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6 THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 0, 1890. CHAT. “The quality of mercy is not strained.” How these words ring in my mind. Time is the book we study, and as each lexf « p tur»», or chapter complete, we realize moie fully that ‘it drop - peth from heaven.” Human we all are and prone to put self upon the pedestal to be wor shipped. Home flaw in our make up or some error in our judgement throws us on a nearer level with our neighbors, and in mortification we exclaim against our Creator. Mercifully, we are not called to account for onr words and we profit so much by the knowl edge gained through this clearer insight, this knowledge of at least one flaw We realize the kindness of this discipline and once more test onr powers. The youth trudging to school is endowed with ambition and brains. He knows that to suc ceed he must aim high, and so be calls upon a 1 his powers to assist him. The way Is long and rough, and he soon overtakes another, thULc 1- bound. “1 sha'l pans him aud gain an extrr,” he thinks, but the mercy that is dropping into his life will not lei him do so, aud to his aston ishment the added burden steadies him and the Companionship teemed to lessen the difficulties. School days ended, he now eutirs the broader arena of life and with his eye upon the highest mark oi ce more boldly at temps to attain it. Ere long difficulties spring up that have daunted many. Tie finds s< me one just ready to turn back. “Let him give up; 1 can goon” he say6, but again he listeLS to that voice that intercedes, and in helping his fellow-worker finds the way clearer for himself and a new, fresh inspiration springing from the knowledge that he has helped a comrade. Life is full of selfishness, and mercy falls un noted on many hard aud sterile hearts; but in the hereafter we may realize that more has been accomplished than we wot of Mother Hubbard. HOPE. When the sun forsakes the day. When spring flowers die in May, Hope ilies away. When the sun cornea back again, When the flowers resume their reign, Hope comes too. Hope, thou art but a shadow, And still we are sadder. When thou art gone. Palmetto. Householders: It has been quite a loDg wbi e since 1 was with you, and now 1 see so few old faces that I feel almost a new one myself. I wonder where Mrs. L. S. V. is now? You are the only one of the Household whom I ever knew personally, and It are say you Luxe for gotten me, n has been so long ago. Haxeyou deserted ranks entirely? Billy Cucumber 1 think a man who takes on two or three tips a day has just that many too much. Of course, they will not blush to lace a few women lx cause o 1 moderate drinking. No, no, tLe> gi t so harder cd to the vile habit that really it takes something to mate them inter eating! You say she is a Y. W. C. T. U. eh! Well, not exactly but just enough to vote against the blushli g fluid if 1 bad a chance. You are u-take- the-world -easy kii d of feilowt?) and not a respectnb t,moderate drinker? The world i- not. to me, the same happy world 1 onee thought it. Since I was In-re I have o.-tmy dear mother in the old home stead's hal.owed acre we put her near my father’s grave. Oft 1 wish i were beside them; but tl at is not ri$lit. Who will welcome me? so long have I been absent, 1 feel ah>i e aim ng this cheery conn a- ny. Ah! I re-e Mother Hubbard beckon me to a seat beside Ler. J am now at home. Texas Girl. 19 THE FLIRTING WOMAN MAR RUGEABLifi, Dear Mother and Fkieni>s: I read with great interest the letters discussing the query: * is the business woman marriageable?” Yes, she is, and if her husband can manage w ilhout her assistance, then her duty is plain; home with its many caics, and responsibilities, needs her most. Should she be so unfortunate (in some instances we may omit the u n) as to become a widow it is well for her, and her husband, that she be a business womm. My iuuntion however, was not to discuss this subject, but to propound another of equal impoiiai.ee is the nirtu g woman marriageable? Now, some of you will say, the respectable woman eioes not flirt. I deny the assertion. 1 have w-en happy homes deprived of all peace—loving hearts sundered apart, by the innocent girlish flirtation con tinued in the woman, wile and mother. Nov ,girls, you may lake the other side, for the fli ting man must be lealt with too. A lady friend ssid to me: “To you think there is harm in a trained lacy dancing?” Hots jour husband object? “Yes.” Then never destroy your domestic happiness for pleasure. “Hut” she continued *T never dance with Just one; he would never £ ut up with that ” tan you not retail three omes in the circle of your acquaintance, where the inmates have been mace miserable by be ginning as you have? She was sav. d, those three homes are ruined. Now,friends,weigh the subject well, ai d give i s honest and candid opinions, (would be glad to hear from Mary Wilson ) What percentage of tl e flirting girl makes the fiiiting wife? Ilow n an} divorce cases are from this cause? Are there any homes made happy by it? Married flirtations are tot confined to the ball •room. J mow a nicstwortuy laiiy.in every other resj oet, ami a uenUauci r, but who is iu competent ol loving, in its truest and purest aente, iiom bergriat pas*ion lor “making con quests " as the terms .t, hut lair wonau, be ware, in the day oi judgment seme ion souls may cry cut against jqu. Eittilsics. RETROSPECTION. Ah', there are momenlr-we cauuot tell why— but an aching woe iilis the soul; each thought Is a turbulent ocean whose waves threaten to ovewhelm us—each hope bears witn its burden and we invoke the river oi tears to Relieve our broken spirit Oh, why are our souls permuted to clamber up lofty heights but to f.ll and be bruised, trampled and crushed beneath tire feet ol humiliation? Truiy, there are toirows that “bruise the heart like hammers” and age it prematurely. Yesterday! oh, it seems ages ago! Yesterday, how joyous-the tk> was blue, with only a few white clouds dotting it here aud there; the sun shine was warm and tender—so bright appeared all thing, we fonottlia;tisuotalwaysMay”— roses blushed and not’did their graceful beads, while the Southern sweet voiced songlers filled the sir with their ciear, sweet notes. Was ever na ure to lavishing with her charms? I wonder if any heart could le sad on such a day as this! What tor guo can teri, < r what pen por tray the bappiness of tin.t day ? Kven all previ ous flights of imsg nation art irauseeueed by this exquisite reality. “Bweet memoiy comes wirh her ravishing tone, And I am full of woe—would may heart were a stone ” Ah, ’tis noon—the shadows begin to lengthen, making ns realize there is “far more shadow than sunshine in this world.” llush! the -God of Day,” slowly, grandly and magnificently ■inks Into the vast k a of motionless clouds as if loth to withdraw his lifegiving rays. Ab, what means those distant sounos? Nearer they approach, nearer, nearer; darker grows the heavens, wbst an oppressive weight is upon my aoul. Is not this a premonition of tbeapproach inf storm soon to burst forth in all its fury with in my heart? Still the light of day is not quite gone, some hope remains. Bark!another peal of thunder; darker grows the clouds until, ob, can it he that the sunshine of love, that but a few short hours ago was in its a nth, making life seem brighter and heaven Dearer by its tender rays, baa disappeared forever? * * » The storm of yesterday is passed and naught re mains of it hut memory. Today the sun shone just as bright the birds caroled as gayly as yes terday, but to me it waa only mockery, remind ing me of yesterday and that sunset hour. It is our own htDds I wonder that sumn on the minor tone which thrills us through life? “I would I might tell what a burring pace lies here on mv aoul tonight” Does the calm and peace that fallow the storm, come to eaee the heart alter the violent emotions that swsy it? Will I ever realize that peace, not of satii-fled but extin guished longings, the peace, not of love that is blissful and btppy but of quiet and accepted loneliness—the peace, not ol tbe heart whose life is one joyful day, fsr from sorrow and hu miliation, but of the heart whose conflicts are over, and whoss brightest snticipstioi s are buried, “not tbe peace which brooded over Eden but that which crowned Get sernane ” Mother, I've been a 1 »'K time away, but like the prodigal child I return. Already my heart is bruited snd bleeding, and to you ; deurett mother, and the sweet home nest. I come bring ing my wounds for vou to heal with your com forting words. Will you welcome me bomt? My old name, like all things else of the past, I lay aside, and now let me be cslied Hebuione. ANOTHER CHAPTER, There’s nothing in life that can be depended on. We plan and save and S int for some end, aud what toes it amount to? All the year I have saved every penny I could to help pay the mortgage, and at the last mo ment fate decrees otherwise. I am sure I'd be desperate if 1 were a man and had a house full of thildren to provide for. Mrs. Myers speut last night with mother and insisted 1 should enjoy myself with the rest of the young folks at her house. We did have a si lendid lime and I got the a rpie out of the water, and Bud uearly strangled himself in try ing to do likewise. 1 am glad now we could not see into the fu ture, for whe- he go; h me he found Molly bis best mule sick, aud before morning she died, i just cried. He says 1 should be tuankful that it is after all the crops are off aud she can be spared Tnat’s all true, but what good will her dying do any one? I want to ktow. Ye wise ones of the tl H., answer. Moth-r is ever so much better, and I-guess we d navi too much happiness for weak mortal ity had we a home free from debt ami our mother able to toll er.-elf where she pleased. Zerline. you don't go about with toe right idea iu that head oi yours. ' Nothing succeeds like success.” if you don’t seem to need help, plenty wil beollercd you. You must rave that suave courtesy toat appears to be whatever they think just then, and you must not commit yourself by being natural. Souls are for sale, and they are at least bidding or trying to sell. El en starwo >4, I often wonuer if some ill luck did not befall those Shanghai chickens you meant to sed to buy your new dre-s. My plan is to set apsrt nothing for blight of some kind issore ti come. One thing is pretty certain, I shall keep my Chautauqua, if I sell every chicken in the yard. “ * ho loves not s nowledge? Who shall rail against her beauty? ’Tis the one thing that I’andora left in my box—Hope! Why, that frail bridge was of rain bow fancies, and the dowu-pour of misfortune swept it all away. Grim determination and sheer will keep me well in band wheu the dear Mother is nigh; but give me my books ana fol lowing tbe lofty flights of Ge age Eiio't or the every day tramp of Dickens, 1 forget the “slings and arrows” of misfortune. Some poet writes of the daffodils flashing on the inward eye "The bliss o! solitude.” Now that’s just wbat a good book does for me. I don’t wash,that’s where 1 draw the line but all day long there’s more work before me than two should do. I wash the dishes, and see bow much of last night’s reading I remember. 1 take tbe potatoes out on the piazza and talk to mother while I prepare them, then I fly around, and at every quiet interval 1 have that bliss of solitude. Time makes us all better or worse, we are told, and I wonder what has happened to me. A long time has passed since last we met here. Am I changed and bow? There's a conundrum for you. At least 1 am, honestly yours, Glamssa Johns. KID GLOVE EMBROIDERY. The expensive leather trimmings which have been among gilt-edged (antics in fashiona ble dressmaking for the past year, have given rise to a new kind of fancy work which is mani fold in its application, and which also affercs a use for tbe old kid 'loves, which have hitherto been among the most useless of things. Figures cut from the kid are tppliqued oil velvet or cloth, and buttonhole sjuebed mid veined with silk like the cretonne 'fiuhroidery so popular seme yeais ago. The adeilion of beads and tinsel renders the work much more effective. Dress trimn jugs of tniK, iu bands, vt sis, cuffs, collars etc., if neatly made, are quite as tflectiveas those which cost a snail fortune, when imported irom Paris. One ingenious }tui g wcmi.ii lias made lor her self a set oi bodice garniture, oi oak harts aud acorns in miniature, outlined wiili gold thread, and veiued with gold leads; li e ;calher cut from tbe tan colored giovts ol her L-roiheis aud gentlemen cousins. Another txquiai'e pitee of fancy work, in brown kid of \sirens shaoes iv icavv brown \e veU.cn, bas lie u used to upholster an uu-iqiie clmir wiih caned main gany inme; making thereby, a very naiidso e , i re ol luioiiorc. a New Von, deouiaii-e is s id to h.ve uli.ized tbe lops of the long gloves worn at the parties of her lint season iu making tobac o bags, which she presented to the most attentive of her first season’s beaux. I>oi g < veiling gloves iu pale tints are cm iu -trips and sewed t, geib er the joinirg covered with heais, for glove and handkerchief cases. Gray and tun; tau and lemon; aud wuiieaud mauve are effective combinations; go d silver, crvstal, aim slet-l beads being used for the embellishment ol the work. Strung buttou-hoie twist lnu-t he used for sewing ou the bet da as tbt-y are proue to cut. \\olk bags; hi ok covers; photograph cases; opeia-glais fags; bordeis for table eov. rs hnisbed with a fringe ol si'k netted at the top, with or without beacB, these are some among the various purposes to which this work may be put. vii artistic maiden has made a curtain fora small took shed irom her cast-oil' evei iug gloves; ( lilting ilie li ng tups into three inch wide snips aud dei or.ting iliem with sketches in India ink. These are joined with steel and crystal beads and hung irom a liny steci rod. Mrs. M. P. HamiY. H1NIS IN LETTER WRITING. Thick cream-laid l ore, hand-finish linen, or linen bond paper is plain, elegant and agreeable to write upou. The fashionable paper folds but once imo a square envelope, and outre sizes are but little used. The square corrtspcnceuee card is a thing of the past, and dainty note paper, which fits into an envelope without loiding, is substituted. The gray paper and white ink which wss a French caprice lad a brief existence and was received with favor by misses in their teens and women in sean.li of the bizaire.... fcTlie Grandironian and Erummeiian sty’e of stiIlly expressed phrases slid fulsome compli ments is no longer in vogue, aud the height of epistolary eh game is attained w hen one can write just as uatuially as one talks. Brevity ou many occasions is much to be commended, aud rambling or lengthy descriptions are tiresome; even wheu traveling the) are apt to hsve a smack ol Baedeker or the red-bound Mu; rev's guide. Crests, monograms and initla's once so fash ionable, aie rarely seen, although tit rtaiti peo ple have never given up the illuminated cipher or crest The most fastidious ietter-wrib rs have simply the aooiess, engraved in eilher black or colors, in a fac-smlle oi tbcirown hand writing and running across one corner at t re- top ol the page. Women wno should know bett- r often sign th nselvea Mrs.So ana so,” or ‘Miss ro-and- so,” instead of usiogtheirchristiannames. Tbit ia tbeaemeof v ulgarity, hut if when writing to a stranger it is necessary to stale whether Miss or Mrs., place the prefix In parentheses, as “(Mrs.) Amelia Brown ” Good sense and good taste should govern one’s corresponience as it should all otter tbiugs and a man or woman ol fine breeding, educa tion knd heart will not go very far astray in me inditing of polite epistles. Tne aigular English style of bandwriting, al though neither leglb'e nor symmetrical, is the one in high lavor, the flowing Italian and the cramped French cbiiogropby being quite out of date. Black ink la tbe rule, although some women, notably those with romantic proclivities affect violet ink, which, it must be admitted, flows easier and ia ol a superior quality to the ebony fluid. A married woman's letters always should te addressed in tbe name of her bus bond,as • Mm. Bomaine Brown,” instead ol 'Mis. Amelia Brown.” The colloquial atyle ia by far tbe moat agree able, while a didactic method ol expression is unpleasant and to be avoided, s. Never use a postal card.—Chic*go Ledger. PERSONAL MENTION What the People Are Doing and Saving. Ex-Senator Pair recently invested $3,000, 000 in San Francisco real estate. Adolph Avolloni, a sculptor at Rome, is making a bust of Chauncey M. Depew. The modeling bas been finished, aud the bust will lie put into marble in Europe. The papers of Buda-Pcsth are asking for A popular subscription for Kossuth, who has lost his entire fortune iu railroad specu lations, and who is no w 75 years of age. Thomas F,disou says that although in Italy he has the title of count he prefers that of “the old man,” by which he is better known among his employes at Men lo Park. Emin Pasha relates that in tbe forest ol Msongwa is a large tribe of monkeys that understand the art of making fire. They go out at night to hunt fruit and light their way with torches. The most expensive brougham ever seeti fat Philadelphia, it is said, is the one built far Amos Ellis, who is a connoisseur in such matters. It is white aud gold and magnificently upholstered. Editor Dana, since his return from Europe, is said to be noticeable from the fact that his square cut American whiskers have encountered a French barber and thereby attained a Vandyke point. Ex-Millionaire Jose F. de Navarro, ol New York, Mary Anderson’s father-in law, says there are $50,000 standing against him, and ali the property he has in lh« world consists of about $75 worth ol clothing. William E. Russell is not, as frequently published, the youngest man ever elected governor of Massachusetts. Mr. Russei fa 33 years old. George S. Boutwell wai elected governor in November, 1830, at tb< age of 33. Vicar General Fronton, who is also chan eellor of the Roman Catholic diocese oi New York and rector of St. Ann’s church. Bast Twelft ii street, recently celebrated tin fortieth anniversary of his ordination t< the priesthood. The largest cotton planter iu the world fa James S. Richardson, of New Orleans, who owns 49,000 acres of cotton land and employs 9.000 negroes. lie has refused an English syndicate’s offer of $33,500,000 foi his plantaiious. Stuart Robuoo, the comedian, had a nar row escape on the sleeper going from in dianapolis to Cincinnati recently. Som< one shot a bullet through the window ol the car iu which he was sitting, aud tht ■hot just grazed his head. Chief Simon Pakagon, who waseducated to be a Catholic priest, has just sent si.v more remnants of his once powerful Pot tawatouiie tribe to a Kansas Indian col lege. He says his people in Michigan wil. ho entirely annihilated in half a century. Eugene Bunch, the noted train robber, wrote to liie New Orleans stock exchange from Mexico to know if a certain issue oi ■tote bonds (which he admits having sto len) are nil right, as he doesn’t want to seli them “to any one who might suffer by it il they are not good.” SCIENTIFIC SQUIBS. Platinum ami silver can each be drawn toto wire many times smaller than a ha Acrording to M. Bertillon’s police de toctives' photography the ear is the moat Important factor in the problem of ideuti Mention. An electric railway has recently been opened in Switzerland which ascends the peak of Rouchlierg at an angle of nearly to degrees. The telescope enables us to measure the invisible by first making it visible; the spectroscope enables us to measure the in vfaible without making ft visible. An employe of the Pullman company has invented an electrical air brake, which is ao constructed that the air chambers can bo recharged whether the (ir.ike is ill opera bon or not. An ima id’sehair propelled hy electricity fa among the late novelties. The battery fa capable oi propelling the chair over an ordinary roa t for nine hours at tile rate ol six miles per hour. t Every year a layer of tbe entire sea, four teen feet Liir- v, is taken up into the clouds. The winds bear their burden into the land and the water comes down in rain upon the fieius, to flow back through rivers. A new material called rubber velvet fi made by sprinkling powdered felt of any oolor over ru fiber cloth while the latter is hot anil soft. The resalt looks like felt doth, hut is elastic, waterproof and ex eeedingly light. A device bus lieeu submitted to the Brit ish admiralty by which, it is said, the larg cot battle ship in the service can iu four minutes be protected from the uttack ol any number of torpedoes, no matter bow skillfully tl ley may be directed. Oxygen is Hie most abundant of all the ■laments. It composes at least one-third ot the earth, one-fifth of the atmosphere and eight-ninths by weight of all the wa ter ou the globe. It is also a very impor tant constituent of all minerals, animah and vegetables. EXTREME NOVELTIES. Persiau lamb sleeves iu sealskin jackets □map fALMAGE’S SERMON, Bbooklyn, Nov. 30.—Rev. Dr. Talmage preached today the tenth of his series of Mrmons on his Palestine tour, describ ing hi.Q experiences on tjie lake whose waters were once stilled at the command of Christ. The sermon, which was de livered in the Brooklyn Academy of Music |r the morning and usual repeated be fore an enormous audience at the Chris tian Herald service in New York in the evening, was from the text: “He entered Into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land”—Mark iv, 1. It is Monday morning in our Palestine experiences, and the sky is a blue Galilee above, as in the boat we sail the blue Gali lee beneath. It is thirteen miles long and dx miles wide, but the atmosphere is so it seems as if 1 could cast a stone from beach to beach. The lake looks as though it had beea-ASt down on silver pul leys from the heavens and were a sect ion of the sea of glass that St. John describes ee a part of the celestial landscape. I^ake Galilee is a depress Jn of six hundred feet ta which the river Jordan widens aud tarries a little, for tbe river Jordan comes in at its north side and departs from its south side; so this krico bas its cradle and Its grave. Its white satin cradle is among the enows of Mount Hermon where the Jor dan starts, and its sepulcher is the Dead sea into which the Jordan empties. Lake Como of Italy, Lake Geneva of Switzer land, Lake Lowfond of Scotland, Lake Winnipesaukee of America are larger, but Lake Gal ilec is the greatest diamond that over dropped from the finger of the clouds, and whether encamped on its banks as we were yesterday and worshiping at its crys tal altars or wading into its waves, which make an ordinary hath solemn as a bap tism, or now putting out upou its spark ling surface iu a boat, it is something to talk about and pray about and sing about until the lips with which we now describe it can neither talk nor pray nor sing. THE LAKE HAS MANY NAMES. As sometimes a beautiful child in a neighborhood has a half dozen pet names, and some of t be neighbors call her by one name and others by another, so this pet fake of the planet has a profusion of Barnes. Ask the Arab as he goes by what this sheet of water is, and he will call it Tabariyeb. Ask Moses of the Old Testa ment, and he calls it Sea of Cbinnereth. Ask Matthew, and he calls it Sea of Gali lee. Ask Luke, aif-:! he calls it Sea of Gen- neaaret Ysk John, and he calls it Sea of Tiberias. Ask Josephus and Eusebius, and they have other names ready. But to it appears a child of tbe sky, a star of the hills, a rhapsody of tbe mountains, the haptismal bowl of the world’s temple, the iile of the great God. Many kinds of fish are found in these waters, every kind of tree upon its bank, from those that- grow in the torrid zone co those iu tbe frigid, from tbe palm to tbe cellar. Of tbe tivo hundred aud thirty war ships Josephus maueuvred on these waters—for Josephus was a warrior as well as a his torian—there remains not one piece of a hnlk, or one patch of a canvas, or one splinter of an our. But return to America we never will uni il we have hadasail upon this inland sea. Not from a wharf, but from a beach covered with black aud white •ai d a boat of about ten propelled partly l»y t»r. jt’hi* ma.'.t leasts it >eems about to fall, purposely so built, and pulley manages to hoist il. it is a rough boat, •il»le ••••moved from a i* a sportsman’s yacht, v and hammer and ax many of you to-Ud make a better one. Four barefooted Arabs, instead of sitting down to their oars, stand, ;is they always do in rowing, and pull away from shore. 1 insist on lie]pin .;, for there is nothing more exhilarating to me than rowing, hot I soon have enougli of the clumsy oars aud the awkward attempt at wielding them while in standing posture. We put our overcoats and shawls on a small deck iu the stern of the boat, the very kind of a deck where Christ lay on a fisherman’s coat when of old a tempest pounced upon the fishing smack of the affrighted disciples. Ospreys and wild ducks and kingjbshers fly overhead or dip their wings into ihe lake, mistaking it for a fragment of fallen sky. Can it be that those Bible stories about sudden storms on this lake are true? fs it possible that a •ea of such seeming placidity of temper eould ever rise and rage at the heavens? It does not seem as if this happy family of elements could have ever had a falling out, and the water strike at the clouds and the clouds strike at the water. PULL AWAY, OARSMEX* Pull away, oat imeul On our right bank pebbles, we gt or twelve ton sail a?>4-r-»rl ao far forward t but we find it w the rope «hrongi and let dov. n ihd and as i y• Venetian Jo.idol With a common Russian turbans of velvet edged with tore the hot sulphur baths, so hot they are fur. | scalding, aud the waters must cool off a Tartan plaids cross barred with hair, ^ c _^.f? re haud or foot can enduro lines. Blue bear fur for trimming velvet cos- apart Galilee and the Dead sea; the ana years or age. not no doctor is needed now flower banked and the other bitnminoas . in this house at Capernaum. The people and blasted; the one hovered over hy the look at the sun dial to see what time it is, mere}’ of Christ, the other blasted by the and Bee it is just past noon and 1 o’clock wrath of God; the one full of finny tribeo Then they start out and meet tbe return- aporting in the clear depths, the other for- ing father and as soon us they come within ever lifeless; tbe waters of the one sweet speaking distance they shout at tbe top of and pleasant, to the taste, the other bitter thei voices; “Your boy is getting well.” their temperature. Volcanoes have been boiling these waters for ceaturics. Four springs roll their resources into two great 1 swimming reservoirs. King Herod hero with black astraxhau tried to bathe off the results of his excesses, and Pliny and Josephus describe the spurt aud fevers ou black cloth ingsoutof these voicauicbeats, at:d Joshua , and Moses knew about them, aud this mo ment long lines of pilgrims from all parts of the earth are waiting for their turn to step into the steaming restoratives. Let the boat, as far as possible and not ran aground, hag the western shore of the lake that we may see the city of Tiberias, once a great capital, of the architecture of which a few mosaics and fallen pillars and pedestals, aud here aud there a broken and shattered frieze remain, mightily sug gestive of the rime when Herod Antip.-is had a palace here and reigned with an opulence and pomp and cruelty and abomination that paralyzes the lingers of the historian when he comes to write it, and the lingers of the painter wheu he at- I suppose tomes. Serges plaided effects Mink sleet- jackets. Tortoise shell buLtons, carved, for hand- aotne cloaks. Basque jackets, called vestes hy tin French manufacturers. Fans of lisse frills, decorated wilh lac* and jeweled butterflies. Red ingot es of black cord passementert- madc up over colored silk. White sarin autique botnets trimmed with black tips aud velvet. Wrappers of cream eiderdown trimmed with Valenciennes lace ruffles. Robes embroidered in silk, wilh tiny and sharp and disgusting. Awful Dead sea! Glorious Gennesarct. We will not attempt to cross to the eastern side of this lake, as I had thought to do, for those regions are inhabited by a thieving aud murderous race, and one must go thorotflfhly armed, and as I never ahot any one and have no ambition to be shot, I said; “Let us stay by the western shore.” But wo look over to ttie hills of Gadara, on the other side, down which two thousand swine after being possessed by the devil ran into the lake, and bringing down on Christ for permitting it thewTath of all tbe stock raisers of that country be cause of this ruining of the pork business. Yon see that Satan is a spirit of bad taste. Why did he not say: “Let me go into those birds, whole flocks of which fly over Gali lee?” No; that would have been too high. “Why not let me go into the sheep which wander over these hills?” No; that wonld have been too gentle. “Rather let me go into these swine. I want to be with the -denizens of the mire. I want to associate with the inhabitants of the filth. Great ia mndl I prefer bristles to wings. I wonld rather root than fly. I like snout better than wing.” THE SCOFFING OF INFIDELITY. Infidelity scoffs at the idea that those ■wine should have run into the lake. But it was quite natural that under the heat and burning of that demoniac possession they would start for the water to get cool ed off. Would that all the swine thus pos sessed had plunged to the same drowning, for this day the descendants of some of those porcine creatures retain the demons, and as the devils were cast out of man into them they now afflict the human race with the devils of scrofula, that comes from eat ing the unclean meat! The healthiest peo ple on earth are the Israelites, because they follow the bill of faro which God in the book of Leviticus gave to the human race, and our splendid French Dr. Pasteur and our glorious German Dr. Koch may go on with their good work of killing parasites in the human system; but until the world corrects its diet, and goes back to the divine regulation at the beginning, the human race will continue to be possessed of the devils of microbe an--' parasite. But I did not mean to cross over to the eastern aide of Lake Galilee even in discussion. Pull away, ye Arab oarsmen! And we come along the shore near by which stand great precipices of brown and red and gray limestone crowned by basalt, iu the sides of which are vast caverns, sometimes the hiding place of bandits, and sometimes the home of honest shepherds, and sometimes the dwelling place of pigeons and vultnrea and eagles. During one of Herod’a wars his enemies hid in these mountain caverns And tbe sides were too steep for Herod’s army to descend, and the attempt to climb in the face of armed men would have called down extermination. So Herod had great cages of wood, iron bound, made and filled them with soldiers and let them down from the top of the precipices until they gave signal that they were level with the caverns, and then from these cages they stepped out to the mouth of the cav erns, and having set enough grass and wood on lire to fill the caverns with smoke and strangulation, the hidden people would come forth to die; and if not coming forth voluntarily.llerod’s men would pull them out with long iron hooks, and Jose phus says thatoue father, rather than sub mit to the attacking army, flung his wife and seven children down the precipice and then leaped after them to his own death. WE WANT TO I’ltEAG'H CAPERNAUM. Now, ye Arab oarsmen, row on with swifter stroke, for we want before noon to land at Capernaum, the three years’ home of Jesus. But before arrival there we are to have a ucw experience. The lake that had beeu a smooth surface begins to break np into rough ues3. The air, which all the morning made our sail almost useless, sud denly takes hold of our boat with a grip astonishing, and our poor craft begins to roll aud pitch aud tumble, aud iu five min utes we pass from a calm to violence. The contd-.rr of this lake among the hills is au invitation to hurricanes. I used to won der why it was that ou so limited a sheet of water a hestormed boat iu Christ’s time did not put back to shore when a hurri cane was milling. I wondoj no more. Ou that lake au atmospheric fury gives no warning, and the change we so v in live minutes made me feel that the boat in which Christ sailed may have bo n skill fully managed when the tempest -reruck it and the wild, importunate cry went up, “Lord save us or we perish!” I had ill along that morning been reading from the New Testament the story of occurrences on aud •round that lake. But our Bible was closed now, aud it was as much as we could do to hold fast, and wish for the land. Il the winds aud the waves had continued to Increase iu violeuee the following fifteen minutes in the same ratio as iu the first five, and-we had been still at their merey, our bones would have beeu bleat hing in "the bottom of Lake Gennesarct instead oi our being here to tell the story. But the same jiowcr that rescued the fishermen of old today safely lauded our party. What a Christ for rough weatherl All the sailor boys ought to fly to him as did those Galilean mariners. All you in the forecastle, and all you who run up And down the slippery ratlines take to sea with you him who with a quiet word sent the winds back through the mountain gorges. Some of you Jack Tars to whom these words wiii come need to “tack ship” and change your course if you are going to get across this sea of life safely and gain the heavenly harbor. Belay there! Ready •bout! Helm's a-lee! Mainsail haull Star of peaee: beam o'er the billo w Bless die soul that sighs for tires; Bless the sailor's lonely pillow, Far, far at sea. Here at Capernaum, the Arabs having ip their arms carried us ashore to the onlt (dace where our Ixtrd ever had a pastorate; and we su-pped amid the ruins of th* “Is it possible?” says the father. “When did the change for the better take place?” “One o’clock” is the answer. "Why,” says the courtier, “that is just the hour that Jesus said to mo ‘Thy son liveth.’ Oae o’clock!” GLADNESS ON THEIR COUNTENANCE. As they gather at the evening meal what gladuess or, all Ihe countenances in that home at Capernaum! The mother, Joan na, has not had sleep for many nights, and she now fails off into delightful slumber. Tbe father, Cbuza, the llerodiuu courtier, worn out with anxiety as well as by the rapid journey to and from Cana, is soon in restful unconsciousness. Joanna was Christian before, but I warrant she was more of a Christian afterward. Did the father Chuza accept the Christ who had cured his boy? Is there iu all the earth a parent so ungrateful for the convalescence or restoration of an imperiled child as not to go into a room and kneel dowu and make surrender to the almighty love that came to the rescue? Do not mix up this case with the angry discussions about Christian science, but accept tbe doctrine, as old as the Bible, that God docs answer prayer for the sick. That Capernaum boy was not the only illustration of the fact that prayer is mightier than a typhoid fever. And there is not a doctor of large practice but has come into the sick room of some hopeless case and, in a cheerful manner if he were a Christian, or with a bewildered manner if he were a skeptic, said: “Well, what have you been doing with this patieut? What have you lieeu giving him? The pulse is better. The crisis is past. After all, I ibitik lie will get well.” Prayer will yet be acknowledged in the world’s materia medica, and the cry is just as appropriate now as when Chuza, tlie courtier from Capernaum, uttered in Christ’s hearing, “Come don n ore my child If the prayer be not answerer] in the way we wish, it is because God has something better for the child than earthly recovery, aud there are thousands of men and women now alive in answer Lo fathers’ and mothers’ prayers, myself one of the multi tude. For i have heard my parents tell how when at three years of age scarlet fever seemed to have done its full work ou me, and i he physicians had said there was no more use of tin ir coming aud they had left a lew simple directions to make the remaining hours peaceful, aud according to the custom in those times in country places the neighbors had already come in and made the shroud, the forlorn ease sud denly bright one 1 and the prayer “Come down ere my child die.’ 1 ’ was answered iu a recovery that has not lieeu followed by a moment's sickness from that time to this. PRATER THE MIGHTIEST AGENCY. The mightiest agency in the universe is prayer, and it turns even the Almighty. It decides tiie destinies of individuals, fam.- lies and nations. During our sad civil war a gentleman was a guest at the White House in Washington, and ho gives this in cider.t, lie says: “I had been spending tiecre weeks in the White House with Mr. Lincoln as Ids guest. One night—it was just after the battle of Buil Run—I was restless aud could not sleep. I was repeat ing the part which 1 was to take in a pub lic performance. The hour was past mid night. Indec 1, it was coming near to the dawn when 1 heard low tones proceeding from a pi i\ate room wlieie the president slept. The door was partly open. 1 in stinctively walked in, and there I saw a sight which I shall never forget. It was the president kneeling before an open Bible. “The light was turned low in the room. His back was turned toward me. For a moment i was silent us f stood looking in amazen.t ut and wonder. Then lie cried out in tones so pitiful aud sorrowful; ‘Oh, thou Go I that heard Soiomon iu the night when lie prayed for wisdom, hear me! i cannot lead this people, I cannot guide the affairs of this nation without thy help. am p< wisdo You - tirni s _>r anc list lie • hy, eak and sinful. Oil, God, u- Solomon when he cried foi r me and save the nation!’ ” '.<*c c need iS-> go back Lo Bible - ience that prayer is heard and me may say that Christ at Cu ffed that courtier’s child, yet jve done it fur oae.iti humble ia that very Capernaum lie 19 thing for a dying slave be- he mau who had made a pres- u of the church of which Je- sior, the synagogue among 1 today leap from fragment to l iiis was the cure of a Roman e, whose only acknowledged he wishes of his owner. And so enslaved or so humble or ■iuful but the all sympathetic Christ is ready to help them, ready to cure them, ready to emancipate them. Hear it! Pardon for all. Mercy for ali. Help for ail. Comfort for all. Heaven for ail. Oh, this lake Galilee! What a refreshment for Christ it must have been after sympa thizing with the sick, and raising the dead, and preaching to the multitudes all day long to come down on these banks in the night time, and feel the cool air of ihe sea on bis hot face, and look up to the stars, But permit would life. ’ did the sun longing to ent to the to bUS pi whose ruins fra&rmeiit. soiuier » sun rights were t □one are no\v jo sick or so Paris anil France will come, linng lierlim and Germany will come. Bring St. Petenh burg ami Russia will come. Bring Vienna- ami Au&tria will come. Bring Cairo and Egypt will come. Bring the near tlire# million people iu this cluster of cities oa the Atlantic coast ami ali America will soon see the salvation of God. Ministers of religion! let us intensify our evangel ism. Editors and pubihdiersl purify yotur printing presses! Asylums of mercy! en large your plans of endeavor! And instead of this absurd and belittling and wicked rivalry among our cities os to which happens to have the most men and women and children, not realizing that th© more useless and bad people a city has the worse it is off, and a city which hasten thousand good people is more to he ad mired than a city with one hundred thou sand bad people, let us take a moral census* aud see how many good men and good wo men are leading forth, how large a genera tion of good children who will consecrate themselves aud consecratethe round world to holiness aud to God. Oh, thou blessed Christ, who didst come to the mighty cition encircling Lake Galilee! come Lu mercy to all our great cities of today. Thou who didst put thy hand on the whit*- mane of the foaming billows of Gennesarefr and make them lie down ut thy feet, hush all the raging passions of the world! Oh, thou blessed Christ, who on the night when the disciples were trying to cross this- lake and “the wind was contrary,” after nine hours of rowing had made only three- miles, didst come stepping on water that at the touch of thy foot hardened into crystal, meet .ill our shipping, whether oa placid or stormy seas, aud say to all thy people now, by whatever style of tempest tossed or driven, as thou didst to th* drenched disciples in the cyclone: “Be of good cheer. It is I. Be not afraid!” Thank God that 1 have seen this lake at Clnistiy memories, and 1 can say with Rnjiert -MeCheyne, ihe ascended minister or Scotland, who, seated on the hanks of this hike, wrote in his last, .tick days, and just before he crossed the .Jordan, not th* Jordan that empties into Galilee, but Lh* Jordan that empties into the \>ca of glass mingle i wilh fire,” these sweet words, III to be placed by human lingers < u strung strings of earthly lute, or by augtdM finger® on seraphic harps: Iti, not that the wild gazelle Colics clown to drink thy tide, Bnt he that was pierced to save from hell Oft wandered by thy side. Graceful around thee the mountains meet* Thou calm, reposing sea; But ah! far more, the beautiful feet Of Jesus walked o'er thee. O Saviour! gone to God's right baud. Yet the same Saviour stiff, Graved on thy heart is this lovely ^uaud And every fragrant hill. There are some patent med icines that are more marvel lous than a dozen doctors’ prescriptions, but they’re not those that profess to cure everything. Everybody, now and then, feels “ run down,” “ played out.” They’ve the will, but no power to generate vitality. They’re not sick enough to call a doctor, but just too- sick to be well. That’s where the right kind of a patent medicine comes in, and does for a dollar what the doctor wouldn’t dq for less than five or ten. We put in our claim for Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. We claim it to be an un equaled remedy to purify the blood and invigorate the liver. We claim it to be lasting in its effects, creating an appetite, purifying the blood, and preventing Bilious, Typhoid and Malaria! fevers ■f taken in time. The time to take it is when you first feel the signs of weariness and weakness. The time to take it, on general principles, is NOW. ited inm; Inch . •ounJ the heavenly .* had descended! -still; from Lire high post s and nioouLain coast, vere slid - though not in church where he preached again and again and again—the synagogue whose rich sculpturing lay there, not as when others ree it in springtime covered with weeds and loathsome with reptiles, but in that December weather completely uncovered to our agitated and intense gaze. On ona •tone of that synagogue is the sculpturing of a pot of manna, an artistic commemora tion of tbe time when the Israelites were fed by manna in the wilderness, and to which sculpturing no doubt Christ pointed upward while lie was preaching that ser mon on this very spot iu which he said, ‘Not as your fathers did eat manna and be was one of the worst men that ever ’are dead; tie that eateth of this bread shall lived. And what a contrast of character live forever.” Wonderful Capernaum! eomes at every moment to the thoughtful Scene of more intrudes than any place in traveler in Palestine, whether he walks all the earthl Blind eyes kiudling with tbe beach of this lake or sails as we now the morning. Withered arms made to pulsate. Lepers blooming into health. The dead girl reanimated. These Arab tents which on this Decem ber day I find in Palestine disappear, and Not a Bate Hiding Place. Many people^ particularly those of small raaans, regard banka with distrust, and prefer to keep their savings under personal ■npervision. One of these folks, Mrs. Kep- aar, of Johnsonville, Rock county, Wis., i had to leave the house daring the absence af her husband, and pnt $195 in tbe stove- I ffee for safe keeping. She did not think ot the money after returning to the liouse, and a/ewdays later told her little daughter to start afire in the stove. It was some time before she thought about the money, amd when she came to look for it found it was too late, the $195 having ea- through the chimaar. Milan bulls accentuating the design. Brown camels’ hair goods having poika tempts to transfer it to canvas, dots of yellow aud turquois blue hair. A trimming embroidery of flowers in their natural colors intermixed with tinsel. White satin vests embroidered with sil ver aud fastened with silver buttons for ^ t jj ese wa terst purple visit ing toilettes. | side BY SIDE. Lace skirting ornamented with scallops. Side by side are the two great characters a border and siugle flowers embroidered in of this lake region, Jesus and Herod An- tho natimil colors and veined with gilt. tipas. And did any age produce any such I see Capernaum as it was when Jesus was Shopping bags of tan or gray snede kid antipodes, any such antitheses, any such pastor of the church here. Ix>ok at that m the old style handkerchief bag Are, opposites? Kindness and cruelty, holiness wealthy home, the architecture, the mar finished at the top with draw string bag of and filth, genorosity and meanness, self ble front, the upholstery, the slaves in uni- ailk or velvet.—Dry Goods Economist. sacrifice and selfishness, the supernal and form at the doorway. It is the residence the infernal, inidnoon and midnight. The of a courtier of Herod, probably Chuza by Improved Smoking Arrangements. father of this Herod An tipas was a genius name, his wife Joanna, a Christian disci- Quite a change appears to be taking at assassination. Ho could manufacture pie. But something is the matter. The place in the general opinion as to the hast mote reasons for patting people ont of thia alaves are in great excitement, and the anangenient of smoking room accommo- life than any man in all history. He aends courtier living there runs down the front flations «n some classes of passenger trains, tor nyrean us to come irom uauyion to steps and takes a horse and puts him at and it is quite possible that the common Jornsalem to be made high priest, and fall run across the country. The boy of smoking car will before long cease to form slays him. He bas his brother-in-law while that nobleman is dying of typhoid fever, a part of the better class of trains. Quite In bathing with bint drowned by the king’s All the doctors have failed to give relief, a number of railroads have constructed attendants. He slays his wife and his Bat about five miles up the country, at their chair cars with smoking rooms of wife’s mother and two of bis sons and bis Cana, there is a 5?vine doctor, Jesus by sufficient capacity to provide accommoda- ancle, and filled a volume of atrocities, the name, and the agonized father has gone ttons for the occupants of each car. The laat chapter of which was the massacre of practice of thus famishing a smoking room all the babes at Bethlehem, far each car is rapidly extending to the With such a father as Herod the Great oommon day coaches, and a number of very yon are not surprised that this Herod An- prominent roads are putting a smoking tipas, whose palace stood on the banks of compartment in nearly every car.—New this lake we now sail, was a combination York Commercial Advertiser. of wolf reptile an d hyena; while the Christ who walked yonder banks and sailed Window blinds that have become dingy these waters was so good that almost every aasnnie a wonderfully fresh look when rood of this scenery is associated with some wiped with a cloth wet with linseed oiL wise worJ or some kindly deed, and all They must be thoroughly dusted first. literature aud all art and all earth and all The grand duke of Baden has just grant- heaven are put to the utmost effort in try- ed permission for a monument to Victor ing to express how grand and glorious and von Sdieffei, tiie author of the “Trumpeter lovely lie was and is and is to lie. The of Sakkiu’ten,” to be erected ou the Castle ! Christiy nml Iferodie characters its differ^ terrace in lieideliierg. <mt as th. two Inlr»— we visit, find not far for him, and with what earnestness those can understand who have had a dying child in t he house. This courtier cries to Christ, “Come down ere my child die!” While the father is absent, and at 1 o’clock in the afternoon, the people watch ing the dying boy see a change in the countenance, aud Joanna, the mother, on one side of his couch, says; “Why, this dar- lin„ is getting well; the fever has broken. See the prespiration on his forehead. Did any of you give him any new kind of medi cine?” “No,” is the answer. 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