Earlier text: WHICH IS THE MORE DISHONORING?“SHOEMAKER, STICK TO YOUR LAST.”
MAXIMILIAN JOSEPH, the late king of Bavaria, was one summer day sitting in plain, civil costume in the garden of his palace at Tegernsee. The heat was indeed great, and it was so very quiet in the garden that the king fell asleep over the book he was reading. He laid it down beside him on the bench and continued to slumber. When he awoke he thought he would drive away his drowsiness by taking a walk. The road, which took him farther and farther away from the garden, brought him at last to the meadow, which extended on both sides from the shores to the beautiful lake near which the palace stood. Here the king remembered his book which he had left lying on the bench in the park. If anyone passed by he might take the volume, which, being rather a rare one, the king did not wish to lose. As he was unwilling to return the same way, he looked about him for someone who would fetch the book for him; but, far and wide, he did not see a single human being, except a boy who was watching a flock of geese. The king went up to him and said:— “Listen, my boy; you can go and fetch me a book which I have left lying on a bench in the park, and you shall have a florin for your trouble.” The lad, who did not know the king, looked at the gentleman with much distrust. A florin for so small a service seemed to him so large an offer as to be a hoax. “I am not the simpleton you take me for,” he said, turning away. “What makes you think I take you for a simpleton?” asked the king, smiling, pleased with the open manner of the lad. “Because you offer me a florin for such a trifling service,” replied the boy; “money is not earned so easily. The people down there,” he added, pointing his finger to the distant palace, “take us all for fools, and I know you are one of them.” “Well, what if I am?” said the king. “Come, here's half a florin in advance! Now go and fetch me the book.” The boy's eyes sparkled when he beheld the money in his hand, for he did not get much more than that for looking after the geese the whole year; but still he hesitated. “Well,” asked the king, “and why don't you go?” The boy pushed his cap on one side, and scratched himself behind the ear. “Yes,” said he, “I will—but—I dare not. If the farmers heard that I had left the geese, they would dismiss me, and I would lose my daily bread.” “I will watch them till you come back.” “You?” replied the boy, measuring the stranger from top to toe; “you don't look to me like one who can take care of geese. If they were to run away and get lost in these meadows I might have to pay more than I should earn in a year. Look at that fellow with a black head, who belongs to the court gardener; he is an awful old bird, a deserter, a good-for-nothing, like all people who have to do with a court; he would play you fine tricks whilst I was away. No, no, that would never do!” “And why should I not be able to keep these geese in order, as well as I succeed in keeping men in order?” said the king. “You?” replied the lad, again eyeing the monarch with a grin. “They must be fine fellows, indeed! Ah, now I have it! You are a school-master. I tell you, boys are much easier to manage than geese.” “Possibly; but, come, be quick! Will you fetch me the book? I will answer for any mischief that may happen.” This decided the boy. He enjoined the king to keep a watchful eye over the goose which he called the gardener—a splendid gander, who might run off directly, leading the whole herd after him. Then the boy gave him the whip, and ran off, but soon stood still, and then came back again. “What does this mean?” cried the king to him. “Crack it once!” ordered the boy. The king tried it, but it would not crack at all. “That's just what I thought!” exclaimed the boy. “The school-master fancies he can take care of geese, and cannot even crack the whip!” Then he took the whip out of the king's hand, and showed him how to crack it. His majesty could scarcely repress his laughter; he tried all he could to learn how to crack it, and when he had succeeded, the boy enjoined him to use it at the right moment, and then ran away. Now the king could laugh as much as he liked. But, in fact, it seemed as if the geese observed at once that their young but severe master no longer held the reins of government. The gander which the boy had pointed out as the court gardener raised his long neck, looked everywhere around him, uttered several “quack! quack!” and then all the geese raised their wings, screamed aloud, and, before the king could look around, rushed off to all points of the compass in the meadows around the lake. The king cried out—it was of no use; he wanted to crack the whip, but the whip gave out no sound; he ran to the right, he ran to the left—all of no use whatever. Out of breath with laughing, he sat down on the trunk of a tree, where the boy had been sitting, and let the geese go. “The boy was really right,” he said to himself, “that it is easier to govern a couple of millions of men than to manage a herd of geese. Only it was that scoundrel, the court gardener, who was the cause of all this mischief.” The boy meanwhile had found the book, and came merrily back. But when he saw what had happened, he let the book fall out of his hand. “There we have it!” he exclaimed, sobbing with anger and grief. “Didn't I say you understood nothing about it? Just look now! I can't collect them together by myself. Now you will have to help me!” After the boy had instructed the king how he must lift up his arms, wave them about, and shout aloud, he ran off to fetch the most distant of the strayed flock. The king did all that was in his power, and after great exertions the whole flock was at last assembled again; then the boy began to scold the king for doing his duty so badly, concluding with these words:— “Never in my life will I trust the whip out of my hands again. I wouldn't even trust it to the king himself, if he tried to persuade me to leave my flock.” “You are right, my brave lad,” said the king, bursting into a loud laugh; “he understands no more about it than I do, for I am the king myself.” “You? You may make a simpleton believe that, but not me!” he exclaimed. “Take your book, and make haste and go home. To pretend, indeed, that you are the king after showing yourself so clumsy!” “Don't be out of temper,” said the good-natured king, as he offered him another florin. “I will pledge you my word never again to take charge of geese.” The boy thanked him, thought for a little while, then said: “Whoever you are, you are a good gentleman; but don't deceive yourself that you are a goose herder. Remember the proverb, ‘Shoemaker, stick to your last.’” —Illustrated Christian Weekly. MANNERS AND ENVIRONMENT.
By Kate Upson Clark
EVERYBODY can testify to a certain feeling of self-respect—shall it be called?—which comes over him upon exchanging his work-a-day clothes for his best ones. What is it? Why do we feel better-bred and more at ease when we are well dressed than when we are poorly clad? Who shall say? Similarly, do we not behave better, or, perhaps it should be stated, do we not unconsciously adopt a more formal and polished manner, in an elegantly-furnished drawing-room from that which we put on in a bare, homely kitchen? If we stop to think of these things, we may find that they branch out into many and very important "leadings." For example, a lady was boarding, not long ago, in a private family, composed of father, mother, three large boys, and two small girls. They had all been well, but plainly, brought up, and the manners of the children in the pretty family parlor, with its piano, its dainty curtains, and abundant books, were good. When they went into the dining-room, however, there was a perceptible difference in their behavior. They constantly were in need of reproof from their parents, and as constantly received it. They took enormous mouthfuls, bolted their food in an alarming way, slid the dishes about on the table-cloth, lounged, drank when their mouths were full of food, and were generally lawless and disagreeable.141 On their return to the parlor the boys became gentlemanly again, took pains to get interesting books and pictures to amuse each other with and such guests as happened in, were particular to say, "Excuse me," when leaving the room, and in many ways indicated that they were really and truly well-bred. The girls underwent a like transformation. From scrambling, greedy little hoydens, they became gentle, quiet, lady-like. The boarder puzzled over the strange conduct of this family for some time before she arrived at any sort of a solution of it. Then it occurred to her that the appearance of the dining-room might have something to do with the change which they seemed to undergo while there. It was a bare, unsightly apartment, with a singularly unattractive arrangement of doors, shelves, and windows in it, while the furniture of the room and the dishes used were of the most ordinary description. There was an absolute lack of taste and thought in the whole make-up of the place. Perhaps in a more esthetic dining-room the manners of the family would have been better. Now we all know boors who live in fine houses, and we know gentle and refined people who live in rooms guiltless of carpet or rug, and who eat from delf; but is it not generally true that manners, if left to themselves, will be influenced largely by environment?—Kate Upson Clark, in Congregationalist. "THE boneless tongue, so small and weak,
Can crush and kill," declared the Greek.
"The tongue destroys a greater horde,"
The Turk asserts, "than does the sword."
A Persian proverb wisely saith,
"A lengthy tongue—an early death;"
Or sometimes takes this form instead,
"Don't let your tongue cut off your head."
"The tongue can speak a word whose speed,"
Says the Chinese, "outstrips the steed;"
While Arab pages this impart,
"The tongue's great store-house is the heart."
From Hebrew wit the maxim sprung,
"Though feet should slip, ne'er let the tongue."
The sacred writer crowns the whole,
"Who keeps the tongue doth keep his soul."
—Selected. Health and Temperance.
By Editor
THE New York Herald recently asked the opinion of quite a number of eminent public men as to whether clergymen ought to smoke. It applies just as strongly to laymen, to everyone, as it does to ministers of the gospel. A man of any legitimate occupation or calling has as much right and privilege to be as good a man, as clean a brother, husband, and father, as useful a citizen, as much a tabernacle for the Spirit of God and pure good thoughts, as a minister has; and it is not too much to say that these, in an excellent degree, are unattainable where tobacco is used. We reprint some of the letters published in the Herald. William R. Alger, the celebrated Unitarian clergyman and author, says:— "No clergyman ought to smoke, because smoking is a vice. It is a vice, because it is master of labor, time, attention, and health. I believe that intoxicating liquor and tobacco are the two chief enemies of the human race. It seems, therefore, as clear as the sun in heaven that no clergyman can be held guiltless who does not set a personal example in opposition to them both." Says the venerable Dr. James McCash:— "Smoking will be put down when young ladies declare that they will not look with favor on a young man who smokes, and when congregations declare that they will not take a minister who smokes." William Hayes Ward, editor of the Independent, thus expresses himself:— "I can give no opinion based on experience of the effects of smoking, as the practice has always seemed to me filthy and useless, and therefore indulgence in it simply sensual. I think the practice inexcusable, except in the case of those who have begun it in an idiotic or vicious youth, and whose system is so saturated with the poison that they fear they will, through the shock the change would give the brain, revert into idiocy should they cease taking in the usual supply of nicotine." Dr. Ward's estimate of the reason under which in his opinion the habit may be continued is not a flattering one. It is thus that Chaplain C. C. McCabe, the great Methodist mission-fund raiser, speaks:— "Clergymen certainly should not smoke. No clergyman should do anything he does not expect and wish the young men in his congregation and Sabbath-school to do. How can a man reprove boys for smoking if he does it himself? No, save us from clergymen who smoke! I am glad the Methodist Church has decided not to admit young men to her ministry who are addicted to the practice." Methodists allow the continuance of the habit on the part of old ministers, it has been remarked, on the principle stated in the text, "He which is filthy, let him be filthy still." The grace of God is sufficient, and old ministers ought to have sufficient grace to overcome such a confessedly bad habit. Joseph Cook touches it lightly, but says that a few distinguished ministers are responsible for much of it, and on the whole condemns it. Theodore Cuyler emphatically condemns it—never smoked a pipe or cigar in his life, and never expects to. He leaves it to the consciences and common sense of ministers. Certainly the latter ought to be sufficient, but where it is not there is not much to hope from the former. The Rev. Edward Bucher, of Brooklyn, presents no uncertain front on the matter. He says, and his words are worthy of study:— "My deepest feeling is excited by the great extent to which ministers of the gospel are involved in the sin of using tobacco. It not only injures them physically but mentally. Against unanswerable evidence of the widespread evils, physical, intellectual, and moral, they subject themselves to a habit of ruinous self-indulgence, and do all that example can do to induce others to do the same. Then of what avail is it for them to preach to men to deny ungodliness and every worldly lust? While ministers of the gospel oppose one with vivid eloquence, they advocate the other by example, and are a rampart to defend it against all assaults." Says Samuel Francis Smith, the author of "America" (we would that smoking ministers would heed it for others' sakes):— "I am glad to hear my testimony against the evil practice of the use of tobacco by ministers of the gospel. They are often called to visit in the chambers of the sick, whose sensitive frames are pained and disgusted by the ill-savored odors carried in the breath or in the clothing of visitors. Intimate conversations of sympathy with the afflicted, or of advice to the troubled and inquirers—all alike demanding proximity—will often be unwholesome and distressing, not to say impossible." Rev. Newman Hall writes from London, England:— "I began to smoke at eight years of age and left off the same day. The cane cut from the hedge made me sick, and all my experience since has made me more sick of what I regard a dirty, costly, tyrannical, and unhealthy habit. Excuse may be made for some elderly or afflicted smokers, but the practice should be especially avoided by ministers. There are in every church some who will be pained by such an example, some who may be injured by following it. Smokers are liable to become slaves to the habit, so that its indulgence gets to be a necessity of life. They are uncomfortable without it; they become reckless of the comfort of others; they must smoke in the street, in the car, in the house, in the bedroom. It often leads to drinking, wastes time and costs money which is needed for better objects." Among many other good things, Lyman Abbott, successor of Henry Ward Beecher and editor of the Christian Union, utters the following:— "From such study as I have been able to give to the matter, I am not able to discover any physical or moral argument for smoking. The arguments appear to be all on the other side. While the evils of alcohol are vastly greater than the evils of tobacco, on the other hand it appears to me easier to construct an argument in favor of the moderate use of alcohol than in favor of the moderate use of tobacco." "The physical evils that result from the tobacco habit are notorious. The moral evils appear to me also serious." "Whatever may be the imagined benefit of smoking to overworked men (and women—if it is a sedative, who need it more than the wives and mothers?), it is by substantially universal consent an injury to the young. And yet not only the young men in our stores and colleges but the boys in their teens are inveterate smokers." "The minister should teach by his life; he should set an example which he is willing his congregation should follow; he should walk in the paths in which he desires that the boys and young men who look up to him should walk. As I personally do not wish to see the boys in my Sunday-schools nor the young men in my church and congregations smoking, I do not propose to set them the example of the smokers." "There is certainly an incongruity in a smoking clergyman preaching a sermon on crucifying the lusts of the flesh or denying ourselves for the sake of our neighbors." The above testimonies ought to be sufficient to set not only smoking clergymen to thinking, but smoking Christians as well. There is power in Christ to enable anyone who will lay hold of it, to quit such a ruinous, expensive, and filthy habit. We have sofa-beds, and mantel-beds, and secretary-beds, but who ever heard of a combination stove and bed? Yet that may be found in China, that curious old country, whose customs are so ancient and unchanging that we may be sure they used this contrivance long before our modern combination beds were invented. A gentleman who has traveled in the north of China says that the climate is quite cold, and there are no stoves or fire-places in the wayside inns. In some of the general rooms are small charcoal braziers; but the bedrooms, which are very scantily furnished, contain neither stove nor bed. In their place is a brick platform, long enough for a man to stretch himself at full length upon, and raised a foot or two from the floor, with an opening in the side. Into this aperture the servant pushes a pan of burning coals, and when the bricks are thoroughly heated, the traveler spreads out upon them the bedding he has brought with him, and lies down to rest on his stove.—Selected. A poor blind girl, residing in one of the provinces of France, had for many years, as her greatest comfort, perused an embossed Bible with her fingers. Getting out of health, and becoming partially paralyzed, the hand also was affected, and gradually all power of touch was lost. Her agony of mind at the deprivation was great, and in a moment of despair, she took up her Bible, bent down her head, and kissed the open leaf, by way, as she supposed, of a last farewell. In the act of doing so, to her great surprise and sudden joy, she felt the letters distinctly with her lips, "and from that day the poor child was able to read the word of God."—Selected. Drunkenness is steadily on the increase in India. —The rainfall in this city for the season, up to the 17th ult., was thirty-five inches. —Boulder Creek, Santa Cruz County, Cal., reports 103 inches of rain for the season, and the prospect seems good for more. —It is reported that the through trains from San Francisco to Portland, Or., cannot be expected before the first of April. —Owing to the storm blockade, 25,000 people in Rogue River Valley, Or., were without an outside mail for over a month. —The government is preparing to build brick quarters at San Diego, Cal., for two companies of artillery, at a cost of $100,000. —At Mulhausen, Saxony, February 19, there was a fight at a Socialist meeting, and troops were called out. Thirty persons were wounded. —The Maryland State Temperance Alliance has declared against the movement now being made to enact a high license law for that State. —General Butler is at the head of a land and railroad company incorporated recently in Boston to buy land and build a railroad through the Holy Land. —A Paris dispatch of the 19th ult. reports an explosion in a colliery at Decize. It was not known how many were killed, but thirty-four dead bodies had been recovered. —It is thought that England will order a large number of American dynamite guns for coast defense in several colonies. Fifty have already been conditionally ordered. —Five of the conspirators implicated in a plot to kill Prince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, have been shot. Ferdinand offers to abdicate, but this action is opposed by the ministry. —A London dispatch of February 17 says: "Four hundred thousand miners in Great Britain have decided to adhere to their demand for an increase of 10 per cent. in wages." —The President has issued a proclamation directing the removal of all cattle grazing upon the Cherokee outlet in the northern part of the Indian Territory, by the first of October. —A German girl, aged twenty-four years, who had just arrived from the old country in search of friends in Newark, N. J., was lured into a building February 24, and robbed of a thousand dollars. —C. P. Huntington, of the Southern Pacific Railroad, is said to be purchasing large tracts of coal land in the State of Washington, and will establish a line of steamers to develop the trade. —The potato famine at Virginia, Nev., during the snow blockade, was raised by taking spuds from the Carson River ranches into the Sutro Tunnel and raising them through the mining-shafts. —The recent elections in Germany show large Socialist gains. The emperor's show of interest in the laboring classes did not have the designed effect of breaking the force of the Socialist wave. —The deserted wife of a sailor, destitute of means, and just out of the hospital with a babe, walked the streets of New York City till 5 o'clock A. M., February 13, when the child perished of the cold. —Temperance crusaders recently wrecked a building at Spickardsville, Mo., and the owner has started in for legal revenge against sixteen of the participants in the affair, thirteen of whom are women. —At the recent centenary of the U. S. Supreme Court, an appeal was made for the relief of the Court. It is claimed that it has more business than it can possibly attend to, and is fully three years behind. —The recent purchase of $300,000 worth of land in Minneapolis turns out to be a scheme to build a dam below St. Anthony Falls, which will give 200,000 maximum horse-power in addition to the present power at the falls. —Senator Blair recently presented petitions, signed by 36,000 members of the Grand Army of the Republic, in favor of pensions to army nurses. He also presented petitions signed by over 4,000,000 people, favoring his Educational bill. —Emperor William's interest in the welfare of the workingmen has received a new illustration in his rescript to the Minister of Commerce, directing an extension of the application of the system of workingmen's insurance, and an inquiry into the laws affecting factory labor. —On the 17th ult., several Deputy U. S. Marshals went to Sharon, Ga., and arrested seventeen prominent citizens, charged with conspiracy and intimidation against the newly-appointed postmaster, Duckworth. The warrants were based on the testimony of post-office inspectors. —A "California on Wheels" car was broken into at Wichita, Kansas, on the night of February 18, by a gang of cow-boys, who proceeded to help themselves to canned fruit and wine. But before much damage was done, the press agent of the train called up the other attendants, and drove off the thieves. —Russia has demanded that Bulgaria pay three million rubles due on account of the Russian occupation of 1878 and 1879, after the consolidation of Bulgaria and Eastern Roumania by the treaty of Berlin. Russia never pressed the debt before, and now, apparently, does so under a sense of irritation. —A new storm of rain and snow, quite general throughout the northern part of California, set in on the 15th ult., and new difficulties arose in the Sierras, along the Central Pacific Railroad line. Trains were considerably delayed, and only continual battling with the drifting snow could keep the track at all passable. —After nearly six weeks of resistance the dead-lock in the Lower House of the Iowa Legislature was dissolved on the 19th of February, and organization for business immediately followed. The Democrats have the speaker and one clerk, while the Republicans secured the other offices and most of the important committees. —Near Colfax, on the Central Pacific line, on the 21st ult., a snow-plow with five engines was engaged in clearing the track when four of the engines jumped the track and rolled into the canyon below, scalding to death a fireman and injuring two other persons. No effort was made to recover the engines, on account of the great depth of snow. —In the Senate, on the 17th ult., Mr. Dawes presented over 240 petitions from Massachusetts stating that more than 800,000 gallons of intoxicating liquors were annually exported to Africa, which is detrimental to all legitimate commerce with the natives, and praying Congress to put a stop to the traffic, which it can do under the constitutional provision authorizing Congress to regulate commerce with foreign nations. —A dispatch from Aurora, Texas, of the 21st inst., says: "A fatal epidemic is raging here. The disease is pronounced spinal meningitis, or spotted fever, and several persons have died of it within the last two days. The people are terror-stricken, and are fleeing from the place. An appeal was made to Fort Worth for physicians and nurses, which was at once responded to by the mayor." —At a recent congress of trades unions in England, it was decided by an overwhelming majority that no legislation shortening the hours of labor would confer any practical benefit upon workingmen so long as the competitive system exists. The men who debated the question all seemed to grasp the fact that if the hours of labor were shortened the wages of the workingman would also be shortened, and they accordingly resolved against an eight-hour agitation. —The National Educational Conference, in session at New York, passed a resolution, February 20, declaring the public school the chief source of civilization and the bulwark of civil and religious liberty, approving the placing of the American flag over school-houses, recommending the reading of the Declaration of Independence and other historical papers, so that pupils could meet hostile criticism and make the public schools become sources of the highest moral instruction without any sectarian bias. —In the Methodist Tabernacle at Spokane Falls, Washington, an endowment fund of $80,000 for Spokane College was raised in a short time. —Narayan Sheshadri is one of the college converts in India, and he has been the means of bringing a thousand heathen into the Christian fold. —Six Italian cardinals will be created this month in view of the minority of the Italian Cardinalate as compared with the number of foreign cardinals. —During a prayer-meeting at the house of Edward Randall, near Lebanon, Ind., on the evening of February 18, someone fired a shot through a window and fatally wounded Mrs. Randall. —In the New Hebrides there is a babel of tongues, but the Presbyterian missionaries have reduced twelve of them to writing. The seventeen missionaries laboring on the group are all busy with the work of translation. —Outside of the thousands of churches in London, there are 500 missionary workers. Each missionary calls on 500 families every month. They visit the slums and rum-holes, and are subjected to many dangers. During the warm season open-air meetings are held every day and night on the streets and in the parks. —A new semi-religious order, called the Brothers of the Cross, will begin active operations in Paris on the 1st of May. It will be in sympathy with the various labor demonstrations, and stand on a platform of freedom in politics; but its main object will be to propagate religious socialism by a purely practical method, and will aim at securing the well being of humanity by a labor organization, reciprocal, fraternal, and universal in its character. —Two Mormon elders in Marion County, Ala., who were engaged in making up a party for Utah, were ordered to leave. They went on with their preparations, and paid no attention to the order. The next night a party called upon them, took them to the woods, and gave them each fifty lashes; then the bleeding victims were covered with tar and dry leaves, and fire was applied to them. They ran to a creek not far distant, and jumped in, which the report says was the last seen of them. So says a dispatch from Birmingham. [Every book sent to us by the author or publisher will be promptly acknowledged, the title of the book, number of pages, the names of author and publishers being given in every case, together with the price, when we are informed what it is. Such other notice will be given as the merit of the several works may demand. Marked copies of the paper containing notices will be sent to publishers.] "Dying at the Top; or the Moral and Spiritual Condition of the Young Men of America," by Rev. Jos. Waddell Clokey, D.D., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of New Albany, Ind. W. W. Vansardale, 10 Arcade Court, Chicago, Ill. 124 pages; paper, 25 cents; cloth, 50 cents. This is a short book with very long "apology" for its appearance; but if there were but a thousandth part of the evils in existence which he condemns, such a book needs no defense. The author touches the Sabbath question very lightly, evidently believing in a civil Sabbath. But why does he not plead for prohibition laws for all immorality? Civil laws will never aid in the true keeping of the Sabbath. There are many startling facts presented in the book, which hardly justify Mr. Clokey's expressed hopefulness. SPARHAWK.—Died at her residence in Oakland, Cal., February 18, 1890, of a complication of diseases, Sister Alice E. Sparhawk, at the age of 61 years, 10 months, and 5 days. Sister Sparhawk's maiden name was Eastwood, and she was born in Richmond, Va., April 13, 1828. She lived there until eleven years of age; the next three years of her life were spent in the State of Connecticut. From there she went to Oswego, N. Y. In 1849 she married Ambrose Sparhawk. The fruit of this union was seven sons and three daughters. The two oldest sons are now living in Scotia, Neb. Most of her children were with her at the time of her death. The sickness of Sister Sparhawk began nineteen years ago, when she was taken with rheumatism. For the last sixteen years of her life she was unable to walk. In 1884 she, with her daughter Ada, went to the Sanitarium at Battle Creek for treatment, but after a stay of two years, the stubborn disease held its own, and they, with a number of the children, tried Nebraska, hoping that the climate there might be conducive to her health, but it was of little benefit. From there she with several children came to Oakland. She enjoyed this climate much, but the disease could not be checked. For the last ten months she has been a great sufferer. Five months before her death, her husband died in New York, as he was preparing to start for Oakland to join his family. This was a sad blow to the afflicted family. While at Battle Creek Sister Sparhawk and her daughter Ada accepted the truth, and hope in Christ sustained her to the last. Among her last words she told her daughter Ada to set a good example. May all her children so live that when the Lifegiver shall come they may meet their mother where there shall be no more pain, and where the inhabitants shall not say, "I am sick." All that could be done to relieve her suffering was done by her children, who are now fatherless and motherless. She was laid to rest by the side of her husband in Mountain View Cemetery. Funeral services by the writer. M. C. W. Religious Liberty Literature.
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Louisiana—A. F. Harrison, 40 Milan St., New Orleans, La.
Maine Tract Society—M. Russell, Sec., W. Palmyra, Me.
Michigan Tract Society—Hattie House, Sec., Review and Herald Office, Battle Creek, Mich.
Minnesota Tract Society—C. N. Woodward, 336 East Lake St., Minneapolis, Minn., P. O. Box 989.
Missouri Tract Society—J. Klostermyer, Sec., Rockville, Mo.
Nebraska Tract Society—Eliza B. Burleigh, Sec., 1505 E St., Lincoln, Neb.
New England—N. E. Tract Society, Mrs. E. T. Palmer, Sec., South Lancaster, Mass.
New Jersey, Del., Md., New York City, and Brooklyn, N. Y.—T. A. Kilgore, No. 43 Bond St., New York.
New York State—J. V. Willson, Sec., N. Y. Tract Society, 317 West Bloomfield St., Rome, N. Y.
New Zealand—International Tract Society, A. G. Daniells, Agent, Wellington, N. Z.
North Carolina—N. B. England, Newton, Catawba Co., N. C.
North Pacific—F. S. Bunch, Sec., Box B 2, East Portland, Or.
Norway—Sundhedsbladet, 74 Akersgaden, Christiania, Nor.
Ohio Tract Society—L. T. Dysart, Sec., 1103 Case Ave., Cleveland, O.
Pennsylvania Tract Society—Amelia Cook, Sec., Box 2716, Williamsport, Penn.
South Africa—International Tract Society, Somerset House, Roeland St., Cape Town.
Switzerland—Imprimerie Polyglotte, 48 Weiherweg, Basel.
Tennessee—J. H. Dortch, Springville, Henry Co., Tenn.
Texas Tract Society—T. T. Stevenson, Sec., Denton, Texas.
Upper Columbia—U. C. Tract Society, S. H. Carnahan, Sec., Box 523, Walla Walla, Wash.
Utah—Geo. H. Derrick, 118 Center St., Salt Lake City, Utah.
Vancouver Island—E. A. Guyton, 53 Work St., Victoria, B. C.
Vermont—Lizzie A. Stone, Lock box 237, Essex Junction, Vt.
Virginia—Amy A. Neff, Quicksburgh, Shenandoah Co., Va.
West Virginia.—Mrs. Nelia M. Stone, Grafton, W. Va.
Wisconsin Tract Society—S. D. Hartwell, 1029 Jenifer St., Madison, Wis. No. 3. Views of National Reform — Pamphlet. Price, 15 cents. Order of your State T. and M. Society, or, PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING CO., 43 BOND STREET, NEW YORK, OAKLAND, CAL.