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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1897-12-10, Page 2NOTES AKIO COMAllaner& ewe' Ae the iseaOn of /vale cola and brief daylight olosed down upon the gold bunters et the headwaters of the yulzon, numb ocenoern Ls felt In regard to0 possible famine among those who have Hooked to the mines. Probably - no saperfluity of peevish/es has reach- ed the X1011(1110, but there is a fair Peospeot that tbe thousanda at the diggInge will get through the win- ter without aetuel starvation. The old miners know what is needed, ana have laid In the stores required, while ?not of the nenmomere oarried In et supply a rations far several months. A large nuMber who started will win- ter en the root, or, at points along the route, and will not suffer for supplien When the country is well covered with snow, a. period near at hand, dog teams will be put to work, and they are more effeetive than horses for freighting in thee climate. Possibly some uee will be made also of five hundred trained reindeer in Alaska, eivitled iato five herds. These animals travel evithout injury when the mem o ury Is seventy below zerae subsisting on the moss growing everywhere in the territory, and making In a day two or three times tbe dietenee cov- ered by e dog team. miesioneery who has spent more thea a year in the, Klondike region, writes cheerfully of the situation, and corrects a , number of mistakes con- oerniag the country. Where the valleys are open the Bun is visible two emirs at Christmas, and dayligbli Meta six hours. But mountains near at hand shut out the light, though the rays of the son canbe seen on their summits. The missionary has found that the miners live pretty well for a wild coontry. In addition to the staple articles, flour, bason and beans, moderate supply ot fresh meat conies in, and large quantities of canned goods are inverted by the two leading companies. While food was sea.rce last spring no one became desperately hun- gry, or was compelled, like a event party coming out, to live for six days on soup made by boilingtheir packing straps. All who are on. the Klondike are anxious to open communication with the outside and all on the coast are finer to get in. Between the two , some improvement of the trails is cer- tain even in midwinter. Before the end of next summer the present difficulties of travel will have 'en mainly removedand a trip to Damson City will lose its most labori- ous and dangerous features, There Is more risk this winter of hunger in Ireland than in Alaska, leaving out of the accouat a few bands of adventur- ers who cast all prudenee to the winds, atost of those who expect to go to the mines next season are making their arrangements deliberately. One perty, for instance, have contributed four hundred dollars each, laid in their stores, and will go in a stanoh schoon- er around Cape Horn, allowing one hundred and. thirty days for the voy- age to San Francisco. The ship evil] Bait up the Copper River In Alaska, and serve as a, base of supplies for the prospectors. The application of energy to the problem of opening a good route to the Upper Yukonwill solely be ef- fective within a year, and in themean- time there is good reason/ for the be- lief that the great body of hardy ar- gonents will escape the horrors of a famine. POOR TOMMY t Even so sacred a thing as maternal affection may sometimes provoke emile. Why Mrs. jamesby I exclaimed a neighbor across the back -yard fence. Do you beat your own carpees1 Yes, replied Mrs. Jamesby. 1 don't mind it. It's good. exercise. I should think you'd have Tommy do it. Poor Tommy I rejoined the good wo- man reser:Meg her exercise, He belongs reaele 1/ to a gymnitatic class down - own, and. (vvisok 1) he's so newt when ee comes home in the afternoon (whoa 1) thae I haven't the heart to esk him, whack 1) to take hold of any work liethis, (whack, wbaok I). DECLARING HIMSELF. Do you like the hate as she turned Lt slowly on the pink Lips of her fin- gers. More than T. can tell, but I love its darling little owner, How sweet. It belongs to sister, Ill oat! her. CONSIDERATE. Ile -Why don't you say something . hot my mustache? She -Because it peems like such a ,oloclest little. thing. ANOTHER r.lowL, What's old Cseaniity beveling &bent now? Bootie° he oin't get as moll for wheat bore as they're paying at the Klondike. A JEALOTYS BOSS, Why did you cliseharge Datrew? n't Iiodee his work eneistaotorely I Oh, yen he etleadee to business all righle but my typewrite]; got to thiele. Ing the blamed fool was the beisteleoke lng Meti in Olen, A,T THE CONCERT. Why on eerth are they encoring Gil geneen? Perhaps tleey flee that she *ante pram YOUTH'S DUTY. TO BED PEOPLE. AN ELOQUENT AND FORCEFUL PLEA FOR FILIAL AFFECTION. nee. De. Tainnitte cousiders tho Itospeci Due to Ago- Ile First Dliwoureses Upon Parental Attachment and Then the obligation Peon the Young to tic Wild to Parents. On Sunday morning, Rev. Dr. Tal- mage chose o his text: Genesis, xlv. 28, "I will go and see him before I die." janob had, long since passed the hun- dred year milestone. In those times people were distinguished for longevity. In the centuries after persons lived to great age. Galen, the most eelehrated physician of his time, took so little of his own medicine that he lived to 140 years. A man of undoubted veracity on the witness stand in England swore that he remembered an event 150 years before. Lord Bee= speaks of &coun- tess who had. cut three sets of teeth and died at ,140 years. Joseph Crete, of Pennsylvania lived 140 years. In 1857 a book wa.s printed containing the names of 11 persons who lived 150 years. Among the grand old people of whom we have record, was Jacob, the shep- herd of the text. But he had a bad lot of boys. They were jealous and ambitious and. every way unprineipled. .Toseph, however, seemed to be an ex- ception, bat he had been gone many years, and. the probability was that he was dead. As sometimes now in a house, you will find kept at the table a vacant chair, a place, a knife, a fork, for some deceasea member of the fam- ily, so Jacob kept in his heart a place for his beloved. Joseph. There site the old man, the flock °PM years in their flight having alighted long enough to leave the marks of their claw on fore- head and cheek and temple, His long beard snows down over his chest. His eyes are somewhat dim, and he can see farther when they are closed than when they are open, for he ean see far back into the times when benutiful Raehael, his wife, was living, and his children shook the oriental abode with their merriment. The centenarian is sitting dreaming over the past when he hears a wagon rumbling to the front door. He gets up and goes to the door to see who has arrived, and. his long absent sons from Egypt come in and announce to him that Joseph, inseam' of being dead, is living in an Egyptian palace, with all the investiture of prime minister, next to the King in the mightiest em- pire of all the world 1 The news was too sudden and too glad for the old man, anl his cheeks whiten, and he has a dazed look and his slat falls out of his hand and he would. have dropped had. noL the sons caught him ani led him to a lounge and put cold water on his face and fanned him a little. In that half delirium the old maxi mumbles something about his son Jos- eph. He says; "You don't mean Jos- eph, do your But alter they hadfully resuscitated him, and the news WAS confismed, the tears begin their wind- ing. way down the erossroads of the wrinkles, and the sunken lips of the old man quiver, and he brings bis bent fingers together as he says: "Joseph is yet alive. I will go and. see him be- fore I die.'' It did not take the old man a great while to get ready, I warrant you. Ile put on the best clothee that the shep- herd's wardrobe could afford. He got into the wagon, and, though the aged are cautious and like to ride slow, the wagon did not get along fast enough for this old man, and when the wagon with the old mien met Joseph's char- iot cooling down to meet him, and Jos- eph got. out of the chariot and got in- to the wagon and. threw his arms around his father's neck, it was an antithesis of royalty and rustiCity, of around his father's neck, it was an simplicity and pomp, of Mica affection and parental love, which leaves us much in doubt whether we had better leugh or ery, that we do both. So jacob kept the resolution nf the text, "5 will go and see him before I die." What a strong and unfailing thing is parental attobinent I Was it not al- most time: for Naeob to forget Jos- eph? The bob suns of rnany summers blazed on the heath ; the River Nile had overflowed and receded, overflow- ed nue receded again and again; the seed had been sown and the harvests reaped; Mars rose awl set; yeers of plenty and years of famine heel passed on, but the love of Jaeoll, in my text is overwhelmingly demotic. Oh. that is a cord that is nol; snapped, though pulled on by many decades! Though when the little child expired and the parents luny not have been mole than 25 years of age and now they are '75, yet tbe vision of the cradle, and the childish fan, nevi tbe first utteranees of the infantile lies. are fresh to -day, in spite of the /menage of a half century. joeeph was as fresh in Jacob's memory as ever, though at 17 years of time the hoy had disappea,red from the old home- stead. 1 found in env family rood the story of en infant that Nub died 50 years before. and I mid to my parents, "What is this record and -what does it mean?" Their thief answer was a. long deep sigh. It, was yet to elem. a very tender sorrow, What does that all mean? Why, it means our children de- parted are ours yet, end that cord of attachment reachieg across the years will hold as until it brings us together in the palace, as :Meth and. Joseph, were brought together. Thet is one thing that makes old people cite happy. They elegize it is a reunion with Mon from whont ehey have long been separated, I am often asked as pastor -and every pastor is asked the miestion-"Will any Ohildeen be children in Bowen and fer- ever children?" Well, there was no (Teethe greet change in jowls teem the tlecie &mob teat hint mid the 'Liana whet itiemb imind him -between the boy of 1.1 years et age, and the man midlife, his forehend developed with the great besinese of state, hut jamb was glad to get, beak .Teseph, linyiteW, end 11 did not make nauth differenee to the old man whether the b07 looked older or looked, yotoger. And it will he enougb joy for that parent If he eau got back that son, that demi/beer, at the gate at heaven, whether the de- parted loved one shall come a cherub or in fall grown angelhood. There must le a change wrought by that celestial etiolate and. by those Eill- pernal yearn but It will only be from loveliness to more loveliness, and from health to more radiant been. 011. parent, as you think of the darling Minting and white in membranous croup, I want you to know it will be gloriously hetterect in that land where there has never leen a death find where all the inhabitants will live on in the great future as long as God I Joseph was Joseph. notwithstending the palace, and your child will be your child moth ithstanding all the raining splendors of everlasting noon. What n. thrilling visit was that of the old shepherd to the prime minister Jos- eph! I see the old countmeman Reste1 tbe palace looking around at the mirrors aud the fountains and the carved pillars, and oh, how he evislies that Robot, his wife, was alive, and she could heve mine with him to see their son in his great house. "Oh," says the old man within himself, ''t do wish Michael could be here to see all tills!" 1 visited the fermbouse of the father of Millard Fillmore when the son was president of the United States, and the octogenarian farmer entertainecl me until 11 o'clock at night, telling me what great things he saw in his son's hose at Washington and how grandly Millard treated his father in the White House. The old man's face was illu- mined with the story almost until mid- night. He had just been visiting his 'son at the capital. And I suppose it was something of the same joy that thrilled the heart of the old shepherd as he stood in the pjtlitee or tiles, prime minister. It is a great day with you when your old parents come to visit you. Your little children stand. around with great wide open eyes, wondering how anybody could be so old. The permits cannot stay many days,. for they area little restless, and espectally at nightfall, because they sleep better in their own bed, but while they tarry you somehow feel there is e benedic- tion in every room in the house. They are a little feeble, seed you make ity as easy as you can for them, and you re- alize they will prolably not visit you very often -perhaps never again. You go to their room alter they bave re- tired at night to see if the lights are properly put out, for the old people understand. candle and lamp better than the modern apparatus for illum- ination. In the morning with real in- terest in their health, you ask how they rested last night. Joseph, in the historical seene of the text:, did aot think any more of his father than yon do of your parents. The probability is before they leave your house they halt spoil your child- dren with kindness. Grandfather and grandmother are more lenienb and in- dulgent to your children than they ever were with you. And what won- ders of revelation in the bombazine poeket of the one and the sleeve of the other! Blessed is that borae where Christian permits come to visit 1 What- ever may have been the style a the arehiteeture when they came it is a palace before they leave, if they visit you 50 times the two most memorable visits will be the first and the last. Th,ose two pictures will haag in the hall of your memory while memory lasts, an.d you will remember just how tbey looked, sad where they sat, and what they said, and at what figura of tee carpet, and at what doorsill they parted with you, giving you the final good -by. Do n.ot be embarrassed if your father come to town and lie have the manners of the shepherd, and if your mother (one to towu and there be in her but no sign of costly millin- ery. The wife of the Emperor Theo- dosius said a wise thing when she said, "Husbaads, remember what you. lately were and remember what you are, Etut be thankful." By this time you will notice what kindly provision Joseph made for his rather Jacob. .Toseph did not say; "I can't have the old men around this place. How clumsy he would look climbing up these maple stairs, and walking over those mosaics! Then he would be putting his hands on some of these frescoes. People would wonder where tbe old greenhorn came Irma. He would shock all the Egyptian court with his manners at table. Besides that, he might get siek on my hands, 110.4 he might be quarrelous, and he might talk tome as though I were only a boy, when I am the second man in all the realm, Of course he must not suffer, and 11 there is famine in his country -and Shear tbere is -7 will send lane some provisions, but I can't; take a man from Padanarain and introduce him into the polite Egyptian court, What a nuisance it is to have poor re - letters 1" Joseph did not say that, but he rush- ed out to meet his father with perfect abanelon of affection, and brought him up to the palace and introduced him to emperor end provided for all Lhe rest of ;he father's days, an(1 nothing wae too good for the old ma0 while living, and when he was deed, Joseph, with military escort, took his father's ra- n/eine to the family cemetery. Would to God all children, eves as kind to their parents. It the faLher have large property, and he be wise enough to keep it in his own name, be will be respected by the heirs, but how came it Is whent the son binds his father in famine, as Joseph found .Tatiob in famine, the young people make, ie very bard, for the old man. They are so surprised be eels with & knife instead of a fork. They are chagrined at his antediluvian habits, They are provoked becituse he cannot hear as well as he used to, end when: he Oka it over again, end the son has to repeat; it, he bawls In the old manes ear, "I hope you hear thee?" How long be name wear the old coat or the old hat before they get leim new- oriel How chagrined they ore at his inelependencie of the English gram- mar! How long he bangs one See- lenty-eive years and not gone yeti Eighty yore and not gone yet! 'Will he over go? They think It of no use bo have tc, doctor in, his last sickness, and go tip to the drup store, and get eomething that makes him worse and eonontio 00 ct coffin, end beet the nn- derteker down to the lest point, giving a note Mr the reduced meant, Wilkie they over /my 1 I have oteiciated at obsequies ot aged people where the family home bon irniedirtately rd. footle to obey his mother, the ravbns ot the valley shall piek It out, auti yeene eagles shall eat it." In other words, such au Ingrate ought to Have a Gook of (mows for pall-twarerse I congratulate you if you have the hon- or of previding for aged parente. The ilteuesds jeleageobotwtilhle bleeourna stoeoud of Joeeph rattle:golf:0(410 iruonseelin)ial 01,11. tillioautstelvinh ouisyt, of his days, he died in It mansion pro- vided by the filial piety of a ion who had achieved a fortune, They,' the oe- togenarian sat, and the serve. te wett- ed on hine .and there were lolly of horses and plenty of carriage to eon- vey him and a. bower in tele eh to sib on long summer after/mom dream- ing over the pot, and tine e was not a room in the house where mamma, and there were struments of all sorts to and when life had posed e neighbors came out, ana exprosen all honor pos- sible and ea.:de:gni ledlitie to the village .Meehreenth and put hini down beside the Rachel with whom he had lived more than half a century. Shttis your successes with the old .peogle. The pro- bability is that the principles they in- culeated achieved your fortune. Give them a °bristle!' percentage of kind- ly consideration. La joseph tluvids ervoiltubt.jaeob i,he pasture fields of Go- shen and the glories of the Egyptian And here woum like to sing the melees of the sisterhod who remained unmarried that they might administer to aged parents. The erutal evorld reels these self-sacrificing ones pecu- liar or angular me if you had had as many annoyances as they have had Xantippe Nyman have seeu an angel ompared with you. It is easier till. take rare of five winching, romping children, than one childish old man. A.mong the hest women of our land are those who zallowed the blOOM oe life to peas away while thee were care ing for their parents, While other maidens were asleep they were soak- ing the old man's feet or tucking up the covers around the invalid mother. While other maidens were in the cot- illion they were claming upon rheuma- tism and spreading plasters for the lame lack of the eeptuagenarlan and heating catnip tee, for insomnia. In almost every circle of our kind- red there has been some queen of self-sorifice to whom jeweled band after jeweled hand was offered in mar- riage, but who staid on the old place bemuse of the sense of filial obligation tentil the health was gone and the attraetiveness of personal presence had vanished. Brutal soeiety may call eueh a one by a niek-name. Goa calls her daughter, and heaven calls her saint, and I call her doraestio inereyr. A half doe ordinary wOnlen have not tbe smallest jointasofmtliedAlfeategelar as much nobility of her left hand. Altheugh the world has stood 0000 years this is the first apotheosis of 'maidenhood, although in the long line of those who have deolin- ed marriage that they might be qual- ified for some special. mission are the names of Anna Ross, and Margaret Breckenridge. and Mary Shelton; and Anna Etheridge, and Georgians, Wil - lets. tend the angels of the battle- fields of Fair Oaks, and Lookout Moun- tain and Chancellorsville and Cooper Shop hospital, and though single lite has been honored by the fact that the three grandest men of the Bible -John and Paul and Christ -were celibates. Let the ungrateful world sneer at the maiden aunt, but God has a, throne furnished for her arrival, and on one side of that throne in heaven there is a vase containing two jewels, the one brighter than the Kohinoor of London tower and the other larger than any diamond ever found in the districts of Goloonela-the one jewel by the lapi- dary of the palams out with the words, athesenuch as ye did it to father," the other jewel by the lapidary of the palace out with the words, "Inasmuch as ye did it to mother," "Over the hills to the poorhouse," is the exquisite bal- lad of Will Carleton, who found an old woman who had been turned off by her prospered sons, but I thank God I may find in my text, ''Over the hills to the palace." As it to disgust us witb con - duet, the Bible presents us with the story of Micah who stole the 1100shek- els from his mother, and. the story of Absalom, who triea to dethrone his father. But all history is beautiful with sLories of filial fidelity. hipamitiondas, the warrior, found his chief delight in reciting. to his parents his victories; There goes Aeneas from burning Troy, on his shoulders Anchises, his father. The Athenians punished with death any anfllial conduct. There goes beautiful Ruth escoretng venerable Naomi across the desert amid the howling of the wolves an.d the barking of the jackals, John Lawrence, Inu-ned. at tbe stake in Colchester, Wn8 Ch6ered- in the flames by his children, who said, "Oh God, strengthen Thy servant, and keep Thy promisor' And Christ be the hour of exeroiation provided. for His old mother. jecob kept. this reso- lution, "I will go end see him before I die," and a little while alter we fina them welking the tesselated floor of the palace, Jeteob Red josepb, the prime minister proud of the shep- herd, maY say in. regard to the naost of you that your parents have probably visited you for the last time, or will soon pay you such a visit, and C have wondered if they will evsr. visit you in the king's milieu,. "011," you. say, "i am in the pit. et sire" doseph was in the pit, "Oh,." yew say, "I ern 111 the PrieCni of mine iniquity!" :Joseph W5 s once in prisoa. "Oh," you 587, '1 didn't have a fair chitties. I was dented maternal kindness!" (Imelda was den- ied maternal attendance. "Oh," you say, "I am far away from the land of my nativityl" Joseph was tar! f rom home. ''Oh," you. sew" "T have been betrayed and exasperated!" Did not jeseplas brethren sell him' to a, port- ing Islamaelitish earavan? Yet God iwought him to that emblezonect, resi- dence, and if you' will trust his grace in Jesus Christ, you, too, will be era- palaced. Oh, what a day time will be when the aid folks come. from an' ad- joleing mansion in heaven, and find you areld the alabaster pillars of the throne -room reed living with the Teitigl They are etemilig tho seeps now, and the °militated guard of. the palace rushee in end sari, "Your father's rotnieg, your Motherei coming!" Arid wberi, ander the arches of psalms etenee and on the peveneent Of por- phyry yon greet oath other,. the eeene so Willi eclipse the meeting OM the Gosh - signed to Providence that felt like 41,11 hit411"I' 161150 'Th'146"h ansi 11146 god White, e that morketh at his father and re- n t, h y eta roma he was not musket in - regale him, tak1,114 toxt from ifrovorb8 e 6 .en On each ottierel 'Melo and Wept a 0117 , The 70 ne , toW- Agee u will bel Their cheek smoothed, into the flesh of a little 5111114 Their stooped Posture lifted Into inunortal eynuele- try, Their foot 1401Y 00 feeble, then with the sprightliness of a bounding roe, as they ehall say to yea, "A epirit passed this way froin earth and told us that yo11 were wayward mice dissipat- ed after we left the world, but you have repented, our prayer bits bema flowered mid you are here, and as we used to visit you ote meth before we died, now we visit you; 111 your new home after our eseension," And father svill say, "Mother, don't you. (tee 70 - meet is yet alive?" and mother will sa.y, "Yes, father, rosopli is yet alive," Al Men they will talk over their earthly anxietio in regard to you, and the midnight supplications in your lie- holf, mid they will reeite to each other the ola Scripture passage with which they used to cheer their staggering faith, "5 win bp a to thee, and thy seed after thee." Olt, the Winn.% the palace, the paleteel That is what Richard 13teeter ralleti, "The Saints' Illverlasting Rest," That is whet John Bunyan railed the " Celestial City." That. is Young's " Night Thoughts," turned into mornine ex- altations. Tbat is Gray's "lelegy 1 11 a Cluirchrerd," turned to 10601(1')' lion speetaele, That is the Vottee's Pat- urday Night," exchanged toe the. ea- ter's Sabbath morning. That is the shepherd of Salisbury plains amid the Cooks on the hills of heaVen. That iS 1ba &Mine Struck Padanartun turned into the rish pasture field of Goshen. That is 'Toole visiting Joseph at the emerald 'castle. CHANGE OF COLOR IN ANIMALS. — Sonic of the Iteaqinoi foe It nod Some of the mysteries ot It. Observation and experiments go Lo show how large an influence food has in determining the color of animals, Everybody knows how easily Lhe col- or of the yellow camary may be altered to a11 orange red by mixing cayenne pepper with its food, though it is true that the color change may be produc- ed only in very young birds whose feathers aro not completely matured. It is also a matter of experiment that all varieties of canaries are not equal- ly susceptible to the influence of the pepper, and it is a very curious fact that if the pigment that causes the red color of the pepper be mixeub with the food of the birds, without the oth- er constituents, yellow -colored canar- ies are net in the slightest degree af- fected by it, while be own birds or the brown feathers of y ow birds become distinctly lighter in nue. Here is another interesting experi- ment: The large tortoise -shell butter - Lie normally feeds upon the leaves of the elm, while the smalltortoise-shell is addicted to nettles, but when some imagoes of 'the large tortoise -shell were bred from caterpillars that have been found upon nettles, they showed a won- derful similarity to the smaller species, though the color was nearer to that of the larger. Quite in the satue line is the observation that the thorn moth exhibits variations in color according as the larva is fed UpOn the oak, haw- thorn, lime or Man Moly other experi- ments have shown a similar effect of food in modifying or completely chang- ing the color of animals. Among the ohmages of color that are most perplexing, if hne would refer their cause to utility only, is that of the.gull. which is blue and white, and is therefore generally allowed to be of proteetive value. But of the first tbree years of their lives several common species of gull have a brownish speak - led plumage, which is totally unlike that of the older birds, on whieh faot Mr. Beeldard remarks: "If one color be advantageous, the other must be the reverse, and three years Ls either O considerable period, or it is nob long enough." Another perplexing part of the sub- jeot is the color of deep-sea animals, It la an established fact thae marine ani - mitts can and do live at the enormous depth of more than five miles below the surface of the %eater, le is also cer- tain that the sunlight does not Ilene - trate to that depth, so that the ani- mals that exist there exist in more than midnight darkness, yet the fact is, that brilliant colorations are gen- erally found in them. Of what; use can it be? How can natural selection or sexual selection 'have anything to do with It? It is true, indeed, thee there may be phosphoreeeent light emitted by the animals themselves; a,nd of this there are many evidences, but though the deep-sea fish may be guided to its prey by a series of natural " bullseye laneerne, the °pier of its prey could have 'no protective effect, bub exactly the reverse. ARTIFICIAL SILK, -- Count de nth rdelltlet 1111a5 eon *1'4ens In the &Mete% Or tits InlVell I 11(1*. Count Pillaire de Charclonnet, the French savant, is piepared Lo abolish the silkworm and make sille superior to the natural article. Speak- ing about the invention he twanged; out scone tWo years ago, he says the WOrtil only mixes vegetable matter, such as mulberry leaves, evith a gum- my substance, and then winds it into threads. A. quicker means of getting silk is to reduce the leaves to pulp by machin- ery and mix the product' with a gum- my sabsteace similar to the eilkworan'e secretion, This, Chttrdounet says, be has done with *perfect success, end he as- serts that the silk thus produced 16 Mere brilliant it lustre than the silk Produee4 by the worm, The leaves of the orange and other hese may be utie Hired, anel the oost, it is estimated, well be diminished three-fourths, The production of artificial silk by the Cherdounet process has been tried both in Erato and England, and the opinion of experts seems favourable tO its success, Another process differing but slightly from that of Count de Chardounet hes ohm teceently reeeiv- ed attention', CLASS IN NATURAL HISTORY, Nemo two ant/nate noted eepecaelly for their ferocity. lave Cate aeroet a elothes line tabealet. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESeiON, DEC la. PIM5,iii Vords," 5 51m. 4, 5.8,10-15. eltoloton Test, 5 rho. 41 7, PRACT 1 CA 1, NoTus. Verge 1. I charge thee, therefore before Goa, 1 en1 I thee te witness; 1 adjure thee. The quiek-the liring- ab his appearing and hie Iiingdom. "At" stioeld be "by." The "appearing" is whet is commonly alluded to as the Second Advent; the "klagelem" 15 that glorious stale inss filth we hope to reign with Mtn By these Paul calls 'rimothy to witness. 2. Preach the worce-Proolislan God's message. Be instant In seaccon, out of season. Be urgent In all holy ac- tivities; mil in this ltrnen0Yt ha °Ara- fat to observe no eeparate seasons. Christian energy on Seleeth dues and feast days and fast days is not enough; let all dap be thy season - W....1.1•••••••••1104.•••••••••••••••••••....”40.111 ,---------!-------- mimeo exactly the same Mee as "trine," in tee 01cl, is noe translated 147 the same word. He 'that trusted in jebov- ale and be that believed In the Lard jolts Christ, exercisedthe ewe fo- ully; 1?ei tit had bean true to bis ''truse." 0. Heneetoath there is lalla UP for Me a, OrOW11 of rightnouguese. A crown Of Justice, a deservecl crown, a (mown bestowed bemusu the righteousueSS of the crowned one has (ten reeognized. The Lord, Us righteous ludge. Who mikes mistalces, Slut I giv8 me ittI that day, Shall. award me, occult° me. In one ono Paul had net earned any, glorification, for when lee had done Ids best, like other Chelstians, he was an unprofitable Relevant, beving done no more than was his duty to do; but the glory of tho Gospel is this, that our Lord of leis free grace condescends to reward us for doing our duty. All them also that love his appearing. Who haVe loeleed forward to ele appearin5 with earnest. ,joy. After this verse we have seven verses which urge Timothy to haseen to Rome before Paul dies, state how friends have left hien, nek for his Moak and bole and parchments, anti state how much evil Alexander the coppersmith had done him. 111 business, in church, 10 danger, un 10, Ab 1117 Drat answer, In my first sehdlee in prison, lo cleath-be always defenseWore a Genet of justiee. energetic, in praiSe and rebuke in 13;atil's first appeal wes heard. by the emperor Nero, and it is that which standing up for Jesus. It matters is Imre referred. to. He Wee liberated, not whether others hear or 'hether but he did nee know that he would be No man stooa with me, In Roman legal easee the presence and pleading, • of a patron or friend were very pow- erful and desirable. But; all men for- sook Me. Cowardly in the hour of ell - max. I pray Gotl tbat it may not be laid to their charge. "May it not be laid to their charge." 17. Notwithstanding the Lord, stood witb me, That is, Jesus. And, strengthened me. Put retrength ioto me. That by me tbe preaching might he fully known. By my Worde the pre- elamation of the Gospel might be de- livered in full measure. And that all the Gentiles might bear, This prob- ably refers to Paul's preservation for further missionary journeys. I was delivered. out or the mouth of te The Christian fathers understood this of Nero or of Peas Jewish aerusers, lb is more probable teat the apostle was in real danger of being thrown to wild beasts, notwithstanding his claims as a Roman citizen; or it may be a figurative Throe like "the jaws of death;" or, finally, it inay refer to the devil, 18, The Lord shall deliver me from every evil work. He thee has done( will do. Will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom. gbat phase of lb which comes after death. they forbear -see the third and fourth verses,-cyar duty is tee wren "Though no one draw front them," says Cbres- ostom, "fountains Bowe though no one drink, rivers run; thought DO one hear, tile preacher kihott)(1 'wrath, the teacher should teach, anti the Christian KNACK IN SEWING. Not long ago a young 160111011 Wee heard to remark disconsolately, in speaking of a friend "No weeder she oan have su.olo pretty frocks and las and note fittings, • for she makes them ail herself. 1 wish T had her knack.' While "lenaelc" most certainly has M11011 to du with; the matter, a desire axed determination to do are import- ant factors in any undertaking. What one woman can do another may learn, if she very much cares to. An iustance is ensiled of one who did all her OW11 sewing. Yet she was never satisfied with her efterts. As she expressed it, she "always felt so home-made." She finally matte up her mind, after taking serious oeunsel with herself, to rind out where the trouble lay. She knew, as far as the sewing itself was concerned, that her work could not be much improved upon It was the "effect" that did not sat- isfy. Among her acquaintences was a dressmaker, who turned out very effective costames. For five dollars this artist agreed to tem!' her those simple but important points upon which the success of a gown depends. She who had prided herself on her small, even stitches, was surprised to find that in the homing and adjustment of draperies a long and. easy stitch gave better results. She Marilee how to properly fasten in stays, put on fac- ings and bindings and. hooks end eyes. How to press seams'. to slip -stitch and to finish off. A.11 the many details that; to the uninitiated might seem trifling and of little consequence. To- day a more becomingly dressed wo- man is nob to be met with, and she says the money she paid to learn the "little tricks" of dressmaking was the best investment she ever made, She gets mealy of her ideas from the store exhilits, and, anything that par- tiountrly strikes her faney is jotted down in a note -book for future refer- ence. Laces and ribbons are nearly .al- ways on the bargain counters and ram- ble fingers can make dainty and bon- ing collars and neck; arrangements at surprisingly little expense. By watch- ing an expert bow -maker at the ribbon °mutter she has learned the age of how -- making, and bee haes are nob in the least suggestive a the amateur mil lin- 06. should exemplify God's COMIllande by (laity living. It is never our part bo stole:in or be eilent Ire speaking for Jesus, though the world pass heartleee- ly by." Reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suefering and doctrine. Read • convict" for rebuke, nod "tee-ohing" for doctrine. PIANO TUNING FOR WOMEN, , In ahnest every small town, village or rural distriet in this country, num- bers of pianos stand sadly out: of tuna because the tuner has not appeared elute way, and the owners have not learned how much longer and better their instruments wear when( kept in tune, The Mot is, piano tuning is one of those professions thah has nob been over-eroevded, end there are actually not enough first-olass tuners to go round slime the piano, has invaded so many homes. • Ibis now suggested as a boiness Willett offers many inducements to women. Why bas not this Mean thought of before? Neither great expense nor much time will be required for one who has already received a musical eduzation, to learu the profession, and the right person will, have little (Wit. Gutty in gaining profit:temp in it, At a,ny piano manufactory people, will be found ready to explain to a woman the intricacies of the pianoforte and all that pertains to its construction, and to tempering in tuning, for it will be understood that as a tuner she may make many sales for the house. Ane' - body clever with tools -and. maay WO- meu are so -can readily learn to make small roars, such as putting on strings and re -leathering the ham - mere. A short course of practice on some old piano la theback of a store will prepare a tuner to start out on her career, What is absolutely essential for the worlc is a correct ear. This oannot 3. They will not endure sound doe- be purchased, nor can, It be imparted • trine. "They" means professing Christ- by any araonnt at instruction in pion° tans. To some of these the healthy Luning. Correct training early. Mille doctrines of the Gospel will be often- may do much to develoo a nalevesense sive. After their awn lusts. Atter of tone peroeption, . and, the girl who the course of their own desires, and would make a great: sueoess of piano not in subjection to God's providenee, Luning must cultivate a keen senile Shall they heap to themselves Leathers, of pitch variations. She should. also They Neill crowd around teachers who have a knowledge of harmony and the coadone their faults. Itching ears, Inws of acoustics, both protest and Ears that want to be tickled. These idleoretloal. peeps, who mein ,A. mano-tuner'e tools are not open - ears belong to the sive, and are easily. carried, A. tuning not endure sound doetrine," not to the fork, a key, a hannuer, a pair a teachers. They listen for pleasure, not tongs, a screw driver and pliers are (611,51111 all that ate needed, TheSe con easily he pokesi in a small satehei, Plano tailing does not clement:I great physicsl strength, rather A mat- ter of denote senmibilitio than of brute force. lenquestinnably It can be mule be pay well. The usual press for tuning are from a dollar to three dollen, and more wheu repairs in alt things, attenlave, obscrylniti etre to be made, 11 to the tunount thus with nreSenCe 02 mind; inrgettind tie" earned be added the commiseione foe thing, discerning.Ilendure afflielione the Online a teller Can allttlye find Suffer havdships. Do the work of an erosion to sell, it will Is seen that evangelist. All work that belonge 1 the women who enters the p ano- the Gospel preacher or teethe tuning field may earn a eatuly eine er; soli work now aWaitS ineome. ery Christie a. 'Make full wed There iS something elseshe may do. Of ttly ministry. 11M1211 111 2111 it full. ny teaching peopl5 the importance Of . 'Veer eapacieies may be se held as to koE",'Llitt thelepianoS in Lune she May for profit.. 4. They shall turn away their ears. So as riot to 11506 three parts cif the Gospel that hurt their conscienees. And shall be turned unto fables. The very influences Iv hieb make leader worshipful. souls, harden Lhe settle that sneer at the truth, as fire softens use Ohjeld. end hardens anetbee. 5. Watch (thou in all things. Be ether eees sfr elipereetheees, nee re eup erne sermee 1:0 the divine art af noide down, or they may be premed "melee down, shaken down, and running over with rainiseretions for Christ. let this last be your case, says I'aul to Tim.A teacher had been giving a remit- iiir bilk 011 zoology to a eines erten- year-olds in a grammar school, To test their intelligent% lie said, in the e1111035 tif his 10e510e1/8: 1Vho van ion nle the highest Mein Of animal 11fe? liberated from Rome, had spent soine Mile girl held up hat' hand, years in additional labors unrecorded, Well, Maryi luta been arreeted during the uersecu- The 117-eba, ehouted &tory, serious - teen by he Emperor Nero, and draggle le but triumphantly. for a second time Lo Rome, cod had Repressing a smile, the teacher said: been already, or was about CO he, sea- 18 it, Mary? Think again. IA n. hyena _ A 00053 11 (110-8 alle-and We you, 0, T ant nOw ready 1 0 he offere.l. e To ha poured. otie." Like it drink °f- eeling any blood le about to be Owl, The time of my departure is at hand, The euppositiott is that Paul herd been tenced to death. 7 5 have fought a goosi lighh 5 have have finisbed my course. At a Chrie- teat soldier he feels that he hes done Well, obeyed orders, Made charges, stotel his 'ground, followed the adeteo the very lrghest? ton t answer too meekly; take your time, Oh, now oiled Nem tee giraffe. -.— KNOWS 1VHEN TO BOAST. he (ONO edhersAs a Cltilletlee "'el" What's the Metier 61111 Ilingley? TT° bs hee eemeleted bIs l'ae"ed 16001 testi to be eternealy blowing whet en theorize, So Phil, 8. 12; 1 Con sxiyort wing shot he 51161110 keet the taith, /L is a pity that Oh, •''V"06deo that clueing the faith in the eleev Tostament, whieh do,„