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A Rainy-Day Welcome. The rain was pouring in torrents when Mrs. Haddon flew to the door and admitted her friend, Miss Ran som. "There, you are what I call a real friend" she cried. "i never ax pect people to keep an engagement to come here in a storm, for they never do. I told Mr. Haddon this morning that I knew you wouldn't, but here you are! "I won't keep you standing in the vestibule a minute longer. I just thought perhaps you'd like to let it drip off you a little, as I've had the hall all cleaned to-day. I always have it done when I'm sure of eight or nine hours before it needs to be walked on. "But-Oh, no; it doesn't matter a bit. Perhaps you:' like to take off your rubbers2 Rubber soles? Oh, no; I never -wear them, for they make such work on carpets. I mean, of course, one expects to have one's own carpets ruined, because so few peo 'ple consider it at all, and I know rub ber soles are popular. I only meant ~- the rule was for myself. "There, now, let me flnti you a coin fortable chair; perhaps, as your skirt is damp, you'd rather not sit in one of the covered chairs. Here's a wick er one that I've never had a cushion made for, just for such occasions: and that brings your feet on 'the rug, too. "Now if you'll excuse me for ore moment, while I speak to Bridget, I'll be ready for a nice long talk. It was so good 'of you to come, and so un expected?" Adapting Farming Methods. It has been demonstrated on half a score of experiment st tions, on as many more model farms maintained by Western railroads. and on hun dreds of private farms, that all t at is necessary on the plains and in th e inter-mountain parks and valleys is ntelligently to make the most of the ins and snows that fall in order to w as good crops as can be raised ywhere. In other words, farming thods must be adapted to natural itions. This seems so simple and dent that the only wonder Is n have been so very slow in out. It ought not to be lieve that lands that pro 'ch buffalo and grama' the plains without culti made to produce crops luable with cultivatioD soil and climate. Carry rgument a little fur many who believe that brirsh, cactus-plants, bayonet, and grease plants of economic de to grow, also. wan's "Dry Farm the West" in the Century. The advocates of Government own ership of railroads have \been deriv ing much aid and comfortIom the corporate practices revealed iby the Interstate Commerce Comrriission's investigation into 'the relations be tween some of the great-coal:.carrying systems and the 'nidi'ng companies they serve. The "pincipal argument for private enterprise, say Collier's Weekly, had been that pfeg..Opera tion meant politics, and politics meant corruption. It had been said that pub - lic officials would have their hands out for tips, as smoke Inspectors and meat inspectors are supposed to do, while the' servants cf corporations would always act on business princi ples. The disclosures of the past few weeks have shown a state of things . in the Pennsylvania RaiYroad that has never been matched in any public de partmnent in the entir'e history of the Government. Had the postal scandals that broke the heart of the late Post master-General Payne shown a quar C ter of the rottenness exhibited in this one little area of corporate activity they would have wrecked the Admin istration and its party. Truth is a Stranger to Fiction. The~ novelist's small but valuable son had just been brought to judg ment for telling a fib. His sobs hav ing -died awa", he sat for a time in silent thoug~Lt "Pa," said he, "how long; will it be before I stop gittin' lick~ed for tellin' lies, an' begin to get paid for 'em, lk? you do'?"-Lippincott's. At the industries commission re cently beld at Vryhe-. Natal, it was stated that thousan 9 : millions of tons of coal equal in? iuality to any yet mined in Africa existed within a radius of thirty miles of the town. S lvetion cannot be spre-ad without sacrihee. So. 33- '06. A WINNING START. A Perfectly Digested~reakfast Makes ~ erve Force For the Day. Everything goes wrong If the breakfast lies in your stomach like a mud pie. What you eat does harm if you can't digest it-it turns to poi son. 'A bright lady teacher found this to be true, even of an ordinary light breakfast of eggs and toast. She says: "Two years ago I contracted a very annoying form of indigestion. My stomach was in such condition that a simple breakfast of fruit, toast and egg gave me great distress. "I was slow to believe that trouble could come from such a simple diet, but finally had to give it up, and ~ound a great change upon a cup of hot Postum and Grape-Nuts with cream', for my morning meal. For more than a year I have held to this co.urse, and have not suffered except when injudiciously varying my diet. "I have been a teacher for several years and find that my easily digest ed breakfast means a saving of ner vous force for the entire day. My gain of ten pounds in weight also causes me to want to testify to the value of Grape-Nuts. "Grape-Nuts holds first rank at our table." Name given by Postum. Co., Battle Creek, Mich. "There's a reason.-" Read the lit T HE TPU1L . AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY REV. 1. W. HENDERSON. Subject: The Christ Life. Brooklyn, N. Y.-Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church on the theme, "The Christ Life," the Rev. I. W. Henderson, pastor, took as his text Philippians 1:21: "For me to live is Christ." He said in the course of his sermon: It is my desire to convey to your minds and to press lastingly upon your hearts some homely, yet help ful, tru:hs relative . > the Christ life. Persuaded of the similarity of your cares. t:-ials, difficulties, problems, to my own, and recognizing the com mon needs of all men, I would talk to you about this text. Horace, the old Roman poet, sings the praises of him to whom It is sweet and honorable to die. for his c.>untry. I bring to you from the Book of Books no note of death, but a psalm of life. "For me to live is Christ," and to pass beyond the veil is but I enter into life more abund ant." Thus says Paul. For him and for us there is no death. To live the Christ life here is to dwell within the glory of His presence there. *For me to live is Christ"-a plan of self dedication to His service here, au earnest of our entrance into joy eternal there. "For apart from Me ye can do nothing," saith the Lord. St. Piul, the most strenuous of Christians, epitomizes the Christian life in these words to the church at Philippi. His utterance states the sum and substances of the complete spiritual life. Our aim and our pleasure it should be, as it is our duty, as men and women who love our Lord, to so live, that men, look ing upon us, may view in us the risen Christ. The text presents to our minds a fourfold thought. Broadly speaking we may say that men have four rela tions in this life-to God, to society, to the home' and to themselves. To set forth the same thought different ly: Men have spiritual, civil, domes tic and personal duties. Relation might be multiplied upon relation; duty upon duty could be indefinitely remarked. But that would be to suggest subdivisions rather than fun damentals. Indeed, I am cognizant that the moral duty to the home ray easily be included under the head of social relations. But for the pur pose of the moment we will resolve the ethics of the Christ life into the aforementioned divisions. The first, the greatest, the noblest imperative in. the life of the man who desires to conform to the pattern of the true Christ life, who wishes to make the words of Paul his motto for right living, is to love and to serve and obey our Heavenly Father. I may say that the whole duty of man is bound up in this declaration. For, Christianly speaking, there- is no department of life into which the service of our God does not enter. Loyalty to God is the basis of all purest living and highest thinking. To be true to the Father is to be loyal to society and strong for self. We may not be true to God and un true to the social, civil and domestic conditions w ith which the mere fact of life confronts us. "The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof," sings the psalmist. To be a traitor to the world is to be craven toward the Maker. We may not praise God with our lips and dis obey Him in our every, act. Our words, honeyed though they be, will count naught for us unto righteous ness. The test of fealty is in action. We must measure true to the ideals that we preach. Prayer and praise are worthy, but they are not service. prayer p eases God and it strength ens us. Praise, no doubt, makes joy among the angels who surround the throne. But it is the service which does things; the prayer which re solves itself into action; the praise that is founded upon the knowledge of a task, through His grace, well done, which makes most for pleasure and for joy in the heart of our King. The Christ was -true to God and to man and to self. The happiness of His Father's universe was His hope and care. To His home, to His neighbors, to His country, to all trusts, the Saviour was faithful. He had an eye singly toward holy and hallowing service. Pre,aching a gos pel of life, He lived a life of love. And so, to be like Christ we znst live like Christ. His hopes must be our hopes; His pleasures must be our pleasures. The motive in His life must be the force which, in our lives. will make for goodness and godliness. And godliness is but goodness .raised to infinity. As the Christ was,' so mu'\st the Christian be, truly spiritual. His guide and his guard must be the Comforter who cometh from above. Divinity, deep down in his heart, will be the power and -the mainspring in his life. Christianity is pure p'olitics, clean business methods, sturdy honesty and noble purpose, all rolled into one. A clear conscience means a brave ballot; and, conversely, a dirty ballot means a smeared soul-. Up right business methods earn their own reward; perhaps not in unde served dividends and wrongly divid ed or diverted profits, but in gappi ness of heart. Honesty is but a step toward holiness. Nobility and sin cerity are mighty forces. And these facts the civic and the business worlds are recognizing more and more. Dishonesty is a bad asset; and the Christian man, who stands four squatre to the world upon the rock Christ Jesus, is to have the call. Time-serving politicians may scoff; those who define character in the terms of preferred stock, and who prefer gold to goodness, may con tinue to misjudge what is highest in life; sin may seem still to have the stranglehold upon the world; Chris tians may stumble, yea fall, upon the King's highway, be derelict to duty and to faith, may imitate poor, fore warned Peter and deny the Christ, but Uie eternal principles of Individ ual and o' social righteousness are b and to wvin. But while many of us are, through* the grace of God, enabled to approxi mate righteor'sness in our wider so etal relations, there are but few of us who are Christlike In the home life. I have sinned must be our plea; for pardon must be our prayer. A renewed life must be our resolu tion, that Christ may be our portion. The gross sins of the believing Christian are, largely, not those of immense or awful delinquency. Most of us managed to keep out of prison. Few of u~s have to stand for 2:'ial 'ipon chargzes of overt crime. Most o; us, by The mercy of God. arc guilt less of the sins which shock the sens~es. The deiling sins of the Christian in his homce life are what ... a,.. mik- to +t--m te weak nesses of life. For you and for me. petty faults are oftentimes the greatest sins. With us the Droneness to say the unkind -word: think the unwor thy thought: to do the hard act or to speak the cern sentiment; to give the rein to anger or to let passion rule; these are the most detrimental and defiling sins. Many a mother who would give up life itself for the child --ho nestled at her breast: many a father who -. ot only would, but does, work long and weary '-urs for the loved ones of his home and hearth; many such a man and many such a woman finds the love of those most dear to them -s lest and lost to them perhaps forever, because of un Christian uncharitableness in the home. "For me to live is Christ," you say. But do you live the life: Are you thoughtless of the rights of others? Are you self-centred rather than world loving? Are you heedless of the needs of men? These are minor ,things in life; these are the trifles. But to the soul that is growing up toward God, and out toward men, and that is spreading roots through the eternities, they spell either fail ure or success. As has been said, "success is made up of trifles and success is no trifle." Selfishness. hastinesc, inconsider ateness, all these are the sins which weight the soul. For those of us who have laid our hearts at the feet of Christ, they are the sins which keep us from attainment unto spirit ual perfection and the strength of the Saviour. They are the cancers which gnaw .t the vitals of the man spiritual, and which consume the very life's blood. Leaving behind these lesser sins we may grow into the stature of the Son of God. Put ting meanness and nettiness behind us we may become like Him who was in all things pure. But only as we exclude the smallnesses of life from our natures do we grow. But we must always remember that we have a duty to self as well as to society and to the Saviour. Here, again, duty to God presup poses and implies a right relation with self. We cannot be true to God' and untrue to self. Right relations with God preclude an evil inner life. "To thine own self be true," the poet sings, "and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." He might have said, with equal surety, that lojalty to God precludes disloyalty to iman and to self. Trueness to self implies Christianly speaking, that the man is in harmony with man kind and with God. Trueness to the highest and ho liest motives and ideals that are within us brings greatest happiness and peace. Right thoughts produce and conserve a right life. High thinking is a tonic. Low thinking breeds disease. Cleanness of heart means clearness of head. To grovel spiritually is to declare one's self to be a sloven mentally. We must keep ourselves purified of unwholesome ness if. we would attain the heights where holy men dwell. Education is not salvation. Knowl edge is power and should induce pu rity. But the pure in heart-mind you, not the strong in mental force -the pure in heart alone see God. The vile of soul are always in the depths of hell, and all the wisdom of all the ages could not pull them out. A clean heart fits a man for life's labors. We cannot submit ourselves to the rule of our evil passions if we would escape ruin. "Our bodies are good servants, but poor masters." Is an apt and a wise saying. The Christ was a power, because He had a healthy mind and a pure heart. Tc Him evil was hateful. For Him love was the law and the light of the world. For Gsod is love. To be pure, to be gentle, to be no ble, to think kindly and to act wor thily, to be right toward man and in the sight of God, to be growing con stantly into God-likeness, that is to be truly Christlike. And to those of us alone who are trying, as Chan ning has said, "to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common," who are liv ing nearest to the source of all love and of all life, is it given to say, with very truth, "Forme to live is Christ." Seeds That Grew, Seeds That Didn't. "I have noticed that when the green leaves have appeared, and have lifted themselves a little above the soil, it often happens that a bit of soil adheres to them and seem to weight them. Eut, as the plants goI on growing, they cast off theseI specks of earth and push on valiant l'. Some of my seed must have been dead, for though they had abundant time for sprouting, they did not all appear; they lay there inertly amid the earth. "Which things have been a kind< of a .arable to me. Though the liv-< ing seeds in thei'r growing have car ried on their leaves s6me of the soil1 as they grow they are flinging itt off, while the dead seeds are help-i less under the earth. A Christian may be carrying some mean and un seeiy earthliness. But if he be really athrill with the new life and growing, he will be quite sur'e to slough it off in .-me. Let me be natient with him and give him a t chance. God does. The hopeful facb is that he N alive and growing. Dead seeds are powerless. So are dead souls"-Dr. Wayland Hoyt. The Footstool and the Watchtower. H-ow many answers have been missed simply because w6 did not follow our netition with a heaven ward eye and with the caim wait ings of expectant faith! Remember, when you pray, go at once from the fcotscol to the tower.-J. Vauzhan. Lake of Petroleum inl Gulf. Tecming vessels report having en countered an immense lake of oil, fifty miles off the Texas coast, through which they plowed their way for nearly t'hree hours, says the Galves ton correspondent of the St. Louis Gloe-Democrat. The crude oil coy' ered an area of many miles. 'While the oil lake in the gulf has been known to the mariners for many years, a light, oily surface has been its extent up to the last two days. The oil appears to be gushing up through the water in a heavy stream. Oil experts who have been. examin ing the Texas fields to ascertain thE cause of the steady decrease of pro duction declare that the original sup ply cf oil has found an outlet through h gulf. This theory is strengthened by the fact that the production in the Texas-Lousiana fields has dropped oli narly 1.000.000 barrels within the lst sixty days. despite the many ne wells struck. Troubles come through small things MMIIINENDEAOH NOTES AUGUST NINETEENTH. What Is the Sin of Phariseeism? Luke 11: 42-44. Phariseeism is form without sub gtanoe, the one tenth without the nine tenths. In condemning Phariseeism Christ lid not condemn forms; we mast aave the clothes, but we need a bouy nside them. The Christian fears fame, the Pharisee fears neglect. The latter eeks the chief places; so does the ormer-that he m-ay place others in 'hem. Hypocrisy is the most dangerous :f sins, as it is so often concealed rrom men, and especially from the ypocrite himself. . Suggestions. It is not praying till we cease to think of men that hear us, and think Dnly of the listening God. It is not giving till we begin to long to do good with our money, and !ease to desire to get good from it. It is not Christian service if we work for Christ on condition that lie will work for us. The only cure for Phariseeism is elf-surrender, which instantly gains ill that hypocrisy thinks to gain. A Few illustrations. Pharisecism is an ornamented box, mpty--and opaque; sincerity is a Eull box-made of glass. Phariseeism is a shout against a liff expecting back the echo. Phariseeism is a tower with a de 3ayed foundation; and the higher it ;oes, the greater is its peril. The hyprocrite is a chameleon, tak-' .ng his color from the changing cir umstances around him. Questions. Is my worship in the Spirit and in ruth? Do those nearest me believe most n me? Would I be willing that my most iidden acts should become the most )pen? Quotations. All false pretences like flowers fall :o the ground, nor can any counter eit last long.-Cicero. He is already half false who spe Mates on truth and does not do it. -F. W. Robertson. No true man can live a half life vhen he has genuinely learned that t is only a half life. The other half -the higher thalf-must haunt him. -Phillips Brooks. [EMOH L[ACO[ L[SSDNS SUNDAY; AUGUST 19. The Sunday School Union and Local Sunday School Interests.-Deut. 31. 12, 13. Our church has no less than 33,184 Sunday schools under her care, with in enrolled membership of 3,227,376,, besides a Home Department member ship of 150,629. This includes the chools in mission lands. While we ave less than one-sixth of the Pro estant Church membership in the United States, we have one fourth of :he Sunday school peop~e. If the, sunday school is the right arm of the Church, the Epworth League Is her eft arm; and upon these two mem ers of the body ecclesiastical de ends the future of the body. The [E~ague should know about our Sun lay School Union. It is the head of ll the Sunday schools of the denomi ation. It furnishes all the litera :ure, "helps," etc., for the use of the chools. Beyond this the 'Union is a enevolent society, and disburses, in t benevolent and charitable way, the noney contributed by the churches? Bunsday schools, and individuals. It ;ive about $7,000 per year to sup ort the Sunday school work in our nissionary fields. In connection with :he Tract Society, the 'Union prepares ind distributes Good Tidings, a eautiful weekly paper for the color d people of the South. During the ear- 190~> there were printed, of that >aper, 1.,,G00 copies, being a week y average of 33,585. The Union ilso furnishes supplies gratis to very weak schools; particularly in the nitial stages of church organization. Up till now the work of the Sunday shooi Union has been supported ~hiefly ')y collections from -the ~hurches, this being one of the "Dis splinary'" causes. But last General Tonfernce 'made It obligatory upon he Sunday schools to take a collec ion for the 'Union. The class in any unday school which gives the larg st amount, provided that it be not ess than one dollar, to this cause, vill receive a handsome silk ban 1er. The re-ceipts from the Confer ne colleettions last year for the nion were $29.918.G8. Of this sum he Sunday schools contributed onlyI 1,09.04, only 1Z2 schools having ;iven anything. The schools every vere ought to wheel into line. So Rojestvensky was not guilty of cowardice or treason in the Battle of the Sea of Japan. Neither was Villeneuve thus guilty at Trafalgar, nor Ney at Waterloo, declares the New York Times. If there was an appalling difference between his achievements and theirs, responsibil itv for it must be placed on other shouldeis than his. It would be sheer nonsense and worse to deny great ability and courage to the commander who safely and unhesitatingly con veyed the Russian fleet through stra-nge waters all the way from Cronstadt to Tsu Shima. Had th9 whole Russian Admiralty beeb./ ani mated with as great a spirit as his, the outcome of his enterprise -might have been far different from what it was. It was for the Russian govern ment to ask pardon of Rojestvensky, rather than to censure him. EiGG STAINS. In wasbing table linen, or any cloth stained with egg, avoid putting It in boiling water, which will set the stain. Put the cloth in cold wa ter, and the stain can be very easily removed. The same rule applies to egg-cups and any dishes stained with egg. If they are set with other china into hot dish water, the stain will harden and it requires considerable paience to remove it. Egg stamis come out easily in cold water. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR AUGUST 19. Subjel: The Judge, the Pharisee and the Publican, Luke xviii., 1-14 Golden Text, Luke xviii., 13 Topic:. Effective Prayer. I. The judge and the widow (vs. 1-8). 1. "Spake a parable." In re sponse to a question of the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God should come. Jesus gave them warn ings and instruction as to the coming, and especially as to the need of being always prepared (17:20-37), and naturally turns to the subject of prayer as a means of preparation. "Men ought." It is their "duty" to do this. "Always to pray." The habit of prayer in private, in the family and in public should be cultivated. "Not to faint." Not to grow weary and discouraged because of the delay of the answer. Why must prayer be im portunate? 1. Not because of God's unwillingness to answer. 2. To cher ish and cultivate our faith. 3. Te in tensify our desire to receive. Prayei that is not persevering indicates a lack of faith. 2. "A judge." According to Deut. 16:18, Israel must have in all the gates of the city judges, who were un der obligation to administer justice, without respect of persons. See Exod. 23:6-9; Lev. 19:15. "Feared not God -man." He was unprincipled and cared for no one but himself. 3. "A widow." A widow, without influence and unable to bribe, had little to hope from a wicked judge. "Avenge." The original means "to vindicate one's right." The rights of this widow were interfered with and she was asking the judge for protection. The widow is often taken as a repre sentation of the church after Christ's death. 4, 5. "For a while." These verses show the abandoned character of the judge referred to. 6. "The Lord." That is, Jesus. 7. "Shall not God." We are not to suppose that the char acter of God is at all represented by this judge. The great truth which our Saviour designed to teach is that "men ought always to pray, and not to faint." The application of the parable may be made by contrast. 1. God is not compared to the unjust judge, but contrasted with him. If a hard-hearted, wicked judge, who cared for neither God nor man, but only for himself and his own inter ests, would yet grant justice on ac count of the perseverance of the widow, how infinitely more readily will God give us the help we need. 2. And if the unjust judge does this for a poor widow, in whom he has no in terest, how much more will our Father grant the prayers of His own children. 3. And if the unjust judge will do it for the sake of deliverance from some vexation in common life, how much more will God save His children from their adversaries. S. "Speedily." Suddenly, unex pectedly. "Son of man cometh." Whedon thinks this entire parable has reference to the second coming of Christ. He says: The church is a widow in Christ's absence; she has an oppressive adversary, being the persecuting world, or the devil. "Faith." This word Is sometimes taken to denote the whole of tr'ue re igion. II. The Pharisee's prayer (vs. 9 12). 9. "Trustecj in themselves." Jesus now proceeds to show another reason why many prayers are not an swered. The Pharisees did not trust to God, or the Messiah for righteous ness, but in their own works. They vainly supposed they had themselves complied with the demands of the w of God. "Despised others." Dis ined, treated them with contempt. 10. "Two men." Both Jews. Two extreme cases are here chosen-a rigid, exclusive, self-satisfied member of the religious society of Israel; and a Jewish officer of the hated Roman government. 11. "Pharisee stood." The Jews were accustomed to pray standing. The Pharisee went to the temple to pray, because it was a public place, and therefore he would have many eyes on him. "I thank Thee." His prayer is a thanking, his thanking is a boasting, not of God but alone of himself. At first he boldly contrasts himself with all men considering him self better than they. "Extortion r." Selfish, greedy men who take away the goods of others by force and violence. "Unjust." Those who are unfair and dishonest in their deal ings. 12. "I fast," etc. The law re quired but one fast day in the year, the day of Atonement (Lev. 16:29). "Tithes." A tenth. "Of all that I pos sess." Rather of all that I require. See Revised Version. He was clothed with phylacteries and fringes, not with humility. He felt no need of confessing sins. III. The publican's prayer (vs. 13,1 14). 13. "Publican." One employed as collector of the Roman revenue. It was the basest of all livelihoods. He felt that he was a sinner, and shame and sorrow caused him to] look down. It was usually the cuis tom' to pray with uplifted hands, and with look turned toward heaven (1 Tim. 2:8; Psa. 123:1, 2). "Smote breast." A token of anguish and self-reproach. I am a sinner and can not be saved but in Thy way. 14. "Jvstified." His sins were blotted out, and he was accepted. I1 "That exalteth himself." Boasts of his own goodness. "Abased." Shall be brought to shame. "That . hum bleth himself." By confessing his sin ard unworthiness, and pleading for rercy from God. "Exalted." Lifted up from the depths of sinl, and made an heir of God. From sorrow he is admitted into the realm of praise. A New Way to Europe. A route across the Atlantic which would greatly shorten the ocean ';oyage is being discussed in Eng land. It is proposed to utilize the harbor of Galway, situated on the western coast of Ireland, and run a line 'of express steamers between there and St. John's, on the coast of Newfoundland, a distance of 1816 miles, while the rest of the journey to New York could be made for most of the way by fast trains. It is be lieved that the trip from London to the American -metropolis could thus be shortened by at least a day. From New York to Southhampton is almost twice as far as from Galway to St. John's-3116 miles; while the dis tance from New York .to Liverpool is 3095 miles. WHY THEY ARIE WATElRY. Who fixes up his stocks and bonds, To take the rabble in, Infuses water, this to make Them nice to dabble in. An Old -Painter's, Ideas. The Autumn season-is coming more and more to be recognized as'a most suitable time for house-paint ing. There is no frost deep in the wood to make trouble for e'en the best job of painting, and the- general season ing of the Summer has put the wood irto good condition in every way. The weather, moreovel; is more like ly to be settled for-the necessary length of time to allow all the coats to thoroughly dry-a very imp'rtant precaution. An old and successful painter said. to the writer the other day: "House owners would get more for their money if they would allow their painters to take more time, es pecially between coats. Instead of I allowing barely tire for the surface to get dry enough,not to be 'tacky,' 2 several days (weeks would not be too much) should be allowed so that the coat might set through and through. It is inconvenient, of course, but, if one would suffer this slight inconvenience, it would add two or three years to the life of the s paint. "All this is assuming, of course, that the paint used is the very best to be had-the purest of white lead and the purest of linseed oil, un mixed with any cheapener. If the cheap mixtures, often known as 'White Lead' and oil which has been - doctored with fish oil, benzine, corn oil, or other of the adulterants known to the trade, are used, all the precautions of the skilled painter are useless to prevent the cracking and peeling which make houses unsightly in a year or so and, therefore, make painting bills too frequent and costly. "The house owner should have his painter bring the ingredients to 'the premises separately-white lead of some well-known, reliable brand and linseed oil of equal quality - and mix the paint just before applying it.", Painting need not be expensive and unsatisfactory if the old painter's suggestions are followed. The young lawyer's first plea is a trial performance. H. H. Gnmx's Sos,of Atlanta.Ga.,are the only successful Dropsy Specialists in the world. See their liberal offer in advertise ment in another column of this paper. FOR VARI'ETY SAKE. Mr. P. Latitude-Things are seldaM what they seem. Mr. P. Llainface-No; for example, a cinnamon bear steak is not at all like spiced roast beef.-American Spectator. HERITAGE OF CIVIL WAR. Thousands of Soldiers Contracted Chronic Kidney Trouble. The experience of Capt. John L. Ely, of Co. E, 17th Ohio, now living at 500 East Second street, Newton, Kafsas, will Interest the thou sands of veterans who came back from thie Civil War suffering tor-. tures with.kldney com plaint. Capt. Elysays: "I contracted kidney trouble during the Civil War, and the occasional attacks finally devel oped into a chronic case. At one time I had tr. use a. crutch and cane to get abdtit.' My back was lame and weak; and~ be' sides the aching, there was a- dis tressing retenttion of the kidneyise cretions. 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