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T1IK SLAUGHTER.
DR. TALMAGE'S DISCOURSE IN 8T.
LOUIS.
"Neither n llnrrower Nor a Lender 1I."
A Ixw Tluit CMiinot lie Itcplnccd The
Equlitnent of it Man Hanger to Young
Men In Great Cltlen.
8t. Loots, April 7.-Tho Hov. T. Do Witt
Talmngc, D. P., of Mrooklyn, preached hero
this evening to a vast audience Ills subject
was "The Hlaughtcr," and Ills text, Provorbt
Til, 2Ji "An mi ox to the- slaughter." Tho
eloquent preacher saldi
Tlicro Is nothing in tho votco or innnticr of
tho butcher tn ludlcnto to tho ox thnt thcro
Is dentil ahcud. Tho ox thinks ho Is going on
to a rich pusturo field of clover, whero nil
day long ho will rorcl In tho hcrltaccous lux
urlnnco: but after n whllo tho men nnd tho
boys closo In Uxn him with sticks nnd stones
nnd shouting, nnd drive- him through bars
and Into n doorway, whero ho Is fastened,
and with n well nlmcd stroko tho nx foils
him; and so.tho anticipation of tho redolent
pasture- Held Is completely disappointed. Bo
many a young man has txen driven on by
temptation to what ho thought would bo
paradisiacal enjoyment; but after nwhllo in
fluences with darker huo and swnrthlcr arm
closo In upon him, and ho Amis that instead
of making nil excursion into n gnrden ho has
been driven "as nn ox to tho slaughter."
L Wo nro apt to blnmo young men for
being destroyed when wo ought to blnmo
tho influences that destroy them. Society
slaughters a great many young men by tho
behest, "You must keep up appearances;
whatever bo your salary ,you must dress a
well as others, you must wino and brnndy ns
many friends, you must smoko ns costly
cigars, you must givo as expensive entertain
nicnts, nnd you must llvo In ns fashlonablo a
boarding house. If you haven't tho money,
borrow. If you can't borrow inuko a falso
entry, or subtract hero and thcro n hill from
a bundle of bank bills; you will only havo
to tnako tho deception a littlo whllo; In
a few months, or in a year or two, you can
mako all right, Nobody will bo hurt by it;
nobody will bo tho wiser. You yourself will
not bo damaged." By that awful process a
hundred thousand men havo been slaughtered
for tlino nnd slaughtered for eternity.
THE MIHKIUK3 07 0ETT1N0 IN DEBT.
Bupposo you borrow. Thcro is nothing
wrong about borrowing money. Thcro Is
hardly a man In tho houso but has sometimes
borrowed money. Vast estates havo been
built on a borrowed dollar. Dut tlicro are
two kinds of borrowed monoy. Monoy bor
rowed for tho purposo of starting or keeping
up legitimate enterprise nnd expense, and
money borrowed to get that which you can
do without. Tho first is right, tho other is
wrong. If you havo money enough of your
own to buy a coat, however plain, nnd then
you borrow monoy for a dandy's outfit, you
havo token tho first revolution of tho wheel
down grade. Dorrow for tho necessities; that
may bo wclL Borrow for tho luxuries; that
tips your prospects over in tho wrong direc
tion. Tho Blblo distinctly says tho borrower is
servant of tho lender. It is a bad stato
of things when you havo to go down somo
other street to cscnpo meeting somoono whom
you owe. If young men know what is tbo
despotism of being in debt mora of them
would keep out of it. What did debt do for
Lord Bacon, with a mind towering abovo tho
centuries! It induced him to tako bribes and
convict himself as a criminal before all ages.
What did debt do for Walter Scott? Broken
hearted at Ablxitsford. Kept him writing
until his hum! gavu out In paralysis to keep
tho sheriff away from his pictures and stat
uary. Better for him if ho had minded tho
maxim which ho had chiseled over tho flro
placo at Abbotsford, "Wasto not, want not."
Tho troublo is, my friends, tho peoplo do
not understand tho ethics of going In debt,
and that If you purchaso goods with no ex
pectation of paying for thorn, or go Into debts
which you cannot moot, you steal just so
much monoy. If I go into a grocer's store,
and I buy sugars and coffees and meats, with
no capacity to pay for them and no intention
of paying for them, I am moro dishonest than
if I go into tho store, nnd when tho grocer's
f aco is turned tho other way I fill my pockets
with tho articles of merchandise and carry off
a ham. In tho ono case I take tho merchant's
time, and I tako tho tlmo of his messenger to
transfer tho goods to my Iioum), while in tho
other caso I tako nono of tho tlmo of tho
merchant, and I wait upon myself, and I
transfer tho good without any troublo to
him. In other words, a sneak thief is not so
bad as a man who contracts for debts he
never expects to pay.
Yot in nil our cities thcro nro families that
move every' May day to get Into proximity to
other grocers and meat shops and apotho
caries. Thoy owo overybody within half a
milo of where they now live, and next May
they will movo into a distant part of tho city,
finding a now lot of victims. Meanwhile you,
tho honest family (n tho new houso, nro both
ered day by day by tho knocking at tho door
of disappointed linkers, and butchers, and
dry goods dealers, and nowspaper carriers,
and you uro asked where your prodoccB&or is.
You do not know. It was arranged you
should not know. Meanwhllo your predeces
sor has gouo to somo distant part of tho
city, and tho peoplo who have anything to
sell have tent their wagons and stopped there
to solicit tho "valuable" custom of tho now
neighbor, and ho, tho now iioighbor,witb great
complacency and with an air of affluence,
orders tho finest steaks and tho highest priced
sugars, nnd tho best of tho canned fruits, and,
perhaps, all tho newspapers. And the debts
will keep on accumulating until ho gets his
goods on tho ilOtli of next April in tho furni
two cart.
Now, let mo bay, If thcro aro any such
persons in tho houso, If you havo any
regard for your own convenience, you
had better movo to miuo greatly distant part
of tho city. It is too bad that, having had
all tho troublo of consuming tho goods, you
should also havo tho trouble of being dunned!
And let mo Bay that If you find that this pic
tures your own photograph, Instead of being
in church you ought to bo In tho penitentiary I
No wonder tliut so many of our merchants
fail in business. They aro swindled Into bank
ruptcy by tliCM) wandering Arabs, theso no
mads of city life. They cheat tho grocer out
of tho green apples, which mako them sick,
tho physician, who atteuds their distress, and
the undertaker, who 11 U tlicin out for de
parture from tho neighborhood where thoy
owo everybody when thoy iy tho debt of
nature, tho only debt thoy over do pay!
"NiiiTiiEn a nounowEU Non a lkndcii ue."
Now our young mon are coming up in this
depraved stato of commercial ethics, and 1
am sallcltouH about thorn. I want to warn
them against being slaughtered on tho sharp
edges of debt. You want many things you
have sot, my young friends. You shall have
them If you have patlonco and honesty and
Industry. Certain linos of conduct always
lead out to certain successes.
Tbore Is a law which controls even those
things that seem haphazard. 1 havo been
told by those r, ho have observed that it Is
possible to calrulato just how many letter
will Iw sent to tho Dead Letter ofllco every
yea' through misdirection; that it is possible
fo calculate Just how many letters will bo
detained for lack of postage stamps through
tho forgotfuliioss of tho seudors, and that It is
posstblo to tell just how many jvoplo will fall
In tho streets by slipping on an ornngo peel.
In other words, tlicro nro no accidents. The
most Insignificant event you over heard of Is
tho link between two eternities tho eternity
of tho nt nnd tho eternity of tho future.
Head tho right way, young tnnn, nnd you will
como out nt tho right goal.
Bring mo n young man and toll mon lint
his physical health Is, nnd w hat his mental
caliber, and what tits habits, nnd I will tell
you whnt will bo his destiny for this world,
and his destiny for tho world to come, nnd I
will not mako (lvo liinccurnto prophecies out
of tho five hundred. All this makes mo soli
citous In regard to young men, nnd I wnnt
to mnko them nervous tu regard' to tho con
traction of unpaynblo debts. I glvo you a
paragraph from my own experience.
DR. TAM1A0K HAB UEKX TIIKIIK HIMSELF.
My first settlement ns pastor was In n vil
lage. My silary was $800 and n -uirsonage.
Tho amount teemed enormous to me, I said
to myself, "What I nil this for ono year I" I
was nfrnld of getting worldly under so much
prosperity I I resolved to Invito nil the con
gregation to my liouw In grous of twenty
flvo each. Wo tagau, and ns they wcro tho
best congregation In all tho world, ami wo
felt nothing was too good for them, wo
piled all tho luxuries on tho tabic 1 novcr
completed tho undertaking. At tho cud of
six months 1 was In financial dc-pnlr. I
found whnt every young mnn learns in
tlmo to save hlmxolf, or too Into, that you
must measuro tho slzo of n man's body beforo
you tcgtn to cut tho cloth for his coat.
When n young man willfully nnd of choice,
having the comforts of life, goes Into tho
contraction of unpnyablodcbt ho knows not
into what he goes. Tho creditors get after
tho debtor, the pack of hounds in full cry,
and nlnsl for tho reindeer. They Jlnglo his
doorbell beforo ho gets up In tho morning,
thoy jlnglo his doorbell after ho has gono to bed
at night. They meet him ns ho comes off his
front stetrt. Thoy send him a postal card, or
a letter, in curtcst stylo, telling him to pay
up. They attach his good". They want t-ash,
or n note ut thirty days, or a note on demand.
Thoy call him a kuavo. They say ho lies.
Thoy want him disciplined nt tho churclu
Thoy wnnt him turned out of tho bank. They
como at him from this side, and from that
lido, and from beforo, and from behind, and
from above, nnd from beneath, nnd ho Is in
sulted and gibbeted, and sued, nnd dunned,
and sworn nt, until ho gets tho nervous dys
peln, gets neuralgia, gets liver complaint,
gets heart diseaso, gets convulsivo disorder,
gets consumption.
Now ho Is dead, and you snyt "Of course
thoy will let him nlone." Oh, nol Now thoy
aro watchful to seo whether thcro nro any
unnecessary expenses at tho obsequies, to too
whether tlicro Is any useless hnudlo on tho
casket, to sco whether tlicro Is any surplus
plait on tho shroud, to sco whothcr tho hoarso is
costly or cheap, to see whothcr tho flowers sent
to tho casket havo been bought by tho family
or donated, to seo in whoso uamo tho deed to
tho gravo is mado out. Then thoy ransack
tho bereft household, tbo books, tho pictures,
tho carpets, tho chairs, tho sofa, tho piano,
tho mattresses, tho pillow on which ho dies.
Cursed bo debtl For tho sako of your
own happiness, for tho sako of your good
morals, for tho sako of your Immortal soul,
for God's snko, young man, ns far ns poudblo,
keep out of it
I L Dut I think moro young men aro slaugh
tered through Irrcllglon! Tako away a young
man's religion and you mako him tho proy of
ovll. Wo all know thnt tho Blblo is tho only
perfect system of morals. Now If you want
to destroy tho young man's morals tako his
Blblo away. How will you do that! Well,
you will cnrlcaturo his roverenco for tho
Scriptures, you will tako all thoso incidents
of tho Blblo which can bo made mirth of
Jonah's whalo, Samson's foxes, Adam's rib
then you will caricaturo ecccntrlo Chris
tians or inconsistent Christians, then you will
pass off as your own all thoso hackneyed ar
guments ngalnst Christianity which aro ns
old as Tom Palno, ns old ns Voltaire, as old as
sin. Now you havo captured his Bible, and
you havo taken his strongest fortress; tho
way is comparatively clear, and all tho gates
of bis soul aro set open in invitation to tho
sins of earth and tho sorrows of death, that
thoy may como In and drive tho stako for
their encampment.
A LOSS THAT CANNOT BE UErLACED.
A steamer fifteen hundred miles from shoro
with broken rudder and lost compass, and
hulk leaking fifty gallons tho hour, is better off
than a young man when you havo robbed him
of his Blblo. Havo you ever noticed how des
picably mean It U to tako away tho world's
Blblo without proposing a substitute! It is
meaner than to como to a sick man and steal
his medicine, meaner than to como to acrlpplo
and steal his crutch, meaner than to como to
a pauper and steal his crust, meaner than to
como to a poor man and burn his houso down.
It Is tho worst of all' larcenies to steal tho
Bible, which has boen the crutch and modi
cino nnd food and eternal homo to so many!
What a generous and magnanimous busbies.?
infidelity has gono into! This splitting up of
Ufo boats and taking away of flro escapes and
extinguishing of light houses.
I como out abd I say to such peoplo, "What
aro you doing all this for!" "Oh," thoy 6ay,
"Just for fun." It Is such fun to see Christians
try to hold on to their Bibles! Many of them
havo lost loved ones, and havo been told that
thero is a resurrection, and it Is such fun to
tell them thero will bo no resurrection I
Many of them havo believed that Christ came
to carry tho burdens and to heal tho wounds
of tho world, and It is such fun to tell them
they will havo to bo their own saviour I Think
of tho meanest thing you over heard of; then
go down a thousand feet underneath it, and
you will find yourself at tho top of u stairs
a hundred miles long, go to thu liottom of
tho stairs, and you will dud a ladder n
thousand miles long, then go to tho foot of
tbo ladder and look olT a precipico half ns
far as from here to China, and you will find
tho headquarters of tho inoaucess that would
rob this world of Its only comfort In Ufo, its
only pcaco in death and its only bopo fur Im
mortality Slaughter a young man's faith lu
Ood, and thcro U not much moro left to
slaughter
Now, what 1ms U-como of tho slaughtered I
Woll, somo of thorn aro In their father's or
mother's houso broken down In health, wult
lug to dlo, others aro lu the hospital; others
aro In Greenwood, or, rather, their bodies
are, for their souls bavo gouo on to rotrlbu
tlou. Not much propoct for a young man
who started life w it li good health, nnd good
education, and n Christian cxamplo sot him,
and opiwrtuulty of usefulness, who gathered
all his treasures and put them in ono box, and
then dropped It Into tho sen.
Now, how U this wholesale slaughter to bo
stopped? Thero Is not a person in tho houso
but Is Interested in that question, Young
man, arm yourself. Tho objoct of my sermon
Is to put a wenjwn In each of your hands for
your own defense. Wait not for Young
Men's Christian a&soclatiousto protect you, or
churches to protect you. Appealing to Ood
for help, take euro of yourself.
Klrst, havo a room somowhero that you
can call your own. Whether it Ik) tho back
parlor of a fashionable boarding house, or a
room in tho fourth story of a cheap lodging,
I care not. Only havo that ono room your
fortress. Lot not the dbulpator or unclean
step over the threshold. If they come up
the long flight of stairs and knock at the door.
meet them face to foes, and kindly yet firmly
refuse them admittance Have n fow family
portraits on tho wall, If you brought thorn
with you from your country home. Hnvo n
Blblo ou tho stand. If you can nfford it
nnd you can play on one, hnvo an instrument
of mulc harp or flute, or cornet, or melo
dcon, or violin, or piano. Every morning
lcforo you leave that room, pmy. Every
night nfter you como homo In that room,
prny, Mnko thnt room your Cllbrnltnr,
your SebnstoK)l, your Mount Mon, tat no
bad book or newspaper come Into that room
nny moro than you would allow n cobra to
coll on your table.
Tnko enro of yourself, Nolnxly else will
tako care of you. Your help will not como
up two or thrvoor four flights of stairs; your
help will como through tho roof, down from
heaven, from that Ood who In tho six thou
sand years of tho world's history never lo
trayod n young mnn who tried to lo good and
n Christian. tat mo say In regard to your ad
verso worldly circumstances, In (urnlng, that
you nro on n level now with those who nro
finally to succeed, Mnrk my wonts, young
mnn, nnd think of It thirty years from now.
You will find thnt thoso who thirty years
from nownro thu millionaire of this country,
who aro tho orators of the country, who nro
thopootsof tho country, who nro tho strong
merchants of tho country, who aro tho great
philanthropists of tho country mightiest In
church and stato aro this morning ou n level
with you, not nn Inch ntiove, nnd you In
straitened circumstances now
EVEtlY MAN HAS A NATUHAL EQUIPMENT.
Ilcrschel earned his living by playing n vio
lin nt parties, nnd In the Interstices of tho
play ho would go out nnd look up nt tho mid
night heavens, tho fields of his Immortal con
quests. Oeorgo Stephenson row from being
tho foreman In n colliery to bo tho most re
nowned of tho world's engineers. Nooutflt, no
capital to start wlthl Young mnn, go down
to tho Mercantile library ami get somo tooks
nnd lead of what wonderful mechanism Ood
gavo you In your hand, In your foot, In your
oyo, lu your eur, nnd then ask somo doctor to
tako you Into tho dissecting room nnd lllus
trato to you what you havo read nbotit,
nnd never again commit tho blasphemy of
saying you hnvo no capital to start with.
Equipped! Why, tho poorest young man in
this houso if equipped ns only tho (Jod of tho
wholo unlvcrso could nirord to equip him.
Then his inxly n very oor nflnlr compared
with his wonderful soul oh, that is what
makes mo solicitous. I nm not so much anx
ious nbout you, young mnn, tiecatiso you
havo so littlo to do with, as 1 am anxious
about you because you havo so much to risk
and loso or gain.
Tlicro Is no class of orsons that so stir my
sympathies as young men In great cities. Not
qulto enough (Alary to llvo on, nnd nil tho
temptations thnt como from thnt deficit. In
vited ou all hands to drink, nnd their ex
hausted nervous system seeming to dcmniid
stimulus. Their religion cnrlcntured by
tho most of tho clei ks lu tho store and most
of tho op'.'rntlves lu tho fnctory Tho rapids
of temptation mid death rushing ngalnst that
young mnn forty miles tho hour, nnd ho In a
frnil boat headed up stream, with nothing
but n broken oar to work with. Unless Al
mighty Ood help them they will go under.
All I when I told you to tako caro of your
self you misunderstood mo If you thought 1
meant you aro to depend upon human reso
lution, which may bo dissolved in tho foam
of tho wlno cup, or may Ikj blown out with
tho first gust of temptation. Hero Is tho hel
met, tho sword of tho tard God Almighty.
Clotho yourself in that jMinoply nnd you
shall not Ira put to confusion. Siu pays well
neither In this world nor tho next, but right
thinking nnd right believing nnd right noting
will tako you In safety through this Ufo and
In trnusKrt through tho next.
I nover shall forgot n prayer I heard a
young man mako somo fifteen years ago. It
was a very short prayer, but it was n tro
mendous prayer t "Oh Lord, help us. Wo
find It so very easy to do wrong nud so hard
to do right. Lord, help us." That prayer, I
warrant you, reached the car of God, and
reached his heart And thero are in this
houso a hundred men who havo found out
a thousand young men, perhaps, who havo
found out that very thing. It is so very easy
to do wrong, and so hard to do right
I got a letter, only ono paragraph of which
I shall read: 'Having moved nround some
what I havo run ucross many young men of
Intelligence, ardent strlvcrs after that wlll-o'-tho-wlsp,
fortune, andofono of these I would
speak. He was a young Englishman of twenty-three
or four years, whocamo to Now York,
whero ho had acquaintances, with bandy
sufficient to keep him a couplo of weeks. Ue
had been tenderly reared; perhaps 1 should
say too tenderly, and was not used to earn
ing his living, and found It extremely diffi
cult to get any position that ho was capablo
of filling;. After many vain efforts In this
direction ho found himself on Sunday even
ing In Brooklyu, near your church, with nbout
threo dollars left of his small capital. Provi
dence seemed to lead him to your door, and
ho determined to go in nnd hear you.
"Ho told mo his going to hear you that
night was undoubtedly tho turning point in
his Ufo, for when ho went Into your church
ho felt despcrnto, but whllo listening to your
discourse his better iiaturo got the mastery.
I truly believe from what this young man
told me that your sounding the depth of his
heart that night alone brought hltn back to
his God whom he was so near leaving."
TAKE THE IIK1I1T HOAD AND KEEP TO IT.
The echo, that is of multitudes In the house,
I am nut preaching an abstraction hut a
great reality Oh! friendless young man,
Oh! prodigal young man, Ohl broken heart
ed young mun, discouraged young man,
wounded young mun, I commend you to
Christ this day, tho best friend n mnn ever
had. Ho meets you this morning You havo
como hero for this blessing. Despise not thnt
emotion rising In your soul. It Is divinely
lifted. Look Into tho fnco of Christ Lift
ono prayer to your father's God, to your
mother's Uod, nnd get tho pardoning blessing
Now, whllo I sjieak, you nro nt the forks of
tho road, and thU Is tho right road, uud thnt
Is the nron road, nnd I seo you start on tho
right road.
Ono Sabbath morning, at tho closo of my
eorvleo, I saw a gold watch of tho world re
nowned and deeply lamented violinist Olo
BulL You remember ho died In his Island
homo off tho coast of Norway. That gold
watch hohad wound upday nfter day through
his last Illness, and then ho said to hUcommn
Ion, "Now I want to wind this wntch as long
as I can, and then when I am gono 1 want
you to koep it wound up until It gets to my
friend Dr. Dorcmus, In Now York, and then
ho will keep It wouud up uutll his Ufo is dono,
and then 1 wnnt tho u ntch to go to his young
sou, my especial favorite "
Tho great musician, who moro than any
other nrtlst had mado tho violin speak nnd
sing nud weop nnd laugh nnd triumph for
it seemed when ho druw tho bow ncross tho
strings as if all earth uud heaven trembled In
delighted sympathy tho great musician, In a
room looking oir upon tho sea, and surrounded
by his favorito Instruments of music, closed
his eyes In death. Whllo oil tho world was
mourning at his departure, sixteen crowded
steamers fell Into line of funeral procession to
carry Ills body to the main land. There were
fifty thousand of his count r J men gathered lu
vx amphitheatre of tho bills waiting to hear
the euioglutn, and It was said when the groat
orator of the day with stentorian voice began
to siHvik, tho fifty thousand peoplo on tho
hillsides burst Into tears,
Ohl thnt wn-tho closo of n Ufo that had
dono so much to mnko tho world happy. But
I havo to tell you, young man, If you llvo
right and dlo right, thnt was n tamo sceiio
coi!itnred with thnt which will greet you
when from tho galleries of heaven tho ono
hundred and forty nnd four thousnud shnll
ncconl with Christ lu crying, "Well done,
thou good nud faithful servant."
And tho influence thnt ou earth you put In
motion will go down from generation to gon
erntlon, tho Influences you wound up
hnnded to your children, nnd their Influences
wound up nud handed to their children until
watch and clock aro no moro needed to mnrk
tho progress, U-cnuso tlmo Itself shnll bo no
longer.
A I'hlll.tluo's Views.
Ilomnntlo literature belongs to tho domain
of art, on tho samo level ns sculpture, paint
ing and the drama. In nono of tlicro other
expressions Is tho nbnormnl, tho corrupt, tho
wantonly repulslvo allowable, Tho lino of
treatment ou theso subjects Is definitely
drawn and generally acknowledged. Tho un
necoKsnrlly foul is unpanlonnbto.
Why should not tho snmo limit Ikj observed
In romantic literature! All art deals with
iiaturo and truth, but not with nil nature
and all truth. A festering soro is part of na
ture; it directly affects tho thought nnd no
tion of tho sufferer, nnd it Is ns unsightly, ns
deplorable nnd ns -xitcut ns a fostering vlco
ou tho soul. Why should tho latter bo al
lowed nud tho bodily soro forbidden!
Tho average- middle class Amorlcnn render,
malo or femnlo, Is n I'hlllstluo unquestiona
bly tho moit Impervious nnd cloaked con
ventionality known to nil tho nations, not
oven excepting tho "lowor middle clnss"
Euglltli. lie wants his fiction to twins proper,
ns full of small oxnctltudes lu demeanor, ns
"good nn example," ou tho outside, ns ho Is
himself. Humbug m ho Is, ho Is far prefera
ble to tho "natural" tyjw of tho morbid
morality mongers who tench a lesson of nn
hour by n Ufo long corruption. Tho Hitlls
tino has a right to his taste, nud ho Is right
In voting down thu Zola school ns tho best
for his children. Being n I'hlllstluo myself I
voto with hltn. John lloylo O'ltollly in Now
York Herald.
Tho Middle Course.
Tho middle courso li generally right In life.
It is lmosslblo to draw hard and fnst linos ns
to fiction. Thcro nro many things tn nnturo
which tho nrtlst should not pnliitand exhibit
Why should tho novel bo llko tho secret cabi
net In Naples! Thero aro many things nbout
which wo do not talk, forperfectly justifiable
ethical reasons. Why should thoy bo de
scribed In noveUI But whllo pruriency
should bo avoided, prudery and falso modesty
nro nlso to bo shunned. Wo wnnt vlrilo no
tion, dealing with real passions, and not an
emasculated view of human iiaturo adapted
to tho nursery. Thcro Is abundant scopo for
this lu n pure nnd clovntlug novel That Is n
falso "naturalism" which says that only tho
Indecent nud Illicit sldu of life Is true. Mor
bid Indecency Is npt to bo tho resort of a
"scnsationlst" Incnpablo of attracting atten
tion otherwise, I bollovo thcro Is now a re
action against tho extreme naturalistic move
ment, but very llkoly this movement had hod
tho effect of rescuing tho novel from uamby
painbylsm. Charles Dudley Warner lu Now
York Herald
Six nnd Tour.
Tho study of mathematics Is especially
recommended as a means of developing tho
reasoning faculties. No doubt It Is adapted
to accomplish that very doslrablo end; but it
seems to fall In somo cases.
"Six and four aro how many V asked tho
teacher. .
"Eleven I" shouts a littlo boy, who has
worked hard to learn by roto as much of his
arithmetic as possible,
"Hum," says tho teacher, shaking his head;
"think n moment,"
"Twelve,"
"No,"
"Thirteen."
"Now what makes you think it could bo
thirteen! Bupposo you had guessed n smaller
number ten, for instance r'
"Oh no," said tho boy, confidently, "It
couldn't bo ten."
"Why not!"
"Dccauso ft vo and fl vo mako that." Youth's
Companion.
Vnr'. nnd Worry.
It is not work but worry that kills. Worry
bestows a score of wrinkles whero work
plows ono; worry brings on a hundred gray
hairs whero work silvers one. It Is not steady
running that renders a watch unrcllablo, but
tho minute particles of dust that como be
tween tho tearing surfaces. Work does not
wreck n bit of mochantsm, but friction does.
And worry is tho friction of Ufo. Woi k is a
Saul that may havo slain his hundreds, but
worry Is n David that numbers his victims
by tens of thousands. In a review of one's
acquaintances, it can bo noted nt any tlmo
that tho worker, not tho worrier, attains suc
cess. Tho latter dies beforo ho succeeds, nnd
Ills mantle of worry rests Uxm his weaker
survivors, his wife and his children. The
worker plods on, does tho best ho can and
permits somo ono clso to do tho worrying.
Ho will llvo to a good old ago and never
figure as tho-oro In an Item headed "Sui
cide." Beware of the oteut demon, worry!
Pittsburg Ilullctla
Ills Collur.
Llko many other musical geniuses, Chopin,
tho coiiiHer, gavo evldenceof Ids marvelous
ability whllo yet a child. It Is wild that his
progress in piano playing was so extraordi
nary that when ho was but I'J years old his
parents and teacher thought It "l Kt to leave
him entirely to his own Instincts, and follow
Instend of directing him.
The warm approval which necessarily at
tended hU musical course did not lu the least
injure his Isiylsh simplicity and candor Do
fore his ninth year ho was Invited to tako
part In n concert given for tho InMiellt of tho
poor, and for this extraordinary occasion ho
was arrayed In very lino feathers, greatly to
his own satisfaction. When ho enmo homo
after tho concert, his mother asked hlmi
"Well, Fred, what did tho public llko bestf
"0 mamma," suld the unspoiled darling,
"overybody was looking at my collar I"
Youth's Companion.
.lien's rollli-s.
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comes to their facial adornment tho men aro
like a flock of hoei Not long silicon fow of
tho fakhloimblu young men of St, Louts got a
crazo for sldo whiskers. In a very brief
period of tlmo ovory larber In tho city had a
long list of customers ordorlug their w'hUkers
"blocked out" on tho sldo. Tho crazo lasted
only a few months, and Is now gradually
fading out entirely. Of courso tlicro nro a
certain number of staid citizens who wear
their beards in their own peculiar stylo, ro
gardless of tho prevailing fashion, but tho
youuger mcnespcclally society youths aro
quickly Infected with any now fad In that
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