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natural force unabated—Ood touched ! great lawgiver's eyes and they closed; and his lungs, and they ceased; and his heart, and It stopped; and commanded, saying, "To the skies, thou immortal spirit!” And then one Divine hand was put against the back of Moses, and the other hand against the pulseless breast, and God laid him softly down on Mount Nebo, and then the lawgiver, lifted in the Almighty's arms, was car ried to the opening of a cave, and placed in a crypt, and one stroke of the Divine hand smoothed the features into an everlasting calm, and a rock was rolled to the door, and the only obsequies, at which God did all the offlcM of priest, and undertaker, and gravedigger, and mourner, were ended. Oh, was not Miriam, the sister of Moses, doing a good thing, an import ant thing, a glorious thing when she watched tile boat woven of river plants and made water-tight with asphaltum, carrying its one passenger? Did she not put all the ages of time and of a coming eternity under obligation when she defended her helpless brother from the perils aquatic, reptilian, and raven ous? She it was that brought that wonderful babe and his mother to gether, so that he was reared to be the deliverer of his nation, when other wise, if saved at all from the rushes of the Nile, he would have been only c-ne more of the God-defying Pharaohs; for Prince** ThcrmutU of the bathing* house would have Inherited thp crown of Egypt; and as she had no child of her own, this adopted child would have come to coronation. Had there been no Miriam there would have been no tross and queer, and he thinks yon are selfish and proud and unlovely. Doth wrong! That brother will be a prince in some woman's eyes, and that sister a queen in the estimation of some man. That brother is a magnificent fellow, and that sister is a morning in June. Come, let me introduce you: “Moses, this is Miriam." “Mlitam, this is Moses." Add seventy-five per cent to your present appreciation of each other, and when you kiss good morn ing do not stick up your cold cheek, wet from the recent washing, as though you hated to touch each other's lips In affectionate caress. Bet it have all the fondness and cordiality of a loving sister’s kiss. Make yourself as agreeable and help ful to each other as possible, remem bering that noon 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-chang ing vicissitudes, and on paths crossed with graves, and up steeps hard to climb, and through shadowy ravines. Hut, O my (lod ar.d 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 with much to tell of ex citing adventure, and father and moth er enjoyed the recital as much as we who made it, so we shall on the hill side of heaven rehearse to them all the scenes of our earthly expedition, and they shall welcome us home, as we nay: “Father and mother, we have come and brought our children with us." The old revival liymn described it with glorious repetition: '‘Brothers and sisters there will meet. Brothers and sisters there will meet., Brothers and sisters there will meet, Will meet to part no more.” I read of a child in the country who was detained at a neighbor’s house on a stormy night by some fascinating stories that were being told him, and then looked out and saw It was so dark he did not dare go home. The inci dent Impressed me the more because in my childhood I had much the same experience. The boy asked his com rades to go with him, but they dared not. It got later and later—seven ST. VALENTINE’S DAY. HAT of rites an l festivities was the 15th of February in ancient Horae, where the Lupercn lia was celebrated in honor of a deity designated by ths various titles. Up on the blotter of the modern police court the gentle man would appear as “Pan. alias Lu percos, alias Faunus, alias Jnuus, dealer In grain and crops, grape grow er, proprietor of the woods and fields, the god of plenty.” In ancient times so important a personage as he who controlled the Increase of the products of the earth must necessarily have been shown great consideration, and It was peculiarly fitting, when the grasp of winter wag about to be loosened from the face of the earth and life was about to spring up In grass and flower and tree, that an entertainment should be given for this god of the aliases. From time lmmeinorable, therefore, the 15th of February was given up to j courtiers were partakers In It, and the J gifts they made to each other were ! j many times costly. In one of the En ’ gllsh counties.Hertfordshire, it was the custom for the poor children, as gayly dressed as their scant means would permit, to march through the towns, early in the morning, stopping be neath the windows here and there, and singing “Good Morrow, Valentine." A shower of pennies was the usual re sult. In Norwich, gifts were sent tc fair ones anonymously. The number of poems written about the custom of the day is beyond count ing. From Chaucer down, the poets have sung of the god of love to whom the popular observance has ever dedi cated the day. John Lydgate, 1440, wrote: “Saynt Valentine, of custom yeere h.v yeere, Men have an usaunce In this region, To loke and scrche Cupide's kalendere, And chose theyr cbosye by grete af fectloun.” In Hamlet, Ophelia is heard to sing: “To-morrow is St. Valentine's day, All in the morning betime, And I, a maid at your window. To bo your valentine.” Rome have accounted for the origin of the day's observances by saying that it is the time of year when the birds are muting and, with the feathered world, "The young man's fancy I.itfVltlv tiifiiu tit I Imm/litn rtf Invr " LINCOLN’S BOYHOOD. t\ Playmate Who H»r«d Ultn froili l>eat> by Drowning. The child's life during the time the family lived in Kentucky appears to linvo been entirely uneventful, says St. Nicholas. He helped his mother after he was 3 years old in the simple house hold duties, went to the distrlcf school and played with the children of the neighborhood. The only one of young Lincoln's playmates now living is an old man, nearly 100 years old. named Austin (Sollaher, whose mind is bright and clear and who never tires of tell ing of the days Lincoln and he “were little tikes and played togother." This old man, who yet lives in the log house in which he has always lived, a few miles from the old Lincoln place, tells entertaining stories about the presi dent’s boyhood. Mr. (lollaher says that they were together more than the other boys In school; that ho became fond of his little friend, and be believed that Abe thought a great deal of him. In speaking of various events of mi nor Importance In their boyhood days. Mr. Golluher remarked: “I once saved Lincoln’s life." Upon being urged to tell of the occurrence he thus related it: “We had been going to school to gether one year, but the next year we bad no school, because there were so few scholars to attend, there being on ly about twenty In the school the year before. Consequently Abe and I had not much to do, but ns wo did not g.j to school and our mothers were strict TALMAGE'S SERMON. "WATCHING THE BOAT.” LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. from thfi Text. ^ioda» I : ’i tin Follow*: “And HU KUt*r Stood Afjr OfT, to Witness What Would He Done to Him. RINCE3S THER MUTIS, daughter of Pharaoh, looking out through the lat tice of her bathing house, on the banks of the Nile, saw a curious boat on the river. It had neither oar nor helm, and they would have been useless anyhow. There was only one passenger, and that a baby boy. But the Mayflower, that brought the Pil grim Fathers to America, carried not so precious a load. The boat was made of tile broad leaves of papyrus, tightened together by bitumen. Boats were sometimes made of that material, as we learn from Pliny and Herodotus and Theophrastus. "Kill all the He brew children born,” had been Phar aoh's order. To save her boy, Joche bed, the mother of little Moses, had put him in that, queer boat and launch ed him. Ills sister, Miriam, stood on the bank watching that precious craft. She was fur enough off not to draw at tention to the boat, Hilt near enough to offer protection. There she stands on the bank- Miriam, the poetess, Miri am, the quick witted, Miriam, the faith ful, though very human, for In after years she demonstrated it. Miriam was a splendid sister, but had had her faults, like all the rest, of us. How carefully -he watched the boat ^ containing her brother! A strong wind often upset It. The buffaloes often found there might In a sudden plunge of third sink it. Some ravenous water fowl might swoop and pick his eyes out with Iron beak. Some crocodile or hip popotamus crawling through the rushes might crunch the babe. Miriam watch ed and watched until Princess Thermu tls, u maiden on each side of her hold tng palm leaves over her hear! to shel ter her from the sun, came down and entered her bathing house. When from the lattlee she saw that boat she or dered It brought, and when the leaves were pulled back from the face of the child and the boy looked up he cried aloud, for he was hungry and fright ened, and would not even let the prin cess take him. The infant would rath er stay hungry than acknowledge any one of the court as mother. Now Mir iam, the sister, incognito, no one sus pecting her relation to the child, leaps from the bank and rushes down and offers to get a nurse to pacify the child. Consent Is given, aril she brings Joche bed, the boy’s mother, Incognito, none of the court knowing that she was the mother; and when Jochebed arrived, the child stopped crying, for Its fright was calmed and its hunger appeased. You may admire Jochebed, the mother, and all the ages may admire Moses, but l clap my hands in applause at the behavior of Miriam, the faithful, brll f llant and strategic slater. "Go home," some one might have said to Miriam; "why risk yourself out there alone on the banks of the Nile, breathing the miasma, and in danger of being attacked of wild beast or ruffian; go home!” No: Miriam, the sister, more lovingly watched and bravely de fended Moses, the brother. Is he worthy her care and courage? Oh, yes; the sixty centuries of the world's history have never had so much in volved in the arrival of any ship at any por' as in the landing of that papyrus boat calked with bitumen! Its one pas senger was to be a nonsuch in history — lawyer, statesman, politician, legisla tor, organizer, conqueror, deliverer. He had such remarkable beauty in child hood that Josephus says, when he was carried along the road, ueonle stonneil to g.ize at him. and workmen would leave their work to admire him. When the king playfully put his crown upon this boy, he threw- it off Indignantly, and put his foot upon it. The king, fe.tring that this might be a sign that the child might yet take down his er'.vn. applied another test. Accord ing to the Jewish legend, the king or dered two bowls to lie put before the child, one containing rubies and the other burning coals; and if he took the coals, he was to live, and If he took the rubies, he was to die. for some reason th • hild took one of the coals, and put f' it it his mouth, so that his life was spited, although It burned the tongue till he was Indistinct of utterance ever after. Ilavlug come to manhood, he sure,td open th • paluts of Ilia handa in prayer, and the Ked slea parted to let two million live hundred thousand peo p! • escape. And he put the palma of Itu handa together (n prayer, and the l(-«t tfea closed on a strangulated host itta life ao unutterably grand, hla burial must lie on the same scale. Uod would lei neither man nor saint nor arhansel have anything to do with • vrlug for hltu a shroud or dtgglug for him a grave The omnipotent Uod left bis throne in heaven one day. and if Mia duration *a« asked. "Whither la th>* King of the I'nlverae going"’ tha answer was. I am going down to bury t( 'WS," And the Iwvfd took this m ghileat uf men to tha top of a hill, an I Hi. day was clear, and Hum ran bin o* over the magniA'ent range uf country Here the valley of ttsdrae Iom. where the Anal halt!* of all na H‘«s la to he fought, and yonder the iu . iniaitfe* llermun and Intbanon and * >i trim, and in- kilts uf Jurtaa. and tha* vlliage of Hvthiebwm there, and ti» < city of Jam ho yonder, and tha vast tlirti’k of land* ape that Slmoat took in,, old lawgiver * breath away aa he > rhvd at It tu l then wltboot a pang aa I team from th* statemeat that the *pe *f Huen a a« nadtmmad and hta MOBPd. What a gailanu lor lamnui sisterhood! For how many a lawgiver, and how many a hero, and how many a dellvf rer and how many a saint are the world and the church indebted to a watchful, loving, faithful, godly sister? Come up out of the farm-houses, come up out of the Inconspicuous homes, come up from the hanks of the Hud son and Penobscot, and the Savannah, and the Mobile, and the Mississippi, and all the other Niles of America and let us see you, the Miriams who watched and protected the leaders In law, and medicine, and merchandise, and art and agriculture, and mech anics, and religion! If I should ask all physicians and attorneys and mer chants and ministers of religion and successful men of all professions and trades, who are Indebted to an elder sister for good Influences and perhaps for an education or a prosperous start, to let It be known, hundreds would testify. God knows how many of our Greek lexicons and how much of our schooling was paid for by money that would otherwise have gone for the replenishing of a sister's wardrobe. While the brother sailed off for a re sounding sphere, the sister watched him from the banks of self-denial. Miriam was the eldest of the family; Moses and Aaron, her brothers, were younger. Oh, the power of the elder sister to help decide the brother's char acter for usefulness and for heaven! She can keep off from her brother more evils than Miriam could have driven back water-fowl or crocodile from the ark of bulrushes. The older gister de cides the direction In which the cradle boat shall sail. By gentleness, by good sense, by Christian principle she can turn It toward the palace, not of a wicked Pharaoh, but of a holy God; and a brighter princess than Thermutis should lift him out of peril, even re ligion, whose ways are ways of pleas antness and all her paths are peace. The older sister, how much the world owes her! Born while yet the family was in limited circumstances, she had to hold and take care of her younger brothers. And if there Is anything that excites my sympathy, It is a little <*MA “• r> ‘ 1UI UIIIU and getting her ears lioxed because she cannot keep him quiet! Hy the time she gets to young womanhood she Is pale and worn out. and her at tractiveness has been sacrificed on the altar of sisterly fidelity, and she is con signed to celibacy, and society calls her by an unfair name; but in heaven they call her Miriam. In most families the two most undesirable places in the record of births are the first and the last; the first because she is worn out with the cares of a home that cannot afford to hire help, and the last be cause she is spoiled as a pet. Among the grandest equipages that sweep thruugh the Btreets of heaven will be those occupied by sisters who sacri ficed themselves for brothers. They will have the finest of the Apocalyptic white horse*, and many who on earth looked down upon them will have to turn out to let them ;v»ns, the char lotee- crying: "Clear the way! A queen is coming!" fieneral Bauer, of the Iliisslnn cav alry. had in early life waudered off In the army, and the family supposed hr j was dead. After he gained a fortune he encamped one day in Husani, hi* j native place, and made a banquet; and among the great military men who were to dine, be Invited a plalu milter j and hi* wife who lived near by ami I who, affrighted, ealue, fearing eome J harm would be done them. The miller j a ad hla wife were placed one on earh i side of the general at the table. The general asked the miller all abuut hU family and the miller raid that be had two brothers and n sister No l other toothers*" * My younger brother ! went off with tha army many years ago. aad aw doubt was brag ago hilled " I Then the general said 'toddlers I | a hi this man* )uuni(( brother wti.tm V though* was dead Awtf how toad j was the cheer, and ho* warm the em ( brace' Brother and water, you need se math »f an .at rod Uttar* to each other as j they dot Von do wot know saedt «uti j You think four brother W gr> wty aad . o'clock, eight o'clock, nine o’clock. "Oh,” he said, “l wish I were home! As he opened the door the last time a blinding flash of lightning and a deaf ening roar overcame him. But after awhile he saw In the distance a lun tern, and lo! his brother was coming to fetch him home, and the lad stepped out and with swift feet hastened on to his brother, who took him home, where they were so glad to greet him, and for a long time supper had been wait ing. So may it be when the night of death coines and our earthly friends cannot go with us, and we dare not go alone; may our Brother, our Klder Brother, our Friend closer than a brother, come out to meet us with the light of the promises, which shall be a lantern to our feet; and then we will go in to join our loved ones waiting for us, supper all ready, the marriage supper of the Lamb! Klclt Rocky River Unit oral. We mentioned a year ago the re markable crop of corn raised by W. Q. Hammond on 150 acres of bottom land on Rocky river, aggregating over 5,000 bushels, says the Honea Path (S. C.) Chronicle. The present year he has done even better than that. He planted 110 acres of bottom land and has finished gathering the corn, which has yielded him 7,400 bushels, or a fraction over 67 bushels to the acre. This is a wonderful crop. In addition to that he has gathered about 350 bales of cotton by field weights, as nnna r\9 If boo lwion rvii.nnrl <>..4 rp: , crop has cost him, he says, a cash out lay of about $6,000. At $25 a bale this cotton will pay the expense of making the crop and leave him a net profit of $2,500 and all his corn. Or, if the corn were sold at the current market price of 60 cents per bushel, it would bring $4,400, nearly enough to pay the ex pense. He has twenty-six mules on his farm and his farm operations have been conducted by a force of thirty live convicts. Iiesldes this, he raised 1,000 bushels of oats. He informs in that his corn crop would have been larger, but fifteen acres of it were badly damaged by the cut worms. He says he had several acres that produced over 100 bushels to the acre. And, be sides. he now has on hand a quantity of Ills last year's crop of corn for sale. This If the most successful ex ample of good farming '%e kno.v of. A few I'nltnSriiiiici. The paliudromut sends us he fol lowing list of words, clipped from simn paper, which may be spelled forward or backward "Anna. bab. bib. hob. bub, civic, dad. deed, deified, did ecce, eve. ewe. eye, gog, gig. gag. level, ma dam. noon, otto pap. peep, pip, pup, pup, redder, refer, repaper. reviver, ro tator, sees, sexes, shahs, tat. tit. toot,** This leads u> to ask What Is the matter with Hannah?' Her name is also pellnitruinuat In vi sum < fam ily name l> equalIv capable of being spelled backward lltit tan w«* uol add to the above list? \> ♦ > *ll< g»4 remark to Kir Madam I'm kdani," and Napobntts Vide was I ere I • a<* Ktks." should he halted us Struuui <t age Hastnu Journal III |l«|ss. Old Oeutteman it ate y-.q • y toy. tuy Utile man?" lost) boy Unit tong) I dteantt list uignt da a# getsooi burned he t llrl-te* gud ho se* h» h r q , r* ffoumo his worship. Youths of the best Ro man families assembled then in the grotto of the Palatine hill. Cakes made by the vestal virgins from the first fruits of the preceding year were offered. Goats and young dogs were killed and. when two of the youths had been chosen and brought forward, their foreheads were smeared with the blood from the knives UBed in the sac rifice. A feast followed, and then the young men, clad in the skins of goats md armed with thongs of the same ma terial, ran around the city, striking with the thongs the thousands who put themselves In the way. To be struck thus was a symbol of purifica tion, Implying increase for the future. The thongs were “februa,” purifiers, and so the month. But the most pop ular custom of this festal day was the assembling of youths and maidens. The names of the maidens were put into an urn and those of tlie youths likewise, ami then each drew a slip front the proper vessel, having upon it the name of the one to whom it was hie duty to be devoted during the re mainder of the year. The custom wns almost universal in the city of Rome, and continued unabated for five hun dred years of the Christian era. Then happened one of the most humorous Incidents recorded in history. Pope Oelasius was a sober minded man, shrewd and sanctimonious, having lit tle tolerance for the revelries of pagan Rome. The festival of the Lupcrcal, with its attendant wordly custom?, seemed to him out of place In a Chris tian age. He was sagacious enough, moreover, to know that a suppression of so long standing popular observance was impossible. He therefore decreed this change In 496. The date of the festival was put a day earlier in the month and the occasion was made one In honor to St. Valentine, a good and charitable bishop who had become a martyr two hundred years before. When the young people were assembled for the drawing of lots, Instead of writ lng their own names upon the slips, they were to Inscribe there the name of saints. The saint whose name any one might draw was to be his patron for the rest of the year, to be honored and worshiped by. him. It was indeed a clever idea to accept the existing con ditions, and to endeavor to turn them Into a channel which would make for the building up of the new faith. But, shrewd as he was, Gelasius was not far sighted enough to see that there was something deeper than the worship ol Pagan Pan behind this little custom ol the Lupercalia. Human nature was there, at the heart of it, and the task of Hercules with the River Aulis was less difficult of successful achievement than the slight cnange which the pious pope had made, involving a matter ol popular fancy. It is little wonder, then, that, though the name and date remained as chang ed, the old custom of drawing lots for partners, or “valentines,” reappeared. In Europe and England until recently young people came together on the day in question and observed the identical custom which the Romans celebrated of old on the day of the Lupercalia. CLAD IN HKIN.d Ok’ OOA I'd UlUtta of papa' tearing th* n.uiira »| lha yuting <tuw>i »*r» drawn (rum a Jar by lb* young man. and aftarwurda lha young woman r*« Ipro* alr.l Hgt-h on* a aa thua ‘valaaOn*" to **uoOi«r«. lha on* whom ki bad drawn and ih« ona to whom ha had lallan by lot •'Hat,** ubaanaa moot**! I’apy# In ku di ry, a man doth pay Mu>k nt r« at. lan.lon lu lha ona ha Had drawn than lu lha on» lu wh»in ha hath fallait, or in uthar word*, lha billata drawn hr | th« man tooniad lor w .r# than ik ar Jutk by lb* wuo*#i». Th* ‘ aniantlar Ihua patr«d «hww*«l «uk uihar marbad alianllun OIL* of Jaw* try, atih*. glataa and awaatmaala warn mad* ! Nor aa* lha rualum luuhnad lu yuohg | p* *1* Mr triad man an I wum*h and In some parts of England, it was the custom, on St. Valentine’s eve, to walk the woods with a bird-net, In thethope of catching an owl. Success In love was the result of bringing home a live owl from the hunt, for, as the wisest of birds, it was supposed to have the secret of success which it would im part on this night. It was believed that the first person of the opposite sex one met on St. Valentine’s morning was to be that one's "valentine,’’ and records remain of young ladies who conscientiously locked themselves In their rooms, with eyes tightly closed when leaving it, until the right young man was announced. To-day, the spirit of independence which has come over the world, has A LIBELOUS VALENTINE. done away with the drawing of lots. Young people are not satisfied with leaving the matter to fortune, as were their ancestors, but fix it themselves. The universal means used to celebrate the day is a combination of lace paper, pictured hearts, cupids and verses, thousands of which now haiig In the stationers' window. From one to a dozen of these are selected, at a cost of from one cent to several dollars, and entrusted, properly addressed, to the postman’s care. Invariably, the missive is sent anonymously. Often, too, the sender steals, missive in hand, up to the door of the one who is to re ceive it, after dusk of St. Valentine’s day. The bell is pulled, the valentine dropped, and away runs the young one in high glee. The most delightful joy, however, is experienced when the ‘‘Ir repressible” steals thus up the steps, chalks a white square the size of an envelope upon the porch, rings the bell, and scampers away. Of course, in the darkness, the square resembles a valentine, and the fair one, her heart beating a little faster than ordinarily, stoops to pick up nothing. A spirit of Irreverence for the senti ment of .St. Valentine's observances lias sprung up within the memory ol living man. Instead of the regulation lin e and versus, the tatter of which are of the "molasses drip” sort, contracted for by the hundred pounds, there is now a most grotesque sort of carica ture, with n libelous accompaniment ot lines, llrcai swollen heads, emaciated chests, and misshapen feet, printed upon cheap paper, are dedicated to a tradesman or a man of professional calling. Some of the caricatures have their foundations baaed on peculiari ties of custom or eccentricities of habit. One of thru- eccentricities la taken apart from liny other trail, dressed in an outrageous Itody and glaring dothea, and becomes the missile of the small buy «lth wbUh to attack the fulhlea and foolish roaveotioua of so ciety. There ail) lung remain, not with I standing the prat bat. hardening lend I en > of the af » wethtng of the aeatt ! meut peculiar i« Ml. Valentine's day. *hbh Ivd the It man lads to choose and honor their lady loves. Though | the New Yo-k p- -linen me) cease to i rarrv foil mac tins letters on that day, ! t’uptd will >cHi(la<>s lo he honored, and the wonf*. liv er and the Aortal may j nolle-* an • eu va«e I aata of (hair wares. for |V ,,if;a* still comes and tbs birds j still mtt* * i h man nature la much tt i used to he in I he olden days at t Home. k> L MANIHCMAUN. tt Ms a vcaaa tvtls you she will i he M ad) in a minuta aha dasaht aai | .hah mm his. with us we did not get to see each other very often. One Sunday morn ing my mother waked me early, saying «he was going to see Mrs. Lincoln, and that 1 could go along. Olad of the chance. I was soon dressed and ready to go. After my mother and 1 got there Abo and 1 played all through the day. While we were wandering up and down the little stream called Knob creek Abe said: 'Right up there,* pointing to the east, ‘we saw a covey of partridges yesterday. Let's go over and get some of them.’ The stream was swollen and was too wide for us to Jump across. Finally we saw a nar row footing and we concluded to try It. It was narrow, but Abe said: ‘Let’s coon it.’ "I went first and reached the other side all right. Abe went about half way across, when he got seared and began trembling. 1 hollorcd to him: ‘Don't look down nor up nor sideways, but look right at me and hold on tight.’ But he fell off into the creek, and as the water was about seven or eight feet deep and 1 could not swim and neither could Abe 1 knew it would do no good for me to go In after hint. So 1 got a stick —a long water sprout— and held It out to him. lie came up, grabbing with both hands, and 1 put the stick into his hands. He clung to It and I pulled him out on the bank, almost dead. I got him by the arms and shook him well and then rolled him on the ground, when the water Jjtntt mi out or ttfm Mwwtlii ii* right very soon. We promised each other that we would never tell any body about it, and never did for year* EARLIEST PORTRAIT OF LIN COLN. I never told any one of It until after Lincoln was killed.” Bismarck of Jewish Docent. Few people are aware tliut Prince Bismarck is of Hebrew descent. He derives bis Jewish blood from his mother, whose father—Anastasius Menken, one of the favorite bureau crats of Frederick the Great—was ul Hebrew parentage. Although of late it has evidently appeared politic to the prince to countenance the anti-semitlc movement both In Germany and Austria, yet while In office he invar iably showed himself a good friend to he Jewish nation, and chose the He brew hanker, at Berlin, Baron Von Blelchroeder, as his most trusted cou rt da at. Indeed, In those days he was so well disposed toward the Jews that he even discussed the advisability of marrying his sous of Jewesses, on the ■round that it would bring money into the family again, and likewlae ’‘im prove both morally and physically lbs Bismarck breed “ A I'xtUu A Persian ltd* '* rooms do not occupy much of her time or attention. They are very simple and taste plays no im port an* part in them. The walla ar* either plainly tinted, ornamented with scrolls carved in piaster or Inlaid up to the catling with fragments of took iu« «um M*r ImhIiIIm by day u rutted u|* tn a verier t( lb* run® «ha ■•••rally iuhabiu U« • ab»ll !• *»«r* •lib* aland* a tarauela* velurvd um, m abirh raaia a at renal? aeaniad •baddutb Ibla la *ba u«lf daaura twa a avail iba •tiiulaita variwta and .«*■« «hi< b ara • bread a bunt lb* kur, <tba |a tbaruuabty duntwMI#, a ad treat* ••r wvaiaK Mf«*au a ad alaraa ntevb a* it Ibar aara b*r «*uala, laiaraaiin* baravll la tb* vewbatr, aad utta• wak !•■ >k> »wa*»aaaa»a !• abivb •• Oak' •a> »i beuaabeid latiakl*. bavkataa*