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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
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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.
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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.
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Hal! Mile Track, 1,000 Features, 100 Phenomenal Acts, '2!
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& 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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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. '
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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.