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li TALMAGE'S SERMON. is TO BECOME OF OUP. J CHILDSE.'i? ■ . .■Seein” thnt **“ life is bound up in HujS hie."—Ocne'is Uiv., 10. ri ;s were s]H>ken by Judah, a-t do- , t ths tenderness ami atteet . u ■ r i‘Tacob lelt toward Benjamin, the ■L”. - son ot that pntiiur hal fum.ly. but " wot ds jus: as appropriate to mane in tuis Loi e-siuee -his lie hr i n the lad » life.’ I have know n .eeni.-d to have but btt.H inter st hildr.n. A father says: “My son ■T, k out lor himself. If he comes up rioht if l>e turns out badly I cannot , lam not responsible for his I ehav ■'Y must t’<ke the same risk in life that ■ As well might the shepherd throw a BimfiMlenofH hm and th* n say: - Little Be lock out for yom\-eir.'” B 1 ’’ n ■ aly the case t hat even th * tieast B’\jer its young. I have goue through b on a summer s day, and I have B?a ‘ r ient outcry in a biru’s nest, ami I <i up to s>*e what mas the matter. BJ tout th it the birds were starving and BJtha mother bird had pjone oIT not to B : Imi k Again. But that is an exception. nerallv the ease that the old bird will B' v >ur eves out rather t han let yo.i come B,■ I rood. The lion will i-en 1 you in Bm if vou approach too nearly the V the fowl in the barnyard, ■“'.’footed and heavy winged, flies fi *rce- B 0 ?’vol if y°u ccmo too near the little ■pp aud God intended every father and ykL'tob- the protect mu and tiie help of jj Jems conns into every dwelling B’ ’Vs to the father or mother: “You have Bnkoking alter this child’s body and Bi I t’e time has co:no w hen you ought to Ko> l in ,r alter its Lnmortal soul.” 1 stand ■urt! biipdreds of people with whom the B-tion morning, noon and night is: “What B*te oiue <-f thechdd? Whut will be its B t ' r v Will it i house paths of virtue or ’Will it accept Christ or reject Him? ■Cre will it spend eternity?” ■ rea ,l of a vessel that foundered. The ■* . were launched; many of the passengers Be smuggling in the water. A mother Btb one band beat the waves, and with the Ber hand lifted up her little child toward B i>-boat, crying: “Save my child! Save K child!’ The impassioned out ry of that Ether is the prayer of hundreds of Chi is- Kt) tionle who sit listening this morning Ble 1 speak. I propose to show some of the Kses of parental anxiety, and then how ■atanxietv may be alleviated. ■I find tb“’fii>t cause of parental anxiety in Eineili ’‘ i' y and imperfection of parents Enwhes. We have a slight hope, ail of us, B; u children may escape our faults. We Be our imperfections, and think they will B i 'ar of them. A la*--, there is a poor Of that! There is more probability Kt they will choose our vices than choose K virtues. There is something like sacred ly' u j arental import©' tions when the child ■ upon them. The folly of the Kents is not so repulsive when the El looks at it. He says: “Father Bulges in it; mother indulges in ■it can’t be so bad. ’ Yoi.r bey, ton years ■ ,r;e. goes up a back street smoking his ci ■r—an old stump that he found in the Jet—and a neighbor »<•<*< sts him and says: ■That are you doing th s for? What w’oidd Kur father say if ho knew it:” The boy Jv ”0, lath r does that himself!” There |n it one <>f us this morning that would do- Krately choose that his c hildren should in ■ things follow’ his example, and it is the iousness of imperfection on our part as lie t-s that makes us most anxious for our |We at c also distressed cn account of the |wi-d<-ni of our d scii line and instruction. re juiies a great deal of ingenuity to build r,use or fashion a ship; but more ingenuity Lui! d the temple of a child’s character, • ■ launch it on the great c< ean of time and inky. Where there is one parent that 81> qualified for the work, there seem to twenty parents who miserably fail. Here a father who says: “Jly child j-hail know thing but religion: ho shall hear nothing it relit i >n; he shall seo nothing but religion.” ie boy is aroused at 6 o’vl ?ok in the morning recite the Ten Commandments. He is rakened off the sofa on Sunday night to seo av much he knows of the Westminster Cat l.i*ui. It is religion morning, noon and ght. I assages of Scripture are plastered ith?bed-room wa 1. lie looks fortheday the month iu a religious almanac. Every ir.i-ter that comes to the house is told t > ke the boy arid©, and talk to him, and 11 him what a great sinner he is. iter a while the boy comes to that iriol of life when he is too old r chastisement, and too young to know id feel the force of moral principle, ithcr and mother are sitting u > for the boy come home It is nine o'clot kat night— n o’clock—it is twelve o’clock—it is half ist twelve, and tbev hear the night key a;le in the door. They say he is coming, euigo goes very softly through the ball, )■ ing to get up stair 4 before he is accosted, he lathin’ says: “George, where have iu beens” “Been out!” Yes, he has sen cut. and he has teen down, and he n the broad road to destruction, for this fe and the life to c une. Father says: Th“ie is no use in the Ten Commandments; ifeCat? hism seems to me to le an utter lilbre/’ Ah. my friend, you ma’ o aver y i-it mistake. You stuffed that child with ik ion until he could not digest it: you that whi h is a joy in many households n abhorrence in yours! A man in mid-life ml to me:, “I can't become a Christian. In •y father’s home I got such a prejudice gfiinst re i.’ion I doi’t want any of it. My ftth-r was one of the best men that ever ved. but he had such severe notions about lings, and he anime I religion down my [■' at. until I < .n t want any of it, f ir.” b re have been some who have erred in that lirection. There are households whore mother pulls 'i- way and fat!.er [ ulls the other. Father a . v> ’3ly son, I told you the first time I au“ht you in a falsehood I would chastise r ui. an i nnw Ia u g-ing to do it.” Mother ®yi: "Lon’t; let him off this time.” Insome amilies it is allscol ling an 1 fretfulness with b 'iiiiii: from Monday mo: ning to Satur la ■ -igbt it is that style of culture. The p’ ' s J i ked at, and picked at, and picke 1 t Now you might better give one sound Li t.yement and have done with it. than to 3( *ii!ge in the perpetual sc >ldingand fretful e * There is mo» e health in one good tliun "m than in three or four days us cold ‘‘‘•r i ; a parent who says: “1 will not err in ta H p. tb a t parent Las erre lin being too lr - : ’’.itb his children. I will let mine do 1 ’ ’plea*?. If they want to coin *in to >ra -'' e - s -they can: if they want to play at a ”l-. tey < an; they can do anything they —there shall le no hindran e. Go it! I’ieare tii k.*ts for the opera and thea'rc, lake \our friends with you. Dowhat ' you desire.” One day a gentleman comes L ■ the tank to his father s ofit e, and i}S: ic-y want tn sei you over at the bank a u ’ Father gees into the Laux. Th • ; iu says; ‘ls tha" y- ur che kr” Fath r ’ at it and says: ‘‘No. I never gave that k; 1 never • r ss a -t’ in that way; I i. ake the rnrl to a *v' in that ’vav I* •• tmy rhe?- -, that’s a forgery. Send for > I ce: ’ “Ah,” says the cashier, ‘ don’t - your son did that!’’ The fact •' that the boy hal been out in dissipating • r ‘ s . and ten and fifty dollars went uit direction, and he had been I and he hat to treat others, and the ! -it he must have $7 0 to keep himself ■ ’ at <h- -le. That night the father sits up -on to come heme. It is 1 o’clock be he-omes into the hall. He comes in . hfiushel, his eyes glaring and hi< o ’r-nsive. Father fays: “My son, 7 a . you do so? I ba-e ziven you every -/•'”} wanted and everything to make you stable and hap« y, and now I find in ‘I a:e. that you area spendthrift, a tue and a drunkard. The snn savs: "J v. La s the u-e of your talking •a*, way You told me I might have a pood t le and to go it. 1 have acting on y< ur >u that's all.” And so ha pa ir am on ant side, Mid another 1 a ent errs on the other, and how to str ke n haopv medium between severity and too grext leniency, and train our sons ami du ’.I ters fot* r.sefnlress on earth and bliss *u heaven, is a <i:iestiou which agitates every h-u »h id in my congregation. Where sb many good men a»*d wonie i have fa led. is it strange tl a* we should somot ' ies doubt the pro rioty of ourthou’vand the accuracy of our Lind of government? A win. rnr nt •! anxiety often arisen from mon Iv exl i '«i. in of siiif.ilne s int> e < hil 1. The m »-ning-g’<*rie< Ido m for a litth wh le • u ’er the h in. nn I then th *v >Jmt up as the brat comes on: but there ar* fioweis along the Amazon that bl»'o their beautv fur weeks at a time: but the short-lived morn ing-glory fulfills its mission as well as the Vic- I . 1 er *u e u v. mu iuKij f *tv 1' tv or *ixty vnars to develop. Then there nr? little children who fi lie their beautv on the vision and vn is’.i. 4 hey are tnorning-g ories that can not stand the g’aro of th» hot noon sun of trial You have all known such little chil dren. They were pale: they were ethereal; there wiw something very wonderfully deep in the eve: they had a gentle foot and band, and something almost supernatural in lli?ir t>ei'avior—reauy to t>e wafted away. You ha 1 suc|i a one in your yousehold. Gone row It was too delicate a plant for this rough world. The heavealv gardener *aw it and took it in. We make splend’d Sun day-school books out of such children, but thev almost always die. 1 have noticed that for the most part, the children that live sometimes get cross, and pick up bad words in the street, and quarrel with orocner and sister, and prove unmist ikabiy that they are wicked—as the Bible says, go ing astray from the womb, shaking lies. See the little ones in the Sabbath class, so sunshiny and beautiful, you woul I think they were always so, but mother, seated a liltle way off, looks over at these children and thinks of the awful time she had to get them reatly. After the boy and girl come a little further on in life, the murk of sin upon them is still more evident. The son comes in from a pugilistic encounter in the streets, bearing the marks of a defeat. The daughter prae ti ex ]>ositive decention, and the parent says: “What shall 1 do? I can’t always be corre-ting and scolding, and yet these things must be stopr.ed.” It is espe cially sad if the parent sees his own faults co pied by th i child. It is very hard work to pull up a nettle that we our selves planted. We remember that the greatest fraud that ever .‘■hook the banking houses of the country, started from a boy's de ept inn a good many years ago; and the gleaming blade of the murderer is only another made of the knife with which the boy struck at his comrade. The cedar of 1 ebauon, that wrestles with the blast started from seed lodged iu the side of the mountain, and the most tremendous dishonesty's of the world once toddled out from the era lie. Ail these things mnk<* , arents anxious. Anxiety on th > part of parents also arises from the consciousness that there are so many temptations thrown ail around our youne people. It may be almost impossible to take a castle by siegx-straightforward sie?e—but suppose in thi night there is a traitor within, and he geos down and draws the bolt and swin is open the great door, and then th * castle fa.ls immediatly. That is the trouble with th» hearts of the young: they have foes without an I foes within. There are a great many who try to make our young people believe that it is a sign of weakness to bo pure. The ma*i will toss his head aud t ike dramatic attitudes, and tell of h s own indiscretious. andasklho young iran if l e would not like to d > the same. And they « all him verdant, and they say he is green and unsophisticate 1. and won der how ha can bear the Puritanical strait jacket. Th y tell him ho ought to break from his mother's apron strings, and they say: “I will slmw you all about town. Come with me. You ought to see the world. It won't hurt you. Do as you please; it will be the making of you.” After awhile the young man says: “I don’t want to be odd. nor can 1 ass ord to sacrifice those friends, and 111 go and >ee for my.-elt.” From the gates of hell there goes a shout of victory. Fare well t > all innocence—farewell to all early restraints favorable to that innocen o which once gone, never comes back. I heard one of the best men 1 ever knew, seventy-five years of age. siy: “Sir. God has forgiven me for ali the sins of my lifetime, I know’ that; but there is one sin I committed at twenty years of age that 1 never wid forgive myself for. It s m times comes over me over xvbelminglv, ami it absolutely’ blots out my hopo of hea en ’ Young man, hear it. How many traps there are set for our young people! That is what makes parents so an xioui Here are temptations for every form of dissipation and every stage of it. The young man. when be fir>t goes into dissipation, is very particu lar where he goes. It must be a fashionable hotel. He cculd not be tempted into these corner nuisances, with red-stained glass acd a mug of beer painted on the sign board. A’ou ask the young man to go int) that pla e and ho would say : “Do you mean t > insult me?” No; it must be a marble-floored barroom. There must be no lustful pictures behind the counter: there must le no dru ikard hiccoughing while he tak-shis gins;. It must be a place whe-cele gant gentleu on come in and click their cut glass and drink to the announcement of flattering sentiment. lut the young man cannot always find tha‘< kii d of a place; yet he has a thirst and it must no gratified. The down-grade is s eepu now, aud he is a! ro tat the bAt nn. Here thev sit in an oyster ce’lar around a card table, wheezing, bloated and bloodsh t. with cards so grea-v you can hardly tell who lias the b?st hand. " But never inind:lh*y arc only play in o, f< r drink, bhu r e aw >v! shuf fle away! T..e landlord stand’; in his shirt sleeves with hands on Ins hips, wat hing the game aud waiting for another call to fill up the the hot breath or' eternal wot* that Hushes that vou.ng man's < heek. In he jets of gaslight. I seethe shooting out of the fiery tongue of the worm that n *ver die -. The clock strikes 12; it is th -lollingof the bell • f eternity at the bur a! of a soul. Two hours pass on. and they are all sound asleep in their (bars. Luadlorl says: “Come, now’, wakeup; it’-; time to shut u:>. ' They look up and ray: “Wh it.' 1 ‘.t .stime t > shut up.’ Push them • m into the air. Titoy are going h nr. let the w ; fe n.u'-h in the < orn r, and the '-Liluren hi l -under the Fed. Tl '-v arc ■/ in h me! What is the history <fth it yo ing man' He !; * n i j.,--o-o - - •’ I’ * Ven— and complete'! his damnation in th© worst grog-shop iu Navy street. But sin even does not stop here. It comes to the dour of the drawing room. There are men of leprous heart; that go into the very best classes of so .net y. They are bo fascinat ing—they have such a bewitching way of offering their arm. Yet th • poison of asps is under the tongue, and th ir heart is hell. At first their sinful devices are hi Id n. but after a while they begin to put forth their talons of death. Now they begin to show real’.y what they ar-. Suddenly—al though you could not have expected it, they were so charming in their man ner, and so fascinating in their address -sud denly a cloud, blacker than was ever woven of midnight or hurri ane, drops upon some domestic circle. There is agony in the pa rental bosom that none but toe Lord God Almighty can measure—an agony that wi.-hes that the children of the household had been swallowed by the grave, when it would be only a F>ss of body instea I of a Joss of soul. What is the matter with that household? They have not had the front windows open in -i:: month' or a year. The mother’s hair suddenly turned white; father, hollow-cheeked and bent over prematurely, goes down the strte:. There Las been no de th in that family—no loss of pr .party. Has madness seize I upon the n? No! n<! A villain, kid-gloved, j atent-leathered, with gold cha n an i graceful manner, took thnt cup of domestic bl.s.s, elevated it high in the air until the sunlight struck it, and all the rainbow’s dinced about the brim, and ih' n dashed it down in desola tion and wre, until all t ' harpie- < f darkness clapp d their hands with g ee. and all the voices of bell uttered a loud ha! ba! Oh. there are scores aud hum I reds of homes that have been blnstel. ami if the awful stat sties could lx) fully sot l»eforo vou. your blood would freeze into a solid caka of ice at the heart. Do you wonder that fathers and mothers are anxious about their children.and that they ask themselves the questions day and nigl.t: What is to become of them? What willbetlieir destiny? I shall devote the rest of my remarks to alleviation of parental anxiety. L< tme say you. as parents, that a great deal of that anxi *t y will be lifted if you will early with your children. Tom Paine sat I: “The flrd five yo u-s of my life 1 became an in fidel.” A vesi l goes out to sea; it l.as been five da vs out. A storm comotion it; it snrings | a leak; tl o helm will not work; overvthing is : out of order. What is the matter* The ship is | not sea wort h v and never was. It isa]»oor , time to find it oat now. Fnde • the fury of | the storm th© vessel goes down, with two hundred and fifty passengers, to a watery i grave. Tho time to make the ship seaworthy I was in the dry d >ck, lio'ore it started. Alas for us, if we wait until our children get out into the world beroixs we try t * bring upon them the influence of Christ s re li lion! 1 tell yon the dry dock cf the Christian home i< the place where we are to fit them for usefuln»»ss and for heaven. In this worl I, under the storm of vi. e and temptation, it will Ik* too late. In the domestic circle vou decide whether your < liild shall bo truthful or false—whether it. shall Im* gone ous or penurious. You can tell by the way a child divides an anpl© just what its future history will be. You ought to oversee the pro ess. If the child take nine tenths of the apple.giving the other tenth to his sister, if he should live to lw* one hundred he wiil be grasping and want the biggest piece of everything. 1 stood in n Imus • in one ot the Long Island village-, and I s.iw n beau tiful tree, ami I said to th‘» owner: “That i< a very fine tree, but what a curious crook there is in it!” “Vos.” said he, “I planted that tree, and when it was a year old. I went to New York and worke 1 a- a me chanic for a venr or two. and xvlien I ca n© back I found that they had allowed some thing to stand against the tree' r» it his always had that crook " And so I thou 'ht it was with th»* influence upon children. If you allow anything to staml m the way of moral influence against a child on this side or that side, to the latest <’ay of its li o on earth and through all eternity it will show the pres sure. No wonder Lor i Bvron was bad. Do you know his mother said to him, when she saw him one day limping across the floor with his unsound foot: “Get out of my way. you lame brat! 1 ’ What chance for a boy like that? Two young men come to the door of sin. They consult whether they- will go in. Th© one young man goes in and the other re treats O, you say. the last had better resolution. No, that was not it. The first young man ! had no earlv good influence: the last had | been piously trained, and when he stood at | the door of sin discussing the matter, he j looked around as if to see some one, and be felt an invisible hand on his shoul der, jenying: “Don’t go iu; don't go 1 In.” Whose hand was it? A m the ’> band, fifteen vears ago gone to dust. A gen tieman was telling me of the fact that some years ago there were two young men who stopped at the door of the Park Theatre, in New York. The question was whether they should go in. That night there wa- to Im* a very immoral play enacted in the Park Thea tre. Ono man went in: the other stayed out. ’the young man who went in, went on from sin to sin. and through a I crowd of ininiities, and diet! in the i hospital, of d' lirium tremens. The other j young man xvho retreated, chosa Christ, went into tha Gospel, and is now one of the ! most enrnent ministers of Christ in this > country. And the man who retreated gave as ; his reason for turningback from the Thea tre that night, tha’ there was an early I voice within him, saying: “Don't go in! | don’t go in!’’ And lor that reason, my friends, 1 believe so much in Bible I classes. But there is something bettor than ; the Bible cla-s, and that is the Sunday-school i class. I like it lierau-e it takes children ut an earlier point: and the infant class I like still better be/ause it takes children before they begin to walk or to talk straight, and puts them on the roa Ito heaven. You < an not begin too early. Yon stand on the bank j of a river flowing by. You cannot stop that river, but you travel days • and days toward the source of it, 1 and you find after awhile where it comes down dropping from the rock, and with your knife you make a course in this or that dire tion for the dropping to take, an 1 you decide the course of the river. Yo i stand and seo your children’s characters roll ing on with great impetuosity and passion, and you cannot affect them. Go up toward the source where the chara-ter first starts. i and decide that it shall t ike the right direc tion, and it will follow the path you give it. But T want you to remember, oh father! I oh mother! that it is what you do thnt is I going t» affect your children, and u >t what ; you .‘•ay. You tell yourchilren to Income Christians whiio you are not, and they will ! not. Do you think Noah's family would [ nave gmo Into the ark if he had not gone , in? They would say: “No. there is I something about that boat that is not right; father his not gone in. \'ou can not push children into the kingdom of I God; you have got to pull them in. There j has been many a general in a tower or ca2le ; looking at his army fighting, b it t hat is not > the Lind of a man io arouse enthusiasm 1 among his troops. It is a Garibaldi or Na ' poieou I. who leaps into the stirrups, and i dashes into the conflict, and has his troops following him with will huz/a. So you I cannot stand off in your imijonitent 1 state, an 1 tell your < hildren to go ahead into the Chris'ian life, and . have them go. Yon must yourself da h Lit > the Christim conflict; you mn-t lead them | and not tell them to go. Do you know that ' all the instructions yon give to your chil dren in a religious direction goes for n ffhing I tmle-syou illustrate it in your own life? The j teacher at t.hd sihool takes a copy book, writes a specimen of good wilting a toss th© top of t ie page but he makes a mi.-.cu.m in o o letter of the copy. The boy comes along on | the next line, copies th© top lin *, and makes th© mistake, ana if there be fifteen lines on : that j ago they will have the mistake there I was in the copy on the t »p. The fattier has an error in his life—a very great error. The son comes along and copies it now. to ni>r ■' row, next year, copies it to the day of his j death. It is what you are, not so much what ' you teach. Have a family altar. Let it be a cheerful place, the bright st rom in your house. Do n t wear your c.iildren's knees out with long prayer . Have the whole ex r *ise spirited, if you have a include hi, or an organ, or a piano in the hou •.<*, have it opt n. Then lea I in prayers. If you < annot make a jir.iye.’ of your own, take Matthew Henry's Prayers or the i<»is •v ai Prayer li » :. None lietter than that. J neel down with 1 your little <m mo-.cog and night, and commend tuem to G...L D > you think they will ever tret over it? Neve--! > Alter you are unaer tua wri n go many years, there will be some p rverful tempta tion around that son, but the memory of father and mother at morning and evening prayers will have its efieit upon him: it will bring him back from the path of sin aud death. Bat I want you to make a strict mark, a I sharp, plain line between innocent hilarity oath* part o l your cbildrm and a vicious I proclivity. !) > not think your boys will go to ruin because they make a ra ke‘. A glum, unresponsive child mak -s the worst form of a villain. Children, when they are h'-alt hy,al ways make a ra' ket. Iwantyou. at the very firstsignof d pravity in the child, to correct it. Dodo laugh because it is smart. If you do. you will live to cry br-ause it is mali cious. Do not talk of your ch.l Iren’s frail ties lightly in their pn*senee, thinking th y do not understan 1 you: they do under land, i Do not talk di-paragingiy of your child, making h:in feel that he is a reprobate. Do not say to your little • ne: “ You’re the worst child I ever knew.” If you do, hi will be the worst man you ever knew. Are vour children safe for heaven? xou can te'l better than any one else. I put to you the question: “Are your children safe for heavenf’ I heard of a mother who, when the nouse was a fire, in the ex' itcmmit of the occa ion. got out a great many of the valuable thing —many choic? articles of fur- niture—but did not t hink to ask until too late: “Is my child safe.'" It was too lat* then. The flames had encircled all; the child was gone! O, my dear friend, when sea aud land shall burn m the final conflagration, will your children b» safe? 1 wonder if wha’ I hax ©said this morning I has not struck a chord in some one in thoau- i dience who his a good father nn I intther, ! but who is not yet a Christian? Is that your ! history? Do you know why you cam* here this morning? God sent yo ito h:i\«* that inem- ! ory revived. our d ar Christ a i mother, how she luyed yo.i! Vou remember, when ■ you were sick, how kindly she attended you; the night wa-not t. o loug, and you never asked hertoturn the pillow but she did it! j A’ou remember her also; you re- , member how s rue of you—l do not know where the man is in the audience—h hv some one here broke his mother's heart You remember her sorrow over your wayward ness; you remomlier the oil place where she did you so many kindnesses; the chairs, the , table, the door s II where you played; the ' t »nes of her voi •<*. Why. you can think them • back now. Though th *\ w.*reborne long ago | on the air, they come ringing through your • soul to-day, calling you by the first name. . You are not “Mr? to her: it is just your j plain, first name. Is not this the time wh *n I her prayers will be answered? Do you not ! think that Go I sent vou in t » day to have [ that memory of her rex iv<s 1‘ If you should ■ come to Christ this morning, amid all the I throngs of heaven th * gladdast of them j would be your Christ an pa-ent.s who a-e in i rlorv waiting for vonr ro.iem »tii»ii Angels of God, shout the tidings the List has come back a<ain: the dea 1i- alive! Ring all the nellsof heaven nt the j ibib*.*! Ring! Ring! A Kai her Finbrtri-assing Mistake. A sombre looking wagon, bearing a long and high white box. was driven up to a Fourth avenue residence a few dny< ago. Just as the man and the boy in attendance lifted the box from the wagon and < arried it slowly up the steps, two elderly ladies of the kind that fairly dole up.m funerals, moved up to the stoop in procession. They gazed at the box. “Samantha? said one, as she glanced over her spoctm Icr, “Im afraid that your eyesight is getting poor. You murt have missed this death when you hunted through the newspapers this morning.'’ “I’m afraid I must have, Jane.” ooks like a very respectable resi dence. and there II probab y Be plenty of carriages. hat’s that name on the loor-nlate?” “Binks.” “Wonder if the corpse was a man or a woman? ’ “So do I.” “Os course well haveto be present!” “To be sure.” Just then the boy,after he had dropped his end of the box in the hal I way, walked slowly down the steps, proceeded to the wagon and took out a force, pump to which was a small rubber tube. “Samantha, that’s a stomach pump!” “So ’tis, .lane.” •‘Must ha' been a case of poisonin’, and there must be more wot's poisoned. They wouldn’t have any use for a stom ach-pump on a (orpse.” “jane, th re's a mystery here, and 1 wculd’t miss that funeral for the world.” “No«l I, Samantha. We must know al! about it.” “Surely. We'll find oit when the ob« scquicA is to take p ace.’’ At this point in the interview the man and I he boy came down the steps. “Would you kindly toll us when the funeral is to take place?”asks Samantha of the boy. “Wot funeral?’’ “The funeral that that coflin belongs to.” “Wot co Jin ■’ “Th; one you just carried up the steps ’’ 'Thon the boy smiled until he looked as if his whole head had suddenly been blown off. ‘•Ah! wot yer givin’ us? Don’t yer know a comng fruin a bath-tub?” And then >anianthu and Jane moved pa t the reviewing stand of howling hoodlums that had gathered round and didn’t move an eyelash.—Ad/o York J)ii patch. The Judge and the Bandbox. Tiw‘ famous English Chief justice, Lord Ellcnboiongh, wui on oneoc asion about to s it oil < r nit, when his wife ex pres-'-ii a desire to acco npnny him. “ \ cry w» ll,’ said he, “bet remember there aro to be no bandboxes tucked under the scat oi the < a: riage. as 1 have too often so m<l when honored before by yo.ir lady ship’- >rrij any.” Fhe promised to m- ct his wishes, and they set out together. They h . I not gone very fur when the judg . s’retc ling out his legs under the sent in front of him, kicked again t one of the flim'-v le cptacles which lie had expo ly forbidden, i own the window xvcntuilhn bung, and out went th'* bandbox into the ditch The Startled coa iran at once pulled up. “Drive on. ''id the .’ud/c, ‘ternly. “and lot the ti 'g lie v,he eit is. ’ Tli y rea died the a ./e town in du * course, and his lord -e.p pr >: ceded to r • f-.r the court. “Anu n 1 v where’s my wig •.’.here'' my wii he *1 minded, when ev<rvthiiig el-i indb rn found. ‘ Yer ig, my Lo;d. .'Wcred the servant, trcinu ion . ‘was in the bandbox your lord ship i: ■ ‘Alt of th ■ wind >w as we c ua« along \ ery Li lie Lis P:i. Ji -.as the so iof a w >ithy ? hicagoan, aid h I; id just returned from college. 'Fi - iticT was a bi us pie, matt'*r of-fiwt ini' had no lik.ng for anything di. ! . end he noticed with sorrow th. m refiirnel wi h l a and wi re. . 1 insignia of dudedo.n. The (, <1 ■/ ntlem in surve. <d him critically w <■ i • appeared in the office and then bl it douti *‘i (jpig man you look like a fool.’’ ~ ' - '.a' mo .oust, and before the y ,n. i 'li had time to ijii'ao a fitting irpi’.. a friend w;.lkc 1 in : . :.y. hello ?.<o:gc, have you rc ti •' he asked. “Dear me, how mi Aires?* .old- your fat icr. ’ ■ ■ ) h'j has ius: been tiling me,” ri pli- e youth. And fiorn that date to tii tic old gentlernm has found no f .u.i with Langs. -Hanibler. The Right Answers. id vou pass the civil-service exam ination?’’ • I don’t know ye\ but I got the right an- nto -ome of th" que t ons.” “Ah ch ones were those?” “I answered all right when they asked rm* what my name was and what State I wa born in.” I kwllp Ute**' No Rubbing! No Barkache! No B»rr Riegers! If'arraHtrd not to I»\Juro thr Clothth Ask yoitr <>rocrr for it. If hr cannot pnj>- j ply you, ono cako will Ik* mailed rata on receipt •falx two cent atamp«for poelane. 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