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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, TUESDAY. APRIL 1.1884- TWELVE PAGES,
OUR STORY CORNER.
SEALED UNTO HIM.
A STORY
EARLY DAYS OF flOBMOML
By JOAQUIN MILLER.
author or ???iokos or tui bicrras,??? ???the
DANITES," ???MCMORIX AND RUCR," BTO.
CHAPTER IV.
A day or BCarXKSX.
It was doubtful from the first bow the men
J one???s mind wliat tney *
. But how and by what tortuous roads
of cruelty and delay and dismay would they
proceed? By what cruel cat-and-mouse
means would they proceed to teach their ter
rible lesson of the vengeance and the power
of Dan, ???a serpent by the way," ???an adder in
the path????
When the sun shines hot and clear, a pho
tograph Is taken almost instantly, which will
endure a lone, longtime.
And so it is in and with scenes like this.
The blood was at fever heat. The imagina
tion we* like flame. Terror of what was to
happen fastened all things there firmly as
if the world stood still forever. The heart
after a little time almost ceased to beat.
Before ns to the south and far away gleam
ed the great sea of salt in the morning tun,
A green island of trees where a thousand cat
tle fed, the property of the Mormon church,
lay far away toward the other aide. It was
but dimly visible, yet beautiful, peaceful in
its far tranquillity as a picture of Paradise.
As the eyes strained and swept across the
gleaming seapf salt and rested on this beauti
ful island, they seemed to want to remain
there. You could not turn your head away
or withdraw your gaze. There was a fierce
fascination that kept the strained eyes look
ing down and out steadily toward that dim
and distant isle of peace and beauty, which
was irresistible. The tired eyes wanted to
rest there forever. Or did the eyes so desire
to remain there, far away in fields of beauty
and of peace, to escapo the threatened scene
of blood and peril at our feet? ....
Beyond the broad and gleaming levels of
this sea of salt, still beyond the veidant rest
ful Isle, and right about and over the few
scattered fields and farm houses on the near
shore, shot the snow-topped towers of the
Wahsatch. These magnificent mountains
drew an impassable wall, a crescent to the
east and north, aronnd the incipient Mor-
mon city. These mighty towers of snow, this
strange new people, mad on the subject of re
ligion, called their ???towers of strength."
They likened them to the whito towers that
were above the mighty walls of Jerusalem of
e, in al
old. Everywhere,
they read the
traditions and Bible truths.
all things aronnd them
fulfilment of prophecies, Biblo
, TO '
........... be deserts and
the wells in tho deserts, the balm of-gllead
trees, even the loensts that aometlmesde
voured the land???In all these they read, im
aglned. believed implicit;, that they had
here, thousands of miles away from all the
world, found a new Jerusalem; that they
were indeed the children of the iost tribes???
the children of Don indeed, that abonld judge
the people ol the earth as they pasted, and be
as ???a serpent by the way,??? "an adder in the
P *To'the east of this remnant of a dried up
sea, and close upon thesaliwhile shore of it.
there gushed from the rocky hillside a Utile
river of boiling water whlob sent forth its
stream in the early morning In a perpetual
drift ol snowy clouds. These beautiful white
clouds rose to the mountain top to the east,
and there rested lastly In the ann or cradled
to and fro above the Mormon city.
Beneath theta cradled clonds, far below
them, and yet far above (he city, and to the
east and to the north, and above our own
camp, there waa drawn In a precise level the
definite and unmistakable shore and sort
line of a great dried up sea. Hundreds of
feet above the black and heavy waters of Salt
lake, yon can see where the snrf roared in
storm and tempest when the world was young,
tore the rocks to splinters fashioned caverns,
and washed a pebbled strand. These marks
will remain while the mountains remain.
All around, high up on the hill-top, you
pick up tea washed pebbles, petrified sea fish
of a forgotten age, si ones with sea moss and
sea shells encased In them, and endless evi
dence that the ship* of 8olomon might have
sailed these mountain tops, seeking the land
of Ophir.
And yet here was pitiful man; In the heart
of all this mystery, in the presence of ever
patent and industrious nature as she tried to
fashion a home for him glorious and beauti
ful, catting his fellow-man???s throat before he
had yet fairly sat down to the possession of
all. Was there no* sorrow enoogta here?
Why, these Mormons had been riding,
racing, dashing about for days and days to
find a single victim to murder. And now
they had found ,their victim. Bhe must die.
She was already in some tense dead.
Some one had seen the bend of the giant
shoot high and straight and perpendicular in
the air as the Danitea rode down from the
hill. They answered with the same em
phatic and silent sign. What did it mean?
As they approsebed the camp, ho also ??p-
prouchid He came with a heavy, massive,
and deliberate tread, as if be owned the
earth. He took possession of the piece.
They entered tbe camp together. The men
looked at the giant for their orders. He
motioned them to dismount. They did so,
and stood a little apart, holdingtheir hungry
and tired horses by long rawhide tethers as
bent their sleek necks to the ground, rattled
their steel bits in their teeth, and ate of the
f reeu and abundant grass as if it never had
tea or should be stained with blood.
I know you are clutching your band here
with ferocity toward the one party, and
shame and pity for tbe other. You would
have fongbt, died then and there, or destroy
ed these des'roying angels, would you?
???Not so. Braver men never were known
than the pioneers of these days. Bat there
somehow fell a fucins'ionon all ana always,
from these swift and silen fanatics???the fas
cination of the serpent when it looks in a
bird???s eyes???that paralysed the worm and
weary pilgrims of these early days. And yon
search tbe chronicles in vain for one esngle
act of successful p*-fence. Not one of a
thousand murders ever met with any real re-
listance.
Some believe that this new religion would
cover tbe earth. Men who abhorred it had
seen its .audacity and power so suddenly and
wonderfully developed here in these moun
tains of Mt-sico, that no wonder they were
appalled and silent before its exeendonera.
It had i'a believers, too, In every camp. No
one dared complain to hisneigboor, not even
pit
cape, punishment,??r revenge.' A man did
not trust bis own wife. There was bat one
conrse to take???bear all in silence.
Our party bad already unyokedtbeiroxens
and the large eyed, patient cattle, glad to be
let loose once more, were morning the
sweetest grass along tbe green bank* of the
willow-lined stream. Tbe.weary men gradu
ally sank down on tbe grass in groups; the
children clung to their mothers??? akirta in
silent awe. No one spoke to tbe terrified
Then they loosened the sincbei of their sad
dles leisurely, and coming forward they
gathered about the elder. They eat down,
???till holding to their tethers. Then the eider 1 he
or missionary began to talk calmly of the
beauties of the book of Mormon, and to read
and to preach. He beckoned all to draw near,
and all drew near, obedient and breathless-
With a gesture he bade the pale and terrified
girl sit close before him in the gathering
circle, and she did so; her great sad eyes lift
ing to hiaeyes os the eyes of a bird might lift
helplessly to tbe fascinating eyes of the ser
pent that is to destroy her.
[TO Bn CONTINUED ]
???Copyrighted by C. H. Miller, lgst.
DR. NORTHROP???S ADDRESS!
lie Entertain* a Large Andlenea at the Fleet Math*
edlat Chnrch Sunday Night#
Sunday night Dr. Northrop, of Connecticut, de
llvered s highly interesting address to ft Urge audi
ence at the First Methodist church, taking for
subject missionary work in China and Japau.
Northrop said that Japan covered a stretch
country equal to that from Maine to Texas, and
contained a population of thirty-five millions
people. Tho dynasty was the longest continued
the world, lastiug 2,455 years under the relgu
one family. The present mikado came to the
throne at the age of seventeen years. Heretofore
he has never been permitted to bo seen except by
thecourtand those immediately in attendance.
In travelling he has been kept in a closely cur
tained car, and heralds went before to compel peo
pie to close their houses. The present mikado
abolished all that, declaring that the idea that he.
was divlno was absurd, That he was only a man,
He established a system of internal improvements
built railroads, telegraph lines, colleges, schools,
etc, and the Inauguration of these
great enterprises ho attended in per*
abolished the horrors
system of har! kari aud when a man committed
suicide bis head was placed on a pole in the public
streets to be hooted at by the populace. Thus suicide
was made almost uaknowu lb tho empire.
Northrop stated that over five hundred students
have been sent by the government to this country
to bo educated, a large proportion of whom havo
become Christian and many of them are returning
to enter upon the misslonsgy work in their own
country. He spoke of tho Japanese
as a most polite poople, excelling even
tho French in culture, refinement and polite*
neit, and this ho said might be duo in some
measure to the national habit, which is universal
throughout the empire, of the extousive cultivation
of flowers. It Is compulsory on every family
plant seme. The crjrsantbemum Is the national
flower and Is engraved on tho coins and all public
documents and evorythlngof that sort. Ia addition
to that, a still more strlkiug thing is that they havo
adopted tho Christian Sabbath, and it Is observed
by all public officials throughout the emplro.
Dr. Northrop said that the generous action
8975,000 wrnngTully exacted from them a dozen
years ago, will do much to cement the good feeiini
between this government aud Japan and wouh
prove a potent factor lu the work of Christianizing
that section. The J tpaueso government propose
to erect at the capital a magnificent memorial
university with the money In honor of the first
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.
Mss. Langtry combs her hair to the top of
herhead.
Mr. Pcck, the ???Bad Boy??? of the MUwau
kco Sun, has bought a housu.for which he has paid
S 10.000.
Captain Traynor, who once crossed the
Atlantic in a dory, now proposes to make the trip
in a rowboat.
??????Pa, is u mamma dog a mastiff???? ???Occa
sionally, my son???? "Then, is a papa dog a pas-
tiff?'* Then silence reigned at tho breakfast table.
A clehoyman who recently held service in
Auburn prisou preached frdm the text, "Go homo
to thy friends.** His hearers wore all willing, but
couldn???t seem to eftaege It.
William H Vandkrbilt has presented to
his friend, Matthew Riley, the chestnnt gelding,
Lcander, for which be paid 810.000, and which has
a record low down in the twenties.
Gzorgk L. Perkins, a venerable citizen of
Norwich, Conn., has ca:ried In his pocket for
seventy eight years the same silver half dollar???a
little feat uot often dono In this world.
8knatob Farley, of California, has been ill
for several months from the effects of poisonous
hair dye, and is but tho shadow of his former self
His physicians fear he may never fully recover.
It is affirmed in Egypt that El Mahdl pos
sesses 18 wives, and that his vakeel possesses 24
The Moslems lu Khartoum "are horrified at the
Mabdl's exceeding the number psrmlued In tho
Koran."
Miu Gabkikllb Greeley will occupy the
old Greeley homestead at Chappaqua during tho
coming season. She is still a lovely girl, exceed
lngly retired, and has, it Is said, re/us*1 many am
bilious suitors for her baud.
Lydia Thompson, the veteran burlesque act-
roes, bos a charming daughter who is attracting
some attention iu Loudon now. bhe la known as
Mbs Tilbury, and sho is said to have a great deal ol
comic talent walcn has been developed ou the
amateur stage.
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson and her daughter,
Miss Julia, are the guests iu Memphis of Cononcl
C. G, Graham their kinsman. They have been to
New Oileans along with tho daughters of Lee aud
Hill, where the statue of Geueral Lee was uu
Veiled.
It has been noticed in Washington that all
the deaths which have taken place among members
of tho house during the setslons since the forty
fifth congress, ou both the republic in and demo*
c atic Mae, have been from luo middle or fourth
row. That row has, therefore, beou called " Fatal!
ty Kow."
Mrs. James K. Polk, at the venerable age
of hi, aUll lives In excellent health at Folk place,
Nashville, Tenn. bhe never had any children,
but adopted a niece, who married George *V. Fall,
a merchant of Nashville, aud who with her hus*
baud aud only daughter, Sadie, make up the
nappy family at Pol* placa.
A pretty tough customer, that Mme. Paul
Minck, tbe Farln anarchist, must be. bhe named
her fir??tborn sou Lucifer batau Verclngetorlx, and
now annoauces the advent of asecoud who is to
be called ^partscuv Blanqni Revolution. If this
Uiug is kept up, tbe partMi record there will have
to be tuppresaed as incendiary literature,
George W. Peck, the Wisconsin humorist,
Uvea in a 8100 000 house In Milwaukee???that is, the
dwelling cost that much, though Peek paid only
110.000???for it. 1 be costly mansion was built by a
millionaire with a whim It turns its back to the
avenue near which it stand* aud faces the lake.
The kl coeu windows overlook the fashion-
able promenade. Peck owns other real estate lu
Mllwaukt e.
Mb. Bbeckenridoe, a son of tbe famous
Geueral John C lireckenridge, has become a mem
ber ( f the 8aa Fraud??co legislature. A few years
ago the pro??pec:s of young Breckenridge, who U a
lawyer, were deemed brilliant lint the besetting
sin of bright young men c tilted him to lose by
divorcebliwl'e, the danahterof Lloyd T??vts, tbe
millionaire, Nuw be is pulling up under the bau*
nerof personal reform.
Mbs. T. M Wheelkb, of New York, re
ceived the 81 000 prise offered lor the handsomest
dcrfgu in wall paper. It la known as the "bee pat
Urn," aud r?? presents golden winged bees In a
wealth of clover blossom*. Tho second prlzv was
won by Mbs Clark. Her de-lgu H a gold fishing
net ou a tight ground with a dado of seaweed* ana
of SB-asnellx Tnii is q it e a triumph of the
arilsji were In
-?????? . , ??? quite a number of
moment; their eyes met. She knew j competition.
??????In *L?? Morte Civile,?????? says Salvini, ???I
girl The large, hollow eyed leader looked at; icoia*,
her a moment; their eyes met. 8be knew
him then. He was her husband. She was ... ??. w
an sapostste wife, sod bst) been so judged *>7 we ep, and ,wt???lr. Sow. there 1. In Bio
D.n. The star? of tbe terrial. fAte ol I .n , jMtlr0 , tteinp , pir edllor . de ?? bl{
.postal. W , , _ _ j bearded men. wboi.f.uioti. for bis lack of feeling
dmi who looked on in silent terfor. I They s.y be nn.ted hi, <effe m h etc s t-ar-I a.,
He fn her blood with I cod stare, ana nol g uo * t t,u?? th*y say so. He **w *L* Mart*?
then tusde a motion wi h bis large left hand, civile,' ar.d after the curtain fell he cime upon the
in which he still held a book, to the men ??t??l* Mold, on each side of ul*n??*e wuageat
.i.r h???rw** Thew took off their bridles We ??? furrow, aud as he laid bis hand on my tnouN
with tbe hows, ihey woe on ineir dhuict der %m |( tfrltct||Illc u* mb ji r g Aui
from their hungry bones and hung them nexl &io Janeiro went about sir-
over the pommeti of their Spanish saddles, lag: ???He has made Castro weep! What a triumph!'"
TALM AGE???S SERMON.
TALKS ABOUT WOMEN AND
XHB1R WORK.
AU Ckrl.U.n Wonts H... s JUibt to T.u Ctrl.t
of Tb.tr Annoyance.-Che art.t Bsspoasl-
buttle, of Bon..kc.p??r.-An Aff.eUng
Rmlnt.ot.no. of Taint,.'. Mother.
Subject: "Housekeeping.??????
Text: Luke x.??: ???Lord, dost thou not care
thst ray sister hath left rae to eerre alone?
Bid her, therefoie, thst she help me. ???
Yon aek why more sermons are preached
to men than to women. I reply, It is because
women ate better than men. I do not esy
this in compliment or in spirit of soft gal
Isnlry???for when women ore bad, they are
dreadful???but as a statistical fact which can
not be controverted. They have fewer temp,
tatlons to out-breaking sin; are natnrally
more reverential and loving; it la eassler for
them to become Christians; they are In the
majority in tho church on earth; and I eup
pose that If you ehould count tbe women
and children of heaven you would have
counted three-fourths of its population. It
is because men are in more need of being
preached to that I have given them the n??
jorily of eermons. But I see yonder a beau
tiful village homestead. Tbe man of the
bouse is dead, and his widow is takingchaige
of the premises. Come, let me introduce
you. This is th* widow Martha, of Bethany.
Yes, I will introduce yon also to the pet of
the household. This ia Mary, the younger
sister, with a book under her arm, and her
face having no appearance of anxiety or per-
turbation. Company has come. Christ
stands outside the door, and of course there
is a good deal of excitement inside tbs door.
Tbe disarranged furniture is hastily put aside,
and the hair is brnshed back and tbe dresses
are adjusted as well os, in so short a time.
Mary and Martha can attend to these mat-
tent. They did not keep Christ standiog at
the door until they were newly apparelled
or nntil they had elaborately arranged their
tresses, then coming out with thrir affected
surprise as though they bad not nesrd the
two or throe previous knockings, saying
"Why, is that you???? No. They were ladle*,
aud wero always presentable, although they
may not have always had on their beat; if
we did, our best would not be worth having
on. They throw open the door and greet
Christ. They say: ???Good morning, Master;
come in ana be seated,??? Christ did not
come alone; He had a group of friends with
Hitu, and such au influx of city visitors
would throw aoy country home iuto pertur
bation. I suppose also the walk from the
city bad been a good appetiser. The kitchen
department that day was a ve ??? '
department, and I suppose that
no sooner greeted the guests than she fled to
that room. Mary had no anxiety about
household affairs. She had full confidence
that Martha could get up the best dinner iu
Bethany. She seems to say, ???New let us
have a division of labor, Martha; you cook
and I???ll ait down and be good. So you have
often Been a great difference between two
slaters. There i. Martha, hard working, pains
taking, a good manager, ever inventive of
some new pastry, or discovering something
in the art of cooking and housekeeping.
There is Mary, also, fond of conversation,
literary, so engaged in deep queetions of
ethics she has no time to attend to tbe quee
tions of household wolf.ro. It is noon; Mary
1. in the parlor with Christ; Martha ia in the
kitchen. It would have been better if they
lied divided the work, and then they could
have divided tbe opportunity of listening to
Jesus; but Mary monopolises Christ, while
Martha swelters at the fire. It was every Im.
jrtaut thing tbi
nner that day. _
did notoften haven luxurious entertainment.
Alas, me I If tho duty had devolved upon
Mary, what a repast that would have been!
But something went wrong In the kitchen.
Perhaps the fire would not burn or the bread
would not bake, or Martha scalded ber hand,
or something was burned black that ought
only to have been made brown; Martha lost
ber patience, and forgetting the pruprleties
of the occasion, with beaweated brow and
jerhapa with pitcher in one hand and tongs
n the other, rushes out of tbe kitchen In
the presonce of Chriet, saying: ???Lord, dost
thou not care that my sister has left me to
serve alone???? Christ acolded not a word. If
it were scolding, I should rather have hla
scolding than anybody elsa's blessing. There
was nothing acerb. He knew Martha had
almost worked herself to death to get him
something to eat, and so he throws a word
of tenderness into bis intonation as beseems
tossy; ???My dear woman, do not worry; let
the dinner go. Sit down on this ottoman be
side Mary, your youngest sister. Martha,
Martha, thou art carelul and troubled about
many things. But one thing is needful."
As Martha throws open tbe kitchen door I
look in and see a great many household per
plexities and anxieties. First, there is tho
trial of non-appreciation; that is what made
Martha so man with Mary. Theyounger Bis
ter bad no es'imate of her older sister's
fatigues. As now, men bother with the anx
ieties of the store suit office and shop, or coin-
im? from the stock exchange they say when
they get home ???Ob, you ough' to be over In
Wall street In these days! you ought to be in
our factory u little while; you ought to man
age eight or ten or twenty subordinates and
then yon would know what trouble and
anxiety are. ??? Ob, sir, the wife and the
mother has to conduct at tits same time a
university, a clothing establishment, a res-
taurant, a laundry, a library, while abe is
health officer, police and president of hor
realm. She must do a thousand things and
do them well in order to keep things going
smoothly. And so her brain and her nerves
are taxed to tbe utmost. I know there are
housekeepers who are so fortunate that they
can ait in an arm chair in the library, or lie
on tbe belated pillow and throw off all tbe
care upon suborllna'es, who, having large
wages and great expnrience,cm attend to tba
cares of the household. Those are tbe ex
ceptions. I am speaking of the great min of
housekeepers???the women to whom life is a
struggle, and who at thirty years of age look
as though they were forty, and at forty as
though they were fifty, and at fifty as though
they were sixty. The fallen at Chalons and
Aus'erlilz and Gettysburg and Waterloo are
asmalt number compared to the slain in the'
greet Armageddon of the kitchen. You
out to the cemetery and
you will see that the lombetones
all read beautifully poetic, but if thoee tomb
stones would speak the truth thousands of
them would say: ???Here lies a woman killed
by loo much mending and sewingand baking
and scrubbing and scouring. The weapon
with which sue was slain was a broom and a
sewing machine or a ladle." Yon think, ob
man of the world, that you have ail the cares
and anxietie-i If the circs and anxieties of
thehoo-ieholdshould come u;>on you for one
week you would be a fit candidate for Bloom
ing 'ale???I mean insane asylum. The half-
r-sted housekeeper arises in the morning,
fine must bare the morning repast at an im-
vocable hour. What if the fire will not
of silver be gone or some favorito chalice be
cracked, or the roof leak, or the plumbing
fait, or any one of a thousand things occur???
you must be ready.
Spring weather comes and there must be a
revolution in the family wardrobe,or autumn
pomes and you must shut out the northern
blast. But wbat if the moth has preceded
you to tbe cheat? What if, during the year,
the children have outgrown the apparel of
last year? Wbat if thefashlonsbavoolianged?
Your house must bean apothecary's shop; it
must be a dispensary; there must bo medi
cines for all sorts of ailments???something to
loosen the croup; something to cool the
brain; something to poultice the inflamma
tion ; something to silence the jumping tooth;
something to alienee tbe earache. You must
be in ballsdoxen places at the same time.
If under all this wear and tear ot life Martha
makes so impatient rush upon the library or
drawing room, be patient, be lenient. Oh,
woman, though I may fall to atlr up an ap
preciation in the souls of others in regard to
your household toils, let me assure you from
the kindliness with which Jesus Christ met
Martha that he appreciates oil your work,
from garret to cellar, and that the God of .
Deborah and Hannah aud Abigail and Grand- hoy, "I don???t care; you whip me If you won
mother Lois and Elizabeth Fry and Hannah lot this poor fellow go.??? The stout, healthy
Moore is the God oi the housekeeper. Jesus ' ' "
was never married that he might be the espe
dal frieud and confidant of a whole world
sleeping, and plunged In amidst smoke and
lire, crying, ???Mother, where are you???? and
never cauie out, our hearts applauded tr
young mau. But bow few of us have
Christ-like spirit???a willingness to suffer ...
others. A rough teacher in a school called
upon a poor half-starved lad who had offend
eu against tbe laws of the school, aud said:
???Take off your coat directly, sir.??? The boy
refused to take it off. whereupon the teacher
said again, ???Take off your coat, sir,??? as he
swung the whip through the air. The boy
refused. It was not because he was afraid of
tue lash???he was used to that at home???but
it way from shame. He had no under gar
ment, and as at the third commandhe pulled
slowly off hts coat, there went a aob all
through the school. They saw then why be
did noi want to remove Ills coat, aud they
saw the shoulder blades had almost cut
through the skin. And a stout, healthy
boy rose up and went to the teacher of the
school and said: ???Ob, air, pleaso don't hurt
this poor fellow; whip me; see, he???s nothing
but a poor chap; don't you.liurt him; whip'
me." ???Well,??? said tbe teacher, "it's going
to be a severe whipping. I am willing lo
take you as a substitute.??? ???Well,??? said the
, of
troubled womanhood. I blunder; Christ
was married. The Bibieaays that tbe church
ia the Lamb's wife, and that makes me know
that all Christian women have a right to go
to Christ and tell Him of their anuoyancea
and trouble, since by his oath of conjugal
fidelity be is sworn to sympathize. George
Herbert, the Christian poet, wrote two
three verses on this subject:
???The servant by this clauio
Hakes drudgery divine;
Who sweep, a room a. tor Thy laws
Make, this and the action tine.???
Again: There is the trial of severe econo
my. Nine hnndred and ninety-nine bonee-
holds out of the thousand are subjected tc
It???some under more and some under less
stress ot circumstances, especially if a man
smokes very expensive cigars and takes very
costly dinners at the restaurants, he will be
severe in demanding domestic economies.
This is what kills tens of thousands of women
???attempting to make five dollars do the
work of seven. How the bills come in'. The
woman is th* banker of the household; she
is the president and cashier and teller and
discount clerk, and there la a panic every
few weeks. This thirty years??? war agalnat
high prices, this perpetual study of econo
mies, this lifelong attempt to keep the outgo
less than the Income exhausts millions of
women. Ob, my sister, thle Is a part of di
vine discipline. If it were best for yon, all
you would have to do would be to open tba
front windows and tho ravens would fly in
with food, and after you had baked fifty
times from the barrel in the pantry, the bar
rel, like tie one of Zarepath, would be full,
and the shoes of the children would last as
long as the shoes of the Israelites in the
lerness-forty years. Besides that, tbla
la going to make heaven the more attractive
in the contrast They never hunger there,
and consequently there will be none of the
nnisancesof catering for appetites, and in the
land of the white robe they never have to
mend anything, end the air in that hill
country makes everybody well, Thereareno
reuta to pay; evety man owns his own house,
and a mansion at that. It will not beso great
a change for yon to have a chariot in heaven,
if you have been in the habit of riding in
this world. It will not be so great a chango
for you to sit down ou tbe banks of the river
of life, if In this world you had a country
seat But if you have walked with tired feet
in this world, wbat a glorious thing to mount
celestial equipages, slid if your life on earth
was domestlo martyrdom, ob, the joy of an
eternity In wbioh you shall have nothlog to
do except what you ehoosa to do. Martha
lias had no drudgery tor eighteen centuries.
I quarrel with theologians who want to dis
tribute all the thrones in heaven among tho
John Knccres and tbe Hugh Latlmenand tho
1???hehian Lesion. Borne of the brightest
thrones of heaven will bo kept for Christian
housekeepers. Oh, what a change from here to
there???from the time when tney put down
tho rolling-pin to when they take up the
scepter. If Chateworth Fork and Stswart???a
mansion, on fifth avenue, were to be lifted
into tbe celestial city, they would be consid
ered uninhabitable rookeries; and glorified
Lazarus would be ashamed to be going in and
out of either of them.
There aro many housekeepers who could
get along with their tolls if it were not for
sickness and troubls. The fact Is, one-half of
tha women of the land are more or Ins Inva
lids. The mountain lass who has never had
an ache or pain may consider household toil
inoonilderabte, and toward evening she may
skip away miles to tbe fields and drive boms
tbe cattle, and she may until 10 o???cloek at
night fill tbe house with laughing racket. But
ob, to do tbe work ot life with worn-out con
stitution, when tbe whooping-cough has been
raging for six weeksin the household, making
the night as steepleas as the day??? that ta not
so easy. Perhaps this comes after tho nerves
have been shattered by some bereavement
that baa left desolation in every room of the
house and aet tbe crib in the garret because
the occupant has been hushed into a slumber
which needs no mother's lullaby. Oh, she
could provide for tbe whole group a great
deal better than ibe can for a part of the
group uow that tba rest are gono. Though
you may tell ber God ia taking care ot tlinee
who are gone. It is mother-like to brood
both flocks, and one wing she puts over tne
flock Id the bouse and tho other wingehe puts
over the flock within the grave. There Is
nothing but the old-fashioned religion of
Jesus Christ that will take a woman through
tlse trials of home life. At first there may
bo a romance or a novelty that will do for a
substitute. Tbe marriage hourbasjust passed
and the perplexities of the household are
more than atoned by the joy of being to
gether and by the fact that when it is late
they do not have to discuss the question as
to wbethor it ia time to go. Tbe mishaps of
tbe household, instead of being a matter of
anxiety and raprakenston, are a matter of
geological specimen, tbe slnshy custards, tha
Itundiced or rnraaley biscuits. It is a very
irighteunlfght that falls on tbe cutlery and
tbe mantle ornaments of a new home.
But after a while tbe romance is all gone;
then there fa something to be prepared for
the table that the book called ???Cookery
Tanght in Twelve Lessons??? will not teach.
The receipt for making It Is not a handful of
this, a cup of that and a spoonful of some
thing el>e. It is not something sweetened
with ordinary condiments, or flavored with
ordinary flavors, or baked in ordinary ovens.
It is tbe loaf of domestic happiness, and all
tba ingredient* come down from heaven, and
tbe fruits are plucked from tbe tree of life,
and it is sweetened with tbe new wine of tbe
Kingdom, and it ia baked In tbe oven of bom*
trial. Bolomon wrote out of bis own expe
rience. He had a wretched home. A man
cannot be happy with two wive*, much let*
with GOO; and he lays, writing of hta own ex-
isrience: ???Better la a dinner of herbs where
ove is than a (tailed ox and hatred there
with."
How great are the responsibilities of bouse,
keepers. Sometimes an indigestible article
of food, by iteeffect upon a i-ommander..or
king, has defeated an army or overthrown
ern pire. Housekeepers, by tbe food they'pro
vide, by the couches they spread, by tbe books
by the conches they snread, by the l
introduce, by tbe influences they I
around their home, are deciding tbe physical,
intellectual, moral, eternal destiny of tba
rsce. You say your Ilfs is one of sacrifice. I
know it. But, my sisters, that is the only
, ii? What if the marketingdid not come? li'e worth tiring. That was Florence Nigbt
???at if tbe clock baa stopped? No matter, j ingale's life; that was Christ's life. We ed-
Hoe must have ike morning repast at an irre-1 mire it In o'hen, but bow very hard it ia for
Vocable hour. Then the children mux be I ns to cultivate it ourselve*. When young
8 ~ "
IT to school. What if their garmen's are j Dr Hutchinson, having spent e sriiole night
ey do not I
eons? What If they have 1-M 1
mm? Wnat if they do not know their les-j in a diptberetic room for the relief of tbe ps-
. ' ??? bator saah??? i tlent, bees ??? * ???
hoy took the scourging without an outcry???
"Bravo!" cries every man. Bravoi How
many of us are willing to take the scourging
and the suffering and tbe toil and tbeanxiety
for other people? A beautiful thing loau-
mire, but bow little we have of that spirit.
God give us that self-denying spirit, so that
whether we are in huublo spheres or in con
spicuous spheres we mav perform our whole
duty???for this struggle will seen be over.
One of tbe most affecting rominlscences of
my mother is my remembranco of ber os a
Christian housekeeper. She worked very
hard, and when we would come in from sum
mer play and ait down at the tabic at noon 1
remember how she used to pome in with
beads of perspiration along the line of gray
hair, and bow sometimes she would ait down
at the table and put hor head against bar
wrinkled hand aud say: ???Well, the fact it,
I am loo tired to eat.??? Long after ahe might
have delegated this duty toothers she would
not be sathtled unless she tended to this mat
ter herself. In fact, we all preferred lo have
her do so, for aomenow things tasted better
when she prepared them. Long afterward in
tho express train I shot past that old home
stead. I looked out of the window and tried
to peer through the darkness. While I was
doing so onaof my old schoolmates, whom I
hail not seen for nisny years, tapped me on
the shoulder and said: ???De Witt, I see you
are looking out at the scenes of your boy
hood." "Oh, yea," I replied, ???1 was looking
out at the old place where mother lived and
died.??? That nigbt in the cars the whole
scone came back to me. There was the
country home; there was the noonday table;
there were tho children on either aide of the
table, moat of them gone never to come back'.
At ono end of tbe table my father, with s
smile that never left bis countenance even
while he lay in tho coffin. It was an eighty-
six years' smile, not the smile of inanimation
but of Christian courage and of Christian
hope. At the other end of the table was z
beautiful,- benignant, hard-working, aged.
Christian housekeeper, my mother, Bhe.
was very tired, I am glad she has so good
place to rest In. ???Blessed are the dead who
die in the Lord. They rest from their labors
and their works do follow them.???
is by using nop Bitters treeiy, gtvtcg
appetite and enjoymentby ukngthem
imf removing all dullness, pains and
afterwards, leaving - tba head clear,
Imini fence nml r.xreaaa*.
Whether over eating or drinking are mad*
harmless by oslng Hop Bitters freely, giving
elegant aj * ' ??? ???
before am
distress
nerves steady, and all tha feeling* buoyant,
elastlo and more happy than before. The
pleasing effects of a Christian or aumptou*
dinner continuing day* afterward*.
Eminent Testimony.
New York Witness, Aug. IS, ISM.
"I find that In addition to tba pur* spirit*
contained in their composition, they contain
the extract of hops and other well known amt
highly approved medicinal roots, leaves and
tlnctureain quantities sufficient to render the
article wbat the makers claim it to ba, to wit,
a medicinal preparation and not a beverage???
nnfit and unufe to be used except a* a medi
cine.
"Frqjn a careful analyst! of their formula,
which was attested under oatb, I find that In
wry win* glassful of Hop Blttan, tbe active
. isdicinal properties aside from the distilled
ipiritaare equal to a full dost for an adult,
which tact in my opinion subject* It to an
internal revenue tax as a medicinal blltar.???
Gxzin B. Kauh, U. B. Com, In. Bev,
Hardened Liver.
Five yean agol broke down with liver and
kidney complaint and, rheumatism. Blnco
then I have been able to be about at all.
Uy liver became bard Ilk* wood; my limbs
aero puffed up and filled wltb water. All
??? best pbyeiclana agreed that nothing could
. erne. 1 resolved to try Hop Blttan; I
have used seven bottles; tbe hardness has ail
one from my liver, the swelling from my
mb*, and It ba* worked a miracle in my
ue; otherwise I would bava been in my
grave. J. W. Moaiv,
Buffalo, Oct. 1, '8L
Poverty nndNiitT-rlng.
???I was draiged down with debt, poverty and ant
irtng for years, cauetd by a lick tamtiy aud large
bill* lor d mortal. 1 waacemolei.ly discouraged
until oue year ago, by the advlo, of my pallor, 1
commenced u.tog Hop ffitur., aud la ??o>, month
wo wera all woll, aud nouoo/ua have eeu a .tc*
TORPID BOWELS.
DISORDERED LIVER.
??? and MALARIA.
From thew sources nil.o three fourths o??
the (Hseaao* of the buumn nice. These
symptom. Indicate tboirexistence: Loss of
Anp.UU, liowcl. costive. Mick Head
ache, talln.as after eating, aversion to
ea.rtliin of body nr uilnd, Kruelation
of food, Irritability of temper, Low
spirit., \ reeling of having nrglrctrd
some duly, Disables., f luttering at tbe
Heart, Dot. Imfore Mir ??y??., highly col
ored Uriii., to.YHTIPA'fto.-V, and de.
??????????>(??? tho use of* remedy that acta directly
g" th" l-trer. AaaLIrcr medicine TUTT???S
PILLS lure no eqiinl. Their action on tha
Kidneysnnd .Skin l.alao proem.; removing
all liniwrltln. through thee three ?????? acav-
ang.ra of Hie .r.t.m,??? producing appe.
tile, sound digestion, regular .tool., a clear
???kin and a vigorous bod)-. T PILLS
cause no nausea or griping nor Interfere
with dully work and are a perfect
ANTIDOTE TO MALARIA.
IIE FEELS I.IKK A KEW MAN.
"I bare hail Djrap??>pa!a, with Const ip*,
tton.twqyonn, ami bare trli*f| ten dlfTiirent
kimb of pills, and TfJTT'8 aro tho flr??t
that hare dono mo any good. They havo
cleaned mo oat nicely. My appetite to
aplendid, food dlffcaU readily, and I now
have natural M-nires. I feel like a now
man.* W.Jt). EDWARDS, Palmyra, O.
HoldTCTywherg,ago. Office,^44 MurraySIhK.T*
TUTT8 HAIR DYE.
Gray Hair on Whiskmu changed In.
???tantly to . Burner Black by a single ap.
plication of tin* DTK. hold by Druggtata.
-eaa on receipt of,I,
urrsy Street, New York.
TOH???S MANIIU Hf its*rtu prrriPTR ??Rtr.
they must be ready' Torn you have all the -died,'we all felt a. If w. abould^Hka to put i HIHNflUUIl If CO I (JlfCUl
die-* of the day and perhaps ofvveral day. to gerunds on bisgnva Everybody .ppreclated 1 ATledaof asrfr Inpndww.rawingii.rvoa.daba.
plan. Bat what f he bot.mer baa sent meat , that When In th. burning hotel S' 8'. Louis |tv. proaetw. fiaf, eta, h????lag tn-d ia ..in ??wiy
anoit.tic.hle or itiegrioer has sent article* a young man on the fifth atory broke open SyiflffgJijflrySrmrBt.
of food adulterated? Ur what if tome piece the door of the room where hi* mother was A&n*t/u-BfiSvEi, a Chatham at, Ktw York
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???Yes??? the eald, ???out children aro married and
gone, and my husband and I .It by our winter lira
much ae wo did before tho llltlo oara came to
widen the circle. Llfoie something like a spiral
staircase, we are all the time coming aronnd over
tbe spot we started from, only one degree further
up thestalre.???
???That Is a pretty IllnitraUon," remarked her
friend, muilngly, gazing Into tho glowing coala
which radiated a ptraeant heat from tho many-
windowed atove. ???You know wo eannot slop
tolling up the hill, though.???
"Surety we cannot and tor myself I don???t find
fruit with that necenlty provided tbe advance In
life la not attended with calamity or .nOrerlng
for I have had my .hare of that. Not long .loo*
my health otterly brqk* dowo. My .j. em was
foil of m.I.rla. Sly dlgntlou became thnrooely
dlaoidtred sod mr neiv.a wero tu a wretched
auto. I wee laDgufd, au Itltlu and that without
enjoying it, and nad nn strength or ambition to
R iform even mr light houetbold duUe*. Medical
i.tmcut (Allot' to reach tho .eat ot tho trouble.
Tho dlacaio, which Mamed to bo wcaknem ot all
the vital organ., i.rogieurd unlit I bad Mveral
stuck. wMch my phyalcLni pronounced to bo
acuu winged loo ol the itomicb. The tut of ttn-aa
was E dwin rate struggle and I w M slvon no to dto,
Ae tbo crl-ls had partially pa-aed, my
titiah.od he.nl of Um merit. of
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efficu at ouo*. It appeared to pe.vademy body
ough tbo blri.lug ot now life nad c-me to
Taking no other madldno Ilcontlnuedlolm-
E rove, end am uow In belter health thin 1 hare
eeu fora longtime.???
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CANCER. 1
The expMfeiM??i??<h?? treatment of Cancer wftfll
Bivlft'f Specific (8.8. B.) would aeem to warrant ue
In aaylng that It will cure thla much dreaded
scourge. Persona ao afflicted are Invited to corvee*
pond with us.
J believe Bwlft'e Specific hes saved my life. I had
Virtually lout uio of tho upporpartof ray body and
my arras from tho polr*noii5 rfleoti of a largo can*
car ou ray neck, from wnlch X had sulforedfoe
twenty years. 8.8. 8 , his relieved me o! aH sotw
ueu, and the ponton la being fureod out ef my
test. 1 will soou be well. W. R. Robinson,
Davlsboro, Go.
???tumuxerat icMte monos m ctraumicreooe, au
pal ful and giving the patient no rest day or a:
ford months. I obtain* la supply of Hwlfi's i
oiflu lor h??r. Bhe has taken ft bottles and the n
Two months ago mv attention wes called to the
case of a woman afflicted with a cancer on hei
???boulderat.leut ft luoaos In clrcamfcreaco, angiy,
??P*
... pi
la entirely healed up. only a very small scabs*
malaliig and her health 1* better than for ft yead
past; seem* to b<?? perfectly cured.
Kav. Joran U. Gampbiul, Columbus, Go.
I havo seen remarkable results from the um ol
Bwift'e Hpodflo on a cancer. A young man neae
here hat been t minted Are year* with tbe nod
angry looking eating cancer lever saw, and wai
utarlyd ad. 1 he lint bottle made a wonderful
ud after live bottle* were takun, ba ll
quite well It Is truly wonderful.
m. F. CauHLir, M. D.f Oglethorpe, Go. *
UNDER UP AND IKSIDE OF CHEEK EATEB
AWAY BY CANCER.
??? d an eating cancer for irreral yeanf
which had eaten away hUnnder lip and the Inaldi
of hi* cheek, down to the bottom of his gum*. We
g<??i ease of 8wlft*e Specific and gave him. and the
effect hoi been wonderful???almost miraculous The
so re* are all healed and he is perfectly well. Every
on# hero aiM It vu only a question of time
about hla death, and hlsctlre hae created the great
eat excitement In thla part of the country. 1 hope
you will publish about my father???s cure end oene
me acme circulars to giro to rav friends and thi
affilctod. Wm. B. Latmoop.
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