V ' ' THE; PITTSBURGH- DISPATCH, . SUNDAY," MAEOH 2, 1890. - s . l$ - ii ... . , i i. I, , mini . : : ' . ' . mffX&mm- I W urn U x Bfflgj; "lQ5!515i On one of the lofty mountains of Tyrol, stood a small cottage surrounded by a small garden patch. The afternoon sun shone brightly on the lonely dwelling, and peered curiously in at the windows as if anxious to know who would be living in such a wild and out-of-the-way place. A few goats climbed down from the rocks and stood bleating before the house. Then the door opened and a 10-year-old boy appeared who, shading his eyes with his hands, looked eacerly down the steep path leading from the Tillage to his home. "Father and mother are not coming yet, Anneli," he cried; "but come and see how the glacier glows in the sunlight." Anneli came in answer to this call, and as she stood in the bright sunlieht, her long, blonde hair falling about her shoulders, and her large, blue eyes fixed admiringly on the distant mountain peak, she seemed more like a creature from lairyland, than the daughter of the poorest shepherd in the country. "Oh give me some of those red and blue flowers that are growing on the glacier," she said, stretching her hands toward the icy sea, over which the sun shone in dazzling brightness. There are no flowers," answered Tom; "it is only the reflection of the sunlight on the ice." "Let us go near and see it," said Anneli, THE KISG rXTEBED "the mountains never before looked so beautiful." "Mother said we must not go out of the house till she returned,"replied her brother, "and we must go in at once." But Annelli began to cry, and coaxed so pleadingly to go just a few steps that Tcni, who could never refuse any wish of his little sister, took her hand and started up the nar row path. They had gone only a short dis tance when a gray rabbit darted in front of them, and began nibbling some plants near by. 'Catch it," whispered Anneli, softly. Toni quickly sprang forward; but the lit tle animal hopped in among the rocks, and, although Toni poked long sticks into the openings, be could not gain another sight of the rabbit. Disappointed over his failure, be turned to the place where he had left his sister; but she was nowhere to be seen. "Anneli," he cried anxiously, "where are yon?" .But only the echo repeated bis own words. "Anneli," he shouted, "we must go home. Where are vou hiding?" "Hiding?" answered the echo. Wild with anxiety and fear, the boy ran hither and thither, peering behind rocks, and over precipices; but no trace of his sister could he find; and at last came the awful thought that she was lost in the wild mountains. "What will mother say," he cried, "when I tell her that Anneli is lost? And how father will grieve for his darling child ! It was my fault. Mother told ns not to leave the house, and I should have obeyed her. Anneli 1" he shouted again, "come, come. Mother will be watching for us." At last, when the sun was sinking down behind the mountains and darkness was spreading over the valley, Toni, stricken with grief, sought his home and told the sad news to bis parents. All night they searched among the rocks and through the forest, and in the morning men from the village joined in the search. But all to no purpose, for no trace of the little Anneli could be found, and her friends at last concluded that she had fallen over a precipice and had been dashed to pieces ou the rocks below. Poor Toni was never again seen to mingle among the village children, or join in their sports. He always kept apart from the others, and 37ie Old Shepherd's Story. thought only ol his lost sister and the great aorrow lit had brought upon his parents by his disobedience. One day about a year alter Anneli'a strange disappearance a stranger from the neighboring town stopped at the little cot- i i ii ii .unkip k-iiilx-iMi'nlNHl lage and asked shelter for the night Alter observing Toni's sad face and quiet manner, the stranger asked : " "What are you think ing of, mv boy?" "What I am always thinking, was the replr, "of my dead sfster." "Tell me about your sister," said the shepherd. And when he had beard the story he said: "I do not believe Anneli is dead, and I can tell you how to see her again." "With a cry of joy, Toni ran to the old man and seizing his hand, said: "Anneli is not dead? Where is she then, and how can I find her?" "It is a dangerous undertaking, and your sister may not wish to return with you. Could you bear that disappointment?" "O. Ancelli would surely wish to come home with me, and I would willingly brave every danger to see her once more." Then the old shepherd gave Toni many directions about the journey, which was not to be a long one, only to the top of the mouutaiu, within sight of his home. The bov waited impatiently for the morning, and long before the sun arose he was toiling up the steep mountain. Very carefully and slowlyhe crept along the edges of deep precipices, and climbed over rough rocks; and it wjs not till the noonday sun stood high in the heavens that he reached the top of the mountain. Now he must search for the home of the mountain dwarfs which he should find among the rocks, having before the entrance a large round stone different from anv others in that Z.EADIXO AUNELLI. region. It was no easy task to discover the hiding place of the dwarfs; but perseverance finally conquered, and Toni found himself be. ore the cave closed with a large round stone. Hastily hiding himself in a remote corner of the cave, he waited lor the night, at which time the dwarfs all assemble in this place. Being very weary be fell asleep, and did not awake until the moon arose and sent her beams through the crevices in the rocks. Then Toni heard low voices, and looking up saw 20 or 30 little men not more than two feet high and each carrying a bright colored lan tern enter the cave. Toni crept back into the shadow where he could see without being seen. Other dwaifs carrying lights entered, until the whole space appeared like a true fairy laud. The little creatures busied themselves bringing small tables from hidden corners and spreading a rich feast which was very tempting to the hun gry boy. At a signal from one who had stationed himself as watcher the dwarfs ar ranged themselves in two lines, and the musicians began to beat their drums and blow upon their tiny instruments. Then Toni saw the object of his search; for at that moment Laurins, the famous king of the dwarfs, entered, leading Anneli by the band. Oh, how beautiful she looked in her snow-white robes and a garland of white roses in her golden hair. Toni could re strain himself no longer; and, rushing from his hiding place, he bounded to his sister's side. "What does this mean?" cried the King in an angry tone; "who are you, and how came you here?" "I am Toni, the shepherd lad," answered the boy, "and am come for my sister." "Your sister came to us of her own free will," cried the King, "and if she wishes to retnrn we shall not hinder her. Ask her; and if she desires to go, you may take her with you." "Anneli," cried Toni, "father and mother are grieving for you. It is very lonely without you; we all want you. Won't you come home with me?" "5Tou seem very kind," said Anneli; "but I do not know you, nor your father nor mother. King Laurins is very old and lonely, and I promised to stay with him." And turning to the King she said, "I shall stay witn you. At these words the dwarfs raised a shout of joy; but poor Toni was almost overcome with grief. "I have one reauest to make." he said: "let me take my sister apart from the com pany that we may say goodby alone." This wish was granted, and Toni led An neli to the entrance of the cave. There he showed her the glaciers and the snow-covered peacs, and the light shining through the window of their little cottage. He told her bow thev had climbed the steep path, and how be had left her to catch the grey rabbit. Then the bell in the village church tower began to toll, and Anneli cried: "Ob, Toni, my brother, I remember all." The dwarfs coming from the cave heard these last words, and although they grieved to lose such a prize they did not try to de tain her. And now the poor old King Laurins sits sad and lonely in his mountain home. Bnt Anneli is the pride and joy of her parents, and the idol of her brother Toni. Paysie. Messes. F. H. Egoebs &Sox, the well knowu Allegheny City druggists, say that their sales are larger on Chamberlain's Cough Itemedy that on any other patent or proprietary article they handle. Try a 50 cent bottle of it and you will then learn whv it is so popular. Por sale by E. G. Stuckey.Seventeenthand Tweaty-lourth streets, Penn avenue and corner Wylie avenue and Fulton street; .MarkellBros., corner Penn and Frankstown avenues; Theodore E. Ihrig, 3G10 Fifth ave nue; Carl Hartwig, 401S Butler street, Pittsburg, and in Alleghenv by E. E. Heck, 72 and 1EM Federal street; Thomas B. Morris, corner Hanover and Preble ave nues; F. H. Eegers, 172 Ohio street, and F. H. Eggers & Son, 199 Ohio street and 11 Bmithfield street, -vsn WILL JOU MARRY ME? Utterances From Experts on How the Question Should be Fat. THE BEST STYLE OP ELOCUTION. If Ever a Lorer Stutters He Does So on This Supreme Occasion. TIIKGTHE KNOT IN PLAI AND N0YIj trEEPAKID FOB THK PISFATCH.1 It is with a full appreciation of the im portance of the theme, and with no disposi tion at all to make humor out of it, that we present herewith a symposium on the sub ject of popping the matrimonial question. "Will you marry me?" is a short and simple sentence. Yet it is doubtful if it is shortly and simply uttered in connection with one betrothal out of a thousand. Prof. Brainard G. Smith is at the head of the Department of Elocution and Oratory at Cornell Uni versity, and no higher authority in the niceties of human speech is recognized in America. We have obtained from him ex act instruction as to how to say: "Will you marry me?" It may safely be said of men who pop this question that those stutter at it who never stuttered before, and that those who habitu ally stutter are made to stutter all the more. Therefore, it was fitting that we should ob tain from Dr. Buff, an eminent Berlin specialist, a contribution dealing with vocal impediments. It is on the theatrical sta?e that marriage proposals are spoken with the greatest frequency and variety, and so we havese cured from a very clever actress and writer one who plays the roles of the heroines on the Boston Museum stage an article on the dramatic side of this theme. Miss Sheridan writes most entertainingly, and in a way to disclose, humoronsly as well as truthfully, the feelings of a young lady who receives or rejects mimic offers of marriage as a part of her protessional duty. Finally, we have from Louise Stockton, the noted novelist, and sister of another celebrated author, a paper setting forth her views on a true lover' knot, and how he does or does not tie it. AS TO ELOCUriON. Frof. Smith, of Cornell University Gives Instructions. When a young man loves a young woman, and wishes to make her his wife, the prime question for him to decide is: How shall he ask her? Shall he Lead her from the festive boards, Point her to the starry skies? Guard her, by bis truthful words Pure from Courtship's flatteriesT This method has its disadvantages in our variable and uncertain climate, and court ship's flatteries are not always unpleasing to yonng women, Mrs. Browning to the con trary, notwithstanding. Shall he fall on his knees and pour out his soul in impas sioned and more or less unintelligible lan guage? This method, nowadays, is confined to the dramatic stage. The sensible, nineteenth century, Ameri can way is for the man manfully to say to the woman "Will you marry me?" Those are the words she wants to hear, if she be a true woman. And those are the right words, because they express the idea that the man wishes to convey to the woman with purity, propriety and precision that is, with perspicuity. How much this means every student of rhetoric knows. More over, there are in the lonr words forming the sentence, or, rather, there is in the sen tence thus lormed, clearness, unity, strength, harmony. It is a model sentence. Assuming, then, that the words. "Will you marry me?" are the right words, it re mains to be decided how these words can be best spoken. For, as Seneca very justly says, "The manner of saying a thing goes a great way toward the valne of the thing itself." It should be laid down as an axiom that no man can control his voice who can not control his breath. He who can control properly his breath need not hesitate to go into the presence of her who holds his fate in her keeping and sav the words that are burning in his heart, knowing that neither the manly agitation nor the proper fear that hefeels can cause him to lose control of his voice, and render his speech halting, unin telligible, and perhaps repellant, to her whom he hopes to win. Now, as to time. I have no hesitancy in saying: Speak very slowly. As every student of elocution knows that is the time in which to deliver sentences expressing gravity, solemnity, pathos, reverence, awe, sublimity, command. Without doubt the question falls in one or more of these aivisions. Still another reason for saying, "slow." How often do we hear of young women answering the question with the words, "Why, T had no idea you take me by sur prise it's so unexpected it's so sudden 1" And so, simply on account of his foolish precipitancy and unartistic rapidity of speech, the wooer gets a stammering and perhaps unsatisfactory answer to a question easy to answer, and delightful, too. On one point, the question of emphasis, I can speak with authority. That it is an im portant point at once will be seen. Suppose the wooer says: " Will you marry me?" Is there not danger that, in that empha sized "Will," the wooer give the lady the impression that he is almost hopeless that she will? Women want no timid wooers. If he says, "Will you marry me?" he is in danger. It is as though he confessed to having put the question to many another woman, and in vain; as though he said, "I can't get anyone else; will you marry me?" Alas for the wooer who emphasizes "you!" Suppose he says, "Will you marry me?" Sanger again. It is at once apparent that be almost expects the answer to be "No;" that he had little hope that such as she would marry such as he. Emphasis on the "me" would be almost as disastrous as em phasis on the "Will." But and now you anticipate what I am about to write suppose the wooer says: "Will you marry me?" Has he not asked the question of questions? What a manly ring the words have! No ambiguity there; no false modesty; no timidity; no whining supplication! "I'm a man, and love you; will you marry me?" Let us leave the lovers to their bliss. BEAKfABD G. Smith. STDTTEKIKG TONGUES. The Wards, Will Vou Mnrry Me, Bother DIauy a Tongue The Remedy. Although Moses was a great leader and law-giver, yet we have good reason to be lieve that he stuttered, for when commanded by the Lord to speak for his people he made reply that he was "slow of speech and of a heavy tongue." So Aaron was deputed to act as spokesman. We have here probably the earliest reference to a singnlar charac teristic of the stuttering evil, viz., the in crease of the trouble when the person affected attempts to speak in the presence of strangers or superiors. It is a common mistake to confound stut tering with stammering; in the latter case there is never a moment when the stam merer, lisper, etc, is not under the ban of his defect; while in the former, the person afflicted may go for considerable length of time without the slightest display of the ail ment In the most ordinary form of stut tering, the speaker begins in a natural man ner, when suddenly a certain word, or syl lable in a word, arrests his course violently, the face twitches and jerks, all will power to open or close the mouth is lost, the eye lids rise and fall quite independently of the stutterer's control, and the head is thrown forward, backward or sidewise. In another form of the disease, but one of rarer occur rence, the speaker suddenly comes to a halt without the slightest outward manifestations of any twitching in the face or body. Only the change in the color of his face or drops of perspiration give evidence of the conflict going on. After a few seconds the power of speech is fullv recovered. There are almost as many theories regard ing stuttering as there are experts. Our own opinion is that stuttering is the result of a sudden change in the temperature of the blood on that part of the brain which is the center of speech, and that such changes are the result of mental influences. To support this theory we have only to point out the lact that persons with perfect powers of speech, in moments of 'great mental excite ment become alternately red and pale in the face and lose control over their organs of speech. When a stutterer is alone, or be lieves himself to be alone, he can, in most cases, read or declaim any matter without the slightest difficulty. So, too, in choruses, for he feels that the attention of nobody is specially directed to him. All attempts to cure this malady must be based upon efforts to turn the stutterer's thoughts in a channel away from his defect and thus to free him from the pressure which his lack of confidence in his powers of utterance exerts upon him. Kegular breathing and keeping time while speaking will serve to turn the thoughts of the patient from the dread of his ailment. Of course, when a man faces a woman with the one great question he can conceive of no more momentous occasion. Stutter? Of course. So much the more need of the young lover's training to overcome the de lect. De. J. Kuff. AN ACTRESS' EXPERIENCE. Stage Proposals Versus Real Ones, and the Humor of Both Kinds. Yet they say Shakespeare himself says the stage is to hold the mirror up to nature. I wonder how many men who have six or eight times reached the climax of courtship, and who remember anything about what they did upji those six or eight occasions, can go to the theater, gaze upon the mirror that the stage holds up and flatter them selves they see their own reflection. The glib stage lover, supplied with moving lines, rendered secure by rehearsals, buoyed up by precognizance of everything the lady will do and say.glibly pours into that lady's ear the tale of his love. What real lover's tongue ever wagged a like tale so fluently, The real man at such a crisis is inspired to belie in his action every trait his mother gave to him On the stage the brisk,checry, self-confident young man makes a brisk, cheery, self-confident proposal. In real life he finds himself reduced to stammering idi ocy and hopeless self-contempt On the stage the hard, practical business man makes a hard, practical business proposal. In real lire he drops into poetry and perspiration. The rough-diamond lover on the stage gets off his pretty speech, the girl meanwhile sitting on a fallen tree with her eyes on th3 groundand high-heeled shoes on her feet "Nell," he says, "I'm only a poor, rough fellow, I know not fit for a bit of thistle down like you. I won't blame you for turning me away. I only expect that; but it isn't going to hurt you, Nell, to let me siy belore I go that I I love you, Nell as dear as the grapes that hang there over the cottage door (points off O. P.) I love the sunshine that brings the purple to their coats and the wine to their hearts." There is something off-hand poetic like that, and you and the audience think what a splendid, honest fellow he is. The tears come to your eyes as he turns away, and you feel glad when the girl says, shvly: "Don't go, Ben," and worked up and hysteriky when, with a sob, he faces her, saying: "Nell, do you mean it? You'd go nigh to break my heart ii" and she puts out her hand, and you know how it is done on the stage. In real life Ben doesn't know what is the matter with him. When his time comes his girl has to. help him. He is, perhaps, as big hearted and honest as Ben on the stage, but be can't prove it by talking of grapes and sunshine. But, if you like him, he is just as effective (to you and off the stage) when he says: "Say. Katie, I can't stand this any more. I . Oh! don't look as if you didn't know what I mean, for I don't know I," and then you put out your hand, and you know how it is done oft the stage. Wine, they say, brings out men's real natures, but fove transforms them. That is what is the matter with marriage. Women marry transformed men, and when it comes to getting along with the husband he trans forms back again. That is a contingency with which staee life seldom deals. Bnt. oh, girll don't fall in love with any stage lover and fancy that he would say it just that way to you. He wouldn't And don't expect your Bens, Johns, Bobs and Alfonzos to "do it as it's done on the stage." They can't; and it is just as well they can't It is never meant on the stage, youknow, and it is meant sometimes off. Just you be sure he means it, no matter how he says it, and good luck to you. Emma T. Shebidah-. A TRUE LOVER'S KNOT. Loulso Stockton Telia How tt Happens In Fact and In Fiction. Not long ago somebody started an inquiry into the methods employed by lovers when they ask their ladies to marry them. The inqnirer made one discovery instantly, and that was this no one would tell. The men wouldn't If they had been accepted, they did not dare to; and if they had been re jected, they did not want to. As for the ladies, they laughed at the editor. If he wanted to propose, that was one thing ; but if he wanted to know what other men said let him ask them ! They wouldn't tell ? Neither would she 1 Next to a good deal of experience, there is nothing like complete innocence. A young man's modesty and his forwardness make a capital mixture, and, as he speaks from the fullness of a very abundant heart, he is as eloquent as excitement can make him. He is always so frightluliy in earnest. He never simply declares his love, but he asks her to marry him. But this vision of young love is brief. She usually refuses him, and if she accepts him, she may, some fatal hour, dance with another fellow, or he may go home with another girl, and all is over! Bings go back, letters are burned and two hearts would be broken if two lovers were not so "mad" at each other. The youth's second lover is likely to be older than himself and of some social dis tinction in her circle. There comes a time when he tells her that he "is nobler for having known her." -This is when she re fuses him, and offers to be his sister. He never says this to the girl who accepts iim. A young lover also writes better love let ters than the older ones', but as a man grows in years, the more ink does he use in his love making. But if I were a juror in a breach of promise case, I should pray that the defendant should be young. His love letters would then, perhaps, be a little inter esting. But the American lover? Whv in books does he love his lady? Because he can not get her! She is in love with another man; she is married to another; he has to overcome obstacles to convince her, to win her! In French and English books they look, they love, and theu the fates conspire against them; but not so in the American. He will not; she will not It is the toss of a penny which will not, but the other has the game at last, unless, indeed, one or the other dies. But that is hardly fair in any case. You never catch Howells, or James, or Stockton killing off their heroes or heroines. In the American novel the women writers do the murdering. And this is the queerer because, as a class, literary women are sunny, happy creatures, and never pose for the absorbed and romantic as the literary men often do. But a man is a curious creature, take him as you will, and Mrs. Tulliver long ago remarked that women were made to match. Louise Stockton. I Look Ilcrc, Friend, Are You Sick? Do you suffer from dyspepsia, indigestion, sour stomach, liver complaint, nervousness, lost appetite, biliousness, exhaustiou or tired feeling, pains in chest or lungs, dry coughs, nightsweats, or 'any form of con sumption? If so. send to Prof. Hart, 88 Warren street, New York, who will send you free, by mail, a bottle of Floraplexion, which is a sure cure.. Send to-day. eos SUNDAY THOUGHTS -ON- MORALSZMANNERS BY A CLERGYMAN. iwnrmx tor thi dispatch. 1 Put sunshine into your religion, and plenty of it Itisagood thing to have a Southern exposure to your house. Health and happiness are found on that side. So in the Christian life, growth and grace face toward the sun. Don't live in the cellar. Subterranean believers dishonor their faith. If God is your father; if your interests are in the hands of divine Providence, so that all things work together for your good; if He has promised to take care of you here and to croirn you hereafter; why borrow trouble? It is foolish to borrow trouble when there is always so much of it in the house. Be member that you have not one care too many; not one sorrow too many; not one cross too many. Earthly perplexities are the architects of character. There never was a strong character that was not com pacted out of tribulations. These things are all parts of the discipline that makes manhood and womanhood. Accept them, therefore, as helps, not hindrances. Be more studious to profit by them than to escape from them. Watch God's dealings with you. "He who watches for Provi dence," says an old writer, "will have providences to watch." Are you an heir of God ? Is immortality a-throb"in your soul ? Is your career ruled and overruled for good ? Why, then, laugh; don't frown. Hold up your head; don't hang it Sing; don't cry. Carry peace in your nature. Diffuso joy. Bay out sympathy. Surround yourself with the atmosphere of good will. Prove the help fulness of religion by showing that it is your consolation. The best recommendation Christianity can have is a happy, buoyant Christian. Stand, therefore, like the angel mentioned in the Scriptures, 'in the sun." Wnges of Women Wprkers. According to Marion Harland, "60 cen turies of precedent since the time of their 'fcremother Eve' have rendered women incapable of competing on equal terms with men in manufacturing, mercantile, profes sional, and even educational business. They do not work as men do. 'A man grasps his business with both hands. If his hands are not strong enough, be clamps it with his feet, and rather than let it go, seizes it with his jaws.' A woman usually regards labor as a means to an end, as 'a violence done to nature and precedent.' She will not take the same care as a man; she stands too much upon her dignity. She is given to temper or whimpering when found fault with." Upon this a cotemporary remarks: "This is surely important, if true; and we believe that it is at least worthy of very serious consideration, especially by young women who aspire to earning their own living and to taking their places among the world's breadwinners. There are, to be sure, many exceptions to this rule, many bright, inde pendent, self-reliant young women, who, while thoroughly womanly.arealso thoroughly able to take care of themselves. In fact, the list of exceptions is already quite as long as the rule itself, perhaps, like the memorable passage in Andrew and Stoddard's Latin grammar. "Still, there is enough truth in Marion Harland's indictment to make it worthy of the most serious consideration by every young woman. It is not altogether man's inhumanity to woman which makes her wages less and her chances poorer than those of a man of the same intellectual caliber. There is much in her own view of life that accounts for this, and, before she can hope to have her rights of earning as good a living as her brother fully recognized, she, too, must seize her business 'with both hands,' and not regard it merely as a picas ant diversion or grim necessity, not to be gladly accepted, but to be endured for a little while between girlhood and matri mony. "The young man knows that he will be discharged if he does not do his work well. The young woman often thinks that win ning ways, or regard for .the sex, or, as a last resort, tears, will avail to excuse slighted tasks and work ill-done. And this attitude on her part for business lowers the price of her own and her sister's labor in all the markets of the world. The only remedy is the one above suggested to take hold of life's work with both hands." An Able Mnn'i Sad Death. There died in New York City a few days since a man formerly well-known as a poli tician, lawyer and soldier Brigadier Gen eral John A. Foster. He was found dead in the office of his former orderly, in a low wooden building rum's last victim. When the Civil War broke out Foster was practic ing law. He enlisted as a private in the Seventh Begiment, New York Volunteers. He aided in forming the One Hundred and Seventy-fifth Begiment in that State in 18G2, and went to New Orleans as its Lieu tenant Colonel. He was in the battles of Bisland and Port Hudson, and for bravery in the latter engagement was promoted to be Colonel. Subsequently he became Assistant Judge Advocate General under Secretary Stanton, and was also breveted a Brigadier General. After the war he returned to New York and was appointed Assistant District At torney. He afterward was at the head of the law firm of Foster, Glassey & Thomas. At this time he was the associate of such well-known men as Elihu Boot, John I. Davenport and ex-Collector Murphy. An unfortunate weakness for liquor caused his downfall. For nearly two years he had been a wanderer. Since last September he had slept under an old army blanket in the back room of his orderly's office. He left him asleep at a late hour Monday night and when the man opened the office yesterday he found Foster dead on the floor. What fools these mortals be. A Snbb.ilh School Expedient. The Superintendent of one of our Sabbath schools has adopted with good results the following method of enlarging his school. On a slip of paper is printed the following. and on a pretty calendar, which is also given, the "gness" is recorded and a prom ise is made to do one's best to bring the school up to the number indicated. Here is what is printed on this slip of paper given to each member: THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. What do you think will bo the largest attend ance in 1S90? Don't be hasty. Think a moment. When you have decided, please fill in as your gues3 the same number that you put on the calendar. Keep the calendar as a reminder, and return the statement below to the Superin tendent signed by yon. A. table will be pub lished showing the various opinions. Your guess will indicate your faith, and tho end of the year will demonstrate whose judgment was the best. GUESS. I think that the largest attendance in our Sabbath school will be I will do my best to bring about this result. " Bignature Tho Rev. Dr. Macfadycn. The Rev. Dr. Macfadyen, sneaking of a visit he once made to America, said that at a certain picnic which he attended, a brother minister continually spoke to him and of him as "Doctor." As he had not at that time received the "semi-lunar .fardels," he denied his right to the title; whereupon, when it came the "innings" of the intro-' ducer again, he apologized by saying that if "the doctor wasn't a doctor, he ought to be a doctor, and, besides, a man with such a plaguy hard name, ought not to complain whatever he was called." This home thrust the "Doctor" enjoyed greatly, and after that entered no further demurrer in America. Keeping One's Temper. Socrates finding himself in great emotion J over a slave, said, "I would beat you if I were not angry." Peter the Great made a law that if any nobleman beat or ill-use his slaves, he should be looked upon at insane, and a guardian appointed to fake care of his person and of his estate. This greatmon arch once struck his gardener, who, being a man of keen sensibility, took to his bed and died in a few days. Peter, hearing of this, exclaimed, with tears in his eyes: "Alas! I have -civilized my own subjects, I have conquered other nations, yet I have not been able to conquer nor civilize myself." How lo Preacb. It is a good sign that the present genera tion of ministers is instructed in sacred rhetoric not only in composition but in de liveiy. Our younger clergy know how to speak. They are not all orators. Orators are born, not made. But anyone who is fit to enter the pulpit can become by study and practice an acceptable preacher. A knowl edge of theology is not enough. Theolo gians need to understand the art of putting things. It used to be said of Daniel Web ster that "his statement was argument" Wendell Phillips, who, as a speaker, was at the head, was likewise master of this art. Indeed all thegreat "masters or assemblies," sacred or secular, have excelled here. They reasoned from premise to conclusion. They struck light into dark problems by illustra tions. They made nature, history and cur rent affairs a storehouse of fact and fancy. They used anecdote. Thev had the power to hit close and to hit hard. They used the language of the people. They spoke as well as thought; icnew men ns well as books, and were dealers in human nature at first-band aDd not second-hand. Here lay the power of Beecher. Here, Too, is the secret of Spurgeon, of Talmage, of Moody. Happily, the theological seminaries begin to see this. Hence they are graduating preacher:. 'Tis reason for thanksgiving on 'the part of long-afflicted congregations. Mere piety is not enough. A pastor here alter must add to his piety the power to hold the attention, to arouse, to excite. If he can't do that he should step down and out A preacher'must know how to preach. We doubt whether the English and Ameri can pulpits were ever before so well equipped in this respect as they are to-day. Preventing Good. A writer in the Evangelist calls attention to the saying that "Lord Eldon prevented more good than he ever did." Lazy Chris tians prevent good. Cranky Christians pre vent good. Critical Christians prevent good. Inconsistent Christians prevent good. Dr. Pierson says: "The bulk of professing disciples do nothing in discipline others. Canon Wilberforce, of England, sayg a Christian's duty is to "admit, submit, com mit and transmit." Begin now. Do some personal work: for God and for men. Let every hearer become a herald. Seeing Through n Tear Drop. We see, sometimes, farther and clearer through a tear drop than through the lense of the most powerful telescope. Gems From Different Authors. Women are extreme. They are either better or worse than men. French Saying. Life Is given to no one for a lasting posses sion, to all for we. Lucretius. To live is not a blessing, but to live well is. Seneca. Things unhoped for happen oftener than thmgs we desire. Flantus. Thebe are, in this loud streaming tide Of human care and crime. With whom the melodies abide Of the everlasting chime; Who carry music in tbelr heart Through dusky lane and wrangling mart, Plying their daily task3 with busier feet Becauso their secret souls a holy strain re peat. Anon. We hear men often enough speak ot seeing God In the stars and the flowers, but the y will never be truly religious until they lparn to be hold Him In each other also, where He is most easily, yet most rarely discovered. Lowell. I AM more afraid of inconsistent Christians than of clamorous opponents. Joseph Parker. Not in the present alone do men live; they want also to be assured ot the future. Ranke. WnoEVEB, in the face of the religious fashions and prejudices of the day, has the heart to advocate the pure, simple, uncora- Eromising religion of Jesus Christ, as the Lord imself preached it, Is a hero. Stuckenburg. A VALUABLE INDORSEMENT. One Which the Makers Couldn't Even Think) of Recognizing;. Oneonta (N. T.) Herald. A man who has always resided in Delhi and is well-known, answered an advertise ment for an agent, and received a request to have some of the business men recommend him to be honest He procured some signa tures, which he.sent the firm, and received a box of goods. Not having the money to pay the expres? 'charges (70 cents), he ap plied to his indorsers for that amount, but lie could not get a cent from any of them. He was honest enough to handle other people's goods to the amount of $50, bnt couldn't be trusted with 70 cents of their money. THE VOLUNTEER ORGANIST. The gret big church wuz crowded fall of broad cloth an' uvsllk. An' satins rich as oream thet grows on onr ol' brlndlo's milk; Shined boots, biled shirts, stiff dickeys an' stovo piDe hats were there. An' dobds 'ith trouserloons so tight they couldn't kneel down in prayer. The elder in bis poolpit high, said, as he slowly riz: "Onr organist is kep' to hum, laid up with roo- matlz. An' as we hare no substitoot, and Brother Moore ain't here. Will sum 'um in tho congregation be so kind's to volunteer?" An' thenared-nosed, drunken tramp, of low toned, rowdy style. Gave an introductory hiccup, an' then staggered np the aisle. Then thro' thet holy atmosphere there crep a sense er Bin. An' thro' thet air of sancity the odor uv ol' gin. Then Deacon Pnrington he yelled, his teeth all set on edze : "This man purtanes the house er God. W'y, this is sacrilige I" The tramp diiln' hear a word, he said, but slouched 'ith stumblln' feet. An' sprawled an' staggered up the steps, an' gained the organ seat. He then went pawin' thro' the keys, an' soon there rose a strain Thet seemed to jest bulge out the heart, an' 'Iectnfy the brain : An' then be slapped down on the thing 'Ith bands an' head an' knees. He slam-dashed his hull body down kerflop upon the keys. The organ roared, the mnsic flood went sweepln' hich an' dry. It swelled into the rafters, and bulged out into the sky. The ol' church shook an' staggered, an' seemed to reel an sway. An' the elder shouted "Glory l" an' I yelled out "Hooray V Ac' then be tried a tender strain thet melted in our ears. Thet brought up blessed memories and drenched 'cm down 'ith tears ; An' we dreamed uv ol'-time kittens, 'ith Tabby on the mat, Uv home an' luv an' baby-days, an' mother, an' all that I An' ..ben lie struck a streak uv hope a song from souls forgiven Thet burst from prison-bars uv sin, an' stormed the gates uv heaven; The mornine stars they sunt; together uc soul wuz left alone Wo felt the universe wnz safe, an' God wuz on his throne! An then a wall uv deep despair and darkness come again, An' long, black crape hunj; on the doors ur all the homes uv men; No luv, no light, no joy, no hope, no songs of glad delight, An' then the tramp, be staggered down an' 'reeled into the night! But we Know he'd tol' his story, tho' he never spoke a word, An' it wuz the saddest story the", our ears bad ever heard: He lied tol' his own life history, an' no eye was dry thet day, Wen the elder rose an' simply (aid: "My brethern, let us pray." S. W. Foss in Yankee Blade. THE FIRESIDE 8PHMX k Collection of EnMIcal Ms for Home Craft. Address communications for this department E, B. Chadbotjrjt. Lewiston, Maine. ABBY A. MUDOETT. 941 SEES IJT MANY PLACES. Behind me men will take your pence, And also take yonr common souse. Before me prisoners must wait Until they near pronounced their fate. Behind me prisoners must gToan Until they Bhall for crime atone. Behind me men of shrewdness dwell. Who help you, but you pay them well. I am a narrow strip of sand. Where ships near shore will sometimes strand. I am In heraldry a sign Some special honor to define. 1 am a rustic kind of gate. Where lads and lasses often wait And now with using little wit. You know my name from what Is writ CLAJIOB. 942 tkanspositioic. "At the restaurant, study the prime, And get the full worth of your dime." Thus miserly Jones, To that bagful of bones. His son, who tooked starved all the time. "Ask the waiter, who seconds for you,. To bring you a hash or a stew. And don't try to three Their integral parts; see That you get all is rightly your dne." Bitter hweet. 943 "WORDS 'WITH1K A "WORD. First. A spring. Second. A timber belong ing to a ship. 27unf. An exercise which pugi lists practice. Fourth. A weapon of war. Fifth. A f pecies of angry disturbance, or a series of things In n line. Sixth. An exclama tion of woe or wonder. Seventh. A twofold pronoun. The whole is a member of the ornithological family. Box Alexis. 944 ANAGRAM. 'Tis a sharp Timon. In a hermit's cell I found bim. Poring o'er his dusty books; More a beast he seemed than human, So nneasy were his looks. Dark the frown be cast upon me. As I ventured through bis door; Dark the sonl behind that visage. Which the marks of hatred bore. Many years of silent hatred Had benumbed bis lonely heart, Till be saw in men and women Nothing bnt tha grosser part. Oh, my friend be.never total. But accept yonr lot in life. And regard your fellow mortals As companions In the strife. PZLOBOf. 945 BEHEADINGS. I'm something spreading far and wide; Behead me and I am a stride: Behead again, and then you find A unit of a certain kind: Again behead and then in sea Discover what is left of me; And If my head you take odco more, Find what remains in pinafore. Nelsoniax. 946 DIAMOND. 1. A letter. 2. The uppermost of an assem blage of parts. (Arch.) 3. Dimlnbhed by littles. 4. Perfumed ointments. 5. Dressed with the shirt outward. 8. An unlawful meet ing. (Civil Law.) 7. Assemblies of preten ders to knowledge. (Obs.) 8. Stays. 9. The dlstlngnishing peculiarities of organic beings. 10. A prefix from the Latin. 1L A letter. B. K. NU3. 947 CHRONOGRAMS. Write one hundred and add one, And then with five unite; When one and fifty you have joined, You'll have what is polite. ir. If to one thousand you add one. Then fifty and five hundred. You'll have what's gentle, good and kind, Or else I must have blundered. IIaet E. Cole. 948 TOSSED ON THE BILLOWS. I come, I come qu the wild rushing wave. The war horse of the sea. I clutch at the name of my charger brave, And reckless ride and free. Waving my mantle defiant of fear, And tossing my locks on high. In shimmering showers of gems disappear I and my steed to die. You may learn who sit on the shore and wait, And watch with bated breath. Triumphant to ride on the billows of fate. And gladly welcome death. Sea. PRIZES FOR MABCH. A pleasing book, tlnely printed and hand somely bound In clotb, will reward each of the senders of the best three lots of answers to the puzzles published in March. The solutions must be forwarded in weekly installments. ANSWERS. 0321. Euchre (ewe-cur). Z Croquet (crow k). 3. Jaek-strawj. 4. Ten-pins. 933 Male-lact-or. 831 Cane, can. 835 "In all yonr schemes for getting wealth, Your neighbor love as you yourself; What others think, or say, or do, Let justice be the rule for you." B36-1. King-ship. 2. Friend-ship. 3. Prior ship. 4. Author-shin. S. Chnrch-ship. 8. ClaD sbip. 7. Clerk-ship. 3. Coachman-ship. 9. Devil-ship. 10. Lord ship. 11. Lady-shin. 12. Collector-ship. 13. Companion-ship. 11. Colleague-ship. 15. Judge-ship. 18. Colonel-sblp. 17. Commissary-ship. 16. General-ship. 19. Graduate-ship. 20. Legate-shlp. 21. Lieutenant-ship. 22. Hostess-ship. 23. Herald-ahip. 21. Mercer-ship. 25. Demon-sbiD. 26. Neighbor-ship. 27. Heir-ship. 28. Head-ship. 29. Fellow-ship. 30. Owuer-shlp. 37 Sinecure. S3 M PET DALES DESIRES PASTORALE MELIORATING TERRAPINS SEATING H L I N G ENS G 939 The albarobra. brae, heal, ham. CURIOUS INDIAN LITEEATUEE. Some Yery Strancc Productions In the Lan gnaso of Natives. London Times. In an official catalogue of books lately published in the Bombay Presidency we find a poem in the Mahrattee language, in which the Empress of India is asked to put a stop to cow killing; a pamphlet in the same language ou the nebular hypothesis and Darwinism; a story in Mahrattee en titled "The Beauties of the Harem," and apparently adapted from the English of Sir. 6. Reynolds; three Goojeratee poems on the great fire at Surat, and a Goojeratee drama entitled "The Victory of Justice," and founded, though the names are altered, on the proceedings of the Crawford Com mission. The most notable work,1 however, is a Goojeratee drama, "Hind and Britannia," dedicated to Lord Bipon. The play begins with an acrimonious controversy between Hind and Britannia, in which the latter is accused of being the cause of all India's woes, and makes a very poor defense. Liberty then appears on the scene, con- 940 A -WELL-KNOWy BOOK. demns Britannia, but tells Hind that it if better for her to remain for the present in a state of subjection. At the same time Liberty recommends the appointment of Lord Bipon as Viceroy to undo the mischief done by his predecessors, especially Lord Lytton. Baal Ealnle Awny Up. Albany Press By the use of telescopes now mads it is possible to see a house and lot (were they there to be seen) in the moon, and already speculators are buying and selling them the same as they speculate in wheat, pork, etc., without any wheat, pork, etc.. in hand. I aPBAk kVWi is A PERFECl aiuiisiimi looil Piirir. ;mz A cutely Vesretabla iComnound that exoela (all bad humors from ths (system. Removes blotch es and pimples, and makes pure, rich blood. a U2-5S 3IEDICAL. DOCTOR WHITTIER 814 PENN AVENUE. PITTSBURG, VA. 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