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National Baptist world., 1894-09-07

we gain our staying power. 1t
Is never tiresome waiting for re-
suits when we know that results are
on the way. If the heart is made
sick by hope deferred, is only
because with the postponement there
comes diminution of hope. Certainly
in the issue is the only sure source of
patience between times. Until the ves-
sci begins to drag it's anchor, it is all
the same whether the tide seems to be
coming in or going out. We can work
for far-away effects with the same ex-
hilaration as for immediate effects if
we can fully feel the strength and con-
tinuity of the thread upon which our
own present efforts are being strung.
We are able to send telegram with
the same confidence to London as to
Albany by having the same assurance
in the former case as in the latter of the
continuity of the telegraphic wire
Watchman.
National Baptist world., 1894-09-07

material solicitude rarely exhibited in
animals for the young of other species,
took into her fold Of newlyborn
kittens little orphan chicken, cher
ishing it as one of her own offspring.
The little waif was accidentally cast
upon the world, the egg which con-
tanned it being Matched in an unac-
countable way, without the warmth
always given by the mother hen. The
little kittens and their adopted sister
thrived in peace and harmony together.
Of course, the little stranger did not
eat at the same table with the rest Of
the family, but found its nourishment
from little insects, worms and crumbs.
But they basked in the sunshine under
the same material guidance, and
warmed on cold nights at the same
motherly breast. The strangest part
of all is that when the kittens arrived
at maturity the old cat parted with
them without murmur, while nothing,
it seems, can sever the ties that bind
her to the chicken, now grown to
stately henhOod.
National Baptist world., 1894-09-07
MlNGO'S FIFTH HAND.
The Remarkable Things a Monkey Could
Do with Il lis Tail.

The Remarkable Things a Monkey COULD
Da with Els Tail.
was standing one day by the house
Of large Newfoundland dog, whose
attention was evidently much taken up
by number of lusty puppies, writes
Charles Frederick Holder, when evil
IDENTIFY noticed a slendery snake-like
object gradually clip out of neighbor-
ing dog house, and insert its tip into
the door of the first dog house.
The shaggy mother within blinked
quite peacefully, and one of the pup
pies galloped toward the intruder.
Evidently this was what was wanted,
for Immediately the object coiled
around the leg Of the puppy in a gentle,
friendly manner and began to pull him
toward the door.
The little dog protested after the
manner of his kind, but the visitor was
persistent, and slowly the puppy was
dragged out of his own house, across
the foot of space between, and after
some little scuff1ing disappeared into
the other house.
moment later along came kitten,
and stopped before the doorway of the
second doghouse, and out came the
long, insinuating object again, and be-
fore the kitten could object, even had
she been so disposed, one of her hind
legs was encircled, and she, like the
puppy, moved toward the doorway,
dragged along tail first.
She uttered single plaintive meow,
which, understanding something of the
cat language, 1 considered more a
sound of passive acquiescence than
anything else.
My eyes soon again reverting to the
opening encountered pair of great
brown ones, pathetic and mournful to a
degree, peering from beneath gray eye
brOws
For moment the eyes looked at me,
then seeing that I was friendly, the
head to which they belonged came out,
and there rose before me the owner OF
the mysterious serpentine Objects
monster so tall and slender, SO com.
pletely given over to arms and tail that
| could only compare it to gigantic
spider coming out of it's den.
1t stood up, reaching one long, atten'
uated arm almost to my shoulder, and
then perceived that it held under the
other the puppy, whose blue eyes
blinked at me in amaZement.
Another step and out came the kit
ten, the monkeys marvellous tail,
which was like q fifth hand, still
clasped firmly about her leg.
Upon leaving his house Mingo as,
sumed a perfectly upright position,
holding one hand over his head, and,
then occasionally dropping to all four.
he crossed the little grass plot and
easily swung himself into tree.
His long tail stretched out to it's full
length, and by it he actually lifted the
kitten until, when four or more feet
from the ground she scrambled at the
limb and aided herself up.
Mingo finally settled himself on a
bough with the puppy, which he held
closely In his arms.
National Baptist world., 1894-09-07
PEACE IN THE HEART.

Power OF the Soul to Be Untroubled In the
Midst or Trouble.
At no time since the close of the civil
war have so many lives been so tossed
by tumultuous cares AT no time has
peace seemed so remote. so impossible.
At no time have SO many hours of sleep
been lost, and SO many hearts been
heavy, not only, not chiefly, with pres
ent distress, but with forebodings of
impending calamity And probably
never before did SO many bear living
testimony to the power of the soul to
be untroubled in the midst of trouble;
never before. probably, was there wit
messed in SO many lives the fulfllment
Of the prophets assurance: Thou wilt
keep him in perfect peace whose mind
is stayed on Thee. What is the secret
of their peace?
Peace is a gift. He who pursues it
loses it. He who battles for it defeats
his desire by his endeavor. 1.-The
peace of God keep your hearts and
minds is the Apostles prayer. When
we stir up our hearts and minds to
ind Or keep that peace, we reverse the
right relation. 1t is Gods peace, sent
TO find US, provided to keep us. Like a
river, rising among the distant noun
tains, fed by the clouds. environing
the city and guarding it from danger,
Gods peace flows down from Him to
us. and keeps the mind that is stayed
on Him.
Not trust but conservation is the
secret of peace; or, rather, the trust
that is the child of conservation. No
man has right to trust that God will
keep him from all trouble. God keeps
ter keeping. He who imagines that
the universe centers about himself is
strangely egotistical; but the supreme
egotist is the man who imagines that
God administers the universe for his
particular benefit, and who fancies
that this egotism is piety. The secret
of peace is not in imagining that God
will do all that we desire, but
in making all our desires find
their fulfllment in what God does.
He only has Gods peace who begins all
his prayers with THY kingdom come,
Thy will be done, and ends them all
Will ulHc Uc UH0 kluSCOm duu Cn0
power and the glory" Such an one
carries no burdens, for all his burdens
are Gods, and he and God can carry
them with ease. Such an one knows
no fears for the future. The future is
as sure to God as is the past, and Gods
assurance makes Gods child calm. If
God gives him wealth, he takes the
trust and administers it for God. If
God takes away wealth, and calls him
to walk down into bankruptcy, he goes,
glad to show how Gods child endures
misfortune. If God lays him on bed
of sickness, he reflects that God needs
invalids If death summons him, he
hears the voice as that of One Who
would wake him from life's troubled
dream, and rises to greet the eternal
sunshine.
l have no cares, 0 blessed Will,
For all my cares are Thine;
l live in triumph, Lord, for Thou
Hast made Thy triumph mine.
Outlook.
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Influence of Drink in Society.

The injurious influence of social
drinking usages extends to the edu
Gated as we'll as the uneducated. Dr.
J. w. Barrett, of Australia, whose at
tention had been directed to the extent
of the damage done to members of the
medical profession by alcoholic liquors
instituted an inquiry, making it az
complete as he could, with regard
to bachelors of medicine of the Mel
bourne university. Of those of 1881
80, the great majority of whom are
now dead, he found that 13 per cent.
had been decidedly injured by alcohol
those of 1SS3-64, 10 per cent: and those
of 1886, II per cent. His investiga-
tion disclosed the fact that more than
II per cent. of the medical men trained
in the Melbourne university are to use
his own words, ''distinct alcoholics.
Alcohol is no respector of persons, and
will PROSTATE the professional man
who unwisely tampers with it as GER
tainly as the unlearned laborer.-Na-.
tional Temperance Advocates
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A Serious Case. Indeed.

Few things vex physician more
than to be sent for in great haste at an
unreasonable hour. only to find upon
arrival that little or nothing is the
matter with the patient. An eminent
English surgeon was called to an
urgent case" Of this sort, and found
that the patient, who was a man Of
great wealth but small courage, had
received a very slight wound from a
fall. The surgeons face did not be-
tray his irritation, but he gaze his
servant orders to go home with all pos
sible haste and return with certain
plaster. The patient, turning very
pale, said, anxiously:
81 trust, sir, there is no great and
Immediate danger?"
Indeed there Is" answered the sur
geon. Why, If that fellow doesn't
run like racehorse, there's no telling
but your wound will heal before he
gets back with the plaster!"
National Baptist world., 1894-09-07
Alas for the CE I'm

According to DR.. Kerr, one fourth of
the 26O.O0O children who die in this
country before they are five years old
die because of the intemperance Of one
or both parents, and DR.. Eds says that
"the deaths of 100, 900 before they were
one year old were due to the ignorance
of mothers in giving wrong food, and
to the pernicious delusion of nursing
mothers that they require to be kept
up by alcoholic liquors." A further
proportion are unable to survive the
first serious illness of early manor
wOman-hood. Such children not only
inherit tendencies, but are born into
moral environment calculated to foster
in the child those very tendencies. II
both parents are Incorporate, alas for
the children!-JOur of Inebrietv.
National Baptist world., 1894-09-07
GEMS OF THOUGHT.

"A gloomy heart is one that keeps
God out.
No man ever yet conquered success
by urrendering to temptation.-You Young
Mems Era.
If the life of Christ be not your pat.
tern, the death of Christ will never be
your pardon.-Rest Islander.
The more treasure we have laid up
in Heaven the more power it will give
us for good on earth-Ram's Horn.
True goodness is like the glow
worm in this, that it shines most when
no eyes, except those of Heaven, are
upon it.-Hare.
No iron chain, or outward force of
any kind, can ever compel the soul of
man to believe or to disbelieve.-
Thomas Carlyle.
-''Grace" is the first word and the
last of Paul's epistles The salutation
and the benediction 1t is the begin
ming and the end of true life.
Presby yterian.
Such help as we can give each
other in this world is debt to each
other, and the man who perceives a
superiority or capacity in subordi-
nate, and neither confesses nor assists
it, is not merely the withholder Of
kindness, but the committee of injury
-Ruskin.
What had the life of Jesus been to
us, if we had only the records of His
sermons without the record of His go
ing about doing good? l think the
everyday life of Jesus touches the hu.
man heart more than the great truths
which He uttered. Bishop Simpson.
Our creed is not what we have
thought, but what our Lord has told
us The true creed must come down
from above, and not out from within.
Make your creed simply ard broadly
out of the revelation of God, and you
may keep it to the end. - Phillips
Brooks.
C-What is it to know Christ? To be
like Him. To know Him is not to have
correct opinions about Him, but to be
in sympathy, in fellowship, in unity
with Him. One does not know poet
by being able to give the date of his
birth and death, his parentage, and a
llSt OF MS great WOrkS. ne KNOWS CHo
poet only as he understands the poets
| inner life; and he understands that life
only as he shares it.-Lyman Abbott,
| in Outlook.
We suppose, says the Interior, the
name golden" was given to the ''rule, :"
because gold is the most malleable and
compliant of all metals, one which
adapts itself to any form or any color,
and is beautiful wherever it is The
steel rule is true, strong and reliable,
but the Scriptures nowhere recommend
it. A rule that is used to measure
people must have adapta bility in it.
The Lord never applies the steel rule.
He knoweth our frame. He remember.
eth that we are dust
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FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
THE PUNCTUATION POINTS.

Six little marks from school are we;
Very important all agree,
Filled to the brtm with mystery,
Six little marks from school
One little mark Is round and small.
But where 1t stands the voice must fall
At the close Of sentence, all
Place this little mark from schools
One little mark, with gown a-trailing,
Holds up the voice, and, never falling,
Tells you not long to pause when hailing
This little mark from school:
II out Of breath you chance to meet,
Two little dots, both round and neat
Pause, and these tiny guardsmen greet
These little marks from school:
When shorter pauses are your pleasure,
One trails his sword-takes half the measure,
Then speeds you on to seek new treasure;
This little mark from school:
One little mark, ear-shaped, implies,
keep up the Voice--await repliesi"
TO gather Information tries;
This little mark from school: 4
One little mark, with an exclamation,
Presents itself to your observation,
And leaves the voice at an elevation,
This little mark from school:
Six little marks! Be sure to heed US,
Carefully study, write and read US;
For you can never cease to need us,
Six little marks from school!
Julia M. Cotton, in ST. Nicholas
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GENERAL GLEANINGS.

THERE is no safety for any young
man except in total abstention from
liquor.
THE Young Abstainers' union O,
China now numbers in its several
branches at Shanghai, Foo Chow, and
other cities, upwards of nine thousand
mem bers.
Mr.. VICTOR BURTON, of celebrated
brewers firm in London, has become q
teetotaller and withdrawing from the
firm, forfeiting thereby his right to
Ell 900, 900.
IN Great Britain and Ireland there
are nearly 20, 900 Juvenile temperance
societies of one kind and another with
an estimated mem bership of 1904, 600
young people.
DR.. CUYLER says of some ships going
to Africa that Heaven goes in the
cabin and hell in the ships hold How
long will it take us to convert the
heather in this style?
The Norwegian government annual
ly grants 5000 kroners Isl ,665) to be
divided between the various temper
ance societies according to the officiai
returns of mum bers and work accom-
plished.
LIEUT.. WINGFIELD, of the English
army, walked six hundred and fifty
miles in twenty-six days, never at
lower altitude than thirteen thousand
feet, remarka BILE feat. and performed
entirely without stimulants.
A wELLKNowN authority on nervou,
and mental diseases says that these
disorders are increasing at terrible
rate in France, and attributes the fac,
to the increase of beer drinking, alb
sinthe drinking, and bars. There wa,
scarcely such thing as bar twenty
three years ago, he says, but now they
are all over the towns and always
crowded.
THE drink which the distillers make
is but palatable poison. If their liquors
are so delicious that the people are
tempted to their own destruction, lie.
us at least be secure from their fatal
draught by bursting the walls which
contain them. Let us crush at once
those artists in human slaughter who
have reconciled their countrymen to
sickness and ruin.-Lcrd Chesterfield
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"T'm gettin' rid of my extra feel
ms says |. What d. you spose I'm
doin'. practisin' for prayer-meetin'i
You're blamed fool says | to him, II
you can't tell that I'm swearin', an
swearin' hard. Or may be you're deef,
hey?'
Then l let out a few triple-jointed
cuss words at him, an he jugged me.
Judge O'Reilly was sittin' at the
Tombs then. God rest his soul wen'
to court with my skate with me.
-Four months, says he.
'Hooray.' says |.
Six months. says he.
"'Tbe dickens you say says l, and
that's the nearest / come to brealHln
my record. That's wot that double
notch means / was out two days after
that term. Then l hit the pipe in
Pell street dope joint, an it was just
my luck that they pulled the place that
very night. That's notch seventeen,
an that thing there is meant for
opium pipe. That was all the dope
wanted. l had head on me for the
whole six months Whisky was good
enough for me when | got out,
an l hit it up SO lively that it
only took me one day to get back for
the eighteenth time. Next time it was
two days of trampin', an another half
year for another jag this time on gin.
I'm out three days since that term, an
now Pm goin back again. See, there's
the twentieth notch all cut, and M
for m 'licious mischief next it.
''Wot's it for? Why it was cold last
night, an / begged enough to get half
a skate. Then | went into a gin mill
on West Twenty-seventh street an
asked the Darkeeper to trust me for
drink. He told me to sing myself to
sleep. l don't blame him. He was
right, but it made me mad, an | went
out an hove cobble stone through his
winder, an another into his stomach
when he came out to lick me So here
| am again. me an my little notch
stick. Michael OLeary, alias Old Mike,
alias Leary the Lush, alias Mike the
Mug, alias the Bum of Blackwell's
Island Fifty -year-old, tramp, an a
bum, an lush. No home, no wife. no
family. no frien's. no money, no trade.
no nOthin' but lastin' love of liquor,
good bad, indiff rent, an a even chance
of dyin' with the blue devils at my
thrOat.-N. Y. Sun.
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MOTHER KANGAROO.
This Tells Yon How She Leves and Brings
Up Her Children.

Up Her Children.
This mother is as fond of jumping as
the grasshopper is, and nature has
given her the power to take long leaps
and to get over the ground faster that
way than most animals do in running
She takes sometimes thirty feet at a
jump, which is pretty rapid locomotion,
you see.
The kangaroo, for l suppose you
know what animal is referred to, can
walk, but it is an awkward walk at
best. Apparently it would be better to
hop when hopping is SO much easier,
and no doubt the kangaroo thinks so.
The tail Of the kangaroo is almost as
good as fifth leg to her. She rests
upon it in walking or jumping and
uses it as a weapon to strike animals
that attack her.
The kangaroo is said to be a sociable
animal. 1t lives in the woods, in herds.
But the strangest thing about the
mother kangaroo is the way she ar
ranges her nursery. She does not con-
struct house in a cave or a hollow
tree or in the ground. Nature has
provided her with soft, furry bag Oh
the under side Of her body. So she car
ries her babies around with her every
where she goes. In this bag the babies
stay until, at eight or nine months old,
they have grown strong enough to hop
out little and eat some nice, fresh
grass while the mother Is getting her
own dinner.
But even when it gets to be q pretty
big child the baby kangaroo likes 20
creep back again sometimes to its cozy,
warm summer nursery and take nap.
And while the babies are hopping
about the mother is very watchful. At
the slightest suspicion Of danger she
picks up her children, pops them into
the bag and off she Lops with them to
a safer place.
In Australia the giant kangaroos are
hunted for food. They are very good
to eat, and they often have occasion to
hop as fast as they can to get out of
the way Of hunters who are determined
to have a good dinner of kangaroo
meat. Sometimes they are caught In
nets Indeed, there are all sorts OF
ways of catching them
National Baptist world., 1894-09-07

Mingo, the Spider monkey, belonged
to tribe known as Coaita, and came
from the valley Of the Amazon.
Mingo's fifth hand or tail was SO deft
and cunning in all It's movements that
one wondered whether somewhere
there was not an eye or two concealed
in the coarse hairs to enable it to find
it's way about.
When Mingo walked limb the fifth
hand was invariably caught on a
higher limb SO that, when he lost his
hold, as he sometimes did, with his
hands and feet, he swung in safety by
the tail.
The tail was frequently employed tc
inspect crevices in it's owners house,
and it could pick up very small objects
with the greatest ease.
When approached, Mingo would
often extend his tail and grasp ones
finger with it In most confding man
nnr
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SELF-DETRACTlON.

This Spirit Incompatible with Genuine
Humble vi iindedness.
Continual self-deprecia tion is no sign
of humility. 1t is, rather, a self-con-
scious condition incompatible with
genuine hum mble-mindedness. 1t is one
thing to know how far short one falls
of his own ideals, and another thing to
set low estimate on all the soul
powers with which God has endowed
one whom He would have to serve
Him. Says Amiel: 81 hold my own
personality, my own aptitudes, my own
aspirat ons. too cheap, | am forever
making light of myself in the name Of
all that is beautiful and admira BILE. In
word, | bear within me a perpetual
;self-detractor. and this is what takes
all the spring out of my life.
One may not be finely en-
dowed-as the world rates such
things-but one who is not willing to
concede powers to himself, is not likely
to fulfil the end of his own being. Says
Ruskin Every action, down to the
drawing of line or utterance of syl-
liable, is capable of a peculiar dignity
in the manner of it, and capable of a
still higher dignity in the motive of it;
for there is no action so slight nor so
mean but it may be done to great
purpose. and ennobled therefor; nor is
any purpose SO great but that slight
actions may help it, and may be so
done as to help it much, most especi-
ally that chief of all purposes, the
pleasing of God He is more likely to
be hum ble-minded who sets right es-
innate upon this ''chief of purposes"
than he who busies himself with
thoughts of his own worthlessness.-
S. S. Times.
National Baptist world., 1894-09-07
STRANGE COMRADES.

How Cat and Chicken Struck Up q
Close Companionship.
Chickens and cats, collectively, are
not considered the most congenial COM
panions. A strange exception to the
enmity that usually exists between the
feline and the feathery tribes is to be
found in Mount Vernon, ILL.,, in the
household Of a photographer, where
The family cat, with an instinct Of
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FOR SUNDAY READING.
HATH NOT FoRsAkEN US.

Our God hath not forsaken US,
Nay. and He never will
Though evil hath ertaken us,
He works His counsels still.
Our God hath not forsaken US;
Though dark the night may be,
The morning shall awaken us,
It's blessed light to see.
Our God hath not forsaken US;
Though thunders loudly peal,
Though earthquakes rude have shaken US
Until the mountains reel
Our God hath not forsaken usI
Still doth He meet our need,
He who thus far hath taken US
Safe to the end will lead.
-Robt. NJ Offord in n. Y. Observer.
National Baptist world., 1894-09-07
FAITH IN GOD.
The Divine Influence That Works In tn
Believers Heart.

The Divine Influence That Works I'm the
Believers Heart.
It is vast thing to believe in God
with all of wide reach that the term
implies. Such belief is a sort of per-
ennial Pentecost and steady Holy Ghost
to man. 1t makes the great future
seem easy. 1t makes the great future
seem certain. 1t puts tension into
thought, nerve into expectancy and
plan, muscle into action, and brings
down to to-day the echo of the voice of
the Lord when He said: "Arise, get
thee down to the host, for have deliv-
cred it into thine hand" Here, too.
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Pearls and joys.

LIttle boys are little joys,
When they are loving and true:
Little girls are little pearls,
When they are sweet-like you'll
Youths Companion
, 1894-04-14
N o tic

~ T is hereby made known that the
q sessions on the Joint Estate of
the deceased widow Mrs. EMMA
CATHRINE RAHR, born Muller,
and previously deceased husband
Inspector of Customs, Councillor of
Justice Christian Emil Rahr. which
estate is administered by the Under
signed as executor testament, Will
be held on the second WEDN kSDAY
of every month at 2 o'clock pm.
at the office in Christiansted OF the
Undersigned.
Christiansted, St. Croix, April 9th 1894.
A.. E. STAKBMANN.