m _ _
IMP THE CHICAGO TICKET.
H H > IT WILL NOT HAVE WHITNEY'S
P K / _ SUPPORT.
IflF
t Mr * HU Mind Ik Made Up , and Under No Cir-
Hl HH-1' cumntanccB Citn He Bo Induced to
fHHS ' Change the Same Henry IVatcrson
K H Says tlio I'latform Is the Open Boor to
L9HWjj | Itovolutlon Mr. Cleveland's Position.
19fln' '
li B | Whitney Openly Holts.
LjflKfKcw YonK July 18. W. C Whitney
-
B H t hns sent the following- dispatch to the
B Hjl press : "Will you be kind enough to
H JRjk correct the statement that I desire
Hf HB&t the indorsement by the state organiz-
Mf Kf ation of the Chicago ticket. There
gJWm are no Poss' ° conditions or circum-
KflBPw Etances that would induce me to vote
Hf for it or assist it. "
HJj Hfy This leaves no doubt as to Mr WhitE -
E Kf ney's position with respect to the
U Bf' Chicago ticket. He delayed his state-
K9V | ' ment until last night in the hope , it is
MB p said , that Senator Hill might relent
Hi B < and cast in his lot with the Bound
PJB | , money men , but as the Senator showed
lW do disposition to accept the Whitney
Ba ST view , Mr. Whitney took advantage of
jmfotf.an irresponsible publication to make
H jfts/ known his position without further
KW delay.
j K In private conversation Mr. Whit-
BHn , ney has explained his reasons for bolt-
Rnaa' ' } ' ing the ticket He Eaid that the plat-
B < Bb form adopted at Chicago means
HV | destruction ; that if carried out to its
B Bftf logical conclusion it would result in a
KVVr4disastrous panic and unsettle business
\ /
| qBKj | * or a S'eneration to come. Moreover ,
HMHf he resented the treatment accorded
H Uk the sound money men at Chicago ,
HbAw { where t ) eir every request was disre-
HmflK garded by the majority and an evident
Hj M ' desire existed to trample upon the
HPHk | ( delegates from the East and drive
lJKi < ! them from the Democratic party.
Hn4 n AVuterson's Views.
Ha Bg Geneva , .Tuly IS Henry Watter-
H Hn son of Kentucky , who is sojourning
H T Kj with his family here , said yesterday
B kH * n rpard to the Chicago convention :
oM B % "The platform is monstrous It not
M 9H > only means national repudiation and
BJi'f < Kr-A spoliation , but is an open door to rev-
& * -j1m * ? elution If the leaders of this move-
HliftSPs ment could come into power those of
WnhSfrthem who have any sense of aceount-
Hrc § ' LJ > ability and conception of orderly gov-
B. * ? ' eminent would be quickly set uaide by
jj ; the wild elements behind. In this
Eii ft " " "ay civil war , us foreshadowed bv the
WKJffijiff l Chicago outbreaks las • , year , would be
BflHBl precipitate1 upon the country. Then
HBHp v the strong hand of the federal power
Bfaffi fr ivas interposed , but if this were with-
lulflpl held the reign of the mob would be
Bm H easy enough. * 1
BS B. Mr. Watierson is stronly in favor of
Ik Hm n sound money Democratic ticket.
BKt Ri' . ' President Cleveland's Position.
RBjBka' 1 Washington , .luly J 5. Next week
HEH > \ President Cleveland will write a letter
K H \ concerning the Chicago convention ,
R * X its platform and nominees. It is ex-
> , ' peeted that letter will be published
_ jk y u " Monday morning. It is believed that
fcjRYr | he will advise anti-silver Democrats
BrcJT | to reject Bryan and give their support
Hk to the movement looking to the nom- '
| HK. mation of a "sound money ' ' Demo-
HC\ cratic ticket
. The members of the Cabinet are
J A still waiting for their cue from Mr.
JOCK1 Cleveland. Only one of them , the
jji naval secretary , has , as yet , declared
LjmK open opposition to the Chicago
gfln ticket. Mr. Olney , who was quoted
fe ftl by a friend as saying that he would
M Pj , not under any circumstances sup-
Br port Bryan , has token occa-
HW sion to say that the statement
JK& was apocryphal. Mr. Carlisle. Mr.
JRJJK Wilson , h : Lament , Mr. Smith and
Be2 $ . Mr. Harmon are as ranra as o .y&ters.
JB\ Privately , thev all denounce the plat-
SBsPi form and privately , too , some of them
jpfft speak kindly of Mr. Bryan. It is evi-
E ? dent , however , that the cabinet will
2 follow the lead of Mr. Cleveland.
HKip ] , > They will bolt if the president says so :
HK they will swallow the Chicago ticket
I B&v if the president intimates a desire tnat
v > * S they should do so ; they will support
I Kjr McKin.ev if that is the president's cie-
I ESt sire ; they will go in for a tnird ticket
I Hjj if that is the president's wish.
HWj ? . . There is a strong suspicion that Mr.
H L vX Cleveland will throw the responsibil-
RVc"f ] ity of action on the members of the
MJr * Cabinet individually. If the Pres-
Hg ident should conclude to do this ,
M it will only add to the embarabs-
HK& ment of the members of his official
HK' family. Mr. Harmon wants to sap-
KF' ' port McKinley openly. He is opposed
Rjt to a third ticket William L. Wilson
Hft i und Hoke Smith are ready to support
Ht Bryan if the Pri-sident will give them
HpXtjL freedom. It is impossible to ascertain
OER ? what Mr. Carlisle feels or thinks ; all
Hp A ? that is known is that he is a very
Kf'm. much worried man
If ! * MACEO KILLED IN BATTLE
Bj ? , The Cahan Leader Sliot Dead in Trying
V V to Surprise Sp nlsli Troops.
B Aj Is Havaxa , July 15. According to
" C N. private advices after the insurgent
f , j Colonel Caratagena had been killed in
Hk li t ie encagement in the Ga'o hills ,
Bjjfcjr General Jose Maceo , with his staff
I KmI and escort , put himself at the head of
H P the forces and led in a dash by which
K he hoped to surpri = e the Spaniards.
EsVr He. however , found himself confront-
M& \ ed by a strong force in a superior posi-
k\ i , tion. Seeing his error and hoping tc
Kp \ escape , he shouted to his followers :
| R/ ) "Hack ! Let us retreat ! There are too
l K ( / many 'for us ! " ' As he uttered the last
BjjV word , a rifle ball struck him in the
B [ ! > back of the neck and passed through
Hi ? i his head , emerging between his eyes.
\ # The volley that killed Maceo also
V slew his friends. Dr. Perncto Echa-
f varria and several members of his
staff.
Actor Gentry ' s Case Appealed.
J PurLADELruiA , July 15. Judge
Yerkes has filed his reasons for re
fusing to grant a new trial for James
B. Ge ' ntrv , the convicted murderer of
% Actress Sladge Yorke. Attorneys for
Gentry have taken appeal to the su-
preme court
v
A Doctor Boats a Lawyer at St o9eph-
i St. Joseph , Mo. , July Is. Dr. Bur
ton Pitts attacked Lawyer VinUn
Pike with a walking stick in the let
ter's office to-day on account of a dis
pute about a law suit. Pike sustained
possibly fatal injnnes.
M'KINLEY TO VETERANS.
The Republican Xomlooa Dwells on the
Jfeed of Protecting the Credit.
CA.vrox , Ohio , July IS. Five hun
dred veterans called on Major McKin
ley yesterday afternoon. They came
from Cleveland on a special train.
Mr. McKinley in the course of his ad
dress said :
"We have reached a point in our
history where all men who love their
country must unite to defeat by their
ballots the forces which now assail
the country's honor. The struggle
which is upon us , involving national
'
good faith' and honor , will enlist their
united and earnest services until
those who are arrayed against
the public faith shall be * routed
and dispersed. The bitterness of the
war belongs to the past Its glories
are the common heritage of us all.
What was won in that great conflict
belongs just as sacredly to those who
lost as to those who triumphed. You
meet to-day not as soldiers , but as cit
izens , in maintaining the credit of the
country you served so well and in
restoring prosperity and better times
to our heritage. The future is the
sacred trust of us all , South as well as
Korth. Honesty , like patriotism , can
neither be bounded by State nor sec
tional lines. Financial dishonor is the
threatened danger now and good men
will obliterate old lines of party in a
united effort to uphold American
honor. This you have always done
and you must strive to keep the Union
worthy of the brave men who sacri
ficed and died for it
KANSAS SILVER MEN :
Delegates to St. Louis Convention Elected
Ed. C Little Chairman.
TorEKA , Kan. , July IS. The non
partisan free silver State convention
yesterday elected sixty delegates to
the silver conference at St. Louis
July 22 and instructed them to vote
for the indorsement of William Jen
nings Bryan for President
The majority of the delegates to St.
Louis are Republicans. There were
about 300 delegates , in the convention ,
and Webb McXallsays that four-fifths
of them were Republicans. The Re
publicans had charge of the meeting
and did most of the talking. Ed C.
Little , who was consul at Cairo ,
Egypt , under Harrison , presided , and
11.V. . Turner , who was consul at
Cadiz , Spain , under Harrison , wrote
the resolutions.
Itumors Ahoos Another Bond Issue.
; New York , July IS. There is to
day a revival of the rumors of an im
pending new gover. tent bond issue.
It is alleged that representative finan
ciers had ueen in conference with As
sistant Secretary of the Treasury Cur
tis on the subject The appearance
of Mi. Curtis at the subtreasury yes
terday and to-day lent color to the re
port , especially in view o a strong
and active market for government
bonds this moroiing. Bankers usually
identified with the financial measures
of the administration and members of
the old government bond syndicates
discredited the report
.
Nebraska's Double Honor.
LrxcoLX , 2seb. , July IS. The Bryan
entliusi .m has apparently obscured
the faVat anot-her distinguished
citizen V. Jbraska has been similarly
honored. Rev. Charles E. Bentley ,
the presidential nominee of the new
National party , which first flung its
banner to the breeze at Pittsburg ,
resides with his family at a modest
house at the northeast corner of
Twenty-eighth and M streets.
Walte On 3y a Contestant.
Dexvee , Colo. , July IS. Ex-Gov
ernor Davis H. Waits will be a feat
ure of the St. Louis Populist conven
tion , but he will be there only as a
contestant for a seat At the Populist
state convention here July 4hesought
adnv.s-.ion to it as the head of a Den
ver delegation c1 aimed to have been
selected at a mass convention. The
committee on credentials rejected his
claims by a vote of 39 to 9 , and the
convention without a dissenting vote
sustained the credentials committee.
The Great Northern's Xcw Venture.
St. Paul. Minn. , July 1 . S. Iwan-
aga of Tokio , Japan , general manager
of the 2\ipphon Yusen Kabushki Kai-
sha , or Japanese Mail Steamship com
pany , limited , signed j-esterday in St
Paul a contract with the great North
ern Railway company for the estab
lishment of a steamsiiip line between
Tokio and Seattle. St Paul will be
the headquarters. The first steamer
wrli probably leave Seattle about
August 15.
FSUey Likely to Control. "
St. Louis , Mo. , July IS. It is gen
erally believed here that Chauncey I.
Filley will control the Republican
State convention next week at Spring
field , for with his control of the
party organization , Filley has been
enahled to bring into line nearly all
the candidates whose names will be
presented at Springfield and it is
highly probable that he will be able
to muster a clear aud safe working
majority of the delegates.
Delaware's Itupnlilican Conflict.
Geoe ktowx , D ° l , July IS. The
"regular " or Higgins faction of the
Republicans of Delaware , in conven
tion here nominated this ticket : For
governor , John C Higgins of New
castle county , brother of ex-Senator
Anthony Higgins ; for congress , Rob
ert C. Houston of Sussex ; for Presi
dential electors , William G. Spruauce
Df Newcastle , Manlove Hayes of Kent
and Daniel J. Fooks of Sussex.
WAITE IN DISFAVOR.
Deposed Froin the Chairmanship of Even
a Contesting Delegation.
DErrrER , Colo. , July 15. Ex-Govern
or Waite having declared himself a
supporter of the Democratic candidate
nominated at Chicago , the contesting
delegation from Colorado to the Pop-
nlist convention at St Louis , of which
he was the chairman , has deposed him
from that position and elected B. A.
Southworth in his place. Waite will
go to St Louis , however , and work
ior the indorsement or nomination of
Bryan and Sewall.
M'KINLEY AND BRYAN
BOTH INDULGE IN SOME
SPEECH-MAKING.
The Former Talks to a Delegation ol
"Women , Paying a High Tribute to the
Fair Sex , and the Latter to the People
In and About Ccntralla , 311. Listeners
Unged to fetndy tiie Financial Question
Much Enthusiasm Manifested.
McKinley to the Women.
Caxtox , Ohio , July 16. Despite a
severe rainstorm , 500 representative
women of Cleveland came here this
morning , headed by a woman's
brass band. As the train reached
here the sun broke through
the clouds , and forming in
columns of two , they inarched to the
McKinley home. There thousands of
people blocked the streets and surged
through the grounds. When quiet
was restored , Mrs. Elroy M. Avery in
an address presented Major McKinley
to those present
Mr. McKinley as he mounted the
chair on his veranda after the cere
mony of waving handkerchiefs and
parasols and baud clapping , said : "I
greatly appreciate this friendly call
from the women of the citv of Cleve
land and assure you that I do not un
dervalue their gracious message of
congratulation and confidence which
you have so eloquently delivered. It
is an assurance of the deep interest
which you feel and which should be
feit by everj' family in the land on the
public questions of the day and their
rightful settlement at the polls. There
is no limitation to the influence that
may be exerted by the women of the
United States and no adequate tribute
can be spoken of her services to man
kind throughout this eventful history.
In Ihe distant period of its settlement ,
in the days of the revolution , in the
trials of Western pioneer life , during
the more recent , but dread days of
our civil war , and , indeed , eveiy step
of our progress as a nation , the devo
tion and sacrifice of women were con
stantly apparent and often conspicu
ous. ( Applause. ) She was everywhere
appreciated and recognized , though
God alone could place her service at
its true value.
"The work of women has been a
power in every emergency and always
for good. In calamitj' and distress
she has ever been helpful and heroic ,
isot only have some of the brightest
pages of our national history been
illuminated by her splendid example
afltl noble efforts for the public good ,
but her influence in the home , the
church , the school and the community
in molding character for every pro
fession und duty to which our race is '
called , has been potential and sub
lime. It is in the quiet and
peaceful walks of life where her
power is greatest and most ben
eficial. One of the tenderast pas
sages tc me in the works of John
Stuart Mill beautifully expresses this
thought It is recorded in his auto
biography when he paused to pay
high tribute to his wife , of whom he
could not speak too much. He says :
'She was not only the author of many
of the best things I did. but she in-
snired every good thing I did. ' Man\-
men there are from whom frankness
would not withhold but command like
expression of obligation to woman ,
wife , mother , sister , friend. ( Great
applause ) .
"One ox the best things of our civil
ization in America is the constant ad
vancement of women to a higher
plane of labor and responsibility.
The opportunities for her are greater
than ever before. This is singularly
true here , where practically every
avenue of human endeavor is open to
her. Her impress is felt in art ,
science , literature , song and in gov
ernment Our churches , our schools ,
our charities , our professions and
our general business interests
are more than ever each year directed
by her. Respect for womankind has
become with us a national character
istic ; and what a high and manly trait
it is ; none nobler or holier. It stamps
the true gentleman. The man who
lores wife and mother and home will
respect and reverence all womankind.
He is always the better citizen for
such gentle breeding.
"The home over which the trusted
wife presides is the citadel of our
strength the best guard of good cit
izenship and sound morals in govern
ment. It is at the foundation ; upon
it all else is constructed. From the
plain American home where virtue
dwells and truth abides go forth the
men who make the best statesmen ,
who adorn our republic , who main
tain law and citizenship , which aims at
public welfarethe common good of all.
Pome one has said that 'women mould
the future as mothers and govern the
present as wives. ' I congratulate you
upon what women have done for
grand and noble objects in the past.
1 rejoice with you at the wider and
broader field of the present and the
splendid vista of the future which is
everywhere opening up for you. I
again thank you for your presence
here and for this manifestation of
your regard and good will. Mrs. Mc
Kinley and I will be most happy to
meet and greet } -ou one and all. "
The women , led by Mrs. Seott , sang
a campaign song , accompanied by the
band , and then Miss Birdelle Switzer
presented Mrs. McKinley with a
ba-lcet of flowers. During the after
noon the women had a ratification
meeting at the tabernacle , with lunch ,
music and impromptu speeches.
Sound money Demr-crats { & Ken
tucky will not support the Cnicago
ticket. The sound money press all
over the state has come out almost a
unit against Bryan and leading sound
mone3' Democrats have declared
themselves against Bryan and Sewall.
Michigan Bolters.
Isepemtsg , Mich. , July 10. Among
the leading Democrats of this section
of Michigan who have bolted the
platform and ticket are Eraasted , ex-
state treasurer ; Peter White , delegate-
at-large to the Chicago convention ; C.
H. Call , president of several large
corporations at Marquette ; Arch B.
FJdredge , general counsel lor the
American railroad lines , associated
with the Canadian Pacific ; George
Hayden , president of the Lake Snerior
& Ishpeming and a leader of the
Michigan bar , and Dan McYichie ,
postmaster here.
TALM AGE'S SEEM OK
i AN OLD FASHIONED MOTHER ,
SUNDAY'S SUBJECT.
"Moreover 111 * Mother Marie Him a
Little Coat and Drought It to Illm
From Tear to Year" Flrjt Boole of
Samuel 2:10.
stories of De
borah and Abigail
fHE very apt to dis
courage a woman's
soul. She says
- . , . - . within herself : "It
r < ; ? pfr-g . > F5cO is impossible that
I ever achieve any
W f such grandeur of
g Sgd character , and I
| | P | | § = 5 > don't mean to try ; "
as though a child
should refuse to
play the eight notes because he cannot
execute a "William Tell. " This Han
nah of the text differs from the persons
1 just named. She was an ordinary wo
man , with ordinary intellectual capa
city , placed in ordinary circumstances ,
and yet , by extraordinary piety , stand
ing out before all the ages to come ,
the model Christian mother. Hannah
was the wife of Elkanah.who was a
person very much like herself unromantic -
romantic and plain , never having
.fought a battle or been the subject of
a marvelous escape. Neither of them
would have been called a genius. Just
what you and I might be , that was .
Elkanah and Hannah. The brightest J
time in all the history of that family
was the birth of Samuel. Although no
star ran along the heavens pointing
downtohisbirthplace.Ithink the angels j
of God stooped a : the coming of so |
wonderful a prophet. As Samuel had :
been given in answer to prayer , Ei-
kanah and all his family , save Hannah ,
started tip to Shiloh to offer sacrifices
of thanksgiving. The cradle whore !
the child slept was altar enough for i I
Hannah's grateful heart ; but when the , ' ; '
boy was old enough she took him to j
Shiloh , and took three buiiocks end an . ,
ephah of flour and a bottle of wine , i j
and made offering of sacrilice unto the ' i
Lord , and there , aceordingto a previous • ,
vow , she left him ; for there he was to .
stay all the days of his life , and mini i
ister in the sanctuary. Years rolled j j
on ; and every year Hannah made with
her own hand a garment for Samuel ,
and took it over to him. The lad would ;
have got along well without that gar
ment , for I suppose h was well clad
bj the ministry of the temple ; but Han
nah could not he consented unless she
was all the time doing something for i
her darling boy. "Moreover his mother
made him a little coat , and brought it |
to him from year to year , when bhc
came up with her husband to offer the \ j
yearly sacrifice. "
Hannah stands before ycu , then , today - ,
day , in the first place , as an industri
ous mother. There was no need that
she work. Elkanah , her husband , was
far from poor. He belonged to a dis
tinguished family ; for the Bible tells
us that he was the son of Jeroham , i
the son of Elihu , the son of Tohu , the i
son of Zuph. "Who wer they ? " you j
say. I do not know ; but they were distinguished - j
tinguished people , no doubt , or their j j
names would not have been mentioned , j
Hannah might have seated herself in 1
her family , and , with folded arms , and
dishevelled hair , read novels from year
to year , if there had been any to read ;
but when I see her making that gar
ment and taking it over to Samuel , I '
know she is industrious from principle |
as well as from pleasure. Gcd would \
not have a mother become a drudge or i j
a slave ; he would have her employ all j
the helps possible in this day in the , I
rearing of her children. But Hannih j I
ought never to be ashamed to be found j j
making a coal for Samuel. Most mothers - ' I !
ers need no counsel in this direction.
The wrinkles on their brew , the pallor I !
on their cheek , the thimble-mark on J
their finger , attest that they are faithful - I I
ful in the maternal duties. The bloom j j
and the brightness and the vivacity of j ,
girlhood have given place to tha grander - j ;
er dignity and usefulness and industry .
of motherhood. But there is a heath
enish idea getting abroad in some of ; ;
the families of Americans ; there are • i
mothers who banish themselves from i
the home circle. For three-fourths of |
their maternal duties they prove themselves - j
selves incompetant. They are ignorant i
of what their children wear , and v < hat I
their children eat , and what their chil
dren read. They entrust to irresponsible - |
ble persers these yo rg immortals , j
and allow them to be under influences j
which may cripple their bodies , or ,
taint their purity or spoil their manners -
! ners , or destroy their souls. From the ,
j awkward cut of Samuel's coat ycu i
! know his mother Hannah did not make i
I it. Out from under flaming chande- i
> Hers , and off from imported carpets. '
j and down the granite stairs , there is !
coming a great crowd of children in ,
this day , untrained , saucy , incompetent i
for all the practical duties of life , ]
ready to hs caught in the first whirl
Gf crime and sensuality. Indolent and
unfaithful mothers wiil make indolent
and unfaithful children. You cannot
expect neatness and order in an : - house
where the daughters see nothing but
slatternliness aud upside-downative-
ness in their parents. Let Hannah be
idle , and most certainly Samuel will
srrow up idle. Who are the industri
ous men in all our occupations and pro
fessions ? Who are they managing the
merchandise of the world , building the
j walls , tinning the roofs , weaving the
I carpets , making ths laws , governing
. the nations , making the earth to quake
and heave and roar and rattle with the
tread of gigantic enterprises ? Who are
they ? For the most part , they descend
ed from industrious mothers , who , in
the old homestead , used to spin their
own yarn , and weave their own car
pets , and plait their , own doormats ,
and flag their own chairs , and do their
own work. The stalwart men and the
influential women of this day , ninety-
nine out of a hundred of them , came
from such an illustrious ancestry of
hard knuckles and homespun. And
who are these people in society , light
as froth , blown every whither of temp
tation and fashion the peddlers of
filthy etories , the dancing-jacks of poli
tical parties , the scum of society , thu
tavern-lounging the
, store-infesting ,
men of low wink , and filthy chuckle ,
and brass breastpin , and rotten associ
ations ? For the most part , they came
from mothers idle and disgusting , the
6candal-mongers of society , going from
house to house attending to every
body's business but their own ; believ
ing In witches and ghosts , and horse
shoes to keep the devil out of the
churn , and by a godless life setting
their children on the very verge of hell.
The mothers of Samuel Johnson , and of
Alfred the Great , and of Isaac Newton ,
and of St. Augustine , and of Richard
Cecil , and of President Edwards , for
the most part were industrious , hard
working mothers. Now , while I con
gratulate all Christian mothers upon
the wealth and the modern science
which may afford them all kinds of
help , let me say that every mother
ought to be observant of her children's
walk , her children's behavior , her chil
dren's food , her children's books , her
children's companionships. However
much help Hannah may have , I think
she ought every year , at least , make
one garment for Samuel. The Lord
have mercy on the man who is so un
fortunate as to have had a lazy mother !
Again : Hannah stands before you to
day as an intelligent mother. From
[ the way in which she talked in this
chapter , and from the way she man
aged this boy , you know she was in
telligent. There are no persons in a
community who need to be so wise and
j well-informed as mothers. 0 , this
work of culturing children for this
world and the next. This child is
timid , and it must be roused up and
pushed out into activities. This child
is forward , and he must be held hack ,
and tamed down into modesty and po-
liteness. Rewards for one , punishments -
ments for another. That which will
make George will ruin John. The rod
is necessary in one case , while a frown
of displeasure is more than enough
in another. Whipping and a dark
closet do not exhaust all the rounds of
I domestic discipline. There have been
children who have grown up and gone
to glory without ever having had their
ears boxed. 0 , how much care and in
telligence is necessary in the rearing
of children ! But in this day , when
there are so many books on this sub
ject , no parent is excusable in being
ignorant of the best mode of bringing
j up a child. If parents knew more of
I dietetics , there would not be so many
! dj-speptic stomachs and weak nerves
'
and inactive livers among children. If
parents knew more of physiology , there
j would not be so many curved spines
I and cramped chests and inflamed
throats and diseased lungs as there are
among children. If parents knew mor6
of art , and were in sympathy with all
that is beautiful , there would not be
so many children coming out in the
j world with boorish proclivities. If pa-
j rents knew mora of Christ , and prac-
1 tised more of his religion , there would
j not be so many little feet already
I starting on the wrong road , and all
around as voices of riot and blasphemy
would not come up with such ecstacy
of infernal triumph. The eaglets
in the eyrie have no advantage
over the eaglets of a thousand
years ago ; the kids have no su
perior way of climbing up the
, rocks than the old goats taught them
! hundreds of years ago ; the whelps
know no more now than did the whelps
of ages ago they are taught no more
by the lions of the desert ; but it is a
shame that in this day , when there are
so many opportunities of improving
ourselves in the best manner of culturing -
ing children , that so often there is no
more advancement in this respect than
j there has been among the kids and the
eaglets and the whelps.
Again : Hannah stands before you
today as a Christian mother. From
her prayers , and from the way she consecrated -
! secrated her boy to God , I know she
was good. A mother may have the
finest culture , the most brilliant sur-
roundings ; but she is not fit for her
i duties unless she be a Christian
I mother. There may be well-read
I libraries in the house ; and music in j
I the parlor ; and the canvas of the best ]
! artists adorning the- walls ; and the ]
I wardrobe be crowded with tasteful I
j apparel ; and the children be wonder- ]
' < fui for their attainments , and make
i the house ring with laughter and innocent -
' nocent mirth ; but there is something
! wofully lacking in that house , if it be
j not also the residence of a Christian
I mother. I Disss God that there are not
j many prayerless mothers. The weight
j of responsibility is so great that they
feel the need of a divine hand to
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' help , and a divine heart to sympathize.
! Thousands of mothers have been led
; into the kingdom of. God by the hands
! of their little children. There are
hundreds of mothers today who would
[ not have been Christians had it not
! been for tne prattle of their little
' • ones. Standing some day in the
, nurssry , they bethought themselves ,
1 "this child God has given me to raise
1 for eternity. What is my influence
upon it ? Not being a Christian myself -
. self , how can I ever expect him to become -
, come a Christian. Lord help me ! " O ,
I are there anxious mothers who know
1 nothing of the infinite help of re-
i ligion ? Then I commend to you Hannah -
! nah , the pious mother of Samuel. Do
j not think it is absolutely impossible
j that your children come up iniquitous.
• Out of just such fair brows and bright
I eyes and soft hands and innocent
; hearts , crime gets its victims extirpating -
, pating purity from the heart , and rub-
f bing out the smoothness from the
I brow , and quenching the lustre of the
! eye , and shriveling up and poisoning
i and putrefying and scathing and
scalding and blasting and burning with
shame and woe. _
Every child is a bundle of tremend
ous possibilities ; and whether that
child shall come forth in life , Its heart
attuned to the eternal harmonies , and
after a life of usefulness on earth , to
go to a life of Joy In heaven ; or ,
whether across It shall jar eternal dla-
cords , and after a life of wrong-doing
on earth , It shall go to a home of Im
penetrable darkness and an abyss of
immeasurable plunge. Is being decided
by nursery song and Sabbath lesson
and evening prayer , and walk and rldo
and look and frown and smile. O , how
many children in glory ! crowding all
the battlements and lifting a million-
voiced hosanna , brought to God through
Christian parentage ! One hundred
and twenty clergymen together , and
they were telling their experience and
their ancestry ; and of the one hundred
and twenty clergymen , how many of
them , do you suppose assigned , as the
means of their conversion , the influence
of a Christian mother ? One hundred
out of the one hundred and twenty !
Philip Doddridge was brought to God
by the Scripture lesson on the Dutch
tile of the chimney fire-place. The
mother thinks she is only rocking a
child ; but at the same time she may
he rocking the destiny of empires-
rocking the fate of nations rocking
the glories of heaven. The same
maternal power that may lift a child
up may press a child down. A daughter
came to a worldly mother and said
she was anxious about her sins , and
she had been praying all night The
mother said : "Oh , stop praying ! I
don't believe in praying. Get over all
those religious notions , and I'll give
you a dress that will cost five hundred
dollars and you may wear it next week
to that party. " The daughter took the
dress ; and she moved in the gay circle ,
the gayest of the gay that night ; and
sure enough , all religious impressions
were gone and she stopped praying.
A few months after , she came to die ,
and in her closing moments said :
"Mother , I wish you would bring me
that dress that cost five hundred del
lars. " The mother thought it was a
very strange request ; but she brought
it to please the dying child. "Now , "
said the daughter , "mother , hang that
dress on the foot of my bed ; " and the
dress was hung there , on the foot of
the bed. Then the dying girl got up
on one elbow and looked at her mother
and then pointed to the dress , and
said : "Mother , that dress is the price
of my soul ! " Oh , what a momentous
thing it is to be a mother !
Again , and lastly : Hannah stands
before you today , the rewarded mother.
For all the coats she made for Samuel ;
for all the prayers she offered for him ;
for the discipline she exerted over him ,
she got abundant compensation in the
piety and the usefulness and the popu
larity of her son Samuel ; and that
is true in all ages. Every mother gets
full pay for all the prayers and tears
in behalf of her children. That man use
ful in commercial life ; that man promi
nent in the profession ; that master
mechanic why , every step he takes in
life has an echo of gladness in the old
heart that long ago taught him to be
Christian and heroic and earnest. The
story of what you have done or wha't
you have written , of the influence you
have exerted , has gone back to the old
homestead for there is someone al
ways ready to carry good tidings and
that story makes the needle in the old
mother's tremulous hand fly quicker ,
and the flail in the father's hand come
down upon the barn floor with a more
vigorous thump. Parents love to hear
good news from their children. Do
you send them good news always'
Look out for the young man vho
speaks of his father as the "governor "
the "squire , " or the "old chap. " Look
cut for the young woman who calls her
mother her "maternal ancestor , " or the
"old woman. " "The eye that mocketh
at his father and refuseth to obey his
mother , the ravens of the valley shall
pick it out and the young eagles shall
eat it. "
MORE OR LESS KUIVIOROUS.
Brown You don't look well , Jones
' I don't want to look well ; if I looked
well m ; - wife would think I could work.
Town Topics
"I went to two receptions last night
j and lost my umbrella at the last. " ' Its
I a wonder you didn't lose it at the f > = : c
I one. " "That's where I go : it. " Truth.
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Rogers ( to Rasher , whom he has met
accompanied by a 2-year-old chilfi
l Hello , Rasher ! That's your little boy ,
is it ? By Jove ! it's a dead image of
you. Rasher Excuse me , but this hap
pens to be a neighbor's child. Rogers
( not to be thrown down ) Well er
S er it looks like you , anyway. San
J Francisco Y * ave.
J Polite doctor ( cautiously ) Your husband -
! band is suffering from overwork cr
! excessive indulgence in alcoholic stim-
j ulants it is ( ahem ) a littl * difficult to
I tell which. Anxious wife Oh , it's
I overwork. Why , he can't even go to
! the theater without rushing out half
' a dozen times to see his business part-
j ners. New York Weekly.
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FOR HOUSEV/1VES.
Milk keeps from souring longer in a
shallow pan than in a milk pitcher.
j Deep pans make an equal amount of
j cream.
j A small piece of candle may be made
1 to burn all night by putting finely
powdered salt on it until it reaches the
black part of the wick.
Do not wash oil cloths or linoleum
in hot soapsuds. Wash them with
tepid water and wipe with a cloth dam
pened in equal parts of cold milk and
water.
To remove the finger marks from
varnished furniture rub them with a
cloth dampened with sweet oil. To
remove them from oiled furniture use
kerosene oil.
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