Exeter Advocate, 1901-3-28, Page 2The Rey1 Dr,. Taimage Speak
World's Great
despateh trona 'eVashingtotn, ga
of the
Ys1' end cross theeneelves with the blood
Dr. Talmage preached frank t
folletwine teet "And. he teok the eon
which they had made, and he laugn
it in the fire, and geound it to powder
ansi etnewed it upen the water, an
Made the children of Israel drink, o
it."--Exoclue xxeli, 20.
: Pe,elple will have a god of some kind
andithey proffer one •of their ow
He'r'e "me the, Israelites
t'ireaing off theie goilden earrings
the metal arS well as the weanen, toi
in those times they- were raasouline a
swefl ae feeniinine decorations. Wher
aid they get these beautiful gol
earrings, coming kip as they did feelm
the, desert ? Oh, they borrowed ,theul
of the Egypthens when , they' lel
Egypt. Theses earrings are piled up
pYramici of glittering beauty
AsaY Mere eaerings to bring?" sa
Blerhen. None. Fire is leindled; Ida
earring(1 ere melted and DOI-tired int
a raould, not oi. sen eagle or a War -
charger, but cif ,a silly calf; the gold
coorls 'off; the nioulit'is taken aevay
and the idol is set ..,up on itsefeur legs;
lAeta alinbuilt .c.r fib °shL
ig calf. Then the people thamey 1.11)
their' arms, and gyrate and shriek,
and dance mightly, and worship,
Masee has been six weeks on Mount
Sinai, and he comes back and hears
the hoterling and sees the dancing of
these gn
olde-calf fanatics, and h&
,Losei htenpatienee, and he takes the
two plated of stone oriiillehich were
written the Ten Conamandnaents end
flings them so hard against a rock
that they split all to pieces. When a
he of 'their • own, eaerifice. The mush)
f rolls on Under the arelneS; it is'. made
of clinkiner eilvee and clinking gold,
t an.d the rattliege "of the banks and
, brokers' sheps', and the voices of all
d •the exchange.s. The, ROpra,110 Coe the
worship is cerried -ley the eintid voices
•
nt
men. who hay e just beeun to specu-
late, while tile deep bass eelt
, from those. tvlio for ten, years of se-
ig,uity hare. beea :doubly damned.
Oherne of voices rejoicing 'aver hwhat
' they have made. Chorus of volees
,
wailing o VnT what they ha ve lost. 1.11..s
✓ temple of ev-hieh I epeak stancle 'open
s
day and night end there is Inc glit-
tering god with Ills four Icel.-, on, brok-
en. lemetse !. and there is ,th,sMokieg
si altar of saerifiee, new, vietims every
moment .0.11' it, and there are the
kneeling devotees, and the doxology
, of the worship rolls on, -while Death
,stands with '..geouldS and .skeleton
arno beating trine 'for the (Atones—
. -Ai94114 ! ma r moil,111!"
Yg ' 1.•
But xny text suege,ste that this
e wershire has ,got to bo brokenup, as
e the behaviour of'Moses inone, tcnt
indicated, 'Theee are those who say
. that this golciencalf,spokennof inmy
text was 'hollow, and. enerely plated
, with gold; Otherwise, they say, Moses
could not have carried it. it do not
know that; but esontehow per:hales' by
tbo assistance 0.. Ine feiends, he takes
rap this golden calf, which is an in-
fernal insult to God and Man, anci
throves it into Inc tiro,- and it eis
Melted, arriel.then it comas out and is
cooled off; and by some chemical ar,-,
pliance, or by ,an old-fashioned file,.
it is pulverized, and it is thrown in-
to the brook, and. as a enenishritent,,
the people ere, compelled to drink the
nauseating stuff. So, my bearers,
you inay depend upon it that God
will burn, and he will grind to pieces
the golden calf of modern idolatry,
ancl he Will. compel the, oeople Inc
i
their agony to drink t. If not be-
fore, it will by so on tie; last day.
man gets mad ha is very apt to break
all the Ten Conaraandments1 :KeseS
rushes in and he takes this calf -god
anel throws it into, a hut flee,
it Le. melted all out of shape, and then
pulverizes it --not by the modern ap-
pliance of nitro rouriatie acid, but by
the ancient appliance ef nitre, or by
the old-fashioned file. He stirfor
the people a most nauseating, draught,
He takes this pulverized golden. calf
e andt-hroevie it in Inc only brook
which is accessible, and the people‘are
compelled to drink of that brook, or
not drink at all.
I shall describn te you Inc god spok-
en of in the text, Inc temple,
HIS ALTAR OF SACRIFICE, -
the music, that is made in, the. tem-
ple, and then the final breaking f
the wrole ceaagregation of idolaters.
Every god must la VC its tem-
ple, anti this golden calf of, Inc text
is me exception. Its temple is rast-
er than. 'St. Paul of the English, and
St. Peter cif the tie:thins, and the AI-
hacrebtra of the Spaniards, an.d the
Parthenon of the Greeks, and Inc Taj
Mahal alf the Ilincicos, and all the oth-
er cathedrals put together. Its Pil-
laes are groceved and fluted with gold,
ain.d its ribbed arches are hovering
gold, an.d its chandeliers are de-,
scen.ding gold, a.nd its floors' arc tee-
eeilatcx1 gold, and its vaults', aro
crowded heaps of gold; and its spires
and domes are soaring gold, and its!
organ pipes are resounding gold,' and
its pedals are tramping gold, and itS
steps pulled out are flashing gold,
wh,ile stan.ding at the, head of the tem-
ple as the presiding deity, are the
hoofs' and shouldere and eYes and ears
an.d nostrils of the calf of gold.
Further: every god must have net
only its temple; but its altar of sacri-
fice, and this golden calf ,ef the text
is no exception. ,Its altar is not
made out el stone as other altare, but
out of counting roomc desks, arid fire-
pretol safes, and it is a broad, a long,
a high altar. -What doss this " god
care about the groans and struggle%
of the' victims before it? With cola,
metallic eye it locks on, yet lets them
suffer. Oh, heavens and earth, what
an altar! What a ,sacrifice crf '1:101dv
,
mind, and scull the physical health
of a great multitude is flung en to
-'this sacrificial altar, They can-
not sleep, and they take chloral and
morphine and intoxicants,
,The trouble is, when. men _sacri-
fice themselves oisa this altar Suggest-
ed in the text, they not only sena-
flee themselves, but they
SACRIFICE THEIR FAMILIES.
It a man by an ill course is determ-
ined to go to pe,edition, 1 suppose you
twill have to let him go; but he pets
s wife and children in nn
uipage that is the amazement ot
avenues, and the -dr LVC r lasheel
lai
cq,
the
the horses into Iwo whirlwinds, and
the ape:lees' flash in, the ,,sun, cued the
golden. headgear of 'the hatenees
gleams, until Black 'Calamity takes
the bits of the hcirsee and stops than,
and sleau.Le to, the luxueiant &coup-.
ants of the equipage; "Get out!" They,
get out. They get down.. The. hus-
band and father Ming hi,s family so
hard they never got up. There was
the mark on them for life—the enarle
of inc epht hoof --the death -dealing
Loaf of the golden calf
Solomen offered in, one sacrifice, on
one eecasion, twenty-two 'thousand
oxen and one hundred and twenty
thousand sheep; but: that was; a tame
eacrifice compared with the multi-
tude cif mon who are. sacrificing them-,
eelve.s en this altar of Inc golden, calf '
and sacrificing their: families with
them. The soldiers of, General Have-
lock, in India, -walked literally ankle
deep in the 'blood of "the house of
ma.seacee," where two hundred wee
men. and children had been slain by
the Sepoys; 'but Inc' blood around
about this altar of the golden calf
iflosen up to the knee, flows to the
girdle, flow,s to the shoulder, flows, to
lip. Great God Of heaven. and earth,
have meecyl. The golden calf. bas
none, ,
Still the degrading ,Worship'goes Ofl
and the devotees `kneel and Irisa the
tlieete ais cetent their golden beads
• Th e. HAUNTE0 OAK.
"Pra7, why Stre yo q so bare, so bare,
0 bough •of the old Galt tree,
And why, when I go through the shade ytra throw,
Lulls a shudder over me 1"
"My leaves were green as the best 1 tow,
And sap ran free in ,my
But 1 saw in the moonlight Olin and wcird
A guiltless victim's pi.
1411.t. me down to hear his
1 shook willrliis gurgling
And 1 trembidd 'yore when they rode away
And left him here alone,
"They'd charged him with ,the old; old crime
And set him fast in jail.
Oh, why does thh dog howl all night long,
And why does the night wind ;wail?
14. ' '
feel the ipp. against my bark
And the weight of him in my grain!,
I ,feel in the, throe, of his final woe
The, touch ,of my oWn last Pain,
''And nevermore shall leaves come forth
Ou n., bough. that bears the ban.
X am burned with dread, I am dined and dead,
1.,'rem the curse of a guiltless anew
—nueDunbar in Century.
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n Ambiguouar
Answer.
Lady Lester bad given -her daughter
Alice a season in town honing to marry
her off.- By doing so the, had run badly
into debt. ,Lady -Lester was a diandsn,
on
evornane -tall, stately, fortunate in the
possession of in,figure that did not age,
clever and discreet in repairing the ray. ti
,ages of me. She usually were black,
partly because in was intensely becoming
,to her, partly for econorriv's sake. She
resented a marlre.d contrast to her, daugh-
ter, who tells petite, piquant, dainty With
eetrousse features. ' Taking' the Pair-th-
gether, they were as attractive a mother
and daughter as one cdtild hope to see, it
it had .not boonfor the eternal discontent
written' on their features. -
Her troubles had not improVed Lady
tip o
Lester's temper..
"If you had only," she said peevishly to
her daughter, "given half the encourage-
ment to Lord Winabe.rley that you have
to that wretched 'Anderson, you might be
; Lady Winiberley, oft my hands a_nd able
to help roe a little out of thisScrape.",
"It's no fault of mine," sail Alice sul-
lenly. "I did all I coeld to encourage the
stick, wasted n� end of dances on him,
,TJae golden'realf of cur clay,. lilrc.
Inc one of- the t ext, is very apt to
be made out of borrowed gold. These
leraelites of the text borrow -eel ear-
rings of the Egyptians, and then
melted them into a god. That is the !
way the golden tali is made nowadays.'
A great many housekeepers not pay-
ing, for the. articles -the -3r get borrow'',
of Inc grocer, and the baker, and the;
butcher, and the dry goo&seller.d
L. • •
Then the retailer borrows dt the ,
whaleeale dealer. ' 'Then the Wholesale,
dealer borrowe of. ehe capitalist; and
we borrow and borrow, until, the,com- `11
rannity is divided into two classes,these
who borrow, and those who are bor-
rowed of • and after .awhile ,the cap-
italist wants his money. and heerushes
upon the wlaoleeale dealer, and the,
wholesale dealer WatI-VLS his money -mud -1
inc s e,s upon Inc retailer, and the
retailer 1\ ante. this money and he
rushes upon the eonsumer, and we
all go down together. There is many
a man ha this day who rides in a car-
riage and owes Inc blacksmith for -
the tire, a.nd the wheelwright for the
wheel, and the trimraer for the cur-
tain, and Inc driver for unpaid wageen
and the harnees-maker for the bridle,
and the furrier for Inc robe, while
from the tip of Inc carriage tonghe
clear back to the tile of the camel's
laair hawl fluttering out of the bach.
of the vehicle, everything, is paid for
by notes that have been I
, THREE TIMES RENEWED.
But, my friends., if. we have made
thee world our god, w.hen we come to'
die' we wili eee our idol demolished.
How much of this world are you go-
ing to take with ,you into the next 1.
Will you have two Pockets—one
each side of y our. shroud? Will ydu
cushion. your casket ewith bonds ansi.
mortgages and eertifica.tee of steek?
Ali! no. The- ferryboat that 'terossee''
this Jordan takes. no baggage--noth-,,
ing bea.vier than aeepirit. You may; -
perhaps; 'take five 4eundred dollars
ivieda, you two or 'three milee, in the
shape of funeral- trappings to Green-
ss°ood, but yoa will have eo reavetheen
there. Itewould not Inc safe for you -
to lie down there with a gold watch
or. diamond ring; it would be te temp -
.7
tation to the pillagers. Ah: my
friends 1 if we have made this 'world
our god, •when we die we will see our
idol ground to pieees ley out- pillow-, s
and we vsrill have to drink itein bitter
regrets for the; wasted opportu-nities.e
of a lifetinie. Soon wee will be gone. a
Oh te this is a fleeting world, it is a
dying world. . A. man who had -wor- . 5,
shiped .all dales in his ding e
moment described himself, when be h
' said Fool! Fool! 'Fool!" ,
I \vane you to uhanee temples; and h
wore myself out with endeavoring to talk
to lifin and make hint talk, next to asked
him for his box seat at the meet of the
Coaching club" --
"Well, you got it," interposed her: moth-
er.
"Yes, and everybody of course thought
that it meant something, but I knew bet-
ter. am „quite sure that he never in-
tended -to offer it to me ancl'that'my of-
fering myself was -not agreeable" --
"Then' sylay didn't he say.that he had,
given it away already?"
"That's a mystery to me. But I know
perfectly well that" he did not give it to
mo for love of me and also that he -obvi-
ously thought -before. taking my, very
plain hint"—
am sure that he was most nice" --
"Nicer?. cried the girl shrilly. "Pe,
weys is.nice in a kind aggravatinghet)
erly way. 'Hope you are enjoying your-
self like a good l'ttl .1' `C help'
'Don't mind me if you. don't want Inc.'
That's what he alvvay's seems to be say-
ing. - Could any' one make anything out of
that?"
"But he comes here a' good deal"—
"Yeseand isjust as pleased to talk to
any of Your old'friends as to me. Why, I
believe lie is just as pleased to talk
to you a,s to me."
-"Then why does he come?" said, Lady
Lester, who was too 'much accustomed
to her daughter's rudeness to notice it.
"Oh, I don't know. Why does any one
do anything? One Must do something.
He is not a man of deep reasons. He
Ends us pleasant. Ile meets pleasant
people here. We are kinder to bine than
many. But there' is one thing that is
quite certnin—that I have tried to give
12' nopportunity, an o as
.
never taken advantage of one of them.
On tlee contrary, his one desire has al-
wmiys , "'Your foolish egnocoattlrvaagYement'of Ander-
gen"— . • •
"It'sno good going oarlike that, mam-
ma," -said the girl, blusliing suddenly red.
ia stuck to. Wimberley as long as there
was a ghost of a chance, and when I saw
there wasnone and no other man came
forward --well, I suppose I love George
Anderson. as much as'a gio like me can.
I know we can't marry, but what's the
good of going to dances 4.nd dancing with
• 91
useless stick after useless stick all the
"Lord 1VimberIey is not a usdless stick,"
aid Lady Lester,„ with sudden warmth,
which brought a tinge of color to her
heeks end made her look much younger
nd unusually handsome. "It is you svho
re such. a foolish and frivolous girl that
ou are incapable of appreciating his tai-
nts. His speeches in, the ho,use of lords
aye been. much admired"—
"Oh, why don't you have a go in for
int yourself if you admire him so /leach?
I will realm you. a ,present of my chance,
for it isn't worth_ a straw."
, Alice, how dare you speak to me like
that? Remember that I am your moth -
Alice had not SCC13 her mother angry
for years. She was amazed and a trifle
alarmed at. the unexpected ebullition of
the wrath of the dove.
"Of course t pas only joking," she
said sulkily. "You gave it to me, and I
thought r might have a little one back.
Of course be is not likely to think of you.
Ile is a great deal,too wise to make such
a—er—ura—well, you know what I mean.
a — er — um— well, , you know what
lei give up the worship of this u satis
n •-
fying and, cruel gori for the, sereice
of the T.,oecl Jesus Christ. Hero isa h
gold that will never trunable. Here are,
securitiee that will never fail. Here
are banksthat willenevei' heedk• ,Here
is an altar on which there hes' been
one sacrifi'oegthat doe's for all. Here
is a God wise will comfort .yon when
you are ,in trouble., and soothe you
When You are sick, and -Save you
w.hen you die ' 11Vhen you.' Parents
have .hreatned their )esteand. the old
wrinkled,,and treenblin.g hands can no
moire ).)mm put noon your hea.d for a t
blessing, He will he to you father: and
mother both, giving you the defense ,
of the, one and the conifort of. ,the
other ; and ,when your ehiltiren goj
away from , you, the sweet darlings,
you will not kiss, them good -by for-
ever. ,Ite only wants to hold them for
a little while. Ile will give them baclei
to, you again, and He ,will ,have them
ell waiting for Yell' at the, gateS of
eternal weleome ! Oh! 'what a God i
he is 1 ,Ife will anew yen to come se
diose this morning thIat tyou cari put
your arms around lsid negir, while -heId ;
re,spousc, %Nal put later amine groOnd I
yoter neelr, and all the windolgs
heaven will be 'hoisted to let; tile re -1
deetnecl look ou-t and see the spectacle!
of ei rejoicing Father. and a -returned
prodigal locked in glorious ernbrece."
Quit worshiping the golden, calf. and;
bow this day befdre Him ine sybeg,ej
nreserece eye tnuet all appear when )
'he world lia.S.Inimed to ashe,e,and. the',
soorched parchment; of the sky ellen'
he rolled te 4ther like,' an hieterier'
er elle end '
metm. ,
"You are an exceedingly insolent girl,"
was tile mother's reply ,to this polite apol-
ogy, and I terribly regret crippling my -
&elf in this way in order to give you a
,:ertance that yen have wasted."
,
"I never asked you to."
"Yes, you did. You were, alwaye say-
ing that you never bad a proper chalice
like other girls and what you would do
if you bad. Well, now you have had in
and what good bas it beert?"
In this diatomic of I never, did and
01 wish I hadn't" there was no doubt a
great deal of truth on both sides. Lady
Lester bad been foolish. Alice had been
unsuccessful. ' Doth bad concurred in this
folly With their eyes open, and success',
after all, (lees not depend solely on ths
desire and need of the seeker. It would
Lave been better if the Indies bad eiceept-
ed the inevitnble withotit recrimination,
but theY, had' both been grotind to sueli a
sharp edge by the continual stress of pelf-
e wound. Doomed as they were by mi-
en° to fill the greater part tif their time,
with talk, whether it were well or ill, it
was inevitable that their conveveation
should recur again and again with hi -
creasing sharpness to the tic 'which
they had most at heart equally whether
9.'‘'‘ileerle'e Nv'ne-ails 011; iblia.11 that night2'end the
'Jesters went. Lady Lester was queee,
distrait, sharp, but distinctly looking her
best. Alice was thoroughly' "down" and
conscious that she was by no means in
her most attractive form. Nor did any
special success attend her entrance to
raise her spirits. Pretty,. penniless girls with sharp tongues are a mere, drug in
the Loudon, ballrooms. . George' Andereon
was, ',Of course, faithful, and she danced
several dances with him. "It is better
than sitting out all the evening," she said
defiantly when Lady Lester remonstrat-
Lord Wimbetiey took her from George
Lor his usual one dance.
"That seems a nice young men " isa
said in his kind, friendly, uuloverlike
way. "Not well off, is he? It is a PitY
he hasn't some clever woman to puili hinz
along."
"WhY, what could a woman do?" de-
inanded Alice, suiprised and,interested.
'"Oh, lots of things. Women can push
and ask when men, can't. They are Suri'.
to be treated politely-eeenWhen they are
refus'ed; and very 'often 'they get what
,thy want eimply because it is difficult to
refuse a woman. Besides, they can stick
to the subject. Don't you .rremember that
the unjust judge gave, way to the ire-
portunate widow solely, to gq rid of her,
Whereas he would have ordered a man to
be thrown out.' 'Well, now, what Mr. Aa-
derS011 wants ,is that a woman shou
find out some comfortable berth viten.
and never rest until she „has ,pushed hi
ZAN'S CRUCIAL HQUR.
A \Volum. ea the Proper Treattuen of
filosbands, Illftleu They Got Ileake•
The crucial hour of the day as re-
gards its effeet upon the man of the
family is conimdinly thonglat to be
associated with breakfast. Thee a
cheerful bearing and a joyful de -
meaner on the part of the feminine
part of Inc family are thought to be
most effeetive in putting Inc man of
the house into the right eort of hu-
m.or for the day.- There ,e.re .other
views, liolvever, on the eubject, and
one of them tame ft•om a woman
whose experiences in her married life
ha•ve been of a,' kind. to encourage any
wife.
She disagrees' with, the accepted view
as to Inc potency of good humor in
the inorning. Her scheme is very dif-
ferent.
." The most; important moment of the
day to a man's peace of mind." ehe
said, "is the ten ininutes that follow
his return from ,the Work of the day.
At that time one word May change
his whole state of feeling.
• "He comes honae usually tired:Worle
el. the vexations of ,business 'during
the day have frequently brought him
to ,a point of fatigue or nervousness
at which a very little thing may de-
ci,cle what his moodewill lee for Inc rest
Of Inc evening. cOf bourse, the par-
.
tieulat disposition of every .man
nt gwohoedref see: .1h he Be ratievt rumas gyt dn v, he or Tar
Id , 'going r';`)
or
. most emportaitt thing for the
. .
tactful woman -to trio is to wett.„,u411'
d •
sne sees some eigns his temper*
be -fore the makes any decided move.
u Don't above -all -things,- tell hien that
the pluenber, just just Sent In a ter-
riblesbill,merely for making that al-
teration, say that stupid Mrs.
Jones has been at the house, all -af-
ternoon talking about the new hotese
'her
hheusr "bsaabnadesh''Ys bif"jsa'hilet. was the weninlYg
r... women in tOlNill that had thein.
,Generally, is best to avoid such
beginnings, ealthough a woman's' tact
Must alwayS be balled in' to helP her
a out, if one of his children has just
e- been taken down with measles, or the
- cook has been. drunk- all day end had
to be sent away. ,
" Don't talk too much' in the be-
ginning on any, subjecte _conversation
taken toreentdally at the „outset is
e li.kely,to. upset anybody wlah is a lit-
tle tired -after a day's- work and
wants queet,before adjusting his mind
• to the quiet enjoyment of ;home.
" The woman who follows this adVice
-. is going to' find 'her eVe_nings pleasant:.
" er themif slie,jumps at the beginning
into the ,heart of things, especially'
disagheal3le 'things. ' A little , tact
- diering the, first quarter a an hour
after the return eahnie is worth 'all -
the darlY morning cheerfulness in the
world when. it eomes to making the
wheels moire smoothly' in the house..
into it."
"But how does a woman begm.
Alice, wide deepening interest, for thet
was something fascinating in the pictue
which_Wimbeiley'drew so,lightly.
. "Oh, she talks to' people and finds ou
Now, happens, oddly enough, that •
know of' a pogt worth seeen hundred
year whieh is practically in my gift an
which_ any gentleman, wlio ,was also
man of the world and disposed to .stie
to his work could fill"'-= '
"Why don't you' give it to Mr. Ande
son?" t
"Well, you see, I don't know hiin, an
I am not a general philanthropist... If
friend of mine. whom I wished to oblig
Were. to ask me— But norie has. Apre
pos, I want you tp do me a favor."'
Alice's heart 'beat at this abrupt an
nouncentent. Was it possible that h
could meen to propose after this extraor
dinary beginning? If so, would she, b
glad? 'Would' she be—.
He made his eequest hi plain, straight
female] language, and she gazed at him
at first mystified, then a ,prey to- miked
emotion, anon aware of a resescolored fu
lure before her. Her- face; wreathed in
smiles as she gavelier consent.
"Web, now, is' there anI'thing that you
want frorume, girl?" , -
Whereupon Aliceesmilingt ,blushing,
told him what Slie wanted meste
In the following afternoon Lord What-
berley called On the Lesters and found
them at Leine. -Soon ,after his' arrival
Aliceleft.the reom on some excuse. Then
she put on hint- hat and 'went out for ,the
‘Stfelernoon, telling the servant to say "Not
at home" to any callers.
When -she -returned, she found her
mother sitting in the drawing room, mus
Mg, profoundly. As Lady Lester's hole
for dressing was past, and her toilet was
a long arid important function, Alice felt
that something had happened. She was a
trifle anxious, but she did not dare ques-
tion her mother.
The latter opened the ball.
"Don't you think, Alice, it was rather'
rude for you to go away when Lord Wim-
berley was here?'' • ,
, "No," replied Alice boldly. "He asked
me to. It was arranged last night that
should." ,
' Mother arid daughter looked fixedly
at one another. ,
"He is such a young man," observed
the. formetz' vaguely., -"He 'cannot know
his mind.",
"He is not such n young man," replied
Alice gravely. "He is a good deal older
than many men of more age. Beside, he
is'serious, devo,ted to politic, ad-
mired fla a sneaker, as • you Yourself -said,
and he certainly knows his own mind.
He practically,' end. very tactfully, offer-
ed me a place ro George with seven bun-
dred a year, so that we may be' able 'to
marry- and.be out of 'the way 12 I evdtild
help him, and a inan doesn't dothat un-
less bis means' business." , '
"He told me that he.thbtight you would
marry,", murmured the. widow, and
spoke very generously about you."
"He is very rich," pursued Alice. 'It
would be a mere Ilea bite to him. Wiea-
berley is a lovely place, and there is the
coach, and no doubt there would be a
house in town and' carriages and every
luxury and no more wore, end trouble,
and you knotre darling, that when ,you
really .take trpuble you don't look much
more than, half—quite young, in fact, es-
pecially CO people who are a little short-
sighted, as be '
"And I should be free from your
tongue," interposed the widoec sharply,
by no means grateful for these compli-
ments. "Yes, you met right, Lord Wim-
berley proposed to me this. afternoon. I
told hint it was sudden, and I would give
him an answer tomorrow. I have thought ,
it over, and I shall say 'Yes.' He swears
that he loves inc and has never loved
any- one else"—
"And you must love him, too, mother,
clear," observed Alice, with catlike soft-
ness, "or You wouldn't marry him,"
"Of course I love him—devotedly—have
from the first. There is no other reason
,why I should marry him, is there?"
But, reviewing the eircumstandes of
the case, i'elice felt that this answer
might mean anything. --London World. -
Gerntan Teachers.
The German man is ,often a "teacher
by the grace of God," and when he brings
all his *patience, pedagogical training and
innate' s,vmpatlay with claildrep to . bear
upon his task' 02 teaching he is ingloubt-
erlly a success. I tiara been told by edu-
catioual .duthorities in GerrnanYeenien, of
course; the ,German women are,net
aittliorities--tlint women have 'neitherthe,
ability nor the necessary , knowledge to
rank with men in tile teaching profession,
and one often Idoks- in emill for wornee
teachers' in the schools until one pone-
trates into the needletv,ork classes. ' Thie
practice of havlee teen teachers in girls',
schoole laas prel)ably Inigely influenced
the gels' answers. . German inen have
etd docUll '
i
censPired to distmurrige iii every way fe-
rn:lie cietSeetions ,,e.Yond. the "four Waite,' •
of Ille own` Keseg 'rind to exalt as .the
Weal of wornanhooel the ,,,,,c- an '
_
ORDER OF COURT PRECEDENCE.
now the :tronberA of the Royal Fltullty
Rank In Kling Edward's New Court.
The new. order of court precedence
is as follows:
Queen Alexandra; 2, Victoria
Alice, Czarina of Russia; 3, Empress
Auguste of Germany; 'wife of Era-
peror William.; 4, Victoria Adelaide,
Doevager,EmpresS. of Germany, eldest
daughter of Queen Victoria, Princess
Royal of Great J3ritain; 5, Mary of
Teck, Princess of Wales, formerly
Duchess of York; 6; Louise Victoria,
Duchese of Fife, eldest: daughter of
the sovereign; 7, Victoria Alexandra,
second daughter of the' sovereign; 8,
Maud Charlotte, titled daughterneife
of ' Prince Charles , of Denmark; .9,
Mary Victoria, daughter of the new
Prince'of Wales, and tian'two daugh-
ters of the'Duchess of Fife.
B—The collateral branch of the
reigning family; 10, Louise Margaret,
Wi:fe cif Prince Arthur, Duke of Con-
naught ; 11, Helena, Princess 'Chris-
tian, 'laughter 'of 'Queen ,Victoria ; 13,
Beatrice, Princessl e of Battenberg,
daughter of ' Queen Victoria; 14,
Grandduchese Marie of RuSsia, widow
of. the Duke of Edinburgh; 15, Helena
of Waldeck-Pyrmont,, widow of ette
Daike of Albany.
—The children and wives of the
children of the Princess Royal, now
Dowager Empress of G, ernaany ; 10,
Charlotte, Princess of Saxe-Meiningen;
Irene of Hesse wife of Prince Henry,
of Pressia ; 'Victoriaovife of Peelle&
Adolphe of Seliaumburg-Lippe ; 18, So-
phia Dorothea, .wife of the Duke of
Sparta.
D—Children, of Inc PrincesS Alice of
Hesse, 19, Victoria Alberta, wife of
Laois ofellattenlmeg ; 20, Elizabeth,
Grand-dueliess Surgius of itus.sia; 91,
Victoria of Saxe -Coburg Gotha, !wife
of Ernest Louis of Hesse.
[Be -Children of the Duke ofEduxs
burgh. 22, Maria Alexandra Victoria,'
wife of the Crown Prince of Roumanin;
23, Alexendra Lotriee, ,wife of the hoz:e-
dit:a/7 'Prince of Holienlohc-Langen-'
burg 24; Vietogia. 'Louise,' daughter,
of Princess Helena Christian ; 95, ,Lou-
ise Augusta, daughter of Princess He-
lena Christian,clivoreed frOng Priem°
A ribe rt .0 f An he ul 1.-1)esSa 26 'Mai -earn
at, PeirMeSs of Connaught; 27;Vic1oria!
Patricia, Princess of cohnaught ; 23,
Alice Mary, Princess of Albany; 29,'
Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena, :Princess
or, Battenburd ; 31, Mary Adelaide of
Teck, mother of the wife of the heir- ed,
,epparerit ; 31, Princess Thyra, of Deni..
mark, wife of the Duke of Cumber—.
land; 33," Augusta of Teeke wife of the
Duke of MecklenburgeStrelitz.
,
THE W0111 THAT IS NEVER DONE.
Apparent Folltire to Aceoutpltsh Any
End urlit9; Itesults.
"g‘thingssvould. only staY done—if
could look ba.elc over the day, and see
one thing accomplished that will note
have to be done over again to -mor-
row, should. not get so tired of It or
Teel_ so ,diseouragedne '
,
HO VV. many millions of wiVes sind
,
M,Cailer8 have made some such com-
ment as thiS on the monotony, 01'
houselaeld tasks! It is not alone the
deadly • sameness`, the constant repe-'
tition of little duties; it is even more,
the feeling of futility, the apparent
failure to accomplish. any ending re-
sults. The bread that was. baked this
morning still be done lo-niorrow. The
dishes are -washed a.n.d put away only • ,
to be nese-d a.nd washed again. The
linen fresh from"- the ` ironing -table.
will be back in the laun'dry by the end
of the week., The looms swept cleae
Inc other day airea.dy need sweeping
again. The children call for endless,
eynepa.thy and attention.
A enan's work may be ever so bard
it is less often clouded by this sense oit
=productiveness. It usually brings
a definite reward in the feeling of
something accomplished Some" tangi-
ble result achieved. The architect'
points to the finished building and
says, "I design.ed it." The carpen-
ter and the mason who seesthe struc-,
turc growing under. their hands know
that it will stand' for 'years, an 'canine-
peachable witnesi to their industry
and fait'hful'ness.
Rut the things which- are, tangible'
are not altways those which are. most
real or most- useful. There are oth-
er .noble works besides; fine buildings.
The young man 'who goes out into the
world heal,thy and 'clean -minded,
strong in, principles which he ac-
quired at home, and firm in the :beg
lief that there is no other woman in
the world quite no gdod as his; mother,
--he is a nobler work-eeven than a
Parthenon or a Taj Mahal. And
the daughter who has. grown to 'WO-
mapihood with a pure heart, and.hands
trained to perpetuate in -a new home
the deeds of usefulnes's and comfort
learned in the old --is ehe les's to the
world than brick and marble?
"Do not 'think that nothing is hap-,
peeling ,because you do not see your--;
. self grow or hear the whir of the rna.-I
chinery," says Henry Drummond. "Alil
great thinge grow noiselessly. , You
,pan see a rauslaroom groW, but never
a child."
THE USES OF RELIGION.
" Politics, obs'erved I, is seemingl'e
your religion.
, It was any purpoee to be extremel3
unkind.
" You are -wrong 1 protested the man.
haVe a wife _and four drown daugh- ,
'tees, and what would ,the3t -do at,
Easterhad I no'religinn save politics?, ,
I regretted my hard words now. I
asked. him wou.ld he forgive inc. 'He(
answered that he would think 'it over;
and let me know, the first of the .
week. ,
HIS OBSERVATION.
Mrs. Jones, reeding—Peopl'e svh(
make matches acquire a fatal diseaee
of the jaw. Did yoa know that? '
1VIr. ,Tones—No; but, .1 know, the poot
chap who falls a victim to their
matchemakin,g !usually gets it in the
neck.
And all the Debility and Depression of
This Trying Season can be Avoided
by the Use of Dr. Chase's Nerve
Food.
Of all preparations for purifying
• .
and enrichmg ,the blood andntoning
up the system in spring, or after a
long illness, 'none pan approach in
'epec,ific medical action the wonderful
properties of Dr. 'Chase's Nerve Food,
Inc great blood builder and nerve re-
istorative.
Unlike any remedy you ever used,
it exerts a natural and gentle influ-
ence over the kidneys, liver and
bowels reetoeing them to a conditien
of periect health and regularity, and
through the medium cif Che circula-
tion Of the blood gives new, life and
viyifying e,nergy t'o each and every
part of the human frame.
You. may, have made the mistake of
using salts er other strong and weak-
ening purgatives in the spring. Such
tteatraentcan never buildup. and
strengthen' a weakened and run-
down eyetene. "fhe habitual use of
salt] clee'e ta.cro, to ehorten life a d
haeten the. rum oe the filtering and
excretory organs Iban any custom
you can name, • , ,
'The blood i.s thin and watery in the
epring and demands ot nature just
.
Such reatoratire Ingrctlionta 2.4 arta
ettlf, that thteesliglitest contact was liable lioueewife.--National
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a.nd hence the popularity of this fam-
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down the tissues of the body, it builds"
them up, renews Inc nerve cellg, forms
firm muscles, increases weight, and
gives color to the cheeke and elasticity,
to the movements.
You can keep well this spring and
avoid the feelings of lassitude and de-
plession by beginning at once to use
Dr. Chase'S Nerve liniod. It iS the
most common s.ens e treatment that
ecience ever devised, -and on account
at ib ge.ntle ande constant upbuild“,
hag influence can be used with pleag-I
ure and comfort by men, women anch
children.
There will 'be no pimples, humor],
or skin ereptiong it You keep the,
blood pure. No craving of the blood
and nervee e'er nourishment if you use
this favorite prescription of Dr. A. W.
Chae-e. The pains', aches, weaknesses
and irregularities of other springs
will Inc unknown to you if you recon -
street and reinvigorate the system'
by the use of Dr. Cha,e's Nerve, Food?
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