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Little Sister Mary Turner.

Rev. H. M. Eaton, writing to the
Machias Republican, relates an Incl.
dent that occurred in the early days OF
Maine Methodism, which illustrates
how easy it is for q man to imagine
that his own inclination is q manifes-
tation of the Divine will. In the days
of which Mr.. Eaton writes it was the
custom for young ministers to consult
their Presiding Elders before taking a
wife. Once during campmeeting In
eastern Maine, a young minister ap,,
preached the Presiding Elder and said
he wished to be married. "Whom do
YOU propose to marry?" asked the Ell
der. "Well," said the young man,
"the Lord has made known to me very
clearly that should marry Sister Ma
ry Turner" "I know her very well" d"
said the Elder "she is fine girl. 1
will see you again before the meeting
Closes" During the week four other
Young ministers consulted the Presid-
ing Elder on the subject of marriage.
Each of them gave the name of the
Young woman to whom he proposed
to offer himself. They had all prayed
over the matter great deal, and each
was certain that it was Gods desire
that he should marry the person nam
ed. Neither of the five young men
knew that any one else had consulted
the Elder on that subject. On the last
day of the camp-meeting, at noon, the
Elder called the five ministers to his
tent to receive his opinion. He said :
"Now, brethren, it may be the will OF
God for YOU to marry, but it is not His
will that five Methodist ministers
should marry that little Sister Mary
Turner.n
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LOOK LONG TO JEsUs.-Take q good
look at Jesus as often as you can. You
expect soon to behold Him in open
vision, but they who look most TO
Him here will see most glory in Him
hereafter. In heaven some will see far
deeper into Christ than others. The
deeper you see into His grace now, tho
deeper you will see into His glory
then, for glory is measured by grace.
Linger at the place of secret prayer.
IF you do not know just what to pray
about, look to Jesus for Him to give
you a prayer. Look to Him for your
prayer and your faith. After yon;
have opened all your heart to Him,
take time to linger for His answer; TO
listen to marching orders and should
He choose not to speak, trust Him Just
the same, and take. time to adore Him.
Go away from your closet with the
clear image of Jesus hanging In your
mind.-Dr. @. d. Watson. :;35
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Household Hints.

When recipes call for cupful it
means just half pint; this amount IN
granulated sugar weighs just half q
pound.
Salt will curdle new milk; 80 in pre-.
pairing custards or porridges the salt
should not be added until the dish is
prepared.
Red pepper pods or a few pieces Of
charcoal thrown in to the pot in which
onions, eabbages, ETC., are being boiled
will prevent the vi lpleasant odor.
Two tablespoon uls of washing soda
in a gallon of boil ing water makes q
good disinfectant f or the kitchen sink.
Pour it in at night, while it is still at
boiling heat.
Tin pans can be prevented from rust:
ing by heating the m and rubbing well
with inseed oil :and heating again.
Wood ashes or VIII iting (Which Is bet
ter) mixed with he rosene will brighten
them.
Make list, in the order in which
you pack them, Of the contents Of
your woolen chest. and paste it on the
outside. Then the articles at the head
of the list will be III the bottom of the
box.
Rusty black cashmere should be
sponged with equal parts of alcohol
and ammonia, dilu ted with a little
warm water. When pressing use a
piece of alpaca or Tlndressed cambria
next the warm iron.
If ironed when damp, and pressed
till dry, table linen takes a certain
stiffness which is more permanent and
less subject. to creasas than the stiff
ness of starch, which is also injurious
to the fabric.
Lime and alkali stains may be remov'
ed from white goods by simply wash,
ing. In the case of cclored goods ano
silks the goods should be moisten ec
and citric acid, much diluted, applied
with the finger.
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Although the tired body must have
rest; although the overtaxed brain
must have the strain off-lifted for
awhile although the mind must have
change of subject and refreshment,
yet we must remember that there Is
no vacation for the service of the soul |;
that our "Christian living" our
masters SERVICE" must 60 right on
all the time, whatsoever the season,
wheresoever we are placed. Blessed be
His name, there's to be found q con-
slant, an everyday renewal OF our
strength; divine feeding and refresh
ing of our souls; a wonderful variety
given to our service; marvellous
adaptability of kind and amount OF
service required of each one, so that
fatigue never comes to the soul nom
any overwork for Christ.-Selected.
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DrudgerY.

Many young married woman finds
the romance of life fading out as she Is
confronted day after day with the
ever-recurring tasks of daily life. Said
such one the other day: :.
II do hate to do the ordinary routine
drudgery of housekeeping. / never
was systematic. Things get out of or
der, and there they stay till I can get
round to pick them up. 1t takes 30
long, especially the dishes. seem to
be doing dishes a good deal of the
time; they seem like climbing up 2
high mountain, the top of which l
never reach" .,.'. ....>
The friend to whom she was talking
II really have learned to enjoy my
dishes. / make it point to have
abundance of clean. hot water and
plenty Of clean cup towels. l know
that artists and musicians obtain their
fine effects by tireless attention to de-
tails. I take this principle into my
everyday life. While I am doing. the
dishes T study the best method OF do
ing them ; the quickest, the easiest,
the most agreeable. Generally l at
tack the pots and kettles first, and get
them all scraped as clean as cold water
will do it. While my hands are busy
with the routine have time to think:
I plan my other work, think what
needs doing most, and what can wait ;
think up pretty styles for my dresses,
think over my Sunday-school lesson,
the sermons on Sunday, the last new
book or magazine I have read, recall
my own actions, and think how l
could have done better. Thus the
time passes quickly, and if my mlnd
is profitably occupied, it is not spent
only in getting my work done,
'fYou know we have a great many
stockings to be mended, and I used to
hate to darn stockings; but now while
doing that make practice of sewing
with my open Bible near me. Pro-
verbs is a good book to study when
sewing, for there is so little connection
between many of the verses. L have
learned while thus quietly repairing
stockings and mending to talk to Goo
as can talk to no one else. take. all
nv doubts and fears straight to Him.
I have found the most disagreeable
tasks made really pleasant by trying
to see how much can please Him by
doing them WE'LL"
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Breaches OF Etiquette.

It is q breach of etiquette to stare
around the room when you are max
ing call.
TO remove the gloves when making
a formal call.
TO take your dog with you when
making call. .
To open the piano or to touch it, il
found open, when waiting for your
hostess to enter.
To 60 to the room of an invalid with
out an invitation.
TO walk about the room examining
its appointments when waiting fol
your hostess.
To open or shut door, raise or low
er curtain, or in any way to alter the
arrangements Of room in the house
at which you are caller.
To turn your chair so as to bring
your back to some one seated near you.
To remain after you have discovered
that your host or hostess is dressed to
go out.
To fidget with hat, cane, or parasol,
during call.
To resume your seat after having
once risen to say adieu.
To preface your departure by re-
marking, "Now, T must co." or to in
sinuate that your hostess may be weary
of you.
For lady receiving several callers
to engage in a tete-a-tete conversation
with one.
To make remarks upon caller who
has just left the room.
To call upon friend in reduced cir
cumstances with any parade of wealth
in equipage or dress.
For the hostess to leave the room
when visitors are present.
To assume any ungraceful or un-
couth position, such as standing with
arms akimbo, sitting astride a chair,
smoking in the presence of ladies,
wearing the hat within doors, stand
ing with legs crossed or feet on the
chairs, leaning forward in your chail
with elbows on the knees-all of which
acts denote lack of good breeding.
Scottish american.
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Teasing.

"Mamma, may I go out on the piaz-
70 and play" asked little girl of her
mother.
"No, my dear, I'm afraid you'll take
more cold"
"But, mamma, I'll wrap up warm,
and Pm so tired of staying in the
house."
And the little girl kept on teasing,
until at last the mother said:
ayes, my dear, if you are willing
to take the consequences. You are
almost sick now, and if you 60 out and
play in the cold you may have the
pneumonia and die. Those who have
pneumonia suffer dreadfully, and 1t
Is very hard to take care of them.
Now, bundle up and 60, if you are
ready TO take all the risks"
The child didn't dare to take the
risks, and stayed contentedly in the
house. The sooner q child can be
taught to choose intelligently, the
sooner will the disposition to tease be
checked.
But there is time, before the child
has developed enough to be able to
choose, when the parent must make
choices for it. These choices should be
final, and not changed by any solicita-
tions of the child. We call this pro-
cess forming right habits in the child.
An infant may be taught to lie quietly
III its crib and 60 to sleep without be-
ing rocked or sung to, and it may be
taught to expect and demand being
rocked or sung to sleep. A child may
be INDUCED in eating between meals,
or in munching candy and sweets, un-
til it expects and demands the indul.
gence. A child may be encouraged in
its whims and caprices until they con-
troll it.
A teasing child is the natural re-
Election of an unwise vacillating, weak
mother. The mother who knows
what is good for her child, who is firm
in her convictions as to what is good
for it, and who abides steadSastly by
those convictions, is very unlikely to
have teasing child. She leaves no
room for the disposition to tease to
grow.
The late Bishop Pierce in a letter
gives this advice to young mother in
reference to her baby boy: ITO train
him right is grave task. and will re-
quire patience, Judgment, and resolu-
ton. The main thing is, have steady
plan, be uniform. Exact a prompt ODE
dience, but be careful about your COM
mands. DO not olloaU him to tease goa,
about any thing. Let your yeas be
yeas, and your nay, nay. Never give
up your authority. Do not use the rod
much, only in extreme cases. Let
your rules be few and simple. Ex-
plain your commands. Give reason
for duty. Do not govern by force of
authority. Furnish right notions.
proper principles, and let the child
learn to govern himself"
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Are you I'm the Vine :
THOMAS GUTHRIE.

I have seen branch tied to q bleed
ing tree for the purpose of being en-
grated into Its wounded body, and
that thus both might be one. Yet
no Incorporation had followed there
was no fiving union. Spring came
singing, and with her fingers opened
all the buds; and summer came with
her dewy nights and sunny days, and
brought out all the flowers; and
brown autumn came to shake the
trees and reap the fields, and with
dances and mirth to hold the harvest
home ~ but that unhappy branch
bore no fruit, nor flower, nor even Leaf.
Just held on by dead clay and rotHng
cords, it stuck to the living tree, q
withered and unsightly thing. So also
is it with many who have q "name TO
live and are dead. tsS
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NAnnles or P'arS.N

1t costs something, now and then,
to be courteous. Yet a gentleman
will not hesitate to pay the price.
Several years ago three young men,
just graduated from college, went on q
hunting tour through West Virginia,
seeking sport and health. One day
they stopped at farmers house to
take dinner. They were cordially wei
coined by the good man and his Wlfee,
whose table was bountifully spread !:
AT the close of the meal a basket OF
apples and pears was placed Oh the ta-
"Mr. Ames, will you take apples or
p'ars?" asked the farmers wife, ad-
dressing one of the young men.
The young man was perplexed. He
wanted pears. "But," he said to him
self, "if I say pears, may mortify
my hostess by seeming to correct her
pronunciation. Should I say p'ars,
the boys would laugh"
can apple, if you please" he an.
swered, denying himself that he might
be courteous.
A similar. question was put to Mr..
Childs, who also concluded to deny
his appetite for the sake of courtesy
and take an apple. Mr. Smith, the
third student had made up his mind
that he would take pear. When the
lady asked, "Mr. Smith, will you take
apples or p'ars?' he answered, as
courteously as if addressing duch-
ess
"Thank you, madam, I'll take
p'ars."
Two beautiful pears were passed to
him, somewhat to the chagrin OF his
companions, who ate their unrehshed
apples in silence. AS they were leav'
ing the house the kind-hearted matron
gave to Ames and Childs several ap'
pies, but to Smith three or four pears.
The young men fastened to get out
of sight that they might divide the
spoils and enjoy a laugh over the self
denial their courtesy caused them. :,
"Boys," said Ames, II wouldn't
have mortified the old lady for bas'
ketful of pears" ,
"Nor I have said pears, " remarked
Smith. "There's time and place for
everything; but the dinner-table is
not the place to correct your hostess
pronunciation. n."-Youth's Companion.
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The Saving Habit.

A large proportion OF the educated
never save at all, and still larger pro-
portion do not begin the process until
the last ten years of their working
lives. There is not charity in Lon.
don whose secretaries cannot tell
frightful stories of the poverty in
which educated professional men often
pass old age, and Of the utter destltu'
ton to which the death of the bread
winner reduces the most respectable
and even prosperous families. The
number of educated men in hundred
who begin to save early, may be count
ed on the fingers of one hand, ana the
number of bachelors who save at any
time is scarcely larger. 1t seems TO DE
part of the national temperament not
to dread old age until it is close at
hand, or rather, to keep on thinking
that strength must last until it has dis
appeared. More than half of the saw
ings OF the saving class are made be-
tween forty-five and fifty-fve, some
times even later still; while there are
men in thousands who will confess
that I'D to sixty they have never given
the matter thought. The fear OF the
future, which is the root of thrift, has
never entered their minds. This being
the state of affairs with the cultivated, !,
it is unjust to blame the artisans, who
are only following their example.
The workmen, owing to their work,
have more youth in their nature than
the middle class, Or rather-for the re-
mark is not true Of the women-thelr
men keep the boyishness of spirit very
much longer. They can smile, for eA-
ample, at horseplay till they are sixty,
and professionals cannot after thirty
five. It is the essential quality OF boys
to be hopeful as to the future, to think
little or nothing Of it's risks, and to
deem saving needless while the reser-
voir of health and strength is still full
to overflowing., The workmen retain
much of this quality, which is in part
recklessness, but in part also cheerful
ness and courage and so, in very
singular degree, do the classes employ
ed upon the land, whom we think the
worst off. They, no doubt, look to the
rates, but some of their carelessness,
often rather fine to see, is also mental.
The laborer who told his master, I'm
a braver man than you, for dare
spend my last shilling, and you dar-
sent" revealed a truth of tempera-
ment which is at the bottom of much
of the workingman's unthrift. We
hope vet that the latter will one day
see what insurance might do for the
whole community.-Ihe Spectator.
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JUST A HINT TO BoYs.-I stood in
a store, the other day, when boy
came in and applied for a situation.
"Can you write good hand ?" was
asked.
"Yaas."
"Good at figures?"
"Yaas."
"Know the city well?" "Yeas." y,
"That will dol don't want you"
said the merchant.
"But," I said, when the boy had
gone, "I know that lad to be an hon.
est, industrious boy. Why don't you
give him a chance I"
because he hasn't learned to say
Yes SIR and No SIR If he answers
me as he did when applying for situ-
alton, how will he answer customers
after being here a month ?"
"What could I say to that? He had
fallen into bad habit young as he
was, which turned him away from the
first situation he had applied for.
IN. Quad' in Free Press.
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Learning to Sing.

The following eight reasons why
every one should learn to sing are
given by Byrd, in his "Psalms, Son
nets, and Songs" &C., published'i in
1888.
lst. "It is knowledge easily
taught and quickly learned, where
there is a good master and an apt
scholar"
End. "The exercise of singing is
delightful to nature, and good to pre-
serve the health of man."
3rd. "It doth strengthen all parts
of the breast, and doth open the pi'
pes.n
4th. "It is singularly good remedy
for suffering and stammering in
the speech"
5th. 1t is the best means to procure
perfect pronunciation, and to make
q good orator."
s. 1t is the only way to know where
nature hath bestowed a good voice :.
and in many that excellent gift is lost
because they want art to express na'
ture."
9TH. "There is not any music OF
instruments whatever comparable to
that which is made Of the voices OF
men; where the voices are good, and
the same we'll sorted and ordered"
Sth. "The better the voice is, the
meeter it is to honor and serve God
Herewith, and the voice of man is
chiefly to be employed to that end"
"Since singing is good thing,
wish all men would learn 10 sing.
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Coop MUTTON AND WooL.-A fact
not to be forgotte N in sheep husband
ry. says recent writer, is that while
one may raise fin wool and very poor
mutton, you canl Tot raise good mutton
without raising good wool also. All
authorities agree that the best fed sheep
that fatten and n lature in the shortest
time make the bt ,st and soundest wool,
so that this by product from suoh
sheep will always find ready market;
If we can raise mutton ON the tssis o.
making the meat pay the cost, we shall
have the wool for clear profit.
For cleaning windows use chamoif
skin instead of cloth, if yon wish
bright, polished sufaee.
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d.. #., . i. ~
The tone of both the press and popu-
ulace is considerably changed II the
preacher turns crank, and begins to
classify sin and catalogue transgres-
sions as did st. Paul. Let him once
say certain classes of men are sinners
and certain classes of women are sim
ners, is denounced as barbarian,
lacking the instincts Of gentleman
and the charitable spirit of q Chris
tian. He is branded as intolerant and
unworthy. 1t is at this point we fle
our complaint against many of the sec
ular papers. We do SO for two rea-
sons: First, because they hold out to
the world false hope, saying, peace,
peace, when there Is no peace;" sec
ondly, because, Willingly or unwitdng-
ly, they tend to bring the pulpit into
bondage, making it succumb to a time
serving spirit, thus rendering to Cesar
more than Casar's due.
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..SCoTcH ANECDoTEs.-Dr. Scott, of
Greenock, used to tell of q sailor who
came to be married, but when asked if
he would take the woman to be his
wife, looked blank and said, II would
like to know first what you are going
to say to she." At another time, when
the woman was asked if she would
obey, but did not answer, the man-al-
so a sailor-exclaimed, LEAVE that
to me, SIR"
In those days people who felt sleepy
during the sermon used, as now in
Germany, to shake off drowsiness by
standing up, but poor human nature
made this at times an occasion of dis
play. At old Monkland, a man who
had on rather gaudy vest stood up
and threw back his coat, apparently to
let his vest be seen. Mr.. Bower, the
minister, at length said: "Noo John.
We had better sit doom. We have a.
seen your Draw waistcoat."
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BRIEF AND PRACTICAL.-A little
nap before the noon meal will rest the
nerves and promote digestion.
Eight hours sleep will prevent more
nervous diseases in women than all
the medicine in the world can cure.
Thin people would be apt to gain
flesh if they could be induced to drink
a pint of sweet milk each night before
going to bed.
It Is very unpleasant for the sick,
sitting or recumbent, to read or use the
eyes closely the eyes, probably from
their intimate relation with the brain
are sympathetically affected by every
Ill that may attack any other part o.
the body.
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King David said: 'I will keep my
mouth with bride FPS. xxx Il.
That was a good resolution. If one
does not bride his tongue, he will say
a great many things that he ought not
to say, especially when his passions are
excited. If one is angry, let him stop
and count ten before he says word
and then sing Old Hundred.
He that is habituated to deceptions
and artificialities in trifes, will try in
vain to be true in matters of impor-
tance; for truth is a thing of habit,
rather than of will. You cannot in
any given case, by any sudden and
single effort. a0iU to be true, if the hab-
it of your life has been insincere.
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"Pshaw ~ exclaimed Grimshaw, II
have no patience with woman. You
look under the bed to see man and
you'd scream blue murder if you saw
one" "What of that ?" retorted his
patient wife; II saw you put your
hand on the radiator to see if twas hot,
and you jumped up and down and
swore like trooper when you found
that it was" Grimshaw has now lees
patience with 'em than ever.
Always keep your hens at work
An idle hen is never q good layer.
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"Since singing is good a thing,
wish all men would learn 10 sing.

LIFTING THE HAT.-Do our boys
ever think, as they raise their hats to a
lady or a girl friend, aOhy respect
should be shown in this way? Here
is the explanation of the custom:
The custom of lifting the hat had its
origin during the age of chivalry,
when it was customary for knights
never to appear in public, except
in full armor. It became custom,
however, for knight, upon entering
an assembly of friends, to remove his
helmet, signifying, II am safe in the
The age of chivalry passed away
with the fifteenth century, but, among
the many acts of courtesy which can
be traced back to it's influence, none is
more direct in its origin than that OF
lifting the hat to acknowledge the pres
ence of a friend.