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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. IMNCOICUMLE S' The Most Perfect Instrnment £ World. Used Exclusively at the “Grand Conservatory of music,” OF NEW YORK. Endorsed by all Eminent Artists. LO >F PHICKS ! EA S V TKKMS ! AUGUSTUS BAUS& Go.,mfßs Warerooms. 58 W. 23d St. New York. ITbii Wash Bosrd ia mada ct ONE SOLID SHEET OF HEAVY COBBU. BATED ZINC, which producer • double-faced board of th« . best quality and durability. The fluting is very deep, holding more water, aud consequently dping bettei washing than any wash board in thn market. 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