HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1898-1-27, Page 7fHE ACT Of 4WISE WOMAN
• Elle Werke and Bulldeth leer Boise
on filen Foundation.
WOLIN'S NODED,N CONDITIONS,
woe?, entlertentato wive* Coulratetoill
With ftio Joys of women Decreed, to
iDelkibacy — mow hoe levies or nook nou
tuitions may leo mineutizrel-- Rev. Dr.
iraimage's sermon on sundae..
Washiregtem, ,Tau. 16.—This sermon of
Dr, Talmage is a great encouragement
two wonien who have to earn their own
living as well as to all others with hand
or brain; text. Proverbs xive 1, "Every
wine• enentant huildeth her house."
Woman a, mere adjunct to mare an
appendix teethe masculine 'Minnie' an
appendage, a sort of afterthought,
empething thrown in to make things
even—that is the heresy entertained
and implied by some men. This is evi-
dent to them because Adara was first
created and then Eve. They don't read
the whole story, or they would find that
the porpoise and the bear and the
ha'wk were ;treated before Adam, so
that this argument, drawn from prior-
ity creation, might prove that the
alteep ancl the dog were greater than
tuna. No. Woman was an independent
creation, and was intended, if she obese,
to live alone, to work aloe, act alone,
think alone and fight her battles alonei
The Bible says it te not good for man
to be alone, but never says it is not
good for 'woman to be alone,
'
and the simple fact is that
-
many woinen who are harnessed
4:or life in the enarria.ge relation would
he, a thousandfold better off if they
were alone. ,
Vine° ars these men who year after
year hang around hotels and engine
houses, and 'theater doors, and come in
and out to bother busy clerks and mer-
chants, and mechanics, doing nothing.
• wheel there is plentyto do ? They are
men supported by their wives and
Mothers. If the statistics of any of
• our cities could be taken on this subject
you would find that a vast multitude
of woraea not only supnort tlaeraselves,
but noteculines. A great legion of men
ens:count to nothing, and a woman by
marriage meow:led to one of these non-
entities needs condolence. A woman
staading outside the marriage relation
is several hundred thous'and times bet-
ter off than a woman badly inarried.
• itiany a bride instead of a wreath of
orange blossoms might mere proper-
ly wear.ti buocle of nettles .and night-
shade, and instead of the wedding
march, i more appropriate tune would
be the dead march. in "Satil.'' and in-
stead of a banquet of confectionery and
ices there might be Mare appropriate
ly spread a fable covered with apples of
Sodom.
Many an attractive ,w-onaan of good
sound sense in other things has mar-
ried one .of these men to reform him.
What was the result ?Like when a dove,
noticing that a vulture was raracious
and cruel, set about to reform it, and
(mid, have a raild disposition and. I
Woe 'peace and was brought up in the
4uiet of a <lois-cote, ani I will bring
the vulture to the same liking by rear-
rying him." Ste one day, after the vul-
ture declared he would give up his car-
nivorous habits and cease longing for
blood of flock and herd, at an altar
of rock covered With moss and lichen,
the twain were married, a bald headed
eagle officlatiag, the vulture saying,
"With all my dominion of earth and
'sky I thee endow and promise tolove
end cherish till death do us part." But
eene day the dove in' her fright saw the
rulture busy at a carcass, and cried:
'Stop that! Did you not promise me
Mat you. would quit your carnivorous
and fithy habits if I married you?"
"Yes," said the vulture, " but if you
don't like my way, .you can leave,"
and with one angry- stroke of the beak
and another fierce clutch of the claw
vulteire left the •dope eyeless and
wingless and lifeless. And a flock of
robins flying past cried to each other
end said: "See there 1 That comes from
s •devve raarrying a vulture to reform
him I"
Many a woman who has had the hand
of a young inebriate offered, but de-
elined it, or who was asked to chain
her life to a man selfish or o bad tem-
per anel refused the shackles, will bless
God throughout all eternity that she
e,seaped that earthly pandemonium
Besides all this, in our country ehout
raen were sacrificed in our eivt
il war and that'decreed 1,000,000 were -
en to celibacy. Bosidee that, since the
ever, several armies of men as large
as the Federal and Confederate armies
put together have fallen ',under rata
• liquors and distilled spirits so full of
• poisoned ingredients that the work was
done more rapidly, and the victims
fell • while yet young. And if 50,000
men are clestroyee every year by strong
• drink before naarriage that makes In
the 33 years since the war 1,650,000 men
agile and. -demee.s 1,630,000 'women to
celibacy. Take, then, the fact that so
many women are unhappy in their mar-
riage, and the fact that the $iaughter
a 2,650,000 men by war and rum eom-
•eitted decides that at least that num-
ber of women ahall be untiffiancee for
• life, my text comes in with a cheer
s and a potency ane aperopriatenese then
k you may never have seen in it before
When it says, "Every wise woman
bielicleth her houee "--that is—let wo-
man be her, own architect, lay out her
awn plans, be her own sepervisor, ac-
• hieve her own destiny,
In, addressing these Wer6011 who have
• to fight the battle inane, t congratulate
nott on your happy eecape. Rejoice for-
• ever that yea will not have to navi-
gate the twain of the other sex when
•you have tallies enough of your own.
'Think a the lereevenientsyeti avoid,
DE the risks ot tinitesimilated temper
whioltsyhu Will net bane in nun, of
the calve you will never have to carr
• eteol ot the oppoteunity Of outside use.
e fenttecte" trona.Whtdh tnaritel life would
:have partially delnatren yeti, end that
• you are free ,to go and one asi one
who has the resteeneibilies of a. hounn
hold eau seleloree be. Oted has not giv-
,
en you, a hard, lot tes 'eempared with
your sisters. When relent' women shall
nae their minds at he start that
ellaeotiline corapenionship ie not a ne-
onsitY io order to hePPlelests, and that
there- es a stroag probability that they
will have to fight the battles. of nife
alone, they will be getting the timber
ready for their own fortune and their
saw aed ax and plane sharpened for its
construction, since "every wise vvo-
Man buildeth her honse."
As nobody ought to be bronent 14P
witheut learning same business at
which she could earn a livelinood„
no girl ought: to be brought up without
learning the seience of self-supeort. The
diffioulty Ls that many a family goes
sailing on the high tides of ellectli9 and
the leuebene and father depends on bis
own health and aeumen for the wel-
fare of his household. But one day be
gets bis feet wet, and in three days,
Pneumonia has closed his life, and the
daughters are turned out on ae cold
world to earn bread, and. there is noth-
ing practital that they can do. The
friends come In and hold consultation,
"Give innate lessons," saws an outsider.
Yes, than is a useful calling, and if you
have great genine for it go on in that
direction, But there are enough musie
teachers now starving to death in all
onr towns and cities to occupy all the
Piano stools and sofas and chairs and
front door steps of the city. Besides
tbat, the daughter has been playing
only for anru.some,nt and is only at the
foot of the ladder, to the tap of winch
a, great multitude of masters on piano
and harp and ante and organ have
climbed.
"Put the bereft daughters as, sales-
women in the stores," says another ad -
ver. But there they mese hompete
with salesmen of longe !experience or
with men who have served an appren-
ticeship in commerce and -wh,o began
38 shopboys at 10 years of age. Some
kind heareed dry goods man having
known the Lathe ee wen gone, sales, "We
are not in use', •Any, more help just
now, but sene•war daughters to my
store and I win' do as well by them as
posei,ble." •Very soon the question
conies up. Why do not the female em-
ployes of that establishment get as
much wages es the male employes? For
the simple reason in many cases the
feanais were suddenly flung by misfor-
tune behind that counter, while the
males have from the day they left the
public. scampi been learning the besi-
Deeps.
(Hew is this evil to be cured. •Start
clear back in the homestead and teach
your daughters that lite is an eernest
ening, and that there is a possininty,
it not a strong probability, that they
wile have ter fight the battle of life
alone. Let every father and mother say
to their daughters. "Now, what would
you do for a. livelihood if what I now
CAVA wore swept away by financial dis-
aster OT old age or death should end
iny career ?"
"Nell, I. could paint on pottery and
do such decoratiere work." Yes, that is
beautiful, and if you have genius for
it go on in that direetion. Out there
are enough busy at that now to make
a line of hardet are as Ing as yon Penn-
sylivania avenue.
elVell, 3. could make recifte,tions in
publie and earn nay lining as a drama-
tist; I could reader 'King Lear' or 'Mac-
beth' tall your hair would rise on end;
or give you. 'Sberinan's Ride' or Diek-
ens"Plektvicke" Yes, that is a beauti-
ful art, but ever and anon, as now,
there is an epidemic of dra.matization
thatmakes hrandreds-of households ner-
vous with' the cries and shrieks atid
groans of young tragediennes dying in
the fifth act, and the trouble is that
while your friends would like to hear
you and really think that you could
surpass Ristori and Charlotte Cushman
and Fanny Kea:able of the p.ast, to say
nothing of the present, you could not,
Inthe way et living, in ten years earn
ten cents.
My ant lee to all girls and all unmar-
ried women, whether .fin effluent homes
or in homes where most stringent ec-
onomies are grinding, is to learn to
do
some kioad of work. thet the' world
must have, while the world stands. I
am glad. to see a marvelous change for
the. better and. that women bave fund
out that item are hundreds of prac-
tical things, that a woman can do for
levieg, if she begins soon e.nough, and
that men bane been compelled to ad-
mit it. You and. can remember when
the rae„jc>rity of occupations were
thought inappropriate for women, but
our civane
civil war ee, and t,he hosts of
nte„n went forth from north a,nd south
and to conduct the business of our citeee
during" the patriotic absence women
were demanded by the tens of thous-
ands to take the vacant places, and mail-
titu.des of women, who had been hith-
erto, supported by fathers and broteers
and sons, were compelled from that
time to take care of ehemselves. From
that time a mighty change took plate
favorable to female employment.
Among the occupations appropriate
for woman I plane the, following, into
many of which she has already -enter -
ad.. and. all ehe others she will enter:
Stenpgraphy, and you may find her at
'nearly 611 the reportorial stands in our
educational, political and religious
meetings. Savings banka, the work
olean and .honora,ble, and who so great
a right to toil ehere, for a woma.n
founded t.he eirst savings bank—Mrs.
Priscilja eValiefield? Copyists, and
there is hardly a protessionel man that
doee not need theeservice of her pen-
reausnip and. as arnanuensia many of
elie greatest, books of our day have
been dictated for her writing. There
they are as florists and confecttoners,
and music teaehers and. boekkeepers, for
whirl they are specially qualified by
patie„nee and. ecouraey, and rwoorl en-
graving, in which the Cooper institute
has turned. out so many quelified and
telegraphy, for whieh she is seesiallY
prepared, as thousands of the telegra-
phic offices will testify. ghotography
e,nd in nearly 'all eur ,entabliabanente
they may he inane there et eleerful
Work. As workers in every' a.nrl gutta,
perelan and guao elastic anti tortolse,
sbell and gilding', and in ehmilicals, in
poreelalfa, in terra cotta. As post.mis-
tresses and presidents have given them
appoirniments all twee' the land.
proorinadern tranelators, as
modelers', as designers, as draftswomen
08 Itt,hograehers, as teachers in echeols:
emninariee, for which they are es-
peteally endowed, the first teacher of
every 0110.1d. by div:ine aerangement be-
ing a woman. As physicians, having
graduated after a regular course of
study from the female colleges of ellr
large °linen, where they get as scienti.
tic and, thlorotigh preparatioe as any
doctors ever had and go forth tte
wetk teleith oat. bet Womeil celled
se approptiately end deileately de. On
the Lecturing platform, for you knoW
the nrilitaele *menet% at Mrs, Elver.
more and Ws, Hallowell •Ann
Willard and Mae. Lathrop, As Phe
logical leeturere to their owe.
ter which eerviee there is a dem
appalling and terrine, As prereen
of ,tiee, Keene' and all tbe protests
eeeleetastical courts eannot len
them, nor they have a pathoe and
POWer in their religious etteren
thee Men call never reach. -Witness
those who have neaed. their mot
Pray. -
On, Mac 'women of A
many (of you: will have tos
own betties elone, do not
you are flung of disaster a
ther is deed end all tee Tees
your family eave been sca
neve. While in a good house
onen by all prosperities, lea
do same kind of work that
must have as long as tee we
Turn your attention from
broidery of fine slippers, of 1,
is a surplus, and make a u
Expend the time in which
a cigar case in leaenieg th
a good, honent loaf of bread.
Attention front the making
nothing to the manufact
iraportant somethings.
Much of the time spent
ladies' seminaries studyi
are called the "higher branch
better be expended in teat
Serfleihteg by evnieli they ooul
11•11)3 BXIITER '1'1211E1S
Mins Mere Wrens of mannerentid quicker per-
ste- ception, and, more delzeate tekleh and
sex, Oaorkl edt4eAteci adroitheits elle will, Ip
and certain call/age, be to her employer
ers worth 10 ,er cent. more or 20 per
of Gent. more than the 'other sex. She
der will not get it ,by asking for it, bat by
e„aroi,ag it, and it shall be hers by law-
ees cOnellieet.
all' NOW men of' America, be fair and
her give. the women a obance. Are yell
afraid. that they will do some of yokel'
„s work and. hence harm. your proaperl-
mpletThir'your ties? Remember that there are scores
wit until of thousands of men doing women's
ad, your fa_ work. Do net be afraid. God blows
oiarces of Wes 'end from the beginning, ena he
taterirdeee,,nv yr!. Ignows how many People this world
fed and shelter, and when it gets
fHE SUIMAY SCHOOL.
HiTERNA.TIONAL LESSON, JAN. 30
• grow to pray." etatte".. 6. tele. elolden
shalt.
7,5w. h4I.:77"eyaneetAt.ptri.::N3:1;°;:r:shy'rl,,txh:
be. as the hypoerites are. It tees an
Mont 4 babit of oar Lord's ministry
to call the seribes and Pharisees hy-
PtIr4tesers.in It'hileeratwweo aZteeenoougniehe ap:1-
re howto t will end the world, and if faLSItY t° ell thn °Ole"'
rtihdest'ae°1incils4, the faeontlee faculty, which by men -- be stznitlmnazsee the. Bad
141of weinreChtrheis-
the em-
svellfiuchl ter:. ,Teves of our Lord's day and the f3ur-
w to no.ake
you adorn
non could not be brought against them
rounding nations, the general accusa-
Turn your
of flimsy that they dtd not love to pray. Tketr
uring of sin lay In having the form a godlin-
ww:swittiltalenthosetpowtmeri.V:rteanaldinpgraleticen
-among the Jews and among the early
Christiane to eland while in prayer.
In the synagogues and in tlae eor-
fierkof the streets. Tile Jewish stated
prayers were very long, and, like the
Mohammedan prayers of the present
time had to be recited wherever the
worshippers happened to be. The self -
conceited Pbarisees often contrived to
he in the public parts af the city at the
hone of prayer so that they might be
reverenced for their piety, Hindus
and Mothanamedans act in the same
way now, On themerning ol the day
wthen these notes were written a New
York newspaper told of the nomina-
tion of a Efangarian orthodox Hebrew
as a candidate for alderman in New
York. When it was decided to nominate
him. two of his friends hurried to his
house to tell him, of it. They learned.
that he was at the eynagogue, and fol-
lowed hire. The Hebrew was engag-
ed in performing the Shamanesra, one
of the requiremente of which rite is
that during the prayer which easts-half
an hour ehe worshippers is not per-
mitted to speak or even to lift his eyes,
Lest his contemplation of the attrib-
ute.s of God. be disturbed. The two
friends did not know that lue was thus
engaged and hastened to the pew
where he was. "W5 want to speak et)
you for a minute," said. one. But the
worshipper did not speak or move. "It
is good news," said the other. Bat
need, be start another. God w31.1 belt They love to prey. Which is more tlaan
tieing a machine that will do tbe work
ot 10 or 20 or 100 men and women, will
leave that neenber of people without
work, I hope that there will not be
invented 'another sewing machine, or
reaping maciaine, or corn thrasher, or
any other new marohine for the next
500 years.-. We, vyant no more wooden
hands and Iron hands and steel hands
and electric, handssubstitueed for men
and wornexi wan would otherwise do
the work ancleget the pay and earn
the livelihood. .
But God. will arrange all, and all
we ha,ve to do is to do our best and
trust biro. for the rest. Let me cheer
all women fighting the battle of life
alone with the fact of thousands of
women vvho have won the day. Mary
Lyon, founder of Mount Holyoke Fe-
male Seminary, fought the battle alone;
Adelaide Newton, the trent distributor,
alonen Fidelia Fisk, the consecrated
missionary, .alone; Dorothea Dix, the
angel of the insane asylums, alone;
Caroline Herschel, the indispensable
re -enforcement of her brother, alone;
Maria Takrzewska, the heroine of the
Berlin hospital, alone; Helen Chalmers,
patron of the sewing schools for the
poor of Edinburgh, alone. And thous-
ands and tens of thousands of women,
ot whose bravery and. eelf-saerifice and
glory of eharacter the world has made
no recent but tvhose deeds are in the
,heavenly archives of martyrs who
fought the battle, alone, and though
unrecognizecl for the short 30 or 50 or
80 years of their earthly existenee
shall through the. quintillion ages of
th.e higber world be pointed out with
the admiring cry, "These are they who
came out of great tribulatioe and had
their robes ,washed and made white in
the blood of- the Lamb."
Let 1166 also says. for the encourage-
ment of all women fighting the battle
of life alone, that their confliet will
soon end. There is one word written
over the fares of many of them, and
that word is despair. ely sister, you
need, appeal to C'hrist, who comforted
the sisters of Bethany in their demes-
ne, trouble and who in his last hours
forgot all the pangs of his own bands
and. feet and heart as he looked into
the face of maternal anguish and call-
ed a friend's attention to it, in sub-
stance saying: Wnehn, 1 cannot take
care of her min longer. Do for her as
Nvould have -done if I. had lived. Be-
held thy mother!" If, under the pres-
sure of unrewarded and unappreciat-
ed work, your hair is whitening and
the, wrinkles come, rejoice that you are
vene-aryrinlasgefeathigouner. of escape from your
The daughter of a regiment in any
army is all surrounded by bayonets of
defenae, and in the battle, whoever
falls, she is kept safe, And you are
the daughter of the regiment com-
manded by the Lord of Hosts. After
all, you aria not fighting. the battle of
life alone. All heaven ie on your side.
You will be wise to appropriate to
yourse.lf the words of sacred rhythm:
One who has known in storms to. sail
I have on board,
Above the roaring of the gale
I hear my Lord.
He holds me. When the billows smite,
I shall not fall,
If short, 'tie sharp; if long, 'tis light.
Ile tempers all.
in young
ng whet
esnmight
ing thei?
d aupport
g to te
much as -
always
trigoeo-
of course
an and
, and a
rse, but
o teach
ished be-
e learn -
hold of
pay in
<nr are
. Learn
anybody
thernselve,s. If you are gotn
teachers, or if you have so
eared wealth. that you can
dwell in. Cease high regions,
reetry of oourse, metaphysics
Latin and Greek and Gerna
French and Italian ..of course
letendre.d other things of cou
if you are not expecting t
anti your wealth is not e„stabl
yond anisfeetune, after you ha
ed the ordinary bran -hes take
that kind a study the t win
d.ollars and cents nt case y
thrown on .your owneenources
to do samething better than
elee. s
"No, no!" sines some young
"I will not undertake anythin
romantip and .cenairionplace as
A'n excellent author writes t
ter hie had, in a book, argued
eiency in womanly work in o
success and mentive apprentice
way of preparation, a promine
mist advertised that he -maul
a elites on women to become dr
enci apothecaries if they wou
through an apprentireship as m
and a printer a'dvertised that h
take a class of w-ozaen to lear
printer's trade if they wou
through an apprentiee.ehip as
and bow many, a -cording to t
count of the author do you s
applied to become skilled in the
gist and printing business? Net
"lent you a.e.knwhat would
ther and mother say if they sane
doing seal" unfashioneene,
Throw the whole responsibility
an, the pastors who are cons
hearing of young women in all
cities, 'who, unqualified by thei
views luxurious surroundings f
awfal struggle of life into whi
h.ave been suddenly burled, see
have nethng 'left them but a
eetween starvation and damn
There they go along the str
onluek in the, wintry mor
through the slush p,nd storm to
place where they, shall earn only
enough for subsistence, the a
teas of once prosperous merch
lawyers, clergymen, artists, ba
and capitalists who brought up
else -Wren under . the infernal del
that it was not high tone for w
to learn a profitable calling. Y
• women, take this anfair in your
hand and, let there be an insurre
in all prb.sperous -families On the
of the daughters of this day, dem
ing knowledge in Occupations
styles of business by whi la they
ee their own defense and their
support if all fatherly and husba
and brotherly hands foreeer fail th
I have seen two .sad &ghee the
a woman in all the glory of her yo
lifestricken by disease and in a w
lifeless in a berme of whiela she
teen the pride. As her hands vs
folded over the still heart and
eyes closed. for the -last slumber
she was taken out amid the lemon
nons of kiqdred and friends I then
that was a sadness immeasneable.
I have seen samething compared w
which that scene was bright and so
ful. It was a young ,woman who h
been all her days amid wealthy s
roundings by the visit of death is
bankruptcy to the hqusehold turn
out on a cold world veithont one I
son about how to get food or shalt
and into the awful whirlpool of ci
life, where strong ships have go
down, and for 2,0 years not one wo
has be,en heard from. her. Vessels we
out on the Atlantic ocean looking I
shipwre,eked craft - that was le
alone and forsaken on the sea a le
ive.aks infore with the idea of bite
Ing it into part. But who shall en
bring again into the harbor of pea
an.d hope awl heaven that lost wo
asaly is:anemia', driven in what tem
pest, aflame in what conflagratie
sinking into what abyss? 0 God, hal
Q Christ rescue! My sisters' give .no
your time, to learning faney wor
Which the world men dispense with i
hard. times but connect your skil
with the indispensables of lite,
The. 'world will always want som,
theater, to, wear and something to ea
and shelter and fuel for the body, an
leenteletige for the mind. and reline)
tor the soul. And all them things
will continue to be the necessaries, an
if you fasten, pour energies upon oc
otipationts and. prefiessions thus rent
the world will be unable to (Lewin
one you. Remember, that in proppr
tion as you are skilful in anything
your rivalries beeonee less, For un-
skilled ' there are woraen. eby the
rnelliouijs Hut you may rise to where
there ate. •only thousoinds, and. still
higher till theee are only 10, and still
eigher, in: &setae partioular department
till there is only e. unit itad that year -
self, •Per awhile you may keep wages
teen iteplace through the kindly" etemPa-
thy ot an employee*, .init you vviteeveet-
ually get no morn compeneation than
you can Make. yourself worth.
Let Me say to all woman who have
already entered epen the Inane of. life
that the time ie coming wlaen women
aftell net oaln get as muolt salary and
Wages as mem get, but for certain eeylea
a employment women will have higher
ealary and Mare wages, ter the' reanen
then fot same steles of werk they have
more adaptation. Bile this. justiee
wilt came te Women net; throngh any
sentiment of gallantry, not because wo-,
man is physically weaker than man,
and therefere ought to have more con-
sniteretion eliewn her, but because
through her finer nattral taste and
woman.
g soun-
that.'!
hat af-
for effi-
rdee to
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CHINA'S RULER APPREHENSIVE.
Co1111111X Eclipse of 011 Son negnifiltd as .1
Warning Prom Maven.
According to a recent imperial de-
cree, promulgated from Pekin, an ec-
lipse of the sun, madmoon—more espe-
cially of the sun—is in China regarded
as a warning from heaven, that the
reigning Prince has been "wanting in
wisdom andmorality." A China paper
gives the substence of the decree, which
is to the effect that the Emperor is
"filled with a great fear," and that
he has tried "during his moments of
leisure inwardly to question himself as
to the errors he has committed." It
may be remarked that the day of the
c,erning eclipse, January 22, is the
Chinese New Year's Lay; and, there-
fore, as a further "token of humility
and submission' 1.o tbe will of heaven,"
the •Emperor orders that the ceremon-
ies of congratulations habitually paid
to him on New Year' .s Day shall be held
in a peniteatial hall, instead. of In the
usual throe e -roo:P. The an nu Be ban-
quet given al night to the clansmen
of the it -Isparta] bouse is also ordered
to be omitted on this occesion; while
every one belonging to the court is
commanded to 'Alt on, sober every day
garments as long as the eclipse is irt
progress, instead of the gorgeous full
terms court robes; demandea by eti-
quette on the first clan of the year.
• ,
SLOW PAY.
Sir, said the gilded youth to Ins
tailor. I 'would like to get another suit.
I inn payin.g attentions to onei of the
richest girls-- , an. The fatherhood. of God was known
Paying attentions, hey? said the to :teraeis but enzus eumbeeized it in a
tailor, scornfully. Well, if yotz are manner unknown before, "It is not too
as slow paying them as yon; are pay- Much to isity,'; says Er. .11rown, "that
ing zn8, your wedding win be ehrertiei,. tho viow uthich our Lord gives through -
as Another Octogenaria,ti Mar- Out then his vary first lengthy discourse
rise. of our rather in bearven beggars all
that was aver taught even in God's
own word, 6t cenceinee before by his
seines," illellewed le thy nasus, Be
thou thyself held In supreme reverence,
In the earliest clays Goa was revealed
to men by hie name, Deep theologiee
al and moral differences hinged on wile-
ther the Supreme .Being wits worship-
ed as Baal or a Iehovah, Even to -day
in certain heathen countries a mistake
made by early missionaries in the une
or. a native wOrd to describe the 'Chris -
Lien's God has tended through years
to embarrass 016 progte,43 erran ity.
ehriSt-
10. Thy kingdom. come, Thy spiritu-
el nomeniten, Thy will be dont in earth
the old Hebrew might have been deaf
for all the visible effect it had. The
usher whispered to hiixi that two
friends had import:Intl business with
"him but he did melt so much as raise
his head. So the messengers sae down,
and about twenty minutes later the
Hebrew, having completed the prayer,
earae to their pew to hear thenews.
This did not occur on a- Saturday, or
in public worship. It is an illustration
of the elaborate formality of the He-
brew prayers, so many of which seem
to lose their efficacy if they are not
seen of men. Tee "corners of the
streets" were public places, and these
Pharisees were not only noticeable by
the very fact of standing there, but
they recitef their prayers aloud, and
often had the tallith, or veil of pray-
er, over their heads. They have their
reward. "Whatsoever a mao soweth
that also shall he reao."
6. Enter into thy closet, and when
thou, bast shut thy door, pray. Con-
cerning this command, whech was lis-
tened to with wondering ears, three or
four statements may he made. 1.1 It
is the spirit of secret prayer that is
especially valuable. A man might
pray in secret from ostentation. 2. Se-
cret prayer does not at all set aside
the duty of public prayer. 3. There
is a special value in secret prayer aris-
ing from the fact that it avoids dis-
trantion and sets the worshipper alone
with God. He must shut the door
against the world. Thy Father which
is in the secret. "God is everywhere,
and yet is not seen among the occu-
pations of time; but shen these are
left behind, ansi the soul retires into
its secret place, Goe is there both to
eseer.h—ancdurtroyreward the devout worship -
7. Use not vain repetitions, as the
heathen do. Hebrews used them al-
so, and do yet, and Christians berrow-
ed. them from both. The majesty of
a ritual is often inereased by rhetori-
cal repetition, and, like public pray-
er, repetition of this sort is not Imre
forbidden but the repetition that depends on itself is, They think they
shall be heard for their much speak-
ing. We are to remember that our
Lord himself prayed thrice, "using the
Saiale words." "Prayer has not quan-
titative mechanical force increased in
Proportion to the number of prayers
offeeed."—Alford.
W. are not to de-
pensi upon prayers, but upon the; (iod
of prayer.
8. Your Father knoweth what things
ye hava need of, Anti we do not know.
Ront. 8, 26. Why, then, shoald we make
our requests known unto God? That
we :may come into close communion
with him. True prayer is an attitude
01 ele soul, t
9. After this manner., Thus. The
petitiens of the Loran Prayer, which
are seven in number, descensi frconi him-
self down to his subjects and their daily
needs, Our Father which arb in Esas
A. NOVEL IVA.Y.
Grandpa invited Dorothy to go with
him to feed, the chiekene, the chortling
aflen, lier arrival at tete farm On hex
renal:. to ths house einn inquired shy -
"Grandpa, do all hens et with the
noses.?
• THAT )elnell1RENOIle
t have made a gres
fool of mySelf..
aWare of the fact".
Ile—Olt, you, acne Geed. bight,
is heaven,- As elleerfullY
as constantly dotiee a sanstectorily
dome,
11! Give ute Chia day our daily brehd.
'Viva us this 414,), the .food and support
which this (lay's necessities xegnire."
It is not out of place to stretch this
petition into A Xeq,4eSt ffeT
Inneritelteetent alea.
12. Axed, forgive its our ciente. As
if Gad detneaded reparation from as.
Duty and debts are two foeme of the
same word. "A duty uatulfilled is a
debt unpaid!' , "refe etaries told iist
Luke 7. 41 aad Nfatt. 18. e8-25 are ex.
Plawktiofts of tbe thought hare. As
we forgive our debtors. The Green
irapints that we have already forgiven
them; then the oondition hate beeo met
before we begin our prayer. Ohrist
constantly tmehtes that the teraper
that dores not forgive cannot ne
given.
13. Lead us not into te,mritatioh• The
worel means both what we call temp-
tations end what we call trials. Our
Lord prayed in the climax of his life
of trouble, "If it be possible, let tbis
eup pass f.roen me." And his apostle,
proinesesi in hie name to every tried
and tempted &mil a way of escape. 1)e -
liver an from. evil. From the evil one.
Thine is the kingdom, etc. Tells clause
is °Witted, by more' recent scholars.
14„If ye forgive men. Here oomes
a Pla1n. statement of the doetrine im-
plied. in. verse 12. Repentanoe is the
condition of 'being forgiven. "Men's
sinsoigainst us are only their stumb-
lings or fallings off from the duties
then ovve us, hut ours are debts to God's
justice which we can xiever discharge."
MACAULAY'S NEW ZEALANDER.
Ile Did Not Invent Ulm, as Ls Popularly
Accepted.
•
Every schoolboy knows Maca.ulay's
famous figure of the New Zealander
of some future age, when our civiliz-
ation is quenched and a newer one
e,stablished on the other side 02 the
world, sitting on a broken arch of
London Hridge, and sketching the ruins
of St. Paul's. It is not generally known
that Macaulay, out of his wide read-
ing, plagiarized the idea both from
Gibbon, the historian, and from Hor-
ace Walpole in 1774 Walpole wrote in
a letter to a, friend, the following
passage, wlaich clinches the matter :—
" The next Augustan age will dawn
oa the other side of the Atlantic. There
wiIl,eerhaps, be a. Thucydides at Bos-
ton, a Xenophon at New York, and,
in time, a Virgil in Mexico, a Newton
in Peru. At last some curious travel-
ler from Lima will visit England anti
give a description of the ruins of St.
Paul's."
The following year be returned to the
same speculation.s in another letter,
axed in 1781 Gibbon publishel his "De-
cline and Fall," containing this curious
parallel paseage, apropos of savage life:
"Such refleetiene tend, to enlarge the
circle of our ideas a,n,i to encourage the
pleasing hope that New Zealand may
produce in some future age the Hume
of the Southern Hemisphere."
TO WASH VELVETEENS.
Fill an enameled—not zinc—bath
three parts full of hot water, then
shred in finely as much white curd
soap as will make a very soapy lather;
take the raaterial ta be wa,ehed—if a
dre,ss it shoulsi be unpicked, though this
is not absolutely necessary—and shake
it beck -wards and forwards in the wa-
ter until the latter becomes dirty. The
velvet must not be rubbed, merely
shaken to and fro through the suds,
When the water begins to cool throw
it away, and repeat the same process,
shredded soap and .all, with some fresh
water, and while you are preparing the
secand lather hang the dress or Ina -
tenial over a clothes line; do not leave
it in a beep. Repeat the shaking until
the dress is thoroughly cleansed. Then
rinse out several times in tepid, and;
finally, in cold water. Do not wring
it. Stretch it out, if in the material,
across two clothes lines; if a dress, pin
it out to its full extent, by the hem,
using for the purpose pins, not clothes
pegs. It will take a day or two to dry,
and when dry should simply be stretch-
ed and knoeked between the hands, to
raise the pile, or it can be ironed on
the wrong side if heed by two people,
while a tbird irons, or pinnedon the
back of two chairs, stretched • as far
an it will go, and irons], from under-
neath; but it must on no a,ecount 13
ironed upon a table in the ordinary way
or it will be spoiled. It must be un-
derstood that it ie only velveteen not
velvet, which can lie cleaned in this
way. The latter, containing silk, is on-
ly oanenable to the ordinary process of
dry cleaning.
HANCreING A BULL.
About tbe year 1313 a bull belong-
ing to a farmer of Moisy killed a man,
whereupen Charles, Count of Valois,
ordered its arrest and trial, which
took place accordingly, and the ani
real was condemned to be hanged. But
the order of the Hospitallere chnimal
jurisdiction over the village, end ap-
pealed to the parliament a,gainst the
judnment. The latter confirmed the
verdict, but declared al, the same time
that' the Count of Valeta had no juris-
diction over the territore of Moisy.
The 1)1111 WM hanged in due course, 'The
Contteil of Worms decreed that, in a
ease where a child Nvas stung to death
by bees, the whole hive and its con-
tents must be burned..
EVIDENT.
I thought you told me you could do
phti a sewing. '
So T. can, ma'am,
Look at those stitches; I can see them
clear across the room.
Well, ain't that plain enongli for
You
SLANG AND THE MID MAN.
In those days Wiletn yosi used to go
ein the warpath, did you, take many
oaptives2 asked tbe newspaPer` scribe
Who Was interviewing Of-
overything.but-his.firewater, the Once
mighty chief of a once /xywert,d taw,
tr,gt! tutsd, 1lie Old etattter, ins
jugs lied, 'MA b
MBASSADORS' SALABI
Itleat tarent
Oyes at tee various
It isannounced that Dr. Levis is
reooLye 417,400 s, year as representative
of the Transvaal in Europe, 1.1115
arY de greatly in exoess of the amount
lithieif Greet Briteln deeMe sleffieient
for any one a her representative$ in
fereign countries, Our most bighiy-,
paid ambassador is the Erltish rePro.
Soutative in Paris, though he receives
little more than half the sum Dr..Leyde
le to draems--a beggarly ne,000. Bri-
tain's ambassadors to Germany, Au*
tria-lluagary and Turkey reeei,V6 03,000
a year eaoh. The representatiare 1 St.
Petersburg has - the next largest sal-
ary; Z7,800; while £800 less is coueidered
enough for the British ambassador Who
takes up his residence in the Etern,a1
City. For some reason, kncevil only to
the diplometio mind, oar represeete-
time in Washington is rauela worse off,
receiving but 46,500 a year, though he
has probably to work far barcle.r for bis
country. The atrabassano,r to Spain re-
ceives A5,500, while the representatives
in China and Persia draw £500 each Less4
The heads of the legations in Tepee,
Brazil and Egypt, each receive 44,00(4
hut nrerd Cromer has basile Z1,000 aki
a. "personal allowance." The British!
agent at Pretoria, ewho ie paid. by the
colonial office, receives only 424009 is,
year.
<enema
A FUNNY STORY.
"Put that horrid old paper downs"
said Mrs. Chatterly, seating herself on
the arra on her husband's chair, "and
talk to me some. It's so dull here at
home, and e don't get to hear of aux-
thing that's going on.
"I think you might relate little Ina-
'
dents you see uptown, and try and
amuse me a little when you corae home
instead of hiding yourself behind a
newspaper every night."
Chatterly's conscience smote him,
bit.
"Why, ran dear, I am aelfish,"
said. "Let's have a cozy little chat.
0, lay the way, I saw an awfully funny;
thing this morning. .1 1VAS about a
block froni the office when Haskins,
who has just began practising law,
canie—"
"Is he a brother to Ella Haskins?"
asked IVIrs. (latterly, "that girl they
are raving about im account of her
complexioa? If I know anything at all
she owes in to spermaenti and almond
oil. She is a. cousin to the Weather-
lys, who had to sell their place last
fall because they were living altogeth-
• too high for their means.
"They my their parlor furniture
st over e2,000, and Ella's sister Jen-
e's husband, Mr. .Ellis, was on her
thern note for goodness knows how
ueli, and ha,d to pay it."
'Well, Haskins came up," continued
r. Chatterly, "and an old friend of
named Mordaunt, whe—"
"Mordaunt?" said Mrs. Chatterly.
'a.sn't he the man who -0, no, it
sene; that was Turner. I got the
:nes mixed. Turner—Ed Turner --
s his name. Ed T.urner married a
tts—Elvina Potts. There were three
ers of them—Elvirte Nancy and—
? No; I was thinking' of Sue Ad-
s; such a finicky old maid she was.
She thought she had caught Simi
right once. but .Tim went back on,
and married Aliee Patterson, and
way sha made his money fly! Those
tersons never even had food enough'
their table at home and when they
get achance to spend a little -0,
s I was saying went on Chatter -
'Haskins and Morclaunt were 'pees.
along in front' of Stacy's dry goods
e, and.—I don't believe dear, you'll
k this very funny after all."
, yes, I do," said Mrs. Chatterly.
sure I enjoy it awtully. Go on.
said Staey's dry goods store, didn't
Yes, and—"
was in Stacy's yesterday," inter -
ed Mn, Chatterly, "and who do
think came in but that young
w, Mrs. Staples. George, if yore
heve seen the way she was dress-
oud? You just couldn't hear your-
hink.
e had on a red silk shirt mese
Ily trimmed in orange, a skirt
stripes as broad as my hand, and
thread of mourning on her any-
. Emma Waters says she is do-
er best to catch that wealthy Mr.
ns, who bought the Bascomb
the other -day. If Mr. Staples
turn over in his grave after
s that 10 o'clock struck?" askea
rly,
e enough, it was, and bera3.e01
g you talk half the night, and, t
you nnist be tired. Des so nice,
to have you make a companion
and tell me all aeout everything.
talk- every night wifh me, an
some funny sterile anent that
oils Mr. 'Hawkins and—and Mrs
ins, won't you, dear?"
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tell ate
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Don't
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Don't
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Don't
ply beep,
DON'TS Al3OUT POISON. '
believe that death by poison
The average self-poieener sues
e torture,s of a, thousand ie -
believe there is any poison that
bere detraoteet.
tect. Every ,peeson.
°50o keep violent poisons in the
nless you absolutely have to do
OU do, look the411 up.
eave a poisonous medicine sine -
056 ycat "may need it some
;Don't &Veit' that If a, solution of
poison evaporates one-nalf Ithe ie.
malodor is pl'olbahly twice as strong.
Always stopper the bottle.
Don't fool with poison; or talk renig.
lesslY about it; or fancy that you n*
dierstand the subject.
• stipPLV7ISTC4 A LONG-Ii',ELT 'WANT
auilUS is malting MOneY now,
Whet is lie doing
ire is tesehinq' dna people how. to
keep from ianLin to Waen on rain
tense (tanks