull confession. She is a noble woman and I am ashamed of my self.” So together ihey sat down and began each to write a letter. When the boy had writ ten a few lines he began to read the following words aloud to his sifter: "My Dear Madam: I know you will be terribly ashamed when I ted you 1 am not the black crow you think I am, and I am no nigger either, but I am ss fair and freckled faced a white girl as |tbe Caucasian race ever had. And mv nose is as high up as any baby’s ” He finished with a laugh, knowing that her high up nose was his sistei’8 sensitive feature. Then his ideas not coming too rapidly, he threw down bis paper to the mercy of the mind and departed leaving his sister to finish hers alone. Clevertina’s let ter was as follows* My Dear Madam:| * I do not know how to commence,I have so much to be ashamed of. 1 made you believe that I am black, while I am white. I took ad vantage of your preference for the negro race to your own. Come aown here and live wiih us for a while, and you will scon chat ge your mind. It is filmy ideas you love, and not real facts. ‘That is your excuse,’ as my mother would say You believe wbat wicked people tell you, rather than what the good ones say. You allow pity to run before reason. But this is a failure that leans to virtue’s side. "If the North and South could only exchange people for a while, we would soon know each other better. And we might never want to ex change our countries again. Tennyson is right wheu he says the North is true, but false when he says the South is fickle. I love him except for that. “1 love the negro race. Believe me when I say It: but just as the race should be iovea—as an inferior people. I have my excuse for doing what I did: I was poor, aud desired to educate my brother. Other means have since been opened to me, aud I re-urn you your money, thanking you for the gift.. If 1 nave done wrong, tell me. I never refused to be reasoned with. I am high-tempered and impulsive, but 1 am not unreasonable. If you knew me you would forgive me on the spot f«*r what 1 nave done. No ioubt you would laugh and kiss me too. for I am rather pretty thin otherwise And if you and I never meet here ou earth, we may yet laugh together over this in heaven. 1 s gued a black girl’s name to my letter, so if you desire to see me wheu you go to heaven ask the an gels for one, who while ol earth, was called ‘Cievertina.’ Aud it 1 I** -Aai. tkoio, »w»i coming iu, the Elysian Fielu^K) ' > friend!” APPLES OF GOLD. Dear Mother Hubbard: ‘‘a word of kind ness is seldom spoaen in vain, w hile witty say ings are as easily lost as pearls slipping liom a string.” 1 came acioss U ese words not long sii.ee while looking over a magazine, and they set me to thinking of a fiiend 1 used to love hut who had become esiranged from me through a cruel misunderstanding. I am not one to give up old friends without regret or grief, audaiihcugh this one had done me great injustice and words of bitter anger and reproach had passed between us, 1 felt re morseful when 1 had time for sober thought. I was uo longer angry, hut only sorry—sorry to the bottjiu of my heart. It seemed hard to be so misjudged, but 1 subdued tue se.tisn spirit mat rose up within me, aud sent my friend a letter, full of love and forgiveness, and confessed inyseil partly to blame for the estrangement. Long aud patiently 1 waited, but uo answer came, is it stiauge then inal with this experi ence still fresh in my heart, 1 read the sentence at the beginning ol mis letter ana turned away with a utile smile? "A pretty sentiment, but like many other beautiful thiugs it is false ” I said, as 1 thought o i the friend 1 had lost. Strange, indeed, it seemed to me a lew days later to re cti v» a letter from my friend explaining the long silence and blessing me a thousand times 1 for the kind words contained in my letter. **i did you cruel wrong,” the writer said, “but now 1 know you are the best friend 1 have on earth.” How bright seemed me world, and how light my heart, alter reading this letter! ‘A kind word is never entirely lost,” I repeated softly. No bitter smile accompanied the words this time, lor the biessiug ol ireace had fallen upon my heart. Himina, i claim you as a kindred spirit for your thoughts are similar to my own, men you love poetry aud that makes me love you. Vet alas! how much dross is mixed with the gold of poetry now-a days! At a meeting of the Literati, I believe it was in New York, some one askea ior a definition of poetry and received this reply. ‘ Poetry is thought, fused with passion, aud rhythmically expressed.” Taking mis answer for a standard, how littie of our so-calied poeiry would bear analysis? It is no wonder that Cyclo thought the editor would go crazy in less than six mouths if he read all the poetry that came to his office. But we will uot uisciaim the merits of good poetry simpiy because there are counter feits. Bather let us remember with Oliver Kendall Hoimes:__ Time wrecks the proudest piles we raise, The towels, the comes, the temples fall; s The fortress trembles and decays, One breath of song outlasts them all. We welcome you, Happy Mother. We are neither too gay nor gidey to read your cheerful, helpful letters V hat a blessing in any house hold is such a spirit as yours! Mother Hubbard your subject for discussion, “The Business Woman—Is She Marriageable?” seems to have been a happy thought, as some of our best wiiteis engaged m the contest for the prize. I thought Mary Wilson’s essay etpecially gOO' 4 . , Lut., little Mother, if such diseussioi s are going to keep us from enjoying your pleasant I “Chats’” please let’s not have any more. I Earnest Willie, 1 agree with you in thinking McEeath a fine writer. 1 have his Biophis” and ‘ October in the Cumberland Mountains” in my scrapbook. . The evenings are delightfully long and p’eas- J ant now, and with Mother Huhbaid s permis- j- sion, 1 would like to, suggest to the younger members ana readers of the Household to spend pari of each evening in rending ana study, in this age of general progress aud enlightenment, ignorance in almost entirely inexcusable. 11 we cannot have the aovaniageof a collegiate ed- ut utiou, and even if some of us are denied the privilege el attending good schools, books axe* within reach of us a J, and we must read , Mini study, or he leit far behind in the rate alter knowledge*. I think the mental pleasures far superior to bodily ones, yet 1 know gills wno spend all their sp*re time doing lancy woik and fashioning thu gs for outwaid ad ornment. Not long since, a weii-infoin ed young man met a stylishly dressed young lady, and on trying io talk tober about looks, found her almost a | Plunk. As a final effort to draw her out he re- j marked:"! suppose you have read Laiia Rookh,’ j Jwi-s M ?” * Yes ” answered the young Jaay. ‘1 have read some of his works.” Particularly Tom Moore,’ ’’ejaculated the y< ung man in disgust. We cannot all be lay* figures In this busy, workaday world. We n ust prepare our-il\es for a useiui life, at least. Let us each and ail , "Do noble thin s—not dream them all daylong, And thus make life, death, anu eternity One grand, sweet song.” PERSONAL MENTION What the People Are Doing and Saving. Rudyard Kipling, the famous young novelist, is broken down in health. Cornelius Vanderbilt is said to use 1,000 •ailing cards every season. Notwithstanding his advanced years, Dr. OU ver Wendell Holmes still receives friends ■ad strangers. Joseph Wehrling, of New Orleans, says he is the only surviving member of the Black Hawk war. Senator Leland Stanford is understood to have spent 0960,000 on art during his re cant European trip. John L. Sullivan, Nat Goodwin and Haary EL Dixey were members of the same oiaas in the Boston high school in T’t Von Moltke is a teetotaller, even to beer, aad many Germans wonder how he ever seached his present great age without it. J. B. Carter, of New York, won the BHnnecke scholarship in Princeton col lege. It puts $1^00 in the winner’s pocket. John Brisben Walker, The Cosmopoli tan’s proprietor, is several times a million aire, and made all his money mining and ranching in Colorado. Rev. James W. Ford has been for more than half a century a missionary in China aad was the founder of the first Christian shnrch in that country. Senator Berry, of Arkansas, is one of toe paarest men in congress. He lives in a very economical way and relies on his salary to pay his bills. Dumas, the novelist, has aged greatly. Despite his years he bears himself gallant ly, and at the recent wedding of bis daugh ter he was the life of the company. The oldest general in France, and proba bly in the world, is Gen. Mauiluit, who is 100 years old. He has never askeu to be retired, and he still figures among the offi cers of the reserve. Gen. Gourko, the Russian commander who became famous in the Balkans during I gtothe ‘ fc—<i» TALMASE’S SERMON. y^r--.-T T-7 Nov. to—The interest 1* tni nocks mixed up, ana to one M r with the habits of shepherds aad hocks, hopelessly mixed up. And a tea U r appears on the scene and dia- >tly demands some of those sheep, he owns not one of them. “ Well,” any the two honest shepherds, “we will aoon settle this matter,” and one shepherd goes out in one direction and the other shepherd goes oat in the other direction, andthesheepstealer in another direction, and each one calls, and the flocks of each mt the honest shepherds rush to their owner, while the sheepstealer calls and calls again, but gets not one of the flock. No wonder that Christ, years after, preach ing on a great occasion and illustrating his own shepherd qualities, says: “When he putteth forth his own sheep he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice, and the stranger they will not follow, for they know not the voice «t the stranger.” The sides of these hitia are terraced for grapes. The boy Christ often stood with great round eyi of serr .ons in which Dr. Talmage is watching the trimming of the grapevines. describing his recent tour in Palestine and Qj|p| t b e knife u( | Q fj f a ij s a branch, inculcating gospel lessons suggested by bis (to t i, e f ariner> ‘" What theme increases from week to week. There you do that forf” “Oh,” says the farm- was never so large a crowd at any one of er, “that is a dead branch and it is doing toe previous eight *rmons as there was aothing and is only in the way, so I cat it today around the Brooklyn Academy of Then the farmer with his sharp knife Music in the morning and at The Christian f- om a living branch this and that Herald service in the evening, the ninth ser- ^^1 a ,„} tlle othor tendril. “But, mon. Its subject was “Among the Holy — Hills,” and the text, Luke iv, 16. “He came to Nazareth, where he was brought up.” Following is the sermon: Wliat a splendid sleep I had last night in Catholic convent, my first sleep within says the child Christ, “these twigs that you cat eff now are not dead; what do yon do that for?” “Oh,” says the farmer, "we prune •ff these that the main branch may have more of t he sap and so be more fruitfuL" No wont er in after years Christ said in his i Nazaret the Russo-Turkish war, has fallen under i him for whom i Itelieve there are fifty the displeasure of the czar on account of million people who would now, if it were doors since leaving Jerusalem, and all of esnnon: “I am the true vine and my father ns as kindly treated as though we had been tethe h :sl,a:,dman; every branch in me the pope and his college of cardinal pass- ^, at be. ret!) not fruit he taketh awav, and ing that way! Last evening the genial - sisterhood of the convent ordered a hun dred bright eyed Arab children brought out to sing for me, and it was glorious! This morning I come out on tho steps of j the convent and look upon the most bean- • tiful village of all Palestine, its houses of ; white limestone. Guess its syntel Nazar t reth, historical \gzareth, one of the trin- i ityof places that all Christian travelers must see or feci that they have not seen Palestine—namely, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Babyhood, boyhood, manhood every branch that beareth fruit ho purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.” Capital! No one who had not been a country boy would have said that. Streaks of nature all through Christ’s sermons,and conversations! When a pigeon descendc 1 upon Christ’s head at his bap tism in iho Jordan it was not tho first pigeon Ii- had seen. And then Le has such Wide sweep of discourse as you may iinag lne from one who has stood on the hills that overlook Nazareth. As far as 1 under stand, Christ visited the Mediterranean his severity, and will be forced to retire to his estates in Saharow. Signor Crispi, the Italian prime minister. Is a man of TO, tall and thin. He langhs incessantly. His mouth is large, his eyes aro piercing and he is completely bald. He wears jeweled rings on every finger aud bis shirt studs arc diamonds. John Fiske, the historian, when only 18. besides Greek and Latin, could read required, n: irch out and die, whether un der ax or down in the floods or straight through the fire. THE VILLAGE OF NAZAHETn. Granii old village is Nazareth, even put ting aside its sacred associations. First of all, it is clean; andthat can be said of few of tho oriental villages. Its neighboring town of Nablouf ii the filthiest town I ever saw, although its chief industry is the manufacture of soap. They export all of « , 1 ya i ry • i , UlauUiiv.liuH. G1 M/iii'. illi-j CAj/vt (/ tiil l/i fluently French, Spanish. Portuguese, | j Nazareth was perhaps unusually clean Italian and^Gennan, and hadmatte a be- themorllin{ ,, cf>for ns we ro j e into ginning in Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Anglo- Saxon, Icelandic, Gothic, Hebrew, Choldee and Sanscrit. the village the afternoon before the show ers which had put our macintoshes to the , test had poured floods through all the Ex-Governor Long, of Massachusetts, J alleys under command of the clouds, those possesses the remarkable ability of re col- , thorough street commissioners. Besides lecting what he has written without read-j that, Nazareth has been the scene of ing it over even by himself. It is said that i battles passing it from Israelite to Mo daring liis most animated speech he has in | hammedan and from Mohammedan to his mind’s eye a vivid impression of his j Christian, the most wonderful of the bat- manuscript, so that he knows where every page and every line ends. ARMY AND NAVY NOTES. The navy department has made arrange ments for the purchase of a year’s supply mt nickel for armor plate experiments. The noted horse Comanche, the sole sur vivor of the Custer massacre, is now 28 years old, and it is thought extremely doubtful if the old animal can live much longer. The light batteries at Fort Riley, Kan., are having considerable target practice with thei r ne w rifled guns, and their scores are much higher than when the old pattern guns were used. Machine guns, having the electrical at tachment for firing, require one less man to handle them, while the gunner can train and operate the gnn at will by simply touching an electric button. The successful trials at St. Chamoud of guns mounted in armored cupolas have been followed by otherexperimentsequally successful near Magdeburg, but the guns in the latter case are without recoil. There has been so much illegal wood •hopi bitt on the military reservationi at Fort LSwis, Colo., that a detail of troops was sent out to arrest the offenders. Their camp aud arms were found, but the men had fied. Experiments are about being tried in England in the use of the lance by cavalry regiments. It is proposed that the front rank of each troop shall carry lance and carbine, only the rear rank bearing sword and carbine as heretofore. The three battalion organization for all arms of the service, each battalion to con sist of not more than four subordinate or ganizations, has been adopted by military experts everywhere as much the best suited to modern military conditions. In one hour’s full power trial the air pressure in the Cushing’s fire room warn equal to about four inches of water, the •oal consumption was about G2.5 pounds per square foot of grate surface and the evaporation six pounds of water per pound of coal. The latest style of horseshoe for cavalry horses ou the continent is made from lay ers of paper glued together and subjected to hydraulic pressure. This is attached securely to the hoof by gutta percha, and, being very elastic, permits the expansion of the hoof. In the sham fight at Portsmouth, Eng land, in honor of the Emperor William, an advancing column was so affected by tho faaxag ?f the tsaakebstll. which was need to raise a cloud of impenetrable obscurity under which they could advance, that the men had to keep their hands to their noeee to avoid suffocation.—New York Commer cial Advertiser. HOW VARIOUS NATIONS SLEEP. In the tropics men sleep in hammocks or upon mats of grass. The Japanese lie upon matting, with a stiff, uncomfortable wooden neck rest. The ancient Greeks and Romans had their beds supported on frames, but not flat likeonrs. The Chinese use low bedsteads, often elaborately carved, and supporting only mats or coverlids. The Egyptians had a conch of a peculiar shape, more like an old fashioned easy chair with hollow back and seat. The East Indian unrolls his light, porta ble charpoy or mattress, which in the morn- tng is again rolled together and carried away by him. In England the old four posted bedstead Is still the pride of the nation, but the iron or brass bedstead is fast becoming unlver- saL The English beds are the largest beds in the world. A peculiarity of the German bed la its It frequently coo- aea only cnee, but any clear morning hr eould run up on a hill near Nazareth and look off t >! be west and see the Mediter nnean, while thero in the north is snowj Mount Lebanon,clad as in white robe of as eension, an l yonder on the ea-t. cud south east Moi.ut Giiboa, Mount Tabor am; Mount Gilead, and yonder in the south i> the piai -j of Ksdraelon oyer which we rode yesterday on our way to Nazareth. Those mountain of his boyhood in hLs memory do you wonder that Christ when he wanted • good pulpit made it out of a mountain- “seeing the multitudes he went up iub toe mountain.” And when he wanted es pecial communion with God ho took Jame.- and John and Peter into “a mountair apart” ue was a cotnmsY u v. . Oh, th; i country boy of Nazareth, conn torth to done for the sins of the world and to correct the follies of the world, are to stain > out tho cruelties of the world and to il i-.mine the darkness of the world and to r .m.sligure the hemispheres! So h has been i lie mission of the country boyi in all a; vs to transform and inspire ano rescue. They come into our merenandis* and our court rooms and our healing an and our jt lulioa and our theo ogy. Thej lived in v zareth before they entered Jem ■aiem. Vud but for that annual influx ■nr cities would have enervated and sick •nedand slain the race. Late hours am hurtful ; pparel and overtaxed digestive organs at .1 crowding environments of city life would have halted the world; but tht bowl the surrounding fifteen hills. The j valleys and mountains of Nazareth hav. God of nature who is the God of the Bible j given fresh supply of health and moral in evidently scooped out this valley for pri- | vigora ion o Jerusalem, and the country vaev and separation from all the world i oaves the town. From the hilisof New during three most important decades, the j Hampshi v and the hills of Virginia and thirty years of Christ’s boyhood and! the bibs "f Georgia come into our nationa youth, for of the thirty-three years of : eloquence the Websters and the Clays ano Christ’s stay on earth he spent thirty of j the Henry \V. Gradys. From the plaii homes of .Massachusetts and Maryland eome into our national charities the Georgi- Feabouy.' and the William Corcorans From the cabins of the lonely country re gions cm:ie into our national destinies tin Andrew .Jacksons and tho At'anam Liu ties being that it} which twenty-five thou sand Turks were beaten by twenty-one hundred French, NapoIeoD Bonaparte commanding, that greatest of Frenchmen walking these very streets through which Jesus walked for nearly thirty years, the morals of the two the antipodes, the snows of Russia and the plagues of Egypt appropriately following the one, the dox- ologies of earth and the hallelujahs of heaven appropriately following the other. And then this town is so beautifully situ ated in a great green bowl, the sides of the them in this town in getting ready- startling rebuke to those who have no pa tience with the long years of preparation necessary when they enter on any special mission for the church or the world. The trouble is with most young men that they wantto lannch their ship from thedrydock before it is ready, anil hence so many sink in the first cyclei ». Stay in the store as a subordinate iugg_j' >u are thoroughly equippert. > '-"■r—r— *- »->- trade un.il you a:J|-q (Willed to be an em ployer. Be cont,.j|it with Nazareth until you are ready foryhe bufferings of Jerusa lem. You may jf t so gloriously equipped in the thirty years that you can ilo more in three years than most men can accomplish in a prolonged lifetime. These little sug gestions I am apt to put into my sermon, hoping to help people for this world, while I am ciiiefiv anxious to have them prepare for the next world. WHERE CIIlilST WAS A EOT. All Christ’s boyhood was spent in this village and its surroundings. There is the very well called “The Fountain of the Vir gin,” to which by bis mother’s side he trotted along holding her hand. No doubt about it; it is the only well in the village, and it has been the only well for three thousand years. This morning we visit it, and the mothers have their children with them now as then. The work of drawing water in all ages in those countries has been women’s work. Scores of them are waiting for their turn at it, three great and everlasting springs rolling ont into that well their barrels, their hogsheads ef water in floods gloriously abundant. The well is surrouuded by olive groves and wide spaces in which people talk and chil dren, wearing charms on their beads as protection against the “evil eye,” are play ing, and women with their strings of coin on either .-i<le of their face, and in skirts of blue and scarlet and white and green move on with water jars on their heads. Mary, I suppose, almost always took Jesus the boy w-itli her, for she had no one she could leave him with, being in humble cir cumstances aud having no attendants. I do not believe there was one of the sur rounding fifteen hills that the boy Christ did not range from bottom to top, or one cavern in their sides he did not explore, or one species of bird flying across the tops that he cou[d not call by name, or one of all the species of fauna browsing on those steeps that he had not recognized. You see it all through his sermons. If a man becomes a public speaker, in his ora tions or discourses you discover his early whereabouts. What a boy sees between 7 and K always sticks to him. When the apostle i’ster preaches you see the fishing nets with which he hail from his earliest clays been familiar. And when Amos delivers his prophecy you hear iu it the bleating of the herds which ho had in boyhood ;ittended. And in our Lord’s ser mons ami conversations you see all the phases of village life and the mountain ous life surrounding it. They raised their own chickens in Nazareth, and in after time he cries: “O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! how often would I have gathered thee as a hen gatbereth her chickens under her wings!" i le bad seen his mother open the fam il y Wi ■ 1! h o be at t he close of su m iiier and shortness; besides that rists in part of a large down pillow or up- the moth millers flying out, having de- per mattress, which spreads over the per- stroyed t! e garments, and in after years he son, and usually answers the purpose of all ^ys: “i, : y not up for yourselves treasures Sincerely, Macd Muller. Two Good Sauces. Bechamel sauce is, roughly speaking, only melted butter made with milk or cream (previously bulled with a shalot and a little spice) instead of water. Veloute is melted butter made with white stock, to j which at the last is added a little ciuain; j boil it all together for five minutes, then i stir in a little lemon juice and strain ik | the other ordinary bed clothing combined. —Boston Budget. Immediately after a big race in England several hundred birds aro sent up from various parts of t he course, which are re lied. upon to carry the news to out of the way tovvus. Find tug a Snake on a L'assi'iiscr Car. A brakeman on a train running between Bssex and Avondale, on the Newark branch mt the Erie railroad, heard a sudden com motion among the passengers a few days ago. A baby bad dropped her rattle and was stretching her chubby bauds toward ■me object of greater interest ou the door mt the car, nud crowing delightedly. The mother, catching sight of the new play- toing, shrieked and several passengers Jumped from their seats. The brakeman ■aw a blacksnake about three feet long trying to avoid public observation by erawling behind tha steam pipes. He kicked its tail, and as it turned around to am wliat foe was behind it he crunched its ■sly bead uuder hid heel aud threw its dead bod}* out of the window. The con doctor said that some practical joker ha< mndoi:bledly placed it on board ill* train —New Yoi k Tribunal coins I rom plow boy’s furr w and vil lage coi::d.;r and blacksmith’s for^e conn BOSu of our city giants. Ne riy all tht Messiah' i i all departments d red: in Xaz la. - ~ tr. T tnuc.lom J •tod tl-* i' day thanks from lre»o cities, mostly ikado prosperous by « uniry b >ys to the L:: mhouse and tho prai u-s and tin mount.’: ft cabins, and the oUcure home ■toads •/»' north and south ar i east and West, to he fathers and mothers i:i plain tomes nun if they bo still aliv or i Lie hil fefcs u:a tier which they sleep the lonf: ■Keep. Thanks from Jerusalem to Naza reth. But ales' that the city should so often treat the country boys as of old the one from N zareth was treated at Jerusalem Wain r -ii by hammers and spikes, bat b> Instru icuts just as crueL Ou every street mt eve. ) city the crucifixion goes on. Ev cry ye r shows its ten thousand of the Main. Oh, how we grind them upl Undei what .wels, in what mills, and for whai ■a aw a! grist! Let the city take better ■■re of '. iiese boys and young men arriving from t..-' country. They are worth saving. They are now only the preface of what they wi d be if, instead of sacriicang, you kelP tiierii. Boys as grand as tiie.oae who with liii elder brother climbed into a thnrcli tower, and not knowing their flange- vent outside on some timbers, when one of those timbers broke and the boys feii aud the older boy caught on a Wan- hi ; tiie younger clutched the foot of the old. r. The older oould not climb up with tie. younger hanging to his feet, so the yoti - ;er said: “John, I am going to 1st go; y'i can climb out into safety, bnt r »n can t tilimb np with me bolding fast.. am goiay to let go; kiss mother for me ■td tell Her not to feel badly; good-by!” And he let go and waa so bard dashed upon toegrou.*! be waa not recognizable Plenty edsuez n.j.ve boys coming np from Naza ■ethl Ijet Jerusalem be careful bow it Meats ' l.-.-sai A gentleman long ago en- tored ai> ool in Germany and he bowed very low before to* boys, and the teacher ■M, “Why do yen do that?” “Oh,” said tte visitor, "I do not know what mighty man may yet he developed among them.” At that instant the eyes of one of the boys flashed fiw Who was it! Martin Luther. A lad on bis way to school passed a door step on which sat a lame and inv did child. The passing boy said to him, “Why don’t yon go to school!” “Oh, I am lame and I can’t walk to school." “Get on my back,” ■aid the well boy, “and I will carry yon to ■ehool.” And so be did that d;iy and for many days until the invalid was fairly started on the road to an education. Who was the .veil boy that did that kindness? I don’t know. Who was the invalid he carried? It was Robert Ilall, tho rapt pupil orate r of all Christendom. Better give to the boys who come np from Naza ■eth to Jerusalem a crown instead of a oneartu. wiicro moth doth corrupt.” In ehildboo:! he had seen a mile of flowers, white as the enow, or red as the flame, or blue as i e sea. or green as the tree tops, and no v. mder in his manhood sermon ha said, “Cl. '.shier the lilies.” While oue day j on ahirh pqint where now stands the tomb nfNeby Wniail, he had seen winging past him so near as almost to flurry his hair the partridge ami the hoopoe and the thrush and the osprey aud the crane and the ra- rren, and no wonder afterward in his man hood sermon lie said, “Behold tiic fowls of the air.” In Nazareth anil oa the road to . ^ it there are a great many camels. I see j them now r iu memory making their slow way up the zigzag road from the plain of Ksdraelon to Nazareth. Familiar was Christ with tlieirappearance, also with that small insect-, t he gnat,which he had seen his mother strain out from a cup of water or pail of mill;, and no wonder he brings af terward t bo large quadruped ami the small insect into his sermon and, while seeing the Pharisees careful about small sins and reckless about large ones, cries ou*: “Woe unto you blind guides which strain out a gnat ami swallow a camcll” HE KKliW ABOUT THE SHEEP. He had iu boyhood seen the shepherds THE OLD MILL SHOP. On this December morning in Palestine •n our way out from Nazareth ve saw just ■nch a carpenter’s shop as Jesn workedin, ■npporting his widowed mother, after he was old enough to do so. I loc bed in, and there were hammer and saw an 1 plane and anger and vise aud measuri > rule and chisel anil drill and adze and wrench and bit and ail the tools of carpen ry. Think of it! He who smoothed the s rfaceofthe earth shoving a plane; he w io cleft the mountai L by earthquake pounding a chisel; hr who opened the mammoth caves ef the earth turning an anger; he who wields the thunderbolt striking with a hammer: lie who scooped out the bed for tho on?;: i hollowing a ladle; he who flashes ( V morning on tljeearth and makes the midni :!it heavens quiver with aurora rutting a window. I cannot under stand it, b it 1 believe it, A skeptic said to an old cler- .yman, “I will not believe any thing I cannot explain.” “Indeed,” said fte clergyman, “yon will not belive any thing yon cannot explain. Piease to ex plain to me why some cows have horns and others have no horns. “No,” said the ikeptic, "1 did not mean exactly that. I mean that I will not believe anything I Rave not seen.” “Indeed,” said the cler- tyman, "you will not believe anything you have uot. seen. Have you a backbone?” “Yes,” s:. i-1 the skeptic, “how do yon Know?” said the clergyman. “Have yon ■ver sect it?” This mystery of Godhead humanity interjoined I cannot aud I cannot explain, bnt I believe Ik I am glad there are so many things we •■nnot understand, for that leaves some thing for heaven. If we knew everything here heaven wonld be a great indolence. What foolish people those who are in per petual fret because they cannot understand all that God says and does! A child in the first juvenile primer might as well burst Into tears because it cannot nnderstand eonic sections. In this world we are only in the ABC class, and we cannot now un derstand the libraries of eternity which pat to utmost test faculties aruhangelic. I would be ashamed of heaven if we do not know more there, with all our faculties in tensified a million fold and at the centerof toe universe, than we do here with our dim faculties and clinging to the outside rim of the universe. CANA IN GALILEE. In about two hours we pass through Cana, the village of Palestine where the mother of Christ and our Lord attended toe wedding of a poor relative, having come over from Nazareth for that purpose. The mother of Christ—for women are first to notice such things—found that the pro visions had fallen short and she told Christ, and he to relieve the embarrass ment of the housekeeper, who had invited more guests than the pantry warranted, became the butler of the occasion, and ont of a cluster of a few sympathetic.words squeezed a (leverage of a hundred and twenty-six gallons of wine in which was not one drop of intoxicant, or it wonld have left that party as maudlin and drunk as the great centennial banquet in New York, two years ago, left senators, and governors, and generals, and merchant princes, the difference between the wine at the wedding in Cana and the wine at the banquet in New York being, that the Lord made the one and the devil made the other. We got off our horses and examined some of these water jars at Cana said to lie the very one3 that held the plain water that Christ turned into the purple bloom of an especial vintage. I measured them and found them eighteen inches from edge to edge aud nineteen inches deep, and de clined to accept their identity. But we realized the immensity of a supply of a hundred uu.l twenty-six gallons of wine. What was that for? Probably one gallon would have been enough, lor it was only an additional installment of what hail al ready been provided, and it is probable that‘he housekeepercould not have guessed more than one gallon out of the way. But a hundred and twenty-six gallons! What will they do with the surplus? Ah, it was just like our Isird! Those young people were about to start in housekeeping aud their means were limited, aad that big supply, whether kept in their pantry or sold, will be a mighty help. You see there was uo strychnine or log wood or nux vomica in that beverage, and, as the Lord made it, it would keep. He makes mountains and seas that keep thou sands of years, and certainly he could make a beverage that would keep four or five years. Among the arts and inventions of the fut ure I hope there may be tome one that can press the juices from the grape and so mingle them and without one drop of damning alcoholism that it will keep for years. Aud the more of it you take the clearer will bo tho brain and the healthier the stomach. And here is a re markable fact in my recent journey—I traveled through Italy and Greece and Egypt and Palestine and Syria and Tur key, and how many intoxicated people do you think 1 saw in all those five great realms? Not one. We must in our Chris tianized lands have got hold of some kind of beverage that Christ did not make. GI.AD IIE WAS THEBE. Ob, I am glad that Jesus was present at that wedding, and last December, stand ing at Cana, that wedding came backl Night had fallen ou the village and its ■urroundiugs. The bridegroom had put on Ills head a bright turban and a gar land of flowers, and his garments had been made fragrant with frankincense and cam phor, an odor which the oriental especially likes. Accompanied by groomsmen, and preceded by a baud of musicians with flutes und drums and horns, and by torches in full bia/.e, be starts for the bride’s home. This river of lire is met by another river of fire, the torches of the bride and brides maids, flambeau answering flambeau. The bride is in "'bite robe and her veil uot only covers her fact) but envelops her body. Her trousseau is as elaYorate^tis the re attendants are decked gdai uiV. the orna ments they own or cau borrow; but their own personal charms make tame the jew els, for those oriental women eclipse in attractiveness all others except those of our own land. The damson rose is in their cheek, and the diamond iu 'the luster of their eyes, and the black ness of the night in their loug locks, aud in their step is tiie gracefulness of the morn ing. At tne mst sight or the torenes ot the bridegroom and his attendants coming ever th* hill the cry rings through the home of the bride; “They are in sight! Get ready! Behold the bridegroom cometh! Go ye out to meet him.” As the two proces sions approach each other the timbrels ■trike and the songs commingl-% and then the two processions become one and march toward tbe bridegroom’s house, aud meet • third procession which is made up of tiie friends of both, bride and bridegroom. Then all euter the horise and the dance begins aud the door is shut. And all this Christ uses to illustrate the joy with which the ransomed of eart h shall meet him when he comes garlanded with clouds and robed in the morning and trumpeted by the thunders of the last day. Look! There he comes dowu off the hiils of heaven, the bridegroom! And let us start out to hail him, for I hear tho voices of the judgment day sounding: "Behold, the bridegroom cometh! Go ye out to meet him I” And the disappointment of those who have declined the invitation to the gospel wedding is pre sented under tho figure of a door heavily closed. You hear it slam. Too late. The door is shut! AND NOW FOR LAKE GALILEE. But we must hasten on, for 1 do not mean to close my eyes to-night till I see from a mountain top Lake Galilee, on whose banks next Sabbath we will wor ship, and on whose waters the following morning we will take a sail. On and np we go in the severest climb of all Pales tine, tbe ascent of the Mount of Beatitudes, on the top of which Christ preached that famous sermon on the blesseds—blessed this and blessed that. Up to tbeir knees the horses plunge in molehills and a sur face that gives way at the first touch of the hoof, and again and again the tired beasts bait, as much as to say to tbe riders, “It is nnjust for you to make us climb these ■teeps.” On aud up over mountain sides, wherein the later season hyacinths and daisies and phloxes and unemones kindle tbeir beauty. On and up until ou the rocks of black basalt we dismount, and climbing to the highest peak look out on an en chantment of scenery that seems to be the beatitudes themselves arched into skies and rounded into valleys and silvered into waves. The view is like that of Tennessee and North Carolina from the top of Look out mountain, or like that of Vermont and New Hampshire from the top of Mount Washington. Hail hills of Galilee! Hail Lake Gcnnesaret, only four miles away! Yonder, clear up and most conspicuous, is Safed, tho very city to which ("iirist point ed for illustration in the sermon preached, here saying, “A city set on a hill cannot be hid.” There are rocks around me on this Mount of Beatitudes enough to build the highest pulpit the world ever saw. Ay, it is the highest pulpit. It overlooks all time and all eternity. The valley of Hattin between hero and Lake Galilee is an amphitheat re, ns though the natural contour'of the earth had in vited all nations to come and sit down and hear Christ preach a sermon in which there were more startling novelties than were ever announced in all the sermons that were ever preached. To those who heard him on this very spot his word must have seemed the contradiction of everything that they had ever heard or read or experi enced. The world’s theory had been: Blessed are the arrogant; blessed are the ■upercilious; blessed are the tearless; bless ed are they that have everything tiieir own way; blessed are the war eagles; blessed the sapphire Mediterranean on the °th«v and across Europe in one wav, and acroos. Asia in the other way, and around tha earth both ways, till the globe shall yet bar- girlded with the nine beatitudes: Blessed- are tbe poor; blessed are the mournful; blessed are the meek; blessed are the hun gry; blessed arc tfc; merciful; blessed are the pure; blessed are the peacemakers; blessed lire the persecuted; blessed are the falsely reviled. Do you see how the Holy Land and the Holy Book fit each other? God with his left hand built Palestine and with his right wrote the Scriptures, the two hands of the same "being. And in projiortion as Pales tine is brought under close inspection, the Bible will lie found more glorious nud more true. Mightiest book of the past! Mighti est book of the future! Monarch of all lib- erature! The proudest works of genius shall decay. And reason's brightest luster fade away; The sophist's art, the islet's boldest Sight, Shall sink in darkness and conclude) i i night; But faith triumphant over time shall stand. Shall grasp the sacred volume in her hand; Back to its source the heavenly gift convey; Then in the l’.ood of glory melt away. Maurice Barrymore’s recent debut as a. star was not, if the newspaper critics are to be relied upon, wholly a success. “Reck less Temple,” the play which was written for him by Augustus Thomas, is said not to give the famous actor a particularly- good opportunity to distinguish himself. Brimful of confidence in it—the manu facturers of Dr. Sage’s Ca tarrh Remedy. It’s a faith that means business, too—it’s backed up by money. This is what they offer: $500 re ward for a case of Catarrh which they cannot cure. They mean it. They’re willing to take the risk—they know their medicine. 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