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.ILLY 17.
hfuon .1.
,TIIE CALL OF MOSES.
Kit 3: I—l 4.
iloLbtN TKZT:—"Ami h*- w.J, C-rUliiljf I will be
w .ill lli.s ."- K\ I
Central Tntih: God'ssunportingpres
once and blessing are pledged to those
who hear and heed iiis call to duty.
Our last lesson left Moses sitting by a
well in the land of Midian, the penin
sula of Sinai. The particular spot re
ferred to was probably the southeastern
portion, near the apex of the peninsula,
while waiting here, the daughters of a
priest of Midian, Ueuel or Jetbro by
name, came to draw water for their
father's llock. Anil certain shepherds
also came and drove them away. Willi
Ins accustomed courage and hatred of
injustice, Moses interposed tor tin* help
of the maidens, repelled their rude as
sailants, and watered their tloek. This
was his introduction to the family of
•lelhro, into whose services lie entered,
whose daughter 7. pporuli lie married,
and with whom tie remained during
the second forty years of his life.
It is at tlie <nd of this last period
that wo find him in tin- present lesson.
He has not grown rich. In the umlst
of the luxuries and splendors of Kgypt,
he had learned how little satisfaction
for the heart is to he found in either.
His life in the desert has been spent in
communion with himself and with God.
Just now ho has gone with his tlook
westward to Horeb, called the "Moun
tain of Cod." aa having been the scene
of a number ot wonderful divine man
ifestations. We have in this lesson a
record of one of these. It was that of
a flame of fire out of the midst of a
bush; the marvel being that the bush
burned, and yet it was not consumed.
No doubt the bush, which was the
wild and thorn-bearing Acacia, was in
tended to represent the people of iod,
and the flame the liery trials of whieh
they had had painful experience. The
Church of Qod has often appeared in
significant. and its sufferings have been
many and great, yet, because of find's
presence, it has never been destroyed.
It is remarkable that be who speaks
out of the bush is fir t called "The An
gel of the Lord," and then "The Lord."
This may simply indicate that the L<>rd
appeared in an angelic form. And yet
this particular phrase, "The Angel of
the Lord," lias a peculiar use in the
'>1(1 Testament Scriptures. It seems
never to be applied to created angels,
but always to a specific messenger of
'od, who is also represented as dnitv.
To him divine attributes are ascribed.
Was not this be who in the beginning
"was with God and was God ?" In the
beginning, and in all times, he was the
"Word," the one revealer of God.
Many suppose that he who appeared in
the bush was none other than Christ.
Thus the great truth symbolized by
the burning bush was not simpiy that
the (Church is in every age exposed to
fiery trials, but that the presence of
Christ saves it from Wing destroyed,
and makes all its sufferings a means of
good.
The special object of this remarkable
apj>earanee comes out in the verses
which follow. The attention of Moses,
being drawn to the strange sight, God
speaks to him out of the bush. He as
sures him that he has seen the afflic
tions of his people, and knows their
sorrows, and is now about to appear for
their deliverance. Then follow the
summons and commission of Moses to
be their leader: "Come now, therefore,
and I will jsend thee unto Pharaoh."
It was to prepare him for this great re
sensibility and most difficult under
taking that he had been so long at
school, first in Kgypt and now in the
desert.
1 wo things are to he noted in the re
sponse of Moses. The first is his hu
mility. And in this how greatly chang
ed from what he was when, unsolicited,
he once before offered himself as the
champion of Israel! Then he was self
confident, haughty, impetuous. Now
he is self distrustful and humble. Hi*
judgment is sobered. He sees the dif
ficulties to be surmounted. In solitude
lie has acquired hardihood and learned
patience. He has come to fe at home
in that very wildernc-s through which
Israel is to be led; to know its every
fountain and spot ot green, its bet line
of march and places of rest. He has
come closer to God. He has also dis
covered the imperfections of his own
wisdom and strength. He is at Inst
williog to be taugtit of Ood, and to
wait upon his will. Now, therefore,
(iod not only call* him, but assures him
of his own guiding and sustaining pres
ence, and that the final issue shall be a
sufficient token that the call he now
bears is truly from ' iod.
The other thing to be noted in the
response of Moses is his apparent doubt
of the readiness of the people to re
ceive and to trust him. "When they
shall say to me, What is his name 7
What shall I say unto thein ?"
Just what Moses had in mind was not
a mere designating title. A name is
that by which one is known. One may
be known by hi* attributes or perfec
tions. Israel already knew (iod by
more titles than one. What new reve
lation of himself would he make to
them 7 In what character might they
expect henceforth to know him. The
phrase, "I AH THAT I AH," implies ab
solute being and supreme |>ower; jer
lection* sovereign,eternal and unchang
ing. Much a being Israel might implic
itly trust, and such thev should find him
to be. Under a leader sent and sus
tained by him they could not but pre
vail.
I'RACTICAL SLOOESTIONS.
1. The unfolding of God's providence
may seem slow, but in the end his fidel
ity and wisdom will stand approved.
2. For any great work there must or
iliimrily be great preparation. Too many
youtliM are in unwise haste to uaumt
gravo responsibilities. Ileneo disap
pointments and failure*. mortification
ami discouragement, Moses wua two
tiiirda of liia life at school—forty yearn
in Kgypt and forty in tlio desert.
a. A secluded life is no misfortune.
Oftentimes it affords the very best op
portunities for improvement. It is in
solitude that great souls—the Davids,
Pauls, Luther*, < 'romwells -are ripened
for great work. Jesus himself went
often to the mountains and desert alone.
I. The fiery trials to which churches
and believers are subjected are for their
correction and purifying, not for their
destruction. Having the presence of
Christ they cannot bo consumed or
harmed.
f>. Reverence for an unworthy object
is not a moral virtue, but a sin. Rever
ence for Cod and for whatever reveals
him is becoming and is pleasing to him.
fi. liod has some work for all his true
children to do; for it ho seeks to train
them ; to it ho sooner or later calls
them. The path of obedience is the
place of preparation. Listening ears
cannot miss Ins call.
7. The consciousness of our own
weakness und insufficiency is an im
portant condition of usefulness.
It is the sense of ignorance which
makes one willing to lie taught, ntid of
weakness which drives him to Hod for
strength. 'I ho path of humility is the
only road to true wisdom. The con
sciousness of dependence opens the
heart toward Hod and welcomes Ins
power ami grace.
s. The eternity and unchangeable
ncss of < iod are among his most precious
attributes. Whatever he has promised
tie will be able to accomplish. Sustain
ed by him there can be no ditficultiee
too great to be overcome. Jfy the hand
of Moses, Israel was indue time brought
from the hou-o of bondage. They /
come at length to the land (lowing with
milk and honey. So every believer
will be delivered out ol all Ins troubles,
and will find a home at length in the
heavenly land.
in ssi \ n in si Rin i\g \m.i:i.s.
IIRKOI Ms Ol THE REVOII'TION - A*-!'I ITCH,
Halt din ami cr.KorrsKi.
Krt.m lie- l*ll >UU U.l/-ll.'
Sophie Hardin, of Tatulioir, a young
lady of noble birth, was the lir.-t to
familiarize the public with tin- -pccta
clc of a Ku-sian revolutionary hero
ine. She had not titii-licd her studio
and pii-M-il her final examinations
when she had decided to dedicate her
life to the service of "her brothers."
At eighteen years of age she went to
Zurich to study the lnl> >r qut-tion in
Switzerland ami < ieruiany, and to -it
at the feet of Huktiin, "the apostle of
universal destruction" and the proph
et of anarchy. She soon returned to
Russia continued in the faith 11- to
the necessity for remodeling society,
ami resolved to lose 110 time in setting
to work. She assumed the name of a
soldier's widow, and began to work at
daily wages in a factory, tin- better to
be able to carry on the work of pro
selvtism among the disinherited of
the world. A year after lor descent
among the workers she was arroted.
I lie authorities took two vear- to pre
pare her indictment, and she was not
tried before the spring of 1*77. She
conducted her own defense, and sur
prised every one by the courage and
passion with which she pleaded lor
cause. Thousands of copies of her
address were - -Id in St.
ami the fate of the eloquent sjieakcr
gave force and empha-i- to her closing
words: "The association will avenge
me. and its vengeance will he terrible.
Ist your hangmen and judges massa
cre and destroy us now, during the
short time that force is still on votir
side. \\ e set agaiu*t you our mortal
might, and that will triumph. Pro
gress, liberty and equality light for us,
ami through these ideas 110 bayonet
can thrust. Her eloquence availed
not, and Sophie Hardin was sent to
labor in the Siberian mines for nine
years—a dreary expiation for one
year's propagaudistii of n volutionarv
doctrine.
Sophie Hardin wn the firt, and
Sophie Pcroff'-ki the third, of tlio pip.
ular heroines of tho I{u--ian revolu
tion. The second was occupied by
Vera Sassulitch, whoe name it per
haps even more familiar in tin Went
than tiiat of either of the other*.
Vera, who achieved notoriety by the
nhot nlie fired at < Jen. Trep.if to avenge
the chati*ement inflicted on a prisou
or, Hoglaiotiholf, who wan per-onally
unknown to her, wan four v< nr older
than Sophie Hardin at the time of her
trial, ller trouble*, however, began
even earlier. When only seventeen
year* old she wan flung into jail an the
friend of the sister of Nctchaieff, the
well-known conspirator. She lay there
two year* without trial, and after her
release she spent three year* in exile,
In'ing panned on by tlie police from
town to town n* a suspect. Oppres
sion drives even the wise mnn mad,
ami no one can lie surprises! that such
treatment drove the victim into the
ranks of the active conspirators, and
at last led her to shoot (ten. Trepdf.
She made no attempt to escape, ami
justified her deed in court as leing
necessary to call attention to the cruel
ty which was practiced under his con
trol. All other menus of publicity
being denied her, she resorted to the
revolver. Her plan found favor in
the eyes of a Hussian jury, and her
nc(|iiittal, which was ap|4nded hy al
most every newspaper in Kt. Peters
burg, startled Europe. Immediately
after her acquittal, amid a scene of
riotous enthusiasm, she disappeared.
It was said she had been arrested hy
"Administrative order" and banished
to Siberia. After a short time it was
discovered that she had only been in
safe hiding, and soon afterward she
wns feted a* a heroine by the revolu
tionary refugees of Geneva and Paris,
anions whom she continue* to eke out
a livelihood to this day. Bophie liar
din is in Siberia ; Vera Kaxsulitch is
in exile; Sophie Pcrollski is dead.
Jlut although the three leading actors
in the tragic drama are thus accounted
for, there are many whose names ap
pear and reappear in the blood-stained
annals of Russian sedition. < these
we catch but passing glimpses, some
of which, it must lie admitted, are
by no meuns calculated to attract.
Olga Roxxoffxki, who sent a bullet
through the head of a police sergeant;
Anna Makharevna, who fled with a
passport forged by two other revolu
tionary women from the punishment
due for her share in the vitrioli/.ulion
of tie' spy (ioiohoviteh, and Acliri-t
--olf, the sevcuiocn-ycar-ohl priest's
daughter, who rnude love to the de
tective l.nvrofl'-ki, in order to betray
him into the hands of the Nihilists,
who cut oil' his ears and sliced oil' his
nose, are among those who, ruthlessly
us destroying angels, keep up the red
terror in Russia.
Till. \\ ISII THAT MIK lilt: A MIS.
Ki>>m lit" Clnt tiiittit fii< if
The saddest expression which comes
from the lips of woman is the wish that
she wi re a man. How infinitely sad
that one-half ot the ruee should think
themselves malformed by the Creator.
It is an arraignment of tin ('rcalor for
forming them to a fate !■-•• fortunate
than the other half of His children.
And they recognize that it is a mis
fortune trom which not all of woman's
civil am) political rights can deliver
them, ard that all which the most radi
cal rcfu'iuvs demand cannot relieve
the disaster of this female formation.
The expression of infinite sudne-s
eoliu - only from woman. Man never
wishes that he had been a woman.
N T is this wi-h made only by woman
whose fate is harder than the general;
it i- heard from those who-c circum
stances seem fortunate, and who ran
gratify their feminine tastes by rich
and elegant apparel. Hut even when
decked with glories whose texture and
colors make the lily homely, they -till
wi-h they were me n, ami they i--.tc.-in
man's plain bifurcated clothes la tter
than all their gurg'-ou- raiment.
Men ha- that which to him i- a su
preme reason lbr not wihig that In
were a woman. The idea sho< k- him
with the thought that if In- were a
woman In- could not have the happi
ne-s ot' loving women and of Ix ing
loved. It i- not neei -,ary for him to
think further to decide that to l>e
changed to a woman would take away
the chief joy of his lite, and imbed
all that mak - a man's life worth liv
ing. Hut no consideration correlative
to this keeps woman from wishing that
she were a man.
I- there not in this different some
thing sadly suggestive that love do.-,
not take -ii deep a hold in woman's
nature as in man's? When the thought
of Is ing a woman is suggi -t<s| to man's
mind.ii instantly take* in his relation*
to woman, which have laconic the
great part of hi. life, all of which
would never have cxi-ted had he been
a female. He cannot conceive of cm
|M ii-ation in relations the counterpart
of these, which might lie if he were a
woman, for he cannot conceive thai
they can equal his present ex|>ericncc.
I tut it is drendtul to hear women
wi-h they were men, thus, in effect,
wishing that their husbands, lovers,
and children had never existed; wish
ing that which i- annihilation to their
prc-'-nt love, and to all the objects of
it. It is dreadful to the fresh lover,
to whom she is all the world, and who
ha- lx-4-n told from her lips that he i
all the world to her, to h-nr the ex
pression drop out, its it it were a con
stant thought, that six wishes she were
a man. To w hat nothingness dues this
sink the lover ?
The man who hears woman *j*ak
this, finds that he is not the first ot).
jeet to lor, hut that her dearest wish
is another man. Ami that man would
be no com|M'nsntion to him. He real
izes that he is hut the secondary object,
and that she would gladly cut him off
to lie a man herself, with all which
that implies. A. nothing raises man's
conceit so much as woman's love, so
nothing so cuts it down as the loving
woman's declaration that she would
be a man. All this leads him to think
that after all there must lx. a radical
difference in man's and woman's na
ture; a difference more radical than
clothes or external formation.
How vain are all the struggles for
|K>litical equality for woman, when *ht
feels that to lie n man is more than
all right*! The more she drives for
equality with man, the more keenly
she feels the hard fate of (icing woman.
One of the roost advanced and most
fortunate of the advocates of woman's
elevation it was who said thai when
she ticcamc a.mother, and they told
her that it was a girl, she turned her
face to the wall and wept.
Yet woman's belief that to lie made
female is a cruel fate may not be well
founded. Having never been man
she cannot judge whether his life is
the happier or nobler. Iteing discon
tented, and being woman, and seeing
the other half of the race man, she
fancies that man's state is better. Hut
man is discontented. Hhe would be jio
more contented if she were man. And
still she would And her life as man
bound up and tied down and insepar
ably tangled with woman, o that she
would have to bear many of Woman's
burdens.
The tierce contest of the advocates
of woman's political rights has led the
most advanced thinkers to renounce
the Rihlc and the religion which has
been drawn from it, because, they say,
these have hecii made instruments to
degrade and enslave woman. Hut
woman's sexual limitations prevent
her from taking more than a one-sided
view. She cannot conceive man's life.
She knows not but that it- wider range
embraces more trouble. To wish to be
a man is to take a leap into the dark.
Thus she cannot be certain thut the
order of the Creator who made man
male and female is not just. She can
not ho certain thut to bo created fe
male is not as merciful a fate as to be
created male. A general confidence
in the justice of < iod would make her
believe that lie laid not formed one
half of his creatures for a dc-tiny
worse than the other half.
TIIK IT.A Mil's IN .11 I.A.
J ANOTIIKU MIIM-111 >I WONNRNRI I. I-I.ANET-
Asr I'IIKKOMKS A.
j I l 'III 111- I'r-.li-li fi< <
.Inly will not lull In-hind the previ
j mis months in objects of exceeding in
j 11 rest lor those who follow the move
ments of the planetary wanderer- on
the u/.iire urcli that nightly spreads its
glittering canopy above our lu-ad-.
Saturn and Jupiter will be seen to
withdraw from their clo-o companion
| ship, hut both planets will be in con
junction with Mars, tin ir quicker pace
outstripping his slower steps. Venus
j will reach the end of the chain that
j limits her westward path, and remain
! ing stationary for a lew days, seem ul
moxt consciously to regret the r.-ist
b -s force that compels her to retrace
her step* and subside fur a time into
comparative insignificance. Hut plan
•is and their brightest phases lose
their lustre and lull into secondary
importance by the side of the great
wonder of the skies that, on the 2'Jd
of June, suddenly bust forth in the
northern skies, to the delight and as
tonishment of all beholders. The great
comet of I**l will probably l- an
object of unwearying interest through
out the month. S xiice ha- advanced
with rapid step* -uc >• a cotix-t ot equal
si/e ha. visited our domains, and it
will be studied it- comet never was
-tudicd before. Scientists will leave
no stone unturned to barn it- history,
whcncp it came and whither it i- go
ing, what it i- made of and what i
its purje-e in the divine ccoimmv.
I nscientific observer.* will, jK-rbap-,
find great enjoyment in beholding toe
magnificent stranger n- night after
night it shine- in misty brightm--- and
-prcad. out it* g >--aiiu r tail, regard
]< -- of the -tars that Cotni in it- w;iv.
No perplexing iigup no conflicting
tlnxirii- will coufusc their brain-, and
it anything of importance i- discover
ed, they will share in the results with
out taking share in the hard lalx.r.
July, therefore, prorni-- rich material
lor observer* of the -tar-. A maiotic
comet wends its way in tin- north at
a tremendous pace. Venus, Jupiter,
Mars, and Saturn are radiant morn
ing star-. Could we take pa-sage on
, the retreating cuinel, what glorious
views might I*' obtained as we pa--<<l
in our rapid pa--ng<- near these shin
ing world*, while the sun grew dim
and the giant plain t* loomed forth
with their ring* and moons, and vast
dimcD-ion*. tfiir own system might
then lie left behind and the distance
spanned from sun to sun liefore our
course was backward turned, while
even tlx II we could have but a faint
idea of the extent of that boundless
universe, from whose confine* light is
a million years r< aching mortal • ve*.
Ittll.WAl MIHFA.
Many jx-rson*, cs|x-< ially ladies, are
great stitb rer* from tlint form of nan
-< u and headache know n as "car-sick
lie-,*." A journey by rail has for
them all the discomfort and suffering
that an ocean voyage ha- to the ma
jority of travelers.
A lady who had occasion to take a
-hort trip on the I vowel I road was, a*
i* usual with her, thoroughly sick by
the time six- had ridden a dozen mile*.
I he conductor of the palace cur, who
was apparently very familiar with
such ruses, tol<i the sufferer's compan
ion that a sheet of writing paper worn
next to the person, directly over the
chest, wa* n sure preventive ot the
trouble in nine case* out of ten. He
had recommended it to hundreds of
travelers ami never known it to fail.
For the return trip, a sheet of com
mon writing note paper was fastened
inside the clothing, a* directed. Re
sult —a perfectly comfortably journey,
without a hint of the old sick new that
had for years made travel by rail a
terror. It was so like a superstition,
or a happy accident, however, that
the lady would not accept it as real
until subjected to a more severe test.
This came in a day's journey to New-
York, and the hardest trial of all—a
night in an "alleged" sleeping enr.
Roth were takcu in triumph. The
"charm" worked. And the lady writes
to the Boston'/fero/d ■'
"The day journey was a perpetual
wonder and delight to me. 1 could
sit up nnd read, and look at the land
scape through which wc whirled, and
act as other people do. And etill I
didn't feel ready to confess to a cure
until I had tries! the sleeping car,
which lias always been a horror to inc.
But even here the 'spell' worked. I
ate a hearty supper in the dining car
—and kept it! Hlept soundly all
night; got up as comfortably, and
dressed with as level a head and as ■
sternly a hand us though I hud been !
in my own room. Read until break- '
last time—a thing I have never be- j
fore done on tin- ( . arH — a ,„j was bun- i
gry lor my morning meul. It is real- i
Iv wonderful, almost too good to Is- i
real, bur the first time in my life I i
have experienced the pleasure of trav
eling."
To the scientific guessoin is left the
explanation of this |x:culiar potency
of a sheet of paper. And, a- a forth
, er possible contribution to the welfare
I of qualmish travelers, it is suggested
whether the charm would not work
equally well in preventing seasick
ness. The ex|M!riiucnt is certainly
worth trying.
♦
A ( I 1(101 St tit.
\ W ovoEuri I. EIR.< S. or MEMIAXU-M ON TIIK
I'BNNKVI.V AM A R LLI.ROAI).
The I'eniisylvauia railroad's "track
' indicator," that valuable piece of ma-
I chinery that ascertains accurately ami
' records automatically and exactly the
condition ot every foot of track over
which it pas.s< . was at the West Phila
delphia depot Friday, says the A'e*.
It is now being used to ascertain the
' exact state of affairs between here and
1 Pittsburg, with a view to quicker time
in the near future. The condition of
the track is determined by its action
on tie- ear, which is very accurately
hung. The principle adopted by the
inventor, Axle Vogt, a draughtsman
of the company, was thut of automatic
:.'i aphieal representation, so successful
ly applied in meteorological observa
tion-. A broad paper ribbon, about
twelve inches wide, i- stretched over
two drums in the rear of the car. At
the In-ginning of the route it i- coib-d
on the drum nearest the- rear of the
ear, and a- the journey progrc—es an
arrangement of cranks and wheels,
connected with the wheels of the ve
hicle, causes, for every mile the car
traverses, four feet of patx-r to la
draw n off one drum and coih-d on the
other. The ribbon pa--e- under a set
of pencils, which record upon it the
ob-ervation- obtained bv iii-trument>
to which they are attached. A record
i- k- pt on the ribbon of the rate of
travel,ami martin- i-a cries of liuc*,
in two groups of eight lines each, <n
which error- of 1.-v.-l on the track arc
marked. A projection cause, the re
e irding line to (It viate to one side and
a depression on the other. The liues
measure the defect and an eighth of
an inch mark- a perceptible deviation
on the paper. Bctwci n the two group
of lines corresponding with the two
rail- i- a -ingle line, along which the
j "elevation or swing of the curve, i
determineil. i>n the left of the paper
are three more lines, on which are
resjteetivclv mark-l the number of
yard, coven 1, the miio jxi-ts, towers,
switchc.-. etc., a. they are [tossed and
the most complicated |x>rti<>n of the
entire machine, that by which the
gauge or interval Is-tween the tracks
i- measured. Hy a womlerful piece of
m - liani-ni the latter Ixar- the mark
of too narrow gauge or of "spreading"
rails,while close Is-ide it and parallel
with all the indicated faults and I.wa
tion i. tillitsl, fir-t bv the mile post
number marked by the ..j* rator and
secondly by the automaticallv tncasur
<-<1 hundred yard dots.
Tin; \ A 1.1 F OF ( I VII.ITV.
Fr to • .1 J r ll tjra.
'I here would In- fewer broken friend
ships, fewer unhappy unions and fami
ly quarrel., were it not HI much the
custom amongst intimate friends and
relations to neglect the small courtesies
of life, to show less and less mutual
deference a. that grow more and more
familiar; it is the foundation of misery
in marriage, ami many a serious and
life-long estrangement has Ixgun, not
from want of affection so much a. from
lack of that delicate and instinctive
appreciation of the feelings of others,
which makes a person shrink from
saying unpleasant thing'* or finding
fault unless absolutely obliged, ami in
any can' to avoid wounding the of-'
fender's sense of dignity or stirring up
within him Ax-lings of opposition and
animosity; for although many persons
profess to be above taking offence at
hone -t eensure, and even seem to court
criticism, yet it must be very carefully
administered not to Ik> unpalatable,
liven kind and geucrous actions are
oftcn so uncoutuly performed as to
cause the recipient more pain than i
| pleasure, while a reproof or denial
may IK? SO sweetened by courtesy as
almost to do away with anv sense of
mortification or disappointment. True
good breeding is always inclined to
! form a favorable judgment, and to
give others the credit of lieing actuat
ed by worthy motives; it does not,
wish or seem to know more about pea- j
pie than they themselves desire should ■
IK> known, but it is always prepared,
when necessary, to take an interest in
the affairs of others, while self is not
suffered to obtrude unduly ; in a supe
rior it never reminds an inferior, by
tone or gesture, of bis position ; in an
inferior it never apes equality, A ;
show of respect never fails to beget
respect. Saunter IN modo, foriiter in
re, should lc the motto of all who de
sire to be either useful or beloved; the
stronger an individual, the more im
pressive is his gentleness, the wiser be
is, the more gratifying and compli
mentary bis deference ; and in a world
where there is so much unavoidable
disoomfort and unhappiness, it is sure
ly every one's duty to eullivato those
gracious manners, under whose mag
netic influence the restless and dissat
isfied grow more content with them
selven and their surrounding", by which
the diffident are encouraged, the inva
lid in roused and interested, the young
are inspired with *clf-re*p"ct, the old
are kept bright and hopeful ; which,
in short, heam sunshine everywhere,
and increase a thousand-fold the ag
gregate ol human happim-**.
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\ Bird's Iturlal.
HOW a IIK onseuiir.* *wi i-cßroßMcn AM#
A HI Roe HCKO.
It-Attt#t Cn- k OfW&pottdeui f hi'ug'j 7 rl/tjn
While drolling through the wood* at
i Cognac I#ake yesterday afternoon f'
maidenly came across half a do/en i
hird" of the variety known a" brown
1 thrush or mocking hird. They were
all busy working at norm: object on
the ground, and did not notice my in
truding until I was upon them, when,
with a shrill cry. they flew off a short
: distance and perched on the tree* to
j watch my movement*. Having my
. : curio-ity aroused, I went to examine
what I supposed was a not of young
hird-, wlu-u to my surprise I found the
' dead hody of a female thrush, which
hud been killed by a shot from some
hunter's gun and had fallen where it
. lay. The birds which I noticed about
it had I seen covering it over with
leaves, sticks, little tufts of grass, etc.,
until only it" feet stuck out. Jrnmo
, diatcly the story of the Ila lie- in the
Wood covered with haves by robins
came to my mind and all seemed real
a.- the time when in childhood I read
the story and believed it to he true.
Anxious to si c what the birds would
do I stepped baek of a large tree to a
little distance and watched thorn.
Slowly the birds came baek one bv
one and continued the work of bury
ing the dead bird. While engaged
hopping about after leaves and grass
they would chirp in a low, melancholy
key what 1 took to he the dirge notes
of the little bird's funeral. I did not
have it in my heart to disturb tbein
and watched them at their labors for
a full half hour, at the cud of which
time th! dead bird wa- completely
buried.
\ti \Urged I arc for the Small-l'o\
IN IN HI. V* LURK S .
A thoroughly qualified medical man,
a friend of mine, has recently, in the
course of his practice, come upon what
he believes and us- a- a •[*-< itic rem
edy for small p"X. He refuses to
make it known hinwlf, but j rmit- nie
to do so. The remedy i- the hi lar- '
Irate of jxitaidi, the common cream of
tartar of the drugstore; two ounce*
dissolved in builing water, with the
juice of a letnou and sugar added.
Ix-t the patient drink as much as he
like-, hut not less than a wineglassful
every hour. In Rome of his case this
medicine ha" exhibited the mo-t re
markable curative effect*. It will
purge, hut a- it i- perfectly harmh -s
this will not matter, and it doe* not
appear to lie the cause of cure, the
remedy acting sjiecifically on theviris,
the pustules collapsing, leaving no
pit*, a perfect cure following in a
short time.
Ih'Riv; a trial for assault in Ar
kansas a eluh, a rock, a rail, an axe
handle, a knife and a shot gun were
exhibited as "the instruments with
j which the deed was done." It was
also shown that the assaulted man de
fended himself with a revolver, a
scythe, a pitchfork, a chisel, a band-
I saw, a flail and a cross dog. The jury
decided that they'd have given ?•'
apiece to have seen the tight.
HE who think* the worst of all
things combined, walks abroad in the
i noonday sun and says : "How sad is
the fart that beneath every flower
there is a shallow." Hut when the
cheerful thinker goes forth, he says :
"How grand is the thought that over J
the little shadows of earth then 1 are
such Uautiful flowers."
I . A novel! KIU. says lieaoonsficld was
, fond of a show, but eared little for
money. In that respect he resembled
the boy who gave up his last cent to
sec the minstrel*.
LAW is very like a sieve; it i- easy
to see through it, hut one must lie A
considerably reduced before he
through. M
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