Meigen va
WHAT GREAT GRANDMOTHER
DID.
Yow, my little daughter standing
By my chair, is oft demanding,
“Tell me, mother, what your graadmother
us d to do,
Md she have much ime for reading,
Pause: heeding,
And suce eding,
Well with musts, draw a
too?”
und paint on chiua,
No, my dar ing! Grandma never
dad the t me for such endeavor,
Fur sh worked from morn until
sun,
She womnid ¢:1i the cowe so early,
‘Daisy! Curl ¥!
DP n't be surly,
And the m lking then
d ne.
would speedily be
‘She would strain ¢ © milk and cha
Make a cheess and deftly turn i ;
Make soft soap snd brew the ni
raat
at currant
wine,
Dip the candl s, nightly glowing
Little knowing,
And best
Scare a
Wing
thought on
would shin
“Card and spin the wool
Till she into cloth w
And she raised her flax
fin.
In a quilting she delighted,
All inv ted,
None wera »lighted
Or a paring and a
“he raised g
Cut cloth snd sewe
Every strip, to make a
tnd she knitte 3
Mesnwhile rocking,
Oh,
All the
"twas shock
WOrK that wo
day.
NAN'S CHRISTMAS GUEST,
A great ev
hous hold when Ni
When
tention the amaz
family was
two
Pre, sie
smaller child
wonde I, &0 i
WOO
But Nano
“T'here is the
iy, ‘and thef
why wouldn't
ity
A newspe
farm the de
it eagerly,
ments for summe
volumns, She
lucements h
the aforesaid pine
scenery
for the little ¢
mountain side like
rock, and the grand pan
and sunset, of silvers
the valley, and of
ing at evening abou
be had for the «
out of the window.
herself,
else? She had be
her own audacity
was resolved tomake the
being mistress of the house
“1 shall write out the advertis
and you shall take it down to ti
office when you go tot
she said decidedly and with a bus
like manner that ¢
ily; and the father,
tomed to obey this dusky-eved dau
ter, whose learning and shrewdness were
a source of unbounded i
tion to him, finally acquiesced
new and startling scheme. He did not
in his own mind, see why any owe shou
wish to come to their farm in the wilder
tess, although he admitted that the view
was fine, and the little
that tumbled over the rocks, clea
crystal, The thought of the
spired him with a brilliant idea.
“You had better put
about the fishing ire said, as
out. feeling that he too. was something
of & business man after all. And Na
who was diligently copying the model
the paper, added this
triumphant flourish.
The sun was just going down behind
the mountain as Mr. John Ravmond,
seated in Farmer Curtis’ jolting farm
wagon, rode slowly up the narrow road
towards the Curtis farm. The great
peak stood out in distinct and sombre
outline against the crimson sky, The
evening Lreeze, coming from the cool
heights, was full of a piny odor, strange
iy invigorating, and although he could
not see it, the music of swiftly running
waiter told bim that a mountain stream
was not far away, and made him think
involuntarily of the fishing rods in the
back of the wagon. Save this and the
melancholy note of a whippoorwill, all
was perfectly still, The young man,
fresh from the city haunts, appreciated
the unusual beauty of the scene, and was
just congratulating himself that his host
had at last relapsed into silence that he |
might give himself up to the spell which |
the lonely placd was somehow casting |
spon him, when suddenly io a
clump of bushes by the road- i
pide, which they were approaching,
he caught a glimpse of a face peering out
at them, He was half startled for a mo-
ment, but it was only a moment, for upon
a second look, he discovered that it was
a young girl's laughing gypsy face, with
at dark eyes and a mass of jet black
ir, which evident contact with the
bushes had set falling about in a most
becoming confusion. The bright lips
hd parted as the wagon approached,
and the girl was evidently about to sc
cost the occupants, when meeting the
stranger's eyes bent upon her, surprised,
intent and admiring, she looked shyly at
him for a moment, and then in Ie
turned and disappeared in the wood.
John Raymond turned quickly to his
companion, an question upon his
whnv
essed the iam
awe and
turbulent stream
sometinn
fast clause
lips. but secing that the farmer had been
y oblivious to the litile by-play, he
shanged his mind
to himself, “‘especially if she is in the
habit of haunting these woods.”
Presently a sharp turn in the road
brought them tn aight of the low farm-
house, surrounded by sloping, well tilled
fields: and from the increased animation
of both horse and driver, the visitor
guessed this to be their destination.
“ Have you other boarders?" he asked
carelessly; it was the first time the
question had occurred to him.
“ Yes,” answered the farmer briskly,
“ one more, a young lady up here for
her health, likes the mountain air."
As they drew near, taymond could
see that there were two voung women
upon the broad porch. One, fair haired
and wearing a white was idly
seated in a low chair; the other who, just
then, had her head turned
standing upon the step, and at her feet
was a be berries evidently just
picked. Both were laughing gayly, and
us the wagon drew near and stopped, the
girl upon the step, with a sudden rush
of color to her brown cheek, turned slow
ly toward the two men. It was the girl
who looked at Raymond from the wood,
He could not help betraying his surprise
and satisfaction, which increased tenfold
as Farmer Curtis, noting his evident ad
miration, took the young girl by the
hand, and with no little pride in his
voice, present d, “my daughter.”
dress,
AWAY, was
set ol
Tid
sed vi ry happily
The summer da
t farm
to the little family in the lonely
It was certai vers
taymond should
Nan's other
friend
1 . ty sf 3
house, strange
boarder,
very to In
with
Witla
had
Nan
whether her
during their day
question hersell now as to
summer had been 5 success or not,
said farewell to their pretty hoste §
very sad on :
least, and Miss Niles was
to depart, for she had learned to
this little mountain
blooming so away from any
panion. She saw the pain which the
irl felt, and made a sudden resolve,
++] shall come again.” she said de
cidedly, ‘be sure of it —in the winter
sometime: 1 long vou icehound
It will be such a novelty.”
was 1 leave-taking Nan
part at
shy flower,
far com
to sve
among other interesting gossip informed
Nan that she intended to startle her Hee
fore long with some delightful news,
astonishing ns it was delight.
ful, Nan had laughed a little bitterly as
she read those words. They were en
gaged of course, those two, as if she,
Nan, had not guessed as mach long age
How stupid Miss Niles must think her,
-and why had they made such a tre
mendous secret of it, anyway, it seemed
very ridiculous, Nan was a le {or
reason or other: intended to
write directly and tell her friend that her
secret was no
country girl, at least,
And so, on Christmas Nun sat
herself down before the glowiag fire,
cross
SOT she
secret to one observing
eve,
feeling very melancholy and depressed
She chose no light but preferred
the fire, which flured and erack
sent a bright reflee-
tion, like a light, far across the
untrodden She very
nretty picture, could she have but known
it, her slim hands crossed upon her knee,
and her eyes fixed sadly upon the glow-
ing logs: and if anyone bad chanced to
be looking in at the upeurtained wind
he must have lingered long and le
despite the the chill north
wind,
How lone =he sal
know, but her musing
indeed,
that of
ledd gloriously, and
bead On
ANOW, made a
IW
wingly,
snow and
there Nan did not
did not
i
more comfortable, fort
erept into her and
i 1 her hand
CVEeR
whit nan
naked
ited ar
i Ana
ough Nan trie
vith this conceited person |
sure of a fact which she
admit herself, she could not
s truthful girl, deny 1}
Portland Transcrip
Dogs of Constantinople.
¢
The dogs o
as much importance as other
Asiatic races. The Europeans have used
their influence, backed by money, to de
Constantinople
class of
would announce a similar intention,
she did not like to think that he either
would forget her immediately. But he
no such offer, indeed, so careless
for
made
began to grow hurt and angry, and it
ing them: but the Turks from
the humblest servant who di
vides his crust with them, to the Imperial
Sultan who has them fed from his palace
shows an affection for them
The dogs live in commun
ities of six, eight, or ten, and each set
last accorded him, although she could
from one to three squares, The most
pressed Ler sudden accession
dignity.
by
It certainly promised to be a very
the last few days. The trees were heavy
with it yet, sad about the mountain top
the heavy gray clouds were still hanging
with promise of more,
Until the last moment slmost, Nan had
expected her city friend, Alice Niles, to
Spend the holidays with her: but the
alarming accounts of the weather in the
North had discouraged that lady in her
romantic scheme, and the real old-
fashioned country Christmas which she
was 50 suxious to experience was indefl-
nitely postponed. Nan'sdisappointment
was very bitter. Ever since the de:
parture of her guestsshe had felt a loneli-
ness apd sadness unexplainable to her.
self. She sald nothing to those about
her, but at times it scemed that the
monotony | of her life was
rapidly becoming unbearable. This visit
seemed the last connecting link with
those brief, happy days, and it was ve
nard to have it broken. The city girl
§
They are very friendly with all the in
live in their special lo-
if they do not reside there.
their ground, and do not allow any other
dog to intrude,
who came around the corner, thereby in
fringing on the other dog's territory; he
was attacked at once, and barely es-
eaped with his life,
hese dogs have no special owner
each block or square having its own
neighborhood, and their tails wag when
ever any of these make their appearance,
I remember coming through one of the
narrow streets lato one night, and as it
was quite warm 1 suddenly took off my
coat and hat; one dog commenced te
bark, then another another followed
suit, The guide told me I must put on
my hat, sx the d , ized that }
was on foreigner, and that they were evi
dently displeased at my attempt to
through their Prineipal ty in
sleeves. | took the advieo of
and the how! of the dogs ceased,
my shirt
the guide,
LEV. DR. TALMAGE.
day Sermon.
Buljject:
Texe:
“Rizpah on the Hock.™
won the roel, from the ginning of
Tragely that beats anything Sbake-
spearenn or V.ctor Bu rolan, After return
ing irom the Holy laopd | briefly touched
upon it, but I must have a whole sermon for
that scene. The axplosion and fash of pun
powdsr have driven nearly all the beasts
and Lirds of prey from thess rezion ani
now the shriek of the locomotive wi stla
which is daily beard at
many miles sround clear Palestine of cruel
claw and beak. Bat in ths ti ne of the text
these regions were populous with multitudes
of jackals and lions, Beven sons of Bul
hud been ervciled on a hill ik mb was
mother to two and a relative w five of
boys. YWhat hed thess that they
should be erucilled® Nothin wpt to have
an bad father and graudfaths But now
that the boys were dead, why uot take them
down from the gibbet They ars
sent need to bang there .
So Rizosh
shaw! with which in mour '
she hod wrapped elf —and spreads
sackcloth upon the rocks ner the gibhets,
¥ 3
nd cots art of a sentinel,
Loves done
¥ 0x
fates the
for hb
that
watehing
ry olhs
8 nf
dafen
and
senlined ri leva
. a few
Liz pi Hut
ray and
hundred an
obs-auies
nigut
to stand tha
mother
Ob, if she mi
' in Lhe
dies of her of
Lt Know that
can
] IW A
the
3 CARVIN
find for he
Nay
th ard
from
ther in the t
ture ever ani sn
a mo : t
sieep i aniEla ria
1 » »
is into sig he vin
he snare end chides
had ora
nent she OH 1
hersef as ti
net f ast
HAPS up on
trey
t 4 et
unt
iM wh Bau
thie Onn & TH FLY
died witl
sn! A we
dren
and see
at] gibhetls 1
miles out Jerusalem
ghastly burd
the wan and
tro 1 ay
houses ana
where un!
will find
38 of thoes
wasted Hignsah watoning then
through the wards and sie
the reformatory jostituticns
idrens t and you
{ tens had drucken of
es, day by day on the
ities vou find sien ana women
| parentage. They are moral
the seven sons of Maul, th
Als for RR zpab, whn, not
for six months, but for years and years bas
watched ther! She cannot keep the vu
tures and the jackals off
Furthermore, this strange ind
Bitie story shows teat
person and elevation of t
urity againt (rouse
Who i= this Hispan sittin in dessiation?
One of Hau favorites, Her personal ate
tractions bad won his heart, She hai ben
carcwed of fortune, With a mother's prides
she looked on her princely calidres fut |
the scene changer tehoid her in banish
ment and bersavenent — izpah on the rook
Somme of the worst distresyss Save coms to
geenes of royalty and weallh, What por
ter at ths mansion’s gate has not let in
champ and sthersl stexl binging evil
fispaten? Un what tosselinted hall
there not stood the solemn bier Un
der what exqgusite Irgpco has there
not teen smacted a agely of di
asta A hat cartainsd cotich bath beard
pocry of pain? W hat harp kath never thrilied
with sorrow What jordiy natures hath
never leaned against carved pillar and made
utterances of wor? Gall is not Jess billy
when qusifed from a golden chalice than
when taken from a pewier mag. row is
often attended by 1unnng iontmen anid
sced lackeys mounted vehind, Qusen Anne
Boleyn is desolate in the palace of Henry
vit
Adolphus wept in German castes over
the kypoorisy of (riends, Pedro IL. among
Brazilian diamonds shivered wita fear of
massacre, Ntopben of England sat on a
rocking throne. Aud evory mast of pride bas
beers bent in the storm, and the highest
unburied
dent in the
atiractivepes: of
BRITON are No se
has |
i
i
i
=
with perpelual snow, Nickness will frost the
rosiest cheek, wrinkle the smoothest brow
and stiffsn the sprightijest step. Rispab
quite the courtly circle and sits on the rock,
Perhaps you jook back upon scenes differ.
ent fron those in which now from day to
day you mingle.
plenty and jaxuriance of your father's house
own heart. The morning of life was flushe | |
with proosise. Troops of culamities since
then have made desperate charge upon you,
Deariness has come,
like carrier birds from the sky and barsed
like jackals trom the thicket. You stani
amid your slain anguishel and woe struc.
Rizah on the roc, :
Ho it bas been in all ages. Vashii mast
duff the spangled robes of the Parsian court
and go forth Diasted fron the palace wate,
Hagar gxcoan oriental comforts for the
wil oss Of ba, Mare, ques of
Heote, must pass ont from flattery and
to suffer [gnominiou: death in the
eastie of Fotheringay. The whee of foriune
keeps turning, and mansions and huis ex.
change, and he who rode the chariot pushes
the rrow, and instead of the glare of
festal lights is the simmering of the peat
fire, and in piace of Baus palace is thy
rock the rock, the desolate ros.
Put that is the piace ty which God comer.
Jacovr, with bis head on a stone, saw the
shiniog ladder, Dirael in the desert Loheld
marshaling of the flery baton. Joan
barren Patmos heard trumpeddug, and
and the stroke of sera.
and nothing
od Rizoah tor her
soream of wild
Again, the tragedy of the
cles. What mother or sister or
would dare to vo out to fizht the cormorsn
and jackal? Rizoandid it. And so
you if an emergency demanded,
and depends on stronger arms for the ae 3ley
ment of great enterpriser., And she is
troubled lest there mignt be ocsssions
manding fortitude when she would fail, N
out of the door after night-fa!l, and wh
quake in the darkness at the least uncsral
and turn pale in a thunder
, | of trini came, would be Lero.c and
able,
God has arranged it so that that
noods the tranpet of some great oon test
principie or affection to rouss up her
bering courage. Then she will stand
the crowsfire of onposiny hosts at
give wins to the woundel., Then
carry into prison and dare lan» the message
of salvation, Then she will brave the
tilence, Daborah goss oul to sound
{ into the hearis of Got's enemiss, Abia
| throws herself betwesn a raiding party i.
| infuriat: 1 men and her bushand’s vineyards
Rizsmab fights bac: the vultures fron ihe
I roc,
Among the
heaven, and sufjered neither the Lives of the
avr lo vest on them by day nor the beasts of
the fle d by night.” ~11 Bamue! xxi., 10,
af
will
Bas
pes
Orkney Idanis an
eagle
on the mountains, With the spring of a
panther the mounts hill alter hill
{erag above craz, height awove lisight tha
| fire of her owa eve outflasting the glare of
the eagle's, and with unmailed hand stronger
{ than the iron beak and tae terrible claw snes
huris the wild bird dowa th rocce in the
French revolatioa Cazatts was brouzht
ito be ex sccated. waen nanzhter threw
{ herself on the bo ly of father and said
U Canuol reacts
arinns!
mother
oat
bar:
father but tarouga ;
and linkinz arms {ath
it free,
’
sieze of Barazows,
acd
ha i basen zilled
a match from thas hand
{ man acd fired off a twat
jeaped of and vow
italive, The sold
daring and rushe |
treme us {
Tae life o
thragtensd
and able p
of manly en
firs
#
bBave linge
Hrasce, bu
sory of ‘atharine
q jens malds, Wao
ound Lhe Dar
facilitats the entranc?
et her arom ini
HZ Aga
Was
sel
8 Tiled
tered
died who
bush }
own talie an
Wh GOOr De i
for tse conflict a
ani poverty ant wa
jackals Riz sah scar
1 saw one in a des
i ha
fare
i an
r
a
tiem COME
chiidrsn‘s ah
ancestry hal Come .
ruse of oil was emply nd imst
gon Her faded frock was patos
tragments of aotiqoe silk thal ab
on the bright marriage day
God, she had a strong heart, >
children ran whea tasy tr-mbiel at ths
glazgering step and quailed uanjer a father's
Thoug neavens wars fllis 1 wits
fierce wings ani the thiciels gnasas i
rage, Rizoah walcasld faithfully day
day and year after year, and woll ani«
orant by wer God thensi arm
huried down the roc
You pass day by day along #ir where
thers are heroines greats: than Joan of Ae
Upon that cxllar floor thera ars © wifli~ts as
flerce as Sedan, ani heaven and bell min
ft>4 in that garrat thers
are tribunals wheres mora fortituis ic de
manded than was exhibited by Laily Jane
Grey or Mary, Quasa of Scots
Now I ast, if waere nalural courags
eX wml oO
wen who have gazsd on The graat sacy ¥
and who are urged forward by all ths voices
ani all
tory thatspsak from the sky?
the Forfarshire sieamer
from Hall bouad for Danlse. Alls
little while ths
winds began £5 rave an | billows ris» until a
tempest was unon them The vessel leaked,
she own Lo
the
se out
curse i
Ware
siren
pate
the notes of vie
starte
were hoisted fora and aft she went ssesdiag
ner
bons foremost on the ross fhe vessel
parted Amid the whiriwinl and the dark.
ness all were lost but nine These clung to
the wreck on the baact.
tiesping that night in Longstone light
As ths moraing dawas 1 see
that girl standing amid ths spray an i tum.
od sufferers. Nhe proposes to her father to
take boat and put out across the wild sea to
Just look at the tu abling saci’
ter, will sav: “You did it to them!
tididit to Me?
on uk the strength of maternal astschment.
endurancsy for the awful misdon of Hizoah.
: Io dare the rage of wild besste, and sit from
| May to Octsber unsaeltors’ and te watch
{ the corpses of
work that nothing but the maternal! heart
{could ha*y accomuiishe tl,
strength than to stand beforz opened batter
as or to walk in calmozes the deck of a
There is no emotion 80 com
I as maternal affaction.
lolaly unsel-
njuzal love
many kindnssses and
Filial love expects piteraal cars
jor is heipe | by the memory of past wateh-
| Talnew Het the strongta of a mother's love
entirely indapendens of the past i
| future ay i of all is pint and Sta
i ‘ y OF : purest,
{ The child has done nothin in the past to
{earn kindness, ani ii future it may
| grow un to maitreat its parent, but still
| from the mother's heart there goes forth
incousumable affection,
Abuse eannot off snd it: neglect cannot
| chill it; time cannos eflace it; death cannot
destroy it, or harsh words it has gentle
| chiding; jor the blow it has beneficent min-
try; for negle>t iv has increasing watch
{ fulness, It weeps at the prison door over the
| incarcerated prodigal, and pleads jor pardon
| at the governor's fest and is forced away
| by compassionate friends from witnessing
| the strugzies of the gallows, Other lights
go out, but this burns on without extinguish-
ment, as in a8 glioom- night you may
#*¢ a single star, ons of God's picke’s, with
of Highs guaraing the ont-
| attentions
ts
ue
tracy
s of saven
I'he Marcaioness of Bpadars,
onrtoquake at Messina ocoure
rial out inses He from she fa
Oa coming 10 ber senses
ant had not
& and perished in the
f ten thousand moth
ify wavs have
for their eoildren.
when the
Was Car-
houses
that her
Bhe went
ilinstrat
ang
und
been recusd,
ras
Bie
rent
s pot a mothe”
sors you have besa n
ue, and you have
meds haste
jn for an
would ronse up
word of
|
i) JEEDIE
still
ration, only
you
whole
if ehe
Bhe
tit bog
13%
in the sz6d { “
sful memories What
dons ithout miking much?
walcled you ¥ mauy moi ben
knew 1 3 t pik at ail Vi #
Has many adments During
t ou ran to her every iit
3d brudee, and sus qocton
finger as
ia worst
SAY S00 18 COLION
Hie eVEr saw you
1? have Do
you
5.10
CRrel guy
$
been
Boe
14d
I believe
11 she
i
yr glorified mother
sometimes say
er say il she
dos kn You might
v tut vou cannot coeat her
OW Does embarrass 43 10 think she
knows all about us now? If she had to put
up with 80 «s when she was here surely
the less palisal oF eXCasaiory
yal
she will not
DOW,
Oh, this tremen fous thoutht of my text
~this after death watering! Waat an up
jiftiny considerstion, ani wast a comfort
ing thought Yaang mother, you who
hava just lost your babs, anl woo foe! that
peel of a nearer soiacs than that which
was from ordinary sympatay, your
mother knows al about it. You canpot run
in an i talk it all over wita her as you woald
if sas were still a terrestial resident, bul It
will exmifort you some, | thigz—yea, it will
exmiort yoa a goo | deal ~30 know that she
an jeritands it all You see that the
velocities of the heavanly conditions are =O
great that it wounil not take ber a hall
gs ni to come Bo your beralt heart.
(3h, these mothers in heaven! They ean
do more for us now than bs.ors they went
sway. Ths bridgs bstwesa this world and
the next is not broken dowa. They approach
ths bridge from both ways, departing spire
its and coming spirids, diriraprsone 1 Epirils
ani syvaapathizc nl spirits Anil so jet us
| walk ax to be worthy of the supsrnal cham-
pionatips, and if £3 any of us iife on earth i=
a hard grind, let us undarsiani taat if we
waten faithfuily and trast fully our blessed
Lard thers will be a corrspon ling reward
in the lan t of paacs, ani taal Razpan, woo
ate wapl on 8 TODE, DOW Tegos on a
throne.
ss —
Westminstor Abbey's Oaly Mechante.
George Graham, the only mechanic
buried in Westminster Abbey, was the
son of William Graham, of Biackstone,
in the Couaty of Cumberland, Kagland,
At the age of thirteen be went to Lon.
talks one ann i
tomad to ply ng the oar, she an
ha
ner father the other. Steady now!
‘away! Pull away!
The sea tossai up ths boat as thourh it
were a bubbie, ou; amil tas foam ani the
wrath of the sea ths wrac: was reaches’,
the exhauste 1 peupie pleied up and save.
Humane societies tenderad ther thanks,
Wenith poursd into the las of tae poor gir
Visitors from all lands came to loos on ber
swest mcs, and when soom after she
launcied forth on a dark sea, and Death
was the oarsmap, dues anl duchesses ani
mighty men sat down in tears in Alnwick
castle to think they naver again migat see
tie face of Gracs Dariing,
No sucn deeds of daring will probly ba
asked of you, but hear you not the howl of
that awlul storm of trouble and sin that
hath tossed ten thousand shiversd hulk« into
ths breakers’ Know vou not that the whole
earth is strewn with the shiowreckai-- hat
there are wounds to be healed and broden
hearts ta be bound and drowning sous to
be rescuad® So .ue have gone down, and you
cotise 100 late, bus others are clinging to the
wider, are shivering with the colt, are
ing in the wave, are crying to you for
deliverance. Will yoa not, oar in hand, put
out to-day from tis ligbshous*
When last ship's Hmoer shall have
boon rent, and ths last Longstoas bacon
anders | dowa ia the hueri-
the las mpd shall hava folded
4 the sa iteell shall have bean
of all consumin
reaward
4 ara,
{nebriate shat you reformed, sod
noted clock and watch
| maker, and later was taken into partner.
| ship, and becane famous for the excel.
lewce of his work. It was, however, his
scientific investigations that gave him
| great prominence. He corrected the
| variations of the pendulum doe to the
changes of temperature, by {inventing the
mercarial bob, The great clock at
| Greenwich which regulates the time of
the world, was made by him in 1737,
and, although it has done duty for near-
ly a century and three-quarters, ii is
still in we and now could scarcely be
surpassed in its mechaaical excellence,
[t is said, notwithstanding the long ia-
terval since it was made, that it does
i
.
“
used by the Eaglish Government for
testing of quadrants and other instru
ments, was the work of his hands.
great was his reputation that when
a