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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 A TRIUMPH OF SKILL Dr-S&e???s ???RACIS Prepared from Select Fruits that yield the finest Flavors, nave been used for years. Be come The Standard Flavoring Extracts. None of Greater Strength. None of such Perfect Purity. Always certain to Im part to Calces, Puddings, Sauces, the natural Flavor of the FrulU UAinrrACTtTSED by STEELE & PRICE, Chicago, IU., and St. Loulf, Mo., Iftkm *f Lapatla Trait Qua*, pr. PrleV* Crtsm Baktafl I*ow4ar, 1*4 Dr. IVlea'a Ual??tM rtrfUM. WE MAKE NO SEOOND ???SHADE GOODS* CLIMBING THE SPIRAL STAIRS. IavUlble Archttecturo In * New Eng. Inml Parsonage. ???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 PAItKER???H TONIC u.n tuvlgorant lu Ju.t such COM. a. mine. 1 look It aod fott IU good 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.??? . ,rnm lutcrvlrw with tbe wile ol Rev. JfP. Parry P.atorot I.uptlilchurch, (Joldbrook, Mauachuaetls. . SOUTHERN METHODIST PUBLISHING HOUSE, NASHVILLE, TENN. The t.rgeil Book Manufacturing Eitabliihment in the South. A full anurlmenl of the better claae of miscellaneous hooks constantly on hand. Theological iKioks, and Sunday-school song-books and libraries a specialty. Chriattam Advocate. General organ of the Methodist Episcopal Church, .South. Twenty pages each week. A pure paper for the old and young. Only 82 a year. Sattilftjr-eehool Periodical*. Eight periodicals for Sunday-echooi teachers and echolare; different grades and prices; fosued weekly, nullify, nnd quarterly. Catalogue of hook?? and specimen* of Christian * ~ ??? ol Periodical* sent free i all kinds of Book and Job Advocate and Sunday*??chool to any addre**. K*timntc> furniihed Printing. Address Southern Methodist Publishing Home, NASHVtL-I.lt, TENN. 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*. 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