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THE 'PUL@IT. A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY DR. SPENCER S. ROCHE. Subject: Lessons or Elljah's LIe. Brooklyn. N. Y.-A St. Ifark's P. E. Church. the Rev. Dr. Spencer Summer field Rocuhe. the reetor. preached Sun day on "Lessons From Elijah's Life." The text was frui I. Kings,. xix:9: "And he anme thither. uto a cave." Dr. Roche said: The lessons present quito fully the life of that grand old prophet Elijah the Tishbite. From a sublime scene in his life I shall atte!mpt to draw such lessons as may fit the hour. Let us se lect the moment when his soul yearned to be on loreb, the mount of God. Give your thoughts to this stptement, "And he came thither. unto a cave." I 2all speak of the (omiiing and of the cavern: of the gr'ef the journey brought to view. and tiwe glory the cav ern revealed. Throughout we must 'e member that we study a typical case .of Alnighty Go(L's dealing with His discouraged servants. What the Lord said and did to Elijah Ie would have us believe He says and does to our selves. From one of the most striking situa tions in history we are to see Elijah hurled in an instant. The occasion of his fall was one of -t4h slightest of in cidents, as when an avalanche whici carries down the side of a mountain is started by the waves o.- the air aroused by a tourist's halloo. Ahab talked with his wife. We have s(en greatness of character in reticence,. as when to the numerous intcrrogatories of Pilate the Son of Man "answered him never a word." So meanness; cowardice are seen of:en in that easy flow of words which leis out everything. A wife may te:, her husband what he has no business to know: a man may make himself contemptible h'abbing every thin; to his wife. "Ahab told Jczebel all that Eiijah had done aid withali how. he had slain the proph1ets with the sword.". do. not 10 esta: d he spoke in wrath or mal.--e: quite the contrary; he knew jie had a tigress to deal with. and used all the tact his lean wit could sunon. He was afraid to tell her that he himself had abandoned the zinkin.: eause of the BFaalites. lie di vided his matters. puttintg the rmall things nrst: iast of al-her beloved ministers of falsehoo nd raid were slain. The tir-es "0:- l her angry eyes and showed her ernel teth. She sent this message to: l "The gods do1 so to mne and m nore also if I mak11%e not thy life as ti li'e ot on(o of them by to-morrow atbout itin." Jeze be's hlooc x%- np. -"1He ar-se d:iii went for his life." T*-e nin who had confronted the king and his armed re tainers fled terr'ited froim a woman. Th rk" is a lesson h-r- for all. Life's victories only lift us to new battlefields. One of Elijah's mista';es was his sup position that all would go well if one event resulted favorahly. He succeed ed beyond his wilo st dr:ais only to find his real troubles yet to begin. So we regard the oftice to which we hope to be elected, the partnership we are anxious to form, the fifty or hun dred thousand we are striving for. .When the grea. achievement is won we are simply like the army landed on a hostile shore under the guns of the . fleet. Shut up for weeks in narrow quarters, tossed -by the sea, fed on ship's fare, the men long for the land with its fruit and forage. The joy of the landing is quickly exchanged for the sense of insecurity and the feor of sudden attack. A day or so after Carmtel. Ellijah was at Beersheba. Even there he was full of alarm. He fled into deeper solitude. The farther he fled the lower sank his spirits. See his awful consternation in his inconsistency vwith regard to life. He had run away to save it. Under the juniper tree he begged it might be taken. So low is Elijiah fallen! N< - for the second staire of the journey. The prophet is brose a down. He thinks the end hats come. See hlow God cheered His disconsolate servant. * First He took care of Elijah's body. The prophet was fatigued, famished. spent. Natural law carrying out di vine purpose ca-sed the pining and sighing to bring slumber. The discouraged Christian can often do worse .han lie down and take a nap. When the world is too much for us. when the strain and worry seem as if they would never case, when the dis-I appointment is hitter. when the letter comes destroying our hopes, when be reavement leaves the heart desolate, heaven guides the afficted soul to cain and- quiet. anl the peace of submission. "So He giveth is beloved sleep." Next God fed Elijah. "An angel touched hint and said: 'Arise and eat.' And behold there was at his head a cake baken on the coale and a cruse of water." Our depression has at timies an intensely physical basis. Our Lord fed the multitude before He instructed them. A full stomach is not always the sigh of a pure heart. but who doubts that if we could give one good meal to the wretched creatures infest ing the streets of cities we might begin in some of them the salvation front sin. Elijah slept and ate, and slept and ate again. The repose was natural, the repast sutper1natutral. bu: the lessons are universally applhicabie. Calmted and strengthen'd, itis holy spirit reasser'ted itself. IHe would see Horeb the Mount of Giod. "And he eamoe thither. tinto a cave." Notice the paraecl with Moses. These two w~ho were united in a post-mtortemn *eacommunion on the Mount of Transtig urat ion, were in life granted the nmost inspiring v'iions of .Tehovah in per haps the sam rientital spot. How of. Sten in the Old Testament and in the New, as wel: as in the later history of Rcdemiption. we are reminded that God grants additional favors and mercies in the place w.here prayer is wont .to be made. Piaces in the lapse of -time tu' quire redoubled sane(tity. This church was t'ebuiilt over the spot where God had for nya years listen~ed to His peo pie's pr'ayer's :ind praises. We see it iaain this mor'ninig after an interval of several n:oaths, changed. but the same: not yet irn the tinal form of beauty which wo shall see in a fewv weeks antd .whlicih will jutify unutstua services ami unu'sua i g>ou ss. but ai remly br'ighte'r antd f Ii'er ta::an we h~a v ever seen it 'before. We lo-.-e to a ppiy t he arm'i o;d to ourt chutrch's, am:l the wvorld has no mo(re inspiarinag .x aties than those areas in some of* the zrea t cities of Euroe where ,'httre-h-s have stood sice the lays of 'lmrlemagneC. ,of 'Contatie id poss5ibly ~in someit case~ tfrout theC sie tf St. .Ionnu. Wh'ere (od hadt re ca.ed Himnsh ihundr'l& of years he Cor'* to Moses lHe now sihows Hi' lr :n Elijah. ''Wha: dost tran here El a-: T he ruswer illustrates i''ak Nt. thoughtless zeal. J'he Tishi, nte is eve e n Israel and caref I for his own ife. and betrays a wrong spirit. Very ZOod pe'ople. eve., in their religious >pinionls. thecir most pious aspirations. ?rr greatly. 'They show overwhelming ronceit, or unworthy estimates of oth wes or the mno -rnaheaden cone >f means. or a seflsh regard for their nwn comfort. and even life. Among .he mistakes of good men think of the -nisc-rable narrowness of those who :alk against missions to the heathen IId refuse to contribute; or the cold :ress of those who 0 s.-ourage under le terni slumn:ing" af'rts by Chris ian pteopl to fight -.:, - -i! in his own ;troughold)0s of the - el and the 'uummiery. Elijah. though a good man, made some mistakes. So far has lie lurnod aside that we are tempted to think his estimate is just that he can hen'eforth be of no service to his Lord. I Rut we zhail see that heaven can make abundaiiit use of even cross-grained en- : erzy. so o:ly a have a good heart. See I His method with this devout. heroe, d but misguided saint. God showed Elijah the impotence of the Carnal. There is no reproach. "Go forth and stand on the mount before the Lord." There came sweeping down c the granite crags of Sinai a nust and I then a blast and then a hurricnue that 0 uprooted the ancient trees. and rolled c the loose fragments of rock against one another till they flew in pieces like e millstones subjected to too swift revo lution. The appalled saint knelt breathless, and as the tornado spent itsi force he lifted his eyes for a nearor - view of God. "But the Lord was not in the wind." The earth rumbled, the c erags were split. the mount itself rocked. the grounld opened great ris- ' sures. ihe day of the dissolution of na- C ture itself appeared to have come. He looked again. "But the Lord was not R in the earthquake." The lightning darte(d out o the-elouds, flash follow ing fiash in the terrible splendor of i Oriental lempests till the atmosphere .1 seemed charged with continuous tiame. 1 and Mount Sinai and th'e cave and the a irmament itself seemed ablaze. Again 0 he strained his vision to discern in the a blinding glare One yet more glorious. P "But the Lord was not in the fire." 0 As has been finely said Elijah had t conceived God simply as power. His a own aehievements had been vroutcht s by power. He is now made to recog- a. nize .h. futility of mere force. This is 1 a need ful discovery for us. Especi- P :lv for the world's great ones. The hi Manl whC in finance or industry has won the greatest success is speedily b nvinced of the impotency of that which men ordinarily consider victory. Whliatever teaches us this is e-od. Fail- 0 ire. 'iisappointment. sicki ss, enach is a n b 1ssing in1 disguise if it lifIt s out o)f 1( onr:selves ald makes us feel that with v ill the vorld can give there is son.e- 11 H 0e shwed Elijh he inflnitude. the 2 iephauwstible power anld goodn's and 6 glry of wt (ivine. The cyclone was d tilled. the earthouake spnt, ihe light- t; nings Unrned out a nd yet God came t aot. ''Then on perturbed and tormen;- 1. ed nature a silenlce re-ted as whell n!1 ished galley slave is permit ted to rest. 0 !s wEln the Atlantic roan for aIy I falls into a calm." The cave, i i ts r deepest grotto. was penetiantd ,with- si the sirt of stillness. No breath d staIt)ed. The seer fl'. an awe. not less. but greater than before, when there f 11 ame a Voice. mysterious. thrilling his 11 heart and asking the old question. The ci -ld ainswer was given, we must believe, c: with a now ucaning. for the great les- e: son 4)f time and eternity had been T taught. : In the cave of Horeb the fundament- i ai truth of the Christina religion is re- d ealed, a truth every mission, however d humble: evetry church, however. ir adorned; every cathedral. however ri magnificent, must illustrate. Not the ni earthquake, cyclone. hurly-burly. but it the still small voice. Here is the se- ti rret of God. Not the startling, bmt the P: pleading; not the violent, but the ten- 1I er: not fo'rce. buit pity: not Sinatie " fury. but gospel grace: "not by might Pl nor by power, but by My spirit. saith e the Lord." God is love. Not an un seen Goad. but a saving Christ. "lie di care to Horeb a voice, lie left it an in- tI itiaed man," says ,A.urice. J3 But rrom the living of the Christian gi turn to his dying. The close of every ha good lif" has dignity like unto "char iots of fire and horses of fire." But the 91 likeness r ins on immeasurably beyond is death. St. James tells that Elijah was p a man of like I assions with us. Thien b, *ur infirmities, thank God, allow us a p: Iffe that does not end witn earth. The tl thought of All Saints is of the steadily tI accumulating honors and jioys of re- bi deemed souls. We see Elijamh go. But g' it is not the last of him. Malachi Said T he would conme back on earth. Con- a tues later the wor'ld aisked John the it Baptist if he -.ere Elijah. Some lhe- mx leed Jesuis must lbe. C tihe dayv of ni 'ransigu>tior. Elijah for a momnent d was with us, at ouce on earth arid in ol Wlry enn tr'ust those dear' departed S nes, wh , nenmorlals cluster around TI us, with the Lord God of Llijah. f spiritual Exert.ise. P P The' bet fot'is of phlysical exercise t rig~ dkeiht and satisfaction to the body. Muscles. nerves and tissues are lled m to new health and -enjoyment. T he bet forms of niental exercise se cure rh r eturn~s to time thlinkei' whoseb mental faculties aire stimulated anid iuickened to larger powers of attain- '. iment and enjoy menit by each hearty. healthful n~d honest exercise. So t he rue worshiper. ais lie 'loses his facul-I ties to tihe outer wo:'1ld anid draws near to d. spiitua lly. finds a joy. a peatI a stisfac'tion, full of exhilaraTion and11 apI'proaichin ii esia~t:1sy. as lhe retalize Gd's presence, anmd Ibecoimes Ii! led wvith mhe tulhaess of God.--Herald and Pres bytr- fl Whatt Life 18. Life is wxhat wve ar" alive to. It is v no' ''u''-h but brteaidth. '7o be alive li r'~'.a not to g'oodw-:s5 and kindi- r< puit and:' love. hi story. p'oe:ry. 1 o. wems,.m t'rs. Go;d and etIernal, oe all but deaid.-$cottish fi Society Using Artificial Flowers. n The ballroom which was the scente las: winter' of James H. Hyde's now~ famous French costume hall was dec ora sd with artinlcial flower's, andi s have been many others. Artificia! flowrs had a certain vogue at New pot last season, and now in all tec smart drawintg-r'ooms. where th t income of the best nmight wx'.l war-'. rant the use of fresh blossoms. are rcss of bat iste 3:ad silk, and orchids f sick and velvet. so sikilfulily p'' togthe rmthat a few fee t away it won~ ~j be impossile to discover the decep to. T'ey a're not chcap- these d"inty " m aat'r ' bl ossernts, t2 Amer-'ican beauty roses costinlg all th I "rm S ao $4 e. and' . the orchiNs nd othemr lowers, including greamt f athery chry'tbntmum. are ertm- l naeiVelyI h'-.rc'a bitt the <eon-t o a'. comesc itn ''sing the* tiox'-ecrs ox adI over - in their l'sting qualties a their r';urail::eSs ,:aviag hurn reds of dolars to one who entertamns much during the season. Usually in ernrect' with the artificial flow.ers some genuine flowers are used in or der to make the deception complete. -H,-are QnImby. in Leslie's Weekly. . C[E SUNDAY SCHOOL 4TERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR FEBRUARY I1. *iiject: Jesus Callina Fishermen, Luke v.. 1-11-Goen Text, Eph. v., 1 Memory Veri'e. 5. 0-Topic: Laws of Soul Winnina-Cornnentary. I. Jesus leaching the people (vs. 1-2). "The people pressed." Leaving kazareth our Lord went to Capernaum id perhaps abode n the house of leter. The power if His preaching rew crowds, which pressed upou Him s le was walking along the white each whCich forms the margin of Lake renesaret. "To hear.". There was good prospect for a glorious revival f religion. There were times in the fe of our Lord when thousands were ,nxious to hear Him. for the ommnIon people heard Him gladly. Lake of Gennesaret." The most sa red sheet of water whihl this earth ontains. Called also the Sea of Gali 30. It is a clear lake about twelve illes long and five broad. with the ordan River, flowing through it. This %as the region of the ea:rly labor's of ur Lord. 2. "Two ships." Fishine boats. 'hey nmust have been small. This is lear from the aecounts gIven of them. L few men could handle out. and a ingle large draught of fishes endan cred them. "Standing by." Anthored, drawn up upon the beaci. "T1e sherien." Peter. Andrew. James and ohn. "Washing their nets." They ad spent the night in fruitlcss effor., nd now they were cleaning the filth f the sea from the threads of the nets nd mending any defective or broken arts. It is interesting to notice how" ften Christ appeared to men while iey were busy with their tenmoral fairs. 3:. "One of the ships." The hip of James and John appeared to be t some distan:ce :-way; this one be nged to Simon Peter and to his brotb r Andrew. See Mark 1:1G. "Prayed im." Asked him. Jesus in a fimiliar tanner takes possession of l'eter's oat and makes it His pulpit. II. The draught of lishes (vt. 4-6. "Lalunch Ouit." Christ forgot Hi S wn weariness and only seemed lo re ember the disappointment of His foi aers in toiling all night in Vain. 'This erse has often been used to illustrato ie fact that Christ would have -ls 'ave the shore of selfislness, worldli es5 and Sin and launeb o1t into TI I cpth of His love andi fuhless. "For. a aught." Let down your nets for th;e king of fish. 5. "Master." This is 10 Iirst time that the word here trans ted master is used in the N:ew Testa tnt. and it is used only by Luke. The er evangelists called Him Rabbi or ord. This is nor the word usually -nidered master, but is a title of re >ect. Note how familiarly Peter ad resses Jesus. "Toiled all the night." e-ter thus shows how unlikely it w%'as imt they would catch anything. The ight was the best Tile for catching ?ruzin kinds of fish and if they had ught nothing then they could not Cpet to catch .any in the daytime. his is no doubt reported by Luke to Luse the miracle to appear all the Lore striking. "At Thy word." No yubt Peter was weary and somewhat seouraged, but he had faith enough Christ to lead him to go at the di etion of his divine Master. 6. "Their et brake." "Their nets were break ." R. V. There was such a multi ide of fishes that a snap in some weak irt of the net warned them that they tust have assistance or lose the entire -ateb." The miracle was an acted irable, of which the significance is splained in Matthew 13:47. 7. "Becko'ned." Made signals. The stance evidently being too great for te voice to reach. "They -camne." imes and John with their ship. "Be in to sink.'' The boats would hardly 'd as much as .the nets. III. The disciples n'stonished (vs. S, . . "Simon Peter." His full name here given, for this is the turning >int in his life. Simon is destined to, come Peter. a rock. "'Peter' exr-. esses the possibilities Jesus saw in ec nature of Simon." "Saw." It seems at it was not till Peter saw the boats aginning to sink that he realized the 'eatness of the miracle. "Fell down." he common posture of a suppliant. In nazement he fell at the feet of Jesus embling and afraid. "Depart from e." Peter's feelings were not un tural. bu- were an involuntary, sud na request, and arose from ignorance the character of Jesus. We are..not orthy to be with Him, but He came to ek the lost and to save the impure. he exclamation of Peter was wrung om a heart touehed with a sense of amility, and his words didl not ex ~ess his thoughts. "A sinful man." eter saw himself a very sinful ereat re. When we get hear Christ we iml see that in our unregenerate state e are without moral beauty or boli ass. 9. "Was astonished." "Was nazed." Humaanity- starnds "amazed" for'e the power of (God. IV. Forsaking all for Christ (vs. 10, VD. 10. "Sons of Zebedee." The chil en and wife of Zebedee ar'e often re rred to. but in this transaction only >we meet with Zehedee himself fatt. 4.21). "Fear not." H-e calmed eir fears and stilled all their troubled elings. "F~rom henceforth." Here ~ter. "Catch men.L" Liter'ally. ::hou iat be catching alive. 11. "Ships to land." They drew em up on the beach for a final aban timen!t. "Forsook all." Although it as not muchi which they had to leave, at it was all they had, ev'en al! their vin.:. The sacrifice was a willing one Ld showed their love for Christ and a ~adiness to obey Him. "Followed im." They returned again to their :cupation as fishermen after the cruci xion. and were again called to aban on it and devote themselves by a eond mir'acuilous draught of fishes ud by the direct precept of Jesus, Iowa Preacher's Advertisement. The Rev. T. .1. O'Connor. pa'stor of h~e First Christn church here,. be eves in modern methods of advertis ig and in an endleavor to increase 'e ize of his congre'gation inserlts feilaingi- in :h' local papers, f'or bich he iist upSc''on paying the r'egu-' ir space rates: I"E ''rnal Life Insurance Co'xp: ny. "oe Of!!ce-Heavenly Cityv-New "Pei ,-The Lord .lesns-. "Capial-CoWis Existing Love. --I "'fm one ofI the mny '(epres M '"The i-r "" ssur'i'es y'ou po-ice and ' e'here, an:''in th r.ex't wo:-id. ;leora Cor:vspo::dence Sr. Paul Dis ach. Nations, like individuals, are power l in the degree that they command me sympathine of their ueigrhhorS. ?PWODIH 0011D O[SNE_ SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11. The Freedmen's. Aid and Southern Education Society and Its Work. Matt. L". 1'-40. Lincoin Day. February 12 is the birthday- of Abraham i.r.(oln. What more fiting renembrance of it u01Id be suggested than the consideration of this noblest rf all charities in the Sowh. which is so etfecti,;ely continuing L-ineoln's work? The Freedmen's Aid and Southern Fducation Society is the Methodist Episcopal Chu:ch at work among two classes of pcop'e in tho South-the white people who would otherwise have no oppor.ifinity for education, an'] the black people, of whom the same thing is true. but whose need is, if anything, more iirient. All the Southern states. with a pop lation oi some thirty million people, of whom nine million are colored, are tic!uded in the scope of the Society's operatiols. There are forty-four aca(eiies, colleges. and universities --twenty-one among the vhite peT)pie, and twenty-three among the 112eks. The.,e schools had last year an en rollnent of over eleven thousand stuldent. In these states forty-seven per cent. of the colored population is ii literate, and eleven per cent. of the white poltitdon. In some sections these percentages run inuch higher. When we remember that this i. among a population which is Anieri cn-born. with fr'em five to ten generati1ns of American ancestry be hind it. the figures have a menacing .eloquence. For iiitea an:cng na tive Ainericans in the.North has prac tically disappeareu. That a whole section of 1le (mr s houild be ig norant t(, z, degree is an evil portejit. for ignor:;rxee is accompanied by other problems which ar- a dircc't thr-r-t ;!-snst the * mi-usnce, But thore is ho0pe. :an", 1:6 !10pe. prosperity :dhp~t Trom:eh h o that done by the Ar-.-: 'men A 'nd Soithern E-duertion S i i y lil' *''::t is en the decre.-e. and with *he . ee of N10 the.iis :c .-'-h fo'low In the train of ign::oar abo growin1 1'. 'hie work of thr:, S( i tr fold. traini:ng ,hi . '0 na. hh:C . and the he:xit. r at forty ye.25s.o. 'nt] I'' tv~ ye~n. - 'o he gan its splen d::l re crd uf i : :*tr:ial Vork. lon before inlu: i't! educa tion had beco: e a pop:::r ton111 :A ther schools. CITh EM NOTES FEBRUARY ELEVENTH. How to Conquer Temptation.-Matt. . 26:41; 1 Cor. 10:12, 13; Jas. 4:7; Heb. 2:18;- 4:14-16; 12:1-4. Watching against temptation is not enough, we must watch and pray. God hides an escape in every temp tation: as, If you are tempted to miserliness, give with unusual liberal. Every yielding to the devil weak ens us; every resisting niakes it easier to conquer him next time. There are two uses of "temptation" in the Bible; one is Satan's snare, the other is God's testing. If we never lf ad ourselves into temptation, we shall be in very little danger. One of the best safeguards against our temptations is to keep ourse'ves out of them. We are not safe from a sin while we long to commit it. Temptation is a magnet: the nean'r you get to it, the harder it pulls. To see how close one can go to a tempta Uon and not fall into it is a- foolish with a sin as with Niagara Falls. 'Sometimes Gzd permits His best servants to suffer the fiercest tempta tions, as the most valued nietals aye worked in the hottest fires. Are you avoiding temptation as well as nrayin~ ngainst it? Do you hate all sir? Are you fighting temptation in yout, own strength? Only those temptations wh' i we encounter in the path of duty did our Lord promnise we encu'd conquer. Phillirs Brooks. It is no more a sin to hea-- these whispers of evil in cur souls than to hear the wicked talk of had men as we walk along tile street. The sin comes only by our stopping a-id join ing in with them.-H. A. Smith. If a man has much cf thfi Spirit of God, he will be sure to have great co'1 flicts with the temnter.-D. L. Moody. If you are in Christ, you are in the one under whose feet the aevil is. F. B. Meyer. RICH MAN'S HOBBY IS HORSES. New Yocrker's Enthusiasm Far Above the Ordinary. F. Ambrose Clark. stepson of Bishop Potter andl an enthusiastic patron of steeplechsing andl hunting, for sev eral seasons has ar-otised the interest of New York racegoers as much by the disrecgard lie seems to have for his neck and bones as for the fair amount of sccess he has had in i-iding in open steeplechascs. The field-stand idea of Mr. Clark was epitomized at Belmont Park. where the amateur ockey got a bad fall juist before the ield stand from his horse The Bow ey, when a spectator, probably from he Bower-y. remarked. "Just t'ink of him doin' dat and him wort fifteen million bones." The fall brought to the surface ex act measurement of Mr. Clark's en thusiasn, for whent he found his horse was lame after he caught andl remounted him, and he could not go on in the race, the "gen:leman jock" walked aff to the jockeys' quar-ters. endely rubbing his shoutlder. A fri end as!: d if he had beena hur:t ini the fall and Mr. Clark responded tha; he was not sure, but his shoulder' felt ueer. The friend stuggestecd exami at in t'> see how serious the injutry night be. and Mr. (lark idorsd the pat at once by ex:elainming. "Th ai's it. end tor a '." ' Anoltthiier sui :esi on t t a : sageon might be be;tter failed. h'wevr. and! it was a Narse' doctor who : tn-:cts the examiniation. wich ssted the eross-couttitry rider that hs bones were intact. A rall at Morris Park a week ago pt Mr. Clark out of the rutnning with a broken: collarbone, but he has been as constant as ever in his attendance at the steeplechase races there. with STILL TRIMS HUSBAND'S nAIR. Agt-d Millionaire Keeps to the Custom of His Poverty Days. In Brooklyn there lives a millionaire well along in years, with a wife from whom also youth has long since fled. From the old days before wealth c'ame to them the couple rezain one Custom whit h has passed. as the years have flown. into a sort of sacred rite. The od lady cnts the old gentleman's hair. One* a ye.ar the nmilonaire goes to a barber shop and has his scanty locks trimmed. Thzt sets the style for the enstirg year. When he conies home the wife carefully stud Les the cut, and after that it is her work of love to reproduce it until another year rolls around and the an nual visit to the barber takes place. The old gentleman also shaves him self. Economiy in the matter of barbering. which was first a matter of stern ne cessity. is now the one little thing that the couple refuse to give up out of the day-s of poverty. As they are a child less couple. there is nobody to hector the old man into engaging a valet. Really the old man has his hair cut more often thanl is necessary, for sometimes when the worries of wealth and social duties are more than or dinarily oppressive the good wife will say: "Conie dear-come up to my room. I want to cut your hair." And while the scissors snip the old couple laughingly go back to the old happy days of youth and struggle once more. MONEY IN IT. "Yes." s:iid IL American traveler, "m delighted with your city. I wisb we had your climate." "But the fog. you know," said thej Londoner. in sur'prise; "here's it noo by the clock at this minute, ye. it.' dark a-.. night." 'Yet. Splndi:i Splen-lid I 'n: presiler.t rf an eleCtric lighting cc pany :n hom". you know." .\ man vu1i hate to drink evei whisker itri" wiTs sure it was ood fo his heal. Ct' ex Plood, Skin Troubles, Cancer, Bloo< Poison. Greatest iood Purifier Free. 3i vo'ur blood is impure, thin. diseased hot o'r full of himors. if you have bloo pois;on. _ aneer. eacurwnoees, eating ,sort. r . ezemia. itzhing. risings ar.d lu' av iim'n 1 v .k in. Lo.ie pius. oath lrhe'i'ca'i'vm.~o' am blood or skin dis tako Botaoni' BI,,d Balm -. B. B. -e" int t'. dir i me-. "'on all sore-, hc an . s stop. the blovd is ma. 'ur' 'ul rih, i a-;ng the skin free r. every t rpua, ano ziving the rich glo. perfe"t heaitlht the skin. At the sa' ti::. 1. B. BI. iml; rves the digestion. eur' dypepsin, strengthens wveak kidneys. J: the medicine for .,Id people. as it giv' tIm new. vigorous blood. Druggists. : per large biottl. with directions for how cure. ::,mpl.- free and prepaid by writi:. Blood Bala. co.. Atlanta, Ga. Deserl troublO and speciai free medical advi' also sent in sealed letter. B. X. B. is ' pecially advised for chronic, deep-seat" vases of immure blood and skin dis :: and cures after all else fails. A man loses more by lying than 1: anins. DOCTOR CURED OF ECZEMA. Marylanid Phy~siian Cures Himself-D. Fisher Says: "C uticura Remedies P'osSess 'True Merit." "Mv face was aftlicted wvith eczema i: the year 1897. 1 used the Cuticura Renme dies and was end.trely cured. I ami a pr-a ticing physieian. and very often prescriir Cutieura Resolvent and Cuticura Soap i: cases cf eczema. and they have e e where other formu'as have failed. I n not in the habit of endorsing patent med; cines. bu'. when 1 find remedies possessin; true me'r t. such as the Cuticura Remedie do. I am broad-minded eno-:gh to pro clim their- virtues to the world. A har been practi'ing medicine for sixteen yers and must say I lind your' Remedies A .No 1. You :1. a-. liberty to publish this Iet ter. TI. M. Fisher. M. i)., Big Pool. Md. iJay 24, 1905.' It takes a go~od deal of coturage no~ to pretend you have it. .o 4', le y *r~ drg-ts PUTNAM Coormoe oos r:htr nTe oo thana ..lo mor ..oo.., bmn i ht i aoin rt r' te CAUGHT BY TI RELEASED Pneumonia Followed Lx Grippe Pe-ru-na thB Remedy That Brought Relief. MrNj. T. P1arnecott, W,- Ay:mer. Oa',a -Last win:or I va; :1! with p afier in la grippe. I took Peruna for 1 wo onth.'. when I becaeia quite Leh. an(I I . n; say that any one can be curet! by it in a.mane time and at ]itt'e ex Systemic Catarrh, the Result of La Gripne. Pe-ru-na Receives Credit For Present Good Healtb. M.rs. Jennie W. Gilinore. Box 44. White Oak. Ind. Ter.. writes: ";iiOyar ago I had la erippe. which: wa:. followed by ssteni casarrh. The onlv thing I used "as Peruna and Mana Ii:i. and I have beer in better health the la-t three years than for years before. I give Peruna all the credit lor my good health." Pe-ru-na---A Tonic After La Grippe. Mr. Chas. E. Wells. Sr.. IIaw;.re. Ohio. writes: "Aiter a s.evere attack La grI)p I took Peruna and fouid: very goou tomie. "Most Effective Melicine Ever Tried For- La Grippe." Robt. L. Madison; A. M.. Prineipaj c: Cullowhee High School. Painter N. C.. - Chairman d' tne .Jtekson County Board of Education. Mr. Madison says: "I ai hardly ever without Permna in imv houn. It is the most effeotive moedicine that I have ever tried for la grippe. - Mrs. June Gift. Athens. (., write-: had Ia grippe very bad. My husbandi bought. Peruna for me. In a very short Tim l tSaw iniprovement and waa sooi able to do my work." 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Price Fif y Cent F i AD E L ~ ' ii'sr.FEy HE GRIP BY PE-RU-NA. .1 S.:ffered Twelve Years From Af;.ri Effects-of La Grippe. .%iInwieaide. 328 Madiso st.., , Ne .. member of Knights and .a - ye.,, ai. I had a severe atu.ak a ga ippe a.nd I never really recovered i i14atfl tnd ,trengrh-but grew weaker -:% .car until I was unable to work. v.4 year. ago I began using Peruna V- up my g:rength vo that in a p f imonths I wat able to go to - intcr I had another attack of la S.p;e. but l'erunia :oon drove it out o -Mv wife and I consider Peruna a i...:.'old -emed.. STBR IG SHOTGUNS : matte how heavy its plumage or swift its ,g with a ic:g. s:ror:-, straight shootinr . Results are what count. They alway9 fcw; cr trap shoctirg, and are sold withki : r.o: 7 01 ce rd for cu, large ii.'atstrated catalogu. 2 REPEATING ARMS CO.. NEW HAVEN. 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