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A TALK FOR MOTHERS.
The Country Parsons Thoughts Upon
the Duties of Maternity.
MORE THAN NATURAL INSTINCT,
God Implanted in All Living Things, is the
Human Mothers Love.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF PUNISHMENT
WRITTEN FOR THE DrspArcH.i


In days Of old the greatest honor con-
ferred upon woman was when she was
blessed by being made mother. To some
extent the selr-same idea still holds, al
though the dictates of modern fashion have
partly nullified 1t. A new being, with an
immortal soul, ushered into world OF sin,
the peculiar charge of its mother, both for
this world and the next, should be con-
sidered an event fraught with vast import
aDce. The strongest of all love is mothers
love-strong, because it is constant; strong,
because of its very unselfshness.
Some people call mothers love maternal
instinct" and seek to verify their theory by
pointing to the animal world, and showing
how the lowest of Gods creatures manifest
an instructive regard for their offspring.
Such people forget that human beings have
immortal souls, and that true human
mother has dual love. Granted, that there
IS such thing as maternal instinct, it is
none the less true that there is higher and
a purer mother love than that. When we
see the mother bird futtering in a fright
above her nestlings and trying to lure away
the destroyer of the home, even sacrificing
her life for that of the yet unfeathered
brood, we cannot refrain from admiring
such God-impIanted instinct. Maternity
softens the ferocity of the roaring lion,
and robs the eagle of her piercing glance,
leaving more kindly impress on the eye.
Does not the animal world. with its limited
conceptions of right, led on simply by
instinct, teach the human mother lesson
in preparing for her offspring and in caring
Tor its future? Sometimes in few hours,
or days at most, the animal mother has
performed all the functions Of maternity,
and the offspring is able to take care of
ITSELF 1t is not thus with human beings.
Does it not seem strange that man. who
lords it over all created things, is in in
fancy the most helpless.
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THAT isn't what want; there's nothing in
this house that suits me, starts to rush out
Now comes the tug of war that gives the
salesman an opportunity to display his abil-
ity. Politeness and suavlty are Of no avail
with this Subject" so other tactics must be
resorted to, and that very quickly.
The salesman must use a certain amount
of independence to prevent his customer
getting the upper hand, and by short,
sharp, decisive argument convince him Of
his inconsistency and unreasonableness.
Unless the customer is a hopeless case this
usually has the effect of bringing him back;
the salesman can talk more naturally, the
customer acts more nationally and generally
sale will eventually be made.
ANOTHER HARD CUSTOMER.
The undecided customer" enters with
very unsteady gait, an -don't-know-
whether-I' Ill -buy-or-not'' expression on his
countenance, and is continually looking
about him. He likes everything, in
measure, that is shown him; "this is pretty"
that looks we'll, " "the other is cheap" and
so on, but he cannot make up his mind to
purchase. This customer is difficult, as he
agrees with you in everything and leaves no
room for argument. The first salesman be-
comes worn out and usually transfers him;
the second salesman talks little sharper
and then assumes an air of soeiability. He
apparently becomes personally interested in
him, converses with him on various subjects
and finally gets him interested in suit, and
by an indomitable will and perseverance
sale will often be effected.
The customer who walks in whistling or
picking his teeth with a toothpick, or the
one who approaches with a slow, steady
shuttle OF the feet or staggering gait, be-
long to the same class. They always have
more time than money. There is no use try
ing to push, hurry or persuade them, and
the easier and more Indifferent the salesman
acts the better chance he stands of selling.
THESE REQUIRE SKILL.
Nearly analogous to the latter class is the
customer who sees just exactly what he
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the best orange groves 10 Florida and the
man told me that he would sell it for S25, 900
and that it had cost him this much to
make il.
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THESE REQUIRE SKILL.

Nearly analogous to the latter class il the
customer who sees just exactly what he
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THE ART OF SELLING.
A Keen Insight Into Human Nature
is the First Requisite,
AND PATIENCE IS TIE NEXT ONE.
Best Methods Explained BY y-Madt
Clothing Salesman.
TYPES WITH WHICH HE HAS TO DEAL
WRITTEN FOE THE DrsrArcH.I

svA o the student of hu
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Born Without Hands or Feet.

The little village of Walkers Mills,
distant fourteen miles from Pittsburg,
boasts citizen whose pcculiarities of
makeup, or rather lack of makeup,
have excited no small degree of curl
osity among the residents in this vicinage.
The child, according to the account IL
the Pittsburg Dispatch, is sixteen months
old, and was ushered into the world
without hands or feet: Otherwise it is
perfect in shape of head and body, and
possesses great good nature and spright-
illness. Its mother, Mrs. James O'Con.
nell, is a woman of thirty-two years of
age and marvel of physique and robust
health, weighing probably a hundred and
sixty-fve pounds, and the father is a
hale, hearty quarryman.
In an interview with Mrs. O'Connell
she stated that at its birth they had no
hopes of its living, though in body it
was about the size Of the average child,
and it was therefore christened the same
day. "Thc little fellow" she said, ''has
grown steadily, and has really been less
troublesome than either of my four Other
children, whom you see, though they are
all healthy and strong young ones: l
sometimes place him on the floor, and nc
will follow me to different parts of the
room by rolling over and over. The pro.
prietor of museum was here and offered
$25 a week for the privilege of exhibit
ing him, but the offer was declined"
The right leg is about ten inches in
length, the left several inches shorter;
both stubs have the appearance of limbs
which had undergone amputation. The
arms extend probably two inches below
the elbow joints, both of which work
naturally, and on the left stub if quite
well-defned thumb joint terminating in
a nail-like shape. He takes great de-
light in looking at picture books, and
turns the leaves with great ease. He can
take up spoon Or turn a saucer over
when lying on its face. His keen, bright
eyes and unusually well-shaped head de.
note the promise of more than the aver
aoe intellect.
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RAHY DIES OF ALCOHOLISM.

William Albert Heaslip, four years old,
died suddenly under peculiar circumstances
Sunday morning at his parents home on the
top floor of No. 1893 Fifth avenue. He was
the younger of two children Of John and
Alice Heaslip who have the care Of the
apartments and offices at this number. The
child when very young was subject TO
cramps and to relieve his pain the mother
gave him small doses Of whisky. A taste
for alcohol was thus early planted in the in.
FAINT, and when he learned to talk he would
cry for whisky. Though the cramps were
soon outgrown. the fondness for alcohol re-
manned and was kept up by the parents every
now and then yielding to the boys abnor-
NAL and unnatural taste.
Some friends called upon the family Sat-
urday night and whisky was opened. When
they left, a bottle containing heavy topers
''swig" was left uncorked Oh the table.
While the parents were asleep, BERTHE arose
early Sunday morning, and sighting the
bottle with the familiar odor, drank the con-
tents. When his parents awoke about 8
o'clock they found the child very sleepy and
hardly able to stand. He was put to bed
and quickly fell asleep. When he awoke
couple of hours later his appearance alarmed
the father, who hurried for DR.. Charles d.
Gulick. The doctor saw at once that it was
a hopeless case Of alcoholism. The child diei
in All hour. r.-NelU York World.
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HoMAN's WORK.

Woman's work in the church still obeys
the law of Paradise. Here, as there, she is
the helper Of man, not his rival nor antag-
onist.
A church which should employ enough
devoted sisters of Christ to explore frequent
ly every street and alley in its proper field,
to read the Bible and pray in every squalid
abode, to cheer and comfort every despond-
ing and suffering disciple, to invite every
neglecter Of the sanctuary to her
own place Of worship, every child
TO her own Sabbath-school, and to
lead every one, who will be led, to her pas
tor, or bring her pastor to their homes or
bedsides, has made the most worthy and
useful expenditure of the funds needed to
support them.
We need not be anxious to define and de-
scribe woman's place and work. Recogniz-
ing her feminine nature, and neither en-
ticing nor driving her away from its proper
exercise, we may best trust it to find its own
place and way. Let us invite and expect
the help Of our women in all spheres of
duty and usefulness. Men and women
should be helpers OF each other in common
spheres, more than laborers in wholly sep
arate ones.
Let lis not dishearten and depress Chris
tian women by seeming to undervalue all
eAat - IOI OOliC III puOllCf tudt SoLlllOI DS
figured in statistics nor blazoned upon plat
forms. Let the meekest and gentlest and
timidest woman who breaks her box of
ointment on her Masters feet not be alarmed
when she finds that the whole house is filled
with its odor; and let not her who, in ut
most privacy, gives cup of cold water to a
faint disciple, or washes q weary disciples
feet, doubt that her Master watches the
humble action with smiling countenance.
A woman whose heart is full, and whose
hands are busy with any work of domestic
widows, for lambs of Christ's focks, for sim
full or suffering wom or men whom she
finds willing to listen to her persuasions or
to accept her kindness, even though her
tongue be unable to frame any phrases of
verbal Persuasion-let no such woman doubt
that she is in her place, and is doing her fit
ting work.-The Church at Home and .Abroad.
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A Performing Mouse.

There is telegraph operator in one OF
Our police courts who once tanned n
mouse so completely that it came out OF
the hole behind his desk, where it lived,
every night about midnight and enter
tanned him with cunning acrobatlc per-
formance. 1t climbed up the rod of bill
file that rested against a wire stretched
across the desk, then walked the wire
until it reached a piece of cheese attached
to the farther end of it. Balancing it.
self gracefully upon its hind legs, it re-
moved the cheese with its front paws
and proceeded to nibble away at it until
it was all gone. And strange to say 1t
never missed its footing or fell OFT the
wire. Yankee BLADE.
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A DISCRIMINATING DOG.

A red-nosed man was making his way up
Alabama street, Atlanta, Tuesday, heading
for barroom, with a thin, yellow dog,
affectionately following after him.
"Look at that dog" said BailifF Mig Simp-
SON. That's smart dog"
'Why? was the natural question, there
being nothing in the dogs appearance to III
dicate as much.
Just watch now. That dog follows that
fellow into stores and houses, upstairs and
down, through all sorts Of weather, just like
he's following him now. If that fellow ever
gets drunk and falls off the bridge, the dog
will fall off too. If tho fellow ever gets run
over by train, the dog will too. But ne
won't 70 into that barroom. he Knows
barroom as well as do, and you can't force
him into one. He'll stay outside and wait,
and you can nearly always locate that fellow
by standing at the corner of Alabama and
Pryor and looking both ways till you see
that dog in front Of barroom, waiting.
Now watch him."
The red-nosed man went on into the bar
room. The dog looked up sorrowfully at the
windows, just as if he were reading tho
sign, and then settled himself dsconsolately
upon his launches at the edge Of the side
walk. He gazed at the door in gloomy,
mournful expectancy, never once taking his
eyes away. He waited for fully ten minutes,
and then when the man came out the dog
resumed his place following at his heels
Savannah Neps.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
COMFORT ONE ANOTHER.

COhrOhI ONE hNOlhEhs
Comfort one another;
For the way is growing dreary,
The feet are often weary,
And the heart is very sad
There is heavy burden-bearing,
When it seems that none are caring,
And we half forget that ever we were glad.
Comfort one another;
With the hand-clasp close and tender,
With the sweetness love can render,
And look of friendly eyes.
Do not wait with grace unspoken.
While's life's daily bread is broken;
Gentle speech is oft like mamma from the
skies.
Comfort one another;
There are words of music ringing
Down the ages sweet as singing
Of the happy choirs above.
Ransomed saint and mighty angel,
Lift the grand, deep-voiced cvangel,
Where forever they are praising the eternal
love.
Comfort one another;
BY the hope of Him who sought US
In our peril-Him who bought us,
Paying with His precious blood;
BY the faith that will not alter
Trusting strength that will not fa'ter,
Leaning on the One divinely good.
Comfort one another;
Let the grave gloom lie beyond you
While the Spirits words remind you
OF the home beyond the tomb;
Where no more is pain or parting,
Fever's flush to tear-drop starting,
But the presence of the Lord, and for all
his people room.
-IT6PllcnHp1lf
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SALOONS IN CHICAGO.

Statistics show that the drinking portion
of every fifty-seven adult males in some
communities Chicago, for instance), sup
ports saloon. This means that certain
number Of families are impaired in their
resources to precisely this amount which
must be equal to absorbing the total earn
ings of at least six families out of the pro-
portion of fifty-seven actively engaged in
Supporting the saloon. These six families
have to be supported by the sober element Of
the group, and therefore the saloon is the pc
cuniary enemy of all families in communities
tolerating them. The pecuniary damage is
not lessened if we choose to regard the e1-
pense as apportioned upon the average
among the whole number. For in any case
it means that the saloon subtracts that part
of the communal resources, out Of which
savings and the more ornamental part of the
expenses would otherwise come. The sa-
loon therefore tends to restrict all families
within its influence to a mere struggle for
existence, on the lowest and barest plane
Union-Si0ndl.
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1t Rivals Aladdin's Cave.

Ephraim Baker, one of the oldest resi-
dents of Kansas, and for quarter of 6
century a citizen of Topeka, reports s
discovery which surpasses the fables OF
ancient and stories of modern wealth.
He lives in comfortable home here in
Topeka during the winter, and as soon
as spring breaks dons rough suit and
with prospector's outfit moves out
across the plains toward the sunset, to be
seen no more until the snow flies.
Tuesday Mr.. Baker displayed to few
friends bottle filled with pearls of vari-
GUS colors, shapes and sizes. Some are
pure white, others a delicate shade OF
green, some have a tint Of blue and 9th
crs are of the rarest variety of all-black.
The forms are perfectly round, oblong,
elliptical, etc. They vary from the size
of pinhead to that of hazel nut. The
most astonishing part of Mr.. Baker,
story, however, relates to the quantity
these gems, which almost surpasses be-
lief. He says he found them on the
western slopes of what was one grca
river or sen rolling over the plains o
Kansas.
AS the foothills Of the Rocky Mountains
extend down to Ellsworth and Bellevillc
in Kansas, a rough guess at the location
of these ancient pearl fisheries would be-
just beyond the Smoky Hill and the Ar
kansas valleys. Somewhere in that tree
less region Mr.. Baker says there is 100
miles of river bed whose sands are liter
ally filled with pearls. Turn up a
spadeful of soil where you will, and
there rolls from it stream Of tiny
globules which would enrich the collec-
ton of the Shah of Persia. Whether
MIR. Baker will ever conclude to reveal
tho site of the "valley of pearls" he does
not now know, but he will visit it again
this spring. Chicago Tribune.
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

Archbishop Janssens, OF New Orleans, IS
another distinguished Catholic convert to
total abstinence.
A recent Parliamentary return shows that
in 1889 there were 16S, 3S5 liquor licenses is
sued in Great Britain.
1t is stated that tho inhabitants OF 200
miles of the west coast OF Africa consume
20, 600 tons Of spirits year.
Much Of the red liquor swallowed in
Georgia these days and nights" says the
Brunswick Times, 'has about one murder to
every pint"
The Duchess Of Rutland is pledged total
abstainer, aud sho takes eyery suitable op..
portunity of extollng the benefits received
from her freely chosen course.
A young Harvard graduate IL getting up q
series Of five and ten cent concerts at Boston
to keep the poor out of the saloons. Tho ad-
mission ticket entities tho holder to bun
and cup Of coffee.
The richest man in Australia is said to be
! Mr.. James Tyson. He is credited with being
the possessor of four million pounds, and has
never tasted wine or spirits, nor has he
smoked one ounce of tobacco.
An ordinary keg of beer costs s., and
usually about one hundred and ten glasses
can be Drawn from it. At five cents each this
glow, ocSiSS q ASe-'NA
able profit for the poor saloon keeper.
Wesley Mcnamara, prominent citizen of
Sabetha, Kan, was bitten by another promi-
nent citizen and died in great agony. AS
they had both been indulging in drug store
whisky tho poisonous character OF tho bite
is not to be wondered at.
The Bombay Guardian says that although
the number Of consumers of Intoxicating
liquors in India, under the fostering policy
of the Government, has doubled i'll ten years,
the drinkers arc as yet not more than fifteen
per cent. of thepopulation.
Fifty thousand gallons Of cheap wine was
recently ordered by European firm from
single California company. The sea voyage
and tho European atmosphere will convert 1t
into high priced article needing only q
French namc and some bottles and cobwebs
to make it ready for expectation to the
United States.
The British soldiers in India suffer severe
Iy from the curse Of alcohol. Said the Duke
Of Connaught recently, referring to the con-
sumption OF liquors in India by the military:
'0The use of intoxicating drinks by the Brit
ish soldiers in India is the cause of almost the
entire crime committed by them, and moth
Ing is so deleterious to their health. II drink
were prohibited in connection with the sol
diery, 10000 men would do tho work WHICH
atpssseat requires @, oQ01 s5.S''a
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EVERYBODY SUFFERS.

E1travagance in matters of iquor-drink-
ing is by no means confined to those who can
sfford it. Most Of those who drink are
guilty of an extravaganza which they cannot
afford. The consequence is that somebody
else must pay for their indulgence. And that
somebody is eyerybodys for the en- man ,,,".o who
his family to run short of the necessaries Of
life or else fails to pay for these things after
having bought them. In either case the
tradesmen suffer, aud through them every
industry in the country suffers and every
body whose income is in any way dependent
upon the countrys prosperity must feel the
loss though he may not ba able to trace it to
lts souree.-Toice. :@ss:tt. = ..:si'' w.
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LIFE.

A flower that blooms and withers in night?
A sealed book writ in an unknown lore:
A gem which broken nothing can restore?
A fevered dream: An atom Of delight?
song that dies ere scarce tits given flight?
A beaten wave that sobs along the shore,
And breaking on the rocks is heard no
more?
At best, triumph hardly worth the fight'
These are not life Nay, what with life COM
pare?
Or what may with its glory dare to shine?
Life is a gift ineffable, which bears
:. The Seal immortal from the Hand Divine,
The gift to serve and love through endless
years.
o life mosG beautiful, what joy is thine?
-Emma C. Dowd, in Youths Companion.
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MISSIONS AND LIQUOR.

The Rev. Mr.. Webb-Peploe, in an anni-
versary sermon before the English Church
Missionary Society, asserts that the annual
income Of Englishmen amounts to $685.
900, 900. Were tenth Of this sum conse-
Grated to Gods service it would be 1861, ,0O0,-
900, which is said to be the exact amount of
Great Britain's drink bill. The preacher es-
hundredth part of the total annual income,
was actually given to religious objects, and
that perhaps tenth Of this, or thousandth
part Of the income. was given to work out
side of Great Britain, for the evangelization
Of the world.
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ANOTHER pELUs1oN DIspELLED.

Referring to the use of brandy as safe
guard against infection, DR.. B. w. Richard
son, of London, in recent address isreported
as saying:
"PeopIe take a swallow of brandy to keep
off infection when going to attend sick peo-
pie; others whose work leads them into
Sewers and other similar places do the same.
The fact is, that taking the brandy prevents
the evil to which they are inevitably ex-
posed from passing out of the system
quickly; indeed, taking the brandy keeps the
poison in the system longer than it would
otherwise stay"
Thus one by one the popular alcoholic delu-
sions are being dispelled by scientific experts
who make q thorough study of the alcohol
question.-Nutional Advocate.
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TEMPERANCE.
THE WINE.

They say tits pleasant on the lips
And merry on the brain;
They say it stirs the sluggish blood
And dulls the tooth of pain.
Aye, but within its glowing deeps
A singing serpent, unseen, sleeps.
Its rosy lights will turn to fire,
Its GOODNESS turn to thirst;
And, by its mirth, within the brain,
A slespless worm is nursed.
There's not q bubble at the brim
That does not carry food for him:
IN. Z. Willis.
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1t is we'll known that pigeons lay two
eggs, and that there is always hatched
one male and one female therefron. A
number of experiments to show whether
or not there exists any relation between
the order in which the eggs are laid and
the sex of the birds go to show that the
egg first laid produces the female, the
second the male,
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WITHIN the past eightcea months

WITHIN the past eightcea month,
oyer $2OO,OOO,0OO of English capita
has found investment i'll the United
States. Breweries, -four mills, patent
medicine factories, rolling mills, have
found favor in the eyes of the BRITISH
financier, aud some of the best
property has come into their
sion. 1t is safe to say that mq
saOO, 100000 will find its way
country during 1890, and thai
aux of foreign gold will inq
by year,
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All the strength and force Of man comes
from his faith in things unseen. fie who
believes is strong; he who doubts IS weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions
James Freeman Cidrks.