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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-1-22, Page 7.44,444, 4, TIlLi1 BATTLE OF LIFE WORIela OF CHEER FOR VVONIaN WHO WORK, Dr. Talmage Preaches Prom the Text, agvery wise woreau lintltletli Her House" -Honest Indepentleace eeetter Thal1 1.74celagefdal Matrhalental. .00AnIs. Copyright OA by Amenealt Frees ASSeete, tiOna Washington, jam 16.—This sermon of Dr. Talmage is a great encouragement to women who aave to earn their own Thetua as well as to all toilers with an or brain; text, Proverbs xiv, 1, "Every taw Wise woman bull/dent her howse," Wontau 11, mere adjunct to man, an ap- pendix to the masculine velume, au ap- pendage, a sort a artertiwug14, something thrown in to make things even—that is the heresy entertained and implied by some rove. Tine is evident to them be cause Adam was first created and then Eve. They don't read the whole story, or they would And that the porpoise and the bear and the hawk were created before Adam, so that this argument, drawn, from priority of creation, might prove that the sheep and the dog were greater than man. No. Woman was an independ- elit ereAtiOli and was intended, if the chose, to live alone, to work alone, act alone, think alone and fight her battles mono. The Bible says it is not good for man to be alone, but never says it is not gefett tQ WQUaU W nloue, and the ennple fact is that many women who aro harness4a1 for life in the marriage rela- tion would ho a thaaseudfold better eV if they MN alone. Teofortenate Wives. Who are time nen who yaw After year leeng around hotels eud engine Itonsos and theater doore, and Moo In and (tut to bother busy clerks and merchants and nie011AllieS, doing nothing. when there is plenty to do? They are men sapported by their wives and motheraL tho statistics of any our cities could be taken ell thiS nbet,yen WOOltl U11(1010 a vast multi- tutle of women not only support them- Nelves, but maw:Wines, A great legleet of men amount tq nothiug, mid a woman by niarriage manaeleil to one ot these aouentities needs condolence. .A. Weltiall nitug trttside the marriage relation Is several liundred thousaud times better oft than a WOMB badly tnarried, .11auy bride instead of a wreath a orauge Ides- soms might more properly wear a bunch of ilettles anti nightshade, and instead of the netLiing march a more appropriate tune would be thedead march. in 'Saul," And UMW of a benquet or confectionery and lees there InIght be mare appropri- ately preed a table covered 'with apples of Sodom. letany an attraetive woman of goon eoun1 sense lo other things has luarried One of tlittEe men to referm him. What woe The result? Like when a dove, eetin- ing that a vulture was rape -a"' ortiew,st set ebeet ternafttn it, and said, "1 -halV, a rend dleposition and I like peace and was brougbt, up in the quiet of a dovecote, and I will bring the vulture to the same liking by marrying him." So ono nay, After tho vulture declared ho would give up his earolvorous habits and cease longing for blood of floolc and herd, at an altar of rook covered with moss and Hoban, the twain were married., a bald headed eagle officiating, the vulture say - Ing, "With all my dominion of earth and sky I thee endow and promise to love and cherish till death do us part." But one day the dove in her fright saw the vul- ture busy at a carcass and cried: "Stop thati Did you not promise me that you would quit your carnivorous and filthy habits if I married you?" ''Yes," said the vulture, "Ini t if you don't like my way you Can 10;1Na," and with ono angry stroke of the beak and another tierce elutoh of the claw the vulture left the dove eyeless and wingless and lifeless. And a flock of robins flying past cried to each other and said: "See there! That comes from a dove marrying a vulture to reform him!" ' Many it woman who has bad the hand of a young inebriate offered, but detained it, or who was asked to chain her life to a man selfish or of bad temper and re- fused the shackles, will bless God through- out all eternity that she escaped that earthly pandemonium. Decreed to Celibacy. Besides all this, in our country about 1,000,000 lawn Were sacrificed io our civil war, and that decreed 1,000,000 women to celibate,. Besides that, since the war several armies of men as large as the Federal and Confederate armies put to gether bame fallen imam malt liquors and distilled spirits so full of poisoned ingre- dients that tbeevork was done more rapid- ly, and the victims fell while yet young. And 11' 50,000 men are destroyed every year by strong drinkbefore marriage that neakes in the 88 years since the war 1,650,000 men slain and decrees 1,650,- 000 womee to celibaoy. Take. then, the fact that so many women are iinhappy in their marriage, and the fact that the slaughter of 2,550,000 men by war and rum combined decides that at least that number of women shall be uuaffianced for life, my text collies in with a cheer and a potency and appropriateness that you may never have seen in it before when it says, "Every wise woman build- eth her house" ---that is, let woman be ber own architect, lay out her own plans, be her own supervisor, achieve her own destiny. In addressing those women who have to fight the battle alone, I congratulate you on your happy escape. Rejoice forever that you will not have to navigate the faults of the other sex when you have faults enough of your own. Think of the bereavements you :weld, of the risks of unassimilated temper 'which you will not haywto.run, o the emos you will never aye to carry and oe the opportunity of outside usefulnetsfrem whiohmarital life Would have partially debarred you, and „that you are free to g,o and come as one who bas the responsibilities °felt housebola can seldom be. God, haS not given you a hard lot as cm:wood with your sisters. When young vvonten„ shall make up their Minds at the start that masculine COM- panionship is riot a necessity in order to happiness, and nett there_ is a strong probability that they will have to fight the battle of life alone, they will be get- ting the timber ready for their own for- tune and their saw and ex and plane sharpened for its construction, since 4'every WiSe women buildeth her laouse." Should amere Self Support. • 'As nobody ,ought to bo brought up without learning some business atwhich he .could earn a livollhooa, so no girl ought to bo. brought up without learning the science of self-support. The difficulty Is that many a family goes sailing ma the high tides of success and theintSband and father depends ea his own health and a:rumen for the welfare of his household. But one day he gets hie feet wet, and in three days pneumonia has closed his life, and the daughters are turned out Cal a cold world to earn bread and there is nothing practmal thet they eon do, The friends eonte in and hold. consultant:in. "Give muse) lessons," says an ontsider. Yes, that is a aseful calling, asal if you' have great genius for it go on in that dire,etien. nut there are euougla unisi0 teachers now starving to death in all OW towes and, cities to oeettpy all the, piano stools and sofas and ehairsaud front door steps of the city, Besiaes that, the daugh- ter has been playing only for amusement and is only at the foot of the ladder, to the top of which a great multitude of mestere on piano and harp and flute and organ have climbed. "Put the bereft daughters as sales- women in the stoma" says another ad- viser. But tbere tbey must compete with salesmen of long experience or with men who bove served au apprentieesaip In commerce and who began AS thophoys ab 10 years of age. SWIM kind hearted dry g0eele man, baying known the father, new gone, says, "We are Pat in need of any more help eneb now, but send your dauglatere to my store and I will do as well by them as possible." Very soon the questime comes up, Why do not the te- lltale employes of that establishment get asnineb wages as the male employes? Fee' the simple reaeou in many eases the females were etublettly nung by mister - tette bebintl that eounter, whilethe males have tom the day they Wit the public school beerf learning the business. How IS this evil to bemired? Start clear Welt in the homestead and teacb your daughters Oa life is an earneee and that there is a possibility, if not a strong probability, that they will have to fight the bettle or life alone, Lee every father and Mettler aty to theledaughtets, "Now, evbet would you do for a liven- hOOd U wbat 1 Ilow own were swept away by finaneiel disaster or old age or death tould eud iny career?* "Well, 1 could paint ou pottery aud do such decorative work." Yes, that is beau- tiful, and if you have geelus for it go on in that direction. Bet there aro enough intey at that now to make a line of hard- ware AS long as yon Pennsylvania avenue, 'Well, 1 could atetke reeltetione in public and earn my living as adratnatiet; I could render 'Ring Lear' or 'Macbeth' till your hair would rise an end, or give you 'Sheridan's Bide- or Dickens' 'Pick- " Yes, that is a beautiful art, but ever and WM, a.; new, there ie an epit demi° of dramatization that mattes lout- dreds of households nervous with tho cries and shrieks and groans of young tapgetilennes dying in the fifth nor, and. tho trouble is that while your frieuds would like to hear yeta and really think that you could eurtsa Maori, and Char- lene Guthman and teeny Kemble of the Past, to eV teething tre the present, you could not, in the woy of living, in ten eatewateneee. 10 Pruts `Zdy adviee to ell gh Is and all trainer- ried women, whetiser in affluent lames Or in homes where weet stringent econ- omies aro grinding. le to learnt° do some kind of work that the world Intist bave while the world stands. I am glad to see a marvelous change for the better and that women have Jewel out that there .are hundreds of preened things that woman eau do for ik 11\111,S; if she begins soon enough, and that num have been compelled to admit it. You and I can re- member when the majoirty of occupations wore thought Intippr.mriate for women, but our civil war came, and the hosts of men wont forth from north and south and to conduct the business of our cities during the patriotic.: absence -women were demanded by the tees of thousands to take the vacant places, and multitudes of women, who had been hitherto supported by fathers and brothers and sons, were compelled from that time to take care of themselves. From that time a nighty change took p/ace favorable tofenaale em- ployment. Appropriate Occupations. Among the occupations appropriate for woman I place the following, into many of which she has already entered and all the others sho will outer: Stenography, and you may find her at nearly all the reportorial stands in our educational, political and religious meetings. Savings banks, the work clean and honorable'and who so great a right to toil there for a woman founded the first savings 'dank— Mrs. Priscilla Wakelield? Copyists, and there is hardly a professional man that does not need the service of her penman- ship and as amanuensis many of the greatest books of our day have been dic- tated for her writine. There they are as florists and confeclioners and music teachers and bookkeepers, for which they are specially qualified by patience and accuracy, and woocl engraving, in which the Cooper institute has turned out so many qualified, and telegraphy, for which she is specially prep:wed, as thousands of the telegraphic offices will testify. Photo- graphy, and in nearly all our establish- ments they may be found there at cheer - al work. As workers in ivory and gutta percha and gun) elastic and tortoise shell and gilding, and in chemicals, in porce- lain, in terra cotta. As postmistresses, and presidents have given them appoint- ments all over the land. As proofreaders, as translators, as mod- elers, as desiguers, as draftswomete as lithographers, as teachers in schools and seminaries, for which they are especially endowed, the first teacher of every child by divine arrangement being a woman. Ae physicians, having graduated atter a regular muse of sttely from the female colleges of our large gitie,s, where titey get as scientific and thorough preparation as any doctors eV011 had and go forth to a work which no one but women could so appropriately and delicately do. On the lecturitig platform, for you know the brilliant success of Mrs. Livermore and Mrs, Hallowell and Miss Willaad and Mrs. Lathrop As physiological leoeurers to their own sex, foe which service there is a demand appalling and terrific. As preachers of the gospel, and all Mee pro- tests of ecclestasticalcourts cannot hinder them, for they have a pathos and a power in their religious utterancesthat men can never reach. Witness all those who have heard their mother piety. Oh, young women of America, as many of you will haveao fight yourown battles alone, do not wait until you are flung of disaster and your father is dead and all the resources of yoor family have been scattered, but now, while in a good house and environed by all prosperities, learn how to do some land of work that the wend, must have as long as the world stands. Turn your ft-1,1,0111ton from the embroidery of fine slippers, of which, there is a surplus, and make ,a useful shoe. Expend the time in whica you adorn a cigar ease in learning how 10 make a good, lamest leaf of breed. Turn your at- tention from the making of filmy noth- thee to the manafeeturing of important somethings. Practical Education. M11011 Of • the time spent in young ladies' seminaries in studying wbet are called.the "bigher branches' might bat- ter be expended in teaching them, some- thing by which, they coulcl support them- selves. If you are going to be teachers, or if you heee so utuch essared wealth that you con always dwell In, those lugh vet nielle, trigonometry of course, metaphys - les 01 mese, Latin and Greek and Ger- men and rrellCit and Italian of Deers% and a boruired other things of eenree/ but If you are not eopecting to teaoh, and your wealth is not established beyond misfortune, after you have learned the ordinary brandies take hold of that kind ot study that will pay in dollars end cents he ease yell are thrown onyour own, reeources. Learn to do something better then anybody else. "No, no!" says some young Weetiall. "Twill not undertette euything so un- romantic and conmeouplece as that," .Au eXcellent anther writes tbat after he had/ in a book, argued for efficiency in 'WO - manly work in order toelleeese. and 130a- tive apprenticeship by war 62 preparation, prominene ehetniet etivertised that he would teach a elaew; of wereen to become druggists and apothecaries if they would go through an apprenticeship as Men do, and a printer advertised thee he woRkt take a chtee of women te learn tho print- , or's trade if they would go through an Inppronzbeeshlp tte men do, and how many, aecording to the amount or the author, , do you suppose applied to becomeskUied in the druggist end printing business, Not one! "But," yea est:, "witat Auld iny fa- ther and neither say if they SAW 1 Wee doing such unfashionable work?" Throw the whole respettelbility upon me the pastors, who are constautly hearing of yetutg women in an these cities who, int- . qualified by tiller previous luxurious sur- roundings for the awful struggle at life Into winch they have been suddenly hurled, scented to hew nothing left them telt A elleive between starvation and damnation. There clew go along the Street? o'elook 10 the wintry mornings ' through, the slush and Amen to the place ." where they ehell earn only half enough for sulleaszence, the daughters or once prosperous merehants, iaw,yere, clew- ; awn. artiste, banker -land telpitallsts, who bratight up their ehildren under the in- : rental delueion that ir was not high tone for women te leene a profitable calling. 1, Young women, take title altair lu your own hand and. let there beau insurrection In all prosperous femiltee on the pare of ; the daughters of tide day, demanding kitowledge 10sweep:gams and. styles of business by whit+ they may be their own defense wed their own support if all fatherly and itueletuttly autl brotherly hands forever fail theta. I have seen two Fad sights, the one a woman in all the glory of Ler young life. strieken by dis- ease and In a weee liteleee In a home of which she bad been tho pride. As her betide were folded over the still heart and her eyes eloseti for the lase slumber and. She Was taken otzt amikt the lameneations of kindrcel and friends I thought, that was a sadness Immateurable. lint I have seal something compared with watch that scene wee bright and songful. It was a young woman who had been all her days amid wealthy snrronudings by the visit of deoth and baniametey to the housebold turned out on a cold world without one lesson about how to get food or shelter and into thectwful whirlpool of city life, where strong 'hips have gone dowu, and for 20 years not One word has been beard from her, Vessels went out on the Atlantle ocean lookiug for a Ship- wrecked craft that was left alone and for- saken on the sea a feW weeks before with the idea of bringing it into port. But who shall ever bring again into the har- bor of peace and. hope and heaven that lost womanly immortal, driven in what tempest, aflame in what conflagration, ranking into what abyss? 0 God, laelpt 0 Ohrist, rescue! My siters, give not your time to learning fancy work whieh the world may dispense with in hard times, but connect your skill with the indispons- ebbs of life. Bodily 1•,,recessities. The world will always want sot/tenablg to wear and something to ear, and shelter and fael for the body, and knowledge for the mind and, religion for the soul And all these things will continue to be the necessaries, and if you fasten your ener- gies upon occupatione and professions thus related, the world will be unable to do without you. Remember, that in pro- portion as you are skillful in anything your rivalries become loss. For unskilled toil there' are women by the millions. But you may rise to whore there are only thousands, and still higher till there are only 100, and still higher till there are only 10, and still higher, in some particu- lar department till Madre is only a unit, and that yourself. For awhile you may keep wages auti a place through the kindly sympathy of an employer, but you will eventually get no more compensation than you can make yourself worth. Let me say to all wonien who have al- ready entered upon the battle of life that the thee is coiping when women shall not only get as much .salary and wages as men get, but for certain styles of employ- ment women will have Weller salary and more wages, for the reason that for some styles of work they have more aclaptation. But this justice will come to woman not through any sentiment of gallantry, not because woman is physically 'weaker than man; and therefore ought to.have more consideration shown her, but because througet her finer natural taste and more grace. of nia,nneWanct tit -dicker perception and more delicate touch and more edu- °ate& adroitness slue will, in certain' call- ings, be to lier employer worth 10 per cent. More or 20 per cent. more than the. other sex She will not get it be asking for it, but by earning it, and it shall be here by lawful conquest . Now, men of America, befair and give the women 'a chance. Am you afraid that they will do some of your work and.lienee harm your prospecitiee? Remember that there are scores 'of' thousands of men do- ing women's work. Jeo not be afraid. God knows the elicl from the beginning, and he knows bow many people this world can feed :fad shelter, and when it gets too full he will end the world, and if need lie start another. God will halt the inventive faculty, wince, by proauc- ing a machine thict will do the work of 10 or 20 or 100 r'n2 on and women, win leave that /minim. I people' without work ' .I hope la a there Will not be in- vented another s wing 'machine, or reap- ing machine, or corn thrasher, or any other now Mac'iine for the next 500 years. We wftnt no more wooden hands and Iron hands aed steel bands and elec- tric trends substaeted ior men and wo RAILROADERS TELL OF WONDE FUL CURES n Fr_ RAILROAD Pb D N EY. wieteaza W'sufEC, 01 110 City of Hamil- ton, do solemnly declare that 1 reside at Coiberee Street, and aM employee as passeem ger brakean on tbe G. T. R. 1 iiI;L,ense4 ',In.::: liat is called asieeee waess and aleo bad Sciatica. wee, severe that I had to leave uty wo.k. tht../ anedtCal treAttnent, was ey b:b>tered and had hot irons appifed, but w11-hOot seeeeSS. I took a greatmuUtyof edicine ane when I began the use of yelonena Kootenay Cure I thought it was only another experiment aral conld hardly ust my own senses when 1 began to get ter. elee pain gradeaily left ate, my kidneys began to aet with regularity and promptness. my appetite returned, and et: W tr eared. I am forty years of age, L1470 en with the Q.T. 2l.fr twelve yeees, erre • ab:e to work evert, day, thanks to y Cure. which I have p7.easure in ending to everyone suffering with eantatism or Kidney Trouble, and espe. laily to roil:road raen, who are all more or ess sob,,,eet to disordered Kidneys, wesrri to he FART 1 W. See -Hove CoaLeve sweet Pea. Hamaavz; a Del.. gf1/416- TVI4NTY YARS OP LUMBAGO. .,,j43tt:5 nimit,.of the City of lIamilton, Co of- Wen oxen h. residing a43 itaterale street N., do solemnly deelate that I aet at ereseet cia Owed as rt14 .14gzagetnen 111,1,,,1171. Oran Teen i))stat flarwlii,a. I wa, trote,), for ore; 'twenty yval.. %rail Lumbago. au.' at 1ii.e+1 W.i severely ateiezei that 14.'4404 3,1,4 Wk1.14. TWIVC, 4 Y.ear during the time t:te attseIN were verl. ipien.,, bat the .pain was e.tnstant•y, with me, aol for about ten yeari 1 coif.' d not st ndt,,t,ttight r a r'irc4tr petioa thau al3dnit crf....cvn minutes. Len 1 tv..1):4I eomp4led Iti ivan over or stoop forward in orlor to relieve After using twee teetiee of ayeemaree Kee:- ena Vure I ant free from Lumba4,11u:-.2.1 cotts;der uen etutop,•etely cared- 1 Mil. lii. Ityeeintata that ii Ite:t no rains fo? ,tinte year utter Uaing* b'sntelicir es that I wonll give 111.a 1t -,t and a.: the time teceitee this 1.vee',. I c&)te to b" witiaett solicitation to give swAra .deelara- eon, 1- eutiventrat ibus:y co -adder En,:era y tezte ono .1 he greatest mil ita•INVii or VA•ter lronlee ever usel by maul.:40, ;tad wish uiy eahe to beet gate generally 1yme:4:44 144'344TC With eve differew van and was .1.0.4 b sonte of theta that they f!outi don't:Wag for me, ethyrs said, **Oo to bed an,I. stay Wail 1 got better," hut that WOu7d have been giving 'up al: ilopeand confessing tarty% a hopeli,•ss Nom enay Caro Was My salvation, alid I believe it wile right that .tnelieal Men, universitice aue hospitals should use the remedy 4:act:steely. Sworn to before Wet 3. Rose, 'Steve PON:, men who would otherwiee do the work :ma get the pace atel eorn the livellhoed, surees,ful Women. But God will arrange all, and all We bave to do is to do our best and trust him for the rest. Let me thew all women fighting the battle of life alone with the fact of thousands of women who have won the day. Mary Lyon founder of Mount Holyoke kennel° Seniinery, fought the battle alone; Adelaide Newton, the tract distributor, alone; Fiddle Fisk, the consecrated Iniseionary, alone; Doro- thea Dix, the angel of the iusaute asylums, alone; Carolthe Herschel, the indispens- able re-enforcament of ber brother, alone; Maria Takrzetveka, the heroine of the Berlin hospital, alone; Helen Chalmers, patron of the sewing schools for the poor of Edinburgh, alone. And thousands and tens of thousands of women, of whose bravery and self-sacrifice and glory of character the world has made no record, but whose deeds are in the heavenly archives of martyrs who fought the battle alone, and though unrecognized for the short 30 or tiO or 80 years of their earthly existence shall through the quintillion ages of the higher world be pointed out with the admiring cry, "These are they who ozone out 01 great tribulation and had their robes washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb." Let me also say, for the encouragement of all women fighting the battle of life alone, that their conflict will soon end. There is one word written over the faces of many of them, and that word is des- pair. My sister, you need appeal to Christ, who comforted the sisters of I3ethany in their domestic trouble and who in his last hours forgot all tpangs panes of bis own hands andfeet and heartas be looked into the face of maternal anguish and called a friend's attention to it, in sub- stance saying,: "John,. 1 eaunot take care of her any longer. Do for her as I would have done if I had lived. Behold thy mother!" if, under the pressure of unre- warded and unappreciated work,your hair is whitening and the wrinkles come, rejoice that you are nearing the hour of escape from your Very last fatigue. The daughter of a regiment in any array is all surrounded by bayonets of defense, and lo the battle, whoever falls, she is kept safe. And yoe are the daugh- ter of the regiment commanded by the Lord of Hosts. After all, you are notfight- ing the battle or life alone. All heavexc is on your side. You will be WiSe to appro- priate to yourself the words of sacred rhythm: One who has known in storms to sail I have on board. Above the roaring of the gale I hear my Lords He holds nae.. When the billows smite, I shall. not fall. If short, 'tis sharp; if long 'lis light, He tempers all. A Remarkable Physician. Last spring, in the city of New York, occurred one of the most remarkable funerals over witnessed. The hearse was attended by sixty pall -bearers, and each man of the sixty owed his life, under God, to the ministration of bim they bore. Behind the hearse walked eight hundred num in line, hardly one of whom but was indebted to the deadma,rt for his ability to be there. Two hundred and ninety-three carriages followed, and these in turn wore attended by a large number of people on foot 'ries man was a simple east side phy- sibian whose nationts were dwellers 10 the tenement dIstriete, and whose mourn I ors were the poor to whom he had min. istered. Dootor Aronson opened, at his own ex- , pense, a hospital for consumptives in the ' poorest part of the city, and threw him- self heart and soul into the work of all*. viatingthe distreseee of friendless patients. Oeee he was taken dotytt with blood - poisoning, cent/acted from a patient, and for weeks lingered between life and death. Then u wonderful and beautiful sight was seen. Hundred:tea:nodally to inquire for the good physician. Scores of people knelt together In the open air around, his doorstep, and prayed aloud for his recov- ery. When ho recovered, he said he would gladly undergo the Salne again to again save life. At last came a day when, upon his re- turn from a call on a poor patient, this good man dropped dead upon the side- walk near his OW11 doorstep, his end thus . coming, just as he had long hoped and prayed that le might come. Tbe end came, we have add, But who oan predicate an cud to a life so filled with the spirit of Him who was pre-emin- ently the Helper and Ihntler of men? Not to 13e Trusted at All. Of special signilleanee as to the ()Iterate ter of the liquor and aloon business 10 general, is the feet that in times of pub- lic disorder it is almost the invariable practice of the authorities to close up the drink shops as soon as possible. Such action has been taken la Chicago, Pitts- burg, and other cities in recent years in times of mob violeneo. So in the recent troubles in Johannesburg, South Africa, one of the first movements of the officials Was to close every saloon, compensate the owners for their stock, and then destroy the liquor by pouring it on the ground. All such action as this forces the thought upon the mind as to the wisdom and rightfulness of giving public sanction at any time through license laws to a busi- ness which is admi4edly of such a dan- gerous character that it cannot be per- mitted to exist in times of public excite- ment. It would appear obvious that a traffic which cannot be trusted at suoh thnes °nett not be trusted. at all. The grog shops are the chief fuel makers for mobs and riotous outrages alweys and everywhere. They are just as bad in times of peace as they are in times of war. There would be few occasions for public disorder if they were closed and kept closed all the time.-01witsian Work. Violet Eerfutne Tip. "My 1 wbat a flowery wbiff. That handkerchief must have been literally steeped in violets," exclaimed one girl to another who had east shaken out from its folds a fragrent square of linen. "Not steepecl in violets, my dear, but boiled in orris water. The effect is the same, so where's. the odds? On wash- daye I supply the laundress with a good- sized pieta of oreis mot, and she throws it into the water where my bandkerchiefs are boiliug. When they come up off the ironing board they nee as redolent of orris as can be. Thee I slip them between the folds of a sachet n lied with violet powder, and they never lose their fragrance. Vio- let and orris scent together, r ve discov- ered can make a teal violet's odor faint with envy."--Plailadelphia Record. As *Canal. Spick—The doctor anaputated one of my brother's logs, but he made up for it. Span --How? Stack—Tee pelling the other one.—New York Sunday joeenal. ZEKE WAS ALL RIGHT. Hebb° There Was Better Mon Than the Ginv'nor of Tennessee. bad met the Governor of Tennessee and had a long and interesting talk with him, and. I was rather boasting of the fact to the mountaineer's wife as we sat chatting during the absence of her bust band, when she asked:— "Is he it taller man than. my Zeker" "lo, I don't think so." "Does he weigh more?" "Not as much." "Did he ever tackle a War with a club," "I don't 'know, but should say not. Perbaps he never saw a wild bear imi him life." "Ever lick a critter in a rough-and- tumble bout?" "I can't say as to that, though h. doesn't look to be a fighter." "Stranger," she went on as she coasted her knitting for a moment. "Kin that Guy'nor of Tennessee bust a squirrel's head in the tallest tree in this state with a bullet?" "Probably not, ma'am.' "Would be dare tackle a wildcat which had got among the chickens?" "I can't say." "Kin he git on to the bar' baok of bucker:" mewl and stick right thar till the, horn blows fur dinner and the mewl hain't got no more buck left?" "I can't tell you about these things, at course. The Governer is a very nice man,. however, and I shall always be glad that I met him." "Is he hefty on the wrassle?" he queried, as she looked straight at me. "I think n.ot." "Kin he jump nine feet?" "I presume not, but you see, =team" "Then =ebbe thar's better men than the Eltiv'nor of Tennessee!" sbe inter- rupted, "and mebbe my man Zeke ar' one of 'em and won't feel a bit hurt it yo' say so!"—Detroit Free Press. There Were Others. "I can't live without you," pleaded Ilia Duke. "Oh, yes you can," said the heiress. "There are plenty of organized obaritable institutions in the city. No 006 10 allowed to starve who makes his wants known." No Thole to Tbala. Baaes—So you went to olcl Billion's office and asked for the hand of hie daughter, eh? Rakes—Yes. Bakes—How did you eorae otit? 11 mi 1 annet anew; it was dove so quick, you see." Not Entirely Certain. "I suppose it's all understood between George and Clara?" "It's as well understood as it Creer Will be. She lisps and he stotters, wad they're both a little deaf "—Chicago Tribues s Op por tuu ty, "Mean! Why, he's the meanest mart that evee lived," Whet ba,s he been doing?" He has, made a collection of all the peeseuts that his wife has macie himthe in urgowns, embroidered suspenders shaving sots, slippees, neckties and hatbands—e' I Acorid stelieo: 2teir married life—dressing- ,I : "Why, ever sinee sheems put on bloom- ers he has been giving them back to bet as anniversary presents on the anni- voesary connected with everything With las married life. In that time he hasn't bought he a single thing that pert:this to fel-ea/finite'.