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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 ship by nt he - d th eae ugg,ists id go en do. a evould O the Id go menet° he ac - appose drug - cue! my fa - 1 was work." -upon tantly them ✓ pre - or the h they rel to choiee ativa. eet 7 nings, the half augh- ants, nkers their mien omen oung own ction part and - and may own ndly. erne one u.ng• eek had ere her and ta, ght But ith nee ad ur- nd ed es- er ty 110rd nt or ft g- 5- t, 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?" el co ni fa 10 his "et wa rut wa Po sist Sue am Alb her the Pat on did myl' "A ly, Lag stor thin "0 'You you? rupt you tvido ,could edl L self t ',Sb aatua with not a, where ing h Perk] place don't that!" Chatte "Sur rnakin know dear, of me tell ate ridioni Tosnpk Don't is easy, fere th fernes. Don't cannet s Don't house ti so. xr y 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