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Rev. Dr. Talmage Discourses on a
Christian Life.
A despatoll from Washington says:
ai,ev. Dr. Talmage preaohed from the
following text :—"Behold the halt was
not told me," -1, Kings x. 7.
feolomcn had resolved that Jorusa-
tem should be the rentro of all snored,
regal and coutmorolal magnificence,
He set himself to work and monopoliz-
ed the Syrian desert as a highway
for leis caravans. Ile built the city of
Palmyra around ono of the principal
twella of the ISast, so that all the long
trains of merchandise from the Bast
;wore obliged to stop there, pay toll,
and leave a part of their wealth in
the hands of Solomon's' merchants. Ile
named the fortress 'I`hapseens at the
chief Lord of the J:uphrates, and put
under guard everything that passed
there. The three great products of
Palestine wine, pressed from the rioh-
est clusters and celebrated all the
world over, oil, wbich in that hot
butter and lard, and was pressed from
country, was the entire substitute for
the alive branches until every rock in
the country became ern oil well, and
stoney, whieh was the entire subst.i
tote for sugar.—these three great pro-
ducts of the country Solomon export-
ed and received in return fruits, pre-
cious woods, and the metals and the
animals of every clime. He went
down to Ezion-geber, ordered a fleet
of ships constructed, oversaw the
workmen, watched the launching of
the flotilla which was to go out on
more than a year's voyage to bring
the wealth of the then known world.
He heard that the Egyptian horses
were large, and swift, and long -man-
ed and round -limbed, and he resolve
The Queen of Sheba alights. She en-
ters the palace. She washes at the
lath, Sire sittt; down at Lira banquet.
The cup-bearora bow. The meats
smoke. The mnslo trembles along
the ball and. through th,00rridoes 110 -
tit 1t mingles in the (M'ih ofi the wetter
from the molten seas. Then she rive
from the banquet and she walks
through the conservatories, and She
gaze., an the arohileoture, and she
ask i Solomon many strange questions,
and she Marna about the religion of
Lige alt+brews, and elle then and there
bu• tomes a servant of the Lord God.
She is overwhelmed. She begins t0
think that all the apical she broughie
and all the talmue trees which were
Intended to he turned into harpy and
psalteries and into railings for the
causeway between the temple and the
palace, and the one hundred and eigh-
ty -thousand dollars. in matey,—sale
begins to thank thee. all those pres-
ents amount to nothing in such a
place, and the 13 almost ashamed that
she has bought them, and she says
within herself: "I heard a great deal
about this place and about thie won-
derful religion of the Hebrews$, but I
find LL le far beyond my highest anti-
cipations. It exceeds everything
that I eculd have expected, the half,
the half was not told rete.,'
Learn first from thie subject what
a beautiful thing it is when social
Position and wealth eurreuder them-
selves to God. When eeligion comes
to a neighborhood, tbo 'Drat who re-
ceiro it are
TIIL WOb'IEN.
Austere men day it Is because they
are weak minded. I say it is because
they have quicker perception of what
is right, more ardent affection, and
capacity for sublimer emotion. After
the women have received the gospel,
then all th:, distressed and the poor of:
both sexes—those who have no friends
—accept Jesus. Last of all come the
people of affluence: and high social
position. Alas! that it is so! IP there
are those here to -night who have been
altar, And yet, my friends, When
heaven burets upon us, it will be a
great erg •surprise t11au that, Oh,
what a thrilling venture. 'esus 011
the throne, and we made Bite ham 1
Ali our Clirisllnn .friends surrounding
tie in glory', all sorrows and Leave
and stns gond by forever, The thou,-
sands
hou-sands of thousands, the ono hundred
and forty four thousand, the great
multitudes tat no ishan can number,
wit), cry world without end, "The half,
the half svaa net told Inc.
CARE OF THE EVES
It Should lJeglo VVJtu the element of
the IJaby'a stem.
Nowhere is the contpnrt:mu between nn
onne0 of preventiorn anti u pound of eine
more npplieablu than In the care of the
eyes, for the neglect of seemingly trivial
affections, perfectly curable in their be-
ginnings, may lead in an incredibly short
lime to Permanent impairment of vision
or et -en to total blindness.
The enre of the eyes should begin with
the moment of birth, The new baby's
eyes shortie be the first part to receive
attention, They ehonld be wiped care-
fully with n piece of absorbent cotton wet
with n warm solution of boric acid oP a
etrengtb of about 00 grains in four
ounces of dlstliled water. After the lids
have been thus carefully washed on the
outside, they should be gently separated
and some of the solution dropped Into
the eyes.
In washing the eyes one should be care-
ful never to dip nettle in the solution n
piece of cotton which has once been used,
A. fresh piece must be taken each time
the eyes are wiped.
The baby's eyes must be protected from
the light. Its crib must be placed where
the eyes are not exposed to the full light
from a window, and the carriage should
hare a shade raised only about a foot
above the baby's head.
Children often suffer from inflammation
of the edges of the lids, which are red
and scaly, and the lashes fall out and
break off. This may betoken a general
serofulons condition, or it may depend
upon some detect in the sight which
causes eye strain, or it may be only a Lo-
cal trouble. If it is only a local trouble,
a few applications or boric acid ointment
at bedtime will generally effect a cure.
Conjunctivitis, or inflammation of the
membrane covering the globe of the eye,
may be due to a cold, to the action of
bright sunlight, or reflection from water
or from snow, or to eye strain from some
eel to purchase them, giving eighty- Lavoixred of fortune, or as 1 night visual imperfection. Usually the boric
five dollars a piece for them, putting letter put it, favoured of Gott, sur- acid solution will give relief here, even
the hest of these horses in his own render 011 you Lavo, and alt yo•
u ex- when the trouble cannot be permanently
stalls, and selling the surplus to poet to be to the Lord who blessed cured until proper glasses are worn.
foreign potentates at agreat profit. this Queen of Sheba. Certainly you Another painful consequence of eye
He heard that there was the best of 000 net ashamed to tx round in this strain is n succession of sties. When a
lumber on Mount Lebanon, and he queen's company. I am glad that child suffers frequently from sties, from
rtont out a hundred and eighty then- Christ has had his imperial friends sore lids or from conjunctivitis, the sight
should be tested.
Bauch harm is often done to the eyes, as
well as to the general bealt11, by too long
application to books, either school or story
books. Three hours of looking at print
by daylight and one bong to tate evening
should not be exceeded by any child um
der 14, for that is as much as his eyes,
even if their vision is perfectly normal,
will stand without injury.—Youth's Com.
twain. - - -
sand men to hew down the forest, Lu all ages.,
drag the lumber through the moun- Again, my subject teachee mo
taio gorges. construct LL into rafts what is earnestness La the search of
to be floated to Joppa, and from truth. Do you know where Sheba
thence drawn by ox -teams twenty- wosT It was in Abyssinia, or some
five miles across the land to Jeru- say in the southern part of Arabia
Salem. Ile heard that there were Felix. In either ease, it was a great
beautiful flowers in other lands. Ile way off from Jerusalem. To get from
sent for them, planted them Ln his there to Jerusalem you had to cross
own gardens, and to this very day, a country infested pith bandits, and
there are flowers found in the ruins go across blistering deserts, Why did
of that city such as are to bo found not the Queen of Sheba stay at home,
in no other part of Palestine, the and send a committee to in-
lineal descendanle of the very flow- quire about this neer religion, and
ers that Solomon planted. He heard hare the delegates report in regard
that in foreign groves there ween to that religion and the wealth of
birds of richest voice and most lux- leiag Solomon? She wanted to see
extant suing. He sent out people to for herself and hear for herself, She
catch them and bring them there, could not do this work by committee.
and he She belt She had a soul worth ten
PUT THEM INTO HLS CAGES, ten thousand kingdoms; like Sheba,
Stand back now and see this long and she wanted a robe richer than
train of camels coming up to the any woven by Oriental shuttles, and
icing's gate, and the ox Lrains from c y wanted
alcrown et Bring ouththeeeaw-
Joppa, gold and silver and precious els. Put 0n the spices. Gather up
atones_ and beasts of every hoof, and the jewels of the throne and pul
bird t9 every eying and fish of enry them on the caravan. Start now,
scale. Bae the peacrcks strut under man that I didn't want holes knocked
the cedars, and the horsemen run, no Limen to he lost, Goad on the aam- into my clothes.
and the chariots wheel. Hark to the els. When I sea that caravan, dust- "'But, master, how, then, nm I to
orchestra. Gaza upon the dance. Not. weary, and exhausted, trudg- knew when they are finished?' ate asked.
stepping to look into the wonders of Lng en, up arrow the desert and! "I couldn't knock any sense into his
the temple, step right on to the cause. among the 'bandits until it rearheg ; head, so I tried to get somebody else to
wit and pass up to Solomon's palace. Trrucalom, I say: 'There, there is an ; do 1»y work. But nobody else would do
y earnest seeker after the truth."a
Here we find ourselves amid assn c Again: my subject impresses mc' it for me. I discovered that a sort of
tion of buildings on which We king with the LACI that religion i$ u sur tribal trades' union exists here. Each
bad lavished the wealth of many em- loud of work is dons by a particular
pares. Tito genius of Hiram, the ar- prise to anybody that gets it. This; ensue.
chitect, and of the other artists is story of t11s new' religion in JeruOti- I "One caste limits itself to boot clean -
here seen in the long line of corridors, tem and of the glory of King Solon!' Ing, and the only scope which mother
and the euspended (gallery, and the on, who wee a type of Christi — that allows its ts genas is carrying. IP you
porch and the throne. Traceried wind- story roll2 on and rolls on, and is told badly fortreatthe man who cleans your
dow opposite traceried window; bronze by every traveler ranting back from
boots or sack him, he reports you to bis
ed adornments bursting into lotus and JrrusalenL The ne'w's goes on thetribe, and unless you crena your boots
lily and pomegranate; uhepiters stir- wing of every ship and with every yourself they will ever remain ditty, for
rounded by net -work of leaves in caravan, any you kno.v t story en- y
lar es as it is retell, and l:,q the time no other member of that tribe will clean
which imitation fruits seemed sus- tint story gar doss'n into the south- them for you, nor will anybody case, for
pendcd as in banging baskets; tree 'ernpart 0f Arabia Felix and the the won't is not consistent with the dig-
luanehes—so Jnsephus tells us—trey 11 1y of the carrying, washing or 0127 otlx
branches sculptured en the marble so Queen of Sheba hear., it, it omit be
thin and subtle (hat even the leaves A TIlE3LleNDOUS SroPY•. er caste.
jt Tbeee Leine no help for it, I had to
seemed to quiver; laver capable of
holding five hunare'd barrels of ssa- And yel, this Qaeen declaro3 in re- go back my old washerman, and it
ter resting on nix hundred brazen ox- gard to ii., although :site had heard was only by bribes and entreaties that I
heads which gushed with water and 130 TO 1.1e1), and hard her anticipation~ could get him to forgive me.
filled Lhe whole place with coolness r.iw',l ,0 high the half, the half Wes "NOW, I want you to send me two dos -
and crystalline brightness and ritual,' not toll bar. 4o religion is ahraye a en shirts and let them be of the strongest
cal plush. Ton tables chased with surprise to anyone that gets it. quality. If he must knock holes in them,
chariot wheel and lion and cherubim.\Yell, there is corning a greater sur- I tem determined that he will brave to
ynlonron sat on a throne or ivory. At prise Lo every Christian—a greater work hard. .It is possible that I any
the sitting place of the throne, irni- surer!,,; than anything I have depiet- have some further trouble with him, for
Cation of hands came out to receive the osl, Hee ven ie au old story. Every- it the holes take it long lime corning he
king. There were six steps that body talks about R. There is Leerily may iomptnia that he cannot finish my
mounted to the throne, on each end a hymn in 11' hymn -book that d washing.
of each of the steps a brazens lion,' not refer to it. Children read about "These ignorant fellows always re -
Why, my friends, in that palace, they it in their Sabbath school book. Aged quire some sign by which their actions
trimmed their c,tn.dles with snuffers /nen put on their spentades to study are to be guided,
of gold, and they out their fruit with it. We say it is 0 harbour from the "When one 00 them is opting, how do
knives of gold, 0011 they washed their storm. We call it our home. We say you think he is to tell when 11e has bad
faeesin basins of gntd,and they scoop- it is the house of many mansions, We enough? When be takes no further fin-
ed out the ashes with shovels of gold,' weave together nil sweet., beautiful, tercet in his food, you might say. But,
and they stirred the altar fires with delicate, exhilarant words—We wt•ave no, ho might bo snlfeeing from indigestion;
tongs of gold. Gold rrfleeted in the them into letters and then ave spall or some outer ailment, be argues, and,
water; gold flashing from the lip - it out in rose and lily and a.niara.nt.h• therefore not he able to judge when he
pixel ; gold blazing in the. crown; gold' And yet that, place 1s going to he bed eaten the proper quen(117.
gold, gold I Of course ihn news of n surPrhsn to the most Intelligent , "So he ties a thread lightly round his
f that piaoe went ant Christian. Like the Queen of 5huba I waist when he is at meals and eats till It
BEATING HOLES iN SHIRTS.
xha tigornna Way They have 01
Washing;, Clothes In India,
The following extract is from the letter
of a young medico in India:
"I have just extricated myself from an
awkward fix. The washer people here
taste your best shirt to a stream, clip it
in the water and then smack it bard on n
bowlder, repeating the process again and
again till a hole is merle iu the neon.
Then and not before do they regard that
particular article es finished.
"1 objected to this and told my washer -
V IL IA WOMAN
N
ON VORSEB Cl
k'ier Appearance Ii)vari %kly Pre'
Ceded a Carnival iatl of
teeobleeree
For thepastfew meetbs the people
of western New Yorl; and 'adjacent
Pennsylvania tennis have been suffer,
Ing frOm a series of burglat'le1 lvbleh
have caused o eb alarm as to be 0 ver'i-
table reign of terror, 0n 1 these robber -
les were always preceded by the tip.
'entrance of a veiled woman mounted
on a black pony aucl carrying on her
shoulder a white dove. Where sbe came
from nobody knew. Her identity was
equally hidden.
But, clad In black, upon a black pony,
she would. appear in a town, her face so
veiled that no feature but her dashing
eyes was disclosed and upon her shoul-
der a snow white dove.
Otte would Vein up In front of the
postoflice or the village Inn and ask to
a shrill voice:
"I am looking for my husband. Have
you seen him?"
Then she would ride away without
Waiting for an answer.
But even so great a mystery as the
"veiled woman on bol'sebaek" had to
share importance with the free banded
burglaries which were occurring in the
locality.
No such carnival of crime has ever
been Known as that which bas terror-
ized western New York for weeks. No
store, no house, seemed safe from the
robbers. •
Then It occurred to some one that the
"veiled woman" might in some way be
connected with tee burglaries. This
suspicion was strengthened when it
AN OCEAN FANCY.
hadsoils!
Mom 3'ol in
e a
'Phut you'd ito to crus$ leo ocean --
0 1 the sea sir would matt' benefit your 11011114
!lave you bad a passion (radio
Jost to ace (11e broad Atlantis
11' to 00100 foreign country spend ,your wosltiil
well, 1 0000 imd that ambition,
Out 1 know that 00 position
•'05 -such es not to warrant snob a trip,
And Pro eery often wondered
!low I saved up several hundred
And engaged lt 1551000 on the fastest shits.
Alt, what fay anticipated,
And what hopes l it culttvatedl
For many ,rostra I lived 111 perfect- bliss,
And my toy wail st111 unfailing
!when the clay arrived tor sailing,
And 1 thought what lots of sport some people
miss.
'Twits In Juno (myrecollection
Serves me right In this connection,
Though of the rest my mind is not so clear)
That i sailed for shores historic,
With vicious metaphoric ,
Anda longing for toe salt sea atmosphere.
11 you haven't Beek the 010011
And would view its wild commotion,
Just mangle your desire without delay.
Though 1 crossed the broad Atluntte
And felt its swells gigantic,
t never saw the blamed thing either way.
Itnnlnutf a Sale incident.
If one has anything around the hoose
one wants to get rid of, the proper
thlpg to do Is to send it to a rummage
,ale. There is n perfect craze just now
for this form of entertainment, or char-
ity, whichever it may be, for all rummage
sales are not alike. iehls true story pro
seeds from a recent sale held for a north
fund.
An enthusiastic young woman attended
the sale and returned from it in great.
glee.
"Wait till you see what I've found,"
she announced to her mother. "Just
what we have been looking for 10 every
attic and antique shop for years. I
knew we'd get it some day, and now you
won't laugh at rummage sales any more."
"What is It?" asked the dear old lady.
"It's n mate to that antique candle•
stick you've had so long and never could
snatch." She proud unwrapped the
bundle. "There, isn't that perfect?"
"It is, indeed," replied her mother, n
(neer little smile playing shout her face.
"In fact, it's the same. I got tired of
baring it amend the arouse and sent it 1.1
the rummage sale In ,ret rid of it."
Doing lits hest.
VEILED WOMAN ON aoae&EAas.
was learned that she bad been seen in
several small towns in which poster -
does had been robbed.
Her visits invariably preceded bur-
glaries by two or three days.
Then oue day came a surprise -
The "veiled woman oo horseback"
bad not been seen for some days. Sud-
denly she reappeared In Corning.
They watched her. That afternoon
she was seen riding up the main street.
Sbe dismounted before 111. >,f. Wells'
store. She approached .the goods dis-
played outside. Then, looking about
her, she Melted up a pair of lumber -
man's boots and started to hide them
beneath her cloak.
She was captured iu a moment by
tier watchers.
Thee was a struggle, the veil was
Switched from her face, and they be-
held the features of a young woman,
beautiful, but in a frenzy of rage. The
dove hovered about her and few away.
The pony was led to a stable, and the
woman, no longer veiled, was haled
weeping to the County jail.
i,iei`wbei'ec" repel l has come to us from the far
hvery'svher'e, by every caravan end
by the wing of every ship• until soon country and many of us have Mart -
the streets oC Jerusalem are crowded ed. .It is a defter( march, hut we urge
with curiosity seekers, What is that an the camels. What though our feet
ling precession approaching ,ierusa- ho hhst.need with the way, we are Inas
tom? I think been the pomp of it (ening to the palace, We take all our
breaks!' _
Two Drinks For a QnaYter.
A young man about town wino thought
he had seen the limit in strange happen-
ings ran tip against a new ono the other
there asbe
valet loves and hopes and Chrislmn amble night. Ile had drifted into a hotel hat
ROt be IN THE TRAIN. films as irankincenso and myrrh and Inc a drink, and ,while standing at thc
cassia to the great king' 'Ole must bar an elderly man, very nicely dressed
I emelt the breath of the spices which not rest. 'Wc' must not bait, The and with every indication of prosperity,
are brought as presents, and I hear night is coming on end at is not sate if not wealth, mime in and ordered a
the shout of drivers, aryl I. see the out stere in the desert. 'LJr•ge on the
dust covered caravan, showing that 011001s. I see the domes against the
they have come from far away. Cry sky, and the houses of Lebanon, and
thenewsup to the palate". The Queen the temples and the tattrdens, ,Sec the
of Sheba advances.• Let all the people
come cat t0 see. Let the mighty
men of the ;and cwma out On the
palace corridors. Let Solomon
himself Dome down t.h . etnirs of the
e palace before the (eneen has alight-
ed. hhalte out the cinnamon and the
saffron, and this calamus, and the,
frankincense, and 111100 it into the
t1•easureebotis'e. Take up the din-
monde unci) trey glitter in the sun.
drink of lei cent w'hlsky, inquiring at thc
sane time if that brand Were not sold tit
the tate of two drinks for a (punter.
ative
gatestina dance en the sun, and
the theoldchap pn roduced a dash, fly in the ait',down
gouts flash as they upon to sal in the quarter and asked the bartender to
poen pilgrims, tend
the warn up (o putt the other drink in the bottle to take
the pnlacn that Rea Aro naming and nem with hint, The ba•tender, (hued,
did eo without a word, and the incident
was closed, _
It Is not an imiteation flint man line
music In his soul because he blows his
own horn.
that we are The
of the maroh of
the desert. he Laing will mime 0,111.
and say, " Welcome to the palace ;
bates in Chasm fountains; recline on
these hanks. Take this etnnam0n and
frankincense and myrrh and put IL
upon a censer and swing it; before the
A Ghastly Reno.
A heinous crime has come to Light in
Moravia. Baron Benesch, a `wealthy
'Moravian land owner, decapitated his
younger brother. He preserved the
head In chemicals to prevent decay and
carried the ghastly relic about with
him In the pocket of a huge overcoat.
The baron, who is under arrest, Is probe
ably Insane,
AIr. ll0 D. Thrasher, a friend or Tns-
kegee institute and its pupils, says
that he once made Inquiries about a
certain graduate, n shopkeeper in Ala-
bama, who seemed to bo doing a thriv-
ing business.
"What kind of a man Is tills Wood,
the colored merchant Clown the street?"
Ile asked in the store of a w111te man,
Judging that there if anywhere he
alight hear an unfavorable opinion.
The merchant supposed Mr. Thrasher
to be a traveling salesman and answer-
ed:
"You can sell him any amount of
goods. Iie'Il pay for them every time."
Then Mr. Thrasher went on to the
store, where ale found everytbing In
the most prosperous condition. In the
course of bis talk with the merchant
they stepped to the open back door, and
there Wood began calling: "Suke, suko,
sukel IIo, there, suket"
Then there came a grunting under•
neatil the floor, which was raised a lit -
tie from the ground, and presently
there came crawling out an enormous
hog.
"That's my hog," said the merchant.
"I raise one every year, though tbel'e's
no reason why I should, for I'm not
married, and I don't keep house. 1
raise them as object lessons. It does
not take much of anything to feed
them, except the waste from the store,
and see how fat they grow!
"Theu I get the negro farmers who
come here to trade to look at my bog
and see what can be done by keeping
the animals shut up mud fed instead of
letting them run wild. Then I tell
thein they might as well have bogs
like mine as their thin razorbacks. All
they need do is to sant up the pig in
a pen of rails and set the children to
gathering acorns for him.
"I can't start n school here," be con-
cluded. "I tried that and failed, but
I can at least teach the farmers how to
raise hogs."
Foreign extieieians.
The !Musical m11on has raised its ad-
mission fee In the hope that this ac-
tion may do something toward ebeck-
Ing the increase in the number of or•
ebestral musicians in the United
States. Not only does the increase of
native mustelaus yearly tend to make
the supply much greater than the de-
mand. but there 1s never a visiting or-
chestra that does not leave behind it a
certain part of its forces. The Banda
Reese, Strauss' orchestra and au or-
chestra that came here with an opera
company all left some of their mem-
bers behind them, and it is not in the
least uullkely that the same thing will
happen when the Leipste ore11estra,
now on Its way to this country, de-
cides to go home.
Sometimes the players are under con-
tract and must return to Europe, but
they generally come back to the United
States as some as the opportunity of-
fers. It Is to prevent this too rapid
increase that the union has raised the
initiation fee, because without being
one of Its members no 1nn5101011 can
readily find employment here. In spite
of the excessive supply of which they
complain, musicians are still somuch
better paid in this country than in Eu-
rope that it w!11 be many years before
their emigration to this country 000100
to 1111 end.—New Sheer Re :-•moi
THE SUNDAY SCIIWOL.
1NTERNATIONAI, LESSON, APRIL 1i.
"aesae Appeers to ;gain." John et, 1040.
Oman. 2',221, Iter. 0. IS,
7.1JRAOTICAL
Verse 11. bIary Mood without at
1110 sepulshor, Tire teeiue of the ori-
ginal Is irape'fact— "Mary wail stand-
Ltg," She 000)41210d after the Iwo
trochees h:td gone, She stood weep-
ing, for added to Um lee/ of her best.
beloved and most trusted Friend was
her supposi(iou that indignity had
boon done to his body, The only al-
leviation to her wrote, swag to be
where she had last seen him, bhp
stooped 01001'n, and looked. Every-
thing that had to do with ber Lard
WAS dear to her, Perleape she too
could see the linen clothes and the
napkin that was about hie ]mad. lint
a womanly timidity kept lar from
entering alone, The sepulcher 'leas
probably a room hewn out of the side
of a solid roota ltd entrance may
have, been of masonry and architec-
turally beautiful.
12. Seeth two angels. In our last
lesson Ivo note that, 01111ongh Mary's
name Is given a:; ono of the group
sv110 earliest visited the sepulcher,
and who afterward delivered to the
apostles the angels' message, a com-
parison of the four aceount1 innk0$ it
probable thea before the angels ap-
peared she had hastily concluded that
the Lord's body had Dann stolen,: and
she had hastened Lor Peter and John;
SO that aha bad, not even heard' of the
angels' appearance. While. The
livery of God's servants. The 0110
at the head, and the other at, the feet, fast place, weaving, spinning and ocher
e dpnostic occupations have gone into fac-
wheerleashe obrodsiaolf wJesoursobhslain,wOhno
tortes. In the second place, a considera-
anrointed him bad 1201 the remains. tion to be viewed carefully in looking at
15. Wonion, wily wcopeet thou? if, the industrial conditions today is this:
as tsro suppose, ah; had not as yet Parents halt a century ago worked hard
heard any angelic rnessagu, aha had for that share of this world's goods
good cause to weep. Her :fenny of. which they accumulated in America, and
grief precluded fear. In normal they felt that their children should be
WORK FOR WOMEN,
TRAINING IS NECESSARY IN MOOT
OCCUPATIONS NOWADAYS, .
Seekers Per Enrpleymeltt Oluat Ilnve
ape01111 Qn i01llent1011a—Womenl'N
Wavle leow esn't 'what it Was In
one - Granalntolhern' Days,
10 social wellcs of ripe ono 1salmost •
daily confronted with sooners ;Mee em-
ployment, Particularly is the fact notice-
able by women among women- in tide
t11ne, when so funny of the gentler sex
ere forced to earn their own living, On
the other hand, statements 1n print, as
Well as verbal, call attention en the fact
that there are not, enough 0100110 people
for the positlons.i'equiring capability of
their I'espeCLire kinds, and that there Is
"room at tee top." At other words, tine
latter assertion Points to the fact that
skilled labor, not to say specialism, In
every depertmeut of work le One of the
most essential qualifications of succus 111
gainful occupations.
Unfortunately women nearing middle
age or older who find themselves sudden.
ly cast adrift upon their own resources
have not the training which commamis
a place and a price in this scientific pe-
riod. The conditions of their early life
in all Likelihood did not tend to afford
training along any particular line. Two
generations ago, perhaps, there were
seined needlewomcn and women who
could spin yarn and weave fabrics and .
knit their own stockings, all of which
were feminine accomplishments quite as
laudable in their time as a knowledge of
stenography and double entry book-
keeping or the acquisition of a degree of
B. S. or A. A0, by which one may earn
her bread and butter.
To account for the changes reasons aro
aplenty, while cold facts exist. In the
conditions such an apparition as thto
would 'have overwhelmed her with
terror. They have taken away my
Lord, and I know not where they
hare laid hint. That his body should
be stolen vias a new grief. Her one
great desire is to recover that body.
She has no expeolatiOn of a physical
Cause to Feel DIA tOltn.
"Oh, yes, eve are engaged to be married
next spring, but I fear she bas not tbal
utter confidence in Inc that comes with
perfect love."
"Why so'?"
"Well, when a fellow looks buck—as a
fellow in love naturally will, you know—
and secs her testing the diamond in her
engagement ring on the window Pane,
don't yon think he has good cause to feel
a bit dubious:`^
spared ns inuelt or all of the drudgery Of
life, and should live in ease and luxury
le possible.
Apropos of the above, the following,
taken from the current number of The
Queen, is of interest:
"Everybody nfLrm% that training is t1e
password to Use good places of life; no -
resurrection. body quite believes it, because the state -
1.4. She turned herself back. She meet Is made so often. Yet, neverthe-
less, it is true. Only each of us must
again stood erect, turning away from
the dark hale which the angels had rediscover the truth for herself. Re -
illumined. Perhaps herr terror was eeotly, with as extremely open mind
now beginning. Saw :Tenni stand- and certain materials before me, I set
ing, and renes not that it was Jesus, out to inquire why a particular set of
Saw that a man oven about to address n•0113013 had had difficulty in obtaining
he:, but wai so grief-stricken she work. alley were women who during a
oared not and olt$erved noL mita. certain tbree months hod called at the
15. Woman, why weepest thous central bureau for tate emptoymeint of
the
seeketh thou? Jesus repeats women intending to have their names
thquestion of the angels. These entered upon the register as candidates
aro the first of the recorded wordy for immediate employment. The seere-
w^Lch Jesus spoke after his reser- tory, who from abuudaat experience of
reeti'oJn, and we may well interpret women workers 1(1102.8 almost at once
them to mean r.emething more than the kind of applicant for whom she is
the sense is^!rich they immediately likely to he able to secure an engage
convey to Mary. Henceforth let no i meat, fount] herself oblige] to decline
believing soul sorrow for the dead,as ;the registration fees which these appli-
others w^ln ch haws• no haps; Tor, as I mints would have paid, though to each
their Saviour who died to risen again, lshe gave solve suggestion or piece of
every so them also which sleep Ln !advice which, if talion, might lead to
Jesus' well God bring with him"— ' .ultimate registration and an engagement.
Churton. Supposing him le b''''' (ho There were during We three mouths al -
gardener. For -who else would be ! ltrded to 238 of these unteglsterabie
at that hour in that suburban gar- I Women in all.
den 2 Sir, if ttrc have borne him "The curiosity," says the author,
are
hence. These worrig of timid hope ,+tt.hich I always feel about the • human
rather than of despair. If it ie the lstory, rningied with the hope oC finding
gardener wd5u has moved the remains', Isomil new variant of it, Ice me to inquire
than it scar at least a friendly, re- ltsith some eagerness into the causes
moral. Tell me where thou hest lade lvthteh had prevented these Particular
him, and I will tato Lim away,
11 'applicants for worst from attaining the
sympathy outruns hex sense. No' object of their desire, or, at least, of
woman could carry a dead man away. (their ostensible desire. I brought to this
But she has e Mali fear that his poor Investigation, as 1 have said, an open
body is in somebody's way, and there II»ind, though it I permitted said,
myself any
is not the 00101 of remainder of his `wish in the matter it was that I might
lite that would. not be. a treasure. to Idiscotcr some less hackneyed rcnson
her. Dave cath 111 no coats. (lbau want of training for the compnrn-
15. Jesus with unto her, Blary, And tive failures 1 was about to analyze.
immediately she recognizes him. Of -
;Turning to the records of those 238, I
ten earn are more alert than epee ; !found that In several cures there had
the presence of a loved one is nada been more than one reason why an in -
manifest by a slight rustle or fontl diridunl had been judged ineligible for
step or even breathing, whore the : etnployment
apprcereh was unrecognized by sight. ••]n more than a third of the total
Saith unto him, l"Soit ni. The Revis- l number of eases under consideration
II Version says, "5ai'LL unto Lim ine !want of training was quite clearly the
Iiebrew, Ila cot 1i,' that til, in 008
;real hindrance to employment. That the
Aramaic ddnleal of Tiobresv which wits work sought by ttese untrained wooer
spoken in tiulileec \ilhieh i$ to say,�tt,as in many instances extremely Judeti-
In anti
"Do you think that genius is moved
to exert itself by inspII'ationZ
"Sometimes," answered the very se-
rious young man, "but oftener by the
expiration of the period for which rent
Lias been paid."—'oVasbington Star.
Sublime Friendship.
"PlniCins aid 3011130 are great Meade'
aren't they?"
"'They're simply infatuated. Each Is
Twilling to listen while the othee brags"
Master. And ondi ion presumes e 1 rite did not help mutters, there being at
return to the condition of 1.he old life : the. P1•eseut time little demand for vogue
—a mistaken presumption, her, as our'eevlce. Forty-two of the uuiroincd did
Lord presently shows Ler, `not koow what they wanted to do or
17. Tenth m'c not, sell nos to me. to be. The others stated that they
Thies command our Lord' is not hard wished to act as secretaries, houseltoCp-
of explain, but Lord's ution ers,companions, matrons, nursery env-
t
P ,
1
m
without difficulty. 's users
'snatsster dl o
vis
of it aeutessos and special teachers, p
vast yet assented e ea Father. free do
whet Version, "the he beau nchangeroti donesttc work. ltInhshort, s11 these,
which emphasizes l the beauty of the j with the exception of the would be chain-
nenten e. Our Lord's 'meandng in (pions, aspired to do worst for welch eye -
brief le t "Old conditions have passed t eially cuilivntetl qualtiientious are nee"' You. aro nett to look backward jsnry, not basing developed their abilities
over my life nor forwited to its ccntan at all in the requited directions, for lame -
matrons, m cm earth, nvObut ," )ler upward keepers, matrons, nursery gofe'nesses,
to mew life in heaven," 13l 111 our 1charitable workers, domestic workers
Lard's logo t the pl' 110 of Lha dist innd the rest are wanted, only they must
aiples1 leaps and expectation wits a❑ bo worirers oP specific and well defined
earthly c•aronation at Jerusalem, the Ic!asses, It may be Pointed out shot such
reign of Jesus as king of Israel; after lather dtdleulties 00 those arising Jive
rho resthrrectiom lite cantor of (heir ifunily or Alamein! circumstances or from
hope and ps'iilo 900314 n;•rturajly be ludclinke occupations are only really the
this wonderful
(itself a arihly more training difficulty in another guise, and
wonderful Lhnn any earthly honour training
should be bound to ndulit (hitt such is
But f the r hope is that the tiereve-Ithe card. And those ewhodin are inetucieis
her of their hope is to be rotifer even ;relatively to employment selected, though
than the resurrection, ran ie to be us- lea. may not be untrained or inmate!
throne of Gad, Lo mile n( is to us- jcatee have obviously not been pediment
nand. Moved by amazement and de- in the rigbt way for the 0eetpatione
which they have wished to foilow." tat s
There cannot then be mulch doubt t
want of adegna(e training' Is a eery grave
hindrance to a lenge number of women
in their search for employment, since
all won sooner., she Its tall ta' �ra ten such figures 4uo(ed 1'1001 the records oC
a single employment society could cer-
a thinly be metalled or supassed by ninny
other registries . and labor bureaus—
Brooklyn iagla.
To 'Wnslt Woolens.
No part of the laundry worst Is, as a
rule, so unsatisfactory ns the washing oil
the woolen garments. The structure of
Wool fiber is so different from that of
linen and cotton that it should receive
different treatment in the laundry, Itub-
bing and y011151115 mese the wool fibers
io knot, thus giving us et thickened and
Ahruniten fabric; therefore woolen goods
Mould be sopped and squeezed to remove
the dirt, anti the water should be pressed
int, not wrung out
light and full of adoration, Mary re-
verently attempts to embrace our
Lord, perhaps fling's herself at itis
Leet and clasps his knees; but "in-
stead el clinging to bins; note etc i@
to the disciples' and announce that he
i shout (o ascend. —Dwight, I as -
mond unto my Father, and your Fath-
er. His frethorhood relates to all hu-
manity. Tho intimation is that the
rasuereothan is really the beginning
of the ascension,
Premature Clifflel,ni.
A. green Irishlpan having been inere'a
by Ida employer to saddle the horse en'!
rids t0 town on a mtssiOol, was ohservet.
by a neighbor putting the saddle on hind
Doctor—Why Have you, decluctorl a part before. Approaching 3110, 110 1'c•
quarter from my bill?
marked:
5'00 is got tont saddle on (1100, 8 ens
d?airoke 'J' he is for the six cigars dl'st,"
you broke ,rvjlen you thumped my Indadel" axetaImed the 6reruhorn,
nhost. ; n "An how a0 v0 know which tray Ot'tc
5010 7"
' STRICTLY 13USINPJSS..