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THE WORKING WOMAN
Dr. Talmage Spaaks Words of En-
couragement to Her.
Faith nnil Trn»t in tied Afford Com-
fort for Those Who Are tip-
proKMi'd and StrnKfc»l i**>»
for a Livelihood.
ACTIVITY OF LAWMAKERS.
cu may embroider slippers unl1 crochet
and make mats tor lamps to stand on
the if lea of doing
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11100, by Louts Klopsch.l
Washington. March 11.
[Copyright.
This discourse of Dr. Talmage is an
u.peaUoc mer. yin behalf of opiy-essca
is of
If
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was
<:n to toil
the Great
10 those struggling tor a
text. Ecclesiastes iv.. 1: “Behold the
tears of such as were oppressed, and
they had no comforter."
Very long ago the needle was busy.
It was considered honorable for woin-
in olden times. Alexander
stood in his place showing
garments made by Ids own mother.
The finest tapestries at Buycux. wei<
made by llic queen of YY ilbam the Con-
queror. Augustus, the emperor would
not wear any garments except thos
that, were fashioned by some membe
of itis royal family. Ho let the toiler
everywhere be respected!
The needle has slain more than Hie
sword. AY hen the sewing machine was
invented, some thoughfthat invention
would alleviate woman’s tod and put
nn end to the despotism of the needle.
T‘.,»t not while the sewing machine
has been a great blessing to well-to-do
families in many cases, it has added to
the stab of the needle the crush of the
wheel, and multitudes of women, not-
withstanding the reenforcement of the
sewing machine, can only make, work
hard as they will, between two and
three dollars a week.
The greatest blessing that could have
happened to our first parents was be-
ing turned out of Eden after they had
done wrong. Adam and Eve in tluii
perfect state might have got along
without work or only such slight em-
ployment as a perfect garden with no
weeds in it demanded, but as soon as
they had sinned the best thing foi
them was to be turned out where they
would have to work. AVe know what
ii withering thing it is for man to have
nothing to do. Of the 1.000 prosperous
and honorable men that you know 990
had to work vigorously at tlic begin-
ning. But I cm now to tell you that
industry is just as important for a
woman’s safety and happiness. The
most unhappy women in our communi-
ties to-day are. those who have no en-
gagements to call them up in the
morning, who once having risen and
breakfasted lounge through the dull
forenoon in slippers down at the heel
umT with disheveled hair, reading the
last novel, and who, having dragged
through a wretched forenoon and
Liken their afternoon sleep and having
passed an liou'- and u half at their toi^
let, pick up their curdcase and go out
to make calls, and who pars their even-
ings waiting for somebody to come in
and break up the monotony. Arabella
•Stuart never was imprisoned in so
nark a dungeon as that.
There is no happiness in an idle wom-
an. It may be with hand, it may be
with brain, it may be with foot, but
work she must or he wretched forever.
The little girls of our families must be
started with that idea. The curse of
American society is that our young
women are taught that the first, see
mid, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventn
tenth, fiftieth, thousandth thing
heir life is to get somebody to take
•care of them. Inst< ad of that the first
lesson should be how under God they
may take care of themselves. I he sim-
T>le~fact is tiiat a majority of them do
j, ive to take care of themselves and
that, too. after having through the
false notions of their parents wasted
•he years in which they ought to have
'earned how successfully to maintain
themselves. AYe now and here declare
11,e inhumanity, cruelty and outrage
of that father and mother who pass
their daughters into womanhood hav-
ing given them no facility for earning
their livelihood.
N’.me. de Start said: “U is not these
writings that I am proud of, but the
fact that I have facility in ten occu-
■ialions in any one of which 1 could
make a ■livelihood.” Y en say you have
a fortune to leave them. O man and
wn nan! Have you not learned that.
'il-.c vultures, like hawks, like eagle.-,
riches have wings and fly away.’
Though you should be successiul in
leaving a competency behind you, the
trickery ot executors inny swamp it in
ai night, or some officials in our
churches may get up a mining com-
pany and induce your orphans to put
their money into a bole in Colorado
and if by the most skillful machinery
1 lie sunken money cannot be brought
up again prove to them that it
-was eternally decreed that that was
gut. way they were to lose it and that
it went in the most orthodox and heav-
enly style. Oh, the damnable schemes
that professed Christians will engage
•n until Cod puts His fingers inU) the
collar of the hypocrite’s robe and strips
U clear down to the bottom! A ou have
no right because you arc well off to
conclude that your children arc going
to be well oft. A man died leaving a
large fortune. His son fell dead in a
Philadelphia grogshop. His old com-
rades came in and said as they bent
.over his corpse: “What is the matter
with you. BoggseyThe surgeon
standing over him said: Hush. ye.
He is dead!” ‘Oh. he is dead, they
said. “Come, boys, let us go and take
a drink in memory of poor Boggsey.
Have von nothing better than money
io leave your children? If you have not
but send your daughters into the world
with empty brain anti unskilled hmul.
you are guilty of assassination, homi-
cide, infan'icide.
There are women toiling incur cities
for two or three dollars a week who
were the daughters of merchant
princes. These suffering ones now
would be glad to have the crumbs that
once fell from their father’s table.
That wornout. broken shoe that she
wears is the lineal descendant of the
gaiter in which her mother walked,
and that torn and faded calico had an-
cestry of magnificent brocade that
swept Pennsvlvania avenue and Broad-
way clean without any expense to the
street commissioners.
Though vou live in an elegant resi-
Icnee and fare sumptuously every day,
ict your daughters feel it is a dis-
grace for them not to know how to
work. I denounce the itfea prevalent
in society that, though our young wom-
one
she
without uisgraco
anything lor u livelihood is dishonora-
ble. It is a shame for a y oung woman
belonging to a large family toi be in-
efficient when her father toils Ins life
away for her support.
So far as 1 ean understand, the line
of respectability lies between that
which is useful and that which is use-
less. If women do that which
no value, their work is honorable.
,l„.y do practical work, it is dishonor
•L'able. That our young women may v s-
cape the eeusi.re of doing dishonora-
ble work, 1 shall particularize. You
may knit a tidy for the back of an arm-
chair, but by no means make the money
wherewith to buy the chair. You may
with a delicate brush beautify a man-
tel ornament., but tlic rather than earn
enough to buy a marble mantel. You
may learn artistic music until you can
squall Italian, but never sing "Orton-
ville” or "Old Hundredth." Do notli-
jafr pract'cal if you would, in tin t\»s
of refined society, preserve your re-
spectability. 1 scout these finical no-
tions. 1 tell you a woman, no more
thau a man, iias a right to occupy a
place in this world unless she pays a
rent for it.
In the course of a lifetime you con-
sume whole harvests ami droves of ca t-
tle and every day you live and breathe
•It) hogsheads of good, pure air. You
must by some kind of usefulness pay
for all this. Our race wastin'last thing
created—the birds and fishes on the
fourth day, the cattle and lizards on
the fifth day ami man on thesixtb da.'.
If geologists are right, the earth was
l Ooh,090 of yews in the possession oi
the insects, beasts and birds before our
race came upon it. In one sense w
were invaders. The cattle, tlic lizards
and the hawks had preemption right.
The question is not what we arc to do
with lizards and summer insects, but
what the lizards and summer insects
are to do with us. If we want a place
in this world, we must earn U. ihc
partridge makes its own nest before it
occupies it. The lark by its morning
song earns its breakfast before it eats
it, and the Bible gives an intimation
that the first duty of an idler is to
starve when, it says: “If he will not
work, neither shall he eat." Idleness
ruins the health, and very soon nature
says: “This man has refused to pay his
rent. Out with him!” Society is to be
reconstructed ou tlic subject of wom-
an’s toil. A vast majority of those who
would have woman industrious shut
her up to a few kinds of work. My
judgment in this matter is that a wom-
an has a right to do anything she can
do well. There should he no depart-
ment of merchandise, mechanism, art
or science barred against her. if Mis;
Itosmer lias genius for sculpture, give
her a chisel. If Rosa Bonheur has a
fondness for delineating animals, let
her make "The Horse Fair.” If
Mitchell will study astronomy, let her
mount the starry ladder. 1 f Lydia will
be a merchant, let. her sell purple. If
Lucretia Mott will preach the Gospel,
let her thrill with her woman# elo-
quence the Quaker meetinghouse.
It. is said if woman is given such op-
portunities she will occupy places that
might be taken by men. 1 say if she
have more skill and udnptodness foi
any position than a man has. let her
have it! She has as much right t o her
bread, to her apparel and to her home
as men have. But it is said that, her
nature is so delicate that she is unfitted
for exhausting toil. 1 ask in the name
of all past history what toil on earth
is more severe, exhausting and tre-
mendous than that toil of the needle to
which for ages she has been subjected .
The battering ram, 1he sword, the car-
bine, the battleax, have made no such
havoc as the needle. I would that
these living sepulchers in which women
have for ages been buried might be
opened and that some resurrection
trumpet might bring up these living
corpses to the fresh air and sunlight.
(.io with me and I will show you a
woman who by hardest toil supports
her children, her drunken husband, her
old father and mother, pays her house
rent, always has wholesome food ou
her table, and when she can get some
neighbor on the Sabbath to come in
!lUif fake cure of her family appears in
church with hat and cloak that are far
from indicating the toil to which she
is subjected. Such a woman as that
has body and soul enough to fit her for
any position. She could stand beside
the majorityiof your salesmen and dis-
pose of more goods. She could go into
your wheelwright shops and brat one-
half of your workmen at making car-
riages. ' AVe talk about women, as
though we had resigned to her all the
light work and ourselves had shoul-
dered the heavier. But the day of judg-
ment. which will reveal the sufferings
of the stake and inquisition, will mar-
shal before the throne of God and the
hierarchs of Heaven the martyrs of
washtub and needle.
Years ago, one Sabbath night in the
vestibule of our church, after service,
a woman fell in convulsions. The doc-
tor said she needed medicine not so
much as something to eat. As she be-
gan to revive in her delirium she said,
gaspingly: “Eight cents! Eight
cents! 1 wish l could get it done. I
am so tired. I wish I could get some
sleep, but I must get it done. Eight
cents! Eight cents!" AYe found aft-
erward that she was making gar-
ments for eight cents apiece and that
she could make hut three of them in
a day. Hear it! Three times eight
are 24. Hear it, men and women who
have comfortable homes! Some of
the worst villains of our cities are the
employers of these women. They
brat them down to the last penny and
try to cheat them out of that. ’1 he
woman must deposit a dollar or two
before she gets the garments to work
on. AA’hcn the work is done it is sharp-
lv inspected, the most insignificant
flaws picked out and the wages re-
fused and sometimes the dollar de-
posited not given back. The AA omen’s
Protective union reports a ease where
one of the poor souls, finding a place
where she could get more wages, re-
solved to change employers and went
to get her pay for work done. The
employer said:' "1 hear you are going
to leave me?" “Yes, she said, and
I have come to get what you owe me.
He made no answer. She said: “Are
you not going to pay me'.’ * "Y es, he
said. “I will pay you,” and lie kicked
her downstairs.
Oh. that Women’s Protective union
The blessings of Heaven be on it for
the merciful and Divine work it is do
ing iu the defense of toiling woman-
hood. AY hat, tragedies of suffering arc
presented to tlier.i day by day! A
paragraph from their report: "tun
vou make Air. Jones pa) ' u 0
owes me for three weeks a. SL50 a
week, and I can’t get anything, and
child is verv sick.’’ ’Ike speaker,
lately widowed,
burst
s|K)ke.
ruy omul is very
a voting woroa
' into a flood of tears as she
She was bidden to come again
the next afternoon and repeat her
store to the attorney at Id- usual
weekly hearing of frauds and imposi-
tions. Means were found b\ wlnc.i Mr.
Jones was induced to pav the $7.50.
Another paragraph from their re-
port- “A fortnight had passed, wln-n
she modestly hinted a desire to know
how much her services were worth.
>Qli mv dear,’ he replied, 'you are get-
ting to be one of the most valuable
hands in the trade. You "ill always
»rt the very best price, i on dollars
a week vou "ill lie able to earn veiv
easily.’ And the girl’s lingers flew on
with' her work at a marvelous rate.
The picture of ten dollars a week bad
almost turned her head. A few nights
later, while crossing the terry, she
overheard the name of her employer
in the conversation of girls who stood
near: ‘AVhat, John Snipes? AAhy. he
don’t pav! Look out for hint every
lime, lie’ll keep you on trial, as lie
calls it, for weeks, and then hell let
vou go. and get some other fool!’ Ami
thus June Smith gained her warning
against the swindler. But the union
held him in the toils of the law until
the worth of each
Les,o» to tl»« Interaallnnal Seriesfof
March IN, IWMI-JeMi* at
Mallluf"’* Hon»*.
Home Curious Statutes Have
Passed bjf the Legislatures
of Various States.
Bee*
he paid the worth ot eaen of those
‘‘Another paragraph: “Her mortifica-
tion may be imagined when told Iliat
c of the Inyo tive-tlollar bills wlncli
., had just received for her work was
counterfeit. But her mortification
was swallowed up with indignation
when her employer denied having paid
her Hie money and insultingly asked
her to prove it. AYlien the Protective
union had placed this matter in the
pour is, the judge said: ‘A ou «>» I»>
Eleanor the amount c». her <*hiiin..*>• *'»
and also the costs of the court.’
llow arc these evils to be vnuhrnfei .
Some say: ^‘Give woman the ballot.
AVhat effect such ballot r. igi't have on
other questions I am no! Here to dis-
cuss, but wbut would be 1 eluct^o
female suffrage on women s wages. l
do not believe that woman will ever get
justice by woman’s ballot, indeed
women oppress women as much as
men do. Do not women, us much as
the lowest figure
THE BRIDE’S PICTURE.
A rbarpiliiic Custom InauKiirate.l by
a Yoniiff Woman of n Truly Ar-
tUtli* Turn of Miiul.
H is net unusual for the bride who is
going away for an extended trip, or
who expects to make her home iu n
distant city, to give photographs to
the most intimate of her friends before
leaving them. .
Out' such bride, who U given to doing
things unique and original, determined
to frame the pictures thus given, and
I to do so in an appropriate manner.
I They were to be mounted under glass
in the manner familiar to ail, and
known as passepartout, but instead of
the usual mat of linen or cardboard,
she used a material which was espe-
cially appropriate and one which made
frame as well as picture worthy of be-
ing preserved among the family heir-
looms. , .
The picture which she gave her moth-
er had a mat of the white satin which
had been used for her wedding dress
and across one corner was a
THE FILIPINO BABY.
n Hole »l<* •» « Lusty VouuienUT,
Although li** ii11''" *”* ***’■
oelve Much CoillllluB.
Babies are babies all the world round.
The little dark fellow in Egypt cries
for the moon just ns does the white
buby in Boston. Hut the mammas may
This story is about the little Filipino
baby ami how it is carried about by
its mother; for, after all, that is the
main point of difference. Of course,
the Filipino babies do not wear nearly
as many clothes as babies do in this
country, and do not have pins stick
into them and make them crv. Ilit v
lie around on the bamboo floors, with
innvbe one garment on, and sleep; ami
when they grow old enough their mam-
mas take them out to market. It is
very seldom that they wear anything
on‘their heads, though most, of the
older ones have nice little silk bonnets.
They got them when they went to the
big stone church and were christened,
lPrepared by Hector G. Lenlngton.l
THE I.K8SON TKX1.
(Mark 2:i;t-22 >
15 And its went tor:In i.Raln by the sea
aide: and ail th* multitude resorted unio
lllm, and It- taughl them.
U. And »H He passed hy. ,,e sa7
the son of Alpheus slllUm a llje re
i-elpi of custom, arid said unto Mm- Foi
low me. Ami he arose- ur.d H,'“’
13, And It came to pass, that, ns Jc •
•at al meat In n's house, many publicans
and alters sat also tou do.- with Jesus
find His disciples: 'or there were many,
and they followed Him
16 And when the scribes and Pharisees
saw lllm with publicans and sinners, they
said unto ills disciples:
He ealeth .niul tlrloKein
uf; vvhon Jt-Mis heard It, He enlth untc
them: They Uiut are whole have n# need
o ho physician, but they that arc stele. I
camo not to call the righteous, but sinners
lo repentance.
How
with
la It tnal
publicans
men, bent down to „
the woman who sews lor them. -
„ot women as sharp as men on washer-
women and milliners and man uv
^alters. H a woman asks one dollar
for her work, decs not her female em-
ployer ask her if she will not take .
cents? You ray: “Only ten cents dif-
ference.” Hut that is sometimes the
difference between Heaven and hell.
Women often have less commiseration
for wor.-r-d.thru.men. 7f u. wmiv’.i
hU-Ps aside fibin the path ‘>f rccutudc.
man -may forgive; woman never.
Woman will never get justice done her
from woman’s ballot. Neither will she
<Tct it from man’s ballot. How then.
Gc.d will rise up for her. God has more
resources than we know of. (
- But there is something forwomcn to
do. Let young people prepare to excel
i„ spheres of work, and they will be
able after awhile to gel larger wages.
Unskilled and incompetent labor must
take what is given; skilled and com-
petent labor will eventually make us
own standard. Admitting that the law
of supply and demand regulates tlies®
things, I contend that the demand fur
skilled labor is very great and the sup-
ply very small. Start with the idea
that work is honorable and that you
can do some one thing'bctter than any-
body else. Resolve that. God helping,
vou will take care or yourself. If you
are after awhile called into another
relation, you will be all the better
qualified for it by your spirit of seL-
relianee, or if you arc called to stay as
you urc you can be happy and self-
supporting.
Poets are fond of talking about man
as an oak and woman the vine, that
climbs it, but i have seen many a tree
fall that not only went down itself, be-
took all the vines with it. I can tell
vou of something stronger than an on.:
for an ivy to climb on, and that is the
throne of tlic great Jehovah. Single or
affianced, that woman is strong who
leans on God and docs her best. Many
of you will go single-handed through
life* and you will have to choose be-
tween two characters. Y'outtgwoman,
I am sure vou will turn your back upon
the useless, giggling, irresponsible
nonentity which society ignominiously
ackue" ledges to be a woman and ask
(iod to make you a humble, active,
earnest Christian. AYhat will become
of that womanly disciple of t he world ’
She is more thoughtful of the attituue
she strikes upon the carpet than how
she will look in the judgment; more
worried about her freckles than her
sins; more interested in her apparel
than in her redemption, 'llic dying
actress whbse life hml been vicious
said: “The scene closes. Draw the eur-
tnin.” Generally the tragedy comes
first and the farce afterward, but in
her life it was first the farce of a use
less life and then the tragedy of i
wretched eternity.
Compare the life and death of such
a one with that of some Christ ian aunt
that was once a blessing to your house
hold. I do not know that she was ever
asked to give her hand in marriage.
She lived single, that, untrammeled,
she mi gilt be everybody's blessing.
AVhenever the sick were to he visited or
the poor to he provided with bread she
went with n blessing. She could pray
nr sing: “Rock of Ages’’ for any sick
pauper who asked her. As site got old-
er
bit of lace
with which the dress was trimmed.
To a sister she gave a picture also
mounted in the white satin, but with a
design of orange blossoms embroidered
upon it; while the mount for the one
given her maid of honor was of the
white satin embroidered with a grace-
ful spray of bride roses.
Friends less near received pictures
mounted with the goods which had
gone to make up the different gowns of
her trousseau. • The mount made ft out
the material of her “golng-away
gown” had forget-me-nots embroidered
in small scattered sprays, while some
of the silks and figured goods were
made up plain, being sufficiently deco-
rative in themselves.
In each case the mounted picture was
bound to the glass with a narrow strip
of soft leather in a shade to correspond
with the colcr of the mount. Upon the
back of each was plainly written the
name and date of the wedding.
It is needless to state that the gifts
were prized as the pictures alone never
rould have been, and it is safe to pre-
dict that other brides will follow the
graceful fashion. — St. Louis Globc-
Democrat.
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A FILIPINO BABY CART.
P mrte -8 used to fast; and they come and
lay unto Him: Why do the d.cp.so
John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy
dLciples fast aotV
to And Jesus said unto them: Can the
children of the hrldeehnmber fast, while
ma bridegroom Is with them? as Ions at
they have the bridegroom with them, they
L ^"'lLuJ the days will come, when th«
bridegroom shall be taken away front
them, and then shall they fast la thos‘
"1 No mm nlso seweth a piece of new
cloth on an old garment; "Iso th^en 'll'c'
that Ailed It up lakelh away from the old,
and 'he rent la made worse.
a And no man putteth new wlne nto ol
hollies; else the new wlno doth burst in<
boti.es, and tho wlno Is iptlled, und thi
botilea will bo marred; but new wine muai
he put into new bottles,
HOLDEN TENT.-He said unto him
Follow mo.—Luko 3:27.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The lesson denis with two event*
tho cull of Matthew and tho feast at
Matthew’s house. Tho first occurred
in May or Juno of A. D, 28. The sec-
ond may hnvo occurred at tho same
time, though many think it wn* some
months later in tho autumn. 1’aralle
accounts of the lesson will ho found
in Matthew 9:9-17 and Luke 5:27-39,
The three passages are very similar
In considering the lessou we might
note the following points:
..........vs. 13-71
.......... v.
.........VH. 16-11
*.......,..va. IS-20
A I’urnblo.......... \s. 21 A
Matthew's Call.—Matthew, or Levi
ns he is called, had bis home in Capet-
i,turn, 'He was a publican or tax col-
lector. It is not probable that his con-
version was a sudden one. It might
have been, hut tho fact that both lie
nnd Jesus lived in Capernaum makes it
plausible that they had talked jo-
Matlhow Cntlod ......
Munhew’s Feast ....
Katin,: with Sinners.
ReAttraliS Fasting ..
IS A LAW OFFICER.
fir*. Van Duseii. n Clmrmlnn Toxns
Widow, Appointed a Deputy
United States Marshal.
Mrs. Emma A’nn Dusen, the first
honi:ui in Texas to be sworn in as a
deputy United States marshal, has just
assumed that position in the head-
quarters of the northern district of
Texas at the federal building in Dal-
las. under United States Marshal
George H. Green. Mrs. Van Dusen, a
young and accomplished widow, has
been connected with the office of the
clerk of the federal court at Dallas
since a short tiffie after the death of
her husband. Charles Palmer Y’an
Hut they seldom wear them, and many
a daughter is christened in the cap
that her grandmamma was christened
in. Sometimes the mother shades bet
infant daughter’s head from the sun
with an umbrella, but the boy babies
receive no such attention.
But the way the Fiiipiuo mother car-
ries her baby is the queerest, and prob-
ably the easiest for the mother, that is
practiced in any country. The child
rides astride on the mother’s hip—ore
chocolate foot in front and the other
behind. The mother places her hand
against the back of the little one, and
the “niuo” (infant) holds on by grasp-
inn- its mother’s arm. And that is all
there is to it. In Japan the women
carry the babies in a blanket on their
backs, much as an Indian squaw car-
ries a pappoose. In Egypt the liLlc
ones are carried on the shoulders of
their parents, while in this country the
small child is carried in the arms.
The Filipino babies are not always
carried on the hips, however. In some
of the richer homes there are peram-
bulators, or baby carriages. There is
nothing artistic about them. They look
for all tin: world like clothes basketi
mounted on four very small wheels.
Sometimes the perambulator does for
gather before.
■rHt
MRS. EMMA VAN DUSEN
(Deputy United States Marshal, Northern
District of Texas.)
Dusen, of Evansville, Ind.. nine years
ngo; soon after their marriage. Frob
ably no ether person in the federal
building at Dallas is so well informed
in the documentary department of the
institution as is Mrs. Van Dusen. She
has been in charge of an enormous
number of papers, many of them form-
ing parts of the records of some of the
most noted criminal and civil eases in
Matthew's Fcast.-Not long after he
became a disciple Matthew gave a
feast. Tito writers point out that it
vas apparently given with tho idea of
giving to the people with whom lie
had been associated an opportunity
of. meeting1 Jesus. Ill tins company
were many publicans and sinners. Pub-
licans were not popular. As a class
they were extortioners who had
bought tho privilege of collecting the
taxes. They turned over the purchase
price or this privilege, and their own
income was fixed only by the amount
they could collect over and above that
required by the Roman government or
the one from whom they had bought
the privilege. It was natural, then
that the publicans would find their as-
sociates among “sinners," the word
implying those whom the strict Jews
thought unfit to associate with. Sin-
ners included the outcasts of society
Matthew himself was a Jew, nnd so
more Thoroughly despised by the Jews
ns being the instrument of their op-
pressors.
Eating with Sinners.—The scribes
and pharisees, representing the strict
Jews, were quiek to note the visit of
tmeiiini’s i*iu- f , —........ , jPSus to the house of Matthew at the
cradle as well, nud is so arranged that | tJine ho i,nii this party of publicans
A Georgia statute makes it unlawful
for anyone to fire a gun or a pistol ou
Sunday in the Cracker state. A statute
at Colorado makes it unlawful to dock
» horse's tail. A Florida statute makes
the manufacture and sale of cigarettes
i misdemeanor unless they are Idled
with Cuban or Florida tobacco. A Mas-
vachusetts law makes it a misdemeanor
[nr the period of three years following
the adoption of the statute to shoot an
eagle in that state and Michigan has
adopted a system for the state regula-
tion of barber shops by creating aboard
of barbers and making obligatory an.
official certificate for barbers. The
state of Pennsylvania 1ms a statute
regulating the use of secondhand bot-
tles, Missouri has a statute for the in-
spection of malt liquors, Oregon has a
law as to the composition of and the
ingredients that may be used in candy
and Illinois has a law as to gold and sil-
ver plating, prescribing what may be
done and what is prohibited in respect.
(O the sale and display of plated ware in
U These1 are but a few of the statutes
adopted by state legislatures within the
period of a year and are a fair sample
of tlic solicitude which is at times
shown by legislators in vnrtoua states
in their effort to protect public health,
morals and good order, provide against
the guile of unrighteous persons and
secure to the people of their respective
states the full enjoyment of their fife,
liberty and pursuit of happiness, lne
last vVinsconsin legislature adopted a
statute regulating lobbying. A public
register is to he kept containing the
„antes of all lobbyists, the various bills
toopposeor promote which they are em-
ployed and the names of the individuals
or corporations by whom they are em-
ployed. Within 30 days after the atV
journment of the legislature persons or
corporations employing lobbyists must
make a detailed statement of expendi-
tures to the secretary of state at Mndi-
North Carolina has a law relating to
the lease of turpentine orchards which
provides that leases shall expire in Jan-
uary instead of April, ns was formerly
Hie case. California lias a statute regu-
lating the sale of what is called official-
ly renovated butter and the state of
W^hington has a law which requires
the capacity of milk cans to be staniped
upon the outside of each by the town
auditor. Missouri, now the great poul-
try state, has a state poultry »sb0C.1*'
Hon, and Indiana has a statute making
, it larceny to steal ft nog listed for Iftxew
i Vermont has a new bounty law proridv
fng7or“tIic 'payment o! five dollars for
each lynx, cne dollar for each rattle-
snake and GO cents for each fox killed in
the state. Missouri has adopted a law
requiring miners to hnve certificates
of competence, Washington has pro-
vided for the establishment of boards
of examiners of horsesboers in cities
of more than 20,000 inhabitants and
Delaware lias adopted a statute of some-
what prosaic character which requires
lo pav a license fee in that
.’Ml
a
the
basket sets in a frame and can be.
swung. Another kind is simply a hnx
on two wheels. Often the baby is put
into this box and an older sister pulls
back and forth along the street in
front of the house. The photograph
which goes with this sketch was taken
Has Penas, south of Manila. Iliis
“carriage” was the only one in all the
village, and whoever made it had a
view to comfort, as you may surmise
from noticing the little wooden awning
ever it. Filipino babies learn to talk
quite young, it is amusing to hear the
little ones lisping over the Tagalo lan-
o-tntge and struggling with words that
sound much like "ung” and “ong."
When they are six years old the chi!
dren are started off to school, and
spend the days swinging their feet un-
der Hie benches, learning the Spanish
alphabet in the forenoon andthe'l'ag-
alog in the afternoon. Now there
an 'hour a day given to Hie English
language, or, as they cull it there, the
"Americano.
The Filipino little ones have few
things to play with, and do not know
and sinners. The idea they bad was n
good one. Bad company makes bnd
men, and a man ean usually be known
by the company he keeps. God had
called the Israelites to he a peculiar
people, and forbidden them to inter-
marry with idolatrous peoples utiout
them.' But the scribes had not antici-
pated Jesus' ready reply. A physician
to live up to his calling must come
into contact with the sick that he may
heal disease. The physician of the soul
must come into contact with sinners
that lie may save them.
Regarding Fasting.—Among the re-
ligious observances of that day was
gypsies to pay
stnte.
Indiana lias adopted a law to prevent
lynching. The penalty for actively aid-
ing or abetting is fixed at life imprison-
ment or death. If any person is taken
from the custody of nn officer ar,d
lynched the fact is made prima facie
evidence of a failure on the part of the
officer to perform his duty and it there-
upon becomes the duty of the prosecut-
ing attorney nnd the nttorney general
to institute impeachment proceedings
against him. Minnesota has a law
which makes the building of a fence
more than six feet high a nuisance if
objected to und the same state has
adopted statutes exempting watches
und bicycles from execution. Ten-
nessee has adopted a statute which
makes it a felony “to keep a place for
playing craps" and Wyoming a statute
prescribing a fine for wearing a hat at
a theater or other indoor amusement.
Wyoming is the pioneer state in the
adoption of woman suffrage.—N. V
Sun.
ate the buttons.
Fooled
They Were ol Candy and
iirundran, Who Ilnd Sewn Them
on the Clothes.
Grandma could not believe her eyes’
She had herself sewed buttons on Mar-
garet’s and Dorothy’s new clothes.
And now here they were, come to have
JlglullD ____________ —- ... . their little waists and petticoats but-
that of fasting. Jesus and Ilis disciples toned, and not a button to be seen,
did not fast, and this feast gave a | <;randma was sure they were good
the history of the United States what a doll is. They never see a picture
• J , ___ . , * .......i.. ikn ♦ o w that tm
courts. Mrs. Van Dusen was born ...
Hillsboro, N. C. Her father was Rob-
ert O’Daniel, of the County Cork, Ire-
land; her mother was a Miss Jackson,
of Virginia, a cousin of the immortal
“Stonewall" Jackson, of confederate
military fame. It will thus lie seen
that the new deputy marshal comes of
“good fighting stock." Marshal Green
savs he will arm Mrs. Van Dusen with
the regulation weapons, and insist
that she “carry a gun," the same as a
man. If she does. Ihere is no doubt
the will know how to use it, in ease of
necessity.
book, and know only the ta*s that are
told them after they are large enough
to understand. It is not till childhood
passes that they learn the meaning of
the songs that are crooned to them
when they are put to sleep—songs of
the sea and of the battles of their fa-
splendid opportunity for inquiring
about it, especially as it is inferred
from the revised version that this least
occurred on one of the Jewish fast
days. It seems from Matthews ac-
count that it was the disciples of John
who really propounded the question,
both for themselves and the pharisees.
He pointed out the incongruity of
fasting as n mere form. After lie was
gone then would they sorrow and fast.
A Parable.—Jesus illustrated His
neaning by iv parable. He said, in ef-
fect. that the imposing on His dis-
ciples nt this time of the ancient Jew-
ish custom of fasting would be like
the sea anti oi me -.......... , a Picce ?! ^tuh to’rub a speck of black off one. and it
ihers__Harrv A. Armstrong, in Chicago goods onto an old garment or the put swMt and then we bit one and
’? ’ * ting of new wine into old bottles. Of ^ wag just lilce yellow taffy, and we
there were days when site was u lit-
tle sharp, but for the most part auntie
was a sunbeam, just the one for Christ-
mas eve. She knew better ban anyone
else how to fix things. Her every prayer,
God heard it. was full of everybody
who had trouble. The brightest things
in all the house dropped from her
fingers. She had peculiar notions, but
the grandest notion she ever had was
to make you happy. She dressed well
but her highest adornment was that <>[
a meek and quiet spirit, which, in the
sight of God, is of great price. When
she died, you all gatl*red lovingly
about her.' and as you carried her out
lo rest the Sunday School class almost
covered her eoflin with japonicas. and
the poor people Ft ood at the end oft he
allev, with their aprons to their eves,
sobbing bitterly, and the man of the
world said, with Solomon: “Her price
was above rubies," and Jesus, as unto
the maiden in Judea, commanded; I
gay unto thee, arise! *
Record.
The “Gooil Old Time*
in reviewing “The Early Married
Life of Maria Josepha. Lady Stickuey,
the London Spectator comments ou
The light in which drunkenness was re-
garded at the beginning of the cen-
t ury. There w is a chirstening of twins
and rejoicing among the neighbors,
tenants and laborers. “All .heguests.”
says Maria, “were as drunk ns I ever
course the fermenting
burst the old sKins
juice would
buttons, for she had taken them out of
the package mamma brought home
with a lot of shopping.
The little girls, with laughing faces,
stood in front of her, holding up their
little clothes from dropping down,
watching her astonishment. Then
Dorothy said: “I’m going to ’fess,
grandma.”
“And I will, too,” said Margaret. We
ate the buttons, grandma!”
‘Ate buttons! Oh, Margaret, you tl
die! When did you do it? Answer
quickly!"
“Oh, grandma, they were candy, and
so good!” and Margaret smacked her
rosy lips. "Dorothy wetted her fingei
linked Almond PudillnR.
Beat fine in a mortar four ounces of
Almonds with a few bitter ones, and a
little unfermented grape juice. Beat
up separately the yolks of six eggs, had the pleasure of seen,g anyone^
"LT' ihe neel of two lemons, four | Among the laborers, howeverha ex-
tent of intoxication was not reached
which causes tnen to be swine. Lady
Sheffield, who received this account of
the peel
of butter, three half-pints of -
grate
ounces .... -------- - .
cream and the juice of one lemon.,
Mix all these ingredients well togeth-
er; make a rich paste, put it in the ,
bottom of a dish, pour the above upon
it and bake half an hour. Serve plain
or with a liquid sauce.
Excellent Connli Mixture.
Take two ounces of honey, four
ounces of treacle, seven ounces of best
vinegar, mix
the festivities, replies: “I would have
given a great deal to be present; there
is nothing 1 love so much as such sort
of festivities where one has the satis-
faction of knowing that one make-t
one’s friends happy as well as drunk.
In London, she declares, “when you
nrjvc a ball you affront many people,
them in an enameled Iv few, make many,drunk and
saucepan and simmer over the fire for i y0urSelf miserable."
a quarter of an hour. When cool add Jn thr ttoonline iioa.r.
two drachms of ipecacuanha wine., n1 Mcnt the boarderssay tha
Take one tablespoonful every four | ' butter ls awful strong,
hours. This mixture is particular v Landlady—Hereafter remember tc
good for children.__ spread their toast thinner. One must
Hippopotamus ivory at one t ime was ' have some regard for the tastes of one’#
tuueh used for artificial teeth. 1 Iwarders.- Boston 1 ransenpt.
There are supposed to be nearly
50,000 dentists in the world practicing
upon people’s teeth, and a dentist's
ease of instruments nowadays contain
between 300 nnd 400 hundred instru-
ments.
Since the senate decided to pay tor
all telegrams sent by its members,
says the Brooklyn Eagle, the operator
at the senate wing of the capital has
been kept constantly busy. One day
last session Senator Quay sent 240 dis-
patches 1o Altoona, the expense for
which was paid by the senate.
The total wealth of American col-
leges and universities is $2.i(i,000,0ii0.
Near Doer Gulch. Wash., the leader
of 7.000 sheep jumped over a precipice
and the remainder followed. The nar-
rator savs that after 300 were killed
they made a pile high enough for the
others to walk over them and down
the incline of carcasses. The dead
were buried. , ,,,
The water used at President - e-
Kinlev’s table at the white house is
obtained from an old spring in V rank-
lin square, which once supplied several
other houses in Washington. u
which, since the introduction of more
modern systems, is new used by
white house alone.
ate them nil up before we thought, and
our clothes fell down, and please won I
vou forgive us?” , . ,
Dear* >vhite-baired fn’nndma laugriec!
till the tears run down her cheeks. Foi
mamma said she had bought the candy
buttons for a joke, never dreaming
grandma would be caught.—Cincinnati
Enquirer.
<I>)ie Parson Who Mlllted HI* Cow.
A country pastor, who was very
bright ami ‘original in his remarks, at-
tracted the notice of a wealthy lady
who was spending the summer in the
vicinity. One evening she called at the
parsonage just as the old minister, clad
in overalls, was coming in from the
stable with a brimming pail ot milk.
“Why. Mr. Smith!” exclaimed the
lady, "do you milk a cow?”
“Certainlv, madam.” *vas the reply.
‘•What would you have me milk. —
Judge. ____
Secret.
‘•Why will you not announce our en-
gagement. sweetheart.’
"Why, Edgar, it is so beautiful to be
engaged secretly, as we are, without
letting a single person know about it.
Every one of my friends envies me.
>’. Y*. World.
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