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Signs of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 1.

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Earlier text: ORIGIN OF SUNDAY OBSERVANCE

ONLY A LITTLE THING.

'Forbearing one another in love.' 'Kindly affectioned one toward another.' It sounds very nice to talk about, but I wonder if many people really do it. It would be a great deal nicer world if they did. I don't see how I could do it very well. Sam is always so cross and disagreeable, it wouldn't do a bit of good to try to be kind to him. He wouldn't even notice it, and never would think of being kind to me. But Miss Hale talked about our being kind, no matter whether anyone was kind to us or not.
Ellen was walking home from Sunday-school, musing on what she had heard there. She was not very happy at home. No one there seemed to care whether she was or not, and the years of her childhood had been passing without much thought of it on her own part. But she was getting less and less satisfied with herself, as well as with her surroundings, and some of the things she had lately heard were leading her to think seriously upon the possibility of her troubles being made any lighter.
"Wait a minute, Het." She turned at the sound of voices behind her, and saw Harry Vane running to catch up with his little sister.
"Here," he said breathlessly, holding out to her his Bible, Sunday-school book, and a loose paper or two. "Take these home. Tell mother I'm gone down to the Y. M. C. A. rooms to see some pictures of Jerusalem they've got there. I want you to carry my books."
"But I don't see how I can," said Hetty, as he hastily piled his things upon her small hands, already well filled with her own books.
"Oh, you're clumsy!" he exclaimed impatiently, as her Bible fell upon the pavement. "Tell mother I'll soon be home."
And he was off, without waiting to see how she could get along with all she had to carry.
Ellen turned to help Hetty, expecting to hear a petulant complaint against Harry as she picked up her nicely bound Bible, and carefully wiped it with her handkerchief.
But Hetty did not say anything, except to remark that it was a birthday present, and she was trying to keep it very nice.
"I'll help you carry your books," said Ellen. "I think it was mean of Harry to treat you so."
"Oh!" said Hetty, with a smile, "he didn't stop to think. Boys don't, you know. But mother says the best way to make them think is to be forbearing with them, as Miss Hale said just now. And she says," little Hetty's voice grew more sober, "that a sister can have a great influence over a brother by being kind to him; and that we never know when such an influence may be of great use when they are older. She says a brother ought to think his sister the dearest and sweetest thing in the world, except, of course, his mother. Good-by. Thank you for helping me. I can get along nicely now."
Ellen packed the books on Hetty's arm so that she could easily carry them, and then went on by herself, still thinking. It was easy to be obliging to Hetty, for Hetty was always so pleasant herself. It was a very different thing to try to be kind to peevish, disobliging Sam.
But surely it was not "forbearing" to be kind only to those who were agreeable.
"Oh, dear!" sighed Ellen, with tears very near her eyes. "I wish my mother was here. Things are so much easier when girls have a mother."
Sam came home from school at noon the next day, and entered the dining-room with the rough manner and sullen look which had grown upon him until they seemed to belong with him. Helping himself, without regard to anyone else, he was beginning an ample dinner when his father arose hastily, looking at his watch, as he said:—
"I have to take a run down to Hartley on the 1:30 train. I can barely make it; and—here, Sam, I want you to hurry to the post-office with this letter. It is important that it should catch the early afternoon mail. Quick; now!"
"Can't I eat my dinner first?" asked Sam.
"No," he said, a little impatiently, although not unkindly; "boys mustn't be too anxious about their dinners. Be off at once, and eat when you come back."
Sam was very hungry, and looked ruefully at his plate, as he took the letter and hurried away, knowing that his father's commands must be promptly obeyed. He felt sure that there would be little comfort in his meal, when he should return from the long walk. Susan, the girl, was always very busy and always rather cross on Monday. She would eat her own dinner, and then leave the table until she was done washing, and Sam's dinner would be cold and uninviting.
Ellen looked after him as he passed the window. His face was, if possible, more sour and peevish than usual; and for a moment she felt as if he deserved any little annoyance which might come to him.
But the words "kindly affectioned" came to her mind. How pleasant it would be if she and Sam were kind to each other! She did not know whether Sam could be kind—he was always surly to her. But had she been much better to him? She had always kept out of his way as much as possible, never showing him the little cares which a sister can show, and which a motherless boy must sadly miss.
With a thoughtful face she went back to the table, where his untasted dinner lay. Making a few additions to it, she carried it to the kitchen stove, where it would keep hot. And, with everything she did, a warmer feeling toward Sam came into her heart.
Have you ever realized, boys and girls, how the delight of a kind thought or action grows upon you? Try it, and see. A host of tender feelings toward her brother seemed to spring up in Ellen's heart with her trifling care for his comfort. She began to wish to do something else.
"I'll make him a cup of chocolate," she said to herself; "Sam's fond of chocolate, and he doesn't often get it."
She brought some milk, and set it on the stove to heat, while she grated the chocolate. Susan grumbled a little about things being in her way when she was so busy. It was beginning to rain, and she would have trouble drying her clothes. So she, like Sam, was a little crosser than usual.
"I won't bother you long, Susan," said Ellen. "Sam had to leave his dinner to go on an errand, and I thought I'd have it nice for him when he comes back."
Susan turned and looked at her with an astonished face.
"Well," she exclaimed, "in all the while I've lived here it's the first blessed time I've ever knowed one of you to do a good turn to t'other."
The blood rushed to Ellen's face as, in real shame and humiliation of spirit, she felt how just was the girl's blunt rebuke. She made no answer, but stirred her chocolate until the foam on the top showed that it was properly cooked, then set it on the back of the stove, and went to see if Sam was coming.
She watched him with a look of quickened affection as he came near. The raw, windy morning had given promise of a storm, which was now setting in, and the rain was beating against his face. And she saw, what she had never looked close enough to see before, that it was thin and pale. Could it be that Sam was not well, and that no one had ever thought or cared about it? Perhaps it had something to do with his crossness. It was hard that he should have been obliged to leave his dinner, and how glad she was that she had concerned herself about it.
She ran to the kitchen, and was bringing his hot meat and vegetables just as he sat down to the table.
"Someone's taken away my dinner," he said with a growl, as she opened the door; but he stared in surprise as she set it before him, hot and daintily arranged.
"Was that you or Susan?" he asked.
"It was I, Sam."
He said no more, but seemed to like to have her stay and talk with him. And, when she brought the chocolate and a piece of cake to eat with it, he stared again, but only said: "Most makes me think I'm Harry Vane. He always gets waited on when he's late."
"You're just as good to wait on as Harry Vane, Sam."
"That's a new idea, isn't it?" he said.
A cup of chocolate is a small thing, but it made a good beginning. It is in little things that the kindly affections of daily home life are shown. It took some time for the cross look to wear off Sam's face, and the roughness from his manners. But such things do wear off under the soothing influence of smiles and kindly offices. And in after years, when the two found their chief comfort in each other, Ellen had full reason to bless the day in which she had been led to exert the sweet power of sisterly love over her brother, finding it unfailing, as others have found it, in times when a restraining hand and a gentle voice may prove the making, with God's blessing, of a noble life.—New York Observer.

The Home Circle.

NEW-YEAR THOUGHTS.

Now dawns the beautiful New Year; Like dreams the old days disappear. Dear friends, when thinking o'er The varied scenes these held in store, How very sweet to you and me Some of our memories will be! How very sad to you and me Some others cannot fail to be!
We may have tried to live aright, To make our words and actions white; Yet I am sure that memory Will conjure up to you and me Some things we might have better done; Some victories we might have won O'er sin and self; some moments born For fruitful missions, wasted. On So broad a scale before us lie The failures of the year gone by.
But, ah! the future comfort lends: Sweet thought, that we may make amends! The fair young time wooes you and me To strive with God's help, earnestly, To make the New Year fresh begun Much better than the year that's done; To fight life's battles valiantly (So doing we shall stronger be), To strive for others' happiness, Finding therein ourselves we bless. And so, I think, whate'er befall, Right happy days will come for all.
—Selected.

BURNING UP A LIBRARY.

A FEW days since, while seated at the dinner table in the house of a friend, the subject of books became the topic of conversation. Said the host: "I consider my 'Encyclopedia Britannica' is worth more than all the rest of my library" and he had a good library. But he added, "When I got it, Mr. I. said, 'How is this? how can you afford it? I cannot. Why, it cost you more than one hundred dollars.' Now, my friend, Mr. I., let us see about it. You smoke, I do not. In less than one year you puff one hundred dollars into smoke; here are one hundred and thirty dollars in this encyclopedia, a lasting blessing to myself and the community." He might have added, "and your money worse than wasted." This unwise Mr. I. is no exception. Scores of men in every community, not rich by any means, think nothing of watching the curling smoke vanish into nothingness, that might represent a nice little Jersey, besides plenty of feed to keep her on. No doubt, many wives and children are denied, not only comforts, but actual needs, in order that their "lords" may indulge in their after-dinner, after-supper, and after-breakfast smoke, with one or two smokes sandwiched in between meals.—Selected.

SLAVERY IN BRAZIL.

IN the course of a lengthy account by the British consul at Rio de Janeiro, of the great Brazilian province of Minas Geraes, which was lately laid before Parliament, reference is made to slavery in Brazil. The number of registered slaves in the province of Minas in 1873 was 340,444; 107,615 are said to have entered after this date, 105,349 went out of the province, 49,316 died, and 17,119 were manumitted, leaving about 276,000. The greatest portion of these are retained for the working of the various mines and the coffee estates in certain districts. Minas and Rio have for many years past been the principal slave-holding provinces of the empire, and in 1872 contained 712,475 slaves, of whom 611,152 were Brazilians and 95,283 were Africans. In 1885 there were 556,896 in both provinces, of whom 30,000 belonged to the municipality of Rio. This number is said to have diminished considerably during the last twelve months, but Mr. Ricketts thinks the statistics furnished on the subject unreliable; for, although there are many who are free de jure they are not necessarily so de facto. In addition to the 556,896 above mentioned there is a large number of slaves not registered, who are now held as free before the law. There are some 180,000 children of slaves still in the hands of their masters in these two provinces.—London Times.

Be Always on the Watch

BE always on the watch to do some helpful thing for somebody. Make yourself a blessing to all you meet. Never let it be said of you, "Oh, he's too indifferent to the wants of others to give a body a lift," or, "She feels above lending a helping hand."—Church and Home.

Health and Temperance.

By Margaret Eytinge

THE SLAVE OF A BOTTLE.

I know a young fellow, broad-shouldered and tall, With a beautiful smile and a classical face. His hands and his feet are exquisitely small, And he moves and he speaks with a dignified grace. Of his birth and degree He is proud, one can see, And yet the poor slave of a bottle is he.
"I'd be ruled by no woman," he often declares, There never was fair who was prudent and wise; And he who yields meekly to petticoat prayers Or petticoat scoldings I truly despise. No she-tyranny, I thank you, for me." And yet the poor slave of a bottle is he,
Advice he will never accept from a friend; "It may be all true," he'll admit, "what you say; But let those without brains upon others depend, I happen to have some, I'll go my own way, Unfettered and free, In blessed liberty." And yet the poor slave of the bottle is he.
And when called by his master he quickly obeys, And soon loses dignity, beauty, and grace; The charming smile turns to an idiot gaze, And the mask of a clown hides the classical face. Ah! the worst slavery That ever could be Is his, for the slave of a bottle is he. —Margaret Eytinge.

A BETTER WAY.

SPEAKING of the various devices for the absorption of nicotine by tobacco pipes, a secular paper says:—
"Nothing, however, is half so effective as the corn-cob bowl. It absorbs all the nicotine in tobacco, until the pores of the pipe are full. Corn-cob pipes should not be smoked more than a week. After they are saturated with nicotine it is very injurious to smoke them, because then the smoker gets the concentrated nicotine from the bowl. They cost only five or ten cents apiece, and are very sweet when new."
Would not common sense suggest, however, that a much better and altogether safer way would be to let the poisonous weed entirely alone? While a new corn-cob pipe does undoubtedly absorb some of the deadly poison of the burning tobacco, it does not absorb it all; and if it did, no smoker would care to use one. Tobacco is a narcotic poison, and it is because it is a narcotic that men smoke it. The tobacco-smoker would care no more for tobacco devoid of poison than the beer-guzzler would for lager which contained no alcohol.

BEER.

THE Medical Record makes the following statements concerning the use of beer:—
"The constant use of beer is found to produce a species of degeneration of all the organisms, profound and deep-seated. Fatty deposits, diminished circulation, conditions of congestions, perversion of functional activities, local inflammation of both the liver and kidneys, are constantly present. Intellectually, a stupor amounting almost to paralysis arrests the reason, precipitating all the higher faculties into a mere animalism, sensual, selfish, sluggish, varied only with paroxysms of anger that are senseless and brutal.
"In appearance the beer-drinker may be the picture of health, but in reality he is most incapable of resisting disease. A slight injury, a severe cold, or shock to the body or mind, will commonly provoke acute diseases, ending fatally. The constant use of beer every day gives the system no time for recuperation, but steadily lowers the vital forces.
"It is our observation that beer-drinking in this country produces the very lowest forms of inebriety, closely allied to criminal insanity. The most dangerous class of tramps and ruffians in our cities is beer-drinkers. It is asserted by competent authority that the evils of heredity are more positive in this class than from alcoholics."

DANGER IN MUSTY MEAL.

It has long been known that moldy and decayed vegetable foods are sometimes productive of violent disease, but the subject has not received that amount of public attention which it deserves. This is especially the case respecting flour and meal. Musty or stale flour and meal are frequently used, and until recently no very serious results have been directly traced to this cause. A short time ago, however, a case of poisoning occurred which clearly demonstrates the exceedingly deleterious character of such food. In a boarding-house at Mt. Holyoke, Massachusetts, forty persons were made violently sick by eating brown-bread. An examination showed that the meal from which the bread was made was stale, and that this was undoubtedly the cause of the sickness.
Meal and flour should always be kept in a cool, dry place; and if it becomes stale or musty, should be devoted to some other purpose than human consumption.—Good Health.

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—There are about 2,000,000 Finns, who are said to be in a state of dense spiritual darkness.
—Fifty years ago the Scriptures were circulated in 136 languages; now they are circulated in 280.
—It is said that the ratio of Sunday-school membership to population has decreased four per cent. in Michigan in four years.
—The Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, in Brooklyn, N. Y., the foundations of which were laid twenty years ago, is to be completed at once.
—Joseph Cook thinks that "many signs indicate that the churches are growing towards religious unity, and there is a prophecy that they will ultimately become one organic confederation."
—A call has been issued for a general conference on foreign missions to be held in London next June. Forty European missionary agencies are represented in the call, and the American societies are to be invited to send delegates.
—Rev. Robert Colyer thinks that "among the various denominations there was never before so much toleration, so much liberality of feeling and thought, or such an earnest desire to unite in defense of public and private morals."
—There are thirty-four missionary societies at work in Africa, and the Missionary Review says that all its 200,000,000 souls are practically within the reach of Christian missions. At the same time the fact remains, that for every missionary that goes to Africa, 70,000 gallons of liquor are sent.
—Says Spurgeon: "I regard full-blown 'modern thought' as a totally new cult, having no more relation to Christianity than the mist of evening to the everlasting hills." The figure is an apt one, for as the mist hides the hills from view, so does "modern thought" obscure the clear light of Christianity.
—Foreign missionary organizations raised $3,898,944 in the United States last year. This is less than fifteen cents for each individual. There are individual men who like to be thought charitable who could give more than that and not deprive themselves of a single comfort. The conversion of the world is not in sight yet.
—A Sunday-school teacher says that the question has been raised in his class as to the immediate state or condition after death, and asks the Christian Union whether it is a sleep, or an unconscious state till the Judgment, or whether the dead are immediately with God. The editor says: "It certainly is not an unconscious state. We can perhaps best help you by referring you to the book, 'Beyond the Shadows.'" Why not refer him to the Bible?
—The New York World says: "A dispatch from El Paso, Texas, announces that the celebration of 'Our Lady of Guadalupe' is being beautifully carried out just across the river in the Mexican end of the town. The festival is made up of bull-fighting, and every species of all-around gambling. The American tourists in that part of the world are being highly edified, and the managers of the bull-fights are encouraged to ask for an extension of the merry festival until the latter part of next month."

SECULAR.

—General Marmaduke, Governor of Missouri, died on the 28th ult.
—One hundred and thirty Arab immigrants arrived at New York last week.
—The inhabitants of Sota Valley, Montenegro, are said to be suffering from famine.
—Both England and Germany will oppose Russia should she make war on Austria.
—The Bulgarian Sobranje has authorized a loan of $1,000,000 for railway construction.
—Two men were seriously burned in San Francisco on the 26th ult. by an explosion of mill-dust.
—The Russian ambassador at Berlin has assured Count Kalnoky that Russia is pursuing a policy of peace.
—The death rate among the colored people of Georgia is said to be three times as great as that of the whites.
—Gandilla, in the West Indies, recently suffered severely from a hurricane. Fifty-four buildings were destroyed.
—A snow-bound passenger train on an Iowa road was run into a few days since by a freight train, and several passengers were severely injured.
—Seventeen hundred cigar-makers in Pittsburg, Pa., have organized for the purpose of forcing all cigar-makers into factories; that is, to break up small factories.
—The amount of capital of the Southern States, including the capital stock of incorporated companies for the year 1887, was $256,298,000, as against $129,226,000 for 1886.
—It has been ascertained that the great raft which was deserted in the Atlantic by the vessel having it in tow has broken up and so is no longer dangerous to steamers.
—On the 30th of December, a railroad train went through a trestle near St. Petersburg, Pa. Seven passengers were injured, but no lives were lost. The wreck was burned.
—A family named Kelly, said to rival the infamous Benders in the number and atrocity of their crimes, were recently captured and lynched in "No Man's Land," Indian Territory.
—Near Shelbyville, Ind., one day last week, a woman aged 62 years was killed and nearly devoured by hogs. She had gone into the barn-yard to milk, when she was attacked by the brutes.
—Sixty-four persons have been made ill and eight have died in Philadelphia, Pa., from eating buns and cakes colored with chrome-yellow. Three bakers have been indicted for adulterating food.
—An infernal machine, containing a bomb, was sent to a New York school inspector one day last week. The matches arranged in the box ignited when it was opened, but the bomb failed to explode.
—A severe gale did considerable mischief on San Francisco Bay on the 28th ult. One partially laden coal schooner was capsized, a number of other vessels were damaged, and the wharves suffered considerably.
—December 26, a large part of the town of Ironwood, Mich., was destroyed by fire. About forty buildings were burned.
—Two serious race collisions occurred a few days since in Georgia. As a result of one of them five men were seriously injured, one fatally.
—The crowned heads of Europe seem to be vying with each other in doing honor to the Pope upon the occasion of his jubilee—that is, the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination as a priest of the Catholic Church.
—Portland, Me., narrowly escaped destruction by a huge tidal wave on the night of the 28th ult. The wave was sixty feet high, and had its force not been broken by huge rocks, would have overwhelmed the city.
—Advices from Auckland, New Zealand, stated that the French have annexed Raiatea. The natives were made willing by the bombardment of several of their villages. All "rebels" against French authority are to be punished.
—A few days since an insane Georgian farmer murdered his wife and six children and then killed himself. The only member of the family who escaped is a half-grown boy, who was absent on an errand at the time of the killing.
—Reports of severe storms and intensely cold weather come from various parts of Europe. In Austria a number of persons have been frozen to death. Steamers arriving at British ports report very severe weather on the Atlantic.
—An Irish clergyman, in a recent speech in Cork, charged certain local Government officials with systematically corrupting girls of a tender age. The Pall Mall Gazette says that only one official, a trusted agent of Dublin Castle, is implicated.
—A number of Gloucester, Mass., fishermen are transferring their business to ports on Puget Sound. Cod are said to be abundant along the coast of Alaska, and it is to those fishing grounds that the Gloucester schooners will resort.
—The majority of the Pacific Railroad Commission will recommend to Congress that the time for the payment of the debt which the roads owe the Government be extended fifty years, and that the rate of interest be reduced to three per cent.
—Three hundred feet of the wharf at Port Harford, San Luis Obispo County, Cal., was burned on the night of the 24th ult. Ten freight cars, and one hundred and twenty tons of merchandise, besides grain and other produce, were destroyed.
—Hibernia, a small mining town in New Jersey, was the scene of a miners' riot, December 26, in which over fifty men were more or less seriously injured, and one killed outright. The belligerents were Russian and Hungarian miners, and the exciting cause was whisky.
—The New York World is authority for the statement that there are at present in that city 100,000 persons out of employment. The employment agencies are full of people looking for work, and every night the police stations are crowded with persons who are unable to pay for lodging.
—A year ago General Alger, a Detroit millionaire, gave a suit of clothes to each of 300 newsboys in that city and sent coal, wood, and flour to hundreds of poor families. This year the newsboys were again remembered, and 1,000 poor families were each supplied with a ton of coal and a barrel of flour.
—On the 29th ult. cold weather was reported all along the Atlantic coast, and storm signals were up from Maine to Florida. At New York the velocity of the wind was forty-eight miles per hour, with the thermometer only 14° above zero. Several deaths from exposure are reported from various quarters.
—December 31, a frightful railroad collision occurred near Meadville, Pa. Five persons were killed and thirteen seriously injured. The colliding trains were running at an aggregate speed of sixty miles per hour. The same day two minor disasters occurred, one in Indiana and the other in Kentucky. Several were reported killed in the latter accident.
—In Chicago, December 30, a stove was accidentally overturned in a hall where a holiday celebration was in progress. The Superintendent thoughtlessly yelled, "Fire," at which the great crowd of children were seized with panic, and in attempting to escape almost all were injured and one was killed. The Superintendent was placed under arrest.
—The Mexican Government has granted the right of way to a San Francisco capitalist for a railroad to commence at Tepic, State of Jalisco, and run northwest, touching a number of important cities and connecting with the Southern Pacific Railroad at Yuma. The road will pass through some of the richest mining country in the world, and is to be built by a combination of American and European capital.

A GOOD MAN'S TENDERNESS.

Boys are sometimes tempted to think that to be tender-hearted is to be weak and unmanly. Yet the tenderest heart may be associated with the strongest and most forcible mind and will. Take, for example, the story told of him to whom we owe our wonderful railway system. George Stephenson went one day into an upper room of his house and closed the window. It had been open a long time because of the great heat, but now the weather was becoming cooler, and so Mr. Stephenson thought it would be well to shut it. He little knew at the time what he was doing. Two or three days afterward, however, he chanced to observe a bird flying against that same window, and beating against it with all its might again and again, as if trying to break it. His sympathy and curiosity were aroused. What could the little thing want? He went at once to the room and opened the window to see. The window opened the bird flew straight to one particular spot in the room, where Stephenson saw a nest—that little bird's nest. The poor bird looked at it, took the sad story in at a glance, and fluttered down to the floor, broken-hearted, almost dead.
Stephenson drawing near to look was filled with unspeakable sorrow. There sat the mother bird, and under it four tiny little ones—mother and young all apparently dead.
Stephenson cried aloud. He tenderly lifted the exhausted bird from the floor, the worm it had so long and so bravely struggled to bring to its home and young still in its beak, and carefully tried to revive it, but all his efforts proved in vain. It speedily died, and the great man mourned for many a day. At the same time the force of George Stephenson's mind was changing the face of the earth, yet he wept at the sight of this dead family, and was deeply grieved because he himself had unconsciously been the cause of death.—Manchester Times.

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