Sm SHE HAD NOTHING TO WEAR, But Owned Costly Froecks and Slik Stook= ings by the Hundred. What do you think of a woman who was the owner of elghty-nine dresses of the very tinest of silk velvet and other expensive dress goods, 106 skirts of every conceivable texture and fabric, 114 pairs of silk hose, ninteen rich and costly shawls, and undergarments of the finest linen by the trunkful, and yet had never worn a single one ot these dresses, skirts, shawls undergarments, or a pair of hose?” said a well-known woman to a Boston Herald man. “It seems incredible. but those things were some of the articles of wearing ap- parel that belonged to Mrs Johanna Farnham of Milton, N. H., although no one ever knew it but herself until she died. She wore the cheapest clothing all her life, and her common remark was that she had nothing to wear. «+Miss Farnham was 80 years old when she died. Although she went from Milton to Doston when she was a young girl and lived there until her death, she always calied Milton her home. She was for years an em- ploye of Boston hotels, and made no intimate ac uasintances. When she died it was not known that she even enough to give her more than desent burial, but in ber old trunk in her room at the hotel were found 85,000 in gold securites, showing that she had nearly $2.000 in aypiecejof paper. On this was written, “I'his key will unlock a trunk at my cousin Ann's hous: Milton.' Th and th: ky unlock d it. It wrapp d in a paper, with information lock another trunk at another plac, That trunk was found with sult, with a third key trunk in still anoth r went on until twenaty belonging to (CC woman bad b wearing apparel valuabl chinawar silverware, la guantiti very faest t best English table cu pi © hoic * brie in the trun Thi made a load that it of oxen to haul « Farnham's heirs agr+«d whole of thes: valuabl 8 by iu Boston.and they 210.00 valu like for a plac largo ntric d ad Besides the spoken of, jewelry, and the H il ror of able and bed linen, , and many Ww $s precious stor two t of Milton, the Sof « urac Ks Ao Yokes Miss th auction netted more than re o their actual LOOK yi to s:ll j—-nowh " ear Is RIII—p Misunderstood. The young Lai a character in the Scotch camp life of the early cighteenth century. 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"Genesis xiv, 48, Jacoh had long sinos passed the hundred vear milestone, In those times people ware distinguished for longevity, Inthe centuries afterward persons lived to great age, Galen, the most celebrated physician of his time, {ook so little of his own medicine that ha lived to 140 years, A man of undouhted vorneity on the witness stand in England swore that he ramembersd an avent 150 years before. Lord Bacon spanks of a countess who had cut three sats of teeth and diel at 140 years, Jossph Crrle, of Pennsylvania, lived 140 years. In 1887 a hook was printed containing the names of thirty-savan per. | sons who lived 140 years, an 1 the names of elaven persons who lived 15) years, Among the grand old people of whom we have record was Jacob, the shepherd of the | text. But he had a bad lot of boys. Thay | were jealous and ambitions and every way unprincipled, Joseph, howsvar, sesmad to be an excaption, but ha had basn gona many vears, and the probability was that he was dead. As sometimes now in a housa you will find kept at the table a vieant eohuir, a plate, a knife, an fork, for dae member of the family, so Jasah kept in his | heart a place for his beloved Josaph, There sits the old man, the k of 140 years in their flight having alighted long enough to | jeave the marks of their claw on forahead | and cheek ani temple, His long hearlsnows | down over his chest, His Are Soma. what dim, and ha ean sen farther when they ars closed than when thay for he ean sso ciear back into the time when beauti- | ful Rachel, his wife, was Hying an 1 his chil- dren oriental abode with their merriment, Tha cantenarian the past when to the the doorto see ROMS span] floc “vag Ara Oopan, shook the is sitting drasming over | he hears a wagon rumbling Hn gets up and goss to who arrived, and his lone gons from Ezvpt come in and announces to him that Joseph instead of be | ing dead is still Hviag in an Egyptian palaces, with all the investiture of prime minister, next to the king in the mightiest empires of all the world! The news was too sadden and tao giad for the old man, snd his chanks whiten, and he has a dazed look, and his stall falls t of hand, and he would have dropped hal not tha eaught him and led him to a lous ut cold water ft Yoo front door, has absent his on his wo and f In that hall d« thing «0 long But alter wardrobe wagon, and snd like to get al yng fast wasn the TART yan hy 18 and ¥ : JOIBDN and vas us 1 s } al hotter uen in oa m jaugh or ery that we do ths resoiation 0 him bafore I dle, What a strong ani un ental atin Wa for Jacob to forget Joseph? st w108 of many summers had blazed on the heath ; the river Nile had overflowad and rece inl, over- flowed and receded again and again: the s+ad had been sown and vout reapsd ; stars rose and set ; y ! plenty and years of famine bat the lova of ’ r Joseph in my text is ovarwhelm- ingly dramatic, Oh, that isa cord ti not snapped, though pulled on eades! Thoagh when the parents may not hava twenty-five years of age, and seventy-five vet the vision of hildish face, the infantiie lips ars frmah 1 oh Ro Jacabh kept he text, “I will go and see pir- ohmeant ! time ¢ the har SRrs oO had pasasd 11 on, Jarrah by ¢ the little ehild $3 say 3 now thay the cradle, a and the first utterances o to-day. in «pite of the passags of a half esntury, Jos sph WAS as fresh in Jacob's memory a) evar, thouth at seventeen yoars of age the boy had disap- pearad fromthao i hom stead, I foandinour family record the story of an infant that had and I ssid to my rezord, ani what AUSWeaEr was a et to them a very doas that all mean? the dors is this Their It was sy What “What moan?’ parants, it lop, deep sizh, fender sorrow. doen phil and that cori of attachment reaching across the years will bold us uatil it bricgs us together in the palace, as Jacoh and That 12 one thine that makes old people happy. Taey they have long been separated, I am often asked, as pastor, ani every | pastor is asked the question: “Will my children be children in heaven and forever children?’ Well, there was no dou't a great shange in Joseph from the tims Jasob lost | him and the tims when Jacob found him bet wasn the boy savantesn years of aga aad the man In mid-life, his forshaal davaioped | with the great business of state-—Sut Jacob was glad to get back Josaph anvhow, and it did not make much differenns tothe old man | whether the boy looked older or looted | younger, And it will bs enough joy for that parent if he can get bask | that son, that daazhter, at tho gate | of heaven, whether the departed loved one | shall come a cherad or in fall growa angel | hood. Thers must be a change wrought by | that oalestitl climate and by those superasd | years, but it will only ba from loveliness to mors loveliness and from health to more radiant health, O parent, as you think of the darling panting and waite in membrane | ous eroup want you to know fit will be | gloriously better in that land whers there | Yas naver been a death asd whers all the in. | hitants will live on in the great faturs As bon as God! Joseph was Joseph, notwith- standing the palace, and your child will ba your child notwithstanding ail the reigalog splendors of averiasting noon. What a thrilling visit was taat of the old shepherd tothe primes minister Joseph! I soe the old countryman seated in the palace looking around at the mirrors, and the foun- tains, and the carved pillars, and, oh, how ae wishes that Rachel, his wife, was alive arid she could have coma there with him to $oa their son in his great houss! “Oh” mys the old man within himssif, “I do wish fiachel could be hers $0 see all this!” f wisited the farmhousa of the father st Millard Fillmors when the son was President of the United States, and fie octogenarian farmer entertain. od me until 11 o'clock at night, telling me what groat things he saw in his son's house at Washington, and what Daniel Webster anid to him, sod how grandly Millard treated his father in the White House, The old man's face was illumined with the story until almost the midnight. He had just been visiting his son at the capital, Aad I su it was something of ths samo jo that thrilled the heart of the old shepher ns tie stood in the palace ofthe primo minis ter, 1t is a great day with you when your old parents come {0 visit you. Your little ehil- tren stand around ‘with great wile open Jos, wonderiog how anybody could be wo oid. ‘The parents cannot stay many % for they are a little restioss, and es Wt nightfall, because they sleep butter in thelr own bed while they tarry ole own Bn Pant ionon 1 Stars som in tbe house. They are & littie faohle, and yon maka it as eqey as vou ean for them, and vou realiza thay will probe ably not visit you very o'ten-=parhans navar You go to their room after thay rotirad at night to sea if tha Hehts ars properly put out, for the old paople un lerstand candle and lamo better than the mo lern apparatus for illumination, morning, with real intersst in henith, you ask them how thay rested last Joseph, in the historical scans of the than vou do of your yarents, The probabil Gran l- father and grandmother ara mor: lenient and indulgent to vour children than they ovar vou. And what wonlers of Blessa 1 is that 14 they visit mamorahis when they onmea, leave, It tha two most memory whila menory lasts, andl vou will what they said, and at what figure of the earpat, and at what doorsill thay parted with you, giving you the final goodby, Do not be smbarrasssi if father come to town and he have the mune ners of the shepherd, and if your mother anne to town an! thers ba ia har hat no sign of eonstly miliinsry, Tha wife of tha Emperor Theo losius sail a wis» thing whan “4 Hashands, renambsr what you lately wors and ramember what you are and bethankfal” By this tims you all notios what kially nrovision Jossph ma le for his father, Jacoh Joseph did not say: “f ean't hava tha old man around this plase, How clumsy he would look climbing up thess marble and walking over thess moses! T would ba patting his these frese Paopls won that old geaenhorn cams cone hen he yg, from with his man- might HE gut ® ners at table, DBesidas that siek on my hands, and hamight be quara and he might talk to m» only a boy, when I am the O1 sours» he and fs famine { hear there js] will seni b bat I and intro ad Ra man in ory 11 4 in this country rn n if thors gid ean't take man fron iato visions, fays him this Waat a is to hava poor raiatioas! Joseph Ald not say that, bat he r she ] out to moat his father with p { affaction, and bronzht him up and introducel him to th © fhm ros srfest lo PAiAns and to thas y fat provited for all iors days, ’ snd n i andl wh assart, yang pawpie make it vary hard {They ars irprissd * Tie A ey ., Inst sic ins, snl got makes Rim Worse, an and 1aderiaier point, giving a note {or ths re i wialeh they naver pay, I hava | sf agai proplie whars have pean 89 inordinately resigaesd to Provi- fanos that felt like taking my text 4 Provers, “The eye that mo keth at its father at | refassth to obey its mother, the ravens o the vallay shall § and the young aaies shall eat it’ n other words, such an ingrats oug! , have a flosk of erows for palibearars songrataiate yoa il you have ths honor { i for aged par. ants. The blessings of the Bord God of Jossph aad Jasob will be on you. I rejoics to remember that, though father lived in a piaia hoass the most of vs, he died lu & maasion provilsl by sioty ofl a 802 who hvl ashieval a for. yo. Thers the octogenarian sat, and ths sarvants waltad on him, and there pleaty of horses ani pisaty of awrriagss to waavey him, and a bowser in wilish to sit on jong sammoer afternoons dravniag aver tho past, and thers was not a room in the hoasy whers he wis not walzons and musioal {nstranimts of all sorts to regale him. anil when lila had passe] the neizhbors esme oat and express l all honor possible ani owrried him to the village Masipsiah and put him dowa besida the Rachel with whon he had livel more than hall a cen- tury. Bhare your Success with the oid paople. Tae probability is that the priacipies they inouleated ashleval your fortans, Give thom a Caristian parrsatars of Kia lly con. sidaration, pasture fsids of Goshen an ithe glories of Daal ths vasjuion from my his tha i tha store of A «alam, wanirial™ ts Aathrong his father, Bat all history is beautifal, with stories of filial fidelity, Epsminondas, the warrior, found his chiaf delight in reciting tn his parents his vistories, Thera goss Fneas from burning Troy, on his shoulders Anchises, his father, The Athenians pun. ished with death any unfliisl conduct, There goss beautiful Bath escorting venerable Naomi neross the desert amid the howiing o, the wolves and the barking of the jackals, John Lawrence, burned at the «take in Col chester, was chearal in the flames by hic children, who sald, “0, Gol, strengthe Tay servant and kesp Toy promise!” And Christ in the hour of exernciation provided for Hix old mother, Jacob kept his resolu “fr will go and see him before I die, and a little while after wa find them walkios the tessuliatel floor of the palace, Jueoh and Josaph, the prime minister proud of his shepherl, I may say in regard to the most of you that your parsnts hava probably visitel you for # O00 pay you su ‘Hh RK visit, and I have wonderad i they will ever visit you in tha King's palace. “Oh” you say. “I am in ths pitof sin!” Jossph wasin ths pit, “0h,” vou say, “I am in the prison of min» iniqaity I” Jossph was ones in pri- gon. “Oh.” vou say, “I didn’t have a fair chance, I was denied materndl kindness!” Joseph was denisd maternal atten lanes, HOH." you say, “I am far away from the land of my nativity I” Jossph was far from home, “Oh vou say. “I have been traved ani exwsperated Did not Joseph's brothren sail him to nn passing Ishmasiitish caravan? Yet Gol brought him to that # blazonad residence, ani {f you will trast His grace in Jesus Carist you, too, will be em palacad. Oh, want 8 day that folks coms from an heaven and flad you amid pillars of tha throneroo n and liviny Tansy ars wad the epiaieteld rushes in and says: coming!’ ra wi bitte i~ will ba whan the ol} adjoining mansion in siabastur withthe coming up the steps now, waar tha palase “Your father's coming ! And wasn ander stones and sat nach othe the of thers ’ yas Of douse on 14 Ar ment of porphyry § Wie WwW wel Goshen highway whee ear 1 Ri ipss the mesling 1, how changed the old folks . yothed foto the fle air st100p sefare 13 sir sherk sn [ aeavas ram Ia (yoahien the sera caslie ea — Where the Largest Bird Th faraish forms have been the Now Zealand, Australia, Madagascar, and South America, mak- a countries south of the equator fossils of the largest bird that earth { ocean, ail the various fami intervening stretches « present fossils of of these great bids, attaining in Zoaland a height of some ten feet, and in Madagascar a h considerably greater. During settlement New Zealand by Earo- peans the bones still lay seatie # 5 surface, in Cans the imbedded for foun i where, were sis0 marshes some Or by the hundreds . ‘ birds ware livers Bome, in fact, were are interesting as illustrating the limit win gless, ried in the application of natare, of the sisterhool who romsin unmarried many annoyancss as they have you. It is easier to take eareol five rolliex- who allowad the bloom of life to pes away while they wera caring for their parents, While other maidens wary soan i asleap they were soaking the old man's fast or the sovars around the {avalid mother. While other maldens wara in the sotilion they wera dansiag atten lanss upon rheumatism and spreading plasters for the fame back of the septenacian and haating eataip tea for inso nnia, In aimoat every cireia of our kiniralthers jeweled hand after jowslel hand was offered in marriage, but who stayel on the old place besauss of the seass of filial obligation until the health was gone and ths atirastive. ness of personal pressnce hal vanished Bratal soslety may call such aons by a niok- name, (od oalis har daughter, anl heaven tyr. A half dozan or linary women hava not as mush nobility as conld be found in tne smallest joint of the little lazer of her left hand. Although the world has stoo | 600) yoars, this is the first apothsosis of maiden. hood, sithough in the long line of thoss who have declined marriage that thay might be qualified for some espacial mission are the names of Anns Ross and Margaret Breokin- ridge and Mary Shelton and Anua Etheridge and Georgiana Willetts, the angals of the battlefields of Falr Oaks ant Lavgout Moun- tain and Ohanosliorsyille, an i though single Iife has besn honored by the fast that the tires groatest mon of the Bible—John and Paal and Ohrist-—wars oalibates, Let the ungratefal world sneer at the maiden aunt, but God has a throns bur. nished for her arrival, and on one side of that throne in heaven thero is a vase con. taining two jewels, the one brighter than the Kohinoor of London Tower and the other larger than any diamond ever found in tha distriots of Golaonde-