TIMELINESS is as important as fitness. The right thing may become wrong unless it is in the right time. Look well to the time of doing anything; there is a time for all things. Choose the right time for saying things. If your wife looks wearied and worn out, be sure it is not the right time to tell her that the dinner is not hot, or that the bread is sour. Comfort her—cheer her up.
If you are annoyed or vexed at people, just remember it is not the right time to speak. Close your mouth—shut your teeth together firmly, and it will save you many a useless and unavailing regret, and many a bitter enemy.
If you happen to feel a little cross—and who among us does not at some time or other?—do not select that season for reproving your noisy household flock. One word spoken in passion will make a scar that a summer of smiles can hardly heal over.
If you are a wife, never tease your husband when he comes home, weary, from his day's business. It is not the right time. Do not ask him for expensive outlays when he has been talking about hard times—it is, most assuredly, the wrong time.
If he has entered upon an undertaking against your advice, do not seize on the moment of its failure to say, "I told you so!" In fact, it is never the right time for those four monosyllables.477Oh, if people only knew enough to discriminate between the right time and the wrong, there would be less domestic unhappiness, less silent sorrow, and less estrangement of heart. The greatest calamities that overshadow our lives have sometimes their germ in matters as apparently slight as this. If you would only pause, reader, before the stinging taunt, or the biting sneer, or the unkind scoff passes your lips—pause just long enough to ask yourself, "Is it the right time for me to speak?" you would shut the door against many a heartache.
The world hinges on little things, and there are many more trivial than the right time and the wrong.—Selected.
The Home Circle.
By Marianne Farningham
AN ANSWERED PRAYER.
"Oh, give me a message of quiet,"
I ask in my morning prayer;
"For the turbulent trouble within me
Is more than my heart can bear.
Around there is strife and discord,
And the storms that do not cease,
And the whirl of the world is on me—
Thou only canst give me peace."
I opened the old, old Bible,
And looked at a page of Psalms,
Till the wintry sea of my trouble
Was smoothed by its summer calms.
For the words that have helped so many,
And the pages that seemed more dear,
Seemed new in their power to comfort,
And they brought me my word of cheer.
Like music of solemn singing
These words came down to me—
"The Lord is slow to anger,
And of mercy great is he;
Each generation praiseth
His works of long renown,
The Lord upholdeth all that fall,
And raiseth the bowed down."
That gave me the strength I wanted;
I knew the Lord was nigh;
All that was making me sorry
Would be better by and by;
I had but to wait in patience,
And keep at my Father's side,
And nothing would really hurt me,
Whatever might betide.
—Marianne Farningham.
WHY THEY WERE POOR.
By Youth's Companion
Two ragged young men, with faces pinched by hunger, stopped the other evening before a stately dwelling in one of our large cities. As the curtains were not drawn, they could catch glimpses of a bright interior, and walls lined with pictures, and prettily dressed children playing. A grave old man, with white hair, alighted from his carriage and entered the house.
One of the men muttered a curse on the "bloated aristocrats." "Why should they live in idleness on the fat of the land, while you and me toil and starve?"
Now this was a hackneyed, popular bit of pathos, which has been effective since time began. The world invariably bestows its sympathy upon the poor man out in the cold and darkness, while it is apt to suspect the rich man, simply because he is rich, of being a selfish tyrant.
The facts in this case were that the owner of the mansion had earned his fortune, dollar by dollar, by steady, hard work. Now that he had earned it, much of his time was given to considering and relieving the wants of his poorer brethren. He was sober, frugal, and temperate. The men outside were lazy mechanics, who had chosen drink and gambling in pool-rooms instead of work. They had their reward in rags and starvation.
The boys who read these lines will soon take their places as citizens of a nation where the antagonism between the poor and the rich is pushed by foolish and vicious men to the point of actual combat. Let them look at the matter as it is, unmoved by false sentiment on either side. A man who lives in a palace is not necessarily a Dives, forgetful of God; nor is the beggar at his gate sure of Heaven merely because he is a beggar. It was not his poverty that carried Lazarus to Abraham's bosom.
In this country there are a great many men like George Peabody, Asa Packer, Stephen Girard, Johns Hopkins, and Isaiah Williamson, who have accumulated great wealth by hard, honorable work, and who have devoted it to the help of humanity. And there are countless poor men who owe their poverty to idleness, dishonesty, or love of liquor.
Learn to be just, boys, to the rich as to the poor, and you will be lacking in charity to neither. If you have inherited wealth, remember how hard it is for those who put their "trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God." If you are poor, remember that you are no more honest, estimable, or devout because you are poor.
The man with five hundred dollars a year may trust in his money and exaggerate its value as truly as the man with millions. If you lie or cheat for a single dollar, it soils your soul the same as if it were all the diamonds of Golconda.—Youth's Companion.
WHY DO BEES WORK IN THE DARK?
A LIFETIME might be spent in investigating the mysteries hidden in a bee-hive, and still half of the secrets would be undiscovered. The formation of the cell has long been a problem for the mathematician, while the changes which the honey undergoes, offer at least an equal interest to the chemist. Every one knows what honey fresh from the comb is like. It is a clear, yellow syrup without a trace of sugar in it. Upon straining, however, it gradually assumes a crystalline appearance—it candies, as the saying is, and ultimately becomes a solid mass of sugar. It has not been suspected that this change is due to a photographic action; that the same agent which determines the formation of the camphor and iodine crystals in a bottle, causes the syrup honey to assume a crystalline form. This, however, is the case. M. Schiebler, an eminent chemist, has enclosed honey in stoppered flasks, some of which he has kept in perfect darkness, while others have been exposed to the light. The invariable result has been that the sunned portion rapidly crystallizes, while that kept in the dark has remained perfectly liquid. And this is why bees work in perfect darkness, and why they are so careful to obscure the glass windows which are sometimes placed in their hives. The existence of their young depends on the liquidity of the saccharine food presented to them, and if light were allowed access to this, the syrup would gradually acquire a more or less solid consistency. It would seal up the cells, and in all probability prove fatal to the inmates of the hive.—London Budget.
THE CYPRESS TREE.
A cypress tree in Somma, Lombardy, is said to have been standing since the time of Julius Cæsar. Napoleon, in making a road over the Simplon, deviated from a straight line that he might not be obliged to cut it down. Cypress wood is very enduring, and for this reason no doubt, it was used for mummy cases and statues. Pliny tells us a statue of Jupiter carved from cypress wood remained standing for six hundred years. In Turkish cemeteries it is a rule to plant a tree of this variety at every interment. The cypress is an emblem of mourning, and Scott thus writes:
> "When villagers my shroud bestrew
> With pansies, rosemary and rue,
> Then, lady, weave a wreath for me,
> And weave it of the cypress tree."
—Vick's Magazine.
Health and Temperance.
CONTRACTED FROM A BOOK.
In 1846 a boy of eight years, the brother of the narrator's wife, was taken down with scarlet fever and died. One of the principal amusements of his illness had been looking over a large picture book. After his death this, with several other useful playthings, was packed away in a trunk. Twenty-six years later, in 1872, the sister-in-law of the editor took this trunk with her on a journey which she made to England, where he was then residing. The trunk was opened the second day after its arrival, and the picture-book was taken out and presented to the editor's two-year-old son. During the next fortnight the little fellow was attacked by scarlet fever. It was a wonder to the doctors who were called in consultation how the disease had been contracted, as there had been no scarlet fever in the town for years. At last it occurred to the editor that the picture-book might have transmitted the disease, and the medical men in attendance, on being told the facts connected with it, agreed that it had retained the poison twenty-six years and communicated it to the child.—Boston Post.
The Perishing Tribes of Canada
The Indian and Eskimo tribes in Canada, now numbering some 20,000, are rapidly perishing. The testimony given a year ago before a committee of the Canada Senate, ascribes the result to the advent of the whites. Since guns have taken the place of the bow and arrow and lance, the slaughter of reindeer, moose, and wood buffalo has been far in excess of the native needs, and this game, on which they are chiefly dependent for food, is failing them. There are now believed to be only a few hundred buffalo in the Peace River country, where a few years ago these wild animals, somewhat larger than our prairie bison, roamed in thousands. Many of the natives near the mission stations now live in badly ventilated huts, and these sorry substitutes for the buffalo skin tents of earlier days have increased the death rate. It is stated that no epidemics were known to prevail among these natives until measles and smallpox were introduced by whites from Manitoba, and that other diseases resulting from their intercourse with white men are producing fearful ravages, equalling in extent the mortality which from the same cause, according to Mr. McInnes, is killing off the entire native population, of British Columbia.—Christian at Work.
GENERAL LEE AND STIMULANTS.
FROM an anecdotal and personal article on "General Lee After the War," by Mrs. Margaret J. Preston, in the June Century, we quote the following:
"He had the gentlest way possible of giving counsel and administering rebuke. I remember hearing him say, in a presence where such testimony was worth more than a dozen temperance lectures: 'Men need no stimulant; it is something, I am persuaded, that they can do without. When I went into the field, at the beginning of the war, a good lady friend of mine gave me two sealed bottles of very superb French brandy. I carried them with me through the entire campaign; and when I met my friend again, after all was over, I gave her back both her bottles of brandy, with the seals unbroken. It may have been some comfort to me to know that I had them in case of sudden emergency, but the moment never came when I needed to use them.'"
SECULAR.
—An issue of paper money has been sanctioned by the king of Siam.
—Continued drought in Austria and Southern Russia is causing great anxiety and alarm.
—The king of Greece visited the Paris exposition July 23. He was banqueted by President Carnot.
—The Great Salt Lake is shrinking at the rate of two inches a week. The temperature averages 82 degrees.
—Forest fires of appalling magnitude have recently destroyed millions of dollars' worth of fine timber in Montana.
—The Belgian Government has voted the sum of ten thousand pounds toward the construction of the Congo railway in Africa.
—The Austrian infantry forces have been increased by the addition of 9,000 men, raising that branch of the service to a war footing.
—Four men were killed by the wrecking of a passenger train on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad near Brighton, Tenn., July 27.
—The Ohio Prohibitionists have nominated Rev. J. B. Helwing, of Springfield, for Governor, and have also put a complete ticket in the field.
—The steamer Lorenzo B. Baker, of Boston, has been burned at sea. The passengers and crew were saved with the exception of two of the latter.
—The contract for the new coast-defense vessel to be built at San Francisco, was signed by Secretary Tracy July 26. The contract price is $700,000.
—July 25 was the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Mr. Gladstone, of England. Several rulers sent congratulatory messages to him upon the occasion.
—A man and his wife named Sussmilch committed suicide at Rockford, Ill., July 19, by jumping into the river. They were each over seventy-five years of age.
—A project is on foot for holding a mammoth National exposition in New York City in 1892. The purpose is to make it the grandest event of modern times.
—Four hundred buildings were destroyed by fire in Paks, Hungary, July 21. Many children are reported missing and hundreds of people are homeless. Great distress prevails.
—The count of cash and securities in the United States Treasury has been completed. A shortage of twenty-three dollars has been found in the entire amount of $700,000,000.
—Owing to a reduction of their wages, six hundred female operatives in the silk mills at Paterson, N. J., recently went out on a strike. They are not members of any labor organization.
—Some time ago the United States Fish Commission placed a quantity of salmon fry in the Hudson River, and it is now reported that large numbers of these fish are to be found in the river.
—The steamer Eduardo, from Spain, went ashore near Cutler, Maine, during a fog recently, and is probably a total loss. The crew, consisting of forty men, were saved. The vessel cost $285,000.
—The emperor of China has issued an edict for the construction of the Tong Chow railroad. It is probable that railroad construction on a large scale will be the policy of the Government hereafter.
—Residents of Prince George County, Virginia, are much alarmed over a very mysterious sinking of the earth in that section. In one place it has settled from ten to sixty feet over an area of several acres.
—Recent fires in the Yosemite Valley, California, have destroyed thousands of the immense trees of that section. Two large hotels narrowly escaped destruction also. At last accounts the fire was under control.
—The Indians on the Colville Agency, Washington Territory, are burning the hay lands and threatening the lives of settlers there. A company of soldiers has been requested for the protection of property and life.
—The Yellow River in China has again burst its banks, inundating an immense section of country. The water is twelve feet deep throughout ten large Government districts. The loss of life and property is incalculable.
—The steamship Thetis, bound for Philadelphia, with sugar from the Philippine Islands, has been given up as lost. She passed Gibraltar, June 24, and has not been since heard from. The vessel and cargo are valued at $470,000.
—Recent advices from China state that terrible storms in Northeastern Kwang-tung have swept away seven villages, drowned six thousand people, and rendered ten thousand persons homeless. Two thousand bodies were found in the neighborhood of one village alone.
—An exceptionally heavy storm passed over Chicago on the night of the 27ult. Eleven persons were killed and several seriously injured. The rainfall was unprecedented in the history of the city, over four inches of water falling in two hours' time. Cellars and basements were flooded to the depth of three or four feet in many instances.
—The House of Commons has realized at last that something must be done to help Ireland commercially. It therefore proposes to grant the sum of $100,000 per year to build railroads in that country. Inasmuch as statistics show that it costs about $200,000 per mile to build railroads in the British Isles, this magnanimous offer is equal to building half a mile of road per year for the Irish people.
—An unusual movement of Russian troops between Russian towns and the Turkish frontier is reported from Erzeroum under date of July 21. It is estimated that eighty thousand men are already stationed at Tiflis, Alexandropol, and other points near the frontier, and other troops are coming.
—A party of explorers recently unearthed fifty skulls and two hundred headless skeletons in the chalk bluffs east of Yankton, Dakota. They had evidently been buried many years. It is not known whether the remains are those of immigrants or Indians. An investigation is being made.
—The San Francisco Examiner printing firm has ordered two mammoth presses, which are to be the largest west of the Mississippi River. They are exclusively for newspaper work, and print, paste, cut, and fold 24,000 sixteen-page papers per hour. There are only a few presses of this kind in existence.
—Kate Maxwell, the notorious "cattle queen" of Wyoming Territory, together with her partner, George Averill, postmaster at Sweetwater, Carbon County, were lynched near the latter place, July 21, by a band of indignant stockmen, whose cattle had been stolen and branded with Cattle Kate's mark.
—The German Government, through its minister Herr Von Bulow, has notified the Swiss Bundesrath that the settlement treaty between the two countries, terminating July 20, 1890, would not be renewed. The recent trouble in regard to certain civil questions is what has prompted Germany to take this step.
—The German Government has imposed heavy penalties upon the strikers arrested in connection with the recent trouble in that country at Breslau and vicinity. The sentence of Henkel, the ring-leader, is seven years' penal servitude, and a deprivation of civil rights for an equal length of time.
—A cablegram from Rome under the date of July 27, states that the Vatican and the Quirinal are doubly guarded, owing to the rumors of a plot to blow up both with dynamite. The Government secret police watch all the exits of the Vatican, and it is said that the departure of the Pope will be forcibly resisted if he makes the attempt.
—Wesley Elkins, an eleven-year-old boy of Clayton County, Iowa, had a little difficulty with his father recently, and as the result, procured a rifle and coolly murdered him. He then killed his stepmother with a club, and took his infant sister in a carriage and fled. A more liberal treatment of such cases with hemp in earlier years would obviate the necessity of its official application later on.
—The wholesale dry goods house of Lewis Brothers & Co., of Philadelphia, has made an assignment. The liabilities reach nearly $4,000,000. The firm is one of the largest in the country in its line of business, and has branch houses in several cities in the United States. It is said that one of the causes of failure was the Johnstown disaster. The firm had large interests there and lost heavily by the flood.
—Secretary Windom has decided that there is no law to exclude Chinese from the United States, provided they are destined for other countries and are simply passing through in transit. This may be a just decision, but owing to the well-known deceptiveness of the average Chinaman, it will afford a loophole whereby thousands will obtain access to this country for the purpose of remaining here permanently.
—Orth, the pseudo-messiah who is causing such excitement among the colored people of the South, has gotten some of them into trouble by his fanatical ideas in regard to human sacrifices. Two parents residing in a remote part of Liberty County, Georgia, recently sacrificed their child by cutting off its ears and then cutting its throat. The negroes of that section are said to be in a perfect frenzy on account of religious excitement.
—On account of a heavy storm in Hocking Valley, Ohio, July 20, a reservoir used to supply water for the Hocking Canal, gave way at Sugar Grove, carrying everything before it down the valley. The soil is literally washed off the surface for a distance of twenty miles. No lives were lost, as the houses are situated on bluffs on either side of the valley; the canal, however, is a wreck for miles, and thousands of feet of railroad track are washed away. Much live stock perished.
—Kemmler, the New York murderer who was to have been executed by electricity, has been respited because of there being doubts as to whether the electrical current could be made sufficiently strong to produce instantaneous death. A committee of experts to decide upon the feasibility of execution by electricity is investigating the question. Edison, the inventor, declares that a current of one hundred volts will kill any man, and inasmuch as the current to be used is fifteen hundred volts, it is thought there will be but little difficulty in making a decision.
News and Notes.
RELIGIOUS.
—The Government has totally suppressed the Lutheran Church in Russia.
—Bishop Walsh, of London, Ont., was elected archbishop of Toronto July 24.
—Chan Chu Sing, a converted Chinaman, has received license as a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles.
—It is said that the Methodist Episcopal Church has now a membership of 2,154,237 against 2,093,935 last year; a net gain of over 60,000.
—There are now eighty-two medical missionaries in China, the majority of whom are from the United States; sixteen of them are female physicians.
—At the World's Sunday-School Convention recently held in London, there were 900 foreign delegates, 300 of whom were from the United States.
—The Spanish Government has forbidden any demonstration calculated to encourage the Pope to come to Spain in the event of his leaving Rome.
—The Shanghai Mercury is authority for the statement that the Government of Korea has again forbidden the teaching of Christianity to the natives.
—Father Curley, director of Georgetown University, died at Washington, D. C., July 24. He was the oldest living priest in the United States, if not in the world.
—A recent effort to learn how many of the 1,300 policemen of Chicago were Protestants resulted in showing that only about 225 were not subject to Jesuit dictation.
—According to the statistics of the United Presbyterian Church, the average salary of its ministers is $998. The highest average attained was in 1875, when it was $1,012.
—The reunion between the Presbyterian and Congregational Churches in Japan has again been postponed. It is now thought to be questionable whether the union will be made at all.
—The Jewish Messenger notes the fact that at the dedication of the Catholic Cathedral at Sacramento, Cal., in June, a check was received for $178 from the B'nai Israel Synagogue, as an offering to the Catholic poor.
—The first woman ever ordained among the Baptists is Rev. May C. Jones, ordained in 1882 by the First Baptist Church of Seattle. She is now at Spokane Falls, and is preaching to a large congregation on a salary of $1,200 a year.
—Icelanders are numerous enough in this country and Canada to maintain a distinct religious organization of their own, known as the Icelandic Lutheran Church of America. It consists of twenty-two congregations, and recently held its fifth annual conference at Argyle, in Manitoba.
—Among the interesting facts brought out at the World's Sunday-school Convention, recently opened in London, was the statement that 10,000,000 people study the International lessons. These lessons are not used in France and Switzerland. The subjects are considered too difficult for the children.
—The revised edition of the Catholic prayer-book, authorized by the Council of Baltimore in 1884, will, it is said, shortly take the place of the books which have been in use hitherto. This book is so arranged that the entire service of the mass for every Sunday in the year can be followed by the congregation just as it is said by the priest. The proof-sheets have been submitted to every Catholic bishop and archbishop in the United States, and the book will have the unanimous endorsement of the hierarchy.
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