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» iV w TALMAGE SERMON at By Rev. FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE. D.D.. Pastor of Jefferson Park Presby* tc-rny Cnurch, Chicago 1 t ChioSgl., Aug. 24.—The common din position to meet trouble is shown to bo unwise and un-Christian in this dis course by Rev. Frank De Witt Tal- mage on the text Matthew vl, 34, i “Sufficient unto the day is the evil 1 thereof.’’ Christ is giving counsel, which re- ; calls the advice the dying man once gave to his children. After calling his sons and daughters to his bedside the dying father said: “My children, I have seen u ;ot of troubles in tny time. 1 have- seen so many troubles that they iiavc completely worn me ouf, and that -A* is the reason that I am now dying, when I ought to be in my physical and mental lu-ime. But the saddest part of it is that most of my troubles have ; been imaginary troubles. They have i been unnecessary troubles. They have . lot been troubles of the imminent -to- j day, but the visionary tomorrow. They 1 have been troubles which would never have bothered me unless I had gone forth and hunted them out of their lairs and troubled them. The things that have given me most concern have been the things that never happened. So I charge you, my dear children, if you would serve (Jod with your best physical, mental and spiritual powers. : always obey the words which Christ spake in his famous sermon: ‘Take, therefore, no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the I day is the evil thereof.’ ” My glorious text teaches almost ex actly the same lesson that Mr. Beecher once presented when he said: “All j time is divided into three parts—the i past, the present and the future. The past belongs to gratitude and regret, the present to contentment and work, the future should belong to only hope | and trust.” It teaches that a dread of future evil is dishonoring to God, lie- cause it implies a doubt whether the good God will be true to the trust we have placed in him and whether he will really keep the promises he has made to his people. It teaches that after a Christian has done his best, bis level and conscientious best, he should then Joyfully and confidently leave the future in God’s hands, and | In God’s bunds alone. It teaches that j no matter how hopeless, humanly speaking, may he the outlook, if we know and trust God we should let our gsspel faith chase away all the doubts | aid worries and fears that fret and tease and tantalise us in reference to the future, 'even as the rising sun scat ters the darkness and the impene trable gloom of the night. It teaches that no mutter how dark and threat- •Plng may be the shrieking tornadoes of.trouble the gospel rainbows should i* big enough to arch the widest of boHcons and bright enough to smile though even a shower of falliug tears. .^itfcipated troubles rarely happen. ByTbis statement 1 do not mean that If | man would cease to worry be 4»u!d get a divine passport which woilld protect him forever from the rough hand of trouble. The cup of Borrow must be pressed against every Iranian lip. The old eyes, as well as the young eyes, must become fountains Of tears. Death angel as well as birth angel mast flap the wing over a Pha raoh’s palace as well as over the poor maa’g hat. It Is by the broken heart that God is sble to make the songsters and songstresses sing their sweetest music. But, though troubles must and will come to the rich and the poor, the old and the young, alike, yet 1 make this assertion about your past life: The troaUea and misfortunes which yon anticipated and worried over rarely if ever happened. As onr own philos opher,poet said: Some of your Ills you have cured. And* the sharpest you still have sur ■’ vhred. But What torment* of pain you've en- dared From evils that never arrived! t Tk* Evils Toa Look Fey. ' In linety-nlne cases out of a hun dred the troubles which did yon the ( most Serious damage were those troubles which, as a tiger, leaped upon you unexpectedly from ambush, not the troubles that lay crouching and Blaring' and threatening yon in broad daylight in the open pathway just ahead. Those serious troubles came to yoa as the little pygmy was sup* posed to have come to the king of old. When the pygmy asked the great mon arch for permission to rule ov3r all the lands which his little, short limbs could cover In three steps, the rOyal consent was derisively given. Then the insignificant dwarf immediately sprang up Into the stature of a huge giant With one stride the giant stepped across the land; with another stride the giant stepped across the seas, and with a third stride the giant lifted his sledge hammer list sad swept the trembling king off his throne. Tour troubles, to nee a familiar comparison, came like a clap of thunder and a stroke of Hjghtaing cot of a clear sky. They cams |ike s collision at ssa or as the terrific sxploaion of a gunpowder le. They came as a thiaf, not bn* by night, in a way Bad at a time yon dU not expect them. Let me Upmtrate bott your troubles came in an'unexpected way. Two of year three children were born physical* !y strong. Every movement of their Jiabe, every smile of their red llpe. •every look cf their dandCg eye*, be* perfect beshh. They fiDnld ran up the mountain* side ns swiftly ns n gazelle chnsecl by the dogs. They would climb a tree almost as quickly as a squirrel would seek his nest In the old orchard trunk. Then those children would sit laughing and sing ing nud swinging upou one of the branches. But, though two of. your children were born physically well, the third was bora a poor, helpless invalid. You, the mother, worried about that third child from the day when she was born. For years uot a night passed in which you did uot arise two or three times to go to the crib and give the necessary medicines. Did your worry ing about that child do you any good? Did your troubles come in the way you expected? Today your two ehihlreu who were once strong are dead. Diph theria in one w«>ek slew them both. Y'our Invalid daughter, about whom you worried, has overcome "her invalid ism and growu into young woman hood. She is now married and has children of her own. Y’our troubles came, hut the panther leaped upon you from the rear and did not lie crouch ing in the open pathway ahead. Some t'seleN* Worries. As a business man you have often worried about this, that and the other thing. You have worried aliout wheth er the firm that failed would be able to pay for the goods they bought. You have worried about the tariff laws and the elections. You have worried about the rival concern which settled on the next block. You never thought that a worse trouble could come to you than the loss of your store. You never thought that your own health could break down and that you would have to resign from the firm and sell out. Troubles came into your life, but they invariably came in the way and at the time you did not expect. If this premise is true. Is it not time for you to stop your useless fretting? j Is it not a senseless occupation to be ; worrying about certain troubles which ' in all pro!(ability—Judged by the past— will never atlliet your life? Do you not feel that the old English prov b is right winch declares, “You must i ot cross the bridge until you come to i ?” \ In the journey of life you will 1 nd many bridges down. You will disc*, ver that the spring freshets have s* ept away the embankments upon \\ dch | countless abutments were placed. But in all probability the bridge you > orry most about will be firm enough and strong enough to bear you over its 1 stream, although you may have to wade into other angry waters a little 1 farther on. Anticipating troubles is a sin, be cause the present duties of life tax al most every man’s physical and mental resources to the utmost limit. We read j with sorrow and admiration about the j pathetic struggle Sir Walter Scott made in his old age to pay off his debts. By a foolish investment he be- j came responsible for something like ! $600,000. With his magic pen he went • to work. He worked during the day. , He worked during the night. He - worked while he lay In bed. He worked when walking upon the street. He lived and worked for the one pur- j pose, that of being able to say he i owed uo man a penny. But while he worked he so worried over this debt that one day bis physician came to I him and said, “Sir Walter, if you do ( not cease worrying you will die.” With that the magician of Abbotsford ! looked up and gave a wan smile as he i said: “Why, doctor, as long as that j debt is hanging over my head 1 cannot j help worrying. 1 know the worrying is killing me. But you might as well go and tell my cook to order the water In the kettle not to boll as to com- j mand my brain not to worry.” ; But Sir Walter Scott, toiling to pay off bis debts by the use of bis pen, did not have to work any harder than thousands and hundreds of thousands of men and women have to work to meet the responsibilities of the present time. Take, for illustration, the min isters of oar generation. Last week I received a message from a so called gentleman which politely informed me that “the preachers of our time, as a rule, lead an Idle and an unoccupied existence and that there is nothing for them to do.” Nothing for the average preacher to do? Why, the average preacher today is working as hard as ever beast of harden worked under driver’s hisb. He is working so bard that from Monday morning to Sunday night he is mentally and physically on the strain all the time. I tell you that the preparation of two sermons and the meeting of the many duties of tho pastorate combine to make a herculei n task, a task which gives but little time for the sleep and recreation that are necessary for physical well being, but the average preacher has uo more de mands made upon bis time than the average doctor, lawyer, editor, mer chant. clerk, wife or mother. Almost without exception all people are work ing up to their physical and mental limit, yet, strange to say, though most people are working very bard, com paratively few break down from over work. God gives to all of us strength enough to meet the duties of the pres ent day, but God does not give to any one strength enough to meet the du ties of the present day and those of to morrow at the same time. So moot people when they break down do not break down from overwork, but, like Sir Walter Scott, from worry, and from worry alone. Cmrtrtum tUm Cares ef Teaterrew. People who are unfitting themselves for the duties of everyday life by wor ry remind me of an old story that la told about a traveler in the far oast who was trudging along a highway under what be regarded as a grievous ly basvy load. Along that highway cams a king driving in bia chariot He reined In bis bones and asked the tired pedestrian If be would not like to ride. The weary traveler gladly aa- seated and climbed into the rear of tbs chariot After awhile the king looked back and, to bia surprise, saw tbe trav el.r sltth:i; crouched in the rear of the chariot with his heavy pack still strap ped to his buck. “Stranger," said the kiii*:. “why art thou still holding thy pack? "B cars '," answered tin* man, “1 did not feel thr.t thou wonldst like it if I placed it in ihy chariot 1 thought thou wert w illing to carry I Count your blessings; see what God has hymn that breathes In it a sweeter gospel, no hymn which helps more to inak** u truer, happier, purer and holler Christian life than that hymn with the chorus: Cot. nt your blessings; name them one by on j; me I ought at h ast to be willing to l. >ld my pack.’’ “Ob. futdish man,” an- swered the king, “if I am willing to carry thee am I uot willing to carry ! thy pack also?" So God promises that he will help us carry the duties of the ; present day. But instead of trusting | him as to the future most people go and pile upon their own backs all the cares and the anxieties of the morrow. They sit in the Divine King’s chariot, like the tired traveler of old, weighed down with a pack of tomorrow’s cares, which they ought to be willing to lay at their Master's feet. As worry racks the physical frame so that the tired mind is unable to think clearly; as it overtaxes the nerv ous system until the ganglia or nerve centers have imperfect connection, or complete disconnection, like the tele phone when the wires have become broken or crossed; as worry paralyzes tho digestive organs until they refuse properly to assimilate the food upon which the human body is dependent for the sustenance of life; as it is the forerunner of all the fatal diseases by which the human nice is invalided and destroyed, so it is an awful sin for you, to fret and worry about the future and destroy your life's useful ness and influence. Can you not as HIGHWAY LESSONS. done. This is a hymn tlmt ought to be suug every day from the heart. It is a hymn which should aid in transform- | ing a life of sinful worrying into one 1 of trust and gratitude and holy Joy. Troubles cannot be rightly anticl- i pitted because we cannot rightly antic ipate the grace God will give to his I believing children, by means of which ; we shall be able to overcome our trou bles when they arrive. For proof of the abundant grace and strength that are given when most needed let me point you to the many wonderful, glo- ! rious and triumphant Christian death bed scenes that have been recorded. ! When Dr. Donne was dying, he said, | in answer to a question: “I am as hap- , py on earth its 1 can be ami as sure of glory as if I were in it. I have noth ing to do but step out of this bed Into , heaven.” When Senator Foote of Ver- ! mont was dying, he looked, at the last, ' and cried: “I see it! I see it! The 1 gates are wide open! Beautiful! Beau tiful!” As Dr. Sewall of Washington , city lay dying lie cried out: “Oh, if 1 j had a voice that would reach from i pole to pole, I would proclaim it to all j the world! Victory! Victory, througli < the blood of the Lamb!” But when we | hear of such wonderful deathbed SPECIMEN ROADS CONSTRUCTED TO SHOW THC.IR VALUE. How Murada ti. Sand and Dirt High way* Ap«- EniK—The Slt-rl Track Wagon Hond on Which a Horae Drew r.li-veu Ton*. The Immense number of crude and frequently impassable roads to be found in all parts of the United States and tbe seri us extent to which they have haidhapped the marketing of farm in various sections *,f the country 1 md esp ■cad significance to th * crusade in favor of good roads which is being conducted by the office of road inquiry, a division of the de- partm* nt of agriculture, says a writer in the Scientific American. As yet there ha/e not been secure<l r 'nppropria- tions of sufficient size to enable the government to undertake on its own account the provision of better high ways, but this will come in time, and meanwhile highly iuqiortnnt results are being accomplished solely by the presentation of forceful object lessons. The investigations of the office of road inquiry are mainly directed in seven general fields—namely, to ascer tain as nearly as practicable the actual true Christian men and women go j scenos ' vp aro a Pt to say to ourselves forth to meet the duties **f the present day and leave the visioHary future in God’s hands? Worry is not a harm less gadfly, an insectile annoyance, a buzzing irritant, a haphazard playful habit. It is a sin which has destroyed more victims than have ever been slain upon the field of battle or ground into pieces between the upper and the uethe - millstones of persecution and slander. Beware how you allow its fatal poison to enter your sinful heart. Anticipating trouble is a form of in tellectual and spiritual sin by which some men are blinded to the apprecia tion or enjoyment of present blessings. Because of this sin they cannot thunk Gotl for their loving wives and de voted children. They cannot thank God for the food they eat and the clothing they wear. They cannot thank him for their opportunities of usefulness and for health and life. They are always thinking of something they might have bad; of something ihat might be taken away. They have oo gratitude in their hearts to God for mytbing. Every kiss has in it for them the sting of a scorpion. Every sunbeam is eclipsed by a dark cloud. Every song lias in it the echo of a requiem and a death rattle. Every moment is for them a pallbearer clothed in black walking by the casket of a stenchful corpse. The Sin of Worryfn«. Hogarth, the great caricaturist, once declared that he never saw a beauti ful face without instantly thinking how he could distort it and make it look ridiculous. So people who are al- “I do not see how any Christian could | he happy when lie is leaving behind wife, children, work and loved ones. I i do not see how anybody could be hap- py because he is going away, while j those who are near and dear to him ; are clinging to his side.” But, friend, the reason you cannot understand the glorious triumph of the i dying Christian is because you cannot 1 understand the Infinite amount of di- | vine re-enforcement which Is given to God’s children at the time the death angel comes. You cannot understand how that divine re-enforcement Is able to let them look straight through the dark clouds of mystery into the face of Jesus, witose parting lips tell them that all is well. When your future troubles come, and they must come, God’s grace, if you are a believing child, will be sufficient for you. God’s grace, the infinite amount of which you cannot now estimate, will go with you down Into the depths of sorrow, “though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountaius [ shake with tbe swelling thereof.” Influence* of ChrlHtinn Faith. Anticipating trouble is a sin, because It exhibits a lack of gospel faith to the unbelievers around you, who might otherwise be willing to believe in the i atoning, saving, inspiring and recreat ing power of the blood of the Lamb. Talk as we may, we cannot get away from the overwhelming fact that every professing Christian is as a city set up on a hill for all unbelievers to look at and to be guided by. It has been said that no cook or chambermaid or butler ■v ways worrying about the future are a or other employee ever entered the species of sinful, morbid caricaturists, rendering hideous and repulsive even j the sweetest and the teuderest bless- lugs of the present day. They are like some of those self absorbed and ab- sentmind'-d people you meet and speak to upou the street. You may bow to them and talk to them, but they see uot and hear not They are in their imaginations a thousand miles away. Those people who are anticipating trou bles can never pluck tbe flowers God has planted at their feet; they can nev er hear the birds, whose wings God has fashioned, singing over their beads; they can never look into the unfath omed sea of affection which God has rolled into the deep blue of a child’s eye, because they are always living in tbe dark caverns, the reptile inhabited dungeons which their own evil Imagi nations have created. In order to overcome this sin of wor rying I want you to try an experiment Every hour of every day try to think of tbe blessings God has given to you instead of trying to remember all your troubles, if you bave a poor memory, I want you to take a long sheet of pa per and write those blessings down as you think of them, and then every lit tle while take up this paper and read over the list. You will need a very long sheet of paper when you once be gin the list. You are going to be sur prised. overwhelmingly surprised, at the great number of blessings you can put down, 1 well remember, many years ago, when my fsither once gathered all his chUdren together about his chair and gave to each one of us a long sheet of paper and told us to write down our blessings. At first 1 could not think ot a thing to write, but after awhile the blessings, tbe many blessings, which I had began to crowd into my brain. 1 wrote and wrote antil after awhile 1 had to get another sheet of paper. Then I wrote and wrote until after awhile those blessings seemed to pile themselves up into a great mountain. And then, do you know, after I had been cataloguing my many blessings I was ashamed to think about any of my troubles! They seemed to be so small and Insignificant in comparison with* the mercies with which God bad sur rounded me. My brother-as you begin today to think of* all yoBr blessings I tell you bluntly and Jlply it la a shame, a sinful shame, you to have postponed so long learninf a prayer of thanksgiving. It is a shame, a slnfnl shame, that you bare postponed so long the day when you are willing to get down upon your knees and thank God for what be has done feryou and for tbe blessings that bar* enriched your life. A Hrmm That Mmlp*. There are many different hymns sung in church. In prayer meeting and at the family altar, hot there la no — house of Phillips Brooks but he or she became a Christian, if not already one, through the influence of that great and good gospel minister of Boston. So our Christian lights cannot be hidden j under a bushel If they are false lights, the world will see that they are false and will despise them; If they are true lights, the world will follow those lights. What we say and do will In fluence others in reference to what they say and do for or against Christ. But no man can safely let tbe future take care of Itself unless he deals rightly with tbe present, and no man can deal rightly with the present un less be deals rightly with God, or, rath er, lets God deal rightly with him. Are yon and I in touch with Jesus Christ so that Christ can and will take charge of our future for ns? If we are, we are eternally all right If we are not in touch with Christ we are eternally <yi wrong. If you are in touch with the Lord Jesus and yuur present relationship frith the Saviour is that of a true follower and disciple, then I would like to give to you the message which Abraham Lincoln sent to Richard Oglesby In the darkest days of the civil war. Richard Oglesby, who was thrice elected governor of II- littois, was at one time very much dis couraged. When the Union armies were being steadUy driven back, be sent a melancholy letter to the White House, in which be told the president that he thought all was lost. When the letter came, Abraham Lincoln sent this startling telegram to tbe state cap- itol at Springfield: Dear Dick—Read Exodus xiv, 13: “Fear ye not: stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.” ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Of all tbe passages of the Bible that verse is to me the most inspiring. It Is tbe verse which I repeat almost ev ery day of my life. And, my brother. If your present moment, your moment ous now, is right with Jesns Christ l tell you to stand. Stand in tbe faith of Jesus. Stand as Abraham Lincoln told Richard Oglesby to stand. But, my brother, if J’oor present relation ship with Christ is not all right, then I beg of you not to stand still until yon can press against the loving heart of tbe forgiving Saviour. Will you draw close to Christ’s bleeding, wound ed side? Will you, aa a little child, en couraged by Christ's love and the strength ha gives you, look up Into tbe face of your Heavenly Father and say, “Thy will, O Lord, and not mine be done?” WIU you believe him? Will you trust him? Will you commit your present and therefore your tomorrow into his care? litsv* th« future; let It rest Simply on thy Saviour's will; Leave the future; they are bleat Who, confiding, hoptaa. still True? hie mercy To provide for every want And to save from every ill [Copyright, IMS, by Louis Klopeeh.) OBJECT LESSON LOAD (MACADAM). (From Good Roads Magazine.] cost of bad roads and the benefit of good roads, to demonstrate the interest of cities and towns and the owners of property of all kinds wherever situated in the improvement of country roads, to develop the methods whereby all of these interests may co-operate with the farmers in the work of road im provement. to discover what actual and systematic road Improvement is being carried on in any part of tbe United States and bow the same or modified methods may he applied to other sections, to discover road mate rials In various sections of the country, to discuss new plans for road construc tion and encourage experiment In this direction and finally to actually con struct sample roads. Probably the mos. interesting phase of the work has been found, however, in the construction of specimen roads of various kinds in different parts of the country. Ordinarily three styles of road have been represented In this ex perimental road—u modern macadam, a sand and a dirt road. Of'these three the macadam highway is the most in teresting from the point of construc tion. After a uniform grade has been secured by the use of wheeled scrap ers, drag scrapers and plows and pos sibly road graders as well there are placed upon this foundation three sep arate layers of the best quality of stone that is procurable In the vicinity. The foundation course, which is about five inches in thickness and made up of two and a half inch stone, is thor oughly rolled before the second course, composed of one and a half inch stone, is pnt on, and this layer in turn is sprinkled and rolled before tbe surface layer, or "binder,” as It is commonly called, consisting of three-quarter inch stone and dust, is pnt in place. The sand road is formed by placing Six inches of river sand on a bed of natural clay, neither the bed nor tbe surface of tbe road being rolled. The dirt road Is made by grading in tbe usual manner. As a rule neither of these latter classes of highways Is con structed save to domfcnstrotc the supe riority of the macadam road. Consid erable attention lias lieeii given to the construction of steel track wagon roads, decidedly the most novel type of highway yet introduced in any coun try. The steel rood might l»o compared to a street car track of modified design, and the plan for its utilization was doubtless suggested by the well known tendency of teamsters to make use of urban and Interurhau trolley and cable lines on highways where locomotion would otherwise be difficult The steel track wagon road consists of two parallel lines of steel plates or rails each eight Inches In width and not supported on wooden crossties, but simply made solid In tbe road by flanges projecting into the concrete of the roadbed. Tbe rails are accurately spaced so as to receive the wheels of all vehicles of standard gauge without I regard to the width of tire, and each | plate or rail is fitted with a flange on 1 tbe inner side to prevent wheels from easily leaving tbe tracks. Unique rods of this type bave been constructed In half a dozen different states, and in some instances the records made upon them bave been little short of marvel ous. In one instance a load of eleven tons which required twenty horses for its movement over an ordinary road waa readily drawn along the steel track by s single horse. This load was twenty-two times the weight of tbe an imal, hut at Amea, la., recently a horse started and moved on a steel track highway a load fifty times tbe weight of the animal It may bt noted that tbe cost of the steel track roads has ranged from $1,000 to $3,000 a mile, according to tbe original condition of the roadbed. VIRTUES OF LIGHT LUNCHES gnirrlrun Acutenea* Dae In Part to lh<> Midday Repaata. A great many people feel they have done (heir whole duty by sound hy giene when they denounce the “quick lunch” of the American business world as the sum of all gastronomic iniqui ties. But in so far as the quick lunch is a light lunch, and it usually is this, it may be a blessing in disguise. In fact, an observing foreigner lays much of the acuteness and business energy of Americans to the fact that for the mo-t part the American business and professional man eats lightly, even ” hurriedly, end drinks but little at 1h • mkiday meui; hence his mind is clear, he Ir not shmgish and he is able to do a good deal between 1 o'clock and 6. As a contrast the foreign observer mentions the heavy midday eating habits of certain European countries, notably Germany, and to that he at tributes the lethargy that is caUing for all tho highest efforts of the best minds to counteract, in this he is in har mony with an American specialist, who in decrying a heavy midday meal said that “the plan of eating a heavy meal tit noon and returning to work almost directly from the dinner table explains the prevalence of dyspepsia in countries not enjoying the long aft ernoon recess of the tropics.” Since the light lunch and tho quick lunch do not fit in with tills criticism those who have blamed our national dyspepsia on tbe “busy man’s bite” had better look a little further into the matter. Perhaps we do eat too much, as cer tain diatetic specialists tell us. but it looks its if we were slowly approximat ing. the country over, to an ideal dietet ic system, for Americans, which makes the lunch the slightest meal and the evening meal the most substantial meal of the day, whatever it may be called. And if the quick lunch of the business world has had any effect In this direction it is not the unmixed evil some declare it to be.—Philadelphia Press. Hatbein’s Third Attempt Fails. Dover, England. Aug. 28.—Montagu Halbein, the English swimmer who started at 3:30 o’clock from Gris Nee. France, in his third attempt to swim the English channel, failed in his at tempt and was taken out of the watsr a mile from Dover. Again Named For Congress. Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 28.—Hon. John A. Moon, of this city, was unani mously nominated today by the con gressional convention held here for re el ection to congress from the thinl congressional district of Tenneesesi, He accepted in a brief speech. Early Explanation. “And she married Jaggers, did she? Well, well! How on earth did that come about?” “So far as I can learn, it is uwliig to a mutual misunderstanding.”—Brook lyn Life. Short and Informal. “Have yon bad a housewarming In your new dwelling yet?” “Yes; my wife fired the redheaded cook the other day.”—Chicago Trib une. We believe thoroughly hi advertising. To prove it we are going to use this space for our own pur poses. We have advertis ing space to sell, and we know it will pay a good return upon the price we charge for it if it is prop erly used. Our paper goes into the best homes in this community. It has been going week after week and year after year until each issue is welcomed as an old friend of the family. The news it brings is news of neighbors, of per sonal affairs in which all have more or less of a com mon interest. If one of our readers called upon you, a merchant, you would do the best you could to con vince him that what yon had for sale was the best he could buy. You would show him the new things you had got in recently. You would tell him why he should have them and why they were better than he could pr6curcelsewhere. You probably would make a sale. Your effort, however, would be ore fined to one person. Yon could tell the same story just as effectively to every reader of this paper in each issue. Yon do not believe it would have the same ef fect? If you told tbe story la the seme way it would. We are reedy to do our part to area it Do yoa cesetotoytt?