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In accents hushed the throng reply, "Jesus of Nazareth passeth by." Who is this Jesus? Why should he The city move so mightily? A passing stranger, has he skill To move the multitude pt will? Again the stirring tones reply, "Jesus of Nazareth passeth by." Jesus! 'tis he who once below 31,..n's pathway trod, 'mid pain and woe ; And burdened ones, where'er he came, Brought out their deaf and sick and lame ; The blind rejoiced to hear the cry, "Jesus of Nazareth passeth by." Again he comes! From place to place His holy foot prints we can trace. llc pauscth at our threshold—nay, Ile enters—condescends to stay. Shall we not gladly raise the cry, "Jesus of Nazareth passeth by ?" Ho ! all ye heavy-laden, come! Here's pardon, comfort, rest, and home ; Ye wanderers from a Father's face, Return, accept his proffered grace; Ye tempted, there's a refuge nigh— " Jesus of Nazareth passeth by." But if you still this call refuse, And all his wondrous lore abuse, Soon will he sadly from you turn, Your bitter prayer for pardon spuru. "Too late too late !" will be the cry ; "Jesus of Nazareth 11.13 PASS. BY." . GENTLE WOMAN ROUSED, A STORY CF THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT. "I think such action is unlady-like, on ' womanly, and altogether wrong," said Mrs. Elliott warmly. "The idea of women marching in bands through the streets, followed by a rabble of rude men and boys —the idea of refitted ladies forcing their way into some filthy bar room, full of ob scene, guzzling, ill-omened looking loafers, and kneeling on the tobacco-stained floor in audible prayer. Must woman unsex herself and brave the most disgusting phase of publicity ? Must the pearls of religious feeling, even in the most sacred form of prayer, be cast before the swine that infest these low dais ?" The speaker was a young and very pret ty lady, who had lived in our town about a year. Her husband was a Western man, one who had grown up in our young city. He was well connected, of recogni zed ability as a lawyer,'and with a future before him of the fairest promise. It had occasionally been whispered that he drank rather freely, but no one hod ever seen him the worse for it. Of late he spent his evenings out more frequently, excusing his absence by saying that there were parties that could be seen - in the way of business better at night than during the day. Mrs. Judge Ashman, another intimate friend was with us. Her only immediate response to Mrs. Elliott's worth was a deep sigh. At last she said : "The evil grows so desperate I can scarcely wonder at any effort to counteract it, though I must say with you that I can scarcely understand this one. Ido not see how a lady can go to such places as you describe, I suppose, only too truly. But the trouble is, the worst mischief is not done at these "dens." Many of our drink ing saloons arc elegant in all their appoint ments, and are frequented by gentlemen." "No matter," answered Mrs:Elliott, al most hotly; "womanly delicacy forbids that she should go to such a place. They are frequented by roues and gamblers also, who differ from the ragged loafers only in being better dressed. In each case she is liable to insult, and to see and hear things; which, to a pure, refined woman, are worse than blows. I'd rather meet the coarse brutdity of the "dens" than the contemp tuous leers and mocking smiles of the gild ed saloons." The early shadows of the comit ° , winter evening soon after warned Mrs. Ashman that she must be on her way homeward. At Mrs. Elliott's request I remained to tea. Her husband came in at the usual hour. Ido net wonder she half idolized the handsome dark-eyed man, with his froe and easy Western bearing refined:by East ern culture. After the meal was over he immediately excused himself. "Must you go out again this evenintr, , Vinton 7" asked his wife pleadingly. "Indeed I must, Nellie. court week, you know. There are many lawyers in town, and I have much on hand." I heard her ki , s lain affectionately at the door as he departed and thought it , must be a stress of business, indeed, that would take a man from such a wife; but surely that kiss would be protection against every evil spell. I did not offer to stay later than ten, for by so doing I might betray somewhat of the anxiety and boding of ill that op• pressed me. My shrift.. ' room was oppo site her parlor, where lknew she would watch and wait. After lighting the gas. I did not draw the curtains, but. sat down with my knitting where she could see me,' and so practically watched and waited with her. When from a city steeple eleven was tolled, my neighbor grew restless. When with solemn, measured stroke midnight was announced, I heard her side door open • and her quick steps on the gravel. I met her at the door. "Dear Mrs. M-," she exclaimed, breathlessly, "how goo:. of you to be up ! I half believe you have been watching with me. Vinton has not come home yet. What does this mean ? He never stayed out so late before." She was shivering with cold, but it was the chill of fear. I put my arms around her and said : "Let us hope for the best, my dear. If you wish, I will come and stay with you." "Please do," she half sobbed, and then hastened back, as if unwilling to be ab sent from her post a moment. I was soon at her side, and with her hand (which trembled and fluttered like a frightened bird)in mine, we sat silently through an . - other long hour:. Finally the door -bell rang. She flow to open it. Her husband stumbled in, and would have fallen bad she not caught him. It was a pitiable sight to see him leaning upon and clinging to her frail and trem blingiforin, as if sbe were a lamp-post. As the light streamed through the door, I caught a glimpse of the glitter of a police. man's star, and then beard his gruff voice : ',Glad you're up, madam. lle needs looking after, sure enough. If it hadn't been for me, he might have met a foul death, for I found him in the gutter this raw night." True enough, lie was- reeking with the filth of the street, and besmearing the del- HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1874 icate fabric of the wife's dress as he clunL to her; but that wife would soon be iu an ony over deeper, :more loathsome stains. a lief" bi . ecoughed her husband ; in tones so different from his usual clear ; manly voice. "Ttims in a feather bed." "6 God!" what's the matter with him ?" gasped the wife. "Well, ma'am, you are innocent," said the policeman in a not unkindly tong. "I'm sorry for you, but do you really mean to say that you dOn't know lie's drunk ?" I'll stay a bit and help you with him if you wish." _ _ At the word "drunk" she tottered a moment, as if she would fall, then, by a great effort recovering herself, said hoarsely: "No, no; go away. I will take care of him. Stay; let me thank you for bring ing him home, but in the name of mercy don't tell any one what you have seen." The man made no promise, as he depart ed and I shut the door. "Mrs..M-, I am even sorry you are here. I would hide this from all the world. Would that I could bide it from heaven. But I know I can, trust you. What shall I do with him ?" This horrid, unexpected scene at the door had found us both too bewildered to act, and for a moment longer we looked helplessly at each other. then her husband muttered, '•What's the use standing here ?' and staggered into the parlor. Near the door stood a dainty little table with Mrs. Elliott's bridal wreath and ban quet upon it, encased in a glass cover. lie stumbled rainst this and fill with it crashing to the Ikon The warmth of the room with the. excess of liquor that he had drank now produced nausea, and. sickening to behold, the flowers that had crowned his bride's brow were now fouled literally, even as his action had stop ed her fair, pure name. It Was awful—it .was horrible, cveu to me, beyond the power of words to express —to see that proud, refined gentleman groveling, helplessly, like a vile beast in his own filth, in that. sweet little parlor, that dainty casket of his priceless jewel. But what must it have been to his wife? As soon as she could, she tool: his bead in her lap, and said in a low, firm voice : "Vinton, how did it. happen ? Tell me all." "Nothing, much's happened," he hic coughed. "Met some frieuds at Harry Hill's—took little too much—that's all." "Harry Hill's, Harry Hill's," she mut tered, as if some new light was dawning upon her. She got him to bed. quid he fell into a heavy stupor. As she returned to we in the dining-room, where there was a fire, Isaid: "I will not leave you to-night.' She thanked me by a silent pressure tot my hand, and we sat down to watch to gether as before, but with the awful cer tainty of evil instead of its expectation. At last she asked suddenly: "Where is this Harry Hill's?" I told lice. Morning came, after a seeming age. We had cleansed and Tiihted the parinr as we could. The cook got breakfast as usual, and was told that her master was sick. I tried to anticipate Mrs. Elliott in obtaining the morning paper from the newsboy, hut she was too quick for me. With dilating eyes she scanned •the col umns, then, with a cry of anguish, dropped the paper. . Oh, leave it alone !" I cried. "You've had more than you can endure now." "I am not a Child !" she answered, al most fiercely. "I intend to know and face the worst of this matter," and with a white, stern face she read every word, and then sat for a few moments with- the old thoughtful contraction of brow. Suddenly she started up with a look of fixed purpso and said : . . "Conic widl me." "Where ?" 'To Mrs. Judge Ashman's.' The judge's family was just sitting-down to breakfast *hen we arrived. "Why, Mrs. Elliott, and Mn'. M-, too !" exclaimed that good lady, in un feigned surprise. '"What is the matter? Surely, this in not a social call." "No," said Mrs. Elliott, impetitously; "it is not. Mrs. Ashman, I take back all I said about ladies going to liquor saloons, in order to break them up if they can. I am going to Harry Hill's today, if I go alone. He about the same as inurde . eed my husband last night," and site briefly told her story. - am going there, this very morning," she continued. "lie must resist a wile's prayers anti a wife's curses if he sells my husband one drop more. Will you go with use ?" The judge joined us frc,m the dining room, and remonstrated : "Really, Mrn. Elliott, I greatly sympa thize with-you; but I hope you will do nothing rash. You Will only expose your self to insult, and accomplish nothing. Perhaps you may obtain some legal re dress." • With a dignity and impressiveness which even he had never possessed upon the bench, the aroused wife silenced him with a gesture. "You are not eqUal to this matter, Judge Ashman," she said, "nor are your legal forms. During the past night I have seen my own grave open. and in it buried life, youth, happiness. What is far worse, I have seen the yawning grave of my hus band, and I know it to be. the mouth of hell. And do you ask me to go to law about such matters? Harry Hill and his kind are digging these graves. I never realized it before. • Surely be does not. Unless he is a fiend, he will cease the vile traffic when I tell hhn the truth. I tell you I will go, if I go alone !" "George," cried Mrs. Ashman, in a voice of anguish, "how often has your own son been drunk at that same Harry Hill's ?" The judge turned pale and abruptly left the room. "You shall not go alone," continued Mrs. Ashman, sobbing on Mrs. Elliott's shoulder ; "a score of women that I know of, smitten by this terrible curse, will go with you, if you will lead the way. Some are rich and some are poor, but we all have common ground in this matter. I will send them word." I shall never forget the group that we found assembled in the Judge's parlor. There were young faces present beside that of Mrs. Elliott. But all were pale and lined with care—all were solemn with an earnest purpose,• and touched with the pathos of suffering. We knelt, - but the prayer was silent. There were sobs and groans and involun tary cries. At last we sailed forth, pale, but a 3 de termined a little phalanx as over assaulted a death•swept breach. It was sleeting, but we carried no umbrellas. This was not a pleasure excursion. We marched as sol diers Jo. Our appearance upon the street soon at- (reeled attention People spoke hurriedly and excitedly together. "By thunder, it's broke out here I heard one man exclaim. "Where will they strike fiat?" "Harry Hill's, as you live," was an swered. "for that':; Pint. Elliott's wire a leadin'." The news spread fast, and soon we had an ample but nondescript following. Still the crowd was respectful. The worst man who had caught a glimpse of Mr. Ellliott's face could not have been otherwise. By turning a corner we came suddenly upon the entrance of Hill's saloon. There was a bustle within as if they would lock the door against us, but we were too prompt for them, and entered. The crowd thronged in after us, and with those al ready there, filled the place completely. 3lrs. Elliott advanced at once to the bar, and we grouped ourselves around her, and such a group as had never been seen in our city before. 'What does this 1130311 ?" risked Mr. Hill, appearing from an inner room with a face on which surprise and anger con tended for the mastery. He was a florid, low-browed ; thick-set man, showily dressed, and with a hard sinister eye. After one glanee•at him, I hoped little from Mrs. Elliott's appeal. I turned to look et the crowd for a moment in order to fee on whose side their sympathy would assert itself, but the expression at this time was mainly one of eager curiosity and excite ment. But imagine my unmeasured sur prise when I saw a side doer open and Vinton Elliott appear overlooking the scene; with a white, appalled face.' But all were too intent on the scene before them to note his entrance, for with a voice that trembled, yet with dignity, Mrs. El liott had commenced speaking. . a Mr. llill, you have the firm and sem blance of a man, and we give you the credit of possessing, the heart of one. You cllnnot realize the results of your traffic as 10 poor women can whose homes son are destroying, trh h :rts ou are breaking. What is life to our fathers, our brothers, our s • :;:r. httgbands (oh , how her voice thrin-• ;It that word - Y go down into the darku• infamy of a drunk , aid's grave : ,t see that such a lift wou!-Ideath and pr•l •ov ? And yet not for our se!, o• •,, , I,eadirag, but for those whom you ing; perhaps we may•find a heav,u herc:after, but they cannot. You poison body anti coal at once. Yesterday there was not, in all the city, a more proud and happy women than I ! happy in my home ! happy in my husband ! Happy in my 11-.F.a3 far th 3 rut ! proud of his rich promise and good name. But now My heart is breaking; oh, how it has ached sines you sent him stag Bring to lung past midnight. I beseech you, , premise ate that you will never sell another drop of the accursed poison." There was a momentary and death-like silence, and then Hill, with difficulty, found his brazed voice. "Now look here, madam," he began, iny rights Oa wall ft, you and oil, er people. This is nay businesi. You've no right here interfering with at.. These are my premise. You've no right here without nay consent. You all make your selves liable to indictment for tre3p toe. Besides, it ain't the right thing for ladies to go tramping through the streets follow. ed by a rabble, and meddling with things that don't cane rn them. It isn't lady like. It's fanat—" "Hush in 'a word answer me cried Mrs. Elliott, in a voice that went to every heart like an arrow. Will you not promise me never to sell my huNhand another glass of liquor ?" "go," shouted Hill, "nor any other • woman's husband. I will promise to sell to all who'll pay. There was a sudden hoarse murmuring on the part of the crowd, but in a mome:.. it was hushed, for the insulted wits had knelt on the floor before the bar. We all dropped on our knees around her. • "0 God," she pleaded, in a tnim that must have thrilled the very soul of the most hardened present, "shall human love and human anguish plead 1e r e thee in vain ? Art thou not of mercy, and yet cruelty is erushia . :4:l., Alt thou not a (led of justice, and yet are being robbed of all that makes life endurable r Thou didst stop the mouth of lions. Here in our Christian land are human hearts more savage. Chen cliffs', preserve in the furnace coven times heated. Beneath our church spires btrns the more remorseless :m(l destructine passion of avarice. Wilt thou not break the stony heart before us, and bend his stubborn will to thine ? Thou knowest that because of our love we could die bar our dear ones, but we believe that thou dolt love them even more. Wilt thou not in mercy change th,ir &strayers into men? Wilt thou not take this awful soul-killhig temptation out of their path ? We plead in the name of thy dear Son, who gave his life for us all. Amen." Strange to say, there was a responsive ":mien" from the rough crowd, and as I looked around on rising, I saw many eyes wet with tears where I had expected only looks of scorn. 1 had nut yet met Mr. Elliott's eye, though he remained stand ing_ spell-bound in the doorway still. But the tragedy went forward without a moment's pause. Mrs. Elliott took a step nearer the runas.:ller, pointed up with an impressive gesture, and bent upon . him a look such as I never saw on a woman's face before. 11111 tried to meet her eye, but could not, fbr he sank guiltily and con fusedly to the floor. "Mr. Hill," she said in a low, gentle voice, "once more I ask you, I beseech you, answer me as you will wish you had answered when we stand before Ills judg meat seat, will you not cease this dreadful business ?" A death-like hush followed. Hill was evidently cowed and overcome, and after a moment mumbled out : 'lt's not in man to ros7st you, tnadtm ; I promise I will not sell any more to your husband, though he will get it elsewhere if he wants it. I think it's a pity he can't stand up for himself without sending his wife around a praying and beseeching for him." "Give w - ai there," cried Vinton Elliott's voice, and he sprdeg down from the raised doorstep and struggled towards his wife. In a clear, ringing tone, Elliott said : Mr. Bill, you have spoken same true words this morning. This is no place— this is no action for ladies like my wife and other honored women that I see here ; and believe me, they would not be hero if you and I, and our like, had not driven them to desperation. God knows you have enough to answer for, but you only are not to blame. You can't throe us to throw away Our money and manhood here. I wonder that my wife did not leave me forever in utter disgust. lnstead of that; with woman's faithfulness, she comes.here to plead for my safety. But she will nev er be called to pass through such an ordeal again. I thought I could drink in mod eration at your bar, as I had for years, but you have taught me better, sir. Yin ton Elliott can stand alone, but he will ' stand aloof from you and your kind. God and you, fellow citizens, be my witnesses that I will drink no more, and may He palsy my hand if it over raises another glass of liquor to my lips." Mrs. Elliott gave a low, glad cry. make no apology for what occurred last night," he continued. "The case ad mits of none. I deserve your contempt, but it cannot exceed that which I bear for myself. Were it not for my wife, and the hope of retrieving my character, I would gladly die." Mrs. Judge Ashman now came forward and said "Mr. Hill, this won't answer. My son i 3 as dear to me as Mrs. Elliott's husband to her. We all represent some imperilled member of our households. You must promise ti quit the lrisincs3 altogether in our city." "Dia-you sae that !" esker' a pale, thin woman, a mechanic's wife, and she lifted her Lair and showed an ugly scar across her temple. '•My own husband, once so kind and good, gave me that blow. It went in deep. It nearly cr4 , ;t, my life. But it made a deeper sear on heart.. Peo ple must stop selling ruin to my husband, or I can't live. I feel that I will do some thing desperate." "Oh please do promise, Mr. Hill," plead ed a meek-leaking little woman, with streaming eyes. "My only son has come horde drunk twice of late, end he say; he got the liquor here." "Now lot:k here, ladies," said Mr. Hill, trying to work himself irvo a passion, "business is business. A man mum. live. I've stood this longer now than--" lie was interrupted by a tall, gaunt wo man who strangely reminded me of the stern old prophets. Without a word of prelude, she stepped ilirward and com menced singing in a weird minor key : "0 Thou who for humanity, Wept olood at every pore, We come in kindred agony Thy mercy to implore. 110 give to us thy sympathy, 4 Awake thine arm of power, Shake elf the nation's apathy, Proclaim the battle hour.." M. said Mrs. Judge Ashman, "we propose to stay here till you make us this promise, unless you thrust us forth with violence." "Let him try that if he dares," cried a dozen voices from the crowd. - Hill considered a few moments and then mid :11, madam, I've thought it over —indeed, I thought it over Wore you came for I expected this infernal move ment would breth out here. I have an estallishment in New York State, and they'll stand good liquor, such as I sell, there, to the end of the chapter. I'll go there for the present and stop selling here till this thunder gust blows over. This it the best promise I'd make if you stay here a month. So please vacate and I'll put up my shutters." After it brief consultation thc lodic.; eon eluded it was the best they could do, and there were those of the number who wish ed to visit other saloons. ,- I..efuliug foe th llin. A right with a Lynx Some few miles east of East Hampton, Mass:, is a large and lonesome tract of land covering over an area of eight or ten hundred acres, and is familiarly known as the Perkins woods. On the ea-t side of these woods runs a large stream ; near this stream two persons recently discovered a lynx in the top of a large hickory. One, a l,•ad who has not seen sixteen summers, bold and daring, never known to flinch in any emergency, and with the courage of a 1 ! Putnam, volunteered to climb the tree. Beth being destitute of guns, it was a bold undertaking to venture to capture this large beast of the forest. Young Dan, buoyed up with the hope of killing this beast with a club, quickly ascended the tree; the density of the limbs almost pld ced the beast out of his sight, but by the help of his knife he succeeded in lopping a few of the branches, which piaccd the animal in full V:057 of him. Its book was arched up, the froth dripping from its mouth ; its tail though short was elevated, its eyes flashed, pawing with hs foe feet, one alter another, bark and splinters flew. On the side hill Dan's companion man aged to make it dcspomte pass with his club at the beast ; at the same time the animal made a spring, landing on the ground in his stunaed candition. Hoad ley grappled with the maddened animal, and they struggled together down a de elivit7. Both plunged into the water. The eagerness of the lynx to press through the water and the young man's unsuccessful' attempt to drown it created such a splash__ ing noise as fairly echoed through the ra tine. At length the man and animal reach the opposite shore in an exhausted condi tion. Our young hero was already there, and had the satisftction of completing the destruction of the savage beast. Changes of a Century. The nineteenth century has witnessed many and neat discoveries. In 1809 Fultor; took out the first pat ent for the invention of the steamboat. The first steamboats which made regu lar trips across the Atlantic Ocean were the Sirius and the Great Western,in 1830. The first public application t, - ) practice the use of gas for illumination was made in 1802. In 1313 the streets of London were for the first time lighted with gas. In 1813 there was builtk — at Waltham, Mass., a mill, behaved to have been the first in the world, which combined all the requirements for making finished cloth from raw cotton. In 1790 there were only twenty-five post-offices in the whole country, and up to 1837 the rates of postage were twenty five cents for a letter sent over one hun dred miles. In 1807 wooden clocks commenced to be made by machinery. This ushered in the era of cheap clocks. About the year 1833 the first railroad of a considerable length in the United States was constructed. In 1840 the first express bn.iness was established. _ The anthracite coal business may be said to have begun in 1820. In 1836 the first patent for t'.•:o inven tion of matches was granted. Ia 1845 the first telegram was sent. Steel pens were introduced for use in 1830. The first successful xeaper was con structed in 1833. In 1846 Elias Howe obtained a patent for his first sewing machine. A Tennessee Romance Ile was }oumr, he was fair, and he par ted his hair, like the average beau, in the middle; he was proud, lie was bold, but the truth must be told, he played like a fiend on the fiddle. Barring his voice, be was everything nice, and his heart was so loving ane tender, that he always turned pale when he trod on the tail of the cat lying down by the fender. He clerked in a store, and the way that he tore off calico, jeans, and brown sheeting, would have tickled a calf, and made the brute laugh in the face of a quarterly sheeting. He cut quite a dash with a darling moustache which he learned to adore and cherish, for one girl had said, while she dropped her proud head that 'twould kill her to see the thing parish. On Sundays he'd search the straight road to the church unheeding the'' voice of the scorner; and demurely be sat, • like a young tabby cat, with the saints in the amen corner. He sang like a bird, and his sweet voice was heard fairly tun.- ging away at long metre; and we speak but the truth, when we say that this youth could outshine a hungry mosquito. She was young, she was fair, and she scrambled her• hair like the average belle of the city; she was proud but not bold, yet the truth must lie told, the way sho chewed wax was a pity. Baring this vice, she was everything nice, and the world admired her - bustle; and the Fayetteville boys, being calmed by the noise, walked miles to hear it rustle. She cut quite a swell, did this wax-chewing belle,:md men flocked in crowds to meet her . ; bat she gave them the shirk, fir she loved the young clerk, who sang like a hungry mos quito. So she hemmed and she hawed, and she sighed and "chewed" till her heart and Inca were broken ; then she walked by his store, while be stood at the deer awaiting some loving token. She raised up her eye with a mock surprise, and tried to enact the scorner; but to tell the truth, she grinned at the youth who loved the amen corner. O They met—alas! what came to pass was soft and sweet and precious ; they wooed, they cooed, he talked, she chewed —O, how they loved, good gracious ! They had to part; he rase to start; her grief cannot be painted; these are the facts; she swallowed her wax, then fainted. Her pa appeared; her beau, quite scared, rushed out to get same water; the watch-dog spiel his tender hide, and bit him where he "oughter." The tale is sad, the sequel stern—so thinks the youth thus bitten. He sines no more, es oft of yore—he gave that girl the mitten. She pined apace, her pretty face look ed slender and dejected; her fattier kind, but somewhat blind, beheld her and re flected. His heroine tax he spent for wax —she smiled and called him clever. She went to work, forgot that clerk, and thaw ed in bliss fin•aver !—.l. Bateman ,SWth. Christian HanA-Shakir.g, Around the door of the country meet iog bow:ea it has always been the custom of the people to gather before church and after church-for social intercourse and the shaking of hands. Perhaps because we, ourselves, were born in the country and have never got over it, the custom pleases us. In the cities we'arrive the last mo ment before service, and go away the mo ment after. We act as though the church was a railway car, into which we go when the time for starting arrives, and we get out again as soon as the Depot of the Dia ology.is reached. We protest against this business way of doing things. Shake hands when the Benediction is pronounced with those who sat before and 'those who sat behind you. Meet the people in the aisle, and give them Christian salutation. Postponement of the dining hour for fit teen minutes will neither damage you or the dinner, That is the moment to speak a comforting word to the man or woman in trouble. The sermon was preached to ' the people irr general, it is your place to apply it to the individual heart, The church aisle may be Made the road to heaven. Many a man who was unaf fected by what the minister said, has been captured for God by the Christian word of an unpretending layman, on the way out. You may call it personalmagnetism, or natural cordiality,- but there are some Christians who have suelz.an ardent way of shaking hands after meeting., that it amounts to a benediction. Such greetings is•not made with the left-hand. he left hand is good for a great many things; for instance, to hold a fork, or twist a curl, but it was never made to shake hands with unless you have lest the use of the right. Nor is it dene by' the lips of the. fingers laid' loosely in the palm of another. Nor is it done with a glove on. Gloves are good to keep out the cold, and make one look well, but have them so they can be easily removed, es they should be, for they arc non-conductors of Christian magnetism. Make bare the hand. Place it in the palm of your friend. Clench the fingers across the back part of thehand you grip. Then let all the animation of your hart rush to the shoulder, and from there to the elbow, and then through the forearm and tin& the wrist, till your friend gets the whole charge of gospel electricity. . In - PauPs time he told the Christians to greet each other with a holy kiss. We are glad the 'custom has been dropped, fur there are many good people who would not want to kiss us, as we would not not want to kiss them. Very attractive persons would find tho supply greater than the de mand. But let us have a substitute suited to our age and land. Let it be good, hearty. enthusiastic, Christian hand.shaking.— ekrist:an at Work. Bad Manneps It is bad manners to use profane lan guage. It is bad manners to go into any per son's house without taking off your bat. It is vulgar to talk much about your self, and it is very vulgar to lie. It is bad manners to walk into a private house with a lighted cigar in four mouth. It is bad manners to occupy a seat while other people stand around without a seat. It is a sign of bad manners to look over the shoulder of a person who is writing to see what is written. It is bad manners for a man to walk the streets with a female, and at the same time smoke a cigar or pipe. It is badmannei; to' stand in the mid dle of tlie pavement when people are pass ing, or to make remarks about those who pass. . . . It is bad manners to stand with your side so as to turn away your face from the person you arc talking to—look than► in the face. It is bad manners to say "Yes" or "No ° to a stranger, or to your parents., or to aged people, let it be 'Yes, sir," and "No NO. 16. Tit-Bits Taken on the Fly. Love makes labor light. Love knows bidden paths. Critic—Conceit personified. Fretwork—Vexation of spirits. Branch establishments—Trees. Drama—Emotional gymnastics. Marriage—A "corner" in love. Religion—Society's trade mark. Friendship—Exchanging cheeks. Reform—A political fever-blister True to the last—The shoemaker. Love—An issue of "preferred stock." Cunning is a fool's substitute for wis dom. Credit—An air-line route to wealth or ruin. A blacksmith is always striking for wages. A lie has no legs but a scandal bas wings. Never speak to deceive, or listen to be tray. A dangerous sea to navigate—Bank ruptcy. To live long, it is necessary to liv4 slowly. Love subdues everything except the felon's heart. Exemplifying duty does more than ex plaining it. American Independence—" Shinny on your own side." Neither great pverty nor grnat riches will hear reason. When one owes a grudge, he is apt to find it a bad debt. A straight line is the shortest in morals as in geometry. If laughter is the daylight of the soul, a smile is its twilight. The devotees of tabacco are felic.tously called tobacchanalians. Some people are positive just in propor tion to their ignorance. Prayers are but the body of the bird•; desires are its angel's wings. If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense is the father of them. The most obstinate, unyielding saloon keeper in Tennessee is a woman. Hatred punishes him who hates, and lore blesses the prsan who loves. Lavishing all your means upon yourself is a waste whirl the world condemns. Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen to them. Great places arc greiit burdens ; distin guished conditions in life exact great ser vitude. Remove wax from the ear by tepid water; never put a hard instrument into the ear. Of the 317,962 soldiers buried in the national cemeteries tho names of 147,823 are unknown. What tree 3 are those which, when fire is applied to them, am , exactly what they were before ? shes. The envious man is made gloomy not only by his own cloud, but by another man's sunshine. If you have much or little to begin with the worst you are justified in doing is to let it get no less. Good qualities of character have to be learned as in a trade, little by little through patient aPplication. Say not what great things you would do Upon were rich, for great deeds are gen erally done by the poor. The railroad across the chain of the An des, in South America, runs several miles above the clouds. The first life-boat was invented by M. Borniers, director of thebridgesand cause ways in France, in 1777. A man's nature runs either to 'herbs or weeds. therefore let him seasonably water the one and destroy the other. Railroad accidents in the United States average one person killed and four injured every working thy in the year. Who does not love h faithful dog? but its value cannot be compared to that of a faithful child, man or woman. How to become practically acquainted with the "rule of three"—Live with your wife, mother, and mother•in-law. A Western moralist thinks that the two great evils of the present day are "intoxi cation and costly funerals." An old lady advises young girls who want to remember a thing to write it down and paste it on the looking-glass. Horace Greeley's daughters will be com fortable. The executors of the estate have already put away $125,000 for the'r use. When you negotiate for a house having all the modern improvement; you will generally find that a mortgage is one of them. In France, editors are required by law to accord a person attacked space in the columns for a reply twice as long as the attack. A Welsh paper recently contained the following in its notices to correspondents : "Truth" is crowded out of our columns this week. The lowa Legislature has refused to prohibit the sale of wine and beer in that State. Stronger drinks are alretdy pro hibited by law. Every lady is anxious to know whether her new dress is becoming; but the most likely thing to become a lady is a well-be haved little girl. In Illinois they take children who suf fer from whooping cough down the shaft of the nearest coal mine, and keep them there until cured. Lead and zinc expand greatly by heat. Zinc expands nearly two and a half times more than wrought iron under the same temperature. Rev. Presley Lakin, while conducting a prayermeeting at Peant, Pike county, 111., was recently assailed by a rough,-and re ceived an ugly stab in the head. Two years ago two barrels of live perch were plaecd in the pond at Tisbniy, Mos:, which have increased so that now seining is profitable.
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