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Show TO EMPLOYERS. whom these word, lua (nine, that all sa i l.u hrm. owners all eapit.ili:.'ad ix iy are i'!ii( ail master buildti. all the! to te interested in the entire wcilare of tbrei Year- - ago si e oue gave suUirdmates. lwtnupng' a iirl!inare prescriptions First, spend your life in getting and kecpins. tbe earnings of cither people: seconuh bait v- dr. AT PC BUSHED QUESTION. UTAH - MANTI. talmage on the labor PEOPLE AND EVENTS. no anx.ety about the Factories and Shops. bovs at Shenandoah, Pa., slather sulphur diamonds and sell them for i?l' Reasonable Pay and Fair Treatment Recommended. IIoPATPoso is the barbarous name of a new summer resort. Translated from Indian to English it means steppin- Workers Interests and Health Should Be Guarded. g-stones. Christian Precept and a Care for the Moral Welfare of the Laboring Men of Invaluable Benefit. The a pound. Use fruit stand in Boston is making a fortune for its owner. The sales per to day vary from on Park square. It is situated $.V). E. Me Joseph Duvu.u thinks that President Cleveland will be the next candidate of his party, and that Indiana will support him. The plenisphonc, an instrument that (mites the tones of the violin, viola, cello, and double bass is a recent of a Buffalo musician. An enterprising editor of Cape Cod, ?d;tss , has made a standing offer of to any subscriber to bis paper who loses property by lire or water. writ- Thoundikk Hiue, in New York, says that ing to a the story of his vvintmig a large sum of money at Monte Carlo is a pure invention. Mi;. A i. i. ex fri'-n- people of Sierra Valley, NVv., have boycotted the editor of The 1. win- because he hoarded at a hotel where Chines. labor was employed, A policy for ijti.ot'b on the life of a queen, with bonuses tf Jl.'JDo, and an annual premium of Bid 2,7, was lately offered for sale at a London auction mart, hut attracted no bidders. The anti-Chine- - lml ionaire has imbrow iistone slabs for the steps ported of his new mansion which were so massive that twenty burses were required dace. to haul them to the A aliform v are goss.ping I'ut'.'" Engli-l- i papci V.liout the contemptible parsimony of the. duke of Edinburgh in placing his comptroller, equerries and other household officers on hah1 pay during his term of command it the Nlediti rra-nea- n. Consideration for the Workmen s Feelings, Not Selfishness, the Better Plan. City Timex. N. Y., May 23. The Rev. Brooklyn, Talm age, I). I)., to- - ay preached the second of his series of sermons on the great labor Hoyt Km- discussion, the subject being: The to Treat Employes. plojcrs Ought os;iiiiig bv inn was: (ilory to God on high, Let heaven and earth reply. I)r. Talmage chose two texts, the first from Tf ye t its and devour one Galatiou i, v., IV another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another;'' ami Ihilippians, 11., 4: 'Look not every man on his own things, but Folevery man also on the things of others. lowing is the sermon in full: The Iatxir agitation will soon quiet; the mills again opm, the railroads resume their traffic, our national prosperity again start. Of course the damage done by the strikes can not tie immediately repaired. Wages will not Ik so high as they were. Spasmodically they may he higher, hut they will drop lower. strikes ixjvrk 1. 1 turn most. Strikes, whether right or wrong, always inYou will jure laborers more than capitalists. see tills in the starvat.on of next winter. ami violence and murder never pay. They are different stages of anarchy. God never blessed murder. The worst use you can put a man to is to kill bim. Illow up all the country seats on the banks of tbe Hudson, and all the line houses on Madison square and Brooklyn heights, and Bunker hill and l!ittcnhou-- e square and Beacon street, ami all the bricks and timber and stones will just fall back on the hare hands of American labor. The wor-- t enemies of the working classes in the lYiited States and Ireland are their demented coadjutors. Assassination of Lord Frederick Cavendish the ami Mr. Burke in lMiciruix park, Dublin, Ireland. in the attempt to avenge the wrongs of Ireland, only turned aw ay from that afflicted people millii ns of s mimtbiers. The attempts to blow up the bouse of commons iu London bad only this effect to throw out of employment tens of thousands of iunoeent Irish peoHi erltd to the A'iii mis I Roy-cutti- - - lei-u- re ,fr .r: munis. the ios-e- s. of oiherM thirdly, do mil your va.-- t yvealth iui'ilicy the jxiverty of a great m.tnv pople. Now there is not a man in my audience win) would consent to go out into Lit "Eli thse three deprinciples, to earn a fortun. It is your sire to do vour yy hole dutv to the men and wo men in your service. RECSON.VIILE fat RECOMMENDED. First of all. then, pav a4 large yy ages as arf reasonable and as your business will afford. what other- - pay. certainly Not ueces-aril- y wbat youi hired help sav you must pav, for tli at is tyranny on the part of lanor unbearable. The right of a lalmrer to tell his emof ployer hat he must pay implies the right an employer to compel a man into a service e tiio-whether fie w ill or not, and either of When any employer alideas is despicable. low s a laborer to say what lie must do or have bis business ruined, ami the employer submits man in the Imuto it. be does every ted States a w roug and yields to a principle which, carried out, would dissolve society. Look over your affairs and put yourselves in imagination in your lalrer's place, and then pay him hat before God and vour own conscience you think you ought to pay him. God bless yi ms are well in their place, but they do not buy coal nor pay bouse rent nor get shoes for the children. At the same time to remember you. tlie employer, ought through what straits anu strains you got the fortune by which you built your store or run the factory. You are to remember that you take all the risks and the employe takes none, or scarcely any. You are to remember that there may be reverses in fortaue, aud that some myy style of machinery may make your inaebiueiy valueless, or some new ' y i f tariff set vour business bark uopclessly and forever. You must take all that into consideration, aud then pay what is reasonable. di'ap;Mi:ineii!s Good Advice Given Oxvners of the mind the fact that nl bu-in- yy DEsIKABLE. Pill Do not be too ready in cut (low u wages. As far as jxissible pav all, and pav promptly. There is a great deal of Bilde teaching on I will be a swift this subject. Malechi: IN PROMPTNESS NO all sorcerers, and bgainst all adulterers, aud against those who oppress the Tliou Leviticus: hireling in his wages. shalt not keep the wages of the hireling all Mast'olossians: night unto the morning. ters, give unto vour servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a N you see it is not a Muster in heaven. uucstion between you and your employe so much as it is a question between you and God. Now. if you Do not sav to your employes: dont like this place get another, when vou know they can not get another. As far as possible once a year visit at their homes your clerks and your workmen. That is the only way you eau become acquainted with their wants. You will by such process find out that there is a blind parent or a sick sister being Y ou w ill timl some of your young supported. men iu rooms without any tire in winter, and in summer sweltering iu apart-me- n s. Y'ou will timl how much depends on the wages you pay or withhold. On Saturday morning when you come into your counting room and draw the check which will bring the money for the wages or the salaries, you will have a thrill of satisfaction in knowing it is not only the money you give to the young man, hut the relief of tlie dire necessities 'which stand back of him. witness againt GUARDING THE EMPLOYE'S INTERESTS. Moreover, it is vour dutv as employer, as far as possible, to mould the welfare of the Y'ou ought to advise him about invesr-menta limit life insurance, about savings banks. Y'ou ought to give him the tioncfit of ple in England. UUlimtlsM NO CUItF. FOR WRONGS. are There and hundicds your experience. In this country the torch put to tin factories thousands of employers iu tills country and that have discharged bands for good or bad F,ngl;iu(l, J am glad ty ray, who are settling iu reasons; obstructions on the rail tracks in the cry best wav tin destiny of their front of midnight express trains, because the employes. Snell men as Marshall of Leeds, offenders do not like the president of the comLister of Bradford, Aimed of Halitiax ami pany; strikes on ship board the hour they are men so near at home it might offend their iu or to offices sail, the hour the modesty if I mentioned their names. These going printing paper was to go to press, or iu tlu mines the men have built reading rooms, libraries, conday Hie coal was to be delivered, or on house cert halls, afforded croquet lawns, cricket scaffoldings so Ike builder tails in keeping his grounds, gymunsiums, enoral societies for contract all these are only a hard blow, at the their employes and tliev have not merely paid head of American labor and cripple ils arms their wages on Saturdav night, but through and lame its feet and pierce its heart. Traps tlie contentment and tile thrift and the sprung suddenly upon employers and violence good morals of their employes, they are paynever took one knot out (If the knuckles of ing wages from generation to generation fortoil or put one farthing of wages into a callous ever. palm. Barbarism will never cure tbe wrongs Again, I counsel all employers to look well of civilization. Mark that. after tlie physical health of their subordinates. Tilts LAW' THE BEST REMEDY. Y'ou are expected to understand bi tter than Frederick the Great admired some land near they all these questions of ventillation and his palace at 1otsdam ami lit: resolved to get sunshine and all the laws of hygiene. There it. It w as owned by a miller. He offered the are stores and hanking houses' and factories miller three times 'the value of the property. and newspaper establishments where the atThe miller would not take it because it was mosphere is death. Your employes mav altin old homestead, and he felt about as Naways appreciate your work, as that stile of both felt about his vineyard when Allah wantkindness was not appreciated in Ihe iustancr ed it. I icdcriek the Great was a rough ami mentioned bv Charles Reatle, where in a great terrible man and he ordered the miller into factory a fan was provided for the blowing tiis presence, and tin king with a stick in his away of the dust of metal and stone, the dust hand a stick with which be sometimes si ruck from the machinery, and some of tbe the officers of state said to the miller: "Now, workmen refu-e- d to put this great fan in line I have offered you three times the value of then, They seemed to prefer to inhale the that property, and if you won't sell it I'll take tilings, the tilings into their lungs. it anyhow. The miller said: Your ma But in the vast majority of cases your emwont. I said the jesty, you Yes, king, ployes will uppretiate every kindness in that will take it. said the miller, if direction. "Then, your majesty does take it I will sue you in the UNNECESSARY fatigue cruel. chancery court. At that threat Frederick the Do not put on them any unnecessary fatigue. Great yielded his infamous demand. And the I never could understand whv the drivers on most imperious outrage against t lie working our city ears must stand all day when they classes will cower yet before the law. Violence as well sit down and drive, Jt might just, and contrary to the law will never accomplish seems to me most unrighteous that so many of am thing, tmt righteousness and according to the female clerks in our stores should lie comthe law will accomplish it. pelled to stand all day, and through those THE TEN PENT Y OF THE TIMES. hours when theie are but few or no customers. But gradually the damages done to the la1 hese people bate aches aud annoyance and borer In- tbe strikers will be repaired, and weariness enough without putting upon them some important things now to be said. ought additional those female fatigue. Fnle.--s Tin w hole tendency of our times, as you have clerks must gimp and down outlie business noticed, is to make the cliasm between emof the store, let them sit down. At the end of ployer and employe wider ami wider. Iu olden the year you w ill timl that they have sold es time tbe bead man of the factory, tbe master manv ami made as line bargains yea, builder, (lie capitalist, tbe bead' man of the butter;gi'ods for one dork with a dear lira in and firm, yvorked side by side with their employes, rested body and radiance will sell more goods working sometimes at the same bench, dining two clerks with health bedraggled. at the same table; and there are those here than Then I would have you carry out this saniwlio can remember the time when the clerks tary idea aud put into as few hours as possiof large commercial establishments wore acble the work of the day. Some time ago customed to board with the head men of the whether it has been changed I know- not -linn. All this is changed, and the tendency is to make the distance between employer and wthere were 1,(X0 grocery clerks in Brooklyn ho went to at 5 in the mornemploye wider ami wider. The tendency is to ing ami continued until 10oclock o'clock at night. make the eninlove feel that he is wronged bv is that Now, inhuman. the success of the eapitaliiL and to make the It seems to me that all the merchants in all capitalist, fed, "Now iny laborers are ought, by simultaneous of burden; I must give so much monel departments to come out in behalf of the earlv closTor so much drudgery, just so many pieces o'f ing theory. These oung men ought to have siher for so many beads of sweat. Hi other of going to the Mercantile liwords tbe bridge of sympathy is broken down an opportunity at both ends. That feeling was well described brary, totothethe reading rooms, to the concert hall, gymnasium, to the church. by Thomas Carlyle when be said: have nerves, lliey have brains, they haveThey inof St. l)oliy I ndershot, buccaneer-lik- Tlugson. says tellectual to bis men: aspirations, they have immortal Noble spinners, this is the h If cun do a good round days they thousand we have gained, wherein I spirits. mean to dwell and plant ray vineyards. The work in the ten or eleven Ilnurs, you have no to them right for seventeen. harnessed hundred thousand jiouud is mine, the daily I do not keep think that any intelligent employer wage was yours. Adieu, noble spimierl. Drink my health with this groat, each which I can afford to be reckless of the physical liud mental health of bi subordinates. give over and above. LOOKING AFTER THE MOKVL. DOING K1G1IT TO THE WORKERS. Bid at ove all 1 Now- what we want is to rebuild you. (I. employers! that brid-- e that you l.xtk aftercharge the moral and spiritual of sympathy, and I put the troyvol to one of welfare of your employers. First, know w here the abutments and I preach more they spend tneir evenings. That decides this morning to employers as such You do not want around vour although what I have to say will be anro-priat- e everything. drawer a money man who went 'last to ail bo are in the lio(ie. Young A man that The outrageous behavior of a multitude of night to see .lack Sheppard. eoniYs into the the in store lalxnvrs toward their employers dump the w morning ghastly ith midnight revelry is not the man for last three months, behavior infamous' ami your store. The young w ho his evenmail of most spends worthy condign mn v have in the society of refined women, or in ings induced the employers punishment, to neglect the real I hristiau duties that they owe to those whom musical or arti-ti- e circles, or in literary is ihe Young man for your store. they employ. Therefore I want to sav to you Without disgu-tiug any iiumisitiveiiess. withhoiu I confront face to face, and those to out any impertinence, you ought to hive your le Pit. ?Jt iilenl!i:i;;, Heading, Pa., who died on Wednesday, aged 7.7, was a lineal descendant, of Peter Muhlenberg, tlm patriot preachI is toother was er of the llevolutiou. of a daughter (Joy. Hicster. of Pennsylvania. of HlKsTK.lt II, J The guests at the hotels in Sacramento, Cal., were litcially besieged by millions of beetles ncentlv. The insects thronged the gardens and house in such ntiuiU rs tint lie hoarders were ompelled to make a itauipcdo for the t oad-- , to escape them. The number of glass-otter- s lias become amav.ingly large within a month or so. Several profess to even diet on soft soap, coal-oi- l, and Mich like, including an eastern man, who, in spite of his claimed ability, sucemned to a dose of poison. The cowliov never prides hintself on lassoing a steer by rite horns. He always tries to hurl a ;opo so that the animal will step into it. thus entangling bis legs and thrown y; lum. In a Wyoming exhibition a .iiwboy repeatedly the spectators caught a bull by an; h-- named. A Huston man s.t a .v good-lookin- g woman drop her glove from a ear win- dow jn-- t as tlu train was moving from the station, lie rushed forward, grab-tie- d tlu glove, as he supposed, and racing alongside of th. err, handed the fair one a banana sk.p, which he had picked up In mistak . A man in Placer county, California, started a lire in a ch, runny which had been disused for a year. There appeared to 1h an o;mt ruction of some hind, and lit umlentood what it was when two hundred pounds of honey melted ami ran down. The bees had been using it for a hive. Ix his forthcoming lecture at Oxford, it is said, Mr. Henry Irving will review the history of the English stage, dividing his survey into four distinct periods namely, the Burgage or Shake, nearoun era; the restoration; the Garrick period; and the period during which the genius of Edmund Kean sj powerfully contributed t arrest the decline of tlu histrionic art an 1 the nukR interest in the theater. ari-isi- is - - -s only-beast- s move-inen- e luin-dedt- - yy that you are interested vouug me u tmder.-rai.- it to so much iu their w elf ire that you want hours, and know where they s;xnd thir tin v will fiuuklv ami gladly tell you. ir Hie Do not sav of these Young mm: do their Yvork i:i the business hours, that is God has made you that all I have to ask. man s guardian. I want you to understand or th it main of these vuiig men are orphans, nor-- e than orphans. Hung offt into society to A young man is Struggle for themselves. of the Atlantic ocean, piincd into isthe middleafter him. and then he pitched au,l a plank is told to take that and sw iin ashore. Treat to ha ve your that voting man as you would like Be father to son treated if you' were dead. that clerk. There is nothing more beautiful than to hear an aged merchant! addressing his My sou clerks and saying AitTlll KTyPPANs EXCELLENT EXAMPLE. That voting man in your employ has a ListBis father was a drunkard. His first on-. remembrance of bis father was the father coming home late at. night intoxicated and the children hiding under the bed frightened. And that Young man has st.xxl many a time betYveeu father aud mother keeping her from iu tbe brutal blow, lie is prematurely old aud clothtrving to proY'iile for the bouse rentsisters. He ing f.r lii younger brothers and may seem to vou like all other young men. but God ami bis mother know be is a hero. At 20 years of age he has suffered as much as many have suffered at (id. Do not tread on him. Do not swear at him. Do not send him on ft and useless errand. Say Good morning. You are deGood night. aud Good bye. ciding that man's destiny for two worlds. One of rnv earliest remembrances is of old Arthur Tappan. There were many difference of opinion'about his politics, but no one who ever knew Arthur Tappan, aud knew him well, doubted his being an earnest Christian. In his store in Neiv York he bad a nxmi YYliere every morning he called his employes together, aud lie prayed with them, read the Scriptures to them, sang with them, and then they entered on the duties of the dav. On Monday morning theexoroses differed. ndlii gathered the young men together and asked them w here they had attended church, what had been their Fallback experiences aud Yvhat bad been the sermon. Samuel Budgett had the largest business lie had in a room of in the west of England. his warehouse a place pleasantly furnished with comfortably seats aud Fletchers Famanil Wesleyan hymn hooks, and ily Devotions he gathered his employes together every morning, and, having sung, they knelt down and prayed side by side tlie employer and the employes. Do y ou wonder at that mans success, ami that though thirty years before he had been a partner in a small retail shop in a small village, at his death he bequeathed many millions. Goff can trust such a man as that with plenty of money. Sill TITUS SALTS METHODS. iir Titus Saltandlmdat wealth Yvhieh was beyond Saltaire, England, lie had computation, a church and a chapel built aud supported by himself the church for those Yvlio preferred the Episcopal service, amPthe chapel for tho-- e who preferred the Methodist service. At the opening of one of liis factories he gave a great dinner, and there were 3,o(IO people present, and in liis after dinner speech he said to those I can not look around me people gathered: and sec this vast assemblage of friends and I feel without being moved. of the noblegreatly honored by the presence man at my side, and 1 am especially delighted at the presence of mv I hope to draYV around me a population that will enjoy the beauties of this neighborhood a population of contented, happy operatives. I have given instructions to my architects that nothing is to be spared to render the dYvellings (if the if my operatives a pattern to the country, and life is spared by Divine Providence 1 hope to see contentment, satisfaction and happiness That is Christian character around me. demonstrated. There are others in this country and in other lands on a smaller scale doing their best for their emploves. Tliev have not forgotten their oYvn early struggles. They remember the tir-- t yard of nankeen they measured, the first quarter of tea they weighed, the first banister they turned, the first roof they shingled. They remember liow tliev were discouraged, bow hungry they were, and hoYV cold and hiwv tired they Yvere, and tboifgh they may be sixty or seYenty years of age, tliev know just limy a boy feels between ten and tYveutv. and how a young mail feels between twenty and thirty. They have not forgotteu it. Those wealthy employers Yvere not originally let doYvn out of iuaYen Yvith pulleys of , silk in a YYicker basket, fanned by cherubic Yvings. They started in roughest cradle, on whose rocker put her violent foot and tipped them into tlie cold world. Those old men are sympathetic Yvith bY s. t. work-jHop- Yvork-peopl- e. well-pai- satin-lined- GENTI.ENES. you are not only to lie kind to FOREMEN TAUGHT But those under you Cliristiaiily kind but you are also to see that your boss YYorkman and your s and your agents aud your oVersecis in stores are kind to those under them. Sometimes a man will get a little brief authority in a store or in a factory, ami w bile tliev are verv courteous to you, the capitalist, or to you, tlie head mail of the firm, tuey are most brutal in their treatment of those' under them. God only know s what some of the lads suffer in the cellars and in tlie lofts of some of our great establishments. They have no one to appeal to. The time w ill come when their arm will be strong and they can defend themselves, hut not now. Alas for some of the cash boys, and the messenger bovs. and the Iiyivs that sweep the store. Alas! for some of them'. Now, you capitalist, you, the head man of the firm, must look, supervise, see those all around you, investigate all beneath you. Aud then 1 charge you not to put unnecessary temptation iu the wav of your young men. Do not keep large sums of "money lying around unguarded. Know- - how much monev there is in the till. Do not have the account books lixisely kept. There are temptations inevitable to young men, and enough of them without your putting any unnecessary temptations in their way. Men iu Wall street having thirty years of reputation for honesty have dropped into Sing Sing and perdition, and you must be careful how you try a lad of fifteen. And if hello wrong, do not pounce on him like a hyena. If he prm-- himself unworthy of your confidence do not call iu the police, hut take him home, tell w hy you dislioad-clerk- ! e missed him to those who will give him another chance. Many a young man has done wrong once who Yvill never ilo Yviong again. LABORERS HAVE SOYIE FEELINGS. Ah, my friends, I think Yve can afford to give everybody another chance, when God knows Yve should have all been in perdition if He had not given us ten thousand chances. Then, if in moving around your factory or mill or burn or store you are inexorable Yvith young mi'll God will remember it Some day the wheel of fortune Yvill turn and you Yvill be a pauper aud your daughter Yvill go to tlie workhouse aud your son will die on the scaffold. If in moving among your oung men you see one with an ominous pallor" of cheek or you hear him roughing behind the counter say to him. Stay home a day or tYvo and rest or go out and breathe the breath of the hills. if his mother die do not demand that on the day after tlie futieral he be in the store. Give him at least a week to get over that which he will never get over. Employers, urge upon your above a.l a xsitiYe religious life. emploves Y ou can do it. You are in a position not to be laughed at, or scoffed at, or jeered at. You hold the keys of the establishment, and bv vour jKisition vou demand reverence. XoYvj urge all those employes into a religious life. So far from that, Is t, young men! Instead of .heereil on the road to heaven, some ofbeing vou ire caricatured, and it is a hard thing foryou O Keep your Christian integrity in that store ar factory where there are so many hostile to eligiou. letiion, a brave general under :'v Frederick was a Christ crick tlie Great yy as an Hitilei. Zicthen. the venerable, yy asked to be excused from nub lie might attend the holy saerai, 7 U. A few d.n.s after ten, . excused. , ing with the king anil yy it li Irassia, when Frederick the i1rB''U:i "Well. YVav, said: Zietheu ' L1614 fc; sacrament of last Friday dig. ( liiti--!;,;- ElETHENs ANSYY kt x, egr,,,. ' 1 The venerable old warr.or For your majestv I have riskl.,rl"T--L' time on th-- battlefield and f, would 'ie willin auv time toU,eX wrong when you insult the Ghrioi,. You will forgive me if 1. vour uijii ! vant, cannot bear in silence auv hao ' Lord and my saviour. Frederick. fU leaped to his feet and he put out hi. i he said: Happy Ziethen! me. You will never be hot'lT" O, there are many lxi nr se.,t!,.dat tK religion! and 1 thank God there men as brave as Ziethen. self, O. employer! Take you. Six in you will be thrum, h" h'ln'' selling, aud through with mam, fa,,,,,"? uT" building aud God will k Yon: those people over whom you i,aa fluence! Are they here!' Will U. shipowners, jntu what harlx,r'ii crew sail! After being tossed 0n will they gain the port of heaven g ; ers, will those young meu i. ho are'iv,', F ami down the long lines of ling the rolls of government they keeping their'aeeounts risliUith'u' the credit account of mercies received M,. account of bins forgiven' () y, ' goods merchants! are those vounr your care who are providing'fabricsof for head and hand, and foot and ',a(.jh.'v unclothed unclothed into eternity p, merchant grocers! are tho-- e YoutiVj under your care are providing foTd Ixxiies and families of men to "o ever! e 01 j fi t'l er ' ult nii-- r IVING 4 LITTLE 1 OK OTllE's O, you manufacturers of this L'niteil Si wit h so many wheels th ing and so mam ti!? pulling, and so many new pattinis tt. uie 3" 11 111 A ae iW ; ;.tr V' ;apl ipf an I 3 An? t if out and so many goods shipped, are tiers, are the carmen, are the draunra salesmen, are the watchers of lourevr,' ment working out even thing Imt then, I salvation! Gan it be thaL having tliui-- . pie under your care five, ten, twenty you have made no everlasting gixxl on their immortal souls! G.kI all hack troni such selfishness and ttaep' to live for others and not fur ourselves, sets us the example of sacrifice, and many of his disciple. Oiie summer, in California, a gentleman! had just removed from the amlwich is!,Lj He said one of told me this Incident. Sandwich islands is devoted to lepprs. Py;". of sick the leprosy on the other k:a I getting are sent to that Isle of lepers. Tliev off. They are m different stages nf die of ease, but all wlio die on that rosy. On one of the healthy islands tbeivvi a physician who always wore his band and it was often discussed why lie a!wai b. a glove ou that hand under all circumshi,c A PIIYSIfIAN8 SEEK SACISIFlE. One day this physician came to tVu authorities, and he withdrew his glove, g Y'ou he said to the officers of the law. jp that hand a spot of the leprosy and that doomed to die. 1 might hide this for!.:: while and keep avvav from the itic of ke but I am a physician, and I caugiuuig island and administer to the who are farther gone in tie disease, r. I should like to go now. 1 1 would he sks me to stay amid the.-- e luxurious siinrc ings, when 1 might be of so nmeh heh lui. wretched. Send me to tile Die of thelcprs They, seeing the s;xt of leprosy, of the mau into custody, lie hade ht to his family and his friends. It a. agonizing farewell, lie could never see t again. He was taken to the isle of Fraud there wrought among the sick until titrated by his own death, which at last Oh! that was magnificent seif denial, me fieent sacrifice, only surpassed hy that of who exiled Himself from the hearth of lifP to this leprous island of ft world, tint might physician our wounds aud weep it griefs aud die our deaths, turning tbe Me!, leprous world into a great (looming pint leal garden. Whether employer or imp4 let us catch that spirit. v imp.-ts- - ni- ,, 1 a liuu i : as ' Is fer t'B In hi i in irk taa .fi.ii ana fere iit sutTering-thos- i me t vu 4 f iv JtlCi f c tv a K tar i- -c H p --Bin Spider That Liked Music. Ml; dre Whether the bee hears the jar. or can appreciate tiling of it! delicate sounds of music, might matter of doubt, says a writer in i in: Indicator, at least, I never heard fc bee that was spellbound at the soaci Jhn Sir music. It is said that Oni bock, after playing liis violin before; h them induce able to was not bees, "o of t waltz, beat time, or try the key e Sir John him. Whether on in sharp i er tried anything of this kind lam" pi an rate, to at any say; prepared a: behavior on the part of the bco; In is not to be wondered at. natural history we read that sp. however, seem to exhibit signs of enjoyment at the sound of tliegnitm other instruments. When I fir this statement it was too much faar evenm? te believe; but chancing one .at play my accordion some yearswho it factory, one of my friends ' an willi me ejaculated all at oneir look at that monstrous spider! u . continued to play the insect advML u! toward me. for reasons that I h then suspect, and before I was aRJ w ,.f it was perched upon my knee, fir on rested my accordion. Feeim. id cold chill creep down my back a covercd this intimate friends M: ft, shook the ugly baste upon theThe Hi li; stamping my feet as I did so. aim der made good liis retreat fi peared under a pile of boanlsJ quiet prevailed, and I had resit1 o good playing, lo and behold! our ' t before as n out crept cautiously n not say that he waltzed, but as though lie were spellbound 80 read recollected what I had h( ,si urally concluded that it. w:lsTf1,e id n that delighted liis worship, :c; a''.; playing, the spider crept rear! I whenever 1 resumed he would ir I made repeated trials, with st results, and on separate evening On one or two occasions 01 In ,. out in this way to show t n friends, who were a little itR1,, It seems hardly possible brations caused by the music F .J' an agreeable sensation "Pn.. me of the spider, and that am a delicate sense of touch, it ' rt3' ,, hearing. On the contrary, able for me to suppose that f C. not only heard, but enjoy can Whether a bee sic. musical sounds or not, we c'.1'1 u . enjoy ' eide; but if a spider can at believe a bee can hear zeop, zeep of the queen, A t: tin-pa- ci Lu , -- r . j -- ' , ( 5 ,:.t-- 1 ! |