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Jndginp from the letters she is
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^ lira. Pinkham believes that our girls
r_' ?re often pushed altogether too near
the limit of their endurance nowi}
adays in our public schools and semin
? anes.
Nothing1 is allowed to interfere with
studies, the girl must be pushed to the
front and graduated with honor; often
physical collapse follows, and it takes
years to recover the lost vitality, ?
often it is never recovered. Miss Pratt
mDiab Mbs. Pdtkham: ? I feel it
PK \ ay duty to tell all young women how
'much Lydia E. jfrnkliam's wonderful
Vegetable Compound has
gg* done for me. I was completely runH|v?
down, unable to attend school, and did
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441 recommend it to all young
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IN POOR SIGHT.
Nell?Mamie is going to marry an
oitfician.
Bells?Is he wealthy?
Nell?I don't "know. She says
there's a lot of money in sight for
him.?Philadelphia Ledger.
FRAUDS IN A BALE OF HAY.
Frauds in Watch Ca3rs.
According to an article in the Cincinnati
Commercial, a fifty-one pound stone
was recently found in that city secreted
in a bale of hay of eighty ponnds.
This is not as bad as finding a lump of
lead of nearly one-half the weight of the
solid gold watch case secreted in the centre
of the case.
Gold watch case3 are sold by weight, and
no one can see where this lead is secreted
until the springs of the case are taken out
and the lead will be found secreted behind
j them.
These eases are made by companies who
1 profess to be honest, but furnish the means
to the dishonest to rob the public. It is
not pleasant for anyone to find that he
has lugged a lump of lead in his watch
case.
Another trick of the makers of spurious
! solid gold watch cases is to stamp the case
"U. S. Assay." The United States does
not stamp any article made out of gold and
silver except coin, and tho fakir, by using
this ^amp, wants to make the public believe
that the Government had something
to do with the stamping or guaranteeing
the fineness of watch cases.
Another trick of the watch fakir is to
advertise a watch described as a solid gold
filled watch with a twenty or twenty-nveyear
guarantee. These watches are generally
sent C. 0. D., and if the purchaser has
paid for the watch he finds that the company
which guaranteed the watch to wear
is not in existence.
The Dueber-Hampden Watch Company,
of Canton, Ohio, who arc constantly exposing
these frauds, will furnish the names
of the manufacturers who arc in this qucsft
Ann kl a kneinoce
I
I Stuttering children r.re numerous in Germany,
and it is thought the ailment is contagious.
To Wash Chin* Silk Dresses.
China silk dresses may be quite successfully
washed. Remove all spots with benzine,
then wash in worm soapsuds, rubbing
between the hands, rinse through several
Waters. Use Ivory 8oap and do not rub the
soap on the dress. Wring as dry as possible,
wrap in a sheet or clean cotton cloth, and,
when partially dry, iron.
Eu*anob B. Pirns.
A decayed apple eaten by a schoolboy in
Dublin caused a fatal attack of ptomaine
poisoning.
Teostnte and Billion Dollar Grass.
The two greatest fodder plants on earth,
one good for 14 ton? of hay and the other
8C tons green fodder per acre. Grows
everywhere, so does Victoria Rape, yielding
60,000 lbs. sheep and swine food per
acre. [A.C.L.]
JUST SEND 10C. IN STAMPS TO THE
John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis.,
and receive in return their big catalog and
lots of farm seed samples.
! Some men trust to luck in this world,
j and some others are lucky to get trusted.
IamsurePiso'sCure forConsumptionsavod
J my life three years ago.?Mas. Thomas Bobbins,
Maple St., Norwich, N.Y., Feb. 17,1900.
i By gaining round after round of apj
plause the orator climbs the ladder of
i fame.
A Father's Protection,
i Father, it is as essential for vou to
i provide a safeguard against that night*
I fiend to your children, croup, as to their
j hunger. Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of
j Sweet Gum and Mullein will cure cough,
j croup and colds.
At druggists, 25c., 50c. and $1.00 a bottle.
At one time it was the belief in Russia
; that a beardless man was soulless.
j Th9 agent of the Penobscot Indians
in Maine reports that there are now
396 members of the tribe, a gain of
two during the past year.
A Professional Nurse Tells Her Experience
With Doan's Kidney Pills.
Montague, Mass.
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not speak or move, but by making a
i great effort after the cramp had left
me I could begin to speak and move a
little, but my whole back was so sore
and lame that I could not even have the
back bathed for some time. My nerves
were in a terrible state. I would rather
sit up at night than go to bed, dreading
the cramps and the terrible backaches.
I consulted physicians, but got
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Seeing your advertisement, my mother
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j After using one box I was better, and
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Words cannot exDres3 mv thanks to
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A SERMON FOE SUNDAY;
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE BY THE 1
REV. DR. ROBERT COLLYER. f
He Took For FTU Subject * Lijjht on a ! ;
Hidden W.iv "?Every Life Should lie
an Open. Self-Contained Frovidence? ; <
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t-oBt* ?n nt'ari aiiu jiujict i
Brooklyn-, X. Y.?Dr. Robert Collrer,
who recently passed his eightieth birthday.
freached Sunday morning in the Second 1
nitarian Church. The audience filled '
the church and listened with great atten
tion to the eloquent words of the famous
preacher. Dr. Collyer took for his subject
'Light on a Hidden Way." His text was j
Job iii: a: "Why is light given to a man
whose way is hid?" He said:
"The Book of Job." says Thomas Carlyle, '
"is one of the grandest things ever written
with a pen; our first statement, in books, \
of the problem of the destiny of man and
the way God takes with him on this <
earth; grand in its simplicity and epic [ '
melody, sublime in its sorrow and recon- 1
ciliation: a choral melody, old as the 1
heart of man. soft as the summer mid- i
night, wonderful as the world with its ?
seas and stars; and there is no other thing '
in the Bible, or out of it, of equal merit." 1
I suppose it is not possible now to tell J
whether the book is a true story or a sort 1
of Oriental drama. The question is one *
that will always keep the critics at work <
as long as there are rational and what '
ought, in all fairness, to be caHed not |
rational schools in theology. My own *
idea is that the rude outline of the story <
was floating about the desert, as the story ]
of Lear or Macbeth floated about in later J
times among our own fore-elders, and that, '
like those great dramas, it was taken into a
the heart of some man now forgotten and '
fame out again endowed with this won- '
drous quality of inspiVation and life, that [
will bear it onward through all time. But 1
whatever the truth may be in this direc- 3
tion this is clear, that when Job put the t
question I have taken for a text he was as j
far down in the world as a man can be ?
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ITilV iO itVb uwugwu %jj ..
Job had been the richest man in the
countryside, honored by all who kaew hira
for his*wisdom, his goodness or hisi money. :
He was notv so poor that, he says, men ;
derided him whose fathers he would n.ot j
have set with the dozs of his flock. He :
had been a sound, healthy man full of
human impulses and activities; he had been
sight to the blind, feet to the lame, a
father to the poor and a defender of the
oppressed. He was now a diseased and !
broken man, sitting in the ashes of a
ruined home; his fire3 all gone out, his
household goods all shattered, his children
all dead, and his wife, the moth(r of his
ten children, lost to the mighty love which
will take ever so delicate and trut-hearted s
a woman at such a time and nrake her t
a tower of strength to the man. His wife, 1
who should have 9tood, as the angels stand. 1
at once by his side and above hint, turned t
on him in his uttermost sorrow, end said, t
"Curse God, and die." t
Two things, in this sad time, seem to *
have smitten Job with unconquerable }
pain. First, he could not make his condi- 1
tion chord with his conviction of what j
ought to have happened. He had been *
trained to believe in the axiom we put up }
in our Sunday-schools, that to be good is to 1
be happy. 2so\v he had been good and yet
here he was. as miserable as it was pos- ^
sible for u man to be. And the worst of |
all was. he could not deaden down to the ]
level of his misery. The light given him 1
on the divine justice would not let him *
rest. His subtle spirit, pierced, restless, J
dissatisfied, tried him every moment. (
Questions like these came up in his mind: t
'^Vhy have I lost my money? I made it *
honestly, and made good use of it. Why i
is my home ruined ? I never brought u;;>on f
* i v _ t 1
it one snaaow 01 disgrace, way am 11 ;
bereaven of my children, and worse than
bereaven of my wife? If this is the result
of goodness, where i? cause and effect?
What is there to hold on by, if all this
misery and mildew can come of upright,
downright truth and purity?"
Questions like these forced themselves
upon him and would not be silenced. If
these spirits that troubled him could have
whispered. "Now, Job, what is the use of
your whining? You know that you have
got just what you deserve; that you are
a poor, old pewter Pecksniff, with not one
grain of r;al silver about you. Your whole
life has been a sham."
The second element in Job's miserv
seems to lie in the fact that there appeared
to be light everywhere except on his own
life. If life would only strike a fair average;
if other good meif had suffered, too,
or even tad men?then he could bear it
better. Eut the world went on just the
same. The sun shone with as much
splendor as on his wedding day. The moon
poured out her tides of moulton gold, night
fretted the blue vault with fires, tree*
blossomed, birds sang, and young men aud
maidens (lanced under the palrn.i. Other
homes were full of gladness. This man
had sold his clip for a great price; the i
lightning had slain Job's sheep. Tkit | j
man had done well in dates; the tornado J
had twisted Job'a trees down. Nay, woret ]
of all, here were wicked men, nighty .in 1
wealth; their houses in peace, without fear; <
their children established in their sight, f
sending forth little ones like a flork, spend- 1
ing their days in prosperity and yet sav- 1
ing, ''Who is the Almighty that we should i
fear Him?" While here he was, a poor;
wreck, stranded on a desolate shore: a
broken man. crying, "Oh, that it were with me
as in days gone by, when the candle of ]
the Lord shone round about me; when I <
took my seat in the market place, and j
justice was my robe and diadem? When I j
think of it, I am confounded. One dieth j
in the fullness of his prosperity, wholly ;
at ease and quiet; another dieih in the j
bitterness of nis soul, not haviig tasted (
pleasure. How is it? What does it mean? ?
Whv is light given to a man whcse way is i
hid?" .
Now, I suppose that not many men ever
fall into such supreme desolation as this, i
that is made to centre in the life of this
most sorrowful man. "It is the possible
of that which is in itself positu-a^ But <
then, it is true that we may reach out in
all directions and find men and women
who are conscious of the light shining, but i
who cannot find the way; whose condition
will not chord with their conception of
life, and who, in a certain sense, would
be better if they were not so good. The
very perfection of their nature is the way
by which they are most easily bruised.
Keen, earnest, onward, not satisfied to be
below their own ideal, they are yet
turned so woefully this way and that by
adverse circumstances that, at the last,
they come to accept their life as a doom,
and bear it in grim silence, or they cut
the masts when the storm conies and
drift, a helpless hull, broadside to the
breakers, to go down finally like a stone.
A young man comes to town from the
countrv full of nurpose and hope. He finds
difficulties confront him; he strives, but
remains poor. At last, when hungry anil
faint ana alone, the devil comes?a nice
person, probably, but still a devil?and
tempts him. The young man yields. Or.
he succeeds, and then slides into the belief
i"* it-. !11 i
mat mere is a iroviaence mat win accp
him prosperous because he is a good man.
Disaster conies, and he loses his all. including
ais belief in God. Or, a maiden
leaves her home full of trust and love.
Under adverse conditions she loses hope,
and asks: "Why i3 life given when the
wav is hid?"
Or. here, in the larger life, is a prince
and leader of men. The roots of his power
begin to ramify through all the land. He
Bfems to be the one indispensable man of
the time. In the sorest need of all, he is
smitten down and dies. Or here is a
great cause, reaching back into a great
principle. The light of the divine justice
shines on the principle and so wins men
; to it that they cannot rest. Year after
year they will stand, suffering, toiling,
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dying for tlicir cause; but tbo wav does
not open. Yet they cannot choose but follow
the light. ]f tlie light had not shone
so.in our own land we might have ground
along in some sort of affinity to s.avery,
It was light pouied on the conscience oi
the nation that brought on the war; it
was light shining through the darkness
that kept the nation steady, IHad no
such light shone, we should have constructed
a new Union with the snaekles
of the slave for a wedding ring. Hut the
light stood like a wall of tire; yet bow long
it was j>nly a iij;ht shining on a hidden
way! Our homes, b.acK with acso.ation;
fathers, mothers, wives, only putting on a
cheerful look, because they would not, by
their sadness, dishearten the great hear:
51 the nation.
And so, I say. in men and nations you
will find everywhere this discord between
Lhe longing that is in the soul, and what
the raart can do. Our life, as some one
said of the Cathedral of Cologne, seems to
be a broken promise made to Cod.
Now, in trying to find some solution of
this question, I want to say frankly that
[ cannot pretend to make the mystery all
dear, so that it will give you no more
trouble; because I cannot put a girdle
ivound the world in forty minutes, and
llso because a full solution must depend
jreatlv on our own dissolution, i believe,
liso, that the man who thinks he has left
nothing unexplained, in the mystery of
providence and life, has rather explained
nothing. I listen to him, if I am in trou)le,
and then go tome and break mv heart
ill the same, because I see that he has not
>nly not cleared up the mystery, tyit that
le does not know enough ahout it to
;rouble him. The "Prineinia" and the
ingle Rule of Three are alike simple and
fasy to him because he does not know the
Etule of Three. And so I cannot be satsfied
with the last words which some later
land has added tc the book that holds this
tad history. They tell us how Job has all
lis property doubled, to the last ass and
:amel?has seven sons again and three
laughters, has entire satisfaction of all
lis accusers, live3 a hundred and forty
rears, sees four generations of his line and
hen dies?satisfied.
Need I say that this solution will not
itand the test of life, and that if life, on
Jie average, came out so irorn us most
xying ordeal, there would be little need
or our sermons. For then, every life
vould be - an op sn, self-contaiued provilence
and the last page in time would vinlicate
the first. Men do not so live and
lie; and such cannot have been the primi;ive
conclusion of the history. It has
leeper meaning and a sublimer justifica;ion,
or it had never been inspired by the
Koly Ghost.
And this issure to suggest itself to you
is you read the story, that Job, in his
Touble, would have lost nothing and
piined very much if he had not been so imvitient
in coming to the conclusion that
lod had left him, that life was a mere
ipple of Sodom, that he had backed up to
p-eat walls of fate and he bad not a fnend
eft on the earth. His soul, looking through
ler darkened windows, concluded the heav:ns
were dark. The neihre, quiv4ring at
he gentlest touch, mistook the ministraion
of mercy for a blow. He might have
ound some cool shelter for his agony; he
jreferred to sit on the ashes in the burnne
sun. He knew not where the nest
obe was to come from; this did not deter
lim from tearing to' shreds the robe that
vas to shelter him from the keen winds.
It was a dreadful trial at the best; it was
fforse for his way of meeting it; and,
then he was at once in the worst health
end temper possible, he said: "Why is
ight given to a man whose way is hid?"
is not this, now, jis it was then, one of the
nost serious misiakes that can be made?
[ try to solve j.Teat problems of provilence,
perhaps, when I am so unstrung as
be entirely unfitted to touch tneir
nore subtle, delicate and far reaching harnonies.
As well might you decide on some
requisite anthem when your organ is
woken, and conclude there is no music
n it because you can make no music of
t, as, in such a condition of life and such
i temper of the SDirit. trv to find these
jreat harmonies of God. When I am in
;rouble, then, and darkness comes down
m me like a pall, the first question ought
;o be, "How much of this unbelief about
wovidence and life, like Cowper's sense
)f the unpardonable sin, comes from the
nost material disorganization? Is the
iarkness ][ feel in the soul, or is it on the
windows through which the soul must
?ee?" Then, clear on this matter, the
nan tried so will endeavor to stand at the
irst, where this sad hearted man stood
iz the last, in the shadow of the Almighty,
f he must stand in a shadow, and hold on
/? fVio s>nnfi^onr>p fhnf. Rnmewhpre within
ill this trial ia the eternal, the shallow of
i great rock in a weary land. Friends
>peculate all about the mystery, and their
:onclusions from their premises are entire'y
:orrect; but they have forgetten to take
n the separate sovereign will of God, as
vorking out a great purpose in the man's
ife, by which he is to be lifted into a
rrander reach of insight and experience
ihan ever he had before. Job said: "I
suffer, I am in darkness and disappointment
and pain, because it is fate." Job's
friends said: "Xo, you suffer because voa
iave sinned. Rushes never grow without
mire." They were both wrong; and all
wrong. He suffered because that was the
divine Way of bringing him out of hia
sleek, well satisfied content; and when
:hrough suffering this was done he said: "I
bave heard of Thee with mine ears, but
now mine eye seeth Thee."
If I had never gone into darkened rooms,
where the soul stands at the parting of the
worlds; or sat down beside widows and
little children, when the desire of their
:yes was taken away with a stroke, or
grasped the hands of strong men, when
ill they had toiled for was gone, nothing
left but honor; or ministered to men
mangled on the battlefield beyond all telling:
and heard in till these places where
darkness was on the. way, melodies, melodies
that I never heard among the com
T /vAiiIri r> V>e* CO
ruuiipiaurs ui *. w ->~
s?ire as I aai that God often darkens the
way so that the melody may grow clear
and entire in the soul.
There is a story in the annals of science
touching this principle, that we cannot
struggle faithfully with these things tand
leave thom as we found them. Plato,
piercing here and there with his wonderful
Greek eyes:
"Searching through all, he felt and saw
The springs of life, the depths of awe,
To reach the law within tne law,"
was impressed by the suggestive beauty w
the elliptic figure. He tried to search out
its full meaning, hut died without the
sight. A century and a half after Plato,
Appolonius came, was arrested in the
same way, took un the question where
Plato left it, tried to find out its full
meanings, and died without the sight
And so, says a fine writer, for eighteen
centuries, some of the best minds were
fascinated by this problem, drew from il
strength and discipline; and yet, in all this
time, the problem was an abstract form
a beautiful or painful speculation. It die
not open out into any harmonious prin
ciple. There was light on the thing, but nc
light on the way. In the full time, Keplei
came; sat down "to the study; and by whaj
we call the suggestion of genius, but ougln
to call the inspiration of the Almighty
found that the orbits of the planets wer<
elliptical, and he died. Then Xewcon wm
born, took up the problem where Keplej
had laid it down, made all the establisnei
facts the base cf his mightier labors; and
when he had done, he had shown that the
figure, this problem, which had heid mei
spellbound through the ages, is a prim*
element in the law of universal gravitatior
?at once the most beautiful theory anc
the most absolute conclusion of science
Then men could see how it was, becausi
" 1 1 ' ?J- it. ft,.
uou naa muue iuk iikui< numt ?.<
thing, that the way was found. From Newton
Back tos Plato, in true apsotolic order
every man, bending over this mystery o
a light where there was no way, and wrest
ling faithfully with it, had not only growi
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i ;nor? noble in bis own soul in the siruzp'e,
but he'd done his share toward the sointrcn
> found by this greatest mid Just, who was
I also "born under the law that they might I
. receive the adoption ol sons.''
: &o. I tell you, is this restless search for a ;
: condition that shall answer to our eoncep- ;
i lion; this fascination, which compels i;s i'
i ? t i'. - -t:!_a.?^ ./ , -A '
' io searen ouc cue empuc oi providence, .
the geometric certainty underlying the
i apparent eccenlririty. -And every struggle
t to find this certainty; ever> endeavor to
; plumb the deepest causes of the* discord
between what the nature bears and vmu;
the soul believes: every striving io ;ind
the God o: uuv locticst faith in our darkest
day, will, in some way, aid the demonscra
tion, until, in the full time, some Xewcoa
of the soul will come and, gathering the j
result o: all these struggles between our j
conception of life and our condition j
in life, will make it the base of some
vast generalization, that will bring the I
1 ripest conclusions of the science oi provi- ;
dence into perfect accord with the grand i
apostolic revelation. "We know that ail
things work together for good to them that
love God."
We wrong the deepest revelations of
life when wc are not content to let this
one little segment in the arc of our existence
stand in its own simple, separate
intention, whether it be gladness or gloom;
and trust surely, if we are iaithful, the
full and perfect intention must come out
in the full range of our being. God seldom
perhaps never, works out His visible purpose
in one life, how, then, shall He in one
life work out His perfect will? The dumb
poetry in William Burns, the father, had
to wait for Robert Burns, the son; Bernardo
waited to be perfected in his son,
Torquaio Tasso; William Herschel left
many a problem in the heavens for John
Herschel to make clear; Leopold Mozart
wrestled with melodies that Chrysostom
Mozart found afterward' of themse.ves in
every chamber of his brain, and Raymond
Bonneur needed his daughter Rosa to come
and paint out his pictures lor mm. w.
Reid has said, that when the bee makes *
its cell so geometrically, the geometry is
not in the bee, out in the geometrician that
made the bee. Alas, if in the Maker there
is no such order for us as there is for the
bee! If God so instruct the bee; if God so
feed the bird; if even the lions, roaring
after their prey, seek their meat from
God; if He not only holds the linnet on
the spray, but the lion on the spring, how
shall we dare lose heart and nope?
So, then, while we may not know what
trials wait on any of us, we can believe
that as the days in which this man
wrestled with his dark maladies are the
only days that make him worth remembrance,
and but for which his name had
never been written in the book of life;
so the days through which we struggle,
finding no way, but never losing the light,
will be the most significant we are called
to live. Indeed, men of all ages have
WTestied with this problem of the difference
between the conception and the condition.
Life is full of these appeals, from
the doom that is on us to the love tnat
is over us?irom the God we iear to the
God we worship. The very Christ cries
once; "My God! Why hast Thou forsaken
Me? Yet never did our noblest
and best, our apostles, martyrs and confessors,
flinch finally from their .rust,
that God is light; that life is divine; that
there is a way, though we may not see it;
and have gone singing of their deep confidence,
by fire and cross into the shadow
of death. It is true, nay, it is truest of
all, that "men who suffered countless ills,
in battles for the true and just," have had
the strongest conviction, like old Latimer,
that a way would open in those moments
when it seemed most impossible. Their
light on the tning brought a commanding
assurance that there must somewhere,
sometime, be light on the way.
Aim High.
If one 9eems to promote his own personal
welfare, it is at the best a low aim,
UI1 ?U1 VLV U1 41 I>1 UC mau? utuiouuv.oj| u&
selfness, even of the highest sort, is ever
below what is superior to a man- and any
man and every man should always be aspiring
and striving toward that which i?
superior to himself.
There are two vital difficulties in the
way of a selfish man's strivings for his
own personal good, even the highest. In
the first place, it is a man's duty to seek
what is more important than his own personal
good; and in the second place, the
man who strives to secure his own Highest
personal good is pretty sure to fail
in his pursuit. Any man who does his
duty and fills his place has some object
of pursuit which he deems more important
than himself; and. on the other hand, only
the man who lives for something outside
of himself is successful in his striving.
It is a -mistake and a folly to strive
in an effort where, at the best, be will
hopelessly fail. In every sphere of life
the highst interest of self comes as an in- i
cidental consequence oi living for something
which one deems suoerior to self.
Self is at the best unworthy of our life
! and endeavors.
A citizen wno lives for himself, for his
own welfare and happiness, is not likely
; to have happiness, or to find true enjoyl
ment, or to secure the highest personal
welfare. His fellow-citizen3 are pretty
!? sure to be giving their thoughts ana best
I regard to those who show themselves
" worthy of their devotion and honor.
^ .Striving to gain in one's own way one's
, personal good is, at the best, a low aim.
A better way is living for others, denying
self for the good of others, or in obedience
5 to God, and to honor Him. Those who
' live for self dishonor God and lose their
; best selves. Those who live for God. or
[ for those to whom they are sent or set in
the providence of God, honor God, and
; incidentally have honor secured to them
selves.?Sunday School Times.
, "Pray. Through."
An interesting incident of how far-reach
ing is the influence of two words, occurred
? recently at Liverpool, England, during the
' j Torrey-Alexander meeting. Mr. Alexander
j had occasion to co with a friend to one of j
I the leading banks in the city, in order '
t: to exchange some American coinage for
; British currency. While he was waiting .
I ' ~ /?/*/ ? /NT* f-'f TT> fT I
k I <X is til (J tUUUtti 14C UUbtU vu vuw I
. j paper in front of him the words "Pray
t! through," which he had been using in the '
course of an address. These word9 formed
the motto of the convention at the Moody
Bible Institute at Chicago. Almost unconsciously
Mr. Alexander wrote the two
. words several times on the blotting paper;
[ then, having finished his business in the
; bank, he ana his friend left. Shortly after
wards a customer of the bank came in.
He had been passing through a time of
; great anxiety, and while he was waiting at
j the counter his eye fell on the words. ;
1 "Pray through." It interested him. and i
' he asked the clerk who had written them.
| The clerk was not able to tell him. but the '
[ gentleman felt it was a direct message to !
' himself to cease his anxiety and to con- i
5 His crown; be sure that unless you follow
f tinue in prayer until the cause of it was
; removed, or he was given strength to un|
1 derstand the Divine plan.
Helping tlie Poor,
The great need of the world to-day is j
not some one to bear its burden for it, |
i but some one who will teach ic how to
j bear its own burden. There is much done
! for the poor and afflicted in the name of
I charity that falls far short of the highest
, helpfulness. On every nand organizations
j are springing up^ to provide rood for the
t I hungry and c.otmng^ tor tne .iai<ea, ana
; some Christians are fcoiish enough to say
i that they are of more value to the eomI
munity than the church. To improve a
. man's circumstances without improving the
j man is to do him more of evil than of ?ood.
; It is better to open the eyes of the blind
- and thus enabie him to provide for him- i
. self than to give him alms. The cure of
f pauperism will not be found in the generosity
of the rich, but in the regeneration
i of the poor.?W. W. Week3, D. D.
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WIND SHIELD NOT LEGITIMATE.
^Harness Expe-t Expresses Himself In
; Opposition to the Rifl. V
i Among harness horsemen a question
often discussed is whether or
not the wind shield was largely re- .
sponsible for some of the new records
made this year. Concerning the
wind-shield question, H. S. Johnson,
of Perry, Okla., writes a3 follows: < *
"Improvements in footing, shade and
level for tracks, as well as improvements
and inventions of modern devices
in the form of sulkies, harness,
appliances, shoeing, booting and 4 f
guards, also legitimate and careful
study of points, have rzsulted in lowering
to its present standard the reoord
from that made in 1856 by Flora
Temple in -2.24%, the fastest harness
mile ever recorded. The assistance,
known as scientific intelligence, applied
to the improvement of the condition
of the track, driver, vehicle,
harness and horse, renders him the
greatest individual possible hampered
by the least amount of internal trietion
in the machinery of his accompanying
counterpart of driver and conveyance.
*>.
"The second legitimate line of improvement
is the result of a like Intelligence
carefully classified and ajh
plied to the points of breeding. The
best is selected and from it raised a
family of offspring from which the
best again i3 selected and the procese
going on through the years results in
the internal improvement of the
horse. Such is the legitimate. Aside
from this all is illegitimate. ; \
"The wind shield has nothing te
do with improvement of brack, driver,
vehicle, harness, horse individual, his
bread or hie progeny; Tb# wind
shield is designed to remove resist^
ance of the atmosphere and canse ft
moving current of air having a draw
ing effect to be set in motion imme> - \
diately in advance of the horse being
tested. It brings about an artificial
condition recognized neither in nature ^
nor in science. It is no more legitt- /, ;
mate than 'to arrange a track that
is all down hill. If the removal of the
atmospheric resistance is to be recognized
then th-a removal of the resistance
of gravity will come next and
the test of speed will be developing '
of horses sufficiently strong In the
shoulders to stand the work of going
down hill at a breakneck pace. If we
have the wind shield why not have >
the corkscrew or spiral-shaped track , |
on a descending plane and thereby
overcome the resistance of gravity,
instead of operating on the dead level
&3 we do now?
"In addition to this help another
will come, and equally as legitimately }
as the wind shield, in the form 01{
wings or flies placed on axles of the
sulky in like position as the fan of
- a. ?1_ j in i
me present muuuuu, nucicu; mm
speed of the horse and progress win
cause a lifting effect upon the body
and sulk/ behind him in proportion
to the amount of speed attained, aa<
thereby lighten the weight and bearing
of sulky and driver."
FOR GOOD. ' /:%
Maud?I understand you are about *!
to lose the young pastor that has - *
been preaching for you the &st year
or two.
Mabel?Yes; he's going to be married
next week.?Chicago Tribune. \ M
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WEATHER SIGNS. Z
"tars. Strongley?John, mother is '
coming to spend a week with us.
Mr. Strongley?Thunder and light- '
ning.
Mrs. Strongley?No, just reign.?
Butte Inter-Mountain. I
APPRECIATIVE. /i
Fond Parent?I understand the fa?- * ,
ulty are very much pleased with your
work.
Dropped Junior?Yes, they encored
my sophomore year.?Princeton Tiger.
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THE PIN. "* ' . -^i
She?Woman's weapon is th? pto. '
It is mightier than the swordHe?You
are right The hatpin has
become almost as formidable in public
as the rolling pin is in the homt?
TAKING THE CHANCES.
"Some day you will reap the come*
quencs of your sins."
"Yes, of course; but there'll be lots
of new harvesting machinery invented *
by that time."
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