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REV. DR. TALAIAGE SPEAKS OF
THE GREAT REAPER.
ohm et the need noy-mhe charm or
emunkoosi-ehe uns. Semite tee Idea
nem Oesse cedieren envoy. no-ne.
Immobility or tee Statham Wheel
eeskeher- flannel' ',element Hecate
neemie or nee ehint-en Eloquent
Sermon on Childhood.
; A deepatch from Washington says: -
Rev. Dr. Talmage preached from the
following text: -"And. when the child
W&4 grown, It fell on a day, that he
event out to his father to the reapers,
And, he said unto his.father, my head
ray head! And he makd to a lace carr
him to his mother. Ana wh pa he ha
taken hire, and brought him to hi
mother, he sat on her' knee till noon
and then died." -11 Rings, iv. 18, 19, 20
There is at least one happy home i
Sbunera. To the luxuriance an
splendor of a great house, had bee
given the adveut of a thile. Eve
when the Angel of Life, brings a nett
soul to poor raan'a eine a star of jo
shines over the meager. Infamy, with
it helplessness and innocence, had pass
ed away. Days of boyhood had come -
days of laughter emit troll* days 0
sunshine and promise, days of strange
questions and ouriosity and quiok de
velopment. I suppose among all the
treasures of that house, the brightest
was the boy. One day there is the
shout of reapers heard afield. A boy's
beart always bean& at the sound of
sickle or scythe, No sooner have the
barvester's out a swath across the field
dean the lad joins them, and the swar-
thy reapers feel young again as they
look down at that. lad, as briglit and
beautiful as was Ruthto the harvest
-
Heide of Bethlehem gleauing after
the reapers. But the sun was too hot
for him. Congestion of the( brain
seized on him, 1 sea the swarthy
laborers deep their sickles; and they
rush out to see what: is the matter,
and they fan him and, they try to cool
hie brow; but all is at no avail, Lo
the instant of consciousness, he puts
his hands against his temples and
cries out: "Ali, headl inn head:" And
the father said: "Cerry him/ to his
mother," just as any father would
liath said; for our hand is too rough,
and our voice is too harsh, sand our
foot( is too loud to doctor a sick child,
if there be in our home a gentler voles
and a venter bane and a stiller
footstep. But all of no avail, While
the reapers of Shun= were busy in
the field, there came a stronger reap-
er that way, with keener ecYthe and
for a richer harvest. He reaped only
one sheaf, bat 0 what a golden theta
was that!
The child's beauty does not depend
upou form or feature or complexion or
apparel. That destitute one that you
saw on the street, bruised with un-
kiedoess and in rags, bas a charm
about her, even under bar destitution.
You have forgotten a great many
persons whom you met, QC finely Cut
features and with erect posture and
with faultMse complexion, while you
will always remember the poor girl
who, an a cold, moonlight night as
you were paesuag late home, in her
thin shawl a:ad bareeeooe on the pave-
ment, put out .her hand and said:
"Please to give me a penny." All
how often we have walked on and ktaid:
"0, that is nothing but street vaga.
bondiem;" but after we got a block or
two on, we stopped and said: "Ale
that es not right; ann we passed up
that same way and dropped a mite
Into the suffering hand., as thou Li it
were not a matter of secoud thought.,
so ashamed were we of our hard-
heartednees. With what admiration
we all look upon a group of children
on the play -grounds or in the school;
and we clap our hands almost involute.
tartly, and say: "How beautiful!" All
stiffness and dignity are gone and
your shout is heard with theirs, and
you trundle their hoop, and fly their
kite, and strike their ball, and all your
weariness and anxiety are gone as
when a child you bounded oyez+ the
play -ground yourself. That father
who stands rigid wed unsymoathetio
amid the eportfulness of children
ought never to have been tempt:6d out
of a crusty and unredeemable soli-
tarinees. The seaters leap down the
rocks, but they hava nola the graceful
step of childhood. There is something
about their forehead that makes you
think that the hand of Christ has been
on it, saying: ''Let this on come to i
Me, and. let it come to Me soome WhjIe
that one tarried in the house, yeu felt
there was an angel in the room and
you thought that every eickness would '
be the last; and when, finally, the
in
wds of death did scatter the leaves,
you were no more eurprised than to see
a star ocknae out above the' cloud on a
dark night; for you had, often said to
your companion: "My dear, we shall
never raise that child." But I scout
the idea that good children always die
Etamue the pious boy, became Samuel
the great prti
prophet. Chrisan l'imo- 0
thy became a minister at Zphesus,
Young Daniel, coneecrated to God, bee g
eame prime minister of all the reals,
and there are in hundreds ot c
the schools and families of
this country to -day, children who
love God and keep Hie Commandments, 0
and who are to be foremost among the
Christ inns and the philantbro piste and
thS reforrams of the neXL half cen-
tury. The grace of God never kills Y
any one. A child will be more apt
to grow up with religion than it will
be apt to grow up without it. Length 0
of days is promised to the righteous.
Tee religion of Christ cines not cramp t
the eheet or curve the spine or weeks., t
en the nerves. There are 130 Malarias Is
fleetingChup from the river ol life. The
religion of riee throwa over all the j b
heart atul nth oe a child a supernal Y
beauty. "Iter ways ere ways of a
plementhess, and all her paths are
peace "
T pass on to consider the suseeptie
bility 01 childhood. Men yride thene-
selveson their unthangeability, They f
veil' mike an elaborate arguMent to R
prove that they think now just. as they h
did twenty yeters ago. It is eletrged
o rallty or fraud when a Man lo
ehenges hie sentiments in polities or d
in religion, and it is this determines- s
teen oe soul thee so 021811 drivee back
TEM BRUSSELS POST, Jtmy 21, 1890
the Gospel from a man's heart, et
so hard to make avartce eharitatel
and fraud lionceat., and pride enrol))
and sceptical= telthistian. Tee swor
of God s truth seeins tu glance of
18 ly a large family in this thumb to -clay
0, that has not beet over steel a tree.
es Mere arid last it. In the family fold is
a there no deed lamb I have seen rutillY
f Ruth oases of sorrow. there is one tart
from these mailed warriors, cau
the belmot seems battle -proof Agatha
God's battle-axe. But childhood; ho
susoeptible to example and to instruct
tem 1 You are not surprised at. Id
record; "Abraham begot isecte, an
Isaac" begat emote" for when religlo
starts in family, It is Mae to go al
through. eezebel a murderess, ye
are not surprised tu find her so
nehorstra atleanning asautsitiation. 0
What a responsibility upon the enn.
d eminent in nay memory no pastor
Scoville tleynee (Meantime Tbe 8(05'W
of death breught hundreds tint
lie belonged to my pallets th
e West. A thstrough boy, nine or le
d Yearn of age. Nothing morbid, reel
ing dull :than bine Ills yokel loudeit
1 and lila font swiftest en thy
e pla
u ground. Oft en be bee ensue into na
u home and theown himself on thcs
e flo
, an exhaustion of boleterous mirth
aud yes he was a Christian, consecrat
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
From a °bile this funious Neglish
- woman manifested those traits of kind-.
.1 'Mesa and sympathy with suf(erlug
• Maio") have. made Nightingale a /muse -
• hold word wherever the English Ian-
,- guage is spoken. When a very little
1 girl see was distieguished among ber
playmates; for her love of domeatie
ev, meta and for the zeal she nuthifested
; in alleviating tee sufferings of suth
- were injured or diseased. A pretty
a. story is told. of her iutereet in the dog
e" of n Highland shepherd. with whonishe
e became acqueinted while on a sure -
s mar's visit to Scotland. She was at
r t thee to the dog ou account of tesa.
diligence with which be minded his
ett and the leather 1 The muswia
touches the keys, clue the respouee o
those keys is away off amid the pipe
attd the chords, and you %vender allis
distance be tw e eu the kee and lis
. .
• cliorsi, Ansi SO yoi
y touch a child, the results will cone
d back from manhood or old age, tellin
just the tune played, whether al
• dirge of a gretu sorrow or tbe authem
, of a great joy. rile word that th
, Sabbath e hool teacher will tins after
Japerear o the c ass
• will be aimed beak front everlasting
n ed to God, keeping Hes commindment
2 That Is, the kind or childish piety II)
. neve in. When the clays of sieknes
o come auddenly and he was loin that h
0 could not get well, he said: "Sean
ane
locon aave me. Jesus will sew Me
8 He has saved me. floret cry, mamma.
g than go right st might up to heaven,
And then they gave Win a glean of
ricer to coe hhe
cool itlot leis sold:
0 Mamma, I shall take a draught from
the waler of life after awhile ef which
c If ene drink he snall never get thirst
d ages of light or darkness. The hem
o and the n hool decide the republic o
O tee desectsene; the barbarism or th
ovilizatien; the uplaullding of an eel
' etre, ot the overthrowing of it. High
Y es than Parliament or Congress are
the school and the family, and the
sound of a child's foot may mean more
than thettW
traep of a host. hat.
then, are you aping for tee pureose
of bringing your chiledren into the
'dmean' af God? If they are 50 &US,-
ceptible, and. if this is the very best
time to act upon their eternal in-
terests, what are you doing by way
of right Impulsion .1 There were some
harvesters in the fields of Scotland,
_tnewe hot day: and Hannah Lemond was
laetalg tm. hegatiner the hay. eilie
laid ear babe under a tree. Willie
she was busy in the .1d, there was a
flutter of winge in .11., lir, and a gol-
den eagle cluiethed tee eeaddling band
of the. babe, and flew away with It to
the mountam eyrie. All the harves-
ters and Hannah Lemond started for
the cliffs. It was two miles before
they tame to the foot 01 the cliff. Get-
ting there wen tiered to mount the
elief No human font had ever trod
it. There were sailors there who had
gone up the mast in the day el ter-
rible teraptest ; they did not dare risk
11. Hamel Lemend sat there fee. a
while and looked up, and saw the
eagle in the eyrie, and then see teep-
ee to her feet, an.ci she started up
where no human foot had ever trod,
ether above crag, catching hold ot this
root. or that root, until elie reached
the eyrie and caught her babe, tee
eagle sweeping in fiereeness all around
about bar. Faetening the ehild to
her haek, she started for her friends
and for her Immo 0, what a dizzy
dee.ent 1 sening from this crag Lo that
crag. catching by that ereeper anti by
that root, coining down further and
further to the meet dangerous ease,
evhere she found a goat- and some kids.
:See said: "Now 111 follow the goat ;
the goat will know just wheel is the
safest way clown;" and she was led by
tbe animal down to the plane. When
she got there, all the people cried:
"Thank God, thank God!" her strength
not giving &way until the rescue was
effected. Anel tbey cried: "Sieuid
back now. Gine her air 1" 0, if ti
women will do that for the physical ,
life of Jeer child, what will you do for
tee eternal life of your boy and your
girl 1 Let is not be told in the great
day of mernity, that Hannah Lomond
ort mole exertion for the sav-
ing of the phyaical life of her child
titan you, 0 parent, have ever put
forth, for the eternal life of your lit-
tle one. God help youl
X peas on to consider the power watch
a child wields over the parental heart.
We often talk about the influence of
parenta mon children. I never hear
artyteing said about the influence of
cluldeen upon their parents. You go
to achool to them. You more educate
them than they educate you. With
their little heeds they have caught
hold of your entire nature and you
cannot wreath yourself away from
their grasp'. You are different men
and women from what you were before
they gave you the env lesson. They
have revolutionized your aoul There
are fountains of joy in your heart
whioh never would have been discover-
ed had they not discovered them. Life
is to you a more stupendous thing then
it Was before these little feet start-
ed on the pathway to eternity. 0 how
many hope.e, how many joys, how many
solicitudes that little one has created
in your soul. You go to school every ,
day -a echoes'. of Reif -denial, a school of ;
patienee, In whieb you OJT gelling wis-
er day by day; and that influence of '
the child. over you will inc.rease and; `
noreme; and though your obildren •
may die, from the very throne of God
they will remit down an influenee in 0
your soul, leading you on and lead -
ng you up until you mingle with 1
their voices and eit beside their 6
thrones.
The grasp which the child 1100 over •
the parent's heart is seen in what the °
parent will do for the child. Storm ,
and darkness and heat and cold are
nothing to you if they stand between
you and. your childe welfare. A. greet
awyer, when yet unknown, ossa day _
toed in the court -room and roade ane,
loquent plea before soma men of
real legal attainment.% and a gentle- _Y
naan said to him afterward: "How
meld youhe ao calm standing in that i
ttgust presence?" "0," said Erskine,
' I felt my children pulling at my ;
kirts and crying for bread." Whet I,
the= will you tun swim, whet the- je
to will you. not enter, what battle
will you, not fight, what hunger will
ou. not enema for your centime? tr,,
Youn children must have bread though
ou starve. Your children must be well la
lathed though you go in rags. You a
ay: " My children shall be eduented _
bough 1 rover hail any chttnee." What
o you. are weary limbnd
s aaching 8
master'a business, and invariably stop -
Pee in her walks to chat with the mau
end pet the dog. One day the dug
r was missuig, and on inquiry she found
egain. I lay myeelf rit Jesus' feet an;
e I wast "Tim to do just( what He think
r best to sin we) " Tn 5S,n,,I
teat. the animal had been seriously
s hurl be a buy, W110 threw a stone at
him, and, as the shepherd said, broke
his leg. "I shall have to hang him,"
mid the man, "to put him out of nth
misery." Florence went 01 once to
tJae home of the shepherd whore bar
companion, who had some knowledge
of surgery, exameaed the limb and
found it eaverely bruised mut swollen,
but with the bozo intact, whereupon
tne young girl bathed the dog's leg
with hot water, tied it up and in a
few due "Cap" WOES ELS well as ever,
to L.1113 equal delight of his master and
benefactress. Miss Nightingale, in
later years, when her oares were giv-
en to the miseries of human beings, of-
ten alluded to poor Cap and her sat-
iefaction at saving him from the rope.
Florence Nightingale was the daugh-
ter of Willi= lettere Nightingale, of
Embley Park, Hampshire, and Lea
Hurst, Derbyshire. She was born in
Florence, Italy, .and named from the
city of her birth. As her parents
were very wealthy, she received every
possible educational advantage, and,
possessing more than usual mental
gifts, distinguished herself both at
=tool by her attaim:aents and in soci-
ety by the brialiatcy of wit and. the
sound common sense of her conversa-
tion. She was what one of her ac-
quaintances called. a "little queer,"
for instead of finding pleasure in balls,
dames and social gatherings, she took
espeoial satisfaction in visiting alms-
houses and hospitals. Wbenever she
heard one of her father's teeants was
sick, she straightway went to the
house of tee sufferer with medicines
and delicacies, nor were her charitable
efforts confined to her father's estate,
for the people of many villages in
Hampshire and Derbyshire still tell
Stories of the kindliness of the young
girl who gave up a life of pleasure
that she might dossornothing to leave
the world better than she found in
When the future goddess of the hos-
pital was a girl, the only kind of nurse
known in England was the "Smithy
Camp" variety, described by Dickens
In "Martha Ch.uzzlewit," rouge, coarse,
sometimes du
rnken, women, who did as
little as possible and charged as much,
often neglected the objects of their
care and were thus frequently the
come of deaths which might have been
averted by proper attention. Miss
Nightingale, before reaching the age of
21, came to the conclusion than there
was great need of reforra In the care
of the sick, and seems to love re-
solved, even at that tender age, te
devote her life to hospital work.
To prepare herself for the profession,
she visited all the nurse-tratning ins-
titutions she could hear of either in
England or on the continent, and fin-
ally, much against the wishes of leer
friends, entered the School for Dea-
conesses at Xaisersworth, teen under
the care of the famous Fliedner, where
she became a "probationer" in the
hospital, assumed the uniform and for
months performed. with her own halide
all that was required of one who ex-
pected to make nursing a profession.
After the greater portion of tbe year
18515 had thus passed, she again went
on a tour of visitation and inepeetion,
and, admiring greatly the methods in
use in the hospital of the Sisters of St.
Vincent de Paul in Paris, she enrolled
herself in that institution as a volun-
tary assistant: and spent several
months in learning all that was to be
taught by daily hospital work. Re-
turning to England in the autumn of
1851, she took charge of a sanitarium
in Herley street, London, for gentle-
women; for three years gave unremite
Hug attentionto th.e management of
this institution, and, after establish-
ing it on a permanent basis, went
hone to recrult her health, which had
been thapaired by her incessant labors
in behalf of her patients.
While she was at her father's house
war broke out between Russia and
Turkey. Begun late in 1853, there was
at first no indication that it would be
more than a local conflict in Eastern
Europe, weloh would attract little et-
tent:ion tine arouse less interest among a
the netione of the 1Veet, But tlae
time htid come to restrain the grow-
ing aggeessiveness of Ruasia. Eng -51
(Id end French shim Were dispatehed Is
to the Bosphorus, an allied army oorm
posed. of English, French and Sardine 8
tan regiments was sent to the Black 8
Sea and then began the horrors of the
Crirman war. It was the most stu- w
penclously mismanaged ctiteenign re- 1
ceereed in modern tindery The earn. b
raimatiet, the clothing and the mune 551cal departments were equally income $
patent. Soldiers starved while ship le
loadm
s of prueions lay at anther in
eight of the amps, went aboue sboe-
lees end hall naked, while cargoes of
military boots anrt unifortne were ship-
ped back to England ; died, by thous-
ands because proper medicat =vitae
had. either been lost or were never pro-
vided. In the, beginning oe the wine
ter of 1854, the condition of the hose
nitrite was frightfene Moselle the
correspondent of thee Times, painted
e " Ileat for the Weary" was a new
- hymn, and r
he had leaned le and in a
-
perfect ecest my of soul, in eis lest hour,
be cried out :
"In the Christian's home in glory
There rerenine a land of rest :
' There my Seviourei gone before me
To fulfill nay soul's request;
There le rest for the weary,
Deco is rest for you.
Sing, 0 sing, yn heirs of glary,
Shout your triumphs as you go;
Zion'a gathe are open for you,
Yon ebell find. an entrance through,
There is rest for the weary,
"There is rest. for you, papa; there IS
rest for you, mamma." And then, put-
ting his hands over his heart, he said:
"les there is rest for me," And then
he tancee them to'read, "The Lord is
my Shepherd, I shall not want. He
rite -skate me to lie down in green pas-
tures, and leadeth me beside still
waters ;" and he cried out: "0 Death,
where is thy sting? 0 Grave, where is
thy victory r
Oily ten years old 1 And thee be
said: "Now I wish you would just
turn this bed, so 1 can look once more
015 ihS foliage and see the sun set."
And they turned the bed ; end he said:
"It do 00 wish that Jesus would hurry
and (wane and take roe," They ened to
him: "Why, are you not willing to
await the Lord's timer "Yes," he
said, "I am, but I would rather nosus
would come and hurry anti take me."
And so, with a peace indescribable, he
passed away. 0, why need I go Sneer
back 8 I can only take you this alter -
men, at two onlock, to the obsequies
of one little child, who set last Sab-
bath ill our eervices and mingled in
our songs. She stood up amid that
hose of 823 new m•embers, and espouse
ce the cause of Christ one Sabbath.
Some saw her, perhaps, and thought
she was too small ; but 0, she was ripe
for heaven, and tbe Lord took her. She
said, to her parent a day or two ago:
"Isn't there, mother, a passage that
says, 'Aly grace shall be sufficie.nt for
thee?'" And she said: "Lord, make
that grace sufficient for father and
mother wed sister ;" and then, speak-
ing of hr deneasea brother, she said:
"I Will take Harry by the hand, and
we will come out to meet you, moth-
er." 0, there is nothing sad about
a child's death save the grief in the
Parent's heart. You see Go little ones
go right out from a world of sin and
suffering to a world of joy. How
meaty sorrows they escape, how many
tenaptaLions, how many troubles! Chil-
dren dead are safe. Those that live
are in peril. We know not what dark
Path they may take. The day may
oome In which they will break your
heart; but children dead are safe-safe
m
forever. Weeng parents ddosnot
mourn too bitterly 'over your child
that has gone. There are two kinds
oD prayers made at a child's sick -bed.
One prayer the Lord likes; the °tear
prayer He does not like. When a soul
kneels down at a child's sick -bed and
saye: "0 Lord, spare this little one;
he is very near to my heart ; I don'tWauiI to part with him; but Thy will
bet done,"-thet is the kind of a pray -
ea the Lord loves. There is another
kind of prayer which I have heard men
make, in substance when they say: "0
Lord, this isn't right; i1 is bard to
take thie child,; you have no right to
take this child; spare this child; I
can t give him up, and I won't giVe
him up," The Lord anewers that kind
ref a prayer sometimes. The child
tees on Ana lives on; and travels off
nr paths of wickedness to perish. At
he end of every prayer for a child'e
Ine, say; "Thy will, 0 Lord, be done."
Th.e brightest lights that ean be
kindled, Christ baa kindled. Let us,
Id end young, rejoice that heaven te
gathering up no much that is attrao-
ive, In that Tar land we are not
trangers. There are those there wbo
peak; our mune day by day, and they
yonder why so long we tarry. If
ouln count. Up that nalneS Of all those
who have gone out trom these Ural -
les into the kingdom of heaven, it
vould take me all day to mention
bbis'naMea. A great. multitude be -
ore the throne. You loved them once;
ou love them uow; and ever end anon
ou think you hear their voices mil-
ieu. upward. Ale yes, they have gone
ut from all theee families, and you
emit no book to tell you of the dy-
ng experience of Christian childree.
ou have heard it; it hits been whisper -
e in your eam
r, 0 father, 0 other, 0
nether, 0 sister, Toward that good
and all Christians are bearing. This
appiegof heart-striugs, this Light ef
ears, this tread of the heart reminds
a that We are pacising away. Under
ming bloesoms, and though summer
arvest, ate actress autumnal leaves,
IssL h rough t he wintry snow -banks,
e are passing on. 0, rejoice id
;t11,
hit dren of God, rejoice at It 1 How
hall we gal her them up. I he )(wed and
ead, and hands, hardened nod calla/11S,
only the welkere of your children enn
a wrought ottt by it? Their eorrow, ,
man sorrow, their joy your joy, their le
dvaneement your vice ory, And 0 when ,
he los( I Before we unt moour
hrOne, before NVI3 drink from thA roan -
[tin, beers we strike the harp of our
three! relebration, we will ery Gut :
the lest sickness come% how you fight A
b(161C the march of disease, and it is
only after a tromencloue struggle tent
• eurrender. And when the :mire 1ms _
led, the great deep ie broken up, end ,N
ache' will not he comforted, became 13
er thildren are not, and David goal
p the mince shirrs erying; '0 Ahem "
na, ssiy antl, nay son, would God 1 had fe
irel for thee, 0 Abenlem, my Son, my e/i
ore"
There is not, a Virgo faintly, or bard -
sera St'a IONefld. and lostr
tad then, 11014' Vea shall gather theM.
151 0, now we shall gather them up I
fn 5 his dark world of sin end pain
'a only meet to part agnin
ut when we remit the heavenly chore
there shall meet to part n inore,
The hepo lini we shell 81.0 that (ley
bould thew our 551,,,::vat griefs away ;
'henil ,,iteee short years of pain ere
mt
Ve'll mod before the throne at last."
many) lurid p
iotttre of the terrible
state of things resulting from the Ine
competeme of the medical =ff.
"The eceereenest accessortee of a
bospital are wanting; there is not the
least attention paid to decency or
eleanithees; tee stenth is appalling;
the footle air can barely struggle out
to taint the atmosphere, save through
the (senile( in the walls and roote, and,
for all I can obeerve, these men eta
withoet the least effort being Made to
save teem. There they lie, just EIS
they were let gently down on the
ground by the poor fellows, teeth com-
rades, who brought them on their
backs from the camp with the grtkat-
est tenderness, but who are not allow-
ed to remain with them. The sick ap-
pear to be attended by the sick, and
the dying by the dying,"
The English public was frantic. over
tee mortality 'emotes, and well it
migla be, for of their force of 97,800
given by Mulball TV! the nritish eon -
dement, while only 2,755 were killed ha
d
battle, 17,580 dieof disease, and the
total nuniber of deaths was 22,182, or
22.5 per cent„ while other contingents
et the allied army suffered even more
severely. The French lest 95,015 men
of wounds and disease, the Turks 45,-
000. Never since the organization of
arnlies was the hospital slaughter so
deadly. On October 15, 1854, Miss
Nightingale wrote to Sidney 'Torbert,
Minister for War, offering her services;
en the same day he wrote, requesting
hecr to go out to the Crimea and take
charge of the hospltals there and at
Sentare She aceepted the sugges-
tion, and six days later, with thirty-
four volunteer nurses, she left Lon-
don for Constantinople.
For the next year, her labors wer
devoted exelusively to the service o
the sbak soldiers. One of them wrest
home: "She le a 'ministering angel
without any exaggeration, in thee
hospitals, and as her slender for
glides quietly along each corridor ev
ery poor 'fellow's face sofcens wit
gratitude at the sight of her. Wiseall the medical officers have retire
for the night, and silenoe and clark
mess Iowa settled down upon Hos
miles of prostrate sick she may be ob
served, alone, with a little lainp in he
hand, making her solitary rounds."
TM labors of an entire winter wer
devotted to the hospitals tat &uteri; i
the spring she orossed the Black Se
to Balaklava, where the reorganize
the camp hospitals, and where he
labors were nearly terminated by e
attack of camp fever. tet tho close o
the war she returned to England, but
dreading the publicity of an appear
ance in London, passed through tiscapital at night. and went to her hone
in the couutry. The nation was react
to do leer any honor, but nothin
would she =opt save voluntary oon
tributions for a sobool for nurse train
ing, welch, under the mauls of 115"Nightingale Home," was establithe
in London by popular subscription
amounting to more than £50,000,
During the Amserican cioll war she
waa in constant correspondence with
the Medical and Hospital Departments
at Washington, and the value of her
advice and suggestions was recognized
in more than one °theta' report. When
the Franco-Prussia.n war broke out
her good. offices were freely teedered
and many of the most excellent fea-
tures of the camp and army hospitals
of bele Germen and French were due
to her influence with the Crown Prin-
cess of Prussia end the titled French
Ildivessioe.who labored in the hospital
Miss Nightingale has a high reputa-
tion. as an authoress on subjects con-
nected with her specialty. In 1859 she
published an, e.xceedingly valuable
work with the modest title, "Notes on
Hospitals." A year later her practi-
oal ex-parienoe as a nurse was em-
bodied in "Notes on Nursing;" in 1803,
on information furnished her by the
government, she founded the sugges-
tions conthined in the voluxae entitled,
"On the Sanitary State at the Army
in India ;" other suoceeding volumes
dealing with the management and care
olf.mi
y,
nstitutions •estublished for the
fatal to the soldiers of the Britisb
abenefit of women and children, and
with conditions of health and life in
the tropioal elthaathe whicla prove so
Personally Mies Nightingale is an
attractive woman. For many years
slue has been an invalid, but her suf-
ferings, at times intense, do not ape
parently lessen her capacety for work
nor impair her natural amiability of
disposition. She is tall, with small
hands and feet, low, musical voice and
prepossessing_ ceuntenance,
though cold and abnost etern In re-
pose, brightens into oheerfulness and
vivacity in conversation. Tee dis-
like of notoriety, the conspicuous tea
tura of her olearacter in early life, ha
grown upon her unbil she shuns soceet•
and now receeves only personal and in-
timate friends and such persons ' as
o cean to ben for advisee regarding the
great interest she has always hadmost
at Inert. She is wealthy in her own
right, has an elegant house in the
west end of LOnd,011, but prefers the
country, ann. spends most oe the year
at Claydoia House, in Buckinghamshire,
the country seat oe her sister, Lady
Verney. .As might be expeeted, most
of her working day is given up to her
correspondence, for hospital superin-
tendents and physioians all over the
would regard her as one of the great-
est living authorities ot the care of
the sick, and consult bar with regard
to many difficult and delicate matters
aresing in their work.
WOMAN EXECUTIONER,
A few years ago the official pablio
xecutioner at Brussels died and a sub -
ditto was tenaporarily appointed. On
no occasion this parson was ill and un
bk. to attend. But at the appointed
our le stout, Mendle-aged woinart pres-
ented herself et the central police
talon and quietly remarked to the as-
embied fenotioneries: "I've come for
he execution. lele husbartd ia not very
ell this morning end has aeked me 10
ake Isis place. Please let me get to
ash -less," The general stupefaction
ay be More easily imagined than de-
oribed, whiee, being notteed by the
ouldebe lady executIoner, she added
en a reasattrIng tones "Oh, tete is not
by any :Mane the first time." It alter -
ward trateepired that the 'Woman,
wIlose name was Marie Rego, had offi-
elated on severe" occasions in lieu of.
her husbend, Dressed up it hie
clothes and her rano masked elm had
beth the publio exoeutioner al several
execution:3, and never had the Mooed,
fogs been interrallsted by a Single
hitch.
SOME FAMOUS PRISONERS.
myma celentettetit4.11:71•,e„ 'anima tire
It seems strange to think of those
whom the world. aoknowiedgee as fam-
ous, and whom it (WW1 respettle, att haV-
Ing been In prison end suffered torture
doeene• it, says Pearsion's Weekly. But
itett true, neverteelees. Probable' th
most striking ease in tent of LOL'il LOV11,
1110 late lege nontinissioner of the
Cape,
After the Chimee war, Isa the 400, be
had, while attached, to the British eat
busy there, the misfortune to be thin
lured by a band of infuriated and ig-
meant Chinese. They were savuge at
the lniteeti they had suffered, anti were
ready for any brutal aote of revenge
on tee hated /intense, They took Ilene
ry Loth -as he then was -and Isis com-
panions and put them into narrow
theme, just like wild beasts in it show,
;lied they carried them UP and down
the country, exhibiting thessa to the en-
raged Chinese wbo jeered them, mocked
them and tortured them iu every pos-
sible way. Happily for the two onfore
women &Web soldiers ware not long
in coining to the rescue when tbe news
became known, atasi they, quite con-
trary to their own expectations, thus
managed to emage an awfal fate.
One wile can tell also of the horrors
of foreign prisons under barbaeous
goveeninent. ie Dr. Wenyon, the well-
known Wesleyan medical missionary.
Who that saw him silting
CALMLY AN'D PLACIDLY
INTERESTING ITEMS,
A. Pew Coragritiolis Whom' 'WM Ote Coned
Ilea Worth availing.
(Waken shinning is nnt allowed In
the Pbilitiptuate and the Ameeican sole
clime have a hard time 151 capturing
the fowls there, The obieskons fly une
151 (lacer winge are tired, and then they
t•un until their Mtge are reseed.
0 At a spieited footbale match near
Glaegow tee game 'become au molting
that :several speotatora leaped into the
arena to take part. The pollee trod
to reetore peace, but were to determine
seecilliyt tts.ppousieediltolztit :1.1neteen policenten
WON eeverely maimed. and had to be
11.1 Japaneee Ituotione oath bidder
writhe hie name ansi the amount of
hie bisi upon a clip of paper. The var.
toes alline are deposited in a labx, They
f'llil:lUiC7IX:Mitlinonvdslirr,heannatilethbeidndai nnagel°orf °lee
highest bidder is azumunced.
Barbels in Missouri, bethre receiv-
ing a license, must Mee served two
years ass apprentices, pass an exam-
ination before a board of barbers yea.
opnasinest.ed by the Governor, and thew that
them
y eanof s a knowledge skin dise
Editors isa Servia have remon to keep
mune regareime governmental affairs.
Osie paper there, deting• the past two
yineeanrisa, has had sixteen editors, and fif-
ing too freely on legislative enact -
teen of them are lit jail for comment -
The smallesl salary received by the
head of a civilized government is that
ef the President of Lbe Republic of
Andorra, in the Pyrenees. Elia pay am-
ounts to only $15 a year. Ho 58 tba
thief magistrate of 12,000 peuple, ansi
the territory be rules comprises an
area of 150 square miles. The little
State has been independent since the
year '790.
A fondnesti for animals led Charles
Wagner, of Frackville, len, to (areas
a eel goat and tiokle the animal's nose
with a ten -dollar bill. The goat snap-
ped Ole bill front the hand and
swallowed it. The money -eater was
ieroinptly eat open, and. the pieoes were
foand in his stomach. They wilt be sent
to Washington for redemption.
Nearly 200 relithives attendee the fun-
eral of Airs. Mary Brandt, who died in
St. Thomas, Pa., at the age of eighty-
eight. She left nine living children,
sixty-seven grandchildren, one hundred
and thirty great-grandchildren, and
two great-great-grandobileren. Only
eleven of them were abseut from the
funeral.
A hunchback, Giovanni Cattetta,
stepped carefully down the gangplank
of the French line steamship Bretagne
on her arrival at the port oe Now York.
A tender hearted custom home inspec-
tor thought he could straighten the
poor oripple's back. He did so by cut-
ting open the hunch, and in it found
three bunched and eighty-three pieces
oe smuggled jewelry,
A Chicago millionaire, Parker R. Ma-
son, jost. before his death, summoned
the quartet that had been engaged th
sing at his funeral, and made thorn
practice the hymns they intendect to
give. Then the clergymen who was to
officiate, the Rev. John Hoke, rehears-
ed the funeral eermon in hia tiresome.
All the melithoholy arrangements hav-
ing been satioractorily Made, Mr. Ma-
son closed hts eyes and died.
A.t 10 meeting of the Surosis Society
ainonewhiacsagao,dclarvehaisliengMtrhse. Ulansdiusslaplireasrere
net
a loud shriek from the rear of the
room interrupted her remarke. It was
a feminine shriek, and was followed by
mem' more from other terrified fee
males. They were caused by the sud-
den appearance of several large rats
in the room. The rata were as much
frightened as the Indies, who nimbly
:dbi
Iniri
pteadfoisen the floor to the chairs
at the Wesleyan conference, hale in
Leeds some Lime ago, would ever love
suspected that the minister Nvith the
thoughtful facie, and sweet, kindly ex-
pression, had once been seized by rude
Torkish officials while traveling in
tee Euphrates district, of Asia Minor,
and thrown into the awful cell of a
Turkish prison house, theee to lan-
guish in utmost torture, physical and
mental, until his extends isi England
brought sufficient influence to bear up-
on the Sultan's emissaries to secure his
release
The British Parliainent contains at
least two inen who love wasted away
under the terrible reginic af English
orison life, and, to whom, at that time,
life seemed utterly hopeless lend lost,
One of item, ler. Michael Devitt,
than whom there are tow ordinary
members of Parliament more respeoted
both inside and outside the House, serv-
ed long years of penal servitude from
being out:emoted with Fenianism. How
much it told on his physical ermine nu
one will ever be able to say; but it
must have been inexpressible torture
to a man of his susceptibility and high
intelligence.
Another member of Parliament, Mr.
F, X. O'Brien, can go still lurther and
boast of what probably no other citi-
zen can, viz., that be was tried for
" high treason," founel guilt and sen-
tenced to death "es a traitor I" It is
of Bourse, superfluous to say that this
barbarous monstrosity of a sentence
WaS never carried out, though before
Mr. O'Brien obtained his perfect free-
dom he bad mare acquaintanoe with
prisons and prison life than the aver-
age man is likely to care for,
Dr. J'araeson, as everybody knows,
can boast of an acquaintance with Hol-
loway jail not inferior to that of most
men. And nit everybody knows also, it
was for what, at teeworst, can only
be set down as
1V12STAREN POLICY.
in South Africa, Those Mee saw the
dootor before his trial, and those wbo
saw him after, could scarcely recog-
nize the same individual in the feeble,
wan -looking man who was =moved so
carefully after medical care, after fif-
teen months' sojourn in her Majesty's
prison at Holloway, compared with the
bronzed, wire -looking °HOW of the
veldt whom they had formerly known.
Of Sir Jolla Willoughby, and Mai -
Coventry, sent mood for the same cause,
but for a lamer time, one may Make
similar iomarks. Yet that men who
have gained high renown in fighting
for Britain's sovereign, should be sub-
jected to such degradation as herding
with convicts and falona seems tie sug-
gest something wrong in tbe English
prison system.
The Dowager Duebess of Sutherland
was, too, as many 'will recollect, some
time in prison for" contempt of court."
Holloway, also, hes, if we axe correct,
her experience in prison life. The lady
had destroyed some papers, which, she
said, were private to herself from the
late Duke, coul which ( he court had or-
dered to be produced. She refused to
give them up, and mine PeoPle aP-
plaudecl her for doing so. The court,
however, decidee that she had treated
it with " contempt," and committed
her to prison. Even as a " first-class
miselemennaut, her experience oan not
have been very desirable.
ONE FOR THE JUDGE.
Lord Esher had many amusing stor.,
tee Lo 5,all of his experience on the
bench, says St. James' Gazette. °nee
a well-known lady litigant deearibed
the late Maeter of the Ilona as " a per-
fect darling." .A. short time betore he
retired Lord Ether told a troublesome
applicant that, her ease hied been sent
to be tried by a earl:ail:I lettrnad judge
without; a jury, adding, He is a capit-
al latvyer, you know, and. will try your
0ase very nicely. But she demurred,
and pressing her request for a jury,
said: Oh, yea, my lord, Mr. Tostioe -
is all very well as to law; but, my
lord-ond in this resPeet I ait aim In
O difficalty in your lordship's court. -
my case requires 80 much 0Orntnon
eons°. Lord Esher was so delighted
with this that he pereuaded the court
to dismiss the lady's application with-,
out oos Ls.
THE OUTLOOK VOR
Brown -Where are you 20,00 to
spend your woe -Non?
nones--Pm going to earn One for my
fienily to silent'.
In La Grand Chartreuse, the farneue
monastery of France, a liqueur noted
all over the world has been made by
the monks <limo the year 1804. An in-
genious system of adult eration has been
discovered A. hole is bored in the Eat
bottoms of the sealed bottlea and some
of the genuine Cliartrellait 18 with-
drawn. After an inferior stimulant
has been substituted, the hole ie fill-
ed by the introduction of a glass plug
which is then melted by means of a
blow pipe.
A Cinoinnati gentleman advertised
hie desire be sell a valuable secret for
fifty cents. He stated that he would.
thll how he was eured of drinking,
nsreisohkti,ngg,oingSVIteotaltnhge, raateacysinganomut r.eat:
and how he gained twenty pounds in
weighi in two yerrs. parsons
sent him fifty cents each, and here
is the secret they received; "nust our -
ed of all the bad lintels named by an
etforced residence, tor two years, in
the Ohio State prison."
Monk V. leaning, of 13the island, 111.,
was troubled with is suffering of the
ankle joint and his physielens to
ascertain tee cause by subjecting the
limb to the X-raye. The intenee light
calmed t flesh to deccanp se and three
Imputations of the leg were necessery.
He eued hie doctors, and the jury
awarded him 310,000.
A BATTLE WILL BE FOUGHT.
Notwithstanding the settled tradi-
tion of the "Einetsfrau," Gummy bids
fair to be the field on welch the great
Janette of women's rights will be fought
out to its bitter end. The League of
Woman's Associations is growing day
by dny More powerful, and the Influe
01100 01118 2.1,000 Members makes itself
felt even in the Reichstag. In Da.
1,vvarelitaa uthe:eeMn ible)oriten,tnini:neste latilld.ecSmaxale;
sanitary impactors bas been mound,
and tilts is pretty certain in be fol-
lowed by like soothes in Prussia, where
the slate orphanages of Berlin are
henceforth to have It certain proper.
Hon of women on the afloat staff.
ESTEEM,
I hate you, she oried.
It linsi been upon her lips to tell Mtn
that the esteemed bit, tnerely, but
whet she looked into his sul, pleading
eyes, her heart failed here she could
not orush him nil:00111er,
bate yea I she ailed, accordingly.
As for the youth, he was raig•htily
encouraged, since Ito knew aornothing
02 the naturo 01 woman.
