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SUNDAY READING."
CAIN'S WIPE.
11Y 1IKNUY WAW) MiEt'lIEH.
T
THERE is no record of Cain's court
ship or wedding. However interest
ing to tho parties themselves, it is of no
interest to us, except ou tho supposition
that tho account in Genesis of the crea
tion of Adam was designed to cxcludo
tho supposition that any people had beeu
created. If Adam and Eve wcro the
solo progenitors of the race, then Cain
and Abel, it i.s inferred, must have mar
ried their own sisters u connection
which i.s shocking to tho sensibilities of
the wholo race, at a subsequent stago of
development.
5ut many of tho Fathers of the
Church denied that Adam and Eve, and
their children, were tho only people on
tho globe. They affirmed that the text
in Genesis very plainly implies that there
wcro other inhabitants besides Adam's
family. They allege that verse 11, of
chapter 4 of Genesis, plainly implies that
the earth was already widely populated.
For, when God declared that Cain should
bo driven out from his family, and made
a vagabond in tho earth, Cain deprecated
tho sentence and plead that " every one
that findeth nie shall slay mo." It was
plainly not his family connections that he
feared, for ho desired not to bo driven
from them. It was the people that he
should meet when a wanderer in tho
earth. Who, then, were these people
whom Cain feared to meet when he
should have gone forth into the earth ?
It is also reasoned by scholars that tho
most natural method of soothing his fears
would have beeu to tell him, ''There are
no other people ou earth, except your
father's children." Instead of that the
Lord is represented as falling in with
Cain's impression respecting the popula
tion of tho world, and that he set a mark
upon Cain, lest any finding him should
kill him. Gen. 4: 1j. Still further,
it is said that Cain, separating himself
from his kindred, went to the hind of
Nod, cast of Edom, " and ho buildcd a
city, and called tho name of the city alter
the name of his son Enoch." The Fath
ers very pertinently asked, where the
people came from that lived in this city.
That would be an extraordinary state of
things which should have, enabled Cain
to fill up a city, however small, with his
own children ! And it is inferred, there
fore, that thero wcro other people in the
land besides the immediate posterity of
Adam. If Adam was the only progeni
tor, Cain must have married his sister
If there were other lines of people, other
Adams, us it were, then Cain might have
married into another stock.
We do not express any judgment in
tho matter. We give our correspondent
the opinions that have been held in the
early days of tho Church, but with the
statement that almost all modern Chris
tian writers have rejected them.
But as tho origin of races has, in our
day, assumed an important scientific de
velopment, und, as very many able sci
entists hold to a variety of original raeo
stocks, it is interesting to know that thuso
views have been held before, and upon
supposed Biblical grounds.
But uro there no moro questions ubout
Cain ? Does nobody wish to know his
wife's name ? Does no ouo wish to know
what tho mark was which the Lord ullix
cd to Cain? Does no one wish to know
how Cain died ? (Questions must be scarao
to leave such points untouched. If Cain
is to be raised, he surely ought to be
thoroughly dealt with.
How the Dutch Fanner Learned Some
thing. " Tho Dutch farmers ill Africa have
held tho black native in great contempt.
As ouo of these farmers was riding out
ono day, ho saw one of these blacks sit
ting by tho road-sido reading. Checking
his horse, ho jeeringly asked:
" What book havo you got thero ?"
'"Tho Bible,' replied the Hottentot.
" 'Tho Bible ! Why, that book was
never intended for you.'
" 'Indeed it was, replied tho black, con
fidently ; 'for I sco my name here.'
" 'Your name! Where?" said the
farmer, getting off his horse : ' show it
mo.'
" 'There !' said tho poor fellow, putting
his finger on tho word iuuer 1 Tim. 1:
15 'There' "sinners." That's my
uamc. I um a sinner ; so that means
me."
"The farmer was silenced; und, mount
ing his horse, he galloped awuy. So the
children may claim tho Bible for theirs,
since they are not only sinners, but their
other name, 'children,' is in tho Bible a
great many times."
&-3 The less wo expect from this
world tho better for us. Tho less we ex
pect from our fellow-tnon, whether tho
spiritual help or of inspiring example,
tho smaller will be our disappointment,
lie that leans on his own strength leans
on a brokeu reed.
tnF Some people, because they can
not give as much us they would Iiko to,
will not give anything. But this was not
tho way with the poor woman, uoticed by
our Saviour, who cust two mites iuto the
Lord's treasury.
Too Much for Kim.
Til. MONCTON," said my grand
xS mother, " I havo no wood to
burn to-day. What shall I do ?"
" Oh, scud Louisa round to pick up
some," said tho good man making a
stride towards tho door.
" But sho has picked up all sho can
find."
" Then let her break somo of tho old
stuff."
" But sho lias broken up everything al
ready." " Oh ! well, do tho next best thing I
must bo off," said tho farmer J and off ho
was, whistling as ho went, and no doubt
wondering in his heart what tho next
best thiug would turn out to be.
Noon come, and with it camo my
grandfather and four hungry laborers.
My grandmother stood in tho kitchen,
spinning on her great wheel, and singiug
a pleasaut littles ditty j Louisa was scour
ing in tho back room, and tho cat sat
purring on tho hearth beforo a black ond
tireless chimney, while the tablo sat in
the middlo of tho room, spread for din
ner with empty dishes.
" Well, wil'o, hero wc are," said my
grandfather, cheerily.
" So I sec," replied she, placidly.
" llavo you had a good morniug iu tho
cornfield V
" Why, yes, so so. But where is tho
dinner '!"
"Iu the pot on the doorstep. Won't
you sco if it is done V
And on the door-step, sure enough sat
the great iron pot, nicely covered, but
not looking particularly steamy. Jly
grandfather raised the cover and there
lay all tho ingredients of a nice boiled
dinner everything prepared iu tho ni
cest manner, and the pot filled with the
clearest of water, and all tho vegtables
us raw as they had ever been. Grand
father stared und grandmother joined an
other roll of the yarn upon the distaff,
and began another vcr.so of her song.
" Why, woman, what docs this mean ?"
began my grandfather, indignantly.
" This dinner is not cooked at till !"
" Dear me, is it not 'I Why, it has set
in the sun this four hours."
" Set iu the sun '."
" Yes; you told me try the next best
thing to having a fire, und I thought set
ting my dinner in tho sun was about
that."
My grandfather stood doubtful lor a
moment, but fiually his senso of humor
ovcrcamo his senso of injury, and ho
laughed aloud. Then, picking up his
hat, ho said :
" Come, boys, wo might as well start
for tho woods. We shall havo no dinner
until we shall have earned it, I perceive."
" Won't you havo somo bread and
cheese beforo you go?" asked my
grandmother, generous iu her victory
tis women almost always are. Aud so sho
won tho day.
The cellar-stairs in tho old farmhouse
had become broken und so unsafo of lato
that my grandmother beseigod her hus
band, early and lato, to repair them, lest
somo accident should happen, llo always
promised to do so, and always forgot to
fulfill his promise. At last, ono day my
grandmother fell iu going down, and
spilled all tho new milk sho was carrying
" Aro yottjhurt ?" asked my grandfather
smoking his pipe, beside tho tiro.
"No matter whether I am or not!"
returned the angry housewife, re-appearing
with her empty pan. " That is tho
last time I carry milk down those stairs
until they arc mended."
" l'leaso yourself and find the next
best way to get it down," said the hus
band, a little vexed at her tone.
" I will," said my grandmother, and
sho was us good as her word. Tho next
evening my grandfather went down iu
tho cellar to draw somo cider.
" What in thunder is tho mutter down
here? Why, womuu, your milk is all
over tho cellar bottom," exclaimed my
grandfather.
" Is it?" replied iny grandmother tran
quilly. " Well, 1 think that is likely
cnougji, falling so far."
" Falling so far ! What on earth do
you mean ?"
"Why, you know I said I shouldn't
carry tho milk over thoso broken stairs
and you told mo to try tho next best way
of getting it down, and so I took up a
board in tho kitchen floor, threw down
tho pans, and then strained tho milk down
into them."
Tho collar stairs wero mended tho next
day.
J8 5yInonoof our neighboring towns
not long ago, a family had beeu ufllictcd
by one of thoso mysterious dispensations
of l'rovidcnco likely to occur iu uny
family, and wcro making arrangements
for the funeral. A little son of tho fam
ily was sent for tho minister. Arrived
at tho parsonage, and confronted by tho
kind gentleman, the boy said:
" Jlr. Treacher, father wants you to
como down to our house."
" What for, my young man !"
" llo wants you to preach a funeral."
" A funeral ! Who is it that has
died?"
"It is my littlo brother (boo-hoo.")
" Your little brother, indeed; how old
was ho ?"
" Ho wasn't old at all, (boo-hoo.) He
died a bornin."
Look Shnrp.
A FUNNY affair occurred tho other
day, illustrating tho itnportanco of
business men looking on both sides of
scrap paper upon which they may writo
orders, receipts or messages. A well
known merchant having a small lot of
damaged nnd almost unsaloablo goods re
maining from a largo consignment, at
last succcdod in "working them off," and
sitting down to his desk, wrote a note to
tho consignor, announcing tho gratifying
intelligence in theso words:
"I havo at length succeeded In closing
out thoso goods, by selling tho wholo lot to
old Scroogins for a hundred dollars, and
glad to get rid of them at any price. I'm
so afraid, even now, tho sharp old codger
will back out, that I won't let liim havo
tho goods till ho pays tho money."
At this point tho merchant was inter
rupted, and turning tho noto face down
ward in his portfolio, went out into his
warchouso to attend to a customer. An
hour or two afterward, as ho returned,
having forgotten tho noto cntirely,Scroog
ins' clerk enters, hands a hundred dollar
bill, and asks for a receipt. Tho merchant
seizes the first piece of paper before him,
dashes off the receipt, aud hands it to
the clerk.
What was his consternation half on
hour afterwards, when the grinning clerk
returned with tho messago from his mas
ter, " Mr. Scroogins wants to know if
you won't give him another receipt on a
clean piece of paper," to find that ho had
inscribed tho acknowledgment on the
back of tho very letter announcing the
sale to his correspondent. Scroogins got
an amount of information with tho first
rceipt that ho didn't count upon.
A Country Editor's First Kiss.
AY
7"E NEVER believed Pope's line,
Die of a rose In a romantic rain.
till we once accidentally got a kiss award
ed to us at a gamo of forfeits, some fifty
years ago. Eh u '. fii'jwe ! The fair ono
in question was tho secret idol of our soul.
When wo wero entitled to a kiss by tho
sacred game of forfeits, tho keenness of
tho rapture almost grew into a toothache.
A kiss seemed more than wo could imag
ine; it grew into Titantic dimensions. Wo
had a vague notion of asking tho company
to help us out by sharing our bliss, as the
school boy who, when ho hears of his
monstrous pound cake being on tho road,
promises all his comrades a slice, but
when it arrives he keep3 it all to him
self. A kiss from Mary; and all to our own
cheek ! Oh ! and then the blushing shame
of a first love, vulgarly called call", came
over us, and wo stood looking at our
Mary's lips as a thief docs at tho gallows.
Oh ! thoso sunny eyes ! Oh ! thoso lux
uriant tresses, as she shook them off' her
radiant face, us a dovo shakes her feath
ers and a dog his hide, in order to leave
more cheek to kiss. Oh! those provoking
lips, pursed up ready, like tho peak of
Teneriffe, to catch tho first kiss of love
that rosy light from heaven. Oh! that
moment when she said, " Well, if Cousin
John won't kiss mo I'll kiss him !" She
stooped down my sight grew dim my
heart beat fast as though I had swallowed
a doso of Prussia ucid ; her lips touched
mine; tho world slid uwtty' us it does
when wo soar in a balloon ; and wo wero
carried away into a calm delirium, which
has never altogether left us.
Who's There?
Tlt. THOMAS TWOMBLEY had
J3 J drank but six glasses of brandy
and water, when, being a man of discre
tion, he returned home at the seasonable
hour of ono A. M., and weut soberly to
bed.
Mrs. Thomas Twombley was too well
accustomed to tho goings and comings of
Mr. Thomas to bo much disturbed by tho
trilling noiso he made on retiring; but
when she discovered that ho had his
boots on, sho requested him to removo
them, or keep his feet out of bod.
" My dear," said Mr. Twombley, iu un
apologetic tone, " skuso mo ! How I
came to forget the boots, I can't conceive,
for I'm jes's sobe's I ever was'u my life !"
Mr. Twombley sat on tho side of his
bed, und made uu effort to pull off his
right boot. Tho attempt was successful,
but it brought him to tho floor. Ou re
gaining his feet, Mr. Twombley thought
ho saw tho door open. As ho was sure
he shut tho door ou coming in he was as
tonished; aud, dark as it was in tho
room, ho couldn't bo mistaken, ho felt
certain.
Mr. Twombley staggered towards tho
door, to close it; when, to his still greater
surprise, ho saw a figure approach from
beyond. Twombley stopped, tho figure
stopped. Twombley advanced ogain,and
tho figure did tho same. Twombley rais
ed his right hand tho figuro raised its
left.
"Who's thero?" roared Twombley,
beginning to bo frightened.
Tho object miido no reply. Twombley
raised his boot iu a menacing attitude
the (iguro defied him by shaking a similar
object.
" By tho Lor !" cried Twombley, " I'll
find out who you bo. you sneaking cuss !"
lie hurled tho boot at tho head of tho
mysterious object, when crash I went
tho big looking-glass, which Twouibley
had mistaken for the door.
A Fnlthiiil Wife.
Sheriff Prichard tolls us that tho wife
of Georgo llycr sentenced to tho peni
tentiary for fivo years for horso stealing
followed her husbaud to the walls of
the prison. They attempted to get away
from Lcwistowu without letting her know
about it, but tho poor woman was ever
more on watch at tho depot, and so she
was on hand when tho officers and prison
ers started away last week, and, iollowing
on tho cars, hung about tho nock of her
husband at tho cud of tho journey.
Mrs. Ilyer had two children. These she
had deliberately given away to hor peo
plo, determined to remain in Joliet, near
her husband, so that sho could seo him as
often as possible, and bo ready at tho end
of fivo years, to wclcomo him again to
freedom. Sho hoped sho would be per
mitted to sco him often, but this fond
hope was rudely torn from her by the
stern prison rules. Sho can sco him but
onco in two months, and then but for two
or threo minutes in tho presenco of a
guard. Sho can writo to him as often
as sho pleases, but ho cau writo in reply
onco a month. After learning these facts
tho sheriff tried to get her to return to
her family near Peoria; but her resolution
was firmly taken. Sho had given up
homo and children to bo near her husband
and there sho determined to stay, at what
ever sacrifice. They left her alono and
friendless, a stranger in a strango city
weeping us if hor heart would break, but
unwavering in her devotion to her hus
band. No entreaty of her husband, or
friend, or stranger, could movo her to
leave mm in ins long imprisonment.
JtrE"- A few days since a colored lad en
tered a drug store iu Portland with what
he described as an ' awful feeling in tho
stomach, jest liko it was full offish hooks
and angle worms," and demanded a " set
ter powder," as ho had been advised that
would givo relief. Accordingly tho seid
litss powders wcro dissolved in separate
glasses, as usual, aud placed before him,
with instructions to pour ono into the
other nnd drink while effervescing. But
tho sablo youth did nothing of tho sort.
Instead of following tho directions, he
drank off tho contents of ouo glass and
immediately swallowed tho other. The
effect may bo imagined, but not described.
Tho cfi'ervosconco whiidi should havo ta
ken place in tho glass beforo it was drank
took placo in tho bewildered darkey's
stomach, sending streams of tho frothy
liquid from his mouth, noso, eyes, and
ears. As soon as tho poor fellow could
recover breath, ho cried out iu frightened
tones :
" My stomach has busted; I can't live
a minute !" In a few minutes, however,
ho felt better, and turning to depart, lie
said : " Dat stuff may work well nuf ou
do whito trash, but its shuro death on a
An Int rii tier.
Iu Georgo AV. Curtis' new lectures
upon " Charles Dickens," a story is told
of a church member, who happening to
be in a strango town on Sunday, weut
into a certain church and remained after
sermon at communion service. Tho
deacons looked uneasily at him aud at
ono another, and finally ouo of thorn wont
to the stranger, and in a whisper accosted
him thus :
" Perhaps you you aro arc not
awaro but but this is a Baptist
church?"
" Yes," mildly returned the stranger,
" I am awaro of it."
" Well, rejoined tho deacon, " we we
do not expect eh thut eh that
any will partake except thoso who belong
to a a Baptist church."
"Oh," said tho stranger, " I thought
this was a Christian church, und that you
wero celebrating tho Lord's Supper; but
if this is a private entertainment, I beg
your pardon for intruding, aud will re
tire." try" A White Pino landlord thus ad
vertises, his hotel in tho locul papers
"Aud Joseph wept aloud, aud ho said
unto his brethren, " I am Joseph, doth
my father my father yet livo '!" And his
brethren answered him : " You bet, tho
old man is doing bully, for ho boards nt
tho Cosmopolitan."
far A lady writer iu ouo of the daily
papers says, if women wero as particular
in choosing a virtuous liusbund us men
nro iu selecting a virtuous wife, a morul
reformation would soon begin, which
would bo something more than froth and
foam.
BiS"" If a man goes iuto uny kiud of
an enterprise, ond is successful, ho will
say ho was smart; but his neighbors will
say ho was lucky ; but if lie does not suc
ceed well, he will Bay ho was unfortunate;
but his neighbors will say ho was a fool.
JH5- It is a bad sign when a preacher
tries to drive home Ids logio by thump
ing tho desk violently with his clenched
bund. His arguments are so-fist-ical.
IKS" What would you say if you wished
a reverened Doctor of Divinity to play a
tuna ou tho violin ? Fiddlo-deo-doo D.
D.
Bhf Thero is only one good substitute
for tho enduurmctits of a sister, and that is
the eudearments of some other fellow's
sister.