Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 40, Petersburg, Pike County, 11 February 1898 — Page 6

•wing sermon _ forth the a aelf-denying sister on s young «wr. The text is: ter stood afar off. to wit what to hint. Thcrmutis. daughter * of looking out through the lati of her bathing house, on the banks fbe Nile, saw a curious boat on the _It had neither oar nor helm, 1 they would have been useless anywas only one passenger, baby boy. Hut the Maytnat brought the Pilgrim Fa* t to America, carried not so precious 1 The boat was made of the leaves of papyrus, tightened to- ■ by bitumen. Boats were som<^ made of that material, as we from Pliny and Herodotus and phrastus. ‘*Kill all the Hebrew ildren born'" had been Pharaoh's orTo save her boy. Joehebed, the of little Moses, had put him in , queer boat and launched him. sister. Miriam, stood on the bank _ling that precious craft. She was ■enough off not to draw attention to t boat, but near enough to offer proThere she stands on the bank Miriam the poetess, Miriam the Miriam the faithful, very human, for in after time i demonstrated it. iiriam was a splendid sister, but had > faults, like all the rest of us. How ly she watcned the boat eonher brother! A strong wind girt, upset it. The buffaloes often l there might in a sudden plunge thirst sink in it. Some ravenous -fowl might swoop and piek his lout with iron l>eak. Some croc©or hippopotamus crawling through might crush the bain*. Miwatched and watched until the Thermutis. a maiden on each of her holding palm Leaves over head to shelter her from the sun. down snd entered her bathing When from the lattice she saw boat she ordered it brought, and the leaves were pulled back the face of the child and the boy up he cried aloud, for KLY

K W4W IIUU^I» •ml would .^hot „ even let the Princess fakr him. The infant would ratbcr stay hungry than acknowledge anyone of the court as mother. Now, Htriun. the sister, incognito, no one pnapecting her relation to the ghild, leaps from the hank and rushes down end offers to get a nurse to pacify the Bhild. Consent is giveji. and she brings lochebed. the baby's mother, incognito, notte of the court knowing that she was the mother: ami when Joehcbed arrmd, the child stopped crying, for its fright Was enlnied ami its hunger nppconod. You may admire .locbebed, the mother. and all the ages may adi»ir>’ Moses, but’ I clap my hands in applanso at the behavior of Miriam, the faithful, brilliant and strategic rtister. **tio home,** some one niight have said to Miriam: why risk yourself out there ■kme on the l»anks of the Nile, breathing the miasms, and in danger of being attacked of wild beast or ruffian; "go fcomel” No; Miriam, the sister, more lovingly watched and bravely defended Hoaeti the brother.' Is he worthy her care ami courage? Oh, yes; the 60 centuries of the world's history have merer had so much involved in the arrival of any ship at any port as in the landing of that papyrus boat caulked with bitumen! Its one passenger was fo be a nonsuch in history—lawyer, ■talesman, politician, legislator, organizer, eoaquerer. deliverer. He had mach remarkable beauty in childhood that Josephus says, when he was earned along the road, people stopped to* gmm at hitn and workmen would leave their work toad mi re him. When the liiag playfully put his crown-upon this frojr, he threw it off indignantly and peal his fodt on it. The king, fearing p»«i this might Ik* a sign that the child might yet take down his crown, applied another test j According to the | Jewish legend, the king ordered two feovrl* to be put before the child, one i containing rubies and the other burning coals; and if he took the coals, he waa to live, ami if took the rubies he waa to die. -For some reason the child took one of the coals, and put it fm his mouth, so that his life was ■pared, although it burned the tongue Wall he was indistinct of dttoranee, ever mfter. Having come to manhood, he ■pread open the palms of his hands in prayer, and the lied sea parted to let j SJOO.OOO people escape. And he put >the palms of his hands together in wrayer, ami the Ked sea closed on a

strangulated host. lit* life so unutterlv grand. his burial oust bf on the -same scale. t«»d would4 let neither man nor saint nor archangel hare anything to do with wear- | (ins' for kina a shrouhi or digging for 3um a grave. The omnipotent Clod, left His throne in Heaven one day. and rif the question was asked. "Whither *an the King of the Universe goinjr?” bite answer was. "I am going down to %iry Moses." And the L<>rd took the ^mightiest of men to the top of a hill, aad the day was clear, and Moses ran ' His eye ever the magnificent range of j •mmtry. Here the valley of Esdraelon, 1 i where the final battle of all nations is (rfinhe fought; mad yonder, the mountains llertaon. and Lebanon, and 4fcerisim. and the hills of Judea; and j afite village of Bethlehem then', and mad the <city of Jericho yonder, and gte vast stretch of landscape that! almost took the old lawgiver's hiMth away as he looked at j tit. And then without a pang—asj ’learn from the statement that the eye Hosts was undimmed and his natvmai fierce unabated—God touched the ^wstikwprer's eyes, and they closed; Fhis lungs, and they ceased; and his t and it stoooed; and commanded.1 PT;* ■

laying: “To the skies, them immortal spirit!" And then one divine hand was pat against the back of Moses, and the other handagainst the pulsel ess breast, and God laid him softly down on Mount Nebo, and then the lawgiver, lifted in the Almighty's arms, was carried to the opening of a cave and placed in a crypt, and one stroke of the divine hand smoothed the features into an everlasting calm, and a rock was rolled to the door, and the only obsequies, at which God did all the offices of priest, and undertaker, and gravedigger, and mourner, were ended. Miriam was the eldest of the family; Moses and Aaron, her brothers, were younger. Oh the power of the elder lister to help decide the brother's charactor for usefulness &nd for Heaven! She can keep off from her brother more evils than Miriam could have driven back waterfowl or crocodile from the ark of bullrushes. The older sister decides the direction in which the cradle boat shall sail. By gentleness. by'good sense, by Christian principle $he can turn it toward the palace, not of a wicked Pharaoh, but of a holy [»od; and brighter princess than Thermutis should, lift him out of . peril, even religion whose | ways arc ways of pleasantness and all j her paths are peace. The older sister, how much the world owes her! liorn while yet the family was in limited circumstances, she had to hold and take care of her younger brothers. And if there is anything that excites my sympathy, it is a little girl lugging around a great fat child and getting her ears boxed because she can not keep him quiet? By the time she gets to young womanhood she is pale and worn out, and her attractiveness has been sacrificed on the altar of sisterly fidelity, and she is consigned to eelibaey, and society calls her by an unfair name: but in 1 Heaven they call her Miriam. In most j families the two most undesirable J places in the record of births are the I first and the last: the first because she is worn out with the cares of a home that can not afford to hire help, and the last because she is spoiled as a pet. ; Among the grandest equipages that ! sweep through the streets of Heaven j will be those occupied by sisters who i sacrificed themselves for brothers. !

iney win lUTCine uacst ci wn apuw' lyptie white horses, and many who on earth looked down upon them will have to turn out to let them pass the charioteer crying-: “Clear the way! A cjueen is coming!*1 * Let sisters not begrudge the time and care bestowed on a brother. It is hard to ljelieve that any boy you know j so well as your brother can ever turn ottt anything very useful. Well, he may not be another Moses. There is | only one of that kind needed for 6.000 j years. Hut l toll your brother will be—either a blessing or a eurse to ! society, and a candidate for happiness | L>r wretchedness. lie will, like Moses. | have the choice between rubies and j living, coals, and vonr influence will have much to do with his decision, lie j may not. like Moses, la* the deliverer j >f a nation, but he may. after your father and mother0 are gone, be; the deliverer of a household. What; thousands of homes to-day are piloted : by brothers! There are properties now j well invested and yielding income for j the support of sisters and younger brothers because the older brother rose to the leadership from the day the father lay down to die. Whatever you io for your brothers will come back to vou again. If you set him an ill-na-tured. censorious, unaccommodating i-xample, it will recoil upon you from his own irritated and despoiled nature. If you. by patience with his infirmities and by his uobility of character, dwell with him. in the few years of your companionship, you will have your counsels reflected back upon you some [lay by his splendor of behavior in some msis where he would have failed but for you. Don't snub him. Don't depreciate his ability. Don’t talk diseouragingly about his future. Don't let Miriam get down off the bank of the Xile and wade out and upset the ark of the bub rushes. Don’t tease him. brothers and sisters do not consider it any harm to tease. That spirit abroad in the family is one of the meanest and most devilish. There is a teasing that is pleasurable, anti is only another form of innoent raillery; but that which provokes and irritates and makes the eye flash with anger is to be reprehended: It would l*» less blameworthy to take a bunch of thorns and draw them across your sister's cheek, or to take a kuife and draw its sharp edge across your brother’s hand till the blood spurts, for that w ould damage only the body; but teasing is the thorn and the knife scratching and lacerating the disposition and the soul. It is the curse of innumberable households that the brothers tease

thesisters. and the sisters the brothers. Sometimes it is the color of the hair, or the shape*of the features, of an affair >f the heart. Sometimes it is by revealing a secret or by a suggestive look, sr a guffaw, or an “Ahem!** Tease! Tease! Tease! For mercy's sake, quit it. Christ says: “lie that hateth his brother is' a murderer.” Now. when you. by teasing*, make your brother or sister hate you. you turn him or her into n murderer or murderess. Don't let jealousy ever touch a sister's soul, as it so often does, becaus?? her brother gets more honor or more means. Even Miriam, the heroine of the test, was struck by that evil passion of jealousy. Sh<* had possessed unlimited influence over Moses, and row he marries. and not only so. bn* marries a bUvck woman from Ethiopia: and Miriun h so disgusted and outraged at Moses, first beeanse he had married at ail. and next because he had practiced miscegenation, that she is drawn into a frenxy. and then begins to turn white, and gets white as a corpse, and then whiter than a corpse. ~ Her complexion is like chalk; the fact is. she has the Egyptian leprosy. And now the brother whom she had defended on the Nile comes to her rescue in a prayer that brings her restoration. Let there be no room in all your house

for jealousy either to sit or stand. It is a leprous abomination. Your brother's success, O sisters, is your success. His victories will be your victories. For while Moses the brother led the vocal music after the crossing of the Red sea. Miriam the sister, with two sheets of shining brass uplifted and glittering in the sun, led the instrumental music, clapping the cymbals till the last frightened neigh of pursuing cavalry horse was smothered in the wave, and the last Egyptian helmet went under. How strong it makes a family when all the sisters and brothers stand together, and what an awful wreck when they disintegrate, quarreling about a father's will, and making the surrogate's office horrible with their wrangle! Better, when you were little children in the nursery, that with your playhouse mallets you had accidentally killed each other fighting across your cradle, than that, having come to the age of maturity, and having in your veins and arteries the blood of the same father and mother, you fight each other across the parental crave in the cem

etery. If you only knew it, your interests are identical. Of all the families of the earth that ever stood together, per* haps the most conspicuous is the family of the Rothschilds. As M aver An- - aelm Rothschild was about to die, in 1812, he gathered his children about him — Anselm, Solomon. Nathan, Charles and James—and made them promise that they would always be united on change. Obeying that injunction, they have been the mightiest commercial power on earth, and at the rising or lowering of their scepter nations have risen or fallen. That illustrates how much, on a large scale and for selfish purposes, a unite family may achieve. But suppose that instead of a magnitude of dollars as the object, it be doing good, and maring salutary impression, aud raising this sunken world, how much more ednobling! Sister, you devour part, and brother will do his part. If Mariamwill lovingly watch the boat on the Nile. Moses will help her when leprous disasters strike!. When father and mother are gone— and they soon will be, if they have not already made exit—the sisterly and fraternal bond will be the only ligament that will hold the family together. IIow many reasons- for your deep and unfaltering affection for each other!. Roeked in the same cradle; bent over by the same motherly tenderness; toiled for by the same father's weary arm and aching brow; with common inheritance of all the family secrets, and with j names given you by parents who started you with the highest hopes for your happiness Sind prosperity. I charge you. be loving and kind and forgiving. If the' sister see that the brother never wants a sympathizer, the brother will see that the sixte» never wants an escort. Oh. if the sisters of a household knew through what terrible and damning temptations their brother goes in city life, they would hardly sleep nights, in anxiety for his salvation! And if you would make a holy conspiracy of kind words and gentle attentions and earnest prayers, that would save his soul from death and hide a multitude of sins. But let the sister dash off in one direction in diseipleship of the world.and the brother flee off in another direction in dissipation, and it will not be long before they will meet again at the iron gate of llespair. their blistered feet in the hot ashes of a consumed lifetime. Alas! that brothers aiid sisters, though living together for years, very often do not know each other, and that they see only the imperfections and none of the virtues.

i»en. Hauer. of the Kussian cavalry, had in early life wandered off in the army, and the family supposed he was dead. After he gained a fortune he encamped one day in Husain, his native place*, and made a banquet: and among the great military men who were to dine, he invited a plain miller and wife who” lived near by. and who, affrighted. came fearing some harm would be done them. The miller and his wife were placed one on each side of the general at the table. The general asked the miller all about his family, and the miller .said that he had two brothers and a sister., “No other brothers?” “My younger brother went off with the army many years ago, and no doubt was long ago killed.” Then the general said: “Soldiers, I am this man's younger brother, whom he thought was dead.” And how loud was the cheer, and how warm was the embrace! I read of a child in the country who was detained at a neighbor's house on a stormy night by some fascinating stories that were being told him. and then looked out and saw it was so dark he,did not dare go home. The incident impressed me the more because in my childhood I had much the same experience. The boy asked his comrades to go with him. but they dared not. It got later and later—seven o'clock, eight o’clock, nine o'clock. “Oh,n he said, "1 wish I were home?” As he opened the door the last time a blinding flash of lightning and a deafening roar overcame him. Hut after awhile he saw in the distance a lantern, and lo! his brother was coming to fetch him home, and the lad stepped out. and with swift feet hastened on to his brother, who took him home, where they were so glad to greet him. and for a long time supper had been waiting. So may it be when the night of death comes and our earthly friends can not go with us, and we dare not go alone: may our Brother, our Elder Brother, otir Friend closer^ than a brother, come out to meet us with the light of the promises, which shall be a lantern to our feet; and then we will go in to join our loved ones waiting for us. supper all ready, the marriage supper of the Lamb! —A telegram received at the state de partment from Sjui Jose, Costa Rica, announces that a revolution was inaugurated there Friday.

CANADA. tatfcMtlig Items Re 1st tear to ACstra to the Doalatos. Messrs. Mann & Mackenzie, well* konwn railroad contractors, have secured the right from the Canadian government to build a line of railway from Telegraph Creek or Glenora, on the Stikine river, to Lake Teslin, a distance of 150 miles. The contractors agree to have the road completed by the 1st of September, 1898. * It will connect by -means of lighters with boats at W ram gall. The dominion government 'officia ls ire taking steps to secure options on vacant lands in the provinces lying west of Lake Superior, so as to facilitate their settlement. Many new districts are now being opened out by lines of railway under construction. The Self-Help Emigration society, whose offices are at the Memorial hall, Farringdon street, London, has received a free government grant of 11,500 acres of land in the province of Ontario. The minster of the interior has made a further grant to the society of a section of land near Winmipeg to be used as a home center. During the last 12 years the society has( aided nearly 6,000 perrons to emigrate. The impression has gone abroad that ths United States government wHl send a detachment of United States troops with the relief expedition to the Klondike. Such is not the case. Minister Siftom. of Ottawa. Can., says the mounted‘police alone will act as escort. Three parties of Klondikers occupied a tourist sleeper that passed through Winnipeg recently for the west. They Intended to get into the gold fields as soon as possible, and will outfit on ;he jgcast. i

Mr. A. McEwen, representative of he Western Electric company of Chicago, who recently spent some days in Win nipeg, was very much delighted wth Manitoba weather, as compared w|th that of Chicago. He had expected it to be much colder. 4 Wheat is selling in western Canada at SO cents per bushel. Other commodities bring good prices on account of t^he Klondike rush. Hon. David Mills,ministerof justice for the Dominion of Canada, has ordered the new t-rial in the Sternaman case to take place at the May assizes before Mr. Justice Robertson. The question of a change of venue is left to the judge. Mrs. Sternaman is charged with having poisoned her husband in Buffalo, but he died after being brought to Canada. At her first trial she was found guilty, but an appeal being made a new trial was granted a couple of days before the sentence to hang would havi been carried out. EDIBLE COFFINS.

Queer Forms of Pantry in the Middle Aces. At a very early period the orientals were familiar with a kind of pastry, a mixture ot flour, oil and honey, and for centuries pastry-making1 went nc further, even among the nations in the south of Europe. But in the beginning of the middle ages a change began to take place in the method of mixing the ingredients, and some other substances were brought into use. Butter, eggs and salt found their way into pastrymaking, and the result was a manifest improvement. Paste next came to be used as an inclosure for meat, seasoned with spices, etc. Afterward it went a step further, the next use being for the inelosyre of creams, fruit, preserves, etc., and later still it began to take the many fanciful shapes in which it has since been commonly found. In the early stages of English cookery the pastry cases were called coffins or “Cyffvnes,” and were made in various sizes from “gret coffynes with lowe liddes” for the “tartes of fflesche,” tc the “smalle coffynes” for ‘‘tartolcttes” of "fische or fflesche,” mixed with “stuf of boylled figges ground and good povvdure and spices.” -l Petruchio, in ‘.‘The Taming of the Shrew,” it may here be noted, calls a little cap “a custard coffin.” These coffins correspond with the “vol-au-vent” of to-day. The art of making very light pastry, such as puff paste, is probably a modern one, but pastry of several kind) was anciently used. For meat pastry butter was dissolved in boiling water, and worked into a soft mass with fine flour. As it cooled it would set in any form desired. Another paste of a flaky kind was made very much as at present, whil^ still another kind, called pam puff, was mad? of fine flour and the yolk of egg. no water at all being used. This was for the finer kinds of confectionery.—Gentleman’s Maga sine. Sew York City a Century Ago. The first inaugural ball was an imposing affair held in New York city in May, 17S3, and attended by a most distinguish! company of beaux and belles. The glimpse of society of a century ago is indeed an imposing one, white th« description of the picturesque costumes of those days is most fascinating. It is recorded that Washington danced three times during the evening, a.-ul also that he was exceptionally fond ot dancing, a liking which did not desert him until after he had retired from public life.—Mrs. Burton Harrison, in Indies' Home Journal. It is estimated that the potato crop is 70,000.000 bushels less than last year. Farmers are disposed to shorten a crop the following year if there is a surplus, tfusd the result is better prices because the supply is less than the demand. A fanner wb.» watches the markets and has noticed that a short yield follows one that is heavy will plant more instead of growing m smaller crop after a year of plenty. More than 52,000 new members have joined the League of American Wheelmen since the meeting of the national assembly a year ago.

BURIED IN THE RUINS. 8ix Firemen Lon Their Lives in a Boston Fire—District Chief Egan Among Them— Several Others Were Injure*— The Dora* ed Building was Occupied by G. W. Bent ft Co, Manufacturers of Bedding, Etc. Boston, Feb. 6.—The bodies of six firemen, among them that of District Chief Egan, have been taken from the ruins of the Bent building, which took fire at 4 a. m. THK DEAD. John F. Egan, district chief. James Victory, captain Engine Companies 38 and 39. George J. Gotwald, lieutenant Engine Co. No .39. Patrick H. Disken. hose man. John J. Mulhern, fireman. W. J. Walsh, hose man. Four other firemen were buried in the ruin, but they escaped with more or less serious injuries. They are: Joseph M. Garritty, captain Engine Co. No. 7. '• Thomas EL Conway, hoseman. T. J. Doherty, hoseman. Edward Shea, hoseman. The building burned was a five-story structure on Merrimac street occupied by G. W. Bent & Co., manufacturers of bc.l, bedding, etc.

The tire is supposed to have started in the the rear of the fourth story. The lireiuen had entered a window and were at work on the fourth floor when the roof collapsed, tearing away the top floor and the one on which the firemen were engaged, burying them beneath the wreck. The tire was nearly under control at the time of the accident. The men ot engine No. 7 were on the fourth floor and engines 3S and 89 on the second wlieu the rear section of the roof col* lapsed carrying down portions of all the floors through tile basement and burying the firemen beneath a great muss of debris. ; WRECK ON THE NORTHERN. Iw« Tramps Killed and a Third Fatally Injured Washouts Numerous. Spok i:;e. Wash.. Feb. 7.—A special to the Statesman from Ritzville, Wash., says: Probably one of the' worst wrecks foV several years on this division of the Northern railroad occurred late Saturday night near Lake, a station about 25 miles east of Pasco when the east-bound train No. 3 plunged into a washout unknown to the engineer. None of the trainmen or passengers were killed. Two hoboes who were beating their way on the blind baggage were crushed between the tender and the mail ear. One of them was instantly killed, while the other lived out a short time. Another man was fatally injured and will probably die. The names of the killed and injured have not been learned as yet. Reports of the disaster are meagre as the railroad officials are noncommittal concerning it. Several of these washouts have occurred of late caused by the thawing snow and falling rain in the past few ‘days, causing much delay in the running of trains; but it is thought the track will be in good condition in a few days as the water is subsiding. The west-bound passenger train arrived here Saturday'night about 12 o’clock and was sidetracked until noon yesterday.

NAVAL NEWS. Movement of Vessels Near Key West—taking Aboard Full Supplies. Jacksonville. Fla.. Feb. 7.—A special to the Times-!'nion and Citizen from Key West, Fla., yesterday, said: “Ships connected with . the white squadron have displayed remarkable activity during the last few hours. The cruiser Marblehead put out from port yesterday and joined the fleet. The .Nashville which left here Thursday fully supplied with coal and ammunition has returned to the harbor. The torpedo vessels have returned and the Cushing and Erieeson are in port. The Dupont will arrive to-day from Mobile. The supply boats during the past week have transported large quantities oi provisions to the fleet. PRACTICALLY EXTINCT. The Iron Brotherhood Broken C'p by thu Law Agaiuftt Concealed Weapon*. Denver. CoL, Feb. 7.—According to dispatches reeeivedjhere from Trinidad. Col.. Albuquerque. N. M. and various other points in Colorado and New Mexico, the American Patriotic league, - otherwise known as the Iron Brotherhood, concerning® which a report was made to the department of justice at Washington by W. S. Childers. -United States attorney for the territory o 1 New Mexico, is now practically extinct. In Raton and vicinity, the organization was broken up by enforcing against the members the penalty for carrying firearms. SWEPT BY FIRE. A Big Bole Burned in the Business Part of Plainfield, III. Aurora, 111., Feb., 6.—Fire at Plainfield. Friday night, burned the Evartfs block, bank, opera bouse, post office, and the stores of Hays Jk. McCreary. Upton Jb Wiley and A. E. Mottinger. Loss. $50,000; insurance, one-half. This is the second' time the business part of the town has been burned. MORE AUSTRALIAN * GOLD, Another Big Consignment by the Steamer Martpoea. San Francisco, Feb. 7.—The steamship Mariposa from Sydney, Australia, due here February 10, is reported to have on board nearly $500,000 Australian gold consigned to Anglo-California bank of this city. Added to the formtr receipts, this will bring the total shipments of gold from that source for the season np to $13,000,000. by far the largest amount ever received in California from Australia during any one year in settling the balance of trade

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