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. r I MIS JMlL/UiNU MOOiVjlNIVICIM I . A. Leaf Out of a Newip.rps-r Re porter*e Karly Kxperii-nii", "My first assignment," said an olil reporter, "was to And out whether somebody was iu town, or something of that sort. I know there was nothing to be vyitten about it. I got tlio information and reported to the city editor. That was all I had to do that day. For the rest of 1 r ^ J sue uuy i sat iiruiiuu wiv; wnw ..uv? cd with un infatuation that has never tie(freased. The next day I got my second assignment. In this tin-re was something ? to write about. "The city editor handed mo a narrow little strip of white fissuo paper cut from a sheet of ship news and containing, in two lines of writing, information that two laborers had been washed overboard from tho barge So-and-so, laden with ore, coming up the bay in tow of the tug So-andso. What I was to do was to get the facts about the occurrence and write thorn. "The city editor said that if I would find tho consignees of tho bargo or tho owner of fhe t-ug I would g?-t on the trace of the story. The names of the consignees "arc\Tw ill t.Vin two lini'S of sllill nOWS, aild simply by looking in tho directory I found their ollico without tho slightest trouble. Thero I learned where the cargo was tied up. It was at a wharf in Hohoken or Weehawken, I don't remember which, and I made for that. When I turned from tho street down tho wharf, thero she was, tied up alongside, her namo on the wheelhouse. Sho was about half unloaded, and men were stfll at work carrying off tho ore. "I waa not altogether without experience in life, but I had never done anything that gavo me quite tho satisfaction that it did to find that oro bargo in my first aotual experience as a reporter. Tho captain was aboard, and so were the surviving members of tho littlo party of laborers who had started up the bay in her, and so the whole story was right there. I eat on *V>n otrinfrninim nf fhn \chjirf HTlfl talked wfth tho captain of the boat. Ho told the story with entire willingness. Of courso there was no reason why he shouldn't, and then I went back to the ollico and wroto it up. It was not a greut story. I know that. It was like thousands of stories that the newspapers are sending after all tho tfme, of tho manifold daily occurrence of life, but I must put it togothcr in good shape, get in all the facts and put the story in the smallest space. "In tho morning I went out and got a paper before breakfast. I wanted to read my story of tho loss of the men from the ore barge. I lookod the paper over, and, my gracious, I couldn't And it nil! I thought they must have l?ft it out altogether, but wken I came to look tho paper over again I found it?a scant stickful, with a single line head. "But when I came to read it over I found that the facts were all there. They had simply been brought closer together by a method of condensation far more acuto than mizy) and had then been set in agato type."?New York Sun. Importance of Keg-nlar Living. A question has lately arisen as to the increase or the reverse in nervous diseases, some arguing that the cause of tbersupposed increase in such nervous diseases lies ia the iner?ased demand niHdo by the conditions of modern life upon tho brain. It is quite truo that tho conditions of life are very different nowadays from what they were a few years ago. We now live in a high pressure ago, and in one of keen competition, when greater effort is needed in every branch of lifo to attain a successful position, when the brain is always working and thero is constant tension. Such conditions, it will be perfectly obvious to all, are not favorable to a diminution of nervous diseases, but rather the reverse. At the same time, It cannot bo denied that the comforts of lifo have increased. We ha hot-.ter cnnit/it.ion. nleaner houses and fresher air. There can be no question that men of regular habits are healthier, happier, live longer and do moro than those who obey caprice and impulse. The adoption of hygienic habits saves the nervous system an enormous amount of friction and waste. It preserves vitality. Regularity economizes not only physical stamina, but time as well. The man who knows no system in the details of his lifo, who exhausts nature at the ingtanoo of a passing whim, who drinks and smokes to excess, who wastes the talents bestowed upon him, is the one Who must sooner or later fall a vlotim to disease. Regularity and moderation In all things should be the motto of life, and it should be remembered that regularity does not necessarily preclude the enjoyment of variety. A certain amount of variety prevents man from becoming a mero machine, but variety should not interfere with those regular habits of life which are necessary to the maintenance of health.?New York Ledger. A Puzzled Author. Tho San Francisco Argonaut tells an wpusing story about Alphonse Daudet. When he brought out "Sappho," an American publishing house that issues religious books, not knowing its character, offered hi. Daudet a large sum for advance Bbeeta of tfce work. Ho accepted the offer, and the advance sheets were sent. When the publishers received them, they decided that they could not issao the book, and they cablod to tho author, " 'Sappho' will not do.' ITiia dispatch puzzled Daudet. Ho oonsulted with numbers of friends, and this was the conclusion at which they eventually arrived: "Sappho" in French fs spelled with one"p"?"Sapho," after the Greek fashion. In English it is spelled A*r> MnmuQllv annto ruionrl YV1IOJ unu. AU uu HJuuit; uvuuu pointed this out to Daudet, which much rellev&d the novelist, and he cabled back to the publishers, "Spell it with two p'e." It is needless to stato that the publishers were more astonished at Daudet's reply than ho had been at their cable dispatch. Japanese Journalism. "Japanese journalism," says a missionary's wife, "is a singular profession in many of its features. There is practically so such thing as freedom of the press in Japan. Whenever a newspaper publishes something unfriendly to the government it is suppressed and the editor is sent to prison. The real editor is nevor imprisoned, though. Every newspapor has what the Japanese call a 'dummy editor,'and tfe is his solo duty to go to jail every time the paper is suppressed for offending tho mikado. Then the real editor changes the ?stf tKnnnTu.T. uTirl bpunu on mihlifihincr CiUUiU U4 UIV uu\4 f Q It. Dummy editors spend most of their time in prison." BiS Egga. In the British museum, London, the museum of the Academy of Soience at Paris, the National museum at Vienna and In tho several institutions for the advancement of science there may be seen specimens of birds'eggs which aro almost as large as a two gallon jug. These eggs were laid by the epiornis, an extinct and gigantic bird of Madagascar. ?? ? It is better to be defeated than to conquer by unfair means. Dishonorable practices are, in the lon^ run and in the noblest interests, a losing business. Character is won where "points" are lost, and defeat is an honor when incomes through being honorable. The happiness of life may be greatly increased by small courtesies iu which there is no parade, whose voice is tool still to tease, and which manifest ( themselves by tender and affectionate looks ami little kind acts of attention. ' nOMINO M _ 9 * TO ? AbbbVILLt Tuesday, NOVEMBER, 2nd: ureat? w XX-XX xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxixxxxxxxxxxx: (WALLACE ^ I XXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXIXXXIXXXXXXXX XXXj ?> m # ?^Shows! 3 Ring Circus 3 Capital $3,000,000.00 ! Millionaire Menagerie-Museum Aquarium and Royal Roman Hippodrome ! Grand Spec tacular Ballet ! Finest Horses- of any Show on Earth Splendid in Character, Magnificent in Equipment ! Rega in Presentation ! The Greatest, Grandest and Best c Americas Big Shows ! The Highest Class Circus in th< World ! io Acres of Canvas, Seats 10,000 People ! Omnipotent in Strength, Ideal in Character Splendid in Organization, lviagninceni 111 Presentation. The Purest, Cleanest, Mightiest and Most Magnificent Amusement Institution of the 19th Century. Hal! Mile Track, 1,000 Features, 100 Phenomenal Acts, '2! Clowns, 20 Hurricane Races, 4 Trains, 1,500 Employees & Bands, 50 Cages, A Drove of Camels, 15 Open Dens, / Herd of Elephants. $1,000.00 Daily Expenses. "The best seen here in a decade."?Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. "High toned in every way?in magnitude of first rank."?St. Louis Re public. "Bewilders the senses, dazzles the eyes."?Denver Times. "The cleanest, most satisfactory circus yet seen here."?New Orlean Picayune. ' Gives more than it promises.?San Francisco Examiner. The greatest performers in the world are with the GREAT WALLAC1 SHOWS this season, including the World's Premier Acrobats $10,000.00 Challenge Act 9 Nelson Family G The Werntz Family Aeralists, The 4 Martells, Bicycle and Skat ng Experts The 10 Dellameads, Statauary Artists, The Sansoni Sisters, Female Sair sous, 10 Principal Male and Female Kquestrians, The 3 Petits Aerial liar.' Extraordinary, Mme. Dupres' Trained Elephants, Ilowena, the Hea Balancer, and Grand Ballet, Spectacular 19 Coryphees, (led by 3 Sister: Maccari, Premier, Dansueses.) Our Street Parade at 10 a. in. daily is the finest ever put on the streets. A Sunburst of Spleudoi a Triumph of Art, Money, Money and Good Taste, with Lavish Luxury c Spectacular Efl'ect, with Greatest t'roiessionai reaiures touceivauie. Excursions Run on Every Line of Travel CgTNO GAMBLING DEVICES TOLERATED. Never Divides ! Never Disbands Death Unto Sin, Life Unto God. SERMON BY THE LATE REV. ROBERT A. LEE. For in that he died, lie died nnto sin once ; but in that he liveth he liveth unto God. Romans vi, 1U. I Christianity is both a death and a life. It is at the v same time, and in its whole extent, a death and a life. It ' is always death to the flesh, and life in the spirit. The religion of Christ requires the crucifixion of the flesh with its appetites and passions ; it insists that we say no to solicitations to carnal sins, that we refuse to give rein to these impulses, or indulge them, and so that we die to them. And it insists, too, that this denial and death must be the rule in the higher part of our nature also, in the domain of ~ ' *? 1 J_ 1L.1 the intellect and the attections. unnsiianicy ucmanas mat evil dispositrons and affections?pride, malice, envy?that thsse be cnt off with as relentless a hand as the lusts of the body. For every man, then, who shares it, Christianity means death. It is also life, a life in God, and unto God. That is, it teaches that God is over all things, through all 1 1 ^ ^ r*r\r\A r\ nc-c* nnA nf f Vt Q f tnings j uiai uuu is a. ucui^ ui ^uuutn,jo quu wi ?v* , Wiu.?. in this world He is trying to work out the welfare of every man ; that He punishes men because He loves them, and would save them from their sins. The christian, then, in his "life unto God" gives evidence to the belief that God desires and is working for the good of every man, by trying to do gocd to all men ; by allying himself with God in working out His plans for the good of all men. So it is *< that Christianity is at the same time and throughout its Sj extent death and life. A Now, Jesus is the only perfect religious man, the only \ perfect Christian who has lived on this earth, and so we < find in Him this death and this lite. In the words ot our * text "He died unto sin, and He liveth unto God." Christ "died unto sin," He had a body and mind as other men . have, and when tempted and solicited to give indulgence ' to them, steadfastly refused. When a young man just beginning life, this world and all its pomp and glory were ) placed before Him and offered for His acceptance, and he turned away. When scribe and pharisee, the established and reputable teachers of religion, whose authority He re) cognized, demanded of Him that He show a sign from heaven as a condition of their acceptance of Him, Christ refused to make use of his great powers for selfish ends. , When the common people who had seen His miracles, who knew Him and loved Him, would take Him by force and make Him king, He slipped away from the sight of men. J Christ throughout His life "died unto sin." He also I "lived unto God," loved God, believed in God, the truth and goodness of God ; and was determined that in Him'* self He should represent to men, and bring to men the 5 love and goodness of God. In the comprehensive language of St. Peter, "Christ went about doing good." Death and life, then, go to make up the religion of Jesus Christ. This death in the flesh, this denying and cutting off appetite, is, therefore, an essential part of the experience of every man who attempts to lead the life of Christ. It cannot be neglected ; it cannot be avoided. And this necessity grows out of the nature of things ; it is not an arbitrary imposition of God. Painful and distressing as it may be, this death to sin is our only health and salvation. We must in the nature ot tnings rule, or De ruled by inclination. Christ, our Leader and Captain, was not saved from this death to sin. He did not save and spare Himself from it. More than any man has done, or ever can do, Christ subdued the flesh, and lived in the Spirit. Do we hesitate to follow where our Leader has gone ? We must be conformed to His death, that we may be like Him in His life. But again, why is this death to sin, this cutting off inclination a part, an essential part as we have seen, of the gospel of Christ ? Why must we say nay to these solicitations ? It is not that the body is impure and unholy. It is not on the ground that all that is carnal and fleshly is sinful, it is not that there is no right use and exercise of this part of man's being. But Christianity demands that we die to the flesh when to indulge the flesh would impair our being in its integrity as we have received it from the hands of God, and, therefore, would prevent us from doing that work that God designed we should do on this earth for our fellow-man. Sins of the body, then, are sins because they are selfish?a violation of the great principle of love?that which is the very truth of all religion, of all Christianity. So it was that Christ died unto sin once, i not at one moment, but once for all, absolutely, without ? compromise. And so it is that we must be conformed to I his death. But in the next place, this death to sin is but preparatory tn the life unto God. It is not itself that live. It is but the clearing away the forest which is without meaning and value unless there follow the waving grain, and golden harvest. So, death to the flesh, essential as it is, is but negative and destructive, and unless there follows life in the Spirit is of little value. Suppose that the life of Christ had been only a successful resistance to temptation ; suppose that His whole life had been spent away from men in solitudes in the wilderness in sucessful conflct with the devil. How utterly devoid of power and inspiration would Christ be today, had that been the character of His stay on earth. How would He be stripped of His glory and ^ beauty, that life of abounding love and service for men. * " ' - -ii- i- a. 1.1 f How negative and barren ot an gooa results to me wouu would that life have been. So, a religion that is spending its whole energies in crucifying the flesh, that has never gotten beyond this initiatory stage, is weak and barren. Now, what is the character of Christianity as we see it about us today ? As men consider the gospel of Christ, as they strive to realize within themselves its teaching, what is most prominent? Is it not that Christianity means not to do certain things, to refrain from certain actions ? May not the watch-word of Christianity for most men be expressed by the word "Dont?" Yet, is not such a Christianity undeveloped, in its very beginning ? The watchword of the gospel in part is "don't," but over a vastly wider sphere its true motto is "do." Now "don't" represents an essential part and side of religion ; yet, when Christianity contents itself with fulfilling that you have puritanism, hard and unlovely, utterly lacking in rounded truth and beauty. It is stunted ; it fulfils the command "don't," it forgets the command "do"?the life of love and service. Such a Christianity presents an absence of positive results ; its forces are absorbed in the contest with jJ sin and Satan. Its vast powers that might do so much for j men, and God and truth, lie latent and unused. What 4) untold results might be accomplished, could Christianity but put its vast forces into action. Think of the many Christians who lead correct lives; they never do anything I wrong ; the defect in their character is that they never do / anything. Such is the religion of the priest and Levite who went along the way from Jerusalem to Jcricho, and r, I looked upon the man who had fallen among thieves, as he >f lay prostrate and bloody upon the ground; and then passed by on the other side. This priest and Levitc would have gone to the stake rather than have wronged any man, yet without compunction they leave a fellow-man, a member of the hated race, to die by the way-side. j And so it is that we arc prone to regard as very seri | ous sins of commsssion, while sins of omission lie often very lightly on our consciences. Our first thoughts turn to those things that we ought not to have done, while those things that we ought to have done and have not done soon fade from our memories. Sins of commission are like the \ shot and shell that with sudden and swift destruction re- -v_ move a defender here and there along the walls of a beleaguered city; sins of omission are like the gaunt and ghastly famine that spreads over the city, unnerves the arm of every defender, and at last throws open the gates to the enemy. Sins of commission destroy Christians here and # there: sins of omission unnerve and deaden Christianity. This truth is most powerfully presented in that vision of the last judgment which our Lord has given us in the twenty-fifth chapter of St. Matthew's gospel. - The King is 1 -1 r i *- -i j ur: seared on me tnrone 01 nis giory, anu uciuic aim aic gathered all nations; a separation is made, and to those on the right the gracious words are spoken. "Come ye 'blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you," not because you have been pure and holy, and have done no wrong, have been guilty of no fault, but because I in the person of humanity was an hungered, and ye gave me meat; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; naked, and ye clothed me; sick, and ye visited me; in prison, and ye came unto me." And so, to those on the left, the sentence of woe is pronounced not because of lusts and sins, but because to a hungered and thirsty humanity they had never given meat and drink, because to a humanity naked and sick and in prison they had never ministered. As our T 1 1 * i n rrm nnf cinc Lora men presents us mc nua^c ui iaoi juugmviu, anw of omission, and not of commission, occupy the chief place. And He so presents it, because Christianity is love, and love means and is always service for others ; and where there is no service, there is no love, and so no Christianity. Full and developed Christianity, then, means the ceasing to do evil; and it is the learning to do well, the elevation and power of a life unto God. How then are these two parts of the gospel of Christ to be maintained, so that one shall not intrude upon another, -so that one of itself shall not be taken as all religion? How are we to die to the flesh, and live unto God? St. Paul gives us the rule when he says, "Walk in the Spirit, and ye will not fulgl the lusts of the flesh." Most men attempt the Christian life in an order the very reverse of this. They strive to conquer the lusts of the flesh in order that they may walk in the Spirit. And so their whole energy is taken up in fighting appetite and passion. They know Christianity as a death; they know nothing of it as an active noble life. For them it is a system of not doing; they know nothing of the inspiration and power that belongs to it as a positive system of being and doing. Such a life must fail in attaining its object, its whole attention and thought are directed towards sin, and so does not cease having to do with sin, and is not freed from sin. It is only by positive doing well that one can cease sinning. To struggle with sin directly is to be contaminated. And so it is that St. Paul says in one place to his son Timothy, "flght the good fight of faith;" and yet recognizing that there may be cir cumstances when not to fight is the truest Christian lortitude, in another place says, "Flee also youthful lusts." Walk then in the Spirit, a life in the power and truth of God, and you will be enabled not to fulfil the lusts of the flesh. I "said above that bodily indulgence is wrong because it prevents us fulfilling that mission for which ' , we have been placed on this earth?a life of love and service for men. And so it is that St. John in his epistle does so intimately connect love and the fulfilling God's commandments. He shows that he that lives unto God?loves God?cannot sin, because that which is con tradictory to the nature of love, is that which destroys love?that which prevents the life from going out in loving labors and efforts for men. Live unto God, then, that you may die unto sin. Realize and have in yourself the love of God, and in' Him a love of all things, and let that love < be supreme, let it have undivided sway, and you cannot sin, because to sin, would be to violate -that love. In the words of St. John, " for this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not grievous." Not grievous, my friends, to the heart that loves. ' GOOD WATER! PURE WATER! Artesian Water has been pumped all over town, and the supply is ample. Have C. P. HAMMOND put in your Water Works. He has good work done at reasonable Prices. ?ssiHOT WA.TER /ess? I can connect your old store so as to give you Hot Water. A great convenience, and not much cost for the great luxury. Very respectfully, C . P. II A M 31 O N D . BST Second Hand Bicycles for Sale. -&a in the soil available. It contains little Renovating Old Tree*. fertilizing value in itself. i,...* ??? ??? Wood ashes can nearly always be ap iI IS Oicen ine uaac LimL licca aic uct- . , ... . lected so much that they become un- ^ith benefit wneu ucau ue uau. thrifty and unprofitable, if they do not [ ?are 1U l'lIS way an orchcease entirely to bear fruit With a ard tbat beea ,ltgleCted or starved very oldtreevery mtie in'the way'of ?"??Sl'SlT? PM renovating can be done with anything 1 vtt h ?n nril Q rH wlXh t h? i riinti' like permauent benefit. But with * ?rchard which the truDk. a vouni/ trees that have sininlv bei?n of t,le tree9 are more or ,ess decaye<1 " neglected H ve^deoided bSfcan be '^."etler plan is to cut it down nod secured. Of cour.-e, if this is done it is ma^e a new start. necessary to do thorough work. C?eu erally the longer a tree has beeu neglected the longer time will be required The Bible is a book full of light and " i* wisdom. It will make you wise to Que of the first things to do is to eternal life, and furnish you wish direcprune thoroughly, cutting out all dis- tions and principles to guide and oreased dead wood at least, and as much der your life safely and prudently, of the other growth as may seem ueces- There is no book like the Bible for exsary. No set rules cau be given, as to cellent learning, wisdom and use. the extent of pruning that should be given, as to the soil in which the tree A life is au exsmple in more is growing, as well as the growth or seuse than 0?e. We usually think of thrift of the tree, must be considered. a g?od mau as aa example to follow; The pruning should be done reason- hut lie ?8 than that; he is an exably early in the winter, at least before ample of what the grace of God does the wood freezes hard. The wood for a man. The life of Jesus our pershould all be gathered up aud burned, fect pattern to go by, but the lives of as in this way disease germs and injur- those who have followed his steps are ious iusects may be destroyed. the assurances of God that we, too, The ground should be thoroughly ul**y be like him. plowed, taking care to plow shallow ~ ... . , near the trees so as not to injure the difficulties 111 your case can baffle roots J Him. ao dwarfing of your growth in It is often the case that oue of the ^ear9 that are past, no apparent dryprincipal reasons, if not the sole cause, ness of your inward springs of life, no of the trees failing to make a thrifty crookedness or deformity iu any of growth and bear good crops of fruit is a y?ur past development, cau in the lack of available plaut food. The trees lt,ast ?>ar the perfect work that he are starving, and, of course, cannot wil1 accomplish if you will only put ... rm.? ?f| vourselves absolutely into his hands, grow or yieiu ituil. xuc uwi . . manuring is to apply broadcast after UU(' 'e* '11U1 have his own way with plowing and then work it into the y?usoil with a harrow or cultivator. Al- _ ...... . J most any kiud of manure can be used Our greatest need, in order to greater I with benefit, but the advantage in us- success, is to put more heart Into our I ing well-rotted manure is that the work. ] ellect will be realized sooner, oral least phUj gjd M ?x uo hera]d a good portion o . \\ .th t.ees as t . 'j 0f men's pedigree; it is other plants, the fert.lizer, to beavada- ' f t() virtues." ble, must be soiuoie, auu u portlou of well-rotted nuiuure is in this John Neal says some persons read condition better tli m if applied fresh, maukind as they do a proof sheet, The principal ud village in using salt is merely to find the errors and ornis thai it helps to make plant food that is sions.