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Permitting children to sit at table
with their elders is the cause of a good
deal of mischief and injury to their
youthful digestions, A variety of
dishes should never be permitted, and
checked at once. Economy and self-
denial can be taught at the children’s
1able far more easily than at school,
The diet of children can hardly be too
plain, = If they require to be encouraged
to eat by the administration of dainties,
there must be something radically
wrong somewhere. It is unlikely that
that something is constitutional ; more
probably insufficiént exercise is taken,
or taken at wrong times, or the nursery
is stuffy, or the bedroom badly ventil-
sunshine and fresh air are as necessary
some food is,
The want of cleanliness, or frequent
use of the bath, is many times the
cause of indifferent appetite in children.
Without cleanliness of clothes and
cleanliness of person you cannot have
healthy children, Without this the
young blood seems poisoned, the child
has neither buoyancy nor heart, appetite
is depraved or absent, and he grows up
as pale and poor as a sickly plant.
Injudicious clothing is another cause
of dyspepsia. It is bad enough to en-
vase the body which
full development in a tight dress, but it
is ruinous for a child to be clothed in
tightly-fitting garments,
of a child’s body requires room to grow
and expand ; if it be in any way com-
pressed, the circulation through it be-
comes lessened, and it is therefore sick-
lied and rendered weak.
has attained its
of a child's clothing ruins not only the
tion, but indirectly those at a distance
from it, for no damming up of the eir-
culation can be tolerated by nature,
Tightness round the waist in children
and young people is the cause of many
so is tightness of the neckerchief, by
retaining the blood in the brain. Have
your children’s clothing loose, then, if
you would see them healthy and happy.
See, too, that at night they sleep not on
feather beds, and that though warmly
they are not heavily clothed.
fed
Children should be with
regularity day by day.
times are strictly adhered to.
of getting up in the morning and retir-
eial to the present health of
but it
greatly against his
in after-life.
I need hardly speak here about the
quality of the food that is placed before
a child ; against indigestible or too rich
food, against sauces and spices of all
kinds, including curries : against heavy
foods of the pancake, dough and dump-
ling kind, against unripe fruits, against
too hot soup, against strong tea and
coffee, or beer, or against over-much
butchers’ meat,
Pray, mothers do not forget that an
interval o' rest should ensue between
the meals you give vour children, and
do not ruin their young digestions by
cramming them with cake, or buns, oc
sweets of any kind. To do 50 is worse
than cruel, it is a «in, and « sin you are
but little likely to commii if you truly
love them, and really wish to see them
germinate into strong and healthy men
and women. Tarts and sweets and
confectionery would be bad enough in
all conscience for children, even if
they were always pure and unadulter-
ated. But they are too often positively
poisonous. Feed on plain and whole-
some food regularly from day to day,
permitting no stuffing between meals,
and not forgetting the benefits which
acerne from frequent changes of diet
more especially as regards dinner. Do
this, and your children will live to biess
you ; do otherwise, and expect to see
them sickly, with veins and arteries
possessing no resiliency, with mucous
membranes pale, flabby pipes of lungs
that the accident of a slight cold is
sufficient to close, muscles of limbs so
weak that exercise is a penance instead
of a pleasure, and flesh so unwholesome
that a pin’s prick may cause a fester,
and all this because the blood is impov-
erished through errors in diet,
teaches him habits which are
chances of success
Large quantities of hay have berm
shipped on the Union Pacific Railroad to
feed the herds of cattle upon the Platte
Valley ranges anl in Western Wyom-
ing, where the grass is snowed under,
The trains on the Denver short line are
compelled to run slowly by the numbers
of eattle who take to the track on their
way to find water, Official returns
for January in Michigan indicate that
all kinds of cattle are in fine condition
throughout that State. It is feared,
however, that the wheat has been
damaged by alternate freezing and
thawing, or been “smothered” by late
snow,
The Church Temporal.
a
1. Never neglect daily private prayer
and when you pray remember that God
is present, and that he hears your
prayers, (Heb, 11:6.)
2. Never neglect daily private Bible-
reading ; and when you read remember
that God is speaking to you, and that
you are to believe and act upon what he
says, I believe all backsliding begins
with the neglect of these two rules,
v (John 5 : 89.)
© 8. Never profess to ask God for any-
thing you do not want. Tell him the
| truth about yourself, however bad it
" makes you; and then ask him, for
Christ's sake, to forgive yon what you
ave, and to make you what yon ought
to be, (John 4:24.)
ing to do something for Jesus, Every
night reflect on what Jesus has done for
you, and then ask yourself, What have
I done to-day forhim? (Matt, 5:13-16,
5. If ever vou are in doubt as to a
thing being right or wrong, go to your
room, and kneel down and ask God's
(Col. 2:17.) If you
cannot do this, it is wrong. (Rom.
23.)
blessing upon it.
Christians. or argue that, because such
{2 Cor. 10: 12.3 You are to
“How
YOu may.
ask vourself,
in my place ?"
(John 10 : 27.
7. Never believe what
contradicts God's Word.
i Can what I feel be true if God's Word
is true ? and if both cannot be true,
| believe God, and make your own heart
the liar, Rom. 3:4: 1 John 5: 10, 11.
Brownlow North,
Modern Skepticism.
Dr. Schafl, in volume
his first
direct consideration of modern
i the
| skepticism. The following extract will
| show the author's views as to the man-
ties ought to be treated.
There
{one
He says :
are two kinds of skepticism :
represented by Thomas—honest,
Radducees and Pontius Pilate
indifferent to
With the
latter ‘even the gods reason in vain.”
But truth-l
skepticism always deserves regard and
cial, worldly, frivolous,
truth, and ending in despair,
honest, wing
sympathy, and demands
of the real
which are in
a patient in-
| vestigation or imaginary
§ asus
| difficulties volved iu the
It may be more useful to the Cl
than unthinking and
i orthodoxy. of
an
One the ablest
(De Wette) made the sad but honorable
confession
I lived in times of doubt and strife,
faith was forced to yield
I struggled ta the end of life,
Alas! 1did not gain the Seid.’
for a few months before his death he
wrote and published this significant sen-
tence : ‘I know that in no other name
can salvation be found than im the mame
of Jesus Christ, the crucified ; and there
is nothing loftier for mankind them the
divine humanity realized in him, and
the kingdom of God planted by him.”
Blessed are those who seek the truth,
for they shinll find it.
Shake Hands.
Shake hands with «omebody #¢ yon
go out of church. The more of it the
better, if it is expressive of real interest
and feeling. There may be a great deal
of the spirit of the gospel put into a
hearty shake of the hand. Think of
St. Paul's four times repeated request,
“Greet one another’ —after the custom
then in eommon nse, and one which is
exnressive of even warmer feeling than
our common one of handshaking. Why
not give vour neighbors the benefit of
the warm Christian feeling that fills you
to your finger tips, and receive the like
from them in return ? You will both be
benefited by it; and the stranger will go
away feeling that the church is not,
after all, so cold as he had thought it to
be,
Seven DeadMen.
A Strange Legend of Venice,
There is a story current among the
gondoliers and fishermen of Venice,
There were six men fishing once in this
“Valle of the Seven Dead, They had
with them a little boy, the son of one of
their band. The boy did not go fishing
with Lis father, but stayed behind to
take care of the hut, and to cook the
meals for the men when they returned.
He spent the nights alone in the cabin,
for most of the fishing was done between
sunset and sunrise. One day as the dawn
was beginning across the water, the
men stopped their fishing and began to
row home with their load as usual, As
they rowed along they met the body of
a drowned man going out to sen with
the tide. They picked the body up and
laid it on the prow, the head resting
upon the arm, and rowed on slowly to
the hut. The little boy was watching
»
for them, and went down to the edge of
the canal to meet them. He saw the |
body of the seventh man lying on the
prow, but thought he was asleep.
$0 when the boat came near, he cried
to h's father, “Breakfast is ready ; come
along !7’ and with that he turned and
The men fol-
lowed the boy, and left the dead man
lying on the prow. When they had sat
down the boy looked round and said ;
“Where is the other man? Why
i
“Oh! isn’t he here #** cried one ; and
then added with a laugh, “You had
better go and call him, must be
' asleep.”
he
shouted :
“Why don't you come to breakfast ?
it is all ready for you.”
But the man on the prow never moved
nor answered a word.
turned to the hut, and said :
“What is the matter with the man ?
he won't answer,"
“Oh! said they ‘he’s a deaf old fool.
You at
him.’
The boy went back again, and cried :
i
So the boy re-
must shout loud, and swear
“Come along, vou fool ; the others
, are waiting for you."
But the man on the prow never mo ed
nor answered a word,
Then the boy ran back to the hut and
said :
“Come one of you, for I can’t wake
him up.”
But they
“(ro out
laughed, and answered :
+
again a d shake him by Lilt
3
1 . . #i11
eg | tel ul
’ 1 hin! we can’t wait till dooms-
day for him."
The boy waler once
He got into the boat and shook
man by
went down to the
more,
the
| turned and sat up on the
the leg. Then the man
prow, and sald
‘to the boy:
“What do von
“Why on earth don’t you come Y Are
they all to wait till doomsday for you #*
back and tell that 1
coming.”
want 7,
ae) them am
So the boy went back to the hut and
| found the men laughing and joking.
“Well!
\
“It is all
what did he sav ¥'’ they cried,
right.” answered the boy,
“‘he says he is coming."
The men turned pale and looked at
sat very still and
i
i
Then
heard footsteps coming slowly
| one another, and
| laughed no more, mitside HY
up the
path, The door was pushed open, and
the dead man came in and sat down is
| the bov's place, the seventh at the table
But
i the
each sal with his eves fixed upon
seventh, their They could
guest,
| not move or speak Their gaze was
fastened on the dead man's face
t blood flows chiller
veins, till, as the
along the lagoon, there were seven dea
{ men sitting round the tabh the
| room.
i
o——— ———
. Young Wives for Old Husbands.
By-the-by, a few years a friend
£0 a
loaned me a book containing the remi-
niscences of Henry A, Wise, In it he
was out riding one evening with Presi.
dent Tyler, who informed him that Le
was going to get married to Miss Gand-
ner. “Why,” said Wise, “she is too
young for you."" ‘*Not at all,” re
plied the President, ‘I'm still in my
prime.” “That reminds me,” contin-
ued Wie, “of an old darky down in
Virginia, who was generally consulted
by his old master on any affair of im-
portance to both, The old master was
a widower, and when he got the con-
sent of a young lady to marry him he
communicated the fact to the old
darky. ‘My Lord,’ said Sambo, ‘she is
too young for you.” ‘Not abit of ijt’
answered the master : ‘I'm still in my
prime.’ ‘Yes’ responded Sambo, ‘vou
are in your prime now, but wait till she
gets in ber prime, then where will your
prime be 9’
ow -—
How Texas Cattle are Utilized.
There are beef-packing establish.
ments at Rockport and Fulton, Texas,
both of which places are in the centre
of cattle ranges, in which at least 100,-
000 beeves are slaughtered every year,
Every part of the beef is utilized, even
to the tufts of the tails, which are pre-
served and sold for the making of ladies’
frizzettes, The Blood flows into tanks
and is pressed, and is sold at two cents
a pound for the muking of fertilizers,
The tongue and lean beef are boiled
and canned, The hides are salted and
sold again. The fattv matter, is ex-
tracted and goes to tallow, The bones
are boiled to a pulp to extract this fatty
matter, and the dry bones, mainly phos-
phate of lime, are sold at one cent a
pound for fertilizing, The feet are cut
off, and from the hoofs neats-foot oil is
extracted. The horny part of the foot,
the shin-bone and the knuckle-bones,
are sold for the manufacture of domes.
tie ivory. The horns are piled up until
the pith becomes loose, and this is added
to the fertilizers, and the horns are sold
for munufacture. Every alom of the
anbnal i« probably used,
a
Kisses on Interests,
A father talking to
daughter said : *'I want to speak to
you of your mother. It may be that!
you have noticed a careworn look upon
her face lately, Of course it has not '
been brought there by any set of yours, '
still it is your duty to chase it away, |
rant you to get up to-morrow morning
and get breakfast, and when your
mother begins to express her surprise, |
go right up and kiss her on the mouth.
You can't imagine how it
brighten her dedr face, Besides, yon
owe her a kiss or two. Away back
when you were a little girl she kissed |
you when no one else was tempted by
'
your fever-tainted breath and swollen
face, You were not as attractive then
always ready to cure, by the magic of a
mother’s kiss, the little chubby hands
whenever they were
first skirmishes with
world, And the kiss
with which routed ba i
dredms as she leaned over your restless
the rough old
midnight
80
then
she many
pillow have all been on interest these
long, long vears., Of course she is not
vou had done your share of the work
during the last ten years the contrast
would not be so marked. Her face has
more wrinkles than yours, far more,
and vet if vou were sick that face would
appear more beautiful than an angel's
as it hovered over you, watching every
opportunity to minister to your comiort,
and every one of those wrinkles would
seem to be bright wavelets of sunshine
chasing each other over the dear face.
She will leave you some of these days,
These burdens, if not in her
Those
done so
lifted fic
shoulders, will break her down.
rough, hard hands that have
many unhecessary things for you will
i
be crossed h lifeless breast
Those
upon or
that gave you
kiss will be
tired
neglected lips
vour first baby forever
closed, and those sad, eves will
have opened in eternity, and then you
y
will appreciate your mother, but it will
be too late.”
er
Scraps.
“How is business ¥'' asked a man of
a glazier. “Putty good,” was the re-
ply.
There is a limit.-- First young lady,
“1 sould sit here forever.” Second ditto:
“And I till lunch time.’
A Michigan man dreamed recently
that
proved true.
on his
work.
The dream
He tied the same dream
didn
his sunt was dead.
mother-in-law, but it
A celebrated poet advertised that he
would supply *‘lines for any gecasion,”’
| A fisherman sought him soon after and
‘a line strong enough to cateb
| wanted
| a porpoise,’
what we
such for
indance, as we publish in the Sunday
A correspondent inquires
will pay for “original stories
Republican.” Three cents a pound,
One of the saddest
when a man is looking through an old
vest, and thinks he has found a ten
which when brought to
sight.turms out to be a cough lozenge,
J.ubock still insists that bees are not
of u sympathetic nature. And yet this
gentle insect, with the buff mainsail
and red-hot rudder, has frequently
brought tears of sentiment to our eves,
A carpenter in Newport, R. 1., who
had put on a pair of house doors with
the glass portion at the bottom, said to
the indignant and protesting wife of
the owner, ‘that is the very latest
Queen Anne style, ma'am."
A gentleman who is no longer young,
and who never was handsome, asked
his son's child what he thought of him.
The boy's parents were present, The
youngster made no reply. ‘Well,
you won't tell me what you think of
me? Why won't you?’ “Cause 1
don’t want to get licked,” replied the
sprig of a rising generation,
sven idiotie brains have been some-
times very clevef at repartee. It was a
celebrated Edinburgh professor who ac-
cused one of these unfortunate ones,
rather unfeelingly, saying, ‘Weel, Jock
tell me how long & person can live with-
out brains #7 “Ah!” said the idiot,
“I dinna weel ken, sir, but how lang
have ye lived yersel #V
Pawnbrokers have never been
scribed as the pioneers of progress, ale
though it must be admitted they are
always ready to make an advance,
moments in life is
cent piece,
80
iki So Atos in
A Clatter ng Conscience. .
—————
One of the neatest stories is that of
an early Judge, an Archbishop, who, in
denying an accusation, said, striking
his breast, ‘‘By my conscience, my
Lord, I know nothing of it!” The
biow made his shirt of mail rattle,
which brought the caustic rebuke,
“My Lord! your conscience is not
good ; I hear it clattering,” He had
to flee with his clatiering conscience,
and seek safety disguised as a shepherd
in tending sheep on the mountain side,
“Landlady,” said he, ‘the coffee
isn’t settled,” No," she replied ; “but
it comes as near it as your lust month's
bill for board is.”
Recent Legal Decisions.
EVIDENCE — PRESUMPTION OF
DeLivery oF TELEGRAMS, 2, AGEN-
CY—LOANX — RATIFICATION, — The
superintendent of a mine owner borrow-
ed money at 2 bank to pay the miners,
and executed notes in the name of his
principal for the loan, and sent letters
sud telegrams to his principal at bis
residence in Cincinnati, advising him |
of what he had done, No replies were '
him. Upon refusal to
pay the bank brought suit on the notes,
and recovered judgment. The defend-
gnt appealed to the Supreme Court of
Colorado, who also decided the case.
Breed vs. First National Bank of Cen- |
| tral City—in favor of the bank. The |
Chief Justice (Elbert) in the opinion
‘1. Greenleaf, in his work on |
{ evidence, gaid : ‘If a letter is sent by
| post it
{ is presumed from the known
{ course in that department of the pub-
lic service that it reached its destina- |
| tion at the regular time and was re-
i ceived by the to whom
living at the
receiving letters there.’
$
1
it was
Person
| addressed, if place and |
This
presumption has also been held to apply |
i u sually
| Wo telegrams, 2, The silence of Breed
upon the
grams will, by presumption, ratify the
And it
to show, for the purpose of charging
Breed,
ff & $ v sii 4 4
IOIL Od didi that
receipt of letters and tele-
acts of his agent. was proper
as bearing upon the ques-
the
money
rroy
INSURANCE—~OTHER IN
PorLicy.
condition in it that the
ANCE VOIDING
policy had a
d shiv
Pure t be entitled 10 recovel
other insurance on ihe
upon it
property witli out the consent of the |
ance was taken oul e owner with
3 *
uy i
¢ ne th seri © but the polics
getting the consent | LUL UK IC 3
reason of misrepreseniation
HISUrance, was
he company was beaten on its
iolation of
actual violation the
id an appeal was taken to the Supreme
‘ourt of
y
ompany a jJuwigment.
{G:ifillan
4
which
The
n the opin
Minnesota, Lie
J us-
said : “In
Have
Chief
10n,
the American Courts generally it has
held
that in question here were not violated
if the contract for
i or
conditions similar to
Dseeny that
other INSUrance was
either void voidable ; but we cannot
vield our assent to such a construction
of the
gard of the plain objects contemplated
by the
contract. It involves a disre-
the parties to contract when
it was made, and to accomplish which
ti
was ad pte.
we condition against other insurance
In this view we are
Federal, New X
and
Riis
tained by the ork.
Jouisiana Canadian
Georgia,
Courts.’
PERMANENT MACHIN-
An action was brought
FixTrunes
ERY—CUsTOM.
by certain creditors against the owner
of land
engine
on which there was a steam
and accompanying machinery,
which were annexed to a building bn
the owner for permanent and habituaw
use in smelting lead ore and manufact-
uring it into pigdead. In this case
Thomas ve. Davis—the Supreme Court
of decided in favor of the
grantee of the land. Judge Henry, in
the opi«ion, said : * Between grantor
and grantee of land, if the fixture is
one to become a part of the realty, it
must be so firmly annexed that its re-
moval would involve the destruction.
impairment or substantial injury to the
freehold : and the manner of annexa-
tion would seem to be a material qnes-
tion, The offer, on the trial, to show
that it was the custom to regard ma-
chinery for making pig-lead as chattels
was properly raled out. The intention
in making the annexation to the free-
hold is to be determined by the con-
sideration of the character of the an-
nexation. and its appropriation and
adaptation to the use or purpose of that
part of the realty with which it is co: -
nected.”
M.ssouri
Manniaoe AND Divorcg—Di1 CREE
Forming MARRIAGE--MARRIAGE
IN Avorn STATE. — A husband was
forbidden to marry in the decree of
divorce granted to his wife in New
York. This part of the decree was
made under the express provisions of a
statute of that State. The husband,
however, contracted a marriage in
Philadelphia, having left the city of
New York for the express purpose of |
avoiding tle prohibition of the decree.
He returned to New York at once, and
lived there with his second wife, The
validity of this marriage having been
assailed in a New York Court, the
Judge decided that it was void ; but on
an appeal to the New York Conrt of
Appeals the decree in this case— Thorp
vs, Thorp was reversed, Judge Tracy,
in upholding the marriage, said : *‘ The
marriage being a valid contract by the
laws of Pennsylvania, it must be held
to be valid here, unless it is contrary to
natural law or the express prohibition of
astatute. The provisions of our statute
are penal in character and, therefore,
have no effect oufside of the State in
the absence of express words showing
the legislative intent to give them that
i
effect, and no such words are to be
found in it. Thix disqualification to
marry again, like the disqualification by
statute upon a person convicted of
felony to testify, is imposed as an addi-
tional punishment for the offence of
which he has leen convicted, and
neither has any force or effect beyond
the territorial limits of the State in
which it is imposed, ’— Phila, Record.
ia ——————— ————————
Something to Live For.
It has been asserted by scientific sur-
geons that the will-power of a sick man
has a great deal to do with his dying,
and the ease of Charles O'Conner is
cited as evidence, A still stronger case
oocurred in Michigan the past summer,
An old man, living in the northern
part of the State, got out a lot of t'm-
ber many years ago for a toll-road com-
pany, but the company failed and left
him in the lurch, For years and vear
he tried to sell the timber to this one of
t at. but no one wanted it, and at
time and decay rendered the beams ai-
fast
most worthless, Last summer the &
pervisors of that county advertised for
proposals to build a bridge, and the old
Wh
bi i. ile waiting to
would be done he
nan
see what
put in a
wis taken
very sick, and he grew worse so rapidly
that
of doctors was called,
a council
After due deliberation he was informed
that he was approaching his end
“When
bridge #"’
will 1 know
Aix
he if ally asked,
opened to-day
John over to
“T'he bids will be
“Well, I'l]
gets the job,
send
i fr
i ng
will depend
At five o'clock in he
and the
On I
afternoon the
family physiciar
arrived in company. The old mar
neither better nor worse,
he asked
“Well 17°
ed
as .
the son
“Onur bid was accepted,
“And we’
“Yes, but
live.”
. . a s .
“Tean't. eh? I'm not onl
3 114 $deent } it "mn oni
live to build that bridge, but I'm goin
. wr ¥ ’ SITY » tas re
to work that square into
to the last fool, or my name isnt
Rodgers !
fan
[tis a fact. vouched for by
good men, that he was off
bed in a week, and In
night he was at we
hotel
A Kansas
displayed in
has the following
the
“Gentlemen wishing to commit suicide
.
notice bedrooms :
will please take the centre of the room,
to avoid staining the bed-linen, walls
and furniture with blood.”
School Te
Sunday poh
» story of a scholar who, when
asked in the lesson of ** David sparing
Saul,” why David compared himself to
a flea, replied that he guessed it was
because Saul couldnt catch him.’
lady
OIE
women
It is the opinion of a Kingston
that dog carts were invented by
rascally husband to keep the
from talking. It is next to impossible
for a woman to talk while riding in
them without biting her tongue
York Graphic,
Now
A grumbling old bachelor, after iis
tening to the following, ‘‘She was her
muver's own ‘ittle darlin’ wopsy, popsy,
deary ducky, so she was, n’ he mus’
keep still,” asks, ** Why don’t women
talk some decent kind of English to
their children.”
A bad
weather,”
of his pupils,
weather *
sit down,"
spell. “Thomas, spel
said a school-master to one
“Wieath
“* Well, Thomas, you may
said the teacher. This is
the worst speil of weather we have had
since Christmas,’
“You advertise that there is 5 fine
streamn of water on the place, but |
don’t see it.” remarked a stranger who
wanted to rent the place. The landlord
sid: “Just work that pump handle a
little and yon will see a fine stream of
water. You don expect to have the
Niagara Falls on the place for fifteen
dollars a month, do you?"
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9 I,
No Such Word as Fail.
We begin to think that Richelieu's
¢ eel was right ; there is no such word
as fail in the vocabulary of the man who
is bound to succeed in his undertakings.
In this world of ours there are men of
men, We see on the one hand young
men well educated, with perfect heain
and form, unable to cope with the
world, On the other hand we find men
without education, with imperfect physi-
eal development, overcoming natural
disadvantages, achieving honorable suc-
cess. There is residing somewhere in
New Jersey a man who was born with-
out arms, and yet can write remarkably
well, chiefly by using his lips. His am-
bition backed by a persevering industry
has enabled him to overcome difficul-
ties that seemed insurmountable, and
he therefore qualified himself for an
active business man. He is pow nearly
thirty years of age, and is an object af
absorbing interest to all who come in
contact with him,