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oukl the same sort ..of process'
be uSeef,*ith'Inintii-heingiat The
ancients 00144 so.'They tOok,
tbe Weitir, and unpromising children
end left theta on the mountain to
die. By suafrzprocedurerthiey saved who have, the mean s will eventual-
, themselves' & lot of treebie Withl IY 'go into retreat, in the 0b110-
dependents, Should the culls
lute qu:iottgle el which they will'
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131EiVED- ENERGIES.
be taken before the courts,. ieetrestt;.
gated scientifically, and, if foundT 'the eontt-4
dio? Siteuld marriages be mote
Closely sepertised, so as to pre-
-.ventrelte union of the unfitl b the
Wr•• tr.,
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.fl1tendeavor inII tu aquitti,
These eonilitiops, have: 41'04042u*
" to a. state of restlesimess an4, lee
AitUde which is very Pionoune
Men, 'wallnot heilt' to bwta
continuous stroin, 4tpd -the.- eons
nuencea oft uch unreasonable haste
sud- excitement aro manifest in
breakdowns* and nerVeus collapse.
To counteract these evil effects of
our business and social life, those
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l'•••
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•e te keep up „indefinitely t e
maintenance of asylums, penitenti
*tries, and homes, to be filled large-
ly with those whose ancestry 'hi
criminal, insane, or diseased
---T.herelirs-Vinfranuitiiit -of-so er
thought given to beck querieo now-
11-elaYs. . The addresses before a
, - .
Company t,If pnys;cians ;n a mine
.city recently Sao, phrase the
thought in startling langiniqe,
viewing the subject from the angle
of improvement of the human fam-
ily. But stidents of charities ore
thinking the same things, even
when they are known to be inen and
women of most tender and sympa-
thetic natures. The physician and
the philanthropist alike recognize
4the evils in a difficult situsaion.
*bey 'cite plain and definite facts;
They furnish feed for reflection,
even if the one who looks on from
the outsid:e is unoble. to • Ofit IL
The, principles -of eugeeies run
" counter to a strong 'sentiment.
"Row much, then, is a man of more
valets than a sheep'?" is armthcr
question that has iniluenced mil-
lions. The spirit of unselfishnesa.
and of love for humanity is a pow-
erfd force. It, grows because of
interestin the weak and the heIp.t.
less s -It may be doing inure fos. the
betterment of the world than over
could be done through` eugenics.
"Step by step, sale° time began
I see the steady gain ef man," •ex-
presses the same general idea. Al -
meat everybody believes that the
human race is advancing. The
.propositions of the physicians and
the philanthroPists may never be
carried .out to the extreme limit.
They may, however, provoke dis-
cussion and lead to serious thought
resuitin iraprtorenteuti-
certain ,directions where such im-
provement is necessary. .
most spot to
Tbale of okl, carries
troubles, earee„,-
tt„ who, 1
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eit,eznent
King 1)AV/41 in our Psalrn tells us
eVa. better retreat, saying: "Rest
in the Lord and Wait patiently for
Mtn." Why was his soul so quiet
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n nderine fp,i
bis. own jaintu perience, ;
'n ouI s restlete,uniil
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11 we faithfully seek and OW this*
aaf retreat; in the graee. of th6
mac led Geel, then the cause,ef all+
our reatleasness will be. removed
and it will be fulfilled what the
Saviour says: "Come unto me, all
YO that labor and areheag laden,and. I will give you rest.
ONE DAY IN 'SEVEN.
-Ras nottled- hiinselt recognized
the neceabity of *molt:* retreat; b
settteg atide one day out of seven
Imus
.for tho welt And does
not the etate recognize -it by
rly watching over & quiet. Sun-
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In0 et'us than God tliat
Ile has given us, this retreat, i
which even the poorest can partake.
Let us rest in the Lord and wait
patiently for Rim. '
ERNEST A, TAPPERT.
INTERNATIONAL LES _
MAR. 14.
Leese"' XL A.eneas *ad Dore
Golden Text, Acts
lis 34.
Verse 31. The story of the cen-
version of Paul is passed over at
this time to be taken up in the
next quaiter, vriten we begin the
second division of the Acts, the
work of St. rani. To dwell on that
great event here would interrupt
the course of the history, and in
especiellyAttingin-connectiott with
the beginning. 0.f his eareer.-.
a. Peter PSssed throughOut all
.quarters. -Peter's first home mis--
hionary work was in connection
with John in Samaria (Acta 8); couples In Glasgow were married
They both returned to Jerusalem 'before the Sheriff --an increase of
preaching le village:" of Sa-
maria on the way. Now we fitid
Peter again on gospel tour
throughout. Palestine, preaching
the gospel, and healing the sielc,
as his.credentitle, and as illustrat-
ing the opirit and nature of the
MARRIAGE' IN COTLAND.-
Ciill Ceremony is Simple lad Be-
coming Popular.
Civil marriages are greatly on
the increase in Scotland, and their
arrangements provides a lucrative
business for aw certain class of soli-
citors in Glasgow and other large
towns.
All the newspapers, particularly
those circulating in the country dis-
trict, contain 1114,11y advettisementh,
of which the follo*ing is an example:
Marriagea Privately 'completed,
10s. Particulars sent free experi-
. •
enced law agents; eonveznent to all
stations,
That is to say, for the modest sum
of ten shillings, these, men are pre-
pared lo secure the --tYing of -the
_nuptial knot for any couple accord.
ilex to the lavr 8eotland. The ex-
feht of this business is shown by
the figures for last year, when 1,308
let over 1007 and an increase of .*).1
over 1000.
The ceremony is of the simplest
form. The couple go before the
Registrar of marriages and declare
that they accept each other as man
and vide. On reaclung the Sheriff
Gospels; visiting and encouraging they are simply asked if they are
and teaching the new ehurehesithe person, whose names are given.
formed by the persecuted.Ohristi-lon two viltnesses, however„ *de-
ans, **xi keeping them In tenablvoIves the real part of the with the apostolic church la 4,ern...- 'many, which is to swear that one of
salern. the parties have lived in Scotland
name as Virgil's hero of -Tao% marriage 33..ikeneas---Very nearly the garnet for twenty-one days previous to
and that they have tie',
Eight years ---Showing that the cepted eoch other as man and wife
cure was miraculous. Sick .of the
y-PaIsy is is contraction of the
word "paralys- ."
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341. Jesus Christ -That is the Mes-
siah. Peter gu rds Agsinet being now nE_ENcovitAop! l'i:igm,,
t-the-source-of4heLiiealing.
we men not to himself, but
tothe Elariourl .S.'nd shows that
Jesus is still doing the same kinds
.....-As.......i.., , ', of work he dkl when he waa living
On earth. So the true preacher or
illfEN Tany'S EAU 'WAS PUT. teacher always draws attention'
not to himself, but to hi a Lord. ..
36. There was at joppa, - The
modern Jaffa.., -nine or ten 'tales
mirth of I4dda, ;the . ,seaport 1,of
certain
tioid rziliabitantis. i‘
Ierusalemtlieving 1st preseeht
thou
diseipie named Telikiths,4This In
Syria,, the comraqa language .tittlie
egion,- means +splendor, beauty,
ailed. Vorcas (Oazillie), which in
hi' P.;stat was st favorite. type of
beauty. '
• 37-43. 4 The . disciples at MOO*
karning of Peter's presence at
Lydda, sent for 'him'to with-
outftorne•delay, apparently with some
hope that the unieett Master would
work throughhis disiiploP,eter ii
miracle of restorMion such ex be
himselfhad wiouglat dikriag his
earthly WO. Peter went, and 1*
his Master *t CePernAnnip (44) -put
them alt forth. Then he kneeled
down and prayed. Then, with as
*Owlet of AO sinswer*he turning
..: to the body* *aid *bid*,
of their own, free will and while in
their sound and sober senses.
The day they .cet the baby's •hair
The house was all a'fideet; '
Buell fuss they "Made you would
haVe said ,•
"ile a. king -he
o •tranted " this,
Some 01/XEr
Ul -
To lay s hatd urea one 'strand
Of all that preemus headfuL
While others said to leave
„curls
Would be the. height of folly;,.
Unleis they put him with the: or
And tailed ..lum Sue or Molly.
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'The barge?* thears 'ileent sniph.
t.
snip,
The golden Iluff was dying;
Grandmother hsd * trembling lip
And aunt was almost trying.
The Met folk wart• "Why hello
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Boy, „
You're looking Ai.) $011% older?' 41
•But mother laid the shaven head her
Close up *phut" her- sboukier, took
ere
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e'etl
aided
Ah, tont the nept tattAt IOU) it
•bir,'
The cradle yield its tremor.;
Time will not stay a single 41sy
For any pleader's pleasure%
And 'when that hour.* work
i Ite4,„
is were even', In
For father ained a little, man
loqt her belor4'
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hs hst14.0 to
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lighter's hand be
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ood re en
Two
New Activity Mewls Diggers
iiisdned by Maaager.
A brewery in Staffordshire, Eng-
land, began hist 'ear to build, an
extension to its premises. Many
workmen were employed on the.
job, but the - work of digging for
the foundation advanced very Slow-
ly*,to the annoyance of the:, pro-
prietor. , At 4the beginning44ithe
fltilrf year,'h waver, it sternas
if new life had come into the Mem
Prom early dawn till tete evening
they worked with great indust
bidding defiance to wind •and rain.
When the ground had been ;tux.
crated to the required depth the men
had to be restrained from digging
deeper still. The brewer was delighted, but his curiosity was
aroused at to 'how such rentarkable
rgy was induced. Re sought e
meat, ;from, • his manager. The
tes individual, under pressure,
eenfetsed to a little iubterfugir. He
had plated in a worn.out earthen
jar a slipof. old parchment tearing
he inscription: "Great store of
(*nye .Iyeth siburyed beneath - this
tte. Re that fyndeth ytt Mit7
I* "R. Remember se pore" Re
eoi-cred the, jar with * pleee
siste and earefully nburied it where
the workmen were sure to And it.
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STRO210401.1)Eti.
strong:minded W na40.,
isn't *he
should, uy ,so. She ea* jet
r husband.,, to church nierl
ery Studer."
elt o*
airs
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The Aro was burning t in
the open grate, and the warm eoele
sent out 4 cheer that WO not to
be' found in the nurcery„ She loved
her aunt's room. , She liked to look
at all tho pretty toilet articles
gaze in the bright little silver mir-
ror, and open her ribbon hex, that
always smelled of violet. She was
never allowed te, play here. when
Aunt Jennie was Away.
As she steed at the door *
thought eame to her and told her
that she could do no harm just by
warming her feet at '• the grate.
,eyx9inepsitrambaja
o teteremem Red ---
but the did nitt. She, went in, at
first timidly,and then, as she heard
no' one coming, sne sat down on
For a long time she WAS content
with looking about, but by ond by
the wonderful "water -book" seem-
ed to be looking right at her.
She &Novi called it the water-
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,b !:,:. oo ,
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,nceesazy
w&sno une a
broth'.: *
Snte by'Hie
ste pauso4 and jeed in,
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One. of the inO
other tit;
efl, *
oily • . acute, an
persons, '$0606114* ki ecryv
impreSsion, have 'a rOnOtuleou
taste for amide, and can. retain at
air which they may have heard but:
once, Others have a recollection
of form and color, and display an
aptitude for drawing, while more
frequently.' one may meet with au
inmate of 44,,avium who has a
special .Inejas.sry fax figures, dates,
proper names, and words gener-
ally.
EXTRAORDINAR.Y MEMORY.
There is a case on record," for
inst.* 4
tui
•
ordinary memory that ha eould
solve the most difficult problemsin
arithmetic and algebra, and r
tft4Fmts
43 once, -,eariug or re Jug t •em.
In another case a boy of fourteen,
with a defective brain, who had the
gretatest difficulty in learning to
read, could, if allowed to or three
hook because, there were lovely
•
=lutes to Tun over & page print,-
streams in it flowing right past the! ed in a foreTu le,nguarge, or treat-
.
;rig of questions of which he was
ignorant, repeat the worda. from
memory AS correctly as it' the, boa
bad been lying before him.
Very curious was the CILEIO of an-
other man in a certain parish,
who -could remember the day when
quiet water, and steps leading
down to the boats. on sundayt every person had been buried in
afternoon Aunt Jennie always' the parish for thirty-five years, and
looked' over the water -book pie.1 could repeat, with unvarying ac -
deceased and mourners at the fun-
euraelri.' tho name and age of the
about them. She said the city was
tures with Madge, and told her all
Venice; . eral. And yet he was a complete
Madge thought it could be no
fool, and eutside the line of burl -
harm to take the hook over to the 45 he had not one idea, and
sofa and just look at it a vcr,y few I could not give an inselligent reply
minutes. She looketVat her hands 1 to a. single question, or even be
and they were quite clean -anti. trusted to feed himself, says Mr.
anyway, she meant. to tou Aunt J. F. Nisbet, in his book entitled,
Jenme all shout it when she came 4'17" In8"itY of Genius."
home, and she was sure she would REPEATING AN ENTIRE .sEit.
say it was the right thing to do
when she was so lonely. She hoped MON.
,houses, and then there were rod
hoots _with . thing& _ _
ever -their sides,- tall buildings of
marble, and from the windows
gardens seemed to be hanging,
while everkwhere was the soft,
she would say that. , At Earbiwood Asylum they have
Wrong thoughts are like little
records .of imbeciles who could not
, '
plants, they grow 'and _grow • and only repeat acoutmely a page or
so it was not-loiig- before liadge more of any hook which had been
had the book spread out upon
the read years before, even. though • is draw off the contents, if 'they tot
sofa, and was turning•the leaves
was a hook they did not under- n't tu° thick and jellY4/1"4. N°W".
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to find 4 certain picture that she stand in the least, but also of an a -days, however, the surgeon usu-
ally cuthe whole thing, ESA
liked SO well. Just SS die found jUS*443 person. who could repeat ts outand all, and E0 gets rid of it with-'
out fear of return. The little op-
eration is very 'simple.: devoid o
danger, an be done without' pain,
and leaves 0, very slight, almost in-
visible, sear. Youth's Companion.
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K it• qdJeetio
,aog h g., 0, -of oe
4°1)'i'').e:i.P' '.intslIP;i''.*:' -• u ,
!utitd' on tht, o'ztr 1
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or On tliO !mi,ter, surfae
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le wrist. •
swelling is rounded and at
variable size, usually ° perhaps,
vliezi it heOns to attract the no.
dee of its possesse'r, about the 14z.
of a filbert. It gtves 2 sensation
of .elasticity although often soli
feeling, like a piece of india-rub-
her, but it may be so bard •as to
be mistake* for a bony tumor. It
is quite movable under the, 'elan -
when the bend is:at rest, but when
the fiugers aro contraeted-in v444
the ganglion is on the bac le of the
wrist -the lump becomes tense *ad
fixed. \
urenT
of the swelling, although if sub-
jected to 'continual slight injuries,
s happens 4rAppeially when it is
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IU 0 p
The interior of a ganglion is not
exactly fluid, but somewhat vis-
cid, much like glycerine jelly.
The olti-tiniss treatment of a gong -
lion on the back of the- wrist was
to tell the patient to make a fist,
and then. when the tumor was
tens3, to hit it a blow with the
at 'eta heavy betdik-ancrnifituiii it.- -
After that a bandage was viern for
several days to maintain pressure
on the part; and so prevent the
little cyst from:refilling, - Vita
was the accepted plan of treatment
by even the best surgeons ffety
or fifty zears ago, and was usually
satisfactory ; knit sometimes the
patient so treated went into a gal-
loping consumption, aiy1 died.
The reason fax this has been
• found in the fact that a ganglion
is sometimes tuberculosis in its
nature and origin, and the slap
with the book simply spattered the
u -Thud .out of the sae, where it did•
no harm, into the loose tissue be-
neath the skin, whence it WAS oh -
sorbed by the blood -vessels, and
so the ,contained poison• was carried
to every' part of the body.
A bettsr way is .to. insert a hol-
low- -needle into the_ turner and by
means of suction litith an a,sinratof '
it, she heard nurse calling. It
would never do for her to come in
Aunt Jennie's room, ---she knew
what would be said then, --o she
reached out and took. the tongs,
And laid them across the book to
hold it open, and 'ran up to the
nursery. It happened that UU114
•had a; lovely surprise for her in
the way of a game.and some taffy,
and a good time for baby brother,
too.
Madge really meant to steal away
and put the book back, but she was
having a good time; and then mo-
ther Mlle home and asked her to
help hide away brother's birthday
present, and then it was tea -time,
and so they were eating supper be-
fore she remembered. There was
Aunt Jennie smiling sweetly at her,
just as if, when -she went up -stairs,
she would- ziet-And theikwater-book
with the tongs across it!
Good thoughts are like Plante,
too, and as she sat there, looking
at her aunt, the little seed -thought
began to gra* and tell her she had
done. wrong. It seemed to grow
right up in her throat and choke
her.
She felt that be could, not stand
it another minute "Please fors
give mei", she ,exied, and then *
left her place and ran*, Aunt Jen
hie and hid her Mee in heit la °
want to fell all about it -and right
before mains!"
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And "so the story :came -out. and
• Aunt' Jeeniti .14.*rgave her on the
spot. 'I knew you-svould tell me
by and by?" she said.
"Why,,did you know when I left
the table I" ,asked Madge.° •
"Of coursepi saw the book when
I came in.'s -
, "And: you were, just as kind-"
adgo,, vont& not. believe in antis
forgiveness before the asking.
41 wanted you /to tell 'me your.
,
ii4ge *as silent a while,'
tell roil, Aunt Jennie," *be Platt,
lost, "please •pitt away thet, watt
ok, anti don't 'show it to me fax
ng, long tiote,"just to punish
think that wfll be best," her
aunt said. "Forgireness is sweet;
bt the punishment makes us rt
rnember.»--Youth'a Companion.
Two mer/ -one of them * Yanke
were having as argtuneat as t
*r *poetise strengths. "Why,'
a*.Yankee, mortsisig„
bgore reektaek 1 get abucket
ell up' :ninety galIons hoist
"That's no .4
torte4 theiltritirilter. •
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backwards vrhat he had just read.
Another curious case mentioned
m Mriebet's book is tb,at of a.n
imbecile who, in the first place,
never Wed to go to church, and
who on returning horns could re-
peat the sermon Agroal for word,
saying,. "Ilere the. minister cough- ROT la AT II FOB NratirEt.'3.
cd; hero he stopped to blow his
nose," and on. In another
One of the simplelt. and best
case an imbecile knew.the Bible so panaceas for an attack a nerves
perfectly that, if you asked Lt.i.j l't hot 1131611. if WOMall who is
""" fatigued hy the doy's work ,finds
*herself unablc to sleep after going
to bed, she had much better take,
a hot tub than to indulge in a drug,
even of the . mildest deseripticin.
There is something remarkebly re-
laxing . in iMmersion in hot water,
And unless the 'plunge lasts too
long there is not the slightest dan-
ger of being weakened by it.
To put -tiMel.-:tlimit---_14$0,-
bath is impossible?, because it
pends upn: the original vitolity af
the individual. One whose strength.
was much, lestened could not sty
in the water for More than ten
minutet,. while for another twenty
minutes le none ,too long.The wayfeels.on gettiti
one og out s, the best-
rr triteriou, for. -there shoul4 be
g"enttluiet onisalititobilau.oligl *dudes "1)0
'rAtTlifFill. TO THE LETT'S...
"James," • cried the Inerohint, which the h *tit t ken, Severything
If. to gain s t objec. t for
from, his private olfice,; should be repa cAl before getting
,t4yts, ansorere,d the aim into the water. The bed mu# be •
boy. • open and there should be a hot
'I am very tired, and I ant geieg water bag in it to warni the'"hett*,
to tilts. r an hour's rest, in inY ehale that there,be. no shoek of cold linen.
"Yet, sir." . Fresh sir from an orlon window is
r. necessity, but driiught'is not de.
• "If I ottiould happen to -drop off ealI '
es, sir." water, in. the tub shouI4, be 'of a'
These -detail*. Attended to the
inc et font o'clook."
So the merchant lay bark in lit temperature iutt tontfortible. to
chair, folded his hand,, closed hi %the . After the Whole pod"'
ryes, 'askl was soon the land 01has 016" 'hOnoltil the linr14°. the #
dreams. ° 'hot faucet must be turned on, *low
116 was awakened 14 the chiletting :the temperature of thit,
striking Aye, , and cs,Iled indig. bzth rise until it it hot as can be
antly, 'lames!" endured comfortably. Occasional.'
"Yes, sir."'11.inore hot 'water can be. added in
"Why didn't you call me. et, tau way, for as the skin becomes
o'clock,
as I' told you to ,dO» atoll aitomoci to warmth it can en.
sir„ ye told me to cal rhloisreiub
is not taken fax.
cleaning i rpoes it only remelt**
for thtl ter,ton to lie quite still,
\closing the .eycs and trying to re.
lax the muscles. •Dy giring One.
self De to it in this, way much more
good is secorripiithad 'than would
'from a eigoreu* atrubbing,
w ere such and sects a, verse was
to be found, he could tell "without
hesitations and repeat the chapter.
All these instances are well au-
thenticated, and others equally
amazing said true could be added.
And just as there is one sense
which is sometimes wonderfully
acute in persons of weak intellect,
so, in the case of blind pc:ople the
MOM smell and hear-itsi-s;nen
very *eon-. ' One or the moat re.
markable Cases on record was that
of Julia Brace, .a; female, deaf and
blind mute, •whe could distinguish
brothers and t sisters by smell, and
who reognized• anybody Ova had
met before by the same means.
Pindon
if Ile had dropped off 1 Took
on ye st four,' and ye hadn't
dropped off. re was sitting on he
Chair, sound asleep"
WITEN TO PAINT TIIE IIOUSB.
The best time to paint he., out
side of the house is an open 411,1
tis, because seasons vax
but the following reason
for outside ,psanting
tliat 4, September to Decembe
Outface it dry, and therefor
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