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    BY THE WAYSIDE.
'M Bttle way, my dearie,
la the world' ( loom or g Ieain;
few fleet jun of smiles and tears,
And thes the last, sweet dream.
A little way, my dearie
God knows f rom shore to shore,
XnA the ships sight each other
Oa the dim sea uo more!
A little way, my dearie
A way of lore and trust;
Then trust and love to height above,
But, ou this earth, to oust.
A little way, my dearie,
With flower and held and tit ream
Will the heart he ho weary
Twill ssk an endless dream?
Atlanta Constitution.
SUSPENDED
ANIMATION.
I1KV hail ix-en the
fondest of lovers
once before her
sudden fancy for
a "life work" and
a "career" li:;d
postponed the
wedding day iu-
1 e ti u itcly and
the uroum of the
I experience still
lingered, with a
vague, Illusory
sweenies, in his
in e in o r y. He
found himself viv
idly recalling tli!
circuinstam.es and
results of their last meeting, an he ac
knowledged his second lutrodiiclion to
her.
She hud exhausted bin alienee by
persistently refusing to even s-o 'inu'-lt
as consider the possibility of deserting
her classes at the end ... the term ami
becoming his wife im liately, and
bad bidden her with i.,i.stiikon stem
ne, as he afterward realized choose
between her stinbes and hiniself. She
had comiilled Instantly, belli? a girl of
much spirit and ludepeudem e v hen
these qualities wen; once aroused in
her gentle soul and the choice bad not
fallen tiimn him.
Tbey had parted then, vltti ostenta
tious and studied ominous so far its out
ward appearances went, but with sur
reptitious and Intense bitterness upon
bla part, and keen, if suppressed, re-Tot
upon hers. I'.itt they had gone their
several ways wit limit more ado. .She
had become, after a due period of
study, a suecefui physician and sur
geon, of whom great things were pre
dicted, and be had aiu.iised more
money than lie had ever dreamed of
acquiring In those days; but the ner
vous frown which habitually disfigured
his forehead hinted at many au hour of
loneliness and remorse, and (he wistful
look which soft. -lied the professional
sternness of b'-r line eyes in moment
of relaxation was eloquent of a similar
Btory. And tiny bjd never met again
until to-night.
"Yotl will take In Miss Winston,
please," their Iiomcss remarked, a tiille
hurriedly, as ihe young man eiuered
the drawing room just in time to hear
the announcement that dinner wan
erred. "Miss W inston, Mr. Harper
or stay, " w ith a breathless recollection
of some vague story connecting the
two names, "perhnTou already know
each other."
"Yes, we have met before," was his
bold reply, given with embarrassed
hesitation ns .Mrs. Dudley looked ques
t3onluly from one to the other. The
woman's quicker wits prompted a liws
balling response.
"Yen, Indeed; we were quite inllmate
once," she said, sweetening the com
monplace words with the brilliant Im
personal smile she hud adopted as part
of her professional oiiilit, and which
, was so widely and intrinsically differ
ent from the frank and unstudied smile
of the girl be remembered.
She laid her finger lightly on hi arm
an their hostess fluttered away, and
they walked out to the dining room to
gether In due course and onher; but
neither simUc again until I lie soup had
been disposed of and the Huh was well
under way.
Then "You fire greatly changed," he
blurted out, feeling that courtesy Im
peratively demanded an utterance of
YES, WK IIAVK MKT III roHS.
some kind, and hardly knowing what
to nay. She favored him with a new
mile again.
"Yes, I have changed much, I mip
potK1," she returned, fingering her fork
with Just a touch of nervousnos. "I
bave been working hard for some years,
you know, and steady, earnest work
almost transforms one, I think. lie
aldes, It Is over seven years since we
last met, In It not? I was very young
then."
"You were Just. 20," trembled uion
his lips, but he suppressed It. He wan
by no mean certain as to the precise
amount of personal conversation she
would allow. But presently, as he made
no audible reply, she spoke again.
"In faet"-tlll with that nervous ac
tion of the fork ind fingers "I have
changed o much since that time that I
an IwfMv muu pTsa 4 ail. I'lw
t A Ev
MID'
"lil"V d 7 m
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girl you knew," with sudden decision,
"died a long time ago."
"She was a very dear little girl," he
exclaimed tenderly, without stopping
to think. But, somewhat to his sur
prise, she neither reproved hlnj nor
looked Indignant Instead, he could
have sworn that her voice trembled a
little as she uttered her calm and Judi
cious reply.
"Yes," she responded with unexpect
ed gentleness and acquiescence, "I
think she whs. She has been dead so
long, you see, 1 can speak of her Just as
though she had never belonged to nie
at all. i'ud I really do think she was a
nice little thing. So faithful to the ri
diculous liitle ideals that seemed of
such vital importance to her. I am sur
prised now, when I think of her occa
sionally, to remember how really good
she was, or tried to be, and really, I am
fond of her memory, too. Would yon
believe," turning upon him Impulsive
ly, with a smile and glance so precisely
like those of the girl under discussion
that he started involuntarily, "that I,
practicing physician and surgeon (he
fancied that she laid an unnecessary If
slight emphasis iqion the last four
words), within two milestones of my
thirtieth birthday, would be foolish
enough to do as 1 did yesterday? I
came accidentally upon the satin slip
pers I wore at at that ball, you know,
just before well, a long time ago "
".lust seven years," be interrupted,
softly; but. she did not recognize the In
terruption, and only went ou with
heightened color:
".nd jiiit them on to see how my feet
would liM.k In them now. Why, I
haven't worn satin slippers or danced
for au age. And I fancy I almost
dropped a tear over the pretty, foolish
things. What do you think of that, and
I a practicing physician for nearly four
yea is?"
"You are a physician, then? You
took your degree?" he queried gently,
refusing to notice either the palpable
and defiant challenge of her maimer or
the Interrogation with which she ended
her unstudied confession, and quite un
mindful of tin; fact that he was perfect
ly aware of her professional status and
could even have named the date and
place of her graduation. "Well, well:
1 can hardly grasp It. It seems w as
tonishing somehow. I cannot fancy the
dear little girl we were talking alxmt
taking up a profession of that kind.
She was sueh a dear, timid little thing.
Not so brilliant as you, of course, but
ho tender and loving. She could never
have Imrm; to inflict pain physical
pain at least upon others, even if it
had been for their ultimate j:od.
She -"
"I took up the work because it was
the baldest for me of anything I could
Imagine, and I fancied it noblo--then
to compel myself to do the thing!) you
shrank from, whether other people suf
fered witli you or not," she broke in
impubiively, with a stoile of mingled
pity and regret for the girl who had
passed through this state of mind. "It
bum me to conduct or witness an oie
ration even now," she added.
"She was so tender-hearted and affec
tionate," be went on quietly, tacitly de
clining to recognize or accept any ex
planation which she might offer, "and
she would have made you don't mind
my speaking familiarly of her now that
sin; Is dead? No? Then 1 will go on.
She would have made such a lovable
w ife for some lucky fellow If she had
only lived. The man whom she
married could not have helped being
happy, and a fairly good fellow, even if
he had tried. Her love," lowering his
head and voice reverently as he ut
tered the word, "would have con
strained him to right ways even against
his will her love and her beauty.
Those starry, earnest eyes of hers
seemed to look one's wotil through and
through and find out only the goodness
In It at" .- all. She was too pure and In
nocent to see anything but good, dear
little saint. It is not often that one
sees or knows such a iierfeet woman as
she would have made. I bave never met
with such another, ' he finished.
The girl she was nothing but a girl
still, In spite of her 'SI years and her
physician's diploma looked down at
her bands In silence as the roast was
served, and his glance followed hers.
They were lieautiful hands, smooth,
w hite and well shaped, but the girl of
whom they had been speaking pos
sessed hands like those of a little child,
and he missed the rosy dimples which
used to erowu the Juncture of each
slender finger with the dainty palm.
Perhaps the woman beside him divined
anil resented it. At all events she with
drew the altered hands Into her lap and
faced lilm with all the tender softness
of the last few moments banished, and
with the newer air allowing forth
again.
"She must have been delightful In
deed. I am glad to have had the privi
lege of knowing her." she exclaimed
sarcastically, "even if, at the time of
our acquaintance, 1 did not realize one
tenth of the loveliness and salutllness
which nlie possessed. Hut unfortu
nately," her voice growing harder and
cobb-r ns she went on, and the profes
sional sm le appearing brilliantly again,
"like all the other paragons and saints,
she Is dead. And In her place," she
continued wllh a defiant air, "you be
hold Ir. Helen Winston."
lie bowed ceremoniously a nd as
though to a new acquaintance; she col
ored Indignantly.
"Not that I allow my profession!?
title to be used upon social occasions,"
she hastened to add. She was talking
rapidly to cover the emotion which she
ciuild not entirely repress: "Jt I sel
dom, Indeed, that I am obliged to con
sider Hint side of the question at nil. I
go Into society very little. I am hero
to-night because Mrs. Imdley Is such
an old and valued friend that she
i lalnis the right of refusing to taka 'no
for nil answer to her kindly pressed In
, nations once In a while. It la only
upon rare oceaalons that I drop my
workaday name and attire for a few
hours, and become somewhat of a but
terfly again. For the girl, you know,
who loved social festivities bo dearly"
dropping a little of her defiant man
ner and ceasing to talk against time as
her cheeks grew colder "Is dead."
He did not reply, and there was sl
lewe between them for some time.
The dessert had been nearly disposed
of before h' broke It.
"Io you believe In the resurrection
of the dead?" he then asked, with a
suddenness purposely startling; and
the girl supposed to be so long buried
rose up uumistakably In her eyes as
they turned Mv.tly and full of unshed
tears upon hliu.
"What ?" siie grasped, In bronUiIesa
astonishment. "What do you mean?"
Then she flu-hod with auger.
"Not in this life," she cried, with
sharp emphasis; but he saw, or fancied
lie saw, the trace of a tear on the
bright cheek nearest to IT u. and was
In uo wise daunted by her wrathful and
chilling manner.
"Have you ever," he persisted, watch
ing her Willi keen scrutiny as he sjHjke,
"in tlie course of your professional and
scientific observations, come across
such a thing as a case of suspended
animation or supposed death?"
And tills time lie was certain that the
vivid blush which reminded hlru so
Irresistibly of the girl whom they had
been discussing was accompanied by a
roiJM) HIM llltKA.MINU OVI.Ii A CIUAK.
tear. He saw It fall from her cheek to
the napkin in her lap; and his heart
leaped for joy.
Itut her reply was long In coming,
and the rising signal of the hostess,
given Just, ns she struggled for words
in which to frame It, saved her from
the necessity of making it at all. He
beld the door open for her to pass
throu;rh hi silence, noticing, as he did
so, the long richly colored velvet robe,
so exc eedingly unlike the fluffy white
ness of that oi her girl's holiday attire
and In another moment repealing his
unanswered question to himself, as he
made his way back to the tabic.
Possibly, however, he proiouudod It
; again later in the evening with better
success. Anyhow, early the next inorn-
ing, the chuiii who shared his eonfi
j deuce and his apartments found him
dreaming over a cigar with a smile so
; blissfully happy that he yielded, for
' once, to a most, immasculine curioedty.
( "So you took Ir. Winston out. to din
j tier?" he remarked. "And what, I
' wonder, did you find to talk about?"
The other smiled again; his voice,
too, was strangely tender and youth
ful as he made reply.
"She told me how completely dead
her old self the self that 1 used to
j know was," he answered, "and I
! agreed with her."
The listener gave an exclamation of
j Impatience.
i "Welli" he ejaculated, "I must say
I that you chose an exhilarating subject
! for conversation, after all those years.
And I must say. too, that for a man
who used to lie too precious fond of
that old self of hers you are looking
strangely JoyotH after the funeral."
"Hon't fret, old loy," said Harper,
softly. "Strange tilings sometimes
happen, you know. There have been
well authenticated eases of suspended
animation that merely simulated death.
Or. Winston tells me that she ha never
met with such a case In all her prac
tice; but It may be. rny lioy" accep
lng the other's proffered hand and
shaking It heartily "it may be that 1
have." I'tlca Olobe.
How Do You Walk?
Obstinacy Is Indicated by a sloWi
heavy and flat foiled style of walk
ing, while miserliness may be suspect
ed from short, nervous and anxlouf
foot s! eps.
Turned in toes generally character
ize the absont-inlnded and a stoop the
studious and deeply retlecMve, whose
thoughts are anywhere rather than
with themselves.
Sly, cunning people walk with a
noiseless, even and stealthy tread, re
sembling that of a cat. A proud per
son generally takes even steps, holds
tne figure upright and the head a little
back and turns the toes out well.
A gay and volatile person trips light
ly and easily, In sympathy with his o;
her nature. Character Is shown by all
sorts of oddities in gait, but for grace
and elegance no civilian's walk will
bear comparison with that of the men
who has received military training.
No two i-ople walk exactly alike and
the student of character finds ns niucb
to Interest him In the way people "walk
as In nny peculiarity they may have of
feature. Quick steis denote agitation;
slow steps, either long or short, niig
get a gentle or contemplative turn of
mind.
Hum an Nut lire.
It seem rather queer that the average
limn
Will let trifles his judgment displace,
Yet he thinks less of the tea thnt ho earns
Than the dollar be wins ou the race.
Speaking of fitness for mariiaga,
more attention should ha paid to a ca
pacity for forgiveness.
IN this sermon of I)r. Tiihmtge the
character of a wise, sympathetic and
self-denying sister is set forth as an
fxample, and the story will set hundreds
of meu to thinking over old tines; text,
Kxodus ii., 4, "And his sister stood nf.'ir
off to wit whnt would be dune to him."
I'rineess Tliermiitis, daughter of I'lia
raoh, looking out through the lattice of
her bathing house, ou the banks of the
Kile, kiivv a curious boat on the river. It
had neither oar nor helm, and they would
bave been useless iinyhow. There was
only one passenger and that n baby boy.
But the Mayflower, that brought the pil
frim fathers to America, carried not so
precious a load. 'The boat was made of
the broad leaves of papyrus, tightened to
fether by bitumen. Bonis were sometimes
made of that material, as we learn from
I'llny and Herodotus ami Theophrastiis.
"Kill all the Hebrew children born," had
been Pharaoh's order. To save her boy,
Joehehed, the mother oT little Moses, had
put him in thnt queer boat and launched
him. His sister Miriam stood on the
hank watchiiiz that precious craft. She
was far enough off not to draw attention
to the boat, hut near enough to offer pro
tection. There she stands on the bank
Miriam the poetess. Miriam the quick
wilted, Miriam the faithful, though very
human, for in after time she demon
strated it.
Miriam was a splendid sister, but. had
r faults, like all the rest of us. How
ciirefullv she watched the boat containing
her brother! A strong wind might upset
It. The buffaloes often found there might
In a sudden plunge of thirst sink it. Some
ravenous water fowl might swoop and
rick his eyes out with iron beak, Some
crocodile or hippopotamus crawling
through the rushes might crunch the babe.
Miriam watched and watched until Prin
cess Thermntis, n maiden on each side of
her holding palm leaves over her head to
shelter her f rem the sun, came down and
entered her bathing house. When from
the lattice she saw t lint boat, she ordered
It brought, and when the leaves were pull
ed back from the face of the child and
the boy looked up he cried aloud, for he
was hungry and frightened and would
not. even let the princess take him. The
Infant would rather stay hungry Hinn
a-knowledge any one of the court ns moth
er. Now Milium, the sister, incognito,
no one suspecting her relation to the child,
leaps from the bank and rushes down and
otters to get n nurse to pacify the child.
Consent, is given, and she brings Joehe
hed, the baby's mother, incognito, none
Of the court knowing that she was the
mother, and when Joehehed arrived the
chili! slopped crying, for its fright was
en lined and its hunger appeased. You
may admire Joehehed, the mother, and
nil the ages may admire Moses, but I
clap my hands in applause at the behavior
of Miriam, the faithful, brilliant and
strategic sister.
A Noiisih h in History.
"Go home,'' some one might have Paid
to Miriam. "Why risk yourself out there
alone on Ihe hunks of the Nile, breathing
the miasma and in danger of being at
tacked of wild beast or rufllan? Uo
home!" No. Miriam, the sister, more
lovingly watched and bravely defended
Moses, ihe brother. Is he worthy her
cure and courage? Oh, yes; the sixty cen
turies of the world's history have never
had so much involved in the arrival of
any ship nt any port ns in the landing of
that papyrus bout calked with bitumen!
Its one pasM-iiger was to be a nonsuch in
history- lawyer, statesman, politician, leg
islator, organizer, conqueror, deliverer.
He had such remarkable beauty in child
hood that, Jonephus says, when he was
carried along the road people stopped to
gir.e ut him and workmen would leave
their work to iidmire him. When the
king playfully put his crown upon this
boy, he threw it off indignantly mid put
his foot on it.
The king, fearing that this might be a
sign that the child might yet take down
his crown, applied another test. Accord
ing to the Jewish h gelid, the king ordered
two how ls to he put before the child, one
containing rubies and the other burning
con Is, and if he took the coals he was to
live and If he look the rubies he wns to
die. For some reason the child took one
of ihe coals titid put it in his mouth, so
thnt his life was spared, although it burn
ed the tongue till he was indistinct of ut
terance ever after. Having come to man
hood, he spread open the palms of his
hands in prayer, and the lied Sea parted
to let 2,."V)O,tKl0 people escape. And he put
the palms of his hands together in prayer,
and the Kcd Sen closed on a strangu
lated host.
Miriam the Faithful,
Oh, was not Miriam, the sister of
Moses, doing a good thing, nn Important
thing, u glorious thing when she watched
the boat woven of river plants and made
Water tight with nsphnlluin, carrying its
one passenger? Hid she not put all the
ages of time and of n coming eternity un
der obligation when she defended her help
less brother from the perils aquatic, rep
tilian and ravenous? She It was that
bronili! that wonderful babe and his
mother together, so thnt he was reared to
be the deliverer of his nation, wdien other
wise, if saved at ail from the rushes of
the Nile, he would have been only one
more nf the (bid defying pharaohs; for
Prim-ens Thermntis of the bathing house
would hnve Inherited the crown of Egypt,
and M she had no child of her own this
adopted child would have come to corona
tion. Had there been no Miriam there
would have been no Moses. What a gar
land for faithful sisterhoodl For how
many a lawgiver and how many a hero
and h"W many a deliverer and how many
a saint are the world and the church In
debted to a watchful, loving, faithful, god
ly sister? Come up out of the farm
house, cuum up out of taa Inconspicuous
irj . ..
homes, come up from the hanks of the
Hudson and Penobscot and the Savannah
and the Mobile ami the Mississippi and all
the other Niles of America, and let us see
you, the Miriams who watched and pro
tected the leaders in law and medicine
and merc handise and art and agriculture
and mechanics and religion! If I should
all physicians and attorneys and mer
chants and ministers of religion and suc
cessful men of all professions and trades
who are indebted 1o an elder sister for
good Influences and perhaps for an educa-
ion or a prosperous start to let it tie
known, hundreds would testify. (Jod
knows how many of our Greek lexicons
and how- much of our schoolings were
paid for by money that would otherwise
have gone for the replenishing of a sis
ter's wardrobe. While the brother sailed
off for a resounding sphere, the sister
watched him from the banks of self-denial.
Tlie i;ider Winter's Guiding Hand.
Miriam wns the eldest of the family;;
Moses and Aaron, her brothers, were
younger. Oh, the power of the elder sis
ter to help decide the brother's character
for usefulness and for heaven! She can
keep off from her brother more evils than
Miriam could have driven hack water
fowl or crocodile from, the ark of bul
rushes. The older sister decides the di- 1
reetioii in which the cradle boat shall sail.
By gentleness, by good sense, by Chris
linn principle she can turn it toward the
palace, not. of a wicked Pharaoh, but of
a holy (Jod, and a brighter princess than
Thermntis should lift him out of peril,
even religion, whose ways are ways of
pleasantness and all her paths are peace.
The older sister, how much 1he world
owes her! Born while yet the family was
in limited circumstances, she had to hold
land take care of her younger brothers.
And if there is anything 'thnt excites my
sympathy it is a little girl lugging round
n. great, fat child and getting her ears box
ed because she cannot keep him quiet. By
the time she gets to young womanhood
she is pale and worn out and her attrac
tiveness has been sacrificed on the altar
of sisterly fidelity, and she is consigned
to celibacy, and society calls her by nn un
fair name, but in heaven they call her
Miriam. In most families the two most
undesirable places in the record of births
nre the first and the last the first he
cause she is worn out with the cares of a
home that cannot afford to hire help, and
the last because she is spoiled as a pet.
Among the grandest equipages that sweep
through the streets of heaven will be those
occupied by sisters who sacrificed them
selves for brothers. They will have the
finest of the Apocalyptic white horses,
and many who on earth looked down up
on them w ill have to turn out to let them
pass, the charioteer crying: "Clear the
way! A queen is coming!"
KltKsiiiK or Curse.
Let sisters not begrudge the time and
care bestowed on a brother. It is hard to
believe thnt any boy that you know so
well as your brother can ever turn out.
anything very useful. Well, he may not
be a Moses. There is only one of that
kind needed for (!,(MJ0 years. But I tell
you what your brother will be either a
blessing or a curse to society and a can
didate for happiness or wretchedness. He
will, like Moses, have the choice between
rubies and living coals, and your influence
will hnve milch to do with his decision.
He may not, like Moses, be the deliverer
of a nation, but he may, after your father
and mother are gone, be the deliverer of
la household. What thousands of homes
to-day are piloted by brothers! There are
properties now well invested and yielding
income for tlie support of sisters and
younger brother because the older broth-
; er rose to the leadership from tlie day the
' falher lay down to die. Whatever you
j do for your brothers will come back to you
I again. If you set him nn ill-mitured, cen
sorious, unaccommodating example, it will
' recoil upon you from his own irritated and
, despoiled nature. If you, by patience with
j his infirmities and by nobility of charac
ter, dwell with him In the few years of
your companionship, you will have your
counsels reflected back upon you some day
by his splendor of behavior in some crisis
w here he would have failed hut. for you.
Hon't snub him. Don't depreciate his
ability. Don't talk dlsconragiiigly about
his future. Don't let Miriam get down
off the hank of the Nile and w ade out and
upset the ark of bulrushes. Don't tense
him. IVrothers and sisters do not consider
j It any harm to tease. That spirit abroad
i in 'the family is one of the meanest and
most devilish. There is a teasing that is
! pleasurable and is only another form of
innocent raillery, but. that which provokes
.and irritates and makes the eye Hash with
i anger is to be reprehended. It would he
less blameworthy to take a bunch of
thorns and draw them across your sisler's
cheek or to take a knife and draw its
sharp edge across your brother's hand till
the blood spurts, for thnt would damage
; only the body, but teasing is the thorn and
the knife scratching and lacerating the
disposition and the soul. It is the curse
of innume'rnble households that the broth
! era tease the sisters and the sisters the
brothers. Sometimes It, is the color of
the hair, or the shnpe of the features or an
nffnir of the heart. Sometimes it. is by
revealing a secret or by a suggestive look
or a guffaw or nn "Ahem!" Tease! Tease!
Tense! Tense! For mercy's sake, quit it.
Christ says, "He that hateth his brother
is a murderer." Now, when you, by teas
ing, make your brother or sister hate, you
turn him or her into a murderer or mur
deress. Itcware of Jealousy,
Don't let jealousy ever touch a sister's
soul, as It so often does, because her broth
er gets more honor or more mentis.
liven .Miriam, the heroine of the text,
was struck by that evil passion of jeal
ousy. She had possessed unlimited influ
ence over Moses, and now he marries, and
not only so, but. marries a black woman
from Kthiopia, and Miriam is so disgusted
and outraged nt Moses, first because he
had married at nil, and next because he
had practiced miscegenation, that she is
drawn Into a frenzy, and then begins to
turn white and gets white ns a corpse and
then whiter lluin n corpse. Her com
plexion is like chalk the fact is, she has
the ligyplinn leprosy. And now the
brother whom she had defended on the
Nile comes to her rescue In a prayer that
brings her restoration. Let there be no
room in all your house for jealousy either
to sit or stand. It Is a leprous abomina
tion. Your brother's success, O sisters,
Is your success! Mis victories will be
your victories. For while Moses tha
brother led the vocal music after the cross
ing of the Bed Sea, Miriam the sister
with two sheets of shining brass upllffedj
and glittering in the sun, led the instnuj
mental music, clapping the cymbals till
the last frightened neigh of pursuing cav
alry horse was smothered in the wave
and the last Egyptian helmet went under.
Do l our Part.
If you only knew it, your interests are
Identical. Of all the families of the earth
that ever stood together perhaps the most
conspicuous is the family of the Roths
childs. As Mayer Anselm Rothschild was
about to die, in 1812, be gathered his chil
dren about him Anselm, Solomon, Na
than, Charles and James and made them
promise that they would always be united
on "Change. Obeying that injunction, they
have been the mightiest commercial pow
er on earth, and at the raising or lowering
of their scepter nations have risen or fall
en. That illustrates how much,' on a large
scale and for selfish purposes, a united
family may achieve. But suppose that
instead of a magnitude of dollars as the
object it, lie doing good and making salu
tary impression and raising this sunken
world, how much more ennobling! Sister,
you do your part and brother will do his
part. If Miriam will lovingly watch the
boat on the Nile. Moses will help her when
leprous disasters strike.
When father and mother are gone and
they soon will be, if they have not al
ready made exit the sisterly and frater
nal bond will be the only ligament that
will hold the family together. How many,
reasons for your deep and unfaltering af
fection for each other! Rocked In the
same cradle; bent over by the same moth
erly tenderness; toiled for by the same
father's weary arm and aching browf
with common inheritance of all the family,
secrets and with names given you by par
ents who started you with the highest
hopes for your happiness and prosperity,
I charge you be loving and kind and for
giving. If ihe sister see that the brother
never wants a sympathizer, the brother
will see that the sister never wants an es
cort. Ob, if the sisters of a household
knew through what terrific and damning
temptations their brother goes in city life,
they would hardly sleep nights in anxiety
for his salvation! And if you would make
a holy conspiracy of kind words and gen
tle attentions and earnest prayers, that
would save his soul from death and hide
a multitude of sins. But let the sister
dash off iu one direction in discipleship of
the world, and the brother flee off in an
other direction and dissipation, and it will
not be long before they will meet again
at the iron gate of despair, their blistered
feet iu the hot ashes of a consumed life
time. Alas, that brothers and sisters
though living together for years very
often do not know each other, and that
they see only the imperfections and none
of the virtues!
Know Thy Brother.
General Bauer of the Russian cavalry
had in early life wandered off with the ar
my, and the family supposed he was dead.
After he gained a fortune he encamped
one day in Husain, his native place, and
made a banquet, and among the great
military men who were to dine he invited
a plain miller and his wife who lived near
by and wdio, affrighted, came, fearing
some harm would be done them. Tha
miller and his wife were placed one oa
each side of the general at. the table. Tha
general asked the miller all about his fam
ily, and the miller said that he had two
brothers and a sister. "No other broth
ers?" "My younger brother went off with
the army many years ago and no doubt
was long ago killed." Then the general
said, "Soldiers, I am this man's younger
brother, whom he thought was dead."
And how loud was the cheer and how
warm was the embrace!
Brother and sister, you need as much of
an introduction to each other as they did.
You do not know each other. You think
your brother is grouty and cross and
queer, and he thinks you nre selfish and
proud and unlovely. Both wrong. That
brother will be a prince in some woman's
eyes, and that sister a queen in the esti
mation of some man. 'That brother is a
magnificent fellow, and that sister is a
morning in June. Come, let me introduce
yon: "Moses, this is Miriam. Miriam,
this is Moses." Add 75 per cent to your
present appreciation of each other and
when you kiss good morning do not stick
tip your cold cheek, wet, from the recent
washing, as though you hated to touch,
each other's lips hi affectionate caress.
Let it. have all the fondness and cordiality
of a loving sister's kiss.
To Part No More.
Make yourself as agreeable and helpful
to each other as possible, remembering
that soon you part. The few years of
boyhood and girlhood will soon slip by,
and you will go out to homes of your own'
and into the battle with the world and
amid ever changing vicissitudes and on
paths crossed with graves and up steeps
hard to climb and through shadowy ra
vines. But, O my (Jod and Saviour, may
the terminus of the journey be the same
as the start namely, at the father's
and mother's knee, if they have inherited
the kingdom. Then, as In boyhood and
girlhood days, we rushed in after the
day's absence wllh much to tell of excit
ing adventure, and father and mother en
joyed the recital as much as we who made
it, so we shall on the hillside of heaven re
hearse to them all the scenes of our earth
ly expedition, and they shall welcome us
home, as we say, "Father and mother,
we have come and brought our children
with us." The old revival hymn describ
ed it with glorious repetition:
Brothers and sisters there will meet,
Brothers and sisters there will meet,
Urol hers and sisters there will meet,
Will meet to part no more, ,
OopyrlgliblSf)8.
Short Sermons.
Take Away the Pain. Iet us tako
away the pain from the heart of God
by removing It from the soula and bod
ies of men. I-et us remember that "to
lift the burden of humanity Is to lift
the burden of God." Iter. 0. W. Will
iams, Baptist, Denver, Colo,
The Truth of Christ. Christ Is the
living truth, not, a string of formulas
Intellectually perfect, however venera
ble. He Is embodied truth, the knowl
edge of whom Is better than the dis
cipline of sacred inebajphyslcs. llev.
Dr. Barrowe, Presbyterian, Chicago,
ill.
A Vast Problem. Every generation
of the world's hlstosy Is confronted by
some Important problem to the solution
of which the bet minds and the truest
hearts must lend their every energy.
Our time has a vast problem. Kr.
Father Ducey, RoBaaa OsthaJlfl. New
York City.