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Faxable. een rajsed in Si nea si aeiise 000, ubcortain celnimed the ANNOYANCES OF THE HOUSEHOLD Rev. Dr. Talmage Takes Martha s Petulant Complaint Yo Christ as a Text and Says Some Encouraging Things This dis. to open Woshington despateh course of Tir. Talmage all the doors of horss-Hi appreciation of work: Fecpsnised. Text, 1 dort Thou zot ogre that my slater has my eve alone? Bid Wet mg tp ae orowerthat she help me. * sister Martha could get up the Yonder th a beautiful village bome- wend. The man of .the house ls dead and his widow his charge of the Dremlser, It -is Widow Martha, of hanys es, 1 will aow the pet of the household. It Is Mary, the younger alster, with a book under hee arm, and in her face no sign of care or anxiety about anything, Com- pany has come. Christ eppearing at the outside of the door makes some excltement Inside the door. The sls- ters s t back the dimarranged furni- ture, arrange thelr batr, and in a flash prepare to open the door. They do not keep Christ waiting outalde anti they have newly apparelled themselves or elaborately arranged. their tresses, and then, with affected aurprise, come out, and pretending pot to have beard the two or three previous knockings. say, Why, is that you? No, they Were ladies, and always presentable, although perhaps they had not on thelr beat. None of us always have on our best; otherwise very soon our best would not be worth haying on. They throw open the door and greet Christ. They say, Good morning, Master; come in and be seated. Christ brought a company of friends with Him, and the Influx of so many clty- visitbre, you do not wonder, threw the country home Into some. pertur- bation. I suppose the walk from the ely had been a keen appetiser. The, Hitchen departhiwnt that day was w very Important department. and I think as soon ag Martha had greeted her guests shevwent to that room. Mary had no anxiety about the din- ier. She had full confidence that her dinner in Bethany, anc she practically said, Now, let us have a division of labor, Maytha, you cook, und I'll sit down and learn. The same difference you now some- Hmes see between sisters. There 1s qMartha, Industtious, painstaking, a good manager, ever inventive of some hew pastry, discovering something in household affairs, Here is Mary, fond of conversation, Iterary,..60 Tull of questions of ethics she his no, time to jiscuss questions o enald- wel fare. Itis.noon. Mary is in the par- Martha is in the . kitchen. It jd have beon better. for them to divided the toll, and then. they divided the opportunity of lstentng to Christ. But Mary monop- olives Christ, while Martha: swelters before the fire. It was very Important that they have-a good Minner thut day. : for Christ was hungry, and He did hot often have luxurious entertain- tment: Alas me If-all the respons bility. of that entertainment had rest- ed with Mary. What-a repast they Would have had But something went Wrong in the kitchen, Blther the fire could nat humor the bread would bake, or something was turned that ought to have been only, turned brown, or Martha scalded her- self, and, forgetting all the proprieties ef the occasion, With besweated brow She rushed out of the kitchen into the parlor, perhans with tongs in one hand iteher in the other, and she cried scalded nos 2 word. If it were scold- ing T would rather have Him than anybody else bless me. was nothing acery in the Sevior's reply. He knew that Martha had been king herself almost to death the Perplexed Toiler, must be ready. Then you have the duty Of the dey or nerhaps. several daya to plan out. But what if Dutcher - ends meas What if the grocer rurnishea you ar- Holes of food aduiterated? What it the plece of sliver be lost. or a favor- ite challee be broken, or the roof leak, plumbing fall, thousand Things occur? No matter: Everything nept-bo ready. The spring is coming, and there must be revolution in the family wardrobe, or the autumn ig at hand, and you must shut out the nerthern blast. But how if the moth Tas preceded you to the Chest? How fit the children now? What if ajl the fashions have changed? sete The house must be an extemporised apothecary's shop or dispensary; there must be relief for all styles of ailments; something to loosen the croup, some- thing to cool the In something to poultice the inflammation, ine te. silence the jumping tooth, some- thing to soothe the earache, O man of business, if you had as many cares as that you would be a fit candidate for an insane asylum If Martha make, iiner such circumstances, an impn- ent rush on the library or the draw: ing room, be patient, be lenient. O-my sister, though my words may not rouse in many soula any appreciation of your toil, let me ire you, from the kindliness with which Jesus Christ met Martha, that he appreciates all your trials, from garret to cellar, and the God of Deboran, and Miriem, and Abigail, is the God of the housekeep- era Christ never married, that he might be the especial friend and confi- dant of a whole world of troubled wo- manhood. I blundered. Christ was Married. The Bible says the church Is the Bride, the Lamb's wife, and that makes me know that a woman has a right to. go.to. Christ with all ner an: noyances and perplexities and fatigues, for dy his oath of conjugal fidelity he hath sworn to sympathise. George Herbert put the thought in three or four verses, quaint and peculiar, but strong, and in one verse saying: The servant by this clause makes drud- gery divine,, Who sweeps a room as for Thy law makes this and the action fine. A Young woman of brilliant. educa- tion and prosperous surroundings was called down stairs to help In the ab- sence of the servant, and there was 0 ring at the belt, and she went to the door and an admirer entered. He said, a ; was it on the plano or the harp? She said, Neither, Jt was a frying pan ac- companiment to a grid-iron In other words, I was called down stairs to help. Tsuppose sometime I shall have to learn and t have begun now. When. will the world learn that every kind. of work that Is right is honorable? As Martha opens the door 1 took ing and I alyo-seethe trial of severe con omy. Nine hundred. and ninety-nine households out of a thousand are sub: jected to it, either under the greater or lesa stress of circumstances. It ls eupeciaily so when a man smokts ex pensive cigars and dines at costly: res- tauranis. He, Will be very apt to en- fol severe economy at home. That is What Kills thousands of women the ttenmpt to make five-dollars do the work of seven: anu zing how some men dole out money to the househol Tf you have not got the money, say ab If you have, be cheerful in the expe: aiture. Your wife will be reasonabl How long does the honeymoon jast sald a yaunie worean about to enter the married mate, 10 her mother. The mother answered, honeymoon lasts until you ask your husband f money. How much do you want dollar. A: dollar Can't you get along with o cents? You are always after six weeks' whooping cough bas Faged in the household, making the nights ax sleepless as the days, then it Is not 0 edmy. And then this work ef the house ne often to be under taken when the nerves are shattered with some bereavement that has put desolation in every room of the hours and senc the crib Into the garret, be cause Its occupant has been hushwd into a slumber that needs no mother's lullaby, Oh, tt -was a great deal easier for her to brood the whole flock than to brood a part of them, now that the rest have gone You may tell her that her departed children are in the boson of eloving Gad, hut, mothersike, sve will brood both flocks, putting one wing of care over the flock in th We, Nothing but -the-old-fashloned. religion of Jesus Christ can take Wo- man happily through hame trials. All these modern religions amount to nothing. They do not help. Whey do not comfort when there Ia a dead babe In the house. Away with them, and fashioned 0 vollgicn. has comforted 0 of sorrow and Jesus Christ that many in the days trouble, Romance and novelty may for a lt- te while seem to be a substitute, The marriage day has only gone by, Just gone by, and all household cares are by the Joy of-being-t0 And by the fact that when t e-iate- at Bight It is not necessary to discuse whether it is-time to go. All the mis haps of the newly-married couple it the way of household affairs are not fnatters of anxiety or reprehension. but merriment. Tne loaf of bread turned Wyn geological specimen, the wlusby Custards and jaundiced, and measly buscults Oh, it is a very bright sunlight that falls upon the cutlery and mantel ornaments of a new home Romatice and novelty will do for a Uttle while, but after, a while the romance is.alt gone and there Is loaf to-be maile, a loaf that cannot be aweetened by-any earthly condiments, And cannot be flavored with 2 ly flavors, and cannot be baked In any Ordinary oven. It is the Joaf of do- mestic happiness, All the ingredients from heaven. Frult from the tree of life and sweetened with the new wind of the kingdom, and baked In the overt of hpme trial. God only. can make that loaf. You can cut it, bat if takes God to make It: Solomon wrote out of his own miset- able experience he had a wretched home no man can be happy with two wives, much Jess with seven hundred and dyt of his. wretched experience ne wrote, Better Is a dinner of-herbs than a stalled ox and red therewith. Oh, the respons bilities of housekeepers Kings, by thefr-Indigestion, have gst empires, nd generals, through indigestion, have lost battles. One of the great statis: ticlans says that out of thousand un- married men thirty were criminals, and out of a thousand married men only eighteen were criminals, showing the power of the homie. And, oh, the responsibility resting upon house- Keepers By the food they provide, by tie couch they spread, by. the: books they introdues, by: the influence they bring around the home, they are help- ing to decide the physical, the intel- Liectual the moral the eternal waltare of the human race. sibility E Tnat woman sits in the house of God to-day, perhaps, entirely unap- ted, She is the banker of her the president, the cashier, the the discount clerk; and ever nd anon there is a pgnic. God knows ne fos and the cares, that this Is not a useless ser- mon, but that there are multitudes of hearts walting for the distillation of the Divine mercy and solace in thelr hour of: trials and thelr home duties and thelr own fatigues. The world hears nothing about them. Thesnever speak about them. You could not with the agonles of an Inquisition bring the Oh, the respon- They say nothing. They endure, and will until God and the judgment right thelr wrongs. Oh, bur says some sis- ter, Are you not trying to show tha alla woman's life at home fs one self-sacrifice? Yes, my sister, and that is the only kind of life worth Hiv- ing. That -baa + le; that was the life o that avas the li the Lord Jesus Christ; that is the of every man or woman tha and he sruth out-of them. Phey keep it still, been. the dife oc ier juet Bat it nearly praise? The mei Dhen oh, I suppose It is all right. AT A WOMAN'S MERCY. He had stopped. behind the otiler allers, and ge come late; and Aunt eres was wise enough to leave Shem together. It Is a foug time since we sald ho. da it? I dou't remember. It doesn't are tened out the disdaintul curl of her pretty. lips, You might ead some of my stor I think. htes if you could endure them. They * me, then you are very nice lately ; Did met, Mero; aa sem long. with NOuly a. your. is that ail? abe sank languld upon an obi Ath oer weak hens eT You are not looking well Oh. that's oaly my style. A small, Pale, big-eyed girl, who jooked inter- estlig to svert criticlam from her foatures, ax you put It In one of your novela. Phat was writted long before 1 criticism You are Whfor ter , very mucli he sald bite + his darks ving, with a eight flush *Oh,, not fve Jong ceased to care, Besides, the critics haven't, bead. 90 bad lately. You see, I haven't written anything pretentious enough for no- too by you. B I have-given up eriticism. poor business, anyhow. 2 Have you written anything inte- ly? Sho knew his gpeat success al- most by heart, in ite of the ques- tion. Ie PNothing very, good. A novel that ts selllug Tt mist be itice to wef. I ani Uy: to write down to that level my He looked at her disapproyingly al- most sternly. Ho bad put his heart Into the book. 1 do got think that is the surest way of Sho laughed scornfully. Perlape not for n genius. But T any not one ng was poluted out by a great critic once . Probably he would now that no was mistaken. Time have taught him tint your woman was truer than he sup- posed. Time, be sighed, destroys good many of oar Hlnsions. Great critics should b Wustons. y Ulusion of woman's goodness not quite gone, nevertheless, I-remem- ber my mother sometimes, as well a8 He paused awkwardly Other women ? Another woman. Une belle dame sans merel, he corrected, looking hun grily at her. Tsuppose yott moan a woman whom you treated badly, and from whor You deserved. no merey 2 said sie, jeantng her elbow on tbe couclt and putting her cheek on Mer thin hand. Thera was just the falntest pink looked fathomless. Tam sorry very sorry to see you looking s fragile, he said, as If he had not heard her question. May we not have a truce? Let me fetch you a glass of wine or anything? Bho shook her head. Ther is nothing the matter, said niy only I am not strong ; and things hurt me. Writing ts too much for me, I suppose. If T could write one really good book, one that the great eritics He rose angrily. No, no. please don't gu; am not alming, at. you now, .One that good judges would prals, Tmean wonld give up writ ing and be content. 2 the good- judges ? You wank tele who also dare 0 adult free. from she. condemn cea Yet when thes condemn ' yes I know. It kills me. She Absurd, It fs Just enough. Oh uighed rather liysterleally a eo He looked - at her slonately. You are too excitable Forgive me for saying 89, but yo have altered very much during this: very compns- INEY tell. up is never isves the child stomach rives-tone- and Te yall alms, iit Nerve tise. Sond to .Philudelphis, bottle, Fe ortho rule. jot Hing somethin o: et- aid 2ke-ap Freciated her kindness, wad. He. prac Heally sald, My dear woman, do not worry; let-the dinner go; alt down here on thia couch beside your younger six- ter, Mary, et us. talk about. some- thing elsg Marthe, Martha, thou art carefal/and troubled about many ilhgs; but one thing ts needful Ws Marti: throws open the door, T looks in to-day, and T see a great many household anxieties, perplexities, fa- tigues, and trials, and about them 1 am going, to speak, if the Lord of Mary and Martha and Lazarus wil help me by His grace. As I look into that door, In. the first place, Lave the trinl of non-appracia tion. That was what made Martha so vexed at Mary. Mary, the younger sister, had no proper estimate of the elder sister s fatigue. Just as now, men having annoyances of store and factory and shop, or at-the stock ex- change, come home at night and hear of some household annoyance, and they say, Oh, that s.aiothing; you ought tobe In'o factory a day and have ten or fifteen or twenty or a hundred - subordinates. Then you would know something about armoy- Bnee and trouble. O man, let me tel m that a wife and a mother has to duet at the same time a university, ant, a laundry, a lbrary, and has to be health officer, police, and president of the whole realm She has to do x thousand things, and to do them well, in order to make things go smoothly, vf Woman's nerves and a woman rain, I know there are exceptions to Sometimes you will find woman who can sit in the arni-chair of the dibrary all day without any anxl- ety, or tarry on the belated pillow, and-all the cares of the household aro thrown ybou servanta who have large -swages end great experience: but that fs the exception. I speak of the great masses of housekeepers. to whom life is 4 struggle, and who at thirty years if age look as though they were forty. The fallen at Chalons-and Austerlltz and Gettysburg and Waterloo are a small number In comparison with those who have gone down under the Armageddon of the kitchen. Go out to the country and look over the epl- tapha onthe tombstones. They are ail beautiful and-poevic, but if the ands of them would say: Here les a woman who was kiled by too much mending ind sewing and baking and Scouring and scrubbing, and the weapon with which she was killed sv: broom or eewing machine or a ladle. housewife rises res At an ii sie must have the morning repast ready. What the fire will not, but vhat if the clock stop? what marketing has not been tuition that; st must be irrevocable hour. must be got ready for school. But what if the garments be torn? What it they do npt know thelr lessons What if the hat or sash is lost? they In the morning The children wanting wodolierdPhie 38 pease axainee high -prives,. this everiasting attempt to bring the outgo within the income has exhausted multitudes - of housekeepers, Let me say to such, It 4s a part of the divine discipline, 1? tt were best for you, all you would have to do would be just to open the front windows, and the ravens would fy in with food, and after you had baked 60 times from the barfel in the pantry, like the barrel of Zarephath, the barrel would be full, and the children s shoes would last as long as the shoes of the Israclites: in the wilderness 40 years, Oh, my friends, all these trials and fatigues of home Mfe are to prepare you for heaven, for they will make that-the-brighter-in the contrast A. dying soldier was asked by a friend, Have you any message to send to your father? Yes, said he, tell him 1 have gone home. Well, said the friend, Vaave you any message to gond to ypur wife? Yes; tell her have gone Nome. You-have other friends; would you Ike to send a mes- gage to them? ' es; give them the game message; (hey wil: all under- stand it. Tell-themat have gone Home. And that heaveniy home will compen- sate, will fully atone for ail the harg- shipa and the trigis and the annoy ances and the vexatlons of the earthiy home. In that land they never hup that land of white robes they kaye no mending to do, and the air of that hiliy country makes them all well. No rent to pay there; every man owns his Sa House emt a ree rston mt thet will not be so 7a chute to step into the chariot of the skies, if on earth you rode. It will not:he so great a change If on earth you had all lux- urles and satisfactions. It will not be so great a change for you to sit down on the banks of the river of life, if on earth you had a country seat. Buty oh, the Joy Tor the weary fest when they step into the celestial equipage, and oh, the Joy of those to whom home was fg martyrdom on earth, when they go into that home where they will never have to do anything they do not want to do What a change from the. tims she put down the rolling-pin to the time she took up the sceprre Ir Chatsworth park and - the Vanderbilt mansion Were lifted into the celestial city; they would be looked at as untn- habitable rookerles. and Lazarus him- self would 5 going in or ow the palaces awaiting ali God's dear children, and so much nder the heavenly architecture than the earth- ly. It is often not only the toll of the housekeeping, but t fs the sickness and the sorrow that qo along. It Is a simple fact that one-half of the wo- men of the land are invalids... The mountain lass who has never had a1 ache or a pain may. consider shou: hold Work of no very great wear) and at the even x field and drive the cattle home, and until ten 'clock at night may fill the cabin with laughing racket: but oh, to do the hard work of the house- hold with a shattered constitution , 80 great are 83, Puations-of-the earth to-find me oe: Not happy, no, not happy. it is t self-sucrificing people that are th for God pays so largely, so glorious feo magnificently, in eternal satisfactions of the soul. sacrifice. We all admire i How Hitle we exercise much. would.we cadure; how. wanld we risk for others? A rough schoolmaster gt; had a poor that had offended the laws of +h: school, he ordered him to come up. tN he sald, you take off your coat instantly land receive this whip. The boy declined, and more vehemently the teacher said, tell you, now, take off your cost; take it of instantly. The boy again declin- ed. Tt was not because he was afraid of the lash; he was used to that In his eruel home. But it was for shame; he had no undergarments. and when at last he removed his coat thore went up a sob of emotion all through the ool as they saw why he did not sh to remove his coat, and ae they saw the. shoulder-blades almost cut ting through the skin. As the school- master ifted his whip to strike, a roseate. healthy boy leaped, up and said, Stop, schoolmaster; whip me. He fs only a poor chap; he can't stand it; whip me. Oh, sald the teacher, Belt- others. Tng. Hot it you want to take the posi- Hon of substitute, you can do It. The doy shld, I don't care; whip me: Vil take it; he's only a poor chap. Don't you ste the bones almost coms when the blows came downon the boy's shoulders, this healthy, robust Ind made no outcry; he endured it ail yacomptainingly, We ail egy. Bravo for that lad. Bravo That's the spirit of Christ Splendia How much scourging, how much chastisement, how much anguish wiil you and I take for others? Oly that we might have something of that boy's spirit Aye, that we might have something of the spirit of Jesus Christ: for in all our occupatjons and trades and business and all'our life, home lige, forelffa Tite we are to remember that the sacritee for others will soon, be over, The Christmas Tree. Tho recent protest of J. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska, against the trees ly commended in the west. In his protest, he sald: The trees solect- lt;0 for Maughtor on thie anniversnt are always tho straightest, and most symmetrical. There were last yoar more than 20,000,000 of Christmas trees cut down and put on the mar- ket. The absurdity of celebrating the birth of the Sarviour of the worl by a wanton waste and oxtrava- gance which jeopardizes the welfare man. Who winks at small faults eventu- ally becomes blind to large ones. tne deep and + of milllons of hunian beings yet unr ets Otte to rwwroughe. vor? : ll never write your great: or you book. * You know: 1 never: vould 1 do not. 1 said from the first that you,had-ability even in the erlticism whfeh you whieh hurt you (she dig Isr nails passionately into her little white palms), and for which you have taken the fullest revenge your power. LT don't suppose It hurt you much sheingulred, with a strange wistful hss. If he lad read her as he read omen In his books, he would simply have taken her in iils arms. But he merely felt-a thrill of horror at her revengefulness a mental shudder that sunt a soft, fair, small creature should wish to give pain. Oh, no, not much, said he. Nob enough to spollmy art, such as it Is. My datest lady-in-n-book has canght 1 touch of you. Yea, said she. thoughtfally. Tun- derstood. wi nuch better woman than -T. T gathored that you hadn't read the book? 3 Oh, that was my nastiness. Of ours I've read it. Everyone hag read people, What You a critic What for? The Daily, Thunderbolt. He looked at her in mute natoniah- ment. For the Thunderbolt had calied greatest writer of the age whloh bi knew wasn't trac. You wrote that critique 2 sald he, slowly: 1 ought to thank you, Tap pose. But I confess T do fot: an stand you. No, she answered, sadly, you do Understand me. You never will jerstand me. I cannot, unieratand invaelf sometimes. 1 am full of wretch: ed nerves, the doctors say; andonly two things can cure m What are they ? ' he asked, cagerly. Death ; or - Or? T have forgotten. Happiness, Lsap- That was what the specialist bat she interpreted it as love this man's Jove He lookrd at her wonderingly. Wan it love gr remorse, or further revenge sacrificed: his life for her, if need. be, hut not his pride. No, no, one rebuff wilenough. Ir Rappiness would. probably throw salt, very ly. She gave a glitice and read his mind, You do not understand, he an- swered, quietly, with the tears very near h r oyes. You misjudge me ; now and always. ss He bent a little toward her and just eet hrer ateere writh trie hetee wore offered, you It aside, he quick Is there any way any possible way ta which f can undermtand 2 Dainty touches of pink stole out on her pale features, and something sof bly. Ie tmn't worth 0. I will be the judge of that. What about. Me you read A but ho healtated and ssopped- Woman's bi the Now Magesine 2 she ked suddenly. No, I'm afraid 1 ditn't. But 1 your no 2 Oba man wid Ww wWofuira the usual thing. What man an? woman? A oritic and a writer. came alert with interest. Tell me about it. timed; fanciful. lt;a bitt r, harg, crue woman bor- yellow-backed novel not her own cr ature, really not paused Appealingly to him. Der trap. self hoc he miggested, gently. Not according to my tale. the book went off fairly well for a Urst venture; but a great critle lashed, the heroine mercilessly. You own the heroine was bad ? Pho Inquiry seemed forced Trom him, it wae so sudden and veliement, Yes oh, yes hurt her the girl the neurotic, passionate She worried all day over it: she lay awake at night and over It; she ahe Her voloe broke, away a tear, with an apgry iittle rowed Not bell, Thero waa a wi from some even her nasty so in -and looked who neurotic He be Tf don't think I can remember. Hor face was very. pink now. I ahoilld 90 much Ilke you to, fami creature, moe fe Well, abe was a wouli-be writer, poor, sensitive like me only not so hasty paused for contradiction, but he was silent. She wrote b book once. she con- she antt oman in It She anxiously, better, Welt, But the criticism wrote it girl terri. ried and she bi And so she hated the critic? She hated the critic thought sie did. There was 2 long slletnec. or she * Did whe take her reveiige upoh him Tell me, in your tale? Hie tone was chiliy sith assumed indifferonce. Sho meant to, but When she met him she didn t know that he was the critic. * And he fell in love with her? He sald 60. Did ghe tice him A, face wag still cold, but almost florco in lis earnestness. ies? His. his voles was In the story she did. But when ho told her that he was But Yeu, the critic 2 didn t say that tie told ler he? , he did, didn t in the story. X es not exactly. Her bands ke Hh and closing 8 ept opening and closing resolved upon re- jon he cried, do sho answered firmly, not know It. Then I should like to hear. ele knew that he bad hardened his Yea; a sort of revenge. A sort of revenge and quivered at the ecorn in his voice. You, ould read the story, 22 She shrunk she not know you do But rt. Well, ehe resolved to let him go ow. on liking her A sort of revenge She made herself as attractive as vould. She wasn t ve a amall, fe sake he cri aud hoarsely . The Watchersof Washington's Maxsd totum is Dead, ; the Washington family, and for most talf a century tho guard: the tomb of George Washington, Mount Yernon, is dead, says a Wi Ington correspondent of the York Worki. ares Parker bad sila) watel-box fow foot from the tomb, where, peat hair ia teone, ola a ehair in. front 0 Yomb. He had stiaken the bande of their plies fot ce tf mages One Of hie last ales bek became v0 weak that ho could o- nestedly was the story, fe. Twas born a slave it 1827, in of Col. John Augustin Wi of his father, who boro name; and was 2. grandnepbow, General George Washington, the death of the father, In 1841, G pved to the fam meat, Mount Vernon, where taken with his othor slaves and house servants, Prior to the thie we moved +o EDMOND .PARKER. Mount Vernon the: of General Washington had rested In the old tomis on the piace, from 1881 to 1837, when it was placed In the present tomb. The last body to be put In this tomb was that of Mias Jane Washington, in 1855, at which time the lock tes was sealed up and the koy into the Potomae River. Befdxe the outbreak of the war I had charge of the tomb, but left to go with the army, serving until the close, I thon returned to Mount Ver non, was given a life-time position guarding the tomb, and was only one or two days absent from my post dur ing the thixty years, until I beoame T was present when the Prince of Wales. planted his tree near the tomb in 1860, and helped dig the hole forthe tree planted by. Dom Pedro in 1876. I have beon present at alt of the not- able events which have occurred before the tomb, but during my service have known. but-two-Presidents to visit 1t ducing thelr terms of office, - They were President Hayes'and President Cleveland. I am quite certain that neither President Lincoln nor Presi dent Grant: tisited tho tomb during thelr terme of offlon: eee The notable-vigiter to the toml was Li Hung Chang. His knowledge of the great. Washington, and the way hw-did Homage before his tomb, made a profound. impression upon Parker. The fatthfal old servitor. will pv abiy be burind inside of the gro. ids y ,prettY--at Mount Vernon. pal ted, flereel: Wall, someliow ali made him like 10. Yes Lamaly There was the rage of a mal underneath his quiet No. her, nnd she Hated him-pll the time 2 No 0 not-altogether in jhe: proposed. enough but + Oh, not Not-lamels at all estly and manfully and lovingly was a epleidid character in the tale. Tt was strange that he conld not read the hero-worelip in her tone. Bub ele thought be wasn't? the was. knew ho was. Sho tied her chief tremblingly In knots. Agnes, you She thor she said passionat are trying to with me. I do not understand. ua her rhestly. ioe. Ho handl play tely, look- ing-up at him with white, drawn face and quivering lips, and eyes of pain all 'you do hot understand. He did not understand. * Didseho not refuse jim? Did she not tell not tell him that the criticism had nearly broken her heart ? him that she bad resolved to take the bitterest revenge Did she that not tell, oman could take? Did she not t him that ahe lad studied his books to find the ways that attracted him to make him care for her ? Did rest af his Ife? towered over her like an accusing that sh abe not tell him that she had meant him to p: might re- Did sho not say that sho ie Besides, it ls part of my business fuso him ? ProW-t9 Sead tio nooKs of FOU BFeNt wanted Tint to caro Tor Ter fm to care for her all Ho stood up sho suit with a sob. Ratt Phere eo tbat ts Sich couduct as that * Ah, but she had a. lot more tosiy if ho would have ho cursed her and went away in the heard havo told the and Bue: excuse her. But ly beblod her handkerchief. for mercy' sako tell me what would she have told him if he had not gone. Sho Jooked. up with fae, She would sald, steadying her vole bravely a, toarstained eho nd him, sing her fluger-tips upon his arm, wtops, But Then eyes brimming ed a word eo brokenly that scarcely hear. Oh, ought to out low great iittle our tale, dear? sha looked up at Aggie, Agglo. he have known a and Agnes Would havo told tlm that she loved him a fom 5 She and that he had conquered ler passion. and her wiekedness; that found and kind he was * Agries, she had strong she There was something In his yolos that was past descr'bing. him, with whisper- he could ered; woman's and- a pair of slim, wilful arms No, she whispered, my dear, doar boy. A 16r01 Black and White. woman's SOUND PICTURES. * Made Witha Tin Horn, a Sheet of Paper and Some Sand, To take a ploture of your yolco it is, only uccessary to te a sheet of thin, strong paper over the faring end of Lan okt in Born the aicet of paper upward. Take a Iieele F it in tho contrp of the paper. Then Hhold-the ham vertlowty bore, your face and sing a.m 0 tho tad of the instrument. Do not blow, , but ving the mote. Now lower the horn carefully and ioe at the eand, You will tind that the vibrations of your vole have fatter tie pitch of annd into a Seanvifel sound picture. Evers note fithe musieal soate will produce Hitterent pletare, 20 you may pro Suee a great varievy of them, sios, roses and other flowers, some like snakes, and others like flying birds; in fact, there: ls no Umit to the variation. The pictures of the notes of musical inetraments are made by holding the horn a nesr ag possible to them. Flowers and Perfume. Many peo sao learn that mest flowers baye no per fume whatever..An Austrian chem ist, who has been making researches: nto the subject, declared that out: ot 4110 varioties known and eubtl- vated in Europe scarcely 400 have any odor, and of theso nearly fifty: hays an odor which is, if anything. disagreeable. Miss Mamlo Witiess aid Henry Fook feller Were r last week. upon such o fitting unlot as that Denver. Post, Sigomo of these plotures took like pan J
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