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A Regret,
Oft, $outd yo hilt liuvo noon, vrhU?.they **ov<?
oura, > c
Thogvooo of (layo forovor pasaod awayi
Had wo but foll tho beauty of tho flowers
Thatbloomod for us-boforo thoy knew do?
o?yj
Could w? havo known how wo ehouM yearn
in vain
For looks and smiles no moro to great our
sight,
Or how tho fruitless i oars would fall Uko rain
For hours of swoot oommunlon, vanished
quite;
Their worth tous-had wobutbottor known,
Thon had wo hold thom doaror, while our own,
Had kept somo ealvogo from tho joys o'or
thrown,
And lonollnossUeolt has found us loss alone!
-Agnos Maulo Maohar, In Coutury.
TALMAUE'S SERMON.
Dr. Talmage's Discourse on tho Growth
and Perfection of Christianity
Although Pr. Talmago was hindorod
from attonding tho groat annual moot
ing of the Christaia EndsAVor society
at Cincinnati, his sormon shows him to
bo in ?ympathy with tho groat tuovo
mont; toxt. Amos ix; 13, "Behold
tho days oomo, saith tho Lord, that
tho plowman shall ovortako tho roaper."
Unablo booauao of othor important
dutios to aooopt tho invitation to
tako part in tho groat convention of
Christian Endoavorors at Cincinnati,
bogun last wook, 1 proaoh a sormon of.
congratulation for all tho members of
that magnifioont association, whether
now gathered in vast assomblago or
busy in thoir places of usefulness,
transatlantic and oisatlantio, and aa it
is now harvest timo in tho Holds and
sioklor aro Hashing in tho gathoring of
a groat orop, I find mighty suggestive
ness in my text.
It is a pioturo of a tropical elimo,
with a soason so prosperous that tho
harvest roaohos olear o vor to tho plant
ing time, and tho swarthy husbandman
busy cutting tho grain, almost fools tho
broath of tho horses on his shoulders,
tho horso hitohod to tho plow, prepar
ing for a now crop. "Bohold tho days
como, saith tho Lord, tho plowman
shall ovortako tho roapor." Whon is
that? That is now. That is this dav
whon hardly havo you dono reaping ono
harvost' of roligious rosult than tho
plowman is getting roady for anothor.
In phraseology oharged with all
venom and abuso ond oaricaturo I know
that ingolds and agnostics havo declar
ed that,Christianity has oollapsod: that
tho Biblo is an obsoleto book; that tho
Christian ohuroh is on tho rotrcat. 1
shall answer thal wholesale ohargo to
day.
Botwoon 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 En
doavors sworn boforo high hoavon that
they will do all thoy oan to tako
Amoroa for God. Europo for God.
Asia and Afrioa for God-aro not tho
sign most ohooring? Or, to roturn to
tho agrioultural figuro of my toxt, moro
than a million roapors aro overtaken by
moro than a million plowmon. Besides
this, thoro aro moro pooplowho bolicvo
in the Bible lhau at any time in thc
world's cxistonoo. An Arab guido was
loading a French infidel across tho de
sert, and over and anon tho Arab guido
wculd got down in tho sand and pray to
tho Lord. It disgusted tho Fronoh in
fidel) end aftor awhilo, as tho Arab got
up from ono of his prayers, tho infidel
said, "How do you know thoro ia any
God?" And tho Arab guido said:
"How do 1 know that a man and a
camel pasBod by our tont last night? 1
know it by tho footprint in tho sand,
And you want to know how I know
whothor thoro ^is any God? Look at
tho sunsot. Is that tho footstep of a
man?" And by tho samo process you
and I havo oomo to undoistand thal
this book is tho footstep of God.
But now lot us soo whothor tho book
is a last your's almanac Lot us soo
whothor tho ohuroh of God is a Bull
Ruo rotroat, muskets, oantoons and
havoreaoks strowing all tho way. Tho
groat English historian Sharon Turnor,
a man of vast loaming and groat ao
ouraoy, nota olorgyman but an attornoy
ns well as a historian, gi vos this ovor
wholming statistic in regard to Chris
tianity and in rogard to tho numbor of
Christains in tho different centuries;
In tho first oontury 500.000 Christiane,
in tho sooond oontury 2.000,000 Chris
tians, in tho third oontury 5,000,000
Christians, in tho fourth oontury 10,
000,000 Christians, in tho fifth oontury
15,000 000 Christians, in tho sixth oon
tury 20,000,000 Christains, in tho
sovonth oontury 24 000,000 Christians,
in tho oight oontury 30,000,1)00 Chris
tions, in tho ninth oontury 40,000,000
Ohristainfl, in tho tonth oontury 50,
000,000 Christians, in tho olovonth oon
tury 70,000,000 Christians, in tho
twolth oontury 80,000,0000 Christians,
in tho thirteenth oontury 75,000,000
Christains, in tho fourtconth oontury
80,000,000 Christians, in tho fiftoonth
oontury 100,000,000 Christians, in tho
sixtoonth oontury 125,000,000 Chris
taina, in tho soventoonth oontury 155f
000,000 Christians, in tho oightoonth
oontury 200,000,030 Ohristaina-a do
oadonoo, as you observo, in only ono
oontury, and moro than mado up in tho
following oonturios, wmlo it is tho
usual computation that thoro woro at
tho close of tho nineteenth oontury
470,000,000 Christians, making us to
boliovo that boforo this oontury is dos
ed tho millennium will havo startod
its boom and liftod its hosanna.
Poor Christianity 1 What a pity it hos
no friondal How lonesome it must bot
Who will tako it out of tho poorhouse?
Poor Christianity I Four hundrod mil
lions in ono oontury. In a fow wooka
of thia yoar 2,500,000 oopios.of tho Now
Tostamont distributed. Why, tho oarth
is liko an old oa&tlo with 20 gatos and a
park of arti]lory roady to thundor down
ovory gato. Soo how hoathondom is ho
ing surrounded and honeycombed and
attaokod by this all oonquoring gospol.
At tho beginning of tlio nineteenth
oontury 150 missionaries; at tho oloso
of that oontury 84,000 missionaries and
nativo helpers and ovangolists. At
tho boginning of tho nineteenth oon
tury thoro woro only 50,000 oonvorts.
Now thoro aro ovor 1,000,000 oonvorts
from hoathondom.
You all know that an important work
of nn army is to plant tho battorios. It
may tako many days to plant tho bat
torios, and thoy nay do all tho work in
ton minutos. Thoso gospol battorios
aro hoing planted all along tho soaooasts
and in all nations. It may tako a good
whilo to plant thom, and thoy may do
all their work in ono day. Thoy will.
Nations aro to bo born in a day. . But
just oomo baok to Christendom and
rooognizo tho faot that during tho last
ton years as many pooplo havo connected
thonieolvoswith ovangolioal churches as
connected thomsol ves with tho churches
in tho first 50 yoars of last oontury. So
Christianity is falling baok, and tho
Biblo, thoy say, is boooming an obso
loto book. I go into a oourt, and wher
ever I find a judge's bonoh or a olork's
dosk I find a Biblo. Upon what book
could thoro bo uttorod tuo solemnity of
an oath? What book is apt to bo put
in tho trunk of tho young man as ho
loavoB for olly lifo?- Tho Bible. What
shall I find in nino out of ovory ton
homo in this oity? Tho Biblo. Tn
nino out of every tea homo lo Ohrlnton
?lom? Tho Biblo. Voltaire wroto Ibo
prophecy that tho Biblo iu tho nino
toonth century would boootno oxtinot,
Tho oontury ia gonoj and I havo to toll
you that tho room in whioh Voltaico
wroto that prophooy not long ar?o waa
orowded from floor to coiling with Bi
bios from Switzerland.
Suppoco tho oongrous of tho United
Statos should poss a l;,w that thoro
shculd bo no moro Biblob printod in
Amorioa and no Bibles read. If thoro
aro 00,000,000 grown pooplo iu tho
Unitod States, thoro would bo 60,000,
000 pooplo in an army to # put down
s?oh a law and dofond thoir right to
road tho Hildo. But eupposo tho oon
groas of tho Unitod Statos should make
a law against) tho roading or tho publi
cation of any othor book, how many
pooplo would go rut in suoh a oruaado?
Could you got 60,000,000 pooplo to go
out and risk their lives in tho dofonso
of Shakospcaro's tragodioa or Glad
stono's traota or Maoaulay's "History
of longland?" You know that thoro
aro a thousand mon who would dio In
tho dofonso of this book whore thoro
is not more than ono man who would
dio in tho dofonso of any other book.
You try to insult my common sonso by
telling mo tho Biblo is fading out from
tho world. It io tho most popular book
of tho conturios.
How do I know it? I know it just
as 1 know in rogard to othor booka.
How many volumos of that history aro
published? Woll, you aay 5,000. How
many copies of another hook aro pub
lished? A hundrod thousand. Whioh
is tho moro popular? Why, of oourso,
tho ono that has tho hundrod thousand
circulation. And if this book hm moro
oopios abroad ia tho world, if thero aro
fivo timos as many Bibloa abroad as any
othor book among civilizod nations,
! doon not that show you that tho most
popular book on oarth today ?B tho
word of God?
"Oh," say pooplo, "tko ohuroh isa
collection of hypocrites, and it is los
iog itB powor and it is fading out from
tho world." Ia it? A bishop of-tbo
Mothodist ohuroh told mo that that do
nomination avoragos two now ohurohos
ovory day. In othor words, thoy build
730 oburohes in that denomination in a
yoar, and thoro aro at loast 1,500 now
Christian ohurohos built in Amnrina
ovory year. Dooo that look as though
tho Christian ohuroh woro fading out,
as though it woro a def unot institution?
What stands noarost to tho hoarts of
tho Amorioan pooplo today? I do not
caro in what villago or what oity or
what neighborhood you go. What is
it? ls it tho postoflioo? Is it tho
hotol? Is it tho looturlng hall? Ah,
you know it is not I You know , that
that whioh stands noarost to tho heartu
of tho American pooplo is tho Chris
tian ohuroh.
You may talk about tho ohuroh bo
in?; a collection of hypoorites, but
whon tho diphthoria swoops your phil
dron off whom do you sond foi? The
postmaster, tho attorney genoral, thc
hotol koopor, aldorman? No. You
send for a minister of this Biblo rolig
ion. And if you havo not a room ic
your houso for tho obsoquioa, what
buildiog do you solioit? Do you say
'Givo mo tho fi cost room in tho ho
tel?" Do you say, "Givo mo thai
theater?" Do you say, "Givo mo tba
publio building whore I oan lay ni]
doad for a little whilo until wo say i
prayor ovor it?" No. You say. "Giv<
ua tho houso of God." >Yud if thoro i
a song to bo sung at tho obsequies
what do you want? What does any
body want? Tho "Marseillaise Hymn?
"God Save tho Qaoon?" Our owi
grand national air? No. Thoy wan
tho hymn with whioh thoy sang thoi
old Christian mother into her lae
aloop, or thoy want sung tho Sabbat
sohool hyma whioh thoir iittlo girl san
tho last Sabbath aftornoon sho was ou
before sho got that awful sickness whio
bioko your hoart. I appoal to you
common sonso. You know tho mos
ondoaring institution on earth, th
most popular institution on oarth today
is tho ohuroh of tho Lord Joaua Christ
A man ia a fool that doos uotroeogniz
it.
Tho infidola say: "Thoro is groa
liberty now for infidola; froodom c
platform. Infidelity shows itu powc
fi om tho faot that it in ovory whore toi
orated, and it oan aay what it will.
Why, my frionds, infidelity is not hal
so blatant in our day as it waa in th
days of our fathers. Do you know tbs
in tho days of our fathers thoro wei
pronounced it li lois in publio author
ty, and thoy could got any politior
position? Lot a man todiy doolai
himself antagonistio to tho Chrisiia
roligion, and what oity wants him fe
mayor; what ntato wants him for govei
nor; what nation wautu bini for pros
dont or for king? Lot a man oponl
proclaim bimmil tho onomy of or
glorious Christianity, and ho oannt
got a majority of votos in any state, i
any oity, in any oountry, in any war
of Amorioa.
A distinguished infidol yoars ago ri<
ing in a rail oar in Illinois said. "Win
has Christianity ovor dono?'' An ol
Christian woman said: "It has dor
ono good thing anyhow. It has kopt n
infidol from hoing governor of Illinois.
A4 I stood in tho sido room ofthoopoi
houso of Peoria, Ills., & promt no nt ge i
?loman ol that oity said, I o?n Uli ye
tho uoorot of that eromondous bitlorno
against Christi/?.nity." Said I, "Wat
it?" "Why, Baid ho, "in this vc
houso there waa a groat ooovontion
nominate a governor, and thoro wo
tinco or four candidates. At tho san
timo thoro was in a ohuroh in this oi
a Sabbath sohool oonvontion, and
happened that ono of tho mon who w
in tho Sabbath sohool oonvontion w
also a moinbor of tho politioal oonvo
don. In tho politioal* oonvontion tl
namo highest on tho roll at that tin
and about to bo nominated was tho nan
of tho grqat champion infidol. Tho
was an adjournmont botwoon ballot
and in tho afternoon, whon tho non
nations woro boing mado, a plain f ann
got up and said: 'Mr, Chairman, th
nomination must not bo mado. T
Sunday schools of Illinois will dofc
him.' That ondod all proapoot of 1
nomination."
Tho Christian roligion is mightier t
day than it ovor was. Do you thi
that suoh a scono could bo onaotod n<
as was onaotod in tho days of Kobi
piorro, whon a shamoloBS woman v,
olovatod to tho dignity of agoddoss a
oarriod in a goldon ohair to aoathord
whoro inoonso was burnod to hor a
pooplo bowod down boforo hor as
divino boing, sho taking tho plaoo
tho Biblo and God, whilo iu tho c
ridor of that cathedral woro onad
Buoh Boonos of drunkonnoso and <
bauchory aa had novor boforo be
witnosBod? Do you think suoh a thi
oould possibly ooour inOhriatondom
day? No. Tho polioo of Waahingti
or of Now York, or of Paris wot
swoop upon it. I know infidelity mal
a good deal of talk in our day. Ono
fidol can mako groat oxoitomont, but
oar toll you on what prinoiplo it is.
is on tho prinoiplo that if a man jun
ovorboard from an oooan liner ho ma!
more cxoitoment than all tho 500 v
stay on board. But tho faot that
jump;, ovorboard doos not stop tho el
Dooa tlmfc wrook tho SOO paflflongora?
It inakoa KVtTit oxoitomont when a mau
j ii m pa from tho loot uv i np, platform or
from tho pulpit into infidolity, but dooB
that koop tho Biblo or tho oburoh from
oarrying millions of poaaongora to tho
shoro of otornal safotj ?
ThoBo oppononta Boy that soionoo ia
ovorooming roligion in our day. Thoy
look through tho spootaolos bf tbo in
fido u soiontints, and thoy say: "It is
impoBBiblo that thia book bo truo. Poo
plo oro finding it out. Tho Biblo has
got td go overboard. Soionoo ia going
to throw it overboard." Do you boliovo
that tho Biblo aooount of tho origin of
lifo will bo ovorthrowo by infidel aoion
tista who havo 50 di fieront thoorioa
about tho origin of lifo? If thoy should
all oomo up in solid phalanx, all agroo
ingon ono sandmont and ono thoory,
por haps Christianity might bo dnmagod,
but thoro aro not to many differouoos
of opinion insido the oburoh as outsido
tho ohuroh. Oh, it makes ino sick to soo
tlioso litorary fops going along with a
copy of Dar arin under ono arm and a !
of sn of transfixed grasshoppers and but- j
toi fi40 un er tho othor arm tolling about.j
tho "survival of tho fittost" and Hux
ley's protoplasm and tho nebular hy
pothesis Tho faot ia that somo natu
ralists just as soon aa tboy find out tho
difforonoo bctwoon tho foolers of a wa ip
and (bo horns of a bootle begin to pat
ronize tho Almighty, whilo Agassiz,
glorious Agassiz, who novor mado any
protonsion to b ing a Christian, puts
both his foot on tho dootrino of ovolu
tion and Bays: "I soo that many of tho
naturalists of our day aro adopting foots
whioh do not bear observation, or havo
not passed undor objorvatiou. Thoso
mon warring with each othor--1)irwin
waning against Litnaroh, Wallaoo war
ring against Cope, ovon Ilorsobol de
nouncing Ferguson. Thoy do not agroo
about anything. Thoy do not agroo on
tho gradation of tho spooios."
What do thoy agroo on? Ilorsobol
writ os a wholo ohaptor on tho tho orr ors
of astronomy. La Piaoo declares that
tho moon was not put in tho right
plaoo. Ho says if it had boon put four
timos farther from tho earth than -it is
now thoro would bo moro harmony in
tho universo, but L:onvillo comos up
just in timo to provo that tho moon was
put in tho right plaoo. How many
oolorn w?y?n into tho lighi? Huvon.
says Isaao Nowton. Throo, soys David
Brcwstor. How high is tbo ourora
borealis? Two and a half miles, says
Lias. Ninoty iniloB, say othor soion
tists. How far is tho sun from tho
oarth? Sovonty-six million milos, says
Laoallo, Eighty-two million, sayb Hum
boldt. Ninoty million milos, says Hen
derson. Ooo hundred and four million
milos, says Mayor. Only a littlo differ
ence of 28,000,000 milosl All split up
among thomsolvos-^-not agrooing on
anything.
Il ero thoso infidel soiontists havo im
paneled themselves as a jury to decide
this trial botwoon Infidolity, tho plain
tiff, and Christianity, tho dofondant,
ana aftor hoing out for oonturios thoy
como in to rondor their vordiot. Gen
tlomon of tho jury, havo you agcood on
a vordiot? No, no. Thon go baok for
another 500 years and deliberate and
agroo on something. Thoro is not o
poor miaorablo wretch in thc oity prison
tomorrow that could bo ooo detuned by
a jury that did not agroo on tho vordiot,
and yot you oxpoot us to givo up our
glorious Christianity to picoso thoso
mon who cannot agroo on anything
Ah, my friends, tho ohuroh of
Jesus Carist instead of falling baok is
on tho ad van oo. I am certain it is on
tho advanoo. I soo tho glittering of tho
swords; I.,hoar tho tramping of tho
troops; I hoar tho thundering parks of
artillery. O G ?d, I thank theo that I
havo boon porinittoa to seo this day of
thy triumph, this day of tho oonfusion
ot chino onomiofll O Lord God, toko
thy sword from thy thigh and rido forth
to tho victory 1
I am'mightily encouraged lccauso I
find, among othor things that whilo thia
Christianity bas boon bombarded for
oonturios infidolity has not destroyed ono
ohuroh, or oripplod ono minister, or up
rooted ono verso of ono chapter of all tho
Bible If that has boon their magnifi
cent record for tho oonturios of tho past,
what may wo oxpoot for tho futuro?
Tho ohuroh all tho timo gotting tho
viotory, and thoir shot and sholl all
geno.
And thon I find another most on
oouraging thought in tho faot that tho
secular printing prosa and tho pulpit
aoom harnessed in tho samo loath, for
tho proclamation of tho gospel. 10v.:ry
bankor in thia Capital tomorrow, ovory
Wall stroot banker tomorrow in Now
York, ovory Stato stroot bankor tomor
row in Boston, ovory Third stroot
bankor in Philadelphia, ovory bankor
in tho Unitod States aud ovory mor
chant will havo in his pookct n treatise
on Ghristianty, 10, 20 or 30 passages ot
Soripturo in tho reports of sormons
preached throughout tho land today.
It will bo so in Uhioago, BO in Now Or
leans, so in Charleston, so in Boston,
so iu Philadelphia, so in Cincinnati, so
cvorywhore I know tho traotsooiotios
oro doi?g a grand and glorious work,
but I toll you thoro is no power on
oarth today equal to tho faot that tho
American printing press is taking up tho
Bornions whioh aro proaohod to a fow
hun Ired or a fow thoiisaad people, and
on Monday morning and Monday ovo
ning scattering that truth to millions
What an onoouragomont to oyery Chris
tian mani
Tho you havo notiood a moro sig
nifioant faot if you havo talkod with
pooplo on tho subjoot, that thoy aro
gotting di ignited with worldly philoso
phy as a mattor of ?omfort. Thoy Bay
it docs not amount to anything whon
you havo a doad obild in tho house
i Thov toll you whon thoy worj siok and
tho door of tho futuro Boomed opening
tho only oomfort thoy oould find was
tho gospol. Pooplo aro having demon
strated oil over tho land that soionoo
and philosophy oannot solooo tho
troubles and woos of tho world, and
thoy want somo othor roligioo, ami thoy
aro taking Christianity, the only sympa
thetic roligion that over oamo into tho
world, You just tako a soiontifie conso
lation into tliat room where a motlier
has lost hoi* ohild. Try in that caso your
splendid dbotrlno of tho "survival of tho
fittost." Toll her that ohild diod booauso
it was not worth as muoh as tho othor
ohildron. That ?B your "survival of tho
fittost." Just (ry your transoondon
taliam, your philosophy, your soicr.oo, on
that widowed soul, and toll her it was
a goologioal nooossity that hor compan
ion should bo takon away from her,
just as in tho oourao of tho world's his
tory tho mogathorium and tho iohty
oaaurua had to pass out of oxistonoo,
and thon you go on your scion ti fio con
solation until you got to tho 'sublimo
faot that 50,000 000 yoars from now
we ourselves may ho floiontifio spool
mono on tho goologio aholf, potriftod
spooimons of an oxtinot human race.
And aftor you havo got all through
with your consolation, if tho poor afilio
tod soul is not oraz id by it, we will Bond
forth from any of our ohurohos tho plain
est Christian wo havo and with ono half
hom of prayor and roading of Soripturo
promisos tho toars will bo wiped away,
and tho houso from floor to eupola will
be flood od with tho calm no os of an In
dian summor sunset, Thoro is whore 1
soo tho triumph ot Christianity, People
oro dlaatiBflod -with ovc\\yihiui( oloo.
Thoy waut God, Thoy want Josue
Ohriet,
Young man, do not bo ashamod to bo
a friend of tho Biblo. Do not nut your
thumb in your vest, as young mon some
timos do, and swaggor about talking of
tho glorious light of nature ?nd of thoro
hoing no nood of tho Biblo. Thoy havo
tho light of naturo in India and China
and in all tho dark plaoos of tho oarbh.
Did you over hoar that tho light of na
turo gavo thom comfort for their
trouble? Thoy have lanoots to out and
j gjornauto to orujh, but no oomfort.
Ah, my frionds, you had bottor stop
your skoptioisin. SuppoBO you aro put
in a oriBis liko that of Ooh Ethan Allon.
I saw tho aooount and at ono timo mon
tionod it in an addroas. A doscorjdant
of kilian Allon, who is sn infidel, said
it novor occurred. Soon aftor I re
ceived a lottor from aprofoasorin ono
of our oollogos, who is aho a dosoondant
of Ethan Allon and is a Christian. Ho
wroto mo that tho inoidont is aoouratc;
that my otatomont was authontio and
tvti<\ Tho wile of Colonol Ethan Allen
was a vary oonsooratod woman. Tho
mother instructed tho daughtor in tho
truths of Christianty. Tho daughter
eiokouod and wai about to dio, and she
said to her fathor: "Father, shall I
tako your instruction or shalt I tako
mother's instruction? I am going to dio
now; I must havo thia matter decided."
That nun, who had booti loud in his in
fidelity, said to his dying daughtor.
"My doar, you had bottor tako your
mother's roligion." My advioo is tho
sauio to you, 0 young mani lou know
how roligion oomfortod hor. You know
what sho said to you whon sho waa dyiug.
You had bottor tako your mother'H ro
ligion._
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Next Ytsnr.
Tho naval expondituro of Franoi fe r
1901 is offioialty proposed to bo $62,520,
000, which at first sight seems to bo loss
than in 1901, but if it ia takon into ao
oount thu tho cost of maintaining tho
marino infantry and artillery, amount
:_i. _ _ L_i 4.C t i\n AAA 1_L
mg vu nvvut -rn -nnyiuv, una uuvui vinun
ferred from tho navy to tho ministries of
war and tho Colonios, it is found that
tho money that Franco intonds to spond
upon tho navy during 1902 ia in roality
$2,300,000 in oxooss of tho naval ox
1 oudituro? of tho ourront yoar
Ic is a mattor of serious considera
tion for tho Frouoh whothor thoy aro
not spending upon thoir navy moro than
thoir national resources warrant.
Franco has now pilod up a dopt in
volving an annual ohargo for intorost
of noaily $200,000,000 or, in othor
words, ovcry man, woman and ohild in
Franco has nosY to pay $5. por annum
for intcrost on tho National dobt. Tho
army costs tho oountry $132,000,000 a
yoar and tho total expenditure for 1902
is oflSoially proposed to bo $750,000,000.
Moroovor, reflections upon tho
French oonsus oauao ronowod uneasi
ness. Last March tho population in
round numbors waa 38,600,000, boing
an inoroaso of only 330,000 since 1896;
and even this mosgro result is mostly
aooountod for by Paris and its suburbs,
whore tho inoroaso has boon 292,000,
duo principally to foreign immigration,
BO that ia tho rest of Franco thoipopu
lation has boen augumontod by only
38,000 during tho last live years. That
is to say, for military and navajo pur
poses tho population is almost station
ary, and in thia respect.Frano.o"j?tands
alono. among tho. groat nations of
Europo.
Under thoo conditions, M. Jauros,
tho socialist loador, and many advanood
thinkers among tho radicals and radical
sooialists, hold that is U impossible for
Franco to have at tho samo time ? navy
and army of tho first rank, simply bo
oauso oho has not tho rosuroe) of men
and monoy to maintain both.
Disciplino of tho Wood Pilo.
Every human malo min who possossos
ovon a lingering taint of temper should
koop an ax and a wood pilo somowhoro
handy, that ho may rush out and work
off his wrath whon it waxos fioroo.
Thoro is nothing in this vain old world
that will sond a man baok to his ap
pointed work with a moro wilted colim
an <i a truor comprehension of himsolf
than this minutos' wrestling with a full
fiavered ax. Ho oan uso it so fiorooly
in tho wood that all tho fury of his
naturo, all tho hato that ho fools for
for his onciny, ho oan infueo into tho
ax bandlo, and how tho o hips will fly I
Not very artistically, probably, but
thoy will fly. And proaontly it bogins
to dawn upon tho man that ho is fooling
moro calm. Evidently ho is experienc
ing a ohaoge of boat, t?o doos not hato
hid enemy ut all. Ho ohungoQ his
stroko and bogins to ohop en . tho sys
tem of Italian pon.nanship-tho up
strokes hoavy and tho down ones light.
Ho rather loves his enemy now. At
last ho puts all his falling strength in
ono terrifia blow. Ho misses his tip
with thc ax aud smitos tho ohopping
blook with tho handle. A tinglo, as
though ho had swailowod au alarm
olook, goos from elbow to hip. and baok:
again, tho ax drops from his powerless
hands, and a woak, limp, nerveless,
porspiring, trembling, gasping ho stag
gers to tho house, lies down on tho first
thing that looks Hko a lounge, and is
roady to dio. Thoro isn't a foav br a
fault in his boat. Doatn has no tommi,
and lifo has no temptations for him
Ho has ohoppod out all his baser na
turo, and ho is j mt as ethereal and
spiritual as ho can bo o i this t?do of
Jordan. It is a groat medicino.
How s This?
Wo offor Ono Hundred Dollar Howard
for any caso of Catarrh that oan not b
ourod hy Hall's Catarrh Curo.
F. J. CHENEY & CO , Tolodo.O.
Wo tho undorsignod, havo known F
J. Ohonoy for the last 15 yoara, and bo
liovo him perfectly honorable in all
businoss transactions and financially
ablo to carry out any obligations mud
by thoir firm.
WKST?? TnuAx, Wholosalo Druggists
Toiodo, O.
WALDINO, KINMAN? MARVIN, Whole
salo Druggists, Toiodo, O.
Hall's Catarrh Curo is takon intornal
ly, aoting dirootly upon tho blood and
muooua surfaoos of tho systom. Tes
Unionists sont froo. Frico 75o, por bot
tie. Sold by all Druggists.
Hall's Family Pills arc thc boat.
Big Trust Formed.
Nows oontirming tho report of tho
consolidation of all tho cotton send oil
mills in tho oountry was reoivod Fri
day morning. Thoro aro sovon of suoh
mills in Now Orloans, tho largost of
whioh aro tho Southorn Standard an
Union. Tho eombinod output of the
sovon is about 80,000 barrols por year
Whilo dispatohos from Now York stato
tho capital fltook of tho cotton oocd oil
trust io bo $50,000,000, privato infor
mation roooivol hore ia $100,000,000
Now Orloans manusaoturos moro cotton
sood oil than any othor oity in tho
country oxoopt Houston, Texas, whioh,
by tho way, only has four mills, but
they aro very largo.
?ILL ARP atJOTEB BEECHER.
Tho Noted Minister XTued Caen Word?
and the Hot Woather Caused lt.
rr I. J.LA^M ?/\***tf1 WAn?hn,? ri m Irwin rr?r? Af
A'ilU **V*A***| frV*^,*?* ?, -*?*?.w*v* * v ****** v.** **-w
whet Honry Ward Beecher sntd in his ohuroh
ono BWOlterlbg day in July. Ho took no
toxt. Ho Tripod tho perspiration' from h'.i
brow and looking solomnly at the largo con
gregation, enid: "It 1? hot tod?y. It ie
dflinnod hot. It is aa hot aa holli
Evorybody WAB nmozod and ahookod until
ho addod, "That la tho languago 1 hoard two
young mon uso at tho door of tho ohuroh as
I pnSBOd thom. My jour g friends, lt ls not
j wi hot as hell." Thon In a low, earnest tono
ho piolurod tho torments of boll and tho oor
tain fato of tho wicked until tho atmesphoro
of tho ohuroh Boouiod to bo cool aud pleasant
! In comparison Tho ladles oeaHod to movo thoir
I fans and everybody was still and solemn as a
I funeral. It waa something like Jonathan Ed
wards at Northampton whoa ho got his hoar
ors so wrought up aud alarmed that thoy
groaned in four and gravped tho poata and
braces to koop from sinkiug into holt, and an
other preacher in tho pulpit begged Mr. lid
wards lo stop,' "Stop, Mr. Edward?; stop
now and toll thom of tho linroy sud lovo of
dod."
What wonderful powor is In tho words of
au cloquont, earnest man. Mr. Beecher was
all ot' that-aglftod, cloquont man. 1 heard
him proaoh twieo boforo tho war and was
profoundly impressed. I looked upon bim as
tho imporsonnlion of tho man of Qod. Later
on, when ho hegau his vindiotivo war upon
tho South and said that Sharp'a rifles woro
bottor than Bibles for John Brown in Kansas
aud it was a oriino to shoot at a slavo-boldor
and mid.) him, 1 wouderod at my infatuation
with 4ho m?h and oxolnimod with Isaiah,
?.How aro tho mighty fallou." And still
lalor when Tilton charged him'with nliouating
and seducing MM wifoaud il tooklwo momba
to try tho onto aud thc jury two days to inakp
up a vcrdiol, willoh virtually saio, "Ho is
not guilty, but ho must not do co any moro,"
I was m or I i Iii" I nt my own wonkno^s in bo
coming his idolator and rcBolvod to worship
no man wkilo'no livod A great man's obar
notor cannot bo mado up until after ho is
dead.
But I was ruminating how easy it is for a
young man to say damn and pamnit, I'll bo
damned, nndovou to tako tho namo of Qod
in vain. Baron is a moro oonvonioutaud ex
protsivo word than (logon or dlngaatioa or
blamed, and it ?hows a dofianoo of tho dovil
and a eolf ooncoil in tho man who usos it
But ills a vory handy oxplotivo and whon a
young mau gola iu tho habit of using it, ho
rarely roforms. Ho knows .'ml it io not go?u
manners, for ho doos not uso it in tho pros
ouoo of ladies or proaohors or bis parents.
Nevertheless thoro aro somo good pooplo who
think damn it without Baying it. 1 hca d a
a good itory tho other day on Col. Livingston
our inonibor of Congrojs from tho Atlanta
district. Last Bummer ho was sont over tj
West Virginia to speak and holp tho Demo
orata in thoir'oanvass. Ile ventured into a
protty hot ftc j mid icm town and was har
anguing and olootrtfying a largo audionoo,
and while soarltying tho Republicans and
this fighting administration a soft, half douo
Irish potato took him korzlp right botwoon
tho oyoa. Il knookod oil' hie socolados and
llattonod into muih all over his olasBio coun
tenance, lt surprised o nd suooked him of
courue, ltccovorod his glasses ho wined tho
stioky stuff from hia/aoo and said with ex
cited tone, "My friends, I have Deon-1 havo
boon a coniistont-a oonsistoat mombor of tho
Prcflby terian ohuroh-tho Proabyfoiian
ohuroh, I Bay for moro than-moro than fifty
years-yes, tifty odd yoar?, and have tried ii?
live-triod to live in harmony with all mon
wi'h all mon, but if tho dirty, dog med, dad
blamod puppy who throw lhat potato will
stand up or raise hie right hand I l.bc-dad'
bladed if I dont stop spoaklng long enough
to como down and hoW tho.hau' and Dido oft
of him in two minutes by tho oloek." As no
body ro80 or raised a hand tho colonel remm
od his broko?romarks, but declares tba?, bo
never e rnie so near oursing tinco ho joined
tho churoh.
This thing of, ourslng le of vory anolont
orlgiu. ' Somotitnes it was done by proxy.
P(-|ak, _ |ho kl.^n; of Moab, birod Balaam, to
curso loiraol, ?nu somo of un votorsns romom
borwhon wo, too, wanted to biro a cusslu
man .to expend'our w'.*ath upon the Yankoes.
Te tor ouraod nnd s woro whon aoouscd of bo
lng ouejof thodisoiplca. Iiis probable that
Ito eau! ''I'll be damned if 1 am." or porhaps
worse Sjldiors and sailors have in all agos
boen profano-tho very olass that aro in
greatest, poril and should have tho greatest
roveromo for thoir Maker. Unolo Toby says
"Our army sworo terribly ia Flanders." And
Uno'o Toby hlmso'f sworo an oath when he
found tho biok soldier lying and dying at his
gate. "llosbtdi notdio, by Cod," he said, and
tho aoousing ipirit Hew up to hoi.von with
tho oath aud blushed as ho gavo it in. The
rooording angel as ho wrote it down dropped
a lear upon tho word and blotted it out lor
ovor." Chatis beautiful, i?oat^U?^ Verily,
charily hideth a multitude of sins. %
But this la enough on thia subj cet. It is
too hot to work in tho gardon and so I got in
tho shade of tho vines on my verandah and
ruminate. Judge Griggs, our honored mom
bor of Congress, tolls mat story oa Colonel
Livingston and ho told another that will make
the otd mon forgot that it is hot, for they
never got loo old to onjoy auy story that has
a pretty woman in it. Uno of tho last casos
brought boforo tho judge wasayoung uuso
phistioatcd country boy who waa charged
with an assault upon a bonnie country girl in
that ho hail oaugtit hor nt tho spring and
huggod and kisskod hor against her will.
Her molhor aaw it from hor piazza and hoatd
hor Borenm nnd saw him run away to tho
Hold whoio ho was plowing, Sho was very
iudiguaut, and prosee nod nim. She was tho
witneas and so was tho girl, but tho girl
didont seem vory vindictive bho said he
didont hin t hor but look her by surprise,
oho had ll lied her buokut aud was about to go
baok when he omigal hor and huggod hor aud
kissed hV r right on hor mouth. Tho solioilor
cloned his cnbo. 'Ibo roting man wad put up
to make bis Etatemont, aud ail he said was
that sho lookod so swcot and pretty ho could
not holp it, and ho didont believe that Miss
Molly was very mid about it nohow, for she
wont uti' singing of ahymo "What byrne was
sho Binging? naked tho judge. "I don't
know," hoatiid. "What hy me woro youang
lng, Mies Molly? asked tho juoge.* Oho
smiled and said ii was "The Lord Wilt Bro.
vido." Tho judge eh urged Ihojury vory mild
ly, and told thuin thai an assault implied
m dice, oto , but na tho jury oouldnll soo
waoro tho malioo oamo in, thoy c imo baok
with this verdict. "We, tho jury, liad tho
defendant not guilty, as thoro was no malioo
or bato in it, and wo reoommond him to tho
moroy of thooourt."
This story reminds mo of John Rlloy'a vor
diot in tho VMS cano. Qood old John Riley,
tho foreman of Tho Romo Connor's pressroom
for years and y cara and tho foreman of tho
jury in tho caso of tho Stale against Ronni
hts Pass for hog stealing. Pass had boon
suspooted of killing Wallis Warron's shoats
as thoy ran In tho woodB, and so Wallis laid
for bim and ono ovonlug about dusk, whon
ho hoard a rille shot, ho siippod up aud caught
Pass In tho very act of putting tho shoat lu a
saok. Wallie tlldontgo to tho warand manag
ed to aavo Ids stook. Pass wont, and left his
wifo and throo littlo ohlldron to tho moroy of
Cod and thooommunity. Whon ho returned,
ho found thoro was nothing loft to li A o on, and
ono of tho ohlldron had died. Judgo Wright
volunteered to dofond him, and introduced no
ovidenco, but had tho last speech, I will
nevor forgot tho tender pathos of that speech
-his pioiuro of a "poor eoldior returning
homo to find doiolation and despair. Ho
novor al hid od to tho ovidonoo, hut bad tho
jury aud tho court in toara. Tho judgo oharg.
od thom as fairly aa ho oou'd; and thoy ro
Brod. Ia a brief timo tb oy carno in with thil
vordiot: "Whoroae, tho lalo, unhappy war
reduced many of our bravo soldiers and thoir
fiinllloa to want and poverty by reason of
whioh thoy wero fornod at tlmoito wandorln
tho woods for suoh gamo as ihoy could find
n ordor to koop tho wolf from the door and
thoir little onos from starvation; theroforo,
we, the Jury, find tho dofondautnot guilty.
John HUoy,foremai.
"Bygraolousl" enid Wallis, ??thoy found
Pass gullly and thon pardonod him," Judgo
Wright novor lost a ooso whoro ho had tho
lait spoooh and a woman or a poor man was
his client.
But it ia golting a Hf tlo oooler now aa tho
sun nears tho horizon. I must ntop and turn
tho water loono on my gardon. The elly has
no wator motera yot, and I can atoal water
with impunity, hilt as tho ntggor proaohor
THE i
Grove's '
Thc formula
know just what y<
do not advertise tr
their medicine if )
Iron and Quinine p
form. The Iron
malaria out of the
Grove's is the Or
Chill Tonics arc ii
that Grove's is ?
are not experimen
and excellence h
only Chill Cure a
_thc United States.
Bimi lo h*n Hook, "Von musent bo cotoued
alcalin' ouiokeiiH-cotohed, 1 ?ny."
Bn.r. Ati".
THE WEEKLY CKOP REPORT.
Director Bauer Bey's it Was the Most
Favorable Week of the Season.
Tho following is tho weokly bulletin
of tho oondition of t' o wcathor and
orops in tho Stato, issuod WodnoBday
by Dirootor Bauer of tho South Caro
lina sootioa of tho olimato and orop
sorvioo of tho United Statos weather
buroau:
Tho wook onding Monday, July 8,
averaged slightly warmer than usual
ovor tho woo,er ii, nor thorn and oont?al
portions, and slightly coolor over tho
southeastern. Tho dailey maximum
ranged botwoen 80 and 08dogroos, while
a minimum of GO was notod at Groen
villo on tho 1st. There was moro than
tho usual amount of bright sunshine.
IO ur 1 y in tho week, ned again noar
its OIOBO, thoro woro soattorod showers,
hoaviost in tho oontral and south
oastorn oountioa, with a maximum
rainfall of 1.99 indies at St. Goorgo,
whilo over tho northorn and western
oountios tho wook was gonorally rain
loos. Thoso conditions of high tom
poraturo abundant tunshine, and ab
sence of rain, mt do this tho most fa
vorable wook of tho season for cultiva
tion, novertholoss, many holds romain
grassy, and it will require st loast an
other wook of dry woathor to oloan
them. Rr,in 15 needed generally for tho
orops, and to softon tho.soil eapsoially
olaycy land that driod out hard, and
broaks oloddy undor oultivation. ?talo
is also noodod to prevont furthor injury
to orops that wcro damagod in ridding
thom of grass and woods.
Cotton made a slight and gonotal im
provomont, oxoept BO* island, that im
proved dooidodly. Tho plants are un
usually Bin%ll for tho soason, and aro
growing slowly, ospooially on sandy
!oils, whore their condition is oxoop
ionally poor. Bloonia otc notcd 'ovor
tho wholo Stato, but 0 ott on is not
blooming as profusoly as it should at
this Eoason. It is reported that tho
orop as a wbolo oannot possibly attain
a normal oondition, however favorablo
tho woathor during tho romaindor of
tho season may bo.
Tho oom orop oan now safely bo
charaotorizod as tho poorest in many
years, and ovor considerable areas will
approximate a failuro. Corn, with
somo exceptions, has slender stalks, is
tassolling low, and not oaring well.
Planting bottom and slubblo lands con
tinue?.
Tobacco shared in tho general im
provomont during tho past wook, but
is st'll vory poor. Cutting and our
ing is well undor way in all districts.
llico made marked improvement,
but has not fully rooovorod from tho ill
t il iota of tho excessive dune rainfall, !
Poas aro hoing extensively plantod in
wiib oom and on stubble ?Ulds. Somo
have como up to good stands.
Applos, poaches and poars continue
to drop extensively, whilo poaches and
.grapes rotas thoy ripon.
' Tho labor situation has not improvod,
and oontinuos to bo a serious factor in
this yoar's farm economics
Big Fire in North Carolina.
Ooo of tho most destructivo fires in
tho history of-this'.-town broke out
Thursday afternoon at 2 o'olook in tho
MoDougald Furniture storo and tho
wind was so favorablo that it soomod
tho oniiro town was doomed. A rough
estimate places tho loss at $66,000.- Tho
northern portion of tho town is in ruins.
No ono has any adoquato idoa as to how
tho fire originated. Tho loaos and in
surance aro estimated as follows: M.
A. MoDougald; two-stores and stock,
Iocs $14,000; ono half insured; lt. 13,
Loo, two Btoro buildings, livery stablo
and stock of goods, loss $10,000; G. M.
Wright, BtookllOO, insuranoo $200; H.
O. Covington, two storos, loss $2,000,
insuranoo $1,200; D. C. MoNoill, stock,
$3,500; Suthornland & Morgan, $900,
insuranoo $500; W. D. JamoB and A.
A. Jamos, throo atoros and. goods, $19,
000, insvranoo about $5,000, J. S. Mo
Douflio, .ons $13,000 stook insuranoo
$13,000; J. O. Morgan loas $2.000 stock
J. B. Cowan $600, and W. P, Evans,
Btoro and stook $1,500, insuranoo $2,
000.
SrEfioonApMea
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Ydsl They're Wanted.
Butlness activity oroates a demand for
business exports, and tho? who hold diplo
mas from our oollego aro business oxperta.
They havo little troublo llndlng plaoea, and
no troublo koopiug thom. Such diploma*)
aro guwanteos fltnoss. It's not guosa
work, and tho possibility of disappoint
ment in tho now employee, but a guaran
tee from us to your ability.
For full information, fiend now to the
Columbia Business College,
COLUHWA, S. 0.
W. H. NRWBK?RY, President
|i||f Chills
Tasteless Ch
is plainly printed on every
ou are taking when you take
?eir formula knowing that y
rou knew what ft contained,
ut up in correct proportions ?
acts as a tonic while tho
system. Any reliable druggii
"Sffinai and that all other
mitations. An analysis of oth
superior to all others in e
iting when you take Groi
aving long been establish?
old throughout thc entire
No Cure, No Pay. Prto
Presbyterian College
Noxt SesBlon opens Sept. 20, 1901. Spc
numhor cnn he accommodated in Dormltorj
matriculation, and tuition, for Collogiato 3
in fnoulty. Moral influenooa good. Court
M.A. Fino Commercial Courso. Wrlto f
"What tho Nations Owe
An article summarizing the
national debts of the various
countries of tho world appears
in a recent publication from the
bureau of statistics. It shows
a total of thirty-one billion, a '
sum that is utterly inconcoiv- I
able, and which there is about
as much chanco of the world
ever paying as there is of elect
ing a Southern man President
next time. On a basis of per
oapita dept tho following in
teresting and instructive figures
are given: In the Australasian
colonies the debt amounts to
$203.90 for each individual. Tho
citizens of Honduras each carry
$210.GO. The peoplo of Franco'
strain under aper capita debt of
$100.Cl. In Urguay it is $148.0G;
in Portugal, $143.82; A'rgentinia
$128.85; Spain, $95.53; the
Netherlands, $90.71; Belgium,
$75.03, and Great Britain, $74.
83. Our burdens, much as we
complain, aro comparatively
easy to bear, being only $14.62
per capita, though in Mexico
the per capita debt is but $10.84
Tho. debt of tho United
States in 1835 was only $33,000,
000, and in 1800 was but 04,000,
000, but in five years it had soar
ed to $2,750,413,571,43 the legacy
of our great civil war. The
British- national dobt ia o vor
four billions, hut-like tho United
States, Great Britain still ex
pects to pay principal as well
as interest, or, at least, has no
thought of repudiating it even
if it is never paid. France still
struggles to pay the interest on
her entire national debt, but at
least three-fourths of it is regar
ded as irredeemable, while
Spain, Italy, Turkey and Aus
tria-Hungary are practically
j bankrupt countries. Nobody
expects the debts of these na
tions to bo paid. The only ques
tion is, will they be able to con
tinu?lo pay the interest? War
isa great debt builder, and if
Uncle Sam over wants to see his |
national debt wiped out ho must
so to it that tho peace treaty
which he signed at Tho Hague
boars. better fruit than that
which has immediately follow
ed tho peace conference.
SUMATRA widows are tied
down by an iron-clad custom.
When tho husband dies tho
widow erects a flagstaff at her
front, door and nings a flag to
tho breeze. As long as the flag
remains untorn she must wear
widow's weeds and keep in se
clusion. Tho moment a rent, no
matter how small, appears in
the flag she can lay aside her
weeds and accept the first offer
that comes.
NEGROES throughout tho state
are said to bo showing consider
able interest in tho Charleston
exposition.
Saw Mills,
Corn Mills?
Cane Mills,
Rice Hullers j
Pea Hullers,
Engines,
Boilers,
Planers and
^Matchers,
Swing Saws,
Rip Saws,
and all other kinds o? wood
working machinery. My Ser
geant Log Beam Saw mill ls
the heaviest, strongest, and
most efficient mill for the
money on the market, ouiok,
aoonrate. S tato Agent for H.
B. Smith Maokitte Company
wood working maohinery,
For high grade engines, plain
slide valve-Automatic, and
Corliss, write me: Atta,
Watertown, and Struthera
and Wells.
V. 0. BADHAM,
10580 Hain St., Columbia, 8. O
ION SS
bottle-hence you
Grove's. Imitators
ou would not buy
Grove's contains
ind is in a Tasteless
Quinine drives the
5t will tell you that
so-called Tasteless
cr chill tonics shows
very respect. You
'e's-its superiority \
sd. Grove's is thc
malarial sections of
e, 50c.
of South Carolina.
olal ratos to boarding eludontp. Mndlo.l
T. $100.00 wiU pay for boa'd, robin-ront
?car. FITO professors and "ono iiiBtruotor
JCS of study leading to degrees of B. A. and
or cat Mogue or Information ot any kind to
A. E. SPENCER, Clinton, 8. C.
fclodcrn Bletlioil*.
Fi rot Burglar--How ye gittin\ott? !
Second Burglar-Bully 1 Doln* flrftf
? rate. Robbin' doctors now. I jus'ring
th,' bell late at night, an' tell 'em Mrs.
Astorbilt la fallin* in a faint, an* they
rn/nn' run fnv ber ??f?.
"Bah I You'ro way behind the times.
Quick.os a p'liccman secs a mon rim
olin' at night ho arresta 'tm as a sus
picious character. I wait till they grab
th* doctor, an* then I go In an' rob th*
house."-N. Y Weekly.
Intcrtthansre of Confidence,
"And now, my boy, don't have ahjr
D?crets from your father. What are
your collcgo elebts? pon't he afraid
to tell mo tko sum total, to the last.;
cent."
"I won't, father. The wholo amount
ls $5,327.50."
"I thank you for-.your confidence,
. my boy, and I will bo equally frank.
You may pay those debts tho beet
way you can."-Chicago Tribune.
A Cameo. J
I The carpet ls bobbing- 1 :
And napping on high, . t; ? ;
Tho strawberry's throbbing
In dumpling and pie. 1
-N. Y. Herald.
"HeavensI Whore did your parrot
learn to sweat* so horribly, Mrs.
Jones?"
"Oh, I forgot to take him from tho
room while Mr. Jones w?s looking for,
bis collar button."-Chicago Ameriv
can.
Grnnpltnj?-lronn of Succ?s?. ,
Life la uphill all tho way- 1
If you climb, and wish to stay I
Where you aro, you'll have to uso, ?
Like all linemen, well-Bplkcd shoes. }
-Detroit Froo Press, j
-1
Hind Not Yet In Sigh?.
Yeast-I just saw your wife In the
other room.
Crlmsonbeak-Talking?
"Yes; I heard her say, as I passed,
that she had arrived at a conclusion.*'
"Well, she hasn't dono anything- of
the sort. She's talking yet."-Yon
ker's Statesman.
A Orete.
"Well," she asked hex- old- bnohelor
brother, as she took the baby away
from him, "what do you think of the.
dear little darling, anyway?"
"Oh, I dunno," he said, "I guess
mebby it'll do to raise." - Chicago?
Times-Hernld.
Silent Criticism.
"She is very nico and all that; but
she is altogether too orlWcal."
"I assure you 6>ho novor speaks, of
you but In the kindliest wny."
"P'raps so; but every time I seo hor
sho gives me the impression that my
frook doesn't fltl"-Brooklyn Lifo. .
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