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The Brussels Post, 1899-3-10, Page 3MARcar 10, 1989, TITS BRUSSELS POST. 3 ; Young -Folks. 41 - " DO -WANK -YOU." "011 my I" said rollieking Flosey, 'I do like Parties sol E'll cuy 'Thank you' a thousand tiMee rt mamma will lot us go." "I think," said thoughtful Milly, As she hushed the baby to vest, " That though mamma, like sayelhauk you, She likedo-thankeyou best. So she wiped the cups and plater, And put them neatly away, And muds the room all tidy, Bei= she went out to play. And the faoe o the tired motber, Lit up with a weaned. smile, As she stitched on the little garment, Humming soft to herself the while. And, Flossy, watching, deoided As she sat lo work with a will. 'Say -thank -you is a very good thing, But do -thank -you is better still. A SURPRISED FAMILY. The Thompions' small boy is the ,kind of youngster usually spoken DE by the neighbors as "that imp." The Thompmns themselves, because he is one of the tinnily, puss over his mis- deeds In silence and reserve Lheir opin- ions. • A. Halloween epee° tched young Jim was ubserved to be in a pereetaal state chteekle and unholy glee,which elate, to those who knew the signs, 1:0. e. old mantling especially madden- ing fermenting in his brain. Like the Lemon policeman, who cannot ar- rest a man he knows is going Lo mur- der till Lhe euspectied gemtleman has committed the mime, the ehouipsons %yore tumble to take summary meas - Ores ta advance, but Thompeon pater detoidect Lo issue a warning eouched in general ante aileembetuting Menne he said, sternly, at .8unday 'limning breakfast:, "if you have a yearning to get mixed up in may gate changing horsebioult moving, eign-steel.ng episoles to -morrow Mght, poem and remember the Maine !mere it goes any farther. ;No pins under eteetrio door bells to keep Lhem ring - no leek:leeks or rosin on the window glass, no carrots tied to Lhe front doerkuob or bean shooting or red paint on the steps, or — or any other deviltry," concluded his father, rather lamely and totally out of breath. "Iely right arm is just as strong as it ems the last time you. and I had a lit- tle difference of opinion. Under- atancle" "Yes, papa," said young eine, in a peculiarly innocent and plaintive tone, and then ins family knew it hati to fear the worst. Cissie Thompeon, Ziged 10, confided tearfully to her mother Monday after - u000 that Jim had made lavish pro- mises that he "would scare her 'most to death" that night and insisted on sleeping ou the couch in her moLh- er's room for protection. IVees. Thome). son reported to her husband and he decided to do detective Irmo after din- ner tb.at night, arguing that if he could catch his on red-handed the punishment attached to the discovery wetted keep pate in the family for a month at least. Jim vanished after the meal and his father prowled in the clerk kitchen, which commanded. a view of the back yard, and the equal- ly dim basement. In half an hour he was rewarded by hearing weird noises from the direction of the book yard. Htx dashed to Lhe poroh, but nothing was in sight. The chile wind from the lake disturbed the dying vines by the door sadly; there were dampness and mystery in the air. It reminded Mr. Thompion of (he days of his youth, when—horrors! Rising slowly, cautiously over the buck (enee oame aebulbous and hide- = ly grinning head, In the few min- utes before the startled watcher on the back porch recognized the almost for- gotten "Jaok-lautern" his hair rose tind cold chills held him be their grasp. He fell back against tile kitchen door. —.11he young wretch!" he grinned to himself. Carefully the bearer of the lantern clambered hVer the fence. The ptunpkin by some marvelous means • was sectuely fastened to his ehoulders so that ween • the email ifgure trotted across the yard young Jim presented the appearance oe a luminous tool topelteevy Brownie. Straight to the wooden pillars of the back porch he hurried and prepared to climb. At once his father understood the plot — Cissie's bedroom windows were abeve and it was her loving brother's intention to appear before her in his present alarming guise and tette ''soare her 'most to death." Jim'e legs cliaappeiered up the poet his eather fled through the house, apetairs, Mee vezient room to wait for the intender. Att 110 rim the epirit of Halloween idiocy, remnant from his own boyhood, en- tered his soul and be grabbed a sheet and pillowcase off the bed, (hoped him- self with amazing dexterity, picked up the bedroom,ciendle, lighted it and hid behind the door. 'rho window =eked, resisted, raised, and with i•tindry bumps of his pump- kin head, young Jim slid in, meet to ward the bed, paand and than gave vent to a 3110;t dismal graveyard howl. AL the same instene there glided to - Ward him from behind the door the molt gigantic and flattering ghost with a light in its teeth ono ever &eternai of in a nighlmere. The deg male thoateleal howl changed to a shrill yell of terror, and the pumpkin. - headed figure gave a frantic plunge straight into the downy bed, the ghost following with a Meiling "Whoo-o-01" (1 was more fun that ler. Thompson had bad Anne he Wee 12 years old. As he deeended on the wriggling figure in the bed he had a view oe the door — al:might towaed them mune a second ghost, In the overstrained condition of his nerves Mr. Thomsen lost his heed utterly and a spasm of tenoarrey fright Weed him, His own ghost was under- steed/Mlle but this—he raised his voice mid joined Jim in a shriek for belie Steps came miming, Mrs. Thome, on flew in end lighted the gee—et:eyed et, the; leuddiect aningileg of ghee:, etneeeed ettinpkit shivering, staring -eyed son and quaking his - band in the middle of the bed, looked at small, estonished Olssie in ber white nightie, who had amply (tome to her room after her hairbrush took in the situation and then amiled.Mr, Tbompeon will remember that smile to the end of hie days. And young Jim Saw it, too, aucl interpreted. it, Mr. Thompeon in consequence has Met whoa little veneration his son, In deference to his ago and probable ex - meiotic°, ever had for him. He tare - duped to the level of being Ames tole mated chum theme (MY% and nothing more. Dal; he Faye lie doesn't mind, for he Hada it instruotive to be on good terms with the rising generation. TO SPEAK SOFTLY. - " Do you speek softly? elas your vOiee precisely the proper pitch, and can it adapt 'Melt on the inseent to the room you suddenly enter?" alike O writer. She remarks also: "Have You learned that you must never wbbs- peV in a church—for whispering is al- ways very audible there—but speak in O low, firm tone'? Can you laugh pro- perly and daintily as an ideal girl should ? Can you control your voice, teeing one tone fer one occasion and an- other for another at will? Can you talk animatedly and with enthusiasm without throwing your turas about, your head too far back and without moving your body? A foreign woman, who has the softest, prettiest yoke her- self, is the apostle of this new milt, and to her come each day troops of girls singly or in classes of six omd eight. Then, stepping to the piano near by, she strikes a note. If high in the tre- ble it is recent for a girl whose tones tre naturally harsh and. guttural ; if dowu in the bass, for a girl who :Teaks shrtlly and in a half sermon.. That for you,' she says, singling out a girt. Now, try and see how close- ly you oan pitch your voice to that.' " There is yet no attempt to get the girl to speak more satiety, but as each ; tries to alter her tones to get rue the i pitch of the musical note aselgned 1.0 her the tendency is to keep the voice down. Without trying to reproduce the note itself, a girl after half a, dozen 1 starts falls somehow Into the cadence ' of the amend, or she approaches it. elle gruff -yelped girl is more dulcet; the girl of the squeeky tones drops with- out enowing it into a voice that is resonant and full. The nasal voice and the voice teat acems to come from the bottom of the throat are cajoled until they Borinliknee to lose their dis- agreeable peculiarities, It is not so !much the object to change voices as I it is to control them. By this plan of nasal gymnastics a girl oan alter her ; (ones at will, and 11: 15 a simple thing , for her to learn to speak softly. She comes to learn that by raising her volce badly at alt she can make her tones ;merry to a marvelous degree. She is ! taught the difference between rooms, how there is one tone for public as- semblages, another for parlors, a third for smaller rooms and yet another for the street." WOMEN'S NERVES. In this modern life of rush and worry, a, woman's main reliance is up- on her nerves. If they are strong and healthy there is strength of sinew, firmess and vigor of mind and body, she can comfortably meet the demands of society, and life and its duties are rendered a pleasure. The many oases of nervous prostra- tion or utter collapse of the nervous system, under whieh women "go all to pieoes," as the sayleg is, have caus- ed much thought and investigation on the part of physicians. Certain inor- ganic substances are well known to oause some forms of nervous diseases, examples of eilloh are lead palsy and mercurial tremor, affections which are readily traced to the poisons producing them. Further research leads to the belief that alum is a prevailing cause of so-oalled nervous prostration, or the symptoms it produces on the ner- vous system after its absorption inte the blood are very remarkable indeed.. Experiments physiologioally made up- on animals by Orfila, Professors Hans Meyer and Paul Seim, show that alum produces no visible symptoms for many days after its introduction Lute Lhe 1 body. Then follows loss of appetite • and other alimentary disturbances, andfinally a Bertram prostration (Atha whole nervous system. The symptoms are 1110Se observed in a species of ner- vous paralysis in a human being. The theory is therefore advanoed by the Most prominent physicians that "nor - voile penetration," and many effete. tions of the nerves from whittle both women ana men suffer, are caused by the oontinued absorption oe alum in the same way that leted palsy or mer- curial tremor is due to the absorption of lead or mercury. it is probable that many medical men are unaware of the exteut to whieh salts of alumina may be introduced into tiee body be- cause they are under the impression that the use of elute in bread is for- bidden by law. ibis, however, still used to whiten bead as well as in making baking powder. STAPLE TALISMEN. Rusted horseshoe nails for luelc 1 In many places they bring five cents eel* while an old rusty horseshoe will feteh dotble the prize. Jay's wings are supposed to keep away sickness and bring prosperity. They sell for eight cents hi some parte of the world. There it a little ground mouse nailed the "Shreve" whose tail is cheap at six eaten. Rabbits met nave been tried tend their virtues well known, but they are cheap unless fashionably mounted. There is a market eomewhere for teas- raen of this kind, all Um way from donkey Mile to white hazel root. WHEN elle IS WTSF,ST. At whet age does a man allow the (0011 le I el I igence? At I he age When he varieties the conoluelon that he hes lite lease. NO EXPERIMENTS WANTED REV. DR. TALMAGE DISCOURSES Ole THE EFFICACY OF PRAYER. Preressar TyndalA and elands tannage Proposed Experttueut—hoes tied near wad AssaWer Prayer ?-51, Case or MO. saw the Orcatest, Aid to 'Your neeavery is Prayer—Tho or. Slakes a PlialleahN deepetob from 1,Vashlogton says: e-Rov, Dr, Talmage preached from the following text ;•—•I have heard thy prayer; behold I will heal thee. And Metal said, Take a lump of: figs. And thee took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered," -2 Kings. xx, 5, 7. Luxutioue living is not heeethy. The seeond generation et leings and queens and lords anti princes, Is apt to be brainless and invalid. The second crop of geese is almost always short, Royal blood is generally scrofulous. You will not be surprised, then, to hear (bat King H'ezeklah had disorders whiOh broke out in a carbuncle, virulent:and deathful. The Lord told him he must die ; he did not want to die. Ile turn- ed his face to the wall, so that his prayer would not be interrupted, and cried to God for his life. God heard the prayer and answered it, saying. " Behold I wilt heal thee." But there was human inatrumeutality to be am- ployed. This carbunele needed a cat - unlash. That 18 11 tough word that We use to show how math we know. If In the pulpit we always Use words the People understand We never should batto any reputation tor learning. Well this carbuncle needed a .cataplasin, which is a poultice. Your old !neth- er, who doctored her own children in the time when physicians were not as plentiful as they ere 11051, NVill tell you that the very best poultice is a fig, and that was what was used upon the carbunole of King Kezekieb. The power of God, accompanied by this hu- man Instrumentality, cured the king, In this ago of diecovery, 'erten mem know so much, it kills i.bem, anti write so wisely it almost 'cilia us, ilium been found out that prayer to God is a dead failure. All things are arrang- ed accordtrig to inexorable law. There la no use in praying to God for rain In tlii tbma o1: dr lit The " probabilittese in the morning paper will decide the question, rain or no rain, and the whole Italian in prayer before God would not bring down a single drop. I am not now speaking of un imaginary Lheory, but of that Muth is believed by ten thousand times ten thousand men. 14 sickness come to your bousehold, it will depend entirely upon ventilation, good diet, and the skilt of the (looters, as to whether your child gets well. The fa - thee might pray alt aay and the moth- er might pray alt night—it would not have any effect upon tbe case. If squills, belladonna, paregoric and getiel clo the work, your MOM will get well; if not, not. THERE IS A OAST -IRON GOD seated at the head of the universe, holding in the grasp oe his metal fingers a band of law from which noth- ing earl break away. The whole Christian world and the Lord Almighty, withiu the past few weeks, have been challenged. God has now an opportunity of proving wheth- er he keeps his promiees, by an exper- mane Professor Tyndall and Francis Galton, English gentlemen, propose Lha( two wards in a hospitat be set apart. for the experiment. The people in the oxie ward of the hospital shall never be made, for the reason, in the other ward. of the hospital shall be prayed for. Then we will see which of the patients got welt the sooner. —the experiment to go on for five years. Welt, it is the most condes- cending thing in hatuau philosophy elute I think I have ever heard of. Here the Lord Almighty bas an opportun- ity of winning tho confidence of such men as Professor Tyndall and Francis Gallon I Besides that, it is very com- • plimentary to the angels; and teDavid, Paul, ancl Isaiah, who wrote so much &bout prayer, hear at it, they will, no doubt, be very much gratified to have a recommendation from such high authority.- If there ever was a lime when the whole universe ought to present a vote of thanks to one Eng- lish literary reVieW, this is the time. I call for the ayes and noes. The eyes have lel ley Wends, that experiment will never be made, for the reason M the first place, you never could gel amen to he down in the PraYealess ward ex that hospital—not even the philosoph- ers who make the proposal. It they were sick, it would be tlee laat.place on earth they would want to be sick in—that prayerless ward of the hos- pital. You oould not get an English- man to lie there, for King James's translation hue been abroad too long among Britons, and the bell of St. Paul's has rung London to prayer too often, You could not get a Seotchman to lie there, for he oomes from the land of John Knox, and methinks the old COVentultera who tlied for their faith would gel up front Grayfriars church- yard and hiss at him if he 1110(1 11:, The experiment is also impoesible; beennee if the professor and myself Should agree upon making it, yon oteeld not stop the world anci the Church front praying tor all the distressed. There is a great company of delnded men mut women, who every clay, have the habit oe PRAYING FOR ALL THE SICK, and you oould not stop them. Be- sides, the .Episcopal Church, in its lit- urgy, has a prayer to God for the sick, and 1 don't suppose that you could get them le put into their liturgy a son- tenee like this; "Thie we ask for all the stoic, arise tbose in Ward 02 of Tyndall end Talmage's experimental hospital." Beeides that, at the end of four you's three hundred anci sixty four days, on the last day' of the five years of our eXperlineet, some met - pathetic women might say, "Alas, her the poor people in the sixty-8000nd Ward of the hospital 1 I Must prey for them," And she would get down on her kheesand in two minutes spoil the whoM experiment. Thitt ehellenge coenteg across the "atm\ hoes not yet betel aeoeeeed, r now =opt ie in the preeehoe of title people, and of ell to wheat Owe Words shall sone, in the United Stales end Europe, I =opt tee challenge Oh one condition, and. this is, that these mon wwhIeUen ratlike; thIroisgs'i oalclo\,11yealnIss°11vtr' e prayerless ward, while we give our attention le the Alexi, ward. i holm these uhyteciats will let us know as own as they era feirly down on eheir Nieto, that we may begin evem They have not made any arrangements about rre awl Fla peak; hsakile,4 rws ettrh, sok ?hear rucoleadLi-.; tion that they do hot have the order- ing of their own provisions. Ali I my friends, have we been 80 neisteken 1 Doom God hear and answer prayeror does be uot ? Why oome oat wilh a challenge in tills day, and an experiment,. when we have here the very experuneat, Ilezekieh was sick unto death; he prayed for his bus; God heard him, and added fifteen years to that lifetime. The prayer sav- ed him—the lump of figs applied be- ing merely the God-appoinLed human inetrumentallly. " But, ' says some one, "I don't believe the Bible.' Ah I then we will have to part company tor four or five minutes, for it is useless to try to argue with any man with whom 1011 ounc'da. nIoaoynotstand upon (10012000mmoa gr would be sueoessf ul, seltginueriumea'f must (1: you oymouo common data to start from. It is fool- ish to try to prove to a man that twiee three ale 5i1, provided he dOef3 not admit the multiplication -table, or that two and two are four, if he does not admit the addition table. My first address, therefore, is to those who do believe the Bible. I want to tell you that prayer is the MIGHTIEST OF ALL ILEMLeDIES and that the allopathic, and hoilmeo- pathic, and the eclectic schools will yet acknowledge it. Here are two oases of siokness precisely alike; the same kind of medicine is given to both ex them, and in the same quantities. The one patient recovers, end the oth- ur not. Why? God blesees e one remedy, and does not bless the , other.Prayer has helped many a • blundering dootor through with a oase I that would have been otherwise come I pletely unmanageable, There is such • a thing as Gospel hygiene, as Christian • pharmacy, as divine materia medica, 1 That is a foolish man who, ixt cape of sMkness, goes only to Munan 222 - sou nee, when we have those instances et the Lord's help in a sick room. Be- fore you call the (lector, while he im , there, and after he goes away, look up to him who cured Hezektah. Let the . apothecary send the poultice, but God makes it draw, Ohl I am glad to have a doctor who knows how to pray. God send salvation to all the doctors I Sickness Nvould be oftener balked, death would be oftener burled. beet !rem the doorsill, if moderate men came , 11110 Isauih text, with a prescription in their hands ten(1 the wor(1 of the Lord in their mouths. john Abermombie, the niost celebrat- ed physician of Sootland, prayed when he went into a siok-room, and he wrote no more ably about "diseases of the brain" than about "the philosophy of the moral feelings." I don't know how much of the medical success of Syden- ham, anti Cooper, and Harvey, and 1 Rush, depended upon the fact that • they knew how to pray as well as to presentee. I don't want a physician who sees no God in human nnatomy to doctor my bones. If Gott made us, and I think he did, and lf the Bible M true, and I am rather disposed to thtnk M, then it is not strange teat prayer does traverse natural causes; aye, that it introduces st 11511 cause Ween God made tlie law, he did not make it so 1 strong he could not break it. If God made our bodies, winen they are broken, he is the one to mend them; and it is reasonable that we should call him in to do it. If my furnace in the cellar breaks down, there is no 0110 so coin - Patent to repair it as the manufactur- er. lf my watch stop, there is no one e8Gre7Vetent to repair it as the one who MaCle it. If the body is disord- CALL IN THE MAKER OF IT. It is 13 0 t all, as these physicists toll us, a matter of ventilation or poison- ed air, of oleanliness or dirt, of nut- ritious diet or poor fare. I have known people to get well in rooms where tee windows had been six weeks down, tiglat shut, and I have known them to die right under patent ventileaors. I bave known children sickly who every day had their bath, and I have known children robust, the washing of whose faces would make their features un- recognizable. God did not make the law and then run away from it. What is a law of nature? It is only God's usual way of dieing things. But he has said that if bus childreu ask ben to do a thing, and he onn oonsistently do it, he will do it. Go on with your pills and plas- ters, and nostrums and elixirs, and your critholioon, but remember (het the raightient ageney in yew reeovery Is prayer. Prayer to God brought the King's mire, the lump of figs being the God -directed human instrumentality. I would have you also see—for it is another lesson of the subject—that our prayer =et be accomptinted by menns. It is an outrage to risk God to do a thing while we roulette indolentt The prayer, to be acceptable, must oome nob only from the heart, but from the hands. We must work while we pray —devotion and work going together. Luther °lune to Melanothon's bedside and prayed for his recovery, and in- eisted, at the same time, thnt he shoeld take some warm soup, the tioup being just as iniportaut as the prayer, in the time of the greet plague that came to York, of England, the priest prey- ed ell obey and all night tor tee vetoes, - al of the vague, but didnot think of elstning out the deed dogs and cats that lay in the gutters, causing tbe siokness. We must use means as well as supplication. If O nom has "evenlog prayers," asking health, and then sits down to a full supper of indigestibles at eleveli o'clock at tight, his prayer is a mock - ever. A man has no eight to pray for tbe safety of his family evlien he knows there is no cover on the oisterre The Christian man, reoldese about Ins health, ought not to expect the same answer to lite prayer as lhe Mutation man expects who retires regularly at ten b'elook at night, and takes his morning bath with the appendix ef Turkish towel. Paul seid to the pas. seiefeeee of the Aleeandrittle corneship that they should get eefe ashore, but he told them they must use eutane, end that wee, "STICK 110 Trite OLD SHIPP" God le net weak, heeding out help, bat God is strong, and esits 205 to eceepere ate with binx that we may be strong too, Pray by all means, but don't for- get the figepoultioe. That God aiiewers, prayer offered in ihe right. Spirit, secoaded by our own effort, is the first anti last lesson oe title text, and It is a lesse4 that this age needs to learn. If ail cominunlea- tion between hettven and earth is cut off, let is know it. If all the Chris- tian pram% that are going Up bo - ward God, /lever reach hire, then, I say, let Come innite the lips of Lbe afflicted world, tool tile nations Smoth- er thole groans and die quietly. God dOefi answer prayer, The text shows it. You 'say, "1 on't bbelleve the Bible; I think (bat therm things were merely coinoldenoes whicb are often brought as answers to prayers." Do you Flay that? Was it mere happens - so that Ewan preeeed for rain juet as the rain was going to mime anyhow? Did Daniel pray in the wilei beasts' den just at the time when all Lee lions halleenerl to have the lockjaw? Did Josue pray at the grave of Lazarus just at the time when Lazarus was going to dress blinself and come out anyhow? Did Jeans lose his place in his sermon, and make a mistake when be said, "Ask, and it shalt be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and is shall be opened unto your And, lest some were so stupid they could not understand it, be goes on, "For every one that asketb, receivette and he tbat seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be open- ed." But some one persists In saytng, "I don't believe any thing of the Bible," Than I appeal to your own hestinota. Prayer in certain circumstances is as natural to a men as the throbbing in the pulse, as the respiration of the lungs, Put a company of men — I don't care how bad they are—in some imminent peril, and Lhey will cry out, "God have mercy on us I" it seems to be a time for making challenges; so I make one. I challenge that these men oho don't belleee in prayer chart- er a steamer, go out in the "Narrows," swing out eight or nine hundred miles to sea, and then heave -to and wait fox O cyclone. And atter the cyclone comes, and the veesel has gone under ilenluinnisehWaegliaita,they did uiobtewxyprkeost fwo have been knocked in, and the masts are goee—if they do not pray, I Nvill surrender my theory. Do you tell me tha1 this instinct whieh God has put finor uhsis hosiorcrutehleraluiasgeitietnutirIke Gouds implanted that 'instinct in the human lieearewas t, ithis was beoeuse in s own heart fbr SOMETHING RESPONSIVE. To prove that, God does bear prayer, I put on the witness -stand Abraham, Isaac, 'Dumb, • Ezekiel, enreeniele, Micah, John, Paul, Peter and King H ezekiah, Tell me, ye ancieut battle- fields, ye Oriental thrashing floors, ye Judean corn -fields, ye Galilean fish- ing -smacks, M God deaf, and dumb, mot bliud before all humble petition; That God answers prayer, 1 bring the Len million facts of Christendom to prove. There has never paper enougb come out of the paper -mills to write the story. Has nut mane o mother prayed back her bad boy from the ends of the earth—from Canton, from Madras, from Constantbeople—until he knelt beside her in the old homestead/ Have there not been despexadoes and renegades who have looked into the door of a preyetemeeting to laugh and scoff at it, who have been drawn by the power of prayer, until they ran to the altar crying out for mercy'? But why should I go so fari I had, in my own experience, and' I have had in the history oe my own faintly, the evidence thee G•o(1 anew= prayer. My mother, with three Christian wo- men, aesembled week after week, and prayed for their children; they kept up that prayer -meeting of four per- sons year after year. The world kaew nothing of it, God answered all those prayers. eel 1 the group, came in; the eleven sous and daughters of my mother came lo, myself the last. Sicknees came to my household — hopeless sichaess as, it seemedto many. At three ceolook on Saturday pane, the invalicl was carried to the steamer Lor Savannah. At eleven o'clock the next day, being Sunday, standing in this very platte, a man Of God prayed for the recovery of the sick oue, At thrit time, eleven o'clock, she who had been prostrated three weeks, with some help, walked up on deek, The ocourrenee is ns NEAR 10 BEING MIRACULOUS as I can imagine. That she was hopeleesty sick, people wee sat up with her night after night, and are here, can testify, the prayer for her recovery was offered in this pulpit, thou:sancta of people could testify, That at eleven o'clock on that Sunday noun- ing she walked up on docile, as by a miraculous recovery, 1 call the pass- engers on the Sen leacinto, commanded by Captain Atkins December Mb, to testify, 711113 la ha second-hand story. Prayer impotent! If I dared to think there wits id force in prayer, methinks God, after ale he has done for me end mine, tvould strike me dead. Prayer impotent! Why it is the mightiest force in the universe, no power, compared 1Lviigrnhtinti.ng has no speed, the Alpitte avalanche has Will you let the abstractions and (he vage-ries tiE a few ereptioe, O good many empties, stahd beeide the experience of General Havelooke who came out i trent 0( 11(55 Englieb tatty, lifted his hat, aid called upon the Lord eelmightyi or of William Wilber- force, who went from the 13ritish Par- iiiiment to the closet ofdevotion/ or of Latimme who stood, with his bands on fire, in martyrdom, praying fax hie persecutors? Was Havelook weak? Wes Wilberforee weak/ Wee Latimer wealte Bring all Lhe affeirs oi yolir soul of your body, of your friends, ee your elterob, before Him, and the greet dayof etereity will, show you that the best investment you ever made were your prayers, and though you may have broken promises you nue e to God, God. never broke his pro - raises to you. Lot God betrue, though every man be found( a liar. And, now, be eonolusiot, 1 have to present you some cheeks blank checks, on the bank of beaveu, onettee blood, and signed by the hand WOUNDED ON TILE CROSS. It is hot MOO for youl to Iva a blank e eek wall your name to 1:. You do not kttow what Might be writ ton above. But here is a blank (heck which God seys 1 can glee to youl il; is. 1 signed by lite haadeveleing of. the Uwe jestis Christ, and yen ran fill 11 up, with anything you wane to. "Ask, and it shall be given you; tieek and Ye shall find," do null say that yoter prayer will be answered, in Aura the way you except, but I do etty it will be animated In the best way, Ohl will you Met him? Two laths outcome of all Leis eubject. X alle glad. the Chritillem worl11 has been challenged. I think it will evoke en thous/rid experleocee that other - 51180 would. not have been told, If eboeuld tersic the men and women in Leda audience whe have found. God a PraY0r-hrthwerith; God to rise up, you would nearly all rise up. Le. thne ef darknese and trouble, SIS in time oe light and prosperity, he unewered you, I commend you to that Gad to whom your pumas dedicated you. in infamy. They believed so much in prayer, that last word was a supplication] for you, relying heard you in, days of prosper, ley, he will not reject your Met peti- tion, when, in the darkened room, after they hues wiped the dew of death from your brow, and the whole group of loved ones have kissed you good-byo, you have only strength enough left to pray, "Lord Jesus, receivre my epiritl" AT HOME lel THE WATER. The ilteniaritubie Penis nir a ItahIlIkfl Swimmer HMI nivel.. There is a native living in Nawili- wile district of Lihue, on the island of Kauai, whom every one knows as johttay, but whose family MUM} is Kaulokai. This latter name he has had tabooed on leis arm, togeLher with the picture of ft deceased sweetheart. appearaace ha is a Lypical native, muscular, with the appearanoe of an athlete. Johnny is a remarkably goiolswim- neer, and it ia seed, was at one time very much addicted to the habit of stealing ducks. Eta method was very simple, He would hicie In the bul- rushes along the edges of the duck ponds, and would from time to time dive out where the ducks happened to be, match one or two from Lite sur- face., push them into a bag, swim back again to the rushes, there to take breath, for another sally. In this wee, he succeeded in making quite a oom- fortable leering. However, he has given up his crooked ways, and 11051 resides, like a peaceably inclined citi- zen, reiyiag on work that is given him from lime to time. When out on a hunting or fishing expedition there is no better man on the island of Kauai than this same Johnny. Barefooted, he will climb all ovesi the dangerous palis that fall away abruptly and end thousands of feet be - LOW in the sea. The festive goat itself isnot more active, aad when hunting for this kind of game he is as invalu- able us a man to chase the animals to a point of vantage. As a diver, there are law natives, even, who Dan beat him. In diving after lobsters he has the very tenon:. fortable habit of swimming a great distance into eaves that have no open- ing above the water. Beneath the rocks of these places he will feel around, never faettng to (Seine to the Lop, bringing with him something to make glad the hearts of the house- wives. HER FUTURE EHJSBAND. Queen Withelmina having chosen the prieme whom she wishes to marry, is now foreed to consider a series of questions of rank and precedence which were most vexatious to Queen Victoria nearly sixty years ago, when she had a young husband. Is the fav- ored suitor, Prince William. oe Wied, to be known as a king or as a prince consorte What is 10 he his rank when he and. the young queen 0.10 en- tertainin.g royal guests at their own court or are vesiting the palaces of foreign capitals? Queen Victoria, when she wee on the eve of marriage, wished Parlia- ment to confer upon Prince Albert the title of king consort because she pre- formi to have him equal in rank to herself. lf this had been done she would bave been spared much irrita- tion and annoyance. Parliament neither settled his title nor his rank, and contented Rear xvIth fixing his income at about one hun- dred and eifty thousand dollars and melting hen a naturalieed mtizen oi the "Untied, Kingdom. The queen was left to settle 'questions of title and etiquette in her own way. She termed letters patent declaring that ha was entitled to have plaoe, pre- eminence and preeedence next to her- self. She put him in the seat next to Lim throne when she opened Varlet - went. She confereed upon him by ayal act the title and dignity a evince eonsort. Whenever 5110 went abroad with her husband =eel questions of eti- quette were raised. The poly position which he otecupied by a close ounetruo- tion of international law woe that of O younger lnbother of the Duke of Stexe-Couburg. At some °outlet he was not regarded. as a royal. personage, and those who deemed that dignity either refuse(1 to yield their places to him or sulked and aotecl disagreeably. Queen Victoria's experienees have been oonfided to her daughter -in -la% tile Dueliess oe AIbeey, who is QUeert aunt. The young queen has bee u warned that she ought to do everything in her power to have the position of her fature husband set- tled in. adveatee by the 1311013 mane This eau be done by conferring upon hint the title of kiug, or by investing hien with the rights mid digniLies of a prioce nousort oe the Dutch lino. 'Ihe qeteetge ministers ere Radical politi- mans and may be obstinate; but her sabjeets will want to Make him a Dutch sovereign so far as possible, They distreet Germany ana enema forget that Prince William of Wied is a, dasheng young 0f1:10e1 of the Prus- sian Imperial Genre, In London elle women are blamed for the proposed inerceme le the premiums en the inettranee policies of 'cycliste, 31 ts said that wornen are Mach more recklese Adore than hien, and though they May hail "000.1.611" so iratele they dodge around eernera and tie+ 'under the noses of horses in a reeklees tash- ion, Healtit Department. FAMILY MEDICINE CHEST. Here are a set of suggeetiOne which Mrs Eneraa Parldeek Telford, oat au good lio r tyultoaokeasIplinTtonm le•s xpe 1)014.011110(1 rs i nhet: to be pasted up on the Weide of the closet door or endieine chest, where they could be referred to in a hurry In ease of fainting, plaoe the body in a borizontal position, with the head loown-,isprinkle cold water on teem, neck and chest; loosen the clothing, and ex - Pose the patient to fresh air, Camphor or ammonia applied to the no:Arils will also prove efficacious, though the late Lenz, ernokuesnt ibittinubssedshowuiltah c,abuep teolutt.ead In natural positions and the patient kept quiet until the arrival of tOe physie la Cramps in the stomitoli usually yield sto01v0teasPoonful ef ginger, Stirred in a hale glees ot hot waLer, in which half teaspoonful of soda has been die- ed. Nervous spasms are usually control- led by 0 little sett taken into the mouth and allowed to dissolve. A patient suffering from suustroke should be carried into s. cool room, and cloths wrung out of melte or Ice water applied to the head. These should be large enough to envelop the whole head and cbanged often. A bladder, or bag of oiled silk, partially filled with pozdbeedueirciat.and placed on L1:110 head is veyn Por nose bleed, bathe the face and neck evith cold water, and rolling a 01:ot:he. piece of white paper in a tight •oll, plaoe it under the upper lip, where It will press against the gum. If the bleeding does not readily yield, plug the nostrils with a soft roll of ootton L o,as1101 rneuasanb rlgiao,appeboen lyhote,. dry flan- ok or pmeon by poison oak or ivy, Lake O handful of quicklime, dissolve in we aa.stee.r, then paint the poisoned part with it. Two or three applications Will ordinarily cure the most stubborn For stings of insects, examine the parts with a magnifying glass, and If Ithe eting is left in the wound extraot it wieh a small pair of tweezers OT a sharp penknife, Then apply diluted ammonia, camphor, mud, baking soda, nensteued, oe even onion juice. For the bite of a dog or Oat, the wound sheuld be thoroughlo suoked, then tele piece which has oome m con- tact with the animal's teeth cut out or cauterized with a hot knitting needle, O tight bandage wound olosely about the wound to obeeruct the circulation, and the wound btssea wasned in warm water as long as it will bleed. The of poisonous btsetlke. ilto apply tbe bite fa For burns the most important point in their treatment is to at [Mee exclude the air. Sweet oil and coteon are stand - or flour and oil. Do not ra flit isvei a subsides.ethdesresing until the inflam- med ro er an artery is severed, tie a small cord or handkerchief tightly above it, and inserting a round stirk, improvise O tourniquet to hold the floss, in check until the surgeon arrives. Hemorrhages of lungs or stomach may be checked by small doses of salt and. perfect quiet. A sprain should be treated at once to an applioation et water as hot as ran be borne. This raay be showered upon it, or cloths wrung out of hot Water applied frequently. For croup, immerse hands and feet in hot mustard or soda water. Great reolrinefe. is soruetimes experieneed from drinking water as hot as can be b For sudden attacks of dysentery or oolio give equal parts of tincture of rhubarb, essence of peppermint and oampleor. Dose, ten to twenty drops is a wineglass of sweetened water at intervals of fifteen minutes. For acute asthma or nausea, spread a plaster with lard, sprinkle with black pepper, allspioe and oloves, and lay on Mutat or pit oe stomach, as the ease may be. I'm apparent death from lightning, dash oold water freely over head, faoe and whole body. If this does not 15 - vivo the patient, place the body in a freshly made opuulne ..c the ground, in a half -sitting posture, with his Tam toward the sun, covering him all over e.xeepting the head tvith fresh earth. For poisoning by auide, ittlministe; oopious draughts of tepid water or tickle the throat with a feather or something eimilar to eXeite vomiting. Then give warm soapsuds or magnesia or chalk dissolved in Neaten water, or wood ashes, soda, gruel, linseed tea or rice water, whichever clan be reached first. For poisoning by alkalis, give dilute vinegar or sour milk, leraenade, meet oil or any mucilaginous drink. For arsenical poisoning, induce vom- iting 58 quiekly as possible, then ad- minister a spoonful of peroxide of iron, drog store iie not near enough to get GIN in a hurry, give iron rust, stirred in sweetened water, or whites of eggs and water, or soap suds, GOOD REMEDY FOR BURNS. Ie any of oter readees 010 not fami- liar with the fact that oommon bak- ing soda, bicaebonate of soda, is ie par- ticularly good applieatIon to any men - partitively sliglet bum or =hi, then, if used When float en aceident nocare, they will probably reeeive the full value of 0 year's subscription to out paper. The way to use it is to sprinkle the burn, as well as the cloth tribe applied, freely with the soda, wrapping the injured pavt with the cloth end e keeping 11 well sonked with cold water. It limy be well lo repeat the application as the water washee the soda away. Ily this trot:teen-Ma seelite that ere Izetiz severe, 6111 efelievete from vain td.de tourse of six to ten hours, It givett rellee at twice. Paste this up in the kitchen, if yott are enegelful, and be sure to have Male soda on hand for burns only, When yon need it yen will watt it eery badly. The writer knows trout oxporiarieto.