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FULL OF GOOD WORKS
REV, DR, TALIVIAGE'S SERMON Al'
SEATRIOE, NEB,
tee Moose for elis Subject Sisters of
Charity " anti Ineeounies Bloquently
amen the Glorious Alights Voaclisared
to Women, and the Way They Email('
Thou.
Beatrice, Neb. Sane 23.—In his ser-
mon for to -day Rev. Dr. Talmage, who
•is• now on his sumMer westero tour,
has chosen a subject that must awaken
the eympothies of all lovers a human-
•ity—viz. "Sivrers oi Charity." The text
elected was Acte ix, 36, "This woman
was full of good works and almsdeeds
which she did."
Starting now where I left off last
Sabbath in reciting womares opportu-
nities, I have to say that woman has
the special and superlative right of
blessing and comforting the sick. What
land, what street, what house hoe net
elt the stuffings of dieease ? Teus ot
• thoesands of sickbeds 1 What shall we
do with them ? Shall man, with hie
rougk hands aud hedvy foot rued impa-
tient bearing, minister ? No. He venni t
soothe the pain. He cannot quiet tie
Men cannot do for the poem Here
comes a group a little bereave chtldren
to the door of the Doroas Society. They
need to be elothed and Proeided for.
Which of these directors of banks
would now how many yards it would
take to maae that litttle girl a dress?
Which of these masculine bands could
flta .hat to that little girl's aeon ?
Whiele of the wise erten would know
how to tie on that new pair of shoes?
Man sometimes gives his charity in a
rough wey, and it ealls like the truit of
a tree in the east, whieh fruit conies
down so 'Wayne' tat it breaks the eleull
of the man who is trying to gather
it, But woman glides so eoftly into the
house of destitution, and ands out an
the sorrows of the place, and pats so
quietly the donation on the table, that
all the family come out on the front
steps as she departs, expectiug that
from under her thaw" the will thrust
out two wings and go right up toward
heaven, from whence she seems to have
come aown, 0 Christian young wovaare
if you would make yourself happy, and
win the blessing of Christ, go out among
the destitute. A loaf of bread. or a
bundle of socks may make a homely
loa,d to carry, but the angels of God
will come out to watch, and. the Lord
Almighty Will give his xneesenger hosts
a charge, saying: "Look atter that w0 -
man. Canopy her with your wings and
shelter her from all harm." and while
you are seated in tbe house of destitu-
nerves. He knows not where to set the tion and suffering the little ones around
light. His hand is not steady enough
the room will whisper :. "Who is she ?
to pour out the drops. He is not wake- Ain't she beautiful ?" and if you listen
ful enough to be a watcher. The Lord right sharply you wt11 hear dripping
God sent Miss Dix into the Virginia
down the leaky roof and rolling over
hospitals, and the Maid. of Saeregoeen to the retten stair e the angel chants that
appease the wounds of the battlefield, ! shook Bethlehem, "Glory to God in the
and has equipped wife, mother i.nd ,
high'est and on earth pace, good will
daughter for this delicate but tremene to men." Can you tell me why a Chris-
doue mission. You have known men tian woman, going down among the
who have despised women, but the haunts of iniquity on a Christian ere
moment disease fell ulion them they rand, never meets with any indignity?
, did not send for their friends at the I stood in the chapel a Helen Chaim -
bank, or their partner in bueiness, or ra,
e the daughter of the celebrated Dr.
their worldly associates. Their first Chalmers, in the most abandoned part
cry was, "Take me to my wiee.'"ehe of the city of Edinburgh, and I said to
dissipated young man a' the college her as I looked around upon the fearful
scoffs at the idea, of being tinder borne surroundings of that place, "Do you
influences, but al. the. first blast of the come here nights to hold service ?"
typhoid fever on his cheek he says
- -'0h. yes," she said. "Can it be p05 -
"Where is mother ?" Walter Scan sible that you never meet with an insult
wrote partly in satire and partly in while performing this Christian er-
tompIiment when he mile : rand?" "Never," she said, "Never."
0 woman, in our hour of ease, 1That young woman who has her fatbe
'Uncertain, coy and hard to please. er by her side walking down the street,
When pain and anguish wring the an armed policeman at each corner of
brow, the street, is not so well defended as
A ministering angel thou! , that Christian who goes forth on gospel
under the stroke, She helps Yon to he,
on to plan right Away. She offers te
go out of the comfortable house into a
smaller one, and. Wear the old cloak an-
other winter. She is one who under-
stands your affairs without blaming
you, You looa upon what you thought
was a thin, weak wornam's some holding
you up, but while Yon loOk at that ArM
there comes into the feeble museles of
It the strength of the eternal God, No
chiding, No fretting, No telling you
about the beautiful house of her father,
from whieb you have brought her, 10,
20 or SO years ago. You say : "Well,
this is the happiest day of my life. I
am glad I have got from under tny
burden. My wife don't care—I don't
care," .A.t the moment you, were utter-
ly exhausted God sent a Deborah to
meet the host of the Amalekites and
scatter. them like chaff over the plain.
There are sometimes women who sit
reading sentimental novels and who
wish that they had some grand field in
which to display their Christian pow-
ers, Oh, what grand and glorious things
they could. do if they only had till op-
portunity My sister, you need not
wait for any such time, A crisis will
come in your affairs, iere will be a
Thermonpylae in your household, where
God will tell you to stand. There axe
hundreds of households where as
much courage is demanded of woman , hearts of the people oink with terronaloses
ms was exhibited by Grace
Marie Antoinette Dealing or I alone walks boldly up the steep sides of the
or Joan of Arm
is further ndowed to bring
monittain and receives the command that
Woman e
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'BITER TIMES
TETE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
--
INTERNA.TIONAL LESSON, July 7
•."rue Ten Commaniatienten lexod. 80.147
• reolelen Text, Luke 10.
ozettnen mermen,
Nearly three menthe have passed since
the people of God marche4 from the Land
of Oppression over the emptied floor of the
Red Sea. They have seen the water flow
from the smitten rook in Rephidim (Exod.
17. 1-7). They have repelled the Amalelsites
and have wondered to see how fast their
foes fell while Manisa hands were upraised
in prayer (Exod. 17.8-16). Over sandy
atretehes, through deep valleys, and under
beetling crags they have trod their toilsome
way, aud now are enoamped on a broad
plain in front of Mount Sinai. The gray
brow of the mountain is crowned with
glory, lightnings flash, thunders roll, and
the earth throb e and quivers at the ap-
proach of Israel's God. While the voioe of
the trumpet sounds long and loud and the
us into the kingdom of heaven. It is no foot of man or beast may draw near
easier for a woman to be a Christian while the voice of the Almighty proclaims
than for a man. Why ? You say she his law. The silence is broken by the voice
is weaker, No. Her heart is more re- of Jehovah proclaiming himself to be
sponsive to the pleadings of divine 1Israers God, the God who healed them out
love. The feet that she can more ease. of bondage, and who now renews the coy-
ly become a Christian I prove by
anent made long ago with the fathers. He
the
statement that three-fourths of the adopts them as his people, 'and proclaims
members of the heurches in all Chris_ one by one the Ten Commandments as the
tendom are women. So God appoints eeedioal principles of law and conduct.
them to be the chief agencies for bring-
These commandments are destined in future
Ing this world back to God. The great-
ad
1 centuries to be opted as the foundation
R
est sermons are not preached on cele- for all human government. The on of man
prated platforms; they are preaehea gave as an authoritative condensation of
them the words of the Golden Text,
with an audience of two or three in
private home life. .A. patient, loving
Christian demeanor in the presence of
transgression, in the presence of hard-
ness, in the presence of obduracy and
crime, is an argument from the force of
which no man can escape.
encamped upon the plain Er Rehab. All
Lastly, one of the specific rights of ,
these words. Some commentators are of
woman is, through the grace of Christ,
finally to reach heaven. Oh, what a opiniou. that each commandment was origi-
multitude of women in heaven! Mary, 1 nally given in a siugle short sentence, and
that the lengthened forms of the second,
Christ's mother, in heaven; Eliza,beth
third, and others are explanatory additions
Fry in heaven, Charlotte Elizabeth in I ft d b Moses The Lord
EXPLANATORY AND PRADTMAL NOTES.
Verses 1, 2. God spake. The Ten Com-
mandments were spoken audibly from the
summit of Mount Sinai, which was pro-
bably Ras Sufsafeh, the Israelites being
work into the •haunts of iniquity, carry- heaven, the mother of ..augustine in G
I think the most pathetic passage in a " Jehovah thy God." That is
all the Bible is the descriptioa of the vs an rea . o ,
thge right arm of his wrath omnipotent,
thc • heaven, the Countess of Huntingdon—
lad who went out to the harvest field of
would tear to pieces any one who should
Shunem and got sunstruck—throwing
offer indignity. He would smite him
his hands on his temples and crying out
vrith lightnings, and drown him with
"Oh, my head, my head !" and theY
floods, and swallow him with earth -
said "Carry him to his mother." And
quakes, and damn him with eternal
then the record is, "‘He sat on her knees
indignations. Some one said: "I dislike
i . i d " It is an. awful
thing to be ill away from home in a 1
teaching these bad boys in the mission out, and the aching side and wornout
very much to see that Christian woman
school. I am afraid to have her instruct eyes, to the "house of many mansions!" • proclaimed as their deliverer and as entitle
Brouglit thee out. Not Moses, bnt God, is
strange hotel,once in awhile men coming
to look at you, holding their hand over
them." "So," said another man, "I am No more stitching until 12 o'clock at ed to their gratefulness. House of bondage,
their mouth for fear that theY will
afraid, too." Said the first, "I am afraid night, no more thrusting of the thumb . (2)
they will use vile language before they by the employer through the work to sin that they may render him the service
God liberates men from the 'service of
catch the contagion. How roughry they
turn you in bed ! How loudly they
leave the place." "Ah," said the other show that it was not done quite right. :
man, "I am not afraid of that. What Plenty of bread at last. Heaven for , of free hearts.
talk! Row you long for the ministries
01 . I am afraid of is that if any of those a° ' •
aching hearts Heaven forbroken' 3. Thou shalt. Each individual is address -
of home! I know one such who went
away from one of the brightest
boys should use a bad word in that hearts. Heaven for anguis
h bitten . ed' (3) With every word of pod there is
presence the other boys would tear frames. No more sitting up until mid- ; a oil
" th "—a personal acidifies. No other
homes for several weeks' business ab -
him to pieces and kill him on the spot." nightg of staggering
for the coming - gods. There is no command to worship,
serice at the west. A telegram ca.me at
midnight that he was on his deathbed,
That woman is the best sheltered who steps. No more rough blows across the i for man needs and must have some God.
by orrinitatence, and it is •No people of earth are so debased as
far away from home. By express train
is sheltered temmles No more sharp, k
always safe to go where God tells you curses, een, bitter 'to be without a religion. (4) God's world
tire wife and daughter:" went westward, •
but they went too late. He feared not
to go. It seems as if the Lord had Some of you will have no rest in ' has no atheists. In opposition to the views
ordained woman. for an especial work this world. It will be toil and struggle current in the ancient world, where each
to die, but he was in an agony to live
in the solicitation of charities. Back- and suffering all the way up. You will nation, and even every village, had its
until his family got there. He tried to
bribe the doctor to make him live a
ed up by barrels in which there is have to stand at your door fighting own divinity, God here proclaims his own
no flour, and by stoves in which there back the wolf with your own hand, red unity. Before me. Literally, "upon my
face," as if every idol were held up as an
little while longer. He said, "I am will-
ing to die, but not alone." But the
is no fire, and wardrobes in which there with carnage. But God has a crown insult before the face of God. i5) What -
pulses flattered, the eyes closed and the
are no clothes, a. woman is Irresistible. eor you. I want you to realize that he
e r erre nd, God says to is now ma ,
king it and whenever You . in life is his god.
ever any man holds as hie supreme object
heart stopped. The express tra.ns met
Passing on he
In the mianight—wife and daughters e cry- - weep a tear he sets another gem in that
going westward—lifeless rema. eis of - 4. Shalt not make unto thee. Shalt not
ad among the multitudes of gods of whom
, you hive heard, I who speak am your!,
cha.pels—in heaven; while a great , and your only god, and my name- is
many others who have never been. Jehovah, which, unfortunately for the
heard of on. earth or knoevn but little vividnese of our English version, is always
have gone to the rest and peace of printed Lord. Being under God's peculiar
heaven. What a rest! What a change care, these people were under obligation
It was from the small room, with no to especial service. (1) God'emercies toward
fire and one window, the glass broken us pereonally demand our love in return.
husband and father coming eaetward.
Oh, it was a sad, pitiful, overwhelm-
ing spectacle Winn we are sick we
want to be sick at home. When the time
• comes for us to die, we want to die
at home. The room may be very hum-
ble and the faces that look into ours
may be very plain, but who cares for
that? Loving hand to bathe the tem-
ples. Loving voices to speak gopd. cheer.
Loving lips to read the comforting
promises of Jesus.
In our lastidreadful war men cast the
cannon, men fashioned the musketry,
men cried to the hosts: "Forward!
March 1' men hurled their battaleins
021 the sharp edges of the enemy, crying
"Charge! Charge!" but woman scraped
the lint, woman administered the cor-
dials, woman watched by the dying
couch, woman wrote the last message
to the home circle, woman wept at the
solitary burial attended by herself and
four men with a spade. We greeted the
general home -coming with brass bands
and triumphal arches and wild huzzas,
but the story is too good to be wr itten
crown; whenever you have a pang of
shop and get the money." She goes in , . aa
or soul he puts another gem in
and. gets it. The man is hard -fisted,
that crown, until, after awhile, in all
but she gets it. She could not help but the tiara there will be no room ror an -
get it. It is decreed from eternity she ,
other splendor, and God will say to his
should get it. No need of turning your angel, "Tho crown is done; let her up
back and pretending you don't hear.
that she may wear it." And as the
You do hear. There is no need of your , Lord of righteousness puts the crown
saying you are begged to death. There upon your brow angel will cry to angel,
is no need of your wasting your time, "Who is she ?" And Christ will say
and you might as well submit first as will tell you who she is. She is the
last. You had. better right away take
one that came up out of great tribula-
down your checkbook, mark the nuen- tion and had her robe washed and made
her of the check, fill up the blank, sign white in the blood of the Lamb." And
your name and hand it to her. There is .
no need of wasting time. Those no -or then God will spread a banquet, and he
I will invite all the principalities of
children on the' back street have been heaven to sit at the feast, and the ta-
hungry long enough. , That sick man • bles will blush with the best clusters
must have some farina. That con- from the vineyards of God, and crimson
sumptive must have something to ease with the 12 manner of fruits from the
his cough, 1 meet this delegate of a re- tree of life, and waters from the roun-
het society coming out of the store of tain of the rock will flash from the
such a hard-fIsted man, and I say, "Did golden tankards, and the old harpers
you get the money ?". -"ref course," she
- of heaven will sit there, making music
says, "I got the money; that's what
with their harps, aneChrist will point
went for. The Lord told nee to go in you out, amid the celebrities of heaven,
and get it, and he never sends, me on a saying, "She suffered with me on earth;
fool's errand."
now we are going to be glorified to -
Again. I have to tell you that it is •
anywhere save in the chronieles of woman's specific right to comfort undergetlier .
• heaven, of Mrs. Brady, who came down the
e stress of dire disaster. She is called '
able to hold their peace, ve' ill break : "Anger, jealousy, etcetera ascribed to tied
Claickahominy; of Annie Ross, in the well as sacred history attests that when And there will be ban d ve.ri"tHinagl sl 1 oHnaltlhre' .
, not as passions, but as the feelings of a
among the sick in the swamps of the the weaker vessel, but all profane as forth with congratulation,
cooper shop hoepitale of Margaret as struck the Persian Murphy.
in regard to that which is evil."
Breckinridg-e, who came to men who the crisis comes she is better prepared nobleman wicth horror,. but with tire There is here an allusion
tha.n man to in.ect the emergency. Hew wall;
to Israel as united with her Lord
had been for weeks with their wounde often you have seen a woman who titoppedflfiing_ ere, writing in blazing capi- , by marriage vows, a figure illustrated
undressed, some of them frozen to the seemed to be a disciple of frivolity and has
o i %lit and love and victory, "God ! throughout all the succeeding history,and
ground, and when she turned them over indolence, who, under one stroke of ca- 1 s w pe away all tears frone.• all especially in the prophecies. (7) Let us
aces."
"amity, changed to a her i ? Oh ; not forget that there is a side of severity,
those who had an arm left Waved it
and filled the air with their "Hurra,ehr what a' great mistake tho°seuelensInes; , as well as of grace, in the divine nature.
men make vvho never tell their business A 'Terse With a Sweet Tooti- Visiting the iniquity. That ire bringing
of Mrs. Hodge, who came from Chi- .
troublem to their wives 1 There comes H. U. Thompson, a sugar planter, liv- 1 the results of one generation's sin upon an-
ca,o with blankets and with pillowe un- `
some great loss to the store, or some ing near Vermilion, La., owns a mare other..Fathers upou the children. The
til the men shouted : "Three cheers for . '
of their companions in business play Barnette, that might, in a, different to:. race is a unity, and one evil member affects
the Christian commission! God bless
• to take the last message: "Tell my wifeand Is
carry tile calitY, Prove a very expensive bit of all the rest, tainting the blood for genera•
the women at home!' Then sitting down them a sad trick,.
not to fret about me, but to rneet measked In the property. Damietta was born and has aorta (8) God intends that men shall dread
burden all atol.
household again de.8"What is been raised upon a cane plantation, and hate sin, seeing its terrible reeults.
eves it a sort and constant intercourse with the sac- Third and fourth. God only knows just
in heaven. Tell her to train up the boyar the matter ?" but ire again,
o keep all that charine commodity has developed in her what measure of responsibility to attach .to
whom we have loved so well; tell her of Christian dutyte flk
we shall meet again in descent from wiaked parenta Hate me.
ten her to bear my loss like the the good land; trouble within his own soul. Oh, sir, a sweet teeth, which nothing but a those whose wickedness is the result of
Christian wife of a Christian goldierel * Yejurft rst duty$
ievas toll your wife most generous suppler of sugar se
ems (9
all
about it. , ie perhaps mighe not to satisfy. In fact, she refuses 'to eat unto
tvheoousfevil is hate of God. Mercy
a
and of Mee. Shelton, into whose face 1 ave disentangled your finances or ex- until hegeneration ;
r food has been properly sweet- nds. "To the • thouaandth
the convalescent ecildier looked and tended your credit, but the would have " that ire forever. Witness
said, "Your grapes and cologne mired i
w helped to bear misfortune, You have
. Inc." Men did their. work vrth sai 1' 1 I " no right to carry on one shoulder that
and shell and carbine and howitzer; 1 whieli is intended for two. 'There are
women did their work with socks and 1 businese men who know what I mean.
slippers and bandages and warm drinks
.._There ccanes a cris:s in your affairs,
re
and SariptUtexts awl gent:e stems- 1 vnu struggle braerely and long, hut
Inge of the hot temples and stories of ' -*
after awhile there comes a flay when
that land where they rieVer have any you say, "Here e shall have to stop,"
pain. Men knelt down over the wound- and you call in your partners, and you
ed atd seal, "On whieb side did you ' call in the most prominent men in your
fight ?" Women knelt down over the employ, and you say, " We have to
wounded a.nd said: "Where are, you etop," YOU leave the etore euddenly,
IMO? what Mee things. 09,11 T =Ice ror
- • you dan Reareely Make 1115 YOU?' mind
to pass through the street and erVee Oh
bridge or MI the ferryboat. You feel
everybody will be look.ng at you and
blemiug yeu and denouncing you. You
hasten home. You tell your wife all
abolit the affeer. What does she sa.y 7
Does she play the butterfly? Does tho
Male about the silks and the ribbons,
and the feabloas 7 No. She comes
up to the emerkency. She ouaile not
•
make for worship. The later Jews inter-
preted this law as a prohibition of all
statues and pictures, which was a slavish
following of the letter rather than the
spirit. Graven image. The word here is
meant to include all idols, whether
worshipped by the Egytians or imaginary
representations of heavenly beings, as
angels. In the earth. Images of heroes
or beasts. Water under the eaten The
word "under" has here the meaning of
"lower in level," referring to the earth as
rising above its surrounding sea. The
Philistines worshipped a fish god,and other
peoples formed images representing sea
monsters. To this day more than one halt
ot the human race are worshipers of idols.
5, 6. Shalt not bow down. Every influ-
ence conspired to make Israelites idolatrous:
within them, the craving of the human
heart for a visible objeot of devotion ;
around them, the example of all the
neighboring races, and indeed et the whole
world. (6) Nor ie it easy now to keep the
heart fixed upon an unseen God, amid the
fascinations of the world of sense. A
jealous God. God regarda his _people as
pledged to his service by the terms of the
covenant, and he demands all their love,
negleeted, and now received a fresh
saucton. Sabbath day. The rest day.
Both for man's oWla needs, phyeioal, moral,
and spiritual, and for the honor of God
the Sabbath was instituted. Keep it holy.
Xeep it coneeorated ; that is, devoted to
God. (11) One day in each week is not
mania property, but God's. Six days shalt
thou labor. ((2) Godes law reeognizeri the
claims of the present life upon all men. (13)
Every man should have some work to do.
10, 11. Not do any work. That is, no
similar work, but only molt as belongs to
necessity, to meroy, and to religion. Thou,
nor thy son. The wife is net named, being
considered one with the huaband. Man-
servant, (14) We should permit those who
serve us to eerve God also. Thy atranger.
" The sojourner," one who from another
land was dwelling or traveling in Israel,
and while among God'sapeople ahould be
expected to show respect for God's law.
For in six days. The six days ot the
week being a commemoration of the
six oreative periode in the history
if the earth. Rested the eleventh.
The closing period, that of rest, is the one
be which human history is passing, for since
the advent of man no great change has
come acme the faoe of the earth. alessed
the Sabbath. The essence of the command -
Meta is the consecration to God of one day,
in each week. The Old Testament pro.
claims God as the Creator and Ruler ;
hence that day was chosen which represente
hie completed work. The New Testament,
teachers Christ ; and wheq he rose from the
dead on the first day of the week, a new
lesson was given to the raoe, not supersed-
ing, but supplementing, the old, and ever
pointing the race co the only work greater
than creation—that of complete redemp-
tion.
12. Honor thy father. As our parents
are the human authors of our life, theitself-
denying protectors of our tender years, our
nett to eat 7 What Makes you cry
To -night while we men are sound asleep
in our beds there will be a. light in yon-
der loft, there writ be groaning in that
dark alley, there wil be cries of distress
In that cellar, Men will sleep, and wo-
Men will watch.
Again, walla= has a superlative right
. to take °axe or the poor. There are
hunts arid thouearele of them In all
our Cittil.ei. Vherp 1 a kind of WOrle that
ened, not less than two pounds of su-
gar being stirred into her bran at every
meal, and a geart of molasses must be
added to each bucket of water before it
satisfies her fastidious taste. Fortu-
nately, sugar is pleritiful, and the mare
a valuable one, so Thompson cheerfully
hturiore her whim in this matter.—St
Louis Globe -Democrat,
OkliOrk Cough Syrup.
A °argil syrup in which onfOres form
an important part, is rnade by taking
one oupfud of vinegar, a cupftil ef
lases and a half a capful of eut-u15
onions. Put on the stove sod simmer
about halt an hour, or until the ohlone
are Kett Then remove and strain. Take
a tea:Moorman of thie frequently when
tronbled with a cough, and unless very
eleep-seatea, the cough will not last
lonm
ielod's mercy to the Jews as the reward for
their great father's faith. (10) "God's
mercies last longer than his wrath."
7. The name of the Lord. So careful
were the later Jews of God's earn°
that they would not destroy a scrap
of paper until they had looked to
find whether the werd God" were written
upon Ib; and they never pronounced the
name of Jehovah eorrectly, but alweas
with a °Menge of its vowel tiounds, claiming
it too eaored for Mortal lips, until at lase
the true pronunciation itself was lost, In
vain, Thai; is, te no purpoee ; in false
Wearing, ib profanity, in careless and
reckless reference, eo ooramon at the pres.
ent time. Not . . guiltlees. Beane
the crime is so easily aud thoughtlessly
eounnitted is no reaeon for supposing it
will be lightly paesed over by the Judge of
all men,
8, 9, 'Remember. The use of this word
indicates that the Sabbath wns already
/mown, though probably it had been
HEALTH.
Chronic Nasal Catarrh.
Chronic nasal catarrh, or ohronio inflam-
mation of the lining membranes of the mum
passages, is characterized by a gene° of
fullness in the nose and upper throat, and
by greatly increased seoretion. It's cause
is to be found in neglected or repeated
acute attack, It is probable thae consti-
tutions which have a scrofulous or tuber -
culotte taint are peculiarly susoeptible to
suet; attrieks.
In every case of chronic nasal catarrh
the lining membranes of the nose are thick-
ened and of a deep red oolor,while the super-
ficial veins are swollen and throbbing. In
nearly every ease We may find patellas of a
grayish oolor, and in ;iota few there is
actual ulceration, with more or less lose of
substance. Tile secretion is thick, tough,
of a greenish character, and when the
destruotion is very rapid, of a fetid odor.
Large colleotions of dried secretion may be
adherent to the middle and sides of the
nose.
Where the destructive process has contira
ued uninterrupted, there is a marked
perversion of the senses of smell and hearing
In au h a case the bones underly the
lining membrane may also become involved.
The disturbances brought about by these
various changes—such as thee dropping of
the secretion into the throat, causing ire -
queue paroxysms of hawking, the almost
constant frontal toothache, and the feeling
of general discomfort—are too familiar to
need description.
The treatment of chronic nasal catarrh
is direoted entirely against the ca,use of the
disturbance. If there is a tuberculous or
scrofulous taint in the blood, a long -con tinu-
guardians and earliest instructors, and the ed course ot cod-liver oil combined with
representatives of the divine relation,they some blood-purifienwhich will be prescribed
are entitled to all reverence, obedienoe, by the family physician, will prove of value.
and to 'support and care in their declining
years. That thy days may be long.
A direct promise (and the only commend-
ment eontaining a promise) of loug life,
both to the individual and the nation, as
the result of filial honor. This promise in
its literal fulfillment may be modified by
other laws of heredity and of circumstance,
Vet in general will be found true. Ansl
national life follows from the same cause,
since the respeot for parental authority
leads to civil order, as is illustrated by the
long duration of Rome, and still longer of
China, two nations remarkable for their
filial virtues. (15) God watches over and
blesses those who revere their parents.
13. Thou shalt, not kill. Life is to be
held sacred. as God's most precious gift and
as the basis of human existence. This law
forbids : 1. Murder. 2. Passions which
lead to murder (1 John 3. 15). 3. All busi-
ness which destroys life ; tor example,
rum -selling. 4. All employznentsand emus -
meats which risk the life or injure the
body. 5. All evil habits which tend to
shorten one's days and are a slow suicide.
6. But it is to be interpreted in the light
of other laws authorizing the killing of
men: (1) In self-defense; (2) as the penalty
of crime, after due trial; (8) in war, waged
justly or necessarily. (16) God regards
human life at higher value than the world's
estimate, as shown in its history.
14, 15. Not commit adultery. A pro-
hibition of all sensuality, not only in out-
ward act, but in thought (Matt. 5. 28),
guarding the sacredness of marriage,
protecting the family, and watching over
the social relations, out of which may spring
so much of good or of evil. (17) Beware of
bad thoughts, bad conversation, bad
books, and bad pietures, which may soil
the heart and wreok the character. Thou
should not steal. To steal is to take from
another that to which we have no just right,
or to withhold from another that which
is his due. Whether done under cover
of law or in an overreaching bargain, or by
taking advantage of necessity, or by false
representations as to value, it is equally
wicked in the Bleat of God, and sure to be
requited. Dishonesty is e, forsaking of
permanent for temporeay advantagere (18)
To keep this commandment, let us do to
others as we would have them do to us
(Matt. 7. 12).
16. Thou shalt not bear false witness.
That is, make e false statement. This
command requires truthailness, in all
utterances. We are not to state an untruth
knowingly, nor by look or gesture convey
a misapprehension, nor by concealing a part
of the truth mislead another. (19) There
are no "white lies" in God's sight. (20)
How solemn is our reeponsibility, since we
carry with us the reputations of our fellow-
men Againet thy neighbor. As inter-
preted by Christ in the parable of the Good
Samaritan, this means any fellow -being,
near or far, friend or foe.
17. Thoa shalt not covet,. A final coni
mend, which places a walr around all the
rest by interposing a check upon the heart
itself, since the beginning of every crime is
within. To coveb is to desire that which
belongs to another, not in a passing,
incidental way, but with a longing impulse,
which might lead to wrong for its gran&
cation. Just where lies the boundary
between the innocent and the guilty wish
it ie not easy to decide ; hence the need of
watchfulness over the desires. (21) There
may be covetousness withont coveting.
One is the passion for accumulation, the
other the specific longing for that to which
we have no right. (22) The best guard
against both covetousness and Coveting is
the spirit of oontentmene Neighbor's
house. Put for all property. Neighbor's
wife. A check upon that sensual luau which
is in danger of leading to Boreal crime.
A Romantic People.
The Arineuians are a strange romantic
people, dark skinned, with Egyptian feat
-
urea, who live in the most primitive wee,
jO houses built of stone and wood, but in
whioh may be found rich steffs of silver and
gold Persian rugs, gems and other evidene-
es of wealth. The men are bright, know
what is going on in the world, are natural
Ungulate and fond of telling stories, ab
which they laugh heartily. The women
are rather taciturn, and believe that they
have only one mission in life, to get married,
and through the position of matron gain a
certain irnportanoe as well as acquire new
burdens,
When no constibutional cause can be deter-
mined, attention should be paid to the
general health on customary prinoiples.
The diet should be generous, nutritious and
digestible. It is usually well, also, to take
some form of tonic treatment at the hands
of the dootor.
In regard to the local treatment clean-
liness of the nasal passages is its chief end
and aim. The cleansing solution should be
tepid before it is used, and the stream
should be made to pass from behind forward
and out by a "post -nasal" syringe. The
custom of habitually hawking and snuffing
should be immediately stopped ; besides
being disgusting, it is unneeessary and
productive of positiveeinjury,
Permanent cure is seldom effected in
chronic catarrh of the nose. The disease is
so obstinate that the treatment/le of flans-
sity protraoted,and the majority of persons
afflicted tire of it before a cure is effected.
If one is earnest enough, however, to go to
a competent physiciau having special
knowledge of the disease, and follow out
his directions, there is no reason why it
cannot be permanently oured.
Some Don'ts for a Sick Room.
Don't make unnecessary nein. Don't
let doors squeak; oil them. Don't whis-
per. Don't make noticeable and exagger-
ated efforts at being quiet. Don't speak
of similar cases with fatal terminations.
Don't admit lachrymose visitors. Don't
keep the room too hot. Don't forget fre-
quent ventilation. Don't raise a dust
Don't forget to bathe the patient's face and
hands frequently, and wash the teeth and
mouth. Don't give stimulante unless
ordered by the physician. Don't wake
patient from a sound sleep to administer
medicine. Don't ask the patient "how he
feels" every few moments.
Don't taste ehe patient's food with his
spoon. Don't masticate loudly and cheer.
fully yourself while the patient is dieting.
Don't, prepare food in the sick room. Don't
ask the patient what he wants to eat.
Don't let cold food get hot, or hot food
get cold. Don't let food stand by the bed.
Don't leave a table by the bed covered with
soiled dishes, crumbled paper, fruit skins,
and burned matches. Don't bring too much
food at a time. Don't wet the bed clothing
and dress in feeding the patient. Don't
make him drink too fast. Don't leave bur-
eau drawers open and shades crooked.
Don't yawn frequently and etreservedly.
Dories jar the bed, Don 't rock vigorously
and continuously. Don't introduce mourn-
ful and suggestive subjects. In a word
don't forget that a tack person if conscious
at all is apt to have painfully acute per-
ceptions and sensibilities on which trifles
jar in a superlative degree.
Uses o f Set.
Comparatively few people know how use-
ful salt ordinarily is. For weak eyes there is
nothing better than salt and water applied
night and morning. A moth wrung out
in strong salt and water and bound round
the neck when going to bed is an effective
remedy for sore throats. One of the safest
emetics is a teaspoonful of salt and dissolv-
ed in a tumbler of lukewarm water. Half
a tumbler ot cold water, with a teaspoonful
of salt dissolved thereinmelieves heartburn.
Salt, used as a dentifrice, preserves the
teeth and keeps them clean, strengthens
the gums and purifies the breath.
A stnng solution of salt and water
applied regularly to the head prevents the
hair from falling out. A bag 611ea with
very hot seat and applied to parts affected
by neuralgia gives great relief. Damp salt
applied to stings and bites of. insects is a
cure of the pain, Discoloratione may be
removed by rubbing in salt. Ink stains
may be removed if salt is immediately
applied ; and a carpet may be thorolfg hly
°loaned b stiewingover *before brushing,
sait that has been well dried in the oven.
Concerning Shoes.
Customer -1 notice some shoes in the
window that you have labeled Temperance
Shoes. What kind of shoes are they?
Dealer—They are warranted not to be
tight.
On the Read.
Farmer—What'a the matter 1
Tramp—I'm famishin' fee a drink,
'Termer—There's a line spring righe beer
the fence behind. you.
Tramp—That's whatn the matter.
hain't had nothin' hat water to drink for
the last two days,"
FIFTY YEARS ACM
Multvereary of the Franktlit Arctic El
pettltiou Celebrated la lengiania
Under the R118111090 of the &teal Geo-
graphical Society the fiftieth anniversary
of Sir John Frankliuet area() expedition
Was commemorated by the visit of a largo
party to Greenwich Hospital, the home of
England's ancient mariners, to inspect the
Franklin relies there. A dinner was sub-
sequently given, se which the Duke of
York and many distinguished travelers.
and explorers were present. Mr. Clemente
Markham the President of the sooiety,
eaid there were 120 persons who started in
the Frankliu eearoh expedition, and of
these 32 were still surviving, 15 of whom
were present at -the banquet, all ready to
tart again at e. moment's notice.
The President then recalled the departure,
of those two famous barques, the E.rebua.
and the Terror, as they got under way ,a7nd
proceeded down the Thames, just 50 years,
ago. They were stetting on a glorious
enterprise with beeves full of entheeiesm
and of devotion to their country. No one
should forget those illuetrious men, whoa°
eonetancy and perserveranoe had led to the
epuipment of the expedition. Among then;
stood two pre-eminent, Sir John Barron
and Sir Franois Beaufort. The former was,
Seoretary to the Admiralby for 40 years,
during which period he atronooted geogra-
phical research in all parts of the world,
but especially •
XS TEE ARCM REGIONS
and in Africa. To him was due the re-
newal of polar research in 1818,and the dis-
patch of the expedition of Rose Parry and
Franklin, whose perilous adventures and
great discoveries excited such intense in-
ttrue work withla survey of
ett ehr rsee,BAb3a:
Hand wnen in 1818 Sir John Barron
istralian coast under Captain Plind-
opened the Arctic regions as a new field
of enterprise for the navy, Franklin was
the foremost of the volunteers.
In his second land expedition he discrov-
ered over 1,000 miles of Arotie America.
'There was no more pathetic incelent than
Franklin's parting from his young wife, who
who was dying, but who urgedihim bop laee.
his duty to his country before his love for
her. The Commander-in-Ohief of the
Mediterranean, Sir Henry., Hothan, com-
mended Franklin's judgment and fore-
beara.noe, and his calm and steady conduct
in very trying and difficult circumstances.
When Sir John sailed from England with
the polar research party he had with him,
Captain Crozier as second in command,
who had already been three voyages with
Sir Edward Parry, and had 'commanded the
Terror in Rose's Antarctic expedition; he
was a well -tried MEW in the ice and an
excellent observer. But Fitzjames, the
commander of the Erebus was the life and
soul of the expedition. fie was among the
moat promising officers in the navyaand had
served in the operations on the coast of
Syria and in the firet China war, where hit
conduct had been so brilliant ae to be
mentioned five times in the despatches.
Franklin aailed up the Wellington Canal
for 169 miles, reaching 77 degrees and
re-entered Barrow Strait by a channel
which be discovered between Bot4ursi
and Cornwallis Islands, returnint tlf 'win"
ter at Beechey
DURING- THE FIRST WINTER
Franklin matured his own plane by trying
to force a way by Cape Walker to the
Coast of Arctic America, which he knew
well, and where open water would enable
him to complete the passage to Behrmg.
Straits. The absence of any documents
on Beechey Island pointed to the conches.,
ions that the ships were blown out of the
harbor very' suddenly by a gale. Tha
ships were beset on September 12 near the
coast of King Williams' Land, and the
expedition under Graham Gore and Dee
Vieux, which followed later, proved thal
Sir John Franklin's attempt was admin
ably conceived and ably and resolutely
conducted, and was within measurable
distance of success.
A Sailor's Cruel TreatMent.
A despatch from Galveston. Texas, sari:
—The four masted British ship Andrina,
from Calcutta, has been seized, and a
United States marshal jilated in charge.
Juan Rides, a sailor, brought suit in the
United States District Court for $50,00U
damages for personal injuries sustained
under direceion of the .Andrina's master,
Benjamin F. Smith. He hays he is a
resident of an Diego, California that he
ehipped from Calcutta for Chive:ton and
thenee to some port in the United Itingidom.
Re reoitell how on various oocasions he was
beaten over the head with a belaying pin,
iron handcars were placed on Ins writhe,
and he weer fastener' to the collie ao that
he could only parnelly reach the floor, and
he wee compelled to remain in thest pad -
tion 48 hours, with only ten hours' red,
crewing great pain, and perarritent injury
to his health.
RaW ootton has risen about ge. the leapt
Iwo months tee price tow berme a shade
over lo.
Animals That Commit Suicide.
Intelligent observers have testified te
aote which appear to show that in °Greeks
circumstances the snake, scorpion, and
even some quadrupeds, commit suioide.
M. Henry, a °look manufacturer of Lon
guyon, France, has recently described au
experiment of the kind which he made
with a wasp. The wasp was imprisoned
under a glass and, knowing that •benzine
asphyxiates insects, he put sorne paper
soaked in it beside the captive. The we.ep
became uncomfortable, then angrily
attacked the paper, but, finding all its ef,
forts unavailing, ib finally lay down on iti
back, and, folding up its abdomen, planted
its sting thrice into its body. M. Henry
was so curious to confirm the fact that, in
spite of his humane feelings, he repeated
the experiment on three wasps with the
like result.
Population of the Territories.
A census of the population of the Terri
tories of Canada, taken by the mouuted
police, has been received at the Department
of Interior. The figures give the fOlitveing
as the population of whites and halfbreeds
in the Territories compared with the census
of 1801:
Alberta—I891, 18,322; 1894, 28,783 ,
increase, 10,461, or 57 per cent.
East Assiniboia-1891, 17,511 ; 1894
23,696 ; increase, 6,185, or 35 per amt.
West Aesiniboia-1891, 8,937 ; 1894, 11,
096; increase, 2059, or 24 per cent.
Saskatchewan -1891, 7,460; 1894, 9,931
inorease, 2,471, or 33 per cent,.
• Totals -1891, 52,230; 1894, 73,506 ; 111.
crease, 21,276,or 40 per (aut.
. The following are tho rearm of the
Indian poptilstion .
Alberta -1891, 60b5; 1894, 6,332 ;
decrease, 623, or 0 per cent.
Emit elesinibeia-1891, 2,971 ; 1894,
2,811 ; decrease, 160, or 5 peecent
West Asitiniboia—1 891, 958 ; 1894, 683 ;
aeorease, 270, or '28 per cent.
Saakatchawan-1891, 8,690; 1894, 3,519 ;
decrease, 171, or 8 pet dent,
Totals -1891, 14,567 ; 1894, 13,345 de-
ereaae, 1,224, or 8 per cone
Total population of whites, halfbreeds
and Indians for the Territories in 1801,
66,700 ; total in 1891 86,851 ; hicrease,,
20,052 or 80 per cent.
The Indian population ought to be
accurate as Lite police are espeoially charged
wittetheir care and knoiv just where to find
them,
Peeple al love have belle aauglius froto
their eyes, ...1)a015,
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