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' . ' 'HJSTORfCAL SOCIETY KZ3. SocJhcm Conventk)n of Congregational -Christian C' T TOj .as .-ti.'Sr M ' ?rAh v , OFFICIAL OUGAN OF THE PROHIBITIONISTS IN, .pHVjDQHNX r - - - ' . - .- , -. - - t - , - v . - . i , - ' . . , - : VOL. IV. ADVICE TO PAINTS THE THEME OF REV. DH- T. DC TALMAGE'S SERMON. VJTJ How Children Ought to be ISrojight Up. Slng that Are Jnherltetl-If Yon Do Not Ilve Right YoursolTCH, . Tou . Can not Expect Tour Children to Io. f)o. Brooklyn, Nov. 2L The lio vv.T. Do Witt Talmage, D. D., preached in the Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning- oa the nubject: "What is to Become of Our Children?" - The opening hymn begins: r ? Come, let us join our friends above Who have obtained the prize ; And on the eagle brings of love To joys celestial rise. Aft r expounding from Genesis. - xlix, Jacob's wonderful discrimination of the char acteristics of his sons, the preacher took for his text Genesis xliv, 30: "Seeing; that his life K bound up in the lad's life," and deliv ered the following discourse: These words were spoken ' by Judahr as de-( scriptive of the tendornesi and affection' which Jacob felt toward Benjamin, the youngest son of that patriarchal family; but they are words just as appropriate to many a parent in this house since ''his life is bound up in the lad's life." I have known parents that seemed to have but little interest intheir childi-en. A father says: "My son must look out for himself. If ho uomi up well, all right; if he turns out badly I caunot help it. I am not responsible for his bi'havioiv He must take the same risk in lifo that I took." As well might the shepherd throw a lamb into a den of lions and then say: "Little lamb, look out for yourself !" It i? generally the case that even the beast looks after its young. I have gone through the v.-oods on a summer's day, and I have heard a great outcry in a bird's nest, and I have climbed up to see what was the matter. I f ourid out that the birds were starving and . that the mother bird had gone off not to come back aga n. But that is an exception. It is generally the case that the old bird will pick your eyes out rather than let you come nigh its brood. The lion will rend you in twain if you approach too nearly the whelps; - the fowl hi the barnyard, clumsy footed and heavy winged, flies fiercely at you if you come too near the little group, and God in tends d every father and mother to be the protection and the help of the child. Jesus comes into every dwelling and says to the father or mother: "You have been looking after this child's body and mind; the time has come when you ought to be looking after its immortal souL" I stand bef ore hundreds of peDplo with whom the question morning', noon and night is: "What is to become of theeliild? What will be its history? Will it choot e pAths of virtue or vice? Will it ac cept Christ or reject him? Where will it spend eternity?" - I read of a vessel that foundered. The boats were launched; many of the passengers were struggling in the water. A mother with one hand beat the waves, and with the other hand lifted up the little child toward the lifeboat, crying: "Save my child! Save my child!" The impassioned outcry of that mother is the prayer of hundreds of Christian people who sit listening this morning while I speak. I propose to show some of-the causes of parental anxiety, and then how that anx iety may be alleviated. I find the first cause of parental anxiety in the iuefflcieney and imperfection of parents themselves. We have a slight hope, all of us. that our children may escape our faults. We hide our imperfections, and think they will :jteer clear of them. Alas, there is a poor prospect of that I There is more probability that , they will choose our vices than choose our virtues. There is something like saered ness in parental imperfections when the child looks upon them. The folly of the parents is no t so repulsive when the child looks at it. JcieBays: " atner rnaulges in it; mother in dulge in it; it can't be so bad." Your boy, 10 years of age, goes up a back street smok ing bis cigar an old stump thut he found in the street and a neighbor - accosts him and says: "What are you doing this for? What would vour father say if he knew it?" The boy says: "Oh. father does that himself 1" There is not one of us this morning that would deliberately choose that his children should in all things follow his example, and it is tne consciousness or imperfection of our part asliarents that makes us most anxious for our children. We are also distressed on account of the unwisdom of our discipline and instruction. It requires a great deal of ingenuity to build a house or fashion a ship, but more ingenu ity to build the temple of a child's character and launch, it on the great ocean of time and atemity. Where there- is oao parent that seems qualiilod for the work there seem to be tweaty parents who miserably fail. Here is a fcther who says: "My child shall know nothing but religion ; he shall bear nothing but religion; he shall see nothing but religion. " The boy is aroused at 6 o'clock in the morning to recite the Tori Comniandr- ments. He is awaxeiiod off the sofa on Sun day night to see how much ho knows of the Weetmijisft'r catechism. It is religion morn ing, noon and night. Piissages of - Scripture are plastered on the bedroom wall. - Be looks . for the day of the mouth in a religious alma nac. Every miuister that comes to the house is told to take the boy aside and talk to Thim and toll him what - a great sin ner ho -is. After a while " the; ' boy comes to that period - of life when ho is - too old for chastisement, and too young to know and feel the force of moral principle. Father and mother are sitting up . for the boy to eonie'honje. -It ia nln o'clock a . night ten ox-iocs it is tweivo o'clock is half past twelve, and they hear the night key jingle in the door. They say he . is coming. George gots very softly through, .the hall, hoping to get up stairs before lie js accosted. The father, mys, ".George whero- have you been?" "liecii put!" , Yes, he has been out, and he has been down, and he is on the broad roaT. to destruction, for this life and the life to come. Father says: "There is no use in the Ten Commandments; the catechism seems to me to be an utter failure." JVh, my friend, you make a very great mistake. You stuffed that child with religion until he could not digest it; you niado that which is a joy In many households an abhorrence in yours, A man in midlife said to nle: I cantr become t Christian. In iny father's house I got such 1 i prejudice againstreligion I dont want. ny of it. My father was one -of ' the" ' best tien that ever lived, but he had such severe notions about things, and-' he jammed re ligion down my throat, until I don't want any of it, sir." There have been some who have erred in that direction. There are households where 'mother pulls one way and father pulls - the other. . Father says: "My son, I told you- the' first flma I. caught you in a falsehood I would chastise- you, and now lam going to do it" Mother f says:- "Don't, let him off this time." In some families it is all scolding and f retfulness with the child; from Monday morning to Satur day night it is that style of culture.; The boy is picked at, and picked at, and picked . at. Now you might better give one sound chas ,tisement and have done with it, than to in Aulge In the perpetual scolding and fretful ness. There is more health in one eood thunderstorm than in three or four days of cold drizzle. -. " r , ; , : .Here is a parent who says: "I will not err. on the side that parent has erred, in being too,' strict with his children. : I will let mine do as they pleased If they want to come in to prayers, they can ; if they want vto play at cards, they can; they can, do anything they please there shall be no hindrance.'- Go it! Here are tickets for the opera and theatre, son. -Take your friends with you. Do what-, "ever you desire." One day c gentleman comes in from , tjhe .bank to his father's office and says:' . :, I , -Vv,vl: . v ;..''' - "Theywant to see you Over at the bank a minute.? "Father, goes into the bank." The cashier says; ,?Is that your check?" Father looks at it and says: .."No; I never gave -that check. I never cross a 't in that way ; I never make the curl to a y' in -that way. It is not my check; that's a forgery. Send for the police. " "Ah," says the cashier, "don't be so quick; your son did .that." . The fact was thati.'the boy had i been out in dissipating circles, and $10 and $50 went in that direc tion; and he had been treated and he had to i treat others; and the boy felt he must have $500 to keep himself , in that circle. That night the father sits' up for the son to come home. It is J o'clock before he comes into thehalL . He comes in very much flushed, Lis eyes glaring and his breath offensive. Father says "My son, how can you do so? I have given you every thing you wanted and everything to make you' comfortable and happy, and now I find, in my old age, that you are a spendthrift, a libertine and a drunkard." i The son says: Now, father," what's the use of your talking in that way? You told me I might have a good time and to go it J have been acting on your sug gestion, that's all. 7 .And so one parent errs on one side, and another, parent errs on the other, and how to strike a happy medium be tween severity and too great leniency, and train our sons and daughters for usefulness on earth and. bliss in heaven, is a question which agitates every Christian household In my congregation." Where so many good men and women have failed, it is strange that we should sometimes doubt the propriety of our theory and the accuracy of our kind of gov ernment. . ; Again, parental anxiety often arises from an early exhibition of sinfulness in the ehild. The morning glories bloom for a little while under the sun, and then they shut up as the heat comes on; but there are flowers along the Amazon that blaze their beauty for weeks at a time; but the short lived morning glory fulfills its mission as well as the Victoria Regia. There are some people who take forty, fifty or sixty years to develop. Then there are little children who fling their beauty on the vision and vanish. They are morning glories that cannot stand the glare of. the hot noon sun o trial. You have all known such little children. They were pale; they were ethereal; there was something very wonder fully deep In the eye; they had a gentle foot and. soft hand, and something almost super natural in their behavior ready to be wafted away. You had such a one in your house hold. Gone now! It was too delicate a plant for this rough world. The heavenly gardener saw it and took it in. We make splendid Sunday school books out of such children, but they almost always die. I have noticed that, for the most part, the children that live sometimes get cross, and pick up bad words in the street, and quarrel with brother and sister, and prove unmistakably that they are wicked as the Bible says, going astray from the womb, speaking lies. , See the little ones in the. Sabbath class, so sunshiny and beauti ful, you would think they were always so, but mother, seated, a - little way off, looks over at these children and thinks of the awful time she had to get them ready. After the boy or girl comes a little further on in life the mark of sin upon them is still more evident, , The son comes in from a pugilistic encounter in the streets, bearing the marks of a defeat. The daughter prac tices positive deception, and the parent says: - "What shall I doj 1 can t always be cor recting and scolding, and yet these things must be stopped." It is especially sad if the parent sees his own faults copied by the child.. It is veiy hard work to pull up a nettle that we ourselves planted. We re member that the greatest frauds that ever shook the banking houses of the country started from a boy's deception a good many years ago; and the gleaming blade of the murderer is only another blade of the knife with which the boy struck at his comrade. The cedar of Lebanon that wrestles with the blast, started from seed lodged in the side of the mountain, and the most tremendous dis honesties of the world, once toddled out from the cradle. All these' things make parents Anxiety on the part of parents also arises ."from the consciousness that there are so many temptations tnrown au arouna our young people. It may be almost impossible to take a castle by siege straightforward siege-but suppose ln ioe nignc mere is a traitor within and he goes , down and draws the bolt and swings open the great door,- and then the castle falls immediately. That is the trouble, with the hearts of the young; they have foes without and foes within. There ure a great many who try to make otu young people beliove that it is a sign of weak ness to bo pure. The man will tea LLj hoad and take dramatic atutuues ana tell or iiis own indiscretions, and ask the young man if he would not bka to do the same. And they call him fverdaat, and-they say he is green and unsophisticated, land wonder how he can bear the Puritanical straight jacket. They toll him he ought to break from his mother's apron strings, arid they say: "I will show you all about town. Coma with me. Ycu ought to see 'the world. It won't hurt you. Do as you please, it will be the making of you," After a white the young man says "I don't want to be odd, nor can I afford to sacrifice tiiese friends, and 111 go and see for myself " ,Trom the gates of hell thero goes a dioui of victory. Farewell to all Inno cence: farewell to all early restraints favor able to that innocence which once gone never comes back. 1 1 heard one of. tne best men ever knew, 75 years of age, say: "Sir, God has forgiven me for all the sins of my lif & time, 1 know that; but there is one sin I com mitted at 20 years of . age that I never will forgive myself for. It sometimes comes over me overwhelmingly, and it absolutely blots out my hope of heaven." , Youne man, ' hear it. How many traps there are set for our" young people ! That i3 what makes parents so' anxious. Here are 'ntationVfor -.'every -form of dissipation andery itajgaof it. The yourg : map when ha first trees into rcussipauon is very particu lar where he goes. It must be a fashionable hotel. ' He: could not be tempted into these corner nuisances with red stained glass and a mug of bear painted on the sign board. ; You ask the young- man to go into that place and he would say: "Do you mean to insult me?" .No: it . must be a: marble floored barroom. There must be no lustful pictures behind- the counter; there jams t be no drunJrara mccup Jng while; he .takes his. glass, wlt.must'be a place where'.elegant gentlemen come "in. and click .their: cut - class , ana arinic to jne an nouncement of .flattering sentiment. J But the young man cannot always find that kind of a place; yet he has a thirst and it must be grat ified. The, down grade 1 steeper now, and he is almost at the bottom. . Here they sit in an oyster cellar around a card table, wheez- tae. bloated and Woodshot, with cards so GREENSBORO, V'i -K:;vn:.-;:H.;-f:,h;' greasy yon can ;. fiardiy teu wno f nas then best ; hand. But never mind; they are only playing for drinks. Shuffle away! Shuffle away! The landlord stand3 ta ins shirt sleeves with hands on his hips, watching the game and waiting for another call to fill up the glasses. It is the hot breath of eternal woe that flushes that young man s cheek, in the jets of gaslight I see the shooting out of the fiery tonarue of the - worm that never dies. 'The clock strikes twelve; it is the toll ing of the bell of eternity at the burial of a souL Two hours pass on, and they, are all sound asleep in their chairs. ; Landlord says: "Come, now, wake up: it's time to shut up." Push them out into the air. They are going home; :, Let the wife crouch in the corner, and the children hide under the bed. 4 They are going home! What is the history of that young man? " He began his dissipation at the Fifth Avenue hotel, and completed the dam nation in the worst j grog shop in Navy street. , ', - :'-"..;";! f" - ; ;-;-:. But sin even does not stop here. : It comes to the door of . the drawing room. There, are men of leprous hearts that go into the very best classes of society. - They are so fasci nating they have such "a bewitching way of offering their arm. - Yet the poison of asps is under the tongue and their heart is hell At J first their sinful devices are hidden, but after a while they begin to put forth their talons of death. Now they begin to show really what they are. Suddenly, although you could not have expected it, they were so. charming in their manner, so fascinating In their address, suddenly a cloud, blacker than was ever woven of midnight or hurricane, drops' upon " some domestic circle. There is agony in the parental bosom that none but the Lord God Almighty can measure an ag ony that wishes that the children of the household had been swallowed by the crave, when it would be only a loss of body instead of a loss of soul What is the matter with that household? They have not had the front windows open in six months or a year. The mother's hair suddenly turned white; father, hollow cheeked and bent over prematurely, goes down the street. There has been no death in that family no loss of property. Has madness seized upon them? No! no! A villain, kid gloved, patent leathered, with gold chain and graceful manner, took that cup of. domestic bliss, elevated it high in the air until the sunlight struck it, and all the rainbows danced about the brim, and -then 'dashed it down hi the desolation and woe, until all the harpies of darkness clapped their hands with glee, and all the voices of hell ut tered a loud ha! ha! Oh, there are scores and hundreds of homes that have been blast ed, and if the awful statistics could be fully set before you, your blood would freeze into a solid cake of ice at the heart. Do you wonder that fathers and mothers are anxious about their children, and that they ask them selves the question day and nigb: What is to become of them? what will be their des tiny! I shall devote the rest Of my remarks to al leviation of parental anxiety. Let me say to you, as parents, that a great deal of that anxiety will be lifted if you will begin early with your children. Tom Paine said: "The first five years of my life I became an in fidel. " A vessel goes out to sea; it has been five days' out. A storm comes on it;-it springs a leas; tne najm, . wjn not wors:; everything is out of order. . What is the matter? ; The ship is not seaworthy, and never was. It is a poor time to find it out now. Under the fury of the storm the vessel goes down, with 250 passengers, to a watery grave. The time to make the ship seaworthy wa3 in the dry dock before it started. Alas for us, if we wait until our children get out into the world before we try to bring upon them the influence of Christ's religion! I tell you, the dry dock of the Christiamhome is the place where we are to fit them for use fulness and for heaven. In" this world, under the storm of vice and temptation, it will be too late. ! In the domestic circle you de cide whether your child shall be truthful or f alse'-whether it shall be generous or penuri ous. You can tell by the way a child divides an apple just what its future history will be. You ought to oversee the process. If the child take nine-tenths of the apple, giving the other tenth to his sister, if he should live to be one hundred he will be grasping and want the biggest piece of everything. I stood in a house in one of the Long Island villages, and I saw a beautiful tree, and I said to the owner: "That is a very fine tree, but what a curious crook there is in it!" "Yes," said he, "I planted that tree, and when it was a year old I went to New; York and worked as a mechanic for a year or two, and when I came back I found that they had allowed some thing to stand against the tree; so it has al ways had that crook." And so I thought it was with the influence upon children. If you allow anything to. stand in the way of moral influence against a child on this side or that side, to the latest day of its life on earth and through all eternity it will show tho pressure. No wonder Lord Byron' was bad. Do you know his mother said to him, when she saw him one day limping across the floor with his unsound foot: "Get out of my way, you lame brat!" What t chance for a boy like that? - Two youns men come to the door of sin. They consult whether they will go in. The ono young man goes in and the other retreata. Oh, you say, the last had better resolution. No, that was not itJ The first young man had no early good Influence; the last had been piously trained, and i when he stood at the door of sin discussing the matter ho looked around as if to see some one, and he felt au invisible hand on his shoulder saying: "Dont go in ! Don't go in ! 1 Whose hand was it? A mother's ; hand, fifteen years ago gone to dust. A gentleman was tellings me of . the fact that some years ago there were two young men who stopped at the door of. the Park theatre in New 'York. The question was whether they should go in. That night there was to be a very immoral play enacted in the Park theatre. I One man went in; the other stayed out. The young man who went in went ; on from sin to sin and through a crowd of iniquities,' and died in the hospital of delirium tremens. The other young man, who retreated, chose Christ, went into the Gospel, and is now one of the most eminent ministers of Christ in this, coun try. And the man who retreated gave as his reason for turning back from the Park the atrethat ' night that there was a voice within him sayings "Don't go in; don't go in." And for that reason, my friends, I be lieve so much in Bible classes. But there is something better than the Bible class, and that is the Sunday school clas&r . I -. like it be cause it takes children at an earlier point; and the infant class I like still better, because it takc3 children before they begin to walk or to talk straight, and puts them on the road to heaven, i You cannot begin too early. . You stand on the bank of a river flowing by. You cannot stop that river, but you travel ' days and days toward the source or It, and you find after a while where it comes down drop ping from the rock, and with your knife you make a course in this or that direction for the dropping to take, and you decide the course of the river. You stand and see your chil dren's character rolling on with great impet uosity and passion, and you cannot affect them. Go up toward the source . where the character first starts and decide that it shall take the right direction, and it will follow the oath you give it. ! f ' ' r But I want yon to remember, O fatherl O N. 0., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26; 1886. :, :'.'. :-iii:-"-'i":j-:l--:-''t-';-;:V-?A'v'- --....vl &: j 3 if,K.!t"-tf- mother 1 that it is what you do that is going to affect your children, and not what you say. - You tell your phildrento become Chris-, j i . . ' - . J ;n a. ' mans wime juu ore uuu, tuiu mcj win iiuu. Do you think Noah's family would have gone into the ark if he had. not feme in? . They would say: "No, there" is scfciething about that boat that is not ' right f father has not gone in." You cannot push children into the. kingdom of God; you have got to pull them in. v There has ; been many .-a general ina tower or castle looking at his; army fighting, , but that is not the kind of a man to arouse enthusiasm 1 among his troops. It " is a Garibaldi or Napoleon I who leaps into the stirrups, and dashes into the conflict, and has " his troops following him with wild huzza. Bo you cannot stand off in your Impenitent state and tell your children to go ahead into the Christian life, and have . them go. You must yourself dash into the Christian conflict; you must lead them and not tell them to go. Do; you fimowtnat all tne instruction you ' give to your children in a religious direction : goes for nothing unless, you illustrate it in your own life? The teacher at tha school takes a copybook, writes a specimen of good' writing across the top of the page, but he makes a mistake in one letter of the copy. The boy comes along on the next line, copies : the top line and makes the mistake, and if , there be fifteen lines on that page they will have the mistake, there was in the copyon the top. The father has an ernpr in. this life a very great ' error. The son comes . along and copies it now, to-morrow next' year, copies it to the day of his death. It is what you are, not so much what you teach. Have a family altar. .Let it be a cheerful place, the brightest room in your house. Do not wear your children's knees out with long prayers. Have the whole exercise spirited. If you have a melodeon, or an organ, or a piano, in the house, have it open. Then lead in prayer. If you cannot make a prayer of your own, take Matthew Henry's prayers or the Episcopal prayer book. None better than that. Kneel down with your little ones morning and night ; commend them to GocL Do you think they will get over it? i Never! After you are under the sod a good many years there will be some powerful tempta tion around that son, but the memory of father and mother at morning and evening prayers will have its effect upon him; it will bring him back from the path of sin and death. But I want you to make a strict mark; a sharp, plain line, between innocent hilarity on the part of your children and a vicious proclivity. Do not think your boys will go to rum because they make a racket. A glum, unresponsive child makes the worst form, of a villain. Children, when they are healthy, always make a racket I want you at the very first sign of depravity in the child to correct it Do not laugh because it is smart. If you do you will lire to cry because it is malicious. Do not talk of your children's frailties lightly in their presence, ' thinking they do not understand you; .they do under- stand. Do not talk disparagingly, of your child, making him feel that he is a reprobate. Do not say to your little one,' "You're the worst child I ever knew." If you do he will be the worst man you ever knew. Are your children safe for beaten? You can tell better than any one elseX I put to you the question:, "Are your;i8$dren safe for heaven?" 1 heard of a mother, who when the house wa? afire, in the excitement of the occasion got out a great many valu able things many choice articles of furni ture but did not think to ask until too late: "Is my child safe?" It was too late then. The flames had encircled all; the child was gone! Oh, my dear friend, when sea and land shall burn in the final conflagration will your children be safe? I wonder it what I have said this morning has not struck a chord in some one in the audience who had a good father and mother. but who is hot yet a Christian? Is that your history? ' ' Do you know why you came here this morning? God sent you to have that mem ory revived. Your dear Christian . mother, how she loved you ! You remember when you were sick how kindly she attended you; the night was not too long, and you never asked her to turn the pillow but she did it! You re member her prayers also; you remember how some of you I do not know where the man is in the audience how some one here broke his mother's heart. You remember her sor row over your waywardness, you remember the old place where she did you so many kindnesses; the chairs, the table, -the door sill where you played; the tones of her voice. Why, you can think them back now. Though they were borne long ago on the air, they come ringing through your soul to-day, call ing you by - the first name. , Youare not "Mr." to her; it is just your plain, first name. Is not this the time when her prayers will be answered? Do you not think that God ' sent you in to-day to have that memory of her revived? If you should come to Christ this morning, amid all the throngs of heaven, the gladdest of them would be your Christian parents who are in . glory .-' waiting for your redemption.: Angels of God, shout the tidings, the lost has come back again; the dead is alive! Ring all the bells of heaven at the jubilee! Ring! King! - - - A New Jersey Madstone. Benjamin Titus, of ' Trenton, N. J. , has somewhat of a - mania for collecting curiosi ties. Among his latest acquisitions is quite a largo specimen of what is commonly known as the madstone. Before it "was accidentally broken by a fall on a stone floor it was about seven inches long and an inch thick and shaped like a calf s tongue. On wetting the finger and applying it to the stone the latter will adhere to the skin and can only be-pulled" off with considerable exertion. Shouldhere be a cut on the finger Mr. Titus says that this application will cause" pains to shoot up the arm as far as the shoulder. - According to the popular belief madstones are supposed to cure rattlesnake bites and to preclude all necessity- for sending a dog "bitten ' mortal aerosato M Pasteur. The stone is extremely- hardiv si-it though very light in weight, and, it is of -a dull ei-ar color. The present owner ; has never had a chance to test its virtues. Chi cago Herald. . . i Pedestrian Tobt by an Empress. "Though the empress of Austria is no longer allowed to take horse exercise, she is. usi her returning strength to make extensive pe destrian excursions in the neighborhood of Ischl. Her household find it difficult, in fact,. to fall, in with their imperial .mistxess nevy-, ways, for she not only walks long distances, but eets up at abnormal hours "in the mom-, : ing to start on her journeys, r Last. Monday I she was up just after 4 a. ni in order to staxrfr for the Lac de Grundl, and only got Rack: to Ischl about 8 in the evening. -t If monarehsof the period mean to go in this ; Vray intendlHg courtiers will soon have to pasrf an examina tion in athletics, including the talking of a measured mile. London Figaro. ' ' ' A Plagueof Hies. 'iX' The towns and villages in South .Lincoln shire, England, lately suffered from an extra ordinary plaeue of small" flies known as midges,": which made themselves almost.un- bearable in ccmection, with the nose, eyes; and mouth. r e air was literally filled with, them; andnuuiera of persons were 'almost; ; covered from head to loot witn tne tiresome insects. London Letter. GOOD 'j.HEALThJV.j ejmnkitio xerclae aad : Kassage Trafc-' ;., .; . jBrat-to Kep.iTou.Well.-:4-: ' .; j., The massaee treatment consists m pinch-' mg the muscles and twisting them vthis way and that, going from head to foot, all over the body. The patient lies naked upon a slab. and the; masseur or ; operator' performs his pow-wow upon him. jt is delightful to the patient after it is over, hut exhausting to the peratort VAj machine has- -"lately been -in-' vented to take the, place, of , band, manipular tion. Una of the. Hew xart Bun's young men tried it as follows:- The principles of massage i treatment) .have - been known ever since cannibals were discov ered kneading each other's stomachs 'to help the digestion of big dinners, but the process was never so popular as it is now. The, re ported treatment of the president by a masseur ,; has given the business a boom, ana aassage artists are in a fair way to get rich. f. . . But while the masseur Is wearing the flesh ' off fat people, he is himself losing strengths and flesh by the hard and slow work..-. Neces sity has just become the mother1 'of another inventioni whereby a-sort of -wassage .treat' ment is applied by machinery run by steam. -' TWa nn.'n.l Wi.1.tW h.-.JJ Wi-'. . iiuupoi luauuuD wuauu ui. ww uv- ber pads about five inches long and twe inches .wide, placed parallel to each other, and. fast ened so that they adjust themselves to' any part of the body. 7 They ;vibrate ..longitudi nallythat is, like a shoe brush, 1.20Q times a minute.' The' patient, without removing his clothes,-? lies down ' oil a lounge, and . the masseur applies his rubbers; without .exerting his own muscles much. A reporter" tried it The masseur clapped the machine on the region of his liver, and then moved it slowly up to to his lungs, eiving the stomach such a two-horsepower shaking. up that a good brealt- fast was nearly frightened ! awav The mas seur said he could "do as much work with the machine in five minutes as the hand masseur could do in an hourA . , ( , j 5 .,!-;.'. .! In another, corner of the room there is a machine on the floor which' keeps' several bootjacks wobbling in all directions.; ,f Afa in valid was sitting in a chair before the; ma chine, with one foot ' in a' jack, which Kept the toe seesawing Iwith'- the heel, with, the ankle joint as a pivot. .Tbisr was, another style of massage. .'-'' Core for Diphtheria. , Rectified oil of turpentine (oleum terebin- thinae rectificatum) is said tee be an infallible remedy for diphtheria. , For children, the dosa is one teaspoonf ul in the ' morning and the same at evening; e J fei J j t-n i ' Adults ' should - taker one., tables poonfuL Afterward drink a little lukewarm milk' to allay the burning in the throat. -' ! i i ';.'-- For children- the second dose, can be mixed with milk, which, will render it easier to The result is really, marveknis. The in flammation of the abnormal 'diphtheritic spots in the throat grows lighter at the edges, and in this way; they gradually; shrink, until in twenty-four hours they disappear entirely, leaving' no sign. - A 'gargle of ' chlorate of potash may be used with- advantage-every two -hours between . the, first dose and the second one ounce chlorate Of potash to forty 1 ounces distilled water. :-. Marvelous cures-are said to have,: been wrought by. this simple remedy. "'" "" .'..'""" ;-'; .- -- Gymnastic Exercises. ' ' - " First, an mtroductory course of posturing,' and light exercisea with, dumb- belle and bar: balls ; second leaping, the horizontal r beam, vaulting "-bar and horse)-; third,: parallel bars, trapeze, swinging rings ladders, horizontal. bar, the plank, escaladingi fourth, cUmbing the pole' (fixed,' slanting and- turning) j! the pair of poles, the rope, the rosary and mast. By one hour's daily exercise for eight .months twelve men, from lfr to ? 20 'years of age, gained underithis eystemcfan. .average of ; three-eighths -of .an inch in height, ten pounds in weight, twoi and seven-eighths mcnerin' chest threetfourths inch at forearm and -e-pe. and three-fourths inches ot upper arm. vf . Horseback riding Is an excellent exorcfrc, ' too much falleu into disuse, and, latvn tennis, ' is ope of the best and most graceful of alL PbpuuwienceNewa) ;v-, r'Hy ! tj'i -mi ti.nr iir- -., r., -r.,v,T'Keep4WeU.) ti t :. .; Simple, good 'food, good temper, a -daily bath and plenty of sunlight aiid. air will keep, -ypuinhealth.. J f . i:,i f. : , . What ian"itnvitatlony ,'or 'arty Call Is. In that invaluable book. "Don't" Mat Bunce tells everybody-what not to dldhi-oaai versation and manners, Jin referenoe tethat common and horrible American fashion of .he ia done or has finished, f Dont", says; ',r,;,. "Don't say I am through, when "you are ajinonncing that ym'have nntBhed diimef. :bwakft13Jiiir '.fhMiiUA .;Ii'lii&Si .JAre ypu through?" asked an American, pf anJ" bmgTiRnma,-"wnen1 seateaat' table. "Thi-onahl exclaimed the Englishman, looks. ring, in, an, alarmed way down to the floor and, dd to the teilin2r"throuffh what?"1'' ' - Again: , V - ' : ;nan m; I f-Don't reject bits of bone or other suh- i stances, "by- spittmg" them Imck' into' your plate. ii :Quieti"t eject rthern upon unilf -f Pi, holdmg it to your lips, and .then place, them - ("Don't eat with. -your" taiife. I iIteYeri put yom-knifo,into ypurnoutk r t In -a foot note, 'ictior 3 Bmice torsrabcrin; the diiectk)ii not to put thai knifiaxinto :tne mouth: -This advictf has .been declared. , un-. necessary for people," of any degree of sociaI culture; but the- fatJ la that wbne- eating. with the' knife is m ich.'lessr. cwmmomthaa formerly, instances r it may sou oe wiir- . i;: . tv fxj,eepteA?IaTS.f;f oil kl :,In accordance with the cusj-om.ejreadywell established in-tne large "cities-,1 ladies'1 everyi where are hay inff particulaii days pf the iVeefc er month-ur .which itheh: friends may. call on them. TJiis is a great Cbhveniehce, enabling busy women to attend to: their other duties without dreading the intrusion of a caller at an inopportune' time.7 On 'days other 'than the reeeption' datey ordinary caUar-jcan claim ' the. lady's, time,,and she need, not be surprised if. she is hot admitted. Women physicians and ' other, feminine t professionals usually have one evening , in the month , for being at home td their' friends; "Very busy women can adopt the same rule. '.) The ; daiy and hours of jreoeption. t are ; printed on. the ;v ' Invitation' or Party i ;Cal - What is meant by an invitation caUVand what purpose is it intended to serve? t iUav .C "V.. t ! A can, after' being invited td an entertain-' ment,;.such:aa .an afternoon reopptioiir ; an evening party or a dinner. . is intended. , as a recognition by the person invited of the com pliment paid him or her by the. host-.. They are often called party, calls, but --invitation call is better, inasmuch as ptle's calls embrace recognition of a' variety of entertainments. In fashionable-' society Jadies owing a very large number of calls often give a rreeeption4 This throws all they Jnvits intot debt for, a ;Caiitu.nostess.,(,1 r !-. .t i Tone, high breedfjsg Is tbst which .always iiaffiinBi bats totUjeswfTsrs feelings. PERSONAL MENTION. f4 Carrie Welton, a somewhat eccentric lady of . Waterbury, Conn., who was frozen to death while ascending Pike's peak two yean ago, left $150,000 to the Society for Che Pre vention of Cruelty to Animals. Her rahv tives contested the will, but the case has just been decided in favor of Henry Berg, repre senting the society. , "; Griswold Lorillard bas declared war on may:: now be embellished with . white silk vests and pique shirt fronts. At the Tuxedo ball he appeared In a coat without any tail and t scarlet vest. ' The effect was Qamlmg. . Prince Bismarck has resumed hit little din ner parties. He invites a few gentlemen to each, prefers to see them informally dressed, 'insists upon frank talk and gives them two wines .only a good red wine first and a very dry champagne afterward. , z juts. Harriet Jtrescots sponora perpetrates the worst abomination in the shape of a new ly coined word in her story in Harper's JVeekly. She uses toJlth" for height. That coinage will scarcely pass current ' , M, Le Couppey, the senior professor of the piano at the Paris conservatoire, has Just sent in .his resignation after fifty-eight years of unmterrupted i teaching at that institution. M. Le Couppey is now in the 77th year of his . -Bancroft, , the historian,. has collected and classified all the material for his history up to the war of the rebellion. He has not done much literary .work : since the death of his wife, however. 1 Lord Chief justice Coleridge has just de cided that dogs shall not be allowed on the streets ef London unless pinwled or led by Campaninl, the great tenor, is to undergo another surgical operation in the hope of im proving the purity of his voice. ' ; Caleb Chusatemuch, the first and only In dian graduate of Harvard, was duly repre sented In the students' tkirchlight procession. Erneet Schilling still rings up fares on the Sixth avenue line, and avoids any allusion to the absence of his wife. ' ' , Baroness Burdett-Coutti Is to accompany her , husband on his tour to this country, 'planned for next spring. s; ; Joseph Pulitzer's profits this year as pro prietor -of The New York : World, it Js: said, wfll reach $600,000. . The first Jew to sit in the upper legislative house of Prussia was the late Baron Karl Rothschild. ;, , Henry N. Howe, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's only son. has joined tho ranks of Bostonese magazine writers.' . Mrs: Don Cameron's new baby b one of the pets of .Washington society. , Paul Philippoteaux is painting bis fourth canvas of the battle of Gettysburg. ... Ar ROMANCE OF THE. WEST. iAdtutry 'Made-to Tell t an VTaexpeeted . , :r. . :-Way8torr a BIS 'u; : k "There roes a. young man who has a ro mance,"' remarked a well known citizen of St Paul toareportf , as he looked through the windowi ss a young man of perhaps 35 passed up First avenue, a 'remarkably band- some lady leaning upon his arm. Tell yon about it? Certainly; only I- wont give you the namesr' of the parties, for if I did you would -print .it audi nearly every one in the city would recognize in tne couple two weu known Minneapolis people. (i "Some years ago the young man worked in one of the big mills and was looked upon as a good man in his position. One day a party "of Jadies. -vWtedi the , railL among them the lady you saw him with. .. While looking .at the different things around - she mill this young lady dropped xrom her finger into- a lot of wheat which was being stored a -valuable diamoiid ring 'which, had been- presented to her by her mother,iwb had died some years before, -i . .. v;: : - i vr'K,,-,: V. , ...c.:';-" 1 "Ofbtrrse.the young lady was nearly .beartbrokeni and refnsed to be comforted by her friends... -This young ; man, who si standing near when she dropped the ring; saw the whole thing; and made op his mind to recover the ring. . That , evening, as soon as his work was done, he 'went ' to the bin In which the: wheat had been, stored and there, accompanied by a friend, sifted all the wheat -sind placed it in bags. It was nearly morn ing when he found the ring.- The wheat was then emptied, hack into the bin and the young 1man went home. 1 When he went to work 'again be went to tha head miller and sue ceeded In .being : released for the day. His -Tiext move was to. dress himself , in his best isuit and return the ring to the owner. , ' fTo i her; be - related ;how he recovered it. and by his pleasing manners so-captivatea J4er that she invited -hint to calh This he did, and the friendship , thus, begun, soon 'ripened into something stronger. . The young lady's father took a great liking to the young man and gave his consent to a marriage ar- ranged between him and his daughter. When the. marriage took place ; the 1 young man left the mill and was. started in business by his 'Wife's father. He Is now worth about $100,- 000 and can lay his goed fortune to reoover- ng.thelost rhag-rnSt. Paul Globe, ' . v , "-.;. - Sleeping In a Water Orala. At Pesththe other night thirty poor per sons deprived ox shelter, -were , discovered by HiiQ police sleeping.hi a hot and dirty, .water dizain leading from the Fannonia uul to the .Danubs Thev were entirely 'naked, aad Wept with their bodies in the water and their heads op heaps of Btones. New York Bun. j Colored ConsreMmen. f There are two Bo-called black districts, one in Southi - Carolina, represented In congress fay Robert Smalls, the famous negro pilot of Fort Sumter memory; the other in. North Carolina, represented by James B. O'Hara, a bright, well educated mulatto, a native of New rYork aty.Ohicago Herald. I ' , . Wlere Daniel Webster Pleaded. The old court house of .Plymouth, K. H., in-which Daniel Webster made- one of his earliest if not his inrst plea, has, after having been usxi as a. wheelwright's shop, been stored to its original appearance at Senator Blair's expense, and Is now used for a library. H-Chicago Tribune. -j -'....:..--. 'I t.4,rh Old. Vmbrella.' , l) The old ereen umbrella strapped to the trunk that Denman Thompson In "The Old Homestead, was presented to the actor by an admiring citizen of Worcester, Mass.. whose creat-grandfather kept off the ram Wlth t lOQf years ago. iifm -Rauinsat Klverside. :" " PJ-t-orskkV" CL, win pack about 200,000 boxeaof raialne this year, which will sell for somethmg like $400,00a This is the yield of 1,000 -acres t ;vineyard, say an average of $400 an acre. ; ' h'!rfi- Vf:';4. -Jvel-HeeMaaa j A . depaty marshal of , Paoli, Kan., wears probably the most novel necktie that ever adorned a shjrt fronts It Is made of the skin A m MffliunaVa and ' 1ia mMIa fa mmmA Cw' 1 scarfpiQ. NO. 46. SPARE THE PRETTY BIRDS. Brooklyn . Girls Pledjfe Themselves to Wear No Plumage on Their Hats. ' - The students of, the Packer institute, in Brooklyn, have for a week past been banding themselves together into a branch of the Audubon Bird Protection society, and have pledged themselves to do their best to stop the slaughter of birds of handsome plumage for the decoration of bonnets. Their enthu- Professor Walter Stevens, who is a member of the Audubon society, and of the teachers oX the Institute. The girls .were told they did not need to give up wearing hats they had already bought, which had bright feathers -for trimming, but that they should refuse to - buy any more of them when the hat was worn , OUt. . ' ; : . Four days after these appeals were made 100 slips of printed paper had been handed In to the. teacher, bearing signatures to this pledge: "I pledge myself not to make use of the feathers of any wild bird as ornaments of ' dress or household furniture, and by every . . means m my power to discourage the use of feathers for decorative purposes.": . , , The girls who signed the pledge are hand ing around among the other girl of Brooklyn statistics " showing these details of bird slaughter: - . . "A single local taxidermist handles 30,000 bird skins in one year; a single collector brought back from a three months trip 11,- 000 skins; from one small district on Long Island about 70,000 birds were brought to New York in four months' time. In New . York one firm had on hand Feb. 1, 1880, 200, 000 skins. The supply is not limited by do mestic consumption. American bird skins are sent abroad. The great European mar kets draw their r&t&ea from all over the world.; -In Londonrrere were sold in three months from one auction room 404,464 West Indian and Brazilian bird skins, and 858,889 ... East Indian birds. In Paris 100,000 African , birds have been sold by one dealer In one year. One New York firm recently had a contract to supply 40,000 skins of American birds to one Paris firm.' These figures tell their own story but it is a story which might be known even without them; we may read it plainly enough In the silent hedges. once vocal with the morning songs of birds, . and In the deserted fields where once bright plumage flashed in the sunlight? New York Bun. - A Curious Xawsult. ' -A curious lawsuit is in progress in a small town in Saxony. A man caught a rat, tied a : small bell round its neck and let it go again, as he had heard that such a rat would scare every other rat out of the house. The plan succeeded, and bis house in a few days was clear of the plague. A few nights later, how ever, his neighbor's family were nearly fright ened out of their wits by hearing the mys terious sound of a bell in various parts of the They came to the conclusion that the house was-haunted, until the. servant. girl, accidentally heard of their neighbor's doings, who now is to be fined, if he loses the suit, -for creating a nuisance, Chicago Herald. Premature "Blank .Funeral Notices. A Montreal doctor who " had an account with a job printer agreed to take his pay In. work. After 1 he had had ail the printing done that he needed there still remained a - balance, and, as his wife was very sick, he decided to have some blank funeral notices struck off with her name on them. He locked them in his desk, his wife got weft . and found them, and . now she talks of get ting a divorce. . yt; ; Butterflies la Georgia. ' - : In the fall butterflies are always seen In quant , titles on sunny days flying, eastward.' The editor says: "We sat talking to a friend about an hour on Monday morning, with an . open space of 100 yards or more immediately in front of us, and counted the migrating pil grims passing before us, averaging , one to every minute,,- Myriads may be seen in the : open piny woods.?' Camilla (Ga.) Clarion. . , V Suecesafol Dental Operation.'. James Truett, a fashionable young man of Hinsdale, Ga., was In danger of having his beauty disfigured by the loss of one of his' front teeth. ,in this cuiemma na paid a friend $15 for a sound tooth The two' then went to a dentist,. wh extracted the friend's tootn ana inserted 16 in cne-moum as iraLu. The operation was successful. - . Tid"t Dream Enon(& Charles Caughlin, of .Philadelphia ha, f $8,200 stolen from him. A nelhbc ng woman dreamed that it was hidden away in, a hayloft, and she climbed up and found all but $1,000 in a handkerchief. . . She was at once ' arrested for "net dreaming where the balance was, and a. search of her, house brought the missing sum to light. ... Sugar In Mortar. Sugar In its coarse state, called "goor," has been used in India from time immemorial as an Ingredient in mortar. Masonry cemented . with this mortar has been known to defy every effort of pick and shovel, and to yield only to blasting when it has been found neo. essary to remove old puckah buildings. New ' XorkSun. . , ' .- ' y;-'i ' ..' Wild" Geese; la Canada. ; -Wild geese are being slaughtered by the thousand at Beaver lake, In northwestern Canada. Two men recently killed 1,000 and dried the meat for winter use, and it is not unusual for the local gunners to bag 50 and 100 In a day's shooting. - No More . Honorary DegTeej. , , Cornell university will confer no honorary degrees hereafter, and to become a doctor of laws under the new rules of that institution it will be necessary for a man to tell who Blackitone and Chitty were and what Kent and Stevens wrote. ; ,. - - Honor to the Confederate "Dead. ' J. C Latham, a rich New Yorker, once a ' , Confederate soldier, has gathered up the bodies of 100 of his comrades, put them in a 1 new cemetery at Hopkinsville, Ky., and -placed, a granite, shaft over them to tell of. their deeds In war. - . I Against Siding en Top. ' The Baltimore Society for the Prevention ' of Cruelty to Animals has decided to make a vigorous, fight against the drivers of coal carts who make a practice of riding on top of their carts while the carts are loaded. Chicago Times. Prom the Old Frigate. A citizen of Rockland,, Ma, has a . brier- wood pipe which he found embedded la a,: large mass of salt at the bottom of one of the water tanks of the old frigate Sabine. . ; The last of the Herd. r. , Two Denver citizens, buffalo huntine In ' Park county, Colorado, walked twenty-fivs kSss, and thought that they were amply re paid when they discovered a big , bull bison sSfljading alone in the -"very heart of a H sustain fastness." . Of course they joyfully - kSlsA this lonely, representative of a oncei Xittej herd. New York Sun. S v" . ... - 1 : '. ,!t lti i' i i 11 ''a -. V';-' ,,.-'-' I--' a 4 1
The North Carolina Prohibitionist (Bush Hill, N.C.)
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