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DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON.
mabthlsof the kitchen.
Tin thi:t>?utb -t non of lb- Rev. Dr Tai- 1
:,#■ •» ser.e. on tb> “Jlarriagi Ring.’'
pica-- le I iu the Hr okl vn Taberua ■!.*. related
i. ■ Martyrs of tlx; Kitchen ." and wan dcliv
..el Tro n tie I<l owing text;
Lord, dost i hou uot care that my sister
hath ie.t aie tn s »rve alone' Bid her there
tore that she help me.'—St. Luke x.. 40.
Ti, • unn s er said
Vouder is a lieautiful village homestead.
The man of the house is deal and his widow ;
ha- ' barge of the premises. It is the widow i
.Martha of Bethauv. Yes, I win show you
ai-o the p- tof the household. It is M iry,the
»...mg sister, withaliooa under her arm and
'i! tier face Uu sign of care or anxiety about
any.lung. Cvm| any has come. Christ
api caring at tie outside of tho >
,j,«,i makes some excitement inside
the door. The sisters setback the disarranged :
l imitu e ami push back the hair, and iu a !
fiaJi prepare to open the door. They do not
keep Chiist wai.ing oiit.s de until th -y have
ne« ly appareled themselves, orelaboratelv ar
ranged their trews, aad then with affected
, irprfee come out, aud pretend ■
nd to have heard the two or !
three previous kno -kings, say: "Why. is
that you!” No, they were ladies, aud always '
presentable, although [lerhaps they had not i
on their best. None of us always have on .
our best: otherwise very soon our best would I
not b-i worth having on. They throw open
the door aud greet Christ. They say: "Good
morning, Master, come iu and lie
seated.’ 1 Christ brought a company
of friends with Him. an I the influx of so
many city visitors, you do not wonder, threw
the country home into some perturbation. I
suppose the walk from the city had been a
keen appetizer. The kitchen department
that day was a very important department,
and 1 think as soon as Martha had greeted
her guests she went to that ro mi. Mary had
no anxiety about the dinuer. She hai full
confidence that her sister Martha could get
up t.ho bo” dinner in Bethany, and she prac
tically said: "Now let us have a division of la
lair. Martha you cook and I’ll set down and
be good/’ The same difference
you now sometimes see between
sisters. There is Martha, industrious,
painstaking, a good manager, ever inventive
of some new pastry, discovering something in
cookery or household affairs. Here is Mary,
fond of conversation, literary, so full of ques
tions of ethics she lias no time to discuss
questions of household welfare. It is noon.
Mary is in the parlor. Martha is in the
kitchen. It would have been better forthem
to have divided the toil and then they could
have divided the opportunity of listening to
Christ. But Mary monopolizes Christ while
Martha swelters before the fire. It was very
important that they have a good dinuer that
day, for Christ was hungry and he did not
often have luxurious entertainment. Alas!
me. If all the responsibility of that entertain
ment had rested with Mary, what a repast
they would have had. But something went
wrong in the kitchen. Either the fire would
not burn or the bread would not bake, or
something was burned black that ought to
have been only turned brown, or Martha
scalded herself, and forgetting all the pro
prieties of the occasion, with besweated brow
she- rushed out of the kit hen into the parlor,
perhaps with tougs in one hand and pitcher
in tho ether, aud she cried out, "Lord, dost
thou not care that my sister has left me
to servo alone.' Bid' her, therefore, that
she help me.” Christ scolded not a word.
If it was scolding 1 would rather have Him
scold me than anybody else bless me. There
was nothing acerb iu the Savior’s reply. He
knew that. Martha had been working herself
to death to get Him something to eat,and He
appreciated her kindness, and He practically
said: "my dear woman, don’t worry, let the
dinner gi. sit down here on this ottoman
beside your younger sister Mary, let us
talk ano-it something else. " Martha,
Martha, thou art careful and troubled
about many things, but one thing is
needful ’ As Martha throws open
the door I look in to-day aud I see a great
many household anxieties, perplexities, fa
tigues and trials, and about them 1 am going
to speak if the Lord of Mary and Martha and
Lazarus will help me by His grace. As I
look into that door, in the first place, 1 see
the triai of nou-appre.nation. That was
what made Martha so mad at Mary. Mary,
the younger sister, had no proper estimate of
the older sister’s fatigue. Just as now- men
having annoyances of store and factory and
shop, or at the stock exchange,
come heme at night and hear of
some household annoyance and they say:
Oli, that's nothing; you ought to be in the
factory a .lay and have ten, or fifteen, or
, I w ent y, or a hundred subordinates, then you
would kn w something about annoyauce and
trouble,’ Oh, man, let me tell you that a
wileand a mother has to conduct at the same
time a university, a clothiug establishment, a
restaurant, a laundry, a library, and has to
be health officer, police and president of the
whole realm. She has to do a thousand things,
and to do them well in order to make things
go smoothly, aud that is what puts the awful
tax op a woman’s nerves and a
woman's _ brain. I know there
are exceptions to the rule. Sometimes you
w-iil find a woman who can sit in the arm
chair of the library all day without any
anxiety, or tarry on the belated pillow, anil
ad the c&res ot’ the household are thrown
upon servants who have large wages and
great experience; but that is the exception.
I speak of the great masses of housekeepers
to whom life is a struggle, and who, at
thirty years of a<e, look as though they
were forty: and who , at forty, look as
though they were fifty; and who. at fifty,
look as though they were sixty. The fallen
f’halons aud Austerlitz and Gettysburg
and Waterloo are a small number in compar-
i with thus.? who have gone down under the
II a/tyrdr;n of the kitchen. Go out to the
ymetery and look over the epitaphs on the
‘'■mbstoiies: they are all b autiful and poetic.
if the tombstones could tell the truth,
rhciisanis «»f them would say: "Here lies a
wumaji who was kille 1 by too much
Ji ruling and sewing and baking and
scouring and scrubbing,” and th)
capon with whi?h she was killed was a
orooin oi a sewing machine or a ladle. The
iii Misewifr rises m the morning half rested.
-V an irrevocable hour she must have tho
uu rning repast ready. What if the fire will
>iot buiL what it the clock stop? what
I ‘1? uiarketing has not been sent
m. Ho matter that, it nrist be ready nt the
II ro’-oft-bie hour. Then the children must be
re/vly for s-h »01. But what if the gar
nts be torn? What if they do not know
heir lesson -? What if the hat or sash is lost!
I icy must Im? ready. Then you haveth? diet
•»i a day, or perhaps several days, to plan
1 '*• t * v^ ‘ r butcher sends meat un
masticab'-. A\bat if the grower furnishes
'“ n article* of food adulterated? What if the
J of s’lver |>e lost, or a favorite chalice bo
•.* u 1 ’ 01 Ile ri> of leak, or tho
P-inbiir. fail. or any ono of
a bnousa id things occurs.' No matter.
' 'fythmgmustb-rea lv. The spring i< •om
’\ tK ‘J“ ercinu -d h?an*v- luti ?n in the family
ydrobe, or th • autumn is at hand and you
st.'hut out tbu northern blast, but how i f tha
II ededvou tothechest. How if tho
u<tnnentsof the last y-ar do not tit tho
? Vhat if all fche fashions have
u'«vt Th,, hous ■ mustb • an extemporized
”“XJS.ry shop or dispensary, there must bo
j - ailments, something to
*n the croup, soni thing to cool the burn,
'. I K,! ’hice the inflammation,
4. t0 si!ence the jumping tooth.
to soothe the earache, oh, man
* 1 ns many care; as that
* ( _i_ t' 011 ' * k*- a fit candidate for Blooming
• >' h I^sane as »ylum. If Martha make under
Id r7kri r> U ?i? Unces an impatient rush on tha
leni?rw Or r k u dl *a w mg-r°om. be patie.it, be
<? h ’ rny Bfater! though my words
t< « arou? ? m many souls any apprecia
your ? )d > me assure ycu from the
rm w hich Jesus Christ met Mar
appreciates all your trials
God rs 10 cellar, and the
<r. f’r. j borah and Miriam and Abigail
b Grandmother Lr Elizabeth Fry and
Hannah M >re is tho God Ok th.» housekeeper.
Curi4 never mart e 1 tnat lie migut ue th»
especial tAeu 1 a.ai c< u.iuant o. a wh »le World
oi truuu.e 1 * jaiaunuud. i blundered. Christ
was married. Tae liible *ays the ch nix his
the thumb's wife, and that u ak s me know
tout a woman has a rigut to go to Carist with
ail her anuuyaujuM and r a 4exuie> and ia
uguui, for by His <a.h of cun ugai fidelity He
luui „■»Aura vO syaijauiize. George Herbert
par. the tuuugm, in th.edui fuai ver quaint
and p.cuLut, bat strong, in oiiu verse say
mg.
•The servant by this clause makes drudgery
divme,
“Who s.veeps a room as for thy laws makes
this and the action bne.*’
A young woman of brilliant education and
proMjterous surroundings was called down
stairs to help in th? absence of the servant,
aud Lheie was a rmg at tae L»ell,and she went
to the door and a gentleman friend entered.
He slid: ‘1 thought 1 heard music in this
Lous?, was it on tms piano, or on ch .a harp?”
bhesaid. "Ne ther, it was a fryiugpau ac
companiment to a gridiron’ in other words,
1 was called downstairs to help. 1 suppose
sometime 1 shall have to learn, and 1 nave
tiegun now.” When will tha world learn
thac every kind of worn that is right is hon
orable?
As Martna opens this door I look in and I
also see the trial of severe economy. Nine
hundred and ninety-nine households out ot
a thousand are subjected to it either under
greater or less stress of circumstances. It is
esiieeially so when a man smokes expensive
cigars and dines at costly restaurants. He
will be very apt to enjoin severe
economy at home. That is what
kills thousands of women, the
attempt to make five dollars do the work of
seven. It is amazing how some men dole
out money to the household. If you have
not got the money bay so. If you have, lie
cheerful in the expenditure. Your wife will
be reasonable. "How long dues the honey
moon last?” said a young woman about to
enter the married state, to her mother. The
mother answered: “The honeymoon lasts anti*
you ask your husband for money!” "How
much do you want?’ "A dollar/’ “A dol
lar! Can't you get along with fifty cents?
You are always wanting a * dollar!”
This thirty years' war against
high prices, this everlasting attempt to
bring the outgo within the in *ome has ex
hausted multitudes of house keepers. L<*t me
say to such, it is a part of the Divine disci
pline. If it were liest for you all you would
nave to do would be just to open the front
windows and the ravens would fly in with
food, and after you had baked fifty times
from the barrel in the pantry, like the barrel
Zarephath, the barrel would be full, and
ihe children’s shoes would last as long as tho
»hoes ot the Israelites in the wilderness, forty
fears. Oh, my friends, all these trials
and fatigues of home life are to pre
pare you for heaven, for they will
make that tho brighter in the contrast. A
lying sol lier was asked by a friend, "Have
aon any message to s?nd to your father.”
“Yes.” said he: “tell him I have gone home.” '
‘Well.” said the friend, “have you any mes- j
*ag» to send to your wife?” “Yes; tell her I '
uave gone home.” “You have other friends;
wou d you like to send a message to them?”
“Yes; give them the same message; they
will all understand it. Tell them I have gone
home.’ And that heavenly home will com
pensate, will fully atone for all the
hardships and the trials and the annoy
ances and the vexations of the earthly
home. In that land they never hunger, and
sonsequently there willbe no nuisance of
rater mg for appetites, in that land or the
white-robed they have no mending to do and
the air of that hilly country makes them all
well. .\o rent to pay there: every man owns
Ins own house, and a mansion at that. It will
not be so great a chang > to step into the chariot
of the skies if on earth you i ode. It will not
!» so great a change if on earth you had all |
luxuries and satisfa di ms. 1c will not be i
so great a change for you to sit down
on the banks of the rive. - of life if on earth
jron had a country But oh. the joy for
i.he weary feet when they step into the celes
tial equipage, and oh,the joy of those to whom
home was a martyrdom on earth, when they go
mtn that home where they will never have to
do am thing they do not want to do. What
a change from the time sh? put down the
rolling pin to the time she took up the s -ep
ter! If ('hatswork park and the Vanderbilt
mansion were lifted into the celestial city
they would be looked at as uninhabitable
rookeries, ami Lazarus himself would be i
ashamed to l»e seen going in or out of i
either of them, so great are the 1
palaces awaiting all God’s dear children, and |
so much grander the heavenly architecture 1
than the earthly. It is often not only the
toil *-f the housekeeping but it is that the .
sickness an 1 the sorrow go along. It is a ,
simple fact that one-half the women of .the
land are invalids. The mountain lass who I
has never had an ache or a pain may con- |
sider household work of no very great weari
ness. and at the eventide may skip out to the
fields and drive the cattle home, and until 10
o'clock at night may fill the cabin
with laughing racket; but. oh, to
do the hard work of the household with a
shattered constitution—-after six weeks’
whooping coush has raged in the household,
making the nights as sleepless as the days,
then it is not so easy. And then this work
of the home has often to be undertaken when
the nerves are shattered with some bereave
ment that has put desolation in every room of
the house, and set the crib into the garret be
cause its occupant has been hushed into a
slumber that needs no mother’s lullaby. Oh,
it was a great deal ea >?r for her to broo 1 th**
whole (!<?•’: to breed a pet of
them, now chat tne rest have gone.
You may tell her that lr r departed children
are in the bosom of a loving God,but mother
like she will brood both flocks, putting one
wing of care over the flock in the home,
putting the other wing of care over the flock
in the grave. Nothing but the old-fashioned
religion of Jesus Christ can take a woman
happily through home trials. All these mod
ern religions amount to nothing. They do
not help. They do not comfort
when there is a dead babe in
the house. Away with them, and give us
the old-fashioned religion of Je.-us Christ that
has comforted so many in the days of sorrow '
and trouble. Romance and novelty may for
a while seem to be a substitute. The mar
riage day has only gone by, just gons
by, and all household cares are atoned for
by the joy of being together and by the fact
that when it is late at night it is not neces
sary to discuss whether it is time to go. All
the mishaps of the newly-married couple in
the way or household affairs are not matters
of anxiety or reprehension, but of merri
ment. The loaf or bread turned into a geo
logical specimen, the slushy custards and the
jaundiced and measly biscuits. Oh. it is a
very bright sunlight that falls upon the cut
lery and mantel ornaments of a new ho ne.
Roman can ! novelty will do for a little,
but aft r a while the romance is all gone an 1
there is a loaf to be made, a loaf that cannot
be sweetened by any earthly condiments and
cannot be flavored with any earthly flavors,
and cannot b • baked in any ordinary oven.
It is the loaf of domestic happiness. All the
ingred cuts from heaven. Fruit from the
tree of life and sweetened with the now w in »
of the kingdom, and leaked in th • oven of
home trial. Goa only can make that loaf.
You can cut it. but it tak< s God to
make it. Solon »'.n wrote? out of
his own mis?rable e -n •? he had a
wretched home < v> can be happy with !
two wive?, much le» with seven huudiv l—
an 1 out of his- wr;? 4 *: 1 exporienc .he wrote: j
“Bet* t is a dinner of n» rbs and love there
with than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.” ,
< >h, the res,)< ni bih des of hone eepers.
Kings by their indig»*stion have lost
empires uni g-ne:a’s through indigestion |
have lost battles. One of the 1
great statisticians says Ihit out cut of a I
thousand nnmarried men thirty-eight were ,
criminals an 1 out of a thou and marri • 1 men j
only eight een were criminal*, showing th ? I
power of home. And oh, the responsibility i
: eating upon boasekee »ers. By the f<x d they
provide. I y !h?cou< h they spread.by th ? books
the}’ introduce, by the influences they bring,
around the home they are helping to d *'*ide
the physical, the in telle dual, the moral, the
eternal welfare of th‘* human ra c. Oh.
the responsibility. That woman sits in
the house of Gcxi to-day. perhaps entirely
unappreciated. She is the banker of b r
home, the president, ths cashier, the
i
teller, the discount clerk, and ever and
' anon there is a panic. God knows the
anxieties and the cares, and He knows that
Uns is not a uselesx sermon, but that
I th ro are a multitude of hearts here ■
watng for the distillation of the divine
mercy and solace in their home trials and
their home dut es aud their home fatigues.
Tiie world h »ars nothing about them. They
never speak about th?m. You could not with
the agon es us an In misitiou bring the truth
out ot them. They Ke»p it still. They say
nothing. They en lure, and will until God
and the Judgment right their wrongs. Oh.
but bars Rome sister iu the house, "are you
not wi ling to admit that after all woman’s
life at home is one of self-.sacrifice ?” Yes, mv
biscer, an I that is the only kind of life worth
living. That has been the life of Florence
Nightingale, that was the life of Ed
ward 1 ays.m, that was the life of the
Lord Jesus Christ, that is the life of every
man or woman that is happy—a life of self
sacrifice. These people living fur themselves
—are they happy.' Find me one. I will give
you ail the n itious of th? earth to find me
ki-x Not happy, u>, not happy. It is the
self sacrificing people tliat are happy, for
(%od pays so largely, so gloriously, so niagnifi- I
cent >’ m the de?p and eternal satisfactions of 1
the soul. When young Dr. Hutchison, us
this city, a few years ago stayed in a
(iiuhtheretic room to relieve a patient
and was so s iturated w ith the poison that
h* died, we all wanted to put garlands on
his brow'. The whole city was moved in
idiniration of that young doetor. Oh. how
wu a Unite self-denial and self-sacrifice, but
how little we have of it. How much easier
it is to applaud it than to exercise it. When
years ago iu the burning of a hotel at St.
: Louis, a young man on th » fifth flour rushed
1 for the room of his mother and plunged
through the darkness and the smoke, crying
out: "Mother, where are you?’' aud
never came back again, all the
world admired that young man.
Splendid young man! Everybody said
he was a splendid young man. Self
sacrifice. We all admire it in others. How
little we exerciso of it! How much would
w\ endure.' How much would we risk for
others# A very rough schoolmaster had a
j yxior lad that had offended the laws of the
school, and he ordered him to come up.
j "Now,” he said, “you take off your coat in
‘ stantly and re *eive this whip.” Tho boy de
clined, and m ire vehemently the teacher
said, “1 tell you, now take off
your coat, hike it off instantly.” The
j boy again declined. It was not because he
was afraid of the lash; ho was used to that in
I his cruel home. But it was for shame; he
ha I no undergarments, and when at last he
removed his coat there went up a sob of emo
tion all through the school as they saw why
he did not wish to remove his coat, and as
they saw the -h aider blades almost cutting
through the skin. As the schoolmaster lifteu
his whip to strike a roseate, healthy boy
leaped up, and said: “Stop, sehocimaster:
whip me. He is only a poor chap; he
i can t stand it, whip me.” “Oh,” said tho
, teacher: “It’s going to be a very severe
| scourging, but if you want to take the posi
tion of a substitute you can do it.” The boy
said: "I don't care, whip me, HI take it,he s
only a poor chap. Don’t you see tho bones
almost come through the flesh! Whip me.”
And when the blows cams down on the boy's
shoulders, this healthy, robust lad made no
outcry: he endured it all uncomplainingly.
We nil say: "Bravo!’ for that lad. “Bravo,
that is the spirit of Christ
Splendid.” How much scourging, how much
chast s.roent, howmuch anguish will you ami
I take for others! Ob, that we might have
•something of that boy’s spirit. Aye, that we
might have something of the spirit of Jesus
Christ, for in all our occupations aud trade,
and business, aud all our life, home life,
foreign life, we are to remember that the
struggle will soon be over. One of the most
affecting reminiscences of my mother was my
remembrance of her as a Christian house
keeper. She worked very hard and when
we children would come in from
play in the summer noon and sit down at the
table, I remember sometimes seeing her come
in with beads of perspiration along the line
of the gray hair, an I 1 rememl>er that some
times sue would sit down at the bible and
lean her head on her wrinkled hand and say:
"Well, the fact is I am too tired to eat.”
Long after she might have delegated these
duties to other's she persisted in the work,
and we rather liked it, because somehow
things tast :d better when she made them.
Some time ago, on an express train in the
night, I shot past the 0.-l
homestead and I cleared the blur off
the window an 1 was trying to look through
and peer into tho darkness, and ono of my
•Ad s.-hoolmates that I had not seen that
night tappad m«on tho shoulder and said:
"lie Witt, I rejj you are trying to look for
tho scenes of your boyhood. “Oh, yes, 1
sail. “I was trying t> look at the old place
I where my mother lived nnd died.” Tliat
1 night in tire cars, the whole scene came buck.
1 There was the country home. There wa.
the no ruday tabl-. There were the children
all aroun I tho table, the most of them gone
naw never t:> come ba -k. At one end of the
table sat my father with a. smile that, never
left his countenance even after he lay in hi.
coffin. It was an eighty-four-year smile, not
the smile of inanition as you sometimes see
on the face, but asmile of courage and Chris
tian hop©. At the other end of the table sai
a lieautiful, hardworking, aged Christian
housekeeper—my mother. Oh, she looks so
tired, she looks so very tired. lam glad she
has so good a place to rest in-. “Blessed are
the dead that die in the Lor.l; they rest from
their labors and their works do follow
th in.”
Limekiln Club Statistics.
Waydown Beebe said he had been
thinking for some time that the club
ought to take it upon itself to gather and
compile, certain statistics regarding the
colored iac of this country, and he
trusted that a movement in that direi
tion would be favorably considered.
Pickles Sm'th supported the idea. He
wanted to know just how many colored
inci. were hanged every year; how many
left the profession .of whitewashing for
that of law; what number became bdd
headed; how many committed suicide,
and why they did it.
Several other members discus.cd th ■
subject favorably, and it was fin-dly
agre-d that a statist cian should be :ip
point'd nt an annual .alary of $2
Brother Gardner announced Hint he
would appoint i’rofessor Clariflcd Walk
ingbeam to the position, ami instnicted
him to enter upon his duties at one
The salary is intended to be just sulli
cient to keep th<- profe*or‘.shair cut close
the year round. The office is distinc
lively lion rary. ami th'- incumbent’s s >
' ial po-ition will nt oni c be raised a good
many pegs — Drii-ult F/->< />.«<.
Equal to Any Emergency.
Fcene: The northeast corner of Main
and Swan streets. Time: 3 o’clock,
Friday afternoon. Dramatis person'
“Three little Ik ys from school." D a
logue: First little boy to second I. b.
who has just bought file cents’ worth ol
peanuts: “Gi’me some peanuts, John
nic.” “Naw, I won’t.” “Why not:'
whined first I. b. “’Cos, you ner<
gi’me any thin’, an' whenever I git any
thin’ you always ‘hump’ me for what I’ve
g.1.” Third little boy who has been
diplomatically silent: “I didn't askyou
for no peanuts, did I, Johnnie?” “Nav.,
yer didn't, ’cos yer didn't want none,”
and Johnnie munching his peanuts,
walked off unconcernedly, leaving his
cc-r.ipanions with faces on which blank
consternation and bitter disappointment
were plainly depicted.— Boffalo Courier.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
It has been aaggested in England that
the telephone may be advantageously !
used to transmit messages between suf- I
ferers from infectious diseases and their
friends.
According to a medical journal the 1
discovery has been made in Columbia of
a shrub which exudes a juice having so 1
powerful an effect in mresting tho flow
of blood that, large veins can be cut by h
knife and smeared with it without caus
ing hemorrhage. The plant is called
“aliza” by the natives.
The food of Burmese peasants includes I
almost all kinds of reptiles, the grub of a j
ball-rolling beetle, a kind of ant which
constructs nests of leaves in treetops .
(eaten in curries), and hill rats. The last
named exist in such hordes that theii |
consumption is almost a necessity to pre ■
vent the rats eating the Burmese.
During a recent trip of the steamci .
Princess Beatrice between Larne and |
Stranraer, the man at the wheel observed I
a curious disturbance of the compass ■
needle, which was afterward traced to
the magnetic influence of an umbrella
carried by one of the passengers. The
deviation was so serious that the steers
man reported to the mate that he could
not keep the vessel to her course.
An interesting experiment, showing
the influence of electricity on the growth
of roots, has been made in Germany by
Professor Hoidefleiss. Plates of coppet
were thrust upright into the earth and
connected by wires with similarly-placed
zinc plates about one hundred feet dis
tant—anelectric battery being thus form
cd, with the earth between the coppei
and zinc in the circuit. Both potatoel
and beets planted between such plates
gave an increased yfeld—beets 15 pei
cent., potatoes 25 per cent.—as compared
with other parts of the same field.
Dr. C. Keller, of Zurich, claims that
spiders perform an important, part in flit
preservation of forests, by defending the
trees against the depredations of aphides
and insects. He has examined a great
many spiders, both in their viscera and by
feeding them in captivity, and has found
them to be voracious destroyers of thest
pests; and he believes that the spiders in
a particular forest do more effective wort
of this kind than all the insect-eating
birds that inhabit it. He has verified hit
views by observations on coniferous trees,
a few broad-leaved trees and apple trees.
The direction of the Atlantic current."
js being systematically studied by the
Prince of Monaco, whose recent experi
ments arc proving very interesting. Lust
July he sunk a large number of ingen
iously-arranged bottles, globes and bar
rels at different points north of thr
Azores, each floating vessel containing e
paper iu different languages, stating th<
time and place of immersion, and begging
the finder to note down the hour and
place ot discovery, and forward it to the
nearest French consul. Now three ol
these bottles have been found in thr
Eastern Azores, having followed a south
easterly direction, instead of going to the
northwest, as expected.
The Helping Hand.
I shall never forget the feelings I had
once when climbing ono of the pyramid*
of Egypt. When half way up, my
strength failing, I feared I should nevet
be able to reach the summit or get back
again. I well remember the help givei
by Arab hands, drawing me on farther
and the step I could- not quite make my
self, because too great for my wearied
frame, the little help given me -some
times more and sometimes less—enable!
me to go up, step by step, step by step,
until at last I reached the top, and
breathed the pure air, ami had a grand
outlook from that lofty height.
And so, in life’s journey, we arc climb
ing. We are feeble. Every one of us,
now and then, needs a little help; and !
we have risen a step higher than some
other, let us reach down for our brother’,
hand and help him to stand beside us.
And thus, joined hand in hand, we shall
go on conquering, step bv step, until the
glorious eminence shall be gained. Ah,
how many need help iu this world!—
poor, afflicted ones; poor, sorrowing
ones; poor, tempted ones, who have been
overcome, who have been struggling, not
quite able to get up the step; trfing,
falling; trying, falling: trying, despond
ing; hopin'/, almost despairing! Oh, give
such a one help, a little kindly aid, an'?
the stop may be taken, ami another step
may then be taken ; and. instead of dy
ingin wretchedness at the base, he mny,
by a brother’s hand, be raised to safety,
and finally to glory. Bi»lwii Simp»oti.
A Facetious Barber.
One night Bob fell in with a fellow
who was 11 English, you know.” The
latter was berating the Yankees for do
ing all manner of bu-im-s-: in their shop*
and not following tin- better English,
plan of sticking to one branch. The next
day he swaggered into Bob’s shop to be
shaved. Bob gave bis face an extra good
soaping and left him. at the same time
seating himself to read. The English
man kept quiet for a few minutes, when,
seeing Bob reading, he blurted out.
“ Why don’t you shave me, sir?” ‘ You
will have to go up street for your shave,”
quietly replied the barber, ‘‘we only
lather here.” The answer took the vinr
out of the cotkney.— Bouton Traatarvit.
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