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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,
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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
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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'.