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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1897-12-9, Page 3THE EXETER TINES • NOTES AND COMMENT& mom. fAs the season, of arctie cold and brief daylight eloses down upon the gold hunters at the beadtvaters of the Yukon, raudb. concern Is felt in regard '() a possible famine, among those who have flecked to the ,mines. Probably no superfluity a provisions has reach - t ed the Klondike, bot there is a fair prospect, that the thousands at the diggings will get through the win- e "e...., aer without actual stervation. The . aid miners know what is needed, and bave laid in the stores required, while meat of the newcomers carried bi a supply of rations for several months. A lenge number who started will win- ter on tbe coast, or, at points along tbe mate, and will not sufferfor supplies. When the eountry is well covered with snow, a period near at hand, dog teams will be put to work, and they are more effective than horses for freighting in that eaimate, Possible some use will be made also of five hundred trained reindeer in Alaska, divided into five herds. t These animals ' iihivenevitliout injury waen the mer - eery Is eevinty below zero), sabsisting on the moss growing everywhere in Abe territory, and making in a day two or three times tbe distance cov- ered by e dog team. astehee YOUTH'S DUTY, TO LOEB PEOPLE. AN ELOQUENT AND FORCEFUL PLEA FOR FILIAL .AFFECTION. Rev. Dr. Winsome Cotodders the neglect Mite to Age — He Met Discourses :Upon learental Attachment and Then the Oblemoion Epee be 'Young to be Mine to Parents. and it did not make much differences to the old man whether the boy looked older or looked younger. And it will be enough joy for that parent if he can get. bade that son, that daughter, at the gate of beaven, whether the de- parted love(1 one shall some a cherub or in fn.11 grown angelhoo& There must be a change wrought by that celestial (inmate and by those su- pernal years,but it will only be from lovelinees to more loveliness, ant from health to more radiant health. Oh, parent, as you taiink of the darling panting and white in membranous croup, I want you to know it will be gloriously bettered in that land where there has ne.ver been a death and wbere all the inhabitants will live on In the great future as long as God! Joseph was Joseph, notwitastaading the palace, and your child will be your child notwithrita,nding all the raining splendors of everlasting •noon. 'What a thrilling visit was that of tbe old shepherd to the prime minister Jos- eph! I see the old countrythan seated in the palace looking around at the mirrors and the fountains and the carved pillars. and oh, how be wishes that Reeled, his wife, was alive, and she could have some with him to LISS their son in his great house. "Oh." says the old an within himself, "1 do \dab Raehael could. be here to see a.11 tidal" I visited the farmhouse of the father of Millard Fillmore when the son was president of the 'United States, and the octogenarian farmer entertained me until 11 Welook at night, telling me what great things he saw in his son's house at Washington and bow granaly Millard treated his fataer in the White House. The old man's face was illu- mined with the story almost until mid- night. Ile had j1.18t been visiting his son at the capital. And 1 suppose it wes something of the same joy that thrilled the beert a the old shepherd as he atala in the palace of the), prime minister. It is a great day with you when your old parents came to visit you. Your li,ttle children attend around with great wide open eyes, wondering how anybody could be so old. The parents cannot stay many days,. for they are a little restless, and especially at nightfall, because they sleep better in their own bed, hut while they tarry you somehow feel there is a. beneath - tion in every room in the house. They are a little feeble, and you make it as easy as you can for them. andyou re- alize they will probably not visit you very often—perhaps never agtiln. YOU go to their room after they have re- tired at night to see if the lights are properly put out, for the old people understand candle and lamp better than the modern apparatus for illura- ination. In the morning with real in- terest in their health, you ask how they rested last night. Joseph, in, the historical scene of the text, did not think any more of his father thaa you do of your parents. The probability is before they leave your house they halt spoil your child- dren Avant kindness. Grandfather and grandmother are MOM leMSTA and in-, dulgeet to your cbildren than they ever were with you. And what won- ders of revelation, in the borabazine poeket of the one and the sleeve of the -other 1 Blessed is that borne where Christian parents some to visit! Wbat- ever tatty have been the style oi tbe arehitecture evaen they came it is e palace before they leave. If they visit you. 50 times the two most men:voluble visits will be the first and the last. Those two pictures will hang in the hall of your memory while memory lasts, ande you will remember just how they looked, and where they sate and what they said, and at what figure of the carpet, and at what doorsill they parted with you, giving you tbe final good -by. Do J:Lot be embarrassea if your father some to town and he bave the manners of the shepherd, cuel if your mother come to town and there be iit her bat nu sign of eostly millin- ery. The wife of the Emperor Theo- dosius said. a wise thing when she said, "Husbands, remember wbat you lately were and remember what you are, and be than.kful." By this time you. will notice what kindly provision Joseph made for his father Jacob. Joseph did not say; "I can't have the old man around this place. How clumsy he would look climbing up these marble stairs, and walking over those mosaics! Then he would be putting his hands on some of these frescoes. People would wonder e here the old greenhorn came from. He would shock all the Egyptian court with his manners at table. Besides that he might get sick on ray hands, and he might be quarrelous, and he might talk tome as though 1 were only a boy, when. I am the sec,ond man in all the realm, Of course he meet not suffer, and if there is famine in his country—awl, I hear there will send him some provisions, but I can't take a man from Padanarate and introduce biri into the polite Egyptian court, What a nuisance it is to have poor re- lation,s1" Joseph did not say that, but he rush- ed out to meet his father with perfect abandon of affection, and brought him up to the palace and introduced him to emperor and provided for all the rest of the father's days, and nothing was too good for the old man while living, and when he was dead, Joseph, with military escort, took his father's re- mains to the family cemetery. Would Lo God all children was as kindto their parents. If the father have large property, and be be wise enough to keep it in his own name, he will be respected by the heirs, but how often it is when the son finds his father in famine, as Joseph found Jacob in famine, the young people make it very hard for the old man. They are so surprised he eats with a, knife- instead of .a fork. They are chagrined at his antediluvian habits, They are provoked because he cannot hear as well as he used to. and when he asks it over again, and the son has to repeat it, he bawls in the old man's ear, 'I hope you hear that ?" How long he must wear the old coat or the old hat before they get him a new one I How chagrined they are at hisindependence of the English gram- mar! now long he hangs onl Sev- lenty-five years and not gone yet! Eighty years and not gone yet 1 Will he ever go? They think it of no use to have a doctor in Ws last sickness, and go up to the drug store, sad get something that makes him worse and econ.emize on a coffin, and beat the un- dertaker down to the last point, giving a note for the reduced amount, which they never pa Y 1 I have officiated at obsequies of aged people .where the family have been mo inordinately re- signed to Providence that I felt like taking my text from Proverbs, "The eye that inoeketh at his father and re - On Sunday morning, Rev, Dr. Tal- mage ohose as bis text; Genesis, xlv. 28, "I will go and see him before die." ' Jacob had long since passed the hun- dred year- milestone. In those times people were distinguished for longevity. In the eenturies after persons lived to great age. Galen, the moat celebrated physician of Ids _time, took so little of his own medicine that be lived to 140 years, A man of undoubted veracity on the witness stand. in England swore • that he remembered an event 150 years before, Lord Bacon speaks of a coun- tess who had cut three sets of teeth and died. at 140 years, Joseph Crele, of Pennsylvania lived 140 years. In 1857 a book was printed containing the names of 11 persons who lived 150 years. Among the grand old people of whom we have record, was Jacob, the shep- herd of the text. But be had a bad lot of boys. They were jealous and ambitious and every way unprincipled. Joseph, however, seemed to be an ex- ception, but be had been gone many years, and the probability was that he was dead. As sonaetimes now in a house, you will find kept at the tale a vacant chair, a plane, a knife, a fork, for some deceased mexaber of the fain- ily, so Jacob kept in his beart a. place for bis beloved Joseph. There sits the old man, the flock of 100 years he their fligat having alighted long enough to leave the marks of their claw on fore- head and cheek and temple. His long beara snows down over his chest. His eyes are somewhat dim, and he .cari see farther when they are closed titan when they are open, for he can see far back into the times when beautiful Rachael, his wife, was living, and his children thook the oriental abode with their merriment. The centenarian is sitting dreaming over the past when he hears a wagon rumbling to the front door. Ile gets up and goes to the door to see who has arrived, and his long absent sons from Egypt e0Me in and announoe to him that Joseph, instead of being dead, A missionary who has spent more tbtal a year in the, Klondike region, writes cheerfully of the situation, and eorreette a number of naisteke,s con - owning the country. 'Mere the valleys are open the sun is visible two hours at Christmas, and daylight lasts six hours. But mountains near at hand shut out the light, though the 'rays of the sun can be seen on their summits. The missionary bas found that tbe miners live pretty well for a wild country. In addition to the staple articles, flour, bacon amt beans, a moderate supply of fresh meat comes In, and large quantities of canoed goods are imported by the two leading companies. While food was scarce last spring no, one became desperately hun- gry, or was compelled, like a recent party coming out, to live for six days on soup made by boiling. their peeking straps. All alio are on i the Klondike are anxious to open communication, with the outside and all on the coast • ^ aer to get In. Between the two thin even in midwinter. some improveridaidateoithe trails is. ser - I3efore the end of next summer the . . . is living in an Egyptian palace, with all Lae investiture of pruxte minister, next to the King in the mightiest em- pire of all the world 1 The news was too sudden and too glad for the old man, and his cheeks whiten, and be :has present difficulties of travel will have been mainly removed, and a trip to Dalwaon City will lose its most labori- ous and dangerous features. There Is more risk this winter of hunger in freland than in Alaska, leaving out of the account a fewebands; of adventur- ers who east all pruden,ce to the winds. Most of those who expect. to go to the mines next season are making their arrtingenaents deliberately. One party, for instanc,e, have contributed four hundred dollars each, laid in their stores, and will go in a stanch schoon- er around Cape Horn, alloiving one bunched and thirty days for the voy- age to San Francisco. The ship will sail up the Copper River in Alaska, and serve as a base of supplies for the prospectors. The applieatioe of energy to the problena of opening a good route to the Upper Yukon. will surely be ef- fective within a year, and in themean- time there is good retteonl for the be- lief tbat the great body of hardy ar- gonauts will e.scape the horrors of famine. a POOR TOMMY1 • Even so sacred a thing as raaternal affection may sometimes provoke a -scan e Why Mrs. Jarnesbyl exclaimed a neighbor actress the back -yard fence. Do you beat your own carpets? Yes, replied Mrs. jamesby. I don't mind it. Ites good exercise. I should. think you'd have Tommy do it. • Poor Tommy I rejoined -the good wo- man re.suming ber exercise. He belongs (whack 1) to a gymnastic class down- town, and (wback a he's so tired when be comes home in the afternoon (tteieek1) that I haven't the heart to esk him, twhaek 1) to take hold of any Work like this, (whack, whack!). DECLARING HIMSELF. Do you. like the hab?. as she turned it slowly on the pink tips of her fin- gers. More than I can tell, but .love its darling little owner, How sweet. It belongs to sister. I'll call her. • CONSIDERATE. He—Why don't you say something .tbotit nay niustache? She—Because it seems like such a modest, little thing. • ANOTHER HOWL. What's old Calamity howling about note? • ' Because he can't get as much for wheet here as they're paying at the Klondike, A JEALOUS BOSS. fused; to obey his mother, the elevens of the valley shall pith it out, and the young eagles shall eat it': Ie other words, ouch an iugrate ought to have a flock of crows for pall -bearers! I congratulate you if you have the hon- or of providing fox' aged parents. The blessing of the Lord God of Joseph and Jacob will be on you. I rejoice( to reraerneer that though m7 father lived, in a plain house themost of his days, he died in a mansion pro- vided by the filial piety of a son who MCI achieved a fortune. There the oc- togenarian sat, and the Servants wait- ed On and there were plenty of horses and plenty of carriages to con- vey Iiim and. bower in which to sit on long summer afternoons, dream- ing over the past, and tbere was not a TOOM in the house where he was not welcome, and there were musical in-' strati -lents of all sorts to regale libm and when life had passed the neighbors came out and expressed all honor pos- sible and carried hien to the village 1V10.chpelab end put him down beside the Rachel wit)" whom he had lived more than half a century. Share your saccesses with the old people. The pro- bability is that the principles they in- culcated. aclaieved your fortune. Give them a. Christian percentage of kind- ly consideration. Let Jesepla divide with Jacob the pasture fields of Go- shen and the glories of the Egyptian, court. And here I would like to sing the praises of the sisterheod who remained unmarried that they might achaduister to aged parents, The brutal world calls these self-saerificing ones pecu- liar or angular nit if you had had as many annoyances as they have bad Xantippe would have seen an angel compared with you. It is easier to take care of five rollicking, roinping children, than one ehildish old man. Among the hest women of our land are those who allowed the, bloom of life to pass away tithe they were car- ing for their parents. While other maidens were asleep they were soak- ing the old inan's feet or tueleing up tho covers around the invalid raother. While other maidens were in the cot- illion they were dancing upon rheuraa- (dam and spreading plasters for the Jame back of the septuagenarian and heating catnip tea for insomnia. In almost every circle of OUT kind- red there has been some queen of self-saerifice to whom jeweled hand after jeweled hand was offered in mar- riage, but who staid on the old plate 'bemuse of the sense of filial obligation until the bealth was gone and the attractiveness of personal presence had. vanished. 13rutal satiety may call Buell a one by a niok-name. God calls her daughter. and heaven calls her saint, and I call her domestic martyr. A half dozen ordinary women bave not as much nobility as could be found in the smallest joint of the little finger of her left hand. Although the world has stood 6000 years. this is the first aeotheosis of maidenhood, although in a dazed look and his stall falls out of his hand and he would have dropped had n,ot the sons caught him aryl led. him to a lounge and put cold water on his fake and. fennel., him a little. In that half delirium tbe old man mumbles something about bis son Jos- eph. He says: "You don't mean Jos- eph, do you?" But after they had fully resuscitated him, and the news was confirmed, the tears begin tbeir win -l- ing way down the crossroads of the wrinkles, and the sunken lips of the old maai quiver, and he brings his bent fingers together as be says: Joseph is yet alive. I will go and see him be- fore- I die." lt, did not take the old man a greet while to get ready, I warrant you. He put on the best clothes that the ahep- herd's wardrobe could afford. He got into the wagon, and, though the aged are cautious and like to ride slow, the wagon did not get along fast enough for this old man, and when the wagon with the old main met Joseph's char- iot coming down to meat him, ant Jos- eph got out of the chariot and got ifl.. to the wagon and threw his arms around his father's neck, it was an antithesis of royalty and rusticity, of around his father's neck, it was an shnplidty and. pomp; of filial affection and parental love, which leaves us much in doubt whether eve had better laugh or cry, that we do both. So Jacob kept the resolution of the text, "1 will go and see him before I die." What a strong and unfailing thing is parental attachment I Was it not al- most time for Jacob to forget Jos- eph ? The hot suns of many summers blazed on the heath; the River Nile had overflowed lend reeeded, overflow- ed. and receded. again and again; the seed had been sown and the harvests reaped; stars rose and. set ; years of plenty and years of famine had passed on, but the love of jaeob, in my text is overwhelmingly drionetio Oh, that is a cord that is not snapped, though pulled on by many decades I Though when the little child expired and the parents mae- not have been more than 25 years of age, and now they are 75, yet the vision of the cradle. and the childish face, and the first utterances of the infantile lips are fresh to -clay, in apite of the passage of a half century. Joseph was as fresh in Jatoles memory as ever, though at 17 years of age, the boy had disappeared from the cad home- stead. I found in our family record the story of an infant that ha& died 50 years before, and I said to my parents, "'What is this record ancl what does it mean t" Their chief answer was a long deep sigh. It was yet to them a very tender sorrow. What does that all mean? Why, it means our children de- parted 'are ours yet, and that cord of attachment reaching across the years will hold us mint it brings us together in tilt palace, as Jacob and Joseph were brought together. That is one thing thee makes ad people die happy. They realize it is a reunion with those from whom they have long been separated. as often asked as pastor—and every pastor is asked the question—"Will my children be thildren in }leaven and for- ever iehilclren t" Well, there was no doubt a great change in Joseph from the time Saeob lost him and the time when Jacoh'. ifound him—between the boy of 17 years of age, and thei man in midlife, his forehead developed with the great busineart of state, but Jacob Why did you discharge Darrow? Did- n't be do his work satisfactorily? Ob, yes, he attended to business all right, but me typewriter got to think- ing the 13Iarnea foe' Was thh best -look- ing mate in town. AT TILT, CONCERT. Why on earth are they encoring thio: vcsmo n? Perhaps they See that she wants prac- tice, will be! Their eheek smoothed] into the flesli of a little child., Their stooped Postifre lifted late inantertal sYrould- try. Their foot now so feeble then with the sprightliness ef a bOunding to ). • t roe, as they sball say to you, A soon passed this 's/ray from earth and told us that you were wayward and dissipat- heve repented, our prayer has been PRACTICAL NOTES. ed lifter we left tbe world, but you answered and you are here, and aaive used to visit you on earth before we died, now we visit you; in your new lime after our ascension." And father will say, "Mother, don't you see Jo- seph is yet alive?" and mother will say, "Yes, father, Joseph is yet alive." And then they will talk over their earthly anxieties in regard to you, and the midnight supplications in your be- half, and they will recite, to each other the •old •Scripture passage with which to wItness' they used to cheer their staggering • 2. Preach the word. --Proclaim Ged's also that love his aPeearoug. Who have faith, "I will be e god to thee, and message. Be instant in season, out looked forward to his appearing with thy deed after thee,' Oh, the palace, of wane, Bp ,aeint 'n all 33, iv a,, earnest joy. Rthiechlatarlaaceliatxhteerpaeltyleeld, Thai, is what " ddd— - "a a - I -- ° - d After this verse we have aeveu veraell The saints( Waffles: and in this argency, be care- watch urge Timothy to hasten to Rome Everlasting Rest," That le what ful to observe no separate seasons. before Paul does, state bow Wen di IdaithyaaBlaritatn icsalle ydounthgite " Celestial Christian energy on Sebbath days and have " Night feast days mid fast days is not book and parchments, and state bow left him, ask for his cloak and Tuilotoautgiohntse.” Ttbuartneisd Ginrtarsolmo„reniienagy eTxn- - - - . much evil Alexander the coepersMitlf enough; let all days be thy season— bed done bun. O Cburchyarel," turned to reaurreetion in 'easiness, in churcb, in danger, in 16. At my first answer. In my first 1 s heard by the was glad to get back Jeseph, anybove THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, DEO, 11 eleasee tett Words," Willa. 4, 1.5, 1448. tendert Text, ft 'nue : carries exactly the same idea as "trine in the Old, is nod. traiislatea by the Same word. He 'that treated in .Jehov- ah and be that believed in the Lord Jesus Christ exereised the eau* fac- ulty ; Paul had been true to hie “truat." 8 Benceforth there is tele up tor Ine crown of righteousnese. A crown of justice, a deserved crown, orown bestowed because the reghteouseess of, Verse L. I charge thee, therefore before God. I call thee to witness; 1 adjure thee. The quick--tbe living— at his appearing and his kingdom. "At" should be "by." 3 -We "appearing" is what is commonly alluded to as the Second Advent; the "kingdom" is that glorious state in which we hope to reign with hire By these Paul calls Tionothy the crowned one has been retiognized. The Lord, the right,eous Judge. Who makes no mistakes, Shell give ss et that day, Shall award bie, requite me. In one sense Pail had not earned any glorification, for when he bed done his best, 11.1ii) other Christiana, be was an unprofitable tiervant, having done no xnore than was his duty to do; but the glory of the Gospel is thie, throe our Lord of his free ograce condesce,nds to reward as for doing our duty. All them speetacle. That is the "Cotter's Pat"' safetn, in Prison, in death—be always defense befoxe a Court of justice., urda,y Night," exchanged for the (ot- ter's Sabbath morning. That in the shepherd of Salisbury plains amid the flocks on the bilis of heaven. That is the famine struck Padanarain turned into the rioh pasture field( of Goshen. That is Jneob visiting Joseph at the emerald castle. CHANGE OF COLOR IN ANIMALS. dome of the Reosoon for lit and Seine of the Mysteries of M. Observation end experiments go to show how large an influence food has in determining the color of animals. Everybody knows how easily the ool- or of the yellow canary may be altered to an orange red by mixing cayenne Deemer with its food, though it is true that tbe color change may be produc- ed only in very young birds whose feathers are pot completely matured. It is also a matter of experiment, tbat all varieties of -canaries are not equal- ly suseeptible to the influence ot the pepper, and. it is a very curious fact that if the pigment that causes the red color of the pepper be mixed with the food of the birds, without the oth- er constituents, yellow -colored caner- ie,s are not in the slightest degree af- fected by it, while brown birds or the brown feathers of yellow' birda become distinctly lighter in hue. Here is another interesting experi- sto:nding up for Jesus. It matters rebuke in Earauperor Nero, and it its that which wa is here referred to, Be was liberated, energetic in praise and not whether others hear or whether bat he did not know that he would be. they forbear—see tae third and fourth No mart stood with me, In Roman legal cases the presence and. pleading verses,—our duty is the same. "Though ee - no one draw from them," says arys. ea a patron or friend were very pow- erful and desirable. But all moo for- ostom, "fountains flow;, though no Kook xne. Cowardly in the hour of elle one drink, rivers ran; though' no one max- 1 Pray God that it roay not be beer, the preacher should preaca, the laid th their oharge, "May it not be teaeher should teeth, and the Ciaristian lailt tosteatweiirthcaltaarrigde4. the Leta KNACK IN SEWING. stood with me. That is, Jesus. And. Not long ago a young woman was smter.engthened me. Put strength into heard to remarn disconsolately, That by me the preaching', might ill lie fully known. By my words the pro - speaking of a friend, "No wonder she elamation of the Gospel might be de - mi have such pretty, frocks and bats livered in full measure. And. that all and neck fittings, tor she moms the Gentiles might 'hear.' Thie prole( ably refers to Paulo preservation for further missionary journeys. I was delivered out of the mouth of *lion. The Christian tattlers understood this of Nero or of Paul's Jewish accusers. It is more probable that. the apostle them all herself. I wish I had her knack.' Want "knack" most certainly has much to do with the matter, a desire and determination to do are iraaort- ant teeters in any undertaktnE• WM 112 real danger of being thrown tg, may learn, if she very much cares wild beasts, notwithstanding his claims as a Roman citizen; or it may be a What one woman can do another did all her own, sewing. Yet she was An instence is recalled of one who figuretive phrase like "the jaws ea devil. death;" or, filially, it may refer to the to. never satisfied with her efforts. As ""' 18. The Lord shall deliver me from she expressed it, she "always felt so home-made," She finally. made up her every evil work. Be that bas donee mind, after taking serious counsel will do. Will preserve me unto his with herself, to find out where tbe kingelore. Cleat phase of it teouble lay. She knew, as far as the whicli comes after death. heavenly sewing itself was concerned, that her work could not be meth improved upou It was the "effect" that did not sat- isfy. Among her acquaintances was a dressmaker, who turned out very effective costumes. For five dollars this artist agreed to teach her those the long line of those -Who have deelon- went: Whe large torthise-shell butter- simple but important points uponwhich ?ol marriage that they might be geed- fly normally feeds upon the leaves of the suecesa of a gown depends. She ified for <tome special mission are the the elm, -while the small tortoise -shell who had prided berself on. her small, t find PIANO TUNING FOR WOMEN. In almost every small town, village or rural distriet in this country, num- bers of pianos stand. sadly out of tune because the tuner has not appeared time way, and the owners have not learned how Much longer and better Anna Etheridge, and Georgiazia Wil- , bred ,from eaterpillars that have been draperies a long and ethy stitch gave their instruraents wear when kept in tune. • , t names of Anna Ross, and 'Margaret : is addieted t o nettles, but when some even s i c ie., • Breekenridge, and Mary Shelton; and ; imagoe.s of the large tortoise -shell were ;Oat in the heraing and adjustment of The feet le piano tuning is one fields of Fair Oaks, and Lookout aloun- ! derful sinailarity to the smaller epecies, better results. She learned how to a those professions that has not been Prooseriy fasten in stays, put on face over -crowded, and there are actually lets, and the angels of the eattle- 'found upon nettles, they showed. a Won- tain and Chantsellorowille and Cooper : though the color was nearer to that of bags and bindings ands hooks and e,yes. 1 not enough first-class tuners to go Shop hospital, and though single life athe larger. Quite in the same line is Hoe to press seams,. to slip-atitth and; to finish off. All the many detaa ne round since the plan) has invaded so bas been honored by the fact that the i the observation that the thorn moth that to the uninitiated might seem many homes. three grandest men of the 13ible—Jobn exhibits variations in color wording and Paul and Christ—were celilettes. f as the larva, is fed upon the nak, baw- Let the ungrateful world sneer at : thorn, lime or lilac. Many other experi- the maiden aunt, but God bee a throne I menta have shown a similar effect of furnished for her arrival, and on one i food in mo-lifying or completely change side of that throne in beaven there is ; bag the eolor of animals, a vase containing two jewels, the one , Among the changes of eolor that are brighter than the Kohithor of London ; most perplexing, if one would refer tower and the other larger than any t their souse to utility only, is that of diamond ever found in the distriets of i the gull, which is blue and white, and Goleonda—the one jewel by the lapi- 1 is therefore generally allowed to be of dary of the ealwee, eut with the, words, I protective value. But of the first. three "inasmuch as ye (ea it to father," the 1 years of their lives several corrunon other jewel hy the lapidary of the ; speosies of gull have a brownish speck- palaee cut with the words, "Inasmuch ' led plumage, which is totally unlike as ye did it to mether," "Over the lulls 4 that of the older birds, on which fact lad. of Will Carleton, who found an I be advantageous, the other must be counternhe has learned the art of lee - making, and her hats are not in the make many sales for the house. Any - 1 Mr. Beaderd remarks; " If one color understood that as a. tuner she may to the poorhouse," is the exquisite hal- old woman who heel been turned off by i the reverse, and three years is either least suggestive of the amateur millin- body clever with tools—andi mama' WO - her prospered sons, but I thank God i a. considerable period, or it is not long er men are se—din readily learn to make should exemplify God' commends lw 1 may find in my text, "Over the hills , enough." small repairs, such as putting cel daily living. It ie never our part to to the palace." Another perplexing part of the sub- strings and re -leathering the ham - As it: to disgust us with unfilial con- . ject is the color of deep-sea animals, It slacken or be Silent in speaking for mere A short course of practice on Jesus, though the. world pass heartless - duct tbe Bi ble presents us with the is an established fact that marine sni- some old piano in the back of a store . ly by." Reproe-e. rebuke, exhort. is i th , will prepare a tuner to start out on trifling and of little consequence. lo - day a more becomingly dressed wo- man is nob to be met with, apd she says the money she paid to learn the "little tricks" of dressmaking was the best investment she ever made. It is now suggested as a business which offers many indthements to women. Why has not this been thought of before? Neither great: expense nor much time will be required for one She gets many of her ideas from the who has already received a musical store exbibits, and anything; that par- tioulaely strikes her fancy is jotted edueation, to learn the profession, and down in a note -book for future refer- the right person will, have little diffe ence. Laces and ribbons are nearly al- math in gaining proficiency, in in we ways on the leirga in eounters an.1 aim- any piano raa,nufantoey people will he bis fingers can make dainty and heroin- found ready to explain to a woman ing collars and necle arrangements et the tntricaeles of the pianoforte and all surprisingly little expense. By watch- . inn' an expert bow -maker at the. ribbon that pertains to Its construction, and to tem rering in tuning for it will be story of Micah who stole the. UN shek- els from his mother, and, the story of Absalom; who tried to dethrone his father. But all history is beautiful with stories of filial Eparuinondas, the warrior, foend his chief delight in reciting to his parents his victories; There goes Aeneas from burning Troy, on his shoulders Anchises, his father. The Athenians punished with death any =filial conduct. There goes beautiful Ruth escorting venerable Naomi across the desert amid the howling of the wolves and the barking; of the jackals, John Lawrence, ,burned at tbere are many evidences, but though mals can and o live at e enormoua 'depth of more than five niiles below the all long suffering and doctrine,4 her career. surface of the water. It is also cer- and1 What is absolutely essential for the Read ' convict" for rebuke, Jain that the sunlight does not pene- "teaching" for doctrine. S work is a, correct: ear. This cannot trete to that depth, so that the ani- 3, They will not endure sound dos- . be purchased, nor can. it be imparted male that exist there exist in more trine. "They" means professing Christ- by any amount of instruction inenano than. midnight darkness. Yet the fact tans. To some of these the healthy tuning. Correct training early. miffs is, that brilliant colorations are gen- doetrines of the Gospel will be offen- , may do much to develop a native sense sive. After their owe lases. After of tone perception, and. the girl who the course of their own desires, and would make a great success of piano eraaly found. in them. Of ivbat use can it be? Row can natural selection or not in subjection to God's providence. tuning must eultivate a keen sense sexual selection have anything to do Shall' they heap to themselves teaehere. of pitch variations. She should also They will crowd around teachers who bave a knowledge of harmony and the with it? It is true. indeed, that there may be phosphorenent light emitted condone their faults. Waling ears. laws of acoustics, both practical and by the animals themselves; and of this Ears that want to be tickled. l‘lieee theoretical. ears belong to the people who "will " A piano -tuner's tools are not expen- not endure sound doctrine," not to the , sive, and are easily: carried.. A. tuning fork, a key, a hammer, a vain of teachers. They listen for pleasure, not , for profit. tongs, a screw driver and pliers are ; about all that are needed These 4. They shall turn away their ears. ' ,,,, wee, . ' be peeked in a small So as not to hear those parts of the ; d— dd"'.' ; satehel. pel. tha t 'hurt their conscienees. Piano tuning does not demand great Goo And shall be turned unto, fables. The! physical strength. It is rather 0. mat - very influenees which make tender , ter of delieate sensibilities than of worshipful souls, harden the. souls that ' , brute force. Unqu.estionably it can ; be :made to pay well. The usual sneer at theetwitle as fire softens one. object and hardens another. • prices for toning are from is dollar to li. Watch thou in all thinga. Be sober . three dollars, and more when repairs in all things, attentive, observing': ' are to lie made. If to the arthant thus with presence of mind; forgetting no- ' earned be a,dded the eoramissions fax thing, discerning. Endure afflictions.; the, pianos a tuner ean always find Suffer hardships. Do the work of an' occasion to sell. it will be seen that evangelist. All work that belongs to : the woman who enters the piano - the Gospel preacher or teach- tuning field may earn a handsome income. There. is something else. she may do By teaching. people the importance of keeping their pianos in tune she man do great serviee to the divitie art of music. the stake in Colchester, was cheered: the deep-sea fish may be guided to its in the flames by Ins children, who said, "Oh God, strengthen Thy servant, and keep Thy promise!" And Christ in the hour of excruciation provided! for His old mother. Jacob kept this reso- lution, "I will go and see him before die," and a little while after we find there walking the tesselated floor of the palace, Jacob and Joseph, the prime minister proud of the shep- herd. 4,1 may say in regard to the most of you that your parents have probably visited you for the lasCtime, or will soon pay you such a, visit, and I have wondered if they will ever visit you in the king's palace. "Oh," you. say, "I am in the pit a sin!" Joseph was in the pit "011," you say, "I agl 111 the prison of mine iniquity!" Joseph was once in prison. "Oh," you say, "I didn't have a fair chance. I was denied maternal kindness!" Joseph was den- ied maternal attendanee. "Oh," you say, "I am far away from the land of my nativity!" Joseph' was far: from home. "Oh," you pay," have been betrayed and exasperated!" Did not Joseph's brethren sell him! to a 'pass- ing Ishmaelitish caravan? Yet God brought him to that emblazone&. resi- dence, a,nd if you! will trust his grace in Jesus Christ, you, too, will be em- palaced. Oh, what a day that will be when the old folks come, from an ad- joining mansion in heaven, and find you amid the alabaster pillars of the sthrone-roone and living with the King! They are coming up the: steps now, and the epaulated guard ot the palace rushes in and says, "Your father's eomIng, your mother' corningr And when under the arches of precious atones and on the pavement of por- phyry you greet each other; the scene will eclipse the meeting on; the Gosh - ,en highway, when Joseph and Jacob ,fell on each other's 'lecke and Wept a good While. But, oh, how changed the old folks ma'am, prey by a series of natural " bullseye lanterns, the color of its, prey could have no protective effect, but exactly the reverse. • ARTIFICIAL SILK, ()sant de Chordouttet lies Illooftilemee hs Success of IlI4 Invention. Count Hilaire de Chandounet, the French savant, is papered Lc) abolish the silkworm and make silk artificially superior to the natural article. Speak- ing about the invention he brought out some two years ago, he says the worm only mixes vegetable, matter, such as mulberry leaves, with a gum- my substance, and then winds it into threads. A quicker means of getting silk is to reduce the leaves to pulp by machin- ery ancl mix the product( with a gum- my substance similar to the silkworm's secretion. This, Chardounet says, he has done with perfect success, and he as- serts that ,the silk thus produced is _more brilliant in lustre than the silk produced by the worm, The leaves of the orange and other trees may be uti- lized, and the cost, it is eetirnated, will be diminished three-fourths. The production of artificial silk by the Chardounet nrocess has been tried both' in France and tagland, and the opinion of experts seems favourable to its success. Another process differing but slightly from that of Count de Ch.ardounet :has also recently receiv- ed attention'. ' CLASS IN NATURAL HISTORY. Name two animals noted especiall for their ferocity. Two cats tied acrost a teethes lin er; such work now awaits ev- ery Claristian. Make full proof of thy ministry. Fulfil it; fill it full. Your capacities may be so helsi as to shed off opportunities, like a. cup upside down, or they may be pressed down, shaken down, and running over with ministrations for Christ. Let this last be your case, says Paul to Tim- othy—and to you. • 6. 1 ant now reedy to be offered. "To be poured out." Like a drink of- fering ray blood is about to be skied. The time of my departure is at hend. This supposition is that Paul had bean liberated -from Rome, had spent some years in additional labors unrecorded, A GOOD GUESS. teaelaer had. been giving a famil- iar talk on zoology to a class of. ten- year -olds in a grammar school. To test their intelligence he said, in the course of his remarks: Who can tell me the highest form of animal life? A little girl held up her hand. Well Mary? MCI been arrested dertug the iteration- The hy-ena, shouted Mary, serious - tion by the Emperor Nero, and dragged ly but triumphantly. for a second 'time to Rome. and lead Repressing a smile, the teacher ;Alio): been already, or was about 50 be, sen- Is it, Mary? Tiairik again. Is a hyena, tenced to deaththe very highest? Don't answer too 7. I have fought a good ligbt 1 have quickly: take your time. have finished.emy course. As a Chris- Ole now 1 know, cried Mary; it's ths tian addler he feels that he has done giraffa. well, obeyed orders, made charges, ----- 18gave gdavheigetghreoruend,,A:olelocwherdistthisce at.aveiecre aralaKa,t7s°7h8e niatbsr with Biuglny? He thiiee hpaarizeco. mseeileetpedhipis3. 12ratile Caenr(.1 9" S:V 204n. ell; ep(ei tt whien g.e ontallhye VYtti t n was bave kept the faith. it is a pity that 011, he anyars does that thief in- :he faith in tbe New Testament, which l dose, season,