ft-
Ki
I
LAWS JANE.
AT GAL, she done
ain't coino back
yit, M'randy."
Wul, Unc'
Hose, don' bo too
de tar mined wid
her. She's a pert
cbilc, but she's
datfergitful."
"Sho ain't no
call ter bo f ergit
ful, M'randy. She
warn't brung up
ter be an' she's
got ter be unlarn't
it Don' you stan
atween her an'
partcrnel justis,
M'randy. There she be now"
She was coming down the little, tangled
lane, singing at the top of her voice and
swinging a pail half full of blackberries to
mark the time.
- "Hl-yup, yon darkies, big and small,
Oh, listen to de flddl' an' do horn!
Ob, don' yon ncah dat ban;o call?
Listen to de flduT an' de horn!
Oh, so early In do mornln',
Down In do yellow corn.
Oh, so early in do mornln'.
Listen to de fiddl' an' de horn!"
The swinging melody was so catching
Jhat Uncle Mose forgot fits grim resolution
for the moment and beat time with bis
down-trodden slipper. At the chorus his
musical soul could not resist taking his pipe
from his mouth and joining with a hearty
bass, while M'randy, pleased that things
seemed to be so amicably settled, added her
second. Tins was such a success that when
ihe verse was finished they repeated it by
common consent. Laws Jane ending in a
shrill "Yaah!" of triumph at tho happy
endinffof her little ruse. Uncle Mose so
bered at once, remembering his duty.
J "Laws Jane, wliar you been J" he asked,
sternly.
i "Whar I been?' replied Laws Jane, inno
cently. Why, I been to Mis' White's fcr de
jgarding seed. I'd a been home afore, honey
jia, on'y I stopped to pick deso yer berries
fer yc."
I Considering that the blackberries must
jbave taken about fifteen minutes to pick,
cud that Laws Jane had been gone fully
jtwo hours, this was a very flimsy excuse,
but Uncle Mose secretly loved and wjs
proud of his Laws Jane which fact
Laws Jane knew as well as ho did and this
little token of hcrthoughtfuiness-forhim
inoro than half turned his anger at once.
,"Wal," he said, less sternly, "wkar's de
gardinjrsccdJ"
At this Laws Jane's smiling faco grew
very blank. She looked down at tho ground
and up at the sky and linally at UncleMose,
whose wrath was gradually gathering. ''I
I don' fergot it!" she faltered at last,
j Here M'randy, seeing danger imminent,
charged to tho rescue. She seized tho de
linquent by the arm and marched heron
hurriedly. "You shiftless piece!" sho
cried, shaking the arm she held. "You go
straightaway upstairs andgo to bed. Yo'
don' forgltycrown name nex'! 2ox'timc
yo' catch it, suah !"
Laws Jane disappeared up the crooked
stairs with alacrity and M'randy returned
to her work. Uncle Mose went on puffing
his pipe outside on the doorstep as if noth
ing had happened. Indeed, such occurrences
were so frequent that they had lost their
power to disturb. Both knew perfectly
that Laws Jane would swing herself out of
the window and into the tree that grew
close by it, and that they would see no more
of her till supper time, when she would ap
pear with a penitent face and all would go
on as before.
To-day, however, some bidden forces
were at work in Uncle Mose's breast.
"M'randy," he said, solemnly, after a long
silence. "Wal, Unc' Mose!" inquired
M'randy, pleasantly, coming to the door
with a dish in her hand. "M'randy, d nex'
timo dat chile fcrgit herse'f I'so gwitie
Avarm her mem'ry. She's got ter be bruk
of it. An' don' you iuterfcre wid partcrnel
justiss de nex' time, M'randy." Perhaps
the same forces had been at work in
M'randv's breast, too, for after a moment's
silence she only replied, thoughtfully:
"Wal, Unc' Mose, p'raps yo' better. She's
done grew pow'ful fergitfuL" Laws Jane,
half out of the window above, heard the
conversation, and whistled softly to herself:
"Golly! Dat mean business dis time, sure.
Dis darkey better look out fer herse'f!"
Then her mouth widened into a grin and
she shook her head half dolefully: "I has
got a pow'ful poo' mem'ry!" she thought,
as she disappeared in tho Held behind the
house.
For several days Laws Jane was on her
good behavior. She did not run off to fill
the water-pail down at tho spring and for
get to como back for hours afterward; sho
had wiped the dishes carefully, and bad
not dropped a saucer, and to-day she was
bending her back with apparent willing
cess, pulling the weeds out of tho little
garden. M'randy looked out of the window
several times, and found each time with re
newed satisfaction that she hid not yet run
away and left the needing to take care of
itself.
At last she called "Laws Jane!" Laws
Jane was just straightening her aching
back and muttericg disgustedly to herself:
"tVuutmetoweed deoldgarding w'en de
WHAR TO' GOT '! "
weeds am de biggest part ob de crap
yah!" She obeyed the call with a bound.
Any thing was better than this.
"You pa ain't got no tobac', honey," said
M'randy, as the hot little figure camonear.
"You jes' better step down to de sto an'
get some afo' nisht Hi dar ! Laws Jane I"
she called after her as sho was rapidly dis
appearing down the lane, singing at the top
of her voice: "You done bo back afo'
noontime, o' you pa'll wallop yo!"
To "step down tode sto"' meant a walk
of three miles, but it was nearly all through
the woods and in this delightful May
weather Laws Jane asked for no better
pastime. Sho jingled tho coppers merrily
in her hand, keeping time to the tune that
she was whistling with such success that a
blackbird in the bush recognized achallenge
and answered with a trill of his own. Half
Way to town the path crossed the main
road to plunge again into the bush on the
other side. As she sat perched on the top
tail preparatory to springing into tha road,
. t. .-..
she espied some one coming down tho road.
As he came nearer she saw that it was a
boy about her own ago and that he was
carrying something under his coat.
"Hullo! Bub what yo got!" she asked,
eagerly.
"Rabbit," answered Bub, shortly, hug
ging his coat closer.
"Le'ssee'im! Wharyo got 'im!" cried
Laws Jane, scrambling down into the roVi.
"Whatchergib mo ?" asked Bub, edgag
away a little. For one tempting moment
Laws Jane thought of the coppers she held,
but dismissed tho idea with a sigh. "Ain't
gotnuthin'togib,"she said at last. "Yo'
moui;ht let me just peek at it!" she added,
coaxingly.
"Nop, cuddent t'ink ob it," replied Bub,
beginning to edge by on his way home.
"Hoi' on. Bub, wait er miait can't yo'?"
cried Laws Jane, seeing the rabbit slowly
passing beyond her reach. "K n I see 't ef
I brung yo' some o' Mom's cookies de nex
time I cum ter towa!"
Bub stopped and slowly opened his coat,
disclosing to her delighted view a little
whlto rabbit with a pink nose that worked
alarmingly all the timo sho was looking at
it. She hung over it speechless until Bub
began shuttiug up his coat again la a business-like'
manner.
'Got free mo' ob dem ter home," he re
marked, when ho had reached a safe dis
tance. "Golly!" said Laws Jane, overcome, "K'n
I go home widyo', Bub?" Bub showed
signs of refusing. "Not ef I brnng yo
some mo' cookies?" sbo added, anxious
ly. This time Bub codded and she skipped
.
"LAWS JASE, WHAB TOTJ BCIXf "
along at his side, her round face beaming
with excitement. Bhe know nsthing about
the passing of time until Bub's mother put
her head out of the deor and called crossly:
Yo', Bub, come in an' git yo' eatin done!"
Then she remembered that it must be her
own dinner time and hurried away toward
borne, having gained from Bnb the promise
of another peep at tho rabits in return for
an unlimited supply of cookies. When she
reached the houso Uncle Mose was sitting
tranquilly ou tho door-step smoking.
"Whar's dat tobac," he asked sternly, as he
saw that she had no package in her hauds.
Laws Jane was thunderstruck. "I I
lon' forgit it, pop," she faltered at last.
Uncle Mose stood up slowly, keeping her
eye transfixed with his stern gaze, and
took her by the arm. She looked wildly
around, but there was no escape, and
M'randy was nowhere to be seen.
"Oh, pop, I I" but she ended in a
howl, for Uncle Mose produced from some
hiding-place a well-seasoned hickory switch
and began to apply It with scientific direct
ness. '"Now, miss, you jist march back de
way yo' kum, an' git dat tobac' afore yo
hab yo' dinner."
PETE
WAS RESIGNED.
He Was
Willing; to Help Ihe Hangman
Makn a Good Job.
HERE was only one
man waiting execu
tion at Fort Smith
when I visited the
post, and he "Was
only one of the ordi
nary run of white
men in the Indian
Territory. The hang
man rather wantedto
show him off, and so
we paid a visit to the
guard bouse. Upon
entering it the exe
cutioner said:
"Pete, here is a
decent white man come to see you. Do
your puniest, now, to entertain .him.
You'vo got two more days to live, and I
hope you'll try and work into decent society
as much as possible."
"I'm sure I'm glad to see him," re
sponded Fete, as ho came forward and
shook hands.
"That's good. A born gentleman couldn't
have said them words better. If I could
only keep you six weeks, Pete, you
wouldn't know yourself, and you'd do me
proud. But I can't. I've got to bang you
day after to-morrow."
"Well, I'm ready."
"That's good, and just what I expected of
you. I've used you white, and 1 naturally
expect the same in return. If there's any
one thing that riles me above another it's to
have a man go back on me at the last end.
Did you see me hang Cherokee Jack, Petel"
"Yes."
"I made a bungle of it, because he kicked ;
L IUU lilSU IIUV.SU VIUIU1IIK VU 1UC, uc
held up until the very last hour, deluding
me with promises, and then went dead back
on me. Think of his refusing to be hung
after every thing was ship-shape and regu
lar." "I'm not going to lack," observed Peter.
Good for you ! Some of tho boys are bet-
ting that you will, but 111 givo odds that
you won't. v nen a man Knows no s got
to be hung, what's tho use? People have
got a mistaken notion about hanging. It
don't hurt a bit. How you feelin', Peter?"
"RMiimnl '
"That's right You hadn't orter killed
your old woman, but being you did, and
being as you must pull hemp for it, the
best way is to feel resigned. You come
mighty nigh being a gentleman, Pete, and
anJ rSSES2
v..i.i : .. 'r. . . ,.
Want to ask the gent any questions, Fete!"
"N-o, I guess not Will he be here to see
nn gol"
"He'd like to ever so much. But he can't
He's got to go on to Van Buran."
"Can Idoany thing for youP I asked.
"No, thankyou."
"Well, Pete, wo must be going," briskly
remarked the executioner. "Would like to
stay longer, but time presses. I'll come
in to-morrow and cut your hair and re
hearse a bit I made such a poor job last
time that I want to do extra fine on you.
If you'd stick to what you say I'll do the
purtiest job ever seen at this post"
"I want every thing to go off all right,"
responded the condemned..
"Of course why shouldn't youf It's foi
your interest, too. Well, so long, oid boy.
Keep your grit up and do your best anal 11
guarantee a first-class lob or quit tha bast
" H. Y. Sun.
CESgEp
m
TAL:iIAGE'S SEBHON.
A Greeting to tho Christians
tho Eternal City.
or
The Brooklyn Tastor, like St. rant
Old, Visits the Christians at Rome,
Carrying Them Word. of
Good Cheer.
of
The following is tho discourse on
Ecv. T. DoWitt Talmage's programmo
for delivery at Rome, which is predicat
ed on the follow text:
I must also sec Koine. Acts six., 21.
Ilcro is Paul's itinerary. IIo was a
traveling or circuit preacher. IIo had
been mobbed and insulted, and the
more good he did tho worse tho world
treated him. But ho went right on.
Now ho proposes to go to Jerusalem,
and says: "After that I must also sco
itomc.' Why did ho want to visit
this wonderful city in which I am to-day
permitted to stand? "To preach tho
I Gospel,'' you answer. No doubt of it;
but thero were other reasons why ho
wanted to see Home. A man of Paul's
intelligence and classic tasto had fifty
other reasons for wanting to see it.
Your Colosseum was at that timo in
process of erection, and lie wanted to
see it. The Forum was even then an
old structure, and the eloquent apostle
wanted to see that building in which
, eloquenco h:.l so often thundered and
wept. Over the Appian Way the tri-
umphal processions had already
marched for hundreds of years, and he
I wanted to see that. The Templo
i of Saturn was already an antiquity,
and ho wanted to see that. Tho ar
chitecture of tho world-renowned city,
lie wanted to seo that The places as
sociated with tho triumphs, tho cruel
ties, the disasters, tho wars, tho mili
tary genius, the poetic and the rhe
torical fame of this groat city, ho
wanted to sec them. A man like Paul,
so many sided, so sympathetic, so emo
tional, so full of analogy, could not have
been indifTcrcnt to tho antiquities and
the splendors which move every rightly
organized human being. And with what
thrill of interest he walked these
streets, those only who for the first timo
like ourselves enter Home can imagine.
If the inhabitants of all Christendom
wero gathered into one plain, and it
wero put to them which two cities they
would above all others wish to see, tho
vast majority of them would vote Jeru
salem and Rome. So wo can under
stand something of tho record of my
text and its surroundings when it says,
Paul purposed in the spirit when he had
passed through Macedonia and Achaia
to go to Jerusalem, saying: "After that
I must also sco Uome. "
As some of you are aware, with my
family, and only for the purpose of what
we can learn and the good we can get, I
am on the way to Palestine. Since leav
ing Brooklyn, N. Y., this is tho first
place we havo stopped. Intermediate
cities are attractive, but we have visited
them in other years, and we hastened
on, for I said before starting that while
I was going to seo Jerusalem I must also
see Rome. Why do I want to see it?
Because I want, by visiting regions asso
ciated with the great apostle, to see tho
Gentiles, to have my faith in Christianity
confirmed. Thero are those who will go
through large expenditure to have their
faith weakened. In my native land I
have known persons of very limited
means to pay fifty cents or a dollar to
hear a lecturer prove that our Christian
religion is a myth, a dream, a cheat, a
lie. On the contrary, I will give the
thousands of dollars that this journey of
my family will cost to havo additional
evidence that our Christian religion is
an authenticated grandeur, a solemn, a
joyous, a rapturous, a stupendous, a
magnificent fact.
So I want to see Rome. I want you
to show me tho places connected with
apostolic ministry. I havo heard that
I in your city and amid its surroundings
apostles suffered and died for Christ's
sake. My common sense tells me that
people do not die for the sake of a false
hood. They may practice a deception
j for tho purpose of gain, but put tho
j sword to their heart, or arrange the hal
' ter around their neck, or kindlo a firo
I around their feet, and they would say
my life is worth more than any thing 1
can gain by losing it. I hear you havo
in this city Paul's dungeon. Show it to
me. I must sco Rome also. While I am
interested in this city because of herciti
tens who aro mighty in history or virtue,
vico or talents, Romulas, and Caligu
la, and Cincinnatus, and Vespasian.and
Coriolanus, and Brutus, and a hundred
others whoso names aro bright with an
exceeding brightness, or black with the
deepest dye, most of all am I interested
in this city because tho preacher of Mars
Hm and defier of Agrippa. and the hero
of the shipwrecked vessel in the break
ers of Mclita, and the man who held
higher than any one that the world ever
saw tho torch of Resurrection, lived
and preached and was massacred
here. Show mo every placo connected
with his
Rome.
memory. I must also see
Hut my text suggests that in Paul
there was the inquisitive and curious
spirit- Had my text only meant that he
wanted to preach here, ho would have
said so. Indeed, in another place, he
declared: "I am ready to preach tho
gospel to you who are at Romo also."
jjut my text suggests a sight-seeing,
Thi njan ho had en under Dr. Gam-
-iSTtS and
was used to savin? what ho meant, and
ihe said: 4,I must also see Lome.
There is such a thing as Christian curi
osity. Paul had it and some of us have
it. About other people's business I have
no euriositv. About all that can con-
firm my faith in the Christian religion
and the worm s salvation ana me som
future happiness I am full of an all-absorbing,
all-compeling curiosity. Paul
had a great curiosity about the next
world, and so have we. I hope some
day, by t'.o grace of God, to go over and
see for m self; but not now. No well
man, no prospered man, I think, wants
to go now. Hut the time will come, I
think, when I shall go over. I want to
see what they do there, and I want to
aee how they do it I do not want to be
looking through the gates ajar forever.
I want them to swing right open. There
are ten thousand things I want ex
plained about you, about myself, about
the government of this world, about
God, about every thing. We start in a
plain path of what wo know and in a
minute como up against a high wall of
what we do not know.
I wonder how it looks over thero.
Somebody tells mo it is liko a paved
city paved with gold; and another man
fells mo it is like a fountain, and it is
like a tree, and it is like a triumphal
procession; and tho next man I meet
tells mo it is all figurative. I really
want to know, after tho body is resur
rected, what they wear and what they
eat; and I have an immeasurable curi
osity to know what it is, and how it is,
and where it is. Columbus risked his
life to find the American continent, and
shall we shudder to go out on a voyago
of discovery which shall reveal a vaster
and moro brilliant country? John
Franklin risked his life to find a passago
to eternal summer? Men in Switzer
land travel up tho heights of tho Mat-
terhorn, with alpenstock and guides,
and rockets and ropes, and getting half-
way up, siumoio ana iau uown in a uor
rible massacre. They just wanted to
say they had been on tho tops of those
high peaks. And shall we fear to go
out for the ascent of the eterncl hills
which start one thousand miles beyond
where stop the highest peaks of tho
Alps, and when in that ascent there is
no peril? A man doomed to die stepped
on the scaffold, and said in joy: "Xow,
in ten minutes I will know tho great
secret." One minute after the vital
functions ceased, the little child that
died last night know moro than Paul
himself before he died.
Friends, the exit from this world, or
death, if you please to call it, to the
Christian is glorious explanation. It is
demonstration. It is illumination. It
is sunburst. It is tho opening of all tho
windows. It is shutting up the cate
chism of doubt, and the unrolling of all
the scrolls of positive and accurate in
formation. Instead of standing at the
foot of the ladder and looking up, it is
standing at the top of tho ladder and
looking down. It is the last mystery
taken out of botany, and geology, and
astronomy, and theology. Ob, will it
not be grand to have all questions an
swered? Tho perpetually recurring in
terrogation point changed for the mark
of exclamation? All riddles solved.
Who will fear to go out on that dis
covery, when all the questions aro to bo
decided which we havo been discussing
all our lives? Who shall not clap his
hands in the anticipation of that blessed
country, if it be no better than through
holy curiosity? As this Paul of my text
did not suppress his curiosity, we need
not suppress ours. Yes. I have an un
limited curiosity about all religious
things, and as this city of Rome was so
intimately connected with apostolic
times, the incidents of which emphasize
and explain and augment the Christian
religion, you will not take it as an evi
dence of a prying spirit, but as tho out
bursting of a Christian curiosity when I
say I must also see Home.
Our desire to visit this city is also in
tensified by the fact that we want to bo
confirmed in the feeling that human
life is brief, but its work lasts for cent
uries, indeed, forever. Therefore
show us tho antiquities of old Rome,
altout which we havo been reading for
a lifetime, but never seen. In our be
loved America wo have no antiquities.
A church eighty years old overawes us
with its age. We havo in America
somo cathedrals hundreds and thou
sands of years old, but they aro in Yel
lowstone Park or California Canyon,
and their architecture and masonry
were by the omnipotent God. We want
to see tho buildings, or ruins of old
buildings, that were erected hundreds
and thousands of years ago by human
hands. They lived forty or seventy
years, but tho arches they lifted, the
paintings they penciled, tho sculpture
they chiseled, tho roads they laid out, I
understand, aro yet to be seen, and wo
want you to show them to us. I can
hardly wait until Monday morning. I
must also see Rome.
Wo want to bo impressed with the
fact that what men do on a small scale
or largo scalo lasts a thousand years,
lasts forovcr. that wo build for eternity
and that we do so in a very short space
of time. God is tho only old living
presence. But it is an old age without
any of the infirmities or limitations of I
old age. There is a passage oi acript
uro which speaks of the birth of the
mountains, for thero was a time when
the Andes wero born, and the Pyrenncs
were born, and tho Sierra Nevadas wero
born, but beforo tho birth of those
mountains the Bible tells us, God was
born, aye was never born at all, because
He always existed. Psalm xc. 2: "Be
fore tho mountains were brought forth,
or ever Thou hadst formed the earth and
tho world, even from everlasting to
everlasting, Thou art God." How short
is human life, what antiquity attaches
to its worth! How everlasting is God!
Show us tho antiquities, the things that
were old when America was discovered,
old when Paul went up and down these
streets sight seeing, old when Christ
was born. I must I must also see
Rome!
Another reason for our visit to this
city is that wo want to sco the places
where the mightiest intellects and the
greatest natures wrought for our Chris
tian religion. Wo have been told in
America by somo peoplo of swollen
heads that tho Christian religion is a
pusillanimous thing, good for children
under seven years of ago and small
brained people, but not for the intelli
gent and swarthy-minded. We have
heard of your Constantine, the mighty,
who pointed his army to tho cross, say
ing: "By this conquer." If there be
any thing here connected with his reign
or his military history, show it to us.
The mightiest intellect of tho ages was
the author of my text, and. if for tho
Christian religion he was willing to la
bor and suffer and die, thero must be
something exalted and sublime and tre
mendous in it; and show me every place
ho visited, and show me if you can
wh 3 he was tried, and which of your
roads leads out to Ostia, that I may see
where bo went out to die. Wo expect
before ve finish this journey to see Lake
Galilee, and the places where Simon,
Peter and Aairew fished, and perhaps we
may drop a net or a hook and lino into
thoso waters ourselves, but when follow
ing the track of thoso lesser apostles I
will learn quite another lesson.
I want while in this City of Rome to
study tho religion of tho brainiest of tho
apostles. I want to follow, as far as wo
can trace it, the track of this great in
tellect of my text wh wanted to sco
Rome also, He was a logician, he was
a metaphysician, he was an all-conquering
orator, he was a poet of tho highest
type. IIo had. a nature that could
swamp tho leading men cf lr" i own day,
and hurled against the Sanhedrim, ho
made it tremble. He learned all he could
get in tho school of his native village
then o had gone to higher school, and
thero had mastered the Greek and tho
Hebrew and perfected himself in belles
letters, until in after years, he astound
ed tho Cretans and tho Corinthians, and
tho Athenians, by quotations from tho
own authors. I havo never found any
thing in Carlyle. or Goethe, or Herbert
Spencer that could compare in strength
or beauty with Paul's epistles. I do
not think there is any thing in the writ-
ings of Sir William Hamilton that shows
such mental disciplino as you find in
Paul's argument about justification and
resurrection. I havo not found any
thing in Milton liner in tho way of
, imagination than 1 can linl
in
Paul's
t illustrations drawn from the
i theater. There was nothing in
amphi
Robert Emmet pleading for his life, or in Kd
inund Iturke arraigning Warren Hast
ings in Westminster Hall, that com-
pared with the scene in tho court-room
when, before robed officials, Paul bowed
and began his speech, saying: "I think
myself happy. King Agrippa, becauso I
shall answer for myself this day."
I repeat, that a religion that can capt
ure a man like that must have somo
power in it. It is time our wiseacres
stopped talking as though all the brain
of the world were opposed to Christian
ity. Whero Paul leads, we can afford to
follow. I am glad to know that Christ
has in tho different ages of the world,
had in His disoipleship a Mozart and a
Handel in music: a Raphael and a
Reynolds in painting; an Angelo and a
Canova in sculpture; a Rush and a
Harvey in medicine; a Grotius and a
Washington in statesmanship; a Black- i
stone, a Marshall and a Kent in law, and
the time will come when the religion of
Christ will conquer all tho observa
tories and universities, and phi
losophy will, through her telescope, bc-
hold tho morning star of .Testis, and in
her laboratory see that "all tiling work
together for good." and with her geo
logical hammer discern tho "Hock of
Ages." Oh, instead of cowering and
shivering when the skeptic stands be
fore us, and talks of religion as though
it were a pusillanimous thing instead
of that, let us take out our New Testa
ment and read thJ story of Paul at
Rome, or come and see this city for
ourselves, and learn that it could have
been no weak gospel that actuated such
a man, but that it is an all-conquering
gospel. Aye. for all ages tho power ol
God and the wisdom of God unto salva
tion. Men, brethren and fathers! I thank
you for this opportunity of preaching
the Gospel to you that are at Rome also.
The churches of America salute you.
Upon you who are. like us. strangers in
Rome, I pray the protecting and jour
neying care of God. Upon you who are
resident here. I pray grace, mercy and
peace from God our Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ. After tarrying here a few
days we resume our journey for Palesti no.
and wo shall never meet again, cither
in Italy, or America, or what is called
the Holy Land, but there is a holier
land, and there wo may meet, saved by
the graco that in tho same way saves
Italian and American, and there in that
supernal clime, after embracing Him
who, by His sufferings on the hill back
of Jerusalem, made our Heaven possible,
and given salutation to our own kindred
whoie departure broke our hearts on
earth, we shall. I think, seek out the
traveling preacher and mighty hero of
the text who marked out His journey
through Macedonia and Achaia to Je
rusalem, saying:
"After I havo been there, I must also
see Rome."
A MILLION OF BASIES.
Tollonins Them Up from Tbeir llirtb to
Their Death.
Take your pencil and follow me while
we figure out on what will happen to the
1,000,000 of babies that have been born
in tho last 1,000,000 seconds. I believe
that is about the average "one every
time the clock ticks." October 1, 1690,
if statistics don't belie us, we will havo
lost i:.0,000 of theso little "prides of the
household." A year later 53, 000 more will
be keeping company with those who have
gono before. At the end of tho third
year wo find that 22,000 more have
dropped by tho wayside. The fourth
year they havo become rugged littlo
darlings, not nearly so susceptible to in
fantile diseases, only 8,000 having suc
cumbed to the rigors imposed by tho
master. By the timo they have arrived
at the age of twelve years but a paltry
few hundred leave the track each year.
After three score years have come and
gone we find less trouble in counting
the army with which we started in tho
fall of ISS'J.
Of tho 1,000,000 with which we began
our count but 370,000 remain; 630,000
have gone the way of all the world and
the remaining few have forgotten that
they ever existed. At tho end of 80, or,
taking our mode of reckoning, by year
VMS), A. D., there are still 97,000 gray
haired, shaky old grannies and grand
fathers, toothless, hairless and happy.
In the year 1984 our 1,000,000 babies
with which we started in 18S9, will have
dwindled to an insignificant 223 help
less old wrecks "stranded on the shores
of Time." In 1992 all but seventeen
have left this mundane sphere forever,
while the last remaining wreck will
probably, in seeming thoughtlessness,
watch the sands filter through the hour
glass of Time and d'e in the year 1997 at
the age of 108. What a bounteous sup
ply ot food for reflection! St Louis Ee
public.
Osb has never so much need of hla
wit as when he has to do with a fool.-
Quaes Proxerhv
FIRESIDE FRAGMENTS.
Rrown sugar in doughnuts instead
of white will keep them moist and nice
much longer. Tho Housokeeper.
A cheap and good mince-meat can
bo made by boiling a beef's heart till
tender, then chopping it fine and season
ing it and adding twice as much applo
by weight as meat. Fruit, spices, etc.,
can be added as one desires.
Paper or pasteboard may be ren
dered waterproof as follows: Mix four
parts of slaked lime with three parts of
skimmed milk and add a little alum;
then givo the material two Miccessivo
coatings of tho mixturo with a brush
and then let it dry.
nonoy Cakes: Tako a quart of strained
honey, half a pound of fresh butter, and
a small teaspoonful of pearl ash, dis
solved in a little milk. Add as much
sifted flour as will mako still pasto.
Work well together. Roll out half an
inch thick. Cut into cakes. Lay on
buttered tins, and bako in a hot oven.
Cream Dates: Remove tho stones
from tho dates, without entirely separat
ing them. Take a tiny piece of vanilla
fondant, tho same as preceding recipe,
form it into a little roll, placo it in tho
space from which the seed was taken,
press tho halves together so that only a
small quantity of the candy can bo seen,
roll tho dates in granulated sugar, and
placo them on dishes to harden. Chris
tian Union.
One great secret of nio cake mak
ing is the thorough beating of tho batter
after all ingredients aro together. Some
havo trottbjo with granuiat d sugar.
Don't use mi much. One-half inch less
for a cupful is enough. Tho cake batter
takes longer beating than usual, as the
sugar is longer in dissolving. Wo think
it tho cheapest sugar on the market
Farm and Fireside.
To use up slices of stale bread
break and cut them in pieces, first cut
ting off the hard crust, and pour boiling
water on it too soften tho bread. Then
for a pint of bread crumbs beat up three
eggs and add these with a pint of milk,
some bits of butter, a little sugar and
raisins in quantity to suit, and bake.
It is a good plain, wholesome pudding ta
eat with milk and sugar or pudding
sauce. X. Y. World.
To take iron rust out of white goods-
' p(
our a teacupful of boiling water;
stretch the goods tightly across the ton
of it; thenpouron a little of the solution
of oxalic acid dissolved in water, and
run it with tho edge ot a tapion or ant
thi if it does not come out at once,
j dip it down into the hot water and rub
, it again. This is a quiek easy and sure
way to remove iron rust, and should he
( remembered by every good housekeeper.
Oj-ster Croquettes: Put two dozen
oysters on to boil in their own liquor.
Lot come to a boil. Tako from the lire,
1 drain and chop. Put half a pint of tho
(liquor in a saucepan, with a teaeup of
! cream, thicken with a tnbl'spuunful of
, Hour and butter each, rubbed together.
Stiruntil the milk boils, add tho oysters,
tho yelks of three oggs. and stir one
minute; tako from the lire, and season
with a tablespoon fill of ehopp d parsley,
a half of a grated nutmeg, a little salt
and cayenne popper. Mix well and
!turn out to cool. Whon cold, form in
croquettes, roll in beaten va then in
Ladies' Home Journal.
DANGEROUS WORK.
l'oor Folk who Go ;h-:uiin on the New
York IVIiurve- for 1'iicl.
Among the many odd devices resorted
to by the very poor in their efforts to
gain a livelihood is that of the peo
plo who frequent tho various wharves
and other placos where coal is trans
ferred from barges to wagons or from
wagons to coal-sheds, and who eagerly
scizo upon any htraj' pieces that may fall
unheeded to tho ground.
Of coarse the loss in this way on each
ton of coal is scarcely noticeable, but in
the aggregate it amounts to no incon
sidcrablo quantity and the aged men
and worn-out women who so carefully
watch the huge coal buckets as they
swing in mid-air in their transit from
tho coal bargo to the wagons on the
wharf are often able thus to secure suf
ficient of the mineral to warm their
humble homes throughout tho winter.
Only those too decrepit to execute more
laborious work caro to glean coal in this
way, as they aro seldom able to gather
a large enough quantity to sell. Hut
the activity displayed by these poor old
creatures in their eagerness to secure a
few nuggets is something remarkable.
The pursuit is not without its perils.
Thero is always moro or less com petition
for the scanty prizes that reward a long
vigil, and in order to outdo their com
petitors tho old gleaners often rush
recklessly between wagon wheels and
almost under horses' hoofs. Then, too,
as the big buckets swing overhoad pieces
of coal are sometimes dislodged and fall
heavily to the ground, endangering the
heads of those beneath.
Not long since an old man was pushed
off a pier into tho river and nearly
drowned through tho rush for a single
lump that had attracted the attention of
half a dozen gleaners. It had fallen on
tho edge of the string piece, and the old
follow was crowded off. Fortunately he
grabbed and held on to a rope that was
hanging from the stern of a coal barge,
and somo idlers on tho wharf hauled
him ashore.
Tho greatest danger to tho gleaners
lies, however, in their reckless dives
under the wagons. The men and boys
who are engaged in loading frequently
chase the old folks away, but they return
with a persistence that defies all efforts
to save the coal and prevent accidents.
X. Y. Herald.
Booth America's Living Lanterns.
South American fire-flies have been
called living diamonds. In the samo
part of the world is also found a palo
gray or particularly disagreeable look
ing moth which may be called a living
lantern. Kept inclosed in a box for
twenty-four hours, it will be found when
the box is opened that the body of tho
moth is giving forth sufficient light to
enable one to read plainly any ordinary
type. A number of glass-fronted boxes
containing these moths Fulgaria ean
Urnaria, naturalists call them when
placed around a room afford nearly as
much light as so many wax candies.
American Agriculturist.
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