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prices and whims, instead of thinking for
them with parental wisdom, born of ex-
perience and love that forecasts their
future, and teaching them self-control and
obedience without making them either
passive or servile. Spoilt children, and
they are as grass-hoppers for number,
grow up with prematurely developed pas
sions, and being unused to disciplinary
restraint they plunge into all manner of
dissipation and Satan Sits them like
wheat. If riches are tsrdy in coming
they gamble, speculate or steal-terms
nearly synonymous. If their desires are
bsffled they resent with brand, bludgeon
or ball. Home discipline is at fault.
Children are allowed to indulge in anger
without reproof, and to resent the crossing
of their will with a blow without re-
buke. Sometimes vain parents fancy
such distempers show spirit and encour-
age these ebullitions Of passion. They
are given free march of the streets or
countryside, and grow up city Arabs, or
highway hoodlums. We need more home
life-fewer lodging-houses, caravansaries
and restaurants, and more homes. Home
life is the life of the American republic.
Enervate that by boarding, fashion, frivol-
ity, loose discipline, irreligion, and the es-
sential conditions of an orderly and decent,
a pure and prosperous society are lack
ing. An hour each week in Sab
bath school is not going to cancel the
injury done by slack discipline at home.
The Sunday-school does not stand in loco
parents. Foster home.rule, teach children
the virtue of obedience to authority, the
loneliness of amiability, the sweetness of
pure speech and manners, the hero
ism resident in self-restraint, the moral
cowardice in hasty tempers and angry re-
venge, and you will secure conservatism
of character which will be their best
capital in the ventures of life.-Selected.
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The Queen and GOverness.

The following anecdote of Queen Vic
toria is from the pen of Grace Greenwood
(Mrs. Lippincott), a very popular Ameri-
several pleasant anecdotes of the queen
and her family from lady who had re-
ceived them from her friend, the govern
ess of the royal children. This governess,
very interesting young lady, was the
orphan daughter of a Scottish clergyman.
During the first year of her residence at
Windsor her mother died. When she
first received the news of her mothers
serious illness, she applied to the queen to
be allowed to resign her situation, feeling
that to her mother she owed even more
sacred duty than to her sovereign. The
queen, who had been much pleased with
her, would not hear OF her making this
sacrifice, but said, in tone of most gentle
sympathy I" Go at once to your mother,
child; stay with her as long as she needs
you, and then come back to US. Prince
Albert and l will hear the children's les
sons; so in any event let your mind be at
rest in regard to your pupils" The gov
erness went, ar had several weeks of
sweet, mournful communion with her dy-
that dear form laid to sleep under the
daisies in the old kirkyard, she returned
to the palace, where the lonliness of royal
grandeur would have oppressed her sor-
rowing heart beyond endurance had it not
been for the gracious womanly sympathy
of the queen-who came every day to her
chool-room-and the considerate kind
ness of her young pupils.
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Prayer and Breakfast.

Some years ago, when the country
around Cincinnati was newer than it is
now, pious farmer was busy clearing
his land. He had number of hands en-
ployed, and was anxious to accomplish
large amount of work, while the weather
was favorable. He called them early
and went out with them before breakfast
was ready. A horn was blown, and they
came in and ate and returned again to
their work. The farmer had been &C.
customed to have prayers every morning
in his family. But to keep so many men
from chopping and log-rolling while he
read and prayed was more than he could
afford SO Satan suggested and the good
man yielded. His pious wife saw with
grief that the family altar was neglected;
that her husband, in haste to get rich, was
departing with God. She talked with
him she pleaded with him, but in vain.
At last she determined to try another ex-
pertinent. The next morning the farmer
and his men went out, as usual, to their
work. The sun began to climb up the
sky, but no breakfast horn was heard.
They grew hungry, and looked anxiously
towards the house; they listened, but still
the expected summons did not come.
After waiting an hour or two beyond the
usual time, they went into the house. No
table was set, no coffee was boiling on
the fire, no cook over or before it. The
good wife was knitting quietly, with the
Bible on her lap. "Whst does this
mean ?" cried the husband: "why isn't
our breakfast ready?" al thought you
were in such hurry about your work
that you hadn't any time to eat it."
"Have time to eat it Do you think we
can live without eating 7" "You can
live without eating as we'll as without
praying. The spirit needs the bread of
heaven as much as the body needs the
bread of EARTH" swell, WE'LL" said the
farmer, get us some breakfast, and we
will have prayers again every morning,
no matter how busy we are, or how many
workmen have" She got the breakfast
and he kept his word. The lesson was a
good one and never forgotten.-Selected.
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BE Honest About Religion.

/ have very vivid recollections of a
hoary.headed infdel, whose very name
was the synonym of hopeless impiety,
who came hobbling to the front in
meeting | was holding, and, facing the
congregation that sat spellbound with
establishment, spoke to them in language
substantially as follows: "Friends and
neighbors: | am not here to play the
hypocrite. Whatever | may be in respect
to what you call religion, am determined,
at least, to be honest as man. You
know me, you know my manner of life,
and the opinions / have held. l am not
here to renounce them now. do not
believe the Bible. cannot conceive how
it can be true. 1t seems to me to be full,
not merely of mysteries, but of contradic.
tions and absurdities. But my father be-
lieved it, and l cannot forget how he
lived and died. 1t cannot be long before
shall follow him to the house appointed
for all living. The sun is sinking; the
shadows deepening; the night is coming,
and have no assurance of morning. /
have often wished for my fathers faith.
1t would be to me comfort, even though
it were delusion. But it has sometimes
occurred to me that may be my fathers
faith was not delusion. Maybe he was
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Hints to Help the Poor.

AS the winds begin to whistle sharply
and the snow to fall, and the appeal of
the beggar has more pathetic emphasis,
it is we'll to remember, as the Easy Chair
has sought more than once to point out,
that organized charity is none the less
Christian charity. Give to him that ask
eth, is one of the Oldest written injunc-
tions, as it is the surest instinct of right
eous heart, and it is truly to obey that
injunction that organized charity aims.
The most persistently head-shaking skep-
tics, who looks askance at the organized
system, and holds strictly to the duty of
personal interest and relief, cannot insist
that everybody who asks is to be relieved
without inquiry, or in the precise way
that he may indicate. This would not be
Christian charity, nor even charitable
knight-errantry. 1t would be mere dam
gerous tomfoolery. But when the skeptic
has granted this-which he cannot deny
he has agreed that the question is one
of expediency simply. 1t is question of
method. How can the aid be best given
to him that asketh ? This will certainly
not be done by leaving the aid to chance
or to individual charitable impulse. The
result of this would be overwhelming de-
moralization and Unreasonable suffering.
There must be association, organization,
and reflection. This is the basis of the
modern system of organized charity which
dates from the observation both of the
increasing decentralization and suffering.
1t is not the work of Indifferent, cold, and
mechanical persons, but of the most SYM
pathetic, generous and humane. 1t is
the task of the most practical Christians
of the time. whose purpose is to do effec-
lively under conditions of to-day the work
of Christ among his fellow-men. 1t is
not machine charity, unless sympathy and
intelligence and wise benefcence are me-
chanical. 1t is not perfunctory, unless
careful inquiry and special relief when
needed, and the battling of an imposture
and exposure of fraud, are ceremonial
Harper's Magazine for December.
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Age OF Animals.

Camels live from forty to fifty years
horses average from twenty-five to thir-
ty; oxen, about twenty sheep, eight or
nine; and dogs twelve to fourteen. Con-
corning the ages attained by non-domes.
ticated animals, only few isolated facts
are known. The East Indians believe
that the life-period of elephants is about
three hundred years, instances being re-
corded of these animals having lived one
hundred and thirty years in confinement
after capture at an unknown age. Whales
are estimated to reach the age of four
hundred years. Some reptiles are very
long-lived, an instance being furnished by
a tortoise which was confined in 1888 and
existed until 1853, when it persisted by an
accident. Birds sometimes reach great
age, the eagle and the swan having been
known to live one hundred years. The
longevity of fishes is often remarkable.
The carp has been known to live two hun
dred years. common river trout, fifty
years; and the pike, ninety years, while
Gesner-a Swiss naturalist-relates that
pike caught in 1497 bore ring record
ing the capture of the same fish two hun
bred and sixty-seven years before. In
scots are very short-lived, usually COM
pleting the term of their existence in
few weeks or months. Some even perish
within few hours after emerging from q
grub state, and die on the very day of en-
tering upon their new life. As general
rule, not to be applied too closely, larger
types of animals live longer than smaller.
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That Thief " TO.MOrrOw."

Reconstruction is not only thief of
time, it is thief that robs us of many of
our noblest impulses and sweetest salts
factions. An opportunity is offered us of
doing generous deed, or relieving a case
OF suffering. The heart is melted, and
then is the time to let it flow out in prac-
teal kindness; the appeal is made, and
then is the time to give. "Bis dat qui
otto dat" But sly imp whispers, " Don't
be in hurry; tomorrow will be time
the thing is either never done at all, or
else done so tardily that it loses half its
grace. Two wrongs are inflicted. First,
we wrong the person or the good cause
that we felt such generous impulse to
help. Secondly, we wrong ourselves out
OF delightful satisfaction, and do vio-
lence to our better nature. A human
heart is like metal it can only be moulded
while it is melted ; to thrust either of them
into cold bath, makes them unmalleable.
To kill noble impulse by delay, is sin.
1t is a terrible thing to habituate ourselves
to process of hardening the heart, and
nothing hardens ii more etfectually than
to let noble and righteous impulse cool
down without being put into practice.
"Say not to thy friend, Go, and come
again, and tomorrow will give when
thou hast it by thee" If we have it by
us why put the friend off? Tomorrow"
is commonly the straight road to never.
If the heart does not act while it is warm,
it is not likely to act after it has been
kept in the frigid atmosphere of delay.
My experience has been that we almost
always do our best deeds on the spur of
the moment. In deciding questions that
belong entirely to the region of the I'M
Outstanding, and demand long study, de-
liberation is wise. But in all questions
OF ethics, the first judgment, the instinc-
tive answer that leaps up instantly, is
usually the right one. Conscience an
swers quickly: pray don't try to twist her
first ready response, or torture her into the
opposite opinion. Generous emotions
speak quickly also, and strong; carry
them out while you are in the mood. If
you have wounded the feelings of another,
make the prompt, hearty apology while
you feel tender and contrite; as sure as
you put it off until tomorrow, some sly
devil will make you believe that apologies
are humiliating, or that you were not 80
far in the wrong after all. If you have
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How q Story Grows.

A farmer once was told that his turnip
field had been robbed, and that the rob-
berry had been committed by poor, inof-
fensive man, by the name of Palmer, who
many of the people of the village said had
taken away wagon load OF turnips.
Farmer Brown, much exasperated by the
loss of his turnips, determined to prose-
cute poor Palmer with all the severity of
the law. With this intention he went to
Molly Sanders, the washerwoman, who
had been busy in spreading the report, to
know the whole truth but Molly denied
ever having said anything about wagon
load of turnips. 1t was but cart load
that Palmer had taken, and Dame Hold
son, the huckster, had told her so, over
and over again. The farmer, hearing
this, went to Dame Hodson, who said
that Molly Sanders was always making
things worse than they really were that
Palmer had taken only wbeelbarrow full
of turnips, and that she had her account
from Jenkins, the tailor. Away went the
farmer to Jenkins, the tailor, who stoutly
denied the account altogether; he had
only told Dame Hodson that Palmer had
pulled up several turnips, but how many
he could not tell, for that he did not see
himself, but was told it by Tom Slack,
the plowman. Wondering where this
would end, Farmer Brown next questioned
Tom Slack, who, in his turn, declared he
had never said word about seeing Palmer
pull up several turnips he only said, he
had heard say that Palmer had pulled up
a turnip, and that Barnes, the barber,
was the person who had told him about it.
The farmer, almost out of patience at this
account, hurried off to Barnes, the barber,
who wondered much that people should
find pleasure in spreading idle tales which
had no truth in them He assured the
farmer all he had said about the matter,
while he took off the beard of Tom Slack,
was, that for all he knew, Palmer was as
likely man to pull up turnip as his
eighbors.-lSelected.
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NlIlZl3I!z'z1slS7 I
CHAPTER II.

MAIDEN, Mass. February !, 1880. Gentlemen
suffered with attacks of sick headache"
Neuralgia, female trouble, for years in the
most terrible and excrutiating manner.
No medicine or doctor could give me relief or
cure until used Hop Bitters.
"The first bottle
Nearly cured me-"
The second made me as well and strong as
when a child,
And have been so to this day."
My husband was an invalid for twenty years
with serious
Kidney, liver and urinary complaint.
Pronounced by Boston's best physicians
"Incurable!"
Seven bottles Of your Bitters cured him and l
know of the
Olives Of eight persons
In my neighborhood that have been saved by
your Bitters,
And many more are using them with great
benefit.
"They almost
Do miracles!" Mrs. E. d. Slack.
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Continued. from last t0eek.)
How Watch Cases are Made.

This process ofmanufacture was invented
by James Boss, who started in business in
1854, and the methods and tools used in
making these watch cases are covered by
patents This is Me only wdtch case made
under this process For many years the in
PRODUCTION of these goods was slow, owing
Unpopular prejudice against plated" goods,
but gradually the public learned that the
james Boss Gold Watch Case was not a
cheap goid-Uashed or electro-pldted article,
but was made of genuine gold plates of
standard quality and thickness. Conscientious
adherence to the determination to make
the best watch case ever put on the market,
and the adoption of every Improvement
suggested, has made the james Boss Gold
Watch Case the STANDARD. -..os " MARY
In this watch case the parts q d
most subject to wear-the bo,0, crown, hinges,
humb-cdtches, etc, are made of SOLID GOLD.
Send rent stamp keystone watch Factories. Pha.
delphia Pa handsome Illustrated showing
Jsnes Bo.s' and keystone watch Cases made.
10 be continued)
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Mhe Nireside.
THE WAY OF 1T.

The wind ia awake, little leaves, little leaves,
Heed not what he says-he deceives, he deceives;
Over and over
To the lowly slower
He has sped the same love and pledged himself true
As he'll soon be lisping and rledging to you.
The boy Is abroad, dainty maid, dainty maid,
Beware his soft words-I'm afraid, I'm afraid;
He's said them before,
Times many score,
Ay, he died for dozen ere his beard prcked through
AS he'll soon be dying. my pretty, for you.
The way Of the boy is the way Of the wind,
As light az the leaves ia dainty maid-knd;
One TO deceive
And one TO believe
That is the way of 1t, year to year;
But know you will learn 1t too late my dear.
January CenturU
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right. Maybe am mistaken, and If 80,
and i should only discover it when L am
launched into another world, then it
would be forever too late to rectify my
mistake. Now 1 want to be right; /
don't want to be mistaken. / want you
to pray to God, if there be God, that he
win show me that there is Savior, If
there be Savior."-Dr. Henson.
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HIS OPINION.
In Clear Sentences an Authority adds his
own to the Popular Judgment.
l9l West Tenth Street,

l9l West Tenth Street, I
NEW YORK. August IL, 1880.
Messrs. !SeaJury O. Johnson IL am slow to pin my
faith to any curative agent. BKNS0N's CAP
CINE POROUS PLASTER has won my good opinion.
find exceptionally clearly plaster to and rapid
IN its action. Many tests of Its qualities in my own
family and among my patients have convinced that
there other sRgle article valuable for popular
USE none helpful in of Lame Back. Local Rheu
matism, Neuralgia. Congestion of the Bronchial Tubes
and Lungs and Lumbago. You may feel free TO my
name. Very truly yours,
II. II. KANE. NJ. d.
Physican-in- CHIEF OF the De Quincy Home.
Price of the CAPCINE twenty five cents.
Seabury q johnson, Chemists, New York.
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The Nursery OF Crime.

One of the most prolific sources of vio-
lence, now so perceptibly frequent, is that
most cruel and responsible custom of pam
pering children and hunoring their CO.
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ELY'S CREAM BALM

Effectually cleanses the
nasal passages of Ca
tarrhal virus, causing
healthy secretions, al
lays inflammation, pro-
tects the membrane
from additional colds,
completely heals the
sores and restores the
sense of taste and smell.
Beneficial results are re-
allied by a few applica-
tons. A thorough treat
ment will cure Catarrh,
Hay-Fever, etc. I'm
equaled for colds In the
head. Agreeable to use.
Apply by the little finger
into the nostrils. VIII
deliver by mail. Fifty
cents a package-post-
age stamps. Sold by
wholesale and retail
In CO., Owego, N. Y.
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[OOFANCY ADVERTISING CARDS,

all different, with or without Advertisements on
hem post free for scent stamps; 30 all different
i0o handsome Scrap Book Pictures rs cents Address
UNION CARD COMPANY, Montpelier, VI.
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NIlTlCURA SOAP. Absolutely pure, highly
w ] ] medicinal, Endorsed by physicians, pre-
ferred by the elite Sales 1881 and 1882 cakes
sold everywhere.
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Sold by all druggists. CUTicURA, so cents REsoLvESr
81; SOAR, rs cents. POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL Co.,
Boston, Mass
Send for " How to Cure Skin Diseases"
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THE MAGSEToN APPLIANCE CO.,
2lS STATE STREET, CHICAGO, ILL.

NorK.-send one dollar In postage stamps or cur
rency lin letter at risky, with size of shoe usually
worn, and try pair Of Magnetic Insoles and be
convinced Of the power residing In our other Magnetic
Appliances. Positively cold feet when they
worn, or money refunded.
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Wetv advertisements.
TO SCR0FULAI

II Scaly Pmply, Copper Colored, Scrofulous, fnheT-
tied and Contagious Humors, Blood Poisons, Ulcers,
Assesses and 1nfante Skin Tortures, the CUrIcuRA
REMEDIES are nfallible.
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H. E. Carpenter, Henderson, N Y, cured of
Psoriasis Leprosy Of twenty years. standing by Gu
TIcURA REMEDIES. The most wonderful cure on record
dustpan full of scales fell from him daily Physicians
and his friends thought he must die Cure be-
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nent citizens.
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Cuticura Resolvent the new Blood Purifier Diu-
rec and Aperent expels disease from the blood
and perspiraton, and thus the cause. Curl
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Inflammation, clears the skin and Scalp heals Ulcers
and Sores restores the Complexion. CUTIcURA soar,
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dispensabe in treating skn diseases, and for rough,
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humors CUT1CURA REMEDIES are the only infallible
blood purifiers and skin Deauthers.
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Chas. Houghton, Esq. lawyer, % State street,
Boston reports OF Salt Rheum under his obserya
ton for ten years which covered the patients body and
limbs, and 10 which all known methods Of treatment
cured solely by the CUTIcURA REMEDIES, leaving clean
and healthy skin,
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Maiden, Mass, February !, 1880. Gentlemen
suffered with attacks Of sick headache"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1884-10-24
MCULLOUGHS RETIREMENT.

There seems to be very little doubt that
John Mccullough, the famous actor, is a
mental wreck
1t is pitiful to see n magnificent looking
man like Mccullough showing evidence OF
mental decay His inflrmity, however, does
not cause great surprise. His friends have
seen for more than year that he was fail
ing. At the close of last seasons work he
went abroad with the hope that in new
and strange surroundings his mind would
recover its tone and his body its strength
When he returned in August he appeared
to be greatly improved, and received the
congratulations of his friends with some
thing of his old heartiness. He began his
years work too soon. The extremely hot
weather during the first week of his season
Frustrated him, and undone all that his trip
abroad had accomplished
1t is probable that the public will never
see John Mccullough again on the stage
He reached high place in his calling, and
made thousands of admring friends in every
important town in the country. His stir
ring representations of characters that are
familiar to every school boy will be greatly
missed. There is no actor capable of filling
his place. Keene, perhaps, ranks next to
him, but is not so strong in the greatest
characters in which they both have SO often
entertained the public.