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DEATH OF TWO OLD FRIENDS
MOVES HIM TO SADNESS.
PAYS TRIBUTE TO THEIR VIRTUES.
Bartow Man Declares Uncle Simon Peter
Richardson and Henry B. Plant
Were the Best of Men.
Simon Peter Richardson and Henry
B. Plant, two more of my friends,
have fallen asleep. They were not
my near and dear friends, but they
Were friends to humanity, and I am
human. I knew them well and was
always pleased with their presence. It
is a good sign when you are glad to
meet even an acquaintance—a good
sign for him and it is a good one for
you when your acquaintances meet
you gladly. Simon Peter Richardson
ministered here several years and I
was always cheered with his presence
>»nd learned something I did not
know. He was a walking educator, a
man of wit and wisdom and of great
philanthropy. Sometimes he cut to
the quick, but his knife was sharp and
left no ragged edges.
I recall an incident that illustrated
his earnest readiness to reply to a man
who refused a little charity to a very
poor blind woman who wished to go
to Atlanta to have Dr. Calhoun re
move a cataract from her eye. Simon
Peter very earnestly related her con
dition and her extreme poverty and
Baid, “Please give me half a dollar,
only half a dollar.” The merchant re
plied,’“No, I can’t do it. We mer
chants are bled to death by these coun
try people and we have got to stop. I
tell you, Uncle Simon, we are bled to
death, you must excuse me.” Simon
Peter looked at him as if he were
amazed. After a brief silence he
Baid, “Bled are you. Let me show
you something. He took off his long
linen duster, then unbuttoned the
wristband on his left arm, rolled up
the sleeve and pointing to two little
Bears hear the elbow said, ‘A long
time ago a fool doctor tried to bleed
me and made those scars. He missed
the vein and got no ’blood, but the
Bears kre there. lam afraid that is
the experience of a good many people
who ask u little charity for the poor.
They get no blood, but leave a scar.’ ”
We Who saw the point smiled audi
bly. The merchant’s face reddened
under the sarcasm. He suddenly
pulled out the money draw and handed
a dolla'r to the old man, and said:
“Give this to her. I don’t want any
of your scars about me. ”
The last year of his sojourn here
Uncle Himon took a vacation and
visited’his old home on the Peedee
river, in South Carolina. When he
returned he told me exultingly of the
good time he had and about a wonder
ful revival that occurred in his old
home church—the greatest revival he
said that he had witnessed for many
years. “How many converts did you
take into the church,” said I. “The
first week,” said he, “we never took
in nary one, but we turned seventeen
out and purged the church. After
that the Lord blessed us and there is
many a church in this part of the
country that needs the same medicine. ”
Uncle Simon left his impression
upon the people of every community
in which he lived. He was an earnest
man, a strong man, a man of convic
tions and was perfectly fearless in
maintaining them. Woe to the infidel
or skeptic or agnostic who encoun
tered him. Woe to the man who de
clined to go to church because he
didn’t feel the need of religion. No
doubt we have as good men now, but
the preachers are rare in any denomi
nation who are his equals in convinc
ing and converting force. With Paul he
could say. “I have fought a good
fight. I have kept the faith.”
Mr. Plant’s photograph is before me.
What a broad, attractive, human-like
face. There is nothing of awe or
solemnity in his features that would
intimidate the approach of the hum
blest of his race. “Knowing that thou
wast an austere man” did not apply to
him. Always dignified, always self
poised and earnest, he seemed as much
concerned for others as for himself.
He was frank but careful in speech,
genial, uncomplaining and never wor
ried over business cares or disappoint
ments. His last letter to me, written
tn February, was an autograph and is
a model of good old-fashioned pen
manship. It is a large, open, honest
hand without a blot or erasure, the
i’s all dotted, the t’s all crossed and
quotation marks where they should
be. In speaking of his health, he
says: “I have been suffering, but am
yet on deck and prepared in a moder
ate way to attend to my duties and in
somo measure be of benefit to the peo
ple.”
I have taken note of him for nearly
half a century and know of no greater
man in the line of public progress and
public benefaction. Many millionaires
have acquired fortunes from specula
tion—speculation that robbed others.
Many have built on foundations that
others laid and some have wrecked
ruiiio. 15... U puva.e enterprises on
purpose for their own profit, but Mr.
Plant made honest plans in early life
and has by slow and sure degrees ex
panded and matured them. He has
added to values not only of his own
property, but to that of communities
and states. He has proved himseli
an unselfish friend to the south and
won the love and admiration of oui
people. Shakespeare says, “The evil
that men do lives after them. The
good is oft interred with their
bones.” That is not always true.
In fact, he might as truly have said,
"The good that men do lives attei
them.” Good deeds are like the cir
cling waves that gently move to th«
shore when a stone is cast into a pool
They never lose their influence. Tht
good that Mr. Plant has done for the
people has not been’ buried with him.
nor will he be forgotten for genera
tions to come.
But the command is to “Close up
Close up!” The old men die anc
others step into their places—and tht
world moves on. “Close up” is heard
ill along the line.
“Friend after friend departs.
Who has not lost a friend?
There is no union here of hearts
That has net here an end.”
—Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
To Stop Cracks in the Floors.
To stop the cracks in the flooring
the following plan is recommended:
Gather up all the letters from the
waste-paper basket until there is a
big bag full—enough to stuff a couple
of sofa cushions. Set the idle or the
willing members of the family to
shred into bits the paper harvest. This
accomplished, pile the tatters into a
pot with water and cook it. To every
quart of paper and water add a hand
ful of gum arabic, and let the whole
simmer to an intensely thick cream.
The sequence is easily guessed. The
mixture must be put hot iu the cracks,
well packed and carefully smoothed
down.
Excellent Glue Cement.
An unrivalled glue for cementing
paper, cloth, leather, earthenware,
wood, etc., is made as follows: Soak
me pound of white fish glue for four
hours in thirty fluid ounces of cold
water; turn into a glue pot and slowly
stir in four ounces of dry white lead
previously mixed in two fluid ounces
if hot water. Place the glue pot over
the fire for ten minutes, then allow
the contents to cool to about 100 de
grees Fahrenheit. This temperature
achieved, stir in vigorously four fluid
ounces of ninety per cent, alcohol,
and the cement is complete. It will
dry rapidly when applied to any ma
terial, is non-elastic and extremely
hard. Should it be required pliable,
add from two to four ounces of gly
cerine.
Keeping a Sweet Ice Box.
In caring for the ice box take out
every shelf once a week, wash every
part of the interior except where the
Ice goes. Wash the shelves, dry care
fully and replace them. The ice chest
or compartment need only be washed
out every two weeks, but see that the
pipe to run off the water does not get
»topped up. Do not allow the waste
pipe to be connected with the house
waste pipe, and if it is found neces
sary to run the water off this way,
have a plumber come in and fix up a
Bonnection through a large open top
funnel, so there will be a free circula
tion of air above the opening in the
main waste pipe. Keep a small dish
of powdered charcoal in one of the
upper shelves of the ice box; it is a
great purifier. Change it every two
or three days. Sour milk should not
be kept in a refrigerator. Onions and
other vegetables or fruit with strong
flavors should be kept on the upper
shelves.
The Crescent Table.
A new study table for the student,
writer or college boy and girl is made
perfectly round, and then a hole is
cut, making the top a wide crescent,
somewhat like a moon which is almost
full. Into this space is fitted a chair
with a rounding back, which com
pletes the circular curve of the top,
and the seat is on the level with the
under shelf of the table. This under
shelf is intended for reference books
and papers, and is within easy reach
of the writer when seated at the table
with the gate closed, shutting him in,
tor the chair is hinged at one side to
the table, forming a gate. Every
thing is within reach without rising,
and the study table may just as ap
propriately be called the writing table.
The most popular finish for these
combination affairs is in black oak of
dull antique English finish. When so
finished the fittings for the top, as
well as the cushion for the seat, are
usually in red,
Recipes.
Cheese and Celery Sandwich —Mince
the tenderest, crispest of celdry stalks
fine and chill on the ice. Add the
same amount of grated cheese and
enough whipped cream to make the
mixture spreadable. Just before us
ing spread on dainty, crustless squares
and triangles of thin bread, white or
brown.
Frizzled Carrots—Peel a pint of
carrots, slice them very thin and let
them stand for an hour in cold water;
dry them in a napkin and pour them
into a kettle half full of lard (boiling).
When fried a nice brown, skim them
out on a sheet of brown paper,
sprinkle with a saltspoonful of salt,
let them stand in the oven for a few
moments and serve while hot.
The fact that the $20,000,000 was
paid to Spain without the actual hand
ling of a single dollar of money dem
onstrates the vast utility of credit.
The United States circuit court of
appeals at Chicago has held that the
directors of a bank are not liable for
the mismanagement of funds by a
president who takes advantage of his
position to speculate.
The American automobile is already
achieved. What it needs next is a
well articulated system of roads to
run on, along which the inns and re
pair shops will spring up in immedi
ate response, as they have done al
ready in answer to the more modest
needs of the American bicycler.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
NOTES OF INTEREST ON AGRI
CULTURAL TOPICS.
Mayweed by Roadside.—Cheap Root
Growing.—Color of Growings Corn —
Crowded Grain Docs Not Host. ete.
Mayweed by Roadsides.
For some reason may weds never gets
For some reason mayweed seldom
ge|p into a well-cultivated field. It
flourishes where the weed abounds,
chiefly by the roadside, starting into
growth in land that is poached by the
turning out of teams, so that the grass
is killed, yet is not trampled enough to
destroy all vegitable growth. It is in
hard, rough, bare soil that mayweed
delights, for nothing will grow there
to interfere with it. Hence the crop
is never feared by the careful culti
vator, for he knows however abundant
its seed may be in the soil, ten pounds
of clover seed per acre will make a
growth that will keep it down. May
weed never troubles fall-sown timothy,
for it makes by spring a sod that is
sufficient to keep the mayseed from
germinating.
Cheap Root Growing.
The larger kinds of roots, such as
mangel wurtzel and rutabaga, ought
always to be grown in rows far enough
apart so that a horse and cultivator
may go between them. When the tops
of these roots have fully grown they
will spread and shade the soil to the
centre of the rows. Even the carrot
and parsnip, which grow smaller tops,
should be cultivated mainly by horse
power. But all these roots, especial
ly the carrot and parsnip, will need to
be thinned in the rows. One of the
best ways to do this is to sow the seed
rather thick, and then chop out in the
line with the plants a space wide
enough to give root ample room to
spread on either side.
Color of Growing Corn.
No farmer likes to see corn yellow
before its time, which is when the
ripened ears are gathered into the
crib. If corn is yellow when it comes
up it shows that the soil is deficient
in available nitrogen. This often hap
pens on land that is naturally fertile
when the soil has been made cold by
heavy rains. Part of the effect of
commercial fertilizers on corn is due
to the fermentation which they create.
This warms the soil and supplies it
with some available nitrogen. Culti
vation helps to change the color of
corn for the same reason. It lets
warm air into the soil and this warmth
sets into fermentation all the organic
matter it contains. When there has
been a heavy rain compacting the sur
face the cultivator going through a
corn field will show its effects in a
few hours by the darker green color
of the corn where it has done its work.
Crowded Grain Does Not Runt.
The reason why grain does not al
ways rust in moist, warm weather is
because as usually sown, the plants
crowd each othes so that none get an
over supply of the plant food which
such weather develops. In our hot
summers even when dry, it would not
do to hoe the small grains like wheat,
as is done by English farmers. The
hoeing would not make any more
plants and it does not increase the
supply of nitrogen in the soil. The
/American subs. tute for hoeing small
grain is to roll or harrow it while it
is young enough to tiller. This checks
the growth of leaves already formed,
at the same time mellowing the so’il
and causing new shoots to put forth.
This will on rich land make a rank
growth that will have strong straw
and will not rust. If, however, the
soil be deficient in mineral fertility
the heads of the grain will not fill as
they should do, and this often occurs
when the soil has plenty of nitrogen
ous fertilizers, causing a rank growth
of straw.
Irrigation Boxes for Farm, etc.
A practical farmer of Sherman Co.,
Neb., has 705 acres of land in the val
ley of the Loup river. About half of
this is covered by an irrigation ditch.
His method of irrigating his corn field
and his orchard is to make in the win
ter a large number of boxes for use in
his laterals. Constructed of fencing,
the openings of the boxes are 4x6 in
ches. At the inner end of the box a
paddle gate is placed in the gain cut
for that purpose. Through tills paddle
are bored inch augur holes. These
boxes being placed at intervals along
the banks of the literals, two for each
row of orchard trees and one for every
other row of corn, he is enabled to
start one hundred of these little rills
flowing at one time, and as they flow
through a given orifice they cannot
vary. To seep the length of a corn
row sixty rods long requires thirty-six
hours. This gives that slow perfect
saturation which lias been found very
successful on his soil. The yield of his
corn has increased from fifteen to
eighty bushels per acre. His orchard
is the admiration of the community.
It is considered advantageous to sat
urate the soil at the beginning of win
ter. Water is not needed in the ditches
for other purposes at that time. Be
ing out of the crop season there is an
abundance of water for ail. This wat
er is stored up in the sou for the next
season's use. Fall irrigation keeps the
lands moist through the winter ana
carries over until the dry period of the
next ■ unmer when the farmer might
be iiuiv busily engaged in other work
and could not find time to irrigate as
easily for himself as in the fall of the
year.—American Agriculturalist.
Growing Corn After Corn.
Succesive corn growing is wasteful
of fertility, mainly because it does not
permit reseeding with clover, by which
means the surface soil is protected
from blowing or washing away in win-
ter. In the West, successive corn
crops wasted the large supplies of
vegetatable matter that the prarie soil
originally held, until the land became
too wet and unproductive for profit
able cultivation. Besides growing corn
for grain on the same land year after
year developed so much corn smut on
the ears that the crop could not be
longer grown. But where corn is
grown for fodder and sown so thick
ly that it will not ear, two or three
crops of corn may be grown in succes
sion. and sometimes with advantage.
It can only be done, however, by sow
ing with the corn after the last culti
vation some crop that will make a
covering for the soil during the win
ter. Rye and crimson clover sown to
gether in August make a good combi
nation. If it is iu a locality whore
September sown crimson clover will
live through the winter, that should
be sown alone and in August if possi
ble. so as to get a better growth be
fore fall. We should advise sowing
some crimson clover seed with the rye
in September, even where the winters
are severe. The grain will protect the
clover to some extent, and if the clover
is killed out it will fertilize the grain
in spring. Then in winter draw all
the manure that the prevous crop has
made on the land, and spread it even
ly. This will be still further protec
tion for the crimson clover. The rye
and some clover will make an early
growth in the spring, before time to
plow them under for another crop of
fodder corn. After two or three crops
of corn grown thus the laud should lie
seeded with red clover, whose roots
will go down to the subsoil for fertil
ity that has been washed dOwn.to it.—
American Cultivator.
Milk for Poultry.
On every side we hear the warning
words “Don't feed any sour food,” and
in the next moment comes the advice
to “give them all the milk both sweet
and sour they will use.” Slop may be
the natural food for hogs, but it Is
not for hens. Milk as a fluid, either
sweet or sour, is very goood for mixing
ground food for fowls, says a writer
in The Country Gentleman, but when
placed in pans for them to eat or drink
it is more of an injury than a benefit,
for the reason that it spoils the plum
age and taints the ground, thus at
tracting the flies and other insects,
which bring with them more injury
than the good the fttwls have received
from the milk. One attribute of suc
cess, namely clenliness, is almost as
impossible where milk is used as a
drink or feed in pans to the fowls.
What can be more disgusting than a
lot of half grown chicks well besmear
ed with sour milk and covered with
flies? And to add to their sorry plight
down comes a misty rain, complet
ing their uncanny appearance.
I have often seen the feeding ground
of a lot of growing chicks covered with
sour milk and flies, the ground well
beaten down with the patter of the
feet of both ducklings and young
chicks. What ean be more disagree
able than she odor of this feeding spot
after a shower has been driven away,
and the warm sun shines upon the
ground and proceeds to bring to life
the deposit of the many Insects drawn
to the locality by the besmeared con
dition of the ground? And those who
care for these fowls wonder why
gapes, diarrhoea and cholera come tc
their flocks. None so blind as those
who will not see. Why not get all the
advantage of the milk by using it to
mix with their ground food instead
of placing it in pans for them to run
through and paint the ground to their
own destruction?
Clenliness is the one great thing with
poultry. No one can begin to keep
their surroundings in even half-way
condition, who places pans of milk or
slop of any kind for fowls. Many
writers advocate the plan, and tell us
in glowing terms of the benefits to be
derived from this feeding of milk as
a slop to poultry. If the benefit is tc
come to them from the milk, use if
each day to mix their food with, and
feed it to them in boxes or troughs,
not upon the ground, and provide feed
ing space sufficient for all to feed at
once. Where no ground food is provid
ed for the poultry, better give the
slop to the hogs.
Food or Breed?
The quality of the milk depends up
on tlie fat in it, and the fat either de
pends upon tlie quality of the cow or
the food given to it. There are plenty
who believe that the quality of the
milk can lie changed by changing the
food. That is, certain kinds of food
make milk rich in fat, and other foods
make milk poor in fat. The question
of which is correct is interesting tc
dairymen, and if it is the food that
determines the question they want s
ration that will give the best results.
Most farmers have been led to be
lieve that the percentage of fat in the
milk is determined largely by the qua!
ity of the food given to the cows. Or
the other hand, the results of nearly
all the scientific experiments and tests
go to show that the kind of food fee
to the cows has little influence upon
the fat in the milk, but that every
thing depends upon the cow. There
are some cows that seem to be borr
with the ability to produce milk riel
in fat, and food of any kind will keep
up this supply. Os course, starving
and gradual degeneration of the ant
mal will decrease the supply of milk
and consequently the quality of fat
But with fair care and food the per
centage of fat will remain good and
quite constant.
Usually the Way.
“I used to buy neckties for my wife,’'
he said, “but I had to quit 7 it. Those
I bought for her never suited her.”
“So she buys them herself now, does
i she?”
I “No; she takes those I buy for my-
I self. They always seem to suit her.”
i —Chicago Post.
REV. BR. TALMAGE
DISCOURSE BY THE EMINENT DI-
VINE LAST SUNDAY
Subject: A Worhl wide Evil—Residence In
Hotels Condemned—Wholesome In Ha-*
enccsThftl Surround Life in a Private
Home—Children Get in Bad Company.
[Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 189P.1
Washington, D. C. (Special).—Homo life
versus hotel life is the theme ol Dr. Tal
mage’s sermon for to-day, the disadvan
tages of a life spent at more or less tem
porary stopping places being sharply con
trasted with the blessings that are found
In the real home, however humble. The
text is Luke x., 34, 35: “And brought him
to an inn and took care of him. And on
the morrow when be departed, he took out
two pence and gave them to the host and
said unto him, Take care of him; and what
soever thou speudest more, when I come
again I will repay thee.”
This is the good Samaritan paying the
hotel bill of a man who had been robbed
and almost killed by bandits. The good
Samaritan had found the unfortunate on a
lonely, rocky road, where to this very day
depredations are sometimes committed
upon travelers, and had put the injured
num into the saddle, while this merciful
and well-to-do man had walked till they
got to the hotel, and the wounded man was
put to bed and cared for. It must have
been a very superior hotel in its accommo
dations, for, though In the country, the
landlord was paid at the rate of what in
our country would be or $5 a day, a
penny being then a day’s !wages and the
two pennies paid in this case about two
days’ wages. Moreover, it was one of those
kind-hearted landlords who are wrapped
up in the happiness of their guests, lie
cause the good Samaritan leaves the poor,
wounded follow to his entire care, promis
ing that when he earns that way again he
would pay all the bills until the invalid got
well.
Hotels and boarding houses are neoessl
ties. In very ancient times they were un
known, because the world had compara
tively few inhabitants, and those were not
much given to travel, and private hospital
ity met all the wants of sojourners, as
when Abraham rushed out at Mature to in
vite the three men to sit down to a dinner
of veal, as when the people were pogsltlve
ly commanded to be given to hospitality,
as in many places in the east these ancient
customs are practiced to-day, But we have
now hotels presided over by good land
lords and boarding houses presided over
by excellent host or hostess In all neighbor
hoods, villages and cities and It is our con
gratulation that those of our land surpass
all other lands. They rightly become the
permanent residences of many people,such
as those who are without families, such aB
those who business keeps them migratory,
such as those who ought not, for various
reasons of health or peculiarly of circum
stances. to take upon themselves the cares
of housekeeping.
But one of the great evils of this day is
found in the fact that a large population
of our towns and cities are giving up and
have given up their homes and taken
apartments, that they may have more free
dom from domestic duties and more time
for social life and because they like the
whirl of publicity better than the quiet
and privacy of a residence they can call
their own. The lawful use of these hotels
and boarding-houses is for most people
while they are in transitu; but as a
terminus they are in many oases de
moralization, utter and complete. That Is
the point at which families innumerable
have begun to disintegrate. There never
has been a time when so many families,
healthy and abundantly able to support
and direct homes of their own, have struck
tent and taken permanent abode in those
public establishments.
In these public caravansaries, the demon
of gossip is apt to get tull sway. All the
boarders run dally the gantlet of general
inspection—how they look whenthey come
down in the morning and when they get in
at night, and what they do for a living,
and who they reoetve ns guests in their
rooms, and what they wear, and what they
do not wear, and how they eat, and what
they ent, and how rnuoh they ent, and how
little they eat. If a man proposes in such
a place to be Isolated and reticent and
aloue, they will begin to guess about him:
Who is he? Where did he come from? How
long Is he going to stay? Has he paid his
board? How much does he pay? Perhaps
he*has committed some crime and doesnot
want to be known. There must be some
thing wrong about him or he would, speak.
The whole house goes Into the detective
business. They must And out about him.
They must find out about him right away.
If he leave his door uillocked by accident,
he will find that his rooms have been in
spected, his trunk explored, his letters
folded differently from the way they were
folded when lie put them away. Who is
he? is the question asked with Intenser in
terest, until the subject has become a
monomania. The simple fact Is that he Is
nobody In particular, but minds his own
business.
Ono of the worst damages that come
from the herding of so many people into
boarding-houses and family hotels is in
flicted upon children. It is only another
way ot bringing them up on the commons.
While you have your own private house
you can, for the most part, control their
companionship and their whereabouts, but
by twelve years of age In these public re
sorts they will have picked up all the bad
things that can be furnished by the pruri
ent minds of dozens of people. They will
overhear blasphemies, and see quarrels,
and get precocious in sin, and what the
bartender does not tell them the porter or
hostler or bellboy will.
Besides that the children will go out into
this world without the restraining, anchor
ing, steadying and all controlling memory
of a home. From that none of us who have
been blessed of such memory have es
caped. It grips a man for eighty years,
if fie lives so long. It pulls him back from
doors Into which he otherwise would enter.
It smites him with contrition in the very
midst of his dissipations. As the fish, al
ready surrounded by the long wide net,
swim out to sea, thinking they can go as
far as they please, and with gay toss of
silvery scale they defy the sportsman on
the beach, and after awhile the fishermen
begin to draw in the net, hand over
hand, and hand over hand, and it
is a long while before the captured
fins begin to feel the net, and then they
dart this way and that, hoping to get out,
but And themselves approaching the
shore, and are brought up to the very feet
of the captors, so the memory of an early
home sometimes seems to relax and let
men ont farther and farther from God, and
farther and farther from shore, five years,
ten years, twenty years, thirty years; but
some day they find an irresistible mesh
drawing them back, and they are com
pelled to retreat from their prodigality
and wandering; and though they make
desperate effort to escape the impression,
and try to dive deeper down in sin,
after awhile are brought clear back and
held upon the Rock of Ages.
If it be possible, O father and mother!
let your sons and daughters go out into
the world under the Bemlomnfpotent mem
ory ot a good, pure home. About your two
or three rooms in a boarding house, or a
family hotel, yon can cast no such glorions
sanctity. They will think of these public
caravansaries as an early stopping place,
malodorous with old victuals, coffees per
petually steaming and meats in everlast
ing etew or broil, the nlr surcharged with
carbonic acid, and corridors, along which
drunken boarders come staggering at 1
o’clock in the morning, rapping at the
door till the affrighted wife lets them In.
Do not be guilty of the sacrilege or blas
phemy of calling such a place a home.
A home is four walls inclosing one
family with identity of interest and a
privacy from outside inspection so com
plete that it is a world in Itself, no one en-
i tering by permission—bolted afl®
1 barred and chained against all outside ia«
quisltiveness. The phrase so often use®
In the law books ana legal circles is mights
ily suggestive—every man’s house is hl4
castle, us much so as though It had draw*
bridge, portcullis, redoubt, bastion an®
armed turret. Even the officer of the law
may not enter to serve a writ, except the
door be voluntarily opened unto him; bur*
glary, or the invasion ot it. a crime so
offensive that the law clashes its Iron jaws
on any one who attempts it. Unless it ba
necessary to stay for longer or shorter
time in family hotel or boarding house-,
and there are thousands of instances
in which it is necessary, ns I
showed you at the beginning—unless
In this exceptional case, let neither wife
nor husband consent to such permanent
residence.
The probability is that the wife will have
to divide her husband’s time with public
smoking or reading room or with some
coquettish spider in search ot unwary flies,
ana, if you do not entirely lose your hus
band, It will be because he Is divinely pro
tected from the disasters that have
whelmed thousands of husbands, with us
good Intentions as yours. Neither should
the husband, without Imperative reason,
consent to such a Ute unless ho is sure bla
wife can withstand the temptation of so
cial dissipation which sweeps across such
places with the force ot the Atlantic Ocean
when driven by a September equinox.
Many wives give up their homes for these
public residences, so that they may give
their entire time to operas, theatres, balls,
receptions and levees, and they are in a
perpetual whirl, like a whip top spinning
round and round and round very prettily
until it loses its equipoise and shoots off in
to a tangent. But the difference is, in one
ease it is a top, and in the other a soul.
Besides this there is an assiduous accu
mulation ot little things around the pri
vate home, which in the aggregate make a
great attraction, while the denizen of one
ot these public residences is apt to say:
“What is the use? I have no place to keep
them it I should take them.” Mementos,
bric-a-brao, curiosities, quaint chair or
oozy lounge, upholsteries, pictures and a
thousand things that accrete in a home uro
discarded or neglected because there is no
homestead in which to arrange them. And
yet they are the case in which the pearl ot
domestic happiness is set. You can never
become ns attached to the appointments of a
boarding-house or family hotel as to those
things that you;can call your own and are
associated with the different members ot
your household or with scenes of thrilling
import in your domestic history. Blessed
is that home in which for a whole lifetime
they have; been gathering, until every
figure In the carpet, and every panel ot
the door, and every casement of the win
dow has a chlrography of its own, speak
ing out something about father or mother,
or son or daughter, or friend that was with
us awhile. What a snored place it becomes
when one can say: “In that room such a
one was born; in that bed such a one died:
in that chair I sat on the night I heard
such a one hud received a great public
honor; by that stool my child knelt for her
last evening prayer; here I sat to greet my
son as ho enmoback from sea voyage; that
was father’s cane; that was mother’s rock
ing ohalrl” What a joyful and pathetlo
congress ot reminiscences!
The public residence ot hotel and board
ing house abolishes the graoo of hospital
ity. Your guest does not want to come to
such a table. No one wants to run such a
gantlet ot acute and merciless hypererltio
ism. Unless you have a homo ot your own
you will not be able to exercise the best
rewarded of all the graces. For exercise
ot this grace what blessing came to the
Shunammlte in the restoration of her son
to lite because she entertained Elisha, and
to the widow ot Zarephath In the perpetual
oil well of the miraculous cruse because
she fed a hungry prophet, and to Raliab in
the preservation of her life at the demoli
tion of Jericho because she entertained the
spies, and to Laban In tho formation of an
Interesting family relation because of his
entertainment of Jacob, and to Lot in his
rescue from tho destroyed, city because of
his entertainment ot tho angels, and to
Mary and Martha and Zaceheusln spiritual
blessing because they entertained Christ,
and to Publius in the island ot Molita iu the
healing of his father because of tho enter
tainment ot Paul, drenched from the ship
wreck, and ot innumerable houses through
out Christendom upon which have coma
blessings from generation to generation
because their doors swung easily open in
the enlarging, ennobling, irradiating and
divine grace of hospitality!
Young married man, as soon as you can,
buy such a place even It you have to put on
It a mortgage reaching from base to cap
stone. Tlie much abused mortgage, which
is ruin to a reckless man, to one prudent
and provident Is tho beginning ot it com
petency and a fortune for the reason he
will not be satisfied until he has paid It off,
and all the household are put on stringent
economies until then. Deny yourself all
superfluities and all luxuries until you can
say, “Everything in this house Is mine,
thank God—every timber, every brick,
every foot of plumbing, every doorslll.”
Do not have vourohlldren born In a board
ing house, and do not yourself be burled
from one. Have a place where your chil
dren can shout and sing and romp without
being overhauled for the racket. Have a
kitchen where you can do something
toward the; reformation of evil cookery and
the lessoning of this nation of dyspeptics.
As Napoleon lost oneof ids great battles by
an attack of indigestion, so many men
have such a dally wrestle with tho food
swallowed that they have no strength left
for the battle ot life, and, though your
wife may know how to play on alt musical
instruments and rival a prime donna, she
Is not well educated unless she can boll an
Irish potato and broil a mutton chop,since
the diet t imetlmes decides tho fate of fam
ilies and nations.
Have a sitting room with at least on#
easy chair, even though you have to tak#
turns at sitting in it, and books out of the
public library or of your own purchase for
tho making of your family Intelligent,
and checkerboards, and guessing matches,
with an occasional blind man’s buff, which
which Is of all games my favorite. Bouse
up your home with all styles of Innocent
mirth and gather up in your children’*
nature a reservoir of exuberance that will
paur down refreshing streams when Ufa
gets parched, and the dark days come,
and the light-go out, end tho laughter 13
smothered into a sob.
First, last and all the time have Christ
In your homo. Julius Casar calmed the
fears of an affrighted boatman who was
rowing In a stream by saying, “8o long as
Ciesar Is] with you In the same boat, no
harm can happen.” And whatever storm
of adversity or bereavement or poverty
may strike your home, all is well as long
as you have Christ the King on board.
Make your home so farreaebing in its in
fluence that down to the last moment of
your children’s life you may hold them
with a heavenly charm. At seventy-six
years of ago the Demosthenes of th#
American Senate lay dying at Washing
ton—l mean Henry Clay, of Kentucky.
His pastor snt at his bedside, and "the old
man eloquent,” after a long and exciting
public life, transatlantic and cisatlantic,
was back again In the seenei of
bis boyhood, and he kept saying in
his dream over and over again, “My
mother, mother, motherl” May the paren
tal influence we exert be not only poten
tial, but holy, and so the home on earth be
the vestibule of our home tn heaven, In
which place may we all meet—father,
mother, eon, daughter, brother, sister,
grandfather, grandmothernnd grandchild,
and the entire group of precious ones, ol
whom we must say in the words cf trans
porting Charles Wesley:
Ono family we dwell In him.
One churc?i above, beneath,
Though now dlv.ded by the stream— '
The narrow stream cf death;
Ono army of the living God,
To His command we bow;
Part of the host have crossed the flood
And part are crossing now. >